Just To Stir Up Discussion, Your Top 20 Albums Ever

[DAREALBIGMEECH]

I don't like lists, but I'll just do this thread for the hell of it

1. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. The Replacements - Tim
4. Tool - Ænema
5. The Cure - Disintegration
6. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
7. Joy Division - Closer
8. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
9. Depeche Mode - Violator
10. R.E.M. - Document
11. Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
12. Siouxsie And The Banshees- Kaleidoscope
13. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
14. Radiohead - The Bends
15. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
16. Roxy Music - Avalon
17. Pink Floyd - Animals
18. Blur - Parklife
19. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
20. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

[Da Best 2 Ever Do It]

mgmt

[Sonny Blaze]

6. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
8. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
14. Radiohead - The Bends
15. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
17. Pink Floyd - Animals
19. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
20. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

I'm not gonna make any list, but yours is pretty spot on (When you're talking about my personal taste anyway).. The Oasis and Pink Floyd albums wouldn't make my top 20 but the ones you chose are definitely my favorite of theirs.. I'd also replace The Bends in favor of OK Computer or Hail to the Thief.. Everything else would definitely make my top ten though, with that Stone Roses album taking the top spot, I don't think you can get any closer to perfection than they did on that album.. 1

[yaga]

...with that Stone Roses album taking the top spot, I don't think you can get any closer to perfection than they did on that album.

I don't know if I Want To Be Adored is on that album, but cot damn a lot kids i know got by because of that song.

[Sonny Blaze]

It's the first song...

[DAREALBIGMEECH]

huh, so no lists from others?

It's the first song...
One of the greatest songs from Manchester

[ZEUS]

man ive never thought to put a top 20 together, just make mine a mix of the best albums from the beatles, bob marley, nirvana and Pac

[THE 101]

just off the top of my head;

radiohead - ok computer
gza - liquid swords
atcq - low end theory
elliott smith - either/or
velvet underground & nico
marvin gaye - whats goin' on
the beta band - the three EPs
ice cube - death certificate
wu-tang - 36 chambers
love - forever changes
neutral milk hotel - in the airplane over the sea
radiohead - kid a
dj shadow - entroducing
nas - illmatic
brian eno - another green world
pink floyd - darkside of the moon
david bowie - low
sly & the family stone - theres a riot goin' on
isaac hayes - hot buttered soul
the beatles - abbey road

but this list changes by the day. i feel bad leaving out classic shiit by funkadelic, tom waits, neil young, de la soul, shuggie otis, only one beatles album. but thats how i'm feeling right now

[BreakCanon]

Blues?

John Lee Hooker- Endless Boogie
John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat- Hooker n' Heat
Canned Heat- Boogie With Canned Heat
Lazy Lester- All Over You
T-Bone Walker- Cold, Cold Feeling
Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf- Muddy and the Wolf
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers- (self titled)
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers- Natural Boogie
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers- every live album they ever released, and some they didn't.
George Thorogood- Move It On Over
Eric Clapton- From the Cradle
Elmore James- Rolling and Tumbling
Chuck Berry- Blues

I have to go boogie now...

[Zeu$]

fukk a list lol

Slowdive-Souvlaki
At the Drive in- Relationship of Command
Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
luna Sea- Mother
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Nobuo Uematsu- Final Fantasy X ost
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Asobi Seksu- Citrus
Have a Nice Life- Deathconciousness
Luna Sea- Lunacy
Portishead- Portishead
Mucc- Gokusai
Hartfield- True Color True Lie
Dir en Grey- Withering to Death
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
A Place to Bury Strangers- Exploding Head
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Jimmy eat World- futures
High and Mighty Color- Rock Pit
The Mars Volta- Deloused at the Comatorium
Tokyo Jihen- Kyiokou
Dredg- El cielo
The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Supercar- Three out Change
AFI- Sing the Sorrow
Asian Kung-Fu Gen- Sol-fa
Cocteau Twins- Treasure
The Cure- Disintegration

[BreakCanon]

Rock?

The Replacements- Tim and Pleased To Meet Me
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers- LAMF
The Doors- Everything they released except for Waiting for the Sun and Soft Parade
CCR- Cosmo's Factory is the cream, but everything they released is fantastic.
The Clash- London Calling, Sandanista (a lot of crap on that one, but also quite a few diamonds)
The Jam- In the City, Setting Son, or Sound Affects
The Stooges- All three...Stooges, Funhouse, Raw Power
Motorhead- Overkill
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Megadeth- Countdown to Extinction or their newest, Endgame.
New York Dolls- New York Dolls
The Ramones- Rocket to Russia
Social Distortion- Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Television- Marquee Moon
Velvet Underground- White Light/White Heat
Guns n' Roses- Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion 1 and 2
Dire Straits- Dire Straits
Modern Lovers- Modern Lovers
Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

Honorable Mention:

Compilation disks of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Big Joe Turner, and Chuck Berry.

Cock Sparrer- Shock Troops

[BreakCanon]

I don't like lists, but I'll just do this thread for the hell of it

2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. The Replacements - Tim
7. Joy Division - Closer
11. Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
17. Pink Floyd - Animals


Best list (that isn't mine :laugh:) so far.

[frush11]

I'll give this is a go

In no particular order

4Hero-Parallel Universe
Pete Rock & CL Smooth-The Main Ingredient
Jay-Z-Reasonable Doubts
Gangstarr-Moment Of Truth
Sizzla-Black Women & Child
Goldie-Timeless
Les Nubians-One Step Forward
4Hero-Two Pages
Smith & Mighty-Big World Small World
Roni Size Reprazent-New Forms
The Roots-Illadelph Halflife
Common-One Day It'll All Make Sense
Dennis Brown-Revolution
Luciano-Visions
Burial-Untrue
LTJ Bukem Presents Logical Progression
Metalheadz Platinum Breakz Vol 1
Groove Theory- Groove Theory
Soul 2 Soul-Club Classics Vol. I
More Rockers-Selection 2
Silkie-City Limits Vol 1

[Zeu$]

Rock?

The Replacements- Tim and Pleased To Meet Me
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers- LAMF
The Doors- Everything they released except for Waiting for the Sun and Soft Parade
CCR- Cosmo's Factory is the cream, but everything they released is fantastic.
The Clash- London Calling, Sandanista (a lot of crap on that one, but also quite a few diamonds)
The Jam- In the City, Setting Son, or Sound Affects
The Stooges- All three...Stooges, Funhouse, Raw Power
Motorhead- Overkill
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Megadeth- Countdown to Extinction or their newest, Endgame.
New York Dolls- New York Dolls
The Ramones- Rocket to Russia
Social Distortion- Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Television- Marquee Moon
Velvet Underground- White Light/White Heat
Guns n' Roses- Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion 1 and 2
Dire Straits- Dire Straits
Modern Lovers- Modern Lovers
Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

Honorable Mention:

Compilation disks of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Big Joe Turner, and Chuck Berry.

Cock Sparrer- Shock Troops


damn you literally have no albums made after the 80's in your favs.

[BreakCanon]

damn you literally have no albums made after the 80's in your favs.

Other than Endgame, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, and Use Your Illusion, yeah, all of them were made during or before the eighties.

Believe it or not, that fact never really occurred to me.

[Zeu$]

I mean I respect what the old heads did, but most new jacks take their stuff as inspiration and make it better. plus most of the stuff sounds terribly mastered. no hate to yo list though.

