Seeing the thread about one's Top 4 musical acts got me thinking about one's all-time favorite albums. I'm in the process of trying to rank my top ones myself and putting together a playlist comprised of all of them on my iPod. My Top 5 are definite, but the ranking from there I couldn't even begin to sort thru as yet. Can't be more than a single album from any one artist. I put a ? at the 6 spot so that the numbering continued. As I said, the Top 5 are in order, the rest are random off the top of my head. These would be desert island type albums. So far, this is my list:


1. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
2. The Beatles – Abbey Road
3. The Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge
4. Led Zeppelin – IV
5. The Who – Who’s Next
6. ?
7. Tom Petty – Highway Companion
8. REM – New Adventures in Audio Hi-Fi
9. Depeche Mode – Violator
10. Cher – Heart of Stone
11. Paul McCartney – Tripping The Live Fantastic
12. Paul Simon – Concert In The Park
13. Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood
14. Billy Joel – Storm Front
15. Stone Temple Pilots – Core
16. The Black Crowes – Before The Frost…Until The Freeze (LP version)
17. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
18. Elton John – Sleeping With The Past
19. Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
20. Pink Floyd – The Wall
21. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
22. Mad Season – Mad Season
23. The Eagles – Hotel California
24. Days Of Thunder Soundtrack
25. Forest Gump Soundtrack
26. Schindler’s List Soundtrack
27. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
28. Annie Lennox – Diva
29. Sinead O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
30. Bob Marley – Catch A Fire // Exodus
31. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds



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Voodoo lounge #3 interesting

Cool.

Maybe not so cool, but an alternative and highly personal top 5:

1)New Routes (1970) – Lulu
2)Where Am I Going? (1967) – Dusty Springfield
3)Surround Yourself With Cilla (1969) – Cilla Black
4)Nancy & Lee Again (1971) – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
5)Fancy (1967) – Bobbie Gentry

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Maybe not so cool, but an alternative and highly personal top 5:

1)New Routes (1970) – Lulu
2)Where Am I Going? (1967) – Dusty Springfield
3)Surround Yourself With Cilla (1969) – Cilla Black
4)Nancy & Lee Again (1971) – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
5)Fancy (1967) – Bobbie Gentry

Actually great picks.

Okay! Here are, probably, the twenty albums that mean the most to me, for one reason or another. Ranking in favouritism order is too tricky, so I’ve listed them chronologically. Also, I have tried to stick to one album per-artist/group.

Revolver – The Beatles
Strange Days – The Doors
Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
Let it Bleed – The Rolling Stones
Who’s Next – The Who
Never Mind The Bollocks – The Sex Pistols
Setting Sons – The Jam
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
Meat is Murder – The Smiths
Appetite for Destruction – Guns N’ Roses
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Holy Bible – Manic Street Preachers
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Pinkerton - Weezer
Is This It – The Strokes
Up The Bracket – The Libertines
American Idiot – Green Day
Happiness in Magazines – Graham Coxon
Back to Black – Amy Winehouse

In no order:

Ravi Shankar - Live At The Kremlin
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Beck - One Foot In The Grave
Bob Dylan - Good As I Been To You
The Coolies - Doug!
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth
Judgement Night - Soundtrack
Mick Jagger - Wandering Spirit
J. Geils Band - Showtime!
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
Shock Treatment - Soundtrack
AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning Strike
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
West Side Story - Soundtrack

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noughties
Maybe not so cool, but an alternative and highly personal top 5:

1)New Routes (1970) – Lulu
2)Where Am I Going? (1967) – Dusty Springfield
3)Surround Yourself With Cilla (1969) – Cilla Black
4)Nancy & Lee Again (1971) – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
5)Fancy (1967) – Bobbie Gentry

Actually great picks.

And hot chicks!

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Stones - pick one, today it's Black and Blue
Skynyrd - Second Helping, Street Survivors
Allmans - Eat A Peach
Rod/Faces - A Nod's As Good As A Wink, Footloose and Fancy Free
J. Geils - Blow Your Face Out, Monkey Island
Cheap Trick - In Color, Heaven Tonight
Eddie Money - 1st album
Bruce - The River
Seger - Live Bullet
AC/DC - High Voltage
Zep - Houses Of The Holy
Marley - Catch A Fire

lots of others I'm forgetting



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Pink Floyd - Animals
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue
Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview
The Doors - Strange Days
Manú Chao - Radio Bemba Sound System Live
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Eric Clapton - From the Craddle

I wouldn’t know where to stop! Most of my nearly 2000 albums are pretty essential to me. You all would get bored looking at my list. Here are a select few in no order. I’m gonna stick to slightly less popular bands/albums:

Dinosaur Jr- The Farm
Melvins- Stoner Witch/Eggnog EP
Mastodon- Leviathan/Blood Mtn
Electric Wizard- Dopethrone
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady
Meat Puppets- 2
Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary/LP2
Blue Cheer- Vincebus Eruptum
Queens of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris
Singles- Soundtrack
Sleep- The Sciences

Slayer: Reign in Blood
Van Halen: Women and Children First
Geto Boys: self-titled album produced by Rick Rubin
Steel Panther: Lower the Bar
Grateful Dead: American Beauty

In alphabetical order by artist:

01. Amy Winehouse: "Back to Black"
02. Bob Dylan: "Blonde On Blonde"
03. Bruce Springsteen: "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"
04. Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Green River"
05. David Bowie: "Ziggy Stardust"
06. The Doors: "Morrison Hotel"
07. The Everly Brothers: "A Date With The Everly Brothers"
08. The Flying Burrito Brothers: "Sleepless Nights"
09. Gram Parsons: "G.P."
10. The Grateful Dead: "American Beauty"
11. Johnny Cash: "American Recordings"
12. Muddy Waters: "Fathers And Sons"
13. Neil Young: "Rust Never Sleeps"
14. Randy Travis: "Storms Of Life"
15. Rod Stewart: "Gasoline Alley"
16. Rolling Stones: "Sticky Fingers"
17. Stevie Ray Vaughn: "Texas Flood"
18. Stevie Wonder: "Songs In The Key Of Life"
19. T Rex: "Electric Warrior
20. Van Morrison: "Enlightenment"
21. Willie Nelson: "Half Nelson"



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Chacho, nice list. Which Bowie one do you choose? You have a typo.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Four Tet - New Energy
Solange - When I Get Home
Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises
War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Madlib - Sound Ancestors
Big Thief - UFOF
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Beach House - Teen Dream
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92



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Can't reduce my list to less than 100 albums but here are the first ones that come to mind right now:

Rolling Stones: the famous trilogy + GHS
AC/DC: Highway to hell
AC/DC: Back in black
UFO: No heavy petting
UFO: Wild, The Willing and The Innocent
UFO: Strangers in the night
Black Sabbath: Heaven and hell
Whitesnake: Live...In the Heart of the City
Saxon: Strong arm of the law
Iron Maiden: Killers
Def Leppard: On through the night
Def Leppard: High 'n' dry
Led Zeppelin: IV
Kansas: Point of know return
Kansas: Leftoverture
Kansas: Monolith
Steve Walsh: Schemer dreamer
The Police: Regatta de blanc
Los Violadores: Los Violadores
Los Violadores: Y ahora que pasa, eh?
Buitres Despu¿es de la Una: Maraviya
Plus many many more including many RStones soloist albums and South American bands.

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NashvilleBlues
Chacho, nice list. Which Bowie one do you choose? You have a typo.

Yeah, I just caught that typo and fixed it. David Bowie: "Ziggy Stardust"

And thanks for the compliment.

1. Mike Daly - "Solo Pedal Steel:The Top Hits of George Jones"
2. Mike Bloomfield & Woody Harris - "Bloomfield/Harris"
3. The Rolling Stones - "The Rolling Stones Now"
4. The Queen's Six - "Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices"
5. Iannis Ritters & Christopher Schwarzwalder - "Ritterwald"

6. Pascal Maupeu - "Folk Standards"
7. Various Artists - "Hawaiian Slack-key Guitar vol.2"
8. The Everly Brothers - "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"
9. The Byrds - "The Byrds Greatest Hits"
10. Sir Douglas Quintet - "The Best of The Sir Douglas Quintet"

11. Magnolia Sisters - "Prends Courage"
12. Ry Cooder - "Paris Texas"
13. Lefty Frizzell - "The Sad Side of Love"
14. Toots & The Maytals - "Funky kingston"
15. John Delafose & The Eunice Playboys - "Joe Pete Got Two Women"

16. Mississippi Fred McDowell - "Live At The Gaslight"
17. Buck Owens - "Buck Owens"
18. Jake Xerxes Fussell - "What A Natural World"
19. Bob Dylan - "Bob Dylan Live 1966 The Royal Albert Hall Concert"
20. Parker Ramsay - "Bach: Goldberg Variations (Arranged for Harp)

Like everyone else, too many to mention. Artists like the Stones, Dylan, Sly Stone, Bowie, Prince - large parts of their catalogues I cherish. But here and now, 15 or so essentials, no particular order:

Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Prince - 1999
Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
David Bowie - Heroes
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Toots & the Maytals - True Love
The Clash - London Calling
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing
The Beatles - White Album
The Kinks - Lola Vs Powerman and the Moneygoround
Air - Moon Safari
Iron Maiden - Killers
The Hollies - For Certain Because
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Self Titled
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love



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Apart from several Stones Albums with Mick Taylor:

Tempest - Tempest.
Steely Dan - Can't buy a Thrill.
Manfred Mann - Nightingales and Bombers.
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside.
Lou Reed - R&R Animal.
Frank Zappa - Live in New York.
Bill Bruford - One of a Kind.
King Crimson - Discipline.
Allan Holdsworth - I.O.U.
John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia - Friday night in SF.
Gentle Giant - Three Friends.
Toto - Fahrenheit.
Jeff Beck - Wired.
Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth.

Above all:
The Rolling Stones: One of the big four or GYYYO, GHS or any other RS-delight.

in no particular order:
Mick Jagger: Wandering Spirit
Neil Young: Rust never sleeps.
The Clash: London Calling
Sex Pistols: Never mind the bullocks
Joy Division: Closer
John Cale: Honi soit
Black Sabbath: Sabotage
Prince: Parade
Velvet Underground & Nico
Nico: The Marble Index
Primal Scream: Give out but don't give up
New York Dolls: Too much too soon
Lou Reed: Transformer
Oasis: Nevermind
Magnetic Fields: 69 love songs
Jimi Hendrix: Are you experienced?
Todd Rundgren: A wizard, a true star
The Who: Who's next
Sparks: Kimono my house
Bob Dylan. Desire
Beck: Midnite vultures
Nick Cave:Tender prey
The Walkabouts: Nighttown
Aretha Franklin: I never loved a man the way I love you
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Queen: A night at the opera

In no particular order

1.David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
2.Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
3.Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
4.The Who - Who's Next
5.Queen - A Night At the Opera
6.Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell (throwing this in as a diff era of Sabbath)
7.Led Zeppelin - IV
8.Beatles - Let it Be
9.Cream - Disraeli Gears
10.Rainbow - Rising
11.Deep Purple - Machine Head
12.Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
13.Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
14.Cat Stevens - Foreigner
15. Townes Van Zandt - Delta Momma Blues
16.Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle
17.Elton John - Madman Across the Water
18.AC/DC - Highway to Hell
19. Nick Cave & the Badseeds - Ghosteen
20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#infinity

I'd like to add Captain Fantastic to my list.

I couldn't limit a list to just one LP per artist. Not possible.

In no particular order and off the top of my head:

Stones - Exile, Tattoo You, Sticky Fingers
Bob Dylan - New Morning, Infidels
Neil Young - After the Goldrush, Tonight's the Night, Zuma
Beatles - Let it Be (Naked)
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby, Legendary Hearts, New York
Velvet Underground - & Nico, Loaded
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
John Lennon - Imagine
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti, Houses of the Holy
Van Morrison - Into the Music
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Band - The Band
David Bowie - Rise & Fall of Ziggy..., Low, Station to Station
Flying Burrito Bros. - Gilded Palace of Sin
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Ron Sexsmith - Retriever
Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse
Doors - LA Woman
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

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Can't reduce my list to less than 100 albums but here are the first ones that come to mind right now:

Rolling Stones: the famous trilogy + GHS
AC/DC: Highway to hell
AC/DC: Back in black
UFO: No heavy petting
UFO: Wild, The Willing and The Innocent
UFO: Strangers in the night
Black Sabbath: Heaven and hell
Whitesnake: Live...In the Heart of the City
Saxon: Strong arm of the law
Iron Maiden: Killers
Def Leppard: On through the night
Def Leppard: High 'n' dry
Led Zeppelin: IV
Kansas: Point of know return
Kansas: Leftoverture
Kansas: Monolith
Steve Walsh: Schemer dreamer
The Police: Regatta de blanc
Los Violadores: Los Violadores
Los Violadores: Y ahora que pasa, eh?
Buitres Despu¿es de la Una: Maraviya
Plus many many more including many RStones soloist albums and South American bands.

The famous Stones trilogy of LIB, BB, SF and EoMS ?

Rod

Some great albums here!
Glad to see two of you love PF's Animals!!

~"Love is Strong"~

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Quique-stone
Can't reduce my list to less than 100 albums but here are the first ones that come to mind right now:

Rolling Stones: the famous trilogy + GHS
AC/DC: Highway to hell
AC/DC: Back in black
UFO: No heavy petting
UFO: Wild, The Willing and The Innocent
UFO: Strangers in the night
Black Sabbath: Heaven and hell
Whitesnake: Live...In the Heart of the City
Saxon: Strong arm of the law
Iron Maiden: Killers
Def Leppard: On through the night
Def Leppard: High 'n' dry
Led Zeppelin: IV
Kansas: Point of know return
Kansas: Leftoverture
Kansas: Monolith
Steve Walsh: Schemer dreamer
The Police: Regatta de blanc
Los Violadores: Los Violadores
Los Violadores: Y ahora que pasa, eh?
Buitres Despu¿es de la Una: Maraviya
Plus many many more including many RStones soloist albums and South American bands.

I'm going to guess you're British and finished school around 1980? You were into the NWOBHM! Surprised no Judas Priest on the list!

I'm sure there have been other posts like this throughout the years that I've replied to. I'll just do my top 10 (for this week) not including any Stones or greatest hits compilations. In no particular order:

AC/DC Back In Black
Van Halen 1
Zeppelin 4
Springsteen Born In The USA
Bob Seger Against The Wind
Oasis What's The Story
KISS Alive
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies
Def Lep Hysteria
Who's Next

Iggy Pop - Blah, blah, blah
Eric Clapton - Behind the sun
Bob Dylan - Infidels
Rolling Stones - Dirty work
Warren Zevon - Sentimental hygine
Steve Forbert - Streets of this town
Jayhawks - Smile
Willy Deville - Crow Jane Alley
David Johansen - Here comes the night
Eric Burdon - Survivor

Little Steven - Men without women
Willie Nile - Places I have never been
Rod Stewart - Smiler
Lou Reed - New sensations
Ramones - End of the century
CSN&Y - Deja vu
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of creation
Kinks - One for the road
Bruce Springsteen - The river
Nuggets - First psycadelic era 65-68 (box)

My favorite albums.

- The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
- Eels - Beautiful Freak
- Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
- Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
- Green Day - Dookie
- Cake - Fashion Nugget
- Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
- Blur - 13
- The Offspring - Smash
- The Who - Tommy
- The Presidents of the United States of America (same)
- Johnny Cash - American Recordings 1
- The Black Crowes - Shake your Money Maker
- The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
- Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
- Traveling Wilburys - Vol 1
- Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
- Manic Street Preachers - This is my Truth, Tell me yours
- Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
- The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy & the Poor Boys
- Eels - Hombre Lobo

Something Like that..