Your top 5 albums of all time

First topic message reminder :

Well let me be the man to pop the music boards cherry :bitchslap:


So I didn't post a great deal on the old 606 (but I'm gonna change that) and I'm sure there will be a few others like me so lets get to know one another and see what everybodies taste in music is like.


Like the title said what are your top 5 albums of all time?

Mine would look a little like this

1) Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2) The Misfits - Collection Vol.1
3) Zombina and the Skeletones - Death Valley High
4)Nekromantix - Return of the Loving Dead
5)Send More Paramedics - The Hallowed and the Heathen


If I wrote this next week the answers would probably be completely different depending on my mood.

1. Last Supper- Food
2. Blood On The Tracks- Bob Dylan
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot- Wilco
4. For All I Care- The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis
5. Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do- Sigur Ros

Pr4wn wrote:

Green wrote:Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild (Soundtrack)

Just want to say... What an album!

Love that album.

Ar aghaidh le cheile wrote: 2. London Calling - The Clash

If we had been allowed to do a Top 10 I most certainly would've added London Calling! Love that album!

These are mine

1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. The Joshua Tree - U2
3. The Killers - Hot Fuss
4. The Pixies - Death to the Pixies
5. Blondie - Parallel Lines

Hard to select just five, and there are many that I have missed no doubt, but I'm selecting on the amount I listen to them, and the fact I never skip tracks on these ones!

What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis
Humbug - Arctic Monkeys
Is This It? - The Strokes
Up the Bracket - The Libertines
Pinkerton - Weezer

Agree that its very hard to pick just 5, but here goes:

1. Rust In Peace - Megadeth
2. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
3. Blackbird - Alter Bridge
4. Karmacode - Lacuna Coil
5. Start Something - Lostprophets

Radiohead - OK Computer
REM - Automatic For The People
Radiohead - The Bends
Oasis - Morning Glory
The Beatles - Revolver

Rodriguez - Cold Fact
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
REM - Automatic For The People
The Cure - The Head On The Door
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand me Down
Love - Forever Changes
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
The Clash - London Calling

Prince & The Revolution - Parade
Del Amitri - Waking Hours
Vanessa Carlton - Heroes and Thieves
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Bjork - Debut
Portishead - Dummy
REM - Automatic for the People
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Oasis - Be Here Now
Pulp - Different Class
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Lou Reed - Transformer
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society

Be Here Now? Each to their own womble but that album was one major disappointment for me.

Yeh i know its not the normal album that everone loves but for me it is such a fantastic drug-addled loud masterpiece. You can tell they are all off their heads. Plus I remember vividly, queuing up on Thursday August 21st 1997 to but it. The anticipation i had for that album was immense. It changed my life.

Definitely Maybe sparked my attention, What's The Story made me think 'this lot are pretty good'. Be Here Now made me fall in 'musical' love with Oasis. I now own all their singles and all their albums. I have a copy of the MTV unplugged show Noel did around 1995. I also have a live album of theirs from a Swedish radio station I found on York market.

I even appreciate Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. And that album has Little James on it!!!

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has some decent tracks within it but it is let down by some of the others. Go Let It Out, Gas Panic, F***ing in the Bushes, Sunday Morning Call, all some of my favourite Oasis tracks!

Be Here Now was the first Oasis album I listened to, and I still loved them. Stand By Me and All Around The World were good enough to carry the album alone for me.

sodhat wrote:Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has some decent tracks within it but it is let down by some of the others. Go Let It Out, Gas Panic, F***ing in the Bushes, Sunday Morning Call, all some of my favourite Oasis tracks!

Be Here Now was the first Oasis album I listened to, and I still loved them. Stand By Me and All Around The World were good enough to carry the album alone for me.

Absolutely love Sunday Morning Call. One of my favourite Oasis songs, I think they should have released that as a sole single rather than the double A side. It got lost in the mix I think.

What's your fave track Sodhat? Personally, mine is Whatever.

It's not a bad album, but I was like you, queueing for the damn thing, then when I listened to it, felt cheated.

That MTV show was great. Liam had a sore throat from what I recall, so Noel sang. I recorded and drove my Mum mad by playing it almost every night before dinner. I think she actually liked a couple of their songs though

The last song on SOTSOG was pretty good as well.

I've always liked Don't Look Back in Anger most, up there with Stand By Me, The Hindu Times (for some reason), Whatever, too.

