munky Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Ok, screw this old stuff, time for some modern classics: Much Against Everyone's Advice - Soulwax* Sea Change - Beck Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins Woodface - Crowded House Beautiful Freak - eels Bring It On - Gomez Unplugged in New York - Nirvana Death to the Pixies - The Pixies Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo Document - R.E.M. OK Computer - Radiohead Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine BloodSugarSexMagik - Red Hot Chili Peppers * (NB the original european version, not the cut-down UK version) older stuff I like includes: Revolver - The Beatles Songs in the Attic - Billy Joel Sweet Baby James - James Taylor EDIT: Mash! How could I forget the Motown. Martha and the Vandellas! Smokey Robinson. Hell yeah, bring it on. cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-61026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Good call on placebo - but i was tied between that and sleeping with ghosts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-61422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JD- Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Saw this post and thought it needed resurrecting, so here goes I think the debate that was going on about whether any new music albums deserved to be classed as "greatest of all time or not" is kinda a no-brainer. As was said before, its all about influence - if an album has caused a change in any particular genre's way of thinking or making music, it deserves to get the title. It's impossible to call any new music albums greatest of all time, because they havent yet had the "time" part to decide whether they are great. Especially with the music industry at the moment (and this is REALLY apparent in the UK) being so incredibly fickle it's inbelievable. For example: any one band/group/artist can be given current legendary status in a couple of weeks by the public, then knocked down the next, as has happened to most acts in their careers. The true test (in my opinion anyway) is whether after any kind of knockback and after a long long time, people are still buying a band/group/artists albums. To take them to great status (again in my opinion) they have to have made a change in the way people think or write music - it's all very well saying "well i like metal so these are the 5 greatest albums or the metal genre". Great. They may well be great albums, but did they actually make an impact on anything? I haven't heard half of them, and im sure a lot of people haven't either but that's besides the point - what did the albums actually DO apart from sell? This is why im gonna make my list be about those albums that made a change right the way through the music industry - not just ones that i like (even though i do like them all - my taste is kinda eclectic). Right, in no particular order: Pet Shop Boys - Pet Sounds This album changed pop. Forever. There's a lot of talk about The Beatles on here, but did anyone consider who influenced The Beatles? It's well documented (as some of you may know) that Paul McCartney was heavily influenced by Pet Sounds whilst writing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, listing "God Only Knows" as his favourite track. For this reason alone, it has earnt its place. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath This deserves to go in here because Black Sabbath created the Metal genre, taking them to legendary status. As well as the music being something completely different to what was around at the time, with charachters like the infamous Ozzy (originally spelt "Ossie" on this album ) Osbourne and Tony "Leatherfingers" Iommi, Sabbath released a record that opened up the whole world's mind towards music. People will probably argue here about Metallica and such but sure, Metallica showed everyone how to make metal music perfectly but they didnt create the genre... The Fatback Band (or "Fatback" as they were called when this was actually released) - XII This album is on the list because it contains THE first hip-hop/rap single EVER - King Tim III (Personality Jock). Some people may argue that the Sugarhill Gang released the first Hip Hop single with "Rapper's Delight", but they are wrong - King Tim was released a few weeks before and Rapper's Delight used stolen lyrics anyway! Brief bit o' history for you here if you're interested - The name "Hip Hop" actually came from a going away party thrown in the underground (with the legendary Quincy Jones present) for a guy that was going away to join the army, so the MC (as they were just emerging at that time) starting shouting "The Hip, the Hop, the Hip Hip Hop" as a mimic of the american armys training chants. Hence the name of the genre - The Sugarhill Gang just stole it and made it famous. So anyway, thats why thats on the list The Beatles - Please Please Me The Beatles first release has to be on this list because they basically created Pop. I know i've said that The Pet Shop Boys influenced The Beatles and they did, but The Beatles created the genre. Before The Beatles, the closest to obsessive fans you'd get would be at a Frank Sinatra concert. Granted, they were obsessive, but not to the extent of The Beatles. They didnt only create the Pop genre, they also heavily influenced every other popular music genre to follow - Metal, Rock, Britpop, Dance, Rap, everything! So their first work is on here. Plus, "I Saw Her Standing There" is a kickass tune too Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues This album created pretty much all music (barr classical) as we know it today. If there's any arguments here, have a listen to your favourite piece of music and count the blues notes used (if you can't, get a friend to). Blues music is the foundation of every "Black Music" genre there is today, and almost every other genre of popular music. This album is the first catalogued blues release, so it deserves to be on this list (probably at the top actually) as is was the first commercially heard blues recording by the masses. Well that's my opinion anyway. It'd be nice to see if anyone agrees/disagrees so we can have a nice musical discussion (haven't had one of those for a while) Oh, and if someone thinks i may be biased due to my age or something....im 21 -JD- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-82743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolskaBro1824 Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Get out of here everyone (well most ) This question is one of those funny questions like best movie of all-time. People give 1 of 2 GENERIC answers 1) The selections best critically acclaimed just to act like they know something and have some taste 2) Totally off the wall rubbish to sound UNIQUE Well neither of you are unique, you look like a {censored} when you do it, so stop it. Fact is I can't really name a concrete top 5 because theres always small variances so I will name some favourite artists and what not - The Beatles *If making a top 5, they would probably make up 3 of 5 after all said and done. - Oasis *'Definitely Maybe' is without question top 5, and 'Don't Believe The Truth' isnt far off - Led Zep - U2 - The Verve - The Who - The Rolling Stones - Neil Young - Beach Boys (Pet Sounds is probably 'an in' in a top 5) - The Clash (London Calling is the only one with a chance of a top 10 for me though) - Bruce Springsteen - Miles Davis - Elvis (hes just a f***ing cool guy lol) -Michael Jackson And The Stone Roses album would probably make my top 5 cut if someone forced me into making one. So you can get out of here with the over hyping of Pink Floyd (YES, they are real good but most of you say them just to be politically correct) fact is they arent top 5 albums. And get out of here with your Metallica, they are f***ing garbage. In fact, so is all metal. Its all {censored}e. Pantera sucks, RIP Dimebag, but I'm sorry its garbage. Liam Gallagher said it best by saying 'I'd rather play to a hundred Oasis fans then 10,000 metal fans' not an exact quote but you get the point. And if "the Germans" don't like The Beatles then they deserved to be bombed again (not to be crude but its true) ...There I said it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-88605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT_rule Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd - The Wall Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Dream Theater - Octavarium Yes - Close to the edge ELP - Tarkus Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin Neal Morse - One Chick Corea & Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Jordan Rudess - Feeding the Wheel Jordan Rudess - Rhythm of Time Muse - Origin of Symmetry Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 1 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2 Rick Wakeman - Six Wives Of Henry VIII Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Spock's Beard - Snow Steve Vai - Real Illusions- Reflections In no particular order. That's all I can think for now... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-88882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamboo Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 1 - Roxy Music - Roxy Music 2 - David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 3 - Queen - A Night at the Opera 4 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II 5 - Alice Cooper - Killer Of course there should be some Beatles, a few Stones, a few The Who, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Doors, even Elton John's first opuses. And then Genesis. Oh, and King Crimson, also. Iggy Pop. Guns n' Roses is not bad for something a bit more recent. And Blur did good things too. A bit of the big J's... Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. Jefferson Airplane. John Lennon. Bryan Ferry of course. A bit of Lou Reed too. T. Rex. Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells should be in the 5 list, but I can't remove any item so it is not. Michel Polnareff, but he's French. A bit of Pink Floyd can't do harm. Rainbow did a lot of good music. Oh, I forgot to mention Rod Stewart's early years. And Supertramp. I hate: Steely Dan and all that new wave {censored} (Depeche Mode, Duran Duran). But I'm getting out of topic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-88938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrivinWest Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 For sheer genius if not popular acceptance: Phish - Rift The Disco Biscuits - The Missed The Perfume Umphrey's McGee - Safety In Numbers etc. in the Jam Rock genre... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-88958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OryHara Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Metallica - In justice for all Metallica - Black Album Metallica - Ride the Lightning Metallica - Master of puppets Marilyn Manson - AC Superstar Randy Travis - Always and Forever Zoe Poledouris - (Unkown - Rare) Rob Zombie - All of 'em Smashing Pumpkins - All of 'em (Song) Shaggy - Angel of the Morning (Song) Weird Al - All about the Pentiums (Song) Boston - More than a feeling (Song) Rammstein - Feuer Frei (ENG: Open Fire) (Song) Sarah Brightman - Song from 5th Element (Song) Ghost in the Shell - Inner Universe (From stand alone complex) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-88964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JD- Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Since we've got a pretty eclectic group here, I'm curious to see what ya'll think... What are the top 5 greatest music albums of all time? (And by greatest, I mean most influential, most musically creative, etc. All of those are a factor) ... Has noone read the original post on this thread? 5 greatest - Influential and Musically Creative Mash didnt say "what are all the german metal albums you can think of", or "whats the most rediculous list of stuff that noone else has ever heard of". 5 doesn't mean 12 and people dont seem to read properly any more... -JD- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-94790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
henbjo Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I'll have to say that I'm disappointed that no one have mentioned Steely Dan yet. My list: Steely Dan - Aja Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill Oasis - Definitely Maybe Steely Dan - Gaucho Radiohead - OK Computer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-99463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
konartis Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 here goes. 1. 2pac - me against the world 2. Notorious B.I.G - ready to die 3. Nas - god's son 4. Eazy-E - eazy-duz-it 5. Makaveli - 7 day theory let the flaming begin!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-105287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Any Boston album qualifies Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-117267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 1. The Beatles - Rubber Soul2. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 3. U2 - The Joshua Tree finally someone who put rubber soul up there. not that i dont like revolver but rubber soul hits the spot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-117373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxgus Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 some albums that i've enjoyed more than others in the last 10 years. - david holmes - let's get killed - david holmes - 98 essential (2cd) - sebadoh - bakesale - fischerspooner - #1 - the knife - deep cuts (and now silent shout) - super discount (etienne de crecy) - les rythmes digitals (darkdancer) / zoot woman & stuart price's remixes (lots) a bit electronic, but something else than just the classics ;-) those are givens.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-120434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOSSXX8866 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Favorite Albums: 1. Pros and Cons of Hitchhicking - Roger Waters Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qefgOPS3rS8 2. The Doors Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbI5K0AzNHI 3. Little Creatures - Talking Heads Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXsuAey-NE 4. Joshua Tree - U2 Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCxE22DOac 5. The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o57fTpEegI favorite songs of the moment: George Harrison - Bangladesh Link: The Beatles - Hey BullDog Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrEZH7j1bQ Gorillaz - Dare Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy928QJCDE Citizen Cope - Pablo Picasso Link: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4181-greatest-albums-of-all-time/page/3/#findComment-547778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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