Your top ten albums of all time!

[BeerFunk]

I've just been having a debate with my Dad over this (http://www.xs4all.nl/~fsgroen/Top100's/2006Qreaders.html), and why the Stranglers aren't in it ("if the Sex Pistols are, the Stranglers should be!"), so I attempted to decide on my top ten albums of all time, at this moment in time.

And here they are, only the top 2 are in definite order :

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. Radiohead - The Bends
4. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
6. Mansun - Six
7. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
8. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
9. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
10. The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

I would be interested to see others' choices? :)

[Corabar Steve]

I'll have to think on this one for a while

[dj steady]

these are my choices:

1) Queen - Live Killers

2) Meatloaf - Bat out of hell

3) Guns'n'Roses - greatest hits

4) Ac/Dc - For those about to rock

5) Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon

6) Gorillas - Demon days

7) Bon Jovi - Cross Roads

8) Air Guitar , 1/2 &3

9) Barry White - Greatest Hits

10) Squeeze - Greatest hits

[alexperrins]

Crikey. A bit of a High Fidelity moment. I could be here for a while. Will get back to you! :)

[alexperrins]

OK, so, after a quick flick through my LP collection, I have decided on the following (but in no particular order) Will probably be edited though!

Coldplay - Parachutes
The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Kate Bush - The Whole Story
Radiohead - The Bends
Michael Jackson - Bad
Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
Eurythmics - Greatest Hits (1991)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Simply Red - Stars

[theoloyla]

It depends on what you are judging but try these for size:
1 Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes
2 Best Of - Eumir Deodato
3 Saturday Night Fever - OST
4 MCMXC - Enigma
5 Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart
6 Live At The Buddokan - James Brown
7 In Spite Of Ourselves - John Prine
8 Handclappinfootstompinfunkybutlive - Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band
9 Galaxy Of Love - Crown Heights Affair
10 BJ4 - Bob James

[kilmeedyman]

Not completely sure about the order of them, but here are my ten.....

1) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
2) Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
3) Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
4) Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
5) Deodato - Love Island
6) The Prodigy - Their Law (the singles, can't remember the years)
7) Bob James - 'H'
8) Police - Outlandos D'Amour
9) Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road (Some weeks this can be my no. 1)
10) Michael Jackson - Thriller

Just depends on my mood, but they're all there

Phil

[KrazyKaz]

Here's mine, but in no particular order

Bon Jovi - Cross Roads
Bryan Adams - So Far So Good
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits
Shania Twain - Greatest Hits
Lighthouse Family - Very Best of .............
Westlife - Coast to Coast
Celine Dion - All the Way - A Decade of Song
Bee Gees - Very Best of ..................

[magicfm]

I notice there is no Cliff Richard Kaz???? :teeth:

[KrazyKaz]

I notice there is no Cliff Richard Kaz???? :teeth:

He was nearly added :omg:

[BeerFunk]

I probably should have said Greatest Hits and compilation albums didn't count in this context, as all the best artists/bands can't fit their greatest hits onto a CD :)

[kilmeedyman]

Were you referring to the old 'archetypal' studio album where a group or artist was trying to'say' something or lay down their own special musical moment in time?

I would say greatest hits albums could be just as interesting as they show the development of an artist/group over time.

[Candybeatdiscos]

after a lot of debate with the wife etc, i have finally decided on:

01. Erasure - Wild
02. Paul Simon - Graceland
03. Queen - One Night AT The Opera
04. Erasure - Wonderland
05. Nirvana - Nevermind
06. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
07. The beatles - Revolver
08. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
09. U2 - Achtung Baby
10. UB40 - Labour of Love

[Corabar Steve]

In no particular order

Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road
Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
the Ramones - The Ramones
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
David Bowie - The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders Fom Mars
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Rose Tattoo - Scarred For Life
the Levellers - Leveling the Land
Madness - One Step Beyond
the Sweet - Desolation Boulevard

[BeerFunk]

Were you referring to the old 'archetypal' studio album where a group or artist was trying to'say' something or lay down their own special musical moment in time?

