Rank The Albums!

Sprague Dawley said:
it's been 25 years since I heard Dirty and Goo but I still think if I sidestep round the Kim Gordon vocal ruination I'd currently have Thousand Leaves at #3 behind Daydream and Sister.
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Yeah, Kim has some of the best and worst SY songs. Definitely an acquired taste. But, IMO, these albums you mentioned certainly don’t have any of her most grating vocals (Orange Rolls Angels Spit gets a pass from me because it fits the music so well). For me, the record with the most patience testing Kim tunes is Washing Machine, especially Panty Lies.
 
I went with tiers for these two particular acts...I couldn't pick a top album for either.

Wilco
Tier A
A Ghost is Born, Summerteeth, Sky Blue Sky, Being There, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Tier B
A.M., Schmilco

Tier C
Wilco (The Album) Star Wars, The Whole Love

Radiohead
Tier A
In Rainbows, Ok Computer, The Bends, Hail to the Thief

Tier B
Kid A, Amnesiac, A Moon Shaped Pool

Tier C
King of Limbs, Pablo Honey
 
ranbalam said:
I went with tiers for these two particular acts...I couldn't pick a top album for either.

Wilco
Tier A
A Ghost is Born, Summerteeth, Sky Blue Sky, Being There, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Tier B
A.M., Schmilco

Tier C
Wilco (The Album) Star Wars, The Whole Love
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Oo, I'll do my take on Wilco. At least one controversial take in here.

1. Summerteeth
2. The Whole Love
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Being There
5. A Ghost is Born
6. A.M.
7. Sky Blue Sky
8. Schmilco
9. Star Wars
10. Wilco (The Album)
 
Poly-Rythmo said:
Revolver
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
A Hard Day's Night
White Album
Help
Magical Mystery Tour
Please Please Me
Beatles For Sale
Let It Be
With The Beatles
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OK I'll do the Beatles, too (my favorite band):
  1. Sgt Pepper's
  2. Magical Mystery Tour
  3. Revolver
  4. Abbey Road
  5. White Album
  6. Let It Be
  7. A Hard Day's Night
  8. Beatles For Sale
  9. Rubber Soul
  10. With The Beatles
  11. Help
  12. Please Please Me
Re-working this list is always painful. As of late I've been spending a lot of time with their early stuff and also Let It Be. I've come to the conclusion that I've underrated both With the Beatles and Beatles for Sale. Some of the album tracks on those albums are tremendous, like "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", "What You're Doing", "Hold Me Tight", "You Really Got a Hold on Me", etc. I dare say that even "Mr. Moonlight" is kind of fun, if only because that's one of the rare songs that clearly fell outside their rather broad range. I think that A Hard Day's Night is still my favorite of their early albums, but that's not as obvious to me as it once was ("I'll Be Back" is probably the song that clinches it for me).

As for Let It Be, I've come to enjoy its randomness. I'm this close to ranking it above the White Album; I just can't get myself to do it because, despite the questionable ratio of good-to-bad songs, the White Album simply has way too many all-timers.

The biggest loser in my latest rankings is Rubber Soul, which has been on very low rotation. "Run for Your Life"... hasn't aged well.
 
I'm going to do my very controversial Beatles ranking :eek:

  1. With The Beatles
  2. Rubber Soul
  3. Please Please Me
  4. A Hard Day's Night
  5. Beatles For Sale
  6. Help
  7. Revolver
  8. White Album
  9. Abbey Road
  10. Sgt Pepper's
  11. Magical Mystery Tour
  12. Let It Be
 
Flaming Lips:
(note, only comprised of albums I have actually listened to)

01. The Soft Bulletin
02. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
03. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
04. King's Mouth
05. In a Priest Driven Ambulance
06. The Terror
07. At War with the Mystics
08. Embryonic
09. Oh My Gawd...
10. Clouds Taste Metallic
11. Oczy Mlody
12. Zaireeka

I think... this was actually really hard.
 
whatwhatsaywhat said:
the national: boxer > trouble will find me > i am easy to find > sleep well beast > high violet > alligator > (cherry tree ep >) sad songs for dirty lovers > the national
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The National:
  1. Boxer
  2. Alligator
  3. High Violet
  4. I Am Easy to Find
  5. Trouble Will Find Me
  6. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
  7. Sleep Well Beasts
  8. The National
Also for what it's worth, I'd rank A Skin, A Night + The Virginia EP's above Sleep Well Beasts. Have always loved Blank Slate from that record.
 
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MikeyP said:
The National:
  1. Boxer
  2. Alligator
  3. High Violet
  4. I Am Easy to Find
  5. Trouble Will Find Me
  6. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
  7. Sleep Well Beasts
  8. The National
Also for what it's worth, I'd rank A Skin, A Night + The Virginia EP's above Sleep Well Beasts. Have always loved Blank Slate from that record.
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Haven't thought about it much but instinctively I feel mine would be like yours (although too early really to place the new album - and I might have had SWB one higher)
 
Really just posting to formally request the definitive Animal Collective ranking from @Woob_woob

But here’s another Radiohead ranking:
OKC > In Rainbows > Kid A > The Bends > AMSP > HTTT > Amnesiac > KoL > Pablo
 
wooha said:
Really just posting to formally request the definitive Animal Collective ranking from @Woob_woob
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For me its
  1. Sung Tongs
  2. Person Pitch (Panda Bear)
  3. Feels
  4. MPP
  5. Strawberry Jam
  6. Fall Be Kind Ep
  7. Panda Bear vs The Grim Reaper (Panda Bear)
  8. Here Comes the Indian
  9. Campfire Songs
  10. Down There (Avey Tare)
  11. Prospect Hummer
  12. Sleep Cycle (Deakin)
  13. Spirit Theyve Gone
  14. Cows on Hourglass Pond (Avey Tare)
  15. Tomboy (Panda)
  16. Young Prayer (Panda)
  17. Water Curses Ep
  18. People Ep
  19. Meeting of the Waters Ep
  20. Buoys (Panda)
  21. Eucalyptus (and Essence of Eucalyptus) (Avey Tare)
  22. Centipede Hz
  23. Keep Ep
  24. Enter the Slasher House (Avey Tare)
  25. Painters Ep
  26. Painting With
  27. Hollindagain
  28. Berserker by Jane (Half Panda)
  29. Danse Manatee
  30. Tangerine Reef
  31. Transverse Temporal Gyrus
  32. Pullhair Rubeye (Avey)
1-6=Great, 7-11=great, 12-19=Good, 20-25=good, 26 and below=fine to bad.
 
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Woob_woob said:
For me its
  1. Sung Tongs
  2. Person Pitch (Panda Bear)
  3. Feels
  4. MPP
  5. Strawberry Jam
  6. Fall Be Kind Ep
  7. Panda Bear vs The Grim Reaper (Panda Bear)
  8. Here Comes the Indian
  9. Campfire Songs
  10. Down There (Avey Tare)
  11. Prospect Hummer
  12. Sleep Cycle (Deakin)
  13. Spirit Theyve Gone
  14. Cows on Hourglass Pond (Avey Tare)
  15. Tomboy (Panda)
  16. Young Prayer (Panda)
  17. Water Curses Ep
  18. People Ep
  19. Meeting of the Waters Ep
  20. Buoys (Panda)
  21. Eucalyptus (and Essence of Eucalyptus) (Avey Tare)
  22. Centipede Hz
  23. Keep Ep
  24. Enter the Slasher House (Avey Tare)
  25. Painters Ep
  26. Painting With
  27. Hollindagain
  28. Berserker by Jane (Half Panda)
  29. Danse Manatee
  30. Tangerine Reef
  31. Transverse Temporal Gyrus
  32. Pullhair Rubeye (Avey)
1-6=Great, 7-11=great, 12-19=Good, 20-25=good, 26 and below=fine to bad.
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This is outstanding... Wasn't even thinking about the solo acts. Well done!
 
The Posies
1. Dear 23 (1990)
2. Frosting on the Beater (1993)
3. Blood/Candy (2010)
4. Failure (1988)
5. Amazing Disgrace (1996)
6. Success (1998)
7. Solid States (2016)
8. Every Kind of Light (2005)

The Deathray Davies
1. The Return of the Drunken Ventriloquist (2000)
2. The Kick and the Snare (2005)
3. Drink with the Grown-Ups and Listen to the Jazz (1999)
4. The Day of the Ray (2002)
5. Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Factory (2004)
(catalog not on vinyl, great music nonetheless)

Ball Park Music
1. Puddinghead (2014)
2. Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs (2011)
3. Good Mood (2018)
4. Museum (2012)
5. Every Night The Same Dream (2016)
 
Arcade Fire
1. Funeral
2. The Suburbs
3. Arcade Fire EP
4. Neon Bible
5. Reflektor
750. Everything Now

Genesis
1. Foxtrot
2. Selling England By the Pound
3. Duke
4. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
5. Abacab
6. Nursery Cryme
7. Wind and Wuthering
8. Genesis
9. A Trick of the Tail
10. Invisible Touch
11. We Can’t Dance
12. ...And Then There Were Three
13. Trespass
14. From Genesis to Revelation
15. Calling All Stations
**if I included live albums, Seconds Out would be #3
 
MadLucas said:
I have been trying for a half hour now to rank the Sonic Youth albums, and I just cannot do it.
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It's nearly impossible. Like I'm that dude that will do this...

------------------ The three I do own
1) Washing Machine
2) Thousand Leaves
3) Murray Street
--------------------------- Need on vinyl
4) Daydream Nation
5) Sonic Nurse
6) Goo
-------------- Would buy @ the right price or if I'm ever wealthy
7) Dirty
8) Rather Ripped
-------------------- Not interested in owning on vinyl:
9) Eternal
10) Sister
11) Bad Moon/EVOL
12) Everything else

And then everyone wants to call me crazy. There were a super consistent, revolutionary band with three different phases. There is no right answer. But I happen to prefer when their melodic side is showing it's face. Also, Richard Linklater's 1995 film Suburbia introduced me to the band during my high school years... so I'm biased towards Thousand Leaves in a way most Sonic Youth fans would never be.
 
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Also...

Aesop Rock (because the process of absorbing Malibu Ken has me revisiting The Impossible Kid and because he truly sits alongside Kenrick and Outkast as one of my favorites in hip-hop).

Labor Days / Float > None Shall Pass > The Impossible Kid / Skelethon / Appleseed EP > Fast Cars EP > Music for Earthworms > Bazooka Tooth
 
The Beatles
  1. Revolver
  2. Abbey Road
  3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  4. Rubber Soul
  5. Please Please Me
  6. The Beatles (White Album)
  7. Let It Be
  8. With the Beatles
  9. Help!
  10. A Hard Day's Night
  11. Magical Mystery Tour
  12. Beatles For Sale
  13. Yellow Submarine
 
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