RedCafe's Top 50 Albums

Ivor Ballokov said:
That's my list, still not sure about it but I haven't got time to keep mulling it over.
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Nice one Ivor, good list, but I see there has been a stight oversite on your part at Forgetting Radiohead, obviously a typo or bad memory or something so not a problem ;)
 
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowboys

Fantastic debut album from a rather good band. Indie Rock I supose you'd describe them as if you had to catagorise them, but a cut above a lot of their peers.

Great live band also, saw them a couple of months ago in Manchester and they were very good indeed.

Definitly worth checking out if you haven't heard them yet.
 
RedNome said:
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowboys

Fantastic debut album from a rather good band. Indie Rock I supose you'd describe them as if you had to catagorise them, but a cut above a lot of their peers.

Great live band also, saw them a couple of months ago in Manchester and they were very good indeed.

Definitly worth checking out if you haven't heard them yet.
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Good shout, quality album.

Perhaps there should be a thread for this stuff, where people can recommend new albums/bands, or even an album review thread...?
 
francobaresi said:
Good shout, quality album.

Perhaps there should be a thread for this stuff, where people can recommend new albums/bands, or even an album review thread...?
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I did start a new bands thread a while back never took off and I neglected it.
 
Here's mine - Only listing albums that I own:

1. Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Beatles - White Album
3. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
6. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Pink Floyd - The Wall
8. U2 - Achtung Baby
9. Police - Synchronicity
10. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
11. Radiohead - The Bends
12. The Who - Who's Next
13. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
14. Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
15. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
16. The Verve - Urban Hymns
17. The Clash - London Calling
18. Radiohead - Kid A
19. Led Zeppelin - II
20. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
21. U2 - The Joshua Tree
22. The Doors - The Doors
23. Roxy Music - Avalon
24. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
25. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
26. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
27. Pulp - Different Class
28. Joy Division - Closer
29. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
30. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
31. Doves - Last Broadcast
32. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
33. Travis - The Man Who
34. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
35. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
36. Blur - Parklife
37. Travis - The Invisible Band
38. Killers - Hot Fuss
39. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
40. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
41. Blur - 13
42. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
43. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
44. Libertines - Libertines
45. Doves - Some Cities
46. Ryan Adams - Rock N' Roll
47. Pixies - Doolittle
48. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
49. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
50. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
 
Here's mine. It felt a little repetitive as I was listing albums but these are my top 50, I think. :wenger:

Cornell's Top 50 Albums said:
1) Michael Jackson – Thriller
2) Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
3) Soundgarden – Superunknown
4) Radiohead – Kid A
5) Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
6) The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
7) Michael Jackson – Bad
8) Metallica – Master of Puppets
9) Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
10) Jeff Buckley - Grace
11) Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
12) Tool – Lateralus
13) Alice in Chains – Dirt
14) The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
15) Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
16) A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
17) Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning
18) Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
19) Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip
20) The Jacksons – Destiny
21) Faith No More – Angel Dust
22) Mad Season – Above
23) Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
24) Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
25) At the Drive-in - In/Casino/Out
26) Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
27) Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
28) Audioslave – Audioslave
29) Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
30) Metallica – Ride The Lightning
31) Radiohead – OK Computer
32) Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
33) Pearl Jam – Ten
34) The Doors – The Doors
35) Alice in Chains – Sap
36) Jeff Buckley – Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
37) Jamiroquai – A Funk Odyssey
38) A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms
39) Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
40) Lamb – Between Darkness and Wonder
41) Silverchair – Frogstomp
42) The Offspring – Smash
43) Michael Jackson – HIStory, Past, Present and Future: Book 1
44) The Police – Synchronicity
45) Tool – Ænima
46) Stone Temple Pilots – Shangri-La Dee Da
47) Pink Floyd – The Wall
48) Michael Jackson – Dangerous
49) The Corrs – Forgiven Not Forgotten
50) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
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I'll probably be 2-3 days late, sorry but the Uni assignment I'm working on after work has been taking up too much time lately

I'll try and finish it tonight but might not make it
 
RedNome said:
Nice one Ivor, good list, but I see there has been a stight oversite on your part at Forgetting Radiohead, obviously a typo or bad memory or something so not a problem ;)
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Cheers. I was close to putting pablo honey in my list but for some reason Radiohead have never really been on my radar, same with Zeppelin but I think I will make an effort with them both because everything I know by both bands I like.

Oh and Radiohead are brilliant live.

RedNome said:
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowboys

Fantastic debut album from a rather good band. Indie Rock I supose you'd describe them as if you had to catagorise them, but a cut above a lot of their peers.

Great live band also, saw them a couple of months ago in Manchester and they were very good indeed.

Definitly worth checