Rank albums by ________

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Pick any artist. List all their albums in preferential order. Or however many you feel comfortable ranking, based on the criteria of your choosing. I only started this thread because I wanted to make the first list of this post:

 

Roxy Music: the studio albums

 

1. Avalon

2. Siren

3. Country Life

4. Stranded

5. For Your Pleasure

6. s/t

7. Manifesto

8. Flesh + Blood

 

Brian Eno's "pop" albums from the 70s

 

1. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

2. Here Come the Warm Jets

3. Before and After Science

4. Another Green World

 

Talking Heads: the studio albums

 

1. Fear of Music

2. More Songs About Music and Food

3. Talking Heads: 77

4. Little Creatures

5. Speaking in Tongues

6. Remain in Light

7. True Stories

8. Naked

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Prince, the pretty much impeccable '80-'87 run:

 

1. Sign o' the Times

2. Purple Rain

3. Dirty Mind

4. 1999

5. Around the World in a Day

6. Parade

7. Controversy

 

Wu-Tang solo albums I've had occasion to hear:

 

1. GZA, Liquid Swords

2. Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

3. ODB, Return to the 36 Chambers

4. Ghostface Killah, Iron Man

5. Ghostface Killah, Fishscale

6. Ghostface Killah, Pretty Toney Album

7. GZA, GrandMasters

99. Shitty albums by Method Man

 

And yes, there are lots of gaps in there. I burn out on their solo stuff from time to time and it takes me a while to get back into it.

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Sevendust:

1. Home

2. Animosity

3. Next

4. Seasons

5. Sevendust

6. Southside Double Wide

[snuffbox 0]

Jeff Buckley

1.Grace

2.Live at Sin-e

3.Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

4.Mystery White Boy

5.Grace tenth year anniversary bonuc disc

[Annabelle 0]

daft punk

 

1. discovery

2. homework

3. alive 97

4. human after all

5. daft club

 

bob dylan

 

1. blonde on blonde

2. bringing it all back home

3. highway 61

4. freewheelin'

5. blood on the tracks

6. john wesley harding

7. times are achangin

8. self portrait

 

nas

 

1. illmatic

2. it was written

3. stillmatic

4. streets disciple

5. gods son

 

miles davis

 

1. jack johnson

2. get up with it

3. on the corner

4. sketches of spain

5. in a silent way

6. bitches bew

7. kind of blue

8. porgy & bess

9. filles de kilamangero

[Murmuring Beast 0]

Doors

 

1. The Doors

2. LA Woman

3. Strange Days

4. Waiting For The Sun

5. Morrison Hotel

6. Soft Parade

 

Velvets

 

1. Velvet Underground & Nico

2. Loaded

3. Velvet Underground

4. White Light/White Heat

5. Squeeze (LOL)

 

REM

 

1. Murmur

2. Pageant

3. Automatic

4. New Adventures

5. Reckoning

6. Document

7. Fables

8. Green

9. Out of Time

10. Reveal

11. Up

12. Monster

13. Around The Sun

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Prince, the pretty much impeccable '80-'87 run:

 

1. Sign o' the Times

2. Purple Rain

 

Easy there buddy.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Pink Floyd post Barret pre DSOTM

 

1.) Meddle

2.) A Saucerful of Secrets

3.) Obscured by Clouds

4.) Atom Heart Mother

5.) Ummagumma

6.) More

7.) Relics

[godthedog 0]

the lucinda williams albums that i've heard:

 

1. car wheels on a gravel road

2. sweet old world

3. world without tears

 

 

pearl jam:

 

1. no code

2. ten

3. vitalogy

4. pearl jam

5. binaural

6. yield

7. riot act

 

 

some van morrison:

 

1. tupelo honey

2. astral weeks

3. moondance

[spiny norman 0]

Top thirteen Elvis Costello albums:

 

1. This Year's Model

2. Imperial Bedroom

3. My Aim Is True

4. King of America

5. Trust

6. Armed Forces

7. Get Happy!!!

8. Spike

9. Blood and Chocolate

10. Punch the Clock

11. When I Was Cruel

12. Painted from Memory

13. Brutal Youth

[Henry Spencer 0]

My Costello take:

 

1. This Year's Model

2. Get Happy!

3. Trust

4. My Aim Is True

5. Armed Forces

6. Imperial Bedroom

7. When I Was Cruel

 

From what I've heard, at least.

[Henry Spencer 0]

EDIT: Geh.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I like this concept.

 

Shadows Fall

1. The War Within

Say what you will, but the flow between songs is the best they've ever done as just when you think there's a lowpoint the next song burts into your head. It closes with "Those Who Cannot Speak," which feels like it should be a few minutes longer (that epic feel, you know), and a lot of the songs most people know by them are on this one. "What Drives The Weak," "Inspiration on Demand," "Enlightened by the Cold," "The Power of I and I" (which has one of my favorite drum rolls in metal history)...all here.

2. Of One Blood

Their major label debut back in 2000. The first album with Brian on vocals, and though his singing isn't as good as Phil's, it fits the music better in an odd way. The first half of the album is just BAM-BAM-BAM: heavy, fast, melodic, and catchy. The first three songs are anthems through-and-through, whereas the latter half of the album slumps. "To Ashes" and "Serenity" make the last three tracks worthwhile (in all honesty, I don't even remember what track 9 is, since those two are tracks 8 and 10 respectively), so definitely a good debut for the local heroes.

3. Somber Eyes to the Sky

Perhaps their most METAL album. Almost all of the songs on this one sound as though In Flame or another Gothenburg band were recording them, and the poor production doesn't hide any of Jon or Matt's talent. The instrumental, "Lead Me Home," is one I used to have people listen to when they thought that Shadows Fall was just another one of those "scream into the mic and play fast" metal bands. It's just beautiful music through-and-through. The original version of "To Ashes" is on here, and though I feel the Of One Blood version is better, this one's still worth listening to. "Somber Angel" and "Suffer The Season" are good, solid metal tracks, and "Pure" is just such a good song that it's almost impossible to not love it. "Revel in My Loss," another song that was redone for Of One Blood, sounds better on this disc than on the major label debut, and that's because Phil's voice fit the flow of the music better than Brian's did.

4. The Art of Balance

Doesn't hold up well at all after repeated listens. "Idle Hands" is basically just a generic metalcore version of Metallica's "Battery," and though "Thoughts Without Words" was overplayed on metal shows all the time it's still a damn decent track. I dig the title track and "A Fire in Babylon," as well as the two instrumentals, "Casting Shade" and "Prelude to Disaster," and "Stepping Outside the Circle" is a goodie. The whole album just seems a little overproduced and simple, though, which was the complete opposite of what Somber and Of One Blood were.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Prince, the pretty much impeccable '80-'87 run:

 

1. Sign o' the Times

2. Purple Rain

3. Dirty Mind

4. 1999

5. Around the World in a Day

6. Parade

7. Controversy

 

1. 1999

2. Sign o' the Times

3. Dirty Mind

4. Purple Rain

5. Parade

6. Around the World in a Day

7. Controversy

[Henry Spencer 0]

1. Purple Rain

2. Around The World In A Day

3. Dirty Mind

4. Sign O' The Times

5. 1999

6. Parade

7. Controversy

 

I like Around The World In A Day more than most Prince fans, I've found.

[Darthtiki 0]

Garbage:

 

Garbage

Version 2.0

Bleed Like Me

BeautifulGarbage

 

Social Distortion:

 

Live at the Roxy

Social Distortion

White Light, White Heat, White Trash

Sex Love and Rock N Roll

Mommy's Little Monster

Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell

Prison Bound

Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past

 

 

No Doubt:

 

Tragic Kingdom

Return of Saturn

Beacon Street Collection

Rocksteady

No Doubt

[Guest step up, ghetto blaster.]

99. Shitty albums by Method Man

 

 

how do we feel about Tical.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Prince, the pretty much impeccable '80-'87 run:

 

1. Sign o' the Times

2. Purple Rain

 

Easy there buddy.

The top four are nearly interchangeable, but Sign o' the Times is probably my favorite album ever.

 

Outkast:

 

1. Aquemini

2. Stankonia

3. ATLiens

4. Speakerboxxx

5. The Love Below

6. Southernplayalisticadillacmusik

[UZI Suicide 0]

Red Hot Chili Peppers:

 

1.) Blood Sugar Sex Magik

2.) Stadium Arcadium

3.) Californication

4.) Freaky Styley

5.) Mother's Milk

6.) By The Way

7.) The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

8.) One Hot Minute

9.) Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

Guns N' Roses:

 

1.) Appetite for Destruction

2.) Use Your Illusion II

3.) GN'R Lies

4.) Use Your Illusion I

5.) The Spaghetti Incident?

 

Nine Inch Nails:

 

1.) The Downward Spiral

2.) The Fragile

3.) Pretty Hate Machine

4.) With Teeth

5.) Broken

[Guest Felonies!]

U2

01 War

02 The Joshua Tree

03 Achtung Baby

04 The Unforgettable Fire

05 Rattle & Hum

06 Boy

07 October

08 Passengers OS1

09 Zooropa

10 All That You Can't Leave Behind

11 How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

12 Pop

 

Wilco

1 Yankee Hotel Foxtrott

2 Summerteeth

T3 A Ghost Is Born

T3 Being There

 

Radiohead

1 Kid A

2 OK Computer

3 The Bends

4 Amnesiac

5 Hail to the Thief

6 Pablo Honey

 

Can

1 Tago Mago

2 Ege Bamyasi

3 Monster Movie

4 Future Days

5 Soon Over Babaluma

 

Pink Floyd

01 Wish You Were Here

02 The Dark Side Of The Moon

03 Animals

04 Meddle

05 Obscured By Clouds

06 Atom Heart Mother

07 The Wall

08 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

09 The Division Bell

10 Music From The Motion Picture More

11 Ummagumma

12 A Saucerful Of Secrets

13 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

14 The Final Cut

 

Pink Floyd Album Covers

01 Animals - I think the Battersea picture is the coolest-looking, even though doesn't have the mall culture iconicness of

02 DSOTM - out of necessity. And I guess it is cool in a minimalist way.

03 Wish You Were Here - Both the burning handshake and the alternate "4 elements" art are great

04 The Division Bell - Perfect way of visualizing a communication gap that, with any luck, can someday be bridged.

05 Atom Heart Mother - It's a cow

06 AMLOR: I respect them for physically putting all the beds on the beach. too bad it's not significant to the music

07 Ummagumma - I mark for infinite regression

08 The Final Cut - fits the music really well, but the music doesn't fit my ears. See what I did there?

09 The Wall - again, iconic but not as visually exciting, but also not as iconic as DSOTM so as to warrant an inordinately high slot

10 More - Bland psychedelic picture.

11 Meddle - it's not really much of anything.

12 Obscured By Clouds - ' '

13 Saucerful of Secrets - at first glance it always just looks like someone puked on a puddle of motor oil and rainwater. Half-assed psychedelic crap.

14 Piper at the Gates - It's a band portrait, so automatic last place

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

pearl jam:

 

1. no code

2. ten

3. vitalogy

4. pearl jam

5. binaural

6. yield

7. riot act

Hey, where'd Vs. go?

 

1. Ten

2. Vs.

3. Pearl Jam

4. No Code

5. Vitalogy

6. Riot Act

7. Yield

8. Binaural

[skullman80 0]

Metallica:

 

1. Master of Puppets

2. And Justice For All

3. Ride The Lightning

4. Kill Em All

5. Load

6. Black Album

7. Reload

8. St. Anger

 

(I didn't count Garage Days revisited/Garage Inc. or S&M, just strictly original material/non-live albums)

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

 

1. Henry's Dream

2. Let Love In

3. Tender Prey

4. From Her To Eternity

5. Abbatoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus

6. Boatman's Call

7. Kicking Against The Pricks

8. Murder Ballads

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Nirvana:

1. In Utero

2. Unplugged in New York

3. From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah

4. Nevermind

5. Bleach

6. Incesticide

 

Tom Waits:

1. Swordfishtrombones

2. Rain Dogs

3. Bone Machine

4. Mule Variations

5. Frank's Wild Years

6. Small Change

7. Alice

8. Blood Money

9. Closing Time

10. Heartattack and Vine

 

Nine Inch Nails:

1. The Downward Spiral

2. With Teeth

3. Further Down The Spiral

4. Broken

5. Pretty Hate Machine

6. Disc 2 ("Quiet") from And All That Could Have Been

7. The Fragile

8. Things Falling Apart

[Guest Felonies!]

Tom Waits

01 Rain Dogs

02 Swordfishtrombones

03 Alice

04 Bone Machine

05 Frank's Wild Years

06 Small Change

07 Nighthawks at the Diner

08 Closing Time

09 Heartattack and Vine

10 Real Gone

11 Blood Money

12 The Heart of Saturday Night

13 The Black Rider

14 Mule Variations

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Wilco

 

1. Being There

2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

3. Summerteeth

4. AM

5. A Ghost is Born

 

I'd do a Tom Waits list, but, with a couple of exceptions, I haven't listened to the 70s stuff in so long that I do not feel comfortable ranking them. Maybe I'll make it a project over the next week or so.

[tominator89 0]

Metallica:

 

1. Master of Puppets

2. And Justice For All

3. Ride The Lightning

4. Kill Em All

5. Load

6. Black Album

7. Reload

8. St. Anger

 

(I didn't count Garage Days revisited/Garage Inc. or S&M, just strictly original material/non-live albums)

 

I'd go

 

1. Master of Puppets

2. Ride The Lightning

3. Kill 'Em All

4. ...And Justice For All

5. Black Album

6. Re-Load

7. Load

8. St. Anger

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Neil Young

1. Tonights The Night

2. Rust Never Sleeps

3. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

4.Harvest

5. Freedom

6.After the Goldrush

7.Greendale

8.Zuma

9.Silver & Gold

10.American Stars & Bars

11. Comes a Time

12.Prairies Wind

13.S/T

[Guest Felonies!]

Wilco

 

1. Being There

2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

3. Summerteeth

4. AM

5. A Ghost is Born

What is it that I don't like about AGIB? I can't tell what it is, but I just don't enjoy it as much as the others. Is it the soloing? I usually like solos. Weird.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

 

99. Shitty albums by Method Man

 

 

how do we feel about Tical.

Tical is actually a perfectly fine album. I just don't like it--or Method Man--as much as any other Wu-Tang guy's work, really, so I kinda disregard him. I haven't listened to it in forever.

 

What is it that I don't like about AGIB? I can't tell what it is, but I just don't enjoy it as much as the others. Is it the soloing? I usually like solos. Weird.

It's not as catchy. Not as thoroughly interesting as its predecessor. Jay Bennett might be a bit of a headcase, but I missed him on this. However, I will say that A Ghost is Born sounds great live. I was way impressed with "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" and "Hummingbird" in particular; the latter became one of my favorite Wilco songs after I saw them. "Theologians" also gets a lot more bounce and sounds like it could have snuck onto Being There quite nicely.