Your top albums of All Time

SonicBoom87

What are your top albums of all time?

Mine are something like this

Radiohead - Ok Computer
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
Beatles - Abbey Road
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pixies - Doolittle
David Bowie - The Rise & fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
The Doors - The Doors
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The SMiths - The Queen Is Dead

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Clubmix '97 volume 3

Beatles - the best of the Beatles

Underworld - second toughest in the infants

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Second Toughest in_the Freshers wrote: »

Beatles - the best of the Beatles

How very Alan Partridge of you! :pac:

NIMAN

IF I had to take 1 album to a desert island it would be The The "Infected".

Utter genius.

trashcan

Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
I've Seen Everything - Trashcan Sinatras
Sacred Heart Hotel - Stars of Heaven
Fables of the Reconstruction - REM

Just some of my favourite bands and my favourite albums by them. In truth though I haven't listened to an "album" in a long long time. Random play on the ipod is usually the way I go. It's totally changed the listening experience. My criteria for a great album is one where every single song is strong. They are surprisingly few when you actually look at it. Even on the above albums I could think of a track or two I could take or leave. Except possibly Sacred Heart Hotel - but that's only got seven tracks.

Andrew Laeddis

The Holy Bible- Manic Street Preachers

wendell borton

Performance and cocktails- stereophonics, nothing spectacular but still a very solid album, almost every track on it could have made it as a single.

The Dirty South - Drive-by Truckers.

therabbittest

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Bjork - Post
American Football - American Football
Fightstar - Grand Unification

janedoe007

Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell

Shane St.

Off the top of my head
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Beatles - Revolver
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Radiohead - OK Computer
David Bowie - The Rise & fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Freewheelin'
Beck - Sea Change
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Ramones - Road To Ruin

Cosmicfox

Lungs-Florence and the machine
Ceremonials-Florence and the machine
How big, how blue, how beautiful-Florence and the machine
Volta-Bjork
The flying cup club-Beirut
Neon bible-arcade fire
Opheliac-emilie autumn
Easter-Patti Smith
Wounded rhymes-Lykke Li
Fever ray-fever ray
alright still-Lily allen
The family jewels-Marina and the diamond

These are the few proper albums I listen to in full, I cherry pick from old and new artists on spotify mostly these day. I guess that's not a great thing as you don't keep on at a song you aren't intially keen on and let it grow on you. Even in this selection they nearly all had songs I'd zone out on that eventually became favourites

Anesthetize

Usually changes every few months but...

The Cure - Disintegration
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
X - Los Angeles
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Field Mice - Snowball
The Replacements - Let It Be
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Joy Division - Closer
Arcade Fire - Funeral

I'm gonna stop now

Son0vagun

Freak out - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention.
Absolutely Free - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention.
We are only in it for the Money - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention.

BullBlackNova

Gonna go alphabetically here because I'll just forget otherwise...

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beck - Odelay
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
John Grant - The Queen of Denmark
Love - Forever Changes
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
The National - Alligator
The National - Boxer
The National - High Violet
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nirvana - In Utero
Pixies - Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim
Portishead - Dummy
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
The White Stripes - Elephant
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - A Ghost is Born

Phew. I should've tried to be a bit more brief there... I highlighted my absolute favourites.

I'd say I'd have a few more from recent years to add but I always try to let things sit with me for a while before I go adding, see if they last over time. The War on Drugs are the exception to this because that just blew my ****ing mind!!

efb

Definitely Maybe
Rumours
Like a Prayer
Erotica
The Fame Monster

Looper007

It's tough to break my list down to a few so I just named of the ones I love to death.


Oasis- WTSMG
Oasis-Definitely Maybe
The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses
The Strokes- Is this it
Arctic Monkeys- WPSIATWIN
Arctic Monkeys- AM
The Clash-London Calling
The Go Betweens- 16 Lovers Lane
De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising
Aztec Camera- High Land, High Rain
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
David Bowie- Aladdin Sane
Blur- Modern Life is Rubbish
Blur- Parklife
New Radicals- Maybe you've Been Brainwashed too
The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones- EXile on Main Street
The Beatles- White Album
The Beatles- Revolver
DR Dre- 2001
Supergrass- I should Coco
Supergrass- In It For the Money
Big Star- 1 Record
Big Star- Radio City
Primal Scream- Screamdelica
Teenage Fanclub- Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub- Grand Prix

Libadour

In these situations I usually opt for choosing a top 5 as it has the potential to go on all day. I'll go for

Mic Christopher-Skylarkin
The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
Oasis-Definitely Maybe
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Arctic Monkeys-AM

Mike Guide 69

In no order i guess ....ahem.....

