YOUR Top 10 Albums
Aug 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM Post #151 of 252
Hi everyone,

This is my first post on Head-Fi. Though I have been here many times before, reading interesting and fun conversations about music and headphone gear.

Anyway, here is a list of my top 10 albums. For the time being.
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Beatles - White Album
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Pixies - Doolittle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neil Young - Harvest
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Television - Marquee Moon

Please excuse me for my English. I come from Finland.
 
Mar 27, 2010 at 2:00 AM Post #152 of 252
My 10 albums.

Autecre- incullabulla
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Dire Straits- Dire straits
Enya-Watermark
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Marillion-Clutching at straws
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Seal-Seal (1991)
Massive Attack - collected
Jeff Wayne - War or the worlds
 
Mar 27, 2010 at 4:13 AM Post #153 of 252
No particular order

1. Quadrophenia- The Who
2. Strange Days- The Doors
3. LA Women- The Doors
4. Blood on The Tracks- Bob Dylan
5. Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
6.Cowboy Bebop OST 1- Yoko Kanno
7. FLCL OST 2- The Pillows
8.Blues for Allah- Grateful Dead
9.Low- David Bowie
10. Discovery- Daft Punk
 
Mar 27, 2010 at 5:33 AM Post #154 of 252
With the exception of the Pink Floyd albums the list really can change almost daily. I also tried hard to make it not too Floyd-centric. It was difficult. But the albums I listed are excellent and amazing albums.

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Nirvana - In Utero
Tool - Lateralus
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Radiohead - The Bends
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways

Honorable mentions:

Steely Dan - Aja
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
 
Mar 27, 2010 at 1:26 PM Post #155 of 252
Fun thread
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1. Steely Dan - Aja
2. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
3. Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns - When the Curtain goes up
4. Toto - Toto IV
5. Dave's True Story - Sex Without Bodies
6. Airplay - Airplay (Foster, Graydon)
7. Lisa Ono - Look To The Rainbow - Jazz Standards from L.A.
8. Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen - No vil eg vake med deg
9. Steve Swallow - Swallow
10. Al Jarreau - Look To The Rainbow (live)
 
Mar 27, 2010 at 9:48 PM Post #156 of 252
Steely Dan - Aja
Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
XTC - Skylarking
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Paul Simon - Graceland
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Love - Forever Changes
The Beach Boys - Friends
 
Mar 27, 2010 at 10:18 PM Post #157 of 252
In no order whatsoever, just my mood - and memory - today

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
4. Spock´s Beard - Snow
5. Rush - Stage, Exit Left
6. Rush - Moving Pictures
7. Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound
8. Santana - Moonfllower
9. Pat Metheny - Travels
10. Bozzio Levin Stevens - black Light Syndrome

Just received today, but Gov´t Mule Deepest End seems to be going in this list

Fantastic thread
 
Sep 6, 2011 at 1:20 AM Post #158 of 252
For Now:
 
1. Frail Words Collapse: As I Lay Dying
2. Stadium Arcadium: Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Shakti- A Handful of Beauty
4. Deadwing- Porcupine Tree
5. Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
6. Pearl Jam- Yield
7. Boris- Pink
8. Avial- Avial
9. Rated R- Queens of the stone Age
10. Sound of Perseverance- Death
 
Sep 6, 2011 at 4:02 AM Post #159 of 252
1. Francesco Durante - Magnificat in B

 
2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition)

3. Dave Brubeck - Time Out (SACD)

4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

5. W.A. Mozart - Requiem (Levine Edition - Hybrid SACD)

 
6. Queen - Greatest Hits

7. Art Pepper - The Way It Was... (avoid the MFSL!!!)

 
8. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers! (Gray Label Vinyl)

 
9. Julie London - Swing Me An Old Song

 
10. Cannonball Adderley feat. Bill Evans - Know What I Mean?

 
Sep 8, 2011 at 11:53 AM Post #160 of 252
T-Rex.......... The Slider
Golden Earring..........Moontan
Black Sabbath..........Paranoid
Led Zeppelin..........Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin..........The Song Remains The Same Soundtrack
Black Sabbath..........Black Sabbath
Turbonegro..........Apocalypse Dudes
Black Sabbath..........Master Of Reality
Kiss..........Alive
UFO..........Strangers in the Night



If I had to, I could live with just these somewhere.
 
Sep 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM Post #161 of 252
A twist on the theme, a top 10 with each album representing the best of a genre
 
Pink Floyd - The Wall  Prog Rock
 
And So I Watch You From Afar - ASIWYFA   Post Rock
 
Anekdoten - Gravity  Nordic Prog Rock
 
Pineapple Thief - Little Man  Modern Prog
 
The Clash - London's Calling   Punk/New Wave
 
Thomas Newman - American Beauty   Sound tracks
 
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti    Rock
 
Gomez - A New Tide   Indie
 
Devin Townsend - Terria   Metal
 
Faithless - Sunday 8PM    Electronica/trip hop
 
 
Sep 8, 2011 at 6:52 PM Post #162 of 252
 
1. Sigur Rós - ( ) (2002)

2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1999)

3. Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)

4. Pan American - Quiet City (2004)

5. Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby (1961)

6. Burial - Untrue (2007)

7. Fennesz - Venice (2004)

8. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1978)

9. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens (2007)

10. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (2008)

 
Copy pasted it from a dutch rateyourmusic kind of site which explains the markup.

 
Sep 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM Post #163 of 252
12 albums I consider special and which have been the soundtrack to my life so far, in no particular order:
 
- Swartalf's "The Golden Section" martial/industrial
 
- Type O Negative's "October Rust" gothic rock
 
- Rome's "Flowers from Exile" pop noir/neofolk
 
- Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" heavy metal
 
- Cradle of Filth's "Dusk... and her embrace" black/gothic metal
 
- Katatonia's "The Great Cold Distance" doom/gothic rock
 
- Arcturus "La Masquerade Infernale" avant garde metal
 
- Coil's "Musick to play in the dark vol.1" dark ambient
 
- Ulver's "Perdition City" triphop
 
- Shining's "V:Halmstad" black metal
 
- Ghinzu's "Blow" indie
 
- Khoma's "The Second Wave" postcore
 
Sep 10, 2011 at 6:48 PM Post #164 of 252
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Paul Simon - Graceland
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Joni Mitchell - Blue
The Band - The Band
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
JJ Cale - Naturally
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Monkey Mafia - Shoot the Boss
 
Sep 10, 2011 at 11:19 PM Post #165 of 252
I dont think I can put them in order and if I had a couple more beers tonight this might change...
 
Tool-Ænima
Primus-Firzzle Fry
Pearl Jam-Ten
311-Soundsystem
Chimaira-Chimaira
Led Zeppelin-IV
Pink Floyd-Animals
Jurassic 5-EP
Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
Alice in Chains-Alice in Chains
 
 

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