Top 10 albums?

'Fly,

nice call with the Black Album. Can't really complain about any of those pics...

 

Because the best songs on the album are overshadowed by the mainstream releases, which were very solid, too. But "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Homecoming" were brilliantly written songs which no other band in that genre would attempt to do anymore -- the five-part organism. I can't remember a punk band doing something like that since NOFX wrote "The Decline," the 18-minute, 24-second epic, in 1999. And it'll be a long time until a band releases something as powerful and unique as "American Idiot."

 

1. Nirvana -- Nevermind
2. Guns 'n' Roses -- Appetite for Destruction
3. Alanis Morrisette -- Jagged Little Pill
4. Michael Jackson -- Thriller
5. Def Leppard -- Pyromania (STFU dammit!)
6. Pearl Jam -- Ten
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Californication
8. Madonna -- Like a Virgin
9. Matchbox twenty -- Mad Season
10. Tori Amos -- Under the Pink

 

"The Black Album" was a solid album had a little bit of everything that was needed and had excellent production. Rick Rubin is a musical monster.

 

1. Born to Run, Bruce
2. Pet Sounds, Beach Boys
3. Rubber Soul, Beatle
4. The Doors
5. Dark Side of the Moon, Floyd
6. Joshua Tree, U2
7. Revolver, Beatles
8. Eat a Peach, Allmans
9. Aja, Steely Dan
10. The Stranger, Billy Joel

 

1) "A Trick of the Tail" - Genesis
2) "Selling England By The Pound" - Genesis
3) "Duke" - Genesis
4) "The Unauthorised Biography" - Steve Hackett
5) "Turnstiles" - Billy Joel
6) "The Stranger" - Billy Joel
7) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John
8 ) "Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
9 ) "Moving Pictures" - Rush
10) "The Planets" - Gustav Holst

 

Rick Rubin is like the DaVinci of the music business. I think he'll be remembered in the future as a total icon, though he gets credit now. Nowhere near what he deserves though...

 

Well, if we're including Greatest Hits albums, then:

1. Journey Time3 or Greatest Hits
2. Bob Seger Greatest Hits
3. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
4. Rush "Chronicles"
5. Tom Petty Greatest Hits
6. The Cars Greatest Hits
7. Rod Stewart "Selections From The Storyteller Anthology"
8. The Doors Greatest Hits
9. Billy Joel Greatest Hits
10. Van Halen "Best of, Vol. 1"

 

1. Glass Houses, Billy Joel.
2. Revolver, Beatles.
3. Rubber Soul, Beatles.
4. My Aim is True, Elvis Costello.
5. Shooting Star
6. Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson
7. Are We Not Men..., Devo
8. Fleetwood Mac
9. Grand Illusion, Styx
10. In the Heat of the Night, Pat Benatar.

 

hard to limit it to 10, but here goes today's attempt:

1. The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen (if I was told I could only bring one Springsteen disc to a desert island, this would be the one)
2. Born to Run - Springsteen
3. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
4. Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
5. The Beatles (aka the White Album) - The Beatles
6. Give the People What they Want - The Kinks
7. John Fogerty - John Fogerty
8. Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
9. I Don't Want to Go Home - Southside Johnny
10. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones

 

I'm not going to do a top-10, but I think the following albums should draw consideration and have yet to be mentioned.

Murmur, REM
Power, Cooruption and Lies, New Order
Odelay, Beck
Doolittle, Pixies
In My Tribe, 10,000 Maniacs
Ill Communication, Beastie Boys

 

1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
2. The Joshua Tree - U2
3. The Doors - The Doors
4. Unnamed (IV) - Led Zeppelin
5. Nevermind - Nirvana
6. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
7. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (seriously ... that shit rocks!)
8. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
9. The Wall - Pink Floyd
10. The Aloha Concert - Elvis Presley