# Rate your favorite bands/artists albums by order **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831 "2003-09-20T18:44:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/1 "2003-09-20T18:44:36Z")
The Pixies: 1. Doolittle 2. Bossanova 3. Come On Pilgrim 4. Surfer Rosa 5. Trompe Le Monde Fugazi: 1. Red Medicine 2. In On The Killtaker 3. The Argument 4. Repeater 5. 13 Songs 6. Steady Diet Of Nothing 7. End Hits 8. Instrument Hüsker Dü 1. Zen Arcade 2. Flip Your Wig 3. New Day Rising 4. Warehouse: Songs And Stories 5. Candy Apple Gray 6. Everything Falls Apart I pity the Frank Zappa fan… ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/2 "2003-09-20T18:51:21Z")
Pavement 1.Slanted & Enchanted 2.Wowee Zowee 3.Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 4.Brighten the Corners 5.Terror Twilight Pink Floyd 1.Wish You Were Here 2.The Wall 3.Animals 4.Dark Side of the Moon 5.Everything Else (except the post-Roger Waters reformation) … … … 100.Anything by the post-Roger Waters reformation (boo!) ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/3 "2003-09-20T18:53:26Z")
Gah, didn’t include Westing by Musket & Sextant in my Pavement list. Oh, well, it was basically just a collection of EPs. It’s great, though, I’d probably rank it somewhere in the top three. ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/4 "2003-09-20T19:00:34Z")
**CaptBushido** , I think my Pavement list would look identical to yours. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/5 "2003-09-20T19:47:20Z")
Great googly moogly, I’m a huge Frank Zappa fan and don’t even have all of his albums! ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/6 "2003-09-20T19:57:24Z")
The Clash 1. London Calling 2. The Clash 3. Sandinista! 4. Give 'em Enough Rope 5. Combat Rock 6. Cut the Crap XTC 1. Black Sea 2. English Settlement 3. Skylarking 4. Drums and Wires 5. Oranges & Lemons 6. Mummer 7. Apple Venus vol. 1 8. The Big Express 9. Go 2 10. White Music 11. Nonsuch 12. Wasp Star ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/7 "2003-09-20T20:01:59Z")
Let’s see… R.E.M. 1. Automatic for the People 2. Murmur 3. New Adventures in Hi Fi 4. Fables of the Reconstruction 5. Lifes Rich Pageant 6. Out of Time 7. Monster 8. Green 9. Document 10. Reckoning 11. Up 12. Reveal (Actually, the order of 4-11 is variable. Come to think of it, so is the order of 2 and 3.) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/8 "2003-09-20T20:05:12Z")
**Warren Zevon:** 1. _Warren Zevon_ 2. _Excitable Boy_ 3. _The Wind_ 4. _Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School_ 5. _Sentimental Hygiene_ 6. _Transverse City_ 7. _Mr. Bad Example_ 8. _Life’ll Kill Ya_ 9. _My Ride’s Here_ 10. _Mutineer_ 11. _Wanted - Dead or Alive_ Not including the live “Stand in the Fire”, or “Hindu Love Gods” with REM. **Beck:** 1. _Sea Change_ 2. _Odelay_ 3. _Mellow Gold_ 4. _Mutations_ It’s interesting that while Warren Zevon’s best albums were his earliest, Beck’s best albums are his latest. That bodes well for Beck. ---
**Author:** ![Brad\_Pittiful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Brad\_Pittiful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_Pittiful)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/9 "2003-09-20T20:07:58Z")
husker dude trompe le monde is one of my top fave albums ever!!! im not putting any beatles in the top albums because i love everyone Pixies - Trompe le Monde Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks… Radiohead - ok computer Neds Atomic Dustbin - Godfodder Cure - Disintergration geez i got caught up with pixie delight lol and didnt follow the thread title correctly…sorry bout that The Pixies: 1. Trompe Le Monde 2. Doolittle 3. Bossanova 4. Come On Pilgrim 5. Surfer Rosa well im more of guy who groups bands/albums and not band/entire catalog (except the beatles) hopefully i didnt screw up your thread ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/10 "2003-09-20T20:22:50Z")
