Steely Dan - Aja
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Dire Straits - Self Titled
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Jackie Brown OST
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Nirvana - Nevermind
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Pixies - Bossanova
Needs Bowie but otherwise perfect...
Damn forgot Bowie. I like the mid-late 70's.
Mostly replying as a personal challenge; I doubt anyone cares about my opinion. I think this is a hard but interesting challenge and I could probably spend a lifetime perfecting it, but this is my unadulterated first pass:
- “Stardust” - Willie Nelson
- “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” - Smashing Pumpkins
- “Blue Lines” - Massive Attack
- “Kind of Blue” - Miles Davis
- “Wildflowers” - Tom Petty
- “Blind Melon” - Blind Melon
- “Loaded” - The Velvet Underground
- “At War with the Mystics” - The Flaming Lips
- “Dire Straits” - Dire Straits
- “Pretty Hate Machine” - Nine Inch Nails
Fuck. How do you make a list like this without regretting every decision you made?!
Off the top of my head...
The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
The Rainmakers - Flirting with the Universe
XTC - Black Sea
Morphine - Good
Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Mattoid - Great Lovers
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?
...or something like that...
I did not expect to find bloodhound gang on any of these lists.
Can't argue with it much. Jimmy Pop is a dumb white guy. Not old or new, but middle school. Fifth grade like junior high.
Wow… didn’t know anyone else had heard of The Rainmakers. I was a huge fan when they were touring around the flyover states. Saw them half a dozen times in Wichita. I still listen to their first three albums pretty regularly.
I happened on them when they put out their first album and have been a fan ever since, and that's even without ever getting a chance to see them live. Bob Walkenhorst is easily my favorite songwriter.
Flirting with the Universe is their fourth album - after a bit of a recording hiatus after The Good News and the Bad News, and it's far and away my favorite. It's obvious that they took their time and carefully crafted an album designed to showcase their talent. It's unfortunate that it still didn't manage to bring them the recognition they've always deserved, but I appreciate it.
never heard of any of these
Weirdly insulting thing to say. Maybe listen to them.
Weird Al, all of them.
I'm autistic, pick any ten albums and they will end up being my favourite albums as I continue to listen to them and they become my familiar.
I anticipate a metric ton of "best of" albums, but I'll give it try avoiding that. In no particular order:
- Billy Joel - the Stranger
- Genisis - Genisis
- Beach Boys - Pet sounds
- the Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Muse - Resistance
- Rush - Permananent Waves
- Radiohead - OK Computer
- Boston - Boston
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Linda Ronstadt - What's New (that will throw a few folks off the trail)
Linda Ronstadt - What’s New (that will throw a few folks off the trail)
Not really, your tastes are very similar to mine. Although "What's New" was just a gateway drug and now my music library is full of albums by Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Carmen McRae, Joao Gilberto, Frank Sinatra and more.
Oh and updating my own list because I listened to it this weekend - Songs in the key of life, Stevie Wonder
Otis Redding - Otis Blue Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On Michael Jackson - Off the Wall James Booker - Classified The Meters – Rejuvenation Darondo - Listen to My Song James Brown - Live at the Apollo Dr. Dre - The Chronic Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid Anderson .Paak - Malibu
Hell yeah
I think being able to draw a line from your classic albums to your modern hits is hella cool. Your list makes a lot of sense.
311 - Grassroots
Tool - Undertow
Meshuggah - Obzen
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Dr. Dre - 2001
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Paul Oakenfold - Transport
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
Bazooka Tooth over all of aes' other work?
Controversial I know. There was a point where I listened to that album everyday at work for months. Could be swapped for Hail Mary Mallon - The Bestiary
- Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
- Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
- Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
- Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon
- Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook
- Ray LaMontagne - Monovision
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
- Tonic - Lemon Parade
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
7 I like and 3 I don't know. Here we go...
Gemini Syndrome - Memento Mori
Gemini Syndrome - Lux
The Beatles - One
Queen - Greatest Hits
Queen - Greatest Hits II
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
NWA - Greatest Hits
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits
I'll hate myself in a couple weeks for this selection because my taste varies week-to-week, but right now it'd be:
Devin Townsend: Ziltoid the Omniscient, Empath
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius, Magma
The Ocean: Phanerozoic I, Phanerozoic II (can I count these as one album?)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (I think they were going for a record for the longest album title ever).
Voivod: The Outer Limits
Mastodon: Leviathan and Crack the Skye
If Phanerozoic I and II count as a single album, then I'd ask if I can leave the last one open to be filled by a single random studio album of an artist of my choosing, replaced weekly/monthly.
Edit: removed one because I miscounted.
Ziltoid and Empath.... hello, friend :)
In no order:
- Mothership - Dance Gavin Dance
- Reimagined - Hail the Sun
- The Artist in the Ambulance - Thrice
- Appeal to Reason - Rise Against
- In Silico - Pendulum
- Good Kid - Good Kid
- Rhythm, Chord & Melody - The Reign of Kindo
- Wake - Hail the Sun
- To Speak, To Listen - Eidola
- NieR:Automata Original Soundtrack - Keiichi Okabe
Difficult...
- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
- Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
- Prequelle - Ghost
- Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
- Ten - Pearl Jam
- Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield
- Vast - Vast
- English Settlement - XTC
- The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon and Vangelis
- Appetite For Destruction - Guns n Roses
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Tool - 10,000 Days
Rush - Test for Echo
Metallica - Metallica
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Michael Jackson - HIStory
BIGBANG - MADE
[bodyendtag] - Information Superhighway
Kumi Koda - BEST 2000-2020
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Geez that's tough. Let's see if I can do 10:
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
- Johnny Cash - At Folsum Prison
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- B-52s - B-52s
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Massive Attack - Mezzanine
- Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
Number one by far: Perfect Circle Thirteenth step.
The rest are in the order I think of them off the top of my head:
System of a down: Toxicity and Mezmotize
Tool Aenema
Smashing pumpkins: Melon Collie
CCRs Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd: Echos
Metallica S&M
Live Throwing Cooper
Weezer
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Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
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Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
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Pink Floyd - Animals
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Paramore - Brand New Eyes
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Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA
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Yes - Drama
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Yellowcard - Yellowcard
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My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
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Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I've never actually listened to this in full but I love "September" off this album)
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Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love "Stan" but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I'm not much of an album guy in genres that aren't rock.)
Dammit for picking some real killers. Takeuchi? Tull AND STP? I like the cut of your jibb.
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- The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
- Leo Delibes - Lakme
- Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
- Dire Straits - Making Movies
- Green Day - American Idiot
- The Manhattan Transfer - Brasil
- Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From the Moons
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Rush - 2112
- Supertramp - Breakfast In America
I'm glad to see Breakfast in America here!
Probably Rust in Peace
Ugh this is so tough!
- The Beatles - Revolver
- Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
- Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
- Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
- Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
- David Bowie - Let's Dance
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
- Iggy Pop - Soldier
- CSNY - Déjà Vu
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AC/DC - If You Want Blood
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Nirvana - Nevermind
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Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
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Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
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Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
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REO Speedwagon - Live, You Get What You Play For
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Head East - Flat as a Pancake
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Foghat Live
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Kyus - Welcome to Sky Valley
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Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'
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In no order:
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
- Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
- Songs For The Deaf - Queens of The Stone Age
- Still Still Stellar - Hoshimachi Suisei
- You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters
- Station to Station - David Bowie
- Blackstar - David Bowie
- Hunting High and Low - a-ha
- Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
- DISCO4 :: Generations - Health
No order
- Pickin' on Modest Mouse - Iron Horse
- August and Everything After - Counting Crows
- Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid
- Manners - Passion Pit
- Dirt - Alice in Chains
- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
- Silent Steeples - Dispatch
- The President of the United States of America - The President of the United States of America
- Building Nothing out of Something - Modest Mouse
- Dosage - Collective Soul
I think I'd be pretty happy if I had these albums in a desert island scenario... especially if I could do some sampling/remixing 😜
- The Planets - Gustav Holst
- Billie Holliday on Verve
- Charlie Parker on Verve
- The Firebird suite - Igor Stravinsky
- Gnossiene - Eric Satie
- The Heart of Saturday - Tom Waits
- Ready to die - The Notorious B.I.G.
- 20 Street Years - DJ Muro
- Brilliant Corners - Thelonius Monk
- Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley
Smart to have an eclectic list. Yet keeping a few standards because thats your vibe.
This question gives me anxiety. Would learn to play guitar I guess.
I reckon these would keep me going for a good old time.
- Colors - Between the Buried and Me
- The Shape of Color - Intervals
- Handmade Cities - Plini
- Odyssey to the West - Slice the Cake
- Esoteric Malacology - Slugdge
- Crux - Moon Tooth
- Death of a Dead Day - Sikth
- Daughters - Daughters
- Oxidized - Frontierer
- Doppelgänger - The Fall of Troy
I don't know how to appreciate Fall of Troy outside of F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. and its unpronounceable original version. Even seeing them live (they opened for Alexisonfire) left me feeling like i was missing something.
Always a tough format to pick just 10, but here goes:
- Leftfield - Leftism
- R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
- Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
- Orbital - In Sides
- Portishead - Portishead
- Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
- Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
- Beatles - Abbey Road
- Pulp - Different Class
But there's an awful lot that I would regret leaving behind.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Aha - Hunting High and Low
Roxy Music - Avalon
Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Beatles - One
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Elton John - Caribou
Subject to change without notice Edit: format
Dire straits-self titled
Queen- night at the opera
Sublime-self titled
Peter Paul and Mary -self titled
Fleetwood Mac- rumors
Annenmaykantereit-Schlagschatten
Carole king- tapestry
Pete Seeger-If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Cream- strange brew
Dave Brubeck- time out
This is wild, I didn’t realize how dated my music taste skewed. I wanted frank turner, cistem failure, modest mouse, Amy Winehouse, and Adele, but I couldn’t cut anything else.
Sun ra - Sound Sun Pleasure
Ms Lauren Hill - The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Ethiopiques, vol. 21: Emahoy
Lucy - The Music Industry Is Pointless
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Dean Blunt - Black Metal
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
My Body Valentine - Loveless
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time
....Fucking brutal question.....
Trivium - in waves
Lorna shore - the pain remains
Metallica - master of puppets
Sum 41 - does this look infected
Arch enemy - rise of the tyrant
Florence and the machine - MTV unplugged
Frank turner - positive songs for negative people
Highly suspect - mister asylum
Maybeshewill - not for want of trying
The mountain goats - the sunset tree
Holy shit, one of these lists where I see albums I listen to haha. Why that particular Trivium album? Also, the black album gets all the love, but I'll take And Justice For All over it every day of the week.
I really like the whole composition of In Waves. It really feels like it's telling a story and all the songs flow so well into one another. I generally prefer albums that are whole and not just a collections of songs or singles. In Waves is probably one of my favorite albums for it's cohesiveness.
And yeah black album is great but I think MoP is just bangers all the way through. If I want thrash metal I want Metallica and I don't want to slow down haha.
Aly & fila - beyond the lights(already own it)
Craig Connelly - believe in magic
Silicon soul - staring into space
Jazzanova - In between
Deep dish - junk science
Nuspirit Helsinki – Nuspirit Helsinki
Giuseppe Ottaviani - alma
Dj patife - no Estrada
Kevin Yost – One Starry Night
Can't think the last one.10 times the first and last self-titled album of our school punk band "Auswurph" ! The bass had one string. The guitar 5, on a good day, on all other days more 3 to 4. The drums were stolen here and there -ask me how I know, I was the drummer - and our frontman was a certified psycho. No really, he was. Several stays in the psychiatry. I think there weren't even 10 cd's made... I can't remember exactly. Now as I think of it I can't remember anything of that time in detail, all a bit blurry, but one thing I can remember: it was the best album anyone had made since the invention of noise.
Bro I honestly can't even name 10 albums. I've never liked listening to albums because after the singles are over most of the songs suck imo. I basically have one playlist and it's just all of my favorite songs from every genre mixed into one thing, and it's basically the only thing I listen to lol.
Not going to downvote you because your tastes are your tastes. But it's kind of sad that the artists you like can't come up with more than one or two good songs per album. Or maybe it's the industry itself since so few people buy albums. When I used to buy albums my favorite song was never the hit single.
Haha yeah people always bash on me because all my favorite songs are always just the top 100 or whatever... but that's why I like them, they're normally the bands upbeat, catchy songs lol.
I can name a lot more than 10 albums, but yes in some cases many of the songs are not interesting. In some extreme cases I have regretted not just buying the single instead.
There are a few albums, though, where I like every single song. But I couldn't be constrained to just them for my whole life, as that would exclude some really good stuff.
One look at my album collection tells me that that is not conceivable.
There are some tragic omissions here but i think i could make do with these 10.
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Spirit World Field Guide - Aesop Rock
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Good Kid M.A.A.D. City - Kendrick Lamar
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Run the Jewels 3 - Run the Jewls
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The Missing Man - AFI
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Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance
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October Forever - Driveways
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Gun Mouth 4 Hire: Horns & Halos 2 - Andre Nickatina
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Divisi - A Lot Like Birds
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Dedication 6 - Lil Wayne
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The Melody and the Enigmatic Nature of Volume - Evans Blue
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Without giving it tons of thought:
An Awesome Wave - Altj
Camp - Childish Gambino
Dear - Keaton Henson
So Long Forever - Palace
High Violet - The National
Trouble Will Find Me - The National
Romantic Works - Keaton Henson
Up From Below - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
know it's more recent stuff than not, but
Madvilliany - Madvillian Drukqs - Aphex Twin To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Since I Left You - The Avalanches The Glow, Pt. 2 - The Microphones Late Registration - Kanye West Remain In Light - Talking Heads Illinois - Sufjan Stevens The Money Store - Death Grips Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
Looking through my collection here, ten is a lot easier that just one. In no particular order:
- Roxy Music - Avalon
- Philip Glass - Akhnaten
- Electric Light Orchestra - Time
- Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
- Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the Songbooks
- Glenn Miller - A Legendary Performer
- Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth
- Vangelis - Blade Runner
- Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
- The Cult - Love
(Ask me again next week, or next month, and my list will probably change).
Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
- Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
- Blood on the Tracks: New York Session (Bob Dylan
- Willie and the Poor Boys (CCR)
- Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Tally Hall)
- 1990 (Daniel Johnston)
- Z (My Morning Jacket)
- I Had A Dream That You Were Mine (Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam)
- London Calling (The Clash)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
- Roast Beef (Biff Rose)
If I thought about it longer, I'd probably end up with a more varied list as far as genre.
Toe- For Long Tomorrow.
Delta Sleep- Ghost City.
Good kid- Good Kid 3.
Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial.
Radiohead- OK Computer.
Nirvana- Bleach.
RX Bandits- Mandala.
Stone Temple pilots- Core.
Blind Melon- Soup.
Mayday Parade- A Lesson in Romantics.
List just off the top of my head. Would be different if I thought about it longer.
In chronological order...
1 & 2 - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) by The Beatles 3 - La Invasión de los blátidos (1992) by Cuca 4 - In Utero (1993) by Nirvana 5 - Historias (1994) by Arjona 6 - Insomniac (1995) by Green Day 7 - Version 2.0 (1998) by Garbage 8 - Dónde están los ladrones? (1998) by Shakira 9 - Americana (1998) by The Offspring 10 - Enema of the State (1999) by Blink 182
- Sgt Pepper's, Beatles
- Morning Phase, Beck
- Origin of Symmetry, Muse
- In Rainbows, Radiohead
- What's the Story Morning Glory, Oasis
- Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
- Bossanova, Pixies
- Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits
- Pretty Hate Machine, NIN
- The Lord of the Rings film trilogy soundtrack
None? At that point, I'd just stop listening to music.
I can't play albums as it is, because hearing the same artist, the same songs, in the same order every time drives me crazy
What kinda music have you listened to? Bands/artists who compose albums with a central concept and/or sound are a lot easier for me to listen to than albums that are collections of unconnected songs. For an example, Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient, and Empath, or King Gizzard's PetroDragonic Apocalypse are way more listenable as a full album than some pop-music album designed to hit the top charts with maximum radio/streamablility.