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith & Devotion
Radiohead - The Bends (still my favourite IMO)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Tool - Lateralus
Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
Whipping Boy - Heartworm (best Irish album ever)
Longpigs - Sun Is Often Out ( criminally underrated!!)
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Prince - Sign o The Times
Suede - Dog Man Star
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (slighly ahead of Fishermans Blue's, big music)
U2 - Achtung Baby

Probably have loads more,but thats all my brain is throwing out on Friday 13th!!

Declan A Walsh

This is an impossible task. I will list the ones that spring to mind in no particular order.

Electronic - Electronic

Violator - Depeche Mode

Songs of Faith and Devotion - Depeche Mode

A Walk Across the Rooftops - The Blue Nile

How Dare You - 10CC

Infected - The The

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

Boy - U2

There are loads more albums but they are the ones that stick out at the moment.

dasdog

Subject to change but for the past few months

Laurie Anderson - Big Science
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
sunken_foal - Friday Syndrome Vol.1
The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
Hail Mary Mallon - Bestiary
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
The Doors - L.A.Woman
James Brown - Funky Instrumentals
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Declan A Walsh

Here are some more of my "top" albums -
Lionheart - Kate Bush
Going for the One - Yes
Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
Moon Safari - Air
Read Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays
George Best - The Wedding Present
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of The Moon


If you are allowed to include compilation albums:
Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92) - Tears for Fears

Relikk

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
The Jam - Setting Sons
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers & White Album
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On & Let's Get It On

shamrock2004

Daniel O'Donnell - Greatest hits

RayCon

Joe Dolce : Shaddap You Face (The Album)

My top ten would most likely be as follows (in no particular order):

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Knife - Silent Shout
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
And slot #10 has many competitors vying for but none that is *quite* great enough to join that list.

dinneenp

Quick impossible to pick a top 5 or even 10 so:
MBV- Loveless
Radiohead- several of theirs
The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
Morrissey- your Arsenal
The Pixies- several
The National- Alligator
they might be giants- Flood
Stone Roses- Stone Roses
Red House Painters- RHP
Sonic Youth- Dirty
Daft Punk- homework
Stereolab- several
Primal Scream- screamadelica
Nirvana- nevermind
Kaito- hundred million light years
I'm from Barcelona- I'm from barcelona
Fat Boy slim- better living through chemistry
Luarent Garnier- Unreasonable Behaviour
Massive Attack
Avalanches- Since I left you
Etienne De Crecy- Superdiscount
Sigur Ros
Arcade Fire- Neon Blue
Air- Moon Safari
JAMC- Psycho Candy
Nick Cave- take your pick

If I had a gun to my head and had to narrow down the list I'd, hesitantly go with:
Arcade Fire- Neon Blue
MBV- loveless
Etienne De Crecy- Superdiscount
Daft Punk- homework
Nirvana- Nevermind
Daft Punk- homework
Kid A
and change my mind again the next day...

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

My top ten would most likely be as follows (in no particular order):

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Knife - Silent Shout
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
And slot #10 has many competitors vying for but none that is *quite* great enough to join that list.

Actually, I tell a lie.
Björk - Homogenic belongs on that list.

To Elland Back

Eagles - Hotel California
Peter Gabriel - So
Van Morrison - Best Of
Carpenters - A kind of hush
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Carole King - Tapestry
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Chris Rea - Deltics
Eagles - The Long Run
Meatloaf - Bat out of hell

dinneenp

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My top ten would most likely be as follows (in no particular order):

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Knife - Silent Shout
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
And slot #10 has many competitors vying for but none that is *quite* great enough to join that list.

Ingerpols totb lights is a classic alright. Next exit is amazing every time I listen to it. They nose dived somewhat after that didn't they though?

Vinculus

I'd feel like I'm committing adultery if I tried to narrow it down to ten, so I'll just mention the one album that makes me feel like I'm 19 again.

Loveless - my bloody valentine

BullBlackNova

dinneenp wrote: »

Ingerpols totb lights is a classic alright. Next exit is amazing every time I listen to it. They nose dived somewhat after that didn't they though?

Turn on the Bright Lights is a classic but I don't think they nosedived after. For one, 'Next Exit' is on the follow up album, "Antics"! The third album is hit and miss, fourth is dire and the fifth a real return to form.

They never matched its heights but they have some cracking songs across the other albums.