Your top 5 albums of all time?

I'd have an easier time naming my top 5 genres - even that changes from day to day.

Five albums? Forget it.

 

Beach Boys- Pet Sounds - because it's the best album ever made
Pere Ubu -Dub Housing - because it's the best Pere Ubu album ever made
Elvis Costello- My Aim Is True - this is Bob Dylan to me. I've probably played it more than any other record, tape, CD, etc.
Velvet Underground- White Light/White Heat - it made my mind split open
James Taylor's Greatest Hits - when I'm down and troubled...

This is my top five without thinking about it. Give me more time and it's subject to change.

 

Tonight's list as it's subject to change depending on mood.
Music is there in everything in our life, each of those albums have a very important place in MY life...plus they're awesome !

1 Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
2 In a Glass House (Gentle Giant)
3 Red (King Crimson)
4 Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
5 Killers (Iron Maiden)

 

Top of my head...
1.Ram
2.Pussycats
3.Music of my mind
4.Presence
5.Smile

 

No particular order:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Who - Who's Next
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Fragile
Boston - S/T

 

Exquisite choices!

 

1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2. The Beatles - The Beatles
3. Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
4. Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?
5. Elton John - Madman Across The Water

 

Sugar - Copper Blue
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
The Beatles - Abbey Road
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Badfinger - Wish You Were Here

 

The same 5 as the first time I made a top 5 list and I doubt it will ever change.

1 Bob Dylan- Blonde On Blonde
2 Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
3 Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home
4 Bob Dylan- John Wesley Harding
5 Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks

 

Eno - Before and After Science
Clash - London Calling
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave
Donald Fagen - The Nightly.

Will change tomorrow, of course. I'm intrigued to see JC Superstar on other lists...the original
'Featuring Gillan' album is indeed amazingly good, as is the film soundtrack....ALW can certainly write a tune....

 

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Ramones - Rocket to Russia

 

I don't really think in top 5 of all time scenarios, but right now, today, I could probably live like this, at least for awhile ...

Cat Power - Moon Pix
Beautifully haunting, like a ghost story told through music. It really is her masterpiece. Such a cohesive and emotional work. Gently hypnotic vocals that sometimes seem so fragile, yet possessing an underlying self assurance. Love the way she seamlessly weaves that line from "Amazing Grace" into her own "Metal Heart". Sounds like it was written for that song, especially when she delivers it with that dusky, forlorn voice. Sounds good now, but perfect for a dark, rainy day. Even has the sound of thunder high overhead during one of my favorites, "Say". The vinyl sounds great, and like a lot of Matador stuff from that mid 90s vintage, quite a bit better than the CD. Listening now, and still amazing.

Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
What an amazing record, so quaint and precious, and yet so grandiose. Somewhat inspired by the Band's vision of Americana, but twisted up with some psychedelia and a wistful romanticism. Essential, one of the best of the 90s, still. I've been kind of stuck on it lately, can't say when it might end, like being lost in a dream... and you don't want to wake up.

Magnolia Electric Co - Black Ram
Jason Molina is responsible for at least three of my favorite records (and yes, you could probably say obsessions) of the 2000s, but Black Ram is the one that really haunts me since his death a couple years ago, strewn throughout with so many lines that read like an epitaph. Beautiful record. Sad as the day is long. What's broken will become better... if we can..

Mink DeVille - Cabretta
This one has always been a classic in my mind. Just 10 songs clocking in at about 35 minutes, yet it is sequenced with the fast and slow songs interspersed so that the flow seems to cycle, kind of an ebb and flow. Still goes by pretty fast. I guess it's partly because I like all the songs so much. Nothing to drag it down. Willy has such a distinctive and soulful voice, and a very tight band working behind him. Add in a well written collection of tunes with a couple very good covers, and then top it off with one of the best producers, Jack Nitzsche... yea, they captured some magic on this one.

Brian Eno - Another Green World
One of those records that, for me, kind of defined and inspired a big part of my love for music, kind of like Electric Warrior, or Low, or maybe Remain In Light, the ones that have stayed with me for many years while most others tend to come and go in cycles, or get forgotten altogether. The longer I live though, the more likely that something more recent like Richard Buckner's Devotion + Doubt will be the one, but Eno provides so many memories. That run of records in the 70s is still one of the most amazing in my rock history.

 

muswell hillbillies-the kinks
raw power-iggy and the stooges
taking tiger mountain(by strategy)-brian eno
after the goldrush-neil young
legendary hearts-lou reed

 

thanks

 

Leaving out The Beatles and Stones, as I usually do in such lists:

60s: The Band
70s: Layla
70s/80s: London Calling
80s: Born in the USA
90s: Nevermind

 

1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Changed my life when I was 16.
2. The Who - Who's Next. My favorite ROCK record of all time.
3. Sandy Denny - Sandy. That voice And those songs.... "Listen Listen," "It'll Take A Long Time...."
4. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions. My favorite SOUL record of all time.
5. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way. Perfect in every possible way.

 

Can't usually say this, but really love everything on both of your lists. Think I may be more partial to other Slowdive records, but no matter, that one will do ok by me too. We either both have really good taste, or ...

 

1) Led Zeppelin - II
2) The Who - Who's Next
3) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd
4) Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
5) Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore East

 

From top to bottom: 1 to 5

 

With the exception of Animals, which I love, but it's very well known, I find these others (well, the Rush album is well known, too) to be fairly interesting selections in a thread with, to be honest, not very interesting choices. That said, I doubt many would find my top five favorite records of all-time inspiring, either. Still, nice job.

 

My list would usually feature all Beatles, but this time...

1. White Album - Beatles
2. Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
3. Live at Leeds - Who
4. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience
5. Revolver - Beatles

 

Can vary but probably:

1. Lindisfarne - Nicely Out Of Tune
2. Diamond Head - Canterbury
3. Tom Robinson Band - Power In The Darkness
4. FREE - Live
5. Derek Trucks Band - Songlines

 

1. Beach Boys - Wild Honey
2. Beatles - Revolver
3. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
4. Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
5. Beach Boys - Smiley Smile

There are other albums I could put on the list, but these are the ones I play most often without skipping tracks (at least right now).

 

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bowie - Low
Genesis - Foxtrot
Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
Bowie - Diamond Dogs

 

an impossible task for me..I'm sorry, but at least 14 would be Beatles albums.