Your top 5 albums of all time?

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  1. michanes

    michanes oh yeah

    And Remain in Light is on the list!
     
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  2. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    The Velvet Underground - Squeeze
    Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
    Creedence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras
    Discharge - Grave New World
    Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
     
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  3. michanes

    michanes oh yeah

    Wasn't Laika on Too Pure? I'll have to look up the thread. Laika's black EP and Silver Apples of the Moon are both wonderful. Cool label.
     
  4. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    Forever Changes
    White Album
    Getz/Gilberto
    Bookends
    Notorious Byrd Brothers
     
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  5. Brenald79

    Brenald79 Forum Resident

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    Canada
    Aerosmith - Rocks
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Black Sabbath - Volume 4
    Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual
    Metallica - Master Of Puppets
     
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  6. Mr. Grieves

    Mr. Grieves Forum Resident

    Today:

    Big Star's Third
    Doolittle
    There's A Riot Goin' On
    Remain In Light
    Marquee Moon
     
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  7. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    This could change with the wind, but for now:

    Zuma
    Trout Mask Replica
    English Settlement
    Marquee Moon
    Muswell Hillbillies
     
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  8. Price.pittsburgh

    Price.pittsburgh Forum Resident

    Location:
    Florida
    Revising
    1 Exile On Main St.
    2. Who's Next
    3. Plastic Ono Band -John Lennon
    4. Rubber Soul (US or UK)
    5. Led Zeppelin II
     
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  9. michanes

    michanes oh yeah

    I like these lists, as someone said above, because you are drawn to outliers, and it points the way to new stuff and maybe re-examination of stuff I might have a bias against.

    Assuming we are 1) talking about rock albums, 2) no duplicates within artist, and that 3) this is crazy but not hard - I can make another list like this at another time that would be substantively (but not completely) different:

    Beatles - Long Tall Sally EP (alternate Revolver)
    The Who - Quadrophrenia (alternate Who's Next)
    Talking Heads - Remain in Light (alternate '77, More Songs About Buildings and Food or - especially - Live at Stardust Ballroom, 1979)
    Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (alternate My Aim Is True)
    Yo la Tengo - Painful (alternate I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)

    Super-duper close to the above; easily can rotate into top 5:

    Pink Floyd - Meddle (alternate Dark Side of the Moon)
    Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (alternate Innervisions)
    Wilco - Summerteeth (alternate Being There)
    XTC - Drums and Wires (alternate Black Sea)
    Gang of Four - Entertainment
    Pretenders - Pretenders
    Protomartyr - any of their three LPs but I'm partial to their debut, 2013's No Passion All Technique (a highly self-deprecating title). The beginning of a smart and snarly, familiar yet new set of sounds in post-punk, which would change quite a bit for their second and third discs. Invigorating, alive, on the verge of burning out at any second it seems; I love this band for some inexplicable reason.
     
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  10. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    Beatles - Revolver
    Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
    Who - Who's Next
    Who - Quadrophenia
    Led Zeppelin - IV
     
  11. Tree of Life

    Tree of Life Hysteria

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    How about a top twenty? :) So very hard to pick 5 and I know I've done it before on another thread so I'm going to pick 5 and just one per artist/band. No greatest hits, just stuck with one damn album:

    1. Pink Floyd...Wish You Were Here...tough call. Dark Side Of The Moon is calling my name.
    2. Def Leppard...Hysteria...Only because this album has more songs than Pyromania or High N Dry..but Damn, this poll just isn't fair!
    3. AC/DC....Back In Black..This is a no Brainer. Every song kicks ass & take's names.
    4. Van Halen...Fair Warning...Love the darkness & grittiness of this VH Classic!
    5. KISS...Destroyer...First album I ever got. Sentimental choice that holds a special place in my soul.
     
  12. JohnnyQuest

    JohnnyQuest Forum Resident

    Location:
    Paradise
    Today:

    Neon Bible
    Presenting the fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica
    Born to Run
    Is This Desire?
    End of the Century
     
  13. Davey

    Davey NP: Hania Rani/Dobrawa Czocher ~ Inner Symphonies

    Location:
    SF Bay Area, USA
    Yes, Laika was on Too Pure, and the wonderfulness continued beyond the Laika debut too, Sounds of the Satellites is often my favorite and sometimes makes it onto these type of top albums of the moment lists ... Too Pure: Stereolab, PJ Harvey, Laika, Pram, Electrelane, Seefeel, ... »

    BTW, welcome to the board ... some pretty nice records on your list above too :tiphat:
     
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  14. Parachute Woman

    Parachute Woman Forum Resident

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    USA
    Ah, just for fun and reflecting this very moment in time:

    Jewel: Spirit (1998)
    Elvis Presley: From Elvis in Memphis (1969)
    Madonna: Ray of Light (1998)
    Kiss: Kiss (1974)
    Steely Dan: Aja (1977)

    I also wish I could find a spot for the Stones. I guess they would be at #6 but I'm not sure which album. I like about 6 of their records pretty much equally.
     
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  15. backdrifting.

    backdrifting. Member

    Location:
    Louisiana, US
    Near impossible but...

    Abbey Road (1969)
    Kid A (2000)
    Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
    Siamese Dream (1993)
    Bitches Brew (1969)
     
  16. gpg6212

    gpg6212 Well-Known Member

    Location:
    USA
    1. Trout Mask Replica
    2. Live/Dead
    3. Exile on Main St
    4. 1969: The Velvet Underground Live
    5. Daydream Nation

    Runner ups

    -Beggars Banquet
    -Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
    -The Velvet Underground & Nico
    -Hot Rats
    -Uncle Meat
    -Tommy
    -Faust I
    -Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits, Vol. 2) [US]
    -Safe as Milk [MONO!!!]
    -Lick My Decals Off, Baby

    And these two if they even count as albums

    -Bill Evans Complete Live at the Village Vanguard Recordings
    -Shostakovich Symphony No. 15

    I could go on but I'll stop :p
     
  17. chrisblower

    chrisblower Norfolk n'good

    Rubber Soul - Beatles
    Hejira - Joni Mitchell
    Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
    Chicago Transit Authority
    Live at Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers

    I've been a confessed CSN fan all my life - but no place for any of their albums !
     
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  18. Mickey2

    Mickey2 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Bronx, NY, USA
    Disclaimers:

    1. It is hard not to stuff a bunch of Beatles into these lists; so here I have avoided multiple selections by the same artist(s).
    2. Albums are like meals. Some are well-rounded meals, meat, potatoes and veggies. Others are more like pizza, which is great too, but kinda a lotta the same. This list represents my more well-rounded meals. Tomorrow I may be more in the mood for Mexican, for example, and would have to add Santana S/T to the list.

    Sticky Fingers
    Abbey Road
    Dark Side Of The Moon
    Honky Chateau
    Chicago III
     
  19. Grunge Master

    Grunge Master 8 Bit Enthusiast

    Location:
    Michigan
    Rubber Soul, US version (yes, I know, I know...the UK version is "superior", according to most. I don't care. The US one is the one that got me hook, line, and sinker for the Beatles when I was 5. It's perfect.)
    In Utero-Nirvana
    Ritual De Lo Habitual-Jane's Addiction
    Doolittle-Pixies
    Revolver-Beatles
     
  20. If I Can Dream_23

    If I Can Dream_23 Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    Hmm...this is very dependent on mood, but for today I shall go with...

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  21. Sordel

    Sordel Forum Resident

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    Switzerland
    My current (all-time) list has these five at the top:

    Genesis, Foxtrot
    Queen, A Night At The Opera
    Roy Harper, Stormcock
    Kate Bush, The Dreaming
    The Who, Quadrophenia

    Due to the way this list works (i.e. new entries start near the the bottom and it takes years for them to crawl up) more or less everything in the top fifty is old: I think that there are only three or four albums from this century.
     
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  22. Davey

    Davey NP: Hania Rani/Dobrawa Czocher ~ Inner Symphonies

    Location:
    SF Bay Area, USA
    I wonder how many people here actually think about music that way, and maintain a rigid listing of their favorites over the years. I know the internet seems to be list-driven nowadays, with seemingly every site linking to lists all over the net ranking everything with the most enticing click-bait titles and images imaginable, so I would imagine young people would be more interested in ranking music, yet it seems that it might be the opposite around here. Interesting to read some of the lists, especially the ones that don't follow the normal conventions, but sometimes I wonder if people are listing albums that they still listen to most in modern times, or ones that they remember listening to most when they were younger? Guess it would be age-driven. Not necessarily directed at you Sordel, just looked like a handy place to ask :)
     
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  23. DamnDirtyApe

    DamnDirtyApe Forum Resident

    Location:
    Thailand
    Boston 1
    Van Halen 1
    Parallel Lines
    Zeppelin IV
    Back In Black

    Runner Ups : Candy-O, British Steel, Houses of the Holy, Ride The Lightening, Fair Warning ,The Queen is Dead
     
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  24. medium Rob

    medium Rob Forum Resident

    Location:
    East Virginia
    Honestly, it feels weird to cite albums I was obsessing over just ten years ago, let alone 25 years ago.

    Your 5 favorite albums »

    This exact thread has been active on ILX for the last week, these were my picks:

    +minus - a rainy koran verse
    marc baron - un salon au fond d'un lac
    oren ambarchi/john tilbury - the just reproach
    the tuss - rushup edge
    autechre - draft 7.30

    Mostly comprised of albums I've been playing to death over the last couple months, and a couple older (ha) favorites. The Tuss album is from 2007 and The Autechre came out in '03. The +Minus album [UK Live] was recorded in 2004 but I just heard it this year. My point is that, for me, these sorts of things are very fluid, nothing is fixed (never absolute). I could easily cite a wholly different five and still feel dirty about it.
     
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  25. Sordel

    Sordel Forum Resident

    Location:
    Switzerland
    Yes, it's a paradox, because there are albums that are my 'all-times favourites' yet only get listened to very, very infrequently. Still, the albums on the list I've heard maybe hundreds of times through, whereas the albums that I love today I've maybe heard twenty, thirty times. More recent albums have the disadvantage of not having years of emotional association, but the advantage of not having to climb a mountain of overfamiliarity.

    I reckon that my top three albums of the year take care of the more recent selections, while an all-time list takes care of the music that made me the listener that I am today.
     
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