Top 10 albums of..
 

..Anything really. You can either post your top 10 albums of 1965 or 2010, or 1977, or 2007. Any year you want you can have your top 10 favourite albums from. Or you could have your top 10 albums for a decade (so the 00s or the 90s) Or you can have your top 10 favourite albums ever.

So..

You can have

Top 10 albums from any year
Top 10 albums from any decade
Or top 10 albums ever.

GO!

top 10 albums from the 60s, no order:

Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds Of...
The Monks - Black Monk Time
Velvet Underground - VU+Nico
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Tim Buckley - Goodbye And Hello
John Fahey - Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
The Stooges - s/t

That was very hard, I left out loads... oh well, I think these were all 60s records?

The idea is to put them in order, your favourite going to your least favourite. Even if it isn't totally accurate.

Top 10 albums of 2009:

1) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilon
2) Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
3) The xx - X
4) The Decemberists - Hazard Of Love
5) The Antlers - Hospice
6) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
7) The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
8) Dinosaur JR - Farm
9) The Horrors - Primary Colours
10) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Isn't this essentially an extension of the top 5 one?

No. Because the top 5 one is top 5 of anything musically. Raging from albums to bands to rock star's moustaches to instruments.. This is a thread where members can make lists of their favourite albums from different years/decades/all time.


Come on, everyone here loves lists! :(

right fine, in order (which makes this even more difficult)...

top 10 of 1984

1. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
2. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
3. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
4. High Rise - Psychedelic Speed Freaks
5. Black Flag - My War
6. Nick Cave - From Her To Eternity
7. The Smiths - The Smiths
8. Meat Puppets - II
9. Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid
10. Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac

Sljslj's Top 10 Albums Of 2009

1. Devin Townsend Project - Ki
2. Behemoth - Evangelion
3. Lamb Of God - Wrath
4. Megadeth - Endgame
5. Slayer - World Painted Blood
6. Powerman 5000 - Somewhere On The Other Side Of Nowhere
7. Hatebreed - S/T
8. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
9. Baroness - Blue Record
10. Dethklok - Dethalbum II

True true true. Plus some things need 5 and some need 10. I'm game.

Top 10 Albums of the '90s (from best to least best):

American Football - S/T
Portishead - Dummy
Slint - Spiderland
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
7% Solution - All About Satellites and Spaceships
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Bark Psychosis - Hex

Limited to one album per artist.

Best albums of the 1990s:

1) Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane
2) Nirvana - Nevermind
3) Radiohead - Ok Computer
4) MBV - Loveless
5) Beck - Odelay
6) Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
7) Elliott Smith - Either/OR
8) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamease Dream
9) Wilco - A.M
10) Jeff Buckley - Grace

That was ridiculously hard and probably inaccurate :(

Top 10 Overall

1. Superunknown - Soundgarden
2. American Idiot - Green Day
3. Ten - Pearl Jam
4. Make Yourself - Incubus
5. OK Computer - Radiohead
6. Vs. - Pearl Jam
7. Deja Entendu - Brand New
8. The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
9. Dirt - Alice in Chains
10. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara

I guess this is kinda accurate. Sorta.

Hey we should have a rule...artist name first, followed by album name! :thumb:

Yes, we should. But everyone will end up breaking it anyway.

In my next list I'm going to alternate between the two formats just to see your heads simultaneously explode.

Albums are in italics, like they should be. That's how you can tell.

The long version of "Superunknown - Soundgarden" is "Superunknown, by Soundgarden". Makes sense to me.

I can tell, I just have a harder time reading lists in that format. Can't skim them as easily.

Top ten of the 90's

Pearl Jam - Ten

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Sleep - Holy Mountain

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Alice In Chains - Facelift

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Cracker - Kerosene Hat

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Nirvana - Nevermind

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Top 10 albums of 2001:

1. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
2. Tool - Lateralus
3. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
4. Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense
5. Fugazi - The Argument
6. Pinback - Blue Screen Life
7. Fantômas - The Director's Cut
8. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
9. Radiohead - Amnesiac
10. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

That was incredibly difficult! :yikes: I have literally 140 albums from this year, which is why I chose to do it as I knew it was one of the best years in music for me (not all were heard at the time, of course).

:love::love:

This.

My thread is for Anything.
ANYTHING
So you basically started this thread to add 5 extra albums which is pointless.
If you were really desperate you could have just posted it in my thread nobody's going to bitch just for a longer list.
****in dumb thread.

It's not a dumb thread though. It's about people's favourite albums from different decades and years. Just that. If I posted it in yours, I might post a top 10 albums from the 90s, and ask others to do it. Then someone might just come in and do a top 5 about their favourite guitar brands or something - which is what YOUR thread is for. This thread is just for albums. Hardly dumb is it? Just an idea for people to put their favourite albums in a top 10 list. If a mod feels it's not a relevant thread, they can feel free to close it. But it was just an idea.

But it's not for a specific year.
So you can be just as easily interrupted in here.

Not really, I could post favourite albums from the 90s and then someone could post their favourite albums from the 00s. People can still comment on the lists and make lists of their own. Someone may do 1999 and then someone else might say that list is totally wrong, this is my list for 1999. It keeps it more specific to albums. I thought it'd be a nice idea and it's a challenge as well, to really think about your top 10 favourite albums for a year or decade. It just makes for a bit of fun listing, hardly dumb is it? Just another thread with lists of albums for fun.

But why do we need another thread just for lists? When we already have one?
If you're so desperate to find out peoples favourite 1999 albums start a thread just for that.
But another thread just for varying lists is dumb IMO.

Because I don't want to know people's favourite albums for 1999. I'm interested in people's favourite albums for any year/decade. Your thread would deviate from an album based discussion. It was just an idea I had and I thought it'd be a nice thread for people's opinions to get aired out. Maybe I should've done it just decades so but I didn't want to limit things. Plus it's nice knowing what your favourite albums for a whole decade/year is, it's a real challenge. Especially putting them in order.

meh, forums are like shirts. you need new threads to make them complete

...is basically what I'm thinking.

I think I'm gonna leave this open. For starters, I'm far too tired to ponder this too much. I agree Jim's thread very similar, but I also agree that this provides a focus on albums, so it's not really a bad idea for a thread.

If another mod feels different and decides to close this, then fine, but that's my 2 cents.

10 personal favorites (no order)

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
2. Callisto - Noir
3. Ef - Give Me Beauty...Or Give Me Death
4. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
5. Empyrium - Weiland
6. Sigur Rós - ( )
7. Opeth - Still Life
8. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
9. As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
10. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells

Top Ten from 1968 (The Year of The Album)

1) Music from Big Pink - The Band
2) At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
3) John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
4) Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin
5) Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival
7) The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
8) The Natch'l Blues - Taj Mahal
9) Wheels of Fire - Cream
10) The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Top 10 Albums of the 90s in order(somewhat)

1.Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
2.U2 - Achtung Baby
3.Nirvana - Nevermind
4.The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
5.Radiohead - OK Computer
6.Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
7.Sonic Youth - Dirty
8.My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
9.Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
10.Pearl Jam - No Code

top 10 albums of the 90s

1. Radiohead - Ok Computer
2. Slint - Spiderland
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
4. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
5. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
7. Weezer - Pinkerton
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
9. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
10. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun

Top 10 of 1979
1.The Specials-The Specials
2.Armed Forces-Elvis Costello
3.Entertainment-Gang Of Four
4.London Calling-The Clash
5.Live At The Witch Trials-The Fall
6.Fear Of Music-Talking Heads
7.Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
8.154-Wire
9.#1 In Heaven-Sparks
10.Drums And Wires-XTC

Top ten of the sixties:

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico [1967]
2. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt [1969]
3. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison [1968]
4. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited [1965]
5. Flying Buritto Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin [1969]
6. The Beatles - The White Album [1968]
7. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [1965]
8. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [1969]
9. The Stooges - The Stooges [1969]
10. Muddy Waters -Folk Singer [1964]

something like this, I'm really no good at these things.

Fine choice. I'd be inclined to have that as my number 1 if not 2 or 3.

1960s:

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (not having this at number one decreases your fertility by up to 110%)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money

1970s:

Pink Floyd - Meddle
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
The Who - Quadrophenia
King Crimson - Red
Suicide - First Album
Yes - Close to the Edge

Something along those lines.

Yeah that album is easily one of my favorites of all time.

Top ten albums of the 70s.

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath [1970]
2. Johnny Cash - Man in Black [1971]
3. Wire - Pink Flag [1977]
4. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True [1977]
5. Television - Marquee Moon [1977]
6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures [1979]
7. Lou Reed - Berlin [1973]
8. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew [1970]
9. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World [1970]
10. Townes Van Zandt - Delta Momma Blues [1971]

eh maybe.

Top 10 albums that I own but always wonder where they have come from since I don't like any of them and actually hate all of them:

1. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
2. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
4. Mokoma - Mokoman 120 Päivää
5. CMX - Dinosaurus Stereophonicus
6. In Flames - Come Clarity
7. Dream Theater - Octavarium (more of this... where does this stuff come?)
8. Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
9. Ensiferum - Iron
10. Eluveitie - Slania

No offence if you like some/all of these albums but I despise every last one of them. Almost all of these have been bought in a "get 2 for the price of 1" situation and I have just picked something that I kinda like since it's free... boy I have been wrong with my choices when I look back now.

That's not the idea of this thread. This thread is for favourite albums from any chosen year/decade/all time. This belongs in top 5 of anything musically, you just need to half the list.

Top ten of 2009

1. Tegan and Sara- Sainthood
2. fun.- Aim and Ignite
3. An Horse- Rearrange Beds
4. Emmy the Great- First Love
5. Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
6. Rachael Cantu- Far and Wide
7. Lacrosse- Bandages for the Heart
8. Brazos- Phosphorescent Blues
9. Passion Pit- Manners
10. Fanfarlo- Reservoir

Top ten of 2010 (so far)

1. The National- High Violet
2. The Hold Steady- Heaven is Whenever
3. Shearwater- The Golden Archipelago
4. Los Campesinos!- Romance is Boring
5. Paul Baribeau- Unbearable
6. Horse Feathers- Thistled Spring
7. Frightened Rabbit- The Winter of Mixed Drinks
8. Angus & Julia Stone- Down the Way
9. Laura Stevenson and the Cans- Laura Stevenson: A Record
10. One For The Team- Ghosts