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Originally posted by joji:
I don't know. His website is useless.

You're right. I checked.

Ok, let's give this a go...
1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
3. The Replacements - Let it Be
4. Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
5. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
6. Jeff Buckley - Grace
7. The Stone Roses - s/t
8. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
10. Television - Marquee Moon

Basically off the top of my head, I'm leaving off something probably.

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My lists like this change all the time, and I'm going to make no attempt to order mine, but here's 20 of the greatest albums ever.

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall...
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
The Pixies - Doolittle
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Replacements - Let it Be
The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Beatles - S/T aka The White Album
Prince - Purple Rain
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Clash - London Calling
U2 - Achtung Baby
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

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Originally posted by dano:

9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

Basically off the top of my head, I'm leaving off something probably.

You must really love this record for having just acquired it.

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Originally posted by m.leland:

You must really love this record for having just acquired it.

Chances are that even if he just got the album, he's probably heard a good chunk of those songs before. With the exception of maybe "Love or Confusion", I think any of the songs on there can be heard on most classic rock radio stations on any given day. It's like Led Zeppelin II. Even if you don't own it, you've heard it.

True — but enough to throw it on your ten of all-time list? Curious.

I downloaded it in August of 05, is that long enough to meet your standards?

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Originally posted by dano:
I downloaded it in August of 05, is that long enough to meet your standards?

Nope. July '05 — maybe. But August...eh....

Even though I love albums like Steve Reich's Music for 18 musicians and John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, I'm not experienced enough in those genres to say if those are even Reich's or Coltrane's best albums. So I just stuck with things I know off the top of my head that I really love and enjoy. These are kind of my bread and water albums.

Marquee Moon, Television
Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
Songs of Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen
Loveless, MBV
Pet Sounds, Beach Boys
Forever Changes, Love
Kid A, Radiohead
If You're Feeling Sinister, Belle and Sebastian
White Light/White Heat, VU
Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
Alice, Tom Waits (I know it's a weird pick)
Another Green World,Eno
Revolver, Beatles
o and O, The Zombies
Low, Bowie

There are so many records from the 90s and 00s I could throw on here too, but whatever, it's just a futile excercise anyway. For god sakes, there isn't even any Costello or Sam Cooke on my list. Now that I think of it, my list is way too white.

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The Beatles Abbey Road
Dylan Blonde on Blonde
Green Day American Idiot
Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
Springsteen Born in the USA
Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
Weezer Weezer
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
REM Automatic for the People
Humble Pie Smokin
The Beatles Revolver
The Allman Brothers Eat a Peach

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Originally posted by Rev. Rikard:

Weezer Weezer

Which Weezer Weezer, Blue '94 or Green '01?

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Originally posted by mark f:

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Originally posted by Rev. Rikard:

Weezer Weezer

Which Weezer Weezer, Blue '94 or Green '01?

Blue, Sorry.

You know guys this is always all same stuff, what about naming best 10 albums of the 21t century?, that would be nice to check there`s still good music going on: I must say best lp for Me thi century is
MaRS VOLTa. FRaNCes THe MUTe.

CHeeRs

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Originally posted by BRUBAKER:
You know guys this is always all same stuff, what about naming best 10 albums of the 21t century?, that would be nice to check there`s still good music going on: I must say best lp for Me thi century is
MaRS VOLTa. FRaNCes THe MUTe.

CHeeRs

Somewhere, there's a Best Albums of the Decade so far (2000-2004) thread. However, for some of the younger posters, you'll find that the "Greatest Albums Ever" and "The Greatest Albums of the 2000s" are nearly the same list.

1. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
2. Beatles - Revolver
3. Nirvana – In Utero
4. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
5. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
6. REM - Green
7. Aerosmith - Rocks
8. You Am I - Hi-Fi Way
9. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
10. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory

I tend to find these lists frustrating, as it's always difficult for me to reconcile being "honest" with any good neophile's desire not to indulge in overly stodgy classicism. I see more than a few off-kilter lists in this thread, though, so here's my poor effort, if only for kicks:

1. Bringing It All Back Home
2. Revolver (and yes, I will defend this order until the day I die)
3. London Calling
4. Hard Again (one of the few great blues *albums*)
5. Exile on Main St.
6. Illmatic
7. Abbey Road
8. The Banana Album (my least favorite VU record, incidentally)
9. The Band
10. Endtroducing...

Let me begin by saying this thread is ridiculous(!), an intellectual exercise in futility! Personally, I find it hard to believe anyone has a solid 10 greatest albums ever list and I object to the tread's very existence. That said, I am going to post...but I have changed the parameters a bit. In order to post anything, I have to narrow the focus a bit. I have not included any jazz or blues or classical. This is due to my own deficiencies; I don't have the wherewithall to compare Nina Simone to The Who. Also, I am wondering why this list is not the same as my "Desert Island" list. Why wouldn't I take the best? Maybe because this list is more of a "the-best-I-could-think-of-sitting-at-my-desk-at-work" kind of list. Oh yeah, one more thing to frustrate you all, these are not ranked, they are simply in the order in which I wrote them on my Post-it. Well then, now that I've made a mockery of the thread...

Revolver - The Beatles
Weezer(Blue) - Weezer
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Aftermath - Rolling Stones
Who's Next - The Who
The Undertones - The Undertones
A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Achtung Baby - U2

Personally, I discount any list where:

1. More than 3 or 4 of the 10 come from the same decade.

Over the fifty year, five decade history of rock, in which hundreds of thousands of albums have been made, it verges on statistically impossible that one decade -- except MAYBE the 60s -- would be represented by more than a few albums.

2. ANY of the albums come from the last five years.

The only way to know whether an album really stands up as one of the greatest albums ever made is to see whether it survives the test of time, changes in musical styles, social changes etc. No album made in the last five years has been subjected to this test.

These are, of course, just my opinions.

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Yeah, but your opinions are particularly well thought out and cogent, P.

I should have nipped this one in the bud at the outset instead of tweaking it. The same complaint keeps coming up when somebody drags this back onto the first page and I don't see any particular love for the thread among the members.

Let's take it to Desert Island Discs once and for all.

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