The MoFo Top Albums Countdown

[Iroquois]

Okay, folks, after a rather long and protracted voting period and an extended deadline or two, the MoFo Top Albums Countdown is finally here. Though I had initially planned this countdown to contain 100 entries, in the end I didn't get enough eligible votes and so have since decided to limit it to 50. To be eligible for this countdown, each album had to have at least two votes and 25 points. A grand total of 67 albums fit that criteria - I'll list the honourable mentions after the countdown proper has concluded.

A list of people who voted:

linespalsy
Miss Vicky
christine
Iroquois
Tacitus
Guaporense
Godoggo
Chypmunk
TheUsualSuspect
Camo
Holden Pike
Kaplan
jiraffejustin
Thursday Next
Slappydavis
Loner
gbgoodies
Zotis
cricket
honeykid
mark f
Captain Spaulding
Frank the Tank
TylerDurden99
Swan
Sexy Celebrity
Frightened Inmate No. 2
Funny Face
Citizen Rules

[Iroquois]

The entries that only scored one point:

Bananarama - Bananarama
The Union Underground - ...An Education in Rebellion
The Beatles - Let It Be
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Jive Bunny - The Album
Death Grips - The Money Store
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Styx - Paradise Theater
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Bad Brains - I Against I
Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast
The Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

(Honourable mention goes to Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, which managed to get two one-point votes)

[Zotis]

Oh finally! Yeah! I bet only one or two of mine will even make it.

[Iroquois]

#50: good kid, m.A.A.d city

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/KendrickGKMC.jpg

Artist: Kendrick Lamar
Year: 2012
Genre: Hip-hop/Rap
Votes: 1 x 16th, 1 x 5th
Points: 31

[jiraffejustin]

Who voted for Death Grips?

Swan and I are the two GKMC voters. :D

[gbgoodies]

I've never heard of about half of the 1-pointer artists. :(

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Jive Bunny - The Album was my #25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwhJS2i7uk

[Iroquois]

#49: Homogenic

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Bjork_-_Homogenic_album_cover.jpg

Artist: Björk
Year: 1999
Genre: Electronica/Trip-hop
Votes: 1 x 12th, 1 x 8th
Points: 32

[Zotis]

Iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening was my #25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz8gf83jpTU

[Iroquois]

#48: Doolittle

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Pixies-Doolittle.jpg

Artist: Pixies
Year: 1989
Genre: Alternative Rock
Votes: 2 x 11th, 1 x 24th
Points: 32

[Iroquois]

#46 (tie): The Band

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/The_Band_%28album%29_coverart.jpg

Artist: The Band
Year: 1969
Genre: Roots Rock
Votes: 1 x 9th, 1 x 10th
Points: 33

#46 (tie): Loveless

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/MyBloodyValentineLoveless.jpg

Artist: My Bloody Valentine
Year: 1991
Genre: Noise Rock
Votes: 1 x 17th, 1 x 2nd
Points: 33

[Iroquois]

#42 (tie): Pornography

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/The_Cure_-_Pornography.jpg

Artist: The Cure
Year: 1982
Genre: Gothic Rock
Votes: 1 x 3rd, 1 x 15th
Points: 34

#42 (tie): Elephant

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Elephant%2C_The_White_Stripes.png

Artist: The White Stripes
Year: 2003
Genre: Blues Rock
Votes: 1 x 7th, 1 x 11th
Points: 34

#42 (tie): The Head on the Door

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/The_Cure_-_The_Head_on_the_Door.jpg

Artist: The Cure
Year: 1985
Genre: Gothic Rock
Votes: 1 x 6th, 1 x 12th
Points: 34

#42 (tie): The Bends

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Radiohead.bends.albumart.jpg

Artist: Radiohead
Year: 1995
Genre: Alternative Rock
Votes: 1 x 14th, 1 x 4th
Points: 34

[Iroquois]

#41: Wish You Were Here

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/WishYouWereHere-300.jpg

Artist: Pink Floyd
Year: 1975
Genre: Progressive Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 15th
Points: 35

[Tacitus]

[b]The entries that only scored one point:


The Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue


Valhalla Avenue was my #25.

I've always thought that Cathal Couglan was a great songwriter but when Microdisney broke up and he formed Fatima Mansions he became a great singer as well - Think Scott Walker with a bad dose of piles.

Valhalla Avenue is quite a listen. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6k0s-Bl-6g

[Thursday Next]

I voted for The Bends at #14. I didn't vote for any Cure albums, but I do like The Cure a lot. I tended to vote for albums that I listened to a lot when I listened to albums. With The Cure I know a lot of the songs quite well but not necessarily the albums. I shall attempt to remedy that, however.

I think The Holy Bible was my one pointer, although it might have been the Muse. I certainly thought about voting for Muse, although it would probably have been Absolution rather than Black Holes and Revelations.

[mark f]

I had Stephen Malkmus as my 1-pointer, Doolittle at 24 and homogenic at 12. I was going to choose a Pavement album, but I decided I liked Malkmus' first solo (or Jicks) album more than those. Here's why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve7tpz1juyM

[Kaplan]

I had both Cure albums on my list, with Pornography at #3. That happened to be the first CD I ever bought and a couple decades later, I still love that album. Then Soft Cell was my 1-pointer.

[honeykid]

I think Oasis Definitely Maybe was mine. :) None of mine so far, but that's to be expected. Nice to see Doolittle up there. Well done for voting for that. :up:

[Miss Vicky]

The entries that only scored one point:

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More


That was mine.

I can't remember what I voted for, but none of the first ten were on my list.
Iro, can you PM me my list back? It's not in my sent folder and I can't find it on my computer.

[Camo]

Great stuff Iro :up: . Thanks for taking the time to do this :)

Muse - Black Holes and Revalations was my 1 pointer. Also on another day I could've easily voted for Doolittle, The Band and The White Stripes.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Yawnfest. Nothing of mine has made it so far. I'm not expecting much of anything to. Only my one pointer Monkees album has been mentioned.

[Swan]

Had GKMC, Homogenic, and Elephant on my list. Wish You Were Here and The Bends didn't make it only because I was restricting myself to one album per artist. The Band could make my top 50 albums, great stuff.

[honeykid]

Had GKMC, Homogenic, and Elephant on my list. Wish You Were Here and The Bends didn't make it only because I was restricting myself to one album per artist. The Band could make my top 50 albums, great stuff.
I think I only managed about 15 or 16 artists on my list :D and three of them made up about half of it.

[jiraffejustin]

I voted for The Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisXJSsULGM

Along with CCR, The Band just get that southern rock thing.

[Tacitus]

Along with CCR, The Band just get that southern rock thing.

Levon was putting out quality stuff right up til the end, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBuJB218UvU

[jiraffejustin]

Levon was putting out quality stuff right up til the end, too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cBuJB218UvU

Another really good album. I think my favorite track from that one is "A Train Robbery"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nfAYMZKp4


His turn in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is also worth mention.

[Tacitus]

One of the best concert movies ever made, too, in The Last Waltz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXVD-nSSKE

I'm only posting Caravan because of Van's jumpsuit...

[jiraffejustin]

The story of Neil Young having a glob of cocaine rotoscoped out of his nostril for the film is probably my favorite bit of trivia to bring up when I talk about "classic rock."

[Citizen Rules]

A big thanks! to Iroqouis for including my late list. Great job so far!

Happy to see my #25 as a 1 pointer. I didn't expect anyone else to vote for it. I see others posting videos of their album, I just have 1 short song here. I love the way all the vocals are song in unison throughout the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ePIZugahFc

[honeykid]

^^A song I thought about nominating for the song tournament^^

[cricket]

So far some artists I like and some I don't, but nothing I voted for.

The Allman Brothers-Eat A Peach was my 1 pointer.

[Miss Vicky]

I was restricting myself to one album per artist.

If I did that, I never would have gotten to 25. As I'm sure will be a surprise to absolutely no one who has participated in song tournaments, there were a few artists with multiple entries on my list.

[Holden Pike]

I voted for The Band.

Me, too. I had The Band's eponymous second studio record (sometimes called "The Brown Album") all the way up as my ninth overall pick! I went back and forth on whether to include "The Band" or "Music from Big Pink" and settled on the follow up record, if only because "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" is one of my favorite and least-played songs of theirs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxzQChNxQQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW7Z2bOJfmE


And the Styx album is mine on the one-pointers. I just love that record, especially side one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_I7n8U3Odg

MY LIST...
9. The Band (“The Brown Album”), The Band (1969)
25. Paradise Theatre, Styx (1980)

[Holden Pike]

Yawnfest. Nothing of mine has made it so far. I'm not expecting much of anything to. Only my one pointer Monkees album has been mentioned.

How many albums did Bea Arthur record?

[Miss Vicky]

How many albums did Bea Arthur record?

I don't think she's recorded any. But Richard Simmons has...

Well, I know he's recorded some songs anyway.

[christine]

A big thanks! to Iroqouis for including my late list. Great job so far!

Happy to see my #25 as a 1 pointer. I didn't expect anyone else to vote for it. I see others posting videos of their album, I just have 1 short song here. I love the way all the vocals are song in unison throughout the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ePIZugahFc

Seriously! I was thinking that was HK's choice. I worked in a college canteen 20 years ago and one of the lecturers there was Keren's dad. He was a lovely guy and very proud of her.

[Citizen Rules]

And the Styx album is mine on the one-pointers. I just love that record, especially side one. I might have included Paradise Theater had I thought of it:( I always liked Styxs. I seen them two times. One time was the Paradise Theater tour. They did a theme show. Sometime after the opening act (I forget who that was) with the lights still off, a little grey haired man came out sweeping the stage...Nobody noticed him or cared. Then the lights went up and then we could see the band and.... seen that Tommy Shaw was that old guy!

Seriously! I was thinking that was HK's choice. I worked in a college canteen 20 years ago and one of the lecturers there was Keren's dad. He was a lovely guy and very proud of her. Oh totally cool, Keren is the greatest. Did he talk about her as a youngster?

A big regret is, I was suppose to go to this New Wave concert show back in 1982 or 1983? It was a week long show in a small venue with many bands that weren't well known. I went the first night to see Missing Persons but the next night I almost went but didn't. That was the night Bananarama was there. Nobody knew their songs in the USA at the time.

[Tacitus]

I used to alternate daily on having a crush on Keren and having a crush on Siobhan (poor Sara, I'm sure she was gutted :p) when I wasn't having a crush on Kate Bush.

I say 'used to' but that'd be a lie. :D

[Iroquois]

#40: Cosmo's Factory

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival_-_Cosmo%27s_Factory.jpg

Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Year: 1970
Genre: Swamp Rock
Votes: 1 x 5th, 1 x 10th
Points: 37

[Iroquois]

#39: Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Never_Mind_the_Bollocks%2C_Here%27s_the_Sex_Pistols.png

Artist: Sex Pistols
Year: 1977
Genre: Punk Rock
Votes: 1 x 4th, 1 x 19th, 1 x 21st, 1 x 23rd
Points: 37

[Iroquois]

#36 (tie): Kid A

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Radiohead.kida.albumart.jpg

Artist: Radiohead
Year: 2000
Genre: Experimental Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 12th
Points: 38

#36 (tie): Unknown Pleasures

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Unknown_Pleasures_Joy_Division_LP_sleeve.jpg

Artist: Joy Division
Year: 1979
Genre: Post-Punk
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 12th
Points: 38

#36 (tie): Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Liftyrskinnyfists.jpg

Artist: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Year: 2000
Genre: Post-Rock
Votes: 1 x 5th, 1 x 9th
Points: 38

[Iroquois]

#35: Closer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Joy_Division_Closer.jpg

Artist: Joy Division
Year: 1980
Genre: Post-Punk
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 18th, 1 x 21st
Points: 38

[Iroquois]

#34: Are You Experienced

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/AreyouexpUK.jpg

Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Year: 1967
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock
Votes: 1 x 8th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 17th, 1 x 25th
Points: 38

[Iroquois]

#33: Thriller

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Michael_Jackson_-_Thriller.png

Artist: Michael Jackson
Year: 1982
Genre: Pop
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 13th, 1 x 25th
Points: 39

[Iroquois]

#32: Stop Making Sense

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Stop_Making_Sense_-_Talking_Heads.jpg

Artist: Talking Heads
Year: 1984
Genre: New Wave/Funk Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 10th
Points: 40

[Iroquois]

#31: Who's Next

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Whosnext.jpg

Artist: The Who
Year: 1971
Genre: Hard Rock
Votes: 1 x 9th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 16th
Points: 40

[mark f]

I could have had seven or eight of those, but I had Cosmo's Factory at #10 and Who's Next at #9. They're both like Greatest Hits Collections except they're just tremendous "regular" albums. Kid A got left off because I was like Swan with a one album/artist rule. :)

[Miss Vicky]

I like Creedence, Hendrix and Michael Jackson, but have only ever listened to greatest hits type compilations. I've never actually listened to any of their albums.

I love "Behind Blue Eyes," but never cared for anything else from The Who.

[cricket]

Rock legends!

I had Are You Experienced at #8, and Who's Next at #16.

Creedence is one of my top 10 favorite bands, but I didn't vote for any of their albums. I usually just pop in their greatest hits CD.

I also like Stop Making Sense and Thriller.

[honeykid]

Nevermind The Bollocks and Are You Experienced? are both on my list. :up: I can't remember where I had either album on my list, but I think they were in the late teens.

That was the first Hendrix album I bought after having a few 12" and a knock off Greatest Hits cassete. Nevermind the Bollocks was one of the first album I bought. A friend and I pooled our pocket money together and bought a copy when I was about 11.

I wondered how long it would be before an album came up that I should've considered/had forgotten and Thriller is it. I played the crap out of both that and Bad. I still have both copies, too. This also reminds me that I forgot about Bad. :facepalm: I don't know if either would've made the list, but I should've considered them. I knew I'd forget stuff if I didn't dig into my collection and just did it from memory.

BTW, there's already far too much Radiohead. :mad:

[Tacitus]

I was a few years too young to experience The Pistols in their heyday but I quickly hoovered up all that I could find from them, including the Great Rock and Roll Swindle soundtrack and the Some Product interview disc. It was around the same time that we discovered The Pogues who were very much the mid-80s version of The Sex Pistols.

Me and my friends even put together a battle-of-the-bands punk gig and covered the town in posters, some of which are still there.

Anarchy '87! ;D

[Camo]

Still none from my list. I forgot about Kid A that should've been there, it's my fav Radiohead album.

Are you experienced?, Thriller and Who's Next easily could've made it.

Also HK I voted for Bad :tsk:

[Swan]

Still none from my list. I forgot about Kid A that should've been there, it's my fav Radiohead album.

:highfive:

Was on my list for sure.

[Citizen Rules]

Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, was on my list somewhere in the middle. And damn!!! I forget to include our local hero Jimi Hendrix. I had made a list to submit a month ago but then accidentally deleted it...that list had 2 of Hendrix's albums.

[christine]

Who else voted for Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!?

[Kaplan]

Had the Sex Pistols at #4, and yes I think it's that good all these decades later. I forgot about Hendrix...

[Sexy Celebrity]

#33: Thriller

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Michael_Jackson_-_Thriller.png

Artist: Michael Jackson
Year: 1982
Genre: Pop
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 13th, 1 x 25th
Points: 39


Doesn't look good for the rest of my list... this was my #1.

I think it was at least. I'd double check, but I'm pretty sure it was. Oh, wait, yes it was -- he mentioned that someone had it in first place. That could only be me.

[jiraffejustin]

I don't remember my list, but it's possible that I voted for one of the Joy Division albums, Are You Experienced, and I am pretty sure I voted for Cosmo's Factory.

[TylerDurden99]

Stop Making Sense is the only one from my list so far, which I had at #2. All of the Talking Heads studio albums that I've heard are very good, but Stop Making Sense plays like a greatest hits package and the Heads give their songs so much more energy in their live performances.

[Iroquois]

#29 (tie): At Folsom Prison

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Johnny_Cash_At_Folsom_Prison.jpg

Artist: Johnny Cash
Year: 1968
Genre: Country
Votes: 1 x 3rd, 1 x 7th
Points: 42

#29 (tie): Morrison Hotel

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/The_Doors_-_Morrison_Hotel.jpg

Artist: The Doors
Year: 1970
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock
Votes: 2 x 5th
Points: 42

[Iroquois]

#28: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Wu-TangClanEntertheWu-Tangalbumcover.jpg

Artist: Wu-Tang Clan
Year: 1993
Genre: Hip-hop/Rap
Votes: 1 x 4th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 23rd
Points: 42

[Iroquois]

#27: Bad

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Michael_Jackson_-_Bad.png

Artist: Michael Jackson
Year: 1987
Genre: Pop
Votes: 1 x 6th, 1 x 7th, 1 x 22nd
Points: 43

[Iroquois]

#26: Pet Sounds

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/PetSoundsCover.jpg

Artist: The Beach Boys
Year: 1966
Genre: Sunshine Pop
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th
Points: 44

[Iroquois]

#25: Rain Dogs

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Tom_Waits_-_Rain_Dogs.png

Artist: Tom Waits
Year: 1985
Genre: Experimental Rock/Blues Rock
Votes: 2 x 7th, 1 x 19th
Points: 45

[Iroquois]

#24: Blood on the Tracks

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Bob_Dylan_-_Blood_on_the_Tracks.jpg

Artist: Bob Dylan
Year: 1975
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 5th
Points: 46

[Iroquois]

#23: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/MBDTF_ALT.jpg

Artist: Kanye West
Year: 2010
Genre: Hip-hop/Rap
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 4th
Points: 47

[Iroquois]

#22: Strange Days

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/AlbumStrangeDays.jpg

Artist: The Doors
Year: 1967
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 25th
Points: 47

[Iroquois]

#21: Blue

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Bluealbumcover.jpg

Artist: Joni Mitchell
Year: 1971
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd
Points: 48

[mark f]

I didn't have any of the last 10, although I grew up with the Doors and I really like that Johnny Cash album. :cool:

[jiraffejustin]

Of those, I am pretty sure I voted for At Folsom Prison, Wu-Tang, Pet Sounds, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Strange Days and Morrison Hotel weren't on my list, but they are both cracking albums.

[honeykid]

Both of The Doors albums are from my list. Adore them both and, like the rest of The Doors albums could sing them from start to finsih without any trouble.

[cricket]

I didn't vote for either of those Doors albums but they can do no wrong in my eyes.

I didn't vote for either, but Bad finishing ahead of Thriller comes as a big surprise to me.

[Miss Vicky]

Some good artists there, but still nothing I voted for.

[christine]

That's my number 1, Blood on the Tracks, my angsty teenage self wearing out the LP. Much treasured :)
That's my number 3 too Live at Folsom Prison, such a great album. Johnny Cash remained a force right throughout his career to the absolute end with his brilliant 'American' series of albums. Amazing guy.
That's 2 of my most favourite singers of all time.

[Citizen Rules]

I had more Doors than any other band on my list.

4 Strange Days, The Doors, 1967
5 Morrison Hotel, The Doors 1970

[christine]

I'm really interested now to see who is voting like me :)

[Citizen Rules]

Christine which albums on the list so far did you vote for?

[mark f]

Look a couple of posts above. :)
Also -
Who else voted for Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!?

[Citizen Rules]

Thanks Mark, Nope not voting like Christine (so far). Johnny Cash rules! Good to see him on the list.

[christine]

Got Dylan, Cash and Godspeed so far, but they were right up top on my list so I'm guessing I might not hVe so many coming up now.

[Tacitus]

Pet Sounds was my #6

When it comes to the 60s pop music behemoths, The Beatles had a better batting average but they never made an LP as stunning as Pet Sounds. I hadn't heard it in its entirety until the record was remastered for CD in 1990 and I was instantly beguiled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kLrrZKnNU

The most beautiful album I've ever heard.

[Camo]

Bad is the first I voted for. Like Cricket i'm surprised that it's higher than Thriller, it's my favourite MJ Album. I had it at 22.

I'm not really a fan of Bob Dylan and I've never heard the Joni Mitchell or Tom Waits, but any of the other six could've made my list. At this point i'm only expecting two or three more from my list. I like that there isn't a favourite for #1 to me at least.

[Swan]

Some great stuff there. I believe I had Rain Dogs on my list.

[linespalsy]

Wu Tang is the only one I've voted for. Considered Thriller. I love everything on that album except for one song and that song is just amazingly bad. I kind of love The Doggone Girl Is Mine too, in an embarrassing I Need Love kind of way. That guy from Wings really helped Jackson tunnel through the bottom of the barrel, through the Earth's core, and into another barrel somewhere in China on that one...

Cosmo's Factory and Rain Dogs are my other favorites that I didn't vote for so far... until Nevermind shows up.

[Iroquois]

#20: The Velvet Underground and Nico

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Velvet_Underground_and_Nico.jpg

Artist: The Velvet Underground
Year: 1967
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Experimental Rock
Votes: 1 x 11th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 17th, 1 x 19th, 1 x 22nd
Points: 48

[Iroquois]

#19: Paranoid

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Black_Sabbath_-_Paranoid.jpg

Artist: Black Sabbath
Year: 1970
Genre: Heavy Metal
Votes: 1 x 6th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 15th
Points: 49

[Iroquois]

#18: Led Zeppelin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_%281969%29_front_cover.png

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Year: 1969
Genre: Blues Rock/Hard Rock
Votes: 1 x 8th, 1 x 14th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 17th
Points: 49

[Iroquois]

#17: L.A. Woman

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/The_Doors_-_L.A._Woman.jpg

Artist: The Doors
Year: 1971
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock
Votes: 1 x 3rd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 19th
Points: 50

[Iroquois]

#16: OK Computer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Radiohead.okcomputer.albumart.jpg

Artist: Radiohead
Year: 1997
Genre: Art Rock/Experimental Rock
Votes: 1 x 7th, 1 x 11th, 1 x 15th, 1 x 20th
Points: 51

[Iroquois]

#15: In Utero

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/In_Utero_%28Nirvana%29_album_cover.jpg

Artist: Nirvana
Year: 1993
Genre: Grunge/Alternative Rock
Votes: 1 x 8th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 18th
Points: 53

[Iroquois]

#14: Use Your Illusion II

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/GunsnRosesUseYourIllusionII.jpg

Artist: Guns n' Roses
Year: 1991
Genre: Hard Rock
Votes: 1 x 3rd, 1 x 8th, 1 x 13th
Points: 54

[Iroquois]

#12 (tie): Use Your Illusion I

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/GnR--UseYourIllusion1.jpg

Artist: Guns n' Roses
Year: 1991
Genre: Hard Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 12th
Points: 58

#12 (tie): Revolver

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Revolver.jpg

Artist: The Beatles
Year: 1966
Genre: Pop Rock/Experimental Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 5th, 1 x 13th
Points: 58

[Iroquois]

#11: Abbey Road

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg

Artist: The Beatles
Year: 1969
Genre: Pop Rock
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 4th, 1 x 10th, 1 x 22nd
Points: 67

[Miss Vicky]

I probably heard both Use Your Illusion albums a million times when I was young - my mom was pretty big on GNR and I went through a Nirvana obsession in my early teens so I've heard In Utero a million times as well, but I didn't vote for any of these.

[TylerDurden99]

Yay, another one from my list!

Abbey Road is, for me, the best Beatles albums I've ever heard. Something, Here Comes The Sun and Oh Darling are amongst my favourite songs of all time, I Want You (She's So Heavy) is one of the best Lennon tracks ever in my opinion, and even Ringo scored with the fun Octopus' Garden.

[honeykid]

L.A. Woman, both GNR albums and The Velvet Underground and Nico were all on my list. Not sure if I had In Utero or not, but it's a great album and, if I didn't, it wouldn't have missed by much.

Actually, with the obvious exception of the **** that is Radiohead, those are all great choices. :up:

[Captain Spaulding]

I'll write a little about some of these albums eventually, but since I haven't commented yet in this thread, here are the representatives from my list to appear so far:

#2) Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
#3) Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
#6) Michael Jackson - Bad
#7) The White Stripes - Elephant
#8) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
#13) Michael Jackson - Thriller
#17) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
#19) The Doors - L.A. Woman
#25) The Doors - Strange Days

[mark f]

I voted for the **** album from Radiohead. I would have voted for the Beatles albums if I'd allowed more than one per band.

[christine]

This is interesting isn't it - we've not finished yet but more than half of the albums so far are from the 60s and 70s . The golden age of the album?

[Camo]

3 more from my list. I had Led Zeppelin at 17, In Utero at 12 and Revolver at 13. Also yet again I could have voted for plenty of those, L.A Woman in particular.

My list:

12.Nirvana - In Utero - 1993
13.The Beatles - Revolver - 1966
17.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - 1969
22.Michael Jackson - Bad - 1987
25.Muse - Black Holes and Revelations - 2006 ( 1 pointer )

[Sexy Celebrity]

#15: In Utero

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/In_Utero_%28Nirvana%29_album_cover.jpg

Artist: Nirvana
Year: 1993
Genre: Grunge/Alternative Rock
Votes: 1 x 8th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 18th
Points: 53


I almost put this on my list just for the album cover alone. I've always loved this album cover for some reason. I remember seeing it in stores after it first came out.

#18: Led Zeppelin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_%281969%29_front_cover.png

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Year: 1969
Genre: Blues Rock/Hard Rock
Votes: 1 x 8th, 1 x 14th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 17th
Points: 49


This I could have put on my list.

#27: Bad

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Michael_Jackson_-_Bad.png

Artist: Michael Jackson
Year: 1987
Genre: Pop
Votes: 1 x 6th, 1 x 7th, 1 x 22nd
Points: 43


This I had on my list. Somewhere. All I have are the damn Michael Jackson albums.

[Miss Vicky]

Am beginning to wonder if anything I voted for made the cut.

[gbgoodies]

Am beginning to wonder if anything I voted for made the cut.


I'm sure that nothing I voted for made the list. I don't even recognize some of the artists that made the list. :shrug:

[Tacitus]

This is interesting isn't it - we've not finished yet but more than half of the albums so far are from the 60s and 70s . The golden age of the album?

I've got one from the 60s and two from the 70s. The rest are from the 80s and 90s but I feel the only hope most of them have is if Lines' and my thinking converge.

He's as big a Nik Kershaw fan as I am. :p

[Swan]

I'm sure that nothing I voted for made the list. I don't even recognize some of the artists that made the list. :shrug:

Who don't you recognize? Just curious.

[gbgoodies]

Who don't you recognize? Just curious.

I may have heard some of the songs by these artists if they were nominated in song tournaments, but if I did, their names don't ring a bell for me. :shrug:


From the 1-point list:
The Union Underground
Mercury Rev
Stephen Malkmus
iwrestledabearonce
Death Grips
Manic Street Preachers
Muse
Bad Brains
Powerwolf
The Fatima Mansions
Butthole Surfers


From the Top Albums list:
Kendrick Lamar
Pixies
My Bloody Valentine
The White Stripes
Joy Division
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (I've heard of Jimi Hendrix. Is this a cover band?)
Wu-Tang Clan
The Velvet Underground

[Swan]

I may have heard some of the songs by these artists if they were nominated in song tournaments, but if I did, their names don't ring a bell for me. :shrug:


From the 1-point list:
The Union Underground
Mercury Rev
Stephen Malkmus
iwrestledabearonce
Death Grips
Manic Street Preachers
Muse
Bad Brains
Powerwolf
The Fatima Mansions
Butthole Surfers


From the Top Albums list:
Kendrick Lamar
Pixies
My Bloody Valentine
The White Stripes
Joy Division
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (I've heard of Jimi Hendrix. Is this a cover band?)
Wu-Tang Clan
The Velvet Underground

Interesting.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was simply the name of Hendrix's band.

[Captain Spaulding]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (I've heard of Jimi Hendrix. Is this a cover band?)


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Swan]

I can't believe "Butthole Surfers" has entered gbgoodies brain, even if it was forced upon her.

[gbgoodies]

Interesting.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was simply the name of Hendrix's band.


I didn't know that. In fact, I've heard of Jimi Hendrix, but I don't think I could name even one of his songs. :shrug:

[gbgoodies]

I can't believe "Butthole Surfers" has entered gbgoodies brain, even if it was forced upon her.


"Butthole Surfers" is a terrible name for a band. It sounds like the name of a porn movie.

[Sexy Celebrity]

"Butthole Surfers" is a terrible name for a band. It sounds like the name of a porn movie.
I'm surprised you even know what porn is.

[Kaplan]

I have The Beatles Revolver at #2. Also had In Utero (Nirvana's best album IMO), Paranoid, and Velvet Underground,

[Miss Vicky]

I didn't know that. In fact, I've heard of Jimi Hendrix, but I don't think I could name even one of his songs. :shrug:


Purple Haze
All Along the Watchtower
Foxy Lady
Hey Joe
The Wind Cries Mary
Voodoo Chile

No?

[gbgoodies]

I'm surprised you even know what porn is.


I've heard of it. I don't watch it.

[gbgoodies]

Purple Haze
All Along the Watchtower
Foxy Lady
Hey Joe
The Wind Cries Mary
Voodoo Chile

No?


None of those song titles sound familiar. Maybe I'd recognize the songs if I heard them, but I doubt I'd like them. :shrug:

[Miss Vicky]

None of those song titles sound familiar.

WTF.

Maybe I'd recognize the songs if I heard them, but I doubt I'd like them. :shrug:

Purple Haze (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjWfxhEfM6U)
All Along the Watchtower (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY)
Foxy Lady (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJwyl7RWWG8)
Hey Joe (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMM2Wg3DW8)
The Wind Cries Mary (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=in7fFBDhRbc)
Voodoo Chile (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxtifYEa68)

[gbgoodies]

WTF.

Purple Haze (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjWfxhEfM6U)
All Along the Watchtower (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY)
Foxy Lady (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJwyl7RWWG8)
Hey Joe (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMM2Wg3DW8)
The Wind Cries Mary (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=in7fFBDhRbc)
Voodoo Chile (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxtifYEa68)


Thanks for the links. I'll have to listen to them later. Hubby's been bugging me that we're already running late, but I wanted to submit my votes for the song tournament before I left. (Now I know why I usually listen to the song tournament songs when hubby's not here.)

[mark f]

She'd like "The Wind Cries Mary".

[honeykid]

The Wind Cries Mary is an excellent song. :up:

I voted for the **** album from Radiohead
BOO! :D

This is interesting isn't it - we've not finished yet but more than half of the albums so far are from the 60s and 70s . The golden age of the album?
I think so. Well, late 60's into early 80's. But, for the most part the 70's. Did you ever see the short Danny Baker series about the albums?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbVJTX1nY84

Each is just under an hour.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lAsfuMWgiHY R&B
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oGGXPa5otgsY Rock
m.youtube.com//watch?v=yZF6KSZDWmA Pop

[Camo]

Might look at that myself HK so thanks. I only know Danny Baker from QI, but the guy is effortlessly :cool: .

[cricket]

Out of the latest results I had Use Your Illusion I at #12, Use Your Illusion II at #13, Led Zeppelin at #14, Paranoid at #15, and Abbey Road at #22.

I probably should've had the Illusion albums higher, because they are loaded and were huge for me at one time. I just don't listen to them as often now that my partying days are disappearing.

I'm surprised at all the Radiohead albums-I only know one song by them!

[Swan]

I'm surprised at all the Radiohead albums-I only know one song by them!

Does it go doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo dodododo do do doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo neeneenee nee neneenenee?

[cricket]

Does it go doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo dodododo do do doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo neeneenee nee neneenenee?

It's Creep!

[Camo]

Does it go doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo dodododo do do doo doo doo doo dodo doo doo doo doo dodo neeneenee nee neneenenee?

I saw a Yahoo Answers question like that once, and someone apparently got the right song :laugh:

[gbgoodies]

Purple Haze (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjWfxhEfM6U)

I've heard the line "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" from this song, but the rest of the song doesn't sound familiar.


All Along the Watchtower (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY)

Was "All Along the Watchtower" ever nominated in a song tournament? It sounds vaguely familiar.


Foxy Lady (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJwyl7RWWG8)

Nope. This song doesn't sound familiar at all.


Hey Joe (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMM2Wg3DW8)

Nope. I don't think I've ever heard this one before either.


The Wind Cries Mary (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=in7fFBDhRbc)

I haven't heard this song before either, but it's probably the best song of these songs.


Voodoo Chile (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxtifYEa68)

This was probably my least favorite of these songs. The music was too loud, and it overpowers his voice.

[Guaporense]

The entries that only scored one point:

Bananarama - Bananarama
The Union Underground - ...An Education in Rebellion
The Beatles - Let It Be
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Jive Bunny - The Album
Death Grips - The Money Store
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Styx - Paradise Theater
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Bad Brains - I Against I
Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast
The Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

(Honourable mention goes to Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, which managed to get two one-point votes)

Bible of the Beast from the German heavy metal band Powerwolf is an amazing album, in fact, the second best album I discovered in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-r5FaAXLv0

[Guaporense]

That was the only heavy metal album to actually show up anywhere in the countdown. :D I wouldn't consider Black Sabbath's first album to be quite a HM album (same applies to Deep Purple's albums or Led Zeppelin's), more of an important stepping stone to the genre which was to be defined with Judas Priest 1976-1978.

[Camo]

I remember Christine nominating All Along The Watchtower GBG, pretty sure it was in the Song Tournament I regularly voted in.

[mark f]

You know who wrote that song?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Bob_Dylan_All_Along_the_Watchtower_single_cover.jpg

[Kaplan]

That was the only heavy metal album to actually show up anywhere in the countdown. :D I wouldn't consider Black Sabbath's first album to be quite a HM album (same applies to Deep Purple's albums or Led Zeppelin's), more of an important stepping stone to the genre which was to be defined with Judas Priest 1976-1978.

Paranoid is Black Sabbath's second album, and it is most definitely heavy metal.

[Iroquois]

That was the only heavy metal album to actually show up anywhere in the countdown. :D I wouldn't consider Black Sabbath's first album to be quite a HM album (same applies to Deep Purple's albums or Led Zeppelin's), more of an important stepping stone to the genre which was to be defined with Judas Priest 1976-1978.

Presumably, Guns n' Roses doesn't fit your criteria for being heavy metal either.

[Camo]

You know who wrote that song?

Jesus?

Nah tonight i've already found out that the 70s Starky directed Kazaam so my mind has been blown enough tonight.

[mark f]

I like this version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXxOSYZi7U

[Camo]

You know who wrote that song?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Bob_Dylan_All_Along_the_Watchtower_single_cover.jpg

I honestly knew that :facepalm:

[christine]

I did vote Jimi's version of All Along the Watchtower for a tourney , think I said at the time it's the only cover of a Dylan song that's better than the original in my opinion (and Dylan's)


I did see that Danny Baker series HK, you should watch it Camo it's very good.

[christine]

I didn't know that. In fact, I've heard of Jimi Hendrix, but I don't think I could name even one of his songs. :shrug:

Wow GBG you really do surprise me you coming from New York an all. Jimi built a studio there in Greenwich Village , Electric Lady Studio. Pretty sure it's still there. I thought he was very much a part of American popular culture.

[Swan]

I thought he was very much a part of American popular culture.

I thought so too, and I'm American.

[christine]

That was the only heavy metal album to actually show up anywhere in the countdown. :D I wouldn't consider Black Sabbath's first album to be quite a HM album (same applies to Deep Purple's albums or Led Zeppelin's), more of an important stepping stone to the genre which was to be defined with Judas Priest 1976-1978.

Really? We called Black Sabbath heavy metal back in the 70s as I recall so I don't know why history should be revised :D

[gbgoodies]

Wow GBG you really do surprise me you coming from New York an all. Jimi built a studio there in Greenwich Village , Electric Lady Studio. Pretty sure it's still there. I thought he was very much a part of American popular culture.


Hendrix may be a part of American pop culture in Greenwich Village, but that's in New York City, and I'm on Long Island.

Here on Long Island, we worship Billy Joel. :D

[christine]

Hendrix may be a part of American pop culture in Greenwich Village, but that's in New York City, and I'm on Long Island.

Here on Long Island, we worship Billy Joel. :D

:D That's like saying I've never heard of the Beatles cos I come from Manchester!
Seriously tho GBG , Jimi Hendrix is seen as a big deal here in the UK too, sadly he died here otherwise I'm sure he would've gone on to produce so much more great music .
You must have seen or been aware of the Woodstock footage of him playing The Star Spangled Banner

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

[gbgoodies]

:D That's like saying I've never heard of the Beatles cos I come from Manchester!
Seriously tho GBG , Jimi Hendrix is seen as a big deal here in the UK too, sadly he died here otherwise I'm sure he would've gone on to produce so much more great music .
You must have seen or been aware of the Woodstock footage of him playing The Star Spangled Banner

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM


I've heard of him, but that's not my type of music, so I don't listen to it. I don't care for the few songs of his that I've heard, so I don't really remember them, and I never went looking for any more of his music. I don't listen to any radio stations that might play his music either.

I've heard about him playing The Star Spangled Banner, and I think I've even seen the video of it, but it just doesn't do anything for me. :shrug:

[Iroquois]

#10: The Wall

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/PinkFloydWallCoverOriginalNoText.jpg

Artist: Pink Floyd
Year: 1979
Genre: Art Rock/Progressive Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 10th, 1 x 17th
Points: 71

[Iroquois]

#9: Back in Black

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Acdc_backinblack_cover.jpg

Artist: AC/DC
Year: 1980
Genre: Hard Rock
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 10th, 1 x 18th, 1 x 22nd
Points: 72

[Iroquois]

#8: Let It Bleed

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/LetitbleedRS.jpg

Artist: The Rolling Stones
Year: 1969
Genre: Blues Rock
Votes: 1 x 4th, 1 x 5th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 24th
Points: 73

[Iroquois]

#7: The Dark Side of the Moon

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon.png

Artist: Pink Floyd
Year: 1973
Genre: Progressive Rock
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 18th
Points: 77

[Iroquois]

#6: Appetite for Destruction

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/GunsnRosesAppetiteforDestructionalbumcover.jpg

Artist: Guns n' Roses
Year: 1987
Genre: Hard Rock
Votes: 2 x 1st, 1 x 4th, 1 x 14th
Points: 84

[Iroquois]

#5: The Beatles

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/TheBeatles68LP.jpg

Artist: The Beatles
Year: 1968
Genre: Pop Rock/Experimental Rock
Votes: 2 x 1st, 1 x 7th, 1 x 10th, 1 x14th
Points: 97

[Iroquois]

#4: The Queen is Dead

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/The-Queen-is-Dead-cover.png

Artist: The Smiths
Year: 1986
Genre: Jangle Pop
Votes: 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 9th
Points: 104

[Iroquois]

#3: Led Zeppelin IV

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_IV.jpg

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Year: 1971
Genre: Hard Rock/Blues Rock
Votes: 1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 5th, 1 x 11th
Points: 106

[Iroquois]

#2: The Doors

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/TheDoorsTheDoorsalbumcover.jpg

Artist: The Doors
Year: 1967
Genre: Blues Rock/Psychedelic Rock
Votes: 2 x 1st, 2 x 3rd, 2 x 5th
Points: 138

[Iroquois]

#1: Nevermind

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/NirvanaNevermindalbumcover.jpg

Artist: Nirvana
Year: 1991
Genre: Grunge/Alternative Rock
Votes: 3 x 6th, 2 x 12th, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 15th, 1 x 17th, 1 x 18th
Points: 159

[Kaplan]

I had The White Album as my #1. Voted for a different Pink Floyd album, Animals, and for The Smiths' first album, and for Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (though I do really love their forth album, of course) and as I mentioned before In Utero for Nirvana.

[Zotis]

I guess I'm not really surprised. Not a single album I voted for made the list.

[Iroquois]

The full list:

50. good kid, m.A.A.d city
49. Homogenic
48. Doolittle
46. The Band
46. Loveless
42. The Bends
42. The Head on the Door
42. Elephant
42. Pornography
41. Wish You Were Here
40. Cosmo's Factory
39. Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
36. Kid A
36. Unknown Pleasures
36. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
35. Closer
34. Are You Experienced
33. Thriller
32. Stop Making Sense
31. Who's Next
29. At Folsom Prison
29. Morrison Hotel
28. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
27. Bad
26. Pet Sounds
25. Rain Dogs
24. Blood on the Tracks
23. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
22. Strange Days
21. Blue
20. The Velvet Underground & Nico
19. Paranoid
18. Led Zeppelin
17. L.A. Woman
16. OK Computer
15. In Utero
14. Use Your Illusion II
12. Use Your Illusion I
12. Revolver
11. Abbey Road
10. The Wall
9. Back in Black
8. Let It Bleed
7. The Dark Side of the Moon
6. Appetite for Destruction
5. The Beatles
4. The Queen is Dead
3. Led Zeppelin IV
2. The Doors
1. Nevermind

[Tacitus]

You're all a bunch of Q readers! ;D

Here's my list, for those that are bothered. I limited myself to one entry for each artist. ;)

1 New Order - Technique
2 Lou Reed - New York
3 Stone Roses - Stone Roses
4 REM - Green
5 Nick Cave - Let Love In
6 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
7 The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
8 Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
9 Throwing Muses - Red Heaven
10 The Fall - Code: Selfish
11 Tindersticks - Tindersticks
12 John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
13 Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
14 Public Enemy - Fear of A Black Planet
15 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - New Boots and Panties
16 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
17 Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
18 Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
19 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
20 Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
21 Sugar - Copper Blue
22 The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
23 Leftfield - Leftism
24 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic
25 The Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue

[christine]

Good work Tatty remembering Ian Dury. I should've had that one too if I'd have remembered.

It's predictable top 10 given the age and known penchant for Pink Floyd/Zepp/Stones. Can't argue with it :)

[christine]

I guess I'm not really surprised. Not a single album I voted for made the list.

show us your list Zot :)

[cricket]

So I had a good amount of my albums show up-no surprise considering that I listen to mainstream music. This is my complete list-

1. Appetite for Destruction-Guns N' Roses (1987)
2. Back in Black-AC/DC (1980)
3. The Doors-The Doors (1967)
4. Let it Bleed-The Rolling Stones (1969)
5. Led Zeppelin IV-Led Zeppelin (1971)
6. Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd-Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973)
7. The White Album-The Beatles (1968)
8. Are You Experienced-Jimi Hendrix (1967)
9. Saturday Night Fever-The Bee Gees and Various Artists (1977)
10. The Wall-Pink Floyd (1979)
11. Second Helping-Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974)
12. Use Your Illusion I- Guns N' Roses (1991)
13. Use Your Illusion II-Guns N' Roses (1991)
14. Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin (1969)
15. Paranoid-Black Sabbath (1970)
16. Who's Next-The Who (1971)
17. Hotel California-The Eagles (1976)
18. Night Moves-Bob Seger (1976)
19. TNT-AC/DC (1975)
20. Some Girls-The Rolling Stones (1978)
21. Metallica-Metallica (1991)
22. Abbey Road-The Beatles (1969)
23. Against the Wind-Bob Seger (1980)
24. Van Halen-Van Halen (1978)
25. Eat a Peach-The Allman Brothers Band (1972)

Appetite for Destruction is not only a great album, but it came out while I was in High School. That's the right time and a big reason why it was my number 1.

I would be in the camp that doesn't consider GNR, AC/DC, Black Sabbath heavy metal. I think my reasoning is based on other music out there that is much heavier. Of course, when Sabbath came out, there's no doubt that it stood out more in this regard.

GB-can't believe you're not at least somewhat familiar with Hendrix. Not a criticism at all, it's just that he's a major icon.

Nice job Iro!! I know that you had a hard time getting participants, but it was fun!

[cricket]

Oh and I didn't vote for Nevermind obviously, but what a great album and deserving of the top spot!

[Swan]

I thought for sure Dark Side would be #1. It was top of my list.

[christine]

oh yes thanks Iro - good work!, it was frustrating for you trying to encourage people to get lists in, but I think we ended up with a list that represents pretty well the demographic of the board .

[christine]

I still want to know who voted with me for Godspeed and for Dylan. Fess up!

[Tacitus]

Good work Tatty remembering Ian Dury. I should've had that one too if I'd have remembered.

It's predictable top 10 given the age and known penchant for Pink Floyd/Zepp/Stones. Can't argue with it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiulgP9kR7c

Dury was always underrated, sadly. He had a lyrical flair not seen since Ray Davies.

[Miss Vicky]

It's official: Not one album I voted for made the list.

My Ballot
1. Southern Accents, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , 1985
2. Go Insane, Lindsey Buckingham, 1984
3. MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana, 1994
4. Buckingham Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, 1973
5. Vol. 1, Traveling Wilburys, 1988
6. Damn the Torpedoes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1979
7. The Wind, Warren Zevon, 2003
8. Tusk, Fleetwood Mac, 1979
9. Wander This World, Jonny Lang, 1998
10. Out of the Cradle, Lindsey Buckingham, 1992
11. A Mighty Wind, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2003
12. Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty, 1989
13. Play, Moby, 1999
14. Bare Trees, Fleetwood Mac, 1972
15. Under the Skin, Lindsey Buckingham, 2006
16. Bella Donna, Stevie Nicks, 1981
17. Wires From the Bunker, John Stewart, 2000
18. Throwing Copper, Live, 1994
19. Automatic for the People, R.E.M. 1992
20. Grave Dancers Union, Soul Asylum, 1992
21. Last of the Independents, The Pretenders, 1994
22. The Joshua Tree, U2, 1987
23. Bombs Away Dream Babies, John Stewart, 1979
24. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2001
25. Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons, 2009

[Tacitus]

+rep for Tom Petty and the late great Warren Zevon. ;)

[Camo]

Led Zeppelin 4 was my #1, Nevermind was second, fourth was The Queen is Dead and the only other one from the top 10 was Let It Bleed which I had at #24.

Great work Iro!!

[Camo]

My list:

1.Led Zeppelin IV - 1971
2.Nirvana - Nevermind - 1991
3,The Pixies - Surfer Rosa - 1988
4.The Smiths - The Queen is Dead - 1986
5.Nas - Illmatic - 1994
6.Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak - 2004
7.Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape - 1997
8.The Beatles - Rubber Soul - 1965
9.Led Zeppelin III- 1970
10.The Smiths - The Smiths - 1984
11.Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood - 2003
12.Nirvana - In Utero - 1993
13.The Beatles - Revolver - 1966
14.Nas - It Was Written - 1996
15.Kings of Leon - Only By the Night - 2008
16.Nirvana - Bleach - 1989
17.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - 1969
18.Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP - 2000
19.Muse - Origin of Symettery - 2001
20.Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left To Lose - 1999
21.Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters - 1995
22.Michael Jackson - Bad - 1987
23.The Strokes - Room on Fire - 2003
24.The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - 1969
25.Muse - Black Holes and Revelations - 2006

[christine]

MV - I'm surprised a Fleetwood Mac album didn't make it. I would've expected something like Tusk to be there. I voted for Automatic for the People too.

My list:
1. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan 1975
2. Sing Me Back Home - Merle Haggard 1968
3. At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash 1968
4. Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen 1978
5. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You Black Emperor 2000
6. The Freewheeling Bob Dylan 1963
7. The Times they are a changing - Bob Dylan 1964
8. So - Peter Gabriel 1986
9. Whats the Story Morning Glory - Oasis 1995
10. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 1982
11 Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens 1970
12 Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix 1968
13 Please Please Me - the Beatles 1963
14 At San Quentin - Johnny Cash 1968
15 Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan 1974
16 I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy 2001
17 American V A hundred Highways - Johnnie Cash - 2006
18 F#A#Oo - Godspeed You Black Emperor 1998
19 The Ones We Never Knew - Holly Williams 2004
20 Oliver! film soundtrack 1968
21 Rubber Soul - The Beatles 1965
22 A Night at the Opera - Queen 1975
23 Black Sunday - Cypress Hill 1993
24 Automatic for the People - REM 1992
25 Himself - Gilbert O'Sullivan 1971

[Tacitus]

My two favourite Springsteen albums in there, our kid. :D

Never pegged you for a Cypress Hill fan...

[Holden Pike]

I wound up with seven of mine appearing on the list:

1. Abbey Road, The Beatles (1969) #11
3. Blue, Joni Mitchell (1971) #21
4. The Wall, Pink Floyd (1979) #10
5. Let it Bleed, The Rolling Stones (1969) #8
9. The Band (“The Brown Album”), The Band (1969) #46
10. The Beatles (“The White Album”), The Beatles (1968) #5
13. Who’s Next, The Who (1971) #31

None of those really shock me that they made it, though I'm happy that if only one Who album could make it that it was Who's Next, and also very happy that Joni Mitchell's moody masterpiece was in the top half (I had it as my third overall pick).

I am not surprised, though saddened, that not a single Jazz album made the list. But I suppose that's only because you all are a bunch of unsophisticated squares, Man? I figured they would have a difficult time cracking the list, so I limited myself to three in my top twenty-five: Dinah Washington's Dinah Jams! is a powerful document of her amazing voice, recoded in a club, and my second favorite live album of all time. Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was just so massively influential and is eternally so massively enjoyable, I thought it had a chance of creeping in. It seems like the kind of album that, even if your collection has no other Jazz records, Time Out may be in there? But, I guess not? And Thelonious Monk's Underground is, for me, in many ways his magnum opus, showcasing that sometimes tortured genius at his peak of discovery and artistry (and it has one of the all-time best album covers, to boot).

Listen to Jazz, you Heathens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPgpcvbze7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKNZqM0d-xo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foBbQUIhXys

As for what did surprise me: I had no idea there were so many Doors fans here, and yet the Doors album that is my favorite, Waiting for the Sun, didn't make it while FOUR others did! Morrison Hotel, Strange Days, L.A. Woman and the eponymous The Doors are all great, of course, but I went back on forth on whether to include Waiting for the Sun or The Soft Parade on my list. Oh, well. Can't say The Doors didn't get an inordinate amount of love in our relatively small sample size.

At some point, I'll film and share my epic rendition of "When the Music's Over" that I sometimes close karaoke nights out with. Love to do the Morrison scream. No one here gets out alive, you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AibBR-Jwg4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bAFITGnjrg

Speaking of Morrison, how in the fu*k was Van Morrison shut out? Outside of Sinatra, Moondance (my sixth overall pick) is perhaps the most romantic album of all time! I could listen to "Into the Mystic" in a loop in my head for weeks and months straight (I sometimes do) and be so very happy and in love with the idea of love triumphing over all, forever and ever, because I wanna rock your magnificent Gypsy soul in a bonny boat, please yes and thank you, amen. I thought if Moondance didn't make it, at least Astral Weeks would....but noooooo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RHTb-WE4zo

Two more "I can't frippin' believe they did make it"s are Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Any such best albums list that doesn't include at least one, if not both of these titles, is invalid. Sorry, thems just the rules. Fact. And no James Brown!?!? You damn White People. JB's original Live at the Apollo, recorded in 1962, is THE greatest live album ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsxEfmhmDXg

I had two Billy Joel records on my list, in Glass Houses and The Stranger. Yeah, yeah: I know that critically Joel has borne the brunt of much dismissive scorn, but I could give a *****. I listen to at least one Billy Joel song nearly every day. I never grew out of him because, frankly, I don't think there's anything to grow out of. I am unabashedly a Billy Joel fan. I don't care if you call it pop or schlock or soft rock or ballads or whatever you want to label it: I love it deeply. So suck it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljJUjCTGby0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdiXvDU4P0

I was very happy and not at all shocked to see Let It Bleed in the top ten. I certainly think it's the Rolling Stones' greatest album. But I have Sticky Fingers just behind it, and that it or Exile on Main Street didn't make it is OK, I guess? I'll live. Not as long as Kieth Richards, of course: he'll outlive us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OagFIQMs1tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElnnE49absc


Out of the three inevitable Pink Floyd albums to make the list, I only voted for one of them: The Wall. Dark Side of the Moon was my initial favorite, of course, and I still love it. Wish You Were Here is brilliant stuff, and I can't turn it off when it comes on the radio. But for me, The Wall succeeds in all of its lofty ambitions. I honestly don't listen to it THAT often, because I only like to listen when I have time to enjoy the entire double album in one sitting or lengthy drive. But all three defined the band and the era forever. It's easy to poke fun at "concept albums", but when they work, as in the hands of Roger Waters and David Gilmore and company, they are magnificent musical novels to revisit again and again.

It was inevitable that Zeppelin make a couple spots, and Led Zeppelin IV with "Stairway to Heaven" was most inevitable (even if "Stairway" is probably the first cherished rock song that one falls out of love with). I didn't vote for it. I vacillated between their debut and Led Zeppelin II. The down and dirty Blues lover in me wanted to pick Led Zeppelin, but ultimately I went with II. Too powerful, too iconic, too much damn rock and roll FUN! But, apparently not enough of you who bothered to vote agreed with me. Well squeeze my lemon until the juice runs dooowwwwwwn my leg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzK0pYJbfKg

"Only" three Beatles albums made it, though all in the top twelve, and I voted for the top two vote getters. Abbey Road is just...wow, as near perfection as rock ever got. And for all of its fractured band dynamics and stylistic ramblings and experimentation, "The White Album" is my second favorite from the Fab Four. Cannot get enough of those Liverpool Lads. Uh, DUH. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Preach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRK4cA0Dlg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNu6GG1UJWE

I get and respect why Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols made it, and I like that record a lot...but The Clash's London Calling is on another level. A higher level, frankly, seamlessly incorporating such great influences and ideas into the notion of Punk, with the end result being smart, witty, fun, and still as ballsy as ever. And another double album for my list!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgo_clq8dM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Yl4ehzX-o

Like some of my other tough choices, I somehow whittled my Tom Waits choice down to Small Change and nothing else, for purposes of the list. I understand why Rain Dogs is beloved and so highly acclaimed (not just here), and while I own every Waits album and love them all, as time goes on it's his early piano stuff that most resonates with me more than the industrial stuff, so I went with Small Change. But Tom is The Man. Clearly. I equally adore Leonard Cohen, and would happily take either Waits or Cohen as my Spirit Animal. Conversely while Lenny's early stuff is beyond brilliant and timeless, if I had to pick an album that, track one to the end I just love every single second of, despite instrumentation that sometimes dates itself, it is definitely I'm Your Man in all of its melancholy and sincere lamentations and incantations on love. And Lyle Lovett is yet another oddball that my soul has embraced forever and ever, and this is the record that hooked me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_md9StVE-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYP7uMWsyAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvDPezXTzlI

Being a movie site, I thought there was a chance a soundtrack or two might make it near the bottom of the list. Alas, it was not to be. But my stab at it is by far the original soundtrack that I love the most obsessively: Vangelis' Blade Runner. And not only because I'm obsessed with that movie, though clearly they are linked if not quite the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXnXEdXGJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzcHJAONSSo

What I didn't have room for was Bob Dylan, Ben Webster, Bob Newhart, Otis Redding, Dexter Gordon, Talking Heads, Ry Cooder, Charlie Parker, The Nat King Cole Trio, Francis Albert Sinatra, Neil Young, Junior Wells, Solomon Burke, and on and on.


So here's my full list, in order...

1. Abbey Road, The Beatles (1969)
2. Live at the Apollo, James Brown (1963)
3. Blue, Joni Mitchell (1971)
4. The Wall, Pink Floyd (1979)
5. Let it Bleed, The Rolling Stones (1969)
6. Moondance, Van Morrison (1970)
7. Small Change, Tom Waits (1976)
8. I’m Your Man, Leonard Cohen (1988)
9. The Band (“The Brown Album”), The Band (1969)
10. The Beatles (“The White Album”), The Beatles (1968)
11. Glass Houses, Billy Joel (1980)
12. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones (1971)
13. Who’s Next, The Who (1971)
14. The Stranger, Billy Joel (1977)
15. Underground, Thelonious Monk (1968)
16. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin (1969)
17. What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye (1971)
18. Time Out, The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
19. Dinah Jams!, Dinah Washington (1954)
20. Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder (1976)
21. Blade Runner (original soundtrack), Vangelis (1982)
22. Waiting for the Sun, The Doors (1968)
23. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Lyle Lovett (1989)
24. London Calling, The Clash (1979)
25. Paradise Theatre, Styx (1980)


Thanks, Iroquois! Keep on rockin' in the free world.

[christine]

My two favourite Springsteen albums in there, our kid. :D

Never pegged you for a Cypress Hill fan...

bit of a nostalgia thing from when the kids were younger - one was a hip hop fan and the other liked metal, so imagine the noise in the house from competing music coming from the bedrooms. They both liked Cypress Hill and I got to like it by osmosis. Makes me smile every time I play it

[Tacitus]

Thanks, Iroquois! Keep on rockin' in the free world.

There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead...

If my list had been made 5 or 6 years ago I'd have had a hard time choosing between St Dominic's Preview or No Guru, No Method, No Teacher for a top 10 position. The utter drek that Van has been putting out recently has kinda soured me, however.

Not really an excuse as I own and still regularly listen to everything he made up until the late 90s but it's a reason.

My father was in the same class as him at school. Neither of them kept their hair.

[Iroquois]

For those who were wondering, this was my list, with the ones that didn't make the top 50 in red...

1. Remain in Light - Talking Heads
2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
3. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
4. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
5. On the Beach - Neil Young
6. Children of God - Swans
7. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
9. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
10. Moving Pictures - Rush
11. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
12. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
13. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
14. Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
15. Red - King Crimson
16. Ride the Lightning - Metallica
17. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
18. In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
19. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
20. The Mollusk - Ween
21. Reign in Blood - Slayer
22. Let It Be - The Replacements
23. Horses - Patti Smith
24. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
25. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

[Iroquois]

The honourable mentions:

51. Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (3 votes, 30 points)
52. John Lennon, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (2 votes, 30 points)
53. Talking Heads, Remain in Light (2 votes, 29 points)
53. Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey (2 votes, 29 points)
53. Billy Joel, The Stranger (2 votes, 29 points)
56. The Clash, London Calling (3 votes, 28 points)
57. Rush, Moving Pictures (2 votes, 28 points)
57. The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy (2 votes, 28 points)
57. The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (2 votes, 28 points)
57. Peter Gabriel, So (2 votes, 28 points)
61. Garbage, Garbage (2 votes, 27 points)
61. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Let Love In (2 votes, 27 points)
63. Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman (2 votes, 26 points)
64. Oasis, What's the Story (Morning Glory)? (3 votes, 25 points)
65. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (2 votes, 25 points)
65. Ween, The Mollusk (2 points, 25 points)
65. Aerosmith, Pump (2 points, 25 points)

[Miss Vicky]

MV - I'm surprised a Fleetwood Mac album didn't make it. I would've expected something like Tusk to be there. I voted for Automatic for the People too.

I assumed Rumours would make the cut. I didn't vote for it because I think Tusk is far superior, but yeah, shocked they didn't make the list at all.

[christine]

aha so Iro it was you who had Godspeed too.

The honorable mentions has 3 of mine - Oasis , Cat Stevens and Peter Gabriel . MV did you vote for Tea for the Tillerman and So?

[Miss Vicky]

No. As much as I love Cat's voice, I've never really listened to any of his albums. I'm only familiar with his hits. I should see if Youtube has full albums from him and give them a listen.

[Thursday Next]

My list:

Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (1989)
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths (1986)
Dear Science - TV on the Radio (2008)
Celebrity Skin - Hole (1998)
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails (1999)
Coming Up - Suede (1996)
Parachutes - Coldplay (2000)
Viva Hate - Morrissey (1988)
You Are the Quarry - Morrissey (2004)
A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park (2005)
OK Computer - Radiohead (1997)
Nevermind - Nirvana (1991)
London Calling - The Clash (1979)
The Bends - Radiohead (1995)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins (1995)
Discovery - Daft Punk (2001)
Attack of the Grey Lantern - Mansun (1997)
In This Light and On this Evening - Editors (2009)
Generation Terrorist - Manic Street Preachers (1992)
Promenade - The Divine Comedy (1994)
I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose - Bombay Bicycle Club (2009)
Wild Young Hearts - Noisettes (2009)
1977 - Ash (1996)
Different Class - Pulp (1995)
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers (1994)

On another day it could have been different. So that's 4 of mine that made the top 50, if I've counted correctly.

I think movie soundtracks could be worthy of their own list.

[christine]

No. As much as I love Cat's voice, I've never really listened to any of his albums. I'm only familiar with his hits. I should see if Youtube has full albums from him and give them a listen.

At least Tea for the Tillerman. Surprised it wasn't you that voted for Peter Gabriel's So as well as me. I love that album :)

[Citizen Rules]

Excellent job Iro!

I'm happy to see Nirvana Nevermind as number 1. I'm born and raised in the Pacific Northwest Washington state, and we love both Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix here. The Seattle radio stations play a lot of local music, so I grew up listening to those two, along with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and Steve Miller and Heart (remember them?)

Has anybody seen the Indie movie My Dinner With Jimi?

[mark f]

I ended up deleting many of those that made the Top 50. I've got my own alternatives to many of them, but in general, there's no comparison for me. I love mine more. Try 'em if you haven't - you might love 'em too. :cool:

1. The Beatles (1968)
2. Roxy Music - Country Life (1974)
3. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
4. Happy the Man - Crafty Hands (1978)
5. Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
6. The Feelies - Time for a Witness (1991)
7. Radiohead - Ok Computer (1997)
8. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)
9. The Who - Who's Next? (1971)
10. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (1970)
11. The Undertones (1979)
12. Björk - Homogenic (1997)
13. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
14. The Replacements - Let It Be (1984)
15. Elvis Costello & the Attractions Get Happy!! (1980)
16. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
17. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
18. Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary (1979)
19. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
20. The Clash (1977)
21. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia (1977)
22. Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)
23. The Vibrators - Pure Mania (1977)
24. The Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
25. Stephen Malkmus (2001)

[Loner]

1. The Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry - 1989
2. The Land Of Rape And Honey - Ministry - 1988
3. Juju - Siouxsie and the Banshees - 1981
4. Cleanse Fold And Manipulate - Skinny Puppy - 1987
5. Ænima - Tool - 1996
6. The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd - 1973
7. Exit...Stage Left - Rush - 1981
8. Strap It On - Helmet - 1990
9. Candy O - The Cars - 1979
10. Permanent Waves - Rush - 1980
11. Honey's Dead - The Jesus and Mary Chain - 1992
12. Violator - Depeche Mode - 1990
13. A Day Without Rain - Enya - 2000
14. Aja - Steely Dan - 1977
15. Boys And Girls - Bryan Ferry - 1985
16. Meddle - Pink Floyd - 1971
17. Meat Is Murder - The Smiths - 1985
18. Reign In Blood - Slayer - 1986
19. Fat Of The Land - Prodigy - 1997
20. Unleashed In The East - Judas Priest - 1979
21. Closer - Joy Division - 1980
22. Bleach - Nirvana - 1989
23. Disintegration - The Cure - 1989
24. Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth - 1986
25. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden - 1991

[gbgoodies]

Great job Iroquois. :up:

I'm sure that it wouldn't have made a difference for anything on my list making the countdown, but it's a shame that more people didn't participate in this. It was educational. So if I pick songs from the top albums on this list, would I have a chance to win a song tournament someday? :D

I'm sure that most of you won't recognize most of the artists and/or albums on my list, but for anyone who's curious, here's my list. (I limited my list to one album per artist, and believe it or not, there are a few non-country artists on my list :) ):

1) Loving Proof, Ricky Van Shelton, (1988)
2) Heartlight, Neil Diamond, (1982)
3) Rage On, Dan Seals, (1988)
4) If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin', George Strait, (1988)
5) Garth Brooks, Garth Brooks (1989)

6) Storms of Life, Randy Travis, (1986)
7) Killin' Time, Clint Black, (1989)
8) Between Now And Forever, Bryan White, (1996)
9) The Stranger, Billy Joel, (1977)
10) Joe Barnhill, Joe Barnhill (1990)

11) Past the Point of Rescue, Hal Ketchum, (1991)
12) Now or Never, John Schneider, (1981)
13) The One That You Love, Air Supply, (1981)
14) Patient Man, Brad Cotter, (2004)
15) Old Enough To Know Better, Wade Hayes, (1995)

16) Based on a True Story, Blake Shelton, (2013)
17) Hardin County Line, Mark Collie, (1990)
18) I Am Ready, Steve Wariner, (1991)
19) All I Can Be, Collin Raye, (1991)
20) Some Gave All, Billy Ray Cyrus, (1992)

21) Too Cold At Home, Mark Chesnutt, (1990)
22) The Road To Bayamon, The Tom Russell Band, (1987)
23) Vital Signs, Survivor, (1984)
24) If I Never Stop Loving You, David Kersh, (1998)
25) The Album, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, (1989)

[Citizen Rules]

Thumbs up to Neil Diamond! I haven't heard of many of those, (not kidding either)

So here's my list, I did have many of the classic rock albums make the list:
1 Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama, 1983
2 The Wall, Pink Floyd, 1979
3 The Doors (self titled), The Doors, 1967
4 Strange Days, The Doors, 1967
5 Morrison Hotel, The Doors 1970
6 L.A. Woman, The Doors 1971
7 Heaven Tonight, Cheap Trick, 1978
8 Beauty and the Beat, The Go-Gos, 1981
9 Vacation, The Go-Gos, 1982
10 Garbage (self titled), Garbage, 1995
11 Synchronicity, The Police, 1983
12 The Amalgamut, Filter, 2002
13 Dummy, Portishead, 1994
14 Moving Pictures, Rush, 1981
15 Duran Duran(self titled)Duran Duran, 1981
16 The Lexicon of Love, ABC, (1982)
17 Nevermind, Nirvana, 1991
18 In Utero, Nirvana, 1993
19 Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins, 1993
20 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles, 1967
21 Never Mind the Bollocks, Sex Pistols, 1977
22 Pretenders(self titled), Pretenders, 1979
23 Sixteen Stone, Bush, 1994
24 Ten, Pearl Jam, 1991
25 Bananarama(self titled), Bananarama, 1984

[Funny Face]

25) The Album, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, (1989)

I haven't listened to that in years! My friends and I loved dancing like fools to that album. No love for Dolly Parton on your list? I'm not a big country fan, but I love her.

Thanks for hosting Iro!

And thanks to Camo for mentioning the countdown to me.

[gbgoodies]

I haven't listened to that in years! My friends and I loved dancing like fools to that album. No love for Dolly Parton on your list? I'm not a big country fan, but I love her.



I like Dolly Parton, but not enough for her to make it into my top 25 albums. If you read through my list, you might notice that I tend to prefer male voices over female voices.

[honeykid]

A few of mine turned up in the top 10, including the one at #1.

As others have said, on another day my list would've been different and the order after 10 or 11 is pretty haphazard, but here's my list. I knew there'd be a few albums that I'd forget, but it wasn't until I saw CR's list that I realised Dummy by Portishead was one of them. :facepalm: Frankly that's shameful. It's like forgetting your head or something. :o

Unlike some of you, I didn't limit myself to one album per artist, as you can see. :D Weirdos. It's supposed to be your favourite 25, not the best album of your favourite 25 artists.

1 The Doors - The Doors
2 Strange Days - The Doors
3 L.A. Woman - The Doors
4. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses
5, Morrison Hotel - The Doors
6 Use Your Illusions vol 1 - Guns N Roses
7 Waiting For The Sun - The Doors
8 Use Your Illusions vol 2 - Guns N Roses
9 The Soft Parade - The Doors
10 GNR Lies - Guns N Roses
11 Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
12 Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
13 The Killers - Iron Maiden
14 The Donnas - The Donnas
15 Garbage - Garbage
16 Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
17 The Velevt Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
18 Nevermind - Nirvana
19 Nevermind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
20 Live After Death - Iron Maiden
21 Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
22 Blackout In The Red Room - Love/Hate
23 We Care - Whale
24 The Last Splash- The Breeders
25 Definitely, Maybe - Oasis

Thanks for sticking with it, Iro. It's a shame that you didn't get the numbers that you wanted, but I hope you still enjoyed it nonetheless. :)

Just to quickly address one of the point Holden made in his excellent post, were I picking albums which I thought were among the best ever made/produced, influencial or whatever, then some of the ones you mentioned would've certainly made my list. A list like that without Songs In The Key Of Life just isn't worth the webspace it takes up. :D

Why did The Wall have to show up? I'd gladly forgotten all about that crap.

Lastly, Nevermind The Bollocks pisses all over London's Calling. Pseudo art college wankers. :p

[Citizen Rules]

Glad to see someone else voted for Garbage - Garbage

That was the last concert I ever seen and one of the best. It was in a small venue in Seattle after their album came out. It was just a big floor with no seats, everyone was standing. I was at the very front and center, about 5 feet from the band. Very cool.

[Captain Spaulding]

Considering how long Iroquois had this countdown planned and all the nudging he had to constantly do to remind everyone to send in their lists, I wish the reveal had taken longer and featured a little more feedback. It's a shame that this mostly took place while the Top MoFos Countdown was the focus of everyone's attention.

Here was my list:

1. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite For Destruction
2. Guns N’ Roses - Use Your Illusion I
3. Guns N’ Roses - Use Your Illusion II
4. Led Zeppelin - IV
5. The Doors - The Doors
6. Michael Jackson - Bad
7. The White Stripes - Elephant
8. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
9. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
10. AC/DC - Back in Black
11. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
12. Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy
13. Michael Jackson - Thriller
14. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
15. Nirvana - Nevermind
16. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
18. Led Zeppelin - II
19. The Doors - L.A. Woman
20. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
21. Aerosmith - Pump
22. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
23. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
24. Kiss - Destroyer
25. The Doors - Strange Days

[Kaplan]

My list:

1. The Beatles - The Beatles (AKA The White Album) (1968)
2. The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
3. The Cure - Pornography (1982)
4. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
5. Skinny Puppy - Remission (1984)
6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)
7. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975)
8. Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
9. R.E.M. - Reckoning (1984)
10. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970)
11. The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
12. The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985)
13. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970)
14. Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
15. U2 - War (1983)
16. Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)
17. The Cars - The Cars (1978)
18. Beck - Mellow Gold (1994)
19. The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
20. The Smiths - The Smiths (1983)
21. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey (1988)
22. Black Sabbath - Sabotage (1975)
23. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
24. Tracie Chapman - Crossroads (1989)
25. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)

[Kaplan]

Lastly, Nevermind The Bollocks pisses all over London's Calling. Pseudo art college wankers. :p

:laugh:

But to be far, doesn't that describe Oasis as well?

[Funny Face]

I like Dolly Parton, but not enough for her to make it into my top 25 albums. If you read through my list, you might notice that I tend to prefer male voices over female voices.
No love for Willie Nelson either? Dolly and Willie are two of the very few country singers I listen to and also made my list.

[gbgoodies]

No love for Willie Nelson either? Dolly and Willie are two of the very few country singers I listen to and also made my list.


I'm not a big fan of Willie Nelson. I like a few of his songs, but I don't care much for his voice. :shrug:

This is my favorite Willie Nelson song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT0MOG9ZGWk

[Funny Face]

I'm not a big fan of Willie Nelson. I like a few of his songs, but I don't care much for his voice. :shrug:


He's not for everyone :) I didn't start listening to him until I caught a televised performance. There was something really hypnotic about watching him. That's a good song! I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYxJs6D434
It makes me think of my dog.

[gbgoodies]

He's not for everyone :) I didn't start listening to him until I caught a televised performance. There was something really hypnotic about watching him. That's a good song! I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYxJs6D434
It makes me think of my dog.


That's a good song too. :up:

[Sexy Celebrity]

Ugh.

This countdown only proves why I had little interest in it to begin with.

[jiraffejustin]

I've always enjoyed this Willie song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuyzrqEA2DQ

[honeykid]

Yeah, only decent music (barring Radiohead and The Wall) here SC.

[christine]

Just to quickly address one of the point Holden made in his excellent post, were I picking albums which I thought were among the best ever made/produced, influencial or whatever, then some of the ones you mentioned would've certainly made my list. A list like that without Songs In The Key Of Life just isn't worth the webspace it takes up. :D



That's true. I picked mine on the basis of which ones I've played the most over the course of my whole life, the ones that I could leave on repeat play and not get sick of them. If I had to do a list of the best albums ever made then that would be a different list.

[gbgoodies]

I've always enjoyed this Willie song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuyzrqEA2DQ


That's a pretty good song too, but it's not one of my favorites of his songs.

[Captain Spaulding]

"Always On My Mind" is my favorite Willie Nelson song.

[gbgoodies]

"Always On My Mind" is my favorite Willie Nelson song.


"Always On My Mind" is a great song, but I prefer Elvis Presley's version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODxrJtj34NU

[Funny Face]

That's a good song too JJ!

I enjoy both versions of "Always on my mind."

[Miss Vicky]

At least Tea for the Tillerman. Surprised it wasn't you that voted for Peter Gabriel's So as well as me. I love that album :)

Aside from "In Your Eyes" and maybe "Sledgehammer," I've never been much of a Peter Gabriel fan. When it comes to Genesis alums, I'm firmly in the Phil Collins camp.

I found Tea for the Tillerman. It's playing now. :)

[Swan]

Here's my list. The top two are the only definitive ones. If I was doing the list now, I'd put Ghosts I-IV at #3.

1. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
2. Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin
3. Fantastic Planet soundtrack - Alain Goraguer
4. Bon Iver, Bon Iver - Bon Iver
5. Good Kid, MAAD City - Kendrick Lamar
6. An Awesome Wave - Alt-J
7. Modern Guilt - Beck
8. Homogenic - Bjork
9. Talkie Walkie - AIR
10. Music has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada
11. Elephant - The White Stripes
12. Kid A - Radiohead
13. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
14. The White Album - The Beatles
15. Jewellery - Micachu
16. Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
17. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
18. Spooked - Robyn Hitchcock
19. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
20. Let Love In - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
21. Bricolage - Amon Tobin
22. Yellow House - Grizzly Bear
23. There Will Be Blood soundtrack - Jonny Greenwood
24. Contagion soundtrack - Cliff Martinez
25. Pronounced - Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Holden Pike]

I've posted this many times over the years, but in honor of all the Doors albums making the top fifty....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Wxr2awac8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0

"No bass. That's right, The Doors had no bass. You see, the gypsies had no homes. Don't let that scare you, let that free you!"

[linespalsy]

Foetus - Hole
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Michael Nyman - The Draughtsman's Contract
De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira
Ween - The Mollusk
The Fall - Room to Live
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works (Vol. 2)
The Residents - Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen

ELO - Eldorado
Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess
Michael Nyman - (self-titled, 1982)
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Severed Heads - Come Visit the Big Bigot
The Fall - Perverted By Language
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
YMO - Technodelic

Gary Panter - Pray for Smurph
The Misfits - Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
The Kinks - Arthur
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

Another dozen that were seriously considered and could have made it on another day:

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
The Pointer Sisters - Break Out
The Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers and Queers
Can - Tago Mago
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
1/2 Mensch - Einsturzende Neubauten
The Gun Club - Fire of Love

[Citizen Rules]

The Doors scored high....our minds must be blown.

[Camo]

None of the Honourable Mentions were from my list. A bit surprised that London Calling or no Oasis Albums made it.

[Iroquois]

A bit surprised that London Calling or no Oasis Albums made it.

I'm not.

[Guaporense]

Paranoid is Black Sabbath's second album, and it is most definitely heavy metal.

Even to me who has listened to about 8,000 hours of heavy metal, the distinction between hard rock and heavy metal is not extreme clear but I can notice how the genre's sound emerged and evolved. Specially regarding early albums such as Black Sabbath's first albums. We can say that Paranoid is in the genre's roots, but the genre of heavy metal became well defined much later, around the late 70's.

I knew how to play most of the songs on the guitar but I don't know much about music theory. And I don't think it's easy to define distinctions in genres of music.

Pure heavy metal is like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEvDlivJeVo
This song was composed in 1976, by Judas Priest, it's proto-thrash metal actually because the compositions Judas Priest made in the period defined the pure root metal sound that characterizes speed metal, thrash metal and power metal. From thrash metal, death and black evolved.

Presumably, Guns n' Roses doesn't fit your criteria for being heavy metal either.

Of course not. Guns and Roses is pop-hard rock. Metallica is heavy metal for the first 4 albums only. Some even claim many of Iron Maiden's songs are pop rock.

In fact, there are very few bands that are clearly traditional heavy metal, most metal bands are power. thrash, doom, death and black metal bands.

Pure traditional metal bands are like King Diamond, Diamond Head, Saxon, Accept, Mercyful Fate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbMkXarAX_M
This is clearly HM.

Really? We called Black Sabbath heavy metal back in the 70s as I recall so I don't know why history should be revised :D

According to interviews with Judas Priest's band members, the genre know as heavy metal emerged as a combination of influences, which includes Black Sabbath but these influences continued to emerge years after Paranoid, Judas Priest own 70's albums were a big factor in the definition of the genre, which became well defined around 1980.

It's a matter of nomenclature essentially but some people regard Stained Class (1978) as the first heavy metal album.

It's true that the sound of the genre became more well defined later, in fact my favorite Black Sabbath albums are all from after 1980, after the band got a decent vocalist.

[Guaporense]

None of the Honourable Mentions were from my list. A bit surprised that London Calling or no Oasis Albums made it.

Meh, I don't know why I contributed though. Since all my entries didn't make to the top 60, which means nobody else voted for them and I knew probably nobody else would vote for them. Anyway, this is a list of top British-American popular rock albums. I like rock but I love metal, since very few people here listen to metal none of my nominations made it.

1. Walls of Jericho - Helloween
2. Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest
3. Painkiller - Judas Priest
4. Stained Class - Judas Priest
5. Terrible Certainty - Kreator
6. Powerslave - Iron Maiden
7. Keppers 2nd - Helloween
8. Seventh son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
9. The House of Atreus part 1 - Virgin Steele
10. INRI - Sarcofago
11. Keppers 1st - Helloween
12. Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
13. Live after Death - Iron Maiden
14. Death of Glory - Running Wild
15. Unification - Iron Savior
16. Russian Roulette - Accept
17. Invictus - Virgin Steele
18. Haunting the Chapel - Slayer
19. Battalions of Fear - Blind Guardian
20, Pleasure to Kill - Kreator
21. Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory
22. Follow the Blind - Blind Guardian
23. Extreme Aggression - Kreator
24. Karma - Kamelot
25. Bible of the Beast - Powerwolf

[Kaplan]

Even to me who has listened to about 8,000 hours of heavy metal, the distinction between hard rock and heavy metal is not extreme clear but I can notice how the genre's sound emerged and evolved. Specially regarding early albums such as Black Sabbath's first albums. We can say that Paranoid is in the genre's roots, but the genre of heavy metal became well defined much later, around the late 70's.

I knew how to play most of the songs on the guitar but I don't know much about music theory. And I don't think it's easy to define distinctions in genres of music.


Paranoid is heavy metal. Why do you go off on your tangents, when in this case you're completely wrong? The Judas Priest song you posted is faster and the singer has a deeper voice, but it is not harder than Paranoid. (And it sure as hell isn't better.) Heavy metal does not have to be fast, it only has to be, umm, heavy. And the heavy metal sound is all over Paranoid, not in bits or pieces, but fully formed.

[Camo]

Never listened to a full album, but from your list Guap I've heard quite a bit of Iron Maiden and Slayer. I like both. I know Gunslinger and Sedai are Metal fans so if they had sent in a list i'm sure a few would have made it. That's if they listen to the same type of Metal as you. Seven of mine made it which was more than I was expecting.

[Camo]

Also it doesn't necessarily mean noone else voted for them, just that none had 25 or more points as well as two votes. For instance I know me and Christine voted for Rubber Soul but it didn't make it since it didn't have at least 25 points.

[Iroquois]

Rating them all because why not...

50. good kid, m.A.A.d city - 4.5
49. Homogenic - 4.5
48. Doolittle - 4
46. The Band - 4
46. Loveless - 5
42. The Bends - 4
42. The Head on the Door - 3.5
42. Elephant - 2.5
42. Pornography - 4
41. Wish You Were Here - 5
40. Cosmo's Factory - 4.5
39. Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols - 3
36. Kid A - 5
36. Unknown Pleasures - 4.5
36. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - 5
35. Closer - 4.5
34. Are You Experienced - 4.5
33. Thriller - 4
32. Stop Making Sense - 4.5
31. Who's Next - 4.5
29. At Folsom Prison - 4
29. Morrison Hotel - 2
28. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - 5
27. Bad - 3.5
26. Pet Sounds - 4
25. Rain Dogs - 5
24. Blood on the Tracks - 4.5
23. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - 5
22. Strange Days - 2.5
21. Blue - 4
20. The Velvet Underground & Nico - 5
19. Paranoid - 5
18. Led Zeppelin - 4
17. L.A. Woman - 2
16. OK Computer - 4.5
15. In Utero - 4
14. Use Your Illusion II - 2
12. Use Your Illusion I - 2
12. Revolver - 4.5
11. Abbey Road - 4.5
10. The Wall - 5
9. Back in Black - 2.5
8. Let It Bleed - 4
7. The Dark Side of the Moon - 5
6. Appetite for Destruction - 2
5. The Beatles - 4.5
4. The Queen is Dead - 4.5
3. Led Zeppelin IV - 4.5
2. The Doors - 3
1. Nevermind - 4

[Captain Spaulding]

42. Elephant - 2.5
29. Morrison Hotel - 2
22. Strange Days - 2.5
17. L.A. Woman - 2
14. Use Your Illusion II - 2
12. Use Your Illusion I - 2
9. Back in Black - 2.5
6. Appetite for Destruction - 2
2. The Doors - 3


You're officially dead to me.

[Sexy Celebrity]

You're officially dead to me.

Oh, no. Did MovieGal get him, too?

[Iroquois]

You're officially dead to me.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, with stranger eons even death may die.

[TheUsualSuspect]

My List:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQrhA6QtWOM&list=PL9F25215F66D380A5

1. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1974)
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)
6. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
7. The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneyground, Part One (1970)
8. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street (1972)
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
10. The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
11. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
12. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (1995)
13. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising (1980)
14. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - CALIFORNICATION (1999)
16. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)
17.Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
18. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (2011)
19. Eminem - Recovery - 2010
20. Oasis - What’s The Story (Morning Glory)’ (1995)
21. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
22. AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)
23. Greenday - Nimrod (1997)
24. David Bowie -The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars (1972)
25. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)

[Camo]

Seems like me and you are mainly to blame for Nevermind winning this thing TUS. Same with Led Zeppelin 4 getting so high. Also if either of us had The Marshall Mathers Lp 2 places higher it would've made the honourable mentions.

Just noticed if you had The Colour and the Shape, where you had Wasting Light, Foo Fighters would have made it.

[Guaporense]

Paranoid is heavy metal. Why do you go off on your tangents, when in this case you're completely wrong? The Judas Priest song you posted is faster and the singer has a deeper voice, but it is not harder than Paranoid. (And it sure as hell isn't better.) Heavy metal does not have to be fast, it only has to be, umm, heavy. And the heavy metal sound is all over Paranoid, not in bits or pieces, but fully formed.

I regard Dissident Aggressor as the heaviest song ever made up to that point, it's guitar playing style with a combination of tight played power chords and fast playing of the palm mutted e string defines the standard riffing for modern heavy metal. It's orders of magnitude heavier than Paranoid (the song). And it is better, for me at least. You are not a specialist in heavy metal. Early Black Sabbath is more accessible for one who doesn't listen to much metal but I don't regard it as the peak of the band, in fact, the band good better later.

In metal-archives these are the average ratings of reviews for Paranoid: 26 reviews (92% average rating). http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Black_Sabbath/99 It's very high, but it's the same rating as the Judas Priest album, Sin after Sin, 10 reviews (92% avr. rating), which the song Dissident Aggressor comes from. Several Judas Priest albums are higher rated on average than any Black Sabbath album though.

My ratings for Black Sabbath albums:

Black Sabbath (1970) 4
Paranoid (1970) 3_5
Master of Reality (1971) 4_5
Vol. 4 (1972) 4
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) 4
Sabotage (1975) 4_5
Technical Ecstasy (1976) 2_5
Never Say Die! (1978) 2
Heaven and Hell (1980) 5
Mob Rules (1981) 4
Born Again (1983) 3_5
Seventh Star (1986) 4
The Eternal Idol (1987) 5
Headless Cross (1989) 5
Tyr (1990) 5 + (my fav. Black Sabbath album :D)
Dehumanizer (1992) 4_5 +
Cross Purposes (1994) not listened
Forbidden (1995) not listened
13 (2013) not listened

Yep, my favorite phase of Black Sabbath is the Tony Martin phase. Though they also had some great albums with Dio and Ozzy.

My ratings for Judas Priest albums:

Rocka Rolla (1974) 4
Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) 5 ++
Sin After Sin (1977) 5 +
Stained Class (1978) 5 ++
Killing Machine (1978) 4_5
British Steel (1980) 4_5
Point of Entry (1981) 2_5
Screaming for Vengeance (1982) 5
Defenders of the Faith (1984) 4_5
Turbo (1986) 2
Ram It Down (1988) 4
Painkiller (1990) 5 ++
Jugulator (1997) 3
Demolition (2001) 3
Angel of Retribution (2005) 4
Nostradamus (2008) 4
Redeemer of Souls (2014) 4

Judas Priest is my favorite band though. I would rank Black Sabbath around 10th place in my favorite metal bands list. I rate higher bands like Kreator, Slayer, Helloween, Blind Guardian, Running Wild, Bathory, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and even Metallica (their first four albums were amazingly consistently great).

[Guaporense]

Never listened to a full album, but from your list Guap I've heard quite a bit of Iron Maiden and Slayer. I like both. I know Gunslinger and Sedai are Metal fans so if they had sent in a list i'm sure a few would have made it. That's if they listen to the same type of Metal as you. Seven of mine made it which was more than I was expecting.

I asked Sendai to send his list he said he would but he didn't. I also send a PM to Guslinger but he apparently didn't answer. Thing is that metal is too abrasive, too heavy for non-metal heads.

Though bands like Helloween are relatively tame sounding I think, but it's very emotional music with fits more the aesthetic tastes of Brazilian, German and Japanese rather than American and British.

Sole Survivor, highly emotional cute sounding metal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrTH8XQXZI
Always brings a smile to my face!

[Guaporense]

My ratings for the albums:

50. good kid, m.A.A.d city -
49. Homogenic -
48. Doolittle -
46. The Band -
46. Loveless -
42. The Bends -
42. The Head on the Door -
42. Elephant -
42. Pornography -
41. Wish You Were Here -
40. Cosmo's Factory -
39. Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols -
36. Kid A -
36. Unknown Pleasures -
36. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! -
35. Closer -
34. Are You Experienced -
33. Thriller - 1
32. Stop Making Sense -
31. Who's Next -
29. At Folsom Prison -
29. Morrison Hotel -
28. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -
27. Bad -
26. Pet Sounds -
25. Rain Dogs -
24. Blood on the Tracks -
23. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -
22. Strange Days -
21. Blue -
20. The Velvet Underground & Nico -
19. Paranoid - 3_5
18. Led Zeppelin - 3
17. L.A. Woman -
16. OK Computer -
15. In Utero -
14. Use Your Illusion II -
12. Use Your Illusion I -
12. Revolver - 3_5
11. Abbey Road - 3
10. The Wall -
9. Back in Black - 3_5
8. Let It Bleed -
7. The Dark Side of the Moon - 1_5
6. Appetite for Destruction -
5. The Beatles -
4. The Queen is Dead -
3. Led Zeppelin IV -
2. The Doors -
1. Nevermind -

Others have not listened entirely or don't remember much (I listened to the whole Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd discographies but I don't remember well how I felt relative to each album).

[Camo]

Looks like your pretty closed off there Guap. You should come back to us when you've listened to more "British-American popular rock albums".

[Guaporense]

I listened to the whole discography of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and other British american mainstream rock bands. Thing is life is too short and I would rather listen to music I like more (which consists of metal and classical). You even admitted you never listened to a whole Iron Maiden album, so if I am closed off to Anglo-Saxon mainstream rock you are even more closed off to metal. :) How many of my top 50 albums have you listened to entirely?

Different people have different tastes in music. I prefer more exotic sounding music, I do not find mainstream conventional music very interesting overall. I would rather listen to some violin concerto or progressive folk metal these days.

For instance, compare a song from the album in the first place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqqZEm6sfA

To this song which I discovered last year which I enjoy very much (from a French band heavily inspired by Helloween):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCU3ZiRQRpk

They are very different approaches to music. One is highly technical, emotional and melodic while another focuses on texture and mood. I prefer the first though I actually enjoy both.

[Kaplan]

I regard Dissident Aggressor as the heaviest song ever made up to that point, it's guitar playing style with a combination of tight played power chords and fast playing of the palm mutted e string defines the standard riffing for modern heavy metal. It's orders of magnitude heavier than Paranoid (the song). And it is better, for me at least. You are not a specialist in heavy metal. Early Black Sabbath is more accessible for one who doesn't listen to much metal but I don't regard it as the peak of the band, in fact, the band good better later.


I get it, you're the specialist. Good for you. My point is Black Sabbath's Paranoid album is heavy metal. If you refuse to acknowledge that, you're not the specialist you think you are. Then you go further, and define heavy metal as not just being dominated by power chords, but power chords played a specific way. That's so laughable.

Next you'll argue the Sex Pistols aren't punk, because real punk didn't begin until 1982 with the release of [insert album here], and that punk can only be defined as punk when played at a certain speed and played a certain way, so that it all sounds like the same well-rehearsed generic product.

[christine]

Heavy Metal. Invented in Brum.:p

[TheUsualSuspect]

I'm actually kind of surprised to see Nevermind claim the top spot.


I knew my boy Elliott Smith wouldn't make it. No one around here listens to him.


Camo - I see we have similar taste. I honestly thought Led IV would have been one or two. A toss up with Pink Floyd.

[christine]

Good to see you had my number 1, Blood on the Tracks at your number 5 TUS :)

[Iroquois]

I'm actually kind of surprised to see Nevermind claim the top spot.

Yeah, it sort of caught me off guard how it got such a huge lead after only a handful of votes and nothing ever really caught up (with the only exceptions being Led Zeppelin IV and The Doors - Zep I can understand, but I had no idea people liked the Doors that much). Looking back, Nevermind makes perfect sense as it's a reasonably accessible but still powerful entry-level part of the rock canon and has widespread appeal due to it being caught between two separate generations of music fans - not too uncool for the younger one, not too unfamiliar for the older one. It's kind of like the rock music equivalent of Pulp Fiction (hey, there's an idea for a thread...)


I knew my boy Elliott Smith wouldn't make it. No one around here listens to him.

Yeah, there was only one other vote for Smith and it was for Either/Or. Shame, Either/Or is a great album (haven't listened to Figure 8 yet, will definitely get on that).

[Guaporense]

I get it, you're the specialist. Good for you. My point is Black Sabbath's Paranoid album is heavy metal. If you refuse to acknowledge that, you're not the specialist you think you are. Then you go further, and define heavy metal as not just being dominated by power chords, but power chords played a specific way. That's so laughable.

Next you'll argue the Sex Pistols aren't punk, because real punk didn't begin until 1982 with the release of [insert album here], and that punk can only be defined as punk when played at a certain speed and played a certain way, so that it all sounds like the same well-rehearsed generic product.

I am sorry for being indelicate with you. But you certainly did not understand and does not want to understand the meaning of my previous posts. Any further discussion with you in this topic is futile.

"Black Sabbath absolutely invented heavy metal. I've read a lot of essays and such like about tracing it all back further and further. It's as though these writers want to claim the source, a bit like Dr. Livingstone and the source of the Nile. But as a purist metal musician, I can tell you— it's Black Sabbath.".

Who is quoted as saying that in Metal: The Definitive Guide (2007)? None other than Rob Halford.

In a documentary about a Judas Priest album they themselves said that they were part of the bands that formed what is know as heavy metal. I never denied that Black Sabbath was the main influence in modern metal but their first two albums certainly sound very different from modern metal. It's not very well defined where metal begins, Black Sabbath are certainly among the major influences alongside Judas Priest. Halford wouldn't say that "we invented heavy metal". :D

[Guaporense]

I never denied that. Anyway it's completely futile to continue to argue along these lines since it's about different uses for a word. Anybody can use the words as they like. :D

Paranoid is heavy metal, are you guys happy?

[Kaplan]

I am sorry for being indelicate with you. But you certainly did not understand and does not want to understand the meaning of my previous posts. Any further discussion with you in this topic is futile.

I understand you perfectly, but you're a stubborn know-it-all, who's defining heavy metal in your own very, very narrow way, and you're wrong. The Paranoid album doesn't have to sound like your favorite modern heavy metal band for it to be heavy metal. You know I could post links to numerous modern heavy metal bands that sound exactly like those first two Sabbath albums. Anything by Electric Wizard, for example, or pretty much anything in the doom metal genre. You know this is true and yet you cling to your absurd argument and pretend that it is everyone else who can't understand the definition of words.

[Guaporense]

Yeah, it sort of caught me off guard how it got such a huge lead after only a handful of votes and nothing ever really caught up (with the only exceptions being Led Zeppelin IV and The Doors - Zep I can understand, but I had no idea people liked the Doors that much). Looking back, Nevermind makes perfect sense as it's a reasonably accessible but still powerful entry-level part of the rock canon and has widespread appeal due to it being caught between two separate generations of music fans - not too uncool for the younger one, not too unfamiliar for the older one. It's kind of like the rock music equivalent of Pulp Fiction (hey, there's an idea for a thread...)

That reminded me of my cousin's words: "Nirvana was a turd, but it was such a big turd that everybody had to pay it attention." :D *

I also didn't know Led Zeppelin was that popular. At first I though Led Zeppelin was these days more of a niche type of band. Yep, I had no idea of the bands popularity in the English speaking world (which is reflected in this forum). I also didn't know the Doors were so popular, well, it's not like I am an specialist in Anglo-American popular music anyway. :D

* Don't take that seriously. :D

[christine]

That reminded me of my cousin's words: "Nirvana was a turd, but it was such a big turd that everybody had to pay it attention." :D *

I also didn't know Led Zeppelin was that popular. At first I though Led Zeppelin was these days more of a niche type of band. Yep, I had no idea of the bands popularity in the English speaking world (which is reflected in this forum). I also didn't know the Doors were so popular, well, it's not like I am an specialist in Anglo-American popular music anyway. :D

* Don't take that seriously. :D

Led Zeppelin are a well loved band in Britain. Their Stairway to Heaven is probably along with Lennon's Imagine, Moody Blues Nights in White Satin and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody the most played and most voted for in competitions songs.

[Guaporense]

By the way, this is the documentary I mentioned before where they speak a little about Judas Priest role in defining the genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aMb8MgGDNY

[Guaporense]

For those who were wondering, this was my list, with the ones that didn't make the top 50 in red...

1. Remain in Light - Talking Heads
2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
3. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
4. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
5. On the Beach - Neil Young
6. Children of God - Swans
7. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
9. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
10. Moving Pictures - Rush
11. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
12. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
13. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
14. Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
15. Red - King Crimson
16. Ride the Lightning - Metallica
17. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
18. In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
19. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
20. The Mollusk - Ween
21. Reign in Blood - Slayer
22. Let It Be - The Replacements
23. Horses - Patti Smith
24. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
25. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

+rep for ranking Ride the Lightning as Metallica's best. :D

[Iroquois]

+rep for ranking Ride the Lightning as Metallica's best. :D

The way I figure it, Lightning has only one "dud" track with "Escape", whereas Puppets has two with "Leper Messiah" and "Damage Inc."

[Guaporense]

Led Zeppelin are a well loved band in Britain. Their Stairway to Heaven is probably along with Lennon's Imagine, Moody Blues Nights in White Satin and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody the most played and most voted for in competitions songs.

Queen didn't show up much on the list even though it's one of the best and most popular bands. I was also surprised Metallica didn't show up, considering the popularity of the band.

[Guaporense]

The way I figure it, Lightning has only one "dud" track with "Escape", whereas Puppets has two with "Leper Messiah" and "Damage Inc."

My ranking now is:

1. Ride the Lightning
2. Kill'en All
3 .And Justice for All
4. Master of Puppets
5. doesn't matter

All their first four albums though are miles ahead of anything else they did later. It's really sad how much Metallica declined. It's as if the whole band died in 1989. Well most mainstream metal bands declined permanently after 1990. All my favorite albums made after 1990 are from more obscure bands, though it's generally well recognized that mainstream music died around 1990, with Nirvana :D

[Iroquois]

Queen didn't show up much on the list even though it's one of the best and most popular bands. I was also surprised Metallica didn't show up, considering the popularity of the band.

Queen were always more of a song band than an album band, so I'm not at all surprised that they didn't make this list. There were a few Metallica votes but since they were all for separate albums none of them actually made it.

[christine]

Queen didn't show up much on the list even though it's one of the best and most popular bands. I was also surprised Metallica didn't show up, considering the popularity of the band.

I had Queen's A Night at the Opera on my list, but I think maybe they weren't so much an albums band, but they were amazing playing live so I think possibly people listen to their hits rather than their LPs