Your top five albums

[twistedAM]

at 1409 precisely it is:

Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Small 23 - Chin Music
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Steve Earle - Guitar Town
The Weakerthans - Deconstruction Site

 

[Sweaty Betty]

I LOVE PAssion and Warfare.I relive my youth through it

Me too!! So im guessing you will love Surfing with the Alien - Satriani!!!
Shit i shoud have put that on my shortlist

 

[Cloo]

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Fairport Convention - Leige and Lief
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (although its greatness is more down to Sir Andy of Weatherall than the 'Scream)
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Radiohead - OK Computer

Summat like that, anyway.

On the outside:
Depeche Mode - Violator
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Orbital - 'brown' album

 

[ICB]

Completely impossible but here's 5 OTTOMH

Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Bowie - Young Americans
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Gershwin - Porgy & Bess (1959 MGM Soundtrack)
Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It

 

[The_Reverend_M]

The only bad thing about this one is it should have been twice as long

I actually found it quite refreshing to listen to a hip-hop longplayer that clocked in at under 70-80 mins ...! No filler, all killer

 

[Bazza]

Cheesypoof, I know you don't like explaining yourself but I find it most odd that the Libertines don't make your list. Why so?

(Apologies if this has already been pointed out)


I'll just pick a top-five rather than list what I like:
1 - Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II (this will always top the list)
2 - Jill Scott - Beautifully Human (like it just a little bit more than the 1st album....)
3 - Orchestra Baobab - Pirate Choice (recent discovery, love it)
4 - Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
5 - Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (love the energy of the set and the fact the crowd are prisoners gives the album a little something)....

Ask me tomorrow, I'd be liable to give a different answer.

 

[Bazza]

Shit. I just realised my guily pleasure was missing from that list, I'm gonna have to replace Pirate's Choice with, ahem don't laugh, Faith by George Michael. It's a fucking great album.

I remember buying it for my mum's bday when I was 10 years old and it brings back so many memories.

I think I'm going to go home tonight, skin up and give this a play before settling down to the football.

 

[el_starkos]

The Cure - Pornography
Tool - Lateralus
The Clash - London Calling
The Wonder Stuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

 

[Final]

top 5 right now (no particular order)

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
IV - Led Zeppelin
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Appetite for Destruction - Guns'n'Roses
Black Album - Metallica

 

[Dr. Furface]

Movies - Holger Czukay
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly and the Family Stone

 

[Reno]

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Radiohead - The Bends
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly
WA Mozart - The Magic Flute


....and

Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
Patti Smith - Horses
David Bowie - Low
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
Quasi - featuring "Birds"
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - The McGarrigle Radio Hour
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
Matt Johnson/The The - Burning Blue Soul
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Breeders - The Big Splash
The Roches - The Roches

 

[billy_bob]

Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Lemonheads - Shame About Ray
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Tom Waits - dead heat between Bone Machine and Rain Dogs
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Fuck that's difficult. I'm sure it'd be different if you asked me in an hours time.

 

[zeedoodles]

Today.....

Carl Craig...The album formally known as
Sun Electric...Sun electric
Kenny Larkin....Metaphore
76/14 Global Communication
Black Dog...Bytes

Tommorrow...who knows

 

[Dubversion]

Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Lemonheads - Shame About Ray
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Tom Waits - dead heat between Bone Machine and Rain Dogs

they'd all make my top 20.

i'll draw a veil over the wanky metal album at the end of the list

 

[billy_bob]

they'd all make my top 20.

i'll draw a veil over the wanky metal album at the end of the list

Come on, there are times when you just have to succumb to a bit of chest-beating, head-banging, acne-sporting RAWK

 

[Dubversion]

Come on, there are times when you just have to succumb to a bit of chest-beating, head-banging, acne-sporting RAWK

the best i can offer you is "if i had to listen to one Soundgarden album it would be that one". That's my final offer.

If i DO want to listen to a bit of chest-beating, head-banging, acne-sporting RAWK, it's Monster Magnet every time

 

[killer b]

in no order...

specials - s/t
jeff mills - waveform transmissions vol. 1
mark lanegan - bubblegum
psychic tv - ny scum
robert rental & the normal - live at the west runton pavillion

 

[Pieface]

Albums that don't piss me off at any point are rare and that's how I'm judging this...

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Talking Heads - Little Creatures
Nas - Illmatic
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim
Arcade Fire - Funeral

 

[Orang Utan]

Arcade Fire are having a lot of fuss made of them at the mo - will I like them?

 

[Pieface]

o yea

 

[Buds]

My 5 in no particular order:

PW Long with Reelfoot - Push Me Again
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Devo - Q.Are We Not Men? A.We Are Devo!

With a shortlist of...

Pj Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Eels - Souljacker
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sam & Dave - The Best of..
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

 

[maya]

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

was just wondering whether i should include this... i mean, it was a lifechanging album in my teens, but hardly ever listen to it now- plus the earlier albums she made were more coherent, i feel, bit rawer though (and sometimes that's not a good thing, re: the "pisses me off unless in the right mood" discussion, To Bring You My Love had the right production to appeal to the masses, yet still retained that PJ feel)

ditto with Nick Cave, Portishead, Massive Attack: Soundtrack of my youth, rarely pick up the cd's now...

guess the only artist from that period i still regularly listen to and haven't changed my opinions about would be Tom Waits... he's still the man...

 

[souljacker]

Eels - Souljacker

Mine:

AC/DC Let there be rock
Ramones Rocket To Russia
Iggy and the Stooges Raw Power
Massive Attack Blue Lines
Pink Floyd Animals

Playoff places:

Hendrix Axis Bold As love
Metallica Master of Puppets
Santana Abraxas
Leftfield Leftism
FSOL Eliminator
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Kiss Love Gun
Beatles Abbey Road or Rubber Soul

I could probably go on and on.

 

[maya]

In a way it's an impossible task to narrow it down to only five albums... Ten I could've done, perhaps... If there could be Top 10 for every genre in existence... Or else it's meaningless- Too much good music to choose from!

But, anyway, some of theses albums/artists would definitely make it to my list:

Tom Waits- "Swordfishtrombones", "Rain Dogs"
Brian Eno- "Here Come The Warm Jets", "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)"
Comus- "First Utterance"
KLF- "Chill Out", or "White Room"
Global Communication- "76:14"
The Black Dog- "Spanners", "Bytes"
Kate Bush- "The Kick Inside", "The Dreaming"
Can- "Future Days", "Tago Mago"
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan- "Night Song"
Antonio Carlos Jobim/Stan Getz- "Getz/Gilberto"


...Bubbling Under:
Aretha Franklin- anything (don't think coherent albums was her forte, it's more the singles)
Joni Mitchell- "Blue"
lots and lots of psychedelic rock, krautrock, folkrock and blues
lots of experimental audio "artists"
some classical
a little less "world" music
a dash of soul and funk
etc.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Arcade Fire are having a lot of fuss made of them at the mo - will I like them?

If you like Bowie then yes.

 

[hammerntongues]

Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Never mind the Bollocks - Pistols
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Ziggy - Bowie
Landed - Patti Smith compilation
Crazy on the Weekend - Sunhouse ( thanks Firky )
Nation of millions - Public Enemy
King Puck - Christy Moore
Neither washington nor Moscow - Redskins
Sometime in NewYork City - Lennon


no particular order

 

[Buds]

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

How did I forget this?? I could listen to it all day and not get fed up of it.

 

[Pugwall7]

Massive Attack - Blue Lines
P.E - It Takes a Nation of Millions
Wu Tang - 36 Chambers
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
The Congos-Heart of the Congos

 

[Kameron]

1. Ultraviolence - Killing God
2. Cat Power - you Are Free
3. Therapy? - Semi-Detached
4. The Essex Green – The Long Goodbye
5. Holly Golightly – Truly She Is None Other

Others that I'd be hard pressed to leave behind

• Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
• Bauhaus – Crackle
• Levellers - Levelling the Land
• Atari Teenage Riot - Burn, Berlin, Burn!
• Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home
• Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything
• Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
• The Skatalites - Lucky Seven
• Velvet Acid Christ - Fun With Knives

In making this list I am astonished that I have drifted so far in the past two years and even the last 6 months. May be only two new ones in the top 5 (Cat Power & Essex Green) but the almost rans list has a lot of stuff that I've been vaguely aware of for a long time but has never been very key to my listening (Boards of Canada, The Skatalites, Billy Bragg all as new entries and Velvet Acid Christ & Cocteau Twins as re-entries.

 

[Mogden]

Given my retro listening of late, and in no particular order:

Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
Everclear - Sparkle & Fade. Nearly bumped for Songs from...vol 1
Pearl Jam - Yield
The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Widhearts
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Although I find it difficult to separate sentimentality from good music so ask me on other day...