Your Favourite Albums of All Time (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

NME's top 25 albums of all time
1. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
2. The Beatles – Revolver
3. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
4. The Strokes – Is This It
5. The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground
6. Pulp – Different Class
7. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
8. Pixies – Doolittle
9. The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album)
10. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
11. Nirvana – Nevermind
12. Patti Smith – Horses
13. Arcade Fire – Funeral
14. David Bowie – Low
15. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
16. Joy Division – Closer
17. Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
18. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
19. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
20. Radiohead – OK Computer
21. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
22. Blur – Parklife
23. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
24. The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
25. Marvin Gaye – What's Going On

Taken from their top 500 list published this week

(vaguely) interesting to compare to the Rolling Stones top 500 list

Rolling Stones top 25 albums of all time:

1　The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2　The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
3　The Beatles – Revolver
4　Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
5　The Beatles – Rubber Soul
6　Marvin Gaye – What's Going On
7　The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
8　The Clash – London Calling
9　Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
10　The Beatles – The Beatles
11　Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions
12　Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
13　The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
14　The Beatles – Abbey Road
15　The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
16　Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
17　Nirvana – Nevermind
18　Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
19　Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
20　Michael Jackson – Thriller
21　Chuck Berry – The Great Twenty-Eight
22 Robert Johnson – The Complete Recordings
23　John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
24　Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
25　James Brown – Live At The Apollo

 

[george mcfly]

I think my favourite record of all time is Aja by Steely Dan.

every single individual tracked instrument and vocal is genius

 

[Lili Marlene]

I think my favourite record of all time is Aja by Steely Dan.

every single individual tracked instrument and vocal is genius

I have literally never heard a Steely Dan song I didn't hate every second of.

Isn't life and all its varieties wonderful?

 

[ann post]

I have literally never heard a Steely Dan song I didn't hate every second of.

I hate when online friends let me down. I would have taken you for someone who at least likes 'deacon blue'.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I hate when online friends let me down. I would have taken you for someone who at least likes 'deacon blue'.

Sorry Ann. Just listening to it now....


god this is terrible stuff

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Golden Discs in Cornelscourt, 1984. I was buying Purple Rain on vinyl. Two lads were looking at a Steely Dan LP [think it was Aja] and one asked the staff member "Are Steely Dan niggers?"

I didn't know Steely Dan's music at that point so I burst out laughing.

 

[george mcfly]

Golden Discs in Cornelscourt, 1984. I was buying Purple Rain on vinyl. Two lads were looking at a Steely Dan LP [think it was Aja] and one asked the staff member "Are Steely Dan niggers?"

I didn't know Steely Dan's music at that point so I burst out laughing.

I bought a Karate Kid headband from that shop

but yeah, fucking hell

Also Lili, I think they're a band you either love or hate. I never got Neutral Milk Hotel myself. I've given them so many goes, but there's a vacuum there for me. Can't understand the love

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Neutral Milk Hotel can eat the peanuts out of my poop.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Those top 500 lists make me realise how fucking white rock and roll or indie or whatever the fuck NME and Rolling Stone pedal really is. There are some undeniably great records in both lists but it seems like Non-white american/british artists don't exist but for some token entries. It really shows to my mind how these magazines and their journos purport to be open minded but really have the tastes of a 15 year old middle class white kid.

 

[ann post]

Think i put @iislily off the internet for the evening.

Most publications have the taste of their audience as a rule.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Those top 500 lists make me realise how fucking white rock and roll or indie or whatever the fuck NME and Rolling Stone pedal really is. There are some undeniably great records in both lists but it seems like Non-white american/british artists don't exist but for some token entries. It really shows to my mind how these magazines and their journos purport to be open minded but really have the tastes of a 15 year old middle class white kid.

All true but making lists and believing in the power of rock and roll is a white, middle-class pass time anyway.


here's a list of Vibe Magazine's top 50 albums since 1993 if you want some balance

50. Musiq Soulchild- Aijuswanaseing (2000)

49. Alicia Keys- Songs In A Minor (2001)

48. Green Day- American Idiot (2004)

47. Donell Jones- Where I Wanna Be (1999)

46. Young Jeezy- The Recession (2008)

45. Miguel- Kaleidoscope Dream (2012)

44. Common- BE- (2005)

43. Adele- 21 (2011)

42. Jamiroquai- Travelling Without Moving (1996)

41. Beyonce- B'Day (2006)

40. 112- 112 (1996)

39. John Mayer- CONTINUUM (2006)

38. Jill Scott- Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 (2000)

37. Faith Evans- Faith (1995)

36. R.Kelly- R.Kelly (1995)

35. Kings Of Leon- Only By The Night (2008)

34. Jay Z- The Black Album (2003)

33. Amy Winehouse- Back To Black (2006)

32. Lil Kim- Hard Core (1996)

31. Toni Braxton- Toni Braxton (1993)

30. 2Pac (As Makaveli)- The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996)

29. Erykah Badu- Baduizm (1997)

28. Radiohead- Kid A (2000)

27. 50 Cent- Get Rich Or Die Trying (2003)

26. Mobb Deep- The Infamous (1995)

25. Jay Z and Kanye West- Watch The Throne (2011)

24. Mariah Carey- The Emancipation Of Mimi (2005)

23. Dr. Dre- Chronic 2001 (1999)

22. Janet Jackson- Janet (1993)

21. A Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders (1993)

20. OutKast- Aquemini (1998)

19. Kendrick Lamar- "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" (2012)

18. Jay Z- Reasonable Doubt (1996)

17. Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

16. Kanye West- Late Registration (2005)

15. Maxwell- Urnban Hang Suite (1996)

14. Wu-Tang Clan Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

13. The Notorious B.I.G- Ready To Die (1994)

12. Snoop Doggy Dogg- DOGGYSTLE (1993)

11. Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)

10. Usher- Confessions (2004)

9. Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (1998)

8. Jay Z- The Blueprint (2001)

7. R.Kelly- TP-2.COM (2000)

6. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

5. Justin Timberlake- FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS (2006)

4. Mary J. Blige- My Life (1995)

3. Nas- Illmatic (1994)

2. D'Angelo- Brown Sugar (1995)

1. The Notorious B.I.G- Life After Death

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I couldn't find a thread where people posted their fave albums. So. Yeah. Go off and do your lists!

1. Manics - The Holy Bible
2. REM - New Adventures in Hi:Fi
3. REM - Automatic For the People
4. Whipping Boy - Heartworm
5. Radiohead - OK Computer
6. The Antlers - Hospice
7. The National - High Violet
8. Suede - Dog Man Star
9. Radiohead - Kid A
10. REM - Out of Time
11. Manics - Everything Must Go
12. Keane - Under the Iron Sea
13. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
14. Manics - Generation Terrorists
15. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
16. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
17. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
18. Radiohead - In Rainbows
19. REM - Document
20. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
21. Nirvana - In Utero
22. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
23. Muse - Absolution
24. The Clash - London Calling
25. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

This reminds me of that thing from Slaughterhouse Five about how humans experience time as if they're laying on their back on a train looking through a pipe at the sky.
I'm probably mangling that, but Jesus.


Wait, this is a joke list, right?

 

[Lili Marlene]

This reminds me of that thing from Slaughterhouse Five about how humans experience time as if they're laying on their back on a train looking through a pipe at the sky.
I'm probably mangling that, but Jesus.


Wait, this is a joke list, right?

What are your favourite albums of all time?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

What are your favourite albums of all time?

I have absolutely no idea.

It would be different today than it would be tomorrow.

And even more so next week.

It wouldn't have the fucking Manic Street Preachers on top and then an endless list of identikit white boy indie bands after them.

 

[Lili Marlene]

It wouldn't have the fucking Manic Street Preachers on top and then an endless list of white boy indie bands after them.

It might since you apparently have absolutely no idea.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It might since you apparently have no idea.

I know what I hate.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

God you're all such fucking mean maggots.

Great, isn't it?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Well anyway if i recall correctly something_manic was about 21 back when he started this thread.

Not that he posts here anymore, scared away by the mean maggots.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Well anyway if i recall correctly something_manic was about 21 back when he started this thread.

Not that he posts here anymore, scared away by the mean maggots.

Just like Richey.

 

[pete]

in no particular order

dag nasty - field day
slayer - reign in blood
7 seconds - walk together, rock together
beastie boys - check your head
jellyfish - spilt milk
buckingham nicks - s/t
singles soundtrack
trouble - s/t (or manic frustration)
napalm death - mentally murdered
primus - suck on this
carcass - symphonies of sickness
carnivore - retaliation
consolidated - friendly fascism
death cab for cutie - narrow stairs
gorilla biscuits - start today
ludichrist - immaculate deception
quicksand - slip
refused - the shape of punk to come
snuff - snuff said
suffocation - despise the sun
thin lizzy - life (yes, really)
the xx - xx

this has remained constant