The Pixies: 1)Surfer Rosa 2)Doolittle 3)Come on Pilgrim 4)Bossanova 5)Trompe le Monde Belle and Sebastian (LPs): 1)The Boy With the Arab Strap 2)If You’re Feeling Sinister 3)Tigermilk 4)Fold Your Hands, Child… 5)Storytelling Belle and Sebastian (EPs): 1)3…6…9 Seconds of Light 2)Legal Man (I have the poster, so it’s required to be placed high) 3)I’m Waking Up to Us 4)Dog on Wheels 5)Belle and Sebastian Sing “Jonathan David” 6)Lazy Line Painter Jane 7)This is Just a Modern Rock Song The White Stripes: 1)Elephant 2)The White Stripes 3)White Blood Cells 4)De Stijl Talking Heads: 1)Talking Heads '77 2)More Songs About Buildings and Food 3)Fear of Music 4)Remain in Light 5)Stop Making Sense 6)Little Creatures 7)True Stories 8)Speaking in Tongues … 9)Naked ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/11 "2003-09-20T20:24:32Z")
Switch #1 and #2 on **Lisa-go-Blind** ’s Belle and Sebastian LP list, and you’ll have mine. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/12 "2003-09-20T20:42:55Z")
Jimi: 1. Electric Ladyland 2. Band of Gypsies 3. Are You Experienced? 4. Jimi Plays Monterrey Pink Floyd: 5. Animals 6. A Saucerful of Secrets 7. Meddle 8. The Wall ZZ Top: 9. Deguello 10. Rio Grande Mud 11. Tejas 12. ZZ Top’s First Album Led Zep: 13. Physical Grafitti 14. Prescence 15. House of the Holy 16. 4 Rush: 17. 2112 18. Moving Pictures 19. Permanent Waves 20. A Farewell To Kings 21. Caress Of Steel Van Halen: 22. Van Halen 23. Fair Warning 24. 1984 25. Diver Down ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/13 "2003-09-20T21:03:13Z")
Electric Light Orchestra: 1. Out of the Blue 2. A New World Record 3. Time 4. Secret Messages 5. Face the Music 6. Eldorado 7. Electric Light Orchestra (AKA No Answer) 8. ELO II 9. Balance of Power 10. On the Third Day Blondie: 1. Plastic Letters 2. Parallel Lines 3. Eat to the Beat 4. Blondie 5. Autoamerica * * * 1,000,000. The Hunter ABBA: 1. ABBA 2. Waterloo 3. Arrival 4. The Album 5. Voulez Vous 6. Super trouper 7. The Visitors Beatles: 1. Abbey Road 2. Revolver 3. Rubber Soul 4. The White Album 5. Let It Be 6. Help! 7. Magical Mystery Tour 8. A Hard Day’s Night 9. With the Beatles 10. Please Please Me 11. Beatles For Sale ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/14 "2003-09-20T21:41:31Z")
Dead Kennedys: 1-Bedtime For Democracy 2-Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables 3-In God We Trust Inc. 4-Frankenchrist 5-Plastic Surgery Disasters (I didn’t include Give Me Convenience, since its not a “real” album) The Cramps: 1-Smell Of Female 2-Songs The Lord Taught Us 3-Gravest Hits 4-A Date With Elvis 5-Look Mom No Head 6-Fiends Of Dope Island 7-Stay Sick 8-Big Beat From Badsville 9-Flamejob 10-Psychedelic Jungle The Cynics: 1-Living Is The Best Revenge 2-Get Our Way 3-Rock and Roll 4-12 Flights Up 5-Blue Train Station 6-Learn To Lose Dead Boys: 1-Young Loud and Snotty (although the rough mix version is better) 2-We Have Come For Your Children (again, the rough mix version is better) Lazy Cowgirls: 1-Tapping The Source 2-3rd times the charm EP 3-Lazy Cowgirls 4-A Little Sex And Death 5-Ragged Soul 6-How It Looks How It Is 7-Broken Hearted On Valentines Day EP 8-Rank Outsider 9-Somewhere Down The Line 10-Here and Now The Avengers 1-Self titled LP on CD Presents Records 2-Died For Your Sins (this one shouldn’t count, but “The End Of The World” is such an awesome song) and the obligatory Clash list: 1-Sandinista (yes, I said Sandinista.) 2-The Clash 3-London Calling 4-Give Em Enough Rope 5-Cut The Crap (I’m not even going to include Combat Rock as I absolutely HATE that record. Cut The Crap, had it been produced and arranged better could have been a fairly OK album.) I should post an Electric Frankenstein list since they’re one of my favorite bands, but their discography is a mess, with tons of 7"s, 10"eps, LP comps of 7"s…my head hurts just thinking about trying to decide what to include on the list. And Husker, in honor of the great nation of Norway, here’s my Turbonegro list: Never Is Forever Apocalypse Dudes Ass Cobra Hot Cars and Spent Contrceptives Scandinavian Leather (It grows on you, I swear!) Jon Oh shit…one more… Bad Brains: 1-ROIR album 2-Rock For Light 3-Black Dots 4-Quickness 5-Rise 6-I Against I 7-God Of Love ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/15 "2003-09-20T21:52:32Z")
