Rank albums by ________

[CanadianGuitarist]

Using the Garage/S&M criteria:

 

1. Master of Puppets

2. ...And Justice For All

3. Ride The Lightning

4. Black Album

5. Kill 'Em All

6. Load

7. Re-Load

8. St. Anger

 

The Tragically Hip: (no Live Through This or Yer Favourites)

 

1) Fully Completely

2) Up To Here

3) Road Apples

4) Day For Night

5) Phantom Power

6) In Violet Light

7) Music at Work

8) Trouble at the Henhouse

9) In Between Evolution

10) World Container

11) Tragically Hip

[CanadianChris]

My Tragically Hip ranking:

 

1. Day For Night

2. Fully Completely

3. Up To Here

4. Phantom Power

5. Road Apples

6. Music@Work

7. Trouble At The Henhouse

8. In Violet Light

9. In Between Evolution

10. World Container

11. Tragically Hip EP

 

U2:

 

1. Achtung Baby

2. The Joshua Tree

3. Boy

4. All That You Can't Leave Behind

5. The Unforgettable Fire

6. Rattle & Hum

7. War

8. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

9. October

10. Pop

11. Zooropa

[CanadianGuitarist]

Good to see you're on my side with the Fully Completely/Up To Here. Two of my friends and I have been arguing that for about six years, and my ex (coincidence) took their side.

[King Kamala]

Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five

 

1 The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

2 Whatever and Ever Amen

3 Rockin' the Suburbs

4 Ben Folds Five

5 Naked Baby Photos

6 Songs for Silverman

What was I on? That's all wrong. I've gone really sour on Reinhold Messner since last year.

1. Whatever and Ever Amen

2. Ben Folds Five

3. Rockin' the Suburbs

4. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

5. Supersunnyspeedgraphic

6. Naked Baby Photos

7. Songs for Silverman

 

Almost exactly the same as mine

 

I'd rank it

 

1. Ben Folds Five

2. Whatever and Ever Amen

3 Rockin' The Suburbs

4. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

5. Supersunnyspeedgraphic

6. Naked Baby Photos (If yout take off the annoying joke filler, this would be #5 easy)

7. Songs for Silverman

8. Fear of Pop Vol. 1 (Didn't really get this one at all but I only listened to it once a couple years back. Folds attempt at an experimental album. "In Love", his first collaboration with Shatner is actually one of the better Folds-Shatner tracks though)

 

Guster

1. Lost and Gone Forever

2. Keep It Together

3. Ganging Up On The Sun

4. Goldfly

5. Parachute

 

Fountains of Wayne

1. Self titled

2. Welcome Interstate Mangers

3. Utopia Parkway

4. Traffic and Weather

5. Out of State Plates

 

[CanadianChris]

Good to see you're on my side with the Fully Completely/Up To Here. Two of my friends and I have been arguing that for about six years, and my ex (coincidence) took their side.

 

I really don't think it's close. Up To Here may be more radio-friendly, so you hear the songs more often, but the band hit its peak with Fully Completely and Day For Night. In fact, looking at it again, I'd probably put Phantom Power ahead of Up To Here, too.

[Smartly Pretty]

The White Stripes

 

White Blood Cells

Elephant

De Stijl

Icky Thump (though I'm liking it more every time I listen)

The White Stripes

Get Behind Me Satan

[vivalaultra]

My White Stripes:

 

'De Stijl'

'White Blood Cells'

'Icky Thump'

'The White Stripes'

'Elephant'

'Get Behind Me Satan'

 

The Flaming Lips (minus 'Zaireeeeeeeeeeka!!!!!')

 

'The Soft Bulletin'

'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'

'Transmissions from the Satellite Heart'

'Clouds Taste Metallic'

'In a Priest Driven Ambulance'

'At War With the Mystics'

'Hit to Death in the Future Head'

'Oh My Gawd!!!!'

'Telepathic Surgery'

'Hear It Is'

'The Flaming Lips'

 

 

[Red Baron]

Tool:

 

Opiate

Lateralus

Aenima

Undertow

10,000 Days

 

The Tragically Hip:

 

Fully Completly

Phantom Power

Day For Night

Road Apples

Up To Here

World Container

Music @ Work

In Violet Light

Trouble At The Henhouse

In Bewteen Evolution

The Tragically Hip

[CanadianGuitarist]

Tool:

 

Opiate

Lateralus

Aenima

Undertow

10,000 Days

 

What? Aenima is my favourite cd of all time, anywhere. My picks:

 

Aenima

Lateralus

Undertow

10,000 Days

Opiate

 

[Cheech Tremendous]

Tool:

 

Aenima

Lateralus

10,000 Days

Undertow

Opiate

[Henry Spencer]

Guided By Voices

 

1. Bee Thousand

2. Under The Bushes, Under The Stars

3. Propeller

4. Alien Lanes

5. Half Smiles Of The Decomposed

6. Earthquake Glue

7. Do The Collapse

8. Same Place The Fly Got Smashed

9. Universal Truths & Cycles

10. Vampire On Titus

11. Isolation Drills

12. Mag Earwhig!

13. Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia

14. Sandbox

15. Devil Between My Toes

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Gene, did you ever get a chance to take White Light / White Heat for a spin?

 

I have, actually. I like it best out of all of the VU I've heard, but I've completely given up on really enjoying that band. I acknowledge some great ideas they had, but their approach and execution just doesn't appeal to me whatsoever.

[Guest Pizza Hut's Game Face]

Springsteen that I have:

 

1. The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle

2. Born to Run

3. Nebraska

4. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

5. Darkness on the Edge of Town

6. The Rising

*"Streets of Philadelphia" is better than anything on

7. Born in the U.S.A.

8. Magic

[AntiLeaf33]

Tool:

 

Aenima

Opiate

Undertow

10,000 Days

Lateralus

 

Though it wasn't really easy to rank the albums since I really don't consider any album as being "bad"

 

Metallica

 

Master of Puppets

Kill Em All

Black Album

Ride the Lightning

..And Justice for All

Load

Re-Load

St. Anger

[Corey_Lazarus]

I like how just about every Metallica listing has St. Anger as their worst, and it got so much hype heading into it as being "brutal" and "a return to old-school Metallica." I remember reading a preview of it being "like old Sepultura." And we got ReLoad in downtuned guitars with Lars hitting coffee cans.

[Steviekick]

Dark Tranquillity (not counting there EPs and such)...

 

1. Haven

2. Character

3. Projecter

4. Fiction

5. Damage Done

6. The Mind's Eye

7. The Gallery

7. Skydancer

[Ravenbomb]

I don't think I could rank Tom Waits' albums as a whole list, but I know Closing Time would be #1 and Swordfishtrombones would be #2.

 

 

Patton-era Faith No More:

 

1. Angel Dust

2. King For a Day, Fool for a Lifetime

3. The Real Thing

4. Album of the Year

[Nighthawk]

So I listened to all the Clash albums recently, and I realized that aside from not even really liking Cut the Crap, my preference is mostly in reverse chronological order. Sandinista! and Combat Rock sort of share the top spot. I suppose that's good for the band, getting better as time went on. I guess most would disagree, though.

 

Were I to do a Tom Waits list, it would be extremely weird, but I'd say probably Bone Machine is number one.

[King Kamala]

Michael Jackson (Excluding Invincible since I haven't heard it and his early Jackson 5 era stuff- since it's basically Jackson 5 with different backing singers)

 

1. Thriller

2. Off The Wall

3. Dangerous

4. Bad

5. History

 

The only semi-controversial part of the list is probably ranking Dangerous over Bad. I think the highpoints of Bad are better than Dangerous but Dangerous is a bit more consistant as a whole. There's some real shit on both albums but I think there's less on Dangerous.

[PLAGIARISM!]

I love Alice, but it'd be hard to look past Rain Dogs on my Waits-ting list. It's so fucking good.

[At Home]

Modest Mouse:

 

1. The Moon & Antarctica

2. We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

3. Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks

4. This Is A Long Drive For Something With Nothing To Think About

5. Good News For People Who Love Bad News

6. Building Nothing Out Of Something

7. The Lonesome Crowded West

 

 

Decemberists:

1. Her Majesty The Decemberists

2. Castaways and Cutouts

3. Picaresque

4. The Crane Wife

 

 

 

Minus The Bear:

1. Planet of Ice

2. Menos El Oso

3. Highly Refined Pirates

4. They Make Beer Commercials Like This

 

[Giuseppe Zangara]

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

Now I'd switch around For Your Pleasure and Stranded. Other than that, the list stays the same.

[Guest Pizza Hut's Game Face]

I think my Springsteen ranking is infallible, by the way.

