Ten Best Albums

[Hereford Wolf]

This is something that I have been roped into on Facebook but I thought we could have a go on here.

Choose 10 albums that greatly influenced your taste in music. No explanations, no reviews.
And in No Particular Order!!

Led Zeppelin 2
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Jam - In The City
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
REM - Automatic For The People
The National - Boxer
The Clash - London Calling
The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

AC/DC - Let there be Rock
Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Death - Leprosy
Motorhead - Bomber
Megadeth - Peace Sells...but who's buying?
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

 

[SLA]

Could have been mutliple other tens, but this is what comes to mind this morning...

Pixies - Doolittle
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
The Cure - Disintegration
Mudhoney - Superfuzz BigMuff
Elvis - 20 Golden Hits
The National - Boxer
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
14 Golden Recordings from the Historical Vaults of Vee Jay Records
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers

 

[darlowolf64]

In no particular order...

The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Jam - All Mod Cons
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
The Specials - Specials
Green Day - Dookie
Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
Blondie - Parallel Lines
The Courteeners - St Jude
Pulp - Different Class

So, so many albums I could include but, at a push, these 10 for today

 

[Langers]

This changes every year!

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Clash - London Calling
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Cream - Disraeli Gears
I Am Kloot - Natural History
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Doves - The Last Broadcast

 

[Paul]

Could have done a top 20 quite easily, had to cull albums that should be on there !! ( so sorry Whitesnake Live in the heart of the City )

John Mayalls Bluesbreakers :- The Beano Album
King Crimson :- Discipline
Stevie Wonder :- Hotter than July
Trapeze :- You are the Music Were Just the band
Led Zeppelin :- Presence
Black Sabbaths Greatest Hits ( With the triumph a la morte cover)
Dave Brubeck :- Take 5
Al Di Meola :- Tour de Force Live
The Tubes :- Completion Backwards Principle
Judas Priest :- Killing Machine

 

[Paul]

This changes every year!
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

 

[Tredman]

Not the best perhaps, but those which mean the most to me:

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
One Giant Leap - One Giant Leap
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Bob Dylan - The times they are a-changing
Faithless - Outrosepctive
Mafikizolo - Sibongile
Freshlyground - Nomvula
The Streets - a grand don’t come for free
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Beatles - white album

Probably forgotten loads and will have a totally different list tomorrow.

 

[Nando]

Not my favourties, but those that shaped my music taste.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Metallica - Black Album
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Nas - Illmatic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Tool - Lateralus

 

[nimrod]

the byrds - greatest hits
the velvet underground and nico
buzzcocks - singles going steady
wire - pink flag
bauhaus - 79-83
the chameleons - script of the bridge
sonic youth - sister
this mortal coil - it'll end in tears
soul mining - the the
slint - spiderland

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

The bellow are the 10 most influential albums (that I can think off) that influenced my musical taste, and yes theres a compilation album but it was a tape that started a life long love affair

The Doors - Music from the motion picture
Stone Roses - Self titled
Breeders - Last Splash
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zepplin - II
Sultans of Ping - Multiple Sex in the Cineplex
Velvet Underground & Nico
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams
Rage Against the Machine
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust


Subs bench
Joy Division - unknown pleasures
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Beatles - Revolver
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
The Divine Comedy - Casanova
The Beautiful South - 0898 Beautiful South

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

The bellow are the 10 most influential albums (that I can think off) that influenced my musical taste, and yes theres a compilation album but it was a tape that started a life long love affair

The Doors - Music from the motion picture
Stone Roses - Self titled
Breeders - Last Splash
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zepplin - II
Sultans of Ping - Multiple Sex in the Cineplex
Velvet Underground & Nico
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams
Rage Against the Machine
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust


Subs bench
Joy Division - unknown pleasures
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Thats funny - I'm doing my Top 10 albums on FB and have been considering putting the Doors soundtrack on it too. My Mum had it on tape in the 90's and it eventually became mine as a teenager growing up. Really good soundtrack

 

[arklowolf]

The Jam -All Mod Cons
The Who - Meaty Beaty
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Madness - Absolutely
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
The Beatles - Revolver
The Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
Neil Young - Harvest
Paul Weller - Heliocentric

 

[Pablowolf]

Not my favourties, but those that shaped my music taste.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Metallica - Black Album
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Nas - Illmatic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Tool - Lateralus

More than half of these would be in my top 10.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Thats funny - I'm doing my Top 10 albums on FB and have been considering putting the Doors soundtrack on it too. My Mum had it on tape in the 90's and it eventually became mine as a teenager growing up. Really good soundtrack

My mom certainly wasn't listening to the doors! Its a great album but missing a couple of key songs.

Missed Neil Young, theres so many more that I just don't think that 10s enough!

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

My Mum had a lot of hippy type mates when I was growing up. Friends of hers left tapes of REM, Nirvana, Orbital in the house after parties and I used to copy them. I was exposed to a lot of cool stuff as a kid to be fair

 

[lemonjelly]

I'd struggle to narrow it down to 10 bands! I'll have a think about this later, but like many have said, my top 10 varies depending on the day, week, season, whether I'm peckish...

 

[Paul]

I'd struggle to narrow it down to 10 bands! I'll have a think about this later, but like many have said, my top 10 varies depending on the day, week, season, whether I'm peckish...

I actually felt bad for albums I'd left off. I felt like I should have apologised to The Who Live at Leeds, ELO Out of the Blue, Deep Purple Come Taste the Band etc. etc.

 

[nimrod]

I'd struggle to narrow it down to 10 bands! I'll have a think about this later, but like many have said, my top 10 varies depending on the day, week, season, whether I'm peckish...

isn’t it more ones that influenced your taste rather than favourites. I put the byrds as it got me into jingle jangle guitars but it’s nowhere near a favourite album. it’s still hard thinking about which albums or music set you on a particular path.