Can you list your Top Ten Albums

[In A Tidewater Surge]

QUOTE (In A Tidewater Surge @ Apr 24 2011, 09:27 PM)

1) Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart 2) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 3) Pawn Hearts - Van der Graaf Generator 4) Insurgentes - Steven Wilson 5) The Weirding - Astra 6) Beat - King Crimson 7) Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel 8) Hosianna Mantra - Popol Vuh 9) In Absentia - Porcupine Tree 10) Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake Honorable mentions: Damnation - Opeth Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane Acquiring the Taste - Gentle Giant

I have an amendment to make:

1) Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart

2) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

3) Pawn Hearts - Van der Graaf Generator

4) Insurgentes - Steven Wilson

5) The Weirding - Astra

6) Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out - Timothy Leary

7) Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel

8) Hosianna Mantra - Popol Vuh

9) In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

10) Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

 

Honorable mentions:

 

Damnation - Opeth

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

Acquiring the Taste - Gentle Giant

 

 

 

by the way Gary, if you haven't heard #6 I'd suggest it, seems like something you'd like

[Stormtron]

1. Rush - A Farewell to Kings

2. Yes - Close to the Edge

3. Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On

4. The Beatles - Revolver

5. Misfits - Static Age

6. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend

7. 10cc - Sheet Music

8. Bjork - Post

9. Michael Jackson - Thriller

10. Camel - Mirage

 

I had to limit myself to one album per band or it would've been mostly Rush.

[burgeranacoke]

Before I post 10, a few comments

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart - Very challenging to listen to and I like that but I do not find this album anywhere near a top ten. Yes. it is an important album in the Rock genre a but a top ten in my book needs some coherence, and Dadaic anarchy is not it. It does some things very well, It draws from the free jazz and delta blues past and throws it at a pop audience that had or have probably never listened to these styles before. A lot of it is perplexing but then it breaks through. To me it is very uneven and I think the equally experimental album "Safe as Milk" is better from Captain Beefheart.

 

It is really nice to see peoples top tens. It there is always something new to listen to.

 

Nobody can make a great 10 best albums list so you really have to take a "closer to the heart" direction.

OK here goes... heavy on the year 1981

 

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico 1967 First person narrative antithesis of Sargent Peppers ( this was recorded and released before that album) covering a range of rock, folk, soul and noise. If you love rock and roll and have not listened to this album put it at the top of your to listen to list. This album launched a thousand bands.

 

The Beatles - The Beatles 1968 You can tell me how much this should have been edited down, I will not agree with you.

 

Horses - Patti Smith 1975 The fountainhead of punk poetry. "It was as if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars/ 'Cause when he looked up they started to slip."

 

Remain in Light - Talking Heads 1980 My personal favorite album of all time. To me it is the expression of the "unified theory" in music. I am not going to say any more.

 

Computer World - Kraftwerk 1981 Most people will say "Trans Europe Express " is the better of there albums but this one has always been my favorite. Cohesive visions of our future at that time and still. It is light-hearted, funny, simple but at the same time insightful, to quote from one of our favorite bands:

"All this machinery making modern music Can still be open-hearted. "

and they built many parts of that machinery.

 

Moving Pictures - Rush 1981 The soundtrack of a lifetime.

 

Discipline - King Crimson 1981

 

Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers 1984 This is the only "greatest hits" album i would even think about putting in my list. Beautiful jams and lyrics are the cohesive factor here.

 

One Endless Night - Jimmie Dale Gilmore 2000 "Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain." - Walter Sobchak from the movie "The Big Lebowski". I grew up in the Texas panhandle and in that part of the world it is important to find beauty in a flat line, and one of the best expressionists of that space is this truely great American artist, Jimmie Dale Gilmore. "One Endless Night" is not an album of his songs, there are only two, but it is a compilation of covers that are expressed in a sublime imagination. Two songs that will be familiar to most everyone are "Ripple" and "Mack the Knife". It is just one of those "desert island " records for me.

 

 

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco 2002 Pop as it should be in my world.

 

[USB Connector]

The order tends to fluctuate. Albums marked with an asterisk are albums that don't leave the top 10 often. The rest changes with the wind.

 

1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV*

2. The Beatles - Abbey Road*

3. Rush - Permanent Waves

4. Def Leppard - Pyromania*

5. Rush - Moving Pictures*

6. Boston - Boston

7. The Tragically Hip - Up to Here

8. ZZ Top - Eliminator

9. AC/DC - Black Ice

10. Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

[Nate2112]

This wll change

 

1. Stormcrowfleet(Skepticism)

2. Test For Echo(Rush)

3. Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness(:Green Carnation)

4. August and Everything After(Counting Crows)

5. Arntor(Windir)

6. Counterparts(Rush)

7. Signals(Rush)

8. Throwing Copper(Live)

9. Alloy(Skepticism)

10.Dizzy Up The Girl(Goo Goo Dolls)

 

 

[circumstantial tree]

My current top ten NOT INCLUDING RUSH. Also, this list does not represent most fave to least fave:

 

1. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

 

2. The Dream Academy - The Dream Academy

 

3. Kitchens of Distinction - The Death of Cool

 

4. Kate Bush - Aerial

 

5. Journey - Departure

 

6. Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

 

7. Yes - Close to the Edge

 

8. Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

 

9. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering

 

10. the Fixx - Shuttered Room

 

 

[apetersvt]

My list goes to 11. Couldn't leave any of these out (not in order either, but COS and Hemispheres are 1 and 2 interchangeably)

 

Caress Of Steel

Hemispheres

A Farewell To Kings

Yes - Relayer

The Who - Live At Leeds

Allman Brothers - Fillmore East

Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault

Led Zep III

Led Zep I

Black Crowes - Warpaint

Govt Mule - Live With A Little Help From My Friends - Deluxe Ed.

[GeddyLeeRoth]

This is tough as hell. Omitting live albums, I guess this...

 

1. Moving Pictures--Rush

2. Master Of Puppets--Metallica

3. Reign In Blood--Slayer

4. Van Halen I

5. Hemispheres--Rush

6. Ride The Lightning--Metallica

7. The Number Of The Beast--Iron Maiden

8. Led Zeppelin IV

9. Blizzard Of Ozz--Ozzy Osbourne

10. Paranoid--Black Sabbath

[Good,bad,andrush]

I must place the Lamb at number two, so my list remains the same but lately I've been obsessing over this fabulous journey. Hemispheres, this, and Pawn Hearts I've been playing like crazy ever since I heard them.

[In A Tidewater Surge]

QUOTE (Good,bad,andrush @ Apr 29 2011, 08:02 PM)

I must place the Lamb at number two, so my list remains the same but lately I've been obsessing over this fabulous journey. Hemispheres, this, and Pawn Hearts I've been playing like crazy ever since I heard them.

 

I had The Lamb on endless loop for close to 3 months after I first heard it

 

Thanks again Matt and Gary

[Good,bad,andrush]

QUOTE (In A Tidewater Surge @ Apr 29 2011, 10:31 PM)

QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Apr 29 2011, 08:02 PM) I must place the Lamb at number two, so my list remains the same but lately I've been obsessing over this fabulous journey. Hemispheres, this, and Pawn Hearts I've been playing like crazy ever since I heard them.   I had The Lamb on endless loop for close to 3 months after I first heard it   Thanks again Matt and Gary I don't think I'll stop playing this for a while if ever.   I have listened to Hemispheres in its entirety daily for 7 months now, and counting, and nearly 3 months with Pawn Hearts, and this whole week I listen to those two and the rest of my time I replay the Lamb. While at school, I'll let my ipod on shuffle and it'll go through all my other music...but in terms of choosing what I listen to, I haven't strayed from these albums   But I still play Bravado before going to sleep   But I can not get enough of the Lamb...it's been messing with my head, I swear. I don't know why I hadn't listened to it in it's entirety before   When I'm done obsessing over this, like in three months or so, I will fully check out Captain Beefheart I like what I've heard so far but I haven't listened to it the way I should, which would be in total darkness with headphones on full blast

[ColdFireYYZ]

QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Apr 29 2011, 11:49 PM)

I have listened to Hemispheres in its entirety daily for 7 months now, and counting, and nearly 3 months with Pawn Hearts, and this whole week I listen to those two and the rest of my time I replay the Lamb. While at school, I'll let my ipod on shuffle and it'll go through all my other music...but in terms of choosing what I listen to, I haven't strayed from these albums

You don't get sick of them after a while?

I love those albums but if I listened to them everyday for months, I'd get tired of them after a week or two. Generally, I can't listen to an album more than 2-3 times a week without getting tired of it.

[Good,bad,andrush]

[ColdFireYYZ]

[Good,bad,andrush]

[RUSHHEAD666]

"In Your Face" FISHBONE

"Truth And Soul" FISHBONE

"EP" FISHBONE

"Reality Of My Surroundings" FISHBONE

"Hemispheres" RUSH

"Dreamboat Annie" HEART

"Black And Blue" BLACK AND BLUE

"Mirrors" BLUE OYSTER CULT

"Headhunter" KROKUS

"Back For The Attack" DOKKEN

[apetersvt]

QUOTE (apetersvt @ Apr 27 2011, 10:23 AM)

My list goes to 11. Couldn't leave any of these out (not in order either, but COS and Hemispheres are 1 and 2 interchangeably) Caress Of Steel Hemispheres A Farewell To Kings Yes - Relayer The Who - Live At Leeds Allman Brothers - Fillmore East Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault Led Zep III Led Zep I Black Crowes - Warpaint Govt Mule - Live With A Little Help From My Friends - Deluxe Ed.

Oops. I'm gonna need to expand to 12 because I can't leave out

 

Pink Floyd - Animals

[Imaginos]

I could never define a specific top ten but here are 10 albums that I love dearly;

 

Kate Bush "The Hounds of Love"

Marillion "Marbles"

Coheed & Cambria "Good Apollo..."

Amplifier "The Octopus"

I.Q. "Subterranea"

Blue Oyster Cult "Imaginos"

Porcupine Tree "Stupid Dream"

The Decemberists "The Hazards Of Love"

Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of The Moon"

Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick"

[GuitarKid 1880]

These are my top 10 albums, in no order:

 

1. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb-U2

 

2. Tales From Topographic Oceans-Yes

 

3. Animals-Pink Floyd

 

4. Ten-Pearl Jam

 

5. Permanent Waves-Rush

 

6. 1984-Van Halen

 

7. Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie

 

8. Quadrophenia-The Who

 

9. Counterparts-Rush

 

10. Close To The Edge-Yes

 

 

Honorable Mentions:

 

2112-Rush

Relayer-Yes

Sound Of Madness-Shinedown

Achtung Baby

[KenJennings]

This was really tough, and it's in no specific order:

 

Dredg - Catch Without Arms

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory

Rush - Permanent Waves

Coheed and Cambria - From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Frost* - Milliontown

Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart

Buckethead - Colma

Jordan Rudess - The Road Home

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium

[deadwing2112]

This list is no specific order and just off the top of my head.

 

Rush - Hemispheres

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

Radiohead - Ok Computer

The Clash - London Calling

Nas - Illmatic

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Yes - Close To The Edge

System Of A Down - Toxicity

Pink Floyd - Dark Side

Muse - Black Holes And Revelations

[LeaveMyThingAlone]

[Good,bad,andrush]

Pawn Hearts

Still Life

H To He, Who Am The Only One

A Grounding In Numbers

Godbluff

The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage

Aerosol Grey Kid

Ph7

Nadir's Big Chance

Trisector

 

[Ted Barchetta]

Aside from the top four, which are set in stone forever, this list changes from time to time. Usually it's pretty consistently the same.

 

1. The Who - Quadrophenia

2. Yes - Close to the Edge

3. Rush - Hemispheres

4. Pink Floyd - Meddle

5. The Who - Who's Next

6. The Who - Live at Leeds

7. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy

8. Paul Simon - Graceland

9. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

10. Yes - The Yes Album

 

[liddybuck01]

god, that's hard because i have like, a Rush top 10 and a everything else top 10 lol i like too many Rush albums to mix them with the others.

 

here's a list of my all time favorite non-Rush albums...

 

(only the first two are in correct order, the rest are random)

 

1. Buckingham Nicks(self-titled)

2. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

3. Kittie - Funeral For Yesterday(not their best, but all of the memories from the tours for this album put it up there)

4. Shakira - Donde Estan Los Ladrones

5. Lindsey Buckingham - Out of the Cradle

6. The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma

7. Bif Naked - Superbeautifulmonster

8. Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

9. Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna

10. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

 

 

here's my current order of Rush albums

 

1. Signals

2. Vapor Trails

3. Counterparts

4. Permanent Waves

5. A Farewell to Kings

6. Grace Under Pressure

7. Presto

8. Hemispheres

9. Moving Pictures

10. 2112