The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!

[Joe Mac]

5-1

5. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976)



4. Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)



3. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1975)



2. The Beatles (1968)



1. Radiohead - Ok Computer (1997)

 

[Woob_woob]

5-1

5. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976)

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4. Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)

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3. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1975)

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2. The Beatles (1968)

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1. Radiohead - Ok Computer (1997)

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While its not my top 5, thats an A+ top 5 right there

 

[Joe Mac]

While its not my top 5, thats an A+ top 5 right there

Cheers! Looking at it I was kinda a little bit wary of the fact that 4 of the 5 came out before I was born but I think that also, taste dependent, the cream always eventually rises to the top!

 

[kvetcha]

Going back to 5 at a time; 10 feels excessive.

Spoiler: 30-26

30. Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita

29. Men at Work - Business as Usual

28. St Vincent -Strange Mercy

27. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

26. Tenniscoats - Temporacha

 

[Gavaxeman]

A bit different time ..this should get your started


Guess the album from a lyric - my albums 50-48.

50-“All relationships are emptying and temporary”

49-“Oh, I never was good with romantic words
So the next few lines come really hard
Don't have much but what I've got is yours..”

48-“ I was born under a bad sign,
Left out in the cold..”

Well this post went down nearly as bad as my Keane pif .....

I’ll post the albums properly ...

 

[Gavaxeman]

No 50 then ....

Mansun “Six” 1998

Brit Pops True Prog masterpiece, the second album from Chester’s finest , in its U.K. version is a sprawling epic , one long linked series of songs that segue and flow into each other, multiple time signatures within single tracks , it’s bonkers and brilliant . The album artwork is great, references to the lyrics abound, and it creates its own world, a proper album to sit and ingest in one long flow, with each listen revealing something you’ve not noticed before .

Factoid- The cover art also depicts a number of (perhaps non-existent) books, including:

• Life as a Series of Compromises by Graham Langdon
• Who On Earth is Tom Baker? by Tom Baker (the actor's autobiography)
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (1984 was one of the album's working titles)
• The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade (referenced in the lyrics of "Legacy")
• The Book of Mormon (referenced in the lyrics of "Cancer")
• The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
• People Places by Richard Rodgers (referenced in the lyrics of "Anti-Everything"
• The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (referenced in the lyrics of "Shotgun")
• Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard (referenced in the lyrics of "Negative")
• The Schizoid Man refers to an episode title of The Prisoner
• Paint It Black by Geoffrey Giuliano (a book on the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, an important influence on Dominic Chad)

 

[ranbalam]

I have all but one of these five on vinyl. The missing one here is rare, and by an artist that is definitely on peoples' list, but I'm guessing nobody else chooses this one.

Spoiler: 26-30

Radiohead - OK Computer

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

The Cars - S/T

Jane's Addiction - S/T

Wilco - A Ghost is Born

 

[chrb98]

Spoiler: 40-36

40. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury



39. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life



38. Pink Floyd - Animals



37. Black Sabbath - Paranoid



36. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

I'm not limiting my list to one album per artist or anything like that, primarily because I want this list to be the truest representation of my favorite albums of all time. So, y'all can expect to see two more Stevie Wonder albums on my list above Songs In The Key Of Life, because the man has 3 perfect albums and countless more near-perfect ones.

 

[Rip_City]

Now that my stress levels from the past few days have been eased, time to rattle off the next 5!

Spoiler: Top 36-40

40) Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds [contemporary R&B, pop, trap]

Across the 12 tracks here, the variation is immense for a pop/R&B album. The production sounds incredibly fresh and ahead of its time here...many tropes seen on pop and R&B albums even to this day have to owe it to this record. "What Goes Around...Comes Around" uses Turkish bağlamas, an unheard of instrument choice for modern pop music...it's hypnotic enough to be the closest thing to trip hop on a top 40 album. "Chop Me Up" is an accessible early undertaking in trap pop/rap. Justin hit his artistic apex here and hasn't come even close to redefining himself in the years since.

39) Between the Buried and Me - Colors [progressive death metal, metalcore]

Epic, grandiose, and sprawling in nature. The album that got me into death metal. It sounds great in its original metal composition. It sounds powerful as an orchestral arrangement. The music navigates and shifts through breathtaking peaks and valleys, with copious frenetic guitar solos. It even has a brief segment of bluegrass!

38) Nujabes - Modal Soul [jazzy hip hop, instrumental hip hop]

A project where every song is its own journey, with many told without words. It is as the album title implies: tonal changes within a pulse/heartbeat. A truly remarkable achievement from a talent gone far too soon.

37) Ween - Quebec [experimental rock, art rock]

A neat, fun collection of songs from a band where you never know what you're going to get next from song to song! Classic rock, psychedelics, children's songs, and some eerily creepy cuts across the works on Quebec among a slew of other genres adorn the tracklist. The band's musicianship is vastly underrated.

