Your top 10 albums of all time

'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.

Hmm, well here goes trying to come up with the 10.

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Greenday - Dookie
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Oasis - (What's the story) Morning Glory
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Ether - Strange

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.

For me Jagged Little Pill is always first on my list. An album that I have played so much I/we (my wife loves it too) are on our 3rd copy of the CD.

I also almost forgot Bat out of Hell and then suddenly remembered it (the first album I ever bought) and I couldn't ignore 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

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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!!

1. Little Angles - Don't pray for me
2. Metallica - Black album
3. Faith No More - Angel Dust
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. Foo Fighters - In your Honour
6. Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
7. Staind - Break the cycle
8. David Lee Roth - Eat em and smile
9. Trivium - Ascendancy
10. Rage Against the Machine - RATM

Heard a Manics track earlier, now I'm regretting not including them...