1st 5 Albums You Have Not Heard from RYMs All Time Top List

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time

Mine are:

85. Clifford Brown & Max Roach
97. Bela Bartok- Concerto for Orchestra
106. Art Blakey- Moanin'
107. Ella Fitzgerald- Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (not in its entirety at least)
109. Talk Talk- Spirit of Eden

and for fun the next five:

112. Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
131. Edgard Varese- Complete Works
133. Pharaoh Sanders- Karma
136. Aretha Franklin- Lady Soul
140. Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick

18 Marquee Moon
Television
Marquee Moon (1977)

19 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

31 In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

38 Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

45 Tabula Rasa
Arvo Pärt
Tabula Rasa (1984)

73, 92, 97 (not that recording), 98 and 110.

If you have to have listened to the whole album all the way through, I barely make it out of the top 10.

E.g. I've never listened to Abbey Road.

21. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
30. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
33. Glenn Gould - Bach: The Goldberg Variations
34. Nas - Illmatic
36. GZA / Genius - Liquid Swords

Jeez, makes it look like I never listen to hip-hop...I swear, I love ODB and Hip Hop Is Dead!

I haven't heard
33 Glenn Gould Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1956)
59 Bach: The Goldberg Variations [1981 Version]
67 John Williams Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
72 Vince Guaraldi A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
92 Townes Van Zandt Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (1977)

The next 5 I haven't heard are

95 Bernard Herrmann Vertigo (1958)
97 Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra [Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1955)
115 Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg (1964)
127 Chico Buarque Construção (1971)
129 Basil Poledouris Conan the Barbarian (1982)

21 - Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang
24 - Pixies, Doolittle
33 - Glenn Gould, Bach: Goldberg Variations
34 - Nas, Illmatic
36 - GZA/Genius, Liquid Swords

Good thread idea btw

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
King Crimson - Red

17 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?
22 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966) [only have the songs on the box set]
27 Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland (1968)
30 The Zombies Odessey & Oracle (1968)
38 Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

Treblekicker you need to hear all 5!

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa
John Coltrane - Coltrane Live at Birdland
Ennio Morricone - Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Probably five extreme metal albums, let me see:

33. Glenn Gould: Bach's Goldberg Variations
36. GZA/Genius: Liquid Swords
43. Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
48. John Coltrate Live At Birdland
53. Ennio Morricone: Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
(Of course I've heard the title track of the latter though)

No metal. Apparently the metalheads haven't managed to manipulate the Top 100 yet.

4 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
41 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
54 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch
67 John Williams Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
72 Vince Guaraldi A Charlie Brown Christmas

Maiden,Slayer, Megadeth , Death all have
x-post

oh pash u have to get yr hands on black saint/sinner lady. it's ~amazing~

geir doesn't listen to classical!

4. Charles Mingus : The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
14. Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
15. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
16. Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
24. Pixies: Doolittle

I'd like to hear the two jazz ones. Not so interested in the others.

3, 9, 10, 13 all bob dylan
4 Charles Mingus.

I'm on my way to being the worst here aren't I?

Most honest, certainly

Ok, Computer
Enter the WU-Tang
Odessey and Oracle
Illmatic
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

5 next would be:

31 king crimson
45 arvo part
54 eric dolphy
60 king crimson
72 vince guaraldi

I barely get out of the top 15 here - 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are my first five!

Highway 61 Revisited
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Bringing It All Back Home
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde

-Bob Dylan would be:

The Velvet Underground & Nico
Marquee Moon
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Doolittle
In the Court of the Crimson King

16 Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
34 Nas - Illmatic
59 Glenn Gould - Bach: The Goldberg Variations [1981 version]
60 King Crimson - Red
66 Yes - Close To The Edge

I might have heard all of Illmatic, just not all at once or in order.

45 Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (1984)
59 Glenn Gould - Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1982)
92 Townes Van Zandt - Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (1977)
131 Edgard Varèse - The Complete Works [Asko Ensemble; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly] (1998)
160 Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74 (1974)

pfft

3, 9, 10, 13 all bob dylan
4 Charles Mingus.

I'm on my way to being the worst here aren't I?

No, that's about the same for me as well, except I've heard Blonde on Blonde.

Also, I'm familiar with Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme, but I don't own either of them and so I don't think I've ever actually sat down and listened to them all the way through.

1st 5:

33. Glenn Gold/ Bach/ Goldberg (1956)
41. Neutral Milk Hotel
48. John Coltrane, Live at Birdland
50. John Coltrane, Giant Steps
53. Morricone

next 5:
55. John Coltrane, My Favourite Things
64. Otis Blue
67. John Williams, Star Wars
72. Vince Guaraldi
73. Death

god does Rate Your Music suck!

waht?!

Treblekicker you need to hear all 5!

There's never enough time to hear everything is there! I'll get round to it. BTW, you should hear the Goldberg Variations - and watch 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, which tells you so much about why this guy is so special.

Plus, A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of the most classic Xmas albums of all time - albeit from not a very long list.

i've heard 14 albums off that list, and actively hate six of those. lists like these are totally gross, this one has more jazz and classical (uh goldberg variations twice though, wtf?) but other than that it's pretty much exactly the same as all boring canon lists ever...when i first got to university, i spent six months thinking i "should" hear these albums and wasted so much time on crap i didn't really enjoy. apart from the jazz, i have no plans to hear anything else on that list and will prob actively avoid them, actually.

Abbey Road
Highway 61 Revisited
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Kind of Blue
A Love Supreme

haha there is ONE woman represented in the entire top 100!!! and that's nico. at least most canon lists have the decency to have one or two token females. god how can anyone take this remotely seriously

I was thinking the same thing, Lex. But then I started counting female bassists in indie bands like MBV and The Pixies and Sonic Youth and managed to get up to 5 women before I just gave up.

Thank you very much indeed, Lex (said in sincere Dale Winton voice).

Don't forget Tina Weymouth.

RYM is a very rigorous and fair collation of all the ratings of music collections of people who fucking bothered to enter them in one by one on the internet

oh i forgot kim gordon, didn't know about the others. does "plastic ono band" imply yoko ono's presence? anyway whatevz, 7 females, all part of male-dominated outfits. well done RYM!

haha there is ONE woman represented in the entire top 100!!! and that's nico. at least most canon lists have the decency to have one or two token females. god how can anyone take this remotely seriously

― lex pretend, Friday, 24 October 2008 16:42 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Kim Gordon, Kim Deal, Tina Weymouth, Blinda Butcher, Debbie Googe, Peppermint Patty, Lucy Van Pelt, Marcie.

haha i have never heard, in full, five of the top six (i have heard VU & Nico)

haha there is ONE woman represented in the entire top 100!!! and that's nico

ahem, mo tucker? on that same album?

we're talkin' top billing tho

She was in the Velvet Underground who get top billing. It doesn't say Lou Reed and the rest of velvet underground and Nico

What more can I say, top billin'

Whether there's 1 or 5 or 7, it's still fucking pathetic is what it is.

anyway whatevz, 7 females, all part of male-dominated outfits. well done RYM!

― lex pretend, Friday, October 24, 2008 3:49 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My Bloody Valentine aren't male-dominated, they're 50% female.

3,4,6,7,10 I WIN

lol bob dylan
lol jazz

btw dylan's cool but shit me he's overrated

haha i'm jazz + dylan too

i suppose you're a Donovan kinda guy. xp

nah i was brought up on dylan, just not those 2 albums

his very best stuff is awes (and he has, contrary to what many claim, a great voice) but i don't get the worship, even bearing the lyrics in mind

glenn gould - gbv
nas - illmatic
arvo part - tabula rasa
joy division - closer
coltrane live at birdland

also i absolutely cannot abide by the hegemony the 60's holds over these lists

to further the point, dylan was a great painter of imagery for my young mind, but nowadays much of his music has lost some of its mystique and ethereal quality

Kind of surprising the number of people who haven't heard Illmatic.

Yeah I wasn't poking fun at the people who haven't heard odds ends of various classics, just the few who really will not listen no matter what. This poll is about albums heard, not owned. I'd think most of us here wouldn't relate to not even being curious. Thanks to public and school libraries, I heard a lot on that list by the time I was in high school.

4, 7, 12, 14, 15. Don't think I've ever heard a Pink Floyd album actually. And I think I've only heard Abbey Road and Revolver once, but I guess that counts.

WOW fuck Dylan.

no no no,
fuck YOU.

lol jazz

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, October 24, 2008 8:00 PM (21 minutes ago)

have to say, I'm really surprised (and a little saddened) that someone with your yen for complexity and energy is 'lol jazz'...

Xpost I'm just annoyed because he made this RYM search thread really boring for me.

But those first couple jazz records are great.

m the g, am lolling at the fact i haven't heard all these universally-revered jazz albums, am most certainly not hatin' on. i shd give them a go!

the lols were a reflection of how i couldn't escape the top 10, and the obvious reasons for this (i.e. gaps in my knowledge)

don't give up on me
m the g

ah, gotcha. thought it was a general jazz slight, in which case there'd be trub.

4 The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
31 In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
36 Liquid Swords - GZA / Genius
45 Tabula Rasa - Arvo Pärt
50 Giant Steps - John Coltrane

i love how In The Court Of The Crimson King is way up there pretty much on the strength of one completely unbelievably awesome (and yeah jazz-stuffed) song

also i'd go into "jazz i like" but a) that'd derail the thread and b) i don't actually know where jazz stops and alt rock begins etc etc

i put nirvana in alt-rock

Apparently, the Chinese are heavily into indie and new wave: http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=all-time&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&limit=country&countries=china

What do you think of this Geir?
(Norway) http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=all-time&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&limit=country&countries=norway

Oh, I've seen it before. Apparently there are a bit too many Norwegians who are into "talk singing" and a "dirty production" with lots of dirty guitar. But it's pretty much the usual "canon". :)

17. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
27. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
30. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
55. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
56. The Who - Live at Leeds

mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady
miles - kind of blue
trane - a love supreme
king crimson - itcotkc
glenn gould - bach

i don't give a flying fuck about jazz.

OK everybody here needs to listen to Tabula Rasa, in full.

me:

OK Computer
Enter The Wu-Tang
The Queen Is Dead
Illmatic
Otis Blue

you have really not heard enter the wu tang?! damn son.
i guess i'm kinda surprised at the queen is dead too. but i wouldn't have heard that record unless i had goff friends in HS.

4. Mingus
7. Coltrane
16. Miles Davis
21. Wu-tang
33. Glenn Gould

you have really not heard enter the wu tang?! damn son.

I know, I know. A couple of years ago all the cheap Scorpio pressings disappeared from around here and now all I see is $20 180 gram bullshit.

3,4,5,9,10

1 (lol), 4, 6, 19, 20

wow! surprised by Rev's apparent Dylan indifference.

u know I <3 folkies

wait, aren't you a mountain goats fan?

Mingus, Black Saint and Sinner Lady
Coltrane, A Love Supreme (though surely I've heard this played in a coffee shop or something and don't know it)
Radiohead, OK Computer
Dylan, Bringing it all back home
Dylan, Blood on the Tracks

I'm excited to join those who didn't make it out of the top 10.

10. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
15. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
19. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
21. Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
30. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

and after that it gets even worse

Some people here obviously have a lot of mandatory listening to do :)

Don't care so much for Dylan or the Beatles, and know their stuff only as odds and ends of tracks, So, on the basis that if I don't remember hearing an album, I haven't really listened to it, the Banana album is the only one I've heard in the top five. It's going to be a long time, if not a cold day in hell, before I actually want to hear that one again.

Chinese chart is interesting - note the presence of the GO4's Entertainment!

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=all-time&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&limit=country&countries=nigeria

Nigeria's list is pretty awesome

I think that list is based on a single rater tho.

3. Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

4. Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)

9. Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

18. Television
Marquee Moon (1977)

19. The Kinks
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

4.charles mingus
6.miles davies
7.john coltrane
8.radiohead
16.miles davies

wait, aren't you a mountain goats fan?

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― THE TOWER OF HUMANOID ANTIBODIES!!! (Ioannis), Saturday, October 25, 2008 5:39 AM Bookmark

nothing against them, but that's news to me

4: Mingus
16: Miles
17: Jimi
18: Television
19: Kinks

I think I might have heard Tabula Rasa ...

The Kinks
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

Glenn Gould
Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1956)

Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

Arvo Pärt
Tabula Rasa (1984)

John Coltrane
Coltrane Live at Birdland (1964)

48. John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
56. The Who - Live at Leeds
60. King Crimson - Red
63. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
64. Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul

And for kicks:

71. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
72. Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
73. Death - Symbolic
75. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
85. Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Am I missing out?

3, 4, 9, 10, 13 -- 4 of these are Dylan, the other is Mingus.

I've never even heard a Dylan song, let alone an entire album. Don't much care for Mingus, although I'll probably get around to hearing that album at some point.

Pink Floyd are very popular in Belarus:
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=all-time&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&limit=country&countries=belarus

;)