Top 10 must have albums of all time

Trying to spruce up the ipod and get some new music ideas.
So what are your top 10 albums of all time???

Exodus – Bob Marley – the album that brought reggae to the world.
Specials – Specials
London calling – the clash
Massive attack – Protection
Pink Floyd – Darkside of the moon
Lee Scratch Perry – Arkology
Stan Getz -one of the bossa nova recordings ( compilation best perhaps)
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Paul van Dyke ( dunno which album – but some kwality tunes I wouldn’t be without)

Thats just of the top of my head and will change withtime – and there ar some singles I wold want as well – Pretty Vacant., Boys are back in town, Blank Expression…………………..
Morcheeba – who can you trust

Led Zeppelin – Presence
Beatles – Let It Be
Stones – Exile on Main Street
Van Morrison – Moondance
Screaming Trees – Dust
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan – Desire
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising

Plus many, many more.

TJ!! Lee Perry!! My Brother!

Half agree on a few of the others, but love you for Lee Perry

The Beta Band – 3 EP’s.
Bessie Smith – Complete Recordings.
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken.
Here & Now – Fantasy Shift.
Blyth Power – A Little Touch Of Harry In the Night.
John Martyn – Solid Air.
Half Man Half Biscuit – Cammell Laird Social Club.
Frank Zappa – You Can’t Do That On Stage Any More (Sampler).
Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).
Subhumans – Time Flies But Aeroplanes Crash (An EP, but has to go in just for ‘Word Factory‘).

Tried not to repeat any (I suspect London Calling would be in many peoples’ lists, good call TJ!)
It’ll be totally different in an hour anyway 🙂

In no particular order, and remembering that this is a personal top 10…

Air – Moon Safari
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Paul Oakenfold – Perfecto Fluoro
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Wu Tang Clan – Wu Tang Forever
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Lamb – Best Kept Secrets
Orbital – Insides
Michael Jackson – Blood On The Dancefloor
Goldie – Timeless

I can find something for every occasion and/or emotion in those 10 albums.

Lee Scratch Perry

6Music introduced me to this chap last Saturday v good he is too.

ABBA – all.

Bee Gees – all.

Carpenters – all.

Ah well can I have a few more?
Morrison Hotel – Doors
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers
Stone – some girls? ( got to have some stones)

Should be some soul as well but I know no albums – just compilations and single Mowtown and Northern soul

I have some Northern soul compilations and have no idea about the artists albums 😆
Some great music has been suggested so far.
Half man half biscuit is genius!! Why the hell have I never come across them before???

Half Man Half Biscuit are the best British Folk band since Fairport Convention 😀

Have a look here [/url]and here [/url]for a bit more info.

A couple of favourites:
Restless Legs

Evening of Swing (Has been Cancelled)

lol @ chewkw

Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
Dire straits – Brothers in arms
The Verve – A Northern Soul
Prodigy – Jilted Generation
2pac – Me against the world
Burial – Untrue
Leftfield – Leftism
GZA – Liquid Swords
Billy Bragg – Back to Basics
Gil Scott-Heron – pieces of a man

+ some others previously mentioned. 10 is difficult!

Go with the Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and John Martyn above.

I would add Steely Dan, Cant buy a thrill or Aja and also add Born to run or Darkness on the edge of town by Bruce Springsteen.

Stone roses – the stone roses
dirty Vegas – think it’s also called dirty Vegas
maximo park – a certain trigger
gatecrasher – wet, or red, or discotech generation 🙂
friendly fires – friendly fires
the colour and the shape – foo fighters
connected – stereo mcs
the last broadcast – doves

Astral weeks – van morisson
Revolver – beetles
Blonde on blonde – Dylan
Paul’s boutique- beastie boys
Prefab sprout- Steve McQueen
Teenage fanclub -grand prix
Hunky dory – David Bowie
Bridge over troubled water – simon and garfunkel
Yankee hotel foxtrot – wilco
Stevie wonder – innervisions

Trying to avoid ones already mentioned

The Boatmans Call – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Velvet Underground & Nico – First Album
The Doors – The Doors
The Early Years Volume 2 – Tom Waits

I don’t have a top ten as such, but do listen to these quite a lot:
Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Martyn – Solid Air
Morrison – Astral Weeks
Weller – Wildwood
Eagles – Hotel California
Beatles – Segeant Pepper
Lou Reed – Transformer
Neil Young – Harvest
Michael Jackson – Thriller (yes, really)
Oscar Peterson – A Jazz Odyssey
AC-DC – Highway To Hell

some good suggestions so far

primal scream – screamadelica
black sabbath- black sabbath
the the -infected
johnny cash-(one of the rubens ones)
elvis – sun recordings
groove armada-goodbye country, hello nightclub
led zep – 1,2 or 3

New Order – Technique
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
Decendents – All
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary
Red House Painters – Songs For A Blue Guitar
Carl Craig – Landcruising
Brian Eno / David Byrne – My Life In the Bush Of Ghosts
Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine

If asked tommorow it would probably change

Could I also slip in Cabaret Voltaire – The Conversation ???

