You can't ever go wrong with a music thread. What are the "greatest" CDs that you own?? When I mean great, I'm talking about CDs that will stand the test of time. I have close to 400, so to do my list any justice, I'm going to list my top 25 with several honorable mention. I'm doing this many because I have so many good ones, but some people may only have a top 10 or even just a top 5. Anyway, here's my top 25: 1. OK Computer - Radiohead 2. Mezzanine - Massive Attack 3. Play - Moby 4. Karma - Delerium 5. Selected Ambient Works 85-92(import version) - Aphex Twin 6. The Bends - Radiohead 7. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins 8. Substance - New Order 9. Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins 10. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys 11. Leftism - Leftfield 12. Endtroducing - DJ Shadow 13. Within the Realm of a Dying Sun - Dead Can Dance 14. Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails 15. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 16. Maxinquaye - Tricky 17. Kid A - Radiohead 18. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan 19. Aenima - Tool 20. Ten - Pearl Jam 21. Orbital 2 - Orbital 22. Nevermind - Nirvana 23. Odelay - Beck 24. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles 25. Exit Planet Dust - Chemical Brothers Honorable Mention: Odessa - Bee Gees, Homogenic - Bjork, Semantic Spaces - Delerium, No Angel - Dido, Mcmxc A.D. - Enigma, Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre, Computer World - Kraftwerk, Blue Lines - Massive Attack, Protection - Massive Attack, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb, The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails, Dummy - Portishead, and Superunknown - Soundgarden.
boy, was this ever hard. . . this top 25 list does not include any records I bought within the past calendar year. I need time and perspective before I can really feel comfortable with including a record in a "best ever" list. I own over 600 cds so, needless to say, narrowing this down to 25 was a chore. I won't even get into honorable mention. there would be far too many. . . 1. simon & garfunkel -- old friends box set 2. ben harper -- fight for your mind 3. andrew lloyd webber -- jesus christ superstar 4. paul simon -- 1964-1993 box set 5. radiohead -- ok computer 6. sarah mclachlan -- fumbling toward ecstasy 7. old 97s -- too far to care 8. ben harper -- welcome to the cruel world 9. radiohead -- the bends 10. U2 -- achtung baby 11. counting crows -- recovering the satellites 12. living colour -- vivid 13. public enemy -- fear of a black planet 14. pearl jam -- vs. 15. fugees -- the score 16. living colour -- time’s up 17. alanis morrissette -- jagged little pill 18. weezer -- weezer 19. michael jackson -- thriller 20. lyle lovett -- I love everybody 21. duran duran -- seven and the ragged tiger 22. pearl jam -- ten 23. sly & the family stone -- anthology 24. run dmc -- tougher than leather 25. vernon reid -- mistaken identity
Chievous, I have 5 of your 25.....4 are already in my list and I also have Thriller. It's interesting that there weren't more, but it goes to show how many great CDs have been done over time. I got to thinking about this after I started this thread: some of you are probably saying, "we just did something like this with the Drewdog thread, 'Quinessential CDs'" That's true but with someone like me and like Chievous and I suspect others, there are more than 1 "quinessential" CD in your collection. Having a top 25 or top 10 gets all the best in there (and sometimes 25 is not enough). So, this thread is for more than that 1 quinessential CD...it's for those 10 or 25 quinessential CDs. Also, I should have mentioned that any CDs that are posted in the thread, feel free to comment on that CD especially if that particular CD is an essential one in your collection.
1. Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95-Dave Matthews Band 2. The Joshua Tree-U2 3. The Bends-Radiohead 4. Hot August Night-Neil Diamond 5. Before These Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band 6. Achtung Baby-U2 7. Girlfriend-Matthew Sweet 8. Dirty-Sonic Youth 9. Forever Blue-Chris Isaak 10. 'Til the Medicine Takes-Widespread Panic 11. The Will to Live-Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals 12. The Chronic-Dr. Dre 13. Document-R.E.M 14. Tomorrow the Green Grass-The Jayhawks 15. Ill Communication-Beastie Boys 16. 100% Fun-Matthew Sweet 17. So-Peter Gabriel 18. Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins 19. The Unforgettable Fire-U2 20. Crash-Dave Matthews Band 21. Throwing Copper-Live 22. The Road to Ensendada-Lyle Lovett 23. Naveed-Our Lady Peace 24. (What's the Story) Morning Glory-Oasis 25. <B>(Move everything after #8 down one)</B>Revolver-The Beatles
i own over 3000 CD's i lost count after about 2857 and that was 5 years ago. i probably am close to 4000 realistically. i'm gonna have to think about this for a while.....i get back if this thread is still alive by then
Oh, God, this is so hard it's silly...I wasn't sure whether to go with "favorites" or an empirical listing. Oh, well, here's a shot at some type of top 25 - I like them all. That's the only thread holding them together. 1. Beatles - Abbey Road 2. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On (could easily be my #1) 3. Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy 4. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. Steely Dan - Aja 6. Van Halen II 7. George Winston - December 8. Sting - Bring on the Night 9. Billy Joel - The Stranger 10. Jellyfish - Bellybutton 11. Seal II 12. Duncan Sheik 13. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love 14. XTC - Oranges & Lemons 15. Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming 16. Tears for Fears - Elemental 17. Jaco Pastorius - self titled 18. kd lang - Invincible Summer 19. Vince Guarldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas 20. Pat Metheny - Secret Story 21. Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage 22. U2 - Joshua Tree 23. Prince - 1999 24. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 25. Dave Brubeck - Take 5 Others in no particular order: Stevie Wonder - Musiquarium, John Coltrane - My Favorite Things, Joe Satriani - The Extremist, Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy, Kansas - Leftoverature, Rosanne Cash - The Wheel, Alanis Moirsette - Jagged Little Pill, Nirvana - Nevermind, Pearl Jam - Ten, Journey - Escape , Prodigy - Fat of the Land, Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral, Peter Gabriel - So, Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, Santana - Supernatural, Cheap Trick - Dream Police, Atlantic Rhythm & Blues - Box Set, Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection - 1959-1971, Suzanne Vega - 99.9 Farenheit Degrees, Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark, Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, The Police - Synchronicity, Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Sweet mother of all that is good and pure, y'all have 400, 600, and 4000 CD's!!!!!!! How the hell can you buy so many. I've got like 20 and I barely get around to listening to them as it is. 400, much less 4000 (plz tell me you're kidding) is beyond comprehension. So I'll just list the 5 I like most, if greatest hits CD's count. 1. Immaculate Collection - Madonna (nothing else is even close) 2t. CCR - Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits 2t. Come on Over - Shania Twain 4t. Oops I Did It Again - Britney Spears 4t. Fly - Dixie Chicks 6. Dare to be Stupid - Weird Al Yankovic ok so I listed 6
No particular order... 1) New Order - Get Ready 2) Pet Shop Boys - Discography 3) Depeche Mode - 101 4) Depeche Mode - Violator 5) U2 - Joshua Tree 6) Erasure - Pop 20 7) The Cure - Mixed Up 8) Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife 9) U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind 10) Electronic - Electronic 11) New Order - Substance 12) U2 - Achtung Baby --- 13) Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 14) Madonna - Ray of Light 15) Michael Jackson - History 16) Madonna - Immaculate Collection
Well try. Much, much harder. Hell where do 4000 CD's even go. I guess I'm just much more of a radio/mp3 listener so I never get around to the CD's much.
Like CL4P, I'm not kidding either. Probably 8 years ago, I had maybe 5 to 10 CDs total. Now, I'm buying an average of 12 CDs every 2 weeks! I know that this has to stop, but I can't bring myself to do it. I need to get back to buying CDs once a month, but I always discover or find things that I want to buy. Believe me, I was at your point at one time. Being in college, you probably can't afford to spend that much money on CDs; however, once you get out of college and work full-time, it will be easier to spend the money on this...if you want to. BTW - I have in my collection your choices of #2, #3, and #4.
manny: I own 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 24 from your list. in order to arrive at my list, I had to use the old "if I could only keep 1 of these 2 cds, which one would I keep?" method. it took a while. I'm pretty sure that, if I'd wanted to take more time, my list would probably change at least a little. I'm not suggesting that my 25 are the "greatest" 25 cds ever made, by any stretch. my list is more reflective of the 25 most influential records in my life. if I was to try to come up with my ballot for 25 most influential records of all-time, that would be much, much harder, and the list would be quite different. here are the discs from others' lists that barely missed my list or would have been on my honorable mentions-- manny: moby -- play radiohead -- kid A rm95: U2 -- joshua tree chris isaak -- forever blue ben harper -- the will to live lyle lovett -- the road to ensenada jeff: stevie wonder -- musiquarium
Geez, you could put most of these in random order. If I would normally include more than one album by an artist, I just picked the #1. Otherwise, you'd see way too many Bob Dylan's, Neil Young's, and Van Morrisson's on this list: 1. Astral Weeks - Van Morrisson 2. The Best of Bob Dylan(Yeah, cheating, so what; I can't pick a favorite album) - Bob Dylan 3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young 4. Things Fall Apart - The Roots 5. Reflection Eternal - Talib Kwelli 6. Midnight Maurauders - Tribe Called Quest 7. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 8. The Wanderer - Oar of a Revolution 9. Useful Music - Josh Joplin 10. Zoso - Led Zeppelin 11. Ready, Sex, Go - Marvelous 3 12. OK Computer - Radiohead 13. Sgt. Peppers... - Beatles 14. New Adventures in Hi-Fi - REM 15. Joshua Tree - U2 16. Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 17. Versus - Pearl Jam 18. Piano Quintats - Antone Dvorak 19. Recollection - Concrete Blonde 20. The Best of - Tom Petty 21. dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld 22. Play - Moby 23. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd 24. The Cure - Galore 25. The Best of - Violent Femmes
Hey. These lists are damn good. I can pretty much cut and paste everyone else's lists to make my own (with a few personal touches, of course). It's too difficult to painstakingly rank each CD, so I'm just providing a general list. Here goes... Top 25 (in no particular order): 1. OK Computer - Radiohead 2. Live at Red Rocks - Dave Matthews Band 3. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys 4. Joshua Tree - U2 5. Ten - Pearl Jam 6. A Picture of Nectar - Phish 7. Billy Breathes - Phish 8. Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band 9. MCMXC A.D. - Enigma 10. Vegas - Crystal Method 11. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd 12. Exit... Stage Left - Rush 13. Northern Exposure, Vol. 1 - Sasha and Digweed* 14. The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd - Lynyrd Skynyrd 15. The Wall - Pink Floyd 16. The Bends - Radiohead 17. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1-2 - Billy Joel 18. The Screen Behind the Mirror - Enigma 19. Watermark - Enya 20. Vs. - Pearl Jam 21. Feeding Frenzy - Jimmy Buffett 22. Crash - Dave Matthews Band 23. Led Zepplin IV - Led Zepplin 24. Appetite for Destruction - Guns 'N Roses 25. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd *All the Northern Exposure volumes should make the list... Not to go off topic, but since I happen to love soundtracks as well, here are my top 25 movie score soundtracks (in order this time): 1. Cutthroat Island 2. Empire Strikes Back 3. Star Wars 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark 5. Return of the Jedi 6. Jurassic Park 7. Independence Day 8. Stargate 9. Braveheart 10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 11. The Rock 12. The Mummy 13. Backdraft 14. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 15. Atlantis: The Lost Empire 16. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan 17. Starship Troopers 18. Batman 19. Back to the Future (without the songs...) 20. Prince of Egypt 21. Titanic 22. Hook 23. Apollo 13 24. ET 25. Waterworld
BTW, Vs. by Pearl Jam will re-enter my top 25 in the near future. I lost my past copy sometime ago and have just gotten around to reordering it.
You obviously haven't seen a lot of my threads. I'll break down my favorites by decade. Here's 7 from the 70s, 8 from the 80s, and 9 from the 90s/00s. My one rule will be only one from each artist is allowed: 70s: 1) AC/DC "Highway to Hell" 2) Queen "A Night at the Opera" 3) KISS "Alive!" 4) Cheap Trick "In Color" 5) Alice Cooper "Killer" 6) Van Halen "II" 7) The Knack "Get the Knack" 80s: 1) Motley Crue "Shout at the Devil" 2) The Cult "Electric" 3) Def Leppard "Hysteria" 4) Queensryche "Operation: Mindcrime" 5) Tesla "The Great Radio Controversy" 6) AC/DC "Back in Black" 7) Guns n Roses "Appetite for Destruction" 8) Danzig "Danzig" 90s - present: 1) Marvelous 3 "Hey! Album" 2) The Cult "The Cult" 3) Lit "Atomic" 4) Type O Negative "October Rust" 5) Coward "Coward" 6) The Yo-Yo's "Uppers and Downers" 7) Enuff Z Nuff "Strength" 8) Everclear "Sparkle and Fade" 9) King's X "Ear Candy" 9) A "Monkey Kong"
1) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 2) Beatles - White Album 3) Beatles - Rubber Soul 4) Radiohead - OK Computer 5) Radiohead - The Bends 6) Stevie Wonder - Inner Visions 7) Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On 8) Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All 9) Pink Floyd - Animals 10) Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother 11) Radiohead - Kid A 12) Radiohead - Amnesiac 13) Phish - Lawn Boy 14) moe. - Dither 15) Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies 16) Frank Zappa - Apostrophe 17) Bob Marley - Kaya 18) Bob Marley - Catch a Fire 19) Bob Marley - Uprising 20) Phish - A Live One 21) moe. - L 22) Beatles - Sgt. Peppers 23) Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 24) Beatles - Revolver 25) Beatles - Let it Be
How could I forget about Enya? 17) Enya - Memory of Trees 18) Enya - Shepherd Moons CD's that I don't own but think are pretty cool: 19) Bond - Born 20) Pretty in Pink - Movie Soundtrack 21) Breakfast Club - Movie Soundtrack 22) A-Ha - Hunting High & Low 23) Alice Deejay - Who Needs Guitars Anyways 24) Dido - No Angel 25) Savage Garden - Savage Garden
I didn't have so many of your top CD's, but I agree they are some good ones. I'll try to make a little top list of my own later
In no particular order: Dave Matthews Band-Listener supported Dave Matthews Band-Live at Red Rocks U2-Joshua Tree U2-the B sides The Police-Greatest hits 1980-84(I think) The Wallflowers-Bringing down the horse Beatles-1's Bruce Springsteen-Greatest hits Bruce Springsteen-Born to Run Incubus-Make yourself(This is pretty out of place with the rest of the cd's named, but still one of my favorites) Boys II Men-II Nelly-Country Grammar Bryan Adams-So far, So Good Garth Brooks-Double Live Pat Green-Here We go U2-The best 1980-1991(?) Sting-Best of Sting/Police Creed-Human Clay Eagles-Hell freezes over Tupac-Greates Hits I'm sure there are some I forgot to mention...
