A Crow Left Of The Murder was also very close as my Incubus selection.
1 Like
Oh really? I must say I thought Incubus went into decline after Make Yourself and couldn’t get into ACLOTM. Fungus Amongus however, yes please!
Found this extremely hard to narrow down to ten, let alone order them.
- Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
- Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
- Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
- Sinead O’Connor - Sean-nos Nua
- Icehouse - Primitive Man
- Talking Heads - True Stories
- Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes
- REM - Automatic for the People
Live/compilations
Dire Straits - Alchemy
The BoDeans- Joe Dirt Car
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Foreigner - Greatest Hits
Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball
Bee Gees - One Night Only
KISS - Alive(s)
Michael Jackson - History
Billy Joel - Songs from the Attic
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
Split Enz - History Never Repeats
5 Likes
This was way more difficult than I thought it would be…
- What’s the Story Morning Glory – Oasis
- Joshua Tree – U2
- Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
- Thriller – MJ
- Lonerism – Tame Impala
- In Rainbows – Radiohead
- Remain in Light – Talking Heads
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
- Lifes Rich Pageant – REM
- Rattlesnakes – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Honourable mentions:
- Parallel Lines – Blondie
- Blue Lines – Massive Attack
- White Ladder – Dave Grey
- Built on Glass – Nick Murphy
- A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay
- White Album – The Beatles
- Hot Fuss – The Killers
- Walking Wounded – Everything But The Girl
- Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette
- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence and the Machine
- Bloom – Rufus
- Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
4 Likes
Sick Sad little World and Megalomaniac are two of my favourite songs of all time but Make Yourself has more quality songs in general that makes me prefer it as an album
1 Like
Hahahahaha…only three dancey type albums and the rest rock.
You EDM fraudster 
4 Likes
1 Radiohead-In Rainbows
2 Leftfield-Leftism
3 Radiohead-OKC
4 Pearl jam-Ten
5 Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger
6 RHCP-Californication
7 Portishead-Dummy
8 Pearl jam-Vs.
9 Chemical bros-Surrender
10 Appetite for destruction-Guns N Roses
2 Likes
Happy to stick with my original list…because it’s so damn good 
Hmmm, got to give it a go- suing the albums that meant a lot to me at the time:
- U2, Joshua Tree
- INXS, Listen Like Thieves/Kick, ( can’t split em)
- Peter Gabriel, So
- Abba, Arrival
- Rush, Moving Pictures
- Cold Chisel, East
- Van Halen, OU812
- Australian Crawl, Sirocco
- Moby, Play/18, (can’t split em)
- Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell
- John Mellencamp, the Lonesome Jubilee
I know that’s more than 10- but I’m older , so phhhht
Late 80’s, I started going to record fairs, and got into buying oddball greatest hits albums as it was a quicker way to get an overview.
- Ella Fitzgerald with Count Basie and Louie Armstrong Live, ( japanese import)
- Sam and Dave, ( German compilation albums)
were two that stood out as good pickups.
2 Likes
Edit; I knew there would be an album overlooked, so it was to be, HQ - Roy Harper.
- Layla – Derek & The Dominoes.
- Unledded – Page & Plant.
- Mezzanine – Massive Attack.
- Muswell Hillbillies – The Kinks.
- HQ – Roy Harper.
- A Salty Dog – Procol Harum.
- Physical Graffitti – Zed Leppelin.
- Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones.
- Urban Hymns – The Verve.
- The Journey – Maryam Mursal.
HM – Native American Soundtrack – Robbie Robertson.
Stand – Sly & The Family Stone.
Stormcock – Roy Harper.
Paris 1919 – John Cale.
Brother’s Keeper – The Neville Brothers.
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Midnight Oil would get a spot in my top 10 for sure, but l prefer to do a separate top 10 for Ozzie albums.
2 Likes
I’m happy to stick with this, though I would seriously like to find room for:
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Crowded House - Together Alone
Pretenders - Self-Titled
Midnight Oil - 10…1
Ween - Quebec
Hmm… nope, no changes for mine.
Oh, @Jetster… I do very much like In Rainbows. It’s just not quite in the same league as those other two for me…
2 Likes
2 Likes
Teardrop by Massive Attack prob in my top 10 songs list.
4 Likes
■■■■, have missed - Plastic Ono Band, too.
If we’re all going against the rules and doing honorable mentions and such. My parents would come into my room and say, ‘can you please turn that screaming John Lennon’ , down.
Hey, I took the album from your otherwise mundane collection! Maybe someone left it behind, I don’t know.
Delete. Replied to the wrong comment.
I could have easily filled it with Chemical Brothers albums but didn’t want to be pigeon-holed as a 1 trick pony. 
1 Like
Great album, I had it shortlisted too.
Hunky Dory is basically as good as a compilation album.
2 Likes
Looking back at my list, and then thinking about my listening habits, I reckon I find the concept of locking in 10 favourites difficult. Part of my enjoyment of music is finding the next album that I love. And the concept of locking in to albums from 5, 10, 30 years ago is against all my beliefs. Life goes forward and you experience all of these albums at a particular moment, and as much as listening 30 years later can take you back, you’re a different person in a completely different context. There’s albums that I absolutely love 35 years later, but I can’t experience them in the same way as I did then, and if I heard them for the first time tomorrow it’s highly unlikely they’d even make any list.
7 Likes
There were some definite sliders on my list, all-time faves that I hold dear that really don’t spark the same joy in me as a 45 year old as they once did. Precisely why Wimmera bumping this thread 4 years later is a lot of fun.
Alternatively, I love finding that albums you already really liked from way back can keep seeming better and better each year (Weezer for me), or can fall out of your favour and then you fall in love again (playing Dookie to my kids), or all these years you knew it but never even realised how great it was and now you can’t stop listening (Revolver).
1 Like