List Your Top 20 Albums, Of All Time, By 20 Different Artists

1. The Beatles - Sgt Peppers (by a nose over 4 others), including solo albums/groups
2. The Waterboys- This is the Sea
3. Bob Dylan - the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
4. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
5. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

6. The Kinks - Something Else
7. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
8. The Who - Tommy
9. The Doors - The Doors
10. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxsters

11. The Velvet Underground- Vu & Nico
12. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
13. Big Star - #1 Record
14. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy (though Ten really is their best record, I like Vitalogy more)
15. U2 - The Joshua Tree

16. Donovan- A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
17. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
18. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star
19. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
20. Ryan Adams - Love is Hell

 

In no order

Bob Dylan Desire
Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
Slayer South Of Heaven
Joni Mitchell Blue
Terence Trent D'Arby Introducing The Hardline
Phil Collins Hello I Must Be Going
Bing Crosby Bing Sings Bergman Swings
Fairport Convention - Leaf & Leige
Motorhead Rock N Roll
Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker Echo
Frank Sinatra And Carlos Jobim
Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol - Close To The Wind
Richard Thompson Mock Tudor
Neil Young Tonights The Night
Warren Zevon Warren Zevon
The Band The Band
Tony Bennett Here’s To The Ladies
Charlie Parker Complete Dial Masters
Johnny Mathis Isn't It Romantic
Genesis Selling England By The Pond

 

I stuck to artists I think released their best album in the ‘70s:

Van Morrison: Moondance
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Grateful Dead: Workingman’s Dead
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story
Sly & The Family Stone: There’s a Riot Goin’ On
Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
Bonnie Raitt: Give It Up
Al Green: Call Me
Big Star: Radio City
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
Aerosmith: Rocks
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Blondie: Parallel Lines
Elvis Costello: This Year’s Model
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
Nick Lowe: Pure Pop For Now People
Michael Jackson: Off The Wall
The Clash: London Calling

 

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

War - U2
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Movement - New Order
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Drums & Wires - XTC
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Pickpocket - Ludus
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
The Smiths - The Smiths
Liberation - Divine Comedy
Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
After School Session - Chuck Berry
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

The Who- Who’s Next
Little Feat- Waiting for Columbus
Tony Rice-cold on the Shoulder
John Coltrane-Blue Train
Mose Alison- Mose Alive
Miles Davis- Agharta
Beastie Boys-Paul’s Boutique
Pink Floyd-wish You Were Here
JD Crowe and New South-Holiday in Japan
Led Zeppelin-II
Grateful Dead-reckoning
Guru-Jazzmatazz
Traffic-Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
The Band-s/t
Allman Bros-Live at Fillmore East
Eric Clapton-Just One Night
Jimi Hendrix-Band of Gypsys
Tan Mahal-Mo Roots
Digital Underground-Sex Packets
Toots and the Maytals-Funky Kingston

 

1. Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch
2. David Lindley - El Rayo X
3. Los Lobos - Kiko
4. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
5. Bob Dylan - Love And Theft
6. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model
7. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
8. Beatles - Revolver
9. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
10. Pretenders - Pretenders II
11. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
12. Pretty Things - The Pretty Things
13. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
14. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
15. Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion
16. Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
17. Eric Clapton - Layla
18. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
19. The Who - My Generation
20. Paul Simon - Graceland
21. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen

 

Not in any order:

Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding
The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain
Chet Baker Chet Baker Is Back
Neil Young Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Antonio Carlos Jobim Stone Flower
Frank Sinatra Songs For Swingin' Lovers
Ella Fitzgerald Like Someone In Love
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Van Morrison Veedon Fleece
Duke Ellington Ellington Indigos
Bill Evans Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins The Bridge
Stan Getz Getz / Gilberto
Tom Waits Raindogs
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin 3
The Beatles The Beatles
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
John Fahey The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

Sorry to the following who I just couldn't fit in:
John Coltrane
Captain Beefheart
Lee Morgan
The Who
Grant Green
The Grateful Dead
Creedence
Little Feat
Hank Mobley
Horace Silver
Ben Webster
James Brown
Can
John Martyn
Nick Drake
Joni Mitchell

 

Steely Dan, Aja
King Crimson, Discipline
Pat Metheny, Travels
Yes, Fragile
Genesis, Duke
Beatles, Abbey Road
The Who, Who's Next
Led Zeppelin, IV
Dire Straits, Love Over Gold
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Allman Brothers, Filmore East
Rush, Moving Pictures
Steven Wilson, Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Brian Eno, Ambient One
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
R.E.M., Murmur
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Talking Heads, Remain in Light
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Elvis Costello, King of America

 

Tomorrow's list will be entirely different, but here we go:

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Revolver
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Jane Siberry - The Walking
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Joe Jackson - Night And Day
Love - Forever Changes
The Who - Who's Next
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
10cc - How Dare You!
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (3rd album)
Talking Heads - Remain In Light

 

Can I play?...Take Five[Dave Brubeck]..Aretha Arrives[Aretha Franklin]..Perfect Angel[Minnie Riperton]..Special Occasion[The Miracles]..Quiet Storm[Smokey]..Let The Boogie Woogie Roll[The Drifters]..Wes And His Brothers[Wes Montgomery]..Love Moods[Nat King Cole]..The Original Spinners[The Spinners]..The O'Jays In Philadelphia[The O'Jays]..Lighthouse 68[The Crusaders]..Breakin Away[Al Jarreau]..Greatest Hits[Walter Jackson]..Neverending Impressions[The Impressions]..Special Lady[Ray,Goodman,Brown]..The Marvelettes[Pink Album-The Marvelettes]..At Last[Etta James]..Winelight[Grover Washington Jr.]..Rock An Cry[Clyde McPhatter]..Sidewinder[Lee Morgan].

