Your top 10 definitive Albums

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#1 Post by **schen** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:50 am

OK; it's pretty obvious that ANY "definitive" list is going to be very subjective, so what's everybody's own Rock & Roll TOP TEN list then? Just off the top of your head, no looking stuff up and no greatest hits. Mine is as follows in no particular order:

* Eagles- Hotel California
* Boston- Self titled
* Elton John- Yellow Brick Road
* Styx- The Grand Illusion
* The Police- Synchronicity
* Mike & The Mechanics- Self titled
* Steely Dan- Aja
* Journey- Raised On Radio
* Toto- IV
* U2- Joshua Tree

Bet you can't tell that I was raised in the 70's!

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#2 Post by **bill bolton** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:30 am

* Music from Big Pink - The Band
* The Band - The Band
* Stage Fright - The Band
* Cahoots - The Band
* The Last Waltz - The Band
* Live at Watkins Glen- The Band
* Songs for a Tailor - Jack Bruce
* Harmony Row - Jack Bruce
* Monkjack - Jack Bruce
* Sitting on Top Of The World - Jack Bruce

#3 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:53 am

Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Led Zeppelin - "IV"
Pearl Jam - Ten
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Steely Dan - Aja
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Who - Who's Next
The Police - Every Breath You Take
and trying to decide on the 10th one was hard, but...
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (which might be considered a "greatest hits" compilation but it's a live album)

#4 Post by **KristianJ** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:53 am

In no particular order:

Pearl Jam - Ten
Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - Live From Mars
The Beatles - The White Album
Eric Clapton - Unplugged

And after that I probably have to start looking stuff up

#5 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:53 am

This is such a fluid thing. What is my favorite one year, becomes dated another.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Santana - Abraxas
The Who - Who's Next
Moody Blues - A Question of Balance
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Flora Purim - That's What She Said
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I

Website · #6 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:04 am

OK, here are mine, in no particular order:

Live - Mental Jewelry (being fair by choosing only one of their albums)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
Creed - My Own Prison
Metallica - Metallica
Keb' Mo' - Slow Down
Styx - Paradise Theater

I listed albums that I can listen all the way through repeatedly, without getting bored. Definitive = Defines me...

#7 Post by **dorronto** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:25 am

Who has time to listen to a whole album in it's entirety? I wish I had the time. But, oh well. Here are a few that are making the list for the first time. There's more that should be listed, but I'm at work, so I can't cheat looking at my collection...

Bruce Springsteen
"Born to Run"
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
" 2001 Live in NYC"

The Who
"Who's Next"

The Kinks
"Soap Opera"
"Sleepwalker"
"Think Visual"

Warren Zevon
"Excitable Boy"

Bob Dylan
"Love and Death"
"Modern Times"

Ron

PS. Let's not forget the mighty Max Weinberg of the E Street Band for drums and slowhand Eric Clapton on guitar........................

tvsjr · #8 Post by **tvsjr** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:20 am

schen wrote:OK; it's pretty obvious that ANY "definitive" list is going to be very subjective, so what's everybody's own Rock & Roll TOP TEN list then?

Forney? Small world... I drove through there just last night.

If you define "definitive" as defining me...

Just rock:
Eagles - Hotel California
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Foreigner - Head Games
Live - V
Tom Petty - Through the Years
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
The Ataris - So Long Astoria

Other genres:
Antiloop - Fastlane People
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
Pat Green - Cannonball
Richard Humpty Vission - [censored] That DJ Made My Day
ATB - Movin' Melodies
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

My MP3 collection contains some 35,000 songs currently... top 10 becomes very difficult for me as I like so much.

And no, I'm not a child of the 70s... born in 83.

dsvochak · #9 Post by **dsvochak** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:23 am

Not all rock, but if I had to pick 10 to listen to forever:

Van Morrison--A Night in San Francisco
The Clash--London Calling
The Beatles--Rubber Soul
Fred Neil--Everybody's Talkin'
Peter Tosh--Equal Rights
Willie Nelson--Stardust
Flying Burrito Brothers--Gilded Palace of Sin
Four Tops--Live at the Roostertail
Lenny Bruce--The Carnegie Hall Concert
Bob Dylan--Blonde on Blonde

(If someone had to pick for me I'd like bill bolton to do it)

Turbo Audi · #10 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:38 am

U2 - Achtung Baby

Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

Metallica - Kill 'em All

Green Day - Dookie

The Ramones - Ramones

White Zombie - Astro creep 2000

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Nirvana - Nevermind

New Order - Substance 1987

#11 Post by **Kyocera** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:45 am

dsvochak - welcome back - where you been?????

PM me if you want.

Mike

Last night on PBS they had a special with the stones, jethro tull, clapton, john lennon, the who, man it was pretty awesome.

Purcy · #12 Post by **Purcy** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:48 am

Turbo Audi wrote:U2 - Achtung Baby

Yummy, love U2

#13 Post by **schen** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:49 am

tfflivemb2 wrote: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair

Dang-It Steve, I can't believe I forgot this!

