Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

[ST3V]

2 hours ago, The Analog Cub said:

QOTSA

 

...Like Clockwork

Songs for the Deaf

In Times New Roman

Lullabies to Paralyze

Rated R

Villains

Self-titled

hate Era Vulgaris so much it got booted? 

[The Analog Cub]

22 hours ago, ST3V said:

hate Era Vulgaris so much it got booted? 

 

WHOOPS

 

I have it rather low but it's not their worst for me

Edited July 5, 2023 by The Analog Cub

[The Analog Cub]

Devin Townsend

 

Can't do an ordered ranking because his discography is just too wild. Have to do tiers.

 

I'm excluding his ambient experimental albums and Punky Bruster.

 

Top-tier

Ocean Machine

Transcendence

Addicted

Alien

Terria

 

Great

Ki

Empath

Lightworker

Sky Blue

City

Deconstruction

 

Ehhh

Ghost

Epicloud

Infinity

The New Black

Synchestra

Ziltoid

 

No

Accelerated Evolution

Dark Matters

Physicist

SYL

Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing

 

 

 

 

Edited July 6, 2023 by The Analog Cub

[The Analog Cub]

The Pineapple Thief

 

Dissolution

Your Wilderness

Magnolia

Versions of the Truth

Someone Here is Missing

All The Wars

Little Man

Tightly Unwound

What Have We Sown

 

Everything earlier than Little Man I have a really hard time with apart from one or two songs. 

 

[The Analog Cub]

Alice in Chains

 

Tripod

Dirt

Black Gives Way to Blue

Facelift

Rainier Fog

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

[The Analog Cub]

Tool

 

1. Lateralus

2. Fear Inoculum

3. Ænima

4. 10,000 Days

5. Undertow

[bluefox4000]

Cat Stevens (just his 70's albums)

 

1. Teaser & The Firecat

2. Catch Bull at Four

3. Mona Bone Jakon

4. Tea For The Tillerman

5. Foreigner

6. Numbers.

7. Izitso

8. Back To Earth

9. Buddha And the Chocolate Box.

 

Mick

 

 

[bluefox4000]

Taylor Swift  (updated...i did a complete run over the last few days)

 

1. Folklore

2. Red

3. Speak Now

4.  Evermore

5. Lover

6. Fearless

7. 1989

8. Reputation

9. Midnights

10. Taylor Swift.

 

As you can see my taylor tastes have shifted.......SWIFTLY

 

I really miss her old style of writing.  Yes i know artists grow but i think she made a minor trade in on her talents in the pop era (i said it and i mean it....fight me)  she watered herself down even if slightly IMO.

 

who am i to blame her though it worked so good on her.

 

Also she got much more narrow in her  melodic vocab (i said it again, lol)

 

And i still think Lover is her pinnacle pop album by far as i've ALWAYS said so.

 

Also even though it's not 2nd in my list.  i think Red was and is her peak artistic statement (Not commercial obviously)

 

Mick

Edited July 7, 2023 by bluefox4000

[Segue Myles]

20 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said:

Taylor Swift  (updated...i did a complete run over the last few days)

 

1. Folklore

2. Red

3. Speak Now

4.  Evermore

5. Lover

6. Fearless

7. 1989

8. Reputation

9. Midnights

10. Taylor Swift.

 

As you can see my taylor tastes have shifted.......SWIFTLY

 

I really miss her old style of writing.  Yes i know artists grow but i think she made a minor trade in on her talents in the pop era (i said it and i mean it....fight me)  she watered herself down even if slightly IMO.

 

who am i to blame her though it worked so good on her.

 

Also she got much more narrow in her  melodic vocab (i said it again, lol)

 

And i still think Lover is her pinnacle pop album by far as i've ALWAYS said so.

 

Also even though it's not 2nd in my list.  i think Red was and is her peak artistic statement (Not commercial obviously)

 

Mick

I honestly think Midnights sounds like a continuation of what she was doing throughout Folklore and Evermore. It's just a slight genre shift. 

[bluefox4000]

12 minutes ago, Segue Myles said:

I honestly think Midnights sounds like a continuation of what she was doing throughout Folklore and Evermore. It's just a slight genre shift. 

 

i hear that often not just from you.  and if it is there....it's lost on me, lol

 

Thing about midnights that irke me are the lyrics.

 

plain garbage in some instances IMO.

 

Mick

 

 

[Segue Myles]

1 hour ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

i hear that often not just from you.  and if it is there....it's lost on me, lol

 

Thing about midnights that irke me are the lyrics.

 

plain garbage in some instances IMO.

 

Mick

 

 

I feel that's a reflection of her mindset. The album sounds like it was written quickly during a tough time.

 

I'd rank it below Folklore and Evermore. Tbf she didn't think Midnights would be recieved well, so likely she'd understand your opinion.

[bluefox4000]

Time for a ranking no one knows or Cares about

 

Chris rea (just the ones i listen too (which is quite a good chunk)

 

1. Delitics

2. Shamrock Diaries

3. Chris Rea

4. On the Beach

5. Whatever Happened to Benny Santini

6. Water Sign

7. Tennis

8. Wired to the Moon

9. Auberge

10.  Dancing With Strangers

11. The Road to Hell.

 

The rest is him embracing blues (Which started on Auberge and Strangers....hence why they're low)  i like pop Rea more.....even if he disowns it, lol

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

2 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

Time for a ranking no one knows or Cares about

 

Chris rea (just the ones i listen too (which is quite a good chunk)

 

1. Delitics

2. Shamrock Diaries

3. Chris Rea

4. On the Beach

5. Whatever Happened to Benny Santini

6. Water Sign

7. Tennis

8. Wired to the Moon

9. Auberge

10.  Dancing With Strangers

11. The Road to Hell.

 

The rest is him embracing blues (Which started on Auberge and Strangers....hence why they're low)  i like pop Rea more.....even if he disowns it, lol

 

Mick

See I think his blues period is amazing but the pop era is pretty basic 

[bluefox4000]

13 minutes ago, Segue Myles said:

See I think his blues period is amazing but the pop era is pretty basic 

 

nah nah nah.  Auberge while it has some good stuff largly puts me to sleep.

 

too be fair mark knopler solo is the same.

 

And nothing wrong with basic. Rea peaked at On the Beach IMO.

 

Mick

Edited July 24, 2023 by bluefox4000

[bluefox4000]

Doobie Brothers. (just through 1980 cause i don't rate anything after)

 

1. Takin' It to the Streets

2. The Captain and Me

3. Minute by Minute

4. Living on the Fault Line

5. Toulouse Street

6. What Once Were Vices Now Are Habits

7. Stampede 

8. One Step Closer

9. Doobie Brothers

 

Funny thing about both eras the both have big pluses and horrid minuses.  The best of the Tom Johnston era  (Captain, Toulouse even Vices) is exciting kick ass southern fried blues rock .Even adding in salsa flavours  the worst is generic and uninspired bar rock

 

The Michael Mcdonald era on the  other hand at it's best (Streets, Fault Line, Minute by minute) is Sophisticated jazz flavored R n B/pop. Help along by Skunk Baxter's jazz leaning guitar solos.

 

It's worst (One Step Closer)  is just Mcdonald and the backup boys.

 

Also the highlight of this band is Tiran porter for me.  He is the through line in all of this.  How my man is not recognized as one of the greats on bass (you see lists on forums and publications and he's NOT at all) is beyond me.  ESPECIALLY in the Mcdonald years he is laying done some AMAZING bass work.

 

check him out i emplore you.

 

Mick

 

 

 

 

[Segue Myles]

4 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

Doobie Brothers. (just through 1980 cause i don't rate anything after)

 

1. Takin' It to the Streets

2. The Captain and Me

3. Minute by Minute

4. Living on the Fault Line

5. Toulouse Street

6. What Once Were Vices Now Are Habits

7. Stampede 

8. One Step Closer

9. Doobie Brothers

 

Funny thing about both eras the both have big pluses and horrid minuses.  The best of the Tom Johnston era  (Captain, Toulouse even Vices) is exciting kick ass southern fried blues rock .Even adding in salsa flavours  the worst is generic and uninspired bar rock

 

The Michael Mcdonald era on the  other hand at it's best (Streets, Fault Line, Minute by minute) is Sophisticated jazz flavored R n B/pop. Help along by Skunk Baxter's jazz leaning guitar solos.

 

It's worst (One Step Closer)  is just Mcdonald and the backup boys.

 

Also the highlight of this band is Tiran porter for me.  He is the through line in all of this.  How my man is not recognized as one of the greats on bass (you see lists on forums and publications and he's NOT at all) is beyond me.  ESPECIALLY in the Mcdonald years he is laying done some AMAZING bass work.

 

check him out i emplore you.

 

Mick

 

 

 

 

Do you like America and Bread?

 

I have sets of all three bands. I play them together when the mood hits

[bluefox4000]

20 minutes ago, Segue Myles said:

Do you like America and Bread?

 

I have sets of all three bands. I play them together when the mood hits

 

 

America's awesome.  i don't know much of bread.  never felt compelled to dig deeper beyond the hits.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

17 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

 

America's awesome.  i don't know much of bread.  never felt compelled to dig deeper beyond the hits.

 

Mick

Bread are beige. Nice easy listening beige.

[bluefox4000]

On 1/1/2020 at 2:24 PM, bluefox4000 said:

Steely Dan

 

1. Royal Scam

2. Katy Lied

3. Countdown to Ecstacy

4. Pretzel Logic

5. Aja

6. Gaucho

7. Can't Buy a Thrill

8. Everything Must Go

9. Two Against Nature

 

i'll be doing more.....i liked this

 

Mick

 

since i did a run of Dan Recently.  i thought i'd go back and see my original and update.

 

1. The Royal Scam

2. Pretzel Logic

3. Countdown to Ecstasy

4. Katy Lied

5. Gaucho

6. Can't Buy A thrill

7. Aja

8. Everything Must Go

9. Two Against Nature

 

So a little different, lol Too stress......i like all these albums except for the last 2.  They just flipped order a bit.  Yes  i know Aja is low........ whatever.  it's a stunning achievement but it's nowhere near as strong as earlier albums.  and i think song wise Gaucho is MUCH stronger.

 

And i really love the first 3 when The dan was an actual band (they bacame the Fagen and becker show on Katy Lied)  I wish Jeff Baxter had stayed.  as much as i like the albums after.  There is a spark to his guitar playing that's missing going foward.'

 

Ah well he wound up in the Doobies so win for them.

 

Mick

[Super25Smasher]

The Offspring:

 

1. Smash

2. Conspiracy Of One

3. Americana

4. Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace

5. Ixnay On The Hombre

6. Splinter

7. Ignition

8. Days Go By

9. Let The Bad Times Roll

10. The Offspring

[Segue Myles]

The Killers- 

 

1. Battle Born

2. Imploding The Mirage

3. Day And Age

4. Pressure Machine

5. Hot Fuss

6. Sam's Town

7. Wonderful, Wonderful

 

 

[bluefox4000]

Hall & Oates (through 1988)

 

1. X-static

2. Private Eyes

3.  Voices

4. H20

5. Bigger Than Both of Us

6. Along The Red Ledge

7. Abandoned Lucheonette

8. Daryl Hall & John Oates

9.Beauty On A Back Street

10. Whole Oats

11. Big Bam Boom

12. Ooh Yeah!!

 

Heard The song Wait for Me on XM (One of the best pop songs ever conceived IMO) and it re-kindled my love for these guys.

 

Mick

 

 

[Segue Myles]

2 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said:

Hall & Oates (through 1988)

 

1. X-static

2. Private Eyes

3.  Voices

4. H20

5. Bigger Than Both of Us

6. Along The Red Ledge

7. Abandoned Lucheonette

8. Daryl Hall & John Oates

9.Beauty On A Back Street

10. Whole Oats

11. Big Bam Boom

12. Ooh Yeah!!

 

Heard The song Wait for Me on XM (One of the best pop songs ever conceived IMO) and it re-kindled my love for these guys.

 

Mick

 

 

I have a two disc best of. Didn't realise they had albums worth of goodies!

[bluefox4000]

1 minute ago, Segue Myles said:

I have a two disc best of. Didn't realise they had albums worth of goodies!

 

i was thinking of recommending them.  there is reason they were huge in the 80's (can't speak for the crazy UK, lol) in the US.  Undisputed pop masters.  man can they work in a good hook!!!!

 

you'd love the full albums.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

2 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

i was thinking of recommending them.  there is reason they were huge in the 80's (can't speak for the crazy UK, lol) in the US.  Undisputed pop masters.  man can they work in a good hook!!!!

 

you'd love the full albums.

 

Mick

Pretty sure they were...they have regular hits playing on classic radio stations all the time.

 

Ima check the UK Charts website