What are your top 10 albums of all time

[LynneSin]

A friend asked me that one at work today. I'm still formulating that list (which no, it's not ALL Led Zeppelin).

What are your favorite 10 albums of all time!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Top 10 is tough. But I can name my Top 3 in a snap:

1. Siamese Dream--Smashing Pumpkins
2. Pretty Hate Machine--Nine Inch Nails
3. To Venus and Back (studio)--Tori Amos

All three I can listen to straight. Actually, I have to listen to them straight. Each track builds on the last one. If I were to just listen to one song, the album would feel incomplete. No single song sticks out (well, in To Venus and Back, Datura sticks out)--they are all just perfect.

Number 4 would almost certainly be Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, by Smashing Pumpkins, especially the Twilight to Starlight disk, which is almost perfect (XYU is the only skipable track for me.)

[LynneSin]

2. I love #1 & #2

They're not top 10 but some of my favorites~!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Besides the music, they've become engrained in my memory

Taking long road trips and listening to them on the way. So they've truly become a part of me.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Oh, come on! That's impossible.

No way I could narrow it down or rank it. Though I'm quite sure that the Stones' Exile on Main Street and Dylan's Blood on the Tracks would be on there somewhere.

[LynneSin]

7. Don't need to put them in order - think of them as your 'Deserted Island' Collection

I could never put mine in order plus the Top 10 would probably be all LZ - so the next 10 I have the following to consider (in no particular order)

Radiohead - OK Computer
Moody Blues - Days of Future Past
King Crimson - Discipline
Yes - The Yes Album
Green Day - American Idiot
ELO - Out of the Blue
Big Audio Dynamyte - The Globe
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Pink Floyd - Meddle and/or Dark Side of the Moon

I still have a ton of stuff to review - I'm sure there will be some Neil Young, Rush and possibly an Alan Parson Project (I'm listening to "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" right now. Also edited to add in Alanis Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill", Steve Miller Band's "Greatest Hits 1974-1978", Moody Blues "A Question of Balance", Alice Coopers "Welcome to My Nightmare", Rush "Moving Pictures" that could feasibly be in that top 10 list

[kid a]

19. rough draft =)

1 ok computer - radiohead
2 led zepplin iv
3 tori amos - tales of a librarian
4 alanis morrisette - jagged little pill
5 radiohead - the bends
6 sarah mclachlan - mirrorball
7 eagles - hotel california
8 breaking benjamin - phobia
9 pink floyd - animals
10 muse - black holes and revelations
11 hana pestle - (untitled, 2008 - my daughter's record gets a lot of play at our house =)

[LynneSin]

21. I forgot Jagged Little Pill - that's a good one

:D

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Joshua Tree and OK Computer would probably be on or near my Top 10 too n/t

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. Off the top of my head, and in no particular order....

1) Europe '72 - Grateful Dead
2) Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
3) American Beauty - Grateful Dead
4) Eat a Peach - Allman Brothers
5) Who's Next - The Who
6) Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones
7) Double Dose - Hot Tuna
8) Powerglide - New Riders of the Purple Sage
9) Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
10) Cold Roses - Ryan Adams

[IndianaJones]

18. Europe '72 is live perfection. nt.

[LynneSin]

22. I have that baby on Vinyl

I think it's more perfection listening to it on Vinyl - the way God wanted music to be heard!

[Bennyboy]

6. Mine

Grateful Dead Reckoning
Bob Marley legend
The Who Quadrophenia
Spearhead Everybody Deserves Music
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks
The Last Waltz
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers or Exile or Some Girls
Beatles Abbey Road
Van Morrison Moondance

That being said...I listen to mostly live music. recorded live, no overdubs, no cuts, complete shows.
String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, Galactic, Widespread Panic, Moe, Bela Fleck, Del McCourey. leftover Salmon, Gov't Mule a lot more than I listen to "albums'. The last "album" I bought (not counting Bruce Springsteen who could have the top five all by himself)might actually have been Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. Most of the albums on my list I ahve not listened to in a long time....

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Woo hoo!

I'm going only by what I like, not what were necessarily the ten most earth-shattering albums in terms of new styles of music, new recording techniques, or other technical brilliance.

Just my favorite ten albums, with what I think is some of the greatest art put on vinyl:

1. Pink Floyd - Animals
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (the newer one that has the live version of France as well)
3. Eddie Izzard - Definite Article
4. Frank Zappa - Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
5. Gilbert Kaplan and the LSO - Mahler Symphony No. 2
6. Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (The Helsinki Concert)
7. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
8. Basil Poledorous - soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian, extended version
9. Rush - All the World's A Stage
10. Genesis - Second's Out

[LynneSin]

9. That could be a thread of it's own - 10 albums with the best artwork

Would have to put 21st Century Man by King Crimson near the top

[Rabrrrrrr]

74. Speaking of best artwork - I had a chance to buy a Roger Dean Yes painting, and didn't

And I've been kicking my ass ever since.

Expensive, but I could have afforded it, but I thought to myself, "No, jackass, be responsible".

Argh!!

It was at a show of Dean's artworks at an odd gallery in that no-man's-land where Chinatown and Little Italy overlap; I stumbled across it purely by accident.

It was amazing to see his artwork - some of those album cover artworks he did are huge! Like 8'x8' and larger. Seeing them up close was amazing!

[ohiosmith]

10. It changes. Right now:

Tapestry
Revolver
Who's Next
Pet Sounds
Layla
Imagine
Astral Weeks
King of the Delta Blues Singers
Blonde on Blonde
Dark Side of the Moon

[sarge43]

11. I think best is too subjective a term, especially when it's applied to music.

However, a handful of my favorites and ones that I believed changed how we listened to music.

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue or Birth of the Blues

Carol King, Tapestry

Dave Brubeck, Take Five

Beatles, Rubber Soul

[Initech]

12. Here is my list:

1. The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)
2. Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime (1988)
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002)
5. Parliament - Mothership Connection (1976)
6. The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
7. James Brown - The Payback (1974)
8. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000)
9. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
10. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (2007)
11. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind (1983)

Added #11 in honor of Spinal Tap.

[Rhythm]

24. Your #2 would be in my "top 15"

Operation: Mindcrime is brilliant...
I was thrilled that they did all of those so well live, too...

[Initech]

47. Yeah, that was a pretty killer tour they did last year.

Both Mindcrime albums played back to back... :woohoo:

I think the rest of my top 20 would round out like this:

11. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind (1983)
12. Tool - Lateralus (2001)
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (2006)
14. Opeth - Damnation
15. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (2002)
16. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory (1999)
17. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (2007)
18. Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese (1991)
19. Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom (1994)
20. The Roots - Do You Want More?!!?!?! (1994)

[Rhythm]

60. I saw them on the '91 "Empire" tour, but they did the whole "MIndcrime" set, too

I actually got to see that tour in 3 different towns: Atlanta, Charlotte, and Greensboro NC. Greensboro was the only 'general admission' venue, and my friends and i made it all the way to the front of the stage before even Suicidal Tendencies started their set. Awesome night...

[stuntcat]

13. E.Z. :D

oh I do love a list!

:graybox: Prince - Sign O' the Times
:graybox: The Soul Of Nina Simone
:graybox: Everything But The Girl - Amplified Heart
:graybox: Portishead - Dummy
:graybox: Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
:graybox: Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
:graybox: This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow
:graybox: The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
:graybox: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love & Hate
:graybox: Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

[av8rdave]

14. So many to choose from. Mine (not necessarily in order)

1. DSOTM - Pink Floyd
2. Joshua Tree - U2
3. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
4. The Bends - Radiohead
5. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
6. In Utero - Nirvana
7. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
8. Close to the Edge - Yes
9. I gave My Life to the Blues - Johnnie Basset and the Blues Insurgents
10. Live at Jimmy's - Maynard Ferguson

Ask me tomorrow...there might be some different ones on the list!

[devilgrrl]

15. mine...

1. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
3. Animals - Pink Floyd
4. The Velvet Underground and Nico
5. Houses of the Holy - Led Zepplin
6. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
7. Avalon - Roxy Music
8. Overnight Sensation - Frank Zappa
9. Rocket to Russia - The Ramones
10. Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - The Dead Kennedys

[Arugula Latte]

40. Avalon -- good choice. That'd be in my Top Ten, definitely.

:thumbsup:

[unpossibles]

16. wow. tough one!

this is not in order, and I'm sure I'll forget some, but:

Exile on Main Street - the Stones
Look Sharp - Joe Jackson Band
The Clash - The Clash
Naked - Talking Heads
Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater
Small Change - Tom Waits
When I was Cruel - Elvis Costello
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
Oh! The Grandeur - Andrew Bird
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Revolver - The Beatles
I Just Can't Stop It - The English Beat
Blue - Joni Mitchell
On The Track - Leon Redbone
California - Mr. Bungle


I think I went over 10 and could name more, but I'll stop.

