Exile on Main Street is definitely on mine, too.

Some others:
The Velvet Underground and Nico -- The Velvet Underground
Loveless -- My Bloody Valentine
The Record -- Fear
Second Annual Report -- Throbbing Gristle
The Love Below/Speakerboxxx -- Outkast
Closer -- Joy Division
Forever Changes -- Love
The Soft Bulletin -- The Flaming Lips
Sea Change -- Beck
Funeral -- Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Wilco - Summer Teeth
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Led Zeppelin - IV
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is the Talking Heads
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Rolling Stones - 40 Licks
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

Okay, I'll bite.. This isn't quite the same as 'best albums' because you take variety into the equation, but it might be more interesting than just listing your favorite albums.

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Nirvana - Nevermind
White Stripes - Elephant
Pixies - Doolittle
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St
Beatles - Revolver
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Neil Young - On The Beach

Ok, I promised to start posting more in the Music section, so here I am. Alrighty, my desert island 10, in no particular order:

The Beatles - The White Album
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Jimi Hendrix - Experience: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Ratatat - Ratatat
System of a Down - Toxicity
Weezer - The Blue Album
The Clash - The Essential Clash
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Ray Charles The Birth of Soul Box
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Phil Spector Back to Mono Box
The Beatles UK Singles Collection Box
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Ramones Hey Ho, Let's Go: Anthology
My Bloody Valentine Loveless

I cheated with all the box sets.. I'll cut my list off there.

best of's is cheating in my book

Radiohead - OK Computer
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Love - Forever Changes
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladlyand
The Velvet Underground (eponymous)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Cure - Disintegration
Prince - Purple Rain
Led Zep 1
De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising

I agree that best of's are cheating.
In no particular order:

1. Doolittle - The Pixies
2. The Beatles aka White Album - Beatles Achtung Baby - U2 (sorry Beatles, I'm sure this is blasphemy to some)
3. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
4. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
5. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
6. Loaded - The Velvet Underground
7. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
8. Bringing it all back Home - Bob Dylan
9. Check Your Head - The Beastie Boys
10. Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones (who'd ever get sick of the stones?)

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Oh god, only ten ?? that's rough.

but assuming summer weather and starry nights i'd want ten that kept me intricately involved as i slowly descended into my own tom hanks/castaway level of insaniety. so....

Love - Forever Changes
Beatles - White Album
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Tribe Called Quest - Anthology
Velvet Underground - VU & Nico
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Radiohead - Kid A
Neil Young - On the beach
Four tet - Rounds

Nods to bobthespirit for on the beach ( i just got it and think it might be as good as harvest or after the gold rush) half of those are for lazy sunny day lounging and the other half are for paganistic pig slaughter rituals at night (think Lord of the flies)

Much regret over not having Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, Trex, Fleetwood Mack, PJ Harvey, Aimee Mann, Iron & Wine, Van Morrisson, Tom Waits, Beach Boys, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, Sonic Youth, Byrds, John Cale, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Tim Hardin, Sly and the family stone, and at least another 150 essential cds spread out over probaly as many artists

What we should really do is try and put together a top 100 based on votes or something

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What we should really do is try and put together a top 100 based on votes or something

I'd like to see something like this for end of year best album lists as well.

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Originally posted by and the results are
What we should really do is try and put together a top 100 based on votes or something

I'd like to see something like this for end of year best album lists as well.

...And for best individual tracks....

If I was at home in front of my collection, I'd probably come up with something different...but this is what I can come up with off the top of my head.

Rolling Stones "Exile on Mainstreet"
Bruce Springsteen "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense"
Patti Smith "Easter"
The Replacements "Let It Be"
Husker Du "Warehouse: Songs and Stories"
Pixies "Doolittle"
Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited"
Culture "Two Sevens Clash"
Clash "London Calling"
Skip James "Complete Early Recordings"

This was real hard....missing alot of my favorite artists.

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What we should really do is try and put together a top 100 based on votes or something

If we did, Doolittle might be near/at the top. It seems like it's on a lot of the lists I've seen. On that note, here's mine:

1. Pixies- Doolittle
2. Beatles- The White Album
3. Radiohead- OK Computer
4. Beatles- Revolver
5. Bob Dylan- Bringing it All Back Home
6. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
7. Frank Black- Teenager of the Year
8. Guided by Voices- Bee Thousand
9. The Velvet Underground- s/t
10. John Coltrane- A Love Supreme

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Originally posted by dano:

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Originally posted by and the results are
What we should really do is try and put together a top 100 based on votes or something

I'd like to see something like this for end of year best album lists as well.

Actually, I was planning on doing something like that at the end of the year. I just didn't say anything yet because I hadn't figured out how to count points.

I don't like a simple 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 because I think it should be more balanced (So any top ten inclusion will be a sigificant boon for the album).

I was also thinking of Pazznjop's method (You can distribute 100 points among 10 albums, max you can give to any album is 30, min you can give to any album is 5), but then I thought that asking people on the internet to put work into it would significantly reduce the turnout.

Maybe something along the lines of 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6.

I was also going to recommend not reading anybody else's list until you made your own so you weren't tempted to overrate things that you think other people didn't mention enough to manipulate the results...

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The problem with doing that for the Desert Island Discs thread though is that, bands with lots of great work like the Beatles would split their own votes, giving huge bonuses to bands that had one great work and not much else.

Another board I read is HUGELY into making lists about everything you can imagine involving music. They pretty much put me to shame when it comes to music knowledge, to the point I pretty much don't post there to avoid embarrassing myself. Anywho, here's an idea for doing the voting stolen from them.

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Votes / Scoring: You will be voting for a maximum of 20 albums. Apart from that, you can vote for however many you want, though I strongly discourage voting for less than ten albums. Scoring will be:

#1 = 25 points
#2 = 20 points
#3 = 18 points
#4 = 17 points
#5 = 16 points
...
#20 = 1 points

I'm not completely sure of how well this will work for our board, as they got 80 something votes in the poll, and I'm sure we'll get quite a bit less than that. It's a starting idea at least.

Yo La Tengo-I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One...or Painful...both...

Elliott Smith-Either/Or
Nick Drake-Pink Moon
Red House Painters-Red House Painters (I)
Tindersticks-Tindersticks (II)
Boards of Canada-Music Has The Right...
Boards of Canada-Geogaddi
Dntel-Life Is Full Of Possibilities
Broken Social Scene-You Forgot It In People

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Tindersticks (I)
Futureheads-s/t
The Fall-Peel Sessions box-set (I should have taken this...what a way to cheat the system!)
Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
Janes Addiction-Nothing's Shocking/Ritual de lo Habitual
Talk Talk-Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock
various Tom Waits albums...
Kinks albums
Various Neil Young albums...
Various Kraftwerk albums...

and many, many more...

If I go on, I'll never stop...

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The problem with doing that for the Desert Island Discs thread though is that, bands with lots of great work like the Beatles would split their own votes, giving huge bonuses to bands that had one great work and not much else.

If we were to put a list together, you'd probably need to have some people submit new lists. Best Of's/Box Sets should not be eligible. Also, I'd recommend having people submit more than just a top 10, to help avoid the problem that you mentioned regarding the Beatles, etc.

Box sets definitely wouldn't be eligible, but neither should combined album reisseus that labels release after many years. Also maybe a top 50 for each person would be more realistic. I'm thinking best albums (whether influential, popular, best sellers etc.)

If someone could decide the points system than we could post a new discussion.

alright I'm going to cheat on this one. I've sold most of my CD's because I've upgraded to vinyl. So let's say there's a record player on this island and I'm going to take my 10 favorite records. So here it goes

1. Brian Wilson SMiLE (180 gram)
2. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (180 gram)(mono)
3. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon (30th Anniversary 180 gram vinyl)
4. The Who Who's Next (Classic Records 200 gram vinyl)
5. The Arcade Fire Funeral
6. Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
7. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
8. Pixies Surfer Rosa (180 gram)
9. Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet (180 gram)
10. Bjork Homogenic

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Originally posted by and the results are in.....were undecide:
Box sets definitely wouldn't be eligible, but neither should combined album reisseus that labels release after many years. Also maybe a top 50 for each person would be more realistic. I'm thinking best albums (whether influential, popular, best sellers etc.)

If someone could decide the points system than we could post a new discussion.

I think 50 albums is a fair number. I don't see anything too wrong with a #1 = 50 points...#50 = 1 point scale, but I wouldn't have a problem adding an extra few points to #1-10 albums.

The problem with top 50 is that...well, when you get down to 50, most people here are down in the B's and B+'s.

It would just get too complicated, and a lot of albums that nobody loved by everybody kind of liked would be rated higher than albums a few people loved and nobody else bought.

So...well, if *I* create the topic, I'll just go with a simpler top ten with 20 15 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 or something similar. And, I'll make a rule where...in order to be #1, at least one person has to rank an album #1. In order to be #2, at least one person has to rank an album #2 or higher, etc. (That way, if everybody ranks something #5 and nobody ranks it higher it can't wind up #1.)