Top 10 All Time Favourite Albums

d.a.walker · Post by **d.a.walker** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:18 am

Hellooooo....

01. Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
02. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
03. Led Zeppelin - IV
04. The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
05. The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
06. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
07. 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
08. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
09. Saint Etienne - Fox Base Alpha
10. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses

What are your 10 ultimate albums that you could never part with?!?

Post by **alx5962** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:16 am

My top 10 is changing every year so it's hard to tell...
MAybe a top 10 by bands would be more logical for myself.

Post by **RobB** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:56 pm

This is very very difficult....I have literally hundreds and hundreds of albums on cds and cassettes and ....stored away,vinyl records.....I no longer have any idea exactly what I have.
And I won't even begin to consider all those albums that I have heard but have never owned.

So I have come up with a list of six.......six albums which I never tired of hearing. And only two of them is a 'songs' album,.....and one of those is by Stina.

But in order to fill the remaining four places then I would have to pick those four from about fifty other titles, which would be constantly changing anyway.

No Beatles, no Kate Bush, no Pink Floyd.....its that hard a task.

1) 'From Gardens Where We Feel Secure' - Virginia Astley

2) 'This Is Stina Nordenstam' - Stina nordenstam

3) 'Ommadawn' - Mike Oldfield

4) 'Voices' - Roger Eno

5) 'Is-Slotter' - Geir Bohren & Bent Aserud

6) 'La Chanson Bien Douce' - Billy Cowie

All of the above have been played many many times over the years......in the case of 'Ommadawn' for over thirty years.......and I never tire of hearing them.

Post by **sound world** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:19 pm

Very hard for me too,I'm sure I have double what even RobB has.
AND a lot of it is classical,ethnic music,jazz etc,where the concept of an 'album' is less important than the music-eg there are probably 50,000 'albums' of Beethoven's 5th.
Have to have a think about a list.
ASCHE will be on it,though

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aermancer · Post by **aermancer** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:17 pm

alx5962 wrote:My top 10 is changing every year so it's hard to tell...

i feel the same way and i know my mind will be changed in 5 minutes but why not take a stab at it anyway?

In no particular order:

Pram - Gash

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Stina Nordenstam - This Is

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

Magga Stína - An Album

Björk - Medúlla

Anja Garbarek - Balloon Mood

Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears EP

The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

Tori Amos - To Venus And Back

Planningtorock - Have It All

wirbel · Post by **wirbel** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:26 pm

let's give it a try, it's hard to decide and subject to change.

1. Stina Nordenstam - ASCHE
2. Anna Ternheim - Somebody Outside
3. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
4. Enigma - MCMXC a.d.
5. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
6. Marusha - Raveland (good old times hehe

)
7. Tricky - Maxinquaye
8. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an emptys street
9. Tiga - Dj Kicks
10. Electric Kingdom - Elektronische Lieder (actually a compilation but my favourite one in this series)

an album that would be on this list, but which i still don't have is "Smiling & Waving" by Anja Garbarek; and also maybe "Det er Mig'' by Under Byen; but i only have a couple of tracks of these album, which i all love.

aermancer · Post by **aermancer** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:35 am

does Under Byen have a female vocalist?

Post by **Franck** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:58 am

yep !

photo by martin dam kristensen

wirbel · Post by **wirbel** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:05 pm

and she's great to see on stage

but I believe one of the other girls is singing too (backing vocals)...

Post by **Franck** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:29 pm

wirbel wrote:and she's great to see on stage

Absolutely !

but I believe one of the other girls is singing too (backing vocals)...

yep, one of the two drummers

gerryuk · Post by **gerryuk** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:04 pm

Not my top ten, but albums that nearly always make it into my top ten when I think about such lists.

Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Stina Nordenstam - and then she closed her eyes
Drop Nineteens - Deleware
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Belly - Star
Rush - 2112
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

the other 3 vary depending on mood and time.

aermancer · Post by **aermancer** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:10 am

gerryuk wrote:Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor

i have The Woods and i adore it! i haven't listened to anything else by them yet though

gerryuk · Post by **gerryuk** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:02 pm

I would suggest both 'Call the Doctor' and 'Dig Me Out' are essential listening if you like Sleater- Kinney. I would also recommend 'Onebeat'

ruth1998 · Post by **ruth1998** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:46 am

I wholeheartedy suggest The Hot Rock. A good range for their best stuff. But really they're all great. I love watching Carrie live. That guitar dance...

xxxxglosoli · Post by **xxxxglosoli** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:58 am

it changes a lot

but

10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
9. Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
8. Sigur Ros - Takk
7. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
6. The Cure - Disintegration
5. Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
4. The Cure - Pornography
3. Bjork - Vespertine
2. Radiohead - Ok Computer
1. Portishead - Portishead

for now.