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Your Top 10 Favourite Albums of All Time, Ever!: The Thread

Started by danyulx, December 10, 2011, 12:29:35 PM

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Why I Hate Tables

Pure is indeed a great album: Prayer for the Unborn and Little Invitro are both heartbreaking, and the title track does NIN as good as Trent Reznor does. Much underrated: when people talk about Numan they ignore everything he did after Telekon, and it's stupid.

Icehaven

1. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power.
2-10 in no particular order;
Mansun - Six
The Downward Spiral - NIN
The Clash - Super Black Market Clash
Pulp - His N Hers
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Deftones - White Pony
Radiohead  - The Bends

But by this time tomorrow I'll probably have changed my mind about all but the first.






hummingofevil

#242
There aren't that many albums that I consistently listen too in full do my list is albums that I will regularly sit and listen to from start to finish and love.

Suicide - Suicide

I listen to this almost daily and whilst Frankie Teardrop is a bit of a downer Cheree is just the most beautiful thing.

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Not a massive Bruce fan but I am obsessed with this. Got into via the Suicide influence but tracks like Highway Patrolman and in particular My Father's House are sublime.

Pattie Smith - Horses

An album I was always recommended and never fancied. Was bored on a flight back from Vegas and put this on the free radio player thing you get on the back of the chair. Listened to it from front to back 4 times over.

Palace Music - Viva Last Blues

The last of the early Will Oldham records I bothered with but now it's my favourite. Every song is stunning but as an album it's just put together so well. The peak at the chorus to Cat Blues makes me shout along everytime.

The For Carnation - The For Carnation

Love it. Slow, quiet and beautiful.

Earth - Pentastar

I prefer the newer style Earth overall but this is the album of theirs that I tend to listen to as a record. The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull pushes it

Big L - The Big Picture

I love his voice a the production on this. The lyrics and stories are pretty grim but hey it's music innit?

Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies

Got to have some Lightning Bolt and got to be this.

Roger Tubesound - Plays Just Notes

My absolute favourite Uwe Schmidt record is the Burnt Friedman Replicant Rumba Rockers mix / remix of his stuff but I as a proper record I just love this. Nothing else like it. Jazz tastic.

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

Only got into this fairly recently but it's shot up my hit-list. Not even sure if it's classed as a proper album (was it originally released as a compilation of music from art installations?) but I just love it.

I was going to include Dongs of Sevotion but to be fair I just listen to the first of the double 12s over and over again. Probably should have had some Sterolab and if I was held a knifepoint I would swap Horses for Mogwai Young Team but hey ho. I would also put in AFX Analord if we count the whole thing as a box-set album. And Grace Jones Warm Leatherette.

Famous Mortimer

Quote from: NoSleep on May 31, 2013, 06:15:25 PM
Almost every Can fan I've asked puts Tago Mago as their number one choice. The critics' choice used to be Future Days, and even the band weren't too keen on Ege Bamyasi as they had made about half an album by their own painstaking methods (well, Holger Czukay's), then realised they had to deliver the album to the record company the next day and so recorded two longish jams. So Ege Bamyasi has some killer tracks on it but doesn't really make it as a great album.
Just as I'd written that, I saw a bloke in a Tago Mago t-shirt last night and realised that my "everyone prefers Ege Bamyasi" thought is the best part of 15 years old. Yay for people liking Tago Mago! It's really good.

Natnar

Quote from: hummingofevil on June 01, 2013, 12:23:55 AM

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

Only got into this fairly recently but it's shot up my hit-list. Not even sure if it's classed as a proper album (was it originally released as a compilation of music from art installations?) but I just love it.


It is a proper album although all the tracks were studio versions of songs culled from her United States live show. That live show was released in full a couple of years after Big Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Live
It is 4 and a half hours long over 4 CDs but it's worth it if you want to hear what the Big Science tracks sound like in context.

checkoutgirl

Pete Binson - The Vulve
Horror - Horror (The Mauve Album)
Blue Moat - My Truth Is Red
The Awakening - Slide Trax
Folder Beet - Away From Me
Mark Morsel - Food For Thought
The Blueberry Question - Raspberry Answers At Dusk
Crooken' Knights - Bladder Removal
The Yusuf Instrument - Starz
Fading Cadence - Putrefaction



My top ten for this week.

BlodwynPig

I am surprised you didn't plump for The Yusuf Instrument's Funk album - Yusuf under Silk!

checkoutgirl

Quote from: BlodwynPig on June 01, 2013, 10:05:21 AM
I am surprised you didn't plump for The Yusuf Instrument's Funk album - Yusuf under Silk!

Have you heard his Soul effort ? Hot Buttered Yusuf.

Worth a listen.

BlodwynPig

My Last Instrument was his final album before the whaling accident. A poignant farewell. RIP Yusuf.

Petey Pate

Quote from: Nmkl Pkjl Ftmsch on May 31, 2013, 08:01:43 PMCome off it. ANY album by Journey would shit all over the majority of the drivel listed here. Yes, Journey. I fucking said it.

Never heard of them but I'm sure that their sound is pure misery enjoyed by elitist bohemian-wannabes.  Stop trying to out obscure everyone you pretentious git.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

My top ten for today:

The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
The Beatles - Revolver
The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday

I like '60s music.

biggytitbo

Aerial - Kate Bush
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
The Beatles - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Ram - Paul McCartney
Venus and Mars - Wings
Back to the Egg - Wings
Alisha Rules the World - Alisha's Attic.



Johnny Townmouse

It's all very funny but can we stop with the fake top tens please.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Johnny Townmouse on June 01, 2013, 03:51:16 PM
It's all very funny but can we stop with the fake top tens please.

Does it matter? - Does it matter II - the baiting
Who are you like? - God Complex
Townmouse - Not a countrymouse
Johnny Go Lightly - He's a bit heavy
Listless - End of List

Johnny Townmouse

Quote from: BlodwynPig on June 01, 2013, 03:55:46 PM
Does it matter? - Does it matter II - the baiting
Who are you like? - God Complex
Townmouse - Not a countrymouse
Johnny Go Lightly - He's a bit heavy
Listless - End of List

Satire - Biggy's Kate Bush Obsession
Making Fun - rubbish Beatles records
Subtlety - Too much

graffic

Quote from: Why I Hate Tables on May 31, 2013, 11:20:41 PM
Pure is indeed a great album: Prayer for the Unborn and Little Invitro are both heartbreaking, and the title track does NIN as good as Trent Reznor does. Much underrated: when people talk about Numan they ignore everything he did after Telekon, and it's stupid.

I agree. Its just people that like different music. A lot people don't like heavy music so went off Gary Numan when he started doing Marilyn Manson/Nine inch Nails tracks. Its similar to David Bowie who many consider the 70s and 80's to be when he made the best music because they didn't like it when he went more heavy in the 90's with Earthling and Outside.

My instinctive choices:

David Bowie – Low
The Blue Nile – Hats
Brian Eno – Another Green World
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
The Beatles – The Beatles
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Boards Of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
Soft Machine - Volume Two
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland

Jesus, that is such a middle-class, middle-aged whitey list. In a vain attempt to preserve some credibility, I'll point out I have got 'It Takes a Nation of Millions...' and 'Heart of the Congos' sat on the subs bench.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Johnny Townmouse on June 01, 2013, 03:51:16 PM
It's all very funny but can we stop with the fake top tens please.

That is my top 10, the only joke one was Alisha's Attic. In reality I'd put Never For Ever by Kate Bush in there instead.

Johnny Townmouse


biggytitbo


The Βoston Crab

Aja
My Favourite Things
Untrue
Homework
Super Discount
MPP
Person Pitch
Thriller
Feels
Tomboy

hummingofevil

Can I have another go? I think most of my top ten don't even make my top ten.

Jesus Lizard - Goat
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works (1)
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato
Mogwai - CODY
Ceephax - United Acid Emirates
Papa M - Live from Shark Cage
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Nirvana - Bleach
Parliament - The Clones of Doctor Funkenstein
SND - Tender Love

That definitely my final list until tomorrow.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: hummingofevil on June 02, 2013, 01:21:01 AM
Can I have another go? I think most of my top ten don't even make my top ten.

Jesus Lizard - Goat
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works (1)
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato
Mogwai - CODY
Ceephax - United Acid Emirates
Papa M - Live from Shark Cage
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Nirvana - Bleach
Parliament - The Clones of Doctor Funkenstein
SND - Tender Love

That definitely my final list until tomorrow.

Yes!

Birdie

I'm a little embarrassed by this but I'll give a top 8.  I find I don't have a lot of complete albums these days - just tend to download bits and pieces.

Want 1        Rufus Wainwright
Want 2       Rufus Wainwright
Hot Fuss      The Killers
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters        The Twilight Sad
KC Rules OK     King Creosote
Painted from Memory   Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
The Sensual World        Kate Bush
Gossip in the Grain      Ray LaMontagne

Natnar

Quote from: biggytitbo on June 01, 2013, 03:49:30 PM
Aerial - Kate Bush
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
The Beatles - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Ram - Paul McCartney
Venus and Mars - Wings
Back to the Egg - Wings
Alisha Rules the World - Alisha's Attic.

Just out of interest how would you rank Kate's albums these days? I'd go with

1.The Dreaming
2.Hounds Of Love
3.The Sensual World
4.Director's Cut
5.50 Words For Snow
6.Aerial
7.Never For Ever
8.The Kick Inside
9.Lionheart
10.The Red Shoes

canadagoose

The Cure - Disintegration
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Blue Nile - Hats
Radiohead - The Bends
New Order - Low-Life
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Cure - Faith

I was going for one per artist, but then at the end, I just thought... nah. I've realised how few full albums I actually possess, and how much rubbish is in my music collection. I need to go and discover some more new things.

acrow

i've given this a lot of thought over the past couple of minutes.

the smiths - meat is murder
anaal nathrakh - the codex necro
belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
slayer - reign in blood
warren zevon - warren zevon
morrissey - vauxhall and i
kate bush - the kick inside
antony and the johnsons - antony and the johnsons
gang of four - entertainment!
fiona apple - when the pawn...

i've already changed my mind.

Quote from: hummingofevil on June 02, 2013, 01:21:01 AM
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato
SND - Tender Love

Finally someone with a taste for the finer things... I might do my list now.

Epic Bisto

Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Can - Tago Mago
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nico - The Marble Index
The Raincoats - Odyshape
Steve Reich & Musicians - Music For 18 Musicians
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air

Honourable mentions go to Strictly Personal by Captain Beefheart, Zen Arcade by Husker Du & Out To Hunch by Hasil Adkins, which would've gone on the list had there been a Top 13 instead. These Top 10 things are just too difficult to narrow down.

Paaaaul

Commentary-free lists of albums will never get boring...