AI Poll: Best rock/pop albums of all time

tonton

Here're the rules...



Pick 5 albums, no jazz or classical...



First: 5 points

Second: 3 points

Third: 1 point (pick 3)



Here's mine:

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

2. Led Zep - Houses of the Holy

3. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes,

U2 - Joshua Tree,

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland



We'll keep an ongoing tally...

groverat

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

2. Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

3. Nevermind - Nirvana

4. The Wall - Pink Floyd

5. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits



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spaceman_spiff

[quote]Originally posted by tonton:

<strong>Here're the rules...



Pick 5 albums, no jazz or classical...</strong><hr></blockquote>



Seems kind of arbitrary. I?m guessing that those two categories wouldn?t do that well anyway so why exclude them? I don't know how to construct an all-time best list without "Kind of Blue" being on it.



How aout Blues? Can we pick a Blues album?

anders

Is it three or five albums? Lets say three



1. Loveless My Bloody Valentine

2. Love of Life Swans

3. T.V.Sky God Machine

little cuss

1. Here it is... the flaming lips



2. Oh my gawd... the flaming lips



2. PCP ep the butthole surfers



2. Hairway to Steven the butthole surfers



2. An Alf Christmas- Alf and friends featuring Kenny Rogers



2. Shatner sings Cole Porter William Shatner



2. Halloween Sound Effects VA paramount studios



2. SST's the Blasting Concept vol 3. VA



2. Women and Children First Van Halen



ummm, what comes after 2?







2.

spaceman_spiff

Surfing around. Came across <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/SiliconInsider/SiliconInsider_020514.html"; target="_blank">this article</a> over a abcnews.com. Under the heading, "The Four-and-a-Half-Star Phenomenon" (a corallary to the NAZI rule) the author listed a number of albums. Of those he listed:



?Astral Weeks" - Van Morrison

?Sweetheart of the Rodeo? - the Byrds

?Pet Sounds" - Beach Boys

?Blonde on Blonde" - Dylan



Wow! That makes a damn impressive list. Works for me. But I still want "Kind of Blue" at the top of my list.

pscates

1. Revolver - The Beatles

2. Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison

3. Guitar Town - Steve Earle

4. Van Halen - Van Halen

5. Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival

applenut

1.) Revolver- The Beatles

2.) Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs- Derek and the Dominoes

3.) Hot Rocks- The Rolling Stones (Kind of cheating with that one)

4.) Deja Vu- Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

5.) Quadrophenia- The Who





add

6.) 461 Ocean Boulevard- Eric Clapton

7.) Aja- Steely Dan

8.) ten- pearl jam

9.) The Sky is Crying- Stevie Ray Vaughan

10.) Live at Carnegie Hall- Stevie Ray Vaughan

11.) The Wall- Pink Floyd

12.) Every other Beatle album

13.) Joshua Tree- U2

14.) Live at the Fillmore- Allman Brothers Band

15.) Abraxas- Santana

16.) Harvest moon- Neil Young

17.) Madman Across the Water- Elton John

18.) Are you experienced- Jimi Hendrix

19.) Led Zeppelin- I, II, III, iV (whatever you wanna call it, houses of the holy, in through the out door

20.) Nevermind- Nirvana



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yogisfunhouse

1/1a) OK Computer/Kid A - Radiohead

2/2a) Electric Ladyland/Are You Experienced?

3/3a) Music has the right to children/Geogaddi - Boards of Canada

4/4a) Permutation/Supermodified - Amon Tobin

5) Odelay - Beck

6) self titled - Rage against the Machine



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jeffyboy

5) Use Your Illusion-Guns 'n' Roses(slight cheat, UYI II if you want to get technical)

4) Ten-Pearl Jam

3) (What's The Story) Morning Glory?-Oasis

2) Out Of Time-REM

1) The Beatles-The Beatles (White Album)



I limited myself to one album per artist-the whole list would've been Beatles disks.



Jeff



Edit-put albums first



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trick fall

1. Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bullocks



2. Blondie, Blondie



3. The Velvet Underground, Complete Box Set



4. The Ramones, Rocket To Russia



5. Nirvana, Nevermind

imacfan

Really suprised how few of you are going for REM or Radiohead.

groverat

R.E.M.'s automatic for the people would be my #8 or so. OK Computer and Rain Dogs fought it out for my #5 slot.

spaceman_spiff

If the rules didn't arbitrarily exclude jazz albums, either Coltrane's "Live at Birdland" (next up on the rip parade) or "Blue Train" (also by John Coltrane) would've made my list. As for rock/pop albums just out of the top five "London Calling" and "Who's Next" belong close to the top. And you could swap out "Blonde on Blonde" for "Blood on the Tracks" and I'd still be happy.

thoth2

[quote]Originally posted by spaceman_spiff:

<strong>If the rules didn't arbitrarily exclude jazz albums, either Coltrane's "Live at Birdland" (next up on the rip parade) or "Blue Train" (also by John Coltrane) would've made my list. As for rock/pop albums just out of the top five "London Calling" and "Who's Next" belong close to the top. And you could swap out "Blonde on Blonde" for "Blood on the Tracks" and I'd still be happy.</strong><hr></blockquote>





What's arbitrary about keeping a list of "best rock/pop albums of all time" to pop and rock albums? Start another list if you want to. I find this set of categories to be broad enough really - you could split it up into best progressive rock, straight pop, alterna whatever.

Ok. Focus.



Here's mine (and I'm not sure of it, really, as you can see):





5. Synchronicity - the Police (could be Ghost in the Machine, though). (This slot and #4 could easily be any one of 25 records I can think of right off the top of my head).

4. Fair Warning - Van Halen (maybe VHI or II).

3. Gaucho - Steely Dan (tough choice b/w that and Aja).

2. Led Zepplin II

1. Beatles - pick one. How about Revolver.



Keep in mind that these are not necessarily my "desert island discs."

Thoth

pfflam

you people aren't hinking classic enough: those albums that will still be around in ten years:



Beatles --Revolver (or any)

Beach Boys -Pet Sounds

Led Zeppelin --2

Velvet Underground and Nico -Andy Warhol

Sex Pistols -Never Mind The Bullocks

Neil Young --Harvest --!!!!!

Dylan --Highway61 (or other)

Rolling Stones -Hot Rocks (or others)





I guess you'd have to mention Pink Floyds Dark Side but personally I hate that indulgent stuff --I stopped loving that wallowing pretentious emotion when I was 17 --Syd Barrett is by far the best of Pink Floyd --the Wall is ponderous pretentiouus indulgent psuedo intellectual and generally not productive.



add these

Also --

Black Sabbath -- Paranoid

Van Halen one

The Minutemen - Double Nickes On the Dime

Flipper -Generic Album

Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole

Greatful Dead --Europe 72





as for jazz:



Miles ---kinda blue but I prefer Bitches Brew and On the Corner

Coltrane - Live in Paris

Ellington --Oriental Suite(?)

Archie Shepp --Fire Music

others

little cuss

did i finish mine?



i can't remember....



cuss

rick1138

One that no one mentioned yet that is really worth mentioning is Marvin Gaye's What's Going On.Also,I'm surprised no one has mentioned Blur.

little cuss

blur? they had one good song... did ya see that jools with them and wilco?



it was as if jools had arranged a battle of the best from each side of the pond....



wasn't pretty,



cuss



p.s. yo poofters? ya want blur's heads back? they're stinkin' up the place...

tigerwoods99

I'd put The Chronic up there.

splinemodel

Hmm. I listen to a lot of really heavy stuff. On the "popular" grouping.



I'd have to say



1 - Ride the Lightning / Metallica

The first really hard album that maintained a level of coherence and actually had a lot of great instumentalism. Nobody has topped it yet.



2 - Pretty much anything by Dream Theater

Jaw dropping complexity, heaviness, and technical perfection in a rock mold.



. . . The rest is pretty tough. I listen mostly to non rock/pop. I'd include Rush, Nirvana, and I guess Led Zepplin in there somewhere, but I'm not really too sure where.