Ten all time albums
 

Now be cruel to yourself (I have also been)! Only ten!!!!

Here´s mine:
1. Wigwam: Fairyport
2. the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland
3. King Crimson: Red
4. Captain Beefheart and his magic band: Trout Mask Replica
5. Dr John: Gris Gris
6. Tom Waits: the Black Rider
7. the Birthday Party: Prayers On Fire
8. the Ventures: the Ventures On Space
9. Sonic Youth: Sister
10. P.J. Harvey/John Parish: a Woman a Man Walked By

Dude, your top is really interesting. "The Black Rider" is rarely a favorite, weird...

My top 10 would be:

10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
9. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
7. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. The Beatles - Revolver
4. The Microphones - Mount Eerie
3. Circulatory System - Circulatory System
2. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

yeah, very cliché, I know but these are the ones I enjoy the most.

10. TFUL # 282 - MOTHER OF ALL SAINTS
09. GASTR DEL SOL - UPGRADE AND AFTERLIFE
08. SLOWDIVE - PYGMALION
07. HARRY PARTCH - DELUSIONS OF THE FURY
06. SLINT - SPIDERLAND
05. SONIC YOUTH - CONFUSION IS SEX
04. WIRE - PINK FLAG
03. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - ICE CREAM FOR CROW
02. JOHN FAHEY - GOD TIME AND CAUSALITY
01. BOREDOMS - VISION CREATION NEWSUN

yep.



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1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. John Frusciante - Smile From The Streets You Hold
3. maudlin of the Well - Bath
4. Jeromes Dream - Completed
5. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
6. Weezer - Pinkerton
7. King Crimson - Discipline
8. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother of All Saints
9. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
10. John Coltrane - Meditations

Dunno.

Oh pinkerton! Strange choice, but brilliant album.

1. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
2. Sonic Youth - EVOL
3. Slint - Spiderland
4. Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
5. Deerhoof - Reveille
6. DJ Shadow - Entroducing
7. The Spinanes - Manos
8. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
9. Television - Marquee Moon
10. Pavement - Wowee Zowee

Yeah, I guess that's what I'd say.

Hmmm

Public Enemy - It takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Neil Young - Live Rust
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Beatles - The Beatles
Dinosaur Jr. - Yr Living All Over Me
Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven
Codeine - Frigid Stars LP
Bob marley & The Wailers - Survival
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Morphine - Cure For Pain


in no order. it can change depending on the mood

WOW! Frigid Stars! I love that album, never expected to see it in anyone's top 10 but it is indeed a classic.. I think I made a classic album post on it though.

My prediction is Spiderland will be on almost everyone's list...

1. tangerine dream - zeit
2. nico - the marble index
3. neil young - on the beach
4. john coltrane - ascension
5. husker du - zen arcade
6. can - future days
7. minutemen - double nickels on the dime
8. boris - flood
9. slint - spiderland
10. charles mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady

Surprised no one's said Loveless yet.

Loveless sometimes creeps into my top 10.

I just had to pick the albums I played the most

Been listening to it for years now, so it's definitely a personal favourite.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

X - Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go
Rage Against the Machine - self titled
Santana - Milagro
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Doors - self titled
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts and Flowers
The Original Woodstock Album
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Bob Marley - Babylon by Bus

I have no clue on order. It'd be a lot easier if we went by decades. When I think of all the great musicians I've left off. No Stones No Motown No Neil (other than Woodstock) Dylan No real punk No disco no..........

Yeah, that's right, I think you might understand why this is one of my all-time favorites by reading my life-telling review of the album.

The order is not so important, but these were the ones I could come up with on the top of my head (but theres probably 10 more I like equally as much):

1. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
2. Amm - Newfoundland
3. Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village
4. Brian Eno - Before And After Science.
5. John Coltrane - Meditations
6. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
7. Roy Harper - Stormcock
8. Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld
10. Anthology of American Folk Music

Haha. Fun review FoxBen. Glad that album means so much to you man. I think it'd be an alright maxi single.



As I said the other day, I think Loveless kinda gets more and more irrelevant every year.

Frigid Stars is my favorite sad album

1. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
2. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
4. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
5. MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
6. Boredoms - Super Ae
7. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
8. Keiji Haino - Affection
9. Radiohead - Kid A
10. Nas - Illmatic

Not sure on the order, and there a few albums that good just as easily have taken up the last few spots (Pixies, Coltrane, Beatles, Beefheart), but that'll do I guess. I find it easier to do a list of favourite artists than I do albums.

Oh, and, if I could, I'd rep both Supercreep and Atsonicpark for their lists especially. Badassery all round there.

I repped you instead :)

not counting "classic music" :

Suicide - first s/t
SY - bad moon rising
Marlene Kuntz - il Vile
Clouddead - s/t
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar
Three Second Kiss - music out of music (or Shellac a 1000 hurts)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
SY - NYC G&F
Ulan Bator - Vegetale
The Black Heart Procession - three

no offense to anyone, but I cannot believe that NYCG&F is anyone's favorite SY album. It is a near impossibility in my mind.

Considering CIS, Daydream, Sister, Evol, Thousand Leaves, Nurse, Bad Moon Rising, etc

Van Morrison-Veedon Fleece
Velvets-White Light White Heat
the Stones-Exile
Royal Trux-Twin Infinitives
Black Flag-Damaged
Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures
Captain Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica
the Stooges-Fun House
Charles Mingus-Black Saints and the Sinner Lady
Stevie Wonder-Innervisions

Changes all the time though.

Great list. These would all be bubbling somewhere around my ten right now, too.

It's probably my fav album ever. Not just SY-wise.
Anyways, I just realized I went for the albums that most influenced me, there's an infinite amount of amazing stuff in music history.

Hmm, something like this I guess?

1. Sonic Youth - EVOL
2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
4. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
5. Swans - Children of God
6. The Fall - Hex Eduction Hour
7. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
8. Slint - Spiderland
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral... My Trial
10. John Fahey - America

now uhm:

1. Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993)

2. Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998)

3. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (1985)

4. Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl (1994)

5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)

6. Slint - Spiderland (1991)

7. Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)

8. Smog - Wild Love (1995)

9. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)

10. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Rob, you're being crazy today!

1. Velvet Underground & Nico
2. Enter the 36 Chambers
3. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
4. Freak Out
5. Daydream Nation
6. The Stooges s/t
7. Tha Carter III
8. In Utero
9. My War
10. Ready To Die

Bad Moon Rising, Confusin is Sex, Daydream nation, Sister, Evol,

some fucking masterpieces of contemporary skronk rock, and it just strikes me as weird that NYCG&F would be more of a fave to any sonic youth fanatic than those previously mentioned.

This is really difficult...

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
The Beatles: White Album
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Mr. Bungle: Disco Volante
Naked City: Torture Garden
Sielun Veljet: Suomi-Finland (a really great finnish band from the 80's)
Stooges: Fun House
Can: Tago Mago
The Clash: Sandinista!
Fugazi: In On the Kill Taker

don't worry none taken for me it just so different so loose yet somehow so altogether......

Why is it so strange for someone who is making a list of personal favourites to choose a particular record over another one by the same band?

10. Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
9. Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno-IAO chant from the Cosmic Inferno
8. The Beach Boys-Smile
7. White Light/White Heat-The Velvet Underground
6. L.A.M.F.- Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
5. Take It From The Man!-The Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. Dragnet-The Fall
3. Sound Of Confusion-Spacemen 3
2. Confusion Is Sex-Sonic Youth
1. Raw Power-Iggy & the Stooges

NYC Ghosts & Flowers evokes a completely atmosphere than the ones you mentioned though.

I think NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a perfectly acceptable choice. Renegade Princess is a jam!

Oh man. These 4 right here are classics. This was my favorite list so far, though the Prurient choice shocked me!

No way I can do a top ten in order, so I'm just gonna pick ten I really like off the top of my head:

1. Sonic Youth - Goo
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
6. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
7. The Vines - Winning Days
8. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

It's like someone claiming Paul mcCartney is their favorite pop star and choosing his turgid classical music album as their fave of his.
one can choose what one wants, but it is still puzzling to me.