Of the top of my head - and I reckon we should limit it to one per artist...

Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
EVOL - Sonic Youth
You're Living all Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Roman Candle - Elliott Smith
Pornography - The Cure
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Technique - New Order
Aladin Sane - David Bowie
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (not a huge fan of the band but this album is great)
Polvo - Todays Active Lifestyles (recently got this - love it!)



I have no idea why i started putting my thoughts in to brackets at the end. Sorry for wasting your time. More so if you're reading this.

how can you condensate all the good music in 10 titles?













ok, lemme try (sorting them out randomly):

THE SISTERS OF MERCY - FLOODLAND (1987)
PRONG - RUDE AWAKENING (1996)
SONIC YOUTH - DIRTY (1992)
KILLING JOKE - NIGHT TIME (1985)
MICHAEL JACKSON - DANGEROUS (1991)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - ERA VULGARIS (2007)
SADUS - A VISION OF MISERY (1992)
COCTEAU TWINS - HEAD OVER HEELS (1983)
KING CRIMSON - RED (1974)
AKIRA YAMAOKA - SILENT HILL (1999)

Ministry are left out with a good amount of other bands. Sorry.

i just wrote down like a thousand alblums and then just decided to delete em all and decided to pick one:

Stooges-Fun House

it represents almost all the music i love; punk rock (obviously), noise, free jazz, a little experimental, and of course, ROCK AND ROLL.

just missing hip hop and some of the warp records electronic and brian eno-ish ambient stuff i love.

If there's one thing I've learned in my travels through this crazy little thing called life, it's never trust a man who has a top 10 anything list. Nevertheless, I can't resist coming up with a list of my own.

OK Computer
Sticky Fingers
The Beatles
The Modern Lovers
Metal Box
Trout Mask Replica
Daydream Nation
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (BJM)
Nevermind
Mirrored

My top 10 list of all time:

Sonic Youth - Evol
Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick EP
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Biosphere - Substrata
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Shipping News - Save Everything
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy - Orange (hell, I love this one sooo much)

Mine has changed so much since i last posted in this thread, and i can't do 10 i have to do 20. In no order they are -

1 Sonic Youth - Murray Street
2 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3 Sonic Youth - Sister
4 Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
5 Sonic Youth - Evol
6 Elliott Smith - From a basement of the hill
7 Elliott Smith - Figure 8
8 Elliott Smith - XO
9 Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
10 Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
11 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
12 Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
13 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
14 Sparklehorse - Its a wonderful life
15 Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionpilot
16 Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
17 The Beatles - Abbey Road
18 The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metalic
19 Cat Power - What would the community think?
20 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

ive randomly grabbed 10 cds from around me so here goes in the order i pick em up....

ex models- other mathematics
ween- god ween statn
mrecury rev- boces
jefrey lweis- the last time i took acid i went insane and other stories
stereolab- aluminium tunes
battles- mirrored
negativland- free!
deerhoof- milk man
captain beefheart- safe as milk
axolotl- archons archons
the plot to blow up the eiffel tower- love in a fascist brothel

Wow. Varied taste going on there.:p

With that list I find it weird that you don't like Radiohead but tastes are not supposed to be logical.

1.Daydream Nation
2. Funhouse-the Stooges
3. Kid A-Radiohead
4. Y-the Pop Group
5. Surfer Rosa-the Pixies
6. Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
7. Filth-Swans
8. Meat Puppets 2
9. Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins
10. Bad Moon Rising-Sonic Youth

i have a problem with radiohead.

top 10

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
Celebrate the New Dark Age - Polvo
Fake Train - Unwound
Bubble & Scrape - Sebadoh
Live Rust - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The Beatles - The Beatles
Cure For Pain - Morphine
Frigid Stars LP - Codeine

today's top ten:

-the fall - live at the witch trials
-converge - jane doe
-boredoms - vision creation newsun
-cat power - moon pix
-peter brötzmann - machine gun
-link wray - rumble
-eyehategod - dopesick
-shellac - terraform
-prodigy - music for the jilted generation
-kevin drumm - sheer hellish miasma

daydream nation/sy
easy instructions for complex machinery/apocalypse hoboken
psychic,powerless and another mans sac/butthole surfers
ball hog or tugboat/mike watt
13 songs/fugazi
exodus/bob marley
all pink floyd
the information/beck
introducing the minutemen/minutemen
doomed from the start/doom

You need to get over that, like I did.

DJ Shadow-Endtroducing
Everything, and I mean everything about this album is mind blowing.
Nirvana-In Utero
Take it I lose indie cred for this inclusion?
Queen-Sheet Heart Attack
Download 'Lap of the gods' and 'Brighton Rock' to see why
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
Some see this album as being depressing. I just see it as being fantastic
Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
Camper than Graham Norton next to a Christmas Tree, but really, does it matter when it sounds this good?
Sonic Youth-Washing Machine
Don't need to elaborate on this one
Opeth-Deliverence
The title song just oozes brilliance. Next to Pantera they're one of the few metal bands I can sit down and actually enjoy.
Pantera-Vulgar Display Of Power
Made technical guitar cool again.
Radiohead-Kid A
For The Beatles it was "Which is better, The White Album or Sgt. Peppers". For Radiohead it's either Kid A or OK Computer. No matter which way you look at it, this is better.
Brian Eno-Music For Airports
The music, when played, is just there. It doesn;t need to scream in your face to make you realise how great it is.

Natch

These things change by the hour, but here's ten albums (among many others) that mean a helluva lot to me, for all kinds of reasons:

1. Lou Reed - Transformer
2. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. Laura Nyro - New York Tenderberry
6. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
7. Velvets - Third Album
8. Television - Marquee Moon
9. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
10. Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights

I'm going to make another one even though I'll look back in two days and realise I missed something I really love.

In no order:

Black Sabbath- Masters of Reality
John Coltrane- The Major Works of (Compilation of later works)
Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger
Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand
The Misfits- Static Age
The Replacements- Let It Be
Repulsion- Horrified
Alan Vega- 1st LP
Stooges- Funhouse
Wu-tang Clan- Enter the Wu-tang

i love all these, 36 chambers is the best hip hop alblum ever, undisputed, and ranks with loveless ok computer and every other seminal album you wanna throw at me to argue. ive always drawn a connection between rza and people like brian wilson and brian eno, in that they all have a keen ear for sound melody and beats and are capable of making the most beautiful noises from these sounds, just that he comes from a vastly different background. Rza is the urban Aphex Twin! On a side note, Funhouse is also my undisputed favorite, songs about fuckin is in my top 10, damaged def top 20 at least, i also love boris, sleeo, neu, to some extent i like wolf eyes (i think there are way better "noise rock" bands), love neu, love rocket, i like ur list. i didnt even bother makin this list, id feel like im leaving out somethin and that id have to represent the best alblums of all the types of music i love.

Lennon's Plastic Ono Band doesn't get near enough attention. I've been on a kick recently.

yoko's plastic ono band doesn't get any attention at all and it's fucking amazing.

^ WORD! It's better than John's, in my opinion.

In no particular order: (Though MM and DDN are at the top), (Excluding compilations)
1. Marquee Moon - Television
2. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
3. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
4. Eternally Yours - The Saints
5. First Album & Future Shock EP- The Gordons
6. It's Alive - The Ramones
7. Pornography - The Cure
8. Psychocandy - The Jesus & Mary Chain
9. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
10. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Though any of these could be included:
1. Pot Boiler - The Verlaines
2. Sister - Sonic Youth
3. London Calling - The Clash
4. Group Sex - Circle Jerks
5. Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
6. The Blow Up - Television

in no particular order

1. PIL's Metal Box
2. The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour
3. Wire's Pink Flag
4. Sonic Youth's Confusion is Sex
5. Swans' Cop
6. The Birthday Party's Junkyard
7. Lydia Lunch's Queen of Siam
8. Foetus' Thaw
9. Lisa Suckdog's Drugs Are Nice
10. Neubauten's Kollaps.

Can't think of ten but here's five, in no particular order

1. Lydia Lunch's Queen of Siam
2. Sonic Youth's Confusion is Sex
3. Swans' Cop
4. Foetus' Thaw
5. Throbbing Gristle's DOA

I can't resist

stooges funhouse
kills no wow
miles davis big fun/porgy and bess
scott walker the songs of jacque brel
misfits static age
brian eno music for airports
gerling headzcleaner
reed/cale songs for drella
nina simone baltimore
converge jane doe
d'angelo voodoo

and the overflow:
sonic youth goo/ejstns/hold that tiger
broken social scene you forgot it in people
mbv loveless
make up i want some
rufus wainwright poses
odb return to the 36 chambers
neil young on the beach
james brown in the jungle groove
chris clark empty the bones of you
lcd soundsystem sound of silver
gonzales the entertainist
ghostface the pretty toney album
jackie o motherfucker flags of the sacred harp
wilco yankee hotel foxtrot
beach boys sunflower

oh this is silly.

one piece- the frumpies
daydream nation- sonic youth
damaged- black flag
ok computer- radiohead
minor threat- minor threat
bad brains- bad brains
the piper at the gates of dawn- pink floyd
white light, white heat- the velvet underground
the madcap laughs- syd barrett
the germs- the germs
start today- gorilla biscuits
(i know it's 11 not 10)

here's some other cds (records) that mean a lot to me
everything bikini kill
bratmobile- potty mouth (basically everything by them too)
cold cold hearts -s/t
everything heavens to betsy and sleater kinney
crass- penis envy
rites of spring- end on end
the wipers- is this real?
television- marquee moon
suicide- suicide
sonic youth- evol
fugazi- red medicine
black flag- my war
the slits- cut
big black- songs about fucking

here's some in no particular order

1. Sonic Youth's Confusion is Sex
2. Swans' Cop
3. Lydia Lunch's Queen of Siam
4. Ut's In Gut's House
5. Mars' 78

As of current:

Oren Ambarchi - The Pendulum's Embrace
Taylor Deupree - N
Terre Thaemlitz - Soil
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the sky
Shuttle 358 - Optimal
Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy - Orange
Soccer Team - Volunteered Civility and Professionalism
Human Bell - Human Bell
Belong - Colorloss Record
Mogwai - My father my king

let's do this: (no order)

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
5. Ween - Quebec
6. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
7. Sublime - 40 oz. to Freedom
8. Meat Puppets - II
9. Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
10. Weezer - Blue Album

Albums that could make the cut on any given day:

Deerhoof - Apple O and Milkman
The Beatles - White Album and Sgt. Pepper's
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation and Murray St.

the usual suspects (let's do it again?)

sonic youth - dirty
killing joke - night time
the sisters of mercy - floodland
michael jackson - dangerous
prong - rude awakening
queens of the stone age - lullabies to paralyze
the raveonettes - whip it on
sadus - a vision of misery
king crimson - red
coroner - grin

stooges-funhouse
beefheart-trout mask replica
velvet and nico
the fall-this nations saving grace
miles davis-bitches brew
wire-pink flag
ornette coleman-the shape of jazz to come
this heat-deceit
black flag-damaged
curtis mayfield-supafly soundtrack

I've probably filled this out before but fuck it.
1. boredoms - vision creation newsun
2. mr. bungle - disco volante
3. captain beefheart - ice cream for crow
4. wire - pink flag
5. thinking fellers union local # 282 - mother of all saints
6. slowdive - pygmalion
7. gastr del sol - upgrade and afterlife
8. big black - songs about fucking
9. drive like jehu - yank crime
10. polvo - today's active lifestyles

I'll go with a classical 10 seeing as there's a lot of rock doing the rounds here - In no particular order:

Beethoven's 3rd (Karajan)
Bach's Goldberg variations (Gould)
Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht (sextet not chamber version, I don't have the CD to hand to remember the name of them)
Saint-Saen's Piano Trios 1 & 2 (Florestan Trio)
Mahler's 3rd (Naxos Polish National radio symphony Orchestra)
Shostakovich's 13th (Netherlands Radio Philaharmonic Orchestra) - this turned my opinion around entirely on Shosters.
Bach's Sonatas and Partitas... Heifetz, although Kremer, Oistrackh, Segovia and Michael North all do great versions (I have too many copies of this music).
Part's Miserere (Hilliard Ensemble)
Hildegaard von Bingen - Origin of Fire (anonymous 4 - Marras, you got round to listening to this yet?)
Xenakis' Metastasis/ Pithoprakta/ Eonta (Chant du Monde recording)

This neglects the majesty of Feldman - of the 10 or so CDs of his, it's impossible to choose; same with Cage. There's actually a million things I'm missing off (Mozart, Strauss, Tchiakovsky, Schnittke, Radelescu, Penderecki, loads of early & baroque stuff etc etc) but it'll do for the now-being.

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Evol - Sonic Youth
Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
Hairway to Steven - Butthole Surfers
The Beatles - The Beatles
It Takes A Nation of Millions - Public Enemy
Bubble & Scrape - Sebadoh
Celebrate The New Dark Age EP- Polvo
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

records that just missed the cut

the wipers box set (their first three alblums)
loveless
white light white heat
beefheart-zig zag wanderer
dead c-harsh 70s reality
sonic youth-evol
double nickels on the dime
songs about fucking
bad brains-i against i
john coltrane-a love supreme
no new york compilation
enter the 36 chambers
pil-metal box
joy division-unknown pleasures
slint-spiderland
parliament-maggot brain
raw power
mdc-millions of dead cops
neu 2
can-ege bamyasi
omoide hatoba-mantako
boredoms-vision creation newsun

fuck theres too many

slayer-reign in blood
spacemen 3-perfect prescritption
hendrix-band of gypsies
gastr del sol-upgrade and afterlife
suicide-s/t (that is actually prolly in my top 10 i just couldnt remember it)
sun ra-the futuristic sounds
aphex twin-the richard d james alblum
autechre-confield
nwa-straight outta compton
public enemy-it takes a nation of millions
ghostface killah-supreme clientele
radiohead-kid a
swans-filth
van morrison-astral weeks
the birthdy party-junkyard
germs-s/t
shellac-at action park
robert johnson-king of the delta blues singers
residents-commerical alblum
sly stone-theres a riot goin on
dowie-low
rites of spring-end on end
drive like jehu-yank crime
polvo-todays active lifestyles

ill stop there

lately:

panda bear - person pitch
patti smith - easter
" - radio ethiopia
hawkwind - space ritual
brian jonestown massacre - bravery repetition and noise
bowery electric - s/t
bowie - ziggy stardust
" - aladdin sane

at the moment

fushitsusha : pathetique
windy & carl : introspection
psychedelic horseshit : magic flowers droned
yabby you : dub it to the top
high on fire : death is this communion
kraftwerk - the man machine
supercharger - singles party
vulcan - meet your ghost (not really a CD, but whatever)
mammal - lonesome drifter
the cherry blossoms - brown bagging it