Top 10 favourite albums of all-time?

[Alan_C]

Sorry if this topic has been done to death (don't usually venture into this section). Boredom has brought me to do this.

1.Oasis - Definitely Maybe

2.The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

3.The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society

4.Pulp - Different Class

5.Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

6.New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

7.David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

8.The Libertines - Up The Bracket

9.Suede - Dog Man Star

10.The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

I did want to fit Is This It, The White Album, The Specials and a lot more in there. Anyone who argues with me for having Definitely Maybe top can kiss my left bum cheek.

 

Edited May 8, 2016 by Alan_C

[Uncle Liam]

2 hours ago, Alan_C said:

Anyone who argues with me for having Definitely Maybe top can kiss my left bum cheek.

 

Quality! 

Are you Big Joe in disguise? 

I'm going to have a look to see if the Oasis thread hasn't been deleted. 

[Hugh Jass]

In no particular order:

Pulp - His & Hers

Pulp - Different Class

Nirvana - In Utero

Nirvana - Unplugged in NY

Radiohead - In Rainbows

The Kills - Midnight Boom

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Muse - Absolution

Arcade Fire - Funeral

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf

[LJS]

10 off the top of my head - in no particular order. 

If I did the same thing tomorrow, I would probably come up with a totally different list.

 

Led Zeppelin - IV

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Beatles - Revolver

Pulp - Different Class

Alabama Three - Last Train to Mashville vol. 2

Fairport Convention - Liege & Leaf

Primal Scream  - Screamadelica

Radiohead - OK computer

Sufjan Stevens  - Carrie & Lowell

Jimi Hendrix  - Electric Ladyland

 

[Amy Lawn]

#totesindie

[Alanhathaway]

Judged on which of my fav albums I have listened to the most over the years, I'll go with:

1. Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

2. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin II

3. Oasis- Definitely Maybe

3. Radiohead- OK Computer 

4. Radiohead- Kid A

5. Elbow- The seldom seen kid

6. The Beatles- Sgt Peppers or Abbey Road- cant decide...

7. Underworld- Everything Everything

8. U2- The Joshua Tree

9. The Doors- The Doors

10. Jimi Hendrix- Are you experienced?

Definitely Maybe is however the BEST debut album ever.

 

[gary1979666]

Go on then - no particular order, my top 10!

-Oasis - Definitely Maybe

-Radiohead - The Bends

-The Clash - London Calling

-Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves

-Green Day - Dookie

-Alkaline Trio - Damnesia

-Slipknot - Slipknot

-Metallica - Master of Puppets

-Therapy? - Troublegum

-Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

[SwedgeAntilles]

Off the top of my head and probably forgetting a whole heap of stuff;

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Revolver - The Beatles

In Rainbows - Radiohead

OK Computer - Radiohead

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Up The Bracket - The Libertines

Is This It - The Strokes

Gold - Ryan Adams

Homework - Daft Punk

Moon Safari - Air

 

[Hugh Jass]

36 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Off the top of my head and probably forgetting a whole heap of stuff;

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Revolver - The Beatles

In Rainbows - Radiohead

OK Computer - Radiohead

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Up The Bracket - The Libertines

Is This It - The Strokes

Gold - Ryan Adams

Homework - Daft Punk

Moon Safari - Air

 

I would have to say... The Best of the Beatles.

[SwedgeAntilles]

13 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

I would have to say... The Best of the Beatles.

Shit, forgot about Band on the Run by Wings - who were the band the Beatles could have been.

[Amy Lawn]

1. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
7. Paul Simon - Graceland
8. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
9. Joanna Newsom - Ys
10. Owen Pallett - Heartland

Subject to change all the time, was struggling between Heartland and 65dos' We Were Exploding Anyway for the last slot, but Owen got it largely by virtue of me just having listened to it this afternoon.  It's always in flux, but I'd say the top 3 are pretty cemented by now. Would've called Graceland and Mezzanine my top 2 a few years ago, but I've started to really feel the value in remembering an album coming out and holding onto it, so that's why there's 4 albums from 2010 - the year I was 18. Not that it was even a great year, it was a pretty shite year, but the great albums and gigs that took me out of it for a little while have stuck with me more.

[FloorFiller]

25 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

1. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring

their worst album. come on, man!

anyway, in no order...

Gene Clark - No Other
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Radiohead - Kid A (could've also been OK Computer or In Rainbows but i'm feeling Kid A right now)
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Weezer - Pinkerton
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Nirvana - In Utero
Arcade Fire - Funeral

probably missed out some really obvious ones, but these'll do for now

[Amy Lawn]

1 minute ago, FloorFiller said:

their worst album. come on, man!

What is the matter with you? The best album by anybody.

