Your essential top ten music albums.
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My top ten albums:
1)Jean Michel Jarre - ZOOLOOK
2)Radiohead - OK Computer
3)Yann Tiersen - Amelie
4)Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
5)Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
6)Pat Metheny - Secret Story
7)Andrew Bird -Mysterious Production of Eggs
8)Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92
9)Mark Shreeve - Legion
10)Danny Elfman - Edward Sciccorhands
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In no particular order of importance or preference, here are 10 albums nobody should be without...
Pre-1990
1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Eric Clapton - Just One Night
3. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings & Food
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. The Beatles - Revolver
6. Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
7.Elvis Costello & The Attractions - My Aim Is True
Post-1990
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
9. Pearl Jam - Ten
10. Leonard Cohen - The Future
But there are just SOOOOOO many more that are so crucial... How can anyone choose just 10? There's no room left for my Hendrix, Nick Drake, John Lennon, Bauhaus, Squeeze, ELO, One Dove, William Orbit, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert... There's just far, far, FAR too much great music out there to have to narrow it down.
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock
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Pre-1990:
U2 - The Joshua Tree
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (and I swear to the dear and fluffy Lord I wasn't even alive when that debuted.....)
Sarah McLachlan - Touch
Post-1990:
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Eve 6 - Horrorscope
Others:
The Tragically Hip - World Container
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Gordon Downie - Coke Machine Glow
And I found the end of the world, of course
And it's not the end of the world, of course
It's just a Vancouver divorce
It's just a Vancouver divorce....
Niska's got work
Crew needs money
Can we swing it?
Yes, sir, honey!
FIREFLY
Captain of the New England Browncoats
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I'm afraid I'll have to break the rules, since I don't have that many recent albums to choose from, but I'll try to be as diverse as possible.
Alphabetical only:
The Band - their eponymously titled second album
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Steve Earle - Train a Comin'
The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor
U2 - The Joshua Tree
The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
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Hot Tracks- Nazareth
There is a Time- The Dillards
Led Zeppelin IV- Led Zeppelin
Ted Nugent- Ted Nugent
Kansas- Kansas
A Night at the Opera- Queen
Sehnsucht- Rammstein
Head On- Bachman Turner Overdrive
New Favorite- Allison Krauss
Legend of a Band- The Moody Blues
I had to break rule #4 to comply with rules 1-3.
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very tough but here it goes.
1. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. White Album - The Beatles
3. America - Simon & Garfunkel
4. Blue Train - John Coltrane
5. Nevermind - Nirvana
6. Black Holes & revelations - Muse
7. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
8. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
9. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
10. Undertow - Tool
"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."
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Pre 90s:
Eagles - Hotel California
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Peter Gabriel - So
Post 90s:
Jewel - Pieces Of You
REM - Automatic For The People
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
Others:
Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Coldplay - X+Y
Lene Marlin - Playing My Game
Honourable Mentions to:
Eric Clapton, Counting Crows, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fun Lovin' Criminals, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Police, Crowded House, AC/DC, Linkin Park and on and on....
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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It changes a great deal according to mood but......
Pre:
Little Girl Blue-Nina Simone
The Queen is Dead- The Smiths
Dolittle-Pixies
Then:
Black Love- The Afghan Whigs
Gentlemen- The Afghan Whigs
Either/Or- Elliot Smith
Fuzzy- Grant Lee Buffallo
Nick Cave- The Boatman’s Call
Recently:
Boxer- The National
Antics- Interpol
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Oh, Hells' Yeah...
In no particular order, mind- just what comes to mind first...
1) The White Album- The Beatles
2) See You on the Other Side- Korn
3)The Black Album- Metallica
4)Vheissu- Thrice
5)Alchemy Index- Thrice
6)Crimson- Alkaline Trio
7)In Your Honor- Foo Fighters
8)Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
9)Berlin Philharmoniker- Scorpion
10)Sensucht- Rammstein
I could prolly list another tow dozen that deserve an equal footing here... but the list is too small for that!
-Danny
The Ocean Breathes Salty,
Won'tyou carry it in,
In your head,
In your mouth,
In your soul?
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old,
Well I don't know, I don't know, Don't think so
The Band of the week is... Modest Mouse
Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein.
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At this moment, here's mine (in chronic illogical order):-
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976)
Jeff Wayne - The War of the Worlds (1978)
ABC - The Lexicon of Love (1982)
Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990)
Porcupine Tree - Signify (1996)
Anathema - Judgement (1999)
Rammstein - Mutter (2001)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002)
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)
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