What are your 10 (or fewer) favourite albums?

[Backdrifter]

In any order or no order (and apologies if this has come up many times before, it's the sort of thing that might have). Mine in chronological order are:

BEATLES - Revolver
BEATLES - Abbey Road
DAVID BOWIE - Hunky Dory
GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
MAGAZINE - Secondhand Daylight
PETER GABRIEL - Peter Gabriel (3rd album, with the 'melting face' cover)
XTC - Black Sea
THROWING MUSES - The Real Ramona
SUGAR - Beaster
RADIOHEAD - The Bends

[Kim_CFC]

Mines would probably be (not in order) -

Eminem - The Eminem Show
Tiesto - Just Be
Tiesto - In Search Of Sunrise 4: Latin America
Godskitchen Classics (Compilation)
Ronan Keating - 10 Years Of Hits
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Shania Twain - Come On Over
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons?
Bon Jovi - This Feels Right

[bonbon28]

In no particular order:

Crossroad - Bon jovi
The Long Road - Nickelback
Fallen - Evanescence
The Best of - Anastacia
30 number 1's - Elvis Presley
10 Years of Hits - Ronan Keating
Come On Over - Shania Twain
Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
Bounce - Bon Jovi
America Idiot - Green Day

[OBonio]

In order of them popping into my head :

Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Radiohead - The Bends
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Foo Fighters - The Colour The Shape
Leftfield - Leftism
The Pixies - Doolittle
Motorhead - 1916
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Blur - Leisure

[Backdrifter]

OBonio we could be joined at the hip (although I accept many of mine predate yours, but we're roughly on the same page).

[halfadaily]

In no particular order,

Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn
Crosby, Stills and Nash - "same" 1st album
Slade - Play it loud
Moody Blues - Days of future passed
Bakerloo - "same"
Chicken Shack - OK Ken?
Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Duster Bennett - 12db
Paul McCartney - Run devil run

[ermintrude35]

definatly maybe- oasis
whats the story morning glory - oasis
about a boy - badly drawn boy
lou reed - transformer
standing on a beach - cure
voodoo child- jimmi hendrix
the white room - klf
who killed the zutons = zutons
songbook - super furry animals
demon days - gorillaz

[Backdrifter]

Not such a fan of the Berlin period then Ward?

Sorry to see Hunky Dory didn't make it in there either.

[WoWo]

The Black Album (Metallica) - Metallica
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Listen Without Prejudice - George Micheal
American Pie - Don McLean
Apollo - Brian Eno
August - Eric Clapton
Violator - Depeche Mode
Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan

[richmc]

1) Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
2) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
4) Sam Cooke - The Man And His Music
5) Elvis Presley - 68 Comeback Special
6) Beatles - Abbey Road
7) Cure - Disintegration
8) Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
9) James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
10) Newtown Neurotics - Repercussions

[kingrat]

in no particular order

exile on main st - rolling stones

revolver - the beatles

long player - the faces

argus - wishbone ash

full moon fever - tom petty

are you experienced - jimi hendrix

abraxas - santana

aja - steely dan

joshua tree - u2

the yes album - yes

[robbo82]

In no particular order, and just off the top of my head, so liable to change tomorrow:

The Beatles- Abbey Road
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Manic Street Preachers- Everything Must Go
Jeff Buckley- Grace
The Libertines- Up the Bracket
Radiohead- The Bends
REM- Automatic for the People
The White Stripes- White Blood Cells
The Who- Tommy
Ben Folds- Rocking the Suburbs

[monroe]

Fleetwood Mac--- Rumours
Meatloaf---Bat out of Hell
Beatles---Abbey road
Queen--Made in Heaven
Shania Twain--Greatest hits
Kenny Rogers---All the hits and all the New Love Songs
Barry White--- The Ultimate Collection
Various----A Little Blues in your Soul
Robbie Williams----Swing When You're Winning

[littleoldme]

Only ten? I've somehow managed to whittle it down to 12, but I'm really having trouble deciding which two to cut out. In crona...chronagol...kronnoloj...order of age:

The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
The Icicle Works - If You Want To Defeat Your Enemy, Sing His Song (1986)
Kirsty MacColl - Kite (1989)
The Adventures - Trading Secrets With The Moon (1991)
Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (1993)
Pulp - Different Class (1995)
Eileen Rose - Shine Like It Does (2000)
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising (2003)
The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2005)
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005)
Amsterdam - The Journey (2005)
Mohair - Small Talk (2006)

None (apart from Pulp and Springsteen) particularly big hit albums, but all brilliant (IMHO, of course). If I absolutely have to cut it down to 10, I guess I'd kick out The Adventures and The New Pornographers, but I wouldn't half grumble and sulk. :-)

[james412]

No particular order

Hopes And Fears - Keane
Les Mots - Myl�ne Farmer
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Disco Volante - Cinerama
Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
Disgraceful - Dubstar
Nevermind - Nirvana
Floating Into The Night - Julee Cruise
La Question - Fran�oise Hardy
Doolittle - Pixies

[naz_nomad]

In no particular order ... the nominees are ...

The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
The Clash - London Calling
Green Day - American Idiot
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
G.B.H. - City Baby Attacked By Rats
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
King Kurt - Ooh Wallah Wallah
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Blues At Sunrise


Not my 10 all-time favourites ...can't decide from the thousands I have ... it's just 10 albums I coudn't live without

[Blackfoot]

Blackfoot - Marauder
Dio - Holy Diver
Judas priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Journey - Escape
Rush - 2112
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
Rainbow - Rising
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Motorhead - No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith

[Backdrifter]

Some terrific varied lists here, and as an old progger it's great to see Yes and Rush getting namechecked! Also good to see Dubstar on someone's list - wow. Not So Manic Now was one of my favourite songs of the 90s and I was delighted to unearth it recently on a C90 cassette compilation I exhumed from a cupboard at home.

littleoldme - not a great fan of 70s music from the look of it?

[OBonio]

Agreed, some great lists here. Also very pleased to see Dubstar mentioned. I play that album at least once a year and it still sounds fantastic. Not too sure about Pulp's A Different Class. His 'n' Hers is far superior I feel. But then, that's just my opinion.

Also glad no teeny boppers have interjected with idiot lists ;o)