[FloorFiller]

Just now, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

What is the matter with you? The best album by anybody.

thought it was disappointing when it first came out and have kind of held that opinion since (granted i haven't listened to it in ages). Hello Sadness is my favourite by them

[Amy Lawn]

6 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

thought it was disappointing when it first came out and have kind of held that opinion since (granted i haven't listened to it in ages). Hello Sadness is my favourite by them

Hello Sadness is possibly my least favourite, but that's to say it's a 9/10 where the rest are 10/10 (apart from No Blues, that's a 9/10 as well).

[Alan_C]

12 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Definitely maybe better than the doors or the smiths or black sabbath or the stone roses??

Maybe in titling i suppose. 

It is favourite albums, there isn't much subjective about it. Definitely Maybe is my favourite album ever. It was the album that really made me take notice, and it lead me to all sorts of paths of music. I still love it today, and songs like Rock 'N' Roll Star, Columbia, Supersonic and Cigarettes & Alcohol will continue to be the soundtrack to great moments in my life. It's a great album, even if you don't like what they produced since.

[FuzzyDunlop]

Favourite albums have to mean something to you.

Im 32. Definitely maybe came out when I was 10 and was the first album that I loved that I didn't just record from my parents. By some distance it's my favourite album. I saw Oasis at Maine Road with my dad 20 years ago last month and then saw them at the GMEX in december 1997. The first gig I went to with my mates. If I didn't go to that, I might not  be going to gigs and clubs or writing this now... any way

Top 10 favourites (not necessarily "The best")

1. Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Another few to put somewhere amongst favourites:

The queen is dead, Led Zep II, Dark side of the Moon, Different Class, Music for the Jilted Generation, Nimrod (yes Green Day), Hunky Dory, Nevermind the Bollocks, The Stone Roses, Homework and Funeral

And mentions to 3 compilations...

Gatecrasher Red, Eddie Halliwell - Bosh, Carl Cox Space Ibiza 2004 Mixmag.

Favourites... not "best".

 

Edit... I forgot funeral!

Edited May 9, 2016 by FuzzyDunlop

[tjamest]

In no order, but definitely some of my favourite that I still play now as well as back in the day:

Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Gang of Four - Entertainment

Van Morrison - Moondance

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

Television - Marquee Moon

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

 

On another day any could be swapped with:

Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane

John Martyn - Solid Air

Culture - Two Sevens Clash

Dr Feelgood - Stupidity

The Clash - The Clash

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Rancid - And out comes the wolves

Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks

Bunny Wailer - Rock n Groove

 

Only Arcade Fire is less than 20 years old - just goes to show how important music when you are a teenager I guess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2016 by tjamest

[Winslow Leach]

On 5/9/2016 at 9:40 PM, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

What is the matter with you? The best album by anybody.

C'mon mate, it's no We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

 

I'm going to have to have a think to come up with my list. Watch this space.

[tjamest]

9 minutes ago, Winslow Leach said:

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I'm going to have to have a think to come up with my list. Watch this space.

It's not easy - mine escalated from 10 to 20 in matter of minutes

[Winslow Leach]

6 minutes ago, tjamest said:

It's not easy - mine escalated from 10 to 20 in matter of minutes

Ha, it's happened to me already. In the end I had to start pitting similar albums off against each other. I mean, do I really need Selected Ambient Works and Northern Exposure? Just Another Diamond Day and I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight? 

It's tough.

[grumpyhack]

Not in any particular order.

What We Did on Our Holidays - Fairport Convention

Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd

Songs from a Room - Leonard Cohen

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Sgt Pepper - The Beatles

High Tide and Green Grass - Rolling Stones (OK I know it's a compliation)

The Rock Machine Turns You On - OK another compilation

After this it would hurt my brain too much to select single albums so it would have to be more greatest hits compilations from Van Morrison, Nina Simone and The Who.

[Winslow Leach]

OK, I think this is it, in no particular order. I’ve included 2 EPs as one entry, and if you don't like that then you can fight me.

 

Burial- Rival Dealer EP & Kindred EP

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Nick Drake- Pink Moon

Aphex Twin- Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Ruff Sqwad- White Label Classics

Los Campesinos!- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Madvillain- Madvillainy

DJ Kicks: Kemistry & Storm

Richard & Linda Thompson- I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

John Taylor, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler- Azimuth

 

The first 4 or 5 are pretty much set in stone, the last one is one that I fell in love with last year and I can definitely see staying in the list for the long haul.

At the moment I'm absolutely loving Bougouni by Nahawa Doumbia and I'm sure it'll be a contender for a spot on the list in the future but for now I've got to give it some more spins and see how it holds up over time.

Edited May 11, 2016 by Winslow Leach

[Winslow Leach]

My list in youtube videos, so you can all appreciate how excellent my taste is:

 

[Winslow Leach]

I'm now having serious second thoughts about leaving out Original Pirate Material. Just leave it Winslow, leave it.