Top 11 Albums of All Time (muhaha)

[Lancemc]

Ok, now here's a list thread for you...but with a few simple rules!

1. ONLY 11 albums, no live albums.

2. MUST be ordered sequentially by greatness

3. ONLY 1 album by any one band/artist allowed on list. I don't care if you think ALL of Duran Duran's albums are better than INXS' Kick, only pick one to put above it!

Edit to add Rule 4: No Best Of/Greatest HIts/Compilations of any kind.

That's it. So, here's my list.

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1. The Joshua Tree - U2
2. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
3. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
4. Low - David Bowie
5. Remain in Light - The Talking Heads
6. Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
7. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
8. Quadrophenia - The Who
9. Animals - Pink Floyd
10. The Bends - Radiohead
11. IV - Led Zeppelin

 

[jimmmm]

1. Achtung Baby - U2
2. Low - Bowie
3. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
4. Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
5. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
6. You Are The Quarry - Morrissey
7. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
8. The Bends - Radiohead
9. The Idiot - Iggy Pop
10.Who's Next - The Who
11.Abba - Gold

 

[U2Man]

Best of compilations aren't allowed, are they?

 

[Lancemc]

Best of compilations aren't allowed, are they?

I am afraid not my friend.

 

[U2Man]

This wasn't easy, but here are 11 albums that I find worthy of being on such a list:

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Crowded House - Together Alone
6. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
7. Michael Jackson - Thriller
8. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
9. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
10. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
11. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

 

[GibsonGirl]

My list is continually changing.

1. Animals - Pink Floyd
2. A Night At The Opera - Queen
3. Kid A - Radiohead
4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -The Beatles
5. Heaven Up Here - Echo And The Bunnymen
6. Closer - Joy Division
7. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
8. The Moon And Antarctica - Modest Mouse
9. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
10. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers


Could be something completely different next week. Although the top three are kind of fixed (not in that order, just those three albums in the top three.)

Oh and I see I forgot to add U2. So yeah...throw Zooropa in there somewhere.

 

[Blue Room]

1. U2 The Joshua Tree
2. Bruce Springsteen Tunnel Of Love
3. The Beatles Sgt Peppers
4. INXS Kick
5. Prince Purple Rain
6. Led Zeppelin IV
7. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
8. Van Halen 5150
9. Pearl Jam Ten
10. Michael Jackson Off The Wall
11. The Cult Electric

 

[LMP]

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
6. Michael Jackson - Thriller
7. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
8. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
9. David Bowie - Low
10. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

 

[Zoots]

1. Achtung Baby - U2
2. Abbey Road - The Beatles
3. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
4. IV/Zoso/Untitled/Runes - Led Zeppelin
5. The Bends - Radiohead
6. Automatic For The People - REM
7. No Code / Ten - Pearl Jam (tough to choose)
8. Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
9. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Hysteria - Def Leppard
11. Dangerous - Michael Jackson

edit: Shit, totally forgot Oasis Morning Glory!

 

[Screwtape2]

1. The Joshua Tree- U2
2. Synchronicity- The Police
3. Hounds Of Love- Kate Bush
4. Rush Of Blood To The Head- Coldplay
5. ...Nothing Like The Sun- Sting
6. Ra- Utopia
7. Disintegration- The Cure
8. Initiation- Todd Rundgren
9. Urban Hymns- The Verve
10. Ten- Pearl Jam
11. Animals- Pink Floyd

 

[maro_chik]

Hmmm... I'll give it a shot.

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Sigur Ros - ( )
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
7. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
8. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
9. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
10. Madonna - Ray Of Light
11. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

edit: Oops, forgot #11

 

[MacPhistoPT]

1. Pearl Jam - Yield
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. Oasis - What's the story...
4. Alice in Chains - Dirt
5. Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
6. Radiohead - Ok Computer
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
9. Tool - Aenema
10. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for destruction
11. Temple of the dog - self-titled

Wow
It was really hard to choose only one album for some bands...

sorry No Code, sorry Achtung Baby, sorry Animals, sorry The Bends, sorry Lateralus, sorry 10000 Days, sorry Blood Sugar Sex Magic, sorry ...and Justice for All

 

[elevation2u]

favorite albums of today

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Willy Mason - Where The Humans Eat
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
Woody Guthrie- Dust Bowl Ballads
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Shuggie Otis - In Session Information
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Daft Punk - Discovery
Saul Williams - self titled
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea

 

[LMP]

Shuggie Otis - In Session Information

Why did I read that as Sugar Tits the first time?

why?

 

[Jack In The Box]

this is so hard, it changes every day, or hour, or minute...

1. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2. The Fall of Math - 65daysofstatic
3. Achtung Baby - U2
4. Has a Good Home - Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett)
5. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
6. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
7. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
8. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
9. The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
10. Easily Misunderstood - The Samuel Jackson Five

 

[00Kevin]

1.Abbey Road-The Beatles
2.Achtung Baby-U2
3.Ok Computer-Radiohead
4.Remain in Light-The Talking Heads
5.Who's Next-The Who
6.Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen
7.Sticky Fingers-The Rolling Stones
8.The Wall-Pink Floyd
9.Aja-Steely Dan
10.Are You Experienced-Jimi Hendrix
11.Imagine-John Lennon

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

I'm probably the only one who thinks POP is one of the best albums ever made. Damn, I can't choose it!

1. U2- Achtung baby
2. The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
3. Oasis - Definetely maybe
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
6. Supergrass - Supergrass
7. Stereophonics - Word gets around
8. Robbie Williams - Escapology
9. Queen - A night at the opera
10. Supertramp - Even in the quitest moments
11. The Doors - The Doors

 

[Salome]

1. Brian Wilson - Smile
2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3. U2 - The unforgettable fire
4. R.E.M. - Out of time
5. John Coltrane - A love supreme
6. Palace Music - Arise, therefore
7. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
8. AC/DC - Let there be rock
9. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I got worry
10. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
11. Frank Zappa - Hot rats


subject to change indeed

 

[toscano]

1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
2. u2 - Joshua Tree
3. Simple minds - New Gold Dream
4. Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
5. Queen - A night at the opers
6. AC/DC - Back in Black
7. Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
8. U2 - Achtung Baby
9. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
10. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
11. Led Zeppelin - IV

 

[Aygo]

1. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
2. Playing The Angel - Depeche Mode
3. Automatic For The People - REM
4. American Life - Madonna
5. The Bends - Radiohead
6. Computer World - Kraftwerk
7. Heathen Chemistry - Oasis
8. X&Y - Coldplay
9. III - Led Zepellin
10. Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
11. Scary Monsters - David Bowie

 

[Bono's shades]

1. U2 - The Joshua Tree
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
3. Jeff Buckley - Grace
4. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
5. The Beatles - The White Album
6. R.E.M. - Green
7. Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
8. INXS - Kick
9. Peter Gabriel - So
10. Prince - Sign o' the Times
11. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

[hedgehog]

1. U2 - Pop
2. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
3. Blur - Blur
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. James - Whiplash
6. Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
7. REM - Automatic For The People
8. The Verve - Urban Hymns
9. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
10. Oasis - Definately Maybe
11. Coldplay - Parachutes

 

[yeter]

1. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
2. Kind of Blue-Miles Davis
3. Joshua Tree-U2
4. Rain Dogs-Tom Waits
5. The Bends -Radiohead
6. Pet Sounds -Beach Boys
7. Pretenders-Pretenders
8. Led Zeppelin II-Led Zep
9. Aja-Steely Dan
10. The Queen is Dead - Smiths
11. Urban Hymns -The Verve

 

[I'm Ready]

1.Blood on the Tracks-Bob Dylan
2.Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen
3.Ok Computer-Radiohead
4.Quadrophenia-The Who
5.Let it Bleed-Rolling Stones
6.Are You Experienced?-Jimi Hendrix
7.Achtung Baby-U2
8.Velvet Underground and Nico-Velvet Underground
9.Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
10. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie

 

[AchtungBono]

My top 11:

11. Here At The Mayflower - Barry Manilow
10. In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
9. Abby Road - The Beatles
8. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
7. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
6. Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
5. Achtung Baby - U2
4. Main Course - The Bee Gees
3. Thriller - Michael Jackson
2. The Tension & The Spark - Darren Hayes
1. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack - Various artists.

 

[djerdap]

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
3. The Cure - Disintegration
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
6. Pixies - Doolittle
7. Led Zeppelin IV
8. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
9. Depeche Mode - Violator
10.New Order - Get Ready

 

[shortfuse]

1. All that you cant leave behind - U2
2. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants - Oasis
3. Revolver - The Beatles
4. Californication - Red hot chilli peppers
5. American Idiot - Green Day
6. Urban Hymns - The verve
7. Parachutes - Coldplay
8. There is nothing left to lose - Foo Fighters
9. Automatic for the people - REM
10. Savage Garden - Savage Garden
11. The Killers - Hot Fuss

Honorable mentions to The X Files soundtrack and Hopes and Fears by Keane

 

[Saracene]

(in no particular order after no.1 since I don't feel like spending hours deciding which is greater)

1. To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
2. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
3. The Wall - Pink Floyd
4. Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
5. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
6. Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
7. The Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
8. From the Choirgirl Hotel - Tori Amos
9. Aion - Dead Can Dance
10. London Calling - The Clash
11. Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

 

[RavenBlue]

This is by no means a solid list.

1.U2 - Pop
2.Rammstein - Mutter
3.Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
4. Garnet Rogers - Small Victories
5. Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage
6. Fear Factory - Demanufacture
7. Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
8. Children of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts
9. Nightwish - Oceanborn
10. Live - The Distance to Here
11. Moby - Play

 

[FitzChivalry]

Ok, now here's a list thread for you...but with a few simple rules!

1. ONLY 11 albums, no live albums.

2. MUST be ordered sequentially by greatness

Stupid question. Are these 11 albums our personal favorite 11 albums, or are they the 11 albums that we think are the greatest, i.e., changed the face of music, raised the bar, set the stage etc., etc.???