# Top 10 albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886 "2004-07-07T01:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/1 "2004-07-07T01:11:28Z")
For some reason, there aren’t _too_ many music threads posted in here–tis all movie and television stuff (bah!). Since music tends to be one of the only things I care about, I am curious to see what all of you like. So, let’s see your top ten favorite albums. Only rule: No “Greatest Hits” or other compilations. 🆒 OOOOO! OOOOO!!! ME FIRST!!! 1. The Clash-The Clash (UK version) 2. The dB’s-Stands for deciBels 3. Morrissey-Your Arsenal 4. The Clash-London Calling 5. Elliot Smith- Either/Or 6. Big Star-Radio City 7. Richard Hell and the Voidoids-Blank Generation 8. Husker Du-New Day Rising 9. Sleater-Kinney-All Hands on the Bad One 10. Nick Drake-Bryter Layter ---
**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:** [July 7, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/2 "2004-07-07T01:19:40Z")
Mine’s all pop/rock stuff, but here ya goes (not necessarily in this order of preference): 1. \*Out of the Blue \* - ELO 2. \*Plastic Letters \* - Blondie 3. \*Time \* - ELO 4. \*The Kick Inside \* - Kate Bush 5. \*Love Stinks \* - The J. Geils Band 6. \*Band on the Run \* - Paul McCartney & Wings 7. \*52nd Street \* - Billy Joel 8. \*ABBA \* - ABBA 9. \*Abbey Road \* - The Beatles 10. \*A New World Record \* - ELO ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/3 "2004-07-07T01:29:13Z")
> [@captaindoesnotlikeyou](#): > > 1. The Clash-The Clash (UK version) A daring pick … most sources I have read prefer the US version of the album, which had a couple of ringers added. Or is it that you disqualified the US version on the basis of those changes? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/4 "2004-07-07T01:45:24Z")
Ohhhhh…Desert Island Discs… (In no particular order) 1. _Live At Carnegie Hall_ - **Renaissance** 2. \*Born To Run \* - **Bruce Springsteen** 3. _Beethoven Symphony #9_ - **Berlin Philharmonic/Von Kakajan 1972** 4. \*Pet Sounds \* - **Beach Boys** 5. _Dark Side of the Moon_ - **Pink Floyd** 6. _Hearts of Stone_ - **Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes** 7. _Avalon_ - **Roxy Music** 8. \*Come On Come On \* - **Mary Chapin Carpenter** 9. \*Time In \* - **Dave Brubeck Quartet** 10. Changes day to day, minute to minute. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/5 "2004-07-07T01:46:59Z")
1. **von Karajan** , dammit! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/6 "2004-07-07T02:02:49Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > A daring pick … most sources I have read prefer the US version of the album, which had a couple of ringers added. Or is it that you disqualified the US version on the basis of those changes? I just think the original flowed better. For the US release, four great songs were taken off and replaced by one great song (White Man in Hammersmith Palais), three good songs and one, my opinion, kinda crappy song (Jail Guitar Doors). It makes for more of a “cut and paste” effect, I think. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/7 "2004-07-07T02:15:45Z")
In no particular order Holy Modal Rounders - Have Moicy Bela Fleck & Flecktones - 3 Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Eva Cassidy - Live At Blues Alley Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights Wild Tchoupitoulas Miles Davis - In A Silent Way John Hartford - Nobody Knows What You Do Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey John Prine - (self titled) Peter Rowan - (self titled) Of course ten minutes from now I would probably pick ten different ones. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/8 "2004-07-07T02:17:30Z")
With attempts at order: 1. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 3. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses [1986, as seen on _In a Doghouse_] 4. X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents 5. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap 6. Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain 7. Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister 8. Wire - Chairs Missing 9. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain 10. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes If compilations counted, I’d probably have _Singles Going Steady_ by The Buzzcocks and _The Way of the Vaselines_ up there. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/9 "2004-07-07T02:17:50Z")
With attempts at order: 1. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 3. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses [1986, as seen on _In a Doghouse_] 4. X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents 5. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap 6. Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain 7. Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister 8. Wire - Chairs Missing 9. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain 10. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes If compilations counted, I’d probably have _Singles Going Steady_ by The Buzzcocks and _The Way of The Vaselines_ by The Vaselines up there. ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/10 "2004-07-07T02:39:47Z")
Abby Road - The Beatles The Stranger - Billy Joel Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd The Last Record Album - Little Feat Mozart’s 40th & 41st Symphony - St. Martins in the Fields Honky Chateau - Elton John Some Girls - Rolling Stones Eat a Peach - Allman Brothers Band Blind Faith - Blind Faith Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/11 "2004-07-07T03:05:48Z")
In no order… 15. _Revolver_ - **Beatles** 3. _A Wizard/A True Star_ - **Todd Rundgren** 5. _Aereoplane_ - **John Hartford** 11._Greatest Hits_ - **Sly and the Family Stone** It’s on Rolling Stone’s top 10… 8. _99th Floor_ - **Moving Sidewalks** 10. _Box Set_ - **Robert Johnson** I know… “no compilations”… it’s a FAV… deal with it. 😃 14. _This Is The Moody Blues_ - **Moody Blues** Another compilation, but the way they cut these tracks together is better than anything they did in their first 5 albums… 2. _Electric Ladyland_ - **Jimi Hendrix** 12. _Who’s Next_ - **Who** 1. _Are You Experienced?_ - **Jimi** 2. _Band Of Gypsies_ - **Jimi** 3. _Van Halen_ - **Van Halen** 4. _Sgt. Pepper_ - **Beatles** 5. _Physical Grafitti_ - **Led Zep** 6. _B.L.T._ - **Robin Trower** ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/12 "2004-07-07T03:09:17Z")
and _Animals_ - **Pink Floyd** ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/13 "2004-07-07T06:40:06Z")
1. Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde 2. Everything - The Bangles 3. Abbey Road - The Beatles 4. What’s the Story Morning Glory - Oasis 5. Lost Souls - Doves 6. Dummy - Portishead 7. The Bends - Radiohead 8. Central Reservation - Beth Orton 9. Grace - Jeff Buckley 10. The Good Son - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Controversial, even by my own standards - I mean, the Bangles ahead of The Beatles? “The Bends” as the best Radiohead album?? No B-52’s??? But there you go. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/14 "2004-07-07T07:28:08Z")
**In no particular order:** Alison Krauss & Union Station - _New Favorite_ Grateful Dead - _Reckoning_ Pink Floyd - _Animals_ Crosby, Stills & Nash - _So Far_ The Band - _Northern Lights, Southern Cross_ Little Feat - _Waiting For Columbus_ The Beatles - _Abbey Road_ Counting Crows - _August and Everything After_ Tom Petty - _Wildflowers_ Black Crowes - _Southern Harmony & Musical Companion_ **Honorable Mention:** Miles Davis - _Kind of Blue_ Led Zeppelin - _Zep II_ Mark Knopfler - _Sailing to Philadelphia_ Jimi Hendrix - _Axis: Bold As Love_ Phish - _Rift_ ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/15 "2004-07-07T11:00:53Z")
Albums I can listen to from start to end, without skipping. (no particular order) 1. So- Peter Gabriel 2. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles 3. Rumours- Fleetwood Mac 4. The Bends- Radiohead 5. The Wall- Pink Floyd 6. Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd 7. Texas Flood- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 8. II- Led Zeppelin 9. Who’s Next- The Who 10. Sister Sweetly- Big Head Todd & The Monsters God, could I get any more in the middle of the road? I disgust myself. ---
**Author:** ![Chunky\_Bum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Chunky\_Bum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chunky_Bum)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/16 "2004-07-07T12:07:06Z")
1. **The Beatles** - _Revolver_ 2. **Guns-n-Roses** - _Appetite for Destruction_ 3. **Prince** - _Sign O’ the Times_ 4. **The Rolling Stones** - _Exile on Main Street_ 5. **Blondie** - _Parallel Lines_ 6. **Guns-n-Roses** - _Use Your Illusion I & II_ 7. **Talking Heads** - _Remain in Light_ 8. **The Beatles** - _The White Album_ 9. **Led Zeppelin** - _Physical Graffiti_ 10. **NRBQ** - _Live at Yankee Stadium_ ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/17 "2004-07-07T12:21:10Z")
In no particular order Beatles - Abbey Road Beatles - White Album Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St Kinks - Arthur Beastie Boys - Ill Communication Supergrass - Supergrass Carol King - Tapestry Joy Division - Still Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On NWA - Straight outta compton ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/18 "2004-07-07T12:30:17Z")
Again, no particular order: Shellac - Terraform Led Zep - IV Afghan Whigs - Congregation Beautiful South - Welcome to… Nirvana - In Utero Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy Nick Cave - Henry’s Dream (although any Nick Cave album would suffice, They all rock) Radiohead - Kid A Queen - Sheer Heart Attack Honourable mentions go to Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted, any of Tom Waits’, and the Stone Roses 1st album. Plus about 57 more. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/19 "2004-07-07T12:33:25Z")
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother Beatles – Abbey Road Lyle Lovett – Live in Texas The Who – Live at Leeds Led Zeppelin (their first album) Bonzo Dog Band – Urban Spaceman Queen – A Night at the Opera Flash and the Pan – Lights in the Night Otis Taylor – White African A Chorus Line ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/20 "2004-07-07T14:32:20Z")
Oof. Ten is tough, man! Queen, _Jazz_ Steely Dan, _Aja_ Parliament, _Mothership Connection_ Tom Waits, _Blue Valentine_ Gordon Lightfoot, _Sundown_ Simon and Garfunkel, _Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme_ Miles Davis Quintet, _Relaxin’_ Pat Martino, _Live at Yoshi’s_ Bruce Dickinson, _The Chemical Wedding_ Kiss, _Destroyer_ And too many gahdamn honorable mentions to mention. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886.md?page=2)