Top 5 Albums of All Time

[maxit]

old but gold. It's hard to choose, but it's good to limit the list to see what you reeeally love. For today ;-) my list is:
1-fred neil-fred neil
2-bryter layter - nick drake
3-blue - joni mitchell
4-highway 61 - bob dylan
5-ok, ok: exile on main street - RS

oh my i don't exceed the early '70!

[Gritter]

1. Mule Variations - Tom Waits
2. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
3. Graceland - Paul Simon
4. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
5. All Mod Cons - The Jam

[Bluesberry]

An old thread but got me thinkin'

In no perticluar order;

1. Dire Straits - Dire Straits................very influential for me.
2. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
3. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
4. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Doves - Lost Souls

Top 5 songs would be impossible to choose.

Nice to see the Doves get in there..........lovely band that one.

[Blooby]

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges
At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers (I believe live recordings were ok in the rules)
Band of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix
Shakti by John McLaughlin

I posted 2.5 years ago, and I'm still happy with my choices.  I thought for sure it would change with the wind.

Blooby

[bruno]

This is silly, but here goes....

Marillion      Script for a jesters tear
Led Zep      IV
Ozzy          Bark at the moon
Sabbath      Heaven and Hell
Magnum      On a storytellers night

Ask me tomorrow and it will be different.

I'd go for storytellers night!

[Hook]

Today off the top of my head

Elvis Costello-Imperial Bedroom
REM-Fables Of The Reconstruction
Genesis-Selling England By The Pound
Tom Waits- Nighthawks At The Diner
U2- October

I want The Swell Season in there too!

[henwrench]

oooo my turn....god, this is impossible...

    in no particular order...

    Tom Waits - Blood Money
    The Beatles - The 'Blue' Album '67-'70
    Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
    Ween - Pure Guava
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Majick

                                                     henwrench

[ODH]

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Stranglers - The Raven
Lake Trout - Another One Lost
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
ZZ Top - Deguello

I suddenly feel like I've betrayed any number of old friends by omission.  Goes without saying this is only the tip of the "iceberg" and even as I click post the list will have changed.  This could become a daily re-post.

There's only really two no-brainers on the list - the top 2 (although even saying that the Stranglers could've been Black & White easily, or Rattus)

[ODH]

More than a year ago, I decided to dump all of my song ratings into a database and find out what my favorite albums were based on the ratings.

Based on ratings of individual songs my analysis showed these as my top five albums:

(1) "Raw Power" by Iggy and the Stooges (2) "Brutal Youth" by Elvis Costello (3) "Oyster" by Heather Nova (4) "So" by Peter Gabriel (5) "Scatterlings" by Juluka

Funnily enough, in early 2009 I did a similar exercise using the iTunes dump.  What I did was assess each album against the following (subjective) criteria;

PERSONALITY
1 = Didn't really get into it
2 = Briefly amused me
3 = Liked it / still like it
4 = Meant a lot to me
5 = Shaped my life
COOLNESS, IMO
1 = Not Cool at all
2 = Hasn't faired too well
3 = Holds it's own
4 = Still pretty cool really
5 = Right up to date or informs modern music
QUALITY
1 = What was I thinking!?
2 = Not great, some decent stuff
3 = Pretty Good, flashes of brilliance
4 = Cracking Album
5 = Classic, to my mind
CD AGE
1 = Early 90's
2 = Mid-late 90's
3 = Early 00's
4 = Two-three years old
5 = Within a year

I then applied a weighting to each in line with their importance.

Looking at it now, does skew the results in favour of more recent albums.  Anyway, point is the top 5 that came out of that exercise were;

Kings Of Leon   Only by the Night
Kings Of Leon   Because Of The Times
Air   Moon Safari
Japan   Tin Drum
Lake Trout   Another One Lost

Just goes to show.  I still really like KoL, but I'd hardly say they're right up there anymore.

And, yes, before you say it, I am that sad and obsessed with music.

[Burtog]

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Christ, how did I miss this from my top 5.................. 5 really isn't enough.

............and then there is Frank Black.......................top ten rethink.