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Top Ten Albums - glaconman - 14-05-2007
You thought films were hard!
Here's my stab at my fave 10 albums. I did it quick. And it's already wrong. There are 11 for a start. We're right into High Fidelity territory here.
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces Of Victory
Bob Marley - Kaya
Asian Dub Foundation - Facts And Fictions
Van Morrison - Moondance
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy
Susheela Raman - Salt Rain
Gil Scott Heron - The Best Of
Top Ten Albums - Ana - 14-05-2007
Our Desert Island is really going to be the best place to stay,
top films, top music...
one pop corn machine, and one Irish pub plenty of guinness
Ok, this choice is even most difficult, I will only say:
- What's going on, by Marvin Gaye
- The birth of the cool, by Miles Davis
- Pieces of a dream, by Anastacia
For the rest, I take my time for thinking about it...
Top Ten Albums - Nick - 15-05-2007
This is more difficult than the films.
Without too much considerstion:
1) Dark side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
2) OK Computer - Radiohead
3) Captain Fantastic - Elton John
4) The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
5) Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
6) Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp
7) Fin de Siecle - Divine Comedy
8) Then there were Three - Genesis
9) Funeral - Arcade Fire
10) Employment - Kaiser Chiefs
Am intersted to see whats in Sweders list.
Top Ten Albums - Seafront Plodder - 15-05-2007
Nick Wrote:Am intersted to see whats in Sweders list.
I reckon I could make a pretty good guess...
Top Ten Albums - Sweder - 15-05-2007
As with others, a lot tougher than movies. This changes hourly! Artists marked * most likely to remain in top ten, specific albums interchangable.
In no particular order . . .
1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd*
2. Overkill - Motorhead
3. Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
4. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
5. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
6. Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers*
7. Presence - Led Zeppelin*
8. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
9. Rock Of The Westies - Elton John
10. All Mod Cons - The Jam
Top Ten Albums - glaconman - 15-05-2007
Good to see Stevie Wonder in there Sweder. He would make it into top 10 artists, but I'm not attached to any particular album.
Funny I ended up including 2 live albums and I usually dislike live albums. But I spent so much time listening to the Zepplin one when I was a kid.
Top Ten Albums - glaconman - 15-05-2007
Wonder if Andy will be able to restrict himself to one Dylan album. Yawn.
Top Ten Albums - Sweder - 15-05-2007
glaconman Wrote:Wonder if Andy will be able to restrict himself to one Dylan album. Yawn.Yeah . . . I nearly Ixnayed TP for his Travelling Wallabies association with the Big D. American Girl and Breakdown are just too good though . . .
Speaking of live albums my favorite Quo album was their double live effort in the 70's. In My Chair and Mystery Song both big faves of mine - the resonnance is purely historical, conjouring strong memories from that time. Ultimately they didn't get in, but they might tomorrow.
Top Ten Albums - El Gordo - 15-05-2007
glaconman Wrote:Wonder if Andy will be able to restrict himself to one Dylan album. Yawn.
You're about to find out...
I don't think the original question can really be answered literally. My favourite musicians may have several albums that I rate above the next favourite musician... And there are genres like classical, jazz/blues, choral/Gregorian chant or Irish folkie stuff that rate aong my best-loved and most-listened-to (particularly when working) but don't fit easily into the single album format.
But entering into the spirit of the question, and ruling out the above genres, here's a list of favourite modernish rockish musicians, and my favouritish album (would probably be 50% different if asked again in a month's time):
Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Bringin' It All Back Home
The Doors - LA Woman
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Led Zeppelin - II
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Top Ten Albums - El Gordo - 15-05-2007
The 5 closest to the list were:
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
John Martyn - Solid Air
The Clash - London Calling
John Surman - The Road to St Ives
Top Ten Albums - glaconman - 15-05-2007
You're right Andy: it was a pretty juvenile challenge. But you managed to read between the lines. I love lists, and this is a great one. Even though it's not exactly my own taste it has a definitive feel to it. So I'm glad I flushed it out of you. You bugga. The only slight suprise being Lloyd Cole.
Top Ten Albums - El Gordo - 15-05-2007
glaconman Wrote:You're right Andy: it was a pretty juvenile challenge. But you managed to read between the lines. I love lists, and this is a great one. Even though it's not exactly my own taste it has a definitive feel to it. So I'm glad I flushed it out of you. You bugga. The only slight suprise being Lloyd Cole.
Yes, Lloyd Cole is an odd one, and I had to think about it before including it. It was an album played constantly when I worked in a wine shop 20 years ago, and it kinda took hold. Then I forgot about it for 19 years until I came across it last year and stuck it on my iPlod. When I run, tracks keep popping up, and I realise just how inch-perfect the arrangements and production are, and how tortured the soul of the writer, and I've fallen in love with it again. But if I did the list again, it may well not appear at all.
Such is the nature of lists.
Top Ten Albums - Sweder - 15-05-2007
Ah, LA Woman . . . I feel slightly embarrassed leaving that out, especially as it's an iPlod favorite. Certainly would be in there on another day, as would Ry Cooder's Southern Comfort soundtrack. But as you say, certain music doesn't readily jump on the tour bus. Mussorgsky's Night On Bare Mountain, for example, or Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije, both powerfully evocative pieces, would walk into my all-time top ten 'musical offerings'.
Top Ten Albums - Seafront Plodder - 15-05-2007
Much more of a subjective choice than films I think, and I take Andy's point re genre.
And for all of us (I guess), certain albums evoke memories of times in our lives, and the memories that remain. Still, although my top 5 would be in any list, here's my offering....
Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
Queen Innuendo
Eagles Hotel California
Lou Reed Transformer
The Isley Brothers - Harvest For The World
Elton John (Dont Shoot Me) Im only The Piano Player
Led Zeppelin IV
Tom Robinson Band - Power In The Darkness
The Brothers Johnson Strawberry Letter 23
Garth Brooks - Sevens
Top Ten Albums - suzieq - 15-05-2007
This is quite difficult - and it does change. But here are some of my favourites:
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell (1)
Beatles - White Album
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits
Richard Thompson - Live from Austin, TX
CCR - Greatest Hits
Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Kris Kristofferson - Silver Tongued Devil
Squeeze - East Side Story
John Mellencamp - Uh Huh
Suzie
Top Ten Albums - Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 16-05-2007
Well nigh impossible to reduce it to 10, but here's my "off the top of my head" faves for the moment (not in order except for the first 3):
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Santana - Caravanserai
Focus - Moving Waves
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Led Zeppelin - Led Zep IV
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks...
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Yes - Tormato
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Asia - Aura
Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
But the top three are definitely the first ones I grab on my way out the door to the life hereafter...
