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I think the title's pretty self-explanatory. Just one note though - don't feel you necessarily have to justify why you'd give x album 10/10; you don't have to write a full review, but one or two sentences as to why would be nice.

Mine:

Isis - Celestial. It's awesome as a single piece of music. None of the tracks on it, except Celestial (The Tower), are really amazing by themselves, but as one whole piece of music it's 52 minutes of awesomeness.

Tool - Aenima. This one has several tracks that are actually amazing by themselves, but that's not why I'd give it 10/10. It gets that because they've managed to put those songs (Stinkfist, Eulogy, Forty-Six & Two, Hooker With A Penis) together in a way that actually enhances how good they are individually.

Lostprophets - The Fake Sound of Progress. Seriously. It's really good, raw metal (at least on the original release - the production is too clean on the re-release), and it showed a band that had an immense amount of promise as a metal band. Then they fucked that up royally. This opinion has got me into many arguments in the last few years, but I still maintain that an album that has Kobrakai, Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja, The Fake Sound of Progress, and Still Laughing on it is worthy of a 10/10 rating.

Converge - Jane Doe. (I don't even think I have to justify this one. My opinion is that if you like metal, you'll like this album).

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. It's a great album musically, but I'd give this 10/10 not just for that but also for the influence it (and the DKs) has/have had on music since its release.

There are more albums that I could probably say are worth 10/10, but I thought I'd limit my list to five. Here are some near misses, though (albums worth about 9.5/10):
65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math. Loses a bit of focus going into the second half of the album, otherwise it'd be easily worth 10.
Muse - Origin of Symmetry. Tails off a bit towards the end. I think Screenager and Megalomania knock off that half point.
Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves. It's a very impressive album, but at times it sounds like a compilation rather than a proper album.

Any one of the Medieval Babes albums.

Animals ~ Pink Floyd ~ Excellent psychedelic music.


In Their Darkened Shrines ~ Nile ~ Just because.

Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables ~ The Dead Kennedys ~ Classic songs like "Holiday in Cambodia" and "California Uber Alles" are on here, and the versions on here are better than the Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. Plus, "I Kill Children", "Drug Me", and "Your Emotions" are probably some of the best rant songs ever recorded, in addition to California Uber Alles and Holiday in Cambodia.



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Any one of the Medieval Babes albums.

10/10?

The Best of the Ramones.

ha!

Clearly my musical tastes vary somewhat from previous posters (but then, I'm probably ten years older than the previous posters!).

Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project

A Kind of Magic - Queen

Bat Out of Hell 1 & 2 - Meatloaf

Origin of Symmetry - Muse

There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters

Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith

Get Born - JET

All brilliant albums

Tool - Aenima. This one has several tracks that are actually amazing by themselves, but that's not why I'd give it 10/10. It gets that because they've managed to put those songs (Stinkfist, Eulogy, Forty-Six & Two, Hooker With A Penis) together in a way that actually enhances how good they are individually.

I have to disagree. There are some 10/10 songs on the album (Ænema, H., Pushit, Forty-Six & 2), but there's too much filler (Useful Idiot, Intermission), and some of the songs would be 10/10 worthy, except they have little "clever" bits that drag on way to long (Third Eye's lame Bill Hicks tribute).

Frail Words Collapse by As I Lay Dying is 10/10 material, IMO. It's got such a high level of energy throughout the album (even in the slow songs like "Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier"), great drum work, just a great feel overall.

I've never heard an Iron Maiden album cover-to-cover, but I imagine Powerslave and Piece of Mind are 10/10 worthy.

Dead Kennedys' Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death is absolutely 10/10 material. It features some of their best songs (California Uber Alles, Police Truck, Holiday in Cambodia, Too Drunk to Fuck, Pull My Strings, their version of I Fought The Law), intelligent, amusing, and vitriolic lyrics (Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round, Night of the Living Rednecks) and fantastic instrumental work throughout.

I think Lamb of God's As The Palaces Burn and Ashes of the Wake come close to 10/10. Most of the songs on both albums are great, but a few are a bit filler-ish.

Dark Dayz- Blakstone
See the Morning- Chris Tomlin
Illmatic- Nas

Anglicana - Eliza Carthy
La Juderia - Yasmin Levy
Burlesque - Bellowhead
Songs - Spiers and Boden
English Drinking Songs - A L Lloyd
Terachi - Ojos De Brujo
Little Lights - Kate Rusby
The First Cut - Dr Faustus

I don't understand the concept of albums. I really pay more attention to induvidual songs, an album usually only has 1 good song.

Oh, my, I don't think I've ever actually posted before. Well, people who have no idea who I am, here are a couple of my current favourites:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
of Montreal - Aldhils Arboretum

There are several other albums that are very high up there for me:

Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Radiohead - OK Computer

And of course there is a myriad of other great albums, these were just the first that came to my mind.

i'm not sure i could give 10/10 for an album. i'd really have to love each track equally to do that. The Fake Sound of Progress was good, but the tracks that you listed were really the only memorable ones on it for me. it's a great album for driving though, particularly with a bunch of friends in the car all moshing in their seats. Origin of Symmetry is definitely a classic and i do like all the tracks. of the album's you've listed that would get closest to 10/10 from me. not the full ten though cuz i reckon you have to be in a certain kind of mood for it or else matt bellamy's voice starts to grate. i'd give it a 9.6.

the other's i've not heard. i can't actually think of a single album i'd give 10/10 tbh. Gogol Bordello's Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike comes close, as does M.I.A.'s Missing In Acton and when The Futurehead's debut came out i'd have given that a near 10 but i'm bored of it now really.