[LynneSin]

17. Ok here is my list

First, it contains no LZ since they are in a category of their own that pretty much takes up 1-10 (yeah I'm predictable).

• Pink Floyd - Meddle
  
• Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (I love DSOTM but I think I love this even more)
  
• Radiohead - OK COmputer
  
• Neil Young - Decade
  
• Yes - The Yes Album
  
• Queen - Night at the Opera
  
• David Bowie - Hunky Dory
  
• Moody Blues - Days of Future Past
  
• Green Day - American Idiot
  
• ELO - Out of the Blue
  
• King Crimson - Discipline
  

(yeah I'm doing a Spinal Tap list with 11 too!!

[Rhythm]

20. Mine... in no particular order

"Closer" - Joy Division
"Black Celebration" - Depeche Mode
"Pretty Hate Machine" - Nine Inch Nails
"Floodland" - The Sisters of Mercy
"Rumors" - Fleetwood Mac
"Bat Out of Hell" - Meat Loaf
"How the Gods Kill" - Danzig
"Mezzanine" - Massive Attack
"Selected Scenes From the End of the World" - London After Midnight
"The Crow" - motion picture soundtrack

[bikebloke]

23. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Mademoiselle Chante... & Scene de Vie - Patricia Kaas
The Best of Paolo Conte & Reveries - Paolo Conte
85555 - Spliff
Nina Hagen Band & Unbehagen - Nina Hagen
No Parlez - Paul Young
The Very Best of Elvis Costello
Wild and Beautiful - Silly Wizard

[Va Lefty]

25. In no particular order...

Bruce Springsteen-The River
The Beatles-The White Album
AC/DC-Back In Black
U2-The Joshua Tree
Steely Dan-Aja
Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic
Jackson Browne-Running On Empty
Van Halen-Diver Down
Elvis Costello-This Years Model
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors

[LanternWaste]

26. I'm showing both my age and that I'm relatively lowbrow.

No particular order... and the list can and does change without warning. Kids-- don't try any of these at home.

Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance

Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

Billy Joel - 52nd Street

Chess - The Original Broadway Recording

(This one is very particular--) Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4 performed by Berlin Philharmonic on Deutchagrammophone (sp?) label. The final movement is... amazing.

Moody Blues - Days of Future Past

Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority

Fleetwood Mac- Tusk

Glen Miller - The Best of Glen Miller


It's no accident that there's nothing recorded after 1986-- the year the music world began to regress... :evilgrin:

[regularguy]

28. OK:

Joni: Court and Spark
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
Allmans: Eat a peach
Ben Folds 5 : Whatever and Ever
Pavement: Wowee Zowee (or any other pavement album really)
Stones: Beggars Banquet
Beck: Odelay
Aimee Mann: Forgotten Arm
Zep: Physical Graffitti
Steely Dan: Katy Lied


The new Radiohead is really climbing up my list fast.

[AllegroRondo]

29. I cant rank my Rush albums

they all deserve to be #1

:P

[racaulk]

30. Here are mine, in no particular order:

"Jagged Little Pill" - Alanis Morrisette
"Songs About Jane" - Maroon 5
"Yes I Am" - Melissa Etheridge
"Like a Prayer" - Madonna
"American Idiot" - Green Day
"Secrets" - Toni Braxton
"Private Dancer" - Tina Turner
"Fallen" - Evanescence
"All You Can Eat" - k.d. lang
"Use Your Illusion" (both volumes) - Guns 'n' Roses

[MrCoffee]

31. Today's list, subject to change without notice

and in no particular order

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Chuck Prophet - The Hurting Business

Pixies - Come On Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa (whatever, it counts as one)

Frank Black - Teenager of the Year

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance

The Reverend Horton Heat - The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat

Cracker - The Golden Age

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs

[Vickers]

42. Wow, yours is a great list!

:thumbsup:

I'd say:

Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!!

Pixies - Doolittle

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Ramones - Ramones

Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights

Clash - London Calling

REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You

Radiohead - Amnesiac

It'll be different tomorrow...

[ceile]

51. Saw The Reverend open for Frank Black

Talk about a headache! My head didn't stop throbbing for days!

