Of course, always room for debate here, 500 albums is a lot to deal with, and if you and I both thought up our, say top ONE hundred, there is a good chance there would be some overlap......Rolling Stone magazine attempted a few years back to put this into some sort of perspective, and, as usual, it kind of completely falls apart......nevertheless, it is a damn ambitious effort, does discuss many of the classic rock albums of all time, and is nothing if not a debate-starter.......I think it's worthy of inclusion here, it should be discussed/debated/changed until the end of time. So, here's the fun part......what do YOU personally think are the FIVE "best" (or, more accurately, your five favorite) rock albums of them all? I would absoultey LOVE to see people's lists, I think it would be an amazing topic for discussion, I hope it takes off just a bit.....if one of your faves is something obscure let me know and we'll be certain to post it. Here are my ten faveorites/"bests":
1. LOVE-Forever Changes
2. THE CLASH
3. NIRVANA-Nevermind
4. THE MC5-Kick Out the jams
5. THE VELVET UNDERGORUND-White Light White Heat
6. DAVID BOWIE-Ziggy Stardust
7. THE WHO-Live at Leeds
8. LIZ PHAIR-Exile In Guyville
9. ROXY MUSIC-Siren
10. SLEATER KINNEY-One Beat
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I have eight out of ten there I think. I have some SK, but I don't think I've got one beat. II would choose a Who studio album over a live one, but I don't know which-a bit hard to choose. For me in my top ten would be u2 joshua tree radiohead the bends counting crows august and everything after pink floyd-hard to choose but I think I'd go with the wall r.e.m. that's just off the top of my head. I'd have to think on it to round out a top ten.
ReplyDeleteI have eight out of ten there I think. I have some SK, but I don't think I've got one beat. II would choose a Who studio album over a live one, but I don't know which-a bit hard to choose. For me in my top ten would be u2 joshua tree radiohead the bends counting crows august and everything after pink floyd-hard to choose but I think I'd go with the wall r.e.m. that's just off the top of my head. I'd have to think on it to round out a top ten.
ReplyDeleteMy favorites, and I could only narrow it down to these, in no particular order:
ReplyDeleteSonic Youth - Evol
David Bowie - Blackstar
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Cat Power - You Are Free
The Replacements - Let It Be
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
R.E.M. - Reckoning
Prince - Dirty Mind
Pixies - Doolittle
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Gang Of Four - Entertainment
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
The National - Boxer
The Clash - The Clash
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Radiohead - OK Computer
Stooges funhouse
ReplyDeleteJmc psychocandy
Ramones ramones
Stones. Sticky fingers
Fu manchu king of thr road
Favorite find on your blog. Men of porn( thanks)
Favorite undiscovered. The D 4 sake bomb
Honorable mention Killing joke l. Loop. Primal scream
I had a terrible time narrowing down to 25:
ReplyDeleteStooges: Fun House
Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
Fall: Hex Enduction Hour
Wire: Chairs Missing
Damned: Machine Gun Etiquette
Bram Tchaikovsky: Strange Man, Changed Man
English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It
Replacements: Sorry Ma...
Embarrassment: Heyday
Bad Brains: S/T
Die Kreuzen: S/T
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb
Jungle Brothers: Done By The Forces Of Nature
Figgs: Low Fi at Society High
Redd Kross: Third Eye
You Am I: Hi Fi Way
Lucinda Williams: S/T
Elliott Smith: S/T
dEUS: Worst Case Scenario
Wye Oak: The Knot
Shirley Horn: Here's To Life
Little Axe: If You Want Loyalty, Buy A Dog
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ReplyDeleteA friend of mine did a top 10 post a short while ago, and I'll be damned if I didn't wrack my brain trying to put one together, but it went something like this:
ReplyDelete1) Dir En Grey - Uroboros
2) The Who - Who's Next
3) Pink Floyd - The Wall
4) The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
5) Boom Boom Satellites - To The Loveless
6) The Clash - London Calling
7) The Marmozets - The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
8) My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
9) O'Brother - Endless Light
10) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Here's my Top 10
ReplyDelete1. Prince - 'Sign 'o' the Times
2. The Clash - 'London Calling'
3. Queen - 'A Night at the Opera'
4. The Jam - 'Snap!' (vinyl version!!!)
5. Cheap Trick - 'Heaven Tonight'
6. Prince - 'Parade'
7. Talking Heads - 'The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads'
8. The Band - 'The Band' ("The Brown Album")
9. Peter Gabriel - 'Peter Gabriel' ("III: Melting")
10. Bruce Springsteen - 'Born to Run'
Scott Keller - Ifmyrecordscouldtalkdotme.wordpress.com
My next 10, in no particular order...
DeleteBrian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pagaent
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
The Police - Ghosts in the Machine
Tom Petty - Hard Promises
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Paul Simon - Graceland
Cheap Trick - In Color
Scott Keller - ifmyrecordscouldtalkdotme.wordpress.com
Scott, I can't find your blog. What's the correct address? I thought you might have mistyped it, but there's nothing at ifmyrecordscouldtalktome.wordpress.com, and ifmyrecordscouldtalk.wordpress.com has no public posts. Just curious.
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