The Bones Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 1549 asked what everyone thought were the best movies of all time. Now it's my turn to ask what the best albums of all time are in your opinion. I know Rolling Stone did this not too long ago but I want to hear people's thoughts on this. Top 5 or more if you'd like. My List 1.)London Calling-The Clash 2.)Paul's Boutique-Beastie Boys 3.)Let it Bleed-Rolling Stones 4.)Violent Femmes-Violent Femmes 5.)The Velvet Underground & Nico Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bones Posted February 6, 2004 Author Share Posted February 6, 2004 P.S. I only mentioned albums that I've heard all the way through and own. This is why I don't have any Bob Dylan albums listed, I only have his greatest hits cds. Same for the overrated Beatles, although I did like what I heard of Rubber Soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I'll pick one album per band but chances are if I like the band I'll like their albums, even the bad ones. Full Circle- Pennywise Big Choice- Face to Face Neil Young- Harvest Moon Peter Gabriel- So AFI- Sing the Sorrow Beetles-White Album The Band- The Last Walz Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde Police- Syncronicity Talking Heads CSNY- Deja Vu Buddy Holly The Cure Sublime- Sublime Bob Marley- Legend I can't think right now, my parents would be chocked at me for missing some I'm sure, but theirs a start and I'll check my collection tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 My Favs, No Order: Alice in Chains "Dirt" Faith No More "Angel Dust" Chris Cornell " Euphoria Morning" Mad Season "Above" Machine Head "Burn My Eyes" Alice in Chains S/T Incubus "S.C.I.E.N.C.E" Alice in Chains "Jar Of Flies" Meshuggah "Destroy Erase Improve" Strapping Young Lad "City" Machine Head "The more things change..." Tenacious D S/T Killswitch Engage "Alive or Just Breathing" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggio202 Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 steely dan - pretzel logic (aja would be a good choice too) supertramp - crime of the century the police - outlandis d'amour (ghost in the machine rocks too) van halen - van halen1 pink floyd - dark side of the moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastime Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Pearl Jam - Ten The Beatles - White Album The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Pink Floyd - The Wall Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Fleetwood Mac - Rumors U2 - The Joshua Tree Led Zeppelin - Zoso (4th album) Carole King - Tapestry Deep Purple - Machine Head Journey - Escape Alice In Chains - Dirt The Beatles - Abbey Road Cream - Desraeli Gears Chicago - Chicago 17 Boston - Boston (self-titled) Black Sabbath - Paranoid Billy Joel - The Stranger Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Nirvana - Nevermind Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill Dr. Dre - The Chronic Eminem - The Real Slim Shady The Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack Warren Zevon - Exciteable Boy Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles - Rubber Soul Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Who's Next - The Who London Calling - The Clash Billy Joel - 52nd Street Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Imagine - John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band Band On The Run - Wings Steely Dan - Aja Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Supertramp - Breakfast In America Neil Young - After The Gold Rush The Police - Synchronicity Tommy - The Who Back In Black - AC/DC Moondance - Van Morrison The Doors - The Doors (self-titled) Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground Reign In Blood - Slayer Neil Young - Decade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Incubus - Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E Hoobastank - Hoobastank (Advance) AFI - Sing the Sorrow Avenged Sevenfold - Hopelessy Devoted to u Vol. 4 Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance Brand New - Shelter Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head Papa Roach - Infest Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Fu Manchu - California Crossing Gob - Foot in Mouth Disease Jimmy Eat World - Linkin Park - Meteora Outkast - Speakerboxx / The Love Below Pete Murray - Feeler Silverchair - Diorama The Vines - Highly Evovled Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue Ok I'm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Honda Civic Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 I don't know if I have a top five... or even favorites but there are a few that made me go "WOW"... from Bones list: London Calling -- I think the Clash is the most underrated band of all time -- they always seem to play second fiddle to the Sex Pistols, yet thier music was much deeper, musicaly, and politically. From Mathew's list: Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde Police- Syncronicity Sublime- Sublime - listening to it right now. From Pastimes list Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Drea The Who - Tommy Nirvana - Nevermind --- I can't believe it took so long for someone to name this one. Some that no one else has said: Smashing Pumpkins -- Melloncollie and the infinite sadness -- Grunge was dead, but this album showed why rock was still Rawk. Pearl Jam -- Vitalogy -- often criticized, the best combination of pearl jams original grunge sound with a bit of experimentation. Three that no one else will name: (I had a period of my life where all I listened to was Ska and Punk. Radio was evil. And everyone was a sellout.) Mighty Mighty Bosstones -- Question the Answers -- Opened my ears to the world of Ska way back in the day. Reel Big Fish -- Turn the Radio Off -- Helped launch the Ska movement in the late nineties. Less Than Jake -- Losing Streak -- One of the only Ska/punk records that holds it resonance with me years later....This one deservse a place on any top ten list. It's that good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Less Than Jake -- Losing Streak -- One of the only Ska/punk records that holds it resonance with me years later....This one deservse a place on any top ten list. It's that good. I forgot this 1 as well. Ghosts of U and Me, Surrender and She's Gonna Break Soon are gr8 to listen too, but they're from the album Anthem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn12 Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Wow, The Cheat....I was beginnig to think I was the last person in the world that thought "Vitalogy" was a damn good album. Kudos to you!!! As for my list, I'll try to think of them all... Foo Fighters - "The Colour and the Shape" Audioslave - "Audioslave" Pearl Jam - "Yield" Fiona Apple - "When the Pawn..." Closure - "Closure" The Beatles - "Rubber Soul" The Beatles - "Abbey Road" Led Zeppelin - "Houses of the Holy" Weezer - "Weezer" Foo Fighters - "One By One" Veruca Salt - "Eight Arms to Hold You" Coldplay - "Rush of Blood to the Head" Those are some of my all time favorites. Your opinion may vary.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkiconk Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 1. anything grateful dead--but 'workingman's/american beauty' is best 2. rolling stones- exile on main street 3. neil young- harvest 4. willie nelson- red headed stranger 5. melissa etheridge- yes i am (no i'm not!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1549 Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 AC/DC Back in Black Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 P.S. I only mentioned albums that I've heard all the way through and own.<clip> Same for the overrated Beatles, although I did like what I heard of Rubber Soul. How can you call them over rated (other than not knowing the history of music since 1950) when you have never even heard an album all the way through? Maw, I don't know what progress is but I'm against it! Don't know a thing that Darwin says but I'm against it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Critic Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Some favorites off the top of the head, miles away from the CD collection: ( not including any greatest-hits collections, cuz that's CHEATING ) The Wildhearts - Earth Vs. The Wildhearts The Clash - self-titled debut The Cure - Disintegration Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction Kiss - Alive! ( live discs do NOT count as greatest-hits....NO THEY DON'T.... ) The Police - Outlandos D'Amour Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... Testament - The Gathering Supersuckers - The Evil Powers Of Rock And Roll Angel City - Two Minute Warning There are more.....many more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sox4lifeinPA Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 How can you call them over rated (other than not knowing the history of music since 1950) when you have never even heard an album all the way through? Maw, I don't know what progress is but I'm against it! Don't know a thing that Darwin says but I'm against it! choking back the words............ I don't even know what to say at this point. you can lead a horse to water.....etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Prawn Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Mine would be a mix of Queen, Metallica and AC/DC. At this point, and I had to chose, my all-time favorite would be either 'News of the Day' or 'A Kind of Magic.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 We've done this before, not too long ago. It is every bit as hard as coming up with a top films list. My favorites would have to include: Beatles – Revolver/Rubber Soul/Sgt Pepper/Abbey Road, depending on the day Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill David Bowie - Hunky Dory Todd Rundgren - Runt Police – Outlandos D'Amour (I saw someone else list that too - big ups!) Carole King - Tapestry (also already mentioned by some cool person) Genesis - Selling England By the Pound Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love Led Zeppelin - LZ II Elvis Costello - My Aim is True/Armed Forces/Spike, depending on the day Aimee Mann - Bachelor Number 1 Counting Crows - August and Everything After The Band - Songs from Big Pink Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection Zappa/Mothers - pretty much everything Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood/Too Old to Rock and Roll.../Thick as a Brick As far as "best" versus "favorite", I do think there is a difference. The best rock/pop LP records, I think, were those that exploited the limitations of the medium to their best advantage -- most notably those LPs that were produced with awareness of the fact that you could not fit more than 20-25 minutes of music onto a side and so the order, pacing, tempo, and relative urgency of each song on a side was carefully measured. Albums like Sgt. Pepper and, particularly, Abbey Road are well-known examples. Listening to a CD that plays the entire track list all the way through without requiring the listener to flip the record obviates the need to do a lot of precise ordering that the original format required. Side 1 of Abbey road is supposed to crecscendo wildly and then fall into oblivion with the extended heavy guitar outro on "I Want You (She's so Heavy)". The world is reset with George's "Here Comes the Sun" at the start of side 2, and then from "Because" through "The End" the completely brilliant side 2 swansong takes the listener through the most cohesive-cyclical essential album side ever recorded. Abbbey Road would have been such a diffferent album if the 33-1/3 vinyl LP was not the delivery medium of the day, and much of that is lost in the continuous CD. Other albums that are great for these reasons: Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick" - On CD, the trailing off/heartbeat at the end of the side 1 edits leading into next edit on side 2 makes the middle of the CD sound weak, when in fact it is very nicely spaced and paced on the LP. Zappa/MOI "Freak Out" - this wierd, disturbing, bad-smelling avante garde band from LA has the audacity to insist that their first release be a gatefold double album including an insert map of all the good LA "Freak Out hot spots." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bones Posted February 7, 2004 Author Share Posted February 7, 2004 How can you call them over rated (other than not knowing the history of music since 1950) when you have never even heard an album all the way through? Maw, I don't know what progress is but I'm against it! Don't know a thing that Darwin says but I'm against it! I just came across this and wanted to clear myself up. I don't think that I articulated myself exactly the way I wanted to when I posted this. The Beatles of the early years, Ed Sullivan Show, Meet the Beatles, Beatlemania that's the type of s*** that was overrated. Nobody deserves that type of God-like worship other than God himself. However, I do give the Beatles credit for evolving into a good, okay great, band in their later years. Lennon was the f***ing man. I never liked, and still don't like, McCartney. Lennon and Harrison had much better solo careers than him and I enjoy listening to their music. All I was saying is that the only albums I considered for my top 5 were albums I'd only heard all the way through. I didn't say that I'd never heard a Beatles album. As for not knowing anything about music post-1950, I know that your boy Eminem would have never existed without the Beastie Boys, the pioneers for all these white punk/rapper type artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggio202 Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 As for not knowing anything about music post-1950, I know that your boy Eminem would have never existed without the Beastie Boys, the pioneers for all these white punk/rapper type artists. you mean it wanst vanilla ice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUKE_CLEVELAND Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Metallica's Black Album Green Day : Dookie Those are my 2 favs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmmmbeeer Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Some personal faves....certainly not an alltime list, as far as crediting those who made these possible Radiohead--OK Computer Pearl Jam--Vitalogy, No Code The Jayhawks--Hollywood Town Hall, Tomorrow the Green Grass SonVolt--Trace Beatles--Abbey Road, Rubber Soul Nirvana--In Utero Allman Brothers Band--Live at the Fillmore East Ben Harper--Fight for your Mind Phish--Billy Breathes Tribe Called Quest--Midnight Marauders Method Man--Tical Dr Dre--The Chronic Pennywise--Full Circle Bad Religion--Stranger than Fiction The Verve--Urban Hymns Gomez--Bring it On Neil Young--Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Harvest, After the Goldrush Grateful Dead--American Beauty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmmmbeeer Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 My Favs, No Order: Alice in Chains "Dirt" Faith No More "Angel Dust" Chris Cornell " Euphoria Morning" Mad Season "Above" Machine Head "Burn My Eyes" Alice in Chains S/T Incubus "S.C.I.E.N.C.E" Alice in Chains "Jar Of Flies" Meshuggah "Destroy Erase Improve" Strapping Young Lad "City" Machine Head "The more things change..." Tenacious D S/T Killswitch Engage "Alive or Just Breathing" Mad Season is the shiznit my friend. Your list indicates you like AIC too. So...I don't know if you were aware of this, but this is by far the BEST live DVD/VHS I own. I mean seriously, you have to buy this. .. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=video&n=507846 Go click the link, order it, and next weekend sit down with some reebs, or whatever suits your fancy, and jam out man. You'll thank me later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxy Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Here's my list that I never get tired of: Nirvana: Nevermind Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes Vertical Horizan: Running on Ice The Beatles: Sgt Peppes especially--but I like all of it My Aaron Copland Cd of Western Songs Allison Krauss and Union Station: Everytime you Say Goodbye Eva Cassidy: Songbird Outkast: Speakerboxx/Love Below The Dixie Chicks: Home And I like Earl Scruggs, too--no particular cd--anything with a banjo. Go ahead laugh.... Oasis: Morning Glory (I know, I know...) And my ULTIMATE guilty pleasure cd: Mariah Carey: Daydream. Teehee, I've disgusted even myself. :headshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullcollapse Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 best ever i have to go with the clash - london calling on a personal level pennywise - about time, got me into punk, and all time favorite is no use for a name - making friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 Green Day : Dookie that is a great album - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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