Top Album Of All Time Poll.

You are class. Good variety of styles and a lot of my own faves here.

 

(1965-75)


Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home

Beatles – Rubber Soul (blasphemous U.S. version)

Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Cream - Fresh Cream

Rolling Stones – Flowers

Kinks – Something Else

Kinks - Village Green

The Who - Sell Out

Small Faces – Small Faces (the Immediate one, not the Decca one)

The Turtles - Present the Battle of the Bands

Dylan – Nashville Skyline

Beatles – Abbey Road

S & G – Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Harrison – All Things Must Pass

Bowie – Hunky Dory

Neil Young – After the Goldrush

Yes - The Yes Album

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On?

Allman Brothers – Brothers and Sisters

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

 

Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
Beatles, Beatles For Sale
Beatles, Rubber Soul
Beatles, Sgt Pepper
The Doors, LA Woman
The Doors, The Doors
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix, Blues
The Beach Boys, Surfer Girl
Magic Sam, West Side Soul
Junior Wells, Hoodoo Man Blues
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington: The Great Summit
Creedence Clearwater revival, Cosmos Factory
Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed
Oasis, Definitely Maybe
Paul McCartney, Band On The Run
Paul McCartney, Ram
Neil Young, Live At Massey Hall

 

King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Joy Division - Closer
Joy Division - Unknown pleasures
Silver Apples - Contact
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch·Maschine
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Colosseum – Valentyne Suite
Magma - Udu Wudu
Manfred Mann's Earth Band ‎– Nightingales & Bombers
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
Ashra - Blackouts
Agitation Free - At the Cliffs of River Rhine
Yes album
Rainbow - Richie Blackmore's Rainbow
HP.Lovecraft - II

One album per band,Joy Division excluded.

 

Plenty Of Omissions but/.........

The Doors
Are You Experienced
Who`s Next
Live At Leeds
Rolling Stones Hot Rocks(Cheating!)
Led Zeppelin I
led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
The Song Remains The Same
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Metallica-Master Of Puppets
Metallica-And Justice For All
U2-Boy
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd-The Wall
AC/DC Highway To help
The Clash-The Clash UK
Van Halen-Van Halen
Iron Maiden-Live After Death
Misfits Collection

 

Sgt Pepper
Are You Experienced
Revolver
Meet the Beatles

 

1. Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970)
2. Tim Buckley - Happy Sad (1969)
3. Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
4. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (1998)
5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
6. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
7. Gram Parsons - GP (1973)
8. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel (1974)
9. Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain (1969)
10. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
11. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)
12. Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings (1954)
13. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
14. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969)
15. John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane (1961)
16. Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon (1969)
17. Joni Mitchell - Hejira (1976)
18. The Left Banke - Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina (1967)
19. Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970)
20. Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind (1966)

 

Thanks for your efforts. I am interested to see how the results might differ from the giant talking heads (critics).

1. Pet Sounds ~ The Beach Boys
2. A Salty Dog ~ Procol Harum
3. Bustin' Out ~ Pure Prairie League
4. Tea For The Tillerman ~ Cat Stevens
5. Wolfking Of L. A. ~ John Phillips

 

1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love
2. Cream: Fresh Cream
3. Neil Young: Tonight's the Night
4. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
5. The Who: Live at Leeds
6. David Bowie: Heroes
7. Dinosaur Jr: Farm
8. The Replacements: Let it Be
9. R.E.M.: Murmur
10. The Ramones: (first/ self title)
11. Pearl Jam: Riot Act
12. Sandy Bull: E Pluribus Unum
13. Willie Nelson: The Redheaded Stranger
14. Mission of Burma: VS.
15. Brian Eno: Another Green World
16. Wire: Pink Flag
17. The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones, Now!
18. Ornette Coleman: This is Our Music
19. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
20. Larry Coryell: Coryell

...and so many records for which it was painful to exclude!

 

Really looking forward to this. That will be a poll in itself, right?

 

Probably a tie of a love supreme and abbey road. For me at least.

 

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Neil Young - On The Beach
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Neil Young - Harvest
Neil Young - Zuma
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Crosby, Stills & Nash - First album
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà vu
Carole King - Tapestry
Laura Nyro - Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
The Who - Who's Next
The Beatles - White Album
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Led Zeppelin - IV
Steely Dan - Aja
The Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach
The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table & Dreaming
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

I have a NPL (Neil Priority Lifestyle) so excuse me for choosing so many Neil Young albums.

 

Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Yes - Close To The Edge
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Wire - Pink Flag
Tom Robinson Band - Power In The Darkness
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Rush - Moving Pictures
Duran Duran - Rio
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
Flipper - Gone Fishin'
The Fall - The Wonderful & Frightening World Of
Died Pretty - Free Dirt
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Sun Dial - Other Way Out
Global Communication - 76:14
Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern
Diiv - Oshin
Frost - Falling Satellites

 

First ten:

AC/DC - Powerage (10 track)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Bjork - Post
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Radiohead - OK Computer
Interpol - Antics
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece

 

Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
American Beauty (Greateful Dead)
Kiko (Los Lobos)
Marshall Crenshaw (Marshall Crenshaw)
Graceland (Paul Simon)
My Aim Is True (Elvis Costello)
Songs In The Key Of Life (Stevie Wonder)
Dixie Chicken (Little Feat)
Revolver (Beatles)
Another Side Of Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)

 

1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
2. The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
3. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
5. Patti Smith - Horses
6. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
7. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
8. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
9. The Violent Femmes - The Violent Femmes
10. The Clash - London Calling
11. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
12. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
13. Television - Marquee Moon
14. John Cale - Paris 1919
15. Lou Reed - Transformer
16. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
17. Radiohead - The Bends
18. The Cure - Disintegration
19. Arcade Fire - Funeral
20. St Vincent - St Vincent

 

Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Abbey Road - Beatles

 

1. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
2. Deep Purple - Machine Head
3. Blue Oyster Cult- Secret Treaties
4. Beck - Sea Change
5. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
6. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
7. Dio-Holy Diver
8. Scorpions-In Trance
9. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
10. Iron Maiden – Killers
11. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
12. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
13. Sinead O’Connor - The Lion & The Cobra
14. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
15. Warren Zevon - Life 'll Kill Ya
16. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
17. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
18. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
19. Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
20. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

 

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

Styx - Grand Illusion

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

AC/DC - Back in Black

Eagles - Hotel California

The Cars - The Cars

Johnny Winter - Nothin but the Blues

Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

Pink Floyd - Animals

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

Aerosmith - Rocks

Van Halen - Van Halen

Rolling Stones - 12x5

Foreigner - Double Vision

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

Billy Joel - Piano Man

Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute

Little Feat - Dixie Chicken

Wet Willie - Keep on Smilin

 

Prince- Sign O the Times
Lou Reed- New York
The Doors- LA Woman
The Cure-Disintegration
The Smiths- The Queen is dead
The Clash- London Calling
Aretha Franklin- I´ve never loved a man the way I loved you
Stevie Wonder- Songs in the key of E
Robert Johnson-Centennial Collection
The Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street
Bob Marley-Natty Dread
The Beatles-Sargeant Pepper´s Lonely Heart Club Band
Augustus Pablo- King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown
Johnny Cash- American Recordings I
Miles Davis-Beaches Brew
John Coltrane- A love supreme
Sam Cooke- Legacy of a Legend
Tougher than Tough-The Story of Jamaican Music
Howlin' Wolf- Chess Collection
Chuck Berry- The great 28

 

Not in any (rigid) order:

A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
Highway Revisited -Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Shine On Brightly - Procol Harum
Get It - Dave Edmunds
Royal Albert Hall - Bob Dylan
Hollywood Dream - Thunderclap Newman
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack - Dr. John
Once In A Blue Moon - Frankie Miller
Spooky Two - Spooky Tooth
Leon Russell - Leon Russell
Introducing Eddie & The Falcons - Roy Wood’s Wizzard
Land of Dreams - Randy Newman
Leon Russell and the Shelter People - Leon Russell
The Last Puff - Spooky Tooth
Boulders - Roy Wood
Mustard - Roy Wood
Shrunken Heads - Ian Hunter
Grand Hotel - Procol Harum
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan

 

Off the top of my head...

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Winter in America
War - The World is a Ghetto
The Kinks - Arthur
The Clash - Sandinista!
Lou Reed - Berlin
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Pretty Things - Parachute
Patti Smith - Horses
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Yes - Close to the Edge
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Roxy Music - Stranded
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
The Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore

I could keep going...

 

The Cure - Disintegration
The Clash - The Clash
Joy Division - Substance
Monster Movie - Everyone is a Ghost
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Iggy & The Stooges - Fun House
Duran Duran - Rio
Sonic Youth - Goo
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The Prodigy - Worlds On Fire
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spectre at the Feast
The Cult - Love
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - The super Ape
Linton Kwesi Johnson - LKJ in Dub

 

1.Grateful Dead Fillmore East (2-13&14-70)
2.Grateful Dead Steppin Out
3.Grateful Dead Sunshine Daydream
4.ELVIS The Sun Sessions
5.Bob Dylan Hwy 61 Revisited
6.Bob Dylan BOB
7.Bob Dylan BOTT
8.Beatles Rubber Soul (US)
9.Beatles Revolver
10.Beatles WA
11.Van Morrison Astral Weeks
12.Ray Charles Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul
13.The Many New Sides of Charlie Rich
14.Rod Stewart. EPTAS
15.Stones LIB
16.Stones EOMS
17.Hendrix AYE
18.The Doors
19.The Velvet Underground and Nico
20.Great Society Conspicuous Only In Its Absence