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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

 

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I'll pick one album per band but chances are if I like the band I'll like their albums, even the bad ones. :lol:

 

 

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.

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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"

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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

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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. :lol:

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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.

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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. :headbang

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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....

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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!

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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....

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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