The first CD I ever bought!

leoblob · #14 Post by **leoblob** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:12 pm

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - III
Ten Years After (Alvin Lee) - A Space in Time
The Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Let it Be
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Emerson Lake & Palmer - (untitled) - their first album

lev · #15 Post by **lev** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:27 pm

Well this is breaking all the rules. There's not 10 of them, they aren't all rock and roll, they aren't all albums, I make no pretence at them being definitive (in the sense that "every music lover should own these" or anything like that, I just like them and they represent music I might enjoy at different times, in different moods), and did look some of them up (mainly to get the names right, not to choose them, though I did check out the tracklistings on my Dylans in a hope to narrow it down to just one...). Anyway, now that we've established I have a problem with following even the clearest instructions

, here they are in no particular order:

Shpongle - Are you shpongled?
Therapy? - Troublegum
Public Enemy - Muse Sick-n-hour Mess Age
Patti Smith - Horses
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
PRML SCRM - XTRMNTR
godspeed you black emperor! - f#a#∞
Captain beefheart and his magic band - Trout mask replica
The sabres of paradise - Haunted dancehall
Jan Garbarek/Usted Fateh Ali Khan - Ragas and Sagas
Keith Jarrett - At the blue note: complete recordings
Velvet Underground - any or all of Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan - umm, pick one. Umm, Desire.. no, wait... Highway 61... or Blonde on Blonde... maybe.

dsvochak · #16 Post by **dsvochak** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:13 pm

schen wrote:

Bet you can't tell that I was raised in the 70's!

These are interesting lists. I'll bet you guess anyone's age within about 5 years + or - if all you had was their list.

dorronto--"Love and Theft"? What about "Time Out of Mind"?

#17 Post by **dorronto** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:18 pm

dsvochak wrote:schen wrote:
Bet you can't tell that I was raised in the 70's!
These are interesting lists. I'll bet you guess anyone's age within about 5 years + or - if all you had was their list.

dorronto--"Love and Theft"? What about "Time Out of Mind"?

I didn't like it. Tried, but no way............Ron

goofyGAguy · #18 Post by **goofyGAguy** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:20 pm

1. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

2. Yes - Close To The Edge

3. Rush - A Farewell To Kings

4. Led Zeppelin - IV

5. The Who - Who's Next

6. Pink Floyd - Animals

7. Styx - Pieces Of Eight

8. Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

9. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

10. Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

#19 Post by **Kyocera** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:03 pm

My top ten:

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
Ride the Lightning - Metallica
Reign in Blood - Slayer
Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
Metal Church - Metal Church
The Outlaws - The Outlaws
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
Superunknown - Soundgarden

#20 Post by **carbon_unit** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:07 pm

I tried trimming it down to my favorite top 10. Here is as far as I can whittle it down.

Judas Priest, Unleashed In the East
Van Halen, Van halen
Van Halen, II
Kick Axe, Vices
Rush, 2112
Boston, Don't Look Back
Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
AC/DC, Let There Be Rock
REO Speedwagon, You Get What You Play For
Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick at Budokan
Ted Nugent, Free for All
Great White, Great White
Black'n Blue, Black'n Blue

Previously mentioned but still in my favorites:

Boston, Boston
Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive
Eagles, Hotel California
Steely Dan, Aja
AC/DC, Highway to Hell
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd, The Wall

These are alblums that I can listen to every song and not get tired of it.

JHEM · #21 Post by **JHEM** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:29 pm

I'm enjoying this thread immensely, it gives an enormous insight into many posters with whom I have had little communication.

But, at the same time, I'm appalled that no one has mentioned Freddy and crew!

James

#22 Post by **KristianJ** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:50 pm

JHEM wrote:I'm enjoying this thread immensely, it gives an enormous insight into many posters with whom I have had little communication.

But, at the same time, I'm appalled that no one has mentioned Freddy and crew!

James

If I'd been able to look stuff up...

Although I don't have anything of theirs other than best of's so I wouldn't know which albums their classic songs came from.

JHEM · #23 Post by **JHEM** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:59 pm

KristianJ wrote:Although I don't have anything of theirs other than best of's so I wouldn't know which albums their classic songs came from.

Here ya' go.

James

Website · #24 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:09 pm

JHEM wrote:But, at the same time, I'm appalled that no one has mentioned Freddy and crew!

Ok, I do have to add "A Kind of Magic" by Queen to my list. I actually dedicated "Who Wants to Live Forever" to my dad at his Wake. He was a HUGE Highlander fan. I bought this CD for him shortly before he died. I have since played this CD in its entirety more than any other CD that I own. I really cannot believe that I didn't include this in my list.

skitty4gzus · #25 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:13 pm

In no particular order except Counting Crows is def #1- Nice choice tfflivemb2 you got taste!

Counting Crows- August and Everything After
Underoath- Their Only Chasing Safety
Dave Matthews- Live at Folson Field
Brand New- Deja Entendu
Brand New- The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
The Early November- Room's Too Cold
Dashboard Confessional- The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Spoken- Echoes of the Spirit Still Dwell
Noise Ratchet- Till We Have Faces
Beautiful Mistake- Light a Match for I Deserve to Burn

dsigma6 · #26 Post by **dsigma6** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:38 am

goofyGAguy and leoblob, you are collectively the man for correctly adding in Meddle and Animals.

Pink Floyd (most of it!):

Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Saucerful of Secrets
Soundtrack to the movie More
Atom Heart Mother
Meddle
WYWH
Animals
The Wall
DSOTM
The Final Cut

Non-Floyd:

Moody Blues- Best of
Three Dog Night- Best of
Guess Who- Best of
Deltron3030
311- Greatest Hits
GURU- Jazzmatazz
Gang Starr- Full Clip
Pete Rock- Petestrumentals

Puppy · #27 Post by **Puppy** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:03 am

Skinny Puppy - Ain't it dead yet ? (live)

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