[Strike One]

Off the top, no order:

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Massive Attack - Protection
Portishead - Portishead
Portishead - Dummy
Nas - Illmatic
Nas - Stillmatic
Nas - It Was Written
Outkast - ATLiens
Outakst - Aquemini
E40 - In A Major Way
Pink Floyd - Dark Side
Depeche Mode - Violator
Radiohead - OK Computer
Underworld - Second Toughest...
Crystal Method - Vegas
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Snoop - Doggystyle
Makaveli - Don Killuminati
Raekwon - OBFCL
D'Angelo - Voodoo

[Clem]

Sam Cooke - Life at the Harlem Square Club 1963
The Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start - And Nothing is #1
The Ronettes - The Best of the Ronettes
Hot Hot Heat - Scenes One Through Thirteen
All-Time Quarterback! - All-Time Quarterback
Comptons Most Wanted - Music to Driveby
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Cappadonna - The Pillage
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner
The Times - Pop Goes Art!
Nas - Illmatic
Elvis Presley - Blue Hawaii
Marine Girls - Beach Party
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
The Kinks - Kinks
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
The Anniversary - Your Majesty
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
The Ramones - Ramones
The Clean - Anthology I & II
Descendents - All
Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
Wire - Pink Flag
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
The Urinals - Negative Capability.. Check it Out!
Wipers - Is This Real?
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
The Monks - Black Monk Time
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall


BIGMEECH do you attend one of the Claremont colleges?

[DAREALBIGMEECH]

I'm living here for the time being, and I graduated from Stanford in 2003. BTW I'm surprised you have a Death Cab affiliated project on your list, but I like ATQ too

[BreakCanon]

I mean I respect what the old heads did, but most new jacks take their stuff as inspiration and make it better. plus most of the stuff sounds terribly mastered. no hate to yo list though.

I don't know about better. It seems like a lot of the stuff coming out these days is heavily inspired by stuff from the past, which may actually be my problem with newer music. To me, it all sounds like updated Beatles or Velvet Underground material, or punk throwbacks (not that there is too much room in punk for variation, although there is some), or ironic homages to garage, glam, and "classic" rock. Rock needs a kick in the azz like it got in '67-'69, early/late 70's, and the whole mishmash of the 80's.

As for the mastering, you've got me there. LAMF, for example, needed to be remastered three times (the latest was in the 90's) before it became listenable. Modern Lovers was recorded in '72, I think, but released in '76. The Stooges' Raw Power was originally produced by Iggy Pop in '73, but he fukked it up so bad (because he is Iggy Pop) that David Bowie had to patch it up in a single day. Iggy Pop re-remastered it in '97. It now stands as THE loudest album of all time. Listening to it, especially for the first time, is like being violently raped through your ears.

[Copper Scroll]

Prince & the Revolution - 1999; Purple Rain; Parade; Sign o the Times
Jimi Hendrix Experience - all three albums
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
The Wailers - Catch a Fire
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
David Bowie - Low
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Gangstarr - A Daily Operation
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
The Beatles - everything from Revolver to Abbey Road
Miles Davis - the ten albums from ESP to Live Evil; Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme; Live at Birdland; the first Live at the Village Vanguard; Giant Steps
Led Zeppelin - first five albums
The Roots - Game Theory
Outkast - Aquemini; Stankonia
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Radiohead - OK Computer; Kid A; Amnesiac
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure; Judgment!; Smoke Stack; Dance With Death; Passing Ships; Andrew!!!; Dusk; Time Lines
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Sun Ra - Angels & Demons at Play; The Nubians of Plutonia
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back; Fear of a Black Planet
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain; Standing on the Verge of Getting It On; Funkadelic
Parliament - The Motor Booty Affair; Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome; Mothership Connection
Booker Little - Out Front
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Nas - Illmatic
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique; Ill Communication
Bjork - Homogenic; Post
Tricky - Maxinquaye
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
Charles Lloyd - Sangam
David Murray Octet - Ming
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Les Nubians - One Step Forward
Sade - Love Deluxe
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Santana - first three albums
Jay Z - Blueprint
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions; Songs in the Key of Life
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage

[BareKnuckle]

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