10 Favourite Albums Ever - IN ORDER

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We’ll get Johnny Rain back to host it.

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“Host” you say?

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Top 20 fav songs.

I remember with my top 10 albums I decided I could only choose one album per band. Doubt I’d be able to do that with 20 songs.

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Why would you even try to limit yourself? No way could I even try to do that!

I reckon top 20 songs is going to be very hard…

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That’s the challenge!

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I had a shortlist of about 40 and whittled it down to these…

  1. Skylarking - XTC
  2. Kid A - Radiohead
  3. Chill Out - The KLF
  4. OK Computer - Radiohead
  5. Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids
  6. Violator - Depeche Mode
  7. Green - REM
  8. Dummy - Portishead
  9. And Justice for All… - Metallica
  10. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

HM: A Walk Across the Rooftops - The Blue Nile

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Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Neil Young - Mirrorball
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
Spiderbait - Ivy and the Big Apples
Grinspoon - Guide to Better Living
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Tool - Lateralus
You Am I - Hourly Daily

Honourable mentions to other favourites:
Kiss - Destroyer
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
REM - Automatic for the People
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Beatles - White Album
Paul Simon - Graceland

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There aren’t too many modern albums I’ll listen in full and enjoy.
I’m excluding compilations where the songs can be found on other albums (like the Wanderers or American Graffiti) and only included live albums that are better than a studio album.

Black Album - Metallica
Nevermind - Nirvana
Central Park Concert - Dave Matthews Band
Smash - Offspring
Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed
Trash - Alice Cooper
The Razors Edge - AC/DC
Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
The Real Thing - Faith No More
Grease - The Soundtrack

Honorable mentions…
Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace
American Capitalist - Five Finger Death Punch
The Colour and Shape - Foo Fighters
East - Cold Chisel
Freight Train Heart - Jimmy Barnes
Soul Deep - Jimmy Barnes
Throwing Copper - Live

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Sure, I can do it. I know the majority already, just would have to sit and think about order.

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Righto…I haven’t ordered them but here goes.

Chicane - No Ordinary Morning.
Greend Day - Dookie.
Live - Throwing Copper.
Oceanlab - Sirens Of The Sea Remixed.
Counting Crows - August & Everything After.
Oasis - What’s The Story Morning Glory.
Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing it…
Killers - Hot Fuss.
Chemical Brothers - Surrender.
U2 - The Joshua Tree.

Apologies to Roxette and The Prodigy.

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Well, this wasn’t an easy task. So many worthy albums didn’t make the cut, but may well do so by this time tomorrow, depending on my mood.

My ground rules were no compilations, no greatest hits, no live albums and only one album by each artist (otherwise I would have multiple Stones and Bowie albums).

In alphabetical order as too difficult to rank otherwise, here we go:

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call
The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
Ry Cooder - Into The Purple Valley
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
Gram Parsons - Greivous Angel
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
XTC - English Settlement

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  1. The Clash - London Calling
  2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
  3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
  4. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
  5. Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
  6. Motörhead - Ace of Spades
  7. The Stooges - Raw Power
  8. The Who - Who’s Next
  9. Slayer- Reign in Blood
  10. Dinosaur Jr. - Where you been
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Shouldn’t they be apologising to you?

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I knew I’d hook someone…but I didn’t expect it from you…

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  1. Appetite For Destruction (GNR)
  2. Blood Sugar Sex Magic (RHCP)
  3. The Wall (Pink Floyd)
  4. 10-1 (Midnight Oil)
  5. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
  6. Strange Days (The Doors)
  7. Debacle (Violent Femmes)
  8. Head Injuries (Midnight Oil)
  9. David Bowie (Changes)…yes I know it was a compilation but Im having it anyway.
  10. 2001 (Dr Dre)
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  1. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
  2. Midnight Oil - 10-1
  3. Pixies - Doolittle
  4. This Heat - Deceit
  5. Weezer - Blue Album
  6. The Clash - London Calling
  7. My Bl…dy Valentine - Loveless
  8. Violent Femmes - s/t
  9. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
  10. The Cure - The Head On The Door
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Good to see Ace of Spades and Reign in Blood get a guernsey. They’d make my top 20 I reckon.

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  1. Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
  2. The Chills - Submarine Bells
  3. REM - Green
  4. Big Star - No 1 Record
  5. Stone Roses - Self Titled
  6. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
  7. XTC - Black Sea
  8. Big Country - The Crossing
  9. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
  10. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (although Morrissey has proven himself to be a world class twat)

I do love a bit of guitar jangle. Just outside , The Church - Heyday, Pixies - Doolittle, Sugar - Copper Blue, Guided by Voices - Human Amusements compilation (yes a cheat but it is as flawless a compilation as I’ve heard and demands a volume 2)

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Just about impossible for me

  1. RHCP - Californication
  2. Nirvana - Nevermind
  3. Pearl Jam - VS
  4. Grinspoon - Easy
  5. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
  6. Gyroscope - Cohesion
  7. Metallica - Load
  8. Foo Fighters - The Colour & The Shape
  9. The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre
  10. Incubus - Make Yourself

My top 5 of the last few years

  1. Gang Of Youths - Go Farther In Lightness
  2. Billy Talent - Afraid Of Heights
  3. Man With A Mission - Worlds On Fire
  4. Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine
  5. Mammoth WVH - Self Titled
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Oh what a banging album and one I now regret leaving off my list!

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