I could probably make some space up there for some tracks on The Masterplan too - The Masterplan itself, Underneath the Sky, Stay Young et al.

Outside of Definitely Maybe Oasis albums become progressively more patchy and dull for me. Decent enough band and Noel can write a decent enough song but they are luddites. You could take a song off their last album and put it on any of the earlier ones and it would not look out of place, no experimentation or progression. Liked them well enough when they started but they got really boring, really quickly for me

Stella wrote:It's not a bad album, but I was like you, queueing for the damn thing, then when I listened to it, felt cheated.

That MTV show was great. Liam had a sore throat from what I recall, so Noel sang. I recorded and drove my Mum mad by playing it almost every night before dinner. I think she actually liked a couple of their songs though

Yeh the MTV show is amazing. Liam is in the crowd heckling him I believe. The version of Cast No Shadow and Don't Look Back In Anger are brilliant.

crazygangwomble wrote:

Stella wrote:It's not a bad album, but I was like you, queueing for the damn thing, then when I listened to it, felt cheated.

That MTV show was great. Liam had a sore throat from what I recall, so Noel sang. I recorded and drove my Mum mad by playing it almost every night before dinner. I think she actually liked a couple of their songs though

Yeh the MTV show is amazing. Liam is in the crowd heckling him I believe. The version of Cast No Shadow and Don't Look Back In Anger are brilliant.

And Live Forever. Liam getting a sore throat was a blessing in disguise.

In retrospect Be Here Now for me sits higher than What's the Story on the Oasis tree. Definately Maybe though was the best by a long distance.

Hero wrote:In retrospect Be Here Now for me sits higher than What's the Story on the Oasis tree. Definately Maybe though was the best by a long distance.

Blasphemy.

What's The Story is always going to be my number, clearly. In order I go:

1. What's The Story
2. Definitely Maybe
3. The Masterplan
4. Heathen Chemistry
5. Be Here Now
6. Dig Out Your Soul
7. Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
8. Don't Believe The Truth

Can't have any album that contains either Hey Now or She's Electric top of any list.

Rowley wrote:Can't have any album that contains either Hey Now or She's Electric top of any list.

Hey Now is possibly the weakest song on the album, I agree Jeff. She's Electric can be taken as jaunty fun for me. Champagne Supernova the best closing track of all time though?

sodhat wrote:Hey Now is possibly the weakest song on the album, I agree Jeff. She's Electric can be taken as jaunty fun for me. Champagne Supernova the best closing track of all time though?

I am the Resurrection is obviously the finest closing track of all time Sodhat

Street Spirit from The bends is by a distance the best final song on any album.

Rowley wrote:

sodhat wrote:Hey Now is possibly the weakest song on the album, I agree Jeff. She's Electric can be taken as jaunty fun for me. Champagne Supernova the best closing track of all time though?

I am the Resurrection is obviously the finest closing track of all time Sodhat

I was about to say it's too long, but Champagne Supernova itself is on the decadant side, time-wise.

Still, can't take the Roses over Oasis. They'd be below The Smiths for me in terms of Manchester bands too...

sodhat wrote:

Rowley wrote:

sodhat wrote:Hey Now is possibly the weakest song on the album, I agree Jeff. She's Electric can be taken as jaunty fun for me. Champagne Supernova the best closing track of all time though?

I am the Resurrection is obviously the finest closing track of all time Sodhat

I was about to say it's too long, but Champagne Supernova itself is on the decadant side, time-wise.

Still, can't take the Roses over Oasis. They'd be below The Smiths for me in terms of Manchester bands too...

Gotta agree about The Smiths. They would be higher in my list above the Roses too.

sodhat wrote:

Still, can't take the Roses over Oasis. They'd be below The Smiths for me in terms of Manchester bands too...

You do realise I have the ability to ban people sodhat? I would sooner listen to you criticising TSMR than the Roses. You're on the thinnest of thin ice.

All I have to do now is say that Ray Robinson would flatten Burley in 3 and I get a week away from the site.

sodhat wrote:All I have to do now is say that Ray Robinson would flatten Burley in 3 and I get a week away from the site.

You would not be back that soon I assure you. Gordy would be allowed back before you mate.

Dicey Reilly wrote:As most have already said, my mind changes every week or so but here I go

1) Metallica - Ride the Lightening

2) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

3) Deicide - Once upon a Cross

4) Slayer - Reign in Blood

5) Cruachan - Pagan

WHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That album should be number one on your list now and forever...and as for O.U.T.C. both Deicide's debut album and "Legion" trample that into the ground

1/SLAYER - Reign in Blood
2/ ENTOMBED - Left hand Path
3/ DOWN - NOLA
4/ MALEVOLENT CREATION - The Ten Commandments
5/ THE INBREDS - Groove Drenched Warfare

Notable mentions for
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - Sonic Brew
CLUTCH - Blast Tyrant
CROWBAR - Broken Glass/Odd Fellows Rest/Sonic Excess in it's Purest Form
DEATH - Symbolic
ROLLINS BAND - The End of Silence
MISERY INDEX - Retaliate
PANTERA - Far Beyond Driven
ATHEIST - Piece of Time
DARK ANGEL - Time Does Not Heal
EARTHTONE9 - Off Kilter Enhancement
OBITUARY - Slowly we Rot/Cause of Death
HAIL OF BULLETS - Of Frost and War
MASTODON - Remission
NILE - In Their Darkened Shrines/Annihilation of the Wicked
SOLITUDE AETURNUS - Into the Depths of Sorrow
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - City
TOOL - Undertow/Aenima/Lateralus

THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT - The White Crematorium

Always assumed listening to heavy metal was something you grew out of, like watching wrestling and excessive masturbation.

I am batting 1 for 3 on that front then.

sodhat wrote:I am batting 1 for 3 on that front then.

You still watch wrestling sodhat?

Rowley wrote:Always assumed listening to heavy metal was something you grew out of, like watching wrestling and excessive masturbation.

What do you consider to be excesi......lhibt8tirvc rclir7clrl9c7r ;r; 99r9;7r97r;97r7....sorry, where was I, my hand slipped (down my pants)

What do you consider to be excessive then ROWLEY?

I occassionally watch wrestling, although the habit is slowly dying. I've replaced it with a plethora of other American sports that I imagine are largely frowned upon, though.

I think you know you masturbate excessively when you ask someone to define what they mean by excessive, Dave.

Sodhat,

I would assume "excessively" meant you were skipping meals, taking days off work or missing the funerals of close relatives in order to satisfy the Gods of Onanism.

My favourite story about this subject is a fella who was asked by a marriage guidance counsellor how many times a week he masturbated. He replied, "About three and a half!"

Half a w*nk, what's all that about?

DAVE667 wrote:Sodhat,

I would assume "excessively" meant you were skipping meals, taking days off work or missing the funerals of close relatives in order to satisfy the Gods of Onanism.

My favourite story about this subject is a fella who was asked by a marriage guidance counsellor how many times a week he masturbated. He replied, "About three and a half!"

Half a w*nk, what's all that about?

Sounds like he was an accountant and worked out the net average

Unless he is in to the old "hangman" w*nk and he passes out before completing the job on occassion.

What's the Story? Was the 1st album I ever bought so it gets into my top 5 anyway. Would have a top 5 of just Springsteen albums but I'll just keep 1 in for the challenge.


1 Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
2 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
3 59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
4 What's the Story? - Oasis
5 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

In no order;

Performance and Cocktails: Stereophonics
Off the Wall: Michael Jackson
Trouble: Ray LaMontagne
I Am a Bird Now: Antony and the Johnsons
Youth and Young Manhood: Kings of Leon

No particular order and I'd probably come up with a different five every day....

'Revolver' by The Beatles
'Astral Weeks' by Van Morrison
'The Stone Roses'
'1999' by Prince and the Revolution
And then either 'Never Mind the ********' by the Sex Pistols or 'Home Thoughts from Abroad' by Clifford T. Ward, a formerly guilty pleasure that I'm now embracing a bit more thanks to my old man trumpeting Clifford every chance he's ever had

Nice shout for Van the Man chris, am something of a relatively late convert to the mans qualities but agree Astral Weeks is a belter. His early stuff with Them is cracking as well. A fine example of 60's R&B for anyone who is into that sort of stuff, as I am.

I love Van the Man, Jeff. Saw him live in Nottingham in 2007. Bit of a miserable git as he often is, but his actual performance was fantastic.

His stuff can cure just about any mood I'm in!

In no order:

1) Rage against the Machine - Rage against the Machine
2) Nirvana - Nevermind
3) Jimmy Eat World - Futures
4) Blink 182 – Dude Ranch
5) Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape