The 5 Best Albums........Ever

Ramones-Rocket to Russia

Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life

Steve Miller-Fly Like an Eagle

Pink Floyd-The Wall

Yes-Fragile

Flagpole Willy wrote:

All of the following are by Spinal Tap:

1) Shark Sandwich

2) Brain Hammer

3) Rock 'N Roll Creation

4) Intravenus de Milo

5) Smell The Glove

6) The Sun Never Sweats

Don't forget

Break Like The Wind

Nirvana - Unplugged in NYC

Weezer - Blue Album

Led Zeppelin - IV (Zoso)

Garden State Soundtrack

Radiohead - Amnesiac

In no particular order:

1. Oasis - Whats the story....

2. U2 - Joshua Tree

3. REM - Automatic for the People

4. Keane - Hopes and Fears

5. The Eagles - Hotel California

How about 5 best American albums and 5 best British albums?

Led Zeppelin IV

The Layla Sessions

Tommy

1984-Van Halen

Chronicle, Vol. I-CCR

The Edge wrote:

Joshua Tree is my #1

Gotta agree there. Actung Baby is good, but the Joshua Tree is by far U2's best Album. The song Where the Streets have no Name alone would be a great album because the song is so incredible.

My 6 favorites:

Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You

Bush - Sixteen Stone

Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind

Sublime - Sublime

The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Anything

Pink Floyd the wall

We all have different tastes in music, so all lists will differ. I would probably include a few albums by the Beatles (it would be hard for me to choose between Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper, and Revolver). I also enjoy The Bends and OK Computer from Radiohead, but I don't know if they would be included in the top 5 albums of all time.

1. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

2. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

3. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

4. Gang of Four - Entertainment!

5. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace

amen for moon and antarctica. maybe not best 5 album ever, but top 5 indie album ever. definately a great original sound to it. oh, how they have fallen.

glad to see this thread is still generatin' debatin.'

here, friends, is PeePee-Soaked Heckhole's appendix to "The 5 Best Albums........Ever," and it contains music you should all run out and listen to if you like good music (just doing my part to prevent a generation from listening to shite like Limp Bizkit, Ashlee Simpson, or Linkin Park):

10cc- greatest

Al Green -greatest

The Avalanches- Since I Left You

Badly Drawn Boy- Hour of the Bewilderbeast

The Band- any of several

The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds

*****Brian Wilson- Smile*****

The Beatles- listen to it all, but especially Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road

Beck- Midnite Vultures, Sea Change

Ben Folds Five- eponymous, Whatever and Ever Amen

Big Star- #1 Record/Radio City

Blur-13

Bob Dylan- listen to it all, but especially Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, New Morning

Built to Spill- There's Nothing Wrong with Love, Keep it Like a Secret, Perfect from Now On

Coldplay- Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head

The Cure- Disintegration, Galore

Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions- Anthology

D'angelo- Brown Sugar

David Bowie- any of several

David Gray- White Ladder

Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticsim

Dismemberment Plan- Emergency and I

Dogs Die in Hot Cars- Please Describe Yourself

Echo and the Bunnymen- SOngs to Learn and Sing

Eels- Electroshock Blues

The Faces- good boys...while they're asleep

The Flaming Lips- Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

George Harrison- All Things Must Pass, Brainwashed

Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump

Gypsy Kings- Hits

Nilsson- greatest

The Jayhawks- Rainy Day Music

Jeff Buckley- Grace

John Lennon- several, incl. Imagine

Led Zeppelin-listen to all, especially I-IV, Physical Graffiti

Marvin Gaye- WHat's goin' On, greatest

The Microphones- The Glow pt. 2

Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica, This Is a Long Drive (the new one sucks)

My Morning Jacket- It Still Moves

Neil Young- many, especially After the Goldrush, Harvest

Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane over the Sea

Nick Drake- Pink Moon or greatest

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You were Here

The Police- greatest

Postal Service- Give Up

REM- Automatic for the People

Radiohead- The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A

The Rolling Stones- many

Ron Sexsmith- several

Roy Orbison- greatest

The Roots- Phrenology

Sea and Cake- Oui

The Shins- Oh Inverted World, Chutes too Narrow

The Smiths- singles, several albums

The Streets- A Grand dont come for Free

Squeeze- Singles 45's & Under

Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever

U2- listen to it all, especially Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa

Van Morrison- listen to it all, esp. Astral Weeks, Moondance, The Healing Game, Poetic Champions Compose

The Verve- A Northern Soul, Urban Hymns

Weezer- blue, Pinkerton

The White Stripes- White Blood Cells, Elephant

The WHo- Who's Next

Wilco- Being There (disc 1), Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

sure, I left out alot, but these are all pretty dang good. check em out and enjoy.

sincerely,

PeePee-Soaked Heckhole

goober returns with his top 10 classic rock favs of all-time, ones that click instantly and never let down.

1. Who's Next, The Who

2. Frampton Comes Alive

3. Quadrophenia, The Who

4. Automatic for the People, REM

5. Steely Dan, Aja

6. Rush, All the Worlds A Stage

7. UFO, Strangers in the Night

8. The Doors, The Doors

9. Beatles, Sgt. Pepper

10. REM, Document

neutral milk hotel is good. i like some broken social scene.

but the best are in this order..

1.The Who- tommy

2.The Allmen brothers-Eat a peach

3.The beatles- Sargent peppers lonly...

4.Bach for breakfast...(dont ask)

5.The notwist-Neon golden.

The notwist isnt my usual tast in music, but i love this album and it has alot of sentamental value... anyone else heard of them?>

no, but Tommy is a great choice on any list. It is only my 3rd favorite Who album. It was tempting to put 3 in my top 10.

I cannot believe someone put "All the World's a Stage" as one of the top 5 albums ever - it is not even one of Rush's top 5! At least they got mentioned. I saw them live in 2003. It was all good except for "Roll the Bones". Why would they keep playing that horror show after all of these years? Anyway.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Sonic Youth - Dirty

Smiths - Meat is Murder

Radiohead - OK Computer

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

Honorable Mentions:

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

U2 - Unforgetable Fire

Duran Duran - Rio (it is time someone mentioned this album. I bought it in secret when I was 13. This was a great record, even from a male heterosexual perspective)

15 years later, I would just like to amend my OP to change the van Morrison entry from moondance to astral weeks.

Even 15 years ago, that was correct, not sure why I put moondance.

JOSHUA tree is just so good. I've started introducing it to my kids.

I know U2 got uncool and bono became insufferable, but that album is amazing.

Guns N Roses: Appetite For Destruction

Beastie Boys: License To Ill

Nirvana: Unplugged

Dr Dre: The Chronic

Eminem: Marshall Mathers LP

Alan

Fifteen years later. The Joshua Tree is the only album on the OP list even worthy of consideration for Top 5 albums of all time.

Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips? This was not serious.