Top 10 albums of all time. Tell me Bluelight.

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced?
Cage and Tame One - Leak Bros
The Stone Roses - s/t
Wu-tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven or Vulgar Display of Power
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
DJ Krush - Zen
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

i would probably come up with a much different list if i spent a good hour or two working on it, that's my 5 minute list

edit: resinteeth, nice call on "frozen corpses stuffed with dope."

edit: enter the 36 chambers and effigy of the forgotten off the list
electric wizard "dopethrone"
and
hallucinogen "in dub"
on the list
and "music has the right to children" and "geogaddi" i'm not sure which i like better.
 
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(not in any particular order...)

The Beatles – Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
Paul Simon – Graceland
Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
The Cat Empire – The Cat Empire
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Radiohead – The Bends
Phish – Billy Breathes
Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground and Nico
High Contrast – Tough Guys Don’t Dance
 
Fuck it I'm doing 12. No order.

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Pixies - Doolittle
The Band - The Band
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Nas - Illmatic
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Honorable Mentions / possible contenders:

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Caribou - Andorra
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker
Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (third album, not with Nico)
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire
Tool - Lateralus
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Yes - Fragile
Derick and the Dominoes - Layla
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Queen - A Night at the Opera
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - OK Computer
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Byrds - Sweethart of the Rodeo
Simon and Garfunkle - Parsely, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
Jeff Beck - Wired
John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Paul McCartney - Ram
Paul McCartney - McCartney
The Who - Live at Leeds
Television - Marque Moon
The Clash - The Clash
The Clash - London Calling
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Jeff Buckley - Grace
A billion other Miles albums
The rest of the Beatles albums
 
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diversification for the win.
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Indeed. I had to do a double-take. :)

Idiosyncratic not just to me but also my current whims:

Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Speedy J - A Shocking Hobby
Autechre - [untitled] (aka LP5)
Isis - Oceanic
Meshuggah - Catch-33 (okay...the amazing finale skews this...could've been "Destroy, Erase, Improve")
Tool - Lateralus
Radiohead - OK Computer
Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Meat Beat Manifesto - Actual Sounds and Voices

Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
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God did I want to put this on there...I noticed just how ridiculous this task was around item 6.

ebola
 
One thing that bothers me, (and this isn't directed at anyone here), is how a lot of people consider the different genres of music to be Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country, Classical, Hip Hop, Electronic, World Music and don't distinguish between the different musical styles in each wide category.

For example, at first glance a lot of people would dismiss my list as just mostly classic rock. But that's looking at it simply from the perspective of 2009. I think my list is extremely diverse. Each of the groups I have listed are drastically different than each other even if most fall under the category of classic rock.

I would consider Steely Dan to be as far apart from Neil Young as they are from The Roots or Boards of Canada.
 
#1 Lateralus - Tool
#2 Ænima - Tool
#3 Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
#4 Half A World Away- Ogsy
#5 Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss
#6 The Downward Spiral- Nine Inch Nails
#7 S&M- Metallica
#8 Superunknown- Sound Garden
#9 Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
#10 Dirt- Alice in Chains


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I feel bad for having two tool albums on there... I almost put three (hard to decide between Undertow and 10,000 days.). I also nearly put another Nine Inch Nails album in there (Ghosts). Rodrigo y Gabriela deserves an honorable mention, as they managed to make my favorites, and are kinda way out of my normal genres.

Someone (aka not me) should make an excel list, and give us the *real* bluelight top 10 list. Actually, it would be cool to see the percentages of the favorite albums here.
 
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I just had a dream last night, and In Rainbows was far better in my imagination. Either Radiohead has exceeded my expectations in reality, or I need to get cacking myself. (personally, I am a big Radiohead fan).
 
I'll make it MY top ten of all time, and even at that I'm going to take some liberties.


In no special order:

Aja - Steely Dan

This really does qualify on all levels. Every song is drop dead good. It hangs together well as an album. The cover looks good. The musicianship is first rate. It was genre bending at the time. AND, I still play it lots.


Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) - Cecil Taylor

This is free jazz. For anyone who actually know who this guy is and has heard some of his stuff, this is the shit. There are about a dozen musicians playing on this and they're all going at the same time in different directions.


The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - Ben Folds Five

I read where this was actually one long thing to begin with, until Ben Folds broke it up into pieces (songs).


Close to the Edge - Yes

Three songs. An epic album. Hard to choose among the Yes albums, but this one has the fewest rough spots.


Red - King Crimson

I don't know of anything else that sounds quite like this. Something for everyone here.


Jimmy (Smith) and Wes (Montgomery) - The Dynamic Duo

An oddball on a top ten list. Organ player Smith and guitar player Montgomery were great as individual players and this came together really nicely. Just easy to listen to.


Secret Story - Pat Metheny

I might have a different choice for PM if I'd heard more of his jazz stuff, but as a long album this works really well. Lots of moods and different types of playing.


11 Tracks of Whack- Walter Becker

His first solo album outside of Steely Dan (1994). Utterly personal songs that don't always make for a good 'album.' But as a collection of songs they show what he's capable of and a lot of it is pretty far out. Some of THE best music I've ever heard while high because it reveals itself in a different way. All music sounds better high, but this is something different again for me.


Fiddler on the Roof/Oliver/West Side Story - Soundtracks

A mess of clever songs from these three shows.


Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

I went years without actually owning this. When I got it and played it through I understood what the fuss was about. Afficionados might prefer something else, but the album cuts here are really good.
 
1) Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
2)Eminem - Relapse

Eminem - The Eminem Show
Nas - Illmatic
Nirvana - Nevermind
DMX - It's Dark & Hell Is Hot
DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
Dr. Dre - 2001
Tech N9ne - Everready: The Religion
Warren G - Regulate: The G Funk Era
 
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I just had a dream last night, and In Rainbows was far better in my imagination. Either Radiohead has exceeded my expectations in reality, or I need to get cacking myself. (personally, I am a big Radiohead fan).
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Damn, it must have been really fucking good then. In Rainbows is my favorite Radiohead release. I have a feeling its reputation will grow to rival OK Computer and The Bends.
 
Yeah in rainbows is like a slightly more "sober"radiohead album than ok computer/amnesiac/kid a. I love it for what it is but some people didn't like the short length and lack of exploration(well for a radiohead album).
 
i can listen to endlessly..

Demon Days - Gorillaz
Revolver - Beatles
Waiter You Vultures - Portugal. The Man
Kezia - Protest the Hero
XO - Elliott Smith
Into the Valley of Death - Death by Stereo
13 Songs - Fugazi
Undoing Ruin - Darkest Hour
Fuck World Trade - Leftover Crack
Self Titled - I am the Avalanche
 
The list is rapidly evolving, but for now, in order:

1. Pink Floyd-DSOTM
2. Tool- Aenima
3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Howl
4. The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
5. Bjork- Vespertine
6. Radiohead- Kid A
7. Jeremy Enigk- Return of the Frog Queen
8. Nirvana- Unplugged
9. Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
10. Beruit- The Flying Club Cup

Honorable Mention:

11. Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
12. Sunny Day Real Estate- How it Feels to be Something On
13. Mastodon- Remission
14. NIN- The Downward Spiral
15. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

Those in the honorable mention category were strong contenders, but there were plenty of others that I didn't want to clutter the list with, such as multiple albums from the same band (Sunny Day excluded).
 
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8. Nirvana- Unplugged
9. Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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Definite classics, for sure.

A couple I forgot to mention:

- Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (replace one of the DMX albums and that's definitely in my top 10)
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic (I prefer 'Doggystyle' over it, but that's easily an honorable mention, if not in the actual top 10)
- Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang: The 36 Chambers (easily an honorable mention...I'm sure most hip-hop heads got that in their top 10)
 
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