My top ten favourite music albums
See Getting personal: A few top ten lists for the background on this series of top ten posts (this is the first post in the series).
So. Music albums. Some people can listen to whatever happens to be on the radio and be happy with that. I’ve never been that way – music has been too important to me, especially since my early teens. As you’ll see on this list my taste spans multiple genres.
The list is ordered alphabetically, which means I have not ranked these albums. Picking just ten is hard enough as it is.
- Big Calm by Morcheeba
- Bites and Remission by Skinny Puppy
- Comfort Woman by Me’Shell NdegeOcello
- Dummy by Portishead
- First and Last and Always by The Sisters of Mercy
- Never Never Land by U.N.K.L.E.
- New Gold Dream by Simple Minds
- Pornography by The Cure
- The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste by Ministry
- Tired Eyes Slowly Burning by The Tear Garden
Note: All links are Amazon affiliate links.
Of course this sort of list is always changing – ask me next month and the list will probably be quite different.
Now it’s your turn – which are your ten favourite music albums? If you want to share, do so either by posting a comment with your list or by posting a link to a list on your own blog.
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at the time my list looks like that (not in any particular order):
radiohead – amnesiac radiohead – ok computer radiohead – the bends radiohead – airbag / how am i driving? radiohead – com lag pixies – come on pilgrim the breeders – pod pixies – surfer rosa pixies – doolittle the breeders – head to toe
oops i messed it up :) sorry
The two with links are both from New Zealand - Bleeding Star I recommend to anyone who like Cure style melancholy guitar, and Hollie Smith to anyone who loves sweet soulful femal vocals in the style of Norah Jones. There are samples at the end of both links.
Writing these lists are damn hard! I'll give it a quick try though..
mine own top X in no particular order
Dummy' seems to be the ideal Graphic Designers soundtrack and there seems to be a Gothic bent to the list.
I suppose you could say these are the ones that blew my mind and still stay with me. Pure comfort food...
Boy, I wouldn't dare making a top ten. Just like you said: "next month it's probably quite different" :)
But my list would probably contain artists like DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, RJD2, Scratch Perverts, Fila Brazillia, and/or St Germain.
Also, I can't wait for Uffie's first official album.
Without a specific order, here it comes:
This will probably change if you ask me again next week. ;)
I don't really do albums... I tend to just put everything I have into a big playlist and stick it on random. Still, there are some things I like most of the time:
This is my list, in no particular order:
My Belgian Top 10 music
NoordKaap Telex Red Zebra Ashbury Faith dEUS X-legged Sally Betty goes green Wizards of Ooze Ozark Henry The Neon Judgement
Interesting selection there Roger. Mine in no particular order is as follows.
After a little thinking here's my latest top 10 albums...
No special order.
Kraftwerk: Man Machine Kraftwerk: Computer World Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum Dead Can Dance: Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Joy Division: Closer Depeche Mode: Violator Air: Moon Safari Goldfrapp: Supernature Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables Trans Am: Futureworld
I'll stick mine on my own site later- but I'd just like to say Roger that you're going up in my estimation.
I had already thought you were a top bloke, but to then go and have albums by Sisters of Mercy and Ministry on there...
well, mate, I think that next time (if) I ever meet you in person, I'll definitely have to buy you a beer. With a ding-a-ling-a-dang-a-da-da-ding-dong-ding-a-lang-a-dong-waah-waah-waah-waah on the side.
Chronologically thinking:
Chronologically:
In no order:
I always go back to these. In no particular order.
In no particular order:
1) Biosphere - Patashnik 2) Massive Attack - Mezzanine 3) Radiohead - I Could Be Wrong 4) Dream City Film Club - Dream City Film Club 5) Elvis - In Memphis 6) Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith & Devotion 7) Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova - The Swell Season 8) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads 9) Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone 10) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
If you haven't heard it yet, i'm loving the new UNKLE album - highly recommended
Good choice: New Gold Dream by Simple Minds
Simple Minds at their best! Synthpop with a deep twist!
the mind is a terrible thing to taste is my favourite ministry album. thieves is awesome.
1) Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile 2) Rasputina: Thanks for the Ether 3) Elastica: Elastica 4) Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park 5) Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth 6) Soundgarden: Superunknown 7) Einsturzende Neubauten: Ende Neu 8) Depeche Mode: Black Celebration 9) Ohgr: Welt 10) Rasputina: How We Quit The Forest
Discipline - King Crimson
The Color Of Spring - Talk Talk
The Sky's Gone Out - Bauhaus
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Ten - Pearl Jam Robbie Robertson (1987) - Robbie Robertson
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Back To Me - Kathleen Edwards
Variations for Woods, Strings & Keyboards - Steve Reich
As with others... this list could change tomorrow... ;-)
Big Calm is a good choice! My top 10, right now:
Here goes... unordered:
Agreed that this may be totally different next month ...
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Green Day - American Idiot
Damien Rice - 9 or 0 (or anything by him really)
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Tool - Aenima
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Flaming Lips - Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could do us in)
About my top ten: a mix of "right now" and "all times". Between [], the year and genre.
Uuuf... that list was a hard task...
A bit of metadata: Señor Coconut, Lisa Carbon, The Stereonerds are some of the aliases of Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart), a genius.
Your list is TOPS. Seriously, I couldn't agree with your top 10 more...although, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live) by Ministry is my favorite of theirs. Otherwise...tops! Ahoy.
In no particular order:
Tough, I'm just me - Maia Hirasawa And then there were three - Genesis Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout Aerial - Kate Bush Sunshine on Leith - The Proclaimers Platinum - Mike Oldfield Rebel - John Miles Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Mija & Greta - Mija & Greta
Haha, didn't know any of your listed albums. Think that says more about me that you, Roger ;)
Oh! Tear Garden! Sisters! The Cure! - they all went when I sold all my LPs - six crates... - because I just couldn't see myself listening to LPs that were stored in the attic when I have a baby (two now) to take care of, and I needed the money...
But the Tear Garden is available on iTunes so maybe it's time to revisit old friends...
Off the top of my head:
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Play - Moby
Mirrorball - Sarah McLachlan
Recurring Dream - Crowded House
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette
Human Clay - Creed
The Very Best Of - Neil Diamond
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Holidays In Eden - Marillion
MCMXC A.D. - Enigma
I didn't get ten but I did get six. And, some songs.
No particular order....
Amnesiac-Kid A (sorta 1 album right) - Radiohead
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Superunknown is my all-time favorite album. Just astoundingly good. The rest are in no particular order:
Good grief - 9 out of 10 released in the 1990s ... and the other in 2000!!
Top 10
"Bubblare"
Some of my favorites include:
More great favorites here
this decision was very hard as there are so many bands that produce top quality music.. these include :- Hellogoodbye, taking back sunday, the used, underoath, panic!, paramore, KILL HANNAH, coheed and cambra, cute is what we aim for, afi, a change of pace, alexisonfire and AIDEN.
my top 10 are::
Senses Fail - still searching
Saosin - Saosin
Plus 44 - When Your Heart stops beating
Motion City soundtrack - commit this to memory // i am the movie.
Bullet For my valentine - the poison
story of the year - page avenue
Funeral For A friend - Hours // Casually dressed // tales dont tell themselves.
Red Jumpsuit apparatus - don't you fake it
hawthorne heights - if only you were lonely
enter shikari - take to the skies
In no particular order- and in a few cases the artist has been so consistent in quality I could have easily gone with a different album, but here we go with some recommendations:
"We Love Katamari OST" "California" Mr Bungle "In Rainbows" Radiohead "Endtroducing" DJ Shadow "Fear of a Black Planet" Public Enemy "Mit Gas" Tomahawk "Real Gone" Tom Waits "Spirit of Eden" Talk Talk "Somnambulista" Brazzaville "Glassworks" Phillip Glass
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