I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Just off the top of my head --
"Before These Crowded Streets" - Dave Matthews Band (Not a single track on the disc that I skip -- "Crush", "Don't Drink the Water", and "Stay" are all among my favorite songs ever recorded)
"The Magical Mystery Tour" - The Beatles ("Penny Lane", "I am the Walrus" and "All You Need is Love" on the same disc)
"Echo, Echo" - Carbon Leaf (Their later album "Indian Summer" had a more polished sound, but this was where they really fused celtic and folk rock together)
"Who's Next" - The Who ("Baba O'Reily" and "Behind Blue Eyes" would put this in the top ten even if the rest of the disc was static)
"In Between Now & Then" - O.A.R. (Their most complete disc, starts off strong and has some great jam tracks)
"Drunken Lullabies" - Flogging Molly ("Another Bag of Bricks" is their best track so far, and the rest of the disc has amazing energy)
"Liquid Swords" - The GZA (No rap or hip-hop CD I've ever listened to even comes close to the quality of this. The wordplay and rhyming is fantastic and the beats are amazing)
"Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis (Pure genius.)
"Achtung Baby" - U2 (Everything since this disc has been way too poppy and overproduced for U2. They still had a lot of their charm with this album)
"Stankonia" - Outkast ("Bombs Over Baghdad" -- who'd have thought it'd still be relevant in 2007)
HONORABLE MENTION:
"Continuum" - John Mayer (absolutely one of the best albums I've ever heard, but so new that I can't justify it in the top-10)
"The Lillywhite Sessions" - Dave Matthews Band (unreleased album that would've featured all the best tracks off "Busted Stuff" plus the incredible JTR)
"Definately Maybe" - Oasis ("Live Forever" and "Supersonic" are amazing, but I'm not sure that "Don't Believe the Truth" or "The Masterplan" aren't better albums)
"Doggystyle" - Snoop Dogg (still one of the best "banger" rap albums ever produced)
"Stop Making Sense" - Talking Heads (sounds current, even 2 decades later)
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Silver Jews--The Natural Bridge
Husker Du--Zen Arcade
Joy Division--Unknown Pleasures
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--This Year's Model
Frank Zappa--Hot Rats
David Bowie--Station to Station
Black Flag--Damaged
Blue Oyster Cult--Blue Oyster Cult
PIL--Second Edition
The Who--Sell Out
Try as I might, I can't wear out these albums.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
in the day of greatest hits albums and itunes, it's really hard to think of complete albums, but here goes:
back in black - ac/dc
hi infidelity - reo speedwagon
heaven and hell - black sabbath
purple rain - prince
blizzard of ozz - ozzy osbourne
infinity - journey
sogno - andrea bocelli
slippery when wet - bon jovi
1984 - van halen
I could list a lot of albums but these are some of my favorites:
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Honorable Mention
Pearl Jam - Yield, No Code
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
R.E.M. - Murmur, Automatic for the People
AC/DC - Back in Black
Green Day - American Idiot
I thought ten albums would be easier than ten songs, but I CAN'T DO IT. I actually did 50 albums once and that was hard enough.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
Which is why it's impossible to list your top ten. But I'll give it a try, and not in any particular order
Revolver - Beatles
Rubber Soul - Beatles
Who's Next - Who
Led Zeppelin I
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Rocks - Aerosmith
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Last edited by GAC; 02-23-2007 at 08:31 PM.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Always afraid that threads like these show how "un-hip" I am, but here goes.
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Ok, that's out of the way now the rest of the list.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
The Eagles - Hotel California
Billy Joel - The Stranger
The Cars - The Cars
Queen - Live Killers
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