Your top ten favourite albums of....

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I like lists.

I couldn't partake in the top ten albums of 2011 thread as I don't know any albums from last year. (elderly and out of touch).

So here is a thread with a broader scope for more aged WP members, and those who like the past better than the present.

I'm sure it's been done before, but heyho.


1. REM - New Adventures in Hi Fi
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Bjork - Debut
4. OMD - Souvenir
5. Human League - Dare
6. Stevie Wonder - Inner Visions
7. Portishead - Dummy
8. Don Mclean - American Pie
9. Joni Mitchell - Blue
10. Erasure - Chorus


Really they could have all been REM and Radiohead, I just chose my two favouritest of theirs.
And this list might be completely different if I did it last week, or next week. Or in ten minutes.


If you don't like top tens you could just tell us some of your favourite albums, and waffle a bit about them if you like. It's all good.

Right now?

In no real order:

Hour of Penance-Paradogma
Threat Signal-Threat Signal
Ordinance-Internal Monologues
Rise Against-Revolutions Per Minute
Parkway Drive-Horizons
The Real McKenzies-Off The Leash
Rhapsody Of Fire-Dawn Of Victory
Vader-This is The War EP
Wolfmother-Wolfmother
Amon Amarth-Surtur Rising

1. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree (2002)
2. Aenima - Tool (1996)
3. Master of Puppets - Metallica (1986)
4. De-loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta (2003)
5. The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails (1999)
6. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009)
7. Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside (2009)
8. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party (2005)
9. We're Here Because We're Here - Anathema (2010)
10. Ten - Pearl Jam (1991)

in no particular order (one album per band):

Animals - Pink Floyd
Lateralus - Tool
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
In Absentia - Porucpine Tree (picking just one for these guys was very tough)
Kid A - Radiohead
The Madcap's Laugh - Syd Barrett
Doolittle - The Pixies
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Black Halo - Kamelot
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

in no particular order (one album per band):

Animals - Pink Floyd
Lateralus - Tool
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
In Absentia - Porucpine Tree (picking just one for these guys was very tough)
Kid A - Radiohead
The Madcap's Laugh - Syd Barrett
Doolittle - The Pixies
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Black Halo - Kamelot
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

supertramp- breakfast in america
blues brothers- briefcase full of blues
blues brothers- soundtrack
beatles- abbey road
pink floyd- dark side of the moon
pink floyd- the wall
ry cooder- bop 'til you drop
steely dan- aja
steely dan- gaucho
the tubes- young and rich
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i guess i'm showin' my age here

1. Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
2. Faith No More - Angel Dust
3. Metallica - Master of Puppets
4. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
5. Alice In Chains - Dirt
6. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
7. The Cure - Disintegration
8. Type O Negative - October Rust
9. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
10. Fear Factory - Obsolete

Ah, I love when this thread comes back again, because my list always changes.

01. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
02. Abbey Road - The Beatles
03. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
04. Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order
05. Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld
06. Closer - Joy Division
07. The Bends - Radiohead
08. ...And Justice For All - Metallica
09. Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
10. From Enslavement To Obliteration - Napalm Death

Honorable mentions that can't make this tight, Top-10 of mine.

* Fear Of Music - Talking Heads
* Remain In Light - Talking Heads
* OK Computer - Radiohead
* Psyence Fiction - UNKLE
* Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow

I'm not making a top 10 (too difficult) but I can just sum up 10 albums I really like atm in no order:

Black Sun Empire - Cruel And Unusual
X-Dream - We Interface
Broken Note - Terminal Static
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Cyanotic - Prehab 25mg
Xerox & Illumination - XI
Kindzadza - Waves Of Inner Space
Allied Vision - O.S. Bandwidth
Bypass Unit - Dropz Of Obscure Eclipses
Meshuggah - Catch 33

A few of my favourite albums without arbitrary ordering. I of course listen to and enjoy a lot of other albums but these are just a few standouts off the top of my head.

Kid A - Radiohead
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Low - David Bowie
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Homogenic - Björk
The Moon & Antarctica - Modest Mouse
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Rós
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Animals - Pink Floyd
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
Violator - Depeche Mode
Remain In Light - Talking Heads
Nevermind - Nirvana
Asleep In The Back - Elbow
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin
Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow
Dear Science - TV on the Radio
Ten - Pearl Jam

10 albums I've played more than the others (probably)

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Bjork - Homogenic
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Joni Mitchell - Blue
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Leonard Cohen - I'm You Man
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Radiohead - The Bends

Albums feel like a thing of the past now, like books, or any text that isn't full of hyperlinks and attached to the global brain

Honestly, I don't do albums all that much as most of my music is on my computer but here's a top ten from ones I own... in no particular order.

Enigma - The Cross Of Changes
Green Day - Dookie
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Papa Roach - Infest
Godsmack
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Golden Bough - Song Of The Celts
Gaelic Storm - Herding Cats
Savage Garden - Affirmation
The Celtic Book Of Days - David Arkenstone

In no order, and only reflecting my specific mood as of today:
Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine,
Ian McCulloch - Slideling,
Nicky Wire - I Killed the Zeitgeist,
The Beatles - Revolver,
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks... ,
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come,
Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies,
Bright Eyes - The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Head To The Ground,
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures,
Joy Division - Closer,
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

In no particular order....

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
Under The Pink - (see above artist)
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - Alanis Morissette
Spirit - Jewel
Greatest Hits - Janis Joplin
The Very Best Of - Sheryl Crow
Missundaztood - P!nk
Little Women Soundtrack - Thomas Newman
Home - Dixie Chicks

In no order:

Birth of the Cool - Miles Davis
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
Horses - Patti Smith
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
The Who Sell Out - The Who
Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention
Fear - John Cale
Berlin - Lou Reed
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Street Hassle - Lou Reed

OK, I'll try a list...

But I'll try to list them according to the impact they have left on my life.

1) Definitely Maybe - Oasis
I have never had an album that got me so hard. I loved every song.
2) Who's Next - The Who
The album opened me up to a lot in terms of how I relate to music in general.
3) Some Friendly - The Charlatans
This album is the main reason why I know and love The Charlatans.
4) A Storm In Heaven - The Verve
Nick McCabe entered my life and to this day remains my favourite guitarist of all time. The work he did on this album is exceptional.
5) Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
This album blew my mind. I listened to nothing else for two weeks. It was exhausting.
6) Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Maybe "Pablo Honey" would be even more relevant here. But around the time I got into this album, I got really into Radiohead.
7) Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized and Sound of Confusion - Spacemen 3
Spacemen 3 lasted for 2 years and I could not get into them completely, so I am hopeful I'll listen to more by them in the future. They're an underappreciated band, while they have influenced bands such as My Bloody Valentine. Chapterhouse were fans, too. And Ride. Spiritualized have always been too impersonal for me to like the whole band. It was mostly about Jason Pierce. And occasionally the nerdiness that is Sean Cook. Spacemen 3 had soul. I like that Jason Pierce went on with Spiritualized, but he was beautiful in Spacemen 3. He and Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember had a great working relationship. Well, they had great chemistry. They had a lot of issues besides that.
8) October - U2
It took me a while to fully grasp U2, but this album did it for me. "Rejoice" is still one of my favourite U2 songs. At the moment, I am into "War". Great album.
9) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
I listened to the album for the first time on the way back from our class trip to London in 2007. It was a magical experience. I fell in love with John Squire's guitar and the whole band.
10) Viva La Vida or Death and all of his Friends
I loathed "X&Y". It took me many years to appreciate it. But this album changed it all for me. I also saw them play live on the tour promoting their fourth album and it was a great experience.