Derek and Clive - Come Again

Anglicana - Eliza Carthy
La Juderia - Yasmin Levy
Burlesque - Bellowhead
Songs - Spiers and Boden
English Drinking Songs - A L Lloyd
Terachi - Ojos De Brujo
Little Lights - Kate Rusby
The First Cut - Dr Faustus

Never heard of anyone who's heard of them before! Initially, I thought they were great, but now its more like Henley Regatta does English folk.

Music is subjective, meaning it depends totaly on your opinions and tastes. That is why I dont like ratings that much.

Nonetheless, there is an album where I find all the musics to be incredibly good. Its by Blind Guardian, and the name is Imaginations from the Other Side (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginations_from_the_Other_Side).

The other one would be Demons and Wizards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_and_Wizards_%28album%29), band and album with the same name. Both are melodic metal, so of course, your taste has to be pretty specific.

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel. Reason: It kicks ass.

Everything to Everyone - Barenaked Ladies. Reason: It kicks ass.

on my way don't know where i'm gon' - Paul Simon. Reason: It kicks ass.

Classic Sinatra - Frank Sinatra. Reason: It kicks ass.

All Over the World: Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra - ELO. Reason: It kicks ass.

My top ten 10/10, in no particular order:

Richie Hawtin - DE9: Closer To The Edit

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus

Deftones - Around The Fur

Boom Bip & Dose One - Circle

Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F# A# ∞

DJ Shadow - Entroducing

Hmm it depends totally on the mood, but maybe Buddhaz Yoyos - 1 (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/2084/?refuid=31458) or Freibeuter AG - Strafen und Klagen (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1669/?refuid=31458) qualify...

Dethklok - Dethalbum

well i have a few

D-A-D: Riskin' it all; even though there might be a few filli'ish numbers, they are all worth atleast 9.6, and because the two upper tracks on it, (down the dusty 3rd world road, and laugh and a ½ (i would rate them 11/10 if i could)) and all of the tracks are placed and balanced on the album, that it makes it worth 10/10

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell (The Bat out of Hell) well... what is there to say?

im not sure i can rate any other albums than those two 10/10, but these were close to hit the list:

D-A-D: No fuel left for the pilgrims
Gasolin: Rabalderstræde Forever
Aerosmith: Get a Grip
Ac/Dc: Higway to hell, Razors edge and For those about to rock we salute you
The Darkness: one way ticket to hell... and back
Deep Purple Deepest Purple

Music is subjective, meaning it depends totaly on your opinions and tastes. That is why I dont like ratings that much.

Nonetheless, there is an album where I find all the musics to be incredibly good. Its by Blind Guardian, and the name is Imaginations from the Other Side (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginations_from_the_Other_Side).

QFT :)

Besides that one I also have some other pearls to share :)

The Offspring - Ignition, a bit unknown (it was before smash) but it's very nice :)

Anathema - Alternative 4, simply great how they make such good climaxes in the songs.

Haha, anyone who thinks that you cant rate an album a perfect 10 has to listen to pink floyd

Dark side of the moon is just perfect


In more recent terms

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

soo good


and a 9.9 to Yes - Close to the edge

The Offspring - Ignition, a bit unknown (it was before smash) but it's very nice :)
Smash, IMO, is better than Ignition.

But, hey, that's subjective art for you. :p

and a 9.9 to Yes - Close to the edge
I concur.

Fandiddlytastic album.

Haha, anyone who thinks that you cant rate an album a perfect 10 has to listen to pink floyd

Dark side of the moon is just perfect


Pink Floyd wouldn't even get a 5 from me!

I find any of these albums absolutely brilliant:

Liquid Tension Experiment II
Andy West - Rama
Jordan Rudess - Rhythm of Time
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory

Smash, IMO, is better than Ignition.

But, hey, that's subjective art for you. :p

Well, Smash certainly rocks as well, I might give it 10/10 too :)

Haha, anyone who thinks that you cant rate an album a perfect 10 has to listen to pink floyd

Dark side of the moon is just perfect

"Money" sucks. The rest of the album is pretty good.

"Money" sucks. The rest of the album is pretty good.

"Money" is one of the best songs on there...

"Money" is one of the best songs on there...

You have no taste.

You have no taste.

funny, I was thinking similar about you ;)

Dunno about 10/10, but these would definitely be close IMO

Radiohead- OK Computer
Idiot Pilot- Strange We Should Meet Here
Snow Patrol- Final Straw
Silverchair- Neon Ballroom
Oceanize- Effloresce
Sigur Ros- Takk...
Genghis Tron- Cloak of Love (ok, an EP rather than an album, but still awesome)

Inflammable Materials - Stiff Little Fingers: There isn't a single song on there that I don't love, and it has some of SLF's best work on it. Suspect Device Alone is enough to earn this album it's 10, but there's nothing weak on there at all.

Suffer - Bad Religion: If all of LA hardcore went one place, it was towards this one album. One of the best, and most underrated.

Embrace - Embrace (DC): One of the most overlooked bands in American Punk History, but this album is absolutely excellent.

Same for

13 Songs - Fugazi: Not an overlooked band, but an overlooked album from Waiting Room to Promises, the album is solid and new.

Can't think of anything else I'd give a 10...

10/10 for me includes (ie these are the one's I think of right now):
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Brian McNeill - Back O' The North Wind
Buena Vista Social Club (self titled)
Maiden - Number of the Beast

funny, I was thinking similar about you ;)

And you have no grammar skills, apparently.

Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
Oceansize - Effloresce
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead -OK Computer
Weezer - Pinkerton
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Gomez - Liquid Skin

Great choices apart from the two in bold. I can take them or leave them

Well, I'll let those two slide, but at least you liked the rest :)

Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
Oceansize - Effloresce
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead -OK Computer
Weezer - Pinkerton
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Gomez - Liquid Skin

Great choices apart from the two in bold. I can take them or leave them

I love Feeder: The Singles. I know it's a greatest hit's album, but it really is a greatest hits album. All the songs are fantastic IMO. I'd also list Origin of Symmetry up there. And Queen: It's a Kind of Magic.

10/10?

The Best of the Ramones.

ha!Cheater! :p

I don't understand the concept of albums. I really pay more attention to induvidual songs, an album usually only has 1 good song.You're clearly listening to the wrong kind of music, then.

Biffy Clyro- The Vertigo of Bliss
The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
Funeral for a Friend- Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation

You're clearly listening to the wrong kind of music, then.

Very seriously, that is how the mainstream music industry sells it's big hits. They focus on the single, and the rest is filler. If there's too much there, it isn't cost effective. =/

Nirvana's Nevermind - Most of the songs are perfect, and the couple that aren't fit into the album as a whole.
The Gits' Frenching the Bully - Somewhat heavy punk and the awesome vocals of Mia Zapata. The lyrics are great, too.
The Plasmatics' New Hope For the Wretched - Noisy and abrasive. What more could you ask for?
Jack Off Jill's Clear Hearts Grey Flowers - The dynamics on this album kick ass.
Local H's As Good As Dead - Abrasive and noisy at time, quiet and introspective at others. This rules!

Near misses:
Metallica's Metallica - All of the songs are good, but taken as a whole go on a little bit too long.
The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Awesome until the latter half of disc 2, where it starts to drag.
Cradle of Filth's Cruelty and the Beast - A concept album fictionalizing the story of Elizabeth Bathory. Nearly perfect, but a couple of the songs could've been punchier.
Nirvana's In Utero - While all of the noisy songs on Nevermind were catchy, parts of the noisy ones on this ("Very Ape") weren't.
Babes In Toyland's Fontanelle - Nearly every song is good, but not every song.

I don't really believe in ratings and certainly not in 10/10, but I'm certainly enjoying niño rojo at the moment but it's the first time I had the "wow, I totally get it" feeling. Before that I also listened to the newest Cocorosie "the adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn" which has some 10/10 songs on it, but the album as a whole probably doesn't deserve a 10/10.
(also, why do some CD's have songs that begin with one song, then have a long silence and then another song?)

Nirvana's Nevermind - Most of the songs are perfect, and the couple that aren't fit into the album as a whole.

Easily the most overrated album I've ever heard of.

The Plasmatics' New Hope For the Wretched - Noisy and abrasive. What more could you ask for?
Plasmatics rock. :D


Another album that could probably be 10/10 material would be The Beatles Abbey Road. It has many great tracks and, unlike the White Album, it's concise; none of the songs are filler.

Easily the most overrated album I've ever heard of.

Another album that could probably be 10/10 material would be The Beatles Abbey Road. It has many great tracks and, unlike the White Album, it's concise; none of the songs are filler.:eek: You're calling Nirvana overrated but putting forth the Beatles as an example? ;)

:eek: You're calling Nirvana overrated but putting forth the Beatles as an example? ;)

No! The Beatles TOTALLY earned being the most popular band on the planet earth!

:eek: You're calling Nirvana overrated but putting forth the Beatles as an example? ;)
:) I guess there is some irony in that.

On the other hand, the quality of Nirvana's music isn't nearly as high as the Beatles, yet Nirvana tends to be rated, and is better known than the Beatles to many people nowadays.

And you have to think of the lasting impact of both bands: The Beatles (along with The Who, Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, etc) popularized well-written, thoughtful rock music. Nirvana popularized pop-punk. So which modern-day derivatives do you prefer: Simple Plan/Good Charlotte/Sum-41 or Tool/Opeth/Dream Theatre? :D

Oh, and, in the scale of Beatles albums, Abbey Road is fairly underrated.

the bends- radiohead, perfect album
ok computer aswell.

I've never heard an Iron Maiden album cover-to-cover, but I imagine Powerslave and Piece of Mind are 10/10 worthy.

Powerslave yes. Piece Of Mind no. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son yes. Number of the Beast yes. Live After Death double yes.


Dead Kennedys' Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death is absolutely 10/10 material. It features some of their best songs (California Uber Alles, Police Truck, Holiday in Cambodia, Too Drunk to Fuck, Pull My Strings, their version of I Fought The Law), intelligent, amusing, and vitriolic lyrics (Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round, Night of the Living Rednecks) and fantastic instrumental work throughout.

I concur wholly.

Sex Pistols "Never Mind The Bollocks" One of the top ten most important albums in the history of recorded music. Maybe that's a little hyped, but only a little.

Rush "2112" & "Moving Pictures". Just because.

Faith No More "Angel Dust" - who'd have thought that that bunch of goobers could produce anything so unutterably wonderful.

Cocteau Twins "Victorialand" - bliss

Blue Oyster Cult "Secret Treaties" & "Workshop Of The Telescopes" - the first is from 1973 (I think) and contains some of the finest heavy rock ever produced. The second deserves an award for best compilation. You see some Best Ofs and they suck. You sit and think "but album track X was so much better than single Y" when faced with some record exec's idea of what might sell. With WOTT, I couldn't have done a better job if I'd selected the track list myself.

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Side One is definitely 10/10, but the Side Two drops the ball badly.

Yeah, I like the 'pop' side of the LP, but not the 'art' one. So shoot me.

Lateralus is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

Oooh, nice topic!

Erykah Badu - Baduizm. Awsome from beginning to end, well written, smart, deep and just plain groovy.

M.I.A - Arular. Fucking beautiful stuff if you're into grime.

Kamasutra - Moonbound. More like an EP, but still the shit when it comes to biker/stonerrock.

Hmm, that's a good choice. Normally albums aren't my thing, but here are a few

Handsome Boy Modeling School - So... How's Your Girl?
Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Slayer - God Hates Us All

And this isn't quite 10/10 but it's a really good album

MC Solaar - Mach 6

Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty By Falkenbach
Sons of Northern Darkness by Immortal

Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger. There's not a bad song on it. The whole thing is amazingly atmospheric and probably the best example of Norwegian Black Metal ever released.

I have to disagree. There are some 10/10 songs on the album (Ænema, H., Pushit, Forty-Six & 2), but there's too much filler (Useful Idiot, Intermission), and some of the songs would be 10/10 worthy, except they have little "clever" bits that drag on way to long (Third Eye's lame Bill Hicks tribute).
Hey, Intermission's great! :p Besides, it fits in with the album, as does Useful Idiot. I was considering not including the album in my list because of Third Eye, but I figured the album is too good not to give it top marks.

i'm not sure i could give 10/10 for an album. i'd really have to love each track equally to do that. The Fake Sound of Progress was good, but the tracks that you listed were really the only memorable ones on it for me. it's a great album for driving though, particularly with a bunch of friends in the car all moshing in their seats.
I don't think every track has to be memorable to make it a 10/10 album. Nor do you have to love every track equally - do you really think that people listing OK Computer as 10/10 think Fitter, Happier is as good as Karma Police or Subterranean Homesick Alien?

My top ten 10/10:
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F# A# ∞
NOFX - Pump Up The Valuum
:D, :) and :confused: Seriously, you think PUTV is worth 10/10? It's an excellent album, but I wouldn't say it's that good.

cLOUDDEAD on the other hand - worth at least 9.5.


Silverchair- Neon Ballroom
Oceanize- Effloresce
The inclusion of Effloresce just about makes up for the inclusion of Silverchair. ;)

Inflammable Materials - Stiff Little Fingers: There isn't a single song on there that I don't love, and it has some of SLF's best work on it. Suspect Device Alone is enough to earn this album it's 10, but there's nothing weak on there at all.
That was an album that I'd have put in my list if I'd done more than five. Definitely is a brilliant album.


Jack Off Jill's Clear Hearts Grey Flowers - The dynamics on this album kick ass.
:)

I don't think every track has to be memorable to make it a 10/10 album. Nor do you have to love every track equally - do you really think that people listing OK Computer as 10/10 think Fitter, Happier is as good as Karma Police or Subterranean Homesick Alien?


that's just my criteria, i'm a hard man to please :p

Suspect Device Alone is enough to earn this album it's 10, but there's nothing weak on there at all.

Yeah, wonder how they found that riff...

...oh, it was lying over here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1EWlGwn24).

In fact, never mind the riff, its pretty much the whole tune bar the intro - verse, chorus, bridge and all.

My fiancé, Regina, her album "Soviet Kitsch".

She paid me to say this.

The inclusion of Effloresce just about makes up for the inclusion of Silverchair. ;)

Similarly, the fact that you like Oceansize just about deterred me from lobbing nuclear missiles in your general direction for your shocking slander against the mighty 'chair! :p

Hmm...

Radiohead - The Bends
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy

I'd love to put Hail to the Thief and OK Computer up there too, but the former just isn't quite as good, and the latter loses out because Paranoid Android is incredibly over-rated and far too long. It's OK, but not brilliant (unlike almost all of the rest of the album). And Stalin; I like Fitter, Happier :p
Wish You Were Here is another close-but-no-Have-a-Cigar (badum-tsh), too.

Similarly, the fact that you like Oceansize just about deterred me from lobbing nuclear missiles in your general direction for your shocking slander against the mighty 'chair! :p

I think anybody could be saved from anything by virtue of liking Oceansize.

1). Toys in the Attic---Aerosmith
2). Exiles on Main Street--Rolling Stones.
3). Revolver--Beatles. (1st known techno song? "Tommarow Never Knows"
4). Mountain--Mountain.
5). Ziggy Stardust--David Bowie.

Not in that order really. Just off the top of my head.

I don't understand the concept of albums. I really pay more attention to induvidual songs, an album usually only has 1 good song.

One or two, yeah.

Having said that, Ben Fold's Suppersunnyspeedgraphic is pretty 10/10.

Near misses:
Metallica's Metallica - All of the songs are good, but taken as a whole go on a little bit too long.If any Metallica album's gonna make it into the awesome albums list it should be Master of Puppets. MoP is 'tallica at their best. Hell, it's metal at its best. 10/10? Nah, this one goes all the way up to 11!

Paris, by Paris Hilton.

Paris, by Paris Hilton.

OMG yes!

Paris, by Paris Hilton.

You, sir, have a sick, sick sense of humour.

You, sir, have a sick, sick sense of humour.

Thanks.

You, sir, have a sick, sick sense of humour.
He suits his name, assuming gender. I like his style.

He suits his name, assuming gender. I like his style.

You are correct, I am male.

You are correct, I am male.
Not really a difficult guess, everyone on the web is male. It's a requirement under the Intarweb Monogender act of 1994.

well i have a few

D-A-D: Riskin' it all; even though there might be a few filli'ish numbers, they are all worth atleast 9.6, and because the two upper tracks on it, (down the dusty 3rd world road, and laugh and a ½ (i would rate them 11/10 if i could)) and all of the tracks are placed and balanced on the album, that it makes it worth 10/10

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell (The Bat out of Hell) well... what is there to say?

im not sure i can rate any other albums than those two 10/10, but these were close to hit the list:

D-A-D: No fuel left for the pilgrims
Gasolin: Rabalderstræde Forever
Aerosmith: Get a Grip
Ac/Dc: Higway to hell, Razors edge and For those about to rock we salute you
The Darkness: one way ticket to hell... and back
Deep Purple Deepest Purple

You are soooo Danish. Gasolin? og hvad med Kim Larsen? Køb bananer, køb bananer, køb bananer her hos mig.....:D

Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time While I like most of their stuff, this is the first one I bought, mainly cause a friend had the 12" remix of Stranger in a Strange Land, and I liked that. Time hasn't let me down. Honorable Mention goes to Rock over Rio. Hearing a quarter of a million people sing along to Fear of The Dark is awesome.

Def Leppard: Pyromania and Hysteria: It's the reason I switched to CD's in the first place. :)

L.A. Women, by the Doors.
I love everything on it, even the stuff everyone else hates.
Wish You Were Here would, but it doesn't. Thanks, Have a Cigar. (which isn't that bad, really.)
and last, but certainly not, and in fact never ever ever least,
Led Zeppelin II. Fantastic. Harp your Beatles all you please, but this is what defined 70's rock.

Plus, have you heard that guitar solo in Heartbreaker, or the drum solo in Moby Dick?! *faints*

If any Metallica album's gonna make it into the awesome albums list it should be Master of Puppets. MoP is 'tallica at their best. Hell, it's metal at its best. 10/10? Nah, this one goes all the way up to 11!
I'd agree, but Orion is the only instrumental that I do not like.

Yeah, wonder how they found that riff...

...oh, it was lying over here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1EWlGwn24).

In fact, never mind the riff, its pretty much the whole tune bar the intro - verse, chorus, bridge and all.


Nope. Close, they use a similar intro, but "Montrose" uses that same intro as their whole verse-riff. Suspect Device uses B-A-E for the verse, and the pre-chorus is completely different. Similarly, the chorus' are completely different.

And, yeah, they use the same riff. Guess what? That's a pretty common hard-rock riff.

Hmm...

...I'll say Fear Factory's Demanufacture, In Flames' Clayman, and Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile are the only ones that come close to a 10/10 for me.

There's a whole lotta 9/10's though. :p

10/10?

The Best of the Ramones.

ha!
“So what’s your favourite Beatles album, Alan?”
“I’d have to say 'The Best of The Beatles', Dave."

(from the same person)
"Wings???? Only the band The Beatles could have been!"

Off the top of my head:

The Beatles - Revolver & White Album (possibly also Sergeant Pepper)
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Miles Davis - A kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' else
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
TOOL - Aenmia
Shellac - At Action Park
Pixies - Doolittle
Tricky - Nearly God (mayhaps Pre-millenium Tension)

The Sisters of Mercy - "Some Girls Wander..." and "Floodland".

The Cure - "Disintegration"

Tori Amos - "Little Earthquakes"

Ministry - "The Land of Rape and Honey" and "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste".

Skinny Puppy - "The Process"

Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"

Covenant - "Northern Lights"

Tricky - Nearly God (mayhaps Pre-millenium Tension)

Not Maxinquaye?

Nearly God is an unbelievably good album.

Especially "Poems".

Crap - that's made me think of another two for my list.

Portishead - "Dummy"

The Tear Garden - "To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide"

Not Maxinquaye?

Nearly God is an unbelievably good album.

Especially "Poems".

Crap - that's made me think of another two for my list.

Portishead - "Dummy"

The Tear Garden - "To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide"
I was sorely tempted to include Maxinquaye but felt two Tricky Albums are enough without totally exposing myself for the obsessed Tricky fan I am. Even his weakest album ('Angels with Dirty Faces') is still damn good imo.
agree with you on Portishead.
Can't say I've heard of 'The Tear Garden'. Will have to check them out.

As for Ministry - personally I'd go for 'Pslam 69' over '...taste', but that's mostly because it's an awesome album to workout to.

And you have to think of the lasting impact of both bands: The Beatles (along with The Who, Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, etc) popularized well-written, thoughtful rock music. Nirvana popularized pop-punk. So which modern-day derivatives do you prefer: Simple Plan/Good Charlotte/Sum-41 or Tool/Opeth/Dream Theatre? :D.That's just because people heard the Beatles and the Who and thought "this is good, but I can do better". People know they can't do better than Nirvana, so they don't even try. :p

If any Metallica album's gonna make it into the awesome albums list it should be Master of Puppets. MoP is 'tallica at their best. Hell, it's metal at its best. 10/10? Nah, this one goes all the way up to 11!Nah, that wasn't even their best Cliff Burton album. Ride the Lightning was better.

Let's see...

Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Beatles - Abbey Road
The Doors - The Doors
The Who - Who's Next
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Wire - Pink Flag
Deep Purple - shades of deep puple
Pink Floyd - Saucerfull of Secrets
Led Zeppelin - I

Yeah that'll probably do for now.

Man thats hard an actual 10/10?

umm lets see:

Nebula - Charged
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me

Yah know thats really about it.

Ohhh damn I almost forgot.

Skindred - Babylon

The Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Grace Jones - Living My Life
Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Kevin Ayers and the Whole World - Shooting at the Moon
Blondie - The Greatest Hits
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Scary Monsters

Damn. People have awesome taste here.
I know 5 perfect albums, a list made before coming across this topic.

Lateralus - Tool
Mentioned a few times before, I prefer it over Ænima because it toes together better. The small in-between songs are more intro and less filler and the structure of the album is just awesome and Tool is an awesome band. Pity there isn't much moshing and moving at live shows.

The Fragile - NIN
Better than Downward Spiral because of more variety. Reznor's Magnum Opus.
Also mentioned before. A good sign.

Disintegration - The Cure
Not a single bad song on the album and a slew of excellent ones. Being a 80 min. album which keeps on being excellent all the way through is one hell of an accomplishment. Can't be in too happy a mood, though.
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me comes close but is marred by those bloody happy songs. Smith shouldn't do happy songs.
Also seen above, this album.

Efflorescence - Oceansize
Very British, very weird and very awesome, this record keeps knocking you off your feet. The fact that this relatively obscure band is on here no less than 3 times bodes very well indeed.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Can't believe you missed this one! Better than Nevermind but still very grunge. Even the extra content is awesome (wash!).

Damn. People have awesome taste here.
I know 5 perfect albums, a list made before coming across this topic.

Lateralus - Tool
Mentioned a few times before, I prefer it over Ænima because it toes together better. The small in-between songs are more intro and less filler and the structure of the album is just awesome and Tool is an awesome band. Pity there isn't much moshing and moving at live shows.

The Fragile - NIN
Better than Downward Spiral because of more variety. Reznor's Magnum Opus.
Also mentioned before. A good sign.

Disintegration - The Cure
Not a single bad song on the album and a slew of excellent ones. Being a 80 min. album which keeps on being excellent all the way through is one hell of an accomplishment. Can't be in too happy a mood, though.
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me comes close but is marred by those bloody happy songs. Smith shouldn't do happy songs.
Also seen above, this album.

Efflorescence - Oceansize
Very British, very weird and very awesome, this record keeps knocking you off your feet. The fact that this relatively obscure band is on here no less than 3 times bodes very well indeed.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Can't believe you missed this one! Better than Nevermind but still very grunge. Even the extra content is awesome (wash!).

Now Lateralus is a fuckin' good album. You know I'm also gonna add....

Slayer - South of Heaven.

Side One is definitely 10/10, but the Side Two drops the ball badly.

Yeah, I like the 'pop' side of the LP, but not the 'art' one. So shoot me.

BANG!

I'm a Katie B fanatic, so it's hard for me to diss her.

The woman is just..... sublime.

ie:D, :) and :confused: Seriously, you think PUTV is worth 10/10? It's an excellent album, but I wouldn't say it's that good.

cLOUDDEAD on the other hand - worth at least 9.5.

0o0o0o0o! cLOUDDEAD fan!

Not many of them about. Kudos, my friend. But I'd have to disagree, cLOUDDEAD is simply phenomenal; Oddnosdam's beats and samples, Why? and Dose One's rhymes...... Ahhh, perfect album, IMHO.

They're fucking blinding live, too.

I included PUTV not just because it's a kick-ass album, but because, for me, there's quite a lot of sentimental value attached to it. Reminds me of pogoing about to the local punk bands where I grew up.

I suppose if I was being harsh, I would drop PUTV in favour of DJ Shadow's Entroducing, or Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief

In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

Discipline - King Crimson new wave prog

Red - King Crimson prog-metal

Led Zeppelin IV no explanation needed

London Calling - The Clash classic punk

Sandinista! - The Clash so diverse

The Final Cut - Pink Floyd Roger Waters lyrical masterpiece

Animals - Pink Floyd most guitar Pink Floyd record

Meddle - Pink Floyd Pink Floyd at its most folk

Apostrophe (') - Frank Zappa Well he's never quite normal

These are all great albums!

I'm gonna stick with albums from the 90's on...

Green Day - American Idiot
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Nirvana - Nevermind
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith And Devotion
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
OutKast - Stankonia
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

And the newest entry:
Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army

Green Day - American Idiot
:eek:

Shome mishtake shurley?

Kerplunk!

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Purple Rain - Prince
Reckless - Brian Adams
Life's too good - the Sugarcubes
In my tribe - 10000 Maniacs
Animal Magnetism - Scorpions
Lovedrive - Scorpions
Blackout - Scorpions
everything of K's Choice

:eek:

Shome mishtake shurley?

Kerplunk!

You're complaining about Green Day but not OutKast? Come on...

Reign In Blood ~ Slayer
The album is massively influential, amazingly good, was a major influence in the start of death metal, and has some of the coolest cover art ever.

Also, "Raining Blood" is probably the best use of natural sounds in a song ever. I have never heard a song which the background nature sounds fit so well. (For those of you wondering, "Raining Blood" starts and ends with the sound of rain and thunder.)

Also, Animals ~ Pink Floyd. Probably THE best Pink Floyd album.

I was sorely tempted to include Maxinquaye but felt two Tricky Albums are enough without totally exposing myself for the obsessed Tricky fan I am. Even his weakest album ('Angels with Dirty Faces') is still damn good imo.
agree with you on Portishead.
Can't say I've heard of 'The Tear Garden'. Will have to check them out.

As for Ministry - personally I'd go for 'Pslam 69' over '...taste', but that's mostly because it's an awesome album to workout to.

If you like the vocal style on "Poems", you'll find something similar in Tear Garden - especially that album. The vocalist is in The Legendary Pink Dots, if that helps. Plus - there's sometthing almost trip-hop about the sound.

Agreed on Tricky. Even a weak Tricky album is better than nearly all the competition.

The "Psalm 69" is too patchy for me - very much a 'arrives with a bang, departs with a whimper' affair.. like all the best material made it onto Side A. I like the more experimental feel of the late 80s and early 90s Ministry, and I find those albums just more coherent. Different strokes, right? :)

Blood on the Tracks, and Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan

Efflorescence - Oceansize
Very British, very weird and very awesome, this record keeps knocking you off your feet. The fact that this relatively obscure band is on here no less than 3 times bodes very well indeed.

4, if you count IV Stalin's endorsement of Underdownia's post.

The Fragile - NIN
Better than Downward Spiral because of more variety. Reznor's Magnum Opus.
Also mentioned before. A good sign.


For me, the way Downward Spiral hangs together winds the day, even if it doesn't necessarily have the absolute nadir of Reznor's work. For me, the best NIN tracks are on Broken/Fixed - but Downward Spiral takes a story and runs with it. Everything is awesome, and the whole album is entirely coherent.

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith And Devotion


This one should have been on my list.

Never heard of anyone who's heard of them before! Initially, I thought they were great, but now its more like Henley Regatta does English folk.

Yeah they do rather sound like it

Stone Country - "Stone Country" (1968)
psychodelic at its best

Jane - "Together" (1972)
rock close to pink floyd

My five:

Rufus Wainwright - Want 1. Just an incredible composition,not just individual songs, but almost symphonic in the ebb and flow of the songs into and out of each other.

Paul Simon - Graceland. Again, as an entire album, has a definite compositional element to it, although the individual songs stand out moreso. The last couple of tracks seem a bit like an afterthought, but just an all-around solid album.

Marillion (http://www.marillion.com) - Marbles. Double disc album, with each CD its own world. The first starts with the prog-rock epic Invisible Man, and ends with Sweet Ocean Cloud; it comes together as a work of art. Disc 2 is a little weaker, but Don't Hurt Yourself and Neverland more than hold it up as a full composition.

Barenaked Ladies - Gordon. Just really a lot of fun.

The Beattles (yeah, you gotta have them) - Rubber Soul. Just an achievement of musical synthesis. The first truly mature release by the most influential band in history.

Watching Glastonbury last night made me realise I'd missed 'Who's Next' off the list.

Upon further consideration I also have to add Cinquieme As by MC Solaar. He's definately amongst the top rappers in the world, in any language. How fortunate for me that I happen to speak French.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Operation Ivy - Operation Ivy

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico


A few off the top of my head.

MoP is 'tallica at their best. Hell, it's metal at its best. 10/10? Nah, this one goes all the way up to 11!

Are you sure about that? I'm hoping this is sarcasm, but oh well. To each his own, eh? :p

The Battle of Los Angeles ~ Rage Against the Machine


Those are really some of the catchiest beats I've ever heard.

The Battle of Los Angeles ~ Rage Against the Machine


Those are really some of the catchiest beats I've ever heard.

Some of the songs are kinda meh, though.

Now, if The Battle of Los Angeles and Evil Empire mated, their offspring would definitely be 10/10 material...

Some of the songs are kinda meh, though.

Now, if The Battle of Los Angeles and Evil Empire mated, their offspring would definitely be 10/10 material...

Still, at least half of those songs rock:

Guerilla Radio
Sleep Now In Fire
Born of a Broken Man
Voice of the Voiceless
War Within a Breath
Ashes in the Fall
Testify

So half the album is awesome, the rest is just okay. It's CLOSE to 10/10 material.

The Dark Side of the Groove
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Le Peuple de L'Herbe Le Cube

as well as

Daft Punk's
Homework and Discovery

And Fabriclive 3 (DJ Hype), 19 (Freestylers) and 26 (The Herbaliser).

edit : oh and how could I forget :

Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum

Still, at least half of those songs rock:

Guerilla Radio
Sleep Now In Fire
Born of a Broken Man
Voice of the Voiceless
War Within a Breath
Ashes in the Fall
Testify

So half the album is awesome, the rest is just okay. It's CLOSE to 10/10 material.

What about Calm Like A Bomb?

The ultimate rage album would probably be all of those songs, plus Maria and Calm Like A Bomb, and Revolver, Snake Charmer, and Tire Me from Evil Empire.

At least, IMO.

Nachlader- Bock auf Aphorismen

The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow

Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand

What about Calm Like A Bomb?

The ultimate rage album would probably be all of those songs, plus Maria and Calm Like A Bomb, and Revolver, Snake Charmer, and Tire Me from Evil Empire.

At least, IMO.

Calm Like A Bomb's good. Maybe Testify as well. It definitely needs Killing In The Name.

The Dark Side of the Groove
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I can't find the album or the musician on Wikipedia. :(

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Project1950.jpg

Some of my favourite songs from the 50s and 60s, covered by one of my favourite bands.

I wish Great Balls of Fire would be replaced with a better song, but other than that, it's heaven.

I can't find the album or the musician on Wikipedia. :(

It's a collection of very powerful and psychedelic tek songs by various artists compiled by the Nutek record label.

Jack Off Jill's Clear Hearts Grey Flowers - The dynamics on this album kick ass.
I thank you, as you reminded me of this album. I'm listening to it now, and it's every bit as good as I remember it.

Similarly, the fact that you like Oceansize just about deterred me from lobbing nuclear missiles in your general direction for your shocking slander against the mighty 'chair! :p
:p

I'd love to put Hail to the Thief and OK Computer up there too, but the former just isn't quite as good, and the latter loses out because Paranoid Android is incredibly over-rated and far too long. It's OK, but not brilliant (unlike almost all of the rest of the album). And Stalin; I like Fitter, Happier :p
As much as you like Karma Police? Or Exit Music...?

Skindred - Babylon
Awesome band. :D

Efflorescence - Oceansize
Very British, very weird and very awesome, this record keeps knocking you off your feet. The fact that this relatively obscure band is on here no less than 3 times bodes very well indeed.
People here generally have very good taste. Except for Rush-fanboy Potarius. Avoid him like the plague. ;)

j/k Pot.

0o0o0o0o! cLOUDDEAD fan!

Not many of them about. Kudos, my friend. But I'd have to disagree, cLOUDDEAD is simply phenomenal; Oddnosdam's beats and samples, Why? and Dose One's rhymes...... Ahhh, perfect album, IMHO.
Yeah, there should be more cLOUDDEAD fans here. Maybe I'll try to convert people the same way I did with 65daysofstatic - keep mentioning them/giving links etc until people actually listen to them. :p

They're fucking blinding live, too.
Wish I knew.

I included PUTV not just because it's a kick-ass album, but because, for me, there's quite a lot of sentimental value attached to it. Reminds me of pogoing about to the local punk bands where I grew up.
No room for sentimentality here! ;)

Good album, yes, but it's only really an 8.5/10 at best.

http://images-inap10-sjl06.pandora.com/images/amazon/8/2/4/4/075992554428_160W_159H.jpg

Damn straight.

Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger. There's not a bad song on it. The whole thing is amazingly atmospheric and probably the best example of Norwegian Black Metal ever released.

Good choice! I love that one too, but Under a Funeral Moon is my favorite Darkthrone cd.

Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny.

10/10 for lyrics like

Oh the dragons balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave,
Then I sliced his fuckin' cockles,
With a long and shiney blade!
'Twas I who fucked the dragon,
Fuckalize sing-fuckaloo!
And if you try to fuck with me,
Then I shall fuck you too!
Gotta get it on in the party zone!
I gots to shoot a load in the party zone!
Gotta lick a toad in the party zone!
Gotta suck a chode in the party zone!

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Cookies for anyone who actually knows what that's the cover art to. It definitely deserves 10/10.
Not got a clue, but when I first looked at it, I thought of the Soup Dragons...:confused:

Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle (http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_albums_itec.html). The first Ayreon album I heard. Tells the story of 8 people from different periods of time (an Egyptian, highlander, futureman, hippie, knight, Roman, Indian and a barbarian) who are sent on a journey (the link explains it). I was just stunned by the quality of the music when I first heard it...I think I had it on repeat for weeks. And then I discovered...

Ayreon - The Human Equation (http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_albums_the.html). About a man in a coma. Fantastic music again (I recommend "Day 3: Pain")

Tommy- The Who
The White Album - The Beatles
Sgt Pepper's- The Beatles
Tenacious D- Tenacious D
Disraeli Gears- Cream
Plastic Ono Band- John Lennon
(Whats the Story) Morning Glory- Oasis
Jump Back- The Rolling Stones

The list could go on, but it's just reminding me that most music nowadays is rubish. Seriously, we've gone from The Beatles to My Chemical Romance in just 40 years. In an other 40 we'll be listening to monkeys banging rocks...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/AcesHigh.jpg

Greatest.

Chorus.

Ever.

It's ten out of ten just for that and the album cover. :D

Yeah, there should be more cLOUDDEAD fans here. Maybe I'll try to convert people the same way I did with 65daysofstatic - keep mentioning them/giving links etc until people actually listen to them. :p
:D

Sounds like a plan.

Wish I knew.
Oh man. One of the best gigs I've ever been to.

Having a sing-along with Dose and Why? is hard to beat.

If your interested, Mush Records released a DVD of the tour, which is fantastic.

There's a review here (http://www.dot-alt.com/film_mushtour.html), while here (http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=5876031) is one of the places you can get it. I believe it's just been re-released.

Well worth your money/bandwidth.


No room for sentimentality here! ;)

Good album, yes, but it's only really an 8.5/10 at best.
Your a harsh judge, but probably right.

PUTV swapped for Entroducing.

Based on the parts I've heard, Freedom is a State of Mind by Corporate Avenger is certainly up there, if not an outright 10.