Top Ten Albums

[jjjnettie]

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon came in at Number 1:thumbsup:
Brilliant.

Listening to it now.

[Ric]

Brilliant album JJJ, I have it on vinyl and DVD. The only two I don't have of the top ten is Nevermind and Grace.
I put a vote in for "Meddle" but that was a bit optimistic :D

cheers

[Omaroo]

Pink Floyd never fails to impress and is my fave band of all time......

It will take a lot more than doof-doof to knock it off its perch.:)

[ving]

never been a floyd fan... i considered buying it once because everyone recons its so good but i just can get into it.

I am sooo glad that ok computer made it tho. that album is, as they said, perfect. it was THE recording of teh 90s! :)

[jjjnettie]

Led Zepplin 4 made it in, while it's a good album, I much prefer Houses of the Holy.
Good one ya for voting for Meddle.
For my brothers funeral, I chose to have "Fearless, You'll Never Walk Alone" We were singing that song together on his last journey to hospital, just before he died.
When I was staying in London, I lived in sight of the Battersea Power Station. As featured on the front cover of Floyds "Animals". I took many many photos of it, from heaps of different angles, trying to replicate the cover.

[spacezebra]

Totally agree JJJ



Cheers Petra

[mickoking]

I used to live near Battersea power station too :Animals is one cool LP :thumbsup: Dark side of the moon was the only choice for number 1 IMHO.

My fave Led Zep LP is Led Zeppelin II, recorded and released the year I was born and it still rocks.

[danielsun]

Here are some of mine in no particular order.

1_Led zepplin 1 & 2 + Houses of the holy (though all led zep is good)
3-physical graffiti
4-Boston
5-Boston. Dont look back
6-Extreme. 3 sides to every story
7-Deep purple. Made in Japan
8-Simple minds. Once upon a time
9-Dave weckle perpetual motion
10-Mi-sex. The best of.
and Floyd are up there somewhere as well.

[matt]

I love Dark Side of the Moon.

I was given it as a young bloke for my birthday. It blew my mind.

Then didn't listen to it until my late teens. It blew my mind again...

Into my Uni years and rediscovered it again, with all the other associated pleasures of "expanding" one's mind.

It then laid buried at the bottom of a box for the best part of a decade.

Into my 30s and listened to it again in the late 90s... loved it with a renewed passion and appreciation that comes with entering a more "mature" phase of life.

Now 39 ... I recently moved house and found it again while unpacking boxes.

Had a few quiet beers... put the album on and you could have knocked me sideways with a feather. It was like catching up with an old friend, only better. All the memories of the last 3 decades came flooding back.

And yes... I even found a few more subtle nuances which weren't apparent to me during the last period of our acquaintence.

This is the mark of a great album. It grows with you, revealing more of its greatness as you are capable of unravelling it.

Other than that ........... it just rocks!!!!!!:thumbsup:

[Octane]

All,

Animals is the greatest of their entire catalogue.

Everyone goes on about The Wall, ra ra ra. If only they put on Animals and let themselves go.

Waters' lyricism at its most cynical, sharp and biting; Gilmour's soaring and inspirational guitar solos with a grand sense of melancholy; Rick Wright's fantastic VCS and key work. Can't really say much for Nick Mason, except that he kept time brilliantly!

If I'm not mistaken, Gilmour wrote and played Waters' bass parts because Waters' couldn't be bothered.

I'm 27, and I shudder at the thought sometimes that that album is 30 years old. It's just mesmerising.

Gilmour's voice is still as angelic today as it was back then, as evidenced on his latest release.

Regards,
Humayun

[Ric]

In my vinyl collection which is around 200 albums, my favourites are

Led Zepelin - all albums
Pink Floyd - all albums
Yes - all albums
Black Sabbath - everything until Ozzie left
U2 - the early stuff
Alice Cooper
Heaps of Blues and a bit of everything else thrown in. then theres the CD collection, I not sure how many of them I have.
I can live without telly but not my music. :D

And the most embarrasing album I own is "Star Wars and other galactic funk" a collection of disco remixes from 1977 bought for me by my Gran as a Christmas prezzie and only ever played once on Christmas day. Everyone has to have a dud in their collection.

[Ric]

Hi Octane, I cant really decide between any of Floyds albums, but for a favourite single song it would have to be "Echoes" from the "Meddle" album.

cheers

[wavelandscott]

While Pink Floyd is good (as are the others listed)...

But, I was especially pleased to see Meatloaf make the list!
Maybe it is my age or the memories of the times but Bat Out of H*ll was an incredible album...

WOW

[jjjnettie]

I was 14 or 15 when Bat out of Hull came out.
Takes me back to friday nights at the Toombul Ice Skating rink.
Can you believe that my husband didn't know Meatloaf was in the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
I watched Rocky Horror again the other day. Written, directed and produced by Australians. Ground breaking stuff. Certainly opened my eyes at the time.

[Ric]

A classic show in all respects JJJ, I remember seeing the show with Stuart Wagstaff as the narrator and everyone was dressed as their favourite member of the cast.

great stuff

[fringe_dweller]

re Dark side of the Moon, didnt hurt alan parsons being the engineer eh ;) he should get some of the credit for that album me thinks :)

I thought I would put together my current top ten favourite albums, what me and my missus would listen to in the car mostly, and we both mostly like, rather then the 10 most influental/important/groundbreaking in my life (that would be hard to confine to 10 albums!!) and as they are mostly thrashed to death! and also I only allowed one album per artist in my list here, as there are several stones, waits ect albums I/we would/do listen too and left out all the mainly instrumental albums/bootleg albums which makes the bulk of what I listen too I guess.
so these are what you would find as burnt cd's in the car console atm/presently - so its my car console top 10 really! :P

R.L. Burnside 'Come on in'
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Rolling stones - Let it Bleed
Everlast - Eat at Whitey's
Ross Hannaford - Ross Hannaford Trio
Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Chemical bros - Push that Button
Gnarls Barkley - Saint Elsewhere
Grand Funk Railroad - Thirty Years Of Funk: 1969-1999 first two disks only, havent got the third cd

ps we have over 3-400? cds at least (thats real AIFF files NOT MP3's/4's) and a healthy little collection of vinyl still

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Could someone put a link to this top ten album list, or perhaps type it in here and let us know whose list it is / where it comes from?

For my own personal favourites I would definitely list Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell, also Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms, Electric Light Orchestra's Out of the Blue .... so many great albums, how do you pick??

[jjjnettie]

Wasn't Alan Parsons only 17 when he started working with them?
I love his work.
I Robot and Turn of a Friendly Card are my favorites.

[jjjnettie]

Sorry Steve.
It was on telly Sunday night. Find out more here.
http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritealbum/

So, what albums did the nation vote for?

Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the Moon
Jeff Buckley — Grace
Radiohead — OK Computer
The Beatles — Abbey Road
The Beatles — Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana — Nevermind
Led Zeppelin — Four
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Blood Sugar Sex Majik
Meat Loaf — Bat Out of Hell
U2 — Joshua Tree

[jjjnettie]

11–20
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
The Beatles — The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles — Revolver
Pink Floyd — The Wall
Radiohead — The Bends
Neil Diamond — Hot August Night
Neil Young — Harvest
Carole King — Tapestry
Pearl Jam — Ten
Fleetwood Mac — Rumours
21–30
Tool — Aenima
Bob Dylan — Blood On The Tracks
Midnight Oil — 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Silverchair — Diorama
AC/DC — Back In Black
The Clash — London Calling
The Whitlams — Eternal Nightcap
Queen — A night at the Opera
The Pixies — Doolittle
Missy Higgins — The Sound Of White
31–40
Paul Simon — Graceland
Anthony Callea — Anthony Callea
U2 — Achtung Baby
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
Radiohead — Kid A
The Beatles — Rubber Soul
The Stone Roses — Stone Roses
Wolfmother — Wolfmother
Oasis — What's The Story Morning Glory
Tool — Lateralus
41–50
Coldplay — A Rush of Blood to the Head
Bob Dylan — Highway 61
Sex Pistols — Never Mind the Bollocks
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks
The Living End — The Living End
The Strokes — Is this It?
Silverchair — Neon Ballroom
The Eagles — Hotel California
The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
You Am I — Hourly Daily
51–60
The Cure — Disintegration
Bob Dylan — Blonde On Blonde
Lou Reed — Transformer
Bruce Springsteen — Born To Run
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Californication
Metallica — Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens — Tea for the Tillerman
R.E.M — Automatic For The People
Muse — Absolution
Joni Mitchell — Blue
61–70
Prince — Purple Rain
ABBA — Arrival
Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Dire Straits — Brothers In Arms
Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
Cold Chisel — East
The Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Who — Who's Next
Yes — Close To The Edge
Deep Purple — Machine Head
71–80
Rage Against The Machine — Rage Against The Machine
Green Day — American Idiot
Guns N Roses — Appetite For Destruction
INXS — Kick
David Bowie — Hunky Dory
The Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream
Def Leppard — Hysteria
Foo Fighters — The Colour and The Shape
U2 — Rattle and Hum
Delta Goodrem — Innocent Eyes
81–90
John Farnham — Whispering Jack
You Am I — Hi Fi Way
Darren Hayes — The Tension & The Spark
Crowded House — Woodface
Live — Throwing Copper
Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral
Massive Attack — Blue Lines
Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin 2
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
Radio Birdman — Radios Appear
91–100
Ben Folds Five — Whatever and Ever Amen
Crowded House — Crowded House
Powderfinger — Vulture Street
The Killers — Hot Fuss
The Rolling Stones — Sticky Fingers
Silverchair — Frogstomp
Queens Of The Stone Age — Songs For The Deaf
Portishead — Dummy
Soundgarden — Superunknown
The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground & Nico

[Omaroo]

We must have the same collection Ric....except the top two in mine are swapped around. Yes definitely comes in at #3 (Owner of a Lonely Heart is my all-time 11/10-LOUD favourite), and I'd probably throw in Rick Wakeman there somewhere too.

[mickoking]

Echoes, now thats a song :thumbsup: an epic and in no hurry to finish. Two other brilliant long songs are Cowgirl in the sand by Neil Young and Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

My fave LP's in no particular order are:

Dark side of the moon- Pink Floyd
Harvest-Neil Young
Vulture Street-Powderfinger
Led Zeppelin II- Led Zeppelin
Wolfmother-Wolfmother
Ten-Pearl Jam
Renegades-Rage Against the Machine
If you want blood-AC/DC
Live at Leeds-The Who
Decade-Neil Young
Who's Next-The Who
Animals-Pink Floyd
+ some that have escaped me at the moment :)

[xstream]

There's some great albums there but also some great ones have missed the boat.
One very old classic that comes to mind is Iron Butterfly, In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.

[Outbackmanyep]

:thumbsup: RIGHT ON!!!!!!
LOVE THE FLOYD!

Cheers!

[Outbackmanyep]

One of my favourite Pink Floyd songs to listen to whilst observing is "Terminal Frost" from the Momentary Lapse of Reason album......i think if you're a die-hard fan you would have listened to all their songs by now! :) ....and if you are and you haven't heard that song you should have a listen and see what you think!

Cheers! :D

[Ric]

Hi Omaroo, I have all of Rick Wakeman's work, theres some great music in his collection.

Hi Mick, "Gold and Platinum is one brilliant album.

Hi OBMY, "Terminal Frost" is a classic, I dont really think that PF has ever really done a bad song. some of my fav's would be "Dogs of War", "Waiting for Worms", "Shine on you Crazy Diamond".

Here are some other bands I noticed that didnt get a mention.

Dead Kennedys
Hawkwind
Sex Pistols
Girl School

cheers

[erick]

Matt, do yourself a favour and buy the Pulse DVD. Sit down comfortably, vision matters somewhat, but audio is critical - a good surround sound system - and play a 1984 live performance of DSOTM. Dave, Nick and Rick present, Roger absent, sadly.

I bought the DVD, then didn't play the DSOTM part until I'd rewired the room with a new surround sound audio system. I was very pleased!

My children already know which three songs are to be played at my gravesite after I'm buried (and probably after everyone else has left - if anyone does come ;) ):-

1. One of These Days
2. The Great Gig in the Sky
3. Us and Them

Eric :)

[Ric]

Hi Eric, I can imagine what it would sound like, totally awesome.

cheers

[Omaroo]

I guess that I'd need to include Peter Frampton in my faves too. Particulary "Gold" with "Do You Feel Like We Do" on it.

[Outbackmanyep]

Bloody oath!
I agree!
I reckon they should hand out this DVD free with every IISAC T-shirt! LOL
Best to play it at night in the loungeroom with all the house lights off!:thumbsup:

I got my neighbour into that DVD...drives his daughters nuts though!
He plays it so loud that sometimes i have to call him to turn it up!:2thumbs:

Cheers!

[styleman333]

Cant believe no Abba or Bay City rollers in the top 100 ............ What is going on here?

[Ric]

And no Racey, Wham or Bucks Fizz. Aaaaargh!! stop me. :rofl: :rofl:

This thread has reminded me of a lot of great albums that I still have to buy.

cheers

[matt]

Hi Eric

I'm gonna take your advice and track that DVD down. Sounds like a belter!

Good choice of graveside tracks:lol:

I hope it's a grey thunderous day with occasional shafts of amazing sunshine splitting the cloud... with that great music ringing out.

I hope it's a long...long...long way off:rofl:

Cool

[matt]

But right now ... I'm crankin' out the Joshua Tree.

Saw U2 a few weeks back.

Glad it made it into the top 10

[Ric]

Hi Matt, I had some early Genesis of this arvo, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks & Steve Hackett. A pretty amazing line up.

A bit of a nostalgia trip.

[matt]

Absolutely.

You know the Collins-Rutherford-Banks incantation are reforming for a short while and touring?

Don't think they're coming to Oz, though.:rolleyes:

[Ric]

Hi Matt, now that would be good value, I have one of Mike's albums, heavy of the Synth's but pretty awesome stuff.

cheers

[Outbackmanyep]

I went to the friday night concert at homebush, i sat on the first tier at the north end, 2 rows from the edge and a little right of centre,it was an awesome concert!
I wonder if they found that kite Bono let go at the end of the concert when he sung "KITE"....i love that song soooooo much, i always crank it up loud! Its probably my favourite song from that album.....
Bono did such a good job singing Pavarotti's part in Miss Sarajevo too....:)

Which concert did you make it to?

Cheers! :thumbsup:

[matt]

The Saturday night.

We thought it was just one of ... if not the best live gig we've been too.

The Pavarotti section he sang was just stunning and Miss Sarajevo is a personal fave. The man has an amazing voice. So much range, passion and variety.

Wasn't it great they did a fair swag of the earlier (80s and 90s) stuff.

I missed out on the Zooropa tour ... but I could hear it from where I was living at Erskineville in Sydney at the time. Sounded great but I think the Vertigo tour was a cut above, actually.

I didn't expect them to play as long as they did, although I was expecting something special after they cancelled in April.

Glad you enjoyed it so much.:)

[AstroJunk]

i've been looking so long at these pictures of you that i almost believe that they're real i've been living so long with my pictures of you that i almost believe that the pictures are all i can feel.

Robert Smith sure knew how to pen a lyric about Messier objects on a cloudy night.

[Ric]

The Cure is another great band and then there is the Cult.

cheers

[cahullian]

Dont forget about Depeche Mode ;)

[jjjnettie]

The best concerts I've been to were-:
Pink Floyd who were just as good if not better live.
Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell tour, where I had to jam wads of wet toilet paper in my ears cause I was seated right next to the speakers.
David Bowie's Glass Spider and Let's Dance tours.

Love these
Rodriguez - Cold Fact
Janis Joplin - Pearl
The Cure
Violent Femmes
Patti Smith

[Omaroo]

Which gig did you see jjj? I went to the Sydney concert at the EntCent in 1984 (if I remember rightly) to the first one they did without Roger. I had to think at the time that they really didn't need him either, as the show was brilliant without.

[fringe_dweller]

funny you guys are sayin that, the best concert i ever saw/heard was The Cure headlining Glastonbury in the UK in 1990 (i have seen a lot of shows) - FREAKIN AWESOME FREAKY experience! but I saw them once (or twice?) since then here in Adelaide in the 90's, and I couldnt believe it was the same band/guy, weird! it was a much tamer and milder sound, but still great of course - but i still get chills recalling the glastonbury show!

JJJ, Alan Parsons was born in 1948, so he was well in his mid-20's and had already done the beatles abbey road in '69, by the time he did dsm around '73 - listen alan parsons project stuff, its all very pink floyd-ish like to me!

[jjjnettie]

I thought they were here in late '86. I'm sure I had to get mum to babysit so I could go. Maybe not. Things are a little blurry that far back.
We went to the Brisbane Entertainment Center to see them.
I took my cousins wife with me, who is from one of the smaller isolated isles of the Torres Strait. She was absolutely blown away with the whole experience. The big pig, the bed flying over the audience, brilliant stuff.

Kearn, Ah yes, thank you for correcting me.
His music is very Floydish, but that is probably it's appeal to me. Apart from the fact that it has strong Sci-Fi links to some of the lyrics.

[Ric]

Hi JJJ, that would have been fantastic to see Pink Floyd in concert, I'm soooo jealous :D. I did get to see ZZ Top in concert when they did their world tour many years ago, but I missed out on seeing Led Zeppelin in 72 at Randwick, I couldn't understand mum's reasoning about a 12 year old traveling to Sydney alone to see a rock concert :whistle:

cheers

[33South]

Watch a doco on the Biography channel (D115) this morning about the recording of Dark Side Of The Moon well worth a look, its repeated this arvo at 3pm - "Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon"

[Ric]

I have seen that doco a while back on SBS, it was a very good insight into the making of the album and quite fascinating.

Definitely worth watching

[Outbackmanyep]

It was just brilliant!
Thats was my FIRST big concert i've been to...i was hoping the concert would go on forever!!!!
Their new song they just made sounded great! I reckon they could go for a few more tours before they retire, they keep producing the goodies as far as awesome songs go!

I also went to SPLIT ENZ in March or April earlier in the year at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and that was great too!
I bought a really cool t-shirt from the Split Enz concert, pity the U2 shirts weren't retro-style!

:thumbsup:

[Outbackmanyep]

I have that "Classic Albums" rockumentary on DVD, one of the most amazing parts was the "On the Run" song they did from synthesizers....it was 20 years ahead of its time!!

If you buy the DVD theres extra bits from David Gilmour playing just his guitar...like the bit in the doco where he did the guitar solo for "TIME",he does Us and Them, steel slide guitar parts from the Great Gig in the sky and Breathe, and i think ive just about worn that part out!

I'm learning the chords to "breathe" on my guitar at the moment...coming along ok!

[erick]

Yes, a great DVD! Cheap in the shops. They don't know what's good, do they!

[Outbackmanyep]

Yep! I got mine for 20 bucks but i have seen it for less!

JB HiFi is a good place to start!

[Ric]

Hi OBMY, you have reminded me of a concert I went to in 1978 at the ANU.
They billed it as a triple treat, Split Enz, Skyhooks and Renee Geyer all for $7.00, wont see that again.

cheers

[matt]

OK...

Went shopping today.

Got myself a pre-Xmas prezzy...

Picked up Floyd's PULSE as per recommendation.

Wow. Double DVD ... for $18 from DSE...

Bargain.

Got it cranked up loud enough to clear the continent of cloud!!!

"Sorrow" just started.

It's rockin' baaaaaby.... it's rockin!!!!:D