Top 5 Albums

[Jhellis978]

What are you five favorite albums/CD's/tapes/8 tracks of all time. Let's go with original release, no greatest hits.

My top 5 in no particular order...

1. [/i]Queen Is Dead The Smiths

2. Kid A Radiohead

3. No Control Bad Religion

4. Fevers And Mirrors Bright Eyes

5. Hunky Dory[i] David Bowie

[junior]

1 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
2 London Calling - The Clash
3 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
4 Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle
5 Historic Performances Recorded At The
Monterey International Pop Festival
June 16, 17, 18, 1967- Otis Redding,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

They don't get no better than that !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Junior

[Jhellis978]

1 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
2 London Calling - The Clash
3 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
4 Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle
5 Historic Performances Recorded At The
Monterey International Pop Festival
June 16, 17, 18, 1967- Otis Redding,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

They don't get no better than that !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Junior

Good choices....London Calling and Highway 61 Revisited are definitely in my Top 10.

[Kramer]

Wow, Dylan fans, i'd never had guessed.

How can you leave out Blood on the Tracks? :D

[tsntx]

not nec top 5 to anyone but they can always be found close to me...and im going w/ artists not albums can you deal w/ that america?

1. Britney Spears <--- is this even really news?
2. Kylie Minouge
3. Dannii Minouge
4. Garbage
5. Sophie Ellis Bextor

[twowaybro]

1) Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Quintet
2) Dirty Mind - Prince
3) 1999 - Prince
4) Underground - Thelonious Monk
tie - 5)a, Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
b, Hear My Dear - Marvin Gaye
c, Survival - Bob Marley and the Wailers

For a music lover it's so hard 2 narrow one's list down 2 five but the above would b essential 4 me..... 8) 8)

[NickTheQuick]

Dylan vs Dylan (Dye'lon) which one is better?

"Dylan: I mean, who are da five greatest rappers of all time?
[counting on his fingers]
Dylan: Dylan... Dylan... Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan....

[to Wyclef] Dylan: You too close, mon!
[starts choking Wyclef]
"

[switchnyc]

The White Ablum - Beatles

Joshua Tree - U2

Born to run - Bruce

No Fences - G Brooks

License To Ill - Beasties

I'm guess the standard 'No Greatest Hits Rule' is in effect, because if it isn't the whole game changes!

[hwbs]

lionel richie.... i am
portishead.....dummy
zebrahead....waste of mind
slipknot.....slipknot
snoop dog.....doggystyle

[Legend]

Greatest Hits, Al Green
Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses
Licensed to Ill, Beastie Boys
Illmatic, Nas
Van Halen , Van Halen

[LG]

Kramer, I'll agree with you there. For me, Blood on the Tracks is Dylan's best album.

Here's my personal top 40 by genre and in order (not including compilations) although it changes daily:

Top 25 Rock (including Folk/ Rock and Heavy Metal)/ Pop

1. Guns n' Roses- Appetite for Destruction.
2. Oasis- What the Story (Morning Glory)
3. The Doors- Morrison Hotel
4. Lou Reed- Transformer
5. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
6. Don Mclean- American Pie
7. Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Rust Never Sleeps
8. The Police- Synchronicity
9. The Beatles- Rubber Soul
10. Cat Stevens- Tea for the Tillerman
11. Jimi Hendrix Experience- Electric Ladyland
12. The Beatles- The White Album
13. The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico (aka Peel Slowly and See)
14. Nirvana- Nevermind
15. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
16. David Gray- White Ladder
17. Train- My Private Nation
18. Dire Straits- Money for Nothing
19. Marc Cohn- Marc Cohn
20. Joshua Kadison- Painted Desert Serenade
21. Bob Dylan- John Wesley Harding
22. The Beatles- Abbey Road
23. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
24. Bob Dylan- Another Side of Bob Dylan
25. John Fogerty- Blue Moon Swamp

Top 10 Dance and Electronica

1. The Prodigy- Fat of the Land
2. The Propellerheads- Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
3. Moby- Play
4. The Crystal Method- Vegas
5. Fatboy Slim- You've come a long way baby
6. Mint Royale- On the Ropes
7. Fatboy Slim- Live at Brighton Beach
8. Basement Jaxx- Rooty
9. The Crystal Method- Tweekend
10.The Chemical Brothers- Dig Your Own Hole

Top 5 Jazz and Funk
1. Soel- Memento
2. Miles Davis- Kindo of Blue
3. Herbie Hancock- Headhunters
4. Norah Jones- Come Away with Me
5. Ronny Jordan- Off the Record

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

im going w/ artists not albums can you deal w/ that america?

Ill go for artist/band too same with tsntx.

1. Madonna
2. Gwen Stefani/No doubt
3. Coldplay
4. Greenday
5. The Smiths

There's more but you only ask for top 5. LOL.

~Kisses.

HTG

[goldtop]

Propagandhi - pretty much anything
Bad Religion - ditto
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in The Yard
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Gorilla Biscuits - Anything

[MacShreach]

Only five and no comps? Hm

In no particular order, and today's whim only, tomorrow will be different


Cream: Wheels of Fire
Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed
Simple Minds: Live in the City of Lights
Alan Stivell: Chemins de Terre
Spirit: 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus



But that choice is based on albums you can actually listen to again and again, all the way through, which cuts it down a lot. If we were just talking tracks it would be very different, and five is ridiculous anyway-- I stopped counting years ago but there must be at least 800 titles in my collection, a lot of them orginal vinyl, which I still buy whenever I can.

And now let's be much more controversial: you and your precious collection are on a sinking boat in the ocean. You have to lighten ship or go under, and you have to lose 5 discs. Albums in your collection by which highly rated artists would you throw out first and why? (If your collection is digital it's a virtual boat so no cheating.) I'll go first.

Beatles (The most over-rated band on the planet, ever, bar none)
Dylan (Good songs but a real pain to listen to-- covers are always better)
Genesis (Dear God did I ever really like this utter rubbish.....)
Eternal (What the fuck is that doing there?)
Aerosmith (Why the fuck did I buy that? I mean why the fuck? Musta been pissed.)


Course that isn't like a personal hate list because the real stuck-to-the-bottom cr-r-r-ap I never bought in the first place....

[Canucklehead]

Bruce Allan (Bryan Adams manager) used to have a syndicated radio show up here in Canada in the early 90's and he posted this same question. His way of posing the question was "If you were stranded on a desert island, what 5 albums would you choose?"
He put a couple of restrictions on the choices.

*No Compilations/Greatest Hits (way to easy)
*No Live Albums
*2 Disc sets count as 2 choices (unless you specify disc 1 or disc 2)

So I have had a few years to think about it.

Here we go:

The Number of The Beast - Iron Maiden
Fair Warning - Van Halen
Queen II - Queen
Who's Next - The Who
All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes - Pete Townshend

[Ecstatic]

Combining form, based on the principle that the five top should also have at least five albums meriting top listing, my top five albums by my top five artists (subject to change, as Dubya would say, at the whim of a hat):

Donovan
Open Road
Beat Cafe
For Little Ones
Sunshine Superman
Sutras

Beatles
White Album
Revolver
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul

Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks
Hiway 61
Blonde on Blonde
Bringing It All Back Home
New Morning

Incredible String Band/Robin Williamson*
Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Wee Tam/The Big Huge
U
Songs of Love and Parting*
A Glint at the Kindling*

Shawn Phillips
Rumplestiltskin's Resolve
Furthermore
Do You Wonder
Second Contribution
Bright White

Other heavyweight contenders:
Richard and Mimi Farina
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Chris Smither
Suzanne Vega
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Pearls Before Swine
Emmy Lou Harris
John Mayall
Cream
Who
Neil Young

the list goes on and on. For jazz:

Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
Birth of the Cool
Sketches of Spain

Coltrane
A Love Supreme
My Favorite Things
Giant Steps

Patricia Barber
A Fortnight in France
A Distortion of Love
Modern Cool
Cafe Blue

Erroll Garner
Concert by the Sea

Also Roland Kirk, Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Max Roach, MJQ, Wes Montgomery, Sun Ra

[silbersack]

-Van Halen- Van Halen (also my first concert in 1980 in Hamburg)
-AC/DC-Back in Black ( also 1980 )
-Leftfield-Leftism (Dancemusic for Headbangers)
-Rammstein-Sehnsucht (I´m from germany of course)
-The Cult-Electric ( also one of my best concerts ever,early ninties in Hamburg,fucking sexy vibes)

[LAtoNY]

1. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
3. Grateful Dead - Working Man's Dead
4. Kris Kristofferson - The Silver Tongued Devil & I
5. Dr. Dre & Snoop - 2001

this is just off the top of my head. other favorites:

Hendrix
The Kinks
Clapton
Johnny Winter
Roy Orbison
U2
Shakira (older stuff en espanol)
Jimmy Cliff
Peter Tosh
Warren Zevon
George Jones

[Quinn]

Like many of you, my list is subject to constant change:

1. Cure: Disintegration;
2. Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet;
3. Radio Head: OK Computer;
4. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue;
5. Tragically Hip: The Live Between Us.

-Quinn

[TomSelis]

5) London Calling-The Clash

4) Sheer Heart Attack- Queen

3) On the Wall- Michael Jackson

2) A Grand Don't Come for Free- The Streets

1) Electricladyland- Jimi Hendrix

[chefmike]

a lot of the picks I see on this thread are definitely among my favorites...if I have to narrow it down to five though...I think of the retro classics

in no particular order...

Are You Experienced?-Jimi Hendrix

Layla and other assorted love songs-Derek and the Dominoes

Music From Big Pink-The Band

The Who-a tie between Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia

The Rolling Stones-a tie between Exile On Main Street and Let It Bleed

[flabbybody]

anyone mention Elton John's Yellowbrick Road?
and Billy Joel's Piano Man.

[chefmike]

anyone mention Elton John's Yellowbrick Road?
and Billy Joel's Piano Man.

both excellent...was Piano Man the album that had the song Captain Jack on it? I think so...and Yellowbrick Road is Elton's best by far IMO

[Overlord Abomination]

I cant do the whole 'of all time' thing, But i can do the 'at this current moment' thing

A)King Crimson - The court of king crimson
B)Veda - The weight of an empty room
C)Depche mode - Playing the angel
D)Between the buried and me - Alaska
E)Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One
F)The Mars volta - Frances the mute

Just throw Tool - Lateralus in there somewhere...

[Foto]

I got to hit this

Beatles Almost any one
Antonio Carlos Jobim Wave
Police The Police
Stevie Wonder Inner Visions
Jefferson Airplane Crown of Creation
Cream Wheels of Fire
Arron Copeland Fanfare for the Common Man
Nirvana Nevermind
Miles Kind of Blue
The Temptations
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
The Message GMF and the Furious Five
Yann Tiersen Soundtrack from Amelie
Swing out Sister Travel is so...
Keith Jarret The Kron Concert
B52s Wild Planet

Was this a top ten.... fucking please stop me!

[Kramer]

wow so many of you people listen to such a wide array of music, im surprised.

This is tough but..........................

Abbey Road----Beatles

White Album----Beatles

Who's next-----The WHO

Aqualung------Jethro Tull

Appetite For Destruction--- Guns & Roses

Blood on the Tracks----Bob Dylan

[Roadblock7611]

Paul Simon-Graceland
Clutch-Clutch
Willie Nelson-Redheaded Stranger
Karma To Burn-Almost Heathen/Wild Wonderful Purgatory
Dave Matthews Tim Reynolds/ Live

[flabbybody]

yea, Piano Man had Captain Jack.

Which Bob Dylan album had the song about Hurricane Carter?

[dreamer]

wow --top five ---and on my dying day --I will have hoped to have listened to

no particular order



Black Sabbath --Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath (1975)

Black Sabbath --Live Evil (live Dio)

GZR --Ohmwork (Geezer Butler solo project)

AC/DC --If You Want Blood -You've got it (live Bon Scott)

Steve Miller Band --Anthology (old old stuff)

[dreamer]

HEY DON HENLEY --TWO WORDS ---JOE FUCKING WALSH

[joyboy123]

There are better albums but these are the ones I totally wore out.

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Moving pictures - Rush
Wings Over America - Paul Mcartney and Wings
1999 - Prince
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Justice for All - Metallica
Machine Head - Deep Purple
The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
The Grand Illusion - Styx

[brickcitybrother]

I'll go by genre:

Eagles - "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975"

The Beatles - "Revolver"

Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions to hold us back.

Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin'

There are morce of course - but I'll stop at five

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

~Bump. =)

~Kisses.

HTG

[arc angel]

1. The white alb
2. disk 2 white alb
3. Dither. MOE
4. south of heaven Slayer
5. JUNTA Phish

[MonsieurValentine]

jeff buckley - grace
the afghan whigs - 66
radiohead - the bends
ben harper - the will to live
spoon - kill the moonlight

[a994]

Here is my list (in no particular order):

John Coltrane Live In Seattle
A Love Supreme
Africa Brass Vols. 1 and 2
Transition
Expression
Interstellar Space

Bobby Hutcherson Now
San Francisco

Miles Davis The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions

Grateful Dead Anthem Of the Sun
Live Dead
Dick's Picks vol. 7: 9/9-11/74
Dick's Picks vol. 8: 5/2/70
Dick's Picks vol. 36: 9/21/72

Yes Relayer

Eugene McDaniels Headless Heroes Of the Apocalypse

Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of Fire

Morton Subotnick Silver Apples Of the Moon/The Wild Bull

Tortoise Standards
TNT

L.A. Carnival Would Like To Pose A Question

Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland

Egg The Polite Force

Nels Cline The Inkling

Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian Interstellar Space Revisited

Donald Byrd Electric Byrd

Les McCann An Invitation To Openness
Layers

Olivier Messiaen Quartet For the End of Time[/i]

[a994]

1 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
2 London Calling - The Clash
3 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
4 Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle
5 Historic Performances Recorded At The
Monterey International Pop Festival
June 16, 17, 18, 1967- Otis Redding,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

They don't get no better than that !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Junior

Especially Highway 61 Revisited and Monterey.

[wombat33]

1 Bruce - Born to Run

2 Elton John - Yellow Brick Road

3 Dire Straits - Making Movies

4 Bob Dylan - Desire

5 Allman Bros - Live at the Filmore East

[otherguy]

Miles - Kind of Blue
Van Halen - Van Halen II, & Fair Warning
The Who - Who's Next
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon By Bus, Catch A Fire
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
History of Jamaican Music - v2-3
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Rancid - Indestructible
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Peter Gabriel - So
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South

I still love some songs from Peter Tosh's Captured Live...

This could go on forever...

[otherguy]

yea, Piano Man had Captain Jack
The best song on that album IMHO


Which Bob Dylan album had the song about Hurricane Carter?
Bob Dylan - Desire (the whole album is incredible)

[emon668]

1.azucar -eddie palmieri
2.acid-ray barreto
3.electro duro-charlie palmieri
4.skins-mongo santamaria
5.en la union esta la fuerza-the lebron brothers

[J Money]

Led Zeppelin 4 , AC/DC Back In Black, Black Sabbath Paranoid, Metallica And Justice For All, Nirvana Nevermind

[the Adrienne Barbeaubot]

These are my top 5 that I can think of. Of course there are many more and always subject to change: 1) Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin 2) Are You Experienced- the Jimi Hendrix Experience 3) Ummagumma-Pink Floyd 4) Anthem of the Sun-Grateful Dead 5) Powerslave-Iron Maiden. I also collect live show tapes.

[TsLuvr]

1. Jay-Z The Blueprint 2
2. Three 6 Mafia Sixty-Six Sixty-One
3. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Trying
4. T.I. Urban Legend
5. Destiny's Child Destiny Fullfilled

[a994]

Well, the Adrienne Barbeaubot (SPARKIMUS PRIME!), I see great minds think alike. Or at least a great mind and a woefully mediocre one (mine:lol). _Are You Experienced?_, _Ummagumma_, and _Anthem Of the Sun_ are bonafide brain classics.

Man I feel like rockin' some early Ash Ra Tempel right about now...

[Rockford]

London Callling - The Clash
Little Creatures - Talking Heads
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Who Are You? - The Who
Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

[eggbert]

Hara_Juku- nice thread to bring back to life. I'm surprised to see so much Dylan as well as the Beatles White Album instead of Sgt. Pepper. My five in no particular order
Miles- Kind of Blue
Monk- Best of
Beatles- White Album
Dead- Workingmans
Oscar Peterson - This is

[Avenged01]

This changes constantly but right now id have to go with the following...

1. Million Dead - A Song To Ruin
2. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3. Hot Water Music - A Flight & A Crash
4. Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
5. Free - Songs Of Yesterday

[lewdguppy]

1: Type 'o' negative: October Rust
2: Within Temptation: Mother Earth
3: Nightwish: the Wishmaster
4: Tristania: Widows' weeds
5: Evanescence: fallen

could have typed 5 completely different ones as I'm into 70's Rock, stoner Rock, psychedelics, Speedrock, you namne it. but I feel kinda gothic tonight so now it's these
;-)

[scorpion]

Vanessa Mae - The violin player
Vanessa Mae - Storm
ZZ top - Afterburner
ZZ top - Eleminator
Gasolin - Stakkels Jim

[arc angel]

Top 5 ? here a few more i enjoy....
.
Best of The MISFITS
BLACK FLAG!!!
PINK FLOYD THE WALL (Roger Waters)
BLEACH NIRVANA
RIDE THE LIGHTNING (LONG LIVE CLIFF BURTON) Metallica

[phx1978]

If I'm picking right now, here's a list of 7 (in no particular order):

MTV Unplugged in New York - Nirvana (Released after Cobain's Suicide, it takes on a whole different vibe)
Images and Words & Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater (Prog Rock and a modern concept album)
Roll the Bones & Counterparts - Rush (although I can listen to anything by Rush over and over again)
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest (hip hop/jazz fusion and funk; one of the best albums of the 1990s as far as I'm concerned)
Weezer (The Blue Album) - Weezer (nerd rock rules!)

[Johnny5000]

In no particular order:

U2 - The Joshua Tree
Radiohead - Ok Computer
REM - Automatic for the People
The Clash - London Calling
Artcell - Onno Shomoy and Aniket Prantor(cant chose between the two)

[demmie]

Purple Rain-Prince

Smash-The Offspring

Pump-Aerosmith (or "Toys In The Attic")

Guns N Roses Greatest Hits-Guns N Roses

Bad or Thriller-Michael Jackson

[Legend]

Bump and thread title is done with correct spelling.

[Night Rider]

Do I give a fuck...mine isn't "top 5" you immature twat ;)

[Bluntasaurus-Rex]

Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Tomahawk - Anonymous
John Zorn's Moonchild: Songs without Words
Fantomas / Melvins Big Band - Millennium Monsterworks 2000

[LAtoNY]

Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another t-girl to take my pain away

[Sly Fox]

you mean: worldwide/global ... ?

[youcancallmeclaire]

Tool - Lateralus / 10,000 Days (they tied)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
the Cure - Pornography
Portishead - Dummy

[Sly Fox]

City - City (Am Fenster)
NENA - Best of
Falco - Best of
Karat - Der blaue Planet
Kraftwerk - Best of

[juliana_dominguez]

Madonna - Ray of Light
Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

too hard to narrow it down

[beany06795]

1) London Caling - The Clash
2) Seamonsters - The Wedding Present
3) Nevermind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
4) Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
5) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

[jason_f]

King Crimson - Red
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Roxy Music - Country Life
Brian Eno - Here Comes The Warm Jets
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box

[Katoey-Thaiger]

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Rolling Stones - Sticky fingers
Deep Purple - Fireball
Who - Who`s next
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Stadium arcadium

[Rik]

REM - Reckoning
Beautiful South - 0898
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Dire Straits - Makin' Movies
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth

[D'yer Mak'er]

hard choice

1. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
2. X Japan - Blue Blood
3. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
4. Ufo - Strangers In The Night
5. Savage Grace - Master of Disguise

[youcancallmeclaire]

King Crimson - Red
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Roxy Music - Country Life
Brian Eno - Here Comes The Warm Jets
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box

I love Red also! <3
Starless is one of my most favorite songs ever.