Best album of all time (excluding JD/NO)

Hey, just trying to post a topic cos it's been soooooooooo long since I visited (busy couple of weeks) so here goes (and all apologies if this has been done before):

What, in your personal opinion, is the best album you've ever heard, excluding JD/NO (as I believe all our lists would consist primarily of their stuff, and that's no fun)? Here's my nominees

1. Beatles...Revolver (1966)
2. Smiths...Queen is Dead (1986)
3. Dylan...Blonde on Blonde (1966)
4. Floyd...Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
5. Beach Boys...Pet Sounds (1966)
6. Radiohead...The Bends (1995)
7. Modern Lovers (1976)
8. Bowie...Lodger (1979)
9. Who...Who Sell Out (1967)
10. Lou Reed...Street Hassle (1978)

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
3. Led Zeppelin - IV
4. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation
5. Radiohead - OK Computer or Kid A
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Sprial
7. Prodigy - Experence
8. Sonic Youth - Sister
9. Beatles - Abbey Road or Revolver
10. Kraftwerk - Computer World

Orbital - Snivilization/'Brown Album' Wilco - Summerteeth Suede - Dog Man Star Talking Heads - Fear of Music James - Laid Bowie - Low Fugazi - In on the Killtaker REM - Up Daft Punk - Discovery Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate CTB

floyd (that's PINK< RM) - wish you were here

1: Rum, Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues
2: Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy 3: Bon Chic Bon Genre Campag Velocet 4: Midnight Love Marvin Gaye 5: The Positive Touch The Undertones 6: Chasin' A Dream Tashan 7: Never Mind The Bollocks The Sex Pistols 8: Force A Certain Ratio 9: 3ft. High & Rising De La Soul 10:Specials The Specials

Radiohead - O.K Computer, The Bends, Amnesiac, Kid A. Massive Attack - Blue Lines, Mezzanine. The Beatles - White Album, Sgt. Peppers. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall. The Stone Roses - Stone Roses. The Pixies - Doolittle, Bossanova. Just a few, its hard to pick one greatest album ever!

HERE'S MINE FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH.

THE BENDS-RADIOHEAD FEAR OF MUSIC-TALKING HEADS SUPERFLY-CURTIS MAYFIELD COASTAL BREAKS-ADAM FREELAND THE QUEEN IS DEAD-SMITHS LEFTISM-LEFTFIELD FUZZY LOGIC-S.F.A MAXINQUAYE-TRICKY LOW-BOWIE LOVELESS-MY BLOODY VALENTINE

01 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 02 Depeche Mode - Violator 03 Therapy? - Troublegum 04 Ramones - Ramones 05 Wire - Chairs Missing 06 Mesh - The Point At Which It Falls Apart 07 Peter And The Test Tube Babies - Mating Sounds 08 Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park 09 The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow 10 Carter USM - 30 Something

Skinny Puppy, bites 808 State, Gorgeous PWEI, This is the day, this is the hour, this is this Front 242, Front by front Kraftwerk, The Man Machine Clan of Xymox, Medusa Sugarcubes, Stick around for joy Echo & the bunnymen, Echo & the bunnymen Pet Shop Boys, Behaviour Xmal Deutschland, fetisch

Originally posted by Spotnick Topic police here, this type of threads should be in the general chat forum isn't it?

You're right as always, Mister Webmaster Sir, but anyway here goes, in no particular order: 1- The Sound "From the lion's mouth" 2- Echo & The Bunnymen "Ocean Rain" 3- Clan of Xymox "Medusa" 4- Depeche Mode "Violator" 5- Radiohead "The bends" 6- Jesus & Mary Chain "Darklands" 7- Peter Murphy "Love hysteria" 8- This Mortal Coil "Filligree & Shadow" 9- David Bowie "Low" 10- Bruce Springsteen "The river"

