My top 75

Echoes

Hey guys, I got bored at work the last few weeks and whipped this up. This being a list of my top 75 albums of all time

so uh without further ado, please tell me what you think

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2. Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Matthew Good Band - Underdogs
4. Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
5. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
6. Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
7. Strapping Young Lad - City
8. Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
9. Pixies - Doolittle
10. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
11. Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
12. Pink Floyd - Animals
13. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
14. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
15. Matthew Good - Avalanche
16. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
17. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
18. Radiohead - OK Computer
19. The Clash - London Calling
20. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
21. Christine Fellows - Paper Anniversary
22. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
23. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
24. Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
25. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
26. Radiohead - Kid A
27. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
28. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
29. Opeth - Blackwater Park
30. Slayer - Reign In Blood
31. Tortoise - Millions Now living Will Never Die
32. Neil Young - Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere
33. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
34. Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine
35. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome, Crowded West
36. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
37. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
38. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
39. Emperor - IX Equilibrium
40. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
41. Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship/The Landlord Is Dead
42. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
43. Weezer - Pinkerton
44. Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
45. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Life Yr SKinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
46. Slint - Spiderland
47. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
48. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
49. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
50. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
51. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
52. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts WIth Announcements
53. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
54. Tool - Aenima
55. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
56. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
57. Weezer - Blue
58. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
59. Deep Purple - Machine Head
60. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
61. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
62. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
63. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
64. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
65. Botch - We Are The Romans
66. Boris - Akuma No Uta
67. Destroyer - Your Blues
68. Devin Townsend - Terria
69. Dj Shadow - Endtroducing...
70. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
71. Mogwai - Young Team
72. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
73. Sunn O))) - Flight Of The Behemoth
74. Led Zeppelin - III
75. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Sonic19

Echoes wrote:

75. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Theres one bad I've always tried to get into but just never could.
On a seperate note, I always like reading these lists. Do you have any recommendations from this year?

kdpjam

Echoes wrote:

Hey guys, I got bored at work the last few weeks and whipped this up. This being a list of my top 75 albums of all time

so uh without further ado, please tell me what you think

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2. Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Matthew Good Band - Underdogs
4. Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
5. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
6. Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
7. Strapping Young Lad - City
8. Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
9. Pixies - Doolittle
10. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
11. Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
12. Pink Floyd - Animals
13. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
14. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
15. Matthew Good - Avalanche
16. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
17. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
18. Radiohead - OK Computer
19. The Clash - London Calling
20. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
21. Christine Fellows - Paper Anniversary
22. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
23. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
24. Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
25. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
26. Radiohead - Kid A
27. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
28. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
29. Opeth - Blackwater Park
30. Slayer - Reign In Blood
31. Tortoise - Millions Now living Will Never Die
32. Neil Young - Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere
33. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
34. Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine
35. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome, Crowded West
36. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
37. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
38. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
39. Emperor - IX Equilibrium
40. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
41. Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship/The Landlord Is Dead
42. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
43. Weezer - Pinkerton
44. Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
45. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Life Yr SKinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
46. Slint - Spiderland
47. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
48. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
49. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
50. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
51. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
52. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts WIth Announcements
53. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
54. Tool - Aenima
55. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
56. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
57. Weezer - Blue
58. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
59. Deep Purple - Machine Head
60. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
61. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
62. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
63. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
64. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
65. Botch - We Are The Romans
66. Boris - Akuma No Uta
67. Destroyer - Your Blues
68. Devin Townsend - Terria
69. Dj Shadow - Endtroducing...
70. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
71. Mogwai - Young Team
72. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
73. Sunn O))) - Flight Of The Behemoth
74. Led Zeppelin - III
75. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

not bad at all how long did it take u to come up with those?

MCG

Wicked list, I have a lot of those records

I thought you liked Beautiful Midnight better than Underdogs...

reeferchief

Echoes wrote:

46. Slint - Spiderland

63. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

The only Pearl Jam album at no 63 I'm surprised you aint had any abuse yet.;)
I find Slint's Spiderland to be highly overated round these parts though, I aint feeling that one.
Quick question how many Mountain Goats albums is there? I recently picked up The Sunset Tree which I'm liking and The Coroner's Gambit which I also enjoyed.

