Top Ten Albums

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon came in at Number 1
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

cheers

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

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 (David)]

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 (Jeanette)]

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 (Petra)]

Totally agree JJJ

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

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

Listening to it now.

Cheers Petra

[mickoking]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

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.

I used to live near Battersea power station too :Animals is one cool LP 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!!!!!!

[Octane (Humayun)]

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.

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 (Scott)]

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 (Jeanette)]

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!

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 (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 (Jeanette)]

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 (Jeanette)]

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 (Jeanette)]

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