SH Forums Members Top 10 Albums

[Togo]

OK can't resist it any more...

Time for a SH Forum's Top 10 albums Poll.

Name your Top 10 (only 10 please) of all time with the following criteria:
- As usual this will be a snapshot...choices change all the time.
- These will be albums you REALLY love (not just critics best of lists..although most of those will probably be up for inclusion)
- Better still if you love every track on the album and, a real nice to have, great sound quality/mastering to boot.
- Compilations, soundtracks and best of's can be included, but proper albums preferred.


I'm going off to think about mine and will post later!


:)

[Pope V]

Just 10 eh?
Oh well, here's mine:

01) The Cure - 17 Seconds
02) Beatles - White Album
03) R.E.M. - Murmur
04) Husker Du - Zen Arcade
05) Wire - Chairs Missing
06) Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
07) XTC - Drums & Wires
08) Gang of Four - Entertainment!
09) Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
10) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

[Dan Steely]

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Above The Law - Uncle Sam's Curse
Parliament - Mothership Connection
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Revolver
Funkadelic - Funkadelic
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours

[lbangs]

10. Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
9. Love - Forever Changes
8. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions (sorry if that counts as a compilation - no way I could leave this off)
7. Adam Again - Dig
6. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
5. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4. The Band - The Band
3. Mark Heard - Satellite Sky
2. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model
1. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

[Bob Lovely]

All,

As some of you already know, I am not an album collector per se. I tend to buy albums for certain song content and then record my own compilations by format (Oldies, 70's, 80's, Dance Music, Album Tracks, Jazz, etc.). However, I have my personal favorites. My choices are based on two prominent criteria: the music, of course, and sound quality--either because of the original recording or the mastering. These are albums I can listen to in their entirety, over and over again. This list is by no means evidence of the breadth of my musical tastes.

1) Time Out--Dave Brubeck
2) Kind of Blue--Miles Davis
3) 24K Hits--Elvis Presley (best EP comp out there)
4) Rubber Soul--Beatles
5) Revolver--Beatles
6) Soultrain--John Coltrane
7) Abbey Road--Beatles
8) Art Pepper + 11--Art Pepper
9) Some Girls--Rolling Stones
10) Beatles For Sale--Beatles

Bob :)

[RetroSmith]

Meet The Beatles
GO! With The Ventures
Everybody Loves a Clown- Gary Lewis
More of The Monkees
Surfbeat- The Best of The Challengers
A Hard Days Night
The Best of Hermans Hermits
The Dave Clarks 5's Greatest Hits
Petula Clark- Downtown
Ride The Wild Twang- The Supertones

[mcow1]

Top 10 from the first half of the alphabet.
Beatles - Revolver
Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Vienna Phil. von Karajan
Merle Haggard - Serving 190 Proof
Black Sabbath - S/T
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of
Jimi - Electric Ladyland
Cream - Wheels Of Fire
B.B. King - Live At Cook County Jail

[Togo]

Originally posted by Juan Borras
In no particular order:


Togo, did you see my note to you in my last "favorite album sides" thread?

Juan

Hi Juan,

Yes I did..will be contributing to yours also...sorry, just can't resist those lists!!!

Cheers

[NealW]

mine is chosen as music that i've never tired of

1) Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
2) Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
3) Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
4) Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
5) Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
6) Queen - A night at the Opera
7) Beatles - Abbey rd
8) King Crimson - In the court...
9) Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
10) Taj Mahal - Natch'l Blues

[Togo]

Great lists so far...interesting and great to see Sonic Youth mentioned more than once...

Here is mine in no particular order...no Beatles, Dylan, Elvis P., Marley, Sinatra, Doors or Hendrix this time...all would figure in a longer list..along with many, many others.

10cc - Sheet Music
Pixies - Doolittle
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
XTC - Skylarking
U2 - Achtung Baby
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III (Melting cover)
Associates - Sulk
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
REM - Document

;)

[wes]

White album
Marvin Gaye, "What's Goin On"
Red Hot Chili Pepper's, "Mother's Milk"
Beatles, "Revolver
CCR, "GReen River"
Bob Dylan "Highway 61"
Bob Dylan "Blonde On Blonde"
Doors, "Strange Days"
Wilco, "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel"
Velvet Underground and Nico

-Wes

[Togo]

Of course, the more you think about it, the more great albums come to mind...

Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Television "Marquee Moon"
Scott Walker "Scott 4"
Smiths "Queen is Dead"
David Bowie "Low"

I have now cheated and added 5 more to my list!!! Please feel free to do likewise...

;)

[Togo]

Originally posted by Juan Borras
Togo, glad to help with Marquee Moon (reminding you, I mean).

Juan

I appreciate it...must be gettin' old if I can't remember a cracking album like that!

Cheers

[Pope V]

Originally posted by Togo
I have now cheated and added 5 more to my list!!! Please feel free to do likewise...

;)
Thank you!

11) Joy Division - Closer
12) Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
13) Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
14) Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
15) Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?

[lbangs]

We get five more entries, eh?

15. The Beatles - Abbey Road
14. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
13. Bruce Cockburn - Humans
12. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
11. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

[mcow1]

Oh Boy 5 extra!!

Roxy Music - Avalon
Quicksilver - Happy Trails
Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya-Ya's Out
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Doors S/T

[BradOlson]

My listening is mainly compilations, hits from albums I don't have on compilations or songs I haven't heard a while or the radio. I mostly collect but as far as albums are concerned, these are my recommendations:
Amazing Rhythm Aces-Stacked Deck and Too Stuffed To Jump albums
Urban Cowboy soundtrack
Grease soundtrack
B.W. Stevenson-Very Best Of... Collectables CD or the My Maria vinyl album on RCA (same album except the CD has bonus tracks. I have the CD.)
the Riders In The Sky catalog (don't settle for their Best of The West CD's, go for their catalog). If you haven't heard of Riders In The Sky or if you are a fan of their music and comedy, go to their website at www.ridersinthesky.com as it is "The Cowboy Way."

[Dave]

All righty then. In no particular order.

Doucette: Mamma Let Him Play
Def Leppard: Hysteria (sadly needs better mastering)
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Rush: Grace Under Pressure
Chilliwack: Greatest Hits (nice flat transfer)
ZZ Top: The Best Of ZZ Top (the only flat transfer of any of ZZ Tops songs on cd)
Robert Cray: Strong Persuader
Eric Clapton: Journeyman (I sure wish that there was a better cd version of this one)
Black Sabbath: Paranoid (Hey! Are you followin' me?:D )

[TimM]

1. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
2. Abbey Road - Beatles
3. Madman Across The Water - Elton John
4. Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
5. Who's Next - Who
6. Saturate Before Using - Jackson Brown
7. Rubber Soul - Beatles
8. Aftermath - Rolling Stones
9. America - 1st album
10. Headquarters - The Monkees

[Grant]

My list is gonna have compilations and greatest hits...this list could change this afternoon...

1) Have A Nice Day: Super Hits Of The 70s (the whole series)
2) EARTH, WIND & FIRE-That's The Way Of The World
3) ISLEY BROTHERS-Live It Up
4) BEATLES-Revolver
5) ARCHIES-Greatest Hits
6) FOREIGNER-Double Vision
7) OHIO PLAYERS-Honey
8) DEF LEPPARD-Pyromania
9) EMOTIONS-Rejoyce
10 THE TEMPTATIONS-Emporers Of Soul (box set)

[jroyen]

The Beatles "Abbey Road"
Louie Armstrong "Plays W.C. Handy"
Jeff Beck "Wired/Blow by Blow"
Van Halen "Fair Warning"
Thelonious Monk "Monk's Dream"
Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of the Moon"
Stevie Wonder "Songs in the Key of Life"
Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy"
Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"

Oh, and for pure variety, Mikey and Grant's selections are also pretty cool. :)

[Bob Lovely]

Originally posted by Grant
My list is gonna have compilations and greatest hits...this list could change this afternoon...

1) Have A Nice Day: Super Hits Of The 70s (the whole series)
2) EARTH, WIND & FIRE-That's The Way Of The World
3) ISLEY BROTHERS-Live It Up
4) BEATLES-Revolver
5) ARCHIES-Greatest Hits
6) FOREIGNER-Double Vision
7) OHIO PLAYERS-Honey
8) DEF LEPPARD-Pyromania
9) EMOTIONS-Rejoyce
10 THE TEMPTATIONS-Emporers Of Soul (box set)

Grant,

Do you have the Rhino 70's Soul Box? If so, how is the sound?

Thanks!

Bob

[Grant]

Originally posted by Bob Lovely


Grant,

Do you have the Rhino 70's Soul Box? If so, how is the sound?

Thanks!

Bob
I don't need it. I have the whole Rhino "Didn't It Blow Your Mind: Soul Hits of the 70s" series and tons of other soul music from the 70s.

[Bob Lovely]

Originally posted by Grant

I don't need it. I have the whole Rhino "Didn't It Blow Your Mind: Soul Hits of the 70s" series and tons of other soul music from the 70s.

Grant,

Thanks! I probably have all the titles in the box set as well but I was just looking for a possible review of the sound. By the way, how is the sound on the Have A Nice Day series Vol. 25-28?

Bob ;)

[wes]

We get five more entries, eh?

KILLER!!! I'll name some that I usually wouldn't consider


Superdrag "In The Valley of Dying Stars"
Moby "Play"
Elliot Smith "XO"
Gin Blossoms "New Miserable Experience"
The Replacements "Let It Be"


-Wes