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And that from a bloke who once played 'Born to be Wiiiiiiiiild' at an AGM!

Never understood this fad for 'best ten' lists... it changes depending on mood, surely? One knows what one actively dislikes (e.g. any manufactured band, any rap, house, ambient or similar crap, for example) but as to what is listened to more than any other? The fact of listening leads to overload...

But then, I listen to albums, in the order the artist wanted them. What do I know?

New Order - Substance
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am
Reverend and the Makers - The State of Things
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
New Order - Republic
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
Nirvana - Nevermind
ELO - Out of the Blue
Electronic - Electronic

Half Man Half Biscuit and Ratt just failed to make the cut - mixed bag or what?

The Jam - Setting Sons
The Vapors - New Clear Days
The Clash - The Clash
Cowboy Junkies - Caution Horses
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Green Day - (collection of the earlier stuff)
REM - Document
The Cure - can't decide

Amazing how many Coupe owners have picked Nirvana's Never Mind . A terrific collection, but I just like the freshness of In Utero....

Too many favourites to whittle down to just ten but I'll try :-

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Aerosmith - Rocks
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
Royal Republic - We are the Royal

Close runners for the list would be :-

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Pixies - Dolittle
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Deftones - White Pony

Baz

Not easy but here goes...

Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Whitesnake - Come an' Get It
DIO - Killing the Dragon
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Peter Gabriel - SO
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Queen - A Night at the Opera (A Kind of Magic is a close second)
The Housemartins and The Beautiful South - Soup (A bit of a cheat going with a best of album)
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Dire Straits - Brothers in arms

Just outside the top ten would be albums from...

Heaven 17
The Scorpions
The Beatles
Ed Sheeran
Elbow
Eric Clapton
Depeche Mode
Human League
Chic

Great picks Bob.

Ha, more that nearly made it into my list.

Sadly enough also in the nearly list was Slippery when Wet by Bon Jovi, which was the soundtrack to every teenage party I went to.

For Beautiful South I was tempted to include Welcome to the Beautiful South; it's such a good album - Song for whoever, I'll sail this ship alone, Woman in the wall, etc. Now I'm feeling guilty that I edged it out

Oh titbox. I just wrote a massive, heart-searching list, then navigated away by accident to look up an album name and that was it. Ar5e.

Anyway, it's not all Kloot.

Foreigner - Foreigner 4
Catatonia - International Velvet
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Tattoo Rodeo - Rode Hard Put Away Wet
Simentera - Simentera
Queen - A Night At the Opera (or Wish You Were Here)
Chingon - Mexico and Mariachis
Cesaria Evora - Cabo Verde (or perhaps Mar Azul)
Travelling Wilburys - Vol 1

But that's just today...

See ! you couldn't resist. Nowt better than a top ten list for a good reminisce.

Some excellent choices in this thread that make me want to change my mind

Ah, but tomorrow it might include Bach, Tchaikovsky, or Chet Atkins...

Admit it - what *really* happened was that you included Pink Floyd and your computer exploded in self-defence!

So glad to see that the Beatles (yawn) haven't yet made it onto anyone's (main) list.

Without going off topic too far - for me the Beatles were hugely influential, but they handed the torch onto others.

Anyway:

The Jam - Setting Sons
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever...
Gang of Four - Entertainment
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Talking Heads - The Name of this Band... (Compilation cheat)
I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot (surprise!)
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
Radiohead - The Bends
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy

And in 11th place, a thousand others, including:
Blur 13
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Mark Curry - It's Only Time
Radiohead - OK Computer
U2 - Boy (OK, it sounded good then)
Beautiful South - Welcome to...
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
The The - Soul Mining
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (and I'd better stop there)

Wow Tubular Bells, I prefer Crises but there are parts of Tubular Bells, especially side two that are just superb. I am probably alone in liking Tubular Bells 2 as well, although version 3 was cack.

This thread in the main is deeply routed in the 80s

I was trying to avoid this, but....

In no particular order

Pink Floyd - Meddle (hard to choose as I am a huge fan of most of the work)
I Am Kloot - Sky at Night (or possibly the BBC on sessions)
Nick Cave - Abatoir Blues
Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
Fleetwood Mac - The Pious Bird of Good Omen
Faithless - Sunday 8pm
Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart - Don't Explain
John Martyn - Solid Air
Neil Young - Le Noise
Richard Hawley - standing at skies edge

Now that was difficult, and probably represents artists I return to regularly more than the specific albums as such. As said above it varies massively, I have a large selection of music covering most genres so its difficult to choose.

Here goes...

The Arcade Fire: Funeral
Radiohead: The bends
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese dream
Beck: Odelay
Faith No More: Angel dust
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Nirvana: Nevermind
Blur: Blur
Rage Against The Machine: RATM
Weezer: Weezer

And some nearlies....
Lisa Hannigan: Sea Sew
Reef: Glow
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple
Belle & Sebastien: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Cold War Kids: Robbers & cowards
Royksopp: Melody AM
Foo Fighters: The colour and the shape
Supergrass: I should CoCo
And War of the Worlds!

I can't really come up with a top ten, as I like a lot of songs, from a wide variety of albums and as above, depends on the mood at the time

Albums I tend to listen to all the way through are Club Classics, Dance or Power Ballad type albums.

When not listening to the above I now tend to listen to greatest hits albums:

Def leppard
Bon Jovi
Coldplay
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Limp Bizkit
Scooter
Dire Straits
Guns N Roses
Eminem
Queen

Like Nobby, I also enjoy listening to War of the Worlds

I had problems narrowing it down to just ten choices from my rather eclectic collection, but here goes;

Mortiis - the Smell of Rain
David Bowie - (the rise and fall of) Ziggy Stardust (and the spiders from Mars)
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
Sepultura - Roots
Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
One Minute Silence - Available In All Colours
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
Marilyn Manson - Holywood
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry

Back in 1978 my parents were doing the Christmas present run and we took in a visit to my cousin who had just bought his first house. When we got there he could see I was a little bored so he sat me down by his huge music centre, plugged in this huge set of headphones, plonked them on my head and said "listen to this Robert".... I was a 14 year old lad and I got totally lost in the music and album artwork. This album was instrumental in opening my eyes to different styles of music. This led to me going through and listening to my parents album collection and finding that I could appreciate quite a lot of "Their" music! I came to realise that my Mum & Dad actually had quite a cool collection, once I got past the Jim Reeves & Slim Whitman stuff.

As for my top ten..... Upon reviewing it today I question why there is so much missing. I clearly leaned towards Rock in my top ten but this means I have missed off so much other stuff. Today I am questioning why I have not selected any Punk or Ska. I must also confess that I like Pop music too and after listening today to Dusty in Memphis I wonder if she could also make my top ten?

Dio, I have to confess that I loved the little guy. I was a massive early Rainbow fan and was gutted when he left to join black Sabath. That said his influence meant that, for me, Heaven & Hell was their best ever album!

In 2005 we noticed that Dio were doing a "Back to their roots" tour playing the "Holy Diver" tour at small venues as well as larger ones. We got too see them at the tiny Norwich UEA venue and as a bonus got to meet and chat with him outside before the gig started. What a really nice guy he was. He spent quite some time chatting with the small group of us, asking loads of questions and being totally open. I got to meet a childhood hero and was not at all dissapointed. We were due to see him again in 2010 on the Heaven & Hell tour but Ronnie never made it

As we blokes get older we do seem to become a tad more sensetive (Well I know I have). When I received the Email from Ronnie's website (Wife) I did indeed have tears in my eyes reading it. I finally understood why my wife had been so upset when Freddie died.

I'm loving Billy Joel piano man today.

Dusty in Memphis I wonder if she could also make my top ten?


This nearly made my top ten too, along with Air - Moon Safari and quite a few others.

Sade. Diamond Life
Sade. Promise
Sade. Stronger Than Pride
Sade. Love Deluxe
Sade. Lovers Rock
Sade. Soldier Of Love
Sade. The Best Of Sade
Sade. Lovers Live
Sade. The Ultimate Collection
Sade. Bring Me Home Live

Not exactly a top ten list but a few artists I like to listen to :-

Brilliant ... theres a whole new thread required for those....

Ha Ha love it

Genius... well done!!