Top 10 must have albums of all time

Beta Band – 3 EP’s
Underground Resistance – Interstellar Fugitives 2
Mars Volta – De-Loused In The Comatorium
Fugazi – The Argument
The Bug – London Zoo
Clash – London Calling
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Bloodsugarsexmagik
Herbie Hancock – Headhunters
Innerzone Orchestra – Programmed
Galaxy 2 Galaxy – A Hitech Jazz Compilation

BloodSugarSexMagik

The best produced album ever. Rick Rubin is a master.

Impossible to choose really but I’m just chucking a few in that I can always come back to and don’t seem to tire of. It’s somewhat rock oriented, sorry.

OK Computer – Radiohead
American Idiot – Green Day
Everything you see – Runrig
Ágætis byrjun – Sigur Rós
Crack The Skye – Mastodon
Still got the blues for you – Gary Moore

Born To Run-Bruce Springsteen
Argus-Wishbone Ash
Heaven and Hell-Black Sabbath
Machine Head-Deep Purple
Number Of The Beast-Iron Maiden
Strangers In The Night-UFO
Tokyo Tapes-Scorpions
Highway To Hell-AC/DC
Appetite For Destruction-Guns and Roses

I saved the best for last though
Rising-Rainbow

OK well obviously everyone is putting there own personal top 10, not the top 10 of all time. I mean the prodigy? I was there back in the day but come on! And BloodSugarSexMagik? personally I prefer the 2 before that. So with that in mind, here are mine as of this minute

and in no order

subject to change hourly

Stone Roses – Stone Roses
Sreamadelica – Primal Scream
Electric Ladyland – you need to ask?
Sgt Pepper – likewise
Pungent Eflugent – Ozric Tentacles (remember! its a personal list!)
Adventures Beyond… – The Orb
the brown one – Orbital
Beggars Banquet – Stones
Chill Out – KLF
and out of place but I must still put in Appetite For Destruction – Guns and Roses

Ah llama, of course it’s your personal top 10, everything is personal on here. 😉

The Stone Roses first album is an odd choice in my opinion, very overrated and very dated. The second one is much better!

Agree with you on The Prodigy though, and Uplift Mofo is a classic album for those in the know.

Oh and I’d add Love – Forever Changes to my top ten. Now there’s an album that should be in a universal top ten if ever there was one.

Yes well I am dated. I never really went back to the 2nd, but the first is always near the top of the pile. However, got the fools gold ep and thats further up.

For me, it is as follows;

Guns and Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Elgar – Enigma Variations
Holst – The Planets (Preferably Solti with the Berlin Phil)
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
IAM – Ombre est Lumière, Vol 1&2
Rush – 2112
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
ZZ Top – First Album
Gun – Gallus
MC Solaar – Le Tour de la Question

Ask me again tomorrow, though!

Yeah, that 9 minute version of Fools Gold is great, might dust off my 10th anniversary copy of the album now and give it a listen. 8)

Rush – 2112, how could I forget! Ah, this thread is great, reminding me of loads of oldies.

TandemJeremy – Member
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?

That would be 2)

My list would have to include some Eels, Springsteen, Neil Young and Sigur Ros.

So how about:

Eels – Electro Shock Blues
Springsteen – Not sure, How about ‘The River’?
Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
Sigur Ros – Takk
Lambchop – Is a woman
Pixies – Surfer Rosa and Come on Pilgrim

Bob Mould- Workbook
Silversun-Silversun
New Model Army- The Ghost of Cain
The Carpenters -Greatest Hits
Blondie -Parallel lines
Danzig- Lucifuge
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
Teenage Fanclub-13
Janes Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual
Husker Du- Warehouse: Songs & Stories.

There’s too many choices for a ‘must have’ top ten. Important musically? best selling? Genre making? Epic? of their time? Greatest hits? Live? It’s meaningless just putting up a list of personal favourites…Danzig? a must have album? Don’t think so…

James – The Complete Singles Collection 1983-2007 (a compilation)
Muse – Absolution
Sia – Colour the Small One
Royskopp – The Understanding
Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endaluast
Morcheeba – Big Calm
Stiff Little Fingers – Nobodys Heroes
Radiohead – OK Computer
The Verve – Urban Hymns
Coldplay – X&Y

Danzig? a must have album? Don’t think so…

Don’t tell that to Glenn, he’ll rip your head off. And probably put an end to this forum while he’s at it.

Nah he’s getting on a bit now, probablt put out a hip or something. As with the others a personal selction and I actually think the dude is cheesy as, but having wandered into a festival in Koln a few years ago and watched him do this album live I now thoroughly rate this album.

Some really good albums posted, most of the ones I’d post have already been done.
Add these ones…sorry nickc but they’re all personal favourites

The Wedding Present- George Best.
The Dead Kennedys- frankenchrist
Sugar- Copper Blue
The Who- Who’s Next
Metallica- Master of Puppets
The Beatles- The White Album
Husker Du- Candy Apple Grey
Gordon Duncan- Thunderstruck
The Who- Quadrophenia
Television- Marqee Moon

Danzig? a must have album? Don’t think so…

Don’t tell that to Glenn, he’ll rip your head off. And probably put an end to this forum while he’s at it.

he’s all bark, the shortarse

danzig getting slapped

Alot of really good “essential” albums already mentioned so won’t bother with a top ten.

Surprised not to see The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic so far. Or The Cures Boys Don’t Cry.

[EDIT] Or Psychocandy

The Damned – Phantasmagoria
The Beatles – The White Album
Muse – The Uprising
Killing Joke – Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Garbage – Beautiful Garbage
Sia – Some People have Real Problems
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare
Guns and Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Bee-Gees – Saturday Night Fever (I defy anyone not to strut to Staying Alive 8) )

Surprised there is no mention of Carole King (Tapestry) or Joni Mitchell (Hejira) amongst the tasteful massif.

10 to start with;

The Pixies – Surfa Rosa
Tokyo Police Club – A lesson in Crime
The Wedding Present – George Best
The Joy Division – Closer
Shellac – 1000 Hurts
PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Superchunk – Here’s to Shutting up
The Fall – well……anything by the fall.

10 is not enough!!

primal scream – screamadelica!

Trampus – Member

Surprised there is no mention of Carole King (Tapestry) or Joni Mitchell (Hejira) amongst the tasteful massif.

Tapestry would definitely be in the top 20, along with, ooohhh,
The Band – The Band, Gregson & Collister – Home & Away, Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Loaded by the Velvets and Malpractice by Dr Feelgood.

Getting the list down to 10 was the hardest bit!

Liebe ist fur alle da – Rammstein
Dark ages – Soulfly
If you want blood – ac/dc
Angel dust – Faith no more
Fat of the land – Prodigy

Faith No More – Angel Dust
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
Live – Throwing Copper
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam – Vs
Radiohead – The Bends
Doves – The Last Broadcast
Silverchair – Diorama
3 Doors Down – Away From the Sun

Most of mine already mentioned but I’d throw in:

Dookie – Green Day
Mind Bomb – The The
Obscure Alternatives – Japan

Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys
Desire – Bob Dylan
The Eminem Show – Eminem
Axis:Bold as Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal
The Score – The Fugees
Halfway Tree – Damian Marley
Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
Dexter Rides Again – Dexter Gordon
Pain In My Heart – Otis Redding

others that were close –

Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
Broadcast Performances – Charlie Parker
Blowin’ the Fuses – Lightnin’ Hopkins
and many more.