The 25 Greatest Rock and Roll Albums

[Dr. Drum]

OK, that's not my real list but you didn't expect me to pass up that suggestion, did you? ;D

[Kensterberg]

ROTFLMAO Drum!

I did mention that everyone could only submit one list, right? ;D

And I can't believe you put Live in Rio that low after you were saying what a great album it was! Nice to see the obvious (and correct) choice at number one, though.

I'm afraid of what kind of list this might generate from Riley, however ...

[Dr. Drum]

kenholzman said:

And I can't believe you put Live in Rio that low after you were saying what a great album it was!

Actually, I got kind of lazy as I got closer to the end, Ken.

Not so low, though, right? 23rd greatest album in all of rock n' roll.

[ScottsyII]

Ahhhh, nothing I love more than compiling favourites lists... all hail the return of the great list making threads to this community... I'm loving this series of lists we have been doing! Again the great difficulty in doing this list is working out where the hell the albums should bo numerically speaking, and that is AFTER working out WHICH albums make the cut for me personally... hmmmm...

It's a good thing I have time to do some thinking tonight... will probably post up at least an initial list tonight... here goes...

[ScottsyII]

Ok, so again, this list follows my usual boundaries of being albums that have made some impression me in some sort of significant way.... otherwise it wouldn't be truthful of me to list them as my choices for "greatest" albums...

Scottsy's 25 greatest rock albums...

1) Act of Free Choice - David Bridie (probably too obscure for most posters here... but it's unquestionably my favourite album of all time... to give itm a lower position would be a travesty of the highest order on my part...)
2) Starfish - The Church
3)The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
4) Automatic for the People - REM
5) Ok Computer - Radiohead
6) Peter Gabriel III - Peter Gabriel
7) The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
8) Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
9) 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Midnight Oil
10) Meddle - Pink Floyd
11) Ten - Pearl Jam
12) Echolalia - Something for Kate
13) Woodface - Crowded House
14) Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
15) Hologram of Baal - The Church
16) Aenema - Tool
17) Kid A - Radiohead
18) Terria - Devin Townsend
19) Dark Side of the Moon
20) Toxicity - System of a Down
21) Achtung Baby! - U2
22) Murmur - REM
23) Revenge is Slow - Bluebottle Kiss (another not so internationally well known Aussie band...)
24) Document - REM
25) Sunset Studies - Augie March

Might end up playing around with the order of those, but those would be the twenty five albums I'd definitely choose... :-)

[luke]

Clubber mentioned NWA...would anyone be interested in a Top Ten Rap Albums board? I dunno if it's anything Ken would host, but if enough people raise their hands I may go for it, if not just to see what ten rap albums come on top with a bunch of elitist rock fans...

I'm trying to get my shit together with the top 25 albums. I really, really, really didn't like my Brit mix, and felt that I should have crossed in some of the "greatest" bands and not just my faves, but on a mix like this, I'm probably going to have to do mostly favorites again, for sure. I'll probably be a lot happier with this one though, for sure.

[Rit]

ah've been thaaynkin'...

i'll redo my list to include MY favourite cds of all time... because a strictly objective one, such as the one i made to the ultimates in super perfectional perfection in my list above is self-defeating.. then there's no more debate, as everyone crowns my list King of the Universe.

so, i'll just post my 25 favourites. Watch for Pulp coming to a theatre near you soon.

[phil]

01) Highway 61 Revisited ~ Bob Dylan
02) Abbey Road ~ The Beatles
03) Hot Rats! ~ Frank Zappa
04) Scary Monsters... ~ David Bowie
05) The Band ~ The Band
06) Electric Ladyland ~ Jimi Hendrix
07) Willy and the Poor Boys ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival
08) Live at Leeds ~ The Who
09) London Calling ~ The Clash
10) Pearl ~ Janis Joplin
11) Closing Time ~ Tom Waits
12) Made in Japan ~ Deep Purple
13) The Joshua Tree ~ U2
14) Murmur ~ R.E.M.
15) The Anthology ~ Chuck Berry
16) The Doors ~ The Doors
17) Meddle ~ Pink Floyd
18) Live at the Apollo (63) ~ James Brown
19) Live Rust ~ Neil Young
20) Plastic Ono Band ~ John Lennon
21) Talking Heads: 77 ~ Talking Heads
22) Disraeli Gears ~ Cream
23) Green Onions ~ Booker T. & The MG's
24) Mad Dogs & Englishmen ~ Joe Cocker
25) Kinks Kontroversy ~ The Kinks

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

Very hard to order my top 25 favourites. I think I've got it, then think "but hang on, number 21 pisses all over number 14." Still, to quote the Chemical Brothers, here we go.

1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Aenima - TOOL
3. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
4. The Smiths - The Smiths
5. The Bends - Radiohead
6. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
7. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
8. VU & Nico - The Velvet Underground
9. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
10. Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
11. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
12. Angel Dust - Faith No More
13. Urban Hymns - The Verve
14. Funeral - Arcade Fire
15. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
16. Let Love In - Nick Cave
17. To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
18. Disintegration - The Cure
19. Superunknown - Soundgarden
20. Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
21. Bummed - Happy Mondays
22. XTRMNTR - Primal Scream
23. Kid A - Radiohead
24. Elyzium - Fields of the Nephilim
25. First & Last & Always - Sisters of Mercy

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

Looking at my list I 'spose it says that generally, imo, music just keeps getting better and better.

[dolly]

1) The Clash - London Calling
2) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3) Arcade Fire - Funeral
4) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
5) Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
6) Radiohead - The Bends
7) Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim
8) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
9) Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
10) Sistes of Mercy - First and Last and Always
11) System of a Down - s/t
12) The Clash - The Clash (US version)
13) PJ Harvey - Dry
14) Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
15) Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
16) The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
17) Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
18) Alice in Chains - Dirt
19) Emiliana Torrini - Love in the Time of Science
20) Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
21) Nick Drake - Pink Moon
22) Neil Young - On the Beach
23) Bob Dylan - HIghway 61 Revisite
24) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
25) Pulp - His n Hers


Edited - oops. Dolly can't count. After the top 5 it's not especially in an order - just how they came to me.

[Kensterberg]

Any list that has London Calling at the top is worthy in my book! Nicely done, dolly.

You've got until next Friday to make any changes ... like maybe adding a Beatles LP or something.

[tuneschick]

Hey dolly, nice to see you back!!

[Kensterberg]

God damn! I had no idea that there were so many lists up here already -- I'm gonna have to start the spreadsheet up now if I'm gonna keep up with this. You're all still free to change your lists until next Friday, just post a new ranking rather than going back and amending your earlier one.

The response to this list has been awfully good. You bastards just want to make me work, don't you? Well, you can't do it! I'm gonna go back to my practice right now, and do something easy ... like write a motion to suppress or something.

[Kensterberg]

Dolly -- you do realize you can add five more albums to your list, right? You can list up to 25 total.