Tully316 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Pearl Jam - Ten and Vs. U2 - Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby Counting Crows - August and Everything After REM - Automatic for the People Singles soundtrack Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness G'n R - Appetite for Destruction (quite possibly the greatest rock album of all time) Bruce Springtsteen - Born to Run and Nebraska Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV I think best of's are cop outs, but I like these.... Eagles - Greatest Hits Tom Petty - Greatest Hits Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Shaved Bear Report post Posted August 8, 2003 bruce springsteen - greatest hits metallica - kill em all, ride, master, and justice slayer - abyss, reign in blood wu-tang - 36 chambers thats all i can think of now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spiny norman 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Michael Jackson - History was mentioned, but I have to disagree. This was the biggest artist of the 80s. As a collection of his best songs it is incredibly disappointing. It should have been great, but for every moment of brilliance in there (eg. "The Way You Make Me Feel"), we get a "Bad" or a "Black Or White". Madonna's Immaculate Collection is a much more essential best of. She was the second biggest artist of the 80s. And unlike Michael Jackson the songs she had on the album were much more representative of her talent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hogan Made Wrestling 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti The best Zeppelin album, this one also ranges across practically every style that Zeppelin used: blues rock, eastern music, soft instrumentals, southern rock, you name it. No Zeppelin album is more representative of the band and their musical contributions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anorak 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Generally regarded as 'Classics' The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? REM - Automatic For The People Beach Boys - Pet Sounds More personal taste favourites, not a definitive favourite albums list or anything but a few of my essentials. Uncle Tupelo -Anodyne/March 16-20 1992 Wilco - Being There The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith Eels - Electro-Shock Blues (that poster was right the other day in the gig review thread = just get the first 2 albums) Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - For the native tongue wacky early stuff 20: EP's/Singles 94-96 , The Blue Trees EP for the folkiest and most low key later stuff and Barafundle for the most deliberate mix of the two. Blur - Best Of IMO their only album free of filler, my favourite singles band of the 90's. Anybody into 90's Ska bands should at least get a singles collection of Madness & The Specials and anybody willing to admit a fondness for 90's melodic punk should get early-mid 90's Lookout records stuff like Green Days' Kerplunk! , Screeching Weasal, Mr T Experience & The Queers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sandman9000 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Nas - Illmatic PE - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godthedog 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? no. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DARRYLXWF 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? no. Why not? There are plenty of bands out there with a great collection of songs, but which are scattered throughout dozens of shitty albums. I'd recommend a best-of KISS over any of their albums ANY day (that includes destroyer). Same goes for a band I'm ashamed to like, the Moody Blues, and I don't doubt the same can be said for many other bands aswell. EDIT: And I'm aware that this is an essential albums thread, but I think best-ofs should be included regardless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HellSpawn 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 My $0.02 AC/DC: Back in Black & Live Deluxe (1991+-) Beatles: Sgt. Pepper Kiss: Alive I Led Zeppelin: II & IV Whitesnake: 1987 Def Leppard: Hysteria & Pyromania Deep Purple: Machine Head & Made In Japan Iron Maiden: Brave New World & Killers Scorpions: World Wide Live & Blackout Metallica: And Justice For All & Master of Puppets Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? U2: Joshua Tree & Atchung Baby G'n R: Appetite for Destruction Bruce Springtsteen: Born to Run & Nebraska Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon & The Wall REM: Green Slayer: Reign in Blood Clash: London Calling Michael Jackson: Thriller Sepultura: Beneath the Remains Red Hot Chile Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic Queen: A Night at the Opera The Police: Synchronicity (sp?) Pearl Jam: Ten and something from Black Sabath, Ozzy, Marley, Clapton, BB King, Billie Holiday, ELVIS ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godthedog 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 ok, someone explain to me why 'thriller' is more essential than 'off the wall'. and "it sold more" is not an acceptable answer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 ok, someone explain to me why 'thriller' is more essential than 'off the wall'. and "it sold more" is not an acceptable answer. Cause some people like it better. And then again some people like the lesser known album (aka Pinkerton) just cause it's the lesser known one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 ok, someone explain to me why 'thriller' is more essential than 'off the wall'. and "it sold more" is not an acceptable answer. I think everyone needs them both desperately, but I'll do the devil's advocate thing. --*Seven* singles, all of them great songs and incredibly successful with the possible exception of "The Girl Is Mine." I believe "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" is his best song, period. The album is like a greatest hits collection, except that's how it was originally designed, which is remarkable. --More varied than Off the Wall; that album has coherence, but this one has experimentation and fun with sound all over the place. The little vocal asides on "Billie Jean" are something he didn't touch on Off the Wall, and the wild chorale chanting on "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" is more explosively exciting than just about anything on the earlier album. --The great videos. That doesn't actually count, but man, they're awesome. Those are the biggest ones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 Here's another one I think everyone should have, especially though interested in the Ramones. It's not a studio album, but it is my favorite Ramones, probably the best, and a perfectly engineered setlist: It's Alive. Unbelievable, and probably more representative of what they were able to do than the studio. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? no. Why not? There are plenty of bands out there with a great collection of songs, but which are scattered throughout dozens of shitty albums. I'd recommend a best-of KISS over any of their albums ANY day (that includes destroyer). Same goes for a band I'm ashamed to like, the Moody Blues, and I don't doubt the same can be said for many other bands aswell. EDIT: And I'm aware that this is an essential albums thread, but I think best-ofs should be included regardless. You're proud to like Kiss, and ashamed to like the Moody Blues? Kids today, huh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Report post Posted August 9, 2003 Everyone's calling "Automatic for the People" REM's essential album, but I'd have to give that honor to Document. Oh and Clash on Broadway is essential. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 Everyone's calling "Automatic for the People" REM's essential album, but I'd have to give that honor to Document. Oh and Clash on Broadway is essential. Where as I would take Murmur and Reckoning over Doccument. But even the wost REM album is better then the best KISS album Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anorak 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? no. Why not? There are plenty of bands out there with a great collection of songs, but which are scattered throughout dozens of shitty albums. Exactly. There are definately some bands whose Best Of/Greatest Hits represents the sole purchase worth getting with no remotely essential songs they ever recorded missing. Simple. Document is the most overrated REM album by a distance IMO even though its generally regarded as one of their best critically. On the other hand Out Of Time is kind of the complete opposite for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DARRYLXWF 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? no. Why not? There are plenty of bands out there with a great collection of songs, but which are scattered throughout dozens of shitty albums. I'd recommend a best-of KISS over any of their albums ANY day (that includes destroyer). Same goes for a band I'm ashamed to like, the Moody Blues, and I don't doubt the same can be said for many other bands aswell. EDIT: And I'm aware that this is an essential albums thread, but I think best-ofs should be included regardless. You're proud to like Kiss, and ashamed to like the Moody Blues? Kids today, huh? Exactly. Got a problem? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2003 Oh and Clash on Broadway is essential. You would argue this over London Calling? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JangoFett4Hire 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2003 Pixies - Doolittle Van Morrison - Moondance *ANY* Beatles Album Rubber Soul on... Bad Brains - Rock for Light Fugazi - Repeater Simon and Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water U2 - Joshua Tree REM - Monster (Yes, Monster) Whiskeytown - Pnuemonia Sabbath - Vol. 4 Stones - Sticky Fingers Queers - Love Songs for the retarded Who- Who's Next Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes Faith No More- The Real Thing, Angeldust PJ- Ten Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2003 It took 50 posts to realize Who's Next is not on here... anywho... Rush: 2112 Rush: Moving Pictures The Who: Tommy The Who: Quadrophinia Tool: Ænima Alice In Chains: Dirt Alice In Chains: Jar of Flies Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street Pink Floyd: Meddle Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz Dio: Holy Diver Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tragically Hip: Fully Completly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Wood Caulfield 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2003 Public Enemy-Apoclayspe 91 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hogan Made Wrestling 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2003 If any greatest hits album should be considered essential, it's Eagles - Greatest Hits '71 - '75. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry Spencer 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2003 I don't know if any of these have been mentioned already, but, ehh, fuck it. Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedos Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True Elvis Costello - This Year's Model Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks The Ramones - It's Alive The Clash - The Clash (UK Version) The Clash - London Calling The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat The Vevet Underground - The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground - Loaded David Bowie - Heroes My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Pixies - Doolittle Radiohead - OK Computer Radiohead - Kid A Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Report post Posted August 11, 2003 Oh and Clash on Broadway is essential. You would argue this over London Calling? Can't BOTH be essential? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2003 Should greatest hits even be listed? no. Why not? There are plenty of bands out there with a great collection of songs, but which are scattered throughout dozens of shitty albums. I'd recommend a best-of KISS over any of their albums ANY day (that includes destroyer). Same goes for a band I'm ashamed to like, the Moody Blues, and I don't doubt the same can be said for many other bands aswell. EDIT: And I'm aware that this is an essential albums thread, but I think best-ofs should be included regardless. You're proud to like Kiss, and ashamed to like the Moody Blues? Kids today, huh? Exactly. Got a problem? Surely The Moody Blues are more credible than Kiss. Surely anyone is more credible than Kiss... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LaParkaYourCar 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2003 Why are you talking about credibility? The guy just prefers Kiss over The Moody Blues. Personally I think I do too, but I would never say that The Moody Blues sucked, because I don't think they do. I can acknowledge a band's greatness without liking them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2003 Why are you talking about credibility? The guy just prefers Kiss over The Moody Blues. I was replying to his point that he was ashamed to admit he liked The Moody Blues but not Kiss. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godthedog 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2003 Radiohead - Kid A ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
