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  • Top 10 albums of all time

    I see your top 10 releases of 2004 and raise you...

    1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
    2. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
    3. OK Computer - Radiohead
    4. The Unforgettable Fire - U2
    5. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
    6. It takes a nation of millions - Public Enemy
    7. Trace - Son Volt
    8. White Blood Cells - White Stripes
    9. Travis - The Man Who
    10. August and Everything After - Counting Crows


    Just missing the list:
    Disintegration - The Cure
    Signals - Rush
    All Shook Down - Replacements

    These type of lists are so hard but that's where I stand as of 6/8/2006.
    Hollywood Town Hall - The Jayhawks

  • #2
    Top 10 of all time...wow thats quite a raise...can't we start with Top 10 of the 1990's?

    I'm guessing I am older than you are from your list and that you are only speaking of rock music; here is my take off the top of my head. I had to do 15 since some cannot be left off IMO.

    Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All
    The Who: Quadrophenia
    The Beatles: Rubber Soul
    Phish: Lawn Boy
    Bob Dylan: Bring it all Back Home
    Jethro Tull: Stand Up
    Rush: 2112
    Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
    The Doors: Soft Parade
    Dylan & The Band: The Original Basement Tapes
    SRV: Couldn't Stand the Weather
    Grateful Dead: American Beauty
    Talking Heads: More Songs about Buildings & Food
    The Police: Ghost in the Machine
    Prince: Sign O' the Times
    Eliminate distractions, create energy, fear nothing, and attack everything.

    -Andy Reid

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    • #3
      Interesting that you picked 2112 from the Rush discography. It's a great album but a little too indulgent at times in their prog-art-rock phase. I have a soft spot for Fly By Night too.

      Oh and SRV?


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      • #4
        I know this will change as soon as I hit "submit", but here goes...in no particular order:

        Thievery Corporation: The Mirror Conspiracy
        Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
        Zero 7: Simple Things
        Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
        Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
        Portishead: Dummy
        Outkast: Aquemini
        Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
        The Roots: Do You Want More?
        and yes...
        Michael Jackson: Thriller
        I have never done steroids. Period. Well, not today, anyway.

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        • #5
          I thought about Van Morrison but I might have to go with Hard Nose the Highway. And I'd take Blue Train over Kind of Blue.

          AND YES.. i considered putting MJ's off the wall on there as a reserve.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sfphillyfan
            And I'd take Blue Train over Kind of Blue.
            I was close to going with "A Love Supreme", but I'm much more Miles than Trane.
            I have never done steroids. Period. Well, not today, anyway.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by sfphillyfan
              Interesting that you picked 2112 from the Rush discography. It's a great album but a little too indulgent at times in their prog-art-rock phase. I have a soft spot for Fly By Night too.

              Oh and SRV?


              I am a prog rock fan and thought Peart did some of his finest writing on that...I also lean toward strong individualism, like the fact they tributed it to Ayn Rand and love the philosophy of the album... Signals would be 2nd on my Rush list...

              SRV = Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the best blues guitar players ever born IMO...
              Eliminate distractions, create energy, fear nothing, and attack everything.

              -Andy Reid

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              • #8
                This is a hard one, and if you asked me this question tomorrow you would probably get a different list but I'll give it a shot.


                The Beatles: Revolver
                Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
                Weezer: Pinkerton
                Massive Attack: Protection
                Beck - Guero
                Gorrilaz - Demon Days
                Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
                Dead Kenedys - Mutiny on the Bay
                The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
                Wilco - Summer Teeth
                Whatcha Gonna Do Brother, When the Eagles run wild on you?

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                • #9
                  Ugh! I agonize over lists like this. I'm sure this thread plus some memory jogging will alter this BUT I will throw some essentials for me out there:

                  U2 - The Joshua Tree
                  Radiohead - OK Computer
                  Prince - Sign O' The Times
                  Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
                  REM - Document
                  The Police - Synchronicity
                  Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
                  Led Zeppelin - II
                  U2 - Achtung Baby
                  Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

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                  • #10
                    I'm treating this like a desert island question, where it would be necessary to have a mix of genres and time periods to preserves one's sanity if faced with only listening to 10 albums for the rest of one's life.

                    No particular order:

                    Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
                    Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (Nation of Millions is a better album, but Black Planet just caught me at the right time of my life)
                    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
                    Led Zeppelin - IV
                    Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
                    King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
                    The Cars - S/T
                    Nirvana - Unplugged
                    Fugazi - 13 Songs
                    Misfits - Walk Among Us

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                    • #11
                      nyc - good call on PE. I would put "It Takes a Nation" up there on my list as well -see I said I'd need to change it up. Drop Achtung and add PE!

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                      • #12
                        Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
                        Queensryche- Empire
                        Black Sabbath- Paranoid
                        Metallica- Master of Puppets
                        Faith No More- The Real Thing
                        Guns n Roses- Appetite for Destruction
                        Warrior Soul- Last Decade Dead Century
                        Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time
                        King Diamond- Abigail
                        Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil
                        FRESH > cancer

                        I hate everything the Cowboys stand for. If you think they are America's team, then you support everything that is wrong with America. The excess, the greed, the lack of maturity, the lack of responsibility, the lack of control. - Luzinski's Gut

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                        • #13
                          Hey Blitz - you don't have to just limit the list to metal...

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                          • #14
                            Only choosing one from each band:

                            Slayer - Reign in Blood
                            Metallica - Master of Puppets
                            Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
                            Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
                            Megadeth - Rust in Peace
                            Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
                            Danzig - S/T
                            Anthrax - Among the Living
                            Motorhead - Ace of Spades
                            Judas Priest - British Steel

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by trufresh17
                              Outkast: Aquemini
                              Good call. I actually liked Stankonia better than this one though.

                              My list (as of right now) would probably be:

                              1) Pearl Jam - Ten (Yellow Ledbetter was the b-side to Jeremy, so I'm putting it on Ten, for my sake)
                              2) Outkast - Stankonia
                              3) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
                              4) Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets
                              5) Michael Jackson - Thriller
                              6) Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
                              7) Jay-Z - Black Album
                              Van Halen - 1984
                              9) Rush - Moving Pictures
                              10) Kanye West - College Dropout

                              Hard to leave off:
                              - Weezer (first album)
                              - The Who
                              - Beatles
                              - Dmx - It's Dark and Hell is Hot

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