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IF YOU COULD ONLY HAVE 20 ALBUMS WHAT WOULD THEY BE?

post #1 of 27
6/4/10 at 2:39am
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It seems that there are some albums I never get tired of. In today's world of changes it is nice that some things last. Every time that cd or record goes on the special magic is always there. After a while these little musical gems become whole little escape worlds all to themselves. What would be your top 20 albums and why?

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post #2 of 27
6/4/10 at 5:04am

off the top of my head,

 

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

joy division - unknown pleasures

joy division - closer

radiohead - Kid A

radiohead - OK Computer

arcade fire - funeral

the stone roses - the stone roses

jesus and mary chain - psychocandy

zombies - odessey & oracles

beach boys - pet sounds

nas - illmatic

beatles - white album

boards of canada - music has the right to children

sufjan stevens - illinois

my bloody valentine - loveless

animal collective - strawberry jam

pavement - crooked rain crooked rain

pink floyd - the wall

magnetic fields - 69 love songs

she & him - vol1 (i love zooey deschanel :D)

 

too lazy to count if that is 20

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post #3 of 27
6/4/10 at 10:13am

Pink Floyd - DSOTM

Daft Punk - Discovery

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

The Knife - Deep Cuts

The Knife - Silent Shout

Royksopp - The Understanding

Shpongle - Tales of Inexpressible

Crystal Castles - I & II

Blur - Parklife

Bjork (too many to list!)

Metallica - Black Album

QOTSA - Rated R

Radiohead - OK Computer

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor

Gorillaz - Plastic Tree

NAS - Illmatic

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

FleetwoodMac - Rumours

The Prodigy - Fat of the Land

The Verve - Urban Hymes

Mistical - Eleventh Hour

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post #4 of 27
6/4/10 at 10:19am

too difficult question for me...ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR!

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post #5 of 27
6/4/10 at 11:31am

Radiohead - OK Computer

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Radiohead - The Bends

 

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective - Feels

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

 

Tool - Aenima

Interpol - Turn On Your Bright Lights

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

Nirvana - In Utero

 

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone

The Beatles - Abbey Road

 

Fun thread. All of those have that "special magic" for me. But 20 is such an evil number for a favorite albums thread.

 

What makes this even more interesting is if you can try to recollect 20 of your favorites albums off the top of your head.

 

 

I have a feeling I may have forgotten a few important ones....................actually.......................add:

 

DeVotchKa - How It Ends

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.....my first album.

 

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post #6 of 27
6/4/10 at 11:40am

Agalloch: Pale Folklore

Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit

Iron Maiden: Powerslave

My Morning Jacket: Okonokos

Immortal: At the heart of winter

Mars Volta: Deloused at the Comatorium

Phish: Rift

Novembre: The Blue

Opeth: Orchid

Chuck Berry: Berry is on Top/St. Louis to Liverpool

Black Sabbath: Master of Reality

Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream

Flaming Lips: Yoshimi

Phish: Lawnboy

Pat Metheny Group: Question and Answer

Pavement: Wowee Zowee

Pink Floyd: DSOTM

Rush: A show of hands

Ween: Chocolate and Cheese

The Who: Who's next

Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain

John Coltrane: Giant Steps

Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue

 

 

I'm pretty sure that's a little more than 20 but I cannot imagine life without being able to listen to those albums!

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post #7 of 27
6/4/10 at 11:48am

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

 

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

 

Can - Future Days

 

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

 

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

 

Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate

 

Joanna Newsom - Ys

 

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

 

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

 

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch!

 

Nujabes - Metaphorical Music

 

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The 36 Chambers

 

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

 

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

 

Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

MBV - Loveless

 

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones

 

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

 

Portishead - Third

 

Madvillain - Madvillainy

 

 

Hardest list I've ever had to make

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post #8 of 27
6/4/10 at 12:00pm

1.Herbie Hancock - Thrust                                           11. Boney james - Body language

 

2.Telefon-tel-Aviv  - Farenheit fair enough                       12. Afronaught - Shaping fluid

 

3.Kraftwerk - Computerwelt                                          13. Prince - Sign of the times

 

4.Steel Pulse - True democracy                                   14. Samon Kawamura - Translations

 

5.Rick Braun - Full stride                                             15. Noto / Sakamoto - Vrioon

 

6.Lenny Kravitz - Lenny                                               16. Roy Hargrove - RF Project

 

7.Frank Bretchsneider - Rhythm                                   17. Burning Spear - Praise Him

 

8.Nils Landgren Funk Unit - 5000 miles                         18. Autechre - Draft 7.30

 

9.Spacek - Curvatia                                                     19. Rhythm Logic - Sweet talk

 

10.Troubleman - Strikehard                                          20. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Stadium Arcadium


Edited by THAY BRAN - 6/4/10 at 12:13pm
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post #9 of 27
6/5/10 at 12:19am

At present this is what my list would look like.  Tomorrow it might be different.  It's a bit mercurial, really.

 

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness

Clutch - Clutch
Clutch - Robot Hive: Exodus

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine-Biomech

Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself

Judas Priest - Stained Class

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer

Neko Case - Blacklisted

Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic

Oingo Boingo - Good for Your Soul

Santogold - Santogold

Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost

Slough Feg - Hardworlder

Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad

Therion - Vovin

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

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post #10 of 27
6/5/10 at 1:19am

Today the list would probably include these ...

 

Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Roxy Music - Siren
Santana - Santana
U2 - Achtung Baby
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Opeth - Morningrise
The Stooges - Fun House
Therion - Theli
Big Walter Horton - With Carey Bell
Etta James - The Essential Etta James
Otis Rush - Right Place Wrong Time
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Wagner - Orchestra Works (Otto Klemperer)

 

Most of these albums stir up loads of memories of days past.

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post #11 of 27
6/5/10 at 11:32am
Whorey clap! This a great idea for a thead. Much harder than saying, like, name top 3 or 5 of all time. In no particular order:

Led Zeppelin- IV*
Metallica-Master of Puppets*
Neil Young- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
The Beattles- Abbey Road
Cat Stevens- Best Of... (I know, I know it's a "best of", but I like it, so there!)
The Doors- self titled
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here*
Eric Clapton-The Cream of Clapton
Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik*
Ben Harper- Diamonds on the Inside
Damien Rice-O
Pat Metheny Group-On The Way Up*
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Diana Krall-The Girl in the Other Room
Mastodon-Crack the Skye
Tool-Undertow or Lateralus*
Rush-2112
Nirvana-Mtv Unplugged
Alice in Chains-Mtv Unplugged

* denotes an album that I feel will never change from the list. Everything else could change.

Yikes! That was tough! I know it wasn't specified but I tried to not have more than one album per artist, hence some of the "best of's". I just think if I were to have to really choose...there wouldn't be room for any overlap. By no means are some of these albums the best release by the artist, just the same, though, something on the albums here I just can't live without, or at least I wouldn't want to. For instance, I can't live without the drumming of John Bonham, Neil Peart, Danny Carey, Antonio Sanchez and Brann Dailer. And then some albums have just been really influential on me. Anyway, there it is. It could be different tomorrow. Redcarmoose, where is your list?!?! You started this! Haha ;)
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post #12 of 27
6/5/10 at 12:38pm

1 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

2 Tool - Laturalus 

3 Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

4 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

5 Nirvana - Nevermind

 

6 Sublime - Sublime

7 The Doors - The Doors

8 Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights

9 Hurt - Vol.1

10 Hurt - Vol.2

 

11 Kid Dakota - So Pretty

12 Moving Mountains - Pneuma

13 Russian Circles - Enter

14 Do Make Say Think - Other Truths

15 Pelican - What We All Come To Need

 

16 Tool Ænima

17 Pink Floyd - Animals

18 Boston - Boston

19 Led Zeppelin IV

20 Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between

 

 

Wow that is hard. There is so much more post rock I love that I left out but I cannot take it all I suppose. 

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post #13 of 27
6/5/10 at 12:56pm

..........i'd stop listening to music. 

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post #14 of 27
6/5/10 at 4:08pm

can't believe I forgot to add Godspeed and Sigur Ros...

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post #15 of 27
6/5/10 at 5:09pm

Like others, I'm sure I missed something. These kind of lists are more like snapshots. Really, only about five albums I would have total confidence in. The rest is mood and constitution.

 

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere: if only for Slip Inside This House, which is one of my all time fave songs.

16 Volt - Wisdom: a lot of nostalgia in this pick. One of those albums with a lot of memories.

Angra - Holy Land: always loved the flow of this work.

Autechre - Confield: my fave experimental techno album.

Curve - Doppelganger: nostalgia pick, plus damn good tunes.

Donald Byrd - Fancy Free: not a lot of jazz, but this fusion piece always struck a note with me.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures: my fave Division. The sound that influenced many of my favorite bands.

F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport: it's hard to mine the prior decade, since time has a way of revealing the albums you truly loved. This one made it.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn: if only for Autobahn.

Love - Forever Changes - more often than not, my all time fave album. I have always related to Arthur Lee here.

Miles Davis - Live Evil: there was something so dangerous and sexy to this set, that I have adored and revisited many times.

Neil Young - Harvest Moon: if only for War of Man.

NIN - The Downward Spiral: if there is a great play ticker in the sky, this is probably my most played album ever.

Pan Sonic - Kesto (238.48:4): an experimental techno opus.

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love: PJ with Flood, both at the top of their game.

Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance: recent prior decade addition.

Queen - A Night at the Opera: glamor, sizzle, bravado, Queen rocked.

Therion - Theli: Therion's widely recognized best album. That's saying something.

Villalobos - Alcachofa: minimal techno has never been better.

Within Temptation - Mother Earth: if only for Deceiver of Fools.

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