Top 10 Albums

[Robert]

Desert island list, etc. Must be 10, no more. Doesn't need to be in order of preference, it's understood absolute favourite changes depending on mood. Only one album per artist, which will result in some difficult choices to be made ...

Mine are,

The Beatles, Rubber Soul
The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
Television, Marquee Moon
Pavement, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Gang of Four, Entertainment!
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
Derek & The Dominoes, Layla & Assorted Love Songs
Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic

 

[RubberDucky451]

-The Avalanches, since i left you
-John Coltrane, a love supreme
-Magnetic Fields, 69 love songs
-Arcade fire, funeral
-The Strokes, this is it
-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap your Hands say yeah
-LCD Soundsystem, sound of silver
-Dave Brubeck Quartet, time out
-The books, thought for food
-Efterklang, Tripper

 

[grEEEn]

Tripping Daisy: Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
Lemonheads: Come on Feel
Portishead: Dummy
Grandaddy: Sumday
Jacksoul: ABsolute
Hum: Downward is Heavenward
Dramarama: Hi-fi Sci-fi
The Polyphonic Spree: The Beginning Stages
Matthew Sweet: Blue Sky on Mars
Sponge: New Pop Sunday

 

[illiterategenius]

I always say I would just make ten mix cds...but if I can't do that:

Aenima (Tool)
Kid A/OK Computer (Radiohead) - I would have to flip a coin.
The Moon & Antarctica (Modest Mouse)
Chocolate & Cheese (Ween)
The Downward Spiral (nine inch nails)
The Ultimate Experience (Jimi Hendrix)
Perfect From Now On (Built to Spill
XO (Elliott Smith)
Queens of the Stone Age (Queens of the Stone Age)
Madvillainy (Madvillain)

 

[bovinity]

Hmm this is tough but I'd probably say

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Immolation - Close to a World Below
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses
Agalloch - The Mantle
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénerescence
Summoning - Oath Bound
Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

something like that

 

[ElderToadstool]

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Om - God Is Good
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang
GZA - Liquid Swords
Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - Animals
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

 

[Dan]

Radiohead - In Rainbows (Though really all of their albums are exceptional)
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise!
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Neil Young - Harvest
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Grateful Dead - American Beauty

 

[Taprobane]

Hmm, so tough to just pick 10. I shall give it a go...

Radiohead - Ok Computer
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Maritime - Glass Floor
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Led Zeppelin - III

 

[Anthile]

Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Now there are two people on this planet who know and like that album!

 

[Taprobane]

It's a brilliant album. I absolutely love Explosions and I was devastated when I had to miss them the only time I've heard of them touring near me.

 

[Puffy]

Trout Mask Replica- Captain Beefheart
Animals - Pink Floyd
Lateralus- Tool
Pawn Hearts- Van Der Graaf Generator
Epitaph- Charles Mingus
Larks tongue in aspic- King Crimson
The Coral- The Coral
Inner Mounting Flame- Mahavishnu Orchestra
Sailing the seas of cheese- Primus
Surfer Rosa/ Come on Pilgrim- The Pixies

Bet i've forgotten some obvious ones though.

 

[nickgray]

My current top 10, in no particular order:

Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues
Mahler - Symphony No.7
Bartok - Rhapsodies No.1, 2 (BB 94, 96)
Beethoven - String Quartet No.14
Berlioz - Grande Messe des Morts
Wagner - Gotterdammerung
Pettersson - Symphony No.7
Bruckner - Symphony No.3
Mussorgsky - Khovanschina
Brahms - String Sextet No.2

...or something like that

 

[Polaris]

Hmmm...extremely difficult. But these are the ones that stand out right now (I'm half asleep)

Kid A- Radiohead
The Dreaming-Kate Bush
London Calling-The Clash
Boys don't cry-The Cure
Superunknown-Sound Garden
Holberg Suite-Edvard Grieg
Arvo Part-Tabula Rasa
A Love Supreme-John Coltrane
Ed Kuepper- This is the Magic Mile
The Beatles- White Album

 

[ckm]

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sujan Stevens - Illinois
Portishead - Dummy
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós - Takk...
The Antlers - Hospice
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

 

[Puffy]

Demon Days is highly underestimated

 

[bananaphallus]

Demon Days is highly underestimated

You really can't beat an album with 'Kids With Guns', 'Dirty Harry', and narration by Dennis Hopper.

 

[This_is_Jon_Gold_Speaking]

Okkervil River- BlackSheepBoy+
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
The Kinks- Something else (and every other album)
Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
ARCADE FIRE- funeral
Oasis- ALL
Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
Interpol- Antics
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 revisited
Editors- An End Has a Start

 

[asdfasdfasdfsdf]

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Buckethead - Crime Slunk Scene
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Alan Parsons Project - I-Robot
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper.

i am a huge fan of classical piano.. but there isnt really a particular "album"
i also decided to leave out soundtracks.. but if i had considered them, there would probably be a few video game soundtracks thrown in there..

 

[Infinite Regress]

Kent - Isola

 

[preilemus]

Now in Pictures!!!

yeah

 

[snafupants]

the list would comprise randy newman and radiohead, but i have trouble winnowing it down beyond that. sorry folks [awkwardly walks away]

 

[snafupants]

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sujan Stevens - Illinois
Portishead - Dummy
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós - Takk...
The Antlers - Hospice
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

severely violating the one band quota amigo...violator, another good album

 

[Ska]

Punk In Drublic - NOFX
More Noise and Other Disturbances - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Legend - Bob Marley
Two Shoes - The Cat Empire
Live at Ernesto's - The Slackers
Operation Ivy - Operation Ivy
Everything You Need - Slightly Stoopid
Sublime - Sublime
A Poet's Life - Tim Armstrong
The Specials - The Specials (not sure if this is a best of album or not, but if it is then that's probably cheating, and I'd have to go with Coral Fang by The Distillers)

This was kind of tough for me given the 1 artist rule, that I grew up in a generation where music was downloadable for free, and thus, I often got songs instead of complete albums, and the fact that I don't listen to much outside of punk, ska, or reggae.

 

[ShipwreckSilence]

M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood
Sol Seppy - The Bells of 1 2
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
Terminal - How The Lonely Keep
Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Para One - Naissance des Pieuvres
White Rose Movement - Kick

 

[snafupants]

sail away - randy newman
kid a - radiohead
homogenic - bjork
monk's dream - thelonious monk
closer - joy division
disintegration - the cure
otis blue - otis redding
velvet underground - velvet underground
in utero - nirvana
plastic ono band - john lennon

 

[ckm]

severely violating the one band quota amigo...violator, another good album

I must not have read the OP properly/at all the first time I posted, thanks for pointing it out.

Revised list:

The Antlers - Hospice
Godspeed You!Black Emperor - Life Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Portishead - Dummy
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Yann Tiersen - Tabarly
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

The last four are somewhat "filler" in that there is a large difference in my passion for them versus the first six.

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

Songs In the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Yes Album - Yes
Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin (Which is funny because I'm just listening to it for the first time today. Have had I, II, and IV for a long time but never heard this one....aaaand now I'm in love with it. I'm not overreacting either; IV comes close to this one but I still immediately prefer III. Have you heard "Since I've been Loving You?" Wawawewa. I just...

anyway...

Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Juslisen - Musiq
Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face
Illmatic - Nas
Edit: 2-way tie. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis/Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest

I can't believe I was forced to choose between Floyd's DSOTM and Animals, and Yes's "Edge" and Yes Album. Damn you.

Please don't trap me on a desert island. Making me choose only 10 albums to listen to forever is worse than being trapped on an island.
I actually might enjoy being alone on an island if I had sustenance, etc...

 

[elliotmay]

If I were to be banished to that dreaded desert island today:

Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook - Discography (which is album length...)
Benoit Pioulard - Précis
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
Dirty Three - Horse Stories

Oh. Maybe I wouldn't mind it so much

 

[EyeSeeCold]

If I were to be banished to that dreaded desert island today:

Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook - Discography (which is album length...)
Benoit Pioulard - Précis
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
Dirty Three - Horse Stories

Oh. Maybe I wouldn't mind it so much

Someone get this guy a beer.

 

[Anthile]

Hmm. My choice would be very different from the last time somebody asked me!

The Mars Volta - Amputechture
World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land
Radiohead - Kid A
Yes - Close To The Edge
Why? - Alopecia
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antenna To Heaven
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Kekal - The Habit Of Fire
Mutyumu - il y a

All in no specific order.

 

[Wish]

Bibio - Vignetting the Compost
Radiohead - Kid A
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Pavement - Brighten the Corners (Nicene Creedence Edition)
The Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a Tender History in Rust
Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise!
Why? - Alopecia
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

....hmm...for some reason I am not satisfied with this list

 

[Anthile]

Radiohead - Kid A

Why? - Alopecia

The Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness

Hmm, I'd maybe put that on a Top 20 list but definitely on a Top 30! Freakin' Galaxial Pharmaceutical.

 

[dark]

0 - Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (--- UP THE IRONS!)
1 - Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
2 - Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
3 - Radio Head - The Bends
4 - Wilco - A Ghost is Born
5 - Rolling Stones - Beggers Banquet
6 - Syd Barrett - Opel
7 - Pink Floyd - Final Cut
8 - Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
9 - John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

That is about the order too. Was a little tough, had to start thinking of what I actually liked best, and album entirety.

 

[terraxceles]

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Mastodon - Leviathan
5. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
6. Tiger Trap - Tiger Trap
7. Beat Happening - Jamboree
8. Belle and Sebastian - If You Are Feeling Sinister
9. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
10. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

 

[MaxP]

in no particular order

Pixies - Doolitle (or surfer rosa, or Pilgrim for that matter)
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
The Toadies - Rubberneck
My Blody Valentine - Loveless
The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards ***NEW***OMFGZILLA!!!!
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Led Zepplin - I-IV + Houses of the Holy (Seriously why choose one)
Xavier Rudd - Solace
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Gold (Im not a fan of best of albums but this one covers the greats)

These are off the top of my head, I dont really like ranking music as I find ranking systems to undermine the value of music

 

[Wish]

I have to make a couple revisions:

Bibio - Fi
Radiohead - Kid A
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Pavement - Brighten the Corners (Nicene Creedence Edition)
The Future Sound of London/Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a Tender History in Rust
Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise!
Why? - Alopecia
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Harold Budd/Brian Eno - Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror

 

[snafupants]

Long live Ambient Four: On Land! Also, Kid A. That is all.

 

[Whatever I am]

In no particular order-


Rocks-Aerosmith
Get Your Wings-Aerosmith
The Wall-Pink Floyd
2112-Rush
Toys in the Attic-Aerosmith
Night at the Opera-Queen
Night in the Ruts-Aerosmith
Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
Justice For All-Metallica
Aerosmith-Aerosmith

 

[Mush]

The Smiths-The Smiths
The Smiths- Meat is Murder
The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead
Mazzy Star-She Hangs Brightly
Nirvana-Nevermind
Mazzy Star- So Tonight That I Might See You
Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild(Soundtrack)
Mariee Sioux- Faces in the Rocks
Sorry, I can not think of anymore. And these are all subject to change.

 

[LTVX]

The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - Strange Days
The Doors - L.A. Woman
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

So many albums to choose from! These are some personal classics.

 

[Cosmic Monster]

Misfits - Static Age
Gene Vincent - Blue Jean Bop
ZZ Top - Fandango
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Junior Parker - Driving Wheel
Reverend Horton Heat - The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat
Stray Cats - Built For Speed
A Star Is Born Soundtrack 1954
Yves Montand - Le Paris de Montand
The Clash - Combat Rock

 

[NeverSayMyName]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Fates Warning - Parallels
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Iron Maiden - The X Factor
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Death - Human
Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulee
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

ahhh, there are so many

 

[MacGuffin]

Hard. Most of mine are pretty common. In chronological order:

The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album)
Led Zepplin - Untitled (IV)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Clash - London Calling
The Replacements - Tim
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

 

[fduniho]

This is a desert island list, not a top ten list. It is a tough call, because it is hard to fit all my musical interests into ten albums. I had to prune out some albums I really love just to make sure I didn't neglect important musical needs.

Essentials:
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
October Project - Falling Farther In
Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat
Debussy - La Mer/Trois Nocturnes/Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Exercise:
Elysium - Dance for the Celestial Being
Psychic Chakra

Jazz:
Opera Swing Quartet - Mischen: Is Possible
Chick Corea & Hiromi - Duet

Classical:
Tomita - Snowflakes are Dancing
Eddie Daniels - The Five Seasons

 

[fduniho]

Okay, now for a top ten list, which, unlike a desert island list, is not being designed with a certain use in mind. For classical works, I'll omit particular performers. Choices are somewhat arbitrary and could be different at a different time.

Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
October Project - Falling Farther In
Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat
Debussy - La Mer/Trois Nocturnes/Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers
Yes - Keys to Ascension
Holst - The Planets
Sarah Brightman - Harem
Richard Souther - Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
Keiko Matsui - No Borders

 

[Mange Mareng]

Very difficult to pick out just ten albums, but here goes...

Destroyer - Destroyers Rubies
Destroyer - Kaputt
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Buffalo Daughter - Pshychic
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Koushik - Out my WindowFela Kuti - Zombie
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

Scratch my earlier post in this thread. It is very difficult for me to choose between 3 Floyd albums and 3 Yes albums.

DSOTM, Animals, actually I really like Atom Heart too, Meddle's just as good or better than Atom Heart.

Close to the Edge, Yes Album, Going for the One, Fragile. I put Topographic Oceans and Relayer slightly below these but I still need them in my life.

There's a ton of music not played by these two bands that I'd be left to struggle with and ultimately couldn't decide between, so this is impossible for me. I'd literally have to be chased by someone with a gun and see a pile of 25 or so of my most revered albums, and have just enough time to grab 10 at random. I'd more than likely be shot, though.

I do apologize, OP. I must now hang my head in shame.

 

[Panopticon]

CURRENT MUSIC:

Opeth- Still Life
Devin Townsend Band- Synchestra
The Mars Volta- Deloused In The Comatorium
Katatonia- Night Is The New Day
Death- Symbolic
Explosions In the Sky- The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Isis- Panopticon
My Dying Bride- The Dreadful Hours
Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways

^Mind you that for some of these artists I'm kind of settling on one album, I wish I could pick all of them.

CLASSICS:

Led Zeppelin- II
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
The Beatles- White Album
Queen- A Night At The Opera
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Bob Marley- Exodus
Nick Drake- Bryter Layter
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King

I feel as if I can write man top 10 lists of albums. I feel like I had to leave some good shit out. Oh well.

 

[Sosekopp]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven
XTC - Drums & Wires
Television - Marquee Moon
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

 

[Stigmata]

Radiohead - Ok Computer
The Misfits - Earth AD
NOFX - Pump Up The Valuum
The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina I
AFI - Very proud of ya
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pixies - Doolittle
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
The Cardigans - Life
Puro Instinct - Headbangers in ecstasy