Urban's greated album of all time.........ever!

[maya]

Steeleye Span

...yay!
that's probably my earliest memory of music... trying to walk without tipping over and that playing in the background...

 

[Sir Belchalot]

But why's it called Kings Lead Hat? win a prize

It's an anagram of 'Talking Heads' who Eno produced.
Sorry but a top ten list for me is too much like hard work, probably would change from day to day anyway.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart
White Heat/White Light - Velvet Underground
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Black Ark in Dub - Lee Perry
Monster Movie - Can
Space Ritual - Hawkwind
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Axis Bold as Love - Hendrix
On the Way to the Peak of Normal - Holger Czukay
Shiny Beast - Captain Beefheart

 

[tbaldwin]

Changes more often than my undergarments.
I reckon number one has got to be:
Marvyn Gaye Whats Going on...A Brilliant album.

Apart from that I reckon Sandinista by the Clash and not just cos a lot of people didnt like it..

Linda Lewis Reach for the Truth is more ace than one of my rants, well er nearly....

Kanye West Late registration is an album i really like at the moment... Also stuff by Talib Kweli and Mary J Blighe could should be in there...

Er how many is that....I love my Minnie Ripperton albums...Dont know which ones best...

Maybe something by Curtis Mayfield or Aretha Franklin....

I also have to admit to really liking our favourite shop by the style council...

My favourite song at the moment is still Ken Dodds cover of I fought the Law and the Law won...

 

[DrRingDing]

at risk of being a pedant, what's valid for inclusion? compilations - and then single artist or not? live albums? etc...

I don't think compilations but the rest yes.

 

[tbaldwin]

I don't think compilations but the rest yes.

What about top 10 compilations?

 

[DrRingDing]

What about top 10 compilations?

Do behave.

 

[tbaldwin]

Do behave.

Its just like Talib Kweli says "I try"

 

[DrRingDing]

Some rave has to be in there although 'albums' won't really do it justice..

Leftfield - Leftism

Ambient:

Global Communication - 76 14

Nutty Burds:

Tori Amos - Boys for Pele.
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Folk:

Leonard Cohen - Songs from a room

Live Albums
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison
Nirvana - Unplugged

Pop:

Pulp - Different Class

Oddball Bloke:

Nick Cave - No more shall we part

Ska:

Jackie Mittoo- Last train to Skaville

 

[souljacker]

Santana-Abraxas
Ramones-Its ALive
Iggy and the Stooges-Raw Power
Frank Zappa-Joes Garage
Massive Attack-Blue Lines
Bob Dylan-Blood on the tracks
Half Man Half Biscuit-Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral
Beatles-Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd-Animals
Stone Roses-Stone Roses

Will all change tomorrow.

 

[k_s]

Clash- london calling
Dylan- Bringing it all back home
Bowie- ziggy stardust
The who- who's next
Smashing pumpkins- mellon collie and the infinite sadness
Mercury Rev- yerself is steam
Nick drake- bryter later
The velvet underground- velvet underground and nico
Alabama 3- exile on coldharbour lane
Tom Waits- swordfishtrombones

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I was trying so hard not to to say anything, but you have just broken the bubble!

Suffice it to say:

2 x Enya and Enigma in the same list?








((((Pacific Ocean))))

Tubular Bells?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

right.. lots of caveats - there's no soul or reggae in this list, because these aren't primarily albums-based music. If I'd included compilations, it would have the Stax/Volt singles boxed set, perhaps Lee Perry's Arkology or any number of other great reggae collections. But I've tried to stick to 'proper' albums.

1 Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
2 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
3 Neutral Milk Hotel In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
4 Leatherface Mush
5 Low Things We Lost In The Fire
6 Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous
7 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
8 The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic
9 Shellac 1000 Hurts
10 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream


These are all albums I've played constantly since I got them (in Van's case, for more than a quarter of a century ) and while other artists drift in and out - Joanna Newsom is a recent contender for Milk Eyed Mender, for example - they haven't quite taken up permanent residence yet.

picking a Nick Cave album was REALLY hard

You threw Thin Lizzy in for the editor's benefit, didn't you?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's too hard to pick ten, but since I'm dissing others, I better contribute something, not in order.

Talking Heads, Remain In Light
Elvis Costello, This Year's Model
Never Mind the Bollocks
Weezer, the Blue Album
Stones, Exile on Main Street
Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On the Edge of Town
Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration
Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Van Morrison, Wavelength
Boston, first album

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I don't think compilations but the rest yes.

Why not? In some instances, such as Madness, the best of could be considered superior to their individual albums (Divine Madness).

Why can't people include live albums, best ofs, whatever... I see absoultely no reason why not, although including a compilation including more than one band possibly out - no "Now 17"s

 

[Dubversion]

You threw Thin Lizzy in for the editor's benefit, didn't you?

I have 10 or so original vinyl Lizzy albums bought IN THE 70s to suggest otherwise..

 

[Dubversion]

Van Morrison, Wavelength

ooh, controversial. Never rated that highly in my list to be honest - Kingdom Hall is quite jaunty, and the title track is interesting but otherwise a bit of a low point IMO..

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

In no particular order, and probably completely at odds if you asked me tomorrow or yesterday, i give you (all on black vinyl rather than silver discs):

The Clash - London Calling (again)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Sound Iration - In Dub
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
Stomping at the Klub Foot - Volume 1
Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions (to hold us back)
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
The Ramones - It's Alive
Spear of Destiny - One Eyed Jacks

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Dub, when you say arkology do you mean the 3 disc set that came out in about 97-98? If so, i agree, that is superb...

I don't see what's wrong with including that personally...

 

[Dubversion]

Dub, when you say arkology do you mean the 3 disc set that came out in about 97-98? If so, i agree, that is superb...

I don't see what's wrong with including that personally...

Well it's a compilation - and not even a single artist compilation at that, the link being a producer.. so it's kinda cheating.. I guess for me when preparing a list like this, I try to concentrate on single, discrete albums originally released as such (which is why I reckon live albums make the grade).. otherwise my top ten would be made up of any number of soul and reggae comps - as good as any album is, could it compete with an all-killer / no-filler comp of Stax's greatest singles?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Fair enough; perhaps we need a separate thread for best ever best ofs/compilations/etc?

 

[braindancer]

Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Slint - Spider
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Pixies - Doolittle
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Yo la tengo - And then everything turned to nothing
Low - Things we lost in the fire

 

[Dubversion]

Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Slint - Spider
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Pixies - Doolittle
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Yo la tengo - And then everything turned to nothing
Low - Things we lost in the fire

so 2 of my top 10 and about half my top 20

 

[Reno]

Yo la tengo - And then everything turned to nothing

Did you mean "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" ?

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Right, had a look-see through my albums last night and came up with the following ten that I always come back to ... (in no particular order)

Pixies - Doolittle
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Silver Mt Zion Orchestra and Tra-lala Band with Choir - This Is Our Punk Rock Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing
The Prodigy - ... Experience
High Contrast - True Colours
Pavement - Terror Twilight
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Edan the Humble Magnificent - Beauty and the Beat
Lemon Jelly - Lemonjelly.ky
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

 

[Dubversion]

emo

 

[Dubversion]

Did you mean "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" ?

yeh, the other one is (almost) a Nomeansno title

 

[Roadkill]

Bob Dylan - either Time out of Mind or Blood on the Tracks
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
REM - Automatic for the People
Suede - Dog Man Star
The Oysterband - The Shouting End of Life
The Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

but tbh, I could list 50 albums I like as much, or nearly as much, as these and still be nowhere near exhausting myself.

 

[skyscraper101]

Fair enough; perhaps we need a separate thread for best ever best ofs/compilations/etc?

Right, I've started a thread here so we can have an entirely seperate musing over the best compilation albums ever.

 

[braindancer]

Did you mean "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" ?

Yeah yeah, no-one likes a smart arse!

Although you'd think with it being one of my favourite albums ever I'd remember it's bloody name.

I'm working from home today so on typing that I thought 'ooh I haven't played that in a while' - got up to have a look for it but can't find the bugger anywhere.