Your Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time

[leith]

Leith, I gotta get an explanation from you. Rush has so many great albums but exit..stage left is probably the worst. The song selection is great, but it is so over produced it hurts to listen to. There is almost no audience or banter audible at all unless you crank it and some of lexerts\' "live" solos were overdubbed in the studio. Live albums should not be polished and should not be a collection of songs from separate nights, they should be raw and ugly facts about what happened that night along the line of moe\'s "warts and all" series. My rush live albums in kick-ass order would be:

1. All the worlds a stage
2. Different stages disc3 (Hammerstien london 1978)
3. Rush in Rio
4. A show of hands
5. Rush replay (bonus Grace under pressure tour cd)
6. Different stages
7. R30
8. Exit... stage left

Rush in Rio was painful to put above a show of hands, but a show of hands has allot of over production as well, and the audience is just so damn good with Rush in Rio. Different stages can be broken up imo because it contains two different shows. R30 ranks so low because I have not fully absorbed it yet and it was so close to rush in rio which again had a MUCH better audience.

< /rant >

On a side, I\'ve decided I NEED to get some wilco. Everyone I know seems to like them and I\'m still yet to get any of their music.

Well Exit...is the album that turned me onto Rush. I wore the hell out of that cassette 10 times over growing up. Yeah there are totally BETTER Rush albums but none hit me w/ the memories of Exit...

[Wolfman]

10.  Jimmy Smith - Unfinished Business
9.  Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
8.  Fela Kuti - The Best Best of Fela Kuti
7.  Dave Brubeck - We\'re All Together Again For The First Time
6.  Phish - Junta
5.  MMW - Friday Afternoon In The Universe
4.  The Dharma Connection - The Dharma Connection
3.  The Breakfast - Live At The Baker Quad (5/5/01)
2.  Miles Davis - \'58 Sessions
1.  Bela Fleck And The Flecktones - Live Art

[JSleeper240]

quick list, no thinking involved...

Nirvana- In Utero
Hendrix- Band of Gypsys
Iron Maiden- Live After Death
Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
Frank Zappa/Mothers- We\'re Only in it For the Money
Ween- Pure Guava
Primus- Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Radiohead- OK Computer
Beatles- Abbey Road
Fuzebox- nascence.

[ChrisPitch]

I\'d just like to say as creator of this thread that I\'m very happy to see it having so much activity with many of .info\'s veterans now contributing (but not quite all of them yet). It\'s very interesting to read the lists and just about everyone\'s  has one or two albums that were either on mine or just missed.

Fine work everyone. Fine work indeed. Let\'s keep it going. And if you are reading this and haven\'t done your list, then take your hand out of that bag of Fritos and DO IT, DAMMIT!!!

[Stephengencs]

Fine work everyone. Fine work indeed. Let\'s keep it going. And if you are reading this and haven\'t done your list, then take your hand out of that bag of Fritos and DO IT, DAMMIT!!!

Quit your whining and go spank it in a Clucky\'s bathroom

[oldnewbie]

in no particular order and off the cuff

1. four way street-                csny
2. skull and roses-                  grateful dead
3. live at the fillmore east-      allman brothers band
4. blows against the empire-   jefferson starship
5. the last waltz-                  the band
6. beggars banquet-              rolling stones
7. american beauty-              grateful dead
8. no doy-                           moe.
9. open up the sky-              from good homes
10. till the medicine takes-     widespread panic

[FrankZappa]

Leith - best reason you could have given! That\'s what 2112, led zep 1, 2, floyds the wall and all the worlds a stage were for me to name a few. Completely worn out tapes many times over. If you don\'t have it and like alot of croud singalong on your live albums, I can\'t say enough about rush in rio.

Pitch - sleep dirt is a quality album, I\'m suprise you kow it as it is REALLY obscure as far as zappa discs go. I love the bass solo and acoustic guitar riff in "the ocean is the ultimate solution". That\'s a really, really good disc that no one knows. :thumbsup:

[ChrisPitch]

Using my own fiction against me is a devious move, Steve. I like it.

Paul, we both know that Sleep Dirt is a great album, although a bit frightening at times. Many Zappa fans have probably overlooked it simply because it doesn\'t have songs about yellow snow and dental floss. Big mistake. Listen to it and then after you\'re done scratching your head, listen to it again.

[SkyePrizm]

1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 2
2. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
3. Beastie Boys - Paul\'s Boutique
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
6. Beatles - The White Album
7. Phish - Junta
8. Foo Fighters - The Colour and Shape
9. Jack Johnson - On and On
10. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

[ellis-d]

In no particular order:

1:Phish-Billy Breathes
2:Phish-Rift
3:Radiohead-OK Computer
4:Radiohead-Kid A
5:Elliott Smith-From a Basement on a Hill
6:Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7:Frank Zappa-You Can\'t Do That On Stage Vol.2
8:Guns N Roses-Use Your Illusions(Both together = one great album)
9:Velvet Underground-Loaded
10:Pink Floyd-Meddle

[FreeSpirit]

nice

[Gordo]

i had to scan back through to see if anyone had

Jeff Buckley - Grace

on their list, and it seems ill be the first to make mention. im sure most everyone has heard this album which makes me :hscratch: at first i felt foolish for letting this cd somehow slip by me all these years, but now im just excited that i have something this fucking good be this new to me at 23 years old. i cant get enough of this album right now, wowzas. anyone?

[booztravlr]

1. Pink Floyd - Animals
2. Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out
3. Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
4. Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
5. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
6. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
7. Jimi Hendrix - Blues
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
9. String Cheese Incident - A String Cheese Incident
10. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

[Lerherbles]

Sorry, I just found this thread.  Here goes, in no particular order.

1. Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elseware
2. Parliament - Funkentelecy vs. The Placibo Syndrome
3. Primus - Frizzle Fry
4. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - BSSM
5. The Meters - The Meters
6. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
7. Billy Cobham - Stratus
8. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
9. James Brown - Foundations of Funk
10. Grant Green - Matador

[boombox]

i had to scan back through to see if anyone had

Jeff Buckley - Grace

on their list, and it seems ill be the first to make mention. im sure most everyone has heard this album which makes me :hscratch: at first i felt foolish for letting this cd somehow slip by me all these years, but now im just excited that i have something this fucking good be this new to me at 23 years old. i cant get enough of this album right now, wowzas. anyone?

Sorry, but I don\'t rate it that highly. Competent, yes, but there is something about his voice - bores me in the same way as Radiohead grate on my ears. I have always failed to see why Jeff Buckley is accorded such status, especially when he is compared with singer-songwriting genii like Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell etc - IMHO, he just doesn\'t make the cut. Now his father, on the other hand, really does deserve all the plaudits he\'s received - the first four albums, in particular trully do deserve the epithet, \'classic\'.

I had forgotten this thread and still not contributed my Top Ten, which are sure to be pretty left-field for this board.

Some of these choices might change on a different day. All I did was write down the first ten albums or so that came into my head which I would listen to at any time. Yes, lots of others that might have made it and looking at it now, I can\'t believe I missed them off, but in the spirit of \'no honourable mentions\', here goes:

1. Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (Greatest keyboard player of all time (sorry, Jordan) delivers a magnum opus live - my favourite album now for about 25 years!!)
2. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane (\'Somebody To Love\', \'White Rabbit\', \'Plastic Fantastic Lover\' and my favourite song of all time, \'Comin\' Back To Me\' - what more can I say?)
3. Da Capo - Love (Most perfect Side 1 of an album ever - \'Orange Skies\', \'7 & 7 Is\', \'Stephanie Knows Who\' etc, and even the Side 2 \'Revelation\' jam still gets me lost in the music after 20-odd years)
4. SF Sorrow - The Pretty Things (Rock\'s first true concept album - \'SF Sorrow Is Born\' and the riff that Townsend nicked for \'Pinball Wizard\'!)
5. The Doors - The Doors (well, dah...)
6. Crown Of Creation - Jefferson Airplane (Couldn\'t keep this album out of the list, though I tried hard to keep it to one album from every band - Jorma\'s songs and guitarwork really make it special.)
7. The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit (Randy California may have started as Hendrix\'s second guitarist, but he had a style all of his own and \'Nature\'s Way\' is also one of the first and best environmentally aware songs.)
8. The Life and Times of Country Joe & The Fish - Country Joe & The Fish (Only compilation on the list, just so I could get \'Janis\' AND \'Grace\' on one album - oh yes, and there\'s THAT song from Woodstock!!)
9. American Beauty - The Grateful Dead (The album that raised the bar. \'Box Of Rain\' remains my all-time fave GD song.)
10. Fairfield Parlour - From Home To Home (Probably the most obscure on my list. FP previously recorded as Kaleidoscope - top notch British psychedelic folk.)