Music RedCafe's Favourite Albums Of All Time Contest (THE RESULTS)

onemanarmy said:
Probably controversial, but Linkin Park though. In a top 40 of best albums? Christ. Watching these guys was painful. It felt like a parody act. I felt there was zero emotion in it, just generic music full of cliches and forced teen-angst. Fabricated arena-rock. There are better bands and albums coming out of that nu-metal era imo.
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@Dirty Schwein will likely try to beat you up outside a Wetherspoon
 
No. 10 - Appetite for Destruction (Guns N' Roses)
Total Points: 48
Number Of Lists: 6
Highest Position: 1
Voter Of Highest Position: @peridigm @padr81
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The highest ranked hiphop album. Also the lowest ranked album on double figures with regards to how many lists it was on.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
They a bad band? I've only listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are.
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Of course not. It's probably the sound of an entire generation. If you grew up in the nineties like I did, it's probably a defining band for most.
My biggest regret in music, never seeing them live, along with the Ramones.
 
I'm very familiar with this album because this dickhead I used to work with only ever listened to this in the office. I used to hear it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week on repeat. Safe to say, I could never listen to it anymore :lol:
 
Dirty Schwein said:
No. 10 - Appetite for Destruction (Guns N' Roses)
Total Points: 48
Number Of Lists: 6
Highest Position: 1
Voter Of Highest Position: @peridigm @padr81
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It's a hell of an album. There's so many great tunes on this album. As much as I really enjoyed the Use Your Illusion volumes, I don't think they ever really surpassed this one. Their peak was also very short, which is almost at odds at times with their legacy. Much of their legacy seems to be based on this album and then a handful of singles off Use Your Illusion 1 and 2. I can't help but feel that we should have got more, though. You can find Gun 'N' Roses t-shirts all over the place and numerous comments, videos, etc online about Slash's immense guitar playing, which is a little strange to me because I still think they could have done a lot more than they actually did. I don't personally rate their second album and I don't really count their last two albums (one is a covers' album and the other doesn't have any of the original lineup bar Axel).
 
Superunknown said:
It's a hell of an album. There's so many great tunes on this album. As much as I really enjoyed the Use Your Illusion volumes, I don't think they ever really surpassed this one. Their peak was also very short, which is almost at odds at times with their legacy. Much of their legacy seems to be based on this album and then a handful of singles off Use Your Illusion 1 and 2. I can't help but feel that we should have got more, though. You can find Gun 'N' Roses t-shirts all over the place and numerous comments, videos, etc online about Slash's immense guitar playing, which is a little strange to me because I still think they could have done a lot more than they actually did. I don't personally rate their second album and I don't really count their last two albums (one is a covers' album and the other doesn't have any of the original lineup bar Axel).
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This album made me fall in love with rock music as a (young) kid. My cousin was 3 years older and he had a VHS of a concert of theirs. It was fantastic.
I had this (bootleg?) as a kid, I listened to it almost every day I think :lol:

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There are no "right" choices, but Illmatic as the best hip-hop album is as right a choice as any other.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
No. 5 - Doolittle (The Pixies)
Total Points: 54
Number Of Lists: 10
Highest Position: 1
Voter Of Highest Position: @Superunknown
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This is one of the albums I think of when I picture a 'perfect' or '10/10' album. Right off the bat, Debaser kicks in and sets the tone for what's to come. It's one of my all-time favourite songs ever and the sound is just sublime. The aspect that I love the most about the Pixies is their simplicity and how they layer their sounds, but still manage to create space. Kim Deal's dual role as bassist of the band and backing singer (Hype-woman :lol: ) is an iconic sound right there. She was the perfect 'balance' to the band and they were never the same when she moved on. The bass sounds always manage to cut through the mix and Joey Santiago's guitar leads always provide a nice higher-end texture, almost creating a push/pull dynamic with Deal's basslines. I find that this is really evident on tracks like Wave of Mutilation and Hey. I find Santiago's approach very, very similar to someone like Bernard Sumner from Joy Division and New Order. Never hugely complicated parts, but musical and almost like vocal lines in their own right. His guitar work on Monkey Gone To Heaven is testament to that. It's brilliant writing and perfect musicianship. His writing doesn't take away from any of the vocal parts or from anything else for that matter, but it enhances it.

A few years back, I sat down and learned how to play the guitar and bass parts for the album in its entirety. Their songs are really fun to play, but that's also down to how much the song writing seems to make sense. It's almost a pop music approach and it's easy to see why bands like Nirvana were huge fans of The Pixies. They're easy to listen to, the songs contain that right amount of abrasion and melody, and their song lengths of around 2 and a half minutes is a magic sweet spot. You finish one track and you plummet into the next one. It's a fun ride. Hugely underrated band and should be talked about a lot more when it comes to these top 10 bands lists.

Dirty Schwein said:
Never heard of this band. I thought it was a girl group until I just went to Wiki to grab the album cover.
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Brother, you should really give this band a chance. They're a life-changing band, imo. Their first 3 albums in particular are perfect.
 
CoopersDream said:
Yeah, Pixies is not my thing. Saw them live once and it was quite boring.
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Each to their own of course, but you might have seen them pretty recently? They were far from boring in the past. They have been through so many changes it's not really the same band anymore.
Absolutely love Doolittle.
 
onemanarmy said:
Each to their own of course, but you might have seen them pretty recently? They were far from boring in the past. They have been through so many changes it's not really the same band anymore.
Absolutely love Doolittle.
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Something like 2017 maybe? I understand that they were 30 years in it and my general non fondness of their music certainly played a part. But it left no impression on me at all. Very contrary to when I saw Arcade Fire the year after - don't care for their music the least, but one of the best gigs I saw that year.
 
onemanarmy said:
Each to their own of course, but you might have seen them pretty recently? They were far from boring in the past. They have been through so many changes it's not really the same band anymore.
Absolutely love Doolittle.
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To be absolutely fair to them, the lead singer, guitarist and drummer remain the same and have been throughout their entirety. It's 'just' that dual role of bassist and backing/second singer that has changed. The problem is that Kim Deal did such an excellent job for those first four albums in that role that it was such an energy shift when she left. She also acted as a good counter-balance to Black Francis. It became heavily lopsided and skewed in his direction when she left. The other members of the band (past and present) just don't have the same pull that Kim had, which is exactly what Francis needed to keep him in check.
 
To think that this was originally eliminated in the round it was competing in and got to the final via the back doors of the Resurrection Round but ended up 4th!
 
Dirty Schwein said:
No. 6 - The Doors (The Doors)
Total Points: 50
Number Of Lists: 10
Highest Position: 2
Voter Of Highest Position: @Cheimoon @onemanarmy
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Brilliant album. Incredible that they came out with such a fully accomplished album right at the start. I feel like The Doors are a well-known band, but not a very influential one and that they're not listened to a lot anymore, and I don't know why - there's so much to hear.
 
The only album in the top 5 that was on less than 10 lists and also the only album in the top 5 that wasn't on anyone's number 1 spot yet despite all this, it ended up 3rd.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
No. 3 - OK Computer (Radiohead)
Total Points: 59
Number Of Lists: 9
Highest Position: 2
Voter Of Highest Position: @CoopersDream @diarm
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A other one that's just brilliant from start to finish. Great flow, too. It's interesting how Radiohead jumped from The Bends (which I don't much like, apart from a few tunes) straight to this. Of course, KidA was another leap away subsequently. But apart from the good songs, there's just so much more happening in the sound and arrangements - really enjoyable as a whole.
 
Both albums were on 11 lists (which is the highest of the finals) and far ahead of 3rd. Nevermind was just on more number 1 spots.

Nevermind is Redcafe's favourite album of all time.
 
Cheimoon said:
Brilliant album. Incredible that they came out with such a fully accomplished album right at the start. I feel like The Doors are a well-known band, but not a very influential one and that they're not listened to a lot anymore, and I don't know why - there's so much to hear.
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All killer, no filler. Just so many fantastic songs, absolute classics.
 
That's it everyone, hope y'all enjoyed it and thank you for voting and getting involved.

This was the last in the "RedCafe's Favourite..." series (4 years ago was the first one!), hope y'all had some fun :)
 
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