And, no. "Surfer Rosa" and "Come On Pilgrim" are not "one". Blasphemer!
;)

[MrCoffee]

54. you are insane. and crazy cool

The Rev/Frank Black show would be my dream line-up. i'm wicked jealous.

Come on Pilgrim had no distribution in the United States when it was first released. It was unreleased in the United States until August 1988, when Rough Trade included it on their CD release of the Surfer Rosa LP. (At the same time, the two releases were issued on separate vinyl records by Rough Trade.)

Also in August 1988, 4AD released in the UK Surfer Rosa and Come on Pilgrim on CD together. This has been the standard UK CD release ever since, only being out of print for about six months in 1998. However, subsequent USA CD releases have split them in two.

In 1992, Elektra Records issued Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa on separate CDs in the USA. After 4AD re-acquired the band's USA distribution rights in 2004, they were again released on CD separately; this version of Come on Pligrim was the first CD release to carry Come on Pilgrim's 4AD catalogue number (MAD 709).

Although generally categorized as an EP, the 4AD catalogue number (MAD 709) indicates that the label considers it a "mini-album." 4AD EP releases are given "BAD" catalogue numbers, and mini-albums are given "MAD" catalogue numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On_Pilgrim

[Kucinich4America]

32. My list would probably change daily

But here goes the list for the moment.... (in no particular order)

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
The Clash - London Calling
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
U2 - War
The Alarm - Declaration
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
The Who - Live at Leeds
Ac/Dc - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Ramones - Rocket to Russia

[BOSSHOG]

33. Madman across the Water - My #1 for 35 years

[bbernardini]

34. I'll try my best:

In no order:

Stuart Davis - Nomen Est Numen

Sugar - Copper Blue

The Hooters - Nervous Night

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

Todd Rundgren - 2nd Wind

Mike Keneally - Dancing

King Missile - Happy Hour

Negativland - U2 (technically more of a single, but legendary enough for an album)

[MissMillie]

35. off the top of my head and in no particular order

Shawn Colvin: Steady On
Moody Blues: To Our Children's Children's Children
Aimee Mann: Whatever
Crowded House: Temple of Lo Men
The Blue Nile: Hats
Soundtrack: The Big Chill
David Bowie: ChangesBowie
Yes: Going for the One
Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record

[Lindsey]

37. This is fun! Here are mine in no order:

The Beatles - Abbey Road (today - sometimes it's Sgt. Peppers, The White Album, etc.)
U2 - Joshua Tree
The Counting Crows- August and Everything After
Green Day - American Idiot
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Stones - Beggers Banquet
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
John Lennon - Imagine.

[Tikki]

36. These are the vinyl I listen to the most....

James Ray....If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
Roger Miller....Chug A Lug
Bobby Fuller Four...KRLA/King of the Wheels
Country Joe and The Fish....Electric Music For the Mind and Body
Silver Apples.....Silver Apples/Contact
Ramones....RAMONES
X.....Los Angeles
Nick Lowe....Pure Pop For Now People/Jesus of Cool
Devo...Duty Now For the Future
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers....Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers



Tikki

p.s. I have a Brook Benton album I enjoy listening to, also.

[ceile]

38. hmmm

Pixies "Doolittle"
Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
Catherine Wheel "Ferment"
Matthew Sweet "100% Fun"
Duran Duran "Seven and the Ragged Tiger"
New Order "Substance"
Tricky "Pre-Millenium Tension"
Ride "Nowhere"
Ugly Americans "Ugly Americans"
Jubybats "Native Son"

[Arugula Latte]

41. re: Judybats ... I love "Native Son"

We are on the same page musically, yet again. :toast:

on edit: Matthew Sweet -- also a great choice! :hi:

[ceile]

49. Excellent!

I haven't listened to Native Son in a while, but I think I can still sing every song on it. LOVE his voice!
:hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

39. today

10 Eno Here Come the Warm Jets
9 Curtis Mayfield Superfly
8 Ego Summit The Room Isn't Big Enough
7 Sly and the Family Stone There's a Riot Goin' On
6 The Stooges Fun House
5 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
4 Pixies Surfer Rosa
3 The Gun Club Fire of Love
2 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane over the Sea
1 Love Forever Changes

[Vickers]

43. Holy cow, The Gun Club!!!

I think I've played Fire Of Love and Miami about a zillion times over the years...

Great list, btw.

