Your 5 favorite albums

Paradise Don't Come Cheap is class, it reminds me of my time living in London.

I don't have a 5 favourite albums but this could be them

Albert Ayler - Live at Greenwich Village
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
John Cale - Paris 1919
Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context
Jorge Ben - África Brasil

"also"

^ cheating

Mercyful Fate - Melissa

my man

Slayer - Hell Awaits
Sweeney Todd - Original Broadway Cast Recording w/ Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury
Bad Religion - No Control
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
Death - Symbolic

+minus - a rainy koran verse
marc baron - un salon au fond d'un lac
oren ambarchi/john tilbury - the just reproach
the tuss - rushup edge
autechre - draft 7.30

meh

lucinda williams - s/t
sinead o'connor - i do not want
anita baker - rapture
husker du - zen arcade
slowdive - just for a day

June Christy and Peggy Lee - The Capitol Transcription Sessions
The Other Anthology of American Folk Music
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Talk Talk - London 1986
The Northern Soul Top 500

Just going to post this quickly before I have time to re-think it:

J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 67, 108 & 127 - Karl Richter and Munchener Bach Chor (Teldec)
Louis Armstrong - The Big Band Recordings: 1930-1932 (JSP)
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles The Beatles
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
David Bowie Hunky Dory
Radiohead The Bends

Top 5 Shoegaze albums:

The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Ride - Nowhere
Slowdive - Souvlaki

addison terwilliger - the gaping maw
frostbite centurion - i can haz weed?
and by their smell shall ye know them - copyright expired
cynthia cynthia - nightsoil
vamoose - a tired wee man

Hats - Blue Nile
Rubies - Destroyer
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Stranded - Roxy Music
Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult

Wire - 154
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Chrome - 3rd From the Sun
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray

Top 5 Goth albums:

The Cure - Faith
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Joy Division - Closer
Bauhaus - Mask
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
The Cult - Love

oh shit, that is six. sorry.

this whole thing is silly anyways...

Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island Burn
Frank Sinatra Watertown
Manics The Holy Bible
Tape Luminarium
Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic

Lol @ Noodle; you forgot a certain GC

Stooges, Fun House
Fall, Dragnet
Clean, Compilation
Lee Scratch Perry & the Upsetters, Some of the Best
Madvillain, Madvillainy

Mars - 78
Lemon Kittens - bought a hammer for daddy
Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion - Labor Pains
Negativland - Dispepsi
Radiohead - Collected Speeches of Adolf Hitler Volume 3

archers of loaf, icky mettle
cannonball adderley, mercy mercy mercy
elliott smith, figure 8
afghan whigs, gentlemen
yo la tengo, i can hear the heart beating as one

Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
Mothers of Invention, Uncle Meat
Pauline Oliveros, Crone Music
Jim O'Rourke, Insignificance
Soft Machine, Volume 2

beach house - teen dream
arthur russell - world of echo
the blue nile - hats
hercules and love affair - s/t
george michael - faith

As of right now, channeling straight from the ether...

Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1980)
The Breeders - Pod
Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted, and Black
The Church - Starfish

There are several of these lists that on a different day could be mine, too, with no alteration save maybe one replacement.

sandie shaw -- reviewing the situation
dave brubeck -- time out
the fall -- wonderful & frightening world of the fall
msp -- the holy bible
pj harvey -- stories from the city, stories from the sea

Wow, slow day on ILM.

supertramp - breakfast in america
alan parsons project - eye in the sky
bobby caldwell - cat in the hat
emily king - seven
duncan browne - s/t

happy hunting flappy let us know if anyone managed to turn you onto something new

I lind of like all these lists and could be my own safe from the ones with metal albums. It's not I don't like metal, I don't like it enough for a top 5.

Maybe Black Sabbath Vol. 4 or Master of Reality some days.

Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is...
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
The Cars - s/t
Brian Eno - Another Green World

slint - spiderland
drive like jehu - yank crime
boredoms - super ae
my bloody valentine - loveless
pavement - perfect sound forever

is Hats the only album that's shown up on three separate lists?

oh, Tusk as well

Pop Group Y
Sun Ra Strange Celestial Road
Fat Hit
Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now
Burning Spear Marcus Garvey.

&several others that I don't think of hierarchically as a top 5. May be struggling to include everything in a top 50 too.

The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
The Smiths - The Smiths

Thomas Newman, The Shawshank Redemption Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Thomas Newman, The Green Mile: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists, The Majestic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mark Isham, The Mist - OST
Guy Garvey, Courting The Squall

GOOD LIST

is Hats the only album that's shown up on three separate lists?

― soref, Friday, September 30, 2016 7:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, Tusk as well

― soref, Friday, September 30, 2016 7:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also highway 61

Various - Sorted: 40 Madchester Baggy Anthems
Various - Live Forever: The Best of Britpop
Various - Greatest Ever Indie Anthems: The Definitive Collection
Various - The Best Heavy Metal Album in the World...Ever!
Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will (Original Soundtrack)

white noise an electric storm
sun city girls torch of the mystics
isolée wearemonster
charli xcx true romance
the velvet underground and nico

joni mitchell hejira
kate bush the hounds of love
the blue nile hats
the notorious b.i.g. ready to die
grooverider hardship selection 2

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Nirvana - In Utero

Avalon, Pansoul, On Land, Eskimo, Remain in Light.

^^^^ would kick it with

actually the best thing about this thread is when you look at people's lists and think "okay four of those selections are on point, looks like I need to find out wtf choice 5 is".

It's the debut solo album by the lead singer of elbow

Dennis Elbow

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Pere Ubu - Modern Dance

off the top:

eddie fisher - eddie fisher and he next 100 years
sarah webster fabio - boss soul
grave diggaz - 6 feet deep
alice coltrane - journey in satchidananda
john coltrane - a love supreme

lucinda williams - s/t
sinead o'connor - i do not want
anita baker - rapture
husker du - zen arcade
slowdive - just for a day

― geoffreyess, Friday, September 30, 2016 5:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gr8 list

Can - Tago Mago
Meat Puppets - II
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
Moondog - Moondog (1969)
Boredoms - Super Ae