Your Top 20 Albums of all time, Where would U2 come?

[OrARoundabout]

Exactly.... I feel like I'm on a completely different place when I listen to that.

Everything Is Broken...

Someone who understands! LOLOLO

Dylan songs are just so...deep...know what I mean? You really have listen to what he's saying! Like in Most of the Time...whoever he is singing about, he's glad she's gone...but a small part of him misses her terribly...

As heard in Girl From The North Country...

He sings alot about love lost...

And you've got to love his political stuff...Only A Pawn In Their Game...

Listening to Simple Twist of Fate, "Wished that he'd gone straiiiiiight!"

 

[MMP]

Someone who understands! LOLOLO

Dylan songs are just so...deep...know what I mean? You really have listen to what he's saying! Like in Most of the Time...whoever he is singing about, he's glad she's gone...but a small part of him misses her terribly...

Like Girl From The North Country...

He sings alot about love lost...

And you've got to love his political stuff...Only A Pawn In Their Game...

Listening to Simple Twist of Fate, "Wished that he'd gone straiiiiiight!"

Oh, Dylan is great... his lyrics can be funny, deep, romantic... I don't think I've ever laughed listening to a song as I did listening to Bob Dylan's 115th Dream. Black Diamond Bay has gorgeous lyrics too. My memory sucks though, I have a big problem remebering lyrics. The only bands I remember lyrics well are U2, R.E.M. and Aerosmith, which I'm into for four+ years now.
But Dylan has a lot of stuff, there's still a lot of things I don't have here on my pc. And as usual, probably there's no one in the world that agrees with me on my favorite Dylan song.

EDIT: listening to What Good Am I?

 

[OrARoundabout]

Oh, Dylan is great... his lyrics can be funny, deep, romantic... I don't think I've ever laughed listening to a song as I did listening to Bob Dylan's 115th Dream. Black Diamond Bay has gorgeous lyrics too. My memory sucks though, I have a big problem remebering lyrics. The only bands I remember lyrics well are U2, R.E.M. and Aerosmith, which I'm into for four+ years now.
But Dylan has a lot of stuff, there's still a lot of things I don't have here on my pc. And as usual, probably there's no one in the world that agrees with me on my favorite Dylan song.

EDIT: listening to What Good Am I?

"Bob Dylan 115th Dream"...listening right now...I always laugh outloud! "I was riding on the MayFlower when I thought I spotted land...*bursts outloud"



That's one thing I'm gud at...remembering lyrics. I know all the words to Hurricane...

But Oh Mercy, incredible...just incredible. Few songs have the ability to take you to other places...but the tracks on that record do...

Bono said he used to stay up in his room and just have the music transport him, I guess he was dealing with alot of shit, teenage angst...

That definitely influenced him on "Deep In The Heart"...deep soundscapes...that's really difficult to achieve...

The song has a limitless atmosphere...that's what "Most of the Time" does...

(God, I'm sounding really cheesy right now...)

Listening to "Forever Young"...

 

[MMP]

"Bob Dylan 115th Dream"...listening right now...I always laugh outloud! "I was riding on the MayFlower when I thought I spotted land...*bursts outloud"



That's one thing I'm gud at...remembering lyrics. I know all the words to Hurricane...

But Oh Mercy, incredible...just incredible. Few songs have the ability to take you to other places...but the tracks on that record do...

Bono said he used to stay up in his room and just have the music transport him, I guess he was dealing with alot of shit, teenage angst...

That definitely influenced him on "Deep In The Heart"...deep soundscapes...that's really difficult to achieve...

The song has a limitless atmosphere...that's what "Most of the Time" does...

(God, I'm sounding really cheesy right now...)

Listening to "Forever Young"...

It's always nice to be cheesy sometimes. The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear.
"when I was leaving the bay I saw three ships sailing, there were all heading my way. I asked the captain what his name was and how come he didn't drive a truck. He said his name was Columbus and I just said: 'good luck'."


Of course, it depends on the mood, but Oh Mercy almost always can lift me from wherever I am and just take me to beautiful places.

Deep In the Heart
Forever Young... Planet Waves right?

 

[OrARoundabout]

It's always nice to be cheesy sometimes. The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear.
"when I was leaving the bay I saw three ships sailing, there were all heading my way. I asked the captain what his name was and how come he didn't drive a truck. He said his name was Columbus and I just said: 'good luck'."


Of course, it depends on the mood, but Oh Mercy almost always can lift me from wherever I am and just take me to beautiful places.

Deep In the Heart
Forever Young... Planet Waves right?

Yep, Planet Ways


His lyrics are so witty, how can anybody write that good? I-have-no-idea...

Deep In The Heart...hidden gem...do you even know what that song is about? When I found out I was like, "TMI".

 

[MMP]

Yep, Planet Ways


His lyrics are so witty, how can anybody write that good? I-have-no-idea...

Deep In The Heart...hidden gem...do you even know what that song is about? When I found out I was like, "TMI".

Yes... Dylan has an amazing gift.
Yes, Deep... very heavy lyrics. Anyway, what's "TMI"? I have a problem with those acronyms...
Also, I'm going to bed. It's not that late here but I woke at 7:00 AM. Good night

 

[lazarus]

Oh Mercy is my personal favorite Dylan album, and probably in my all-time Top 20.

And it bugs me that his last three studio albums (all great, of course) get all the attention when Oh Mercy is as good, if not better, than all of them.

If he had included God Knows, Born in Time, Series of Dreams (all three found on last year's Tell Tale Signs collection) as well as Dignity (the version from the 3-disc "Dylan" collection, not the one on Tell Tale Signs) on the album, this wouldn't even be a discussion.

 

[OrARoundabout]

Oh Mercy is my personal favorite Dylan album, and probably in my all-time Top 20.

And it bugs me that his last three studio albums (all great, of course) get all the attention when Oh Mercy is as good, if not better, than all of them.

If he had included God Knows, Born in Time, Series of Dreams (all three found on last year's Tell Tale Signs collection) as well as Dignity (the version from the 3-disc "Dylan" collection, not the one on Tell Tale Signs) on the album, this wouldn't even be a discussion.

True that...it's a hidden classic...

 

[OrARoundabout]

Yes... Dylan has an amazing gift.
Yes, Deep... very heavy lyrics. Anyway, what's "TMI"? I have a problem with those acronyms...
Also, I'm going to bed. It's not that late here but I woke at 7:00 AM. Good night

OH SRY, I'm quite bad at them as well

TMI: To much information

I'm going to bed too, good night

 

[theFly51]

1. Achtung Baby-U2
2. Use Your Illusion II-Guns n' Roses
3. In Concert-The Doors
4. Zooropa-U2
5. Facelift-Alice in Chains
6. Greatest Hits-Chicago
7. Abbey Road-The Beatles
8. Nevermind-Nirvana
9. Dirt-Alice in Chains
10. Pop-U2
11. Live Era'87-'93-Guns n' Roses
12. Good News for People Who Love Bad News-Modest Mouse
13. Take A Look In The Mirror-Korn
14. Marcy Playground-Marcy Playground
15. Superunknown-Soundgarden
16. Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin
17. Frampton Comes Alive- Peter Frampton
18. Ten-Pearl Jam
19. Rubberneck-Toadies
20. Core-Stone Temple Pilots

 

[dajzilla]

Well, I will list as many as I can. List will be off the top of my head without too much thought but basically this:
1. The Unforgettable Fire - U2
2. The Joshua Tree - U2
3. Fair Warning - Van Halen
4. Van Halen - Van Halen
5. Achtung Baby - U2
6. Boy - U2
7. Van Halen II - Van Halen
8. October - U2
9. Beatitude _ Ric Ocasek
10. Reckoning - R.E.M.
11. Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
12. Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
13. Ghost in the Machine - The Police
14. Deep in the Heart of Nowhere - Bob Geldof
15. Candy-O - The Cars
16. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
17. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2
18. No Line on the Horizon - U2
19. Listen Like Thiefs -INXS
20.Shabooh Shoobah - INXS
21. War - U2 (sorry, had to add this.)

Wheew! That took awhile! So much for "wihout too much thought" lol. Not totally accurate if I had to really think about it but it is very close.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I'm not going to type out a top 20 list but Achtung and J. Tree are both in there.

 

[kingofsorrow]

1 achtung baby-u2
2 disintergration- the cure
3 bloodletting- concrete blond
4 ultra- depeche mode
5 ultra blue- utada hikaru
6 heart station- utada hikaru
7 live baby live- INXS
8 pulse- pink floyd
9 ten- pearl jam
10 JT- u2
11 wish- the cure
12 painted desert serenade- joshua kadison
13 lovers rock- sade
14 jazzmasters3- jazzmasters
15 zooropa- u2
16 and then there was X- dmx
17 good times, bad times- godsmack
18 disco dewanne- nazia hassan
19 1love- bob marley
20 million dollar hotel- MDH band

 

[powerhour24]

Achtung Baby would be #1, and JT right up there, but I don't like ranking things that much, so I don't have a full top 20.

 

[luna_lovegood]

Joshua Tree, the Unforgettable Fire, War and Achtung would be right up the top somewhere amongst OK Computer, In Rainbows, Astral Weeks, Oh Mercy, Highway 61 Revisted, The Doors and the Travelling Wilburys.

 

[Saracene]

1. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
2. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
3. Pink Floyd - The Wall
4. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
5. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
6. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
9. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
10. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
11. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
12. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
13. PJ Harvey – White Chalk
14. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
15. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
16. Muse - Absolution
17. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
18. Kate Bush – Aerial
19. Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
20. Dead Can Dance – Aion

 

[zwervers2]

1) Achtung baby- U2
2) Dark side of the moon- pink floyd
3) Sgt pepper's lonely heart club band- beatles
4) Ok computer- radiohead
5) Songs of faith and vetion-Depeche Mode
6) The Bends-Radiohead
7) The soul cages- Sting
8) Born to run-Bruce springsteen
9) Harvest-Neil Young
10) The Joshua tree-U2
11) Disintergration- Cure
12) Graceland- Paul Simon
13) Stop making sense- Talking heads
14) Animals-Pinkfloyd
15) Sign o'the times- Prince
16) Paul's boutique-Beasty Boys
17) LA Woman-The Doors
18) Ten-Pearl Jam
19) Outside-David Bowie
20a) Kate Bush-Hounds of love
20b) Viva la vida-Coldplay

and I problably forget a lot due to being at work

 

[jacez]

1. Beatles : Rubber Soul
2. The National: Sad Songs for Dirty lovers
3. Radiohead :Bends
4. REM: Automatic for the People
5. U2: Zooropa
6. Josh Rouse :1972
7. Nick Drake: Pink Moon
8. Pink Floyd : Wish you were here
9. Air : Moon Safari
10. Mazzy Star: So Tonight that I might see.
11. Yeah Yeah Yeah: Fever to tell
12. Radiohead: Rainbows
13. Isaac hayes : Hot Buttered Soul
14. U2 : The Unforgettable Fire
15. Miles Davies : Kind of Blue
16. Roxy Music : Avalon
17. Lambchop : Nixon
18. Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt : meeting At the River
19. Aimee mann : Lost In Space
20. Steive Wonder : Talking Book

My favourites...but usually will go through some changes depending on my mood.

 

[AndrewCowley]

1. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
2. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
3. Pink Floyd - The Wall
4. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
5. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
6. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
7. The Clash – London Calling
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
9. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
10. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
11. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
12. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
13. PJ Harvey – White Chalk
14. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
15. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
16. Muse - Absolution
17. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
18. Kate Bush – Aerial
19. Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
20. Dead Can Dance – Aion

Muse

I'd have Placebo's Black Market Music in my top 20 somewhere.

 

[mellow moog]

NLOTH in your top 20? Big call. Obviously this is totally subjective, but...

A rock top 20 has to contain albums like Born To Run, Dark Side Of The Moon, Ok Computer... no need to go on.

I can't possibly rate NLOTH anywhere near these sort of albums. It is in U2's 'second tier' of albums; i.e. not even one of their best, let alone how it compares to the best from everyone else.

I love how people say you can't put NLOTH in the top 20 !!! Get over yourself!!!!And for what it's worth from this bloody longtime fan it IS top tier!!!!!!!!!!! Listen to it for a while. Let it sink in without any preconceptions of anything else and you will understand the true beauty of this album!!!

For what it's worth. In no particular order, here are my most favourite albums. Impossible to rank as they all stand out.

No Line On the Horizon - U2
Unforgettable Fire - U2
Joshua Tree - U2
Chairs Missing - Wire
The Bends - Radiohead
The Crossing - Big Country
Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
If you Want Blood You Got It - AC/DC
Pipers At the Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
The Pious Bird of Good Omen - Fleetwood Mac
Kick Inside - Kate Bush
Peng! - Stereolab
Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
Doolittle - Pixies
Rid of Me -PJ Harvey
The Doors -The Doors
NightTime - Killing Joke
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Nevermind - Nirvana
Dummy - Portishead
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

 

[intedomine]

4. Achtung Baby

6. The Yoshua Tree

11. The Unforgettable Fire

14. PoP

 

[65980]

Well, this is nearly impossible to determine. OK, in chronological order, here are my more-or-less top 20:

Bob Dylan — The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan — Bringing It All Back Home
The Beatles — The Beatles (White Album)
The Beatles — Let It Be [the 'Naked' version]
John Lennon — Plastic Ono Band
Joni Mitchell — Blue
The Wailers — Burnin’
Stevie Wonder — Songs In The Key Of Life
Prince — Purple Rain
U2 — The Joshua Tree
Prince — Sign O’ The Times
Sinéad O’Connor — The Lion & The Cobra
Sting — …Nothing Like The Sun
The Stone Roses — The Stone Roses
The Grapes Of Wrath — Now and Again
The La’s — The La’s
U2 — Achtung, Baby
Björk — Debut
Juliana Hatfield Three — Become What You Are
Speech — Spiritual People

OK, and here are the rest of the best:

Fred Neil — Bleecker & MacDougal
The Beatles — Revolver
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks
The Beatles — Abbey Road
Joni Mitchell — Clouds
George Harrison — All Things Must Pass
Joni Mitchell — Ladies Of The Canyon
Rolling Stones — Sticky Fingers
Stevie Wonder — Talking Book
Stevie Wonder — Innervisions
Bob Marley & The Wailers — Natty Dread
Bob Dylan — Blood On The Tracks
The Police — Reggatta de Blanc
U2 — The Unforgettable Fire
The Lemonheads — It’s A Shame About Ray
R.E.M. — Automatic For The People
U2 — How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb


So, that makes two U2 albums in the top 20, and 4 in my overall list of 37 or so -- I guess these in total would be "5-star" albums.

Having made the list, I would like to add that the album is not necessarily the most important medium in pop/rock/soul music. The further we get from "rock" (whatever that is), the less important the album becomes and the more important the single, or song (this also applies to all music before the mid- to late-60s). So, if I were to include compilations, there would be further 5-star entries by artists like Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, The Byrds, The Impression, Simon & Garfunkel, and lots of others...

 

[ShipOfFools]

This changes constantly, but here is where it is right now:

1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. Radiohead - Kid A
8. U2 - The Joshua Tree
9. Yes - Close To The Edge
10.U2 - Zooropa
11.Yes - Relayer
12.Prince - Sign 'O The Times
13.Prince - Dirty Mind
14.John Lennon - Walls & Bridges
15.Genesis - Duke
16.Phil Collins - Face Value
17.Genesis - Abacab
18.Michael Jackson - Dangerous
19.Tori Amos - Under The Pink
20.Prince - The Gold Experience

 

[jacez]

This changes constantly, but here is where it is right now:

1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. Radiohead - Kid A
8. U2 - The Joshua Tree
9. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
10.U2 - Zooropa
11.Yes - Relayer
12.King Crimson - Discipline
13.Prince - Dirty Mind
14.John Lennon - Walls & Bridges
15.Genesis - Duke
16.Phil Collins - Face Value
17.Genesis - Abacab
18.Michael Jackson - Dangerous
19.Tori Amos - Under The Pink
20.Prince - The Gold Experience

Oh!,,,how could I forget Depeche Mode Black Celebration!..it was such a fantastic album!
I used to keep playing the LP!

 

[SamuelSmeloc]

1-The Joshua Tree(U2);
2-The Unforgettable Fire(U2);
3-Dark Side of the Moon(PF);
4-Sgt. Peppers(Beatles);
5-Achtung Baby(U2);
6-Animals(PF);
7-Led Zeppelin IV;
8-Highway 61 Revisited(Bob Dylan);
9-Money For Nothing(Dire Straits);
10-A Night At The Opera(Queen);
11-OK Computer(Radiohead);
12-Rattle & Hum(U2);
13-The White Album(Beatles);
14-The Piper at The Gates of Dawn(PF);
15-Black Holes and Revelations(Muse);
16-On An Island(David Gilmour);
17-4(Dungen); That swedish band is sooooooo good!
18-No Line On The Horizon(U2);
19-In Rainbows(Radiohead);
20-Viva La Vida (Coldplay).

 

[elevation85]

It's really refreshing to see such diverse music tastes. I'll take a shot at this, although I tend to listen to songs more than albums. This is how ti loooks today,tommorw might be totally different--that's music.

1. Zooropa --U2
2. In Flight -- Linda Perry
3. Rattle & Hum --U2
4. Post --Bjork
5. Miranda --Tappi Tikarass
6. Earthquake Weather --Joe Strummer
7. Achtung, Baby - U2
8. Soundtracks For Movies 1 --The Passengers (yay!)
9. The Joshua Tree --U2
10. Mule Variations --Tom Waits
11. Little Earthquakes -- Tori Amos
12. Joplin in Concert --Janis Joplin
13. Sean Nos Nua -- Sinead O'Connor
14. Global a go-go -- Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros ( can you tell I'm a fan..?
15. London Calling --The Clash
16. POP --U2
17. Dummy --Portishead
18. Blood Sugar Sex Magik --Red Hot Chilli Peppers
19. Land --Patti Smith
20. Bigger! Better! Faster! More! --4 Non Blondes

Yeah.. ask me in an hour and it'd be different.

 

[God Part III]

My top 10:

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
3. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
4. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
5. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. U2 - Zooropa
10. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

U2, Dylan and Radiohead, it's all I ever listen to.

 

[lazarus]

I love how people say you can't put NLOTH in the top 20 !!! Get over yourself!!!!And for what it's worth from this bloody longtime fan it IS top tier!!!!!!!!!!! Listen to it for a while. Let it sink in without any preconceptions of anything else and you will understand the true beauty of this album!!!

I'm also a long time fan who loves this album. But I think to already be including something you've only had for a week (or three, if you got the leak) is rather ridiculous. I listened to POP even more when it came out, loved it even more, and while I still like it a lot, the point is that initial excitement can wear off after time, or sooner.

All I'm saying is people should have a little perspective. When you use the term "all-time" it's in relation to your entire life, and it cheapens the other albums you've grown to love so dearly by sticking something so new in there, regardless of who it's by or how much you like it already.

 

[God Part III]

If you're already putting No Line in your all-time Top 20, you probably need to listen to more music, or have a little perspective and patience.

Whatever happened to "music is subjective"?
I listen to a lot of music and NLOTH is pretty much the second coming of christ in my opinion.

NLOTH in your top 20? Big call. Obviously this is totally subjective, but...

A rock top 20 has to contain albums like Born To Run, Dark Side Of The Moon, Ok Computer... no need to go on.

I can't possibly rate NLOTH anywhere near these sort of albums. It is in U2's 'second tier' of albums; i.e. not even one of their best, let alone how it compares to the best from everyone else.

Again, why do I have to include Born to Run? I don't even like Springsteen.
And In Rainbows, Kid A, Hail To The Thief or Amnesiac >>>>>> OK Computer IMO.

 

[God Part III]

I'm also a long time fan who loves this album. But I think to already be including something you've only had for a week (or three, if you got the leak) is rather ridiculous. I listened to POP even more when it came out, loved it even more, and while I still like it a lot, the point is that initial excitement can wear off after time, or sooner.

All I'm saying is people should have a little perspective. When you use the term "all-time" it's in relation to your entire life, and it cheapens the other albums you've grown to love so dearly by sticking something so new in there, regardless of who it's by or how much you like it already.

Look me up in two years, and maybe you get to say "I told you so".

Until then, let me have my all time 5th favourite album exactly where it belongs.