'Help with an argument' has shown what a diverse taste in music we have on the forum, watching 'When albums ruled the world' the other night got me thinking, so……time to share your top 10 albums of all time, here's mine (which will probably be the best)
In no particular order….

Al Green- Al
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live!
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Van Morrison - Moondance
Daft Punk - Discovery
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones

Spiceworld!

Nirvana - Nevermind
The Smiths - the sound of the Smiths (it's a 'best of' compilation, meh.)
Snoop Dog - Doggy Style
Ice T - OG
Eminem - the Slim Shady LP
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Dr Dre - Chronic 2001
Guns N roses - Appetite for destruction
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Gary Numan - The pleasure principle



I have a very varied taste in music. I feel pity for anyone that only listens to one genre of music!

I had to make such a list of my favourites recently albeit I had to pick 11. If I have time I'll think about which one to knock off to make it 10. Might take a while as it took ages to make this list from my initial short-list which was about 50.

In no particular order

Sonic Youth - Sister
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Mudhoney - SuperFuzzBiMuff
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
The Cure - Disintegration
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (OK, another not a proper album but still....)
Tricky - Maxinquaye
The White Stripes - De Stijl
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
The The - Soul Mining

The titles had to be clean otherwise Big Black's Songs about ***king would have been there instead of Mudhoney. Not a complete representation of my tastes as no Hip hop, reggae or hippy stuff made it into the final list.

Wow, a difficult choice.... oh well (and it will be different next week)

Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Led Zeppelin - 2
Metallica - Black Album
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Yes - Close to the Edge
The Who - Who's Next
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

Blimey; that was tough. Should give you an idea of my taste and age though

Might have guessed...

I'm surprised that no-one has yet asked the obvious question....

WHAT THE IS AN ALBUM???

Love that album! "Something always goes wrong when something's going right"

Panrera - Vulgar display of power
Gun's and roses - Appetite for destruction
Avenged sevenfold - city of evil
Jettblack - Get your hands dirty or raining rock
Slash's snakepit - it's five o'clock somewhere
The who - the who by numbers
White zombie - Astro creep 2000
Extreme - The collection (yes its not a album)
Metallica - Ride the lighting or master of puppets
The pouges - Rum sodomy and the lash

This changes from day to day or by mood......

Me too. But for now...

AC/DC - Back in Black
Led Zepellin - 2
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
The Fugees - The Score
Gogol Bordello - Transcontinental Hustle
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rodrigo y Gabriella - 11:11
Zero 7 - Simple Things

And a few who didn't make the cut today...

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
Metallica - Master of Puppets (or The Black Album)
Justice - Horsepower
SebastiAn - Total
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Any other Led Zep album (with the exception of Coda and In Through The Out Door).

I'm struggling for 10 but

Red hot chilli peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Guns n roses - Appetite for Destruction
Primus - Pork Soda
Velvet revolver - Contraband
REM - Automatic for the people.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Kraftwerk - Computerworld
Kraftwerk - Man Machine
Human League - Dare
The Specials - The Specials
Beck - Odelay
Nirvana - Never Mind
The The - Infected
Basking Sharks - Back From The Deep Water
Blur - Parklife

Here goes, but It will be a differnt list in the summer:-

Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear
Yes - 90125
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life
Mike Rutherford Acting Very Strange
Beltane Fire - Different Breed
Dan Reed Network - Dan Reed Network & Slam
Seal - IV
Ultravox - Vienna
Kat Bush - Hounds of Love
Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless
Duran Duran - Notorious

Bugger that's' 11 already

An eclectic mixture, but good...! I originally typed twelve, but deleted Nirvana "in Vitro" and AC/DC "Back in Black". I would be useless on Desert Island Discs (although the book would be Lord of the Rings ). The luxury would be my iPod with all of the above but I'd forget my headphones.......

I no particular order

Pearl Jam -10
De la soul - 3 feet high and rising
Eels - Daisies of the galaxy
Dj yoda - how to cut and paste (volume 1)
Beastie boys - Hello nasty
Jane's addiction - Nothing shocking
Dj Format - Music for the mature b-boy
Temple of the dog - temple of the dog
Groove armada - goodbye country hello nightclub
Fatboy slim - better living through chemistry

10 is not enough!

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
David Bowie - Low
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Flowers - Icehouse
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Duran Duran - Rio
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days
Icehouse - Measure for Measure
The Smiths - Meat is Murder

....10 is impossible and another list would probably get different additions but those Albums are all still played regularly.

INXS - Live Baby Live
Japan - Tin Drum
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Rainbow - Long Live Rock N Roll
The Stones - Exile on Main Street
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Cure - Faith
Robbie - Escapology
The The - Mind Bomb

I came up with 20, so in iTunes order, top 10:

Ash - 1977
Blur - Parklife
Charlatans - Between 10th and 11th
Dandy Warhols - Come Down
Depeche Mode - Violator
Joy Division - Closer
New Order - Technique
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Turin Brakes - Outbursts


And the 10 I cut from the original 20:

Beck - Odelay
Black Keys - El Camino
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Garbage - Version 2.0
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
INXS - Kick
Longpigs - The Sun is often Out
Levellers - One Way of Life
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Suede - Head Music

OK, here we go:

Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
The Who - Who's Best
Portishead - Dummy
The Vaccines - What did you expect from...
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Thompson Twins - Into the gap
Oasis - (What's the story) Morning Glory

There are other artists and albums that I like, but those tend to be the ones I return to time and again.

Quite sad, really.

Portishead - Dummy
The Best of Peter Green
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Confessions of a pop group - the style council
Neil Young - unplugged
INXS - Kickswapped for...Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
UB40 - Signing off
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Supergrass - Road to Rouen

I would have put some Stevie Wonder in but couldn't decide on an album...:)

Yay! I'm not alone.

You're not, it was in my top twenty or so when I was whittling it down but just kept out by Tricky's first album.

Got to say I didn't expect that from you. Some awesome stuff. Glad to see Portishead and Tori Amos on there.

The first two *nearly* made it into my list, and I complete forgot about the 3rd one, but it would also have nearly made it.

In no order of favoritism

Squeeze - The very best of
Meat loaf - Bat out of hell
Adele - 21
Marillion - Misplaced childhood
Pink floyd - The wall
Pink floyd - Dark side of the moon
Scouting for girls - Everybody wants to be on TV
Queen - Greatest hits

And a guilty pleasure,
ABBA - Gold

Struggling for one more.

I tend to listen to individual tracks rather than whole albums.

In no particular order

Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The Verve - Urban Hymns
INXS - Kick
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Offspring - Americana
Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am, That's what I'm not
Feeder - Echo Park
Shed 7 - Going for Gold

Some good choons there Adam

Looks like I could go to a gig with most people in this thread, I eventually settled on:

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say…
The Kinks – You Really Got Me (best of compilation)
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Levellers - Levelling the Land
Joy Division - Substance
Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
Radiohead - The Bends
The Who – Quadrophenia
The Offspring – Smash

And rejected these, this week anyway.

The Smiths – Couldn’t decide!
Interpol – Antics
Green Day – American Idiot
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows
Nirvana – Nevermind
Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures
Primal Scream – Screamadelica