Your top 10 albums - with some caveats

So, my adjusted (current) top ten would be (in no particular order):

1. Bee Gees--Main Course
2. Poco--Head Over Heels
3. Rare Earth--Get Ready
4. Eagles--The Long Run
5. Dashboard Confessional--MTV Unplugged 2.0
6. Timothy B. Schmit--Expando
7. Timothy B. Schmit--Leap of Faith
8. Red--Until We Have Faces
9. Kaleo--A/B
10. Steely Dan--The Royal Scam

Runner's up:

1. Bee Gees--To Whom It May Concern
2. Eagles--Hell Freezes Over
3. Steely Dan--Aja
4. Poco--s/t
5. Gary Clark, Jr--Live

 

I try to do a list:

Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper
Santana - Abraxas
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
John Mayall - Jazz Blues Fusion
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (every release!)
Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Nippon Soul
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring

 

In no particular order

The Clash - London Calling
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Rush - Moving Pictures
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Radiohead - The Bends
AC/DC - Back In Black
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

 

I've got none of those in my top ten and the exclusion strikes me as arbitrary. Why not exclude The Who if you're just cutting out popular beat comboes? FWIW:

1. Queen, A Night at the Opera
2. Genesis, Foxtrot
3. Roy Harper, Stormcock
4. The Who, Quadrophenia
5. Kate Bush, The Dreaming
6. Tori Amos, Boys For Pele
7. Joni Mitchell, Blue
8. Kate Bush, Never for Ever
9. David Sylvian, Secrets Of The Beehive
10. The Boomtown Rats, Tonic For The Troops

 

I can't decide between the first four here... so they can count as one.

Queen - Queen
Queen - Queen II
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Queen - A Night At The Opera

Then...

Nirvana - Nevermind
Faith No More - Album of The Year
Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
U2 - Achtung Baby
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Carole King - Tapestry
Prince - Parade
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

 

Half my top ten are excluded so the bottom rises
1 SunSessions
2 WN
3 Sticky Fingers
4 Court &Spark
5 Brothers&Sisters
6 461 Deluxe
7 the other EC TYM
8 Dire Straits
9 More Songs About...
10Bornto Run

 

Top 10 non-US/UK/CA/AU rock or rock-ish albums (in no specific order):-

10. Virgina Jetzt! - Anfänger (Germany)
Indie rock darlings of the 00s spreading sunshine across local alternative radio

9. Sadistic Mika Band - Kurofune / Black Ship (Japan)
Soundscaping prog from Osaka

8. Okean Elzy - GLORIA (Ukraine)
If this had been an album by a US band, it would have sold millions

7. Eiichi Ohtaki - A Long Vacation (Japan)
Shades of Phil Spector and Beach Boys permeate this sometimes poppy but always innovative release from the ex-Happy End member

6. Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar (India)
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" by way of Calcutta

5. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (France)
No introduction needed; still being imitated and sampled today

4. Banda Eddie - Carnaval No Inferno (Brazil)
A underground masterpiece from Pernambuco with flashes of surf rock and reggae

3. Indochine - Paradize (France)
A band written off as has been's pulling off the comeback of its decade, silencing critics and selling a million plus in the process

2. Arno Carstens - Another Universe (South Africa)
The SA rock album of the 00s, jam packed with guitar-laden radio hits

1. Alain Bashung - Osez Joséphine (France)
Rolling Stone's greatest French rock album and then some

 

Steely Dan-The Royal Scam
The Police-Ghost in the Machine
The Who-Who's Next
Joni Mitchell-Hissing of Summer Lawns
China Crisis-Flaunt the Imperfection
Dire Straits- Love Over Gold
Son Volt-Trace
Wilco-Being There
Eye to Eye-Eye to Eye
Little Feat-Waiting For Columbus

 

Some self-imposed rules; otherwise I have no idea how I'd do this: no Rolling Stones (assuming you left them off in error); no live albums, no comps, no classical, no jazz (without rock influences).


1. Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
3. Red - King Crimson
4. Uncle Meat - Mothers of Invention
5. Another Green World - Brian Eno
6. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
7. Remain in Light - Talking Heads
8. Crooked Rain - Pavement
9. This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
10. Selling England By the Pound - Genesis

 

Born To Run - Springsteen
Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Springsteen
El-Ay Wee Men - The Daars
The Daars - The Daars
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
War - U2
Movement - New Order
War - Under A Blood Red Sky

 

At the moment, for “rock” music..

CAN: Monster Movie (1969)

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: The Velvet Underground (1969)

AMON DÜÜL II: Wolf City (1972)

NEU! 2 (1973)

ENO: Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)

STATIONTOSTATIONDAVIDBOWIE (1976)

STEVIE WONDER: Hotter Than July (1980)

ADAM AND THE ANTS: Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980)

TONES ON TAIL: Pop (1984)

THE FALL: This Nation’s Saving Grace (1985)

 

Sound Garden {Louder Than Love}
Buddy and Julie Miller {Buddy and Julie Miller}
La Nina De Los Peines {Grands Cantaores Du Flamenco v 3}
Townes Van Zandt {Live at the Old Quarter}
Samhain {November Coming Fire}
Michael Hedges {Aeriel Boundries, vinyl}
Sonny Sharrock {Ask The Ages}
Kyuss {Sky Valley}
Pj Harvey {Dry}
Sainkho Namtchylak {like a bird or spirit, not a face}

 

In alphabetical order...

Belle & Sebastian- The Boy With the Arab Strap
Electric Light Orchestra- Out of the Blue
The Hold Steady- Boys & Girls in America
Jason Isbell- Something More Than Free
Percy Hill- Color in Bloom
Sloan- One Chord To Another
Steely Dan- Aja
Strangefolk- Lore
They Might Be Giants- Flood
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Damn the Torpedoes

 

Nice to see Flood getting a look in these days; played that CD to death the year it came out.

 

The Wedding Present- Seamonsters
Rocket from the Crypt- Circa: Now!
Afghan Whigs- Black Love
Afghan Whigs- Gentlemen
GbV- Bee Thousand
GbV- Alien Lanes
The Cure- Disintegration
Dinosaur Jr- Green Mind
Pearl Jam- No Code
My Morning Jacket- At Dawn

 

Sugar - Copper Blue
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
The Electric Light Orchestra - S/T or No Answer
Badfinger - Wish You Were Here

 

I'll go with 5 pictures:

 

Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & the Dominos
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Low - David Bowie
Anodyne - Uncle Tupelo
Dusk at Cubist's Castle - Olivia Tremor Control
Fear - John Cale
& - Kristian Hoffman
In Another Life - Anne Soldaat
Present Author Uknown - Jason Falkner
I Can Hear the Heart Beat as One - Yo La Tengo

 

John Lennon
Plastic Ono Band

Rolling Stones
Exile On Main St

The Who
Who's Next

Paul McCartney
Band On The Run

George Michael
Listen Without Prejudice

U2
Achtung Baby

Elvis
The Sun Sessions

Frank Sinatra
In The Wee Small Hours

Def Leppard
Pyromania

Randy Travis
Storms Of Life

 

Easy for me..

1. VU & Nico - S/T
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. VU - Live 1969
4. Prince - Sign O The Times
5. Bowie - Station To Station
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. VU - S/T (aka 'Third')
8. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
9. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - S/T
10. Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With...

Only skipped two - The White Album and DSOTM...

 

Easy for me..

1. VU & Nico - S/T
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. VU - Live 1969
4. Prince - Sign O The Times
5. Bowie - Station To Station
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. VU - S/T (aka 'Third')
8. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
9. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - S/T
10. Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With...

Only skipped two - The White Album and DSOTM...

 

So...your not really asking for our top ten then are you?

 

Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
MC5 - Back In the USA
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Flamin' Groovies - Groovies Greatest Grooves
The Blasters - American Music
The Lyres - On Fyre
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Los Straitjackets - Jet Set

 

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How did the Rolling Stones and David Bowie escape the ban on ubiquity? I'm glad they did because both are responsible for a personal top five album.