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Can't believe Q magazine have already done the Readers 100 Greatest Albums again : i mean it's only 3 years since the last time. Before that the gap was 5 years... much more sensible, imo.

Anyway the good news is that Achtung & Joshua have both risen again & ...Leave Behind storms in at mid-table :

Q Readers 100 Greatest Albums Feb 2006 :
Achtung Baby : # 9
Joshua Tree : # 11
ATYCLB : # 53

Q Readers 100 Greatest Albums Jan 2003 :
Achtung Baby : # 10
Joshua Tree : # 16

Q Readers 100 Greatest Albums Feb 1998 :
Achtung Baby : # 15
Joshua Tree : # 23
Zooropa : # 90
 
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... & here's the Top 20 :

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. The Beatles - Revolver
5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
6. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
7. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
8. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
9. U2 - Achtung Baby
10. Radiohead - Kid A
11. U2 - The Joshua Tree
12. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
13. Jeff Buckley - Grace
14. The Beatles - Abbey Road
15. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
16. The Verve - Urban Hymns
17. The Beatles - The Beatles
18. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
20. The Clash - London Calling
 
Nevermind above...infact...anything above Dark Side of the Moon just seems almost laughable to me.
 
Yep, because we all know What's the Story Morning Glory is better than Abbey Road AND Dark Side of the Moon
 
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and because Kurt Cobain was a REALLY GOOD PLAYER/SINGER/WRITER... :tsk:


besides that joke, 2 Radiohead albums on the top 2?... that's too much...
 
Interesting list of classic albums.......and you would expect those to be in a lot of people's top 20 (here in the states though, there's no way the Oasis albums would be that high..........and we actually have ears to know that The Stone Roses were just plain awful).... :wink:
 
edge3 said:
... & here's the Top 20 :

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. The Beatles - Revolver
5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
6. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
7. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
8. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
9. U2 - Achtung Baby
10. Radiohead - Kid A
11. U2 - The Joshua Tree
12. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
13. Jeff Buckley - Grace
14. The Beatles - Abbey Road
15. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
16. The Verve - Urban Hymns
17. The Beatles - The Beatles
18. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
20. The Clash - London Calling

:lmao:
 
Here's Rolling Stone's top 50 I don't know from when though. Let's see how they compare.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind, Nirvana
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree, U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
33. Ramones, Ramones
34. Music From Big Pink, The Band
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
39. Please Please Me, The Beatles
40. Forever Changes, Love
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
44. Horses, Patti Smith
45. The Band, The Band
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard

AB was at #62. (below TJT where it belongs. :wink:)
 
That was the critics list from around Nov 2003. Here's the readers list from Oct 2002 :

1 Beatles Revolver (1966)
2 Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
3 Beatles Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band (1967)
4 U2 The Joshua tree (1987)
5 Beatles The Beatles (= the white album) (1968)
6 Beatles Abbey road (1969)
7 Guns n' roses Appetite for destruction (1987)
8 Radiohead OK computer (1997)
9 Led zeppelin Led zeppelin 4 (1971)
10 U2 Achtung baby (1991)
11 Pink floyd Dark side of the moon (1973)
12 Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
13 Rolling stones Exile on Main street (1972)
14 Clash London calling (1979)
15 U2 All that you can't leave behind (2000)
16 Weezer Pinkerton (1996)
17 Radiohead The bends (1995)
18 Smashing pumpkins Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness (1995)
19 Pearl jam Ten (1991)
20 Beach boys Pet sounds (1966)
21 Weezer Weezer (1994)
22 Nirvana In utero (1993)
23 Beatles Rubber soul (1965)
24 Eminem The Eminem show (2002)
25 R.E.M. Automatic for the people (1992)
26 Radiohead Kid A (2000)
27 Tool Aenima (1996)
28 Smashing pumpkins Siamese dream (1993)
29 Madonna Ray of light (1998)
30 Rolling stones Sticky fingers (1971)
31 Pink floyd The wall (1979)
32 Bruce Springsteen Born to run (1975)
33 Oasis What's the story - Morning glory? (1995)
34 Bob Dylan Blonde on blonde (1966)
35 Red hot chili peppers Blood sugar sex magik (1991)
36 Who Who's next (1971)
37 Eminem The Marshall Mathers lp (2000)
38 Green day Dookie (1994)
39 Bob Dylan Blood on the tracks (1975)
40 Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)
41 Oasis Definitely maybe (1994)
42 Metallica Metallica (1991)
43 Fleetwood mac Rumours (1977)
44 Jimi Hendrix Are you experienced? (1967)
45 Red hot chili peppers Californication (1999)
46 Guns n' roses Use your illusion 1 & 2 (1991)
47 Alanis Morissette Jagged little pill (1995)
48 Bob Dylan Highway 61 revisited (1965)
49 U2 War (1983)
50 Pearl jam Pearl jam Vs. Pearl jam (1993)
51 Led zeppelin Led zeppelin 2 (1969)
52 Madonna Music (2000)
53 U2 The unforgettable fire (1984)
54 Dave Matthews band Crash (1996)
55 Nirvana Unplugged in New York (1994)
56 David Bowie The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust (1972)
57 Strokes Is this it (2001)
58 Linkin park Hybrid theory (2001)
59 Black sabbath Paranoid (1970)
60 AC/DC Back in black (1980)
61 Miles Davis Kind of blue (1959)
62 Madonna Like a prayer (1989)
63 Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the edge of town (1978)
64 Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA (1984)
65 Who Tommy (1969)
66 Prince Purple rain (1984)
67 Rage against the machine Rage against the machine (1992)
68 Rolling stones Let it bleed (1969)
70 U2 Zooropa (1993)
71 Dave Matthews band Under the table and dreaming (1994)
72 System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
73 Michael Jackson Off the wall (1979)
74 Sex pistols Never mind the bollocks (1977)
75 Counting crows August and everything after (1993)
76 Marvin Gaye What's going on (1971)
77 Pixies Doolittle (1990)
78 No doubt Tragic kingdom (1995)
79 Velvet underground + Nico Velvet underground + Nico (1967)
80 Soundgarden Superunknown (1994)
81 Depeche mode 101 (1989)
82 Pearl jam Vitalogy (1994)
83 Queen A night at the opera (1975)
84 Led zeppelin Houses of the holy (1973)
85 Van Morrison Astral weeks (1968)
86 Bon Jovi Slippery when wet (1986)
87 Smiths The queen is dead (1986)
88 Metallica Master of puppets (1986)
89 Bob Dylan Bringing it all back home (1965)
90 Who Quadrophenia (1973)
91 Weezer Maladroit (2002)
92 Garbage Version 2.0 (1998)
93 Bob Marley Legend (1984)
94 Def leppard Hysteria (1987)
95 Moby Play (1999)
96 Stevie Wonder Songs in the key of life (1976)
97 Beck Odelay (1996)
98 Jimi Hendrix Electric ladyland (1968)
99 Madonna The immaculate collection (1990)
100 Pink floyd Wish you were here (1975)

So Rolling Stone readers are twice as cool as Q readers. :cool:

Btw, Happy New 2006 to everyone !! :wink:
 
What in the world is people's obsession with Nirvana. They were not THAT good. :huh: Well not in my opinion. To put The Beatles, Rolling Stones, U2, Pink Floyd,and Queen in the same breath as Nirvana, makes me throw up a little in my mouth. :barf:

Excuse me now, Nevermind at #2 just made baby Jesus cry... brb. :|
 
it's better than having 'The Bomb' in there...

edge3 said:
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Radiohead - The Bends
10. Radiohead - Kid A

Hahaha! YES!
 
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pepokiss said:
and because Kurt Cobain was a REALLY GOOD PLAYER/SINGER/WRITER... :tsk:

He is. And Radiohead are fanatastic.

Edit: Either way your list and my list is probably going to be different. Just take it as a handy guide to take to your next trip to the record store the next time you have a lot of money and don't know what music to buy.

Music magazines are good for that; they tend to overhype stuff, definitely, but if I read about some band that, in words on a page sound interesting, I'll go check them out and see if I like them.

By the way

best album ever written is

'Parklife' by Blur.
 
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That top ten is the most ridiculous thing i've ever read. 2 Radiohead albums make up the top 2???? :eyebrow:

And to think that i thought they couldn't get any more overrated than they already are...
 
but if u2 went number 1 and 2, you'd all complain that they weren't number 3 as well.
 
haha! either that or they'd say they put the winning two in the wrong order or the wrong albums were at 1+2 in the first place.
 
How many of you think that Definitely Maybe is better than The White Album, Achtung Baby and Dark Side of the Moon?

:lmao:
 
Nobody I know even likes Radiohead. I mean, I'm not intending to slag them off but I would never have imagined they'd be many people's first or second choices - at least not enough people to make them the top ahead of the Beatles, for goodness' sake. Quite apart from U2, this is something I find rather silly.

I'm glad to see AB is the top of the U2 choices - but having it 9, behind some of those makes me sad. It's such a brilliant, original and yet accessible album that it really should chart higher in my opinion, and maybe I am biased because it's my fave album ever, but I cannot agree with it being below Radiohead and REM.

But then I don't set much store by these sorts of lists anyway, who even cares, lol!
 
uh, guys, this is a READERS poll. You can't put too much stock into that, it's not scientific at all. For all we know, the Radiohead uh, heads could have rigged the vote. (And I love Radiohead. I like Nirvana, too, but they are really overrated.)

Also just because U2 is our favorite band doesn't mean that their albums should all be in the top 20 of every list ever. That's just bias, and frankly, they don't deserve the honor, if one is looking objectively.
 
hey, i'm a big radiohead fan and i KNOW the bends doesn't deserve to be at number 2.

'kid a' does.
 
I hate it when journalists pussy out like that. The real list should be:
  1. Nirvana, Nevermind
  2. Nirvana, Nevermind
  3. Nirvana, Nevermind
  4. Nirvana, Nevermind
  5. Nirvana, Nevermind
  6. Nirvana, Nevermind
  7. Nirvana, Nevermind
  8. Nirvana, Nevermind
  9. Nirvana, Nevermind
  10. Nirvana, In Utero
Because, after all, isn't life like a mulatto? An albino? A mosquito? God, those lyrics are still so deep after all this time.
 
typhoon said:
I hate it when journalists pussy out like that. The real list should be:
  1. Nirvana, Nevermind
  2. Nirvana, Nevermind
  3. Nirvana, Nevermind
  4. Nirvana, Nevermind
  5. Nirvana, Nevermind
  6. Nirvana, Nevermind
  7. Nirvana, Nevermind
  8. Nirvana, Nevermind
  9. Nirvana, Nevermind
  10. Nirvana, In Utero
Because, after all, isn't life like a mulatto? An albino? A mosquito? God, those lyrics are still so deep after all this time.

It wouldn't be right to leave Incesticide out, though...

  1. Nirvana, Nevermind
  2. Nirvana, Nevermind
  3. Nirvana, Nevermind
  4. Nirvana, Nevermind
  5. Nirvana, Nevermind
  6. Nirvana, Nevermind
  7. Nirvana, Incesticide
  8. Nirvana, Nevermind
  9. Nirvana, Nevermind
  10. Nirvana, In Utero
 
Number seven? Okay, it might be better than Nevermind, but do you really think it's better than Nevermind? And Nevermind? You're crazy.

(Edit: A MULATTO.)
 
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