 

The Who - Who's Next
The Pretty Things - Parachute
The James Gang - Rides Again
John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against the Wall
Procol Harum - Exotic Birds & Fruit
The Move - Shazam
King Crimson - Red
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
The Faces - A Nod's as Good as a Wink
Curved Air - Second Album
Camel - Stationary Traveler
UK - Danger Money
Steppenwolf - For Ladies Only
Renaissance - Azure D'or
Sally Oldfield - Three Rings
The Strawbs - Hero & Heroine
John Wetton - Caught in the Crossfire
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
Badfinger - No Dice
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night

 

I love your list.
Paradise and Lunch is one of my favorites and I totally forgot to put it one my list.
Love you had it at number one....
Glen

 

Journey - Escape
The Cars - S/T
The Pretenders - S/T
Boston - S/T
Foreigner - 4
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
Toto - Toto IV
Benjamin Orr - The Lace
Styx - Paradise Theatre
Van Halen - 1984
The Eagles - Hotel California
Queen - Innuendo
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Heart - Heart
Chicago - 17
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Genesis - Invisible Touch

 

Most are records that had a huge impact on me that I may never, or rarely, play again, but would be wrong to omit.

Elvis - Elvis' Golden Records
Brian Setzer - Knife Feels Like Justice
Stray Cats - Built For Speed
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Elton John - GYBR
Journey - Escape
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Toy Matinee - s/t
Beatles - Beatles for Sale
Boston - s/t
Van Halen - s/t
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Nirvana - Nevermind
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Queen - The Game
Steve Perry - Street Talk
David Bowie - Ziggy
Scorpions - Blackout
Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love

 

Mine:


Bauhaus In The Flat Field
Beatles White Album
Bowie Hunky dory
Nick Cave The Firstborn Is Dead
Coltrane A Love Supreme
The Cure kiss me kiss me kiss me
Miles Davis Kind of blue
Derek & The Dominos Layla and other assorted love songs
Dylan Blonde on blonde
Einstürzende Neubauten Halber Mensch
Bill Evans Sunday at the village vanguard
The Fall The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
Hendrix Machine Gun Jimi Hendrix The Fillmore East 12/31/1969
The Jesus And Mary Chain Psychocandy
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
Lou Reed Magic and loss
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
The Smiths The Queen is dead
Swans cop/young god/greed/holy money
Tom Waits Rain dogs

 

Some excellent left-field choices. You have fine taste in music.

 

Strong list with a few controversial choices (I can envisage a few Genesis & Chicago fans spluttering their coffee all over their keyboards!). Which is as it should be.

 

In alphabetical order - getting it down to just 20 was hard enough let alone ranking them...

Albion Band - Rise Up Like The Sun
Annette Peacock - X Dreams
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Dave Edmunds - Get It
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
George Russell - 80th Birthday Concert
Gil Evans - Individualism
Harold Budd - The Pavilion of Dreeams
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns
King Crimson - Red
Patti Smith - Horses
Southside Johnny & Ashbury Jukes - Hearts of Stone
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
The Necks - Hanging Gardens
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Warren Zevon - s/t
Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer
Wire - 154
Working Week - Working Nights

Leaving Miles, Sun Ra, Dylan etc etc was difficult.

 

Todays list....so many I had to leave off

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts
The Clash - London Calling
Pixies - Doolittle
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Wolfhounds - Bright and Guilty
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
The Cure - Pornography
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Sir John Barbirolli - English String Music
Van Cliburn - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Number 2
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
New York Dolls - s/t
Radiohead - OK Computer
Suede - Dog Man Star
Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter Songbook

 

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Animals
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Yes - Close to the Edge
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
The Who - Tommy
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Rush - 2112
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The Doors - The Doors
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Dio - Holy Diver
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Love - Forever Changes
Big Star - #1 Record

 

Is the Zeppelin a bootleg? How is the sound quality?

 

And that is true as well. Our tastes change, our moods change. Good Stuff!

 

Post your thread. That is a good one.

 

depending on our mood, tomorrows parties might have different tastes

 

fun thread!

1 Mozart - Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon
2 Vivaldi - 4 Seasons
3 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4 Led Zeppelin 2
5 Abba - Arrival
6 Soundtrack to Twin Peaks
7 Zappa - One Size Fits All
8 Chemical Brothers - Come to me
9 AR Rahman - Devdas - soundtrack
10 Elvis - Sun Sessions
11 Emmy Lou Harris - Luxury Liner
12 Jason and the Scorchers - Still Standing
13 ZZ Top - Fandango
14 Kronos Quartet does Monk
15 Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin -
16 ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
17 Brahms - Slavonic Dances
18 Andreas Vollenwieder - Down to the Moon
19 Frivolous Five - Sour Cream
20 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken