hell yeah. I have a copy of this but have yet to find a decent vinyl version

adding to the list!

I´m a big fan of Wigwam. I really think Fairyport is best album of the world. I prefer the "first Wigwam" (there were Gustavson-Pohjola-Pembroke-Österberg) but I like a lot also the second company. And their comeback album "Light Ages" is also quite good, after that they haven´t made anything that is about to mention.

It´s wonderful, that so many could mention only ten albums and leave many "love-ones" out. Because somebody have made new lists, I also mention the albums, that I have to leave out with big pain:

Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother
the Who: the Who Sell Out
The Velvet Underground and the Nico
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Jethro Tull: Thick As a Brick
the Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
The Beatles: Revolver
The Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
Bauhaus: Mask
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange
Sielun Veljet: Suomi-Finland (somebody already mentioned this, it´s really great album)
Jimi Tenor and His Shamans: Diktafon (another great Finnish album)
Gun Club: Fire of Love
the Cramps: Psychedelic Jungle
Amon Duul II: Tanz Der Lemminge
Hawkwind: Warrior on the Edge Of time
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy
the Doors: Strange Days
Björk: Medulla
Kate Bush: the Kick Inside
Country Joe and the Fish: Electric Music for the Mind and the Body
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Osibisa: Heads

There are still many more, but maybe I have to finish this.

Can't check it right now, but I think I have the one with Reiner and the Chicago symphonic orchestra. Fricsay's rendition is supposed to be really good, but I haven't heard it.

But yeah, a classical top 10 is basically sth infeasible.

It was really hard to choose best Tom Waits album, cause I love all he has made after Heartattack and vine (though the seventies album are also very great, but I think something good happen in swordfishtrombones and luckily it´s going still). I think the Black rider is strongest entity in his production. I like the Burroughs story. Albums´s music is also so versatile, there are some elements that are not in any other Waits album. To me it is very hard to understand, why Black Rider couldn´t be a favourite.

Thanks for the heads up.

I had another little think about my classical top 10. Again, something like Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin - I could almost do a top 10 featuring only that. It'd definitely feature well up on my favourite CDs ever, but it'd be a bloody nightmare picking between renditions (or, essentially, between Heifetz and Kremer), especially as there's usually another four released each year.

Ten 'symphonies' (cheating).

Beethoven 3
Schnittke 6
Mahler 3
Strauss Ein Heldenleben [I'm allowing myself tone poems]
Shostakovich 13
Saint-Saens 3
Tchiakovsky 6
Sibelius 6
Mozart 38
Ligeti Atmosphéres [See 4]

3 and 6 are good numbers.

live at birdlands (as in my list) is just the perfect trane cd (set) I think

Five Great 'Best Of's by bands that never recorded truly great albums:

Blondie - Best of Blondie
Abba - Gold
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Carpenters - Gold
Phil Spector - Back to Mono

Five great label or genre compilations not known for producing great stand alone albums by individual artists:

Tamla Motown Gold: The Sound of Young America (although there obviously have been some great Motown albums by individual artists)
Street Sounds Electro, volumes 1 - 22
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
Pebbles: Original Artyfacts from the First Punk Era, volumes 1 - 28
Greensleeves Sampler, volumes 1 - 23

No...just, no.

Okay, here goes--the extremely truncated version:

John Coltrane, Giant Steps (1960)
Connie Smith, Connie Smith (1964)
The Doors, The Doors (1967)
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Pink Floyd, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (1967)
The Dubliners, Drinkin' and Courtin' (1968)
MC5, Back In The USA (1970)
Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath (1970)
Rachel Sweet, Fool Around (North American version, 1979)
Sonic Youth, A Thousand Leaves (1998)

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?--Johhny Rotten, 1977

What, no Hasil Adkins?

No, no Adkins, I'm afraid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZGZv5IbYI Does this song not want you to just throw it on there without even hearing the full thing because it's THAT good?

jane's addiction - nothing's shocking
SY - thousand leaves
galaxie 500 - today
pavement - CR/CR
MBV - isn't anything
animal collective - feels
wilco - a ghost is born
floyd - dark side of the moon
broken social scene - you forgot it in people
flaming lips - priest driven ambulance

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett
Daydream Nation - SY
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
69 - AR Kane
The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
Today's Active Lifestyles - Polvo
Low - David Bowie
Metal Box - PiL
Flying Doesn't Help - Anthony Moore
Witch Cults Of The Radio Age - Broadcast & Focus Group

1 pink floyd - dark side of the moon
2 sonic youth - sonic nurse
3 dire straits - on every street
4 the beatles - sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band
5 michael jackson - thriller
6 les thugs - strike
7 claude francois - magnolia for ever
8 sonic youth - dirty
9 les thugs - nineteen something
10 nirvana - bleach
11 the beatles - magical mystery tour
12 pennywise - reason to believe
13 sonic youth - a thousand leaves
14 cast - beetroot

This is forever changing, and so I can't even put it in an order:

Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante
Erkin Koray - Elektronik Turkuler
Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
Piero Umiliani - 5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto
v/a - Cambodian Rocks
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time
Caroliner - Cooking Stove Beast

Have probably done this before but eh.. here's my top 20.

1. boredoms - vision creation newsun
2. john fahey - god time and causality
3. captain beefheart - ice cream for crow
4. wire - pink flag
5. joy division - unknown pleasures
6. slint - spiderland
7. slowdive - pygmalion
8. cerberus shoal - chaiming the knobblessone
9. glenn branca - the ascension
10. autechre - draft 7.30
11. sonic youth - confusion is sex
12. sun city girls - torch of the mystics
13. mr. bungle - disco volante
14. thinking plague - early plague years
15. photek - modus operandi
16. the fall - grotesque after the gramme
17. pil - metal box
18. hot snakes - suicide invoice
19. stars of the lid - ballasted orchestra
20. harry partch - collection volume 2