Top 10 albums?

[Bill Brasky]

This has probably been done before. But since we've got a top 10 movies thread going, it's fair game. Plus, this other message board I go to has a top 10 albums and we need to keep up with the Joneses.
You define top 10...the ones you listen to the most or the ones you think are the best.

I'll get it rolling:

1) The Beatles "The Beatles" (White Album)
2) The Rolling Stones "Exile on Main St."
3) The Clash "London Calling"
4) Radiohead "OK Computer"
5) My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
6) Miles Davis "Sketches of Spain"
7) Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
8) Nirvana "Nevermind"
9) Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited"
10) Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"

The first five or six are pretty sold, but there are a ****load that could move into the last few spots....

 

[Moderator1]

Can't argue with your No. 1.

Mine, if I get around to it, will include Hall & Oates' Abandoned Luncheonette and probably Full House by J. Geils Band.

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

My #1 "most listened to" album:

 

[mike311gd]

1. Green Day - Dookie
2. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
3. 311 - Blue Album
4. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
5. Green Day - American Idiot
6. NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo
7. Offspring - Smash
8. MxPx - Life In General
9. Pennywise - About Time
10. RX Bandits - The Resignation

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Assuming Greatest Hits and Soundtrack albums don't count:

1. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
2. Journey "Frontiers"
3. Pink Floyd "The Wall"
4. The Doors "L.A. Woman"
5. Journey "Escape"
6. Rush "Moving Pictures"
7. Matchbox Twenty "Mad Season"
8. U2 "The Joshua Tree"
9. Bob Seger "Night Moves"
10. Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

Honorable Mention:
11. 10cc "Mirror Mirror"
12. Bruce Springsteen "Born in the U.S.A."
13. Supertramp "Breakfast in America"
14. Guns 'N Roses "Appetite For Destruction"
15. The Cars "The Cars"
16. Bryan Adams "Cuts Like A Knife"
17. Tom Petty "Damn the Torpedoes"
18. ZZ Top "Eliminator"

 

[Barsuk]

This was extremely difficult, and would probably change every time I did it if I did it 100 times. But here's the list I came up with:

1. The Beatles "Abbey Road"
2. Pearl Jam "Vs."
3. Modest Mouse "The Lonesome Crowded West"
4. The Who "Who's Next"
5. Pearl Jam "Ten"
6. AC/DC "Back in Black"
7. Guns 'N Roses "Appetite For Destruction"
8. Pavement "Brighten the Corners"
9. Wilco "A.M."
10. Piebald "We Are the Only Friends That We Have"

 

[PCLoadLetter]

OK, I'll give it a try...

1. Pernice Brothers, "Live a Little"
2. Neil Finn, "Try Whistling This"
3. Elvis Costello, Get Happy!!"
4. Paul Kelly & The Messengers, "Gossip"
5. Crowded House, "Together Alone"
6. The English Beat, "Special Beat Service"
7. Midnight Oil, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1"
8. The Clash, "London Calling"
9. The Plimsouls, "Everywhere at Once"
10. The Call, "Reconciled"

Limiting myself to one each on Pernice, Elvis and Crowded House -- otherwise there wouldn't be any room. "I'm The Man" by Joe Jackson belongs on there somewhere...

 

[mike311gd]

This was extremely difficult, and would probably change every time I did it if I did it 100 times. But here's the list I came up with:

1. The Beatles "Abbey Road"
2. Pearl Jam "Vs."
3. Modest Mouse "The Lonesome Crowded West"
4. The Who "Who's Next"
5. Pearl Jam "Ten"
6. AC/DC "Back in Black"
7. Guns 'N Roses "Appetite For Destruction"
8. Pavement "Brighten the Corners"
9. Wilco "A.M."
10. Piebald "We Are the Only Friends That We Have"

Piebald's was No. 11 for me.

 

[GBNF]

1) Ray Charles greatest hits
2) Fleetwood Mac "The Dance"
3) Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet"
4) Bon Jovi "These Days"
5) Boys to Men "II"
6) Tupac Shakur"Greatest Hits"
7) Biggie Smalls "Ready to Die"
8) Alanis Morrisette "Jagged Little Pill"
9) Matt Wertz "Everything In Between"
10) Led Zeppelin "ANYTHING"

 

[friend of the friendless]

Sirs, Madames,

My desert-island collection, strictly personal, not to be mistaken for ten best tho' some overlap

1. Layla and Other Love Songs, Derek and the Dominoes
2. Exile on Main Street, Stones
3. Live at the Star Club, JL Lewis
4. Mott, Mott the Hoople
5. Entertainment, Gang of Four
6. Another Green World, Eno
7. Cry of Love, Hendrix
8. Sex Machine, James Brown (hopefully I'm not alone on the desrt island)
9. Warren Zevon
10. Pangaea, Miles Davis

Near-misses: Pet Sounds, Liz Phair's Exile, the Clash's first and third, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros's first, Revolver, Allmans's Filmore, Zuma, The Bends, The Verve's only one that matters

YHS, etc

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

1) Sex Pistols, Nevermind the Bollocks
2) Pink Floyd, Animals
3) Green Day, American Idiot (Why does this thing not get the credit it deserves?)
4) AC/DC, Highway to Hell
5) Adolescents, Blue Album
6) MC5, High Time
7) Metallica, Ride the Lightning
8) Heartbreakers, LAMF (No, not Tom Petty)
9) Jerry Lee Lewis, Live at the Star Club
10) Turbonegro, Apocalypse Dudes (I'm serious.)
11) L7, Bricks are Heavy

 

[Mayfly]

In no particular order...

- Jay Z, The Black Album
- Kanye West, Graduation
- Michael Jackson, Thriller
- Rage Against the Machine, Battle of Los Angeles
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, One Hot Minute
- Eminem, The Slim Shady LP
- Audioslave, Audioslave
- Dave Matthews Band, Stand Up
- Nas, Illmatic
- AC/DC, AC/DC Live

 

[GBNF]

'Fly,

nice call with the Black Album. Can't really complain about any of those pics...

 

[mike311gd]

1) Sex Pistols, Nevermind the Bollocks
2) Pink Floyd, Animals
3) Green Day, American Idiot (Why does this thing not get the credit it deserves?)
4) AC/DC, Highway to Hell
5) Adolescents, Blue Album
6) MC5, High Time
7) Metallica, Ride the Lightning
8) Heartbreakers, LAMF (No, not Tom Petty)
9) Jerry Lee Lewis, Live at the Star Club
10) Turbonegro, Apocalypse Dudes (I'm serious.)
11) L7, Bricks are Heavy

Because the best songs on the album are overshadowed by the mainstream releases, which were very solid, too. But "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Homecoming" were brilliantly written songs which no other band in that genre would attempt to do anymore -- the five-part organism. I can't remember a punk band doing something like that since NOFX wrote "The Decline," the 18-minute, 24-second epic, in 1999. And it'll be a long time until a band releases something as powerful and unique as "American Idiot."

 

[sportschick]

1. Nirvana -- Nevermind
2. Guns 'n' Roses -- Appetite for Destruction
3. Alanis Morrisette -- Jagged Little Pill
4. Michael Jackson -- Thriller
5. Def Leppard -- Pyromania (STFU dammit!)
6. Pearl Jam -- Ten
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Californication
8. Madonna -- Like a Virgin
9. Matchbox twenty -- Mad Season
10. Tori Amos -- Under the Pink

 

[Mayfly]

'Fly,

nice call with the Black Album. Can't really complain about any of those pics...

"The Black Album" was a solid album had a little bit of everything that was needed and had excellent production. Rick Rubin is a musical monster.

 

[spnited]

1. Born to Run, Bruce
2. Pet Sounds, Beach Boys
3. Rubber Soul, Beatle
4. The Doors
5. Dark Side of the Moon, Floyd
6. Joshua Tree, U2
7. Revolver, Beatles
8. Eat a Peach, Allmans
9. Aja, Steely Dan
10. The Stranger, Billy Joel

 

[Sam Mills 51]

1) "A Trick of the Tail" - Genesis
2) "Selling England By The Pound" - Genesis
3) "Duke" - Genesis
4) "The Unauthorised Biography" - Steve Hackett
5) "Turnstiles" - Billy Joel
6) "The Stranger" - Billy Joel
7) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John
8 ) "Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
9 ) "Moving Pictures" - Rush
10) "The Planets" - Gustav Holst

 

[GBNF]

Rick Rubin is like the DaVinci of the music business. I think he'll be remembered in the future as a total icon, though he gets credit now. Nowhere near what he deserves though...

 

[HandsomeHarley]

1) Ray Charles greatest hits
2) Fleetwood Mac "The Dance"
3) Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet"
4) Bon Jovi "These Days"
5) Boys to Men "II"
6) Tupac Shakur"Greatest Hits"
7) Biggie Smalls "Ready to Die"
8) Alanis Morrisette "Jagged Little Pill"
9) Matt Wertz "Everything In Between"
10) Led Zeppelin "ANYTHING"

Well, if we're including Greatest Hits albums, then:

1. Journey Time3 or Greatest Hits
2. Bob Seger Greatest Hits
3. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
4. Rush "Chronicles"
5. Tom Petty Greatest Hits
6. The Cars Greatest Hits
7. Rod Stewart "Selections From The Storyteller Anthology"
8. The Doors Greatest Hits
9. Billy Joel Greatest Hits
10. Van Halen "Best of, Vol. 1"