What are your top 5 Albums of all time?

[NickM]

Impossible (except for no. 1, which is easy). But my desert island would be made tolerable by:

1. Bruckner: Symphony 8, Karajan/VPO
2. Pfitzner: Palestrina, Kubelik
3. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Hickox/LSO
4. Bruckner: Symphony 3, Haitink/VPO
5. Bruckner: Symphony 9 (completed Carragan), Talmi/Oslo PO

...and a pair of gurt big eff-orff horn speakers to play them on

 

[jpembroke]

damn, forgot the following:
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Rated R - QOTSA
Lets get Killed - David Holmes
Back in Black - AC/DC
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions

well, that's two lists then.

 

[wafflycat]

Hmm..

Today it is:-

Stackridge: Man In The Bowler Hat
Vangelis: 1492
B B King: Take It Home AND Midnight Believer
Tonto's Expanding Headband: Zero Time
ABBA: Gold

 

[ianrauk]

(subject to change)
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Judas Priest - British Steel
AC/DC - Powerage
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds

 

[ianrauk]

As with others, this list will vary depending on the day you ask - but here's today's 5:

Mike Oldfield - 'Amarok'
Barclay James Harvest - 'Octoberon'
Camel - 'Coming Of Age'
Phideaux - 'Doomsday Afternoon'
Fischer Z - 'Going Deaf For A Living'

Prog rock tastic

 

[WelshYiddo]

Leftism - Leftfield

Good call!

 

[User482]

Sorry. I just meant comparatively. If you like albums that are fantastically funky but nothing much happens, Miles's In A Silent Way could be the answer. I haven't got Fat A.R. - I'll check it out.

Seeing as we're friends, I shall let it pass.

Thanks for the Miles tip. I see that Amazon have it on vinyl for a bargain £9. I think santa might be getting it for me...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I am also not a big fan of Headhunters - I mean I can see why it's important, it's just I don't enjoy it as much as a whole lot of other things. My wife has got me listening to more Bill Evans, I could have also gone for the Canonball, Saint John Coltraine or other things that Miles and co. did - I love In a Silent Way, Sketches from Spain, Porgy and Bess... I could quite happily listen to Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald all the time. Of more recent jazz, I liked EST (RIP) quite a lot, but for me, we are a long way past the golden age of jazz...

 

[Paulus]

Hmm..

Today it is:-

Stackridge: Man In The Bowler Hat
Vangelis: 1492
B B King: Take It Home AND Midnight Believer
Tonto's Expanding Headband: Zero Time
ABBA: Gold

Waffles, I saw Stackridge a few weeks back, I had not listened to their music before, but a friend of mine took me along to the gig and most enjoyable it was too.

My List is--Dark side of the moon--The Pink Floyd
Making Movies--Dire Straits
Rattus Norvegicus--The Stranglers
Turn of a friendly card--Alan Parsons
Rumours--Fleetwood Mac

 

[Vapin' Joe]

In no particular order -

Exile on Mainstreet, Stones
White Album, Beatles
Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Byrds
Never mind the Bollocks, Sex Pistols
Quadrophenia, The Who

 

[jpembroke]

Ooh, that one's very good; have you got "This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash The Seats?" I only have a couple of things from it on the ipod and they're excellent.

Oh yes, it's a great album: a mishmash of mixed up soundtracks: Bond, Man with No Name etc etc. Tres cool. But not as tres cool as Lets Get Killed - that's way cool. Perhaps even Uber Cool. Apparently Holmes just wandered around the arse ends of New York with a DAT recorder taping conversations with nutters then went home and wrote a fantastic soundtrack for the city. I love that album.

 

[Chuffy]

Another day, another list, this time completely jazz (because I was deliberately excluding jazz last time)

Funny, I completely excluded jazz from my list too!
Possibly because I absolutely loathe it.

I'll have a Thomas Tallis 'best of' please.
And a collection of operatic overtures and choruses, because air conducting is great fun and a better workout than Wiiiiiiii Sports.
And the three LoTR soundtracks.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I'll have a Thomas Tallis 'best of' please.
And a collection of operatic overtures and choruses, because air conducting is great fun and a better workout than Wiiiiiiii Sports.
And the three LoTR soundtracks.

That has got to be the perfect illustration of moving from the sublime to the ridiculous...

 

[simonali]

In no particular order:

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
Together Alone - Crowded House
The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk
In Rainbows - Radiohead

Bubbling under i.e. the nearlies that could be elevated by the time I get up tomorrow:

Pigeonhed - Pigeonhed
The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Long Gone By Daylight - The Cardigans
The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy
Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam And The Ants
Shame - Brad
Lapalco - Brendan Benson
Out Of Time - REM
Between The Senses - Haven
Adolescent Sex - Japan

 

[tdr1nka]

Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
Schools Out - Alice Cooper
Cassanova - The Divine Comedy
Cosi Fan Tutti - Mozart
Dog Of Two Head - Status Quo


I can't just do 5 that's too silly.