Huey Lewis and the News - LIVE at 25
Huey Lewis and the News - SPORTS
Huey Lewis and the News - (self-titled)
Huey Lewis and the News - Fore!
Huey Lewis and the News - Greatest Hits
[quote]Dr_Feelgood wrote:
That was 11, oops.[/quote]
But you chose well and, more specifically, you picked Loveless. So for what it’s worth, I forgive you.
I like Frank Castle’s list a lot too, Liquid Swords is an incredible album. One which would have made my list, were it not for the higher personal nostalgia value of other 90s records.
Anyway here are mine:
80s
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Guns’n’Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Nirvana - Bleach
Big Black - Atomizer
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Slint - Tweez
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys
Honourable mentions:
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Bad Religion - Suffer
90s
Slint - Spiderland
Mansun - Six
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
Metallica- The Black Album
R.A.T.M. - Rage Against the Machine
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
M.B.V. - Loveless
S.O.A.D. - System of a Down
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ween - The Mollusk
Honourable mentions:
2PAC - All Eyez on Me
Rancid - …And out come the Wolves
00s
Mindless Self Indulgence- Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
Capricorns - Ruder Forms Survive
Deerhoof - Milkman
Melt Banana - Teeny Shiny
Anaal Nathrakh - Domine non es Dignus
Anti Flag - Mobilize
Blink 182 - Take off your Pants and Jacket
The Living End - The Living End
Khanate - Things Viral
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Honourable mentions:
Buck65 - Secret House Against the World
Goldfinger - Stomping Ground
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys(Brian Wilson)
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Moving Pictures - Rush
Angel Dust - Faith No More
Van Halen - Van Halen
October Rust - Type O Negative
Octavarium - Dream Theater
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
I guess these would be my “lost on an island with 10 cds” albums. However, I think I could scratch the Floyd, Zep, and Beach Boys off the list if need because I know those albums in and out and backwards and forwards.
In no particular order, this is whats on my mp3 player for the gym, I probably have some of the album names wrong but oh well.
H.E.D - PE
Mudvayne - The End of All Things
Korn - Greatest Hits
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - The Black Album
Disturbed - Prayer
Disturbed - Sickness
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
In Flames - WTF I CANT THINK!!! Its the one with Pinball Map and Only for the Weak (FUCKING AWESOME album, my favorite)
Rammstein - Rosenrot
[quote]lazyaxus11 wrote:
In no particular order, this is whats on my mp3 player for the gym, I probably have some of the album names wrong but oh well.
H.E.D - PE
Mudvayne - The End of All Things
Korn - Greatest Hits
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - The Black Album
Disturbed - Prayer
Disturbed - Sickness
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
In Flames - WTF I CANT THINK!!! Its the one with Pinball Map and Only for the Weak (FUCKING AWESOME album, my favorite)
Rammstein - Rosenrot
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clayman is the in flames album… good stuff
slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Metallica - Kill em All, Master of Puppets
Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom
Tool - 10,000 days
o brother where art thou soundtrack
Dropkick Murphy’s - Warriors Code
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Tech N9ne - Everready
Allman Brothers Band - Decade of HIts 1969-1979
[quote]kevink00 wrote:
swivel wrote:
i know you said order makes no difference but really come on…your top billing is …wilco ? they’re not even in the same league as the rest… they don’t feel anything. they’ve mastered witty songwriting yeah, but it’s like they’re constructing crossword puzzles out of everything they grew up listening to…they come at music from the outside in. everything else on that list is an explosion from the inside out.
wilco are clever fodder, but their influence only reaches about as far as beck’s, which isn’t that far. they will not span generations. everyone else on there kicks ass though.
I totally disagree. If you’ve ever really listened to ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ or seen Wilco perform the songs live, you would understand why its deserves a top 10 billing.[/quote]
I totally agree with your disagreement. It took me awhile to really get into their later stuff (I really liked AM and Being There, but Summerteeth and Foxtrot took awhile), primarily because I still expected them to be an ‘alt-country’ band. At this point, his writing is much more comparable to Brian Wilson’s than, say, Gram Parsons. See Tweedy play live sometime, the guy’s got tons of heart. Or rent ‘I Am Trying to Break Your Heart’.
A Top 10 is hard and day-to-day I suppose, but here’s my ‘Top 10 That Come Immediately to Mind’
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Waylon Jennings - 'Ol Waylon
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Live Art
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Nitzer Ebb - Showtime
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Tupac - All Eyes On Me
Korn - Follow the Leader
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
George Clinton - Computer Games
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
Napalm Death - Scum
Deicide - Insineratehymn
R.A.T.M.: R.A.T.M.
R.A.T.M.: Evil Empire.
R.A.T.M.: Battle of Los Angeles.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
Tool: Aenima.
Primus: Frizzle Fry.
Jean Leloup et la sale affaire: L’amour est sans pitie.
Beastie Boys: Check your head.
Filter: Short Bus.
Les Colocs: Dehors novembre
[quote]Dr_Feelgood wrote:
Several people have mentioned Sargeant Pepper’s, and it always seems to rank high in any classic rock fan’s list.
I own it and like it, but what exactly is so good about it?
Listen to any individual song and it’s nothing too special. When put all together though, I guess it takes on some sort of peculiar charm?
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I have Sgt. Pepper’s in my list only because I tried to hit several different genres and eras with my list. If I made a straight up list of my all-time favorite albums, It probably wouldn’t make top ten. Top twenty, maybe.
[quote]kevink00 wrote:
I came up with this idea from the Metal/Rock supergroup thread, the band I came up with had 23 people so I didn’t post. But I’ve had this conversation with lots of people throughout my life, and it’s still one of my favorite topics. You don’t have to rate the albums 1-10, just list them and we can all talk about the choices.
My picks are:
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco
…and Justice for all-Metallica
Appetite For Destruction-G&R
London Calling-The Clash
Melloncollie & the Infinite sadness-smashing Pumpkins
White Album-Beatles
Pretty hate Machine-NIN
Nevermind-Nirvana
Tommy-The Who
Sgt. Peppers-Beatles[/quote]
I like your list - not because I necessarily agree with all the albums you chose, but because it demonstrates a good understanding of music.
Nice work.
[quote]SinisterMinister wrote:
Waylon Jennings - 'Ol Waylon
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I’ve found a new friend. Thanks for mentioning “waymore”, SM.
Okay, so I’ve tried to write out the “top 10” list about 15 times, but I simply can’t do it. There are too many variables involved. For instance, if the question was, “Which 10 albums do you think had the greatest impact on music” I could answer. But here’s one of the lists I came up with:
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Guns n’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
AC/DC - Back in Black
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Nirvana - Nevermind
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Honestly, I could write about 100 of these lists. The answers really depend on what a person is asking. For instance, the aforementioned albums aren’t necessarily my 10 favorite albums (although, a few certainly are), but I think they fit the topic of this thread.
For those who care, Rolling Stone released a book “The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time.” It’s a great read. Here is the RS top 10:
- Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s LHCB
- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
- Beatles - Revolver
- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
- Beatles - Rubber Soul
- Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
- Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
- Clash - London Calling
- Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
- Beatles - White Album
Funny, i though the Beatles would’ve surely made the RS list. Ha!
[quote]Chad Waterbury wrote:
Honestly, I could write about 100 of these lists. The answers really depend on what a person is asking. For instance, the aforementioned albums aren’t necessarily my 10 favorite albums (although, a few certainly are), but I think they fit the topic of this thread.
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I agree with you and I already want to change my list. I just tries to think of ten different albums representing a different era or genre that I think are great. It’s not a list of my all-time favorites.
[quote]SinisterMinister wrote:
kevink00 wrote:
swivel wrote:
i know you said order makes no difference but really come on…your top billing is …wilco ? they’re not even in the same league as the rest… they don’t feel anything. they’ve mastered witty songwriting yeah, but it’s like they’re constructing crossword puzzles out of everything they grew up listening to…they come at music from the outside in. everything else on that list is an explosion from the inside out.
wilco are clever fodder, but their influence only reaches about as far as beck’s, which isn’t that far. they will not span generations. everyone else on there kicks ass though.
I totally disagree. If you’ve ever really listened to ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ or seen Wilco perform the songs live, you would understand why its deserves a top 10 billing.
I totally agree with your disagreement. It took me awhile to really get into their later stuff (I really liked AM and Being There, but Summerteeth and Foxtrot took awhile), primarily because I still expected them to be an ‘alt-country’ band. At this point, his writing is much more comparable to Brian Wilson’s than, say, Gram Parsons. See Tweedy play live sometime, the guy’s got tons of heart. Or rent ‘I Am Trying to Break Your Heart’.