StoneG82

nice list Echoes. it's good to see Pavement and GBV get some recogntion.

In the Aeroplane is one damn fine album.

Vitalogy is the only PJ record I'd put on one of my lists like that too. Good call.

transplant

1. Interesting to see Aeroplane up that high.
2. Surprised to see Vitology on the list
3. Sounds like I need to check out Matthew Good
4. I love Emergency and I
5. Any list with Blood on the Tracks on it is guaranteed to be good
6. I have difficulty getting thru a full Mercyful Fate CD.

So, yeah, good stuff. I put a few off there on my 'check out' list.

MCG

transplant wrote:

3. Sounds like I need to check out Matthew Good

You really do. "Beautiful Midnight" and "Underdogs" are great places to start. Two of the greatest rock records ever made in my opinion. So many people write him off because MGB had a few tunes on the radio but it's not at all what he's about. MGB worst songs usually ended up on the radio with a few exceptions.

viggs20

About 20 of those albums would make my list...but ranking them would be fucking hard. What criteria did you use to rank your albums ?

Pearl Jam and toast

Other than the fact that it took you till 51 to put the only Smashing Pumpkins album up that you included, it's great

edit: It looks like you used the 'one album per band' rule which i like. simples things out.

SD might have been my pick for the pumpkins' too, but it would've been in the top 10 at least (for me).

Yes, Animals is the best Floyd Record





but what, no Audioslave, Echoes?

reeferchief

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

edit: It looks like you used the 'one album per band' rule which i like.

I counted three Matthew Good albums also at least 3 Mountain Goats and Sonic Youth aswell.

Echoes

reeferchief wrote:

I counted three Matthew Good albums also at least 3 Mountain Goats and Sonic Youth aswell.

4 Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed, Tallahasse, All Hail West Texas and Zopilote Machine

Echoes

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Other than the fact that it took you till 51 to put the only Smashing Pumpkins album up that you included, it's great

edit: It looks like you used the 'one album per band' rule which i like. simples things out.

SD might have been my pick for the pumpkins' too, but it would've been in the top 10 at least (for me).

Yes, Animals is the best Floyd Record





but what, no Audioslave, Echoes?

=P

Sorry, just don't dig any other Pumpkins albums. Adore has some good part and I guess there was maybe an albums worth of solid stuff on MCAITS, but hey, I rarely even listen to SD anymore. I just really used to like it.

Animals is an amazing record.

Pearl Jam and toast

reeferchief wrote:

I counted three Matthew Good albums also at least 3 Mountain Goats and Sonic Youth aswell.

oops.

Echoes

transplant wrote:

1. Interesting to see Aeroplane up that high.
2. Surprised to see Vitology on the list
3. Sounds like I need to check out Matthew Good
4. I love Emergency and I
5. Any list with Blood on the Tracks on it is guaranteed to be good
6. I have difficulty getting thru a full Mercyful Fate CD.

So, yeah, good stuff. I put a few off there on my 'check out' list.

1. It levelled me when I first heard it. I heard On Avery Island first and it almost put me off them, so many years ago
2. Hey, I used to really like Pearl Jam. Haven't listened since I saw a concert in september, but Vitalogy is classic
3. You do. One of the best songwriters EVER.
4. Words I never thought I would see here
5. Great album
6. I love Melissa so much. Diamonds voice is a challeng sometimes, but it is something I can live with. The riffs are just so killer.

viggs: I just picked which albums I like hearing more, I guess. I tried to keep influence and all that out of it, hence no miles davis or beach boys or the million other beatles album I don't listen to. The whole thing took me ~ a week at work

Echoes

reeferchief wrote:

Quick question how many Mountain Goats albums is there? I recently picked up The Sunset Tree which I'm liking and The Coroner's Gambit which I also enjoyed.

The Sunset Tree
4AD released April 25 (UK), 26 (US) 2005

We Shall All Be Healed
4AD 2004

Tallahassee
4AD 2003

All Hail West Texas
Emperor Jones 2002

The Coroner's Gambit
Absolutely Kosher 2000

Full Force Galesburg
Emperor Jones 1997

Nothing for Juice
Ajax 1996

Sweden
Shrimper 1995

Zopilote Machine
Ajax 1994

Singles

Songs for Petronius 7" EP (Shrimper, 1992)
Chile de Arbol 7" EP (Ajax, 1993)
Philyra 7" EP (Theme Park, 1994)
Why You All So Thief 7" EP (split with Simon Joyner) (Sing Eunuchs, 1994)
Orange Raja, Blood Royal 7" EP (with Alastair Galbraith) (Walt, 1995)
Songs for Peter Hughes 7" EP (Sonic Squid, 1995)
Songs About Fire 7" EP (Cassiel, 1995)
Tropical Depression EP 7" EP (split with Furniture Huschle) (Little Mafia, 1997)
"Jam Eater Blues" + 2 7" EP (Sub Pop, 2002)
"See America Right" 7"/CD EP (4AD, 2002)
"Palmcorder Yajna" 7"/CD EP (4AD, 2003)
"Letter from Belgium" 7"/CD EP (4AD, 2004)
EPs, 10"s, one-sided 12"s

Beautiful Rat Sunset 10"/CD EP (Shrimper, 1994)
Nine Black Poppies CD EP (Emperor Jones, 1995)
New Asian Cinema 1-sided 12" EP (Yoyo, 1998)
Isopanisad Radio Hour 1-sided 12" EP (Yoyo, 2000)
On Juhu Beach 3" CD (Nursecall, 2001)
Devil in the Shortwave 1-sided 12" EP (Yoyo, 2002)

Compilations (full albums of random songs)

Protein Source of the Future...Now! CD (Ajax, 1999; 3 Beads of Sweat, 2002)
Bitter Melon Farm CD (Ajax, 1999; 3 Beads of Sweat, 2002)
Ghana CD (3 Beads of Sweat, 2002)

Pearl Jam and toast

You haven't listened to Pearl Jam since September?!?

So you haven't heard the new album?

what the hell is wrong with you?

Echoes

Sonic19 wrote:

Theres one bad I've always tried to get into but just never could.
On a seperate note, I always like reading these lists. Do you have any recommendations from this year?

Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Jesu - Silver
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I'm Dreaming
Noris - Pink
The Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs EP
Destroyer - Rubies

are the best I've heard so far

Echoes

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

You haven't listened to Pearl Jam since September?!?

So you haven't heard the new album?

what the hell is wrong with you?

I dunno, I heard a few songs and didn't care to pick it up off what I heard. I had a lot of other really good music to listen to in the meantime

lumpyfred

Interesting list.

I definitely feel like popping in Aeroplane again for another round. Excellent CD, but I only just bought it and definitely havent had the time to fully digest it.

I especially liked your nods to Zappa, Ben Folds and The Weakerthans. Maybe someday I'll be ambitious enough to do a top 50 or something.....

Pearl Jam and toast

Echoes wrote:

I dunno, I heard a few songs and didn't care to pick it up off what I heard. I had a lot of other really good music to listen to in the meantime

It ain't bad

mookeywrench

no Eels or Flaming Lips?

Echoes

mookeywrench wrote:

no Eels or Flaming Lips?

don't listen to the eels, and the soft bulletin almost made it. It is a really good album

mookeywrench

Echoes wrote:

don't listen to the eels, and the soft bulletin almost made it. It is a really good album

you dont listen to Eels by choice or haven't gotten around to it?

also where's talking heads, fear of music?

transplant

Echoes wrote:

4. Words I never thought I would see here

I also really like Change. Time Bomb off that one is just incredible.

Echoes

mookeywrench wrote:

you dont listen to Eels by choice or haven't gotten around to it?

also where's talking heads, fear of music?

haven't got around to it, really and I kind of doubt I will.Who knows

I just bought Fear Of Music a few weeks ago so I haven't really listened to it that much. I still don't think it can touch remain in light, though

alobar

there's always room for more, so why not a top 100?

Aeroplane floored me too. Just absoluetly floored me. Track by track I just fell deeper into the rabbit hole or Mangums' dreams. Really one of the best albums ever. Definitely deserving of the top spot.

I take it you don't listen to much hip-hop. I only saw NWA (I don't care for them) and Public Enemy (Fear of a Black Planet is great, btw). There's a lot out there and there's a lot that is good. I'm not gonna tell you that you should have this band or that album on your list because I do think your list is decent. But you should check out A Tribe Called Quest if you haven't heard their shit and also anything from MF Doom a.k.a. Viktor Vaughn a.k.a. King Geedorah.

Things that surprised me......

Matthew Good Band at number 3
Slayer
Ben Folds Five
Deep Purple

glad to see Destroyer on there twice

and Olivia Tremor Control- "Dusk at Cubist Castle" makes me happy.

alobar

I almost wanted to correct you because I didn't see Bitter Melon Farm on there, but alas, it's ALL there! I will check out "We Shall All Be Healed" very soon.

Echoes wrote:

The Sunset Tree
4AD released April 25 (UK), 26 (US) 2005

We Shall All Be Healed
4AD 2004

Tallahassee
4AD 2003

All Hail West Texas
Emperor Jones 2002

The Coroner's Gambit
Absolutely Kosher 2000

Full Force Galesburg
Emperor Jones 1997

Nothing for Juice
Ajax 1996

Sweden
Shrimper 1995

Zopilote Machine
Ajax 1994

Singles

Songs for Petronius 7" EP (Shrimper, 1992)
Chile de Arbol 7" EP (Ajax, 1993)
Philyra 7" EP (Theme Park, 1994)
Why You All So Thief 7" EP (split with Simon Joyner) (Sing Eunuchs, 1994)
Orange Raja, Blood Royal 7" EP (with Alastair Galbraith) (Walt, 1995)
Songs for Peter Hughes 7" EP (Sonic Squid, 1995)
Songs About Fire 7" EP (Cassiel, 1995)
Tropical Depression EP 7" EP (split with Furniture Huschle) (Little Mafia, 1997)
"Jam Eater Blues" + 2 7" EP (Sub Pop, 2002)
"See America Right" 7"/CD EP (4AD, 2002)
"Palmcorder Yajna" 7"/CD EP (4AD, 2003)
"Letter from Belgium" 7"/CD EP (4AD, 2004)
EPs, 10"s, one-sided 12"s

Beautiful Rat Sunset 10"/CD EP (Shrimper, 1994)
Nine Black Poppies CD EP (Emperor Jones, 1995)
New Asian Cinema 1-sided 12" EP (Yoyo, 1998)
Isopanisad Radio Hour 1-sided 12" EP (Yoyo, 2000)
On Juhu Beach 3" CD (Nursecall, 2001)
Devil in the Shortwave 1-sided 12" EP (Yoyo, 2002)

Compilations (full albums of random songs)

Protein Source of the Future...Now! CD (Ajax, 1999; 3 Beads of Sweat, 2002)
Bitter Melon Farm CD (Ajax, 1999; 3 Beads of Sweat, 2002)
Ghana CD (3 Beads of Sweat, 2002)

depopulationINC

tis a good list, but not at all how my own would look...Abbey Road is your fav Beatles album?

Echoes

alobar wrote:

Things that surprised me......

Matthew Good Band at number 3
Slayer
Ben Folds Five
Deep Purple

glad to see Destroyer on there twice

and Olivia Tremor Control- "Dusk at Cubist Castle" makes me happy.

Matt Good is probably my favourite artist ever.I say this with no shame or anything, because I am just in love with all his stuff.

Reign in Blood is such a great album, I'd feel bad if I didn't include it. There are maybe 2 or 3 weak songs on the whole thing.

Ben Folds is great too. His debut is his strongest, or in any case it is the one I like the most. Great summer album, great songs on it, and he is an amazing pianist.

What can I say, I have a huge weak spot for "Lazy" and "Space Truckin'" And "Maybe I'm A Leo." Too bad the rest of the album is overshadowed by Smoke On The Water.

Destroyer's great. I'm undecided on Rubies, so for simplicities sake I kept all 2k6 albums off the list.

depopulationINC: Yes it is. It is also the only one I listen to regularily. If this was more a list based on influence and general music consensus, then you would probably see more Beatles on it, but this is the list of albums I really like and listen to a lot, so only Abbey Road (for now)