Hey, I like Plastic Surgery Disasters, I think its one of DKs best. What do you mean putting it last? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/16 "2003-09-20T22:03:03Z")
The Pogues: 1. If I Should Fall from Grace with God 2. Peace and Love 3. Red Roses for Me 4. Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash 5. Waiting for Herb 6. Hell’s Ditch 7. Pogue Mahone The Pixies: 1. Trompe le Monde 2. Bossanova 3. Doolittle 4. Surfer Rosa 5. Come on Pilgrim ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/17 "2003-09-20T22:05:34Z")
NOFX 1.Punk in Drublic 2.So Long and thanks for the Shoes 3.Pump up the Valium 4.45 or 46 songs that weren’t good enought to go our other records 5.NOFX/Rancid BYO split Led Zep 1.Houses of the Holy 2.II 3.ZOSO 4.Physical Graphiti 5.I PF 1.Animals 2.Wish You were Here 3.DSotM 4.Meddle 5.Wall Aerosmith 1.Rocks 2.Toys in the Attic 3.Get Your Wings 4.Aerosmith 5.Night in the Ruts Nirvana 1.Bleach 2.In Eutero 3.Nevermind 4.Incesticide The Who 1.Quadrophenia 2.Tommy 3.Who’s Next 4.Who’s Missing 5.Wholigans RHCP 1.BSSM 2.Mother’s Milk 3.Uplift Mofo 4.Freaky Style ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/18 "2003-09-20T22:07:18Z")
I’ll take the Zappa challenge, although I’m only going to list the records I have, so that leaves most of his “serious” work out. 1-Sheik Yerbouti (OK, this may be a cheesey choice for #1, but this is the first FZ album I really paid total attention to. It didn’t hurt that my friends and I went a whole summer with a broken record player and this was the only tape we had.) 2-Thing Fish (It was like everything Frank had done up untill that point led to Thing Fish. Not only was the story cool, there was a related Hustler pictoral to go along with it, but the most fun was all the refrences to earlier FZ themes and characters.) 3-Bongo Fury 4-Studio Tan 5- Filmore East…no, Broadway The Hard…no…You Are What…wait, what about the YCDTOSA series…Drowning Witc…Apostro…Roxy… Ya know…I cant do this… Jon ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/19 "2003-09-20T22:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by nitroglycerine \* > \*\* > 1-Sandinista (yes, I said Sandinista.)_\* No need to defend it, as far as I’m concerned. Although it wasn’t #1 on my list, I agree; it’s a hell of an album, no matter what anyone else says. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831/20 "2003-09-20T22:22:30Z")
Hüsker Dü 1: New Day Rising 2: Zen Arcade 3: Warehouse: Songs and Stories 4: Flip Your Wig 5: Everything Falls Apart 6: Candy Apple Grey 7: Land Speed Record The _Eight Miles High_ EP and _The Living End_ should be near the top somewhere, but I don’t have a clue how to incorporate them numerically. Butthole Surfers 1: Rembrandt Pussyhorse 2: Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac 3: Locust Abortion Technician 4: Hairway To Steven 5: Independant Worm Saloon 6: Pioughd 7: Electric Larryland I can offer no opinion on _Weird Revolution_ The Who 1: Tommy 2: Live At Leeds 3: Who’s Next 4: Quadrophenia 5: The Who By Numbers 6: The Who Sell Out 7: A Quick One 8: Who Are You 9: The Who Sing My Generation The Pixies 1: Surfer Rosa 2: Doolittle 3: Bossanova 4: Come On Pilgrim 5: Trompe Le Monde [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-your-favorite-bands-artists-albums-by-order/202831.md?page=2)