TOP 5 LP'S/ALBUMS/CD'S OF ALL TIME

You're in good company, I played it to death as well.

Listened to Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous album on the way in to work and Talk Talk's Colour of Spring album on the way home, both albums feature here.

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Bridge Over Troubled Water -Simon and Garfunkel
Exodus - Bob Marley
Hotel California - The Eagles
Urban Hymns - The Verve

slippy no offence pal but .human league were pony..dare sold a lot but was pish
apart from dont you want me.

Have to disagree with you sofia.
The Human League were incredibly innovative, writing pop hits like Don't You Want me but issuing alongside them instrumental versions that have stood the test of time better.
The most interesting and innovative act of their generation, had they been on Factory records and never sold a record they would be up there with Joy Division.

nah silly haircut and some seriously naff singles

don't slag off anybody else's selections, each to their own music and era. - OP

Dark Side Of The Moon.. Pink Floyd
Sgt. Pepper.. Beatles
Aftermath..Stones
Tommy.. The Who
Wish You Were Here..Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Ten - Pearl Jam
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Seal - Seal
Abbey Road - Beatles

NB - Rumours, All Mod Cons, Urban Hymns, The Song Remains The Same, Venus & Mars, (Rainbow) Rising, The Wall, to name but a few. Tough to pick a top 5 but the five picked are arguably played the most in this house.

Abbey Road - Beatles
The Commitments - The Commitments
The Wall - Floyd
Piledriver - Status Quo
Des O Connor's greatest hits

Script of the Bridge - The Chameleons
On Fire - Galaxie 500
Days in Europa - Skids
Positively Spooked - The Band of Holy Joy
Birth School Work Death - The Godfathers

Sofiakenny has got it badly wrong.

Never a fan of the Human League and similar music to that.
But 'Dare' is obviously a groundbreaking album, twinned with a great 'pop' association.

Great singles too

Heaven17 were better than the league.
facist groove thang was great..just my opinion.

Stone Roses
Sparklehorse - Vivadixie...
Lanterns on the Lake
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Loaded - The Velvet Underground
John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Talking Heads - True Stories


Bubbling under Back in Black, Surfer Rosa, Stone Roses, Hunky Dory, Exile on Main Street, A Night at the Opera, Live and Dangerous, Sergeant Pepper and many others.

Bubbling under .....oh ok then


Judas Priest            Killing Machine
Smashing Pumpkins    Siamese Dreams
Pixies                    Doolittle
The Sisters Of Mercy    Floodland
Led Zeppelin         In Through The Out Door
Rainbow                    Difficult To Cure
Rush                Fly By Night
Pixies                    Surfer Rosa
My Bloody Valentine    Isn't Anything
The House Of Love    The House Of Love

21st century not exactly being over-represented on this thread  , wot no Coldplay , Elbow , Doves.....oh dear I feel faint

On the subject of Coldplay.. does anyone really like 'Paradise'? Seriously, it is the most over-rated song of the 21st century imo!

This is impossible but here's mine (great to see a Robert Palmer & Aftermath chosen)

1 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
2 Blue Joni Mitchell
3 Crazy Horse Crazy Horse
4 Excitable Boy Warren Zevon
5 Can't buy a thrill Steely Dan

Crazy Horse without Neil Young ? - surely not !

1 funeral arcade fire
2. black and white stranglers
3. black album the damned
4. surfer rosa  pixies
5. ziggy stardust  bowie

'fraid so Facts. I did start by saying it was impossible though!

Crazy Horse a great pick..Beggars Day and I Dont want to talk about it..outstanding tracks.

who's next shocking ommission.

This is tough but here goes!

1. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
2. The Specials - Specials
3. Subhumans - Worlds Apart
4. Aswad - Live And Direct
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx!

Honourable mentions - Land of Grey & Pink (Caravan), Stanley Road (Paul Weller), Never Mind the Bollux (Pistols), Definitely Maybe/ WTSMG (Oasis).

The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd

Love Over Gold Dire straits

Sgt Pepper

No Ordinary World Joe Cocker

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrill Greatest Hits

Dare Human League

Just remembered! Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa. Don't know if it would make my top 5 or just the honourable mentions though.

Grim Reaper • February 2, 2012 8:04 PM GMT

Sgt Pepper

Funny how you usually overlook the great ones (darn, I forgot Pet Sounds in mine)

Some of my favs already mentioned

London Calling - The Clash

Elephant - The White Stripes

Air - Moon Safari

For me it all depends on my mood. Others to throw into the mix not mentioned so far would include.


Solid Air - John Martyn

Greetings From LA - Tim Buckley

Damned Damned Damned - The Damned

Any of the first 4 Talking Heads Albums

For Emma - Bon Iver

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Brian Eno/David Byrne

Down By The Jetty - Doctor Feelgood

Eden - Everything But The Girl

All Mod Cons - The Jam

The Richest Man In Babylon - Thievery Corporation.

Nilsson Schmilsson
Son of Schmilsson
Knnillssonn

usual , but still great question . virtually impossible . you should not be able to answer this and 'click' in with a comfortable feeling ....i'll give just  one for any list . nothing show off or quirky ...blood on the tracks . played it the other day and it sounded fresh as paint . masterpiece.

no van morrsion albums mentioned yet ?

Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Born To Run
The River
Tunnel Of Love
The Rising


I guess that's why they call him The Boss

saint dominics preview..there you go morpeth.

Gin 02 Feb 12 19:51 
This is tough but here goes!

1. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
2. The Specials - Specials
3. Subhumans - Worlds Apart
4. Aswad - Live And Direct
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx!

Honourable mentions - Land of Grey & Pink (Caravan), Stanley Road (Paul Weller), Never Mind the Bollux (Pistols), Definitely Maybe/ WTSMG (Oasis).

joci..you are a luverly lad but....yer taste in muzak is seriously duff.
if i didnt know better i wud think you wuz a bird.

This is all about opinions. Not what is right or wrong. As I stated earlier it often depends on mood.

At present for me .

Bon Iver For Emma,forever ago.

In no particular order:-

1. The Scream - Siouxsie & The Banshees
2. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
3. Space Ritual - Hawkwind
4. Never Mind The B0llocks - Sex Pistols
5. The Queen is Dead/Meat is Murder (tied) - The Smiths

Five's not really enough...hon mentions to Joy Division, The Jam, The Clash, and tons more...

boom..all brit list

Automatic For The People - REM
Fellow Hoodlums - Deacon Blue
Hot Fuss - The Killers
Ok Computer - Radiohead
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range

hasnt nobody ever heard Argus by wishbone ash...Blowin Free, The King will come, Warrior, even the ex wife rated this album!

swiftsilver     02 Feb 12 21:42 
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Born To Run
The River
Tunnel Of Love
The Rising


I guess that's why they call him The Boss

brilliant

RLKingPunter 03 Feb 12 01:33 
hasnt nobody ever heard Argus by wishbone ash...Blowin Free, The King will come, Warrior, even the ex wife rated this album!

Excellent album - have seen them a couple of times at a small venue near me - they brought out a new version of the album recorded 'live' in a small American radio station, where they played the entire album live, and a few other tracks. Boguth it at the concert and got the CD signed by Andy Powell too.

sofiakenny 02 Feb 12 23:30 
joci..you are a luverly lad but....yer taste in muzak is seriously duff.
if i didnt know better i wud think you wuz a bird.Happy

joci, argus was so good it was the beginning of the end for them, they couldnt better it and soon the original line up Powell, Upton and the 2 Turners split up.A great shame, ive seen them many times in various line ups  but none beats the original.Be nice if they reformed and did  Argus again...

I remember seeing them many years (early 80s?) ago in a bbc tv concert, and thought the twin guitars were brilliant (think the line up was Andy Powell and Laurie Wisefield)?

Did some other great tracks though, with a couple of my favourites being Way of the World and F.U.B.B

Almost impossible to pick just 5, many good ones already mentioned.

The Beatles (Choose from:) -  Abbey Rd, Revolver, Sgt Pepper
Billy Joel - The Stranger
ELO - Out of the blue
Queen - (choose from:) Night at the opera, Day at the races.
10CC - (Choose from:) 10cc, Live and let Live, Deceptive Bends

also Bridge over Troubled Water (S & G), Hotel California (Eagles), The Friends of Mr Cairo (Jon and Vangelis), Absolutely (Madness), Well Well Said the Rocking Chair (Dean Friedman), Band on the Run (Wings), Pet Sounds (Beach Boys). etc etc.....
Way too hard to pick just 5.

Utopia..   Utopia (Todd Rundgren)
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits..   Doobie Brothers
3+3..    Isley Brothers
Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart..   Van Morrison
Okie..   JJ Cale

maggot..you have great taste..Okie was chilled out before chillin out was invented
Todd Rundgren underated genius
Isleys-class...that lady summer breeze harvest for the world.triffic.

Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Passover - The Black Angels
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie

And just for those getting upset earlier in the thread have to say Argus is pretty good too

The Man Who Sold The World has one of my all time favourite songs on - The Width of a Circle.

I have to say
I'm reasonably impressed by the low quantity of rhythmless plagiaristic Mancunian monobrowed c^nts on this thread.
Well done forum.

Yes The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk from 1986, this band was so underrated and way ahead of their time, they did perfect pop in there early years with "Today and "Its My Life" and moved on ending up as one of the most influential bands of their era with Coldplay/Radiohead ripping them off big time from 1988's "Spirit Of Eden"

^^^

Nods in agreement. If you can catch their Live at Montreaux performance around '86, it's outstanding.

Moon Flower      Santana
Led Zeppelin ll  Led Zep
Pulse Live       Pink Floyd

Too many to choose another 2

Dont have that Santana album, only Caravanserai and Abraxas.

Pulse a good album but I wouldn't put it ahead of many others to be honest.

Abraxas is the classic Santana album.

Playing it now.

cherry ghost- thirst for romance
go-betweens -oceans apart
friends again - trapped and unwrapped
calenture- triffids
walk across the rooftops- blue nile

This really is impossible

Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Then perm any two from Alice In Chains - Dirt, Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, The Manics - Generation Terrorists, Green Day - American Idiot, Faith No More - The Real Thing, Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Lizzy - Live And Dangerous, Biffy - Puzzle, Hole - Live Through This, Radiohead - The Bends ...

And I've still left out anything by The Stones, Zep, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The Levellers, the first Stone Roses, the first Linkin Park, some early Aerosmith, anything with Grohl ....!

at last a shout for the blue nile..wd mackem
i agree with your choice although many would have chosen hats

This is difficult - the pen & paper has been out drawing up shortlists and I think this is probably mine:

Slint - Spiderland
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Pixies - Doolittle
Screaming Trees - Dust
Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic

The OP said he would collate results if there were enough replies.

I hope you tell us which albums got the most votes,Gleddoch.

Pleased to see such a diverse selection

New Gold Dream - Simple Minds
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Head Over Heels - Cocteau Twins
Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
Waht's this for? - Killing Joke

Is anyone else checking out any of the albums they haven't heard?

I listened to The Human League - Dare tonight, and it's good. It's been sampled like feck, you can play spot the rip off, it's deffo influential. I still can't have Phil Oakey though, I just can't warm to his singing.

I'm going to give another one a go tomorrow morning. I might try Slint as suggested by Texas Pete, I listened to it over 10 years ago when members of Mogwai kept mentioning it in interviews, I loved post-rock and wanted to like it but I wasn't keen back then, I'll see if I've changed.

Blood on the tracks
Rust never sleeps
Stone Roses
Dark side of the moon
Back in black ac/dc

My Spotify has been in overdrive (re)visiting these albums

Thoroughly enjoyable, pity about the lack of year 2000 onwards.

(CCRevival's 'Cosmo's Factory' has some stunning songs and deserves wider recognition
Never appears on those 'Greatest...' lists as does the band)

ok, you want 2000 onwards

MOJO - tom petty & the heartbreakers
MUDCRUTCH - mudcrutch
NILS SINGS NEIL - nils lofgren
AMERICAN IDIOT  - green day

well sayed poppydog...CCR a truly outstanding band..John Fogarty a legend
Cosmo's Factory is one awesome album

HOLY BIBLE- MANICS
NEVERMIND -NIRVANA
THE SMITHS -THE SMITHS
STONE ROSES -STONE ROSES
NOTHINGS SHOCKING -JANES ADDICTION

impossible

I could perm any 5 from the selections already made and not come up with my definitive list

too hard coz I want some Dylan, Hendrix, Beatles, Van the Man, Bowie, Waits, Zep, Bolan, Pistols,Buzz****, Joy Division, Smiths ..... on my list and that is only up to the 80s

No particular order

Joshua Tree       U2
Bad for Good      Jim Steinman
Machine Head      Deep Purple
Heaven and Hell   Black Sabbath
Rock Roll Outlaw  Rose Tattoo

Reserve : Back in Black ACDC

As you can see i'm a lover easy listening, well i do like some Matt Munro.

Secrets of the Beehive - David Sylvian
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Jordan the Comeback - Prefab Sprout
Get Happy - Elvis Costello
Fear of Music - Talking Heads

I think if you ask the same question in a couple of years , Adele's 21 will appear several times.

No particular order

Joshua Tree       U2
Bad for Good      Jim Steinman
Machine Head      Deep Purple
Heaven and Hell   Black Sabbath
Rock Roll Outlaw  Rose Tattoo

Reserve : Back in Black ACDC

Nice!

In Rock by Deep Purple is their definitive album for me.

the aquabats - fury of the aquabats
lightyear - chris gentlemens hairdresser and railway book shop
sublime - 40oz to freedom
nofx - war on errorism/punk in drublic/ribbed
streetlight manifesto - somewhere in the between

i'm on it anubis7. will put up a summary tomorrow, some surprising results so far tho i'm only at half way. any post with multiple entries, only first five included, and any post with multiple entries for same artist, only first two included.

Beatles - Abbey Road
REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
Pixies - Doolittle
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

oh, and please include artist and title in your post, as it makes it much easier to compile, ta!

Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Counting Crows - This Desert Life
Blue Nile - Peace At Last
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Eels - Beautiful Freak

When I can't decide what to listen to I normally revert to one of these 5.

E.L.O-A New World Record.........I was only a Teenager and thought it was Brill.

A New World Record , the first album I bought. It was and is terrific.

I have 3 vinyl copies & also 3 of Out Of The Blue(including my original blue vinyl copy).

It's a bit like animal rescue if I see a copy languishing for a pound in a charity shop.

I loved El Dorado, especially the title track

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Blondie - Parallel Lines
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Maccabees - Given To The Wild

aqualung- jethro tull
argus- wishbone ash
the animal years-josh ritter
late for the sky- jackson browne
speed of darkness- flogging molly

Astral weeks
Highway 61 revisited
Harvest
London calling
Blonde on blonde

these are the ones I always go back to :

1. Who's Next - The Who
2. Houses of the Holy - Zep
3. Quadrophenia  - The Who
4. Physical Graffiti - Zep
5. The Velvet Underground & Nico

achtung baby-u2
definately maybe-oasis
the bends-radiohead
the joshua tree-u2
noel gallaghers high flying birds-noel gallagher

1. London Calling The Clash
2. Chavez Ravine Ry Cooder
3. Too Rye Ay Dexys Midnight Runners
4. Global A Go Go Joe Strummer
5. I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen (possibly overtaken by latest release which sounds incredible after one listen)

Well at least The Joshua Tree has got a few more mentions I'm pleased to see, I have listened to that album more than any other over the years by some distance.

I have not listened to my selections for years as they are all on vinyl, i must get them on CD at sometime. Or even get one of them 3PM players.

Has anybody mentioned, Daniel O'Donnell's, greatest hits album yet?

no

that was first on my list no moves but OP said no greatest hits

350 selections in 81 contributions. 197 different artists and 260 different albums. The runaway top artist with 16 votes, twice as many as third place, is the beatles, and in second place second place with 12 is pink floyd. top album after 5 days is a tie, but in joint 3rd with 5 nominations is the clash-london calling, bob dylan-blood on the tracks, pink floyd-wish you were here, and pink-floyd-dark side of the moon. not surpringly one of the joint leaders is from the top artist, the beatles-abbey road, and the other, a surprise to me anyway, is sex pistols-never mind the bollox. a further seven with 4 votes each

Some great calls here; the correct answer is Blood On The Tracks.
Other albums with an overall great and cohesive vibe about them and hitherto not mentioned include
Desire - Bob Dylan
Goodbye Yellow brick Road - Elton John
Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
Rock Art & The X-Ray Style - The Mescaleros (Joe Strummer)
Now That's What I Call Music 28 - Pickwick

Stone Roses - Stone Roses
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
Whats goin on - Marvin Gaye
Sunflower - Beach Boys

Reserve: Kid A  - Radiohead