Channel 4 - 100 Greatest albums

Jimmy_Jazz

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Unhappy to see Oasis and the Verve placed so highly. But I'll leave that discussion for the Oasis fanboys (above).

Jaysus, sorry I'm late lads. I was delighted to see both Oasis albums appear so high in the list, particularly Definitely Maybe which is my favourite album bar none. I was surprised to see no mention of the Manics though. The Holy Bible was probably too much to hope for, but surely Everything Must Go could have at least made the list? And why couldn't I vote for Abbey Road? Or the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan? Or the La's? I could go on...

Jonny Arson

The Holy Bible defintiely should of been in the top 100.

I'm personally shocked that these were not in it either......

Achtung Baby - U2
Back in Black - AC/DC
Up the Bracket - The Libertines
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

No one can dispute that OK Computer is a classic but no one ever will have the answer to the greatest album ever.

P.S. The next person to slag of Oasis is gonna get an online slap across the face from yours truly. My patience is wearing very thin!

DerekD Goldfish

Here is my own personal top 150 I did it for another board so I may as well use it here to make my time spent more worthwhile

1 Heartworm –Whipping Boy
2 Entertainment! –Gang of Four
3 On the beach – Neil Young
4 London Calling – The Clash
5 the bends -Radiohead
6 Closer – Joy Division
7 The Holy Bible –Manic St. Preachers
8 Pinkerton - Weezer
9 Meat is Murder – The Smiths
10 Highway 61 Revisited –Bob Dylan
11 The Clash – The Clash
12 The Queen is dead – The Smiths
13 Marque Moon - Television
14 Ok Computer -Radiohead
15 Blonde on blonde –Bob Dylan
16 Loveless – My Bloody Valentine
17 Relationship of command – At the Drive in
18 Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
19 Metal Box - PIL
20 At action park - Shellac
21 Raw Power – The Stooges
22 Surfa rosa - Pixies
23 It takes a nation of millions – Public Enemy
24 After the goldrush – Neil Young
25 Queens of the stone age - Queens of the stone age
26 Young team - Mogwai
27 Disintegration – The Cure
28 heaven up here – Echo & the bunnymen
29 Xtrmntr – Primal Scream
30 this is hardcore - Pulp
31 Generation terrorists – Manic St Preachers.
32 Fresh Fruit for rotting vegetables – Dead Kennedy’s
33 New adventures in Hi-Fi - REM
34 The La's - The La's
35 Songs from northern Britain – Teenage Fanclub
36 Vs.- Mission of Burma
37 The stone roses - The stone roses
38 Rage against the machine - Rage against the machine
39 Grace – Jeff Buckley
40 Crocodiles – Echo & the Bunnymen
41 Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
42 Tender Prey – Nick Cave
43 Rain Dogs – Tom Waits
44 bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
45 Viva Dead Ponies – Fatima Mansions
46 Psychocandy- Jesus & Mary Chain
47 Rockin the suburbs – Ben Folds
48 the wonderful & frightening world of the Fall – The Fall
49 Spiderland - Slint
50 Rings around the world – Super Furry Animals
51 Pink Moon- Nick Drake
52 Troublegum – Therapy?
53 Killing Joke- Killing Joke
54 Starsailor – Tim Buckley
55 #1Record – Big Star
56 Turn on the bright lights - Interpol
57 McLusky Do Dallas -McLusky
58 Five leaves left – Nick Drake
59 Vauxhall & I - Morrissey
60 The boatman’s call – Nick Cave
61 any other city – Life without buildings
62 Francis the Mute – Mars Volta
63 Electro shock blues - Eels
64 Bizarro – Wedding Present
65 Dust – Screaming Trees
66 Live at the witch trials – The Fall
67 New York – Lou Reed
68 the specials - the specials
69 Blues for the red sun- Kyuss
70 Penis Envy - Crass
71 Chairs Missing - Wire
72 Solid Gold – Gang of Four
73 back in black – AC/DC
74 Submarine – Whipping Boy
75 Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power
76 Isnt anything – My Bloody Valentine
77 Fear of a black planet – Public Enemy
78 Everybody is fantastic - Microdisney
79 Feeding of the 5000 - Crass
80 Inflammable Material – Stiff Little Fingers
81 Man machine - Kraftwerk
82 Music for the masses – Depeche Mode
83 Plastic Surgery Disasters – Dead Kennedy’s
84 The software slump - Grandaddy
85 we are all prostitutes – The Pop Group
86 Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
87 Scott 2 – Scott Walker
88 Clowds taste metallic –The Flaming Lips
89 Pink Flag - Wire
90 Lost Souls - Doves
91 Blue album- weezer
92 Crome- Catherine Wheel
93 Siamese dream – Smashing Pumpkins
94 Babble – That Petrol Emotion
95 script of the bridge – The Chameleons
96 Raytown revisited – The Blades
97 horsedrawn wishes – Rollerskate Skinny
98 Pills thrills and bellyaches – Happy Mondays
99 soft bulletin – Flaming Lips
100 Screamadellica – Primal Scream
101 whatever and ever amen- Ben Folds Five
102 Doolitte - Pixies
103 Irish Tour- Rory Gallagher
104 the stooges- the stooges
105 songs about ****ing- Big Black
106 strange free world – Kitchens of Distinction
107 songs of faith and devotion – Depeche Mode
108 Zen Arcade – Husker Du
109 New Day Rising- Husker Du
110 welcome to sky valley - Kyuss
111 stories from the city stories from the sea – PJ Harvey
112 Repeater - Fugazi
113 the remote part - Idlewild
114 L7 – L7
115 Damn the torpedoes – Tom Petty
116 Frosting on the beater – The posies
117 Gone Glimmering - Chavez
118 we are the sluts of trust- sluts of trust
119 In The Flat Field - Bauhaus
120 I should coco - Supergrass
121 brick by brick – Iggy Pop
123 Boy With the arab strap – Belle & Sebastian
124 the hour of the bewilderbeast – Badly drawn boys
125 son of evil reindeer – The reindeer section
126 Lust for life – Iggy Pop
127 If I should fall from grace with god – The Pogues
128 Open Heart Zoo – Martin Grech
129 the golden D – Graham Coxon
130 Pornography – The Cure
131 Hello Nasty – Beastie Boys
132 Prayers on fire – Birthday Party
133 On our big fat merry go round – A House
134 Showbiz - Muse
135 Streetcore – Joe Strummer & the mescaleros
136 Dry land- the last post
137 On Off On- Mission of Burma
138 Twist – Fat Lady Sings
139 In utero - Nirvana
140 appetite for destruction – Guns & roses
141 The Optimist Lp – Turin Breaks
142 silent alarm – Bloc Party
143 From a basement on a hill- Elliot Smith
144 hope is important - Idlewild
145 come down- Dandy warhols
146 Suede - Suede
147 King- Belly
148 Love is Hell part 1&2 – Ryan Adams
149 The Lost Riots – Hope of the states
150 University- Throwing Muses

Jimmy_Jazz

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Up the Bracket - The Libertines
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

Best albums of all time? Don't think so. But you're right about Achtung Baby and Back In Black.

RE*AC*TOR

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

P.S. The next person to slag of Oasis is gonna get an online slap across the face from yours truly. My patience is wearing very thin!

OASIS ARE SH1T

RE*AC*TOR

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

Here is my own personal top 150 I did it for another board so I may as well use it here to make my time spent more worthwhile


3 On the beach – Neil Young

12 The Queen is dead – The Smiths

17 Relationship of command – At the Drive in

39 Grace – Jeff Buckley

43 Rain Dogs – Tom Waits

great list!!!

partiularily agree with the above - On The Beach would be my no 1. I don't think anything else is even close.

jossnjuice

First off, what in the blue hell in parklife doing ahead of one of the top 10 best albums ever, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.Secondly, If you compare this with other compilations which have been made, youl see that bat out of hell deserves to be top ten and not two loud-mouthed drunken scumbags from manchester. Radiohead worthy? maybe not but their up there anyway.

DerekD Goldfish

On The Beach would be my no 1. I don't think anything else is even close.

Yes on the beach is amazing but Heartworm and Entertainment! are so bloody amazing I cant see any album ever beating them.
Hopefully the Gang of Four comback album and Ferghal McKee (WB fronman) albums out later this year wont dissapoint

billy the squid

While some of the artists are in the right place, the albums that were selected however are not in my opinion. Like a Prayer was not Madonnas best Album. and A Night At The Opera was not Queen's. Personally I thought Innuendo was a better album by Queen.

Alanis Morrisette[s Album Jagged Little Pill deserved to be a little higher it is one of the best albums ever released.

Whilst Bjork has one or two good songs, some of her album tracks are a little too damn weird for my liking.

The Number one spot was would have been a dilema for me between U2 - The Joshua Tree, Michael Jackson - Thriller, and REM - Automatic for the people.

Jonny Arson

Jimmy_Jazz wrote:

Best albums of all time? Don't think so. But you're right about Achtung Baby and Back In Black.

Again IMO those 5 albums should have been as they are some of my fave albums ever. In the case of the 3 you disagree with, they are recent albums and older albums will always have that nostalgia aspect to them. Considering The Libertines self titled album got into the top 100, Up the Bracket certainly should have been in there as it is a far superior album to the 2nd album not to take anything away from the 2nd album which was good. Franz Ferdinand's album will be high in these polls in a few years time thats for sure. Songs for the Deaf wouldn't get into a poll like this as the poll is completely leaned towards indie as with the case of Back in Black. Still at a loss as to why Achtung Baby didn't make it. Not get that one at all when The Joshua Tree scores so highly.

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

OASIS ARE SH1T

Yes really informative point there RE*AC*TOR. :rolleyes:

RE*AC*TOR

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Yes really informative point there RE*AC*TOR. :rolleyes:

you owe me one online slap.

rubadub

you can list all the classic albums you want but if they were to be on the list you would have had to knock off such masters as robbie williams, dido and missy elliott

Jonny Arson

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

you owe me one online slap.

*SLAP*

RE*AC*TOR

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

*SLAP*

ooooh, you dirty bitch...


HARDER!!!

Blisterman

The problem with their method of voting is they had 125 albums, and you pick about 10 in no particular order,

So some albums may not be loved by many people, but enough people thought it was one of the 10 best in the list to bring it's rating up.

Bungalow Bill

Great to see Oasis get the credit they are due. And as for the person who was saying the beatles were just a boy band? Well I hope you enjoy burning in hell!

I though the poll was ok, of course if I had my way Madonna wouldn't even be on the list but all in all its alright. In the end you can moan all you like but the list was chosen by popular opinion so that is pretty much what people think.

Blisterman

But it wasnt, becuase they gave you albums to choose from instead of you choosing them.

Only Human

Stevie Wonder, Inervisions wasn't even on the list. (WTF?) Also Thriller should have been first instead of fourth. Not only was it a genius albumb but It was a phenomenon and technicaly the best album ever - 60 million copies sold. Bad which is the second largest selling album ever was also missing from the list.