All-time favorite albums?

Drolgin Steingrinder · January 14, 2003, 9:28 pm

EDIT: I realized the list I posted might have come off as a bit intimidating - or just arrogant. Fact is, I was so much in doubt as to which albums to post here that I just wrote down all the ones that made my initial list. I've trimmed down the "Honorable Mention" list a lot...

Had a talk with Truant in our s3kr1t channel the other day and my brain's been trying to focus on the topic ever since.

Listing my 5 all-time favorite albums (which was the initial premise of the exercise) would be far too limiting. Instead, I've chosen 5 top albums and others that receive honorable mention. They might as well have been in the top 5 had I been asked another day.

Jazz Top-5

Dexter Gordon: Go!

Miles Davis & John Coltrane: Live in Stockholm 1960

Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage

Billie Holiday: Body and Soul

Thelonious Monk: Monk's Moods

Jazz Honorable Mention:

Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come
Dexter Gordon: Our Man In Paris
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else
Count Basie: The Complete Decca Recordings
Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite
Ella Fitzgerald: The Gershwin Songbook
Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane: Monk and Trane
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie
Sarah Vaughn: With Clifford Brown

Moving away from Jazz into the rock and roll era, it's a bit harder...
I've limited myself to max. one album in the top-10 per artist/group, even though some of these musicians deserves more than that...

Top-10 Albums, non-jazz:

The Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
The Who: Live At The Isle Of Wight
Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Elton John: Tumbleweed Connection
James Taylor: Live

Honorable Mention, non-jazz

The Beatles: Abbey Road
Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin'
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory
David Bowie: Low
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Pink Floyd: Animals
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
The Who: Live at Leeds
The Byrds: Younger than yesterday
Bob Marley: Catch a Fire
Dire Straits: Dire Straits
Tom Waits: Small Change
Herbie Hancock: Headhunters

Hrm ... maybe I was born in the wrong decade...

Truant · Post by **Truant** » January 14, 2003, 11:39 pm

Hehe, this question is worse than physical torture to some of us. And I asked it to some people I knew it would kill last nite

The initial question was 10 all time favorite albums.

And of course there was so much trouble just picking 10 that we had to think of ways for honorable mentions and the like.

I didn't initially state Drol's rule of not repeating any artist in the top 10. But the one rule was, no compilations, and no greatest hits albums.

Subsequently, scores are ok, soundtracks are not. Live albums are ok.

So my list as I made it last night, feverishly was:

(note, I DID repeat artists)

In no particular order

The Who - Live at Leeds
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bob Dylan - Hwy 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan - Time out of Mind
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Who - Quadrophenia
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends

Took way too much time to eliminate. There are countless albums listed on paper that got crossed off for the final list. And I cheated with Kind of Blue, it may not be my one favorite jazz album, but I would have had to pick at least 3 others to fill the hole that it would leave just to get Cannonball, Coltrane, and Miles all in there.

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » January 16, 2003, 3:09 am

1) Son Volt - Trace
2) REM - Green
3) Grateful Dead -American Beauty
4) Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
5) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
6) 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
7) Bob Marley - Catch a Fire

Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada
9) Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Leonard Bernstein: Conductor)
10) Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms

The original way it was phrased if you could only listen to 10 CDs the rest of your life...So mine contains a bit of a a hodgepodge, something for every mood and need if you will...And a good bit that is there as much for my own nostalgia as for its Musicality

The pisser is Delta Blues Originals were almost all released as 78rpm Singles so to choose an original Delta blues really cut song quantity totally...

Honorable Mentions:

1 ) Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua
2 ) Counting Crows - August and Everything After
3 ) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4 ) Peter Gabriel - So
5 ) Peter Gabriel - Security
6 ) The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
7 ) Neil Young - Unplugged
8 ) Joni Mitchell - Blue
9 ) The Velvet Underground - VU
10) The Clash - London Calling
11) Mark Knopfler - Local Hero
12) Thelonius Monk - Blue Monk
13) Wilco - AM
14) The Violent Femmes - The Violent Femmes
15) Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
16) The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
17) Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
18) Pink Floyd - Animals
19) George Winston - December
20) Johnny Cash - American Recordings
21) Cracker - Kerosene Hat
22) Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter
23) Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
24) Dave Matthews Band - Crash
25) Radiohead - Pablo Honey
26) Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen
27) Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
28) Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
29 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
30) Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening

Innkubbus · Post by **Innkubbus** » January 16, 2003, 7:35 pm

1) 311: From Chaos
2) 311: Music
3) 311: Grassroots
4) 311: Blue Album
5) 311: Transistor
6) 311: Soundsystem
7) 311: ETSD

311: ETSD2
9) Bloodhound Gang: One Fierce Beer Coaster
10) Bloodhound Gang: Use Your Fingers
11) System of a Down: Steal This Album!

These are the only 11 CDs that I've actually payed for

Drolgin Steingrinder · January 16, 2003, 11:30 pm

Not slamming your choices but ... have you considered broadening your musical horizons?

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » January 17, 2003, 9:52 am

Dub Syndicate - Strike The Balance
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Orbital - "brown"
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Big Black - Atomizer
Mudhoney - Mudhoney
Jake Slazenger - Makesaracket
The Orb - Adventures ultraworld blah
Lawnmower Deth - Ooh Crikey, It's. . .
Infectious Grooves - Sarsippius' Ark
Lard - The Last Temptation Of Reid
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Monster Magnet - Spine Of God

I've prolly forgotten some.

Daboohk · Post by **Daboohk** » January 17, 2003, 1:26 pm

pretty hate machine + ok computer

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 17, 2003, 2:21 pm

some i like a lot:

REM - Life's Rich Pageant
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Top 5 Pink Floyd Albums
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish you Were Here
3. Animals
4. Meddle
5. Obscured By Clouds

Innkubbus · Post by **Innkubbus** » January 17, 2003, 5:52 pm

Trust me, I listen to A LOT of different bands, but I only OWN those albums. Since I can't judge anything I don't have, I didn't put anything else down.

Soreali · Post by **Soreali** » January 19, 2003, 5:03 pm

Favorite album-- Metallica- ...And Justice for All

BeatSoggybiscuit · Post by **BeatSoggybiscuit** » January 22, 2003, 2:39 am

every time i die - the burial plot bidding war, 5 song EP
BANE - Give Blood
Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

probably my top 3 in rotation atm

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 1, 2003, 2:35 pm

Sublime - Sublime
Bone - E. 1999 and Eternal (I'm from Ohio)
Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001
Korn - Issues
Rehab - Southern Discomfort
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...

Zeilya · Post by **Zeilya** » February 17, 2003, 2:50 am

1. Infinity - Journey

2. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

3. IV - Led Zepplin

4. Jagged Little Pill - Alanys Morrisette

5. The Wall - Pink Floyd

6. Back In Black - AC/DC

7. December - George Winston

8. Everyone Else is Doing It, Why Can't We - The Cranberries

9. Phenomenon - UFO

10. A Kind of Magic - Queen

Zeilya · Post by **Zeilya** » February 17, 2003, 2:55 am

vn_Tanc wrote:Dub Syndicate - Strike The Balance
Mudhoney - Mudhoney
I've prolly forgotten some.

A big Mudhoney fan eh Tanc?

I grew up with Danny Peters, their drummer, our mom's were best friends and we used to hang out all the time as kids, spent OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of the time recording ourselves singing to records on my old tape recorder.

I always felt bad for him that Mudhoney was pretty much the originators of grunge, but never really made it huge. While all the other Seattle bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam all made the big time.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » February 17, 2003, 7:44 am

When I think of grunge I think of Mudhoney - there is no other word that describes their sound!
Dan Peters' snare sound is still one of my favourites

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » February 18, 2003, 12:40 pm

My top 10 albums in no particular order:

Metallica--And Justice for All

Beatles--Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon

Tool--Undertow

System of a Down--System of a Down

Pearl Jam--10

Nirvana--Nevermind

Ice Cube--The Predater

Beastie Boys--License to Ill

Rage Against the Machine--Rage Against the Machine

I could name OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of honorable mentions, but each one of the above capitavated me for one reason or another throughout my lifetime and will always have a special place in my musical evolution.

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