# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**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 9, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/61 "2004-07-09T11:12:47Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Dude! I love those albums! and nobody else has ever heard of them! I neglected to name Chupacabra as an alternate to my top ten. Nobody else has heard of the Stone Roses. That’s right, in Britain nobody bought the Stone Roses. :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/62 "2004-07-09T15:48:08Z")
[ul] [li] **We’re Only In It For The Money** : _Mothers Of Invention_[/li][li] **Sabotage** : _Black Sabbath_[/li][li] **Secret Treaties** : _Blue Oyster Cult_[/li][li] **Beggars Banquet** : _Rolling Stones_[/li][li] **Nighthawks At The Diner** : _Tom Waits_[/li][li] **Aja** : _Steely Dan_[/li][li] **Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys** : _Traffic_[/li][li] **Fly Like An Eagle** : _Steve Miller Band_[/li][li] **Songs From The Wood** : _Jethro Tull_[/li][li] **Howlin’ Wolf Album** (This Is Howlin’ Wolf’s New Album, He Doesn’t Like It. He Didn’t Like His Electric Guitar At First Either): _Howlin’ Wolf & The Electric Mud Band_ [/li](No brick throwing from blues aficianados please, we’re all entitled to our opinions)[/ul] Honorable Mention: Ode to Freedom: _Bernstein Conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony_ in Berlin ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/63 "2004-07-09T15:50:25Z")
I’d like to make a formal request that our illustrious moderator, Ike, answer the question. Enquiring minds want to know, and all that jazz… ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/64 "2004-07-12T12:04:30Z")
**Chunky Bum** , my apologies for not getting back to you earlier… Regarding The Band’s self-titled album and my comment about wishing more albums were recorded that way - I meant specifically the whole idea of a bunch of guys in one common room, rehearsing each song to the point of being able to catch it hot without practicing it too much, giving each song’s mix that funky, earthy sound because there’s mic leakage all over the place, and doing it all inside one month on a vintage eight-track open reel. I know that Counting Crows and Red Hot Chili Peppers have done albums in mansions and whatnot with a similar m.o., but there’s always been some aspect that’s not _quite_ right…they’re done 24-track or the mics are isolated or the music’s mixed to death or all the life’s been played out of the songs before they make it to tape. So far the closest spiritual match I’ve heard is Cassandra Wilson’s _Belly Of The Sun_ album, most of which was recorded in the Clarksdale Train Depot and a boxcar (the exception being a vocal overdub of some schoolchildren in NYC). To me, it’s still a little too clean sonically, but the earthiness and “soup” is still there. ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886/65 "2004-07-12T19:28:22Z")
I think I could make 5 or 6 top ten lists. Here are two, in no particular order. Barefoot Boy – Larry Coryell Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd Second Winter – Johnny Winter Morning After – J. Giles Band Aja – Steely Dan Waiting for Columbus – Little Feat Guitar on Fire – Roy Buchanan Live at the Fillmore – Allman Brothers Second Wind – Oblivion Express Hot Rats – Frank Zappa Truth – Jeff Beck List two: Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix Back to the Roots – John Mayall Wheels Of Fire – Cream Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones A Head Rings Out - Blodwyn Pig A Step Further – Savoy Brown Couldn’t Stand The Weather – Stevie Ray Vaughn Never Been Rocked Enough - Delbert McClinton Rough and Ready – Jeff Beck In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-10-albums/253886.md?page=3)