Here's mine, would be different on a different day-
Talking heads- stop making sense
John coltrane -blue train
Little axe- slow fuse
Toni childs- union
Jimi Hendrix-electric ladyland
Terry Callier - live
Tom Waits Small change
Lightning Hopkins- blues for mr charlie
Talking heads -stop making sense
Etta James-tell mamma
Faithless - Reverence
Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Cunninlinguists - SouthernUnderground
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Steel Panther - Feel The Steel 8)
I forgot Nine Inch Nails Downward Spiral
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of the Moon
Tindersticks - Tindersticks 2
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Paul Simon - Graceland
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Radiohead - Kid A
Chas & Dave - Job Lot
[i]What's surprised me is that I've liked at least 2 or 3 of the albums from everybody's post.[/i]
Indeed, and just cos I enjoyed reading them, this is my Top 10 from other posters' top 10s:
Pixies - Doolittle
Portishead - Dummy
Beatles - White Album
Bjork - Post
The Clash - London Calling
smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
LCD Soundsystem - This is happening
There’s a Riot Goin’ On – Sly & The Family Stone
Lo Fi Allstars-How to Operate With A Blown Mind
Plus all of deadlydarcy's choices, of course.
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
Metallica - Black album
Tool - Undertow
GNR - appetite
Van Halen - Van Halen
Incubus - Morning View
Journey - Escape
Linkin Park - Hybrid
Gorecki
Neil Diamond - Rainbows
the word for the day children is eclectic.
[i]Metallica - Black album
Tool - Undertow
GNR - appetite
Van Halen - Van Halen
Incubus - Morning View
Journey - Escape
Linkin Park - Hybrid[/i]
[i]eclectic[/i]
Not really though, eh?
I want to know where plumber's got to and why he's not yet posted his own top 10 🙂
1. Wish you where here – Pink Floyd
2. Made in Japan – Deep Purple
3. Bat out of Hell – Meat Loaf
4. Blood on the tracks – Bob Dylan
5. Different Class – Pulp
6. The Doors – Doors
7. The Joshua Tree – U2
8. Rainbow Rising – Rainbow
9. Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
10. Tubular bells – Mike Oldfield
He's busy checking albums that have never been on a radio 1 or radio 2 playlist. 🙂
EDIT: @ le clubbeur
Do all mountain bikers have incredibly good taste? It appears so doesn't it? Must be all that fresh air. Here's my ten...no particular order...subject to change:
Nada Surf - Let Go
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
The Ramones - It's Alive
Television - Marquee Moon
Doves - Lost Souls
Stephen Duffy - Music In Colour
Neil Young - Harvest
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
R.E.M. - Reckoning
The Velvet Underground & Nico
I suspect you may have just hit the nail on the head O'Darc 😉
I forgot to mention ....another 10.
Nirvana - Nevermind
Doves - Lost Souls
Ride - Going Blank Again
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Big Country - The Crossing
The Cult -Love
My Bloody valentine - Loveless
[i]I want to know where plumber's got to and why he's not yet posted his own top 10[/i]
You musta missed it, it was just before mine
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ten-best-albums-of-all-time#post-4935483
Depeche Mode - Violator
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Leftfield - Leftism
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Front 242 - Tyranny (For You)
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
Sisters of Mercy - A Slight Case of Overbombing (compilation album)
Wait there I can’t decide. I need to put these in there somewhere!
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric’s
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
@All The Nirvana fans:
I do get why Nevermind keeps appearing, but give "In Utero" another listen. It's a grower.
Well I did say subject to change...just spotted these above:
Townes VanZandt - Live at the Old Quarter
The FLaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Springsteen - Darkness on the end of town
Gosh.
edlong - frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle. oh yes she will.
Some here that might not have been listed before and probably a bit too Americana for this place:-)
Hayes Carll KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)
That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy
The Travelling Wilburys - The Travelling Wilburys
Vintage Trouble - The Bomb Shelter Sessions
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony & Blues Companion
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Ryan Adams - Gold
Teenage Fanclub - Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds
Paulo Nutini - These Streets
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
[i] It's a grower.[/i]
😆 Useful tip for a 20 year old album!
So many minor chords.... LOL
Useful tip for a 20 year old album!
Many's the time I've gone back to albums I didn't "get" first time around, only to discover years later that I really like them.
deluded - Member
Depeche Mode - Violator
Oh yes indeed. Their finest hour.
That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy
Good shout, that, too. Soundtrack to my student days. Sounds a bit dated now, though, IMHO.
in no particular order
New Model Army - Thunder and consolidation
U2 - Joshua Tree
AC/DC - Back in Black
Portishead - Dummy
Radiohead - OK Computer
Prodigy Fat - of the Land
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Led Zep - IV
Japan - Gentlemen take Polaroids
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
Awesome shout for That Petrol Emotion!
Here goes:
Carter USM - 101 Damnations.
Kasabian - Kasabian.
PWEI - The Looks Or The Lifestyle.
IAMX - (pick any of their albums).
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Hybrid - Disappear Here.
The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land.
Doves - The Last Broadcast.
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs.
That Petrol Emotion - Detonate My Dreams.
Here goes...
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
P J Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Mogwai - Young Team
LCD Soundsystem - Debut
The Longcut - A Call And Response
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Soulwax - Nite Versions
I'm going to get all Spinal Tap and include Doves - Lost Souls.
Again no particular order 🙂
The Wall - Floyd
Toxicity- Systm of a down
NMTB - Sex pistols
Moving Pictures - Rush
The Bends - Radiohead
In An Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral milk hotel
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Technical Ecstacy - Black sabbath
The Beginning - Black eyed peas
Pump - Aerosmith
I think the smiths may have the highest number of different albums mentioned and I can make it 5
so in no particular order:-
the smiths - the smiths
dinosaur jr - green mind
pixies - doolittle
radiohead - the bends
t-rex -electric warrior
air - moon safari
velvet underground and nico
bob Dylan - bring it all back home
stone roses - stone roses
teenage fanclub - a catholic education
Leftfield : leftism
Janes addiction: ritual
Janes addiction: nothing shocking
Spiritualised: live at Albert hall
Smashing pumpkins : Siamese dream
Pixies: surfa rosa
Belle and Sebastian: boy with the Arab strap
Smiths: queen is dead
Beta band: 3 eps
Bob Marley: trench town rock
[i]Sounds a bit dated now, though, IMHO[/i]
Like 99% of the albums mentioned in this thread!
Like 99% of the albums mentioned in this thread!
JLS - JLS is timeless though.
Crikey! Just realised I left out XO by Elliott Smith.
Locust Fudge - Royal Flush
everything else is forgettable
Don't explain - Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart
Let England shake - PJ Harvey
Space ritual - Hawkwind
Moving pictures - Rush
La Peste - Alabama 3
Fear of a blank planet - Porcupine Tree
Ghost reveries - Opeth
The light at the end of the world - My Dying Bride
Zen arcade - Husker Du
Deloused in the comatorium - The Mars Volta
