1.Purple Rain- Prince
2.Ray of Light/Music - Madonna
3.The Downward Spiral/Pretty Hate Machine/With Teeth- Nine Inch Nails
4.The Velvet Rope- Janet Jackson
5.Love.Angel.Music.Baby- Gwen Stefani
6.Mechanical Animals/The Golden Age of Grotesque- Marilyn Manson
7.Hot Fuss- The Killers
8.American Idiot- Green Day
9.Celebrity Skin/Live Through This- Hole
10.Fever- Kylie Minogue
11.Tommyland: The Ride- Tommy Lee
12.O.K. Computer- Radiohead
13.Scissor Sisters- Scissor Sisters
14.Earthling- David Bowie

What's everyone else's?
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this is a though one...

here r mine!

1. David Bowie - Low
2. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
3. Music - Madonna
4. Boys For Pele - Tori Amos
5. Duran Duran - Duran Duran (the first album)
6. Older - George Michael
7. Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
8. Sign 'O' the times - Prince
9. Impossible Princess - Kylie Minogue
10. Lionheart - Kate Bush

This is a bit out of date, but here was my top 200 about 5 months ago.

Albums that would be included in an updated version:
Gorillaz- Demon Days
Patti Smith- Horses
Television- Marquee Moon
Digable Planets- Reachin' (A Refutation of Time and Space)
Franz Ferdinand- You Could Have It So Much Better
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain
The Stooges- Fun House

Moonbeam said:

that one is incredible
!

a real toughy one here..but here we go..

David Bowie-Honky Dory/Aladdin Sane/Diamond Dogs/Station To Station/Low/Young Americans/Outside


Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream/Adore/Pisces Iscariot/Machina:The Machines of God

Christian Death-Only Theatre of Pain/Catastophrne Ballet/Ashes

Rozz Williams-The Whorses Mouth

Shadow Project-Shadow Project

Prince-Dirty Mind/1999/Controversy/Sign O The Times/Lovesexy/Parade

Siouxise And The Banshees-Hyaena/Juju

Patti Smith-Horses

T.rex-Electric Warrior

Gary Numan-Replicas/The Pleasure Principle

Cocteau Twins-Garlands/Treasure

Sex Gang children-the fall

Malice Mizer-Merveiles

Morrissey-Viva Hate!

The Smiths-The Smiths

Cruxshadows-The Mystery Of A Whisper

Kate Bush-The Dreaming/Hounds Of Love/A Kick Inside

Tori Amos-Boys For Pele/Little Earthquakes

Bauhaus-In The Flat Field

Virgin Prunes-If I Die,Then i Die

Bjork-Debut

Skinny Puppy-To Dark Park

Throbbing Gristle-20 Funky Greats

The Sisters Of Mercy-Floodland

others..

weepingwall said:

some great pics there!

MikeMatronik said:

why thank you!....*blushes unrealisticly*

weepingwall said:

Yeah, I've gotta give you some kudos as well - though I think you meant "20 jazz funk greats", right? Unless that's some bootleg of which I'm unaware...

My fave TG album was always Heathen Earth - it was always the perfect soundtrack to our...erm...psychedelic explorations, I guess you'd call it...back when we used to do such things, of course...

I tweaked my list a touch recently...

1) Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
2) John Cale – Paris 1919
3) Wire – Pink Flag
4) The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
5) Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide
6) Love – Forever Changes
7) Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
8) Can – Tago Mago
9) My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
10) John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
11) Grant McLennan – Horsebreaker Star
12) Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
13) Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
14) Television – Marquee Moon
15) Gene Clark – No Other
16) Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
17) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
18) The Fall - Perverted By Language
19) The Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
20) Scott Walker – 4

I'd like to make room for the Fall's Peel Sessions boxed set that came out this year, but I don't want to bump either of the Fall records I already have here, and three Fall records in the top twenty might be a bit much.
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damosuzuki said:

no i meant what you say..see i coudnt at the time remember the name of the album which was weird becuase i was listening to it..wow i could never do my "psychedelic explorations" too throbbing gristle..to freak out..just like that one time i did it with my premature ejaculation album oh lard..was that freaky..but..uh..coil's love spiral downwards is a good album for your psychedelic explorations..
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weepingwall said:

Coil's Love's Secret Domain. Oh, I'm all too familiar with that one - went into 'deep' listening. Good one...

damosuzuki said:

I want to hear this album badly.

damosuzuki said:

I thought most of your favorite albums were by the Beatles.

Moonbeam said:

you're a ghost, la la la

GangstaFam said:

Did I say that? If I did, I must have mangled my message pretty badly - I never really think of the Beatles in terms of complete albums. I just think of them as having this amazing body of work, this amorphous blob of perfect pop that I'll occasionally reach into and pull out a handfull of favourites to savour.

I recently did a list of 200 songs for the Acclaimed Music site (moonbeam's there, I know...), and I put 23 Beatles tracks on my list - but they don't really have albums that I love as complete, distinct entities except for rubber soul.
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1. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
2. John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
3. Patti Smith – Horses
4. Nico – Chelsea Girls
5. Dio – Holy Diver
6. Megadeth – Rust in Peace
7. The Stooges – Stooges
8. Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
9. Anthrax – Among The Living
10. The Last Poets - Last Poets

I tried to find a place for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1st album) just for my favorite song Man on The Silver Mountain.

I don't have Paris 1919, which is a perfect album, but I have at least 2 John Cale produced albums, and throw in Chelsea Girls which he played on.

He killed it on Marble Index though.
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lilgish said:

Any guy who can make room for 'off the wall' and 'the stooges' and 'holy diver' is tops in my book. I actually rented Dio's DVD last weekend - the one from his NY show from 2 or 3 years back...

that stp album just doesn't look at home on that list, though...

damosuzuki said:

For some reason, I thought I remembered you saying that The Beatles were so above and beyond everyone else, that they almost weren't even mentioning in your favorite albums list cuz they'd have all of your top 5. But I could be way off there. Could be the wrong person. Could be the wrong artist. Could be that I dreamt it.

damosuzuki said:

That's a really good pop rock record

The Dio Live concert to get is the 85 spectrum show which is out of print now. From the Last or Scraed Heart Tour. I rarely listen to Dio/Sab/or Rainbow anymore but That album has got to be in the top ten. Didn't know you were such a fan of Marquee Moon. What's your take on Patti Smith? Ever hear her live bootlegs with John Cale, and her boots with Television?

it's available now on Dvd edit.....
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lilgish said:

Oh, I have no business saying anything - I don't even think I've ever heard one of their songs. It just looks a little funny besides everything else on your list



Huge fan of Verlaine's solo work and Marquee Moon - I actually wore out two vinyl copies before I made the switch to CDs in the nineties.

I've never been too much of a Smith follower - I liked the punk part of her persona, but I was less fond of the hippie/poet elements. I certainly love Piss Factory, that's a great recording, and I acknowledge that Horses and Easter are ground-breaking, era-defining works. I've just never been quite that in love with them.

I've never heard any boots either, I'm afraid - I think she did some work with verlaine on a couple of her nineties recordings? I seem to recall her doing letterman at some point with verlaine on guitar in the late nineties...

damosuzuki said:

I truly, honestly tried with Television and really wanted to love them.

I can understand that the guitars are absolutely godlike, but I've never been able to crack TV's voice.

GangstaFam said:

I've definitely made comments to the effect that I believe the Beatles body of work towers over everything that's followed in their wake. That wasn't some kinda Patrick Duffy/Victoria Principal "it was all a dream" delusion on your part.

damosuzuki said:

I know favorite lists are subject to constant change. Might you have listed them as having your Top 5 albums in the recent past?

And good call on the best Stones.

GangstaFam said:

That I can almost guarantee was not me - this list is a slight variation of the one I've posted here and on other sites for about...errr - six months or so, I'd say. It's possible I might have done a list that predated this one - but I still doubt I would front-load it with Beatles albums, and I'm sure you wouldn't remember a post I'd done over half a year ago.

Unless you have a photographic memory.

damosuzuki said:

I've been told that I do. Quite affected by all the chemicals I've ingested though.

Actually, I think you left them out of your list like you did with this one, but qualified it by saying that it wasn't even worth including them cuz they'd be so dominant. But I'm probably thinking of someone else.

damosuzuki said:

The Piss Factory/Hey Joe debut singles are right there with Nico's I'm Not Sayin' and The Last Mile (and I know you don't her luv her ) but Patti's Piss Factory is some next level shit for sure. She's like Dylan meets Iggy to me.

I honestly thought I would see something like Blank Generation on your list before Marquee Moon. I never return to that album, it's seems drawn out to me. It is a definitive record though.
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I'm not good at narrowing this down, so....






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nice

#1 Prince & The Revolution/Parade
#2 Prince/Sign O' The Times
#3 Prince/Dirty Mind
#4 Prince & The Revolution/Purple Rain
#5 David Bowie/"Heroes"
#6 David Bowie/Diamond Dogs
#7 David Bowie/Station To Station
#8 Prince/1999
#9 Prince & The Revolution/Around The World In A Day
#10 Eurythmics/Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
#11 Kate Bush/Hounds Of Love
#12 Tori Amos/Boys For Pele
#13 David Bowie/Hunky Dory
#14 David Bowie/The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
#15 Fleetwood Mac/Rumours
#16 David Bowie/Low
#17 David Bowie/Scary Monsters & Super Creeps
#18 Prince/Controversy
#19 David Bowie/Aladdin Sane
#20 Björk/Vespertine
#21 ABBA/The Album
#22 Tori Amos/Little Earthquakes
#23 U2/Pop
#24 Prince/The Black Album
#25 Beck/Midnite Vultures
#26 Björk/Homogenic
#27 U2/Achtung Baby
#28 Tom Waits/Closing Time
#29 Tori Amos/From The Choirgirl Hotel
#30 Peter Gabriel/So

Cheek said:

I love just about every last one of those.