My top 50 favorite albums

Amorphous Head

50. Shellac - Terraform
49. Lemonheads - Come On Feel
48. Divine Comedy - Liberation
47. Rage against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
46. Metallica - …And Justice for All
45. Blur - Park life
44. Radiohead – OK Computer
43. Black Grape – Its great when you’re straight
42. The Verve – Urban Hymns
41. Death In Vegas – Scorpio Rising
40. 808 State - Pacific
39. Slint - Tweez
38. Mudhoney – March To the Fuzz
37. Happy Mondays – Manchester, Rave On
36. Shellac – At Action Park
35. The Prodigy – Fat of the Land
34. Nirvana – In Utero
33. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
32 D.R.I – Dirty Rotten
31. Drive like Jehu – Yank Crime
30. The Fall – Shift Work
29 Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion
28. Pearl Jam - Ten
27. Fugazi - Repeater
26. Sonic Youth - Goo
25. Crystal Method - Vegas
24. 808 State – EX: EL
23. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
22. Pixies – Surfa Rosa
21. TAD – 8 Way Santa
20. The Fall – Perverted By Language
19. The Go Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
18 Happy Mondays – Pills Thrills and Bellyaches
17. Hole – Live Thru This
16. Minor Threat - Discography
15. Oasis – Morning Glory
14. Big Black – The Hammer Party
13. Sonic Youth - Dirty
12. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
11. R.E.M - Murmur
10. Tool - Aenima
9. Shellac – 1000 Hurts
8. Mudhoney – Siperfuzz Bigmuff
7. Mother Love Bone - Apple
6. Alice In Chains - Dirt
5. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
4. Nirvana - Bleach
3. Slint - Spiderland
2. Big Black – Songs about ****ing
1. Rapeman – Two Nuns and a Pack Mule

there you are to criticize. To Agree or to Disagree

phelixoflaherty

Lad you need to be countryfied and get some Big Star too. The Big Black ones are top though

humberklog

Music was invented in 1986 and played only by those in the english speaking world? Interesting if only for that.

Amorphous Head

phelixoflaherty wrote: »

Lad you need to be countryfied and get some Big Star too. The Big Black ones are top though

Didn't Elliot Smith cover a Big Star song?

HalloweenJack

I have too much spare time...

50. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
49. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
48. Parliament - Gloryhallastoopid (Or Pin The Tale On The Funky)
47. Truth Hurts - Truthfully Speaking
46. M.O.P - Warriorz
45. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
44. Angie Stone - Stone Love
43. Ohio Players - Pleasure
42. Republic Of Loose - Aaagh!
41. Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
40. Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
39. N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
38. Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers
37. Ice Cube - Death Certificate
36. Os Mutantes - Mutantes E Seus Cometas No Pais Do Baurets
35. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
34. Parliament - Mothership Connection
33. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
32. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
31. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
30. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
29. David Bowie - "Heroes"
28. Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra
27. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio
26. Fela Kuti - Expensive ****
25. Scarface - The Fix
24. Prince - Controversy
23. Dr. Dre - 2001
22. Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
21. Róisin Murphy - Overpowered
20. Parliament - The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein
19. Bootsy Collins - Stretchin' Out (In Bootsy's Rubber Band)
18. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
17. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
16. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
15. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
14. Fela Kuti - Zombie
13. Zapp - Zapp
12. Nas - Stillmatic
11. Nas - Illmatic
10. Ohio Players - Honey
9. Prince - Purple Rain
8. Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage
7. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
4. OutKast - Aquemini
3. David Bowie - Low
2. David Bowie - Station To Station
1. Funkadelic - Funkadelic

Rigsby

humberklog wrote: »

Music was invented in 1986 and played only by those in the english speaking world? Interesting if only for that.

I can never see the point of these type of threads. :rolleyes:

Amorphous Head

humberklog wrote: »

Music was invented in 1986 and played only by those in the english speaking world? Interesting if only for that.

Well i dont own any non-english speaking album

tech77

How do you go about ordering your top 50 albums.
Have you weighted the albums in some way (points for melody, vocals, instrumentation, lyrics, song meaning, album cohesion etc).
Nah, only joking- seems like a difficult exercise though tbh.
I'd be able to maybe say what my top few favourite albums are but even though, it'd be hard to order them.

Rigsby

Amorphous Head wrote: »

Well i dont own any non-english speaking album

I think that's his point.

Amorphous Head

Rigsby wrote: »

I think that's his point.

i have post by bjork and an Enya album if that counts

phelixoflaherty

Loveless by my bloody valentine in Irish or Music has the right to children by Boards of Canada in PC english

humberklog

Amorphous Head wrote: »

i have post by bjork and an Enya album if that counts

No not really (at all). It just seams a very uninspired list. I'd find making a list impossible as it would continually change. I think this is healthy. Going to the lenghts of devising your favourite albums and then restricting it to 50 (or indeed blowing it out to 50) is a peculiar exercise. So if one did go to the trouble of doing such an exercise there should be a point to it. I'm missing the point. I missing the point at the very 1st hurdle. The content. Sure they're all good albums (yaddah,yaddah,yaddah). But it's a list compiled in a straight jacket. Nothing that wouldn't have made it onto one of those "the best album in the world" albums that did the rounds in the 90's. Essentially its all the same genre...Pop. Grand but nothing interesting, challenging or indeed influential beyond its own smug sphere. It's a very limited list.

gustavo

humberklog wrote: »

No not really (at all). It just seams a very uninspired list. I'd find making a list impossible as it would continually change. I think this is healthy. Going to the lenghts of devising your favourite albums and then restricting it to 50 (or indeed blowing it out to 50) is a peculiar exercise. So if one did go to the trouble of doing such an exercise there should be a point to it. I'm missing the point. I missing the point at the very 1st hurdle. The content. Sure they're all good albums (yaddah,yaddah,yaddah). But it's a list compiled in a straight jacket. Nothing that wouldn't have made it onto one of those "the best album in the world" albums that did the rounds in the 90's. Essentially its all the same genre...Pop. Grand but nothing interesting, challenging or indeed influential beyond its own smug sphere. It's a very limited list.

Why does it have to be interesting or influential?It's merely their favourite 50 albums nothing more nothing less

endasmail

never heard of your top 3 mate,they still around

Rigsby

humberklog wrote: »

No not really (at all). It just seams a very uninspired list. I'd find making a list impossible as it would continually change. I think this is healthy. Going to the lenghts of devising your favourite albums and then restricting it to 50 (or indeed blowing it out to 50) is a peculiar exercise. So if one did go to the trouble of doing such an exercise there should be a point to it. I'm missing the point. I missing the point at the very 1st hurdle. The content. Sure they're all good albums (yaddah,yaddah,yaddah). But it's a list compiled in a straight jacket. Nothing that wouldn't have made it onto one of those "the best album in the world" albums that did the rounds in the 90's. Essentially its all the same genre...Pop. Grand but nothing interesting, challenging or indeed influential beyond its own smug sphere. It's a very limited list.

This is why I think the thread is pointless. It may be uninspired to you ( and definitely so to me ), but musical taste is a very personal thing. It's a case of "what's one man's meat is another's poison". If the OP picked say three albums and gave a detailed reason why he liked them, then at least it would be a little more interesting................ but still pointless IMO.

humberklog

gustavo wrote: »

Why does it have to be interesting or influential?It's merely their favourite 50 albums nothing more nothing less

It was a criticism. The last line of the OP "there you are to criticize...". Kinda opens up that Pandora's box. Otherwise the thread would be completely pointless. Or as useful as a list of someone elses groceries.

It was a crticism (invited). Nothing more, nothing less.

Amorphous Head

endasmail wrote: »

never heard of your top 3 mate,they still around

nope, they fizzled out in the 80's/90's but the singer and guitarist of the first two bands is now in a and called shellac. They're also excellent