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Post by greysuit on Aug 12, 2010 16:45:27 GMT -8
Since we started to get a bit off topic with this in the Bands I'm Listening to thread, I thought it might be a fun idea to give it it’s own thread.
The question is simple, what do you think the top 10 albums are of all time. Use whatever criteria you like (favorite, most innovative, best musical performances ect…) just list what you think the top 10 albums are of all time of any style or any genera.
Here's Mine: 1. London Calling - The Clash, 1979 2. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix, 1967 3. At Folsom Prison - Johny Cash, 1968 4. Figure 8 - Elliott Smith, 2000 5. Who's Next - The Who, 1971 6. Acrophobe - Bad Astronaut, 2001 7. Morning View - Incubus, 2001 8. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine, 1992 9. Suffer - Bad Religion, 1988 10. Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus, 1991
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Post by uwaztec on Aug 12, 2010 18:41:01 GMT -8
Rolling Stones "get your Ya Ya's Out" The Who "live at Leeds" Led Zeppelin 1 & 4 Allman Brothers "eat a Peach" Pearl Jam "ten" Rolling Stones "let it Bleed" first Pretenders Bob Marley "Natty Dread" The Cream "Disreali Gears" Jefferson Airplane "Surealistic Pillow"
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Aug 12, 2010 18:52:51 GMT -8
And are we talking about the 10 greatest albums of 10 favorite albums? There's a big difference. No difference at all. It's all subjective. =Bob
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Post by joshjones1 on Aug 12, 2010 19:01:41 GMT -8
Okay here's my preliminary list of the most important albums of all time in no order. I'll give my favorites later... The Who Sings My Generation Guns and Roses Appetite Clash London Calling Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks U2 War REM Reckoning Black Sabbath Paranoid Kinda Kinks Big Star #1 Record The Byrds Turn Turn Turn Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde Van Halen Debut The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass Pretenders Debut Simon and Garfunkel Parsley Sage Rosemary Thyme Good list but I would include "Back in Black" on there, and at least one Metallica album of your choice. "Appetite for Destruction" is my personal fave, and it is so quality. Dirty, bluesy, hard core rock at its core. Before fame and corruption. Every track, 1 thru 12, is good. NO filler if you're really into GNR. I still give this a turn once a month minimum in my truck, in fact it's in there now, felt like hearing "My Michelle" at full blast this morning on the way to work.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2010 19:09:00 GMT -8
If you're gonna label them "important", then you MUST HAVE "Nevermind" by Nirvana on your list. Okay here's my preliminary list of the most important albums of all time in no order. I'll give my favorites later... The Who Sings My Generation Guns and Roses Appetite Clash London Calling Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks U2 War REM Reckoning Black Sabbath Paranoid Kinda Kinks Big Star #1 Record The Byrds Turn Turn Turn Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde Van Halen Debut The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass Pretenders Debut Simon and Garfunkel Parsley Sage Rosemary Thyme
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Post by joshjones1 on Aug 12, 2010 19:25:16 GMT -8
In no particular order (after #1)-just my faves, it IS subjective, I'd say.
GNR- Appetite Pink Floyd- The Wall Pink Floyd- Wish you were here Metallica- "Metallica" (my fav song is Sad but True so this is my fave Metallica album) AC/DC- Back in Black Sublime- Greatest Hits Snoop Dogg- Doggystyle Rage Against the Machine- RATM (Killing in the name of, fave song) Led Zeppelin 1 GNR- Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 12, 2010 19:37:44 GMT -8
Certainly rock and roll centric group.
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Post by monty on Aug 12, 2010 19:42:05 GMT -8
I'm going to attack this based on a period, not really an album in-itself:
Carl Perkins' Sun Singles: melded country picking and rhythm and blues - there are no beatles or Elvis without Perkins
Bob Dylan '66 period (as Dylan calls it, 'that thin, wild mercury sound'):
Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles Transitionary period (Totally changed music and production skills): Help/Rubber Soul/Revolver
Clash: London Calling (double album of absurd variety and quality)
Bad Religion: 88-91 (3rd wave of Punk and what has become modern punk rock) Suffer/No Control/Against the Grain
Metallica: Pre Black Album: absurdly influential for hard rock and later hardcore punk like Propagandhi
Guns N' Roses: Appetite: A perfect Album
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Post by monty on Aug 12, 2010 20:02:50 GMT -8
If you're gonna label them "important", then you MUST HAVE "Nevermind" by Nirvana on your list. I just can't do it because IMO Nirvana's net influence on music was quite detrimental. All it was lacking was harmony and melody. ;D Nirvana helped save rock music from hair bands and the hair bands that were becoming Guns n Roses rip-offs once GnR showed them up. Popular rock music might not have had a better half a dozen year period than that around nirvana in the last 30 years. The middish 90s had: Weezer blue and green, STP core and 12 gracious, Smashing Pumpkins siamese and the double cd, pearl jam ten, vs. and vitalogy, live throwing copper, and a number of other really good albums. That was sort of the last and only real album based rock from the mid 80s on in major label music.
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Post by greysuit on Aug 12, 2010 21:12:23 GMT -8
Smells Like Teen Spirt = Saved rock Nevermind = not a very good album, i mean really name one other good song on it other than Smells Like Teen Spirt and maybe Lithium...
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Post by greysuit on Aug 12, 2010 21:14:49 GMT -8
And are we talking about the 10 greatest albums of 10 favorite albums? There's a big difference. However you want to rank them, as bob said, it's all subjective.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2010 8:45:37 GMT -8
key word there is influence. I just can't do it because IMO Nirvana's net influence on music was quite detrimental. All it was lacking was harmony and melody. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2010 8:49:11 GMT -8
Breed In Bloom Come as you Are Polly Drain You On a Plain Something in the Way hell the entire album rocks. However, their best album is Bleach. i mean really name one other good song on it other than Smells Like Teen Spirt and maybe Lithium...
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Post by greysuit on Aug 13, 2010 9:08:10 GMT -8
Breed In Bloom Come as you Are Polly Drain You On a Plain Something in the Way hell the entire album rocks. However, their best album is Bleach. i mean really name one other good song on it other than Smells Like Teen Spirt and maybe Lithium... I agree that Bleach is their best album, however, I disagree that those songs are all that great let alone better than anything soundgarden, pearl jam, STP or Alice in Chains was putting out at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2010 9:21:46 GMT -8
And I would disagree with your disagreement. Breed In Bloom Come as you Are Polly Drain You On a Plain Something in the Way hell the entire album rocks. However, their best album is Bleach. I agree that Bleach is their best album, however, I disagree that those songs are all that great let alone better than anything soundgarden, pearl jam, STP or Alice in Chains was putting out at the time.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Aug 13, 2010 15:43:57 GMT -8
Unfortunately, John always modifies these discussions by bringing up "influence" which is a totally subjective measure. Pete Seeger "influenced" a fair number of rock groups, including the Byrds, but that doesn't make Seeger a rock musician. Springfield, Poco and the later Byrds albums have a certain C&W influence, but that doesn't mean those that influenced them were rock musicians. Mayall's The Turning Point (one of my all time favorite albums) with Jon Mark and Johnny Almond was almost pure jazz rather than blues (I mean really - can anyone argue "California is "rock? It's pure jazz and damn fine jazz. Does that mean the jazz musicians who influenced those songs were rock musicians? Arguing on the basis of "influence" is nothing more than attempting to quantify something that can never be quantified. It's art and as is the case with all art, it's supposed to be enjoyed, not dissected. =Bob key word there is influence. I just can't do it because IMO Nirvana's net influence on music was quite detrimental. All it was lacking was harmony and melody. ;D
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Post by aztecjer on Aug 13, 2010 16:22:46 GMT -8
Who's Next- The Who Thriller- Michael Jackson Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd Three Dog Night Captured Live at the Forum Peter Frampton Live Deja Vu- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Silk Degrees- Boz Skaggs Credence Clearwater Revival Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band- The Beatles Hot Rocks- Rolling Stones Best of the Doors- (I'm cheating)
Just thinking about albums I listened to a million times. Doesn't mean I still think that they are something spectacular.
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Post by joshjones1 on Aug 13, 2010 16:31:24 GMT -8
I dig Nirvana. But I feel that out of the grunge movement, Alice in Chains produced the most quality.
Many people don't give them credit for how damn good their stuff really was.
Not a huge Pearl Jam guy. Prefer AIC and STP.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Aug 13, 2010 17:29:50 GMT -8
Who's Next- The Who Thriller- Michael Jackson Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd Three Dog Night Captured Live at the Forum Peter Frampton Live Deja Vu- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Silk Degrees- Boz Skaggs Credence Clearwater Revival Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band- The Beatles Hot Rocks- Rolling Stones Best of the Doors- (I'm cheating) Just thinking about albums I listened to a million times. Doesn't mean I still think that they are something spectacular. Nothing wrong with this list! The Boz Scaggs record, though, should have been credited to Boz Scaggs and Toto (or maybe even the other way around). Boz Scagges was decent. Toto sucked the root big time. =Bob
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Post by greysuit on Aug 14, 2010 6:09:39 GMT -8
Breed In Bloom Come as you Are Polly Drain You On a Plain Something in the Way hell the entire album rocks. However, their best album is Bleach. I liked Bleach better than the next one, but Nevermind changed music because more people heard it. The irony is that their most popular "grunge" album was a more polished version of the original. Most people heard one song off of it...
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