Best Album Ever???

Spraypaint

I kinda have to chuck in my 2 cents here. If you're looking for great albums don't look beyond:
U2: The Joshua Tree/ Achtung Baby(the former more so)
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks/ Blonde on Blonde
Radiohead: OK Computer
Queen: A Night At The Opera
Metallica: The "Black" Album/ Master Of Puppets
Led Zeppelin: III
Jimi Hendrix: Anything He Ever Wrote/ Recorded.Genius.

Brilliant: One And All

It wasn't me!

Didn't like the Black Album. Very formulaic for my tastes. Listening to Weezer, the Green Album now. Kicks so much ass. Nerd-rock for ever!

Hippo

"I dont know anything about Kula Shaker except that their Colombian and may be Hare Krishnas".......er, no, their singer Crispian Mills was an English public school boy. And further to the thread, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper, Pet Sounds and Zeppelin I all defined most music for the following generations and still haven't been bettered. Even by Damien Rice.

StupidLikeAFox

their singer Crispian Mills was an English public school boy

Well looks like thats less i know so, bloody good album tho

Raphael

Unrelated topic, anyone else find it shocking how cheap the ticklets for velvet revolver are? Heard it on the radio, 34.50

On a (slightly) more on-topic note, I have that queen album on LP spraypaint. It rocks indeedily

mentalimplosion

they're giving them away because nobody wants to go. come on, the point like? think again.
speaking of the black album, i really really like jay-z.

It wasn't me!

34.50 ain't that cheap. It's a good price for a band like that though. And it's the Point. You going Aonghus?

TalkISCheap

if this unrelenting assault on indie doesn't subside soon ill be forced to take matters into me own (nerdish) hands... (oh, its stopped...)

promenade by the divine comedy is another great album....

pinkpimp

Spraypaint wrote:

Jimi Hendrix: Anything He Ever Wrote/ Recorded.Genius.

Amen.

mentalimplosion

TalkISCheap wrote:

if this unrelenting assault on indie doesn't subside soon ill be forced to take matters into me own (nerdish) hands... (oh, its stopped...)

hey, i love indie. real indie. not crappy ugly boys with guitars playing crappy ugly powerpop.

guX

In no particular order:

Metallica: Master of Puppets
Motörhead: Ace of Spades
System of a Down: Toxicity
Pantera: Cowboys from hell
Metallica: Ride the Lightning
Slipknot: Volume 3.0 - The Subliminal Verses
Ozzy Osbourne: The EssentialOzzy Osbourne
Slayer: Reign in Blood

jono087

hey here's an idea:

instead of fighting over what's the best album.... why restrict ourselves to 20 or so tracks? why don't we get a huge hard drive, dump them all on it (everyones preference) and then we can have a SUPER ALBUM!!!

PurpleFistMixer

So you're saying we should all basically get ourselves mp3 players, put our favourite songs on them, and listen to them at our will?

Dear god I think he's on to something.


And also, wasn't this thread originally about choosing an album with a limited number of the best songs ever, instead of just arguing about what already existing album is the best?

Aoibheann

that's what this thread was in the first place, naming songs that would be in your favourite album, not complete albums of one band. (I should know, I started it. )

jono087

does any thread ever stay on topic!? sometimes i think they have lives of their own.....

Aoibheann

yes, but the original topic can be still used. I mean, peoples favourite songs may change, they can post a new list. I'll post one later, I have different favourites to back when I started this.

rorygbluz

Liquid Skin by Gomez (a classic)

Raphael

It wasn't me! wrote:

34.50 ain't that cheap. It's a good price for a band like that though. And it's the Point. You going Aonghus?

Nah. I'm just that broke

By complete coincidence, I was mulling over this "Best 10 records ever" question this evening. So I can't let this opportunity slip by. A list of 10 records that I'd whack the volume up to full if I heard on the radio. I don't believe I should apologise for my eclectism so I won't. Just jam a napkin between my teeth and the spasms should subside eventually...

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
U2 - Bad (live on the ltd edition 4-track EP)
Simple Minds - Waterfront
The Specials - Do Nothing
The Carpenters - Goodbye To Love (Yes. Really. Unexpectedly lush guitar solo at the end)
James - Sit Down
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Abba - Dancing Queen
Rainbow - Stargazer
Madness - It Must Be Love

Undergod

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Mainly for the influences they had. I'll edit as I think of more

americanCat

personally i like:

good ridadnce -- greenday
american pie -- don mclean
beautiful day -- u2
nothing else matters -- metallica
bat outta hell-- meatloaf
i don't wanna miss a thing -- aerosmith
we're in heaven 911 mix -- DJ sammy
six feet on the edge -- creed
if you could only see (iris?) -- red hot chili peppers
mad world -- gary jules
superman -- five for fighting
paranoia -- greenday
get the cool -- gorillaz

Jim_Are_Great

Harvester of Sorrow - Metallica
Chinese Rock - Ramones
More Than A Feeling - Boston
Voodoo Chlie - Jimi
Money - Pink Floyd
Child in Time - Deep Purple
If You Have to Ask - the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Walk Ths Way - Aerosmith
Song 2 - Blur
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Chop Suey - System of a Down
Ace of Spades - Motorhead

And there you have it: The ultimately, inarguable definative hypothetical album ever. Of all time. Period.

HeyYou

It's all a bit relentless isn't it? No let up at all! MY best album ever is the following album:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abbatoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus.

Get it. It's great.

It wasn't me!

Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
Foo Fighters-The One
QOTSA-Quick and to the Pointless
Slayer-Angel of Death
Mundy-10000 Miles Away From Harm
BellX1-West of Her Spine
Opeth-The Funeral Portrait
Metallica-Fuel
Iron Maiden-Fear of the Dark
Pixies-Debaser
Distillers-I Am a Revenant
Metallica-Battery
Opeth-The Leper Affinity
RATM-Guerilla Radio
The Clash-Should I Stay or Should I Go
SOAD-Sugar
Jimmy Eat World-Salt Sweat Sugar
The Cure-Boys Don't Cry
Radiohead-Just
Weezer-Knock-Down, Drag-Out

I could go on, but if I do I'm going to end up listing every song I own, and quite a few that I don't. :rolleyes:

doonothing

turn - heart attack
nick cave and the bad seeds - into my arms / henry lee / are you the one i've been waiting for?
nick drake - way to blue
leonard cohen - famous blue raincoat
snow patrol - somewhere a clock is ticking
the cure - lullaby
placebo - without you im nothing
the libertines - i get along
jeff buckley - lover you should've come over
damo rice - i remember
josh ritter - golden age of radio
radiohead - idioteque / like spinning plates live
polly jean and thom - this mess we're in
cathy davey - trade secret
the frames - in the deep shade / the waiting room
mic christopher - skylarking
yann tiersen (amelie soundtrack guy) - comptine d'un autre ete : l'apres midi
bell x1 - daybreak / bound for boston hill
pixies - gouge away

mmmm....yep

deceptacon

I like short albums. Leeeeeeet's go with...

Radiohead - fudge, hard... Karma Police.
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Interpol - Evil
Pixies - Levitate Me
Libertines - Time For Heroes
Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Rage Against The Machine - Calm Like A Mother****ing Bomb
Miles Davis - So What?
John Coltrane - Resolution
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune

Dermo

OrangeRhino wrote:

Dermo - Quick Note #5

dude, I never even showed you that song....did I?