I would say greatest hits albums could be just as interesting as they show the development of an artist/group over time.
Well, it's more that a Greatest Hits album is always going to be stronger than a single album, and all the best artists need at least 2 or 3 CDs to compile a greatest hits. Plus there is always good stuff like interludes and linking tracks which are out of place on a seperate compilation, but put the finishing touches to an album :)

[Corabar Steve]

Changed my mind already :) :embarasse :)

[Pierre Le Sound]

In no particular order

the Sweet - Desolation Boulevard

CHOOOONS!!!!!!:cool: :cool: :cool:

[superspindiscos]

no particular order here

stone roses - stone roses
beatles - revolver
radiohead - ok computer
daft punk - daft punk
u2 - joshua tree
paul weller - stanley road
madness - one step beyond
verve - urban hymms
oasis - morning glory
small faces - itcycoo park

although after a few:beer1: ill probably change my mind...

[Corabar Steve]

CHOOOON!!!!!!:cool: :cool: :cool:

Erm.. Pierre, it's an album, were you refering to the track the Sixteens? It has that lyric in it.

[Corabar Entertainment]

the Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
CHOOOON!!!!!!:cool: :cool: :cool:
Erm.. Pierre, it's an album, were you refering to the track the Sixteens? It has that lyric in it.... and it also happens to be the first album I bought with my own pocket money (still plays perfectly as well) :D :D :D :cool:

[Pierre Le Sound]

Erm.. Pierre, it's an album, were you refering to the track the Sixteens? It has that lyric in it.

Errm, indeed my friend.

There's not alot you could tell me about The Sweet though. I grew up with them (not in the biblical sense of course!)
I've got stacks of their music and DVD's.
I've met Andy Scott.
AND...I've got Brians autograph from the last gig he did, at Butlins in Bognor, before he passed away. He came on stage with a zimmer frame and oxygen bottle......and sang like he was 20!

:ner: :ner: :ner: :corabarsteve:

[Pierre Le Sound]

... and it also happens to be the first album I bought with my own pocket money (still plays perfectly as well) :D :D :D :cool:

Big respect!!!:D

[Corabar Steve]

Errm, indeed my friend.

There's not alot you could tell me about The Sweet though. I grew up with them (not in the biblical sense of course!)
I've got stacks of their music and DVD's.
I've met Andy Scott.
AND...I've got Brians autograph from the last gig he did, at Butlins in Bognor, before he passed away. He came on stage with a zimmer frame and oxygen bottle......and sang like he was 20!

:ner: :ner: :ner: :corabarsteve:

Weeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ,

I knew Andy & Mick (I used to have a pair of Mick's old platforms) as well as the rest of the members of "Andy Scott's Sweet" & I've met Steve. Angela has an autographed copy of Sweet Sixteen (It's, it's the Sweet's hits) from when she "babysat" Brian on one occasion. Ner! :ner: :ner: :ner: :ner:

[Pierre Le Sound]

Weeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ,

I knew Andy & Mick (I used to have a pair of Mick's old platforms) as well as the rest of the members of "Andy Scott's Sweet" & I've met Steve. Angela has an autographed copy of Sweet Sixteen (It's, it's the Sweet's hits) from when she "babysat" Brian on one occasion. Ner! :ner: :ner: :ner: :ner:

.....and you try telling that to the kids nowadays.....and they won't believe you!!!:bang: :D

[Corabar Entertainment]

Angela has an autographed copy of Sweet Sixteen (It's, it's the Sweet's hits) from when she "babysat" Brian on one occasion. Ner! :ner: :ner: :ner: :ner:I have to say that it was one of the most awkward evenings of my life! I knew the Promoter fairly well and Brian was doing a 'promotion' at a club I used to go to regularly and I was asked to look after him for the evening (mid 1980's)..... but Brian wasn't exactly the 'promoting' type and trying to get him to talk to anyone was like extracting teeth!!!!!! :eek:

[Thames Valley Discos]

there is only one album i will never get tired of Replicas Tubeway Army.

[Corabar Steve]

Oooh, Paul's a Numanoid :)

[Thames Valley Discos]

Oooh, Paul's a Numanoid :)

what an album!!:Rock on:

[Vectis]

Easy.

Peter Gabriel - Growing Up (Live)
Placebo - Meds
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Yazoo - Nobody's Diary
Shed Seven - Going For Gold
Bjork - Vespertine
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Interpol - Antics

Not sure about the order... :cool: