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Your Ten Favorite Albums

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by torque, Sep 27, 2007.

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  1. torque

    torque Member
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    Shoot me, I want a music thread not about ****ing Nickleback.

    Mine:
    1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
    2. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
    3. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
    4. Avalon - Roxy Music
    5. London Calling - The Clash
    6. Graceland - Paul Simon
    7. The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
    8. Robbers and Cowards - Cold War Kids
    9. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
    10. Abbey Road - The Beatles

    Honorable Mention:
    Tea for Tillerman - Cat Stevens
    The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
    Morning Glory - Oasis
    All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
    Fragile - Yes
     
  2. Stone Cold Hakeem

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    Wow. This was hard.

    In no particular order:
    U2: War
    U2: Achtung Baby
    U2: Pop
    Stone Temple Pilots: #4
    Maxwell: Embrya
    D'Angelo: Brown Sugar
    Nick Drake: 5 Leaves Left
    John Coltrane: Giant Steps
    Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
    John Legend: Once Again
     
  3. peleincubus

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    why didnt you just say top 15.

    lets see

    pink floyd the wall

    outkast AtAliens

    radiohead the bends

    random mozarts best of

    NoFX punk in drublic

    bob marley and the wailers

    pearl jam ten

    interpol turn on the bright lights

    cunninlynguists will rap for food

    tool undertow



    man that is freaking hard to do. there are only a few permanent that would stay on there. probably the pinkfloyd, outkast, and nofx ones probably radiohead as well.

    best shows have ever been to are.

    1 rage against the machine
    2 beastie boys
    3 ministry
    4 tiesto
    5 zion i
    6 TOOL (seen them several times always very very good)
    7 smashing pumpkins
    8 arcade fire
    9 nofx
    10 tilt
    7
     
  4. plcmts17

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    Get Happy! - Elvis Costello
    Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello
    Pleased To Meet Me - The Replacements
    Blue - Joni Mitchell
    Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
    Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
    The Best Of The Spinners
    A Night In San Francisco - Van Morrison
    Katy Lied - Steely Dan
    Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey

    These are my top ten as of now. Only the Elvis Costello albums never change.
     
  5. dandorotik

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    1. Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run
    2. Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
    3. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
    4. U2- Achtung Baby
    5. REM- Murmur
    6. The O'Jays- Backstabbers
    7. The Who- The Who By Numbers
    8. The Clash- London Calling
    9. Cheap Trick- Dream Police
    10. Sly and the Family Stone- Stand

    Honorable Mention:

    11. Bruce Springsteen- The E Street Shuffle
    12. Derek and the Dominoes- Layla
    13. Soundtrack- The Harder They Come
    14. The Call- Reconciled
    15. Isaac Hayes- Hot Buttered Soul
    16. The Pretenders- The Pretenders
    17. Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
    18. The Animals- Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals
    19. Ratt- Out of the Cellar
    20. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
     
  6. BigM

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    no particular order:

    beatles - revolver
    beatles - rubber soul
    beatles - abbey road
    beatles - help
    van halen - fair warning
    led zeppelin - houses of the holy
    guns n roses - use your illusion 1 and 2
    oasis - definitely maybe
    oasis - morning glory
    jimi hendrix - electric ladyland
     
  7. Kam

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    i like everything by tupac.

    it is gospel to my gangster ears.


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    i dont have a "favorite" album.

    One day I will like a certain album, and then not listen to it for a LOOOOOOOOOONG while, and then I may like something else.

    I don't have a set playlist of what I like.
     
  8. Mr. Brightside

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    Interpol-Turn on the Bright Lights
    Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise
    Keane-Hopes and Fears
    Mew- And the Glass Handed Kites
    Postal Service- Give Up
    Royksopp- Melody AM
    Dappled Cities- Granddance
    Wolf Parade- Apologies to Queen Mary
    Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
    Pete Yorn- Music for the Morning After

    Hon. Mention

    Dead Prez- Lets Get Free
    2PAC- All Eyes on Me
    Aqualung- Strange and Beautiful
    Junior Boys-So this is Goodbye
    Ratatat- Classics
    Editors- The Back Room
     
  9. FlyerFanatic

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    1. Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
    2. Led Zeppelin-IV
    3. Black Sabbath-Paranoid
    4. Led Zeppelin-II
    5. The Who-Who's Next
    6. Nirvana-Nevermind
    7. Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    8. Sigur Ros- ()
    9. Weezer-Blue Album
    10.Tool-Lateralus

    Honorable mentions:
    Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced (this is like in and out of top 10)
    GnR-Appetite for Destruction
    Beck-Odelay

    kind of hard to do...that would prob be it at this point in time. i'm tired, give some more time to think, prob end up editing the list.
     
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    Sonny Side Up - Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt
    Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio
    Endgame Brilliance: Constellation and Tune Up - Sonny Stitt
    Soul Station - Hank Mobley
    GO! - Dexter Gordon
    Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard - Dexter Gordon
    In San Francisco - Cannonball Adderley
    Nippon Soul - Cannonball Adderley
    Underground - Chris Potter
    Simple Pleasure - Vincent Herring
     
  11. Hmm

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    I couldn't pick my top 10 out of these :


    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
    An American Prayer - Jim Morrison
    The Doors - The Doors
    Strange Days - The Doors
    Chopin: The complete Nocturnes and Imromptus - Fryderyk Chopin and Claudio Arrau
    Chopin: The Piano Works - Fryderyk Chopin and Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Piper At The Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
    Relics - Pink Floyd
    Kind of Blues - Miles Davis
    The Essential Yo-Yo Ma - Yo-Yo Ma
    Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    Nevermind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
    Doolittle - The Pixies
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
    Easter Everywhere - The 13th Floor Elevators
    American Pie - Don Mclean
    Barrett - Syd Barrett
    The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett
    Rubber Soul - The Beatles
     
  12. Hmm

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    Oh, and of coures.. Honorable mention:

    Pearl - Janis Joplin
    He touched Me - Elvis
    Facelift - Alice in Chains
     
  13. percicles

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    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
    The White Stripes - Elephant
    Aterciopleados - Gozo Poderoso
    The Strokes - Is This It
    2 Many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
    Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
    The Cure - Disintegration
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

    Honarable Mention:

    Dr. Dre - The Chronic
    Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
    Manu Chao - Clandestino
    Air - Moon Safari
    Shakira - Dónde Están Los Ladrones?
     
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  14. DCkid

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    This is all I can think of right now.
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
    Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
    Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted
    Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
    T. Rex - Electric Warrior
    R.E.M - Murmur
    Beck - Odelay
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Beatles - White Album
    De la Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
     
  15. ac in austin

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    In no particular order

    Massive Attack-Mezzanine
    Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
    Death Cab for Cutie-Something About Airplanes
    The Beta Band-Best of the Beta Band
    The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed
    The Mars Volta-Frances the Mute
    Pearl Jam-Vs
    Tool-Aenima
    The Beatles-Abbey Road
    Rock Kills Kid-Are You Nervous?
     
  16. bladeage

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    In No Particular Order:

    Makaveli (2pac) - The Don Killuminati:The 7 Day Theory
    Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
    Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step
    Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather
    Carlos Santana - Abraxas
    Carlos Santana - Supernatural
    Notorious B.I.G - Life after Death
    Joe Bonamassa - Had to Cry Today & Blues Deluxe (both of these feel like one album to me cause I listen to them so much)
    Jimmy Thackery and The Drivers - True Stores (I CANNOT stop listening to this cd)
    Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials - Rattleshake
     
  17. Manny Ramirez

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    This is going to be hard...hmm, I'll go with these top 10 (in no particular order):

    "Animals" - Pink Floyd
    "Scary Monsters" - David Bowie
    "Selling England by the Pound" - Genesis
    "The Notorious Byrds Brothers" - The Byrds
    "Country Life" - Roxy Music
    "Kid A" - Radiohead
    "After the Gold Rush" - Neil Young
    "Blood on the Tracks" - Bob Dylan
    "Disraeli Gears" - Cream
    "Agaetis Byrjun" - Sigur Ros

    Honorable Mentions (includes only artists that have not been named earlier):
    "Disintegration" - The Cure
    "Silent Alarm" - Bloc Party
    "The Band" - The Band
    "Are You Experienced?" - Jimi Hendrix Experience
    "Blue" - Joni Mitchell
    "Odelay!" - Beck
    "The Soft Bulletin" - The Flaming Lips
    "Parachutes" - Coldplay
    "Turn on the Bright Lights" - Interpol
    "The Songs of Leonard Cohen" - Leonard Cohen
    "Murmur" - REM
    "Moving Pictures" - Rush
    "Ghosts in the Machine" - The Police
    "Brain Salad Surgery" - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
    "Close to the Edge" - Yes
    "Discipline" - King Crimson
    "A Night at the Opera" - Queen
    "Led Zeppelin II" - Led Zeppelin
    "A Tribute to Jack Johnson" - Miles Davis
    "Song for my Father" - Horace Silver
    "My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane
    "Peter Gabriel 3: Melt" - Peter Gabriel
    "Hounds of Love" - Kate Bush
    "Pink Moon" - Nick Drake
    "Louder Than Bombs" - The Smiths
    "Who's Next" - The Who
    "The Stone Roses" - The Stone Roses
    "Siamese Dream" - The Smashing Pumpkins

    That's all unless I include other albums by people I have already named before like Dylan, Neil Young, Genesis, Pink Floyd, etc.
     
  18. oomp

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    In no particular order:

    Sammy Davis Jr. - The Sounds Of '66
    Pink Floyd - The Wall
    Johnny Cash - Live @ Folsom
    Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
    Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
    Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Bob Marley And The Wailers - Catch A Fire
    Pixies - Surfer Rosa
    Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    Prince - Purple Rain

    Bonus Albums:

    BB King - Live @ San Quentin
    Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
    Marvin Gaye - What's Going on
    Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart
    The Police - Zenyattà Mondatta
     
  19. mc mark

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    Dam! I’m really showing my age –


    Without Rhyme or Reason (but With Anything You Choose) – Spanky and Our Gang
    Overnight Sensation – Frank Zappa
    Rubber Soul – The Beatles
    In Search of the Lost Cord – The Moody Blues
    13th Floor Elevators – 13th Floor Elevators
    Born to Run – Bruce
    Forever Changes – Love
    Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    It’s a Beautiful Day – It’s a Beautiful Day
    Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones

    Honorable Mentions

    Blues for Allah – The Grateful Dead
    Working Man’s Dead – The Grateful Dead
    Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces
     
  20. ima_drummer2k

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    LOL at Manny's 'honorable mention' section...

    Here are my top 10 rock albums (only 1 per band, otherwise the top 5 would all be The Police) ;) :

    1. Outlandos d'Amour - The Police
    2. The Blue Album - Weezer
    3. Exit..Stage Left - Rush
    4. Fair Warning - Van Halen
    5. Freaky Styley - Red Hot Chili Peppers
    6. The Unforgettable Fire - U2
    7. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
    8. OK Computer - Radiohead
    9. Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews Band
    10. Friday Night Lights Soundtrack - Explosions in the Sky
     

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