Forumosa's 500 Greatest Albums Ever Made

Don’t like the list Rolling Stone magazine came up with of the 500 greatest albums ever made? Don’t agree with their obviously aging boomer voting panel? Please list your own choices here. If nothing else, it will give other forumosans exposure to some good music that they may have been unaware of.
List your top ten albums (not your top 500, please) in order. Thanks.
Mine are:

  1. Beatles - Revolver
  2. Cheikh Lo - Ne La Thiass
  3. Orchestra Baobab - Pirates Choice
  4. Beatles - Abbey Road
  5. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  6. Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
  7. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
  8. Beatles - The White Album
  9. Paul Simon - Graceland
  10. Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night

(And no, in spite of appearances, I’m not an aging boomer, though I realize my musical tastes make me look like I am.)

Let It Be.

No - not the Beatles album. I’ll give 100 guanxi to the first person who knows what album I’m talking about.

[quote=“mod lang”]Let It Be.

No - not the Beatles album. I’ll give 100 guanxi to the first person who knows what album I’m talking about.[/quote]

The Replacments

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
The Beatles - The Beatles
Bring It On - Gomez
OK Computer - Radiohead
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney
This Year’s Model - Elvis Costello
Revolver - The Beatles
Station to Station - David Bowie
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
In Our Gun - Gomez

This seems like a good point to remind everyone that the sixties are well over, and that it’s the most overrated, overhyped, decade ever.

The 80s, on the other hand, were much better (in terms of good music)

Brian

Astral Weeks (of course!)

Is anything game? Because my list would be mostly made up of film scores if so… :stuck_out_tongue:

[quote=“Bu Lai En”]This seems like a good point to remind everyone that the sixties are well over, and that it’s the most overrated, overhyped, decade ever.

The 80s, on the other hand, were much better (in terms of good music)

Brian[/quote]
Then please list your favorites. You’ll never convince anyone that 80s music was good with a list like the one you provided.

And, yeah, anything goes, including film scores.

SWEET! In that case…here goes nothing…in no particular order, just as I thought of them…

“Star Wars: A New Hope” - by John Williams
“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” - by Howard Shore
“The Matrix Revolutions” - by Don Davis
“Use Your Illusion 1” - by GNR
“OK Computer” - by Radiohead
“Life After Death” - by the Notorious B.I.G.
“All Eyez On Me” - by Tupac Shakur
“Follow The Leader” - by Korn
“Rage Against The Machine” - by RATM
“Furious Angels” - by Rob Dougan

There’s a lot more that could make a top 10 list for myself, but these are the first that sprung to mind. :sunglasses:

My Top Ten '80s albums:

The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
House of Freaks - Tantilla
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
R.E.M. - Murmur
Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
The Clash - London Calling
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Pixies - Doolittle
X - Wild Gift

Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Orange (complete original score)

Top Pop Electronic

Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Burger/Ink - Las Vegas
Nine Inch Nails - Further Down the Spiral
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
Spooky - Found Sound
Neil Landstrumm - Bedrooms and Cities
Underground Resistance - Interstellar Fugitives
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Thomas Brinkmann - Concept 1 96VR
Plug - Drum and Bass for Papa

Wow, so many americans, and no-one has spoken up for Frank Zappa, or Captain Beefheart. “I love you you big dummy” is an absolute classic.

And no Jeff Buckley. “Sallly go round the roses…” ???

What about compilations/best ofs? Are we talking best ‘albums’ or best ‘discs’?

(I’m a bit loathe to contribute a list, because it’s too hard to distinguish betwen what are ‘The Greatest’, and what are ‘my favourites’. Perhaps it would be best to just assume that the two are the same.)

Brian

Sounds like another thread: What are the best greatest hits compilations?

1.The Cream of Clapton - Eric Clapton
2.Remasters - Led Zeppelin
3.1962-66 and 1967-1970 - The Beatles
4.Gold - ABBA
5.Anthology - Aerosmith
6.Shining Like a National Guitar - Paul Simon
7.Greatest Hits 1971-1975 - The Eagles
8.Citizen Steely Dan 1972-1980 - Steely Dan
9.Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 - Billy Joel
10.The Very Best of Elvis Costello - Elvis Costello

I suppose it could be very biased towards what you like in music.

  1. Clayton Park by Thrush Hermit
  2. Sometimes I Cry by Tricky Woo
  3. Down at the Khyber The Joel Plaskett Emergency
  4. Appetite for Destruction by Guns and Roses
  5. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
  6. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
  7. Mock Up Scale Down by the Super Friendz
  8. You Can’t Touch This by the Local Rabbits
  9. Action Pact by Sloan
  10. Kiss Alive! by Kiss (the best live album ever)

honorable mentions:
Weezer The Blue Album
Green Day Dookie
Pearl Jam Ten
White Stripes Elephant

Cold Chisel - Cold Chisel
Hunters and Collectors - Ghost nation
Paul Kelly - Songs from the south