Your top 10 albums - with some caveats

Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Manassas - Manassas
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Jess Roden - Jess Roden
Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Free - Heartbreaker
Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Dynamite
XTC - Drums & Wires
New FADs - Love It All

These are my favourite for this week

 

My (current) top ten:

1. Bee Gees--Main Course
2. Rare Earth--Get Ready
3. Eagles--The Long Run
4. Dashboard Confessional--MTV Unplugged 2.0
5. Tame Impala--Currents
6. Timothy B. Schmit--Expando
7. Poco--A Good Feelin' To Know
8. Poco--Head Over Heels
9. Red-Of Beauty and Rage
10. Kaleo--A/B

List is not in any particular order, and is likely to change by tomorrow lol.

 

Th Beatles - White Album
The Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
The Beach Boys - Today!
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
Nirvana - In Utero
ELO - Out of the Blue
Descendents - Everything Sucks
The Doors - S/T
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

 

Forgot

Love- Forever Changes

 

Great idea! I always just assume most if not all in here cherish most of these bands. They belong to the community and saying you like them is almost like saying you need water from time to time.

I'm sure there's exceptions......and that's OK. You see? I'm sure they're all relieved now.
Here goes:

• Simple Minds- Sons and Fascination, Sparkle in the Rain, Empires and Dance, New Gold Dream
• Big Country- The Crossing
• Magazine- Real Life
• Peter Gabriel- Melt
• The Clash- London Calling, S/T
• The Cars- S/T
• Duran Duran- Rio, AYNIN, Big Thing
• The Cure- The Head on the Door
• Joy Division- Closer

 

What I could do instead is give you "the last 10 albums I've listened to that I give my highest rating." And those would be:

Aaron Copland - The Complete Music for Solo Piano (Leo Smit)
Bad Company - Bad Company
The Band - Stage Fright
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
David Gilmour - About Face
Nantucket - Nantucket
Oregon - Distant Hills
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence
Rush - Caress of Steel
Tower of Power - East Bay Grease

 

The Stooges - Fun House
Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
The Dictators - Bloodbrothers
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Jackson C. Frank - S/T
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
New York Dolls - S/T
Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear ("Overseas Version")
AC/DC - Powerage
AC/DC - Back In Black
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Swingin' Neckbreakers - Kick Your ***!
Ramones - Ramones Leave Home
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
The Dead Boys - Younger, Louder, and Snottyer!!!
The Dead Boys - Night Of The Living Dead Boys
Van Halen - S/T
Van Halen - Fair Warning

 

Wire - 154

The Cure - Disintegration

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Slowdive - Souvlaki

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

Sonic Youth - Sister

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!

The Clash - London Calling

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

 

Atrocities

 

10 off the top of my head:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Steely Dan - Aja
Patti Smith - Horses
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bob Marley - Exodus
Santana - III
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
Getz/Gilberto

 

Genesis - nursery cryme
Dire straits - love over gold
Cold chisel - barking spiders live
Devin townsend - synchestra
Bowie - station to station
Church - priest = aura
The angels - face to face
Iron maiden - book of souls
Nick cave - skeleton key
Gentle giant - free hand

Could do this every day and probably get a different list each time lol

 

the beatles ouch
the beach boys ouch again
led zeppelin ehh I like them but not a problem
pink Floyd ok
bob Dylan this one hurts
jimi hendrix ok
neil young probably would've been in there
the doors not a problem
the monkees not even a small problem


ok no order

bowie - hunky dory
van morrison - moondance
van morrison - veedon fleece
the kinks - arthur
vu - loaded
tom waits - closing time
stones - sticky fingers
elvis presley - elvis
prince - sign of the times
miles - bitches brew
(subj to change)

 

disqualified!

 

Nick Drake...Five Leaves Left
Black Sabbath...Master of Reality
Joni Mitchell...Court and Spark
Elton John...Tumbleweed Connection
Neutral Milk Hotel...In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Yes...The Yes Album
Rockpile...Seconds of Pleasure
Joe Cocker...Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Jethro Tull...Benefit
Queen...II

 

I’m no particular order:

Notorious Byrd brothers
London calling
Loaded
The harder they come
Astral Weeks
The las
Remain in light
Future days
I want to see the bright lights tonight
Jesus of cool
Indestructible beat of Soweto
Skylarking

Plus like a hundred others

 

These ten albums were among my favorites back in the 70's

Benefit (Jethro Tull)
Who's Next (The Who)
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (Traffic)
Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
The Captain & Me (The Doobie Brothers)
Rocks (Aerosmith)
Free For All (Ted Nugent)
Spectres (Blue Oyster Cult)
David Gilmour (David Gilmour)

 

Niiiiiiice!


Talk that trash now, baby,
That’s just alright with me,
Got my game uptight, babe,
Tryin’ to tell you that from out in front.
So knock yourself out!

.

 

I’ll do a rock and a not rock one —not including comps, and as quickly as possible in no order

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Stooges- Raw Power
Wipers - Youth Of America
Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
Cosmic Psychos- Go The Hack
Trouble- Manic Frustration
Red Krayola- God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With Her
Alice Cooper- Love It To Death
Can - Future Days
Velvet Underground- White Light White Heat


Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Luc Ferrari- Presque Rien
John Coltrane- Meditations
The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus
Jerry Butler - The Iceman Cometh
Sly & the Family Stone- There’s a Riot Going On
Dadawah Peace and Love
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool and Playing It Right
La Salle Quartet - Neue Weiner Schule - Die Streichquartette
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Microphonie I & II, Telemusik

 

Let's take this a step further and say no classic rock or obvious choices, so 10 more or less obscure albums I love:

Don Wilkerson, Preach Brother!
Sam Cooke, Night Beat
Lefty Frizel, Jimmie Rodgers tribute (whatever it's called)
Grachan Moncur, Evolution
Chico Hamilton, Ellington Suite (1st version with Dolphy)
Magic Sam, Live @ the Alex Club
The Move, Shazam!
Dusty Springfield, Brand new Me
Jimmy Witherspoon w/ Ben Webster, studio album on Reprise
Pablo Casals, Bach Cello Suites

could just as easily list another 10 I love just as much

 

WHO - Who's Next
BOSTON - Boston
BOWIE - Hunky Dory
DEEP PURPLE - In Rock
DOOBIE BROTHERS - The Captain & Me
EAGLES - Desperado
GENESIS - Selling England By the Pound
GENTLE GIANT - Three Friends
SAGA - Worlds Apart
SUPERTRAMP - Breakfast in America

 

It was hard list just 10 albums. In no order:

Guy Clark : Old No. 1
Billy Joe Shaver : Old Five And Dimers Like Me
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy : I See A Darkness
Country Joe McDonald : Tonight I'm Singing Just For You
Dillard & Clark : Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
John Prine : John Prine
Leonard Cohen : Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Mickey Newbury : Looks Like Rain
Phil Ochs : In Concert
Smashing Pumpkins : Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

 

Ok, I'm gonna do this as quickly as possible so I don't overthink it.

Caravan - If I could do it all over again I'd do it all over you
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
Black Flag -My War
Can - Ege Bam Yasi
Talking Heads - More Songs about buildings and food.
Toy Love (Self-Titled)
Bressa Creeting Cake (self-titled)
Phil Ochs - Rehearsals for Retirement
Blur - Parklife (though my pick for 1 album of theirs changes a lot)
Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger (ditto with Blur - so many good albums to choose from, if you asked me tomorrow I'd pick a different one)

Unlucky were Moby Grape, the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Soft Machine, Simply Saucer, King Crimson, Jonathan Richman & a few others.. again, just off the top of my head.

 

10. The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
9. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986)

8. Supertramp - Breakfast in America (1979)
7. Alphaville - Forever Young (1984)​

6. Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo (1974)
5. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (1972)
4. MGMT - Congratulations (2010)
3. David Bowie - Let's Dance (1983)
2. Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
1. David Bowie - Low (1977)

Runner's up
Credence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (1970)
Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987)
Madonna - Like a Prayer (1989)
The Strokes - Room on Fire (2003)
Vampire Weekend - Contra (2010)