36) Kraftwerk - The Man Machine [electronic, synthpop]

Are we sure this is not from 2078 instead of 1978? I couldn't even pontificate what people thought of art like this back then, along with the rest of their works. Mind-bendingly avantgarde electronic wizardry. RIP Florian Schneider, you will be missed.

 

[kvetcha]

Spoiler: 25-21

25. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

24. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...

23. The Books - The Lemon of Pink

22. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

21. Radiohead - Kid A

 

[bettim84]

Spoiler: 30-26

30. Garbage - Version 2.0



29. Pixies - Doolittle



28. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure



27. Spoon - Gimme Fiction



26. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

 

[gaporter]

I'm not limiting my list to one album per artist or anything like that, primarily because I want this list to be the truest representation of my favorite albums of all time. So, y'all can expect to see two more Stevie Wonder albums on my list above Songs In The Key Of Life, because the man has 3 perfect albums and countless more near-perfect ones.

Stevie Wonder is a good example of why my list will probably be unimpressive compared to most others on here. Stevie is just one of many acclaimed artists I've never delved into and so they won't be represented on my list

 

[gaporter]

btw this hasn't gotten any easier last time i posted in here. lmao

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Stevie Wonder is a good example of why my list will probably be unimpressive compared to most others on here. Stevie is just one of many acclaimed artists I've never delved into and so they won't be represented on my list

No one's list is any more impressive than anyone else's! It's just our favourites! There's no shame in not being familiar with or not liking an artist that a lot of other people like, or vice versa.

 

[Woob_woob]

btw this hasn't gotten any easier last time i posted in here. lmao

Yea i havent been making progress on my personal list these past few weeks.

 

[bettim84]

Stevie Wonder is a good example of why my list will probably be unimpressive compared to most others on here. Stevie is just one of many acclaimed artists I've never delved into and so they won't be represented on my list

Dude, there is no shame. You could post a list of 50 emo albums from the early 2000s and you'll still get a passing grade.

 

[gaporter]

Dude, there is no shame. You could post a list of 50 emo albums from the early 2000s and you'll still get a passing grade.

hear that @siremobunny? come make your list!

 

[chrb98]

Stevie Wonder is a good example of why my list will probably be unimpressive compared to most others on here. Stevie is just one of many acclaimed artists I've never delved into and so they won't be represented on my list

When you really sit down and think about how many critically acclaimed artists there are in the western music canon, ya quickly realize it'd be almost impossible to fit them all into one list. I don't think there's anything impressive or unimpressive about someone having The Beatles, or Stevie Wonder, or David Bowie, or any artist in their top 50! The personal touch is what makes everyone's lists interesting.

And besides, I'm putting Music Of My Mind above Songs In The Key Of Life, so even within the Stevie Wonder critical consensus, I'm still making the "wrong" choices

 

[Ericj32]

I’m trying my best to be honest with myself about what I actually enjoy and make this a list of albums where I’m both thoroughly enjoying and eagerly anticipating what comes next throughout the whole listen. My struggle is that as soon as I got Spotify 5-6 years ago, my music listening has shifted far more into new (to me) music exploration than revisiting albums I already think I like - and there’s still so much ground to cover! I haven’t listened to so many of my “favorite” albums in years even though they lurk in my mind and haunt me with vague memories of how much I enjoy(ed) them. This allowed a nagging fear to creep in that, when I’d finally listen to them again, they might fall flat and just sound dumb. I got so nervous!! But I’m happy to report that Hoobastank, Stroke 9, and Gavin DeGraw still ROCK.

I’ve also found that it helps to try to diagnose what it is that I actually like about music in general and then use that logic to help when I get stuck trying to rank these albums:

• Lyrics cannot make a mediocre album great. If you can’t say it with a melody or harmony or rhythm, I’m not listening!
• Haunting/primal is good.
• Self-consciously trying to be cool? um...no, thank you.
• Innovation is one thing but experimentation? Nope. Come back when the experiments are done and you have a finished product.

And to catch up on some discussions I missed:

Equally I expect a chunk of mine to be lower down because the forum is largely American so, a bit like in that Rolling Stone list, some of the British ones, outside the the obvious, may get buried.

Craig David has more of a global following than you give him credit for, Joe.

The voting winners are 50 lists, closed ballot, and anything goes for what is considered an album

So there are no guardrails that I can use to keep Pure Moods comps from dominating my list? Oof.

I mean Life in a Northern Town is almost single handedly strong enough to put The Dream Academy on my damn list.

It's on Pure Moods 2, so that should make things easier for you! Maybe I won’t be the only one!

Oh mean I’d never say he can’t play the guitar like a mofo, that’s clear and people love cream. I just find that, for me, he is a bit like a lot of extremely proficient players in that he’s not a great songwriter. I find a lot of it meandering and one paced and it bores me tbh.

his songs can cha-ee-ange the world, Joe. He could be the sunlight in your universe.

 

[kvetcha]

Spoiler: 20-16

20. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

19. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

18. Jellyfish - Spilt Milk

17. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

16. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood