Your Top 5 Albums Of All Time

I'm brand spankin' new here so thought this would be a good first post. I'm 53 years old, I've been actively listening to music since I was 5 (first album: Rubber Soul), and have recently been going through a musical midlife crisis where I find myself listening to nothing but 90's thrash metal (Slayer/Slipknot/etc.) and the Wu-Tang clan. Still, it's cheaper than an expensive sports car and a high maintenance stripper girlfriend.

Oh and I'm vinyl all the way. Always have been, always will be.

General top five - no order - subject to almost constant revision:
Beatles - Revolver
Throbbing Gristle - Jazz Funk Greats
Captain Beefheart - Troutmask Replica
Brian Eno - Bush of Ghosts
Bill Nelson - Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam

The next five, just because:
XTC - Mummer
Nick Cave - Let Love In
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
They Might Be Giants - Flood

 

I prefer the track listing on the U.S. clash album, opening with Clash City Rockers is a great opener..

I have yet to hear UB44 , I was only focused on the first two albums and have been currently adding to my collection through discogs, it's on my list though..

I think Trick Of The Tail was a strong debut of the collins vocal era.. I love Volcano, Ripples and Los Endos plus Bruford as the tour drummer made that a great sounding tour...

Nice list, love Otis Blue, Roxy Music and Rio.. I remember Morcheeba but can't remember them to comment on, will add it to my listen list.. Same goes for the Arctic Monkeys, I know of them and heard songs but not albums.

 

Hey fellow vinyl lover welcome, kinda new here too.. Great list.. You made me laugh with,your mid life crisis remark.. I don't see it that way buddy, I just see it as widening your horizons.. I listen to Frank Sinatra and the Wu Tang Clan.. I don't limit myself musically, If I like what I hear then it doesn't matter what genre it s from, it will be added to my collection.. If you're not familiar with Kanye West music, try Graduation, Dark Twisted Fantasy and Yeezus.. Try not to be swayed by his public persona because his music is sublime..

 

60s The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children (1969)
70s Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976)
80s Alphaville - Forever Young (1984)
90s Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth (1993)
00s Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly (2004)
10s Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (2010)

 

I love Older too, which would be my No. 6 favorite.

 

60s Rubber Soul - The Beatles
70s Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
80s Christopher Cross debut (barely right?)
90s The Soul Cages - Sting
00s Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
10s Bon Iver - Bon Iver

other top favs:
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes - Jimmy Buffett
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Shangri La - Mark Knopfler
Till the Sun Turns Black - Ray Lamontagne
Madman Across the Water - Elton John

 

Nice list, love
Bon Iver and his work with Kanye West, I'd go Ten Summoners Tales for Sting.

 

You are not allowed to take Candy-O off the list!

 

Ha! If I did it wouldn't stray very far. Unlike the others I listed it's been at the top of my favorites since grade school back in the 80s.

 

Not crazy about self-depreciating comments that a given list may change tomorrow. But that's me.

 

The Pretenders
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Gentle Giant - In a glass house
Queen - II
The Who - Live at Leeds

 

I only said that because I knew that as soon as I post that I'd remember an album that I like more than one I listed. And I did.

 

Ten Summoners is catchier and fun, but I think Soul Cages is more cohesive and prettier...like a work of art...

 

No!!

They will all be from the 1960s are you will like it!

 

60s The Beatles, The Beatles (AKA "Thank The Lord George Martin did not edit this into a single album")
70s Bruce Springsteen, The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle
80s The Go-Betweens, Spring Hill Fair
90s Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand
00s Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes

More here:
https://www.pinterest.com/spindly/best-albums-ever-says-me/

 

Are You Experienced, Rubber Soul, Strange Days, Fresh Cream, and Disraeli Gears

(subject to change without notice )

 

1960's - Beatles - White Album (1968)
1970's - Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
1980's - Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)
1990's - Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
2000's - The Sword - Age of Winters (2006)
2010's - Fuzz - Fuzz (2013)

 

Jus for the cover alone

 

60's The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
70's Yes Going For The One
80's Public Image Limited Album (compact disc, cassette)
90's Wilco Summerteeth
00's New Pornographers Twin Cinema

 

This is very tough, here's mine without over thinking it.

60's Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
70's Van Halen - Van Halen
80's The Replacements - Tim
90's Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
00's Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono

 

Great choice for the 2000's - it would certainly make my short list for the last decade.

 

Oh man, I don't know if I can do this....gimme a day or so to think this through.

Very challenging!

 

50's Elvis Presley
60's Revolver
70's Led Zeppelin IV
80's U2 - War
90's nirvana - nevermind
00's Beck -sea change - surround sound version
10's Jenny Lewis - the voyager

Or should I be less common with stuff like:
80's - Diamanda galas - Devine Punishment

 

Van Halen- Van Halen
Iron Maiden-Live After Death
Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains the Same
Beatles-Today it`s -Help UK Mono
AC/DC-Highway To Hell

 

Here's top 5 per decade 60's 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s.

60's

Beatles. Abbey Road.
Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's...
Simon and Garfunkel, Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme.
Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society.
The Who, Who Sell Out.

70's

The Who. Who's Next.
Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac.
Simon And Garfunkel, Bridge Over troubled Water.
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here.
David Bowie, Hunky Dory.

80's

Dire Straits, Love Over Gold.
Kate Bush, The Sensual World.
Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman.
Pete Townshend, Empty Glass.
Paul Simon, Graceland.

90's

Robert Plant, Fate Of Nations.
PJ Harvey, Is This Desire.
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes.
Sting, Ten Summoners Tales.
XTC, Apple Venus.

00's

PJ Harvey, Stories From The City Stories From The Sea.
Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree.
Paul McCartney, Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard.
Paul Weller, 22 Dreams.
Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid.

I could have an individual top 20 each for 60s and 70s but struggled to get a top 5 for the 00's.