Blackbeard – I wah dub
yello – solid pleasure
talking heads – remain in light
legendary pink – dots perfect mystery
peter gabriel – security
klf – chill out
brian eno – music for airpots
motorhead – bomber
rancid – and out come the wolves
lee scratch perry – return of the super ape

Another one

New boots and panties – Ian Dury and the blockheads

Sweatmaster – Sharp Cut
Cake – Prolonging the Magic
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Cardigans – Life
AC/DC – Powerage
Digitalism – Digitalism
Daft Punk – Homework
Phoenix – It’s never Been Like That
Soulwax – Much Against Everyone’s Advice

Never mind the Bollocks- Sex Pistols.
London Calling-The Clash.
Leftism-Leftfield.
Mezzanine- Massive Attack.
Incesticide- Nirvana.
It’s Alive-The Ramones.
All Mod Cons-The Jam.
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables-Dead Kennedys.
Dirk Wear White Sox-Adam and the Ants.
Neon Bible- Arcade Fire.
Everything by the Pixies.

Not for Nothin Dave Holland
One By One Foo Fighters
Disco Calvin Harris
1984 Van Halen
A Go Go John Scofield

Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generaton
Daft Punk – Discovery
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody knows this is nowhere
Battles – Mirrored
Capdown – Civil Disobedients
John Frusciante – Niandra La Des and Usually Just a T-shirt (does that count as one?)
Fugazi – Repeater
Jose Gonzalez – Veneer
RJD2 – Dead Ringer
Logistics – Now More Than Ever

No-one’s mentioned Loveless yet, I see.

Andy

Oasis – What’s The Story(Morning Glory)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
REM – Out Of Time
U2 – The Joshua Tree
Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
Bruce Springsteen – Born In The USA
Killers – Hot Fuss
Elbow – Seldom Seen Kid
The Verve – Urban Hymns

In no particular order either.

Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space
The Beatles – Let it Be
Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
Amusement Parks on Fire – Amusement Parks on Fire
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
Broken Family Band – Cold Water Songs

Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
Emerson Lake and Palmer – Trilogy
Vivian Stanshall – Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
John Field – Nocturnes Nos 1 – 15 (Pietro Spada, Piano)
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
John Cooper Clarke – Snap, Crackle [&] Bop
Sir John Betjeman – Banana Blush
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
Bob Dylan – Hard Rain

Not really a top ten but I have been known to listen to them in excess!

Lots of good stuff there. Can’t narrow it down to 10 but a couple to add

Led Zepplin – Led Zepplin II
John Lee Hooker – Mr Lucky
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

Thing is – do compilation albums count? If you missed someone first time round and you don’t really know their work, for me a good compilation is the way to go. All albums have some at best average stuff on that is best avoided.

If you missed someone first time round and you don’t really know their work, for me a good compilation is the way to g

Totally agree with you on that. As sometimes you cut out the mediocre songs which may put you off imho.

can Uk

good choice with Broken Family Band – that is a really good album which is not well known nearly enough

interesting how many of the albums ar from decades ago.
is this
1) a sign of how good the music was then
2) a sign of how old we all are
3) a sign of the poor taste we have?

Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf

Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

DANGERDOOM – The Mouse And The Mask

The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation

Rage Against The Machine – Battle Of Los Angeles

The Strokes – Is This It?

Gorillaz – Demon Days

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not

Bloc Party – Silent Alarm

David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Live)

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables – Dead Kennedys
Vengeance – New Model Army
No More Heroes – The Stranglers
Hatful of Hollow – The Smiths
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
The Fan and the Bellows – The Chameleons
The Nephilim – Fields of the Nephilim
Never Mind the Bollocks – Sex Pistols
Inflammable Material – Stiff Little Fingers
Achtung Bono – Half Man Half Biscuit

I just don’t get the Sex Pistols personally.

Cant think of ten, but the top three I wouldnt be without are
1. JR Cash at Folsom Prison (the complete unedited version, disagree with the line of thought that the Rick Rubin produced stuff is the best, it isnt even close to this piece of genius @ San Quinten is good but this is better).
2.Welcome to the Cruel World by Ben Harper.
3. Trinity Sessions by The Cowboy Junkies.

I also wouldnt be without Hup by The Wonderstuff but an willing to accept that my be more due to the time and place where I grew up and what it meant to me at the time rather that musical genius.

Oh I’d chuck Joy Division – Substance in as well.

interesting how many of the albums ar[sic] from decades ago.

IME experience people don’t move on.

There are some good albums here, but its such a personal thing, I’d never inflict my (ever changing) top ten on other people.