5 best albums in your life

OK, here's my definitive Top 25 ROCK albums of all time:

Black Flag - Damaged
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Fugazi - Repeater
MC5 - Back In The USA
Quicksand - Slip
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Television - Marquee Moon
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys - Sunflower
The Beatles - Revolver
The Clash - London Calling
The Jam - All Mod Cons
The Kinks - The Kinks
The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Stooges - Raw Power
The Who - sings My Generation
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Velvet Underground - The VU with Nico

so there. I'll return with my Top 25 soul and disco albums of all time later.
 
oh well... I couldn't narrow it down to 25 soul, funk and disco albums, so here is my TOP 50 SOUL AND DISCO OF ALL TIME list (take your time, it's quite a bit to read)... yes, I know I have too much spare time right now;)

Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand The Rain
Aretha Franklin - Spirit In The Dark
Aretha Franklin- Lady Soul
Ashford & Simpson - Stay Free
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Blaze - 25 Years Later
Blaze - Spiritually Speaking
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Chic - C'est Chic
Chic - Risque
Crown Heights Affair - Dance Lady Dance
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
Daft Punk - Homework
Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything
Earth Wind & Fire - I Am
Gene Page - Blacula OST
Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Still Together
Gwen Guthrie - Padlock
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - To Be True
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes - Shaft OST
Jaheim - Ghetto Love
Lalo Schifrin – Bullitt
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Rhapsody In White
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United
Mary J Blige - What's The 411?
MFSB - Love Is The Message
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
New Order - Technique
New York City - I'm Doing Fine Now
Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
Otis Redding - The Soul Album
Prince – Sign O’ The Times
Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
Stevie Wonder - For Once In my Life
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Ten City – Foundation
Vic Caesar - Bare Knuckles OST

phew!
 
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OK, dude, this is interesting... what about the 10 most essential ones ?!
Guide me in the right direction !
 
jeez, to me they're all essential...

of the rock bunch, if you can only buy 10, get:
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Fugazi - Repeater
Television - Marquee Moon
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Clash - London Calling
The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Stooges - Raw Power
Velvet Underground - The VU with Nico

I'd advice anyone to get all 25, but these 10 would give you the broadest spectrum of music.

of the soul/disco bunch... hmmmm....

your record collection would look silly without at least these:
Aretha Franklin- Lady Soul
Blaze - 25 Years Later
Chic - Risque
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Prince – Sign O’ The Times
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Ten City – Foundation
 
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well i'm new here but i thought i'd add my fave 5 albums

in no special order

1. pink floyd . wish you were here
2. genesis . nursery chrymes
3. frank zappa . sheik yerbouti
4. super furry animals. rings around the world
5. the beatles. abbey road

can i add another by saying every album by rush (sad but i love the dudes )!!!
 
absolutely not. I can't stand classical music;)

Stay tuned for my Top 300 Beatles Covers though.
 
Im glad to see other people like the Beach Boys! heres my 5 or so...

Misfits collection(especilly hybrid moments, and last caress)
Sublime - 40oz to freedom
Sublime - sublime
Brother Lynch - Season of the sic
Richard humpty vission - shut the **** up and dance
 
This is hard. Did you mean albums released in our lifetimes?


1. Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

2. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

3. Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall

4. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

5. Tie between Hotel California by the Eagles , Rumors by Fleetwood Mac , Revolver by the Beatles, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, The Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips, After the Goldrush by Neil Young,Tomorrow the Green Grass by the Jayhawks, and numerous other records ;)
 
5 best ALBUMS

These albums made me get excited about music when I heard them!

White Zombie-La sex.....
Pantera-vulgar display
Black Sabbath-all
Metallica-Pre black album
Ministry-P69

I understand these bands are well known, and I am not trying to impress by naming obscure bands. With out these albums I feel Metal would be less than what it is.
 
Right, just get this out of my system:

<Radiohead - The Bends>
<Radiohead - OK Computer>
<Radiohead - Kid A>
<Radiohead - Amnesiac>

Top 5 without radiohead:

>Muse - Origin of Symmetry
>Muse - Showbiz
>Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
>Nirvana - Nevermind
>Orbital - Snivilisation

changing approximately every 36 seconds.
:D

PEACE
 
Vertical Horizon (because they're my #1 fav band):

Everything You Want
Running On Ice
There And Back Again
Live Stages
Go (well when it comes out)
"VERTICAL HORIZON" - Vertical Horizon (its a double disc package of rare, live, unreleased, and cover songs by VH that i burned)

non VH albums:

The Best of 1980-1990 - U2
Gravity - Our Lady Peace
Morning View - incubus
"NIRVANA" - Nirvana
A Rush of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
 
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damn, vertical horizon isn't THAT good. but their last album was pretty cool. i gotta agree with the coldplay album though, it's really understated, which is rare these days.

but nothing can compare to weezer's blue album, radiohead's ok computer, or third eye blind's debut. i know i'll get a lot of **** about the third eye blind album, but i love it.
 
Five's not enough. 25's probably not enough.

But totally off the top of my head...

Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Portishead - Dummy
Magazine - Real Life
Getz/Gilberto (Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Coltrane - Olé

honorable mention: The Fur Ones - Odd Numbers
 
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oblique said:
damn, vertical horizon isn't THAT good. but their last album was pretty cool. i gotta agree with the coldplay album though, it's really understated, which is rare these days.

but nothing can compare to weezer's blue album, radiohead's ok computer, or third eye blind's debut. i know i'll get a lot of **** about the third eye blind album, but i love it.
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Third Eye Blind's debut wasn't too bad. They and Matchbox 20 really revived a dying modern/post-alt rock scene.
 
in no particular order

Portishead - Dummy
The Cure - Disintegration
Mad Season - Above
NIN - Downward Spiral
ORB - The orb's adventures beyond the ultra world
 
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oblique said:
damn, vertical horizon isn't THAT good. but their last album was pretty cool.
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ohhh yes they are, VH is one of the best most creative ****ing bands out there.
 
OK, when a certain bands songs are interchangeable with everyother band in that genre like 3 Doors Down, Matchbox 20, Our Lady Peace, Counting Crows, Live, etc. said band is NOT innovative or creative. They are simply yet another choice in an oversaturated top 40 market.
 
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