I know it's hard but if you had to choose, desert island situation, what would you say is the, say, five greatest albums of all time?

Let's keep it one artist/group per list.

I'd go with:

1 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
2 Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
3 The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
4 The Beatles - The Beatles (1968)
5 Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

1. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
2. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
3. Booker T & The Mgs - McElmore Avenue
4. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
5. Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief

Since you ask:

1/ Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2/ Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
3/ Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This years model (on Stiff-Records)
4/ The Beatles - Revolver
5/ The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet



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stones - beggars banquet
beatles - revolver
fleetwood mac - rumours
hendrix - electrix ladyland
yello - stella

and many more :-)

Best Album Ever is LET IT BLEED....

It has every type of song...From the very best of country, blues, pop to rock..
No other band in the world could have written or
recorded the tracks on this album..

Just play Gimmie Shelter...And play it Loud!!!!

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Best Album Ever is LET IT BLEED....

It has every type of song...

hardly...

WOW

Best album ever is *Let it Bleed*
also Ziggy Stardust by Bowie

Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Beatles - White Album
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Nick Drake - 5 leaves left
The Who - Who's Next

For most here "ever" seems a very narrow timespan.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue



John Nicholls

I don't know (...as Charlie Watts would say).

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Since you ask:

1/ Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2/ Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
3/ Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This years model (on Stiff-Records)
4/ The Beatles - Revolver
5/ The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet

Nice assortment Come On.

Ry Cooder - Be Bop Deluxe
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Stones - Beggars Banquet
Aerosmith - Rocks
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow

Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Get Happy
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Who - Who's Next
The Harder They Come (soundtrack)
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Chuck Berry - The Great 28
The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Squeeze - Argy Bargy
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

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Since you ask:

1/ Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2/ Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
3/ Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This years model (on Stiff-Records)
4/ The Beatles - Revolver
5/ The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet

Nice assortment Come On.

Thank you treaclefingers...yep, its a nice mix of Acoustic Jazz-rock,Americana-rock, brit-rock, Psycheldelia and pure R'n'b-rock....

"..off you go to this island, and only five albums (and just one from the same group)...

The Rolling Stones: "Aftermath"
The Beatles: "The White Album"
Alice Cooper: "From the Inside"
Dr. Hook: "Pleasure and Pain"
Supertramp: "Even in the quitest moments"

If I'd to take five albums to a desert Island I'd go with

Stones: Get yer ya-ya's out!
The Who: Quadrophenia (oops, that's two disks)
Pink Floyd: Animals
Tom Waits: Blue Valentines
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart
The Rolling Stones - Live In Texas
The Byrds - Untitled/Unissued

The Byrds - Untitled/Unissued




With or without Gram....

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The Byrds - Untitled/Unissued




With or without Gram....

Without Sweethearts Of The Rodeo, however, definitely with Gram!



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Yeah I go with the Wailers as well - Catch a Fire Excellent Album.


John Nicholls

My top five( in no order ):

Traffic - Low Spark
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
The Who - Live at Leeds
Aerosmith - Rocks

The Who - Live at Leeds


Absolutely for the sake of Townshends guitar-attack, but was Roger really on top?

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Gotta go w/ double albums, where every song is great:

Stones - Exile
Who - Quadrophenia
Clash - London Calling
U2 - Rattle & Hum
Beatles - 'White Album'

EXILE ON MAIN STREET
STICKY FINGERS
SGT PEPPER
BLUE- JONI MITCHELL
BEGGAR'S BANQUET
RUBBER SOUL
THE WHITE ALBUM
BLONDE ON BLONDE

The Beatles- The Beatles
The Who- Quadrophenia
The Stones- Exile on Main Street
The Kinks- Muswell Hillbillies
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells- Drinkin' T'n'T and Smokin' Dynamite
John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat- Hooker n' Heat
John Lennon- Plastic Ono Band
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
McCartney- Electric Arguments
Hary Nilsson- Nilsson Schmilson
The Who- Live at Leeds
The Stones- Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
The Stones- Let it Bleed
The Stones- Beggars Banquet
The Beatles- Revolver
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Pink Floyd- Animals
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Iggy and the Stooges- Fun House, Raw Power
Iggy Pop- The Idiot
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
David Bowie- The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie- Station to Station
Tom Waits- Rain Dogs
Tom Waits- Swordfish Trombone
Tom Waits- Bone Machine
McCartney- Ram
Lennon- Imagine
Muddy Waters- Mississippi Muddy Waters Live
Buddy Guy- Sweet Tea
John Lee Hooker- Real Folk Blue


Oh shit, can only pick five!
The Beatles- The Beatles
The Stone- Exile on Main Street
The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies
Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
The Who Quadrophenia



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well well well what's 5....

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Exile
Genius - Warren Zevon
Graceland - Paul Simon
Sand in the Vaseline - Talking Heads
A Gentle Side of John Coltrane
Decade - Neil Young

On a desert island I would want to have these 5 albums to listen to,

Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
TSOOL - Romelanda Session
Beatles - The Beatles
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here