The best 10 albums ever made ACCORDING TO YOU!

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  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    I'm excluding live albums, and counting double albums as one. In my limited musical experience, and in no order:

    U2 - Achtung! Baby (this would be #1, without hesitation for me)
    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    Oasis - Morning Glory
    Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
    Counting Crows - August and Everything After
    Led Zeppelin - IV 
    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
    Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
    Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
    Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

    Cornell's Songbook would make the cut if I counted live albums.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Gibson said:
    I'm excluding live albums, and counting double albums as one. In my limited musical experience, and in no order:

    U2 - Achtung! Baby (this would be #1, without hesitation for me)
    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    Oasis - Morning Glory
    Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
    Counting Crows - August and Everything After
    Led Zeppelin - IV 
    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
    Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
    Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
    Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

    Cornell's Songbook would make the cut if I counted live albums.
    Not able to rank it top 10 in good conscience, but August and Everything After is one hell of an album!
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  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    This is an unspeakably difficult task but here goes (in no order):

    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
    Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
    Neil Young - On The Beach
    Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
    Soundgarden - Superunknown
    Tool - Lateralus
    Pearl Jam - No Code
    Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
    Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
    U2 - Achtung Baby
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  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    Pearl Jam - Yield
    George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
    My Morning Jacket - Evil urges
    Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
    Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
    Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
    Beta Band - The Three EPs
    The Beatles - White Album 
    Radiohead - Ok Computer
    Pearl Jam - No Code


  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    rgambs said:
    Harvest- Neil Young
    Ten or Vs- Pearl Jam
    Led Zeppelin- take your pick
    Have to think about more
    Of course almost every Beatles album is worthy as well...
    Have to add Jethro Tull- Aqualung.  Brilliant album.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,812
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
    Neil Young - Harvest
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
    Joakim Thåström - Skebokvarnsv. 209
    Jeff Buckley - Grace
    Leonard Cohen - I'm your man
    ABBA - The Visitors
    The Doors - Waiting for the Sun or Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hil
    Nirvana - Nevermind

    Now, morning meeting at work so can't think about it more. This I guess is more favorite albums than "best albums". Who cares.
    Stories From The City... is a perfect album
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Edved82 said:
    This is an unspeakably difficult task but here goes (in no order):

    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
    Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
    Neil Young - On The Beach
    Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
    Soundgarden - Superunknown
    Tool - Lateralus
    Pearl Jam - No Code
    Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
    Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
    U2 - Achtung Baby

    Oh, but it's so fun to watch people sweat. lol!
    Good list!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    edited March 2021
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

    I should have asked for two lists:

    "The 10 best Snoochy Bootchy Albums EVER"

    and...

    "Sod Off You Boor, These are the Best 10 Ever... Says ME!"

    :lol:

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  • pjpjpaul
    pjpjpaul Posts: 1,716
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

    I should have asked for two lists:

    "The 10 best Snoochy Bootchy Albums EVER"

    and...

    "Sod Off You Boor, These are the Best 10 Ever... Says ME!"

    :lol:

    The Committee for Proper Listings will review your list and contact you when they have made a decision.  Thank you for your entry.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,723
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

    I should have asked for two lists:

    "The 10 best Snoochy Bootchy Albums EVER"

    and...

    "Sod Off You Boor, These are the Best 10 Ever... Says ME!"

    :lol:

    The Committee for Proper Listings will review your list and contact you when they have made a decision.  Thank you for your entry.
    Monty Pythons John Cleese Michael Palin React to Terry Jones Death Two Down Four to Go

    I don't recognize the dude in the upper right. Behind the scenes writer?
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,372
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
    I'm curious about the DK album.  Why that one?  I picked Frankenchrist because there isn't a bad song on the whole thing and they were at their top for that one.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,812
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
    I'm curious about the DK album.  Why that one?  I picked Frankenchrist because there isn't a bad song on the whole thing and they were at their top for that one.

    It is sort of a cheat, right?  It is a compilation/rarities record.
    The reason this rings the loudest for me is simply that it was my intro to DK's music after learning about them during the PMRC bullshit.  Bought it when it first came out, remember picking the cassette and falling in love with it on the first play through.  I was not into Hardcore Punk, at all, and it was amazing.  My buddies thought it was fucked up, which only made me love it more.  Think I was in 7th or 8th grade.  Angry little fucker and this blew me up.

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,372
    F Me In The Brain said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
    I'm curious about the DK album.  Why that one?  I picked Frankenchrist because there isn't a bad song on the whole thing and they were at their top for that one.

    It is sort of a cheat, right?  It is a compilation/rarities record.
    The reason this rings the loudest for me is simply that it was my intro to DK's music after learning about them during the PMRC bullshit.  Bought it when it first came out, remember picking the cassette and falling in love with it on the first play through.  I was not into Hardcore Punk, at all, and it was amazing.  My buddies thought it was fucked up, which only made me love it more.  Think I was in 7th or 8th grade.  Angry little fucker and this blew me up.

    Cool cool.  Same reason I loved them.  It was fast and angry.  I was picking up any hardcore album I could find around the time this came out too.

    First one I bought from them was In God We Trust Inc.  LOVED that album but when I got to Frankenchrist, man.  That album was just the best to me and like you said, the PMRC hearings, Oprah, it was all amazing.

    Thanks for telling me/us.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    pjpjpaul said:
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

    I should have asked for two lists:

    "The 10 best Snoochy Bootchy Albums EVER"

    and...

    "Sod Off You Boor, These are the Best 10 Ever... Says ME!"

    :lol:

    The Committee for Proper Listings will review your list and contact you when they have made a decision.  Thank you for your entry.
    Monty Pythons John Cleese Michael Palin React to Terry Jones Death Two Down Four to Go

    I have tix to see John Cleese in October. Really hope it doesn't get canceled. I saw him and Eric Idle a few years ago and it was hilarious. I love Monty Python. 

    Very cool!  I hope he keeps the date.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Loujoe said:
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
    Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
    That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:

    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
    AC'DC - Back in Black
    Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
    NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
    Whitesnake - Whitesnake
    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

    I should have asked for two lists:

    "The 10 best Snoochy Bootchy Albums EVER"

    and...

    "Sod Off You Boor, These are the Best 10 Ever... Says ME!"

    :lol:

    The Committee for Proper Listings will review your list and contact you when they have made a decision.  Thank you for your entry.
    Monty Pythons John Cleese Michael Palin React to Terry Jones Death Two Down Four to Go

    I don't recognize the dude in the upper right. Behind the scenes writer?
    Some cheeky American animator. 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,723
    Ahh the guy who drops the boot on everyone and crushes them. I bet he likes to take pictures...nudge nudge, you know what I mean...riiiiiight right. 
    Now for something completely different.

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Loujoe said:
    Ahh the guy who drops the boot on everyone and crushes them. I bet he likes to take pictures...nudge nudge, you know what I mean...riiiiiight right. 
    Now for something completely different.


    :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • adhooper
    adhooper Brevard, NC Posts: 1

    This weekend is the 50th anniversary of this gem.
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    edited March 2021
    love/loved gregg's old band a real lot. musical hero, of mine.. 1st set and 2nd set were the 2 discs for me  ;)   back where it all began. and a nice first post i might add!
    also... i'm completely amazed that a new band can come along, to my old ears, and be a real contender for this category.
    every song on billy's new cd(home 2019) is killer. no filler. that doesn't happen enough, for me.
    this tells me that my list can change every year, because i haven finished listening to everything yet  :)
    quad should be on everyone's list.

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