Your top 10 albums of all time

Slimbert said:
Here's mine.....

Black Sunday: Cypress Hill
100% Colombian: Fun Lovin' Criminals
Hand Built By Robots: Newton Faulkner
Timeless: Goldie
Use Your Illusion 1: Guns n' Roses
Significant Other: Limp Bizkit
The Fat of the Land: The Prodigy
Black Album: Metallica
Are You Gonna Go My Way: Lenny Kravitz
Superunknown: Soundgarden

A couple of "nearly made its" are The Great Southern Trendkill by Pantera, and P.H.U.Q by the Wildhearts.....oh, and Renegades by Rage Against The Machine!! (y)
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Nearly made its are bloody cheating! Cypress Hill is a great shout though. Takes me back to my hazy days. ;)
 
After listening to music for more than, err shall we just say a very long time, it's tough to make a list of favourites but here goes -

Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
Mirror Pool – Lisa Gerrard
Led Zeppelin – II
On An Island - David Gilmour
Cheap Thrills – Janis Joplin
The Opiates, Revised - Thomas Feiner (I’ve only recently come across this – a hidden classic)
Pious Bird of Good Omen - Fleetwood Mac
Eye of the Hunter – Brendan Perry
New Moon – Beth Quist
Elbow - Elbow
 
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The Clash - The Clash
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Earth Vs The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts
How To Make Friends And Influence People - Terrorvision
Dust - Screaming Trees
On the Beach - Neil Young
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Ride the Lightening - Metallica
 
norters said:
The Clash - The Clash
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Earth Vs The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts
How To Make Friends And Influence People - Terrorvision
Dust - Screaming Trees
On the Beach - Neil Young
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Ride the Lightening - Metallica
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Siamese dream and Cowboys From Hell = awesome.
 
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In no particular order;

Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
In Utero – Nirvana
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Black Holes and Revelations – Muse
Making Bones – Red Snapper
Let it bleed - Rolling Stones
What’s the Story Morning Glory – Oasis
Loveless – My Bloody Valentine
Sea Monsters – The Wedding Present
Screamadelica – Primal Scream
 
a selection

Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Genesis - Genesis
Tourist - Athlete
Final Straw - Snow Patrol
World Machine - Level 42
Hopes and Fears - Keane
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton
Greatest Hits - Squeeze
Sam's Town - The Killers
Only by the night - Kings of Leon
 
I listen to almost every type of music and not embarrassed to like 'popular' stuff. Hate music snobs!



Metallica - S & M (Recently bought a second copy as I'd played it to death!)
Adele - 21
Lauren Pritchard - Wasted in Jackson
Slipknot - The Subliminal Verses
The Prodigy - The Singles (cheating by picking a greatest hits album)
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Evanescence - Fallen
Take That - Progress Live (reminds me of seeing them at Wembley)
Caro Emerald - Deleted scenes from the cutting room floor
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
 
In no particular order

Led Zeppelin - 4
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Kasabian - Empire
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

Picking 10 is hard, I could think of another 10 which are worthy of being here too
 
War of the Worlds. Jeff Wayne
London Calling. The Clash
Dire Straits. Brothers in Arms
Tina Turner. Private Dancer
Queen. Kind of Magic
REM. Automatic for the People
Queen (again) A night at the Opera

struggling now:shrug:
 
cosmicma said:
no particular order

led zep physical graffiti
rush moving pictures
rush a show of hands
mike oldfield 5 miles out
enya shepherd moons
enya watermark
pink floyd pulse
david gilmour remember that night
genesis then there were three
phil collins hits ( pretty much anything he's done )
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Driving to work this morning listening to Red Barchetta, it suddenly occured to me Moving Pictures should have been on my list.
 
Not in any particular order


Tool - Lateralus
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Tool - 10,000 days
Tool - Aenima
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Alexisonfire - Crisis
City and Colour - Little Hell
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
City and Colour - Sometimes
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
 
On my iPhone right now (only my favourite albums) in no order.....

Counting Crows-August & Everything After
Jellyfish-Bellybutton
Midnight Oil-Head Injuries
Sugar-Copper Blue
Black Crowes-Shake Your Moneymaker
Stone Roses-Stone Roses
Little Barrie-We Are Little Barrie
Har Mar Superstar-The Handler
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
Tori Amos-Little Earthquakes.
 
Pink floyd -the Wall
Dire straits - alchemy
Muse- Black holes & revelations
Radiohead - The Bends
Leftfield - Leftism
Sex pistols - Never mind.....
Foo Fighters - One by One
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bowie - Best of
The doors- The doors
Klf- the White Room
Simple Minds- New Gold Dream
Joy Division- Closer,Unknown Pleasures
Pixies - Doolittle,Surfa rosa

Killers - Killers
Blondie - parallel lines
Rage against the machine
Stone roses
Blur - parklife
Garbage - garbage
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clairewadey said:
I listen to almost every type of music and not embarrassed to like 'popular' stuff. Hate music snobs!

Metallica - S & M (Recently bought a second copy as I'd played it to death!)
Adele - 21
Lauren Pritchard - Wasted in Jackson
Slipknot - The Subliminal Verses
The Prodigy - The Singles (cheating by picking a greatest hits album)
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Evanescence - Fallen
Take That - Progress Live (reminds me of seeing them at Wembley)
Caro Emerald - Deleted scenes from the cutting room floor
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
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What a mix there!
 
Really hard to keep this down to 10 I think we need a top 50 thread that way I might be able to include more of my favs such as Neil Young, Kate Bush, Hendrix…etc

Anyway in no particular order

Peter Gabriel – So
Genesis – Foxtrot
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Alabama 3 – Outlaw
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
Gorecki - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Jackson Browne - The Very Best of
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking



Bu**er forgot Zeppelin how the hell did I forget Zeppelin!!!!
 
Very difficult, changes all the time depending on mood..

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
KLF - White Room
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Emmylou Harris -Wrecking Ball
The Shamen - The Shamen Collection
REM - Automatic for the People

Damn, is that 10 already? no more room for OMFO - Transbalkan Express, Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion, The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture, Evanescence - Fallen.. .. etc.
 
In no order....

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Led Zepplin - Physical Graffiti
Led Zepplin - 4
Metallica - And justice for all
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Dire Straits - Brothers in arms
The Eagles - Hotel California

although the list would no doubt change next week (Enigma, Evanescence, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Hawkwind, more Pink Floyd & Iron Maiden.......)
 
Favourite band has to be Pearl Jam, definitley the top album, was luck enough to see them again last month and looking forward to seeing soundgarden tomorrow :)

Pearl Jam - Ten
Ludovico Einuadi - Divenire
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Dylan LeBlanc - Paupers Field
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Soundgarden - Superunknown
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Radiohead - The Bends
 
In No particular order:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Japan - Tin Drum
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Rush - Caress of Steel
Bowie - The Rise and FAll of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds (On the car stereo last night and this morning :) )
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Jethro Tull - Living in The Past (A collection inc. live tracks.)
Deep Purple - Anthology
Pulp - Different Class

Basically, ANY Floyd or Bowie could have made the list, but I thought I'd add some others instead.


EDIT: Realised I missed the "Family Favourite" (at least in our family) - the little know Bee Gees album, "Odessa". :)
Not sure which of my ten I would move for it, though...
 
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In no particular order

A show of hands- rush
Alchemy- dire straits
War of the worlds
Taking on the world -gun
A message from radio city - Judie Tzuke
+ - Ed Sheeran
Back tracking - EricClapton
Stadium arcadium - info
Collision course - jayz and Linkin park
Megalithic symphonies - awol nation

Boy that want easy, to many albums to really choice from.
 
Just listening to "See Me, Feel Me" from "Tommy"...that's a cracking album. Can we not have a 50 best albums thread, please???
 
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
Ride - Nowhere
Scrawl - Velvet Hammer
10'000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden
Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Dropkick Murphys - Blackout
Afghan Whigs - Congregation
Love Battery - Far Gone
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
 
Anything by the WHO :love:
 
Daft Punk - Discovery
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The Smiths - Best of (cheat)
Justice -Cross
Poison - open up and say ah
James - Gold mother
Ltj bukem - logical progression Vol 1
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Hardcore Heaven - volume 1

That's pretty much a soundtrack to my teens, twenties and early thirties. If it'd been a top 20, it would have contained a couple of new romantic albums, and a lot more dance and metal!
 
The Smiths - Any
Morrissey - Any!!

Pink Floyd - PULSE
Coldplay - Parachutes
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The Jam - Any
The Who - any

Bit of a can of worms from me - but with Mr Morrissey and The Smiths I really do adore every album.
Same with The Jam and The Who. Impossible to have any faves out of them all!
 
In no real order:

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Faithless - No Roots
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
M83 - Hurry up, we're dreaming.
Air - Moon Safari
Yello - Stella
Talk Talk - Colour of Spring
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime = Bonfire - Fireworks

Couldn't decide between the Queensryche & Bonfire so I cheated :)
 
Changes all the time, and some have already been (correctly ;)) identified above:

Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (the best debut album of all time)
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Various Artists - Beachlife
The Killers - Hot Fuzz
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Live - Throwing Copper
RHCP - By The Way
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - Greatest Hits (can't choose between I and II)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe

I think I might have already changed my mind :D
 
Not necessarily in order........

Jeff Wayne – War of the Worlds
Queen – The Game
Metallica – The Black Album (sorry…I love it)
Evanescence – Fallen
AC/DC – The Razors Edge
Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
Marillion – Fugazi
Queen – The Works
Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
 
srichards said:
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
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OMG someone else has actually heard of them! :eek:

Saw them at Hammersmith Odeon when they toured Empire, they played the whole of Operation Mindcrime start to finish :D
 
In no particular order:

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Sepultura - Roots
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Megadeath - Rust In Peace
Meshuggah - Destroy, Erase, Improve
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Motley Crüe - Saints of Los Angeles
Steel Panther - Feel The Steel
 
onomatopoeia said:
OMG someone else has actually heard of them! :eek:

Saw them at Hammersmith Odeon when they toured Empire, they played the whole of Operation Mindcrime start to finish :D
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I used to listen to Tommy Vance and read Kerrang in my youth :)
 
viv1969 said:
Not necessarily in order........

Jeff Wayne – War of the Worlds
Queen – The Game
Metallica – The Black Album (sorry…I love it)
Evanescence – Fallen
AC/DC – The Razors Edge
Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
Marillion – Fugazi
Queen – The Works
Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
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Don't apologise! :razz: to the Black album haters
 
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