[DarkTirade]

44. That would pretty much just be a list of Nirvana and Beatles albums. :)

[Bake]

45. Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore

Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends w/EC
Tony Rice - Manzanita
New Grass Revival - any of 'em (or all of 'em)
Flatt & Scruggs Live at Carnegie Hall
Clapton - Crossroads (yeah, it's a boxed set but I'm counting the whole thing as 1)
Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters - oh hell, make it the boxed set)
JD Crowe and the New South (w/Skaggs, Rice, et al.) - Rounder 044
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today

Bake

[Forkboy]

46. No way I could pick from them all, but Nomeansno would end up with about half of them.

The Melvins and Dead Kennedys would round it out.

[hellbound-liberal]

48. In the spirit of discussion, I would like to say that I admire your taste

Rabrrr-Seconds Out and All the World's a Stage
BennyBoy-Quadrophenia and Born to Run
av8rdave-Texas Flood and Wish you Were Here
VA Lefty-Toys in the Attic and Running on Empty
Lantern Waste-Morning Dance
regular guy-Physical Graffiti
dbaker41-Live at Fillmore East (my number 1)

I'll be right back with mine.

[hellbound-liberal]

50. Here's my top ten in no particular order

Allman Brothers Band-Live at Fillmore East
Yes-Yessongs
Rush-All the World’s a Stage
Blue Oyster Cult-Secret Treaties
Deep Purple-Machine Head
Flogging Molly-Swagger
Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti
Steve Earle-Just an American Boy
Eagles-On the Border
Black Sabbath-Paranoid

[Burma Jones]

52. Allrighty

in no particular order:

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
The Beatles: Revolver
Grateful Dead: Europe '72
The Ramones: It's Alive
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bullocks.....
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Beethoven's Ninth as recorded by John Eliot Gardiner and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Pink Floyd: Meddle
The Who: Who's Next

[Broken_Hero]

53. hmm, here I go...

Not in any order either.

Metallica Master of Puppets

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Metallica and Justice For All

Pink Floyd The Wall

Pink Floyd The Division Bell

Life of Agony The River Runs Red

Life of Agony Ugly

ILL Nino Revolutions

NIN Pretty Hate Machine

Ozzy Osbourne The Ozzman Cometh(its a cop out, its a greatest hits cd, but don't make me choose!!!)

:D

[begin_within]

55. Mine

"Decade" by Neil Young
"Court and Spark" by Joni Mitchell
"Who's Next" by the Who
"Rubber Soul" by the Beatles
"Innervisions" by Stevie Wonder
"Mona Bone Jakon" by Cat Stevens
"Watermark" by Enya
"The Very Best of Nat King Cole" by Nat King Cole
"Are You Experienced" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd

though I love Led Zeppelin, I would have to assemble my own album of 10 of their songs in order to make it onto my top 10 album list

[last_texas_dem]

56. Here goes..

No apologies for the weird combination of artists on display here. I decided to limit myself to only one album per artist, FWIW. Oh yeah, and this is subject to change at any second!

ELO- A New World Record
Soul Asylum- Let Your Dim Light Shine
The Beatles- Let It Be
Hall and Oates- Abandoned Luncheonette
The Byrds- The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Heart- Dreamboat Annie
Ben Folds Five- Whatever and Ever Amen
Oasis- What's the Story, Morning Glory?
The Guess Who- So Long, Bannatyne
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick

[SKKY]

57. Yikes, I guess these would be mine, in no particular order...

1. "Nothing's Shocking" - Jane's Addiction
2. "Pretty Hate Machine" - Nine Inch Nails
3. "La Flaca" - Jarabe de Palo
4. "Violator" - Depeche Mode
5. "Bona Drag" - Morrissey
6. "Check Your Head" - Beastie Boys
7. "Life's Rich Pageant" - R.E.M.
8. "The Downward Spiral" - Nine Inch Nails
9. "Achtung Baby" - U2
10. "The Way of Curve" - Curve

[tigereye]

58. Easter- Patti Smith

Marquee Moon - Television
Element of LIght -Robyn Hitchcock
The Softboys - Underwater Moonlight
REM - Green
London Calling - The Clash
Blue Sky MIne - Midnight Oil
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
pretty much any album by Elvis Costello - My Aim is True, When I was Cruel are my faves, but they are all good.
Luna - Penthouse


and that's without my jazz list!

