Greatest albums of all time

[bluesoul]

Has anyone listened to the new Bowie album?

I liked a lot of his shit from the 70's and 80's and this reminds me of that.

yeah- i liked it A LOT, but i think i'm biased because i really enjoy bowie. i even liked heathen

[Prospero]

Even liked Heathen? ! it had a great mood to it.

[Lovecox]

In no particular order my top 10:

Never Mind The Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Appetite For Destruction - Guns and Roses
the Ramones - the Ramones
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Revolver - The Beatles
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Rocks - Aerosmith
Highway to Hell - ACDC
The Doors - The Doors
Van Halen - Van Halen

[hippifried]

Stephan Stills - Stephan Stills
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Shakira - Laundry Service (a foreigner to appease Bluesoul) [great album too]
Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests
Gary Bartz - The Red and Orange Poems
Duane Allman - Anthology
Leonard Bernstien - West Side Story soundtrack
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

& of course:

[Prospero]

Okay - here is my list of just over 100 albums or collections of music which have enriched my life and which I'd not like to part. Personal choice. Not necessarily the nest (though I'd defy anyone to argue with some of the choice).

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges -Back to back/side by side –
Alice Coltrane - Journey to Satchidanada– Alice Coltrane
Duke Ellington - The New Orleans Suite
Pharaoh Sanders - The creator has a masterplan
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the songbooks
Billie Holiday - Best of Billie holiday
Frank Sinatra - Only the lonely
Frank Sinatra - Songs for swinging lovers
Frank Sinatra - Come fly with me
Benny Goodman – in concert
Louis Armstrong - The definitive Louis Armstrong
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Miles Davis – Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud
Miles Davis - Milestones – Miles Davis
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Charlie Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Irakere - Cuba Libre
Yasmin Levy - La Juderia
Musizkas with Marta Sebestyen - Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania
Souad Massi - Deb
Derek Bell - Carolan’s Receipt
Patti Smith - Horses -Patti Smith
P J Harvey - Stories from the city
Tom Waits – Alice
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombone
The Incredible String Band – The Layers of The Onion
Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
Bruce Springsteen – Born in The USA
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Johnny Cash – American songs Vol 1 - 6
Rolling Stones –First album
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones – Beggar’s banquet
Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
The Beachboys – Pet Sounds
Frank Zappa and the mothers of Invention – Freak Out
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the lash
Friends – John Lee Hooker
Al di Meola Plays Astor Piazzola
Paul Simon - Gracelands
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
David Bowie – Heroes
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Lucinda Williams - Carwheels on a dirt road
The Neville bothers - Yellow Moon
Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure - Talking Timbuktu –
Marianne Faithful – Broken English
The Who – live at Leeds
Lovin’ Spoonful – Greatest Hits
Elvis Presley (1956) first album
Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello – American without tears
Beatles – Revolver
Beatles – Rubber Soul
Beatles – Sgt Pepper
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Laws,
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan – Highway 61
Bob Dylan – Love and theft
Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Alison Krauss and Union Station – Lonely runs both ways
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Prince - Sign Of The Times
The Band - Music from Big Pink
The Neville brothers – Yellow Moon
Aretha Franklin - 20 Greatest Hits
James brown – greatest hits
The Doors – first album
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Richard and Linda Thompson - I want to see the bright lights tonight –
Kate and Anna McGarrigle – first album
Blondie - Eat to the beat -
Woody Guthrie – The very best
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony
Arnold Schoenberg - Transfigured Night
Dmitry Shostakovich - Babi Yar symphony
Dmitry Shostakovich – Leningrad Symphony
Igor Stravinsky – The Rite Of Spring
Johann Sebastian Bach - The B Minor mass
Edward Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius
Johannes Brahms – German Requiem
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Great mass in C
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
John Sebastian Bach - The Matthew Passion
Gustav Mahler - The resurrection symphony
Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium – 40-part Motet
Richard Strauss – The Four last songs sung by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Countertenor Duets – Henry Purcell and John Blow
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
Frederic Chopin – The complete Nocturnes
Philip Glass - 10,000 airplanes on the roof
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The lark ascending
Fairuz - Good Friday sacred music

[Frankkm]

this


and that

[supersharpshooter]

Although music is quite a large part of my life. (Its how I make a living)
I cant say Ive ever been influenced by an album, particularly any mentioned here.

One or two songs have influenced my taste in music and kicked started my desire to become a DJ.

I heard this song at an illegal warehouse rave and realised I had discovered a genre of music I will always love.....



I occasionally buy albums on vinyl and CD with the specific intention of isolating vocals and music cues. For example, I bought the theme music to the TV series Sharpe which was arranged by John Tams specifically to use this song......



As an intro track for a 45 minute happy hardcore set I was putting together.

One album I am currently listening to is by DJ Vandal and DJ Guigoo called Raggatek power....



I like their style although they could do with brushing up on their mixing skills.

Peace out

[flabbybody]

has anyone mentioned Yusaf Islam aka Cat Stevens?
Tea for the Tillerman is in my top 5.

[Dino Velvet]

[Stavros]

[QUOTE=Prospero;1303555]Okay - here is my list of just over 100 albums or collections of music which have enriched my life and which I'd not like to part. Personal choice. Not necessarily the nest (though I'd defy anyone to argue with some of the choice).

-Yes I can argue with the choice, for example the dreary rubbish composed by Edward Elgar -The Dream of Gerontius? Even manic depressives steer clear of it.

Frank Sinatra? Isn't one album of this voice-without-variation enough?

If you knew something about Arabic music, Fairouz would come second to Um Kalthum.

The presence on your list of music by The Beatles smacks of desperation; Pet Sounds beyond belief.

Anyway, here are some corrections to your garbled list:

The Incredible String Band – The Layers of The Onion
-in fact, The 5,000 Spirits, or the Layers of the Onion

Frank Zappa and the mothers of Invention – Freak Out
-Mothers of Invention will do (and Absolutely Free is the superior Mothers album)

Arnold Schoenberg - Transfigured Night
-Verklarte Nacht is too short to be album

Maxim Shostakovich - Babi Yar symphony
-Dmitry Shostakovich, Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar) -Maxim was Dmitry's son

Maxim Shostakovich – Leningrad Symphony
-Dmitry Shostakovich, Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Great mass in C
-Mass in C Minor K427

John Sebastian Bach - The Matthew Passion
-St Matthew Passion

Gustav Mahler - The resurrection symphony
-Symphony No 2 (the Symphony No 9 is without parallel to most Mahlerians)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The lark ascending
-A miniature too short to be a Album