Your All-time Top Ten Albums

Personally, not as difficult or ever-changing as Songs/Singles but challenging enough.

Let's hear 'em and a few reasons why...

 

Favourite albums yeah?

In no particular order:

QOTSA - Songs for the deaf and Rated R.
Pantera - Cowboys from hell
Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction
Nirvana - Nervermind
Green Day - Dookie
Travis - The Man Who
Gamma Ray - No world order
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Led Zep - Mothership
Aja - Steely Dan
Heavenly - Sign of the winner

Couple more than 10 there but these are basically off the top of my head. Albums that remind me of certain times in my life and albums that I just love every song from the album.

 

Bizarre.
Green Day in the same list as Steely Dan...

Led Zeppelin: sorry - NO compilations allowed.

 

As I said, some albums remind me of my youth. With regards to Steely Dan, Aja is am album I liked more and more the more I listened to it.

I'll put in The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced.

 

Same here - no preference, and mainly because of ´significance´ at various times of my life - in chronological order:

 

This just isn't possible

 

Nirvana - Can't pick between In Utero and Nevermind, I like the abrasiveness of In Utero with Albini's production and I think the best songs on In Utero are better than the best songs on the more polished Nevermind, but Nevermind is more consistent.

The Beatles - Revolver

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Steely Dan - Aja (honourable mention to Gaucho)

Slint - Spiderland

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (suck it Magus)

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

David Bowie - Low

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

There's just too many, these were off the top of my head and it would change if I had a proper think

 

I know....I thought about it before I posted the thread....

 

How the fuck did i forget Made in Japan!!!

 

Technically, Live albums can be also seen as Compilations, but because so many are rated so highly on an individualistic basis, they´re allowed...

 

Howso?

 

You didn't like Gaucho? Does seem to be a bit of a marmite record amongst Steely Dan fans I've found, I've always really liked it though.

 

I saw you put Dark Side of the Moon. It's one of my favourite records from a production standpoint, no question. Obviously great as a record in general anyway, dunno though I go through periods where I absolutely love it, and others where I just can't bear to listen to it.

 

Gaúcho is probably least favourite for me...at the time of 1979-80, that is.

Well, it's the least played anyway...

 

It was the first Pink Floyd album I heard /owned...and within 2 months I'd bought their entire catalogue.

I have moments when I think Wish You Were Here or Animals is superior, but always go back to Dark Side Of The Moon.
It's their quintessential album.

It's also probably the last time they were ever a fully cohesive unit with everyone contributing before Waters took over. ..

 

It's not within 100 miles of the first six

 

Obviously I was born after Steely Dan's heyday. Aja was the first album of theirs I listened to and I wasn't really feeling it at the time. Gaucho was the album which got me hooked, then I listened to Aja afterwards and realised what an absolute masterpiece it was. Probably why I hold Gaucho in such high regard, it was my entry in to the Steely Dan catalogue.

 

Pretzel Logic is the finest Steely Dan album

 

Yeah I was trying to be polite about it for once.

 

I mean, for starters, its not usual Steely Dan, is it?
It doesn´t ´sound´ like Steely Dan.

And all that bullshit, look-how-cool-or-clever we are having to use 40 musicians, spend 10 months recording it and god knows how much money wasted.

Secondly, its got Mark Knobfler on it.

Third, I don´t remember a single thing about Side 2.
And if someone like me doesn´t like or remember it, then it´s got to be shit, right?

The only funny thing about it, is the legendary amoutn of takes they made all those super musicians do.
I mean, it takes a special group of cunts that can´t mix a 1-minute fade-out in 50-odd takes, yeah?

 

I don't like steely dan

 

Very telling

 

Well no, it's not normal Steely Dan, it's much less intricate and the song structures are far more basic by their usual standards, which is probably why I found it more accessible at the time. That's the main reason I like it so much, it was my way in. I will always hold it in high regard for that reason though.

 

Yeah, they're not for everyone, that's certain. ...but they're ok on the ear, non-confrontational, easy-listening 70s rock.
Catchy but sometimes too clever for their own good.

10cc from the UK, who got 'tagged' with Steely Dan in the 70s were less-talented but more 'fun', imo

 

Hey.
I´m just re-listening to´Gaucho´ by Steely Dan.

 

you're such a cunt...

...but a funny one, and you're still wrong motherfucker!

 

Okay, I know 'Gaucho' is in there for its relevance to you which is what I suggested in the opening post: reasons why so it's cool.....but Aphex Twink???

What's that about? First Ecstasy trip?
I can't imagine it being anything else....

 

You must be trolling, it's nearly universally heralded as one of the greatest electronic albums of all time. He's made plenty of great music since that, very different too as he got more involved with the Squarepusher-esque breakbeats and started circuit-bending modules and synths, but SAW 85-92 is still my favourite album from him.

 

He's not exactly in the same league as Jean Michel-Jarre or Stomu Yamaskta though...

 

I'm a big fan of Jarre , personally. Oxygene is perhaps an album which should have made my list. And yeah, Aphex is absolutely in the same conversation, without question, the guy is incredible.