[Perry Logan]

59. Same album at all ten spots: "Space Ritual," by Hawkwind

Hawkwind is an obscure British band with a devoted cult following. Lemmy of Motorhead plays base on "Space Ritual," which is an exceedingly bizarre space-rock album which not many people fancy, but which has been activating the pleasure centers of my poor brain for many years now.

[hellbound-liberal]

63. Did they do an album titled "Hall of the Mountain Grill"?

I think I had it on 8-track back in the 70s. I was really into Nektar in those days. Still am as a matter of fact!

[Perry Logan]

69. Yep. "Grill" had a nifty sci-fi cover.

[nomorenomore08]

61. Hard to pick, it's such a subjective thing, but here's a shot at it:

The Beatles - 'Revolver' (had to pick just one Beatles album)
The Rolling Stones - 'Beggar's Banquet'
The Smiths - 'The Queen Is Dead'
Husker Du - 'Zen Arcade'
Bob Dylan - 'Blonde on Blonde'
The Replacements - 'Tim'
The Stone Roses - 'The Stone Roses'
The Gun Club - 'Fire of Love'
The Clash - 'London Calling'
The Ramones - 'The Ramones'/'Leave Home' (call it a 28-song double album)

[Jersey Devil]

62. Well, these lists depend on your age

Here's my boomer list:

Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
John Fogerty - The Long Road Home
The Mamas & Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
U2 - The Joshua Tree

[opiate69]

64. In no particular order

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Tool - AEnima
The Beatles - White Album
Frank Zappa - Apostrpohe/Overnight Sensation
X Japan - Dahlia
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Rush - Hemispheres
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

[GOPisEvil]

65. Here is today's list.

Of course, in no particular order.

The Wrens - "Meadowlands"
Drive By Truckers - "A Blessing And A Curse"
The Long Winters - "Putting the Days To Bed"
Miles Davis - "Kind Of Blue"
The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic"
The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow"
Son Volt - "Trace"
Spoon - "A Series of Sneaks"
Sugar - "Copper Blue"
Troubled Hubble - "Making Beds in a Burning House"
Uncle Tupelo - "Still Feel Gone"
What Made Milwaukee Famous - "Trying Never To Catch Up"

OK so there's more than 10. Who cares? :P

[leeroysphitz]

66. I know I'm late. Can I still play?

No particular order.

Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians- Ghost Of A Dog
Aztec Camera- High land, Hard Rain
The The- Soul Mining
Orbital- The Middle Of Nowhere
The Judybats- Native Son
Sleater-Kinney- Sleater-Kinney
Sleater-Kinney- Call The Doctor
Sleater-Kinney- Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney- The Hot Rock
Sleater-Kinney- One Beat

Throw in some Old Yes, some Foo Fighters for good measure and a solar powered MP3 player and I'd be all set on any (sunny) deserted island.

[Jean Louise Finch]

67. I'm supposed to be studying

but in no particular order (and likely to change tomorrow):

REM - Life's Rich Pageant
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Pearl Jam - Yield
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
Johnny Cash - American III
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Steve Earle - Train A Comin'
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
The Who - Live at Leeds

And I have to add an eleventh: The La's!

[BronxBoy]

68. No Particular Order

The Sermon-Jimmy Smith
What's Going On-Marvin Gaye
Freedom Now Suite-Max Roach
Abraxas-Santana
Black Market-Weather Report
Aja-Steely Dan
Bicentennial Nigger-Richard Pryor
Blue Light till Dawn-Cassandra Wilson
Off Ramp-Pat Metheny
Infant Eyes-Doug & Jean Carn


I'm in a mellow mood right now. List would probably be totally different tomorrow

[ok_cpu]

70. My 10 right now

A lot are already on other posters' lists:

OK Computer
The Bends
Rubber Soul
Let it Be
Paul's Boutique
A Trick of the Tail
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Songs in the Key of Life
Highway 61 Revisited


Edited to drop Born to Run and sub Highway 61

[Amerigo Vespucci]

71. OK, here goes:

(Not ranked in any particular order, just the 10 all-time favorites):

1). Allman Brothers At Fillmore East
2). Cream - Disraeli Gears
3). Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
4). Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5). Zappa / Beefheat / Mothers - Bongo Fury
6). Yes - The Yes Album
7). Genesis - Seconds Out
8). Derek & The Dominos - Layla
9). Beatles - White Album
10. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

:toast:

[GirlinContempt]

72. No way I could pick 10 of *all time*

but I could pick ten greats and list them in no particular order and still not scratch the surface.


Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain
http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Stanley-Pain-Download/dp/B000005DC3
Downloads best release. industrial as it should be, abstract, beautiful, and deconstructed. I've loved this album since it came out, and it remains in my mind as a great. Kills pop bullshit in the genre every time.


Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Dance-Pere-Ubu/dp/B000007OSV
Raving brilliancy. I don't know what else to say about it.


Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Living-All-Over-Me/dp/B000000M27/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197522449&sr=1-16
Burnout, man.


Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
http://www.amazon.com/Confusion-Sex-Kill-Yr-Idols/dp/B000003TAD/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197522630&sr=1-1
The most naked album in my collection.


Devo - Are We Not Men?
http://www.amazon.com/Q-Are-Not-Men-Devo/dp/B000002KJ1/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197522901&sr=1-1
Smart rock, great hats.


Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
http://www.amazon.com/Metal-Box-Public-Image-Limited/dp/B000007UDQ/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197523075&sr=1-1
Fuck the Sex Pistols, John Lydon knew wtf was what when making this one.


Josef K - Entomology
http://www.amazon.com/Metal-Box-Public-Image-Limited/dp/B000007UDQ/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197523075&sr=1-1
Josef K may have been short lived, but their music is still in my head. Paul Haig & co created timeless genius.


The Radio Dept - Worst Taste In Music
http://www.amazon.com/Worst-Taste-Music-Radio-Dept/dp/B000EUMNX8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197523564&sr=1-3
I don't care that their songs run together in my brain like a continuous stream. I like it.


The Rapture - Out Of The Races & Onto The Tracks
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Races-Onto-Tracks-Rapture/dp/B00005IAHO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197523774&sr=1-3
They succeed in both sounding like my favorite band, and being so completely different I can't help but follow them where ever they choose to take me.
(Pieces Of The People We Love http://www.amazon.com/Pieces-People-We-Love-Rapture/dp/B000HKCRW2/ref=pd_sim_m_img_2 is also excellent though totally different)


Cornelius - Fantasma
http://www.amazon.com/Fantasma-Cornelius/dp/B00000649T/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197524143&sr=1-3
Only because it's fun.

[ghostsofgiants]

73. All time? That is tough, but here are 10 albums I really, really like a lot.

("De-Louse in the Comatorium" by The Mars Volta)


("I'll Sleep When You're Dead" by El-P; Yes, a hip-hop album that came out this year, haha.)


("Unknown Pleasures" by Joy Division)


("Fevers and Mirrors" by Bright Eyes)

[enigmatic]

75. 10

In no order:

The Days Of Wine And Roses- The Dream Syndicate


Philosophy Of The World- The Shaggs


Spiderland- Slint


The Blow-Up- Television


Maggot Brain- Funkedelic


The Spirit Of Eden- Talk Talk


Devotion + Doubt- Richard Buckner


Anodyne- Uncle Tupelo


Lost Son- Richmond Fontaine


The Modern Dance- Pere Ubu

[RainDog]

76. I can name ten

but can't really call them top albums of all time because the list could be different in another week. in no particular order my choices maybe if I were on a desert island. as soon as I got off, I wonder if I'd ever want to hear them again?

1. Highway 61 Revisted
2. Jimi Hendrix Blues
3. John Coltrane Plays the Blues
4. Mozart Mass in C Minor
5. Elvis Costello Armed Forces
6. Anita O'Day At St. Vines Live
7. Jolie Holland Springtime Can Kill You
8. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
9. Tom Waits Mule Variations
10 Music From the Soundtrack Pulp Fiction

[TrogL]

77. Probably showing my age

1. Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson Lake and Palmer
   
2. The Wall - Pink Floyd
   
3. Bach, Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould
   
4. A Night at the Opera - Queen
   
5. Relayer - Yes
   
6. Hemispheres - Rush
   
7. Symphony of Psalms, Stravinski - Toronto Festival Singers
   
8. DSOTM - Pink Floyd
   
9. Tarkus - Emerson Lake and Palmer
   
10. Machine Head - Deep Purple
    

[Mythsaje]

78. I seem to remember doing this some time back...

Here are mine, in no particular order.

Concrete Blonde-Bloodletting
Dream Theater-Images and Words
Evenescence-Fallen
Alanis-Jagged Little Pill
Pink-Missundaztood
Rush-2112
and I've reconsidered my last top ten list (this happens on occasion)
Judas Priest-British Steel
Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime