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I can't believe I've never done this before, but having just gone through the process, it's probably because it's f*cking hard to do!

 

I know I've listed my top 50 albums before, but never 100, and never in order!

 

Of course the order is subject to change at any moment, and I know by the time it's too late to edit this post that I'll already regret some placements, but I've gone through the list enough to know that this is generally where I'd place the albums.

 

Let me say that I'm not super happy with my #1 choice, not because I can think of an album better than it, but more like because almost any of my top 13 I'd be proud to have at number 1. The Sigur Ros album near the bottom of my list is a VERY new album to me, so that one could easily move up a bunch of notches as I get to know it better. I wish I had listened more to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick as that should really be on my list, but I don't know the album well enough, and it's never grabbed me like it's grabbed so many other prog fans - I'm sure with subsequent listens that it will.

 

Also, I know I have 3 or 4 official compilation albums in my list, but all those albums were simply too amazing not to list. If you don't think that's kosher, all I can say is that it's MY list. When you come up with yours (and I hope you do!) you can set your own rules. No live albums made my list, but if one did, it would be Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother Goes On The Road - I didn't include it because it's a bootleg.

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I'd have to do hours of "research" to compile a true, comprehensive list and then another bunch of hours changing and rearranging positions till I was satisfied with the final analysis. I'm not prepared to do that and there's not a chance that I'd even start the process. no.gif

 

I couldn't even do a top ten either, I'd have to fit too many albums into the ten. bekloppt.gif

 

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QUOTE (treeduck @ May 28 2012, 11:21 PM)
I'd have to do hours of "research" to compile a true, comprehensive list and then another bunch of hours changing and rearranging positions till I was satisfied with the final analysis. I'm not prepared to do that and there's not a chance that I'd even start the process. no.gif

I couldn't even do a top ten either, I'd have to fit too many albums into the ten. bekloppt.gif

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Too bad, as I'd be curious to see what you came up with. yes.gif

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QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 01:30 AM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ May 28 2012, 11:21 PM)
I'd have to do hours of "research" to compile a true, comprehensive list and then another bunch of hours changing and rearranging positions till I was satisfied with the final analysis. I'm not prepared to do that and there's not a chance that I'd even start the process. no.gif

I couldn't even do a top ten either, I'd have to fit too many albums into the ten. bekloppt.gif

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Too bad, as I'd be curious to see what you came up with. yes.gif

You mean so you could post about how you can't believe album A is rated at number 37 of all places and album B is only rated at number 26 by God!! tongue.gif laugh.gif

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QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 06:07 PM)
1. Love - Forever Changes (1967)
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far (1974)
3. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)
4. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's (1967)
5. King Crimson - Lizard (1970)
6. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
7. The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)
8. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
9. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973)
10. Can - Tago Mago (1972)

Jeeez Goobs, Tales barely scraping the top ten. Come on, surely you be jivin', that aint right dudester confused13.gif ...and where the frig is MP and PeW you you...hater of Rush you angry.gif wink.gif

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QUOTE (treeduck @ May 29 2012, 06:34 PM)
QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 01:30 AM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ May 28 2012, 11:21 PM)
I'd have to do hours of "research" to compile a true, comprehensive list and then another bunch of hours changing and rearranging positions till I was satisfied with the final analysis. I'm not prepared to do that and there's not a chance that I'd even start the process. no.gif

I couldn't even do a top ten either, I'd have to fit too many albums into the ten. bekloppt.gif

trink38.gif

Too bad, as I'd be curious to see what you came up with. yes.gif

You mean so you could post about how you can't believe album A is rated at number 37 of all places and album B is only rated at number 26 by God!! tongue.gif laugh.gif

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QUOTE (treeduck @ May 29 2012, 06:21 AM)
I'd have to do hours of "research" to compile a true, comprehensive list and then another bunch of hours changing and rearranging positions till I was satisfied with the final analysis. I'm not prepared to do that and there's not a chance that I'd even start the process. no.gif

I couldn't even do a top ten either, I'd have to fit too many albums into the ten. bekloppt.gif

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I agree with the mallard.

 

I wouldn't know where to begin, let alone a middle and an end.

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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ May 29 2012, 01:53 AM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ May 29 2012, 06:21 AM)
I'd have to do hours of "research" to compile a true, comprehensive list and then another bunch of hours changing and rearranging positions till I was satisfied with the final analysis. I'm not prepared to do that and there's not a chance that I'd even start the process. no.gif

I couldn't even do a top ten either, I'd have to fit too many albums into the ten. bekloppt.gif

trink38.gif

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I agree with the mallard.

 

I wouldn't know where to begin, let alone a middle and an end.

+1

 

Where the fukk do I begin???

 

Well at least I know my number one album:

 

 

1. "Hemispheres"

 

 

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Well, I like making lists so here I go. The order's pretty much interchangeable except for 1-10. Also, for the most part, I only list one album per artist. (P.S. Please, don't make fun of my picks.)

 

100. Disturbed - Indestructible

99. Scorpions - Sting in the Tail

98. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog

97. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun

96. Dio - Holy Dive

95. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior

94. The Ocean - Aeolian

93. Kamelot - The Black Halo

92. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us...

91. Nadja - Skin Turns to Glass

90. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time

89. Steve Roach - Structures From Silence

88. Van Halen - Van Halen

87. Obscura - Omnivium

86. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

85. Lustmord - Metavoid

84. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

83. Anathema - Weather Systems

82. Camel - Moonmadness

81. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

80. Iced Earth - Dystopia

79. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley

78. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

77. Yes - Fragile

76. Enslaved - Vertebrae

75. Dredg - Catch Without Arms

74. Children of bodom

73. Judas Priest - Painkiller

72. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked

71. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

70. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning

69. Amogh Symphony - The Quantum Hack Code

68. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

67. Massive Attack - Mezzanine

66. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

65. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain

64. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

63. Hammock - Raising Your Voice, Trying to Stop an Echo

62. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind

61. Moonsorrow - Verisakeet

60. Symphony X - The Odyssey

59. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

58. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

57. Ahab - Call of the Wretched Sea

56. Meshuggah - Nothing

55. Pelican - What We All Come to Need

54. Death - The Sound of Perseverance

53. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun

52. Haken - Visions

51. Scale the Summit - The Collective

50. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

49. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

48. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

47. Devin Townsend - Ghost/Addicted

46. Cynic - Traced in Air

45. The Sword - Age of Winters

44. Bjork - Homogenic

43. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

42. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

41. Blackfield - Blackfield

40. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom

39. Wolfmother - Wolfmother

38. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde

37. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

36. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

35. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

34. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

33. Deftones - Diamond Eyes

32. Opeth - Damnation

31. NIN - The Fragile

30. Portishead - Dummy

29. SOAD - Toxicity

28. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

27. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

26. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

25. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God

24. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

23. Orphaned Land - The Neverending Way of Orwarrior

22. Trivium - Shogun

21. Isis - Wavering Radiant

20. Animals as Leaders - self-titled

19. Katatonia - Night is the New Day

18. Rush - Moving Pictures

17. Rammstein - Reise, Reise

16. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

15. U2 - The Joshua Tree

14. Dream Theater - Images and Words

13. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

12. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

11. Opeth - Blackwater Park

10. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

9. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

8. Tool - Lateralus

7. Metallica - Master of Puppets

6. Muse - Absolution

5. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

4. Coldplay - X&Y

3. Radiohead - The Bends

2. Radiohead - Kid A

1. Radiohead - Ok Computer

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QUOTE (adace1 @ May 29 2012, 04:20 AM)
Well, I like making lists so here I go. The order's pretty much interchangeable except for 1-10. Also, for the most part, I only list one album per artist. (P.S. Please, don't make fun of my picks.)

100. Disturbed - Indestructible
99. Scorpions - Sting in the Tail
98. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
97. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
96. Dio - Holy Dive
95. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
94. The Ocean - Aeolian
93. Kamelot - The Black Halo
92. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us...
91. Nadja - Skin Turns to Glass
90. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
89. Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
88. Van Halen - Van Halen
87. Obscura - Omnivium
86. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
85. Lustmord - Metavoid
84. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
83. Anathema - Weather Systems
82. Camel - Moonmadness
81. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
80. Iced Earth - Dystopia
79. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
78. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
77. Yes - Fragile
76. Enslaved - Vertebrae
75. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
74. Children of bodom
73. Judas Priest - Painkiller
72. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
71. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
70. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
69. Amogh Symphony - The Quantum Hack Code
68. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
67. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
66. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
65. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
64. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
63. Hammock - Raising Your Voice, Trying to Stop an Echo
62. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
61. Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
60. Symphony X - The Odyssey
59. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
58. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
57. Ahab - Call of the Wretched Sea
56. Meshuggah - Nothing
55. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
54. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
53. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
52. Haken - Visions
51. Scale the Summit - The Collective
50. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
49. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
48. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
47. Devin Townsend - Ghost/Addicted
46. Cynic - Traced in Air
45. The Sword - Age of Winters
44. Bjork - Homogenic
43. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
42. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
41. Blackfield - Blackfield
40. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
39. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
38. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
37. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
36. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
35. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
34. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
33. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
32. Opeth - Damnation
31. NIN - The Fragile
30. Portishead - Dummy
29. SOAD - Toxicity
28. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
27. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
26. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
25. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
24. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
23. Orphaned Land - The Neverending Way of Orwarrior
22. Trivium - Shogun
21. Isis - Wavering Radiant
20. Animals as Leaders - self-titled
19. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
18. Rush - Moving Pictures
17. Rammstein - Reise, Reise
16. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
15. U2 - The Joshua Tree
14. Dream Theater - Images and Words
13. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
12. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
11. Opeth - Blackwater Park
10. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
9. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
8. Tool - Lateralus
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
6. Muse - Absolution
5. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
4. Coldplay - X&Y
3. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Radiohead - Kid A
1. Radiohead - Ok Computer

I never seen so many bands I haven't heard of. Yet no bands like Led Zeppelin or the Beatles. Not criticizing it's your list but I take it your not much of a classic rock fan? laugh.gif

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QUOTE (adace1 @ May 29 2012, 02:20 AM)
Well, I like making lists so here I go. The order's pretty much interchangeable except for 1-10. Also, for the most part, I only list one album per artist. (P.S. Please, don't make fun of my picks.)

100. Disturbed - Indestructible
99. Scorpions - Sting in the Tail
98. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
97. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
96. Dio - Holy Dive
95. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
94. The Ocean - Aeolian
93. Kamelot - The Black Halo
92. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us...
91. Nadja - Skin Turns to Glass
90. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
89. Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
88. Van Halen - Van Halen
87. Obscura - Omnivium
86. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
85. Lustmord - Metavoid
84. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
83. Anathema - Weather Systems
82. Camel - Moonmadness
81. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
80. Iced Earth - Dystopia
79. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
78. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
77. Yes - Fragile
76. Enslaved - Vertebrae
75. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
74. Children of bodom
73. Judas Priest - Painkiller
72. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
71. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
70. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
69. Amogh Symphony - The Quantum Hack Code
68. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
67. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
66. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
65. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
64. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
63. Hammock - Raising Your Voice, Trying to Stop an Echo
62. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
61. Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
60. Symphony X - The Odyssey
59. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
58. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
57. Ahab - Call of the Wretched Sea
56. Meshuggah - Nothing
55. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
54. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
53. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
52. Haken - Visions
51. Scale the Summit - The Collective
50. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
49. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
48. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
47. Devin Townsend - Ghost/Addicted
46. Cynic - Traced in Air
45. The Sword - Age of Winters
44. Bjork - Homogenic
43. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
42. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
41. Blackfield - Blackfield
40. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
39. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
38. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
37. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
36. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
35. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
34. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
33. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
32. Opeth - Damnation
31. NIN - The Fragile
30. Portishead - Dummy
29. SOAD - Toxicity
28. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
27. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
26. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
25. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
24. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
23. Orphaned Land - The Neverending Way of Orwarrior
22. Trivium - Shogun
21. Isis - Wavering Radiant
20. Animals as Leaders - self-titled
19. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
18. Rush - Moving Pictures
17. Rammstein - Reise, Reise
16. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
15. U2 - The Joshua Tree
14. Dream Theater - Images and Words
13. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
12. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
11. Opeth - Blackwater Park
10. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
9. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
8. Tool - Lateralus
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
6. Muse - Absolution
5. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
4. Coldplay - X&Y
3. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Radiohead - Kid A
1. Radiohead - Ok Computer

Well of course it's interchangeable - extremely so.

 

You were just listing albums my friend biggrin.gif

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QUOTE (Steevo @ May 29 2012, 01:18 AM)
QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 06:07 PM)
1. Love - Forever Changes (1967)
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far (1974)
3. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)
4. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's (1967)
5. King Crimson - Lizard (1970)
6. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
7. The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)
8. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
9. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973)
10. Can - Tago Mago (1972)

Jeeez Goobs, Tales barely scraping the top ten. Come on, surely you be jivin', that aint right dudester confused13.gif ...and where the frig is MP and PeW you you...hater of Rush you angry.gif wink.gif

Well, I did say almost any of my top 13 could have been worthy #1's! And MP and PeW are in there, just at 22 and 38, respectively - still not too shabby! no.gif

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QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 11:40 PM)
QUOTE (Steevo @ May 29 2012, 01:18 AM)
QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 06:07 PM)
1. Love - Forever Changes (1967)
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far (1974)
3. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)
4. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's (1967)
5. King Crimson - Lizard (1970)
6. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
7. The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)
8. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
9. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973)
10. Can - Tago Mago (1972)

Jeeez Goobs, Tales barely scraping the top ten. Come on, surely you be jivin', that aint right dudester confused13.gif ...and where the frig is MP and PeW you you...hater of Rush you angry.gif wink.gif

Well, I did say almost any of my top 13 could have been worthy #1's! And MP and PeW are in there, just at 22 and 38, respectively - still not too shabby! no.gif

Ok, so you did. Good work cool10.gif

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QUOTE (adace1 @ May 29 2012, 04:20 AM)
88. Van Halen - Van Halen

44. Bjork - Homogenic

I cannot find the words to describe what i am thinking right now

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It would take me a long time to do 50, much less 100 in order, but here's my top 5.... biggrin.gif

 

1. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

2. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans

3. Gong - You

4. Camel - The Snow Goose

5. Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick

 

And what the heck, here's a tentative 6-10 list (no order, though). smile.gif

 

King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

Styx - Paradise Theatre

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Cat Stevens - Catch Bull At Four

Eagles - Greatest Hits 1971-1975

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QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 29 2012, 02:10 PM)
VERY interesting list. Very folky and jazzy. There are several albums that almost made my list, but would be on a top 200 or 300 of mine.

I'd actually be curious, based on my list, what you think I should try that I might not know about...

Yes, indeed! Likewise, you have some stuff on your list that I want to ask you about.

 

I'll report back when I have a chance to consolidate my ideas and queries.

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