What are you top ten albums with Prince excluded.

1. Roxy Music / Avalon
2. Bruce Springsteen / Darkness On The Edge Of Town
3. Stevie Wonder / Innervisions
4. Stevie Wonder / Talking Book
5. Joni Mitchell / The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
6. Frank Zappa / Hot Rats
7. Steely Dan / Gaucho
8. David Bowie / Low
9. Donald Fagen / The Nightfly
10. Plush / Fed

1. David Bowie, Low
2. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
3. The Residents, Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
4. OST, Xanadu
5. Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
6. Sonic Youth, Goo
7. Laurie Anderson, Home of the Brave
8. Deee-Lite, Dewdrops in the Garden
9. Hole, Live Through This
10. The Beatles, "the white album"

1. David Bowie, Christiane F
2. David Bowie, Lodger
3. Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
4. Peter Frampton Comes Alive
5. Rush Moving Pictures
6. Aerosmith Toys
7. Queen Live At Wembley
8. The Cars Panorama
9. Steely Dan Aja
10.The Beatles, "the white album"

1. beatles. abbey road
2. radiohead. ok computer
3. kate bush. hounds of love
4. eurythmics. sweet dreams (are made of this)
5. david bowie. aladdin sane
6. bob dylan. highway 61 revisited
7. tori amos. boys for pele
8. the cure. disintegration
9. u2. achtung baby
10. joy division. unknown pleasures

oh crap. i love ok computer. and there should be a kate bush album in my list.

see? this is why i hate making these lists.

David Bowie Aladdin Sane
Madonna Confessions On A Dance Floor
Aerosmith Toys In The Attic
The Fugees The Score
Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope
Mariah Carey Daydream
Tina Turner Wildest Dreams
Michael Jackson Dangerous
Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation
Beck Midnite Vultures

this is just my current list cuz i have no real top 10. my likes change all the time

In No Particular Order:

Christina Aguilera-Stripped
Michael Jackson-Thriller
Tom Waits-Rain Dogs
Tom Waits-Real Gone
Das Parfum (Soundtrack)
Pan's Labyrinth (Soundtrack)
Mariah Carey-Daydream
Amy Winehouse-Back to Black
Tchaikovsky-1812 Overture/Marche Slave
The Pianist (Soundtrack)

No Particular Order

Aaliyah - One In A Million
Vanity 6 - Vanity 6
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Janet Jackson - Velvet Rope
Alicia Keys - Diary of Alicia Keys
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
The Jacksons - Triumph
Lady GaGa - The Fame

In no particular order

1. Michael Jackson, Off The Wall
2. Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland
3. David Bowie, Station to Station
4. Jesse Johnson, Bare My Naked Soul
5. The White Stripes, Elephant
6. Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove
7. Eddie Hazel, Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs
8. Buddy Guy, Live; The Real Deal
9. The Time, What Time Is It? (is this against the rules? )
10. Ernie Isley, High Wire

In no order:

David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Bowie - The rise and fall of ziggy stardust
Bob Dylan - Desire
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs Placebo Syndrom
ZZ Top - Degüello
Daft Punk - Discovery
Aerosmith - Rocks
Pink Floyd - The wall
Suede - Suede
Suede - Coming Up

fingertips said:

Awesome album! I can never choose between Moving Pictures and Signals.

it's very hard to pick but i love these albums so much because they absolutely
feel like albums. not like a bunch of songs, not like a few singles fluffed up
with some filler tracks but like real works of art, start to finish.

i also deliberately chose to stick to fairly recent albums and not let myself
pick any old jazz records (those alone could fill a top 10) or bowie, beatles,
stones, etc etc.

Anxiety said:

i still prefer this thread, since it stretches your choice a bit:

http://prince.org/msg/8/314461

DAMN IT!!!

sea change and savage TOTALLY NEED to be in my top ten.

this thread is making me want a xanax

IstenSzek said:

1 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
2 The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
3 The Fall - Perverted by Language
4 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
5 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
6 Can - Future Days
7 Gene Clark - No Other
8 Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts
9 Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
10 The Fall - Slates

Something like that...John Cale's Paris 1919 used to be my top album, but I've really tired of it in the past few years.
[Edited 8/12/09 16:23pm]

peggy suicide. another one i need to shoehorn into my list.

Anxiety said:

Sorry, I just edited it off because I realized I had to find a home for the Scud Mountain Boys.

damosuzuki said:

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
faith hope love by king's x
Van Halen "Fair Warning"
Stevie Wonder "Songs In The Key Of Life"
David Bowie "Low"
Iggy Pop "The Idiot"
Elvis Costello And The Attractions "Brutal Youth"
Meshuggah "Catch Thirty-Three"
Wire "Chairs Missing"
Nine Inch Nails "Broken"

exenn said:

I love Wire! I'm actually a bigger fan of Pink Flag & 154, but why quibble? All three are stellar.

damosuzuki said:

154 is my 'all is lost' album, and it's great for that. The 15th kind of comes at just the right point in the song sequence.

Pink Flag is fantastic and certainly something the current edition of Wire should harken back to every now and then.

damosuzuki said:

Thought so.

Moonbeam said:

pfft...

at least you didn't drag out your alter out of hiding.

Maxwell-Urban Hang Suite
Mary J Blige-What's The 411
Aaliyah-Aaliyah
Sting-10 Summoner's Tales
Sade-Greatest Hits
Janet-janet
Debarge-In A Special Way
LL Cool J-Mama Said Knock You Out
En Vogue-Born To Sing
Alicia Keys-Songs In A Minor
Christina Aguilera-Stripped
Jodeci-Forever My Lady
Justin Timberlake-FutureSexLoveSounds
TLC-CrazySexyCool
Usher-Confessions

...yeah I know it's more than 10

All-time rank in parentheses:

1. Janet Jackson- Rhythm Nation 1814 (#3)
2. The Cure- Disintegration (#4)
3. Madonna- Like a Prayer (#6)
4. Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (#7)
5. Björk- Vespertine (#8)
6. Madonna- Ray of Light (#9)
7. Eurythmics- 1984: For the Love of Big Brother (#11)
8. The Cure- BloondFlowers (#12)
9. Kylie Minogue- Fever (#13)
10. Annie- Anniemal (#14)

In no order

David Bowie Low
Radiohead OK Computer
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
Radiohead In Rainbows
Norah Jones Come Away With Me
Fiona Apple Tidal
Jimi Hendrix Blues
Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Bonus Rolling Stones Black and Blue

Moonbeam said:

What? No Abbey Road or White Album??

dannyd5050 said:

They couldn't quite make the cut.