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if wilco gets you guys off then that’s great. i mean, that’s the whole point; there’s something for everyone.
but when i see your list with all of those great records on it, and then i see YHF sitting there on TOP of all the others, it’s just is not right. it’s like one of those standardized test questions : which one of this group doesn’t belong ?
again i have no problem with you guys liking the record, but does it belong with the beatles , the who, g & r and the clash ?
YHF has been out for what …5 years ? has it even sold a million copies ? have you ever been in sam goodie’s and heard someone trying out guitars with “jesus etc” ? can you hear “pot kettle black” in a karaoke bar in tokyo ? you REALLY think “i’m trying to break your heart” is right up there with “helter skelter” and “pinball wizard” ? i mean c’mon, get real. if you’re in a bar and the band goes into “sweet child o’mine” the place goes absolutely freakin’ nuts from the very first lick. what tunes from YHF do you hear bands even covering ?
[quote]swivel wrote:
YHF has been out for what …5 years ? has it even sold a million copies ? have you ever been in sam goodie’s and heard someone trying out guitars with “jesus etc” ? can you hear “pot kettle black” in a karaoke bar in tokyo ? you REALLY think “i’m trying to break your heart” is right up there with “helter skelter” and “pinball wizard” ? i mean c’mon, get real. if you’re in a bar and the band goes into “sweet child o’mine” the place goes absolutely freakin’ nuts from the very first lick. what tunes from YHF do you hear bands even covering ?
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I don’t think that’s a fair comparison. Robert Johnson’s Complete Recordings is one of the best albums ever, but very few people even know who he is, let alone can name a song.
[quote]swivel wrote:
YHF has been out for what …5 years ? has it even sold a million copies ? have you ever been in sam goodie’s and heard someone trying out guitars with “jesus etc” ? can you hear “pot kettle black” in a karaoke bar in tokyo ? you REALLY think “i’m trying to break your heart” is right up there with “helter skelter” and “pinball wizard” ? i mean c’mon, get real. if you’re in a bar and the band goes into “sweet child o’mine” the place goes absolutely freakin’ nuts from the very first lick. what tunes from YHF do you hear bands even covering ?
[/quote]
Something does not have to be adored by the masses to be good or great.
(American Idol)
These lists are all subjective anyway. No reason to get your panties in a bunch over it.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
I don’t think that’s a fair comparison. Robert Johnson’s Complete Recordings is one of the best albums ever, but very few people even know who he is, let alone can name a song.[/quote]
it’s more well known than you think. robert johnson is well documented historically. his name and his music are going to live for a long, long time. anyone who’s a clapton fan knows robert johnson and that’s alot of people right there. probably more people know robert johnson through the clapton association alone than know who wilco are.
but back to the point ; there are tons of great records that cannot be “all time greats” unless people have heard them and been moved by them enough to to keep them alive. “all-time greats” have the ability to cross-over not only genres and stylistic categories, but generations and generation gaps as well.
my point is this:
you say robert johnson’s complete is a great album; kevink00 may say yankee hotel foxtrot is a great album; and i may say that enter the wu is a great album. and those individual opinions are all valid within our respective realities. but when a phenomenon occurs in that all three of us agree that sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band is a great album, that would make sgt. pepper’s a greater album than the others don’t you think ?
[quote]christine wrote: Something does not have to be adored by the masses to be good or great.
(American Idol)
These lists are all subjective anyway. No reason to get your panties in a bunch over it.[/quote]
i’m not bunching my panties. the original post was an invitation to discuss the choices. that’s what i’m doing.
[quote]wfifer wrote:
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Yes - Close to the Edge
King Crimson - Red…
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Yes and Crimson?! My man. What a pleasant surprise.
I’m down with the FNM nods too — I switch between Real Thing and Angel Dust. 2-CD Greatest is great too with all their B-sides. FNM does the BeeGees “I Started a Joke” — priceless.
Fuck narrowing it to 10. Here’s my baker’s dozen:
Yes - Drama
King Crimson - Red
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Earth, Wind, & Fire - Gratitude
Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Steel Pulse - Smash Hits
Kansas - Two for the Show
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (the second one with the rainy windshield cover)