Post your favourite 20 albums and I'll rate your musical taste out of 10

musicmania

Borneo Fnctn wrote: »

You're all saps for queuing up to have your musical taste pissed on by this by-the-book music snob dickhead.

It's called having a laugh. I for one won't be taking it seriously. We are all unique and all have different tastes so I find this tread entertaining. I'm just waiting now for Kolds list so
a) I see if I can recognise anyone on it &
b) I can rate him

Kold

Borneo Fnctn wrote: »

You're all saps for queuing up to have your musical taste pissed on by this by-the-book music snob dickhead.

Oh hey there buddy, this is the 'post your favourite 20 albums' thread, not the 'Taking a break from masturbating to insult a load of people' thread. Make with your albums or kindly piss off.

LenaClaire

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jujibee wrote:

In no particular order

1. Creedence Clearwater Revivial - Chronicle, Volume 1
2. Metallica - Black Album
3. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
4. Primus - Pork Soda
5. Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You
6. Ani DiFranco - Dilate
7. Dixie Chicks - Taking the long way
8. Beasty Boys - Ill Communication
9. Etta James - At Last
10. Great Big Sea - Great Big CD
11. Janis Joplin - Pearl
12. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
13. Ramons - Ramons
14. Portishead - Dummy
15. Rusted Root - When I Woke
16. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot
17. Sarah McLaclan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
18. Nirvana - Nevermind
19. Lemonheads - Shame About Ray
20. Bjork - Post

MetzgerMeister

1. Rammstein - Herzeleid
2. Korn - Issues
3. Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
4. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
5. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
6. Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
7. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
8. Black Label Society - Mafia
9. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
10. Slayer - Reign in Blood
11. Eisbrecher - Sunde
12. Rammstein - Mutter
13. Stampin' Ground - A New Darkness Upon Us
14. Metallica - Master of Puppets
15. Marilyn Manson - Holywood
16. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
17. Rammstein - Reise Reise
18. Fear Factory - Digimortal
19. Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
20. Slade - Sladest

whatawaster

Kold wrote: »

Some very very very generic picks. 5.1

you're just jealous

stakey

I'll play

20. David Bowie - Low
19. Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
18. Kraftwerk - Computer World
17. Daft Punk - Discovery
16. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
15. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
14. The PIxies - Doolittle
13. Nick Cave - Your Funeral… My Trial
12. The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
11. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
10. Nirvana - In Utero
9. Joy Division - Closer
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
7. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
6. RadioHead - KidA
5. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
4. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim
3. RadioHead - OK Computer
2. Tool - Aenima
1. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Caveat

I'm waiting...

Caveat wrote: »

Radiohead - The Bends
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Love - Foreverchanges
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Killing Joke - Revelations
Muse - Absolution
Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Goo
Beatles - White album
Beatles - Revolver
Rolling Stones - Let it bleed
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
Roxy Music - Country Life
Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks
Talking Heads - Fear of music
David Bowie - Low
Velvet Underground & Nico
The Smiths - The queen is dead
John Martyn - Bless the weather

Kold

einheisserschre wrote: »

1. Rammstein - Herzeleid
2. Korn - Issues
3. Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
4. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
5. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
6. Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
7. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
8. Black Label Society - Mafia
9. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
10. Slayer - Reign in Blood
11. Eisbrecher - Sunde
12. Rammstein - Mutter
13. Stampin' Ground - A New Darkness Upon Us
14. Metallica - Master of Puppets
15. Marilyn Manson - Holywood
16. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
17. Rammstein - Reise Reise
18. Fear Factory - Digimortal
19. Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
20. Slade - Sladest

I suspect you have anger problems. 3.9

stakey wrote: »

I'll play

20. David Bowie - Low
19. Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
18. Kraftwerk - Computer World
17. Daft Punk - Discovery
16. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
15. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
14. The PIxies - Doolittle
13. Nick Cave - Your Funeral… My Trial
12. The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
11. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
10. Nirvana - In Utero
9. Joy Division - Closer
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
7. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
6. RadioHead - KidA
5. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
4. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim
3. RadioHead - OK Computer
2. Tool - Aenima
1. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Well this isn't a bad list at all. Not a great list but not a bad one. 6.2

Caveat wrote: »

Radiohead - The Bends
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Love - Foreverchanges
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Killing Joke - Revelations
Muse - Absolution
Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Goo
Beatles - White album
Beatles - Revolver
Rolling Stones - Let it bleed
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
Roxy Music - Country Life
Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks
Talking Heads - Fear of music
David Bowie - Low
Velvet Underground & Nico
The Smiths - The queen is dead
John Martyn - Bless the weather
I'm waiting...

5.9

Caveat

Only 5.9?

pah...

Points deducted for what may I ask oh audio oracle?

Kold

Caveat wrote: »

Only 5.9?

pah...

Points deducted for what may I ask oh audio oracle?

Too many guitars mostly, but also is there an album apart from Absolution in there younger than 10? Go forth and experience the aural sh*tfest that is the 21st century.

Caveat

Kold wrote: »

Too many guitars mostly,

Should get bloody bonus points for that!

but also is there an album apart from Absolution in there younger than 10?

For good reason my friend.

Go forth and experience the aural sh*tfest that is the 21st century.

Nah, you're grand.

Seriously though, a true classic from the 21st century?

Name 5.

I can think of a few good ones but nothing approaching greatness TBH.

But OT I guess, sorry.

rcaz

Ooh, didn't realise we could ask about our ratings. You gave me 7.8 for this list:

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Radiohead - Kid A
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy EP
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Radiohead - OK Computer
Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Autechre - Confield
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Stravinsky - The Firebird/The Rite of Spring (I have them on one CD )
Górecki - Symphony No. 3
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Television - Marquee Moon
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Radiohead - The Bends

Why'd I lose out on that remaining 2.2?

This is a surprisingly interesting thread

Kold

El Pr0n wrote: »

Ooh, didn't realise we could ask about our ratings. You gave me 7.8 for this list:



Why'd I lose out on that remaining 2.2?

This is a surprisingly interesting thread

Don't think of it as losing out, think of it as doing well ^_^ And no, I may have spare time on Easter weekend but I'm very busy from tomorrow on.

Also @Caveat I could name a bunch of great albums from 2000 onward. True classic suggests nothing but time and regard. And guitars are just... overdone >_< When's someone gonna make a modern Cello, bassoon and synth rap album already?

rcaz

Kold wrote: »

Also @Caveat I could name a bunch of great albums from 2000 onward. True classic suggests nothing but time and regard. And guitars are just... overdone >_< When's someone gonna make a modern Cello, bassoon and synth rap album already?

There are a lot of bands messing around with interesting instrumentation. The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Arcade Fire... I was listening to a lot of CAKE and Youngblood Brass Band yesterday. Just over a massive Autechre kick, every track is full of interesting sounds.

But if you listen to mid-90s Flaming Lips (especially Clouds Taste Metallic), there are things you can do with guitars that, to the best of my knowledge, only Ronald Jones has done. Guys like Nels Cline, Kevin Shields, Ed O'Brien come close, but there's a lot more sound out there to be found...

Kold

El Pr0n wrote: »

There are a lot of bands messing around with interesting instrumentation. The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Arcade Fire... I was listening to a lot of CAKE and Youngblood Brass Band yesterday. Just over a massive Autechre kick, every track is full of interesting sounds.

But if you listen to mid-90s Flaming Lips (especially Clouds Taste Metallic), there are things you can do with guitars that, to the best of my knowledge, only Ronald Jones has done. Guys like Nels Cline, Kevin Shields, Ed O'Brien come close, but there's a lot more sound out there to be found...

Ah I'm well aware. Jonny's a better player than Ed though imo. Detaching the E string and scraping it with a 50p was pretty cool when I first noticed that.

Caveat

Kold wrote: »

Ah I'm well aware. Jonny's a better player than Ed though imo.

Of course, kind of a given really.

But nowhere near as good as Robert Fripp who has been pushing the sonic boundaries of the instrument for over 30 years. Hence my 'older albums' emphasis a lot of the time - it's not that the moder-den stuff isn't good, just that a lot of it has all been done before, only better.

(Just as well I left out King Crimson's Red then or we might have had guitar overload)

Only Kevin Shields and Jonny Greenwood have really come close to doing something 'new' IMO.

rcaz

Kold wrote: »

Detaching the E string and scraping it with a 50p was pretty cool when I first noticed that.

Ronald Jones invented that

Anthony Walsh

My top albums


1. "Self Titled" System of a Down
2. "Elect The Dead" Serj Tankian
3. "Ten Thousand Fist" Disturbed
4. "The Blackening" Machine Head
5. ".... And Justice for All" Metallica
6. "Phobia" Breaking Benjamin
7. "Self Titled" Scars On Broadway
8. "Iowa" Slipknot
9. "Come What ever May" Stone Sour
10. "City Of Evil" Avenged Sevenfold
11. "Rebulit By Humans" Newton Faulkner
12. " Dear Agony" Breaking Benjamin
13. "Steal This Album" System of a down
14. "Toxicity" System of a down
15. "We are not Alone" Breaking Benjamin
16. "Hypnotise/Mezmerise" System of A down
17. " Death Magnetic" Metallica
18. "Dark Horse" Nickleback
19. "Silver Side Up" Nickleback
20. "All hope is Gone" Slipknot


There ya go

Sid_Justice

Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Cat Power – Jukebox
Dirty Three – Cinder
God Is an Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (this list could have included all their work)
Message to Bears – Departures
Mogwai – Come On Die Young
Neil Youngs – Harvest
Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Placebo – Meds
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Rós – ( )
The Album Leaf – Into The Blue Again
The National – Boxer (alligator equally good
Tindersticks - Can our love
Tool - Lateralus

please and thank you

Kold

Caveat wrote: »

Of course, kind of a given really.

But nowhere near as good as Robert Fripp who has been pushing the sonic boundaries of the instrument for over 30 years. Hence my 'older albums' emphasis a lot of the time - it's not that the moder-den stuff isn't good, just that a lot of it has all been done before, only better.

(Just as well I left out King Crimson's Red then or we might have had guitar overload)

Only Kevin Shields and Jonny Greenwood have really come close to doing something 'new' IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-GJdxMMcVc

And that's when you take a step out of the comfort zone.

rcaz

Oooh, how about some Fennesz for innovative guitar playing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKzqKdF9Zc

maupat

1. Thriller - Michael Jackson
2. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
3. Appetite for Destruction - Guns ‘N’ Roses
4. Nevermind - Nirvana
5. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
6. Ten - Pearl Jam
7. 1977 - Ash
8. The Great Escape - Blur
9. White Ladder - David Gray
10. Black Album - Metallica
11. 1 - The Beatles
12. The Joshua Tree - U2
13. Hot Fuss – The Killers
14. Black Fingernails, Red Wine - Eskimo Joe
15. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
16. Ladyhawke- Ladyhawke
17. Heroes or Ghosts - The Coronas
18. Only By The Night - Kings of Leon
19. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
20. Coming Up - Suede

andreab

OK, so I don't think u'll rate mine very high but here goes:

Random Order

Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Daniel Merriweather - Love & War
Michael Buble - Crazy Love
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Scouting for girls - scouting for girls
Foo Fighters - Echoes, silence, patience & grace
Kings of Leon - Only by the night
Muse - Black holes and revelations
Catatonia - Internatioal Velvet
Linkin Park - Meteora
Pink - Funhouse
Paolo Nutini - These streets
Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane
The feeling - 12 steps and home
MGMT - Oracular Spectucular
Green day - American Idiot
The killers - Hot fuss
Death Cab for cutie - Transatiaticism
Christima Aguilers - Stripped

I have a very varied collection but these were the ones I could think of today.

Kold

Anthony Walsh wrote: »

My top albums


1. "Self Titled" System of a Down
2. "Elect The Dead" Serj Tankian
3. "Ten Thousand Fist" Disturbed
4. "The Blackening" Machine Head
5. ".... And Justice for All" Metallica
6. "Phobia" Breaking Benjamin
7. "Self Titled" Scars On Broadway
8. "Iowa" Slipknot
9. "Come What ever May" Stone Sour
10. "City Of Evil" Avenged Sevenfold
11. "Rebulit By Humans" Newton Faulkner
12. " Dear Agony" Breaking Benjamin
13. "Steal This Album" System of a down
14. "Toxicity" System of a down
15. "We are not Alone" Breaking Benjamin
16. "Hypnotise/Mezmerise" System of A down
17. " Death Magnetic" Metallica
18. "Dark Horse" Nickleback
19. "Silver Side Up" Nickleback
20. "All hope is Gone" Slipknot


There ya go

1.4

Sid_Justice wrote: »

Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Cat Power – Jukebox
Dirty Three – Cinder
God Is an Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (this list could have included all their work)
Message to Bears – Departures
Mogwai – Come On Die Young
Neil Youngs – Harvest
Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Placebo – Meds
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Rós – ( )
The Album Leaf – Into The Blue Again
The National – Boxer (alligator equally good
Tindersticks - Can our love
Tool - Lateralus

please and thank you

6.9 You look like you'd appreciate some GYBE

maupat wrote: »

1. Thriller - Michael Jackson
2. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
3. Appetite for Destruction - Guns ‘N’ Roses
4. Nevermind - Nirvana
5. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
6. Ten - Pearl Jam
7. 1977 - Ash
8. The Great Escape - Blur
9. White Ladder - David Gray
10. Black Album - Metallica
11. 1 - The Beatles
12. The Joshua Tree - U2
13. Hot Fuss – The Killers
14. Black Fingernails, Red Wine - Eskimo Joe
15. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
16. Ladyhawke- Ladyhawke
17. Heroes or Ghosts - The Coronas
18. Only By The Night - Kings of Leon
19. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
20. Coming Up - Suede

3.6

andreab wrote: »

OK, so I don't think u'll rate mine very high but here goes:

Random Order

Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Daniel Merriweather - Love & War
Michael Buble - Crazy Love
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Scouting for girls - scouting for girls
Foo Fighters - Echoes, silence, patience & grace
Kings of Leon - Only by the night
Muse - Black holes and revelations
Catatonia - Internatioal Velvet
Linkin Park - Meteora
Pink - Funhouse
Paolo Nutini - These streets
Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane
The feeling - 12 steps and home
MGMT - Oracular Spectucular
Green day - American Idiot
The killers - Hot fuss
Death Cab for cutie - Transatiaticism
Christima Aguilers - Stripped

I have a very varied collection but these were the ones I could think of today.

You're right I'm afraid. 1.1

Blackhorse Slim

Resubmit;

Couldn't possibly get it down to 20, but if I leave out live albums and compilations, and only allow one from any band, I can whittle the very best down to 30


All About Eve - All About Eve
Biosphere - Microgravity
Blue Aeroplanes - Stagger
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Can - Tago Mago
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Doors - LA Woman
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and other Love Songs
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
The Stooges - Raw Power
JJ Cale - Naturally
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road
Joy Division - Closer
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Neil Young - Harvest
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Spiritualized - Laser Guided Melodies
Slint - Spiderland
Smiths - Meat is Murder
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Tool - Lateralus
Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat


I don't think there's a single album there from the last 15 years, but maybe that's how long it takes for an album to become great
There have been some very good recent albums from the likes of Sigur Ros, Fleet Foxes etc but nothing that makes my list. Maybe next time...

offandonagain

I'm very curious:

1.Muse - Absolution
2.Muse - Origin of Symmetry
3.The Phoenix Foundation (Mostly) - Eagle Vs Shark Soundtrack
4.Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
5.Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
6.Rolling Stones - Forty Licks
7.The Killers - Hot Fuss
8.Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
9.The Beatles - Love
10.MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
11.Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
12.Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
13.The Beatles - Revolver
14.Grizzily Bear - Veckatimest
15.Florence and the Machine - Lungs
16.Jon Brian - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Sountrack
17.Cream - Disraeli Gears
18.Michael Jackson - Number Ones
19.Maroon 5 -Songs About Jane
29.The Phoenix Foundation - Happy Ending (well this first half rocks the second half meh)

I'm more of a songs here and there kind of person than albums but..uh anyway..

Fandango

No order:

Radiohead - The Bends
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Damien Dempsey - Shots
Aslan - Made In Dublin
Led Zep - Remasters (ok, kinda a cheat!)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Chollie
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Simon And Gar - Bridge over Troubled Water
The Frames - Fitzcarraldo
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Elbow - Asleep In The Back
Dr Dre - 2001
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Supergrass - In It For The Money
U2 - All That You Cant Leave Behind
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (altho stuck between that and Leisure, but went with the one i listen to more)


I could add another 20 really but im far too lazy!

Sid_Justice

Kold wrote: »

6.9 You look like you'd appreciate some GYBE

Thanks, I know them well (well not cvery well).

Caveat

Can I do an alternative 20 to see how it fares?

It would be genuine too - like many people my 'favourite' albums change regularly.

I've a feeling it wouldn't fare much better though

Blisterman

Mine again
Diamond Nights - Popsicle
Kanye West - Graduation
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Van Halen - Van Halen
Common - Be
Empire of the Sun - Empire of the Sun
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/Love Below
NERD - In Search of
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Nas - Untitled
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
The Who - Tommy
Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
Love - Forever Changes
Nicolay and Kay - Timeline