[Archived] Top 5 Music Album/CD's of All Time

[sijoco]

Having a drink tonight and a listening to some albums from my past l wondered what other people would put as their top 5 of all time?

Considering I've a big rock/metal background my five would be:

5. Dogs D'Amour - Dynamite Jet Saloon

4. Metallica - Master of Puppets

3. New Order - Substance

2. Pink Floyd - The Wall

1. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

[koi]

Having a drink tonight and a listening to some albums from my past l wondered what other people would put as their top 5 of all time?

Considering I've a big rock/metal background my five would be:

5. Dogs D'Amour - Dynamite Jet Saloon

4. Metallica - Master of Puppets

3. New Order - Substance

2. Pink Floyd - The Wall

1. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

I never know how people get it down to a top 5! I recently had a huge clear out of my record collection and managed to cut it down to 600ish albums and that was tough going! If I went of the most played these would be my contenders:

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Bod Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Queen - Shear Heart Attack

Wilco - Hotel Yankee Foxtrot

Nirvana - Nevermind

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

The Band - Music From Big Pink

Love - Forever Changes

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

But then I'll go though another phase and it'll be all Pink Floyd or Bowie then I'll be into Bonnie Prince Billy, Lambchop etc!

I think if push came to shove and one album that I consider perfect from start to finish then I'd have to go with Innervisions, I must have listed to it 1000s of times and never get sick of it.

[Ricky]

Surely if you like an album enough to put it in your top 5 you can at least get the artist right.

The vocals are Ian Curtis which would make it joy division not new order.

[koi]

Surely if you like an album enough to put it in your top 5 you can at least get the artist right.

The vocals are Ian Curtis which would make it joy division not new order.

Both released a compilation called Substance but I think the NO version is known as 1987 as well.

[Ricky]

I've never known the New Order version, just the Joy Division one, which is quality.

[Alex Rover]

Both released a compilation called Substance but I think the NO version is known as 1987 as well.

Correct

[Nelsta]

The Clash, From Here to Eterntiy(best live album ever).

Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible.

The Smiths, Meat is Murder.

Guns "N" Roses, Use your Illusion II.

Beatles, Revolver.

Ramones, Rocket to Russia.

The Doors, Waiting for the Sun.

The Pixies, Doolittle.

AC/DC, Back in Black.

New Order, Singles(i know it's not a proper album, but every song is great)

Smashin Pumpkins, Adore.

I started writing 5, but i couldnt do it.

[K-Hod]

This is totally subjective dependent on genre really. Here are a few of my favourites at any rate!

1-Radiohead-The Bends

2-The Specials- The Specials

3-A Tribe Called Quest- beats, rhymes and life

4-De La Soul- 3 feet high and rising

5-Nas-Illmatic

[only2garners]

These are currently mine - next month they will probably be different (except there will always be a Brian Wilson album in there): -

Brian Wilson - Smile

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Tinariwen - Amassakoul

Alison Krauss and Union Station - Paper Airplane

Baaba Maal - Television

[koi]

These are currently mine - next month they will probably be different (except there will always be a Brian Wilson album in there): -

Brian Wilson - Smile

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Tinariwen - Amassakoul

Alison Krauss and Union Station - Paper Airplane

Baaba Maal - Television

Oh yes, I like that choice! Was only listening to Television last night. I take it you'll be a Ali Farka Touré fan?

[Andy3809]

Here's mine - Well more of a top three, can't pick between the rest.

Alanis morissette - Jagged little pill

Nivarna - Nevermind

Red Hot Chille Peppers - Blood sugar sex magic

[JC4LAB]

My Favs

1.Operation Mindcrime QueensRyche 2.Quadrophenia - The Who.3.Holy Diver..DIO..4 Farewell to Kings/2112 - Rush.5.Scorpions Greatest Hits .6 Straight shooter Bad Company.8.Jailbrack Thin Lizzy 4.Nantuket Sleighride-Mountain.Have great fondness for Sparks Kimono my House which was my first ever buy

[only2garners]

Oh yes, I like that choice! Was only listening to Television last night. I take it you'll be a Ali Farka Touré fan?

Indeed. In fact most music from West Africa, especially Senegal and Mali. As well as Tinariwen, Babba Maal and Ali Farka Toure, I can also recommend Ali's lad Vieux Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate, Amadou and Mariam, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Rokia Traore, Angelique Kidjo etc. etc. For those for whom this is a list of unknowns, if you like rock and blues music then you should check some of them out - this is the area that the blues really came from - it was taken to North America by the slaves. As a starter I would recommend either Amadou and Mariam or Bassekou Kouyate, which are both very accessible to the western ear.

[sentient]

Couln't resist this one ...

Killing Joke - KJ 1980 & KJ 2003

Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible

Radiohead - OK Computer

Leftfield - Leftism

The Ruts - Something That I Said (compilation sorry!)

Sex Pistols - NMTB

Crass - Stations Of The Crass

Rage Against The Machine - RATM

Editors - The Back Room

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

[speeeeeeedie]

I'm not much of a music fiend, nor do I own much but here are some of my favourites;

(What's the story) Morning Glory? - Oasis

Populist but I loved it when it came out, and still do.

Slippery when wet - Bon Jovi

Some class songs on here.

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

I was too young when it first came out, but found it later on.

Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg

Great beats, cracking lyrics. He's still going shows you how good he is.

The Essential Elvis - Elvis Presley (compilation)

He was an absolute legend. I prefer his later stuff, but it's all worth listening too.

[ABBEY]

Couldn't be bothered with top 5 but the greatest album ever is........shake your moneymaker , the black crowes

[Ozz]

Dark Side Of The Moon

Never Mind The ######

Joes Garage

Wild Wood

Queen Is Dead

[Cocker]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Cast - All Change

Gomez - Bring it on

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Bush - Sixteen Stone

Just 5 off the top of my head but love much more and that list would probably change again in a week

[Simon Says]

5 The Clash, The Clash

4 The Bends, Radiohead

3 Rattus Norvegicus, The Stranglers

2 Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

1 Ten, Pearl Jam

[colin]

What, no arguements over someone's personal opinion. What's the world coming to?

Mine, in no particular order

Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part

Brian Eno - Before & After Science

The Fall - Grotesque, After The Gramme

The Triffids - Calenture

The Bonzo Dog Band - Cornology ("Aah, I see you have have the same trouble with your trousers as I do." "Mmm, yes.")

I'm fibbing of course.

[MarkBRFC71]

Here's 10 off the top of my head ..... in no particular order:

'Urban Hymns' - The Verve

'The Stone Roses' - The Stone Roses

'Closer' - Joy Division

'Hatful Of Hollow' - The Smiths

'Achtung Baby' - U2

'Aha Shake Heartbreak' - Kings Of Leon

'Power, Corruption & Lies' - New Order

'Exodus' - Bob Marley & The Wailers

'L.A. Woman' - The Doors

'Mezzanine' - Massive Attack

[Rover Down Under]

This thread will never work unless people indicate their age group/age (Gen, BB, X, Y), it's very subjective.

I'm a Cocker era ;-)

In no particular order:

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Prodigy - Fat of the Land

The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Mentioned in Dispatches: The Charlatans - Us and Us Only

[Sandiway Blue]

Mine are:

1:Boston-Boston.... outstanding for a debut album and the first album i ever heard (still got it on vinyl)

2:Sex pistols-Never mind the b*llocks.... All winners and no fillers

3:The damned-Damned Damned Damned.... Great stuff from Sensible (still a w*nker ) and the gang

4:The stranglers-Decades apart.... Bit of a cop out having a compilation but they made so many good songs it had to go in!

5:Seal-Seal.... Fantastic chill out album with an amazing voice

[sentient]

Best thing about a thread like this is it reminds you of so much music that is bloody brilliant! Just bee listening to Damned New Rose and Neat Neat Neat. Top stuff!

[jny]

Really tough to chop it down to five but...

1. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

3. Television - Marquee Moon

4. Doves - Lost Souls

5. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder