OT What is your top ten cds/records/albulms to listen to?

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  1. Orion Bailey

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    Simply and easy, though maybe not so easy to answer, but the question is easy. :)

    What is your top ten albums of all time to listen to. Can you even put such a list together?
    After quick thought, mine would be the list below, but Im sure I am missing something somewhere that might bump the list down...

    1) Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
    2) Nothing Shocking by Janes Addiction
    3) The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel
    4) AudioSlave by AudioSlave
    5) ZeppelinII by Led Zeppelin
    6) Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
    7) Teenage Dream by Katy Perry (I'm sure I'll feel the heat on this one, lol)
    8) XOXO by Elliott Smith
    9) Ten by Pearl Jam
    10) Chronic by Dr. Dre

    Your turn!
     
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    No particular order. And the list would probably change if I made it a month from now, because there are other albums I consider just about as good.

    Psychocandy by Jesus & Mary Chain
    Radio City by Big Star
    Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
    Doolittle by The Pixies
    OK Computer by Radiohead
    Andorra by Caribou
    Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
    Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
    The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground (...and Nico!)
    On Trade Winds by Air France
     
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    1. Kind of Blue ...Miles Davis
    2. Revolver....Beatles
    3. East Bay Grease....Tower of Power
    4. Best of Al Green....Al Green
    5. Hot Dawg...David Grisman Quintet
    6. Songs from the woods...Oregon
    7. Temple of Low Men...Crowded House
    8, Sparkle....Aretha Franklin
    9. Bueno Vista Social Club....Ry Cooder and the Cuban Allstars
    10. Rock the World....3rd World...(best reggae album ever recorded)
    11. Any Beethoven concerto conducted by Anton Bruckner
    12. Zuzu Man...Dr John
    13. Rain Dogs...Tom Waits
    14, Washington Square.....Steve Earle
    15. Live in Volare.....Earth Wind and Fire
    16. Apostrophe....Frank Zappa
    17. Are you experienced...Jimi Hendrix
    18. The Wall.....Pink Floyd
    19. Blue....Joni Mitchell
    20. Songs for Swingin' Lovers....Frank Sinatra
     
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    I picked up a Teenage Fanclub CD at a bargain store and loved it...
     
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    I'm a huge Ralph Towner fan...saw his trio and got to sit about 4 ft from the band back in the day....amazing talent...I loved Oregon....Glen was a guy who really impressed me on bass as well...funny how few people in Oregon know of these guys.
     
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    Hard for me to make a top 10 but here's 4 that would be on it

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    Brand New - Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
    Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon
    Nujabes - Modal Soul
    Madvillain - Madvillainy
     
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    It's hard for me to be objective too like I can't say Man On The Moon is better than say Nevermind by Nirvana but it means more to me and I have more of a connection to it. I listen to a lot of music that's better...but it isn't, if you get me, lol.
     
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    I like albums that are consistent, that you can listen to without waiting for that one song or that you don't have to skip through weak songs. People don't listen to albums any more, really, in the age of Spotify.

    Here's a related question I had. Name the best back-to-back albums by the same artist. It seems pretty common for a great album to be followed with a fairly weak one (e.g., The Clash followed by Give 'em Enough Rope before coming back with London Calling), but there are exceptions. These spring to mind:

    Beatles: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper (the very rare back-to-back-to-back)
    Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Moondance (that latter one would be a "greatest hits" for most artists)
    Neil Young: After the Gold Rush, Harvest
    Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust. (Cooler Kids would go for the Berlin Trilogy.)
    Talking Heads: Fear of Music, Remain in Light (but really there isn't a weak album, although I'm not a huge fan of True Stories)
    Pogues: Red Roses for Me, Rum Sodomy and the Lash
    Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush The Show, It Takes a Nation of Millions...
    Pixies: Surfer Rosa, Doolittle (after that it went steeply downhill)

    I'm drawing a blank, which is as much a sign of my age as the albums listed above.
     
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    1. STP Core
    2. Alice in Chains Dirt
    3. Pearl Jam Ten
    4. Soil Scars
    5. Public Enemy Apocalypse 91
    6. Bad Religion Stranger than Fiction
    7. Operator Soul Crusher
    8. Any Johnny Cash greatest hits
    9. System of a Down Steal this Album
    10. ZZ Top Eliminator
     
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    Ok Computer came in at 11. I couldnt bump any of the others. but a damned good one. Green from Radiohead is in my top 20 too.

    Gez. I need to completely redo my list now. see? I knew it. How the hell could I forget about the Beatles? Revolver, Rubber Soul and The White Album are all in my top 20 for sure and im willing to bet, they will make the top ten once I revise my list after I get more clues as to who else I forgot.
    STP has two albums in my top 20, but I couldnt get either of them to crack the top ten. wait. Man. I forgot all bout thier reunion album in 2010. That is in my top ten. I need to revise. I constantly listen to that all the way through.

    AIC Jar Of Flies almost made it, but just not enough material on the album to make the cut.
     
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    Here are some albums that fit my "consistent" criterion:

    Belle & Sebastian - If you're feeling sinister
    Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I long to feel that summer in my heart
    Portishead - Dummy
    Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season
    Microdisney - Crooked Mile
    Lloyd Cole - Mainstream (the underappreciated third album)
    The Triffids - Calenture
    The Divine Comedy - Promenade
    Babybird - The Happiest Man Alive
    The Bhundu Boys - Shabini (now contained within The Shed Sessions)
    Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
    Arvo Pärt - Te Deum
    Andrew Bird - Break it yourself
    Vampire Weekend - any of their albums

    If I had to pick one for my desert island it would probably be the Shed Sessions. Always picks me up, despite the tragic history of the Bhundu Boys.

    I've mellowed in my old age. Songs about Fucking by Big Black no longer makes the list.
     
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    Wow. Portishead is the one one Ive ever even heard of.
    @Rastapopoulos , where you at again?
     
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    DUH - how could I miss out Elvis Costello? The most prolific and consistent musician? Basically his first 15 albums (up to and including Brutal Youth) minus Goodbye Cruel World and possibly Almost Blue just because it's covers.
     
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    I listened to Dirt for an entire train trip from Wyoming to Portland. I get bored more easily now that I'm old but I remember riding the train and sitting with some beautiful blond girl who was round like the Blue girl from Willy Wonka.

    I thought about trying to get her in the bathroom with me but we'd have got stuck.
     
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    If you like Portishead, try Out of Season (Beth Gibbons is the singer of Portishead).
     
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    WTF? hahaha.
    You live in Prince's heart?
     
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    Huh, I'm surprised that you think Bossanova was "steeply" worse than Doolittle or Surfer Rosa. I think all three albums are phenomenal.
     

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