Can you name your top 10 must listen to albums?

Me and my mates have been trying to do this for the last 2 weeks, and are no closer to getting an answer.

What are yours?

I'll keep adding to mine as I think of them.... probably taking some out at the same time

1. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters
2. The experiance- Prodigy
3. Smash- Offspring
4. Hybrid Theory- Linkin Park
5. Earthly Pleasures- Maximo Park
6. Light grenades- Incubus
7. Dummy Portishead
8. Youth and young manhood- Kings of Leon
9. With Love and Squalor- We are Scientists

Listing Top 10’s is almost impossible, one always seems to want to edit it.

Here are 10 albums that I will probably still be listening to in 10 years time, which is about as close as I’ll get to listing a Top 10.....

Alabama 3 – ‘Exit On Coldharbour Lane’
Bernard Fanning – ‘Tea and Sympathy’
Tamas Wells – ‘A Mark On The Pane’
Gov’t Mule – ‘With A Little Help From Our Friends, Vol 1’
Dirty Three – ‘Horse Stories’
Lambchop – ‘Is A Woman’
Mark Lanegan – ‘I’ll Take Care Of You’
Eva Cassidy – ‘Songbird’
Ryan Adams – ‘Gold’
Patricia Kaas – ‘Le Mot de Passe’


Some of the newer albums I’ve been playing so far this year might replace a couple in my list (like The Gutters Twins ‘Saturnalia’)

1) 'American Idiot' by Green Day;
2) 'Nevermind'by Nirvana;
3) 'One' by The Beatles;
4) 'Elv1s' by Elvis Presley;
5) 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance;
6) 'The Colour and the Shape' by Foo Fighters;
7) 'History' by Michael Jackson;
'Songs For The Deaf' by Queens Of The Stone Age;
9) 'Californication' by Red Hot Chili Peppers;
10) '(Whats The Story) Morning Glory' by Oasis.
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not in order of preference

Platinum - A Life in Music - Elvis Presley

Never mind the bollocks - Sex Pistols

Essential Clash - The Clash

Black Holes & Revelations - Muse

The doors - The Doors

Legend - Bob Marley

Whos next - The Who

Smash it up anthology - The Damned

Toxicty - System of a Down

Their law: the singles - Prodigy

Debaser - The Pixies
Madness of the west - The Allman Brothers
Everybody Else is doing it so why can't I - The Cranberries
Teenager of the year - Frank Black
International superhits - Green Day
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Suedehead - Morrissey
Get some go again - Rollins Band
Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
Police and thieves - Junior Murvin

1. And God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies.
2. Aqualung - Jethro Tull.
3. The Beatles Anthology (2 disc version) - The Beatles.
4. ...But Seriously - Phil Collins.
5. Led Zeppelin I,II,III and IV - Led Zeppelin. (technically four albums, but it's LZ! it's allowed)
6. News of the World - Queen.
7. London Calling - The Clash.
8. Ten Summoner's Tales - Sting.
9. The Division Bell - Pink Floyd.
10. Leaving this one blank....far too many to list

Gift from a Flower to a Garden-Donovan

Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pinkfloyd

The Joshua Tree-U2

Black Holes and Revelations-Muse

Fresh Cream-Cream

Truth-Jeff Beck

Mothership-The Best of Led Zepplin-Led Zepplin

Are You Experienced-Jimi Hendrix

Shades of Purple-Deep Purple

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-Black Sabbath

Not in any order: -

Live in the City of Lights - Simple Minds

War - U2

Nevermind - Nirvana

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Floodland - Sisters of Mercy

Black Holes and revelations - Muse

The Bends - Radiohead

Kasabian - Kasabian

Beautiful - Gargbage

1 Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
2 The Queen Is Dead The Smiths
3 Ok Computer Radiohead
4 Kind Of Blue Miles Davis
5 White Album The Beatles
6 Second Coming The Stone Roses
7 Little Ginger Club Kid Tim de Luxe
8 The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers
9 Blue Joni Mitchell
10 Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan

This list changes with my mood so it's never going to be definitive

Not in any particular order:

Opeth - Watershed.
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti.
Tool - Aenima.
Massive Attack - Blue Lines.
Tom Waits - Alice.
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night.
Radiohead - Ok Computer.
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

1. The queen is dead - The Smith
2. Ok computer - Radiohead
3. Suedehead - Morrissey
4. Urban Hymns - The Verve
5. Pet sound - Beach boys
6. All change - Cast
7. Solo piano - Gonzales
8. Come to daddy - Aphex twin
9. A night at the opera - Queen
10. Singles - The Smiths (A compilation)

best of/greatest hits should not be included!

Here are ten from my favorites. It would take me far to long to figure out my favorite ten!


The Soundgarden album with Black Hole Sun,
Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters,
Mother Love Bone,
Temple of the Dog,
John Mayall and The Blues Breakers, the beano Album,
ZZ Top Tres Hobres
Metallica Black Album
Eric Clapton Unplugged
Nirvana Unplugged
Newton Faulkner - Hand made by Robots

Oooh good post. Had me thinking for a while!

Okay, and in no particular order I hasten to add...

Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Sisters of Mercy - A Slight Case of Over Bombing
Stereophonics - Just enough Education to Perform
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Christina Aguilera - Stripped
Guns n Roses - Appetite for destruction
Cascada - but cant remember the album name
Green Day - Bullet in a bible
Lost Prophets - The Fake Sound of Progress

Phew! That hurt me head!