 

Steely Dan

1. Pretzel Logic

2. Can't Buy a Thrill

3. Countdown to Ecstasy

4. The Nightfly (Donald Fagen)

5. Katy Lied

6. Aja

big dropoff

7. Gaucho

8. The Royal Scam

9. Two Against Nature

[Mik]

Ryan Adams:

 

1. Gold

2. Heartbreaker

3. Cold Roses

4. Easy Tiger

5. Follow the Lights EP

6. Demolition

7. Rock N' Roll

8. Jacksonville City Nights

9. Love is Hell

10. 29

[Edwin MacPhisto]

Czech, I can't believe you actually listened to 9 Steely Dan albums. Yuck.

[Hank Kingsley]

Ryan Adams:

 

1. Cold Roses

2. Gold

3. Easy Tiger

4. Jacksonville City Nights

5. Heartbreaker

6. Follow the Lights

7. Love is Hell

8. 29

9. Demolition

(the only one I haven't heard is Rock n Roll)

 

Have you checked out archive.org, by the way? There are a ton of live Ryan Adams concert recordings. I got to relive seeing him back in September in Charlottesville, with the epic swell that was "I See Monsters."

[AboveAverage484]

Springsteen that I have:

 

1. The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle

2. Born to Run

3. Nebraska

4. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

5. Darkness on the Edge of Town

6. The Rising

*"Streets of Philadelphia" is better than anything on

7. Born in the U.S.A.

8. Magic

 

 

Here's mine, tweaked somewhat from the last time I posted it:

 

1. BTR

2. Darkness

3. Wild, Innocent...

4. Greetings

5. BITUSA

6. River

7. Rising

8. Tunnel of Love

9. Nebraska

10. Devils and Dust

11. Magic

12. Lucky Town

13. Tom Joad

14. Human Touch

 

I know you'll give me flak for having Nebraska so low, but I think there's only one truly classic cut on the disc, "Atlantic City," while there are several songs that have never really done anything for me; the title song, "Mansion on the Hill," "State Trooper," "Used Cars," "My Father's House."

 

BITUSA gets a bad rap, but I don't really know why, overexposure maybe, or is it emphasis on singles? The album tracks are great, "No Surrender" is a near classic, while "Downbound Train" isn't far behind. "Bobby Jean" is great too, and once you get over the "I don't like the hits stage" with stuff like "Dancing," the title track, and "Glory Days," you realize they're better than you initially gave them credit for. I loved them when I first got into Bruce, then hated them, now I've re-embraced them, especially after hearing them on live boots, where they are ten times better than their studio counterparts, ESPECIALLY "Dancing."

 

Czech, have you heard any of the "River?" You probably wouldn't dig it too terribly much, since it's a cross between "Darkness" and "BITUSA" and you have them both pretty low, with Darkness almost criminally so. To each their own, though. I can hook you up with some boots too, if you're interested, since hearing him in studio is only half the story.

[Guest Pizza Hut's Game Face]

The River: I'm just not ready for double-album Springsteen. I'll get it in April.

 

Born in the U.S.A. is awful because that's when Springsteen became the "working class hero" cartoon character and moved away from the boardwalk jazz and mile-a-minute storytelling, which I feel is the most fascinating phase of his career, both lyrically and musically. The overreliance on synths is dated, not to mention ill-advised when you have the E Street Band in tow. The singles are awful: "Dancing in the Dark" is wretched, "Glory Days" sounds hokey and stiff, and I'd be happy if I never heard the title track ever again. I like "I'm on Fire."

 

As for Darkness on the Edge of Town, it's pretty good, but I must've come in with unreasonable expectations or something, because as much as I enjoyed it, the whole thing sorta left me waiting for more. I love "Badlands" and "The Promised Land," but I can't say it's better than The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle because there just isn't enough there. I mean, that one is loaded.

[PLAGIARISM!]

Man, I love Born In the USA, but I guess my perspective is different.

[AboveAverage484]

Man, I love Born In the USA, but I guess my perspective is different.

 

When done acoustically, the title track is amazing. He actually did it that way initially for the Nebraska album, but later "electrified" it and put it on BITUSA. Czech, you should check (no pun intended) out that version, it's on the Tracks box set. "Dancing in the Dark" from the Rising tour is lots of fun, he makes it more guitar oriented and leaves out much of the keyboards that make the studio version sound so dated today. In fact, almost every song off of that album is done better live.