The best ten albums of all time

[pfromptown]

Ok, so everybody knwos that when top ten lists are made, it's only 'my opinion' or 'your opinion' or whatever, and there is no such thing as a good band or film etc. Well I say balls to that Henhouse shit! Put what you think are the BEST, not your favourites. More discussion should emerge that way. Mine (one per artist):

1.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles
2.Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys
3.Blonde On Blonde- Bob Dylan
4.Dark Side Of The Moon- Pink Floyd
5.London Calling- The Clash
6.Born To Run- Bruce Springsteen
7.Nevermind- Nirvana
8.Are You Experienced?- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
9.IV- Led Zeppelin
10.& Nico- The Velvet Underground

Don't you love pop music?

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Beatles White Album

Moonflower by Santana

 

[FlockOfSeagulls]

what a great thread

no particular order(THAT WOULD BE WAY TO HARD)


1.RIO=DURAN DURAN
2.SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR=TEARS FOR FEARS
3.ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING=PSCHYEDELIC FURS
4.LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN=POISON
5.1984=VAN HALEN
6.LEXICON OF LOVE=ABC
7.PYROMANIA=DEF LEPPARD
8.HUNTING HIGH & LOW=A-HA
9.JOSHUA TREE= U-2
10.SLIPPERY WHEN WET=BON JOVI

 

[TickleWolf]

The Doors/ The Doors
Led Zeppelin (I)/ Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Hear/ Pink Floyd
"White Album"/ The Beatles
Born To Run/ Bruce Springsteen
LA Woman/ The Doors
Bat Out of Hell/Meatloaf
Highway 61 Revisited/ Bob Dylan
Pearl/ Janice Joplin

Sigh, to name a few. I had a bunch of greatest hits in mind, but I just stuck with albums! Cool thread!

 

[trent]

1. Rush - Moving Pictures
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. The Who - Who's Next
4. Rush - Different Stages live
5. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
6. The Who - Live at Leeds
7. Pink Floyd - The Wall
8. Camel - Mirage
9. Marillion - Clutching at Straws
10.Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

yep that's it.

 

[MrMacphisto]

I've answered this before, but I usually get a different answer each time.

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
4. Led Zeppelin - IV
5. Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced?
6. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
7. The Beatles - The White Album
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand the Weather
9. The Police - Synchronicity
10. The Chemical Bros. - Push the Button

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

I always question what style of music this thread pertains to. Are we talking the 10 best records in general? In rock? Jazz? Blues? Pop?

An "all catagories" list would have to include:

Miles Davis- "Kind of Blue"
Johnny Cash- "Live at Folsom Prison
Ray Charles- "Best of the Atlantic Years"
Little Feat- "Waiting For Columbus"
John Coltrane- "Coltrane Plays the Blues"
Muddy Waters- "The Golden Anniversary Collection"
Funkadelic- "Maggot Brain


Drew

 

[RobAce]

Hmmmm a top 10 list....my top 10 albums of all time.

In no particular order...
1. Apocoylpse 91...Public Enemy
2. Ready to Die...Notorious BIG
3. Greatest Hits...Barry Manilow
4. Greatest Hits...Neil Diamond
5. Purple Rain Soundtrack...Prince
6. Supernatural...Santana
7. Duets...Frank Sinatra
8. Whodunit...Whoodini
9. Raising Hell...RUN DMC
10. The 1's...Aerosmith

I know its all over the board, but thats my take.

Rob

 

[dman68]

Great lists everyone. Here's my top ten in no order.

1. Guns n' Roses- Appetite for Destruction
2. Metallica- Ride the Lightning
3. AC/DC- Back in Black
4. Dr. Dre- 2001
5. Nirvana- Nevermind
6. Garth Brooks- Ropin' The Wind
7. Sublime- Sublime
8. The Beatles- Let It Be
9. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
10. Aerosmith- Aerosmith

I know that seems like there are a few randoms in the mix but I like pretty much every type of music.

 

[Mitchell]

Best top 10 Albums of all time, in no particular order.

1. Beatles, Greatest Hits, 1967-1970

2. Beatles, Greatest Hits- 1962-1966

3. Paul Simon-Still Crazy After All These Years

4. Billy Joel-Greatest Hits.

5. Fleetwood Mac-Greatest Hits.

6. Pink Floyd-The Wall

7. Neil Diamond-12 Greatest Hits, Volume 1

8. Rod Stewart-Greatest Hits

9. Dionne WArwick, Anthology, 1962-1971

10. Elton John-Greatest Hits, Volume 1.

I know I have many greatest hits albums listed, and I hope that counts, but, to me, the ones I listed, are some of the best music of all time.

Mitch

 

[Aachen1983]

1. The white album-Beatles
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd-Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Paranoid-Black Sabbath
4. The Sickness-Disturbed
5. My Irish Mix CD
6. Herzeleid-Rammstein
7. The Year of the Cat-Al Stewart
8. Any Kenny Chesney
9. Modern Times-Al Stewart
10. Past, Present, Future-Al Stewart

 

[slacker2114]

In no particular order....
1. Streets: a Rock Opera--Savatage
2. Operation: Mindcrime--Queensryche
3. Vulgar Display of Power--Pantera
4. The Wall--Pink Floyd
5. Undertow--Tool
6. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow--Suicidal Tendencies
7. Live After Death--Iron Maiden
8. Bedtime for Democracy--Dead Kennedys
9. Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon
10. Destroyer--KISS

Honorable mention for the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Us and Them (all Pink Floyd music)

 

[unit5610]

no particular order...

The Clash...London Calling
Led Zeppelin II
The Pixies...Trompe Le Monde
The Beatles...Revolver
The Talking Heads...Talking Heads '77
The Cranberries...Eeveryone Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We?
Cheap Trick...Heaven Tonight
REM...Document No.5
U2...War
Coldplay...A Rush of Blood to the Head

 

[Shred]

1. Iron Maiden-Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Motorhead-Ace of Spades
3. Dio-Holy Diver
4. Black Sabbath-Vol. 4
5. Judas Priest-Stained Class
6. Slayer-Reign in Blood
7. Exodus-Bonded By Blood
8. Mercyful Fate-Time
9. King Diamond- The Puppet Master
10. Manowar-Kings of Metal

 

[crydun]

My Pics

1) Faith Hill-Breathe
2) Elvis Presley_Aloha from Hawaii
3) Reba_Live!
4) Keith Green_For Them Who Have Ears to Hear
5) Sandi Patti-Morning Like This
6) Martina McBride-Greatest Hits
7) Lorrie Morgan_War Paint
8) Gretchen Wilson-Here for the Party
9) Dixie Chicks- fly
10) Sheryl Crow- the Very Best of

 

[Thanatos]

My current opinion of the ten best albums - certainly not my ten most-listened, but there is some crossover. Again, no particular order.

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
Lou Reed - New York
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense

 

[natural tickler]

I believe this is hard to do, given everyone's different tastes in music

 

[red indian]

As usual........

.......you Americans ignore your own great Jazz heritage! well done to TKL Drew for flying the flag. I cant believe how many of you picked crappy British pop bands.

Still lets look on the bright side, no country and western so far!

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Hey Red, I could easily replace any of the rock or blues bands I listed with:

Miles Davis- "In a Silent Way"
Miles Davis- "Sketches of Spain"
Kenny Burrell- "Midnight Blue"
Stanley Turrentine- "Up at Minton's"
Jimmy Smith- "The Sermon"
Lee Morgan- "The Sidewinder"
Any Art Tatum collection


Drew

 

[RobAce]

Actually Red, someone earlier had listed Garth Brooks, Dixie Chicks, Reba McIntyre, Kenny Chesney, Johnny Cash (But that one Ill always let slide)

So actually there were several country and western records mentioned...
but at least theres no Billy Ray Cyrus!

Rob

PS Let me add one more album to my list...Weird Al Greatest Hits!!

Rob

 

[dskodj]

This is a rough one, but here's 10 in no order and chosin by originality/creativity/briliantness, not faves..that would be a diff catogory as the original poster said (although 2 of these are in fact in my faves lol)


Pink Floyd - The Wall
Giorgio - From Here To Eternity
Patrick Cowley - Megatron Man
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesty's Request
Queen - News Of The World
Alec R. Costandinos - Sumeria
Herb Alpert - Beyond
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Andrae Crouch - I'll Be Thinking Of You
Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

 

[pfromptown]

The only three that keep recurring are The White Album, London Calling and Dark Side Of The Moon, so I guess they're the official top three:
1.Dark Side Of The Moon
2.The White Album
3.London Calling

Keep voting!

 

[featherfingers]

Here's a visual guide to my Top Ten (list changes depending on mood, of course):

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#7 is "In The Court Of The Crimson King" by King Crimson, in case you didn't know.

 

[pfromptown]

well I like that list lots Featerfingers, probably quite close to the real thing.

 

[Ignatz]

You can't handle three chords and the truth!

1. Red-Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson
2. Honky-Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings
3. Blue Kentucky Girl by Emmylou Harris
4. Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs by Marty Robbins
5. Saginaw, Michigan by Lefty Frizzell
6. I Am What I Am by George Jones
7. Bump-Tiddle-Ee-Bump Bump by Tex Ritter (No, I'm not kidding...great album of Cindy Walker compositions.)
8. Together Again by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan
9. Texas Gold by Asleep at the Wheel
10. Three Chords and the Truth by Sara Evans