Give me 10 classic albums

[vixnix]

Try not to comment, just give a list.

[AndySlash]

murmur
reckoning
fables of the reconstruction
lifes rich pageant
document
green
out of time
automatic for the people
monster
new adventures in hi-fi

[Trotskilicious]

what's the point if you can't comment

[pavementtune]

Classic - like albums everybody should have heard, personal top 10 or classic rock?

[vixnix]

Classic in the sense that you think it's terrific music, nothing more specific than that...

If you really want to comment and read comments then great. Can I ask that you post your list in its entirety at the start of your post in the same way andyslash has done, and then comments underneath? It just makes it easier to scan the titles. That was my only reason for asking.

[Shallowed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums#Episodes

[pavementtune]

Tom Waits - Big Time
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Placebo - Placebo
Portishead - Dummy
Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs
Oasis - Familiar to Millions
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
The Doors - Best of, limited 2 disc edition 2000

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

[Cool As Ice Cream]

lol

[redbull]

the smashing pumpkins - MACHINA/THEMACHINESOFGOD

[Sonic Johnny]

Calculating Infinity
Jane Doe
We Are The Romans
Scum
Dopesmoker
The Inalienable Dreamless
Through Silver In Blood
Reign In Blood
Slaughter Of The Soul
Far Beyond Driven

[opera de nuit]

chameleons- script of the bridge
david bowie- heroes
and also the trees- the evening of the 24th
suede- s/t
breathless- three times and waving
kate bush- the dreaming
scott walker- scott 3
peter gabriel- melt
swallow- blow
cocteau twins- heaven or las vegas

[vixnix]

These are great you guys. I know a person's classic ten will change so feel free to post more than one list. I'll post a couple. Just hoping to have a thread with blocks of ten good albums worth listening to.

Can anyone give me a classic ten for the 60s or 70s? I haven't listened to a lot of music from those decades.

[pavementtune]

Fleetwood Mac - The Prious Bird of Good Omen
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Rolling Stones - Aftermath
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Janis Joplin - Pearl
José Feliciano - Alive Alive O!
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

[redbreegull]

1. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
2. The Who – Who's Next
3. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
4. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
5. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young– Déja Vu
6. Jim Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
7. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
8. Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
9. Elton John – Madman Across the Water
10. Fleetwood Mac – Rumors

11. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division being all post punk or whatever makes em feel a bit apart from the rest of the 60s and 70s.

[redbreegull]

for the 80s

1. R.E.M. – Murmur
2. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
3. The Cure – Disintegration
4. The Pixies – Doolittle
5. Depeche Mode – Violator
6. Dinosaur Jr – You're Living All Over Me
7. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
8. Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
9. The Police – Synchronicity
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood

edit: Violator is from '90, fuck

[redbreegull]

the 90s

1. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
2. Nirvana – Nevermind
3. Pearl Jam – Ten
4. Red House Painters – s/t (Rollercoaster)
5. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
6. R.E.M. – Automatic For the People
7. Jeff Buckley – Grace
8. Radiohead – The Bends
9. Wilco – Being There
10. Sigur Rós –Ágætis Byrjun

notable mentions

11. Gillian Welch – Revival
12. Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

[Catherine Wheel]

1. The Chameleons - Strange Times
2. U2 - October
3. Blur - Blur
4. The Roots - Phrenology
5. Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
6. The Dandy Warhols - Come Down
7. The Walkmen - You & Me
8. The Verve - A Storm In Heaven
9. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
10. Roxy Music - Avalon

[Mooney]

brian eno - here come the warm jets
television - marquee moon
the cure - kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
talking heads - remain in light
joy division - unknown pleasures
patti smith - horses
pere ubu - dub housing
the smiths - the queen is dead
the velvet underground - white light/white heat
public image ltd. - second issue
cat power - you are free
roxy music - for your pleasure
sonic youth - sister
wire - 154
iggy pop - the idiot

[TuralyonW3]

The
Smash
Ing
Pump
Kins
Tear
Garden
By
Kalidey
Scope

[pavementtune]

Trots, make your own list, I never claimed mine would be complete, for the love of fuck.

[vixnix]

Here's one:

Nirvana: unplugged
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Daft Punk: Homework
Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk
The Sea and Cake: S/T
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan: Another Side of Bob Dylan
Tracy Chapman: Matters of the Heart
The Bats: The Law of Things
The Roots: Things fall apart

[pavementtune]

How could I forget Tracy Chapman? Haven't been listening to her since...college, I guess.

[vixnix]

Ikr? I haven't either, much. But it's still a classic album IMO. I went to see her with my then girlfriend in 1996 during the New Beginning tour, I'd played one of her songs to my gf and she'd fallen in love with so we went. She was really into the GLBT scene in our hometown and I wasn't, anyway we went and it was great and I was like why are there so many lesbians here???

She didn't tell me for like five years, I have no idea why. I can't believe I didn't realize.

See this is why I said no comments!

[opera de nuit]

60s:

1. velvet underground- white light/white heat
2. silver apples- s/t
3. scott walker- 4 (equally good as 3, covered already)
4. simon and garfunkel- sounds of silence
5. the shangri-las- leader of the pack (or any anthology that covers their work)
6. king crimson- in the court of the crimson king
7. johnny cash- at san quentin
8. leonard cohen- songs of leonard cohen
9. pentagle- the pentagle
10. pet sounds, duh

70s:

1. david bowie- heroes
2. kraftwerk- trans-europe express
3. throbbing gristle- 20 jazz funk greats
4. wire- 154
5. leonard cohen- songs of love and hate
6. iggy pop- the idiot
7. chrome- alien soundtracks/half machine lip moves
8. the jam- setting sons
9. t.rex- the slider
10. nico- desertshore

bonus- tangerine dream- phaedra, popul vuh- hosianna mantra, fleetwood mac- rumours, harmonia- deluxe, & eno- another green world. all great.


80s:
1. this mortal coil- it'll end in tears
2. chameleons- script of the bridge
3. kate bush- the dreaming
4. peter gabriel- 3/melt
5. new order- lowlife
6. the sound- from the lion's mouth
7. omd- architecture and morality
8. and also the trees- the evening of the 24th
9. breathless- three times & waving
10. front 242- geography

bonus- death in june- nada, u2- boy, killing joke- s/t, the wake- harmony, r.e.m.- life's rich pageant, julee cruise- floating into the night, human league- dare, and i can't do this because 85% of my collection is 80s post-punk/synth/dreampop ugh.

90s:
1. slowdive- just for a day
2. his name is alive- mouth by mouth
3. asylum party- mere
4. cocteau twins- heaven or las vegas
5. swallow- blow
6. nine inch nails- the fragile
7. red house painters- down colourful hill
8. the orb- the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld
9. massive attack- mezzanine
10. suede- s/t

bonus: scott walker- tilt, codeine- frigid stars, talk talk- laughing stock, ride- nowhere, siamese dream/adore duh, loveless duh, autechre- amber.


2000s: already did this, kinda:
http://forums.netphoria.org/showpost...4&postcount=14

[dudehitscar]

Bob Dylan - highway 61 revisited
Metallica - and justice for all
At the drive in - in casino out
Bjork - homogenid
Cursive domestika
Stooges funhouse
Two gallants what the toll tells

[samuel redman]

someone should add CSNs 1970's album

just superb and i think better then the more popular Deja Vu

[redbreegull]

I like s/t, but better than Déja Vu? Helpless, Almost Cut My Hair... these songs are eternal

[samuel redman]

the Neil Young songs on Looking Forward alone make that almost as good as Deja Vu

Deja Vu is an absolutely fantastic album, in which Young appears in no more than 4 recordings

i just think CSN's 70's album was the apex of the trios career in that band; every song wonderful. some of the most unique and beautiful choruses and bridges ever recorded. the lyrics are eternal. everyone outdoes themselves on that one. i sense there was come musical competition too, with the way Stills came back. imo, though.

on another note, the Graham Nash/David Crosby album that game out a year or so later feels like a direct sequel to Deja Vu.

[null123]

These are some of my early rainy season classic listening

Black flame
Endtroducing
Nonstop erotic cabaret
Kiss me kiss me kiss me
Pornography
Untrue
Funhouse
Too dark park
Heaven or las Vegas
808s and heartbreak

[The Omega Concern]

Kiss Alive I

The Cars, The Cars

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours

Rush, Moving Pictures

U2, Joshua Tree

Aphex Twin, Ambient Sounds Volume II

Sarah Mclachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Bjork, Vespertine

Soulfly, Prophecy

Grimes, Visions