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Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« on: November 08, 2012, 12:30:10 pm »
List your favorite albums of all time and limit to 11.

Mine:

1) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2) Beatles - White Album
3) Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 
4) Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia
5) Arcade Fire - Funeral
6) Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane over the sea
7) Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
8) Beach House - Teen Dream
9) Velvet Underground and Nico
10) Primal Scream - Screamadilca
11) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2012, 12:37:26 pm »
Not everyone is stuck in the past and likes classic rock like you.
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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2012, 12:50:45 pm »

spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen
love - forever changes
husker du - zen arcade
zombies - oddesey and oracle
misfits - walk among us
gi/teen idles/soa/youth brigade - 4 old 7"s on a 12"
hoodoo gurus - stoneage romeos
Jesus Mary Chain - Darklands
Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
VU - Nico



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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2012, 01:20:07 pm »
After the Gold Rush        
On the Beach     
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere    
Rust Never Sleeps    
Live Rust   
Crazy Horse at the Fillmore     
Harvest    
Tonight's the Night    
Weld              
Zuma
Ragged Glory

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2012, 01:48:21 pm »
No Code
Boy With the Arab Strap
At Mount Zoomer
Silent Alarm
The Weight is a Gift
Funeral
OK Computer
Turn On the Bright Lights
Violator
After the Gold Rush
The Cars

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2012, 03:26:38 pm »
Songs For The Deaf
Led Zeppelin
You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Kid A
Enter The Wu-Tang [36 Chambers]
Fever To Tell
Discovery
Low End Theory
Ready To Die
Appetite For Destruction
De Stijl
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hutch

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2012, 03:32:33 pm »
this list varies by the nanosecond but here is my new one


Venezuela Zinga Son Vol 1             Los Amigos Invisibles
Africa Brasil                                   Jorge Ben
Live at the Velvet Lounge (boot)      Outer Body Llama
Live at Atlantic Studios                   AC/DC
Gilberto Gil (1969)                        Gilberto Gil
Five Guys Walk into a Bar              Faces
Complete Columbia                        Billie Holiday
Trompe Le Monde                          Pixies
Nigeria                                          Grant Green
Honestidad Brutal                            Andres Calamaro
Dylan                                            Bob Dylan


atomicfront

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2012, 03:38:01 pm »

hoodoo gurus - stoneage romeos

I am glad someone remembers that album.  I saw them on that tour at the old 930 club.  Great album. 

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2012, 03:39:45 pm »
1.   Jesus & Mary Chain ?Psychocandy?
2.   Meat Puppets ?II?
3.   Verve ?A Northern Soul?
4.   Jane?s Addiction ?Nothings Shocking?
5.   Stone Roses s/t
6.   Minutemen ?Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat?
7.   Palace Music ?Viva Last Blues?
8.   John Coltrane ?Love Supreme?
9.   White Stripes ?White Blood Cells?
10.   The Knife ?Silent Shout?
11.   Joy Division ?Closer?
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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2012, 03:53:33 pm »
"Eleven Plus Eleven" by Nine Below Zero
"The Kernels XI (11)" by Dirty Bomb
"Seven come Eleven" by Benny Goodman
"The 11th Hour" by Rancid
"11:11" by Rodrigo y Gabriela
"11:11" by Rufus Wainwright
"11 O'Clock Tick Tock" by U2
"Song Eleven Could Take Forever" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
"11 A.M." by Incubus
"11th Dimension" by Julian Casablancas
"9/11 Fever!!!" by Bomb the Music Industry
"...And the World Files for Chapter 11" by The Flatliners
"Drinking For 11" by Mad Caddies
"9/11 Was (An Inside Joke)" by Star Fucking Hipsters
"Seven Come Eleven" by Johnny Horton
"Eleventeen" by Kimya Dawson
"Hang 11" by John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
"Commemorative 9/11 T-Shirt" (also "Commemorative ____ T-Shirt") by Oceansize
"11 Months + 29 Days" by Confederate Railroad
"Eleven" by Primus
"The Eleven" by The Grateful Dead

hutch

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2012, 03:55:08 pm »
damn.. I answered it wrong..  :'(

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2012, 03:57:40 pm »
Can I post a list of 75 favorite artists?  narrowing it down to 11 would take time on a Cray computer to figure out.
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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2012, 03:58:21 pm »
damn.. I answered it wrong..  :'(

Oh wait.  I think that was me.

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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2012, 04:05:52 pm »
Can I post a list of 75 favorite artists?  narrowing it down to 11 would take time on a Cray computer to figure out.

I just took my Top 100 list and lopped off the first 11.
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Re: Top 11 favorite albums of all time
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2012, 04:13:46 pm »
This was a nice conference call diversion.  Only limited to studio-recorded LPs, not collections or live albums.  Probably looks something like this:

(1) Paul Simon "Graceland"
(2) The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead"
(3) Camera Obscura "Let's Get Out of This Country"
(4) Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"
(5) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Willy and the Poor Boys"
(6) The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses"
(7) The Replacements "Tim"
(8) The Velvet Underground "The Velvet Underground & Nico"
(9) Ella Fitzgerald "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook"
(10) Ramones "Ramones"
(11) Yo La Tengo "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One"

honorable mentions:

Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker"
Beatles "Revolver"
Belle & Sebastian "If You're Feeling Sinister"
The Clash "The Clash"
The Cure "Disintegration"
Dismemberment Plan "Emergency & I"
Drive-By Truckers "Southern Rock Opera"
Bob Dylan "Nashville Skyline"
The Jam "All Mod Cons"
Jens Lekman "Oh You're So Silent Jens" (a collection, whatever)
Magnetic Fields "Holiday"
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies"
New Pornographers "Mass Romantic"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Ready to Die"
Outkast "ATLiens"
R.E.M. "Reckoning"
The Shins "Oh, Inverted World"
The Strokes "Is This It?"
Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"
Lucinda Williams "Lucinda Williams"
Stevie Wonder "Talking Book"
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