In No Order

Talk Talk : Spirit of Eden Mazzy Star : She hangs brightly World Party : Good Bye Jumbo Van Morrisson : Astral Weeks The Waterboys : Fisherman's blues David Bowie : The rise and the fall of Ziggy Stardust and... Miracle Legion : Me and Mr Ray Cath Carroll : England made me Cocteau Twins : Heaven or Las Vegas Ultra Vivid Scene : Ultra Vivid Scene Galaxie 500 : On Fire It's Immaterial : Song

and so many forgotten ones

1. soulmining - The The
2. bummed - Happy Mondays
3. ex:el - 808 state
4. moby - play
5. blue lines - massive attack
6. stone roses - stone roses
7. air - moon safari
8. hour of the bewilderbeast - badly drawn boy
9. meat is murder - smiths 10.psychocandy - jesus and mary chain

hmm, these are some of my favs:

• the sound - from the lion's mouth
• the cure - seventeen seconds
• the smiths - hatful of hollow
• radiohead - the bends
• xtc - english settlement
• joe jackson - night and day
• the doors - the doors
• lou reed - new york
• lou reed - transformer
• prodigy - the fat of the land

WISH YOU WERE HERE...PINK FLOYD...... I luv this you tarts.... :D

Originally posted by Spotnick Topic police here, this type of threads should be in the general chat forum isn't it?

Sorry, nic, it's been a while since I last visited. Besides, very little left to discuss about NO these days besides possible new album and 24 Hour Party People.

The Jam - All Mod Cons

Bloody classic album, can't beleive no one mentioned it yet....

Liv

good call Liv. a very good record + Fly is one of the most underrated love songs ever.

In no particualr order:

Curve-New Adventures of Curve(and every album of theirs) Pixies-Bossanova The Faint-Danse Macabre My Bloody Valentine-Isn't Anything Lush-Spooky Jawbox-Jawbox Fugazi-Repeater Catherine Wheel-Chrome Cocteau Twins-Heaven or Las Vegas Throwing Muses-University

In no particular order

Icehouse - Flowers The Who - Who's Next The Cure - Seventeen Seconds Wire - Pink Flag Devo - New Traditionalists Headless Chickens - Body Blow The Cars - s/t Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting Garbage - Beautiful Garbage

1)Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park 2)Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm The Studio 3)Love And Rockets - Express 4)The Velvet Underground - Box Set 5)The Tear Garden - The Last Man To Fly 6)The Cure - Disintegration 7)Front 242 - Tyranny For You 8)Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun 9)NIN - The Downward Spiral 10)Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

At the moment my favourites are ,in no particular order.. WISH YOU WERE HERE ....PINK FLOYD LED ZEPPELIN 4 STATIONTOSTATION.....DAVID BOWIE INTROSPECTIVE..... PET SHOP BOYS NOT OF THIS WORLD ..............PENDRAGON THE EMINEM SHOW THE COMPLETE STONE ROSES HOURS DAVID BOWIE THE SLIDER .... T.REX IS THIS IT....THE STROKES THE BEST OF ...THE DOORS DEFINETLEY MAYBE.....OASIS RANT ....IAN HUNTER BRUTAL PLANET ........ALICE COOPER BUT THE LIST IS ENDLESS AND CHANGES DAY BY DAY. Just enjoy it while you can ... oh and ALL THINGS IGGY POP,DEATH IN VEGAS,MERCURY REV,NEW YORK DOLLS,some STONES and PAUL WELLER

Originally posted by Rocket Mick WISH YOU WERE HERE...PINK FLOYD......I luv this you tarts.... :D

this is without doubt the best album of all time ever.
i'm not really a fan of floyd (although another claim to fame: i work in the school that sang the 'we don't need no education' bit on the wall. 'tis very ironic as the school is now infamous for being crap and OFSTED has failed us many times due to the lack of education that us teachers provide). aside from all this, wish u were here is the only cd i can play from start to finish without skipping tracks.

All in all ,FLOS just another brick in the wall! :D

hope u don't mind me using your fave smiley

Some notables that didn't make my list: XTC, Black Sea/Skylarking/Oranges and Lemons Velvet Underground, Loaded Who, Tommy Jam, Sound Affects Talking Heads 77

hey, we start again? forgot in my top ten:

NITZER EBB - THAT TOTAL AGE

incredible album!

BRENDAN you have just reminded me what a FANTASTIC album WHO'S NEXT is!

Originally posted by Rocket Rio BRENDAN you have just reminded me what a FANTASTIC album WHO'S NEXT is!

Its great isn't it Mick ? Probably my fav Who album ... Hey Mick, I was going through my old vinyl the other day and came across Trash by Alice Cooper ... Gave it a spin because I remembered that your a big fan and I haven't listened to it in ages !!!

My personal top ten (without New Order or related bands)

1. The Clash -London Calling
2. U2- The Joshua Tree
3. The Police- Synchronicity
4. Elvis Costello- This Years Model
5. R.E.M.- New Adventures In Hi-Fi
6. World Party- Goodbye Jumbo
7. Sting- ...Nothing Like The Sun
8. U2- Achtung Baby
9. James- Millionaires
10. The Stone Roses

Not any real order, but kinda close.

Originally posted by ShugZV Blood on the tracks......Dylan

God, I've been meaning to get that one, but I'm afraid of it replacing Blonde on Blonde as my fave Dylan album.

Originally posted by Liv The Jam - All Mod ConsBloody classic album, can't beleive no one mentioned it yet....Liv

Yes it is, but I go for Setting Sons.

Anyway, here's mine (Closer woulda otherwise been #1)

Triffids-Born Sandy Devotional

Television-Marquee Moon

Echo/Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here

Sonic Youth-Sister

Talking Heads-Fear of Music

The Jam-Setting Sons

Meat Puppets II

Dylan-Blood On The Tracks

Wire-154

The Church-Blurred Crusade

some of my faves are(in no particular order):- DAFT PUNK -HOMEWORK P.J.HARVEY-STORIES FROM THE CITY STORUES FROM THE SEA DOVES-THE LAST BROADCAST DAVID GRAY-WHITE LADDER BADLY DRAWN BOY-THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST RADIOHEAD-THE BENDS RADIOHEAD-O.K.COMPUTER CHARLATANS-TELLIN STORIES LEFTFIELD-LEFTISM BILLY BRAGG-BREWING UP WITH

Nice one TREV,although these did not make my top 15 or so i have 5 of these GEMS and love em ALL especially LEFTISM and the 2 RADIOHEAD. :D

thats easy..... the clash's first album

Lust For Life - Iggy Pop

New Order?????

Hi,

Here are my selections:-

1. Karlheinz Stockhausen - "Hymnen"
2. Neu - "Neu"
3. Throbbing Gristle - "Dead on Arrival"
4. Miles Davis - "In a silent way"
5. Nick Drake - "Pink Moon"
6. Popul Vuh - "In den garten pharaos"
7. Serge Gainsbourg - "Histoire de Melody Nelson"
8. Spiritualized - "Pure Phase"
9. Wendy Carlos - "Sonic Seasonings"
10. Harmonia - "Musik von Harmonia"

What about the following:

DURAN DURAN: 'Duran Duran' PROPAGANDA: 'A Secret Wish' JOE JACKSON: 'Blaze of Glory' DEPECHE MODE: 'Exciter' SIMPLE MINDS: 'Real Life' DOUBLE: 'Blue' A-HA: 'Hunting High and Low' CUTTING CREW: 'Broadcast' 808 STATE: 'United State' PET SHOP BOYS: 'Behaviour'

Since last time this thread croped up I've become a late convert to The Beach Boys so I'd sub Pet Sounds for something.

Originally posted by Robert Simms What about the following:A-HA: 'Hunting High and Low'

A favourite from my childhood

Anyone see Morten Harket on TOTP2 last night? Has he got a portrait of himself rotting in the attic or what?

'Kin Hell, new rule, no literary references. Are you suggesting he's drinking from the fountain of youth?

Soz, forgot where I was for a minute...

Glad to see Mr Harket looking so sprightly, whatever the means....I don't feel quite so embarrassed about being convinced I was going to marry him and live in Norway and tend to his orchids when I was 9.

Originally posted by Kez-bah > Originally posted by Robert Simms> What about the following:> > A-HA: 'Hunting High and Low'

A favourite from my childhood

Anyone see Morten Harket on TOTP2 last night? Has he got a portrait of himself rotting in the attic or what?

Whoa, I feel kinda old now! I almost forgot about those guys!

YEP..have to agree with you there, Nic....

ACHTUNG BABY is def up there in my top ten list....

Had followed U2 for some time before that..but by the time Rattle & Hum came out, i thought that Gospel/Graceland/Americas theme got a bit too bloated.... I almost gave up on them.....until...

I heard the first few seconds of Zoo Station....WOW!!!!! The thrill is almost up there with that first moment of listening to Crystal after that long New Order drought...

Here are some of mine:

Autechre - Incunabula Underground Resistance - Interstellar Fugitives Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders Plaid - Trainer Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 The Orb - Pomme Fritz Joel Mull - Imagination Paperclip People - Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich Plastikman - Consumed V/A - Artificial Intelligence II

Ten isn't enough!!!

1. Depeche Mode - Violator
2. Pet Shop Boys - Very
3. Erasure - Cowboy
4. Alphaville - Big in Japan
5. Bigod 20 - ?
6. Duran Duran - The wedding Album
7. Belinda Carlisle - Live your life be free
8. Kon Kan - Move to move
9. Shania Twain - Come on over
10. Depeche Mode - 101

New Or...erm...

1-Simple Minds - New Gold Dream/SFY/SitR 2-The Cure - KissMe/Pornograhy/WMS 3-The Smiths - all their albums 4-theThe - all their albums 5-Depeche Mode - SOFAD/Ultra/Violator/Black 6-808 State - U.S. 90/Don Solaris 7-FSOL - Accelerator 8-Yoko Kanno - Macross Plus OST 9-The Clash - Story of/Sandanista 10-Tears for Fears - Sowing/Songs from/Elemental/The Hurtin 11-Pet Shop Boys - Please/Actually/Alternative 12-XClan - To tha East Blackwards Sissy!

doesnt anyone rate the muppet album...

what about russ abbots mad house, that was a rocking good play :)

In no particular order...

Pixies-Doolitle Fugazi-Repeater Radiohead-the Bends Portishead-Dummy Rusted Root-When i woke The Smiths-The queen is dead The Cure-Desintegration Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese dreams Jane's Addiction-Nothing's shocking The Cult-Love

Love and rockets--Express Beatles--Abbey Road The Velvet Undergraound and Nico The Butthole Surfers--Hairway to Stevan The Cure--17 seconds The Police--Zenyatta Mondatta (or however they spelled it) The Grateful Dead--American Beauty REM--Reckoning Front 242--Front by Front Soul Asylum--Clamdip

in no particular order....

Hendrix 'the experience' massive attack 'mezzanine' chicane 'behind the sun' both Coldplay albums stones 'exile on main street' depeche mode 'ultra'

Originally posted by dan bailey in no particular order....both Coldplay albumsstones 'exile on main street'

Yes!

They Might Be Giants - Flood OMD - Architechure And Morality The Cure - Japanese Whispers Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Beatles - Rubber Soul Ultravox - Rage In Eden U2 - Unforgettable Fire Art Of Noise - Who's Afraid Of Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Figures On A Beach - Swimming EP

Ooh, probably Air--'Moon Safari' Although I'll probably think of something else tomorrow.
The Clash--'London Calling', as well.