10 Favourite Albums Ever - IN ORDER

[Zimmer]

@handypoint

I quite like Dave Mustaine and would be really tempted to include Megadeth.

Just reckon Slayer and Megadeth are a touch more fun than Metallica. (But it’s Metallica too. So many classics)

I love Megadeth. I love the first four Metallica albums, but Megadeth is, exactly as you put it, such a fun band. RIP was the first album I bought with my own money. I have a Megadeth mix permanently in my car. My 8 yo son loves them too. Set the World Afire, is our favourite.

[frosty]

@mrjez

@Zimmer

We should give it a go Jez.

I’ve actually been stewing over this the past few days. Making a top 20 playlist, then adjusting, listening again while I work. Got 6 or 7 absolute faves locked in and the rest seem to change each day . A bit self-indulgent and off-topic to post in here but heaps of fun to think about.

So are you making a top 20 songs thread?

[handypoint]

@simmo41

i’m 70% confident i could guess everyone’s age based on their top 10 list

Do you think albums are dying with streaming services?

I think they are to some degree.(im old and in what I think is a little bit of an “album” generation)

[jonovdp]

I’m usually the youngest person in the room at most gigs I go to.

[frosty]

I started trying to write this down. It seems impossible!

Every album in my collection will have one or two tracks that I absolutely love(d). So I’m starting with a pool of many hundred tracks, and adding to that the songs that I love that I never bought on album, and there are many many of those too. Now editing it down is almost impossible

How do you compare the song that you always asked the DJ to play at nightclubs for 5 years, and which brought you immense joy every single time it was played, vs the song that you sat with alone in your room on all those days for years when you couldn’t face the world, vs that song that you were just desperate for your favourite live band to play every single time you saw them, vs vs vs …

[Zimmer]

There’s also the question of the reveal. Would be good to add 1 song every day over 20 days - just quote your previous post and add the next one.

It is a pretty hard task. Needs a bit of networking the same way we refined the DJ thread over time.

[People_s_Prince]

Gave this a go - it was pretty hard. Also albums aren’t really listened to anymore by me. Just going from song to song.

10 to 1

Metallica - Black Album

RCHP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

RATM - Battle of Los Angeles

Oasis - What’s the Story Morning Glory

Michael Jackson - Dangerous

Pearl Jam - Ten

Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Kayne West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

[No31]

1. Stone Rose - The Stone Roses
2. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
3. The Strokes - Is this it
4. Beck - Yellow Gold
5. NWA - Straight Outta Of Compton
6. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
7. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
8. Ice T - Power
9. Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a long way, Baby.
10. Weezer - Blue album

[Fozdog]

@frosty

@mrjez

@Zimmer

We should give it a go Jez.

I’ve actually been stewing over this the past few days. Making a top 20 playlist, then adjusting, listening again while I work. Got 6 or 7 absolute faves locked in and the rest seem to change each day . A bit self-indulgent and off-topic to post in here but heaps of fun to think about.

So are you making a top 20 songs thread?

I hope so. Otherwise “Safety Dance” won’t get a mention.

[wimmera1]

Original or extended?

[4_September_2004]

Showing my age here:

1 Radiohead - Ok Computer
2 Pink Floyd - Animals
3 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
4 Pixies - Doolittle
5 Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
6 Eels - Beautiful Freak
7 Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
8 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
9 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
10 Grand Funk - E Pluribus Funk

[Paul_Peos]

@Paul_Peos

So, as of this minute:

1. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

2. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

3. Pearl Jam - Vs.

4. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command

5. Tool - Aenima

6. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the shape

7. The Fratellis - Costello Music.

8. Faith No More - King For a Day.

9. Stone Temple Pilots - No.4

10. Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a long way, Baby.

So this was what, 4 years ago?

I’d probably change one and two for different albums from same bands. (Evil Empire and Tiny Music)

The Colour and Shape is probably just pure nostalgia, and Dookie should replace it on that front.

Again, I could probably do a totally different list every time, but this list does seem to heavily favour my teenage years.

[BERT]

Ask me next week and it’ll probably change

1, Appetite for Desctruction - Guns n Roses
2, Ten - Pearl Jam
3, Nevermind - Nirvana
4, The Living End - Self Titled
5, Frogstomp - Silverchair
6,Toxcity - System of a Down
7, Vs - Pearl Jam
8, The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
9, Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
10, American Idiot - Greenday

Honourable Mentions.
Back in Black - AC/DC
Metallica - Self Titled

[frosty]

@4_September_2004

Showing my age here:

1 Radiohead - Ok Computer
2 Pink Floyd - Animals
3 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
4 Pixies - Doolittle
5 Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
6 Eels - Beautiful Freak
7 Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
8 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
9 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
10 Grand Funk - E Pluribus Funk

Brutal username

[Fozdog]

Original.

[Paul_Peos]

@4_September_2004

Showing my age here:

We all are.

[goldengoose]

1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. Pearl Jam - Ten
3. Faith No More - The Real Thing
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Pennywise - Full Circle
6. Metallica - The Black Album
7. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
8. Nofx - White Trash, two heebs and bean
9. Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
10. Led Zeppelin - IV

[Rom]

…Animals

[simmo41]

@handypoint

@simmo41

i’m 70% confident i could guess everyone’s age based on their top 10 list

Do you think albums are dying with streaming services?

I think they are to some degree.(im old and in what I think is a little bit of an “album” generation)

yeah as a popular concept they’ve taken a bit of a hit, but the same thing was probably said about radio, mtv, ipods, etc

the songs/artists of today that are big on streaming services will be largely forgotten in 20 years. artists with good albums from today will endure.

just look through this thread at all the 80s/90s albums posted that weren’t by any means widespread commercial successes. pearl jam’s ten has been checked off in here a few times, and it wasn’t even in the top 50 selling albums in australia in 1991

[sj_2150]

1. Killing Joke - Hosannas from the Basements of Hell
2. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
4. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
5. Helmet - Meantime
6. Death Grips - The Money Store
7. King Crimson - Discipline
8. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
9. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
10. Devin Townsend - Terria