It's June 24, 2006. What's your favorite top ten albums/releases of all time?

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The ridiculousness of the question and the annoyance of the many factors that would go into coming up with 10 serious answers is what makes it fun. You get the most bang by listing box sets, of course, but only if you really like the whole thing. For me, a short little album like Sgt. Pepper would blow away a lot of box sets I really like.

― John Askenheimer (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 24 June 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I thik mine are:

1. Butthole Surfers - Double Live Bootleg

2. 13th Floor Elevators - 8 Track Mixes

3. Chrome Box

4. Grateful Dead - From The Mars Hotel

5. Grateful Dead - What A Long Strange Trip 1+2

6. Phish - Live #9

7. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper

8. Black Sabbath s/t

9. Pink Floyd - The Wall

10. Acid Mothers Temple - Absolutely Freakout

― :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 24 June 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

1) Minutemen--Double Nickels on the Dime
2) Pharoah Sanders--Karma
3) Sly & the Family Stone--There's a Riot Goin on
4) Sonny Sharrock--Ask the Ages
5) Gun Club--Miami
6) Scritti Politti--Cupid & Psyche '85
7) Iannis Xenakis--La legende d'Eer
8) Coil--Love's Secret Domain
9) Talk Talk--Laughing Stock
10) Van Dyke Parks--Song Cycle

― Brandon Bussolini (Brandon Bussolini), Saturday, 24 June 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Star Time"
"Let It Bleed"
"Forever Changes"
"In a Silent Way"
"Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols"
"Muy Divertido!" Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos
"Crooked Rain Crooked Rain"
"Ask the Ages"
"Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus"
"Late Registration"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

10. Pat Boone: In a Metal Mood
9. Black Sabbath: Never Say Die
8. Stryper: To Hell with the Devil
7. Twisted Sister: Come out and Play
6. Ratt: Ratt & Roll
5. Poison: Hollyweird
4. Dimmu-Borgir: Death Cult Armageddon
3. Alice Cooper: Flush the Fashion
2. Aerosmith: Rock in a Hard Place
1. Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Boring but honest:

1. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. Ramones - Ramones
4. Run-DMC - Raising Hell
5. X - Los Angeles
6. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonycologist
7. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
8. Naked City - Torture Garden
9. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegatables
10. De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 24 June 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drf200/f245/f24571ewhes.jpg

How weird and, I guess, sad it is that this will probably identify me until the day I die. I can still put this thing in whenever and feel like it's a hot summer night and many beers are in order.

― :):):):):):):):):):):) Smiling Friend (:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

At this point --

Judee Sill - Judee Sill
Broadcast - Haha sound
Funkadelic - One nation under a groove
Scott Walker - 3
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Haco - Ash in the Rainbow
..I want to say the Wicker Man soundtrack because it's really stuck with me, but I don't know. Some of these will change probably.

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Subject to change...but...

REM - Automatic for the People
Eno - On Land
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
Ramones - Leave Home
Springsteen - Nebraska
Zoviet France - Garista
Biosphere - Substrata
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Talking Heads - 77

― Dave Bush (davebush), Sunday, 25 June 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

In no particular order:

Miles Davis: Bitches Bres
John Zorn: Filmworks 10-In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Art Ensemble of Chicago-Phase One
Captain Beefheart-Strictly Personal
Rahsaan Roland Kirk-Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle
David Liebman-Lookout Farm
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Alice Coltrane-Ptah the El Daoud
Pentangle-Pentangle
Leo Kottke-Six and Twelve String Guitar

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Right now?

Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Pixies-Doolittle
Stooges-Funhouse
Dirtbombs-Ultraglide in Black
Afghan Whigs-Gentlemen
Radiohead-Hail to the Thief
Cure-Disintegration
Radio Birdman-Radios Appear
Violent Femmes-s/t
Talking Heads-Best of

Don't know if any other than Surfer Rosa or Disintegration would be there in 10 years, but for now...

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I must be bored if I'm responding to this thread, but I haven't done this for a while:

1. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
2. Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens - The Best of Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens
3. Marisa Monte - Rose and Charcoal
4. Ride - Leave Them All Behind
5. Split Enz - True Colours
6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7. Sly and the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
8. Mnaga a Zdorp - Made in Valmez
9. Franco & Rochereau - Omona Wapi
10. U2 - Achtung Baby

(Not making the cut... today: Suede - Coming Up, Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide, Saint Etienne, Luna - Penthouse, Nick Drake, Pulp - Different Class, Scruffy the Cat - s/t, Beatles, ABBA - Gold, MBV - Loveless, Husker Du - Warehouse, Moody Blues - A Question of Balance, Supergrass - In It for the Money, XTC, Pete Townshend - White City, Roxy Music - Siren, Rolling Stones - Exile)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Radio City - Big Star
I Want to see the Bright Lights Tonight -Richard and Linda T.
Blue - Joni
The Soul of a Bell - William Bell
Stupidity -Dr. Feelgood
Man Ah Warrior - Tapper zukie
Behind The Magnolia Curtain - The Panther Burns
Good Ol'Boys - Randy Newman
Saxaphone Collosus _ Sonny Rollins
LAMF - The Heartbreakers

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Herbie Hancock: Sextant
Pharoah Sanders: Karma
Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine
Air Liquide: Nephology
Roberta Flack: First Take
Fela Kuti: Afrodisiac
Paperclip People: The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Gravediggaz: 6 Feet Deep
Mouse on Mars: Autoditacker
Curtis Mayfield: Curtis

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think Herbie, Pharoah and Curtis are the only ones who're definitely gonna be in my top ten in 2016 as well.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

fleetwood mac - rumours
deus - worst case scenario
x - wild gift/LA
joni - blue
madonna - the immaculate collection
neutral milk hotel - in an aeroplane...
portishead - dummy
big star - #1
neneh cherry - raw like sushi
kids - ost
dead man ray - berchem

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

JB: Star Time
The Who: Live at Leeds
Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
Wire: Pink Flag
The Congos: Heart of the Congos
Uncle Wiggly: There Was an Elk
Brian Eno: Before and After Science
Sun City Girls: Torch of the Mystics
Swell Maps: In "Jane from Occupied Europe"
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

JAMES BROWN: sex machine
VARIOUS ARTISTS: tropicália ou panis et circencis
KRAFTWERK: trans europe express
MILES DAVIS: cookin with the miles davis quintet
MILES DAVIS: tribute to jack johnson
THE STOOGES: funhouse
CERRONE: supernature
CHEAP TRICK: cheap trick
DUKE ELLINGTON: the blanton/webster band
MC5: kick out the jams

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

White Stripes - Get Away From Me Satan
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Johnny Dyani - Song For Biko
Otis Rush - Complete Cobra Recordings
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
EPMD - Strictly Business
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Karyobin
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
Boredoms - Super Ae

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 26 June 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

Unchanged.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

my bloody valentine - loveless
arvo part - tabula rasa
brian eno - another green world
bjork - homogenic
basement jaxx - remedy
arthur russell - world of echo
dntel - life is full of possibilities
arvo part - alina
miles davis - in a silent way
radiohead - kid a

seems so boring to see them all together like that, and i rarely listen to any of them because i have them playing in my head all the time. i listen to dance music probably 75% of the time, and arvo part the rest of the time.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

love- forever changes
underworld- second toughest in the infants
the millennium- begin
tom waits- bone machine
belle and sebastian- the boy with the arab strap
coil- time machines
bonnie prince billy- i see a darkness
television- marquee moon
autechre- chiastic slide
wire- chairs missing
***bonus*** the hold steady- separation sunday

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents
Scientist - Rids the World Of The Evil Curse of The Vampires
Joy Division - Closer
Chic - C'Est Chic
V/A - Short Circuit Live At The Electric Circus
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
V/A/King Tubby - Dub Like Dirt
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Subway Sect - A Retrospective (77-81)
V/A - Rubble volume 6 'The Clouds Have Groovy Faces'.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Flaming Lips - The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest
R.E.M. - Chronic Town
Coldplay - Parachutes
Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing
Franco Godi - The Signor Rossi Soundtrack
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
R.E.M. - Murmur
Badly Drawn Boy - EP2
Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates of Dawn

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Goddammit! I forgot Laughing Stock by Talk Talk!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

1) "The Girl from Ipanema" - a song by some foreign people
2) "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" LP - AC/DC
3) A bunch of answering machine songs a friend and I recorded a few years ago.
4) "The Lion Sleeps Tonight - a song by some non-foreign people
5) The "Ode to Joy" part of Beethoven's 9th
6) The first four Ramones albums
7) "Maggot Brain" LP - Funkadelic
8) "Pop Music" - a song by somebody or other

... a bunch of other stuff, most of it manufactured to exeedingly high quality standards and sanitized for your protection.

Oooh! Are those pigs-in-a-blanket?

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jonathan Richman - Having a Party With Jonathan Richman
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Eric B and Rakim - Follow the Leader
Prince - Parade
Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Ride - Nowhere
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand

― dave heaton (daveheaton), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

9) Oh, I should have added Abba to that list. Not any particular song or recording by Abba -- more just the whole idea of Abba. With the hair and the jumpsuits and the tearstained Swedish make-up-sex and everything.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

neu! / neu! '75
van morrison / astral weeks
pharoah sanders / karma
the avalanches / since i left you
the velvet underground and nico / the velvet underground and nico
jim o'rourke / bad timing
underworld / second toughest in the infants
fennesz / endless summer
belle and sebastian / if you're feeling sinister
kraftwerk / trans-europe express

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

endtroducing
boc maxima
remedy
fear of a black planet
experience
homework
parade
off the wall
the hounds of love
room on fire
warpvision bonus mix cd

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

journey - evolution
journey - escape
journey - infinity
journey - departure
journey - frontiers
journey - generations
journey - next
journey - time3
journey - arrival
journey - captured

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

what, no 'raised on radio'?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's just not in the same league as the other ten

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

1) amon tobin 'permutations'
2) beta band 'to you alone'
3) roxy music 'stranded'
4) roxy music 'country life'
5) basement jaxx 'fly life' (brix radio edit)
6) boards of canada '1969'
7) orbital 'the girl with the sun in her hair'
8) st etienne 'paper'
9) delakota 'the rock'
10) tricky 'aftermath'

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

gorecki-third symphony
aphex twin-selected ambient works II
surgeon-live at tresor '98
biggie-ready to die
talk talk-laughing stock
nas-illmatic
my bloody valentine-loveless
charles mingus-right now! live at the jazz workshop
dirty three-ocean songs
snoop-doggystyle

― robin (robin), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

This week:

1. New Order, Technique.
2. Prince, Sign 'O' The Times
3. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing...
4. Roxy Music, Stranded
5. Rosanne Cash, King's Record Shop
6. Pretenders, Pretenders
7. Alexander O'Neal, Hearsay
8. The Go-Betweens, Tallulah
9. Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
10. Tricky, Maxinquaye

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

1. superchunk - foolish
2. archers of loaf - vee vee
3. pavement - brighten the corners
4. shins - oh inverted world
5. death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
6. sebadoh - bakesale
7. guided by voices - bee thousand
8. arcade fire - funereal
9. modest mouse - the moon and antarctica
10. bright eyes - i'm wide awake, it's morning

― askance johnson (sdownes), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

What are you, 16? You're a big O.C. fan, aren't you honey?

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

what, no 'raised on radio'?
-- pleased to mitya (mitya_il...), June 26th, 2006 11:40 AM.

I LOVE Raised On Radio! Randy Jackson on bass! That guitar coda on "I'll Be Alright With You"!

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

What are you, 16? You're a big O.C. fan, aren't you honey?

This is what I hate about ILM.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

1. Love - Forever Changes
2. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
3. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (Two Wheels Good)
4. Big Star - Sister Lovers
5. My Bloody Valentine - Tremelo EP
6. Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
7. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
8. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
9. Gene Clark - No Other
10. 4 Hero - Parallel Universe

― hank (hank s), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

H8RZ R00L!

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

in no order and as of this moment-
VU+Nico
wowee zowee-pavement
daydream nation- sonic youth
2400 Fulton St.- jefferson airplane
hairway to steven- butthole surfers
disreali gears- cream
siamese dream- smashing pumpkins
cosmo's factory- ccr
queens of the stone age-s/t
everybody let's rock- oneida

― edde (edde), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Well, Thomas, post an honest top 10, and I'll try your approach.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Screamin' Mee-Mees- "Hot Sody"
The Melvins- Eggnog
Hawkwind- Space Ritual
The Dead C- Harsh 70's Reality
This Heat- Out of Cold Storage
Opal- Early Recordings
Robert Wyatt- Rock Bottom
Sun Ra- Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy
Major Stars- Distant Effects
The Ex & Tom Cora- Scrabbling At The Lock

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, I'll bite. No order. And likely different from my "best of all time" list, since this is favorites, blah blah blah.

Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Prince - Sign "O" the Times
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Masters at Work - The 10th Anniversary Collection, Parts 1 & 2
Steely Dan - Aja
Meshell Ndegéocello - Peace Beyond Passion

I like Alf's list better than mine. Clearly, I am an 50-year-old codger who believes no good music has been made in the past decade.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

napalm death - scum
joy division - unknown pleasures
bob dylan - blonde on blonde
bob dylan - nashville skyline
the mark of cain - battlesick
the wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)
hawkwind - space ritual
mark stewart and maffia - learning to cope with cowardice
the rolling stones - bewtween the buttons
david banner - mississippi the album

the albums in my car at the moment. my favourites.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

lessee ...

Whitehouse -- Erector
Hair -- Original Cast Recording
Mantronix -- The Album
Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles
Paul Simon - Graceland
808 State - State Ritual
Redd Foxx - You Gotta Wash Your Ass
Stockhausen -- Kontakte
Cheap Trick -- In Color
Hamilton Bohannon -- Dance Your Ass Off

Slay me for the last two if you want, haters, but I'd bet most of our true favorites spring from our childhood and adolescence. Think hard: What was your favorite album when you were 16 years old? That's your favorite record of all time. If you say it's not, you're full of shit.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

O'Connor OTM. I was 16 smack-dab in between Queen Is Dead and It Takes a Nation of Millions..., which are my dual faves.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Think hard: What was your favorite album when you were 16 years old? That's your favorite record of all time."

there is more than a kernel of truth here, for the vast majority of us...

― hank (hank s), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

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fleetwood mac - tusk
bread s/t
charalambides - market square
the dead c - harsh seventies reality
the shadow ring - lindus
pearls before swine - one nation underground
black sabbath s/t
west coast pop art experimental band - a child's guide to good & evil
the flying burrito brothers - the gilded palace of sin
damon - song of a gypsy

PREDICTABLE. I ONLY LIKED TWO (2) OF THESE RECORDS WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN. GUESS WHICH.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

i should be shot for not putting ANY punk rock on that list :(

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

swap out song of a gypsy for fucking generic flipper.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how our choices would change if we knew we were going to be alone on a desert island with these 10 choices for the rest of our lives. If you lean toward romantic songs, would it be to heavy to listen to these completely alone for the rest of your life? If you lean toward stupid/psychedelic nonsense, would it drive you insane to have the only "human contact" be voices of insane gobbledeegook?

Ya know, I always think about this. The albums I'd want with me on a desert island aren't necessarily going to be my "favorite" in the cold, calculated sense, culled from a list generated in the comfy confines of civilization. I would include albums that remind me of my childhood and my family, for sure. Something I don't really need to include (or listen to) here, today, surrounded by friends and family. The reason for listening to music becomes much different with only 10 choices, alone, forever. Perhaps I'd only want 10 CDR's of my loved ones voices and screw the pop music.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

m. legrand - umbrellas of cherbourg original score
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane...
antony and the johnsons - i am a bird now
various - los viente del siglo viente: flamenco
bonnie prince billy- i see a darkness
mission of burma - Vs.
pere ubu - The Modern Dance
birthday party - junkyard
gang of four - Entertainment
iggy pop - the idiot
suspiria soundtrack
that's 11 but if forced to give 10 I'll flip a coin between the last 2. if forced to choose 10 to live with on a desert island, the 1st 5 would be there with me because they're about death and love and loss and being alive. i think the society-directed anger of the others might not translate well to the lonely sand.

― davelus (davelus), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

When I think about the records I've listened to the most and know the best, it's probably these:

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Pavement - Slanted & Enchangted
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Modest Mouse - Buidling Nothing Out Of Something (technically not an album...)
Fugazi - The Arguement
Prince - Purple Rain
Ween - The Mollusk

Tenth is probably Master of Puppets, Endtoducing, Being There, Cosmic Slop, Innervisions, Keep It Like A Secret, or maybe Loveless.

― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Contest: everyone make what YOU think Xhuxk and blount's top 10 lists will be, and then compare them to what they end up being.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Alternate contest: I have published my top ten list about 43 times on ILM. Without looking it up, guess that list. (Jaymc not eligible.)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

haha I KNEW that would kill this thread.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

You KNEW it? You only gave it about 2 minutes, dint' ya?

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

would it kill any of you to include at least 1 (one) African-American artist or artist(s).

while the obvious exclusion? this thread is as pale as ILM's background color.

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

I know some!

Gilberto Gil - Espresso 2222
Pizzicato Five - I forget which one
Cafe Tacuba - an album by them

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Heart - Dreamboat Annie?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

1. Lipps Inc. - Rape For Breakfast
2. R. Kelly - Pet Sounds
3. Stevey W & the Ballerinas - Sweat Gland Blues
4. Foo Fighters - Mr E Nigma and the Chylde of Time, Vol 2: The Sand Reapers
5. Bush - Sixteen Stone
6. Presidents of the USA - S/T
7. Dogstar - EVERYTHING
8. Denny Vertigo - Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia
9. Ben Folds - A Wish, A Prayer, A Bag of Bones
10. Republica's Greatest Hits

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

9. Ben Folds - A Wish, A Prayer, A Bag of Bones

whoa, i did about 15 google searches and found zilch. what label was this on? thought i had everything, holla at me on e-mail if you're down with a CD-R trade or something.

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

excelsiorbait

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

i just put it on lmao tse-tungs meat challenge

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

i am not going to lie about my favorite albums just to put a black artist on my list. (unless you count arthur lee)

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, man, stop holding t0dd swiss down!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Does Arthur Lee not normally count as black?

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, wrinklepaws! Twenty out of the first eighty (quick rough cut) that started this thread were black artists. I especially appreciated those lists where nine albums listed were justifiably popular choices and the poster would have Mingus, or De La, or PE dropped in the list.

I have no way of knowing what the racial mix on ilm is, I suspect it's predominantly white, but wtf? You excoriate and then are ecstatic for a Ben Folds? Where's the love for a black artist?

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

I especially appreciated those lists where nine albums listed were justifiably popular choices and the poster would have Mingus, or De La, or PE dropped in the list.

okay wrinklepaws was asking for it but WTF does this mean?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, after sleeping on it a day, using the term "full of shit" and going off on Rockist was over the top. Out of character for me to be *that* pungently obnoxious -- must have been arsenic in my Wheaties or something. Apologies for endangering the thread and thwarting civility.

On a more positive note, there are some terrific, interesting lists here.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

well played

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

i was surprised to see whitehouse on yours, chris!

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

that album's got a pretty ugly history.

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is as pale as ILM's background color.

the ink is black, the page is white, together we...what was it again?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

together we...begin to fight...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Very funny that someone went in and changed my list, btw. Though that Redd Foxx album certainly is funny as hell.

Probably had it coming to me ...

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

For reference, her's the original list

Computer Love
A Mark, A Mission, a Brand, a Scar
Life is...Too Short
Green Onions
Persepolis
The Mary Jane Girls
From the Roots to the Toota
Whipped Cream and Other Delights
Homotopy to Marie
Brown Sugar

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, my faux list has a twisted farcical brilliance to it. Can I keep it? Thanks much, ballbusting moderator.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I totally know what's going on there

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, we should edit everyone's lists

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

The switch-up and its context makes this thread the funniest damn thing I've read in a long, long time, even if the joke is sorta on me ...

... yeah, man, Dream of the Blue Turtles was dope when I was 16! :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

ah, just thinking of Sting's early career reminds me that "Marsalis" rhymes with "phallus"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, after all, if you love someone ...

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

The P5 album Matt likes is Happy End of the World. He listens to it while shoveling snow! (That's real snow, not Young Jeezy snow.) Others on his list are probably, I dunno, Gomez, Bersuit Vergarabat, shit like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

jaja, what part of (Jaymc not eligible.) didn't you understand?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

The part where that was last night and nobody's bothered since then?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

nothing against you John but it's not really fair to pit your mutant abilities against mere mortals. plus you said 'shit like that' so now we got beef.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S ON NOW

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

o'connor likes some weird shit

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Haikunym, El Gran Silencio - somethingorother.

Are compilations/bestofs allowed? I don't see people listing them, but the instructions don't seem clear to me on that point.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

You wanna do it in person this Friday, Matt?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, tell me about it. Literally: Tell me about it ... :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Now I like Dashboard Confessional and Field Mob? I learn more and more about my inner core every day ...

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

J: I'm still in limbo to see if I can get launched from home duty to come see youze guys, doing what I can; then it's ON like FULL HOUSE

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

But Full House was cancelled 11 years ago. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

besides the clean, most of these albums are just randomly choosen from the artist's catalogue. its really way too hard to narrow it down this far.

silver jews – American water
pixies - doolittle
magnetic fields – 69 loves songs
velvet underground – loaded
the clean - anthology
talking heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
beatles – abbey road
built to spill – there’s nothing wrong with love
modest mouse – lonesome crowded west
pavement- Slanted & Enchanted

regrettably out of room for… the smiths, the cure, m.ward and the first stone roses

― marbles (marbles), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

revive WOW

― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

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