Your Top 5 Albums Of All Time

Top five. Only five. Hmmm. Ok.

Today's five:

5. Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
4. Emerson Lake & Palmer (self-titled, 1st)
3. Wind And Wuthering - Genesis
2. My Goals Beyond - John McLaughlin
1. Icarus - Paul Winter Consort

 

Thing is with just a top 5 for me is that it would change pretty much every day, except The Holy Bible which would always be in there, as for the other 4 i mean jesus i could pick 4 Beatles albums alone

 

1: The Clash: London Calling
2: The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
3: Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde
4: Television: Marquee Moon
5: Elvis Costello and The Attractions: This Year's Model

 

1: The Clash: London Calling
2: The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
3: Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde
4: Television: Marquee Moon
5: Elvis Costello and The Attractions: This Year's Model

 

The B-52's - Wild Planet



Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica




Microdisney - Everybody Is Fantastic



Missing Persons - Rhyme And Reason



Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider

 

White Album
Electric Ladyland
Who Live At Leeds
John Martyn- Inside Out
Free Live

 

To continue from where I left off...

1980's

Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Fair Warning - Van Halen
London Calling - The Clash
Back In Black - AC/DC

That's all for now. You can't rush these things.

 

"The Holy Bible", glad to see a member with good taste

 

As per the rule change on page one, here you go:
1. Sgt. Peppers
2. Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3. XTC-English Settlement
4. Juliana Hatfield-Become What You Are
5. Death Cab For Cutie-Plans

 

Decade-thing... hmm, just from the top of my head quickly...

60's:
Beatles: Revolver
Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets
The Who: Sell Out
Moody Blues: To Our Children's Children's Children
Doors: Soft Parade

70's:
Pink Floyd: Animals
Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Wings: Back To The Egg
Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks
Abba: Arrival
(can't leave out Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene)

80's
Iron Maiden: Killers
Kiss: Creatures Of The Night
Black Sabbath: Mob Rules
Paul McCartney: McCartney II
Metallica: Ride The Lightning

90's
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell
Paul McCartney: Flaming Pie
.......

00's
Muse: Black Holes And Revelations
Muse: Absolution
Muse: Origin Of Symmetry
Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full
...

10's (so far)
Muse: The 2nd Law
Paul McCartney: New

Well... sorry about that list...

 

Only in the pop rock category :

The Beach Boys : Pet Sounds.
The Rolling Stones : Between The Buttons.
Steely Dan : The Royal Scam.
Prefab Sprout : Swoon.
Love : Forever Changes.

 

Wow, I got some great recommendations from your list because I love so many of those albums as well. I just recently started digging into stoner/doom metal, and I haven't heard the Nebula album. I just picked up Dopethrone last week and absolutely love it. Been a fan of Leviathan and Panopticon for years. Great list.

 

Abbey Road, The Beatles
Revolver, The Beatles,
John Prine, John Prine
Tug of War, Paul McCartney
Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon

Yeah, I'm a Beatles fan, lol. If allowed a 6th spot it would go to Pet Sounds

 

The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Clash - London Calling
The Knack - Get the Knack
The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

 

In no particular order...

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
3. Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
4. Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
5. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

I'm always changing my mind on these lists. Who could pick just five?

With three here produced by Daniel Lanois, I sure wish he'd get back into that line of work again....

Still need to pick up his new one: "Flesh and Machine" soon... It's on my shopping list....

 

Ok, here's my top 5 from 1978:

The Police - Outlando's D'amour
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
The Jam - All Mod Cons
The Cars - The Cars

 

My favorites from 1987:

1. Chuck Berry - Hai! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show
4. R.E.M. - Document
5. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me

 

Some great contributions...

Here's a List with a Twist - Soul Music only.....

60s

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Otis Redding - Otis Blue - Otis sings soul
Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man the way I loved you
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.- Make it happen (aka Tracks of my tears)
(Reserves - Stand by Sly, Cloud Nine by Temps or Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes)

70s

Stevie Wonder -Innervisions
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Al Green - Gets Next to you
Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
Millie Jackson - Caught Up
(Reserve - Chic -C'est Chic)

70s Funk alternative

Earth Wind and Fire -That's the way of the world
Sly and Family Stone - There's a riot going' on
Parliament - Mothership connection
Temptations - All directions
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly or Isaac Hayes - Shaft (depending on soundtrack preference)
(Reserve - War - The World is a Ghetto)

80s

Stevie Wonder - Hotter than July
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Lionel Ritchie - Can't slow down
Luther Vandross - Give me the reason
Bobby Womack - The Poet I and II

80s - Mostly the Ladies alternative

Anita Baker - Rapture
Whitney Houston - self titled first album
Janet Jackson - Control
Sade - Diamond Life
Prince - 1999, Purple Rain or Sign of the Times...

90s

Mary J Blige - My Life
Angie Stone - Black Diamond
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of...
TLC - CrazySexyCool
The Fugees - The Score
(Men's reserve - R Kelly - R)

2000s

D'Angelo - Voodoo
Amy Winehouse - Back to black
Outkast - Speakerboxxxx/Love below
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott ?

2010s

Ce Lo Green - Lady Killer
Bobby Womack - Bravest Man in the Universe
Mavis Staples - You are not alone
The Tom Moulton Remixes (how else to get all the Phildelphia Int classics in ?)
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah (.....the flame still burns.....)
(if you thought Tom Moulton was cheating, Aloe Blacc - Good Things)

Will ponder a rock version, but meanwhile, Keep The Faith !

 

Hi

Here is my second list, for rock records (rather than soul, first list)

60s

Led Zep II
Abbey Road, Beatles
Green River, Creedence
Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
Are you experienced, Hendrix

Or

Blonde on Blonde, Dylan
From Elvis in Memphis
Johnny Cash at San Quentin
Velvet Underground and Nico
A Christmas Gift for You, Phil Spector

70s

London Calling, Clash
My Aim is True, Elvis Costello
Exile on Main Street, Rolling Stones
Layla, Derek and the Dominoes
Darkness on the edge of town, Springsteen

Or

Physical Grafitti, Led Zep
Hotel California, Eagles
Fleetwood Mac self titled (the one before Rumours)
Heroes, Bowie
Harder they come soundtrack, Jimmy Cliff

80s

Joshua Tree, U2
Tattoo you, Stones
Graceland, Paul Simon
Appetite for Destruction, GNR
Legend, Bob Marley, or Hounds of Love, Kate Bush (if no Greatest Hits...)

90s

10, Pearl Jam
Buena Vista Social Club
Ingenue, K D Lang
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams
So, Peter Gabriel

2000s

Fleet Foxes first
Funeral, Arcade Fire
Gold, Ryan Adams
Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Mescalito, Ryan Bingham

2010s

No better than this, John Mellancamp
Don't explain, Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa
Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
Ghost stories, Coldplay - and, last but not least,
Lost in the dream, The War on Drugs.

 

Black Sabbath - s/t
Son Volt - Trace
The Who - Who's Next
Rush - Moving Pictures
Led Zeppelin II

 

Sorry, that's not going to happen. And the term "album," which used to have a clear and expansive concept years ago, is no longer what it was. Is disc 12 of xyz box set an album? I'd say no. Did jazz musicians release albums from three or four recording sessions as determined by the label?

Anyway, from R&R:

Revolver
Hot Rats
Highway 61 Revisited
Made in Japan
Red

 

Miles Davis...Kind of Blue
Tom Petty...Wildflowers
Red Hot Chili Peppers...Stadium Arcadium
Pearl Jam...Ten
Norah Jones...Come Away With Me

 

too hard...so ill do it this way.
60s- the doors debut/hendrix electric ladyland
70s- darkside of the moon
80s- metallica and justice for all
90s-stone temple pilots tiny music/radiohead ok computer
2000s- coldplay parachutes

 

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Alejandro Escovedo - Thirteen Years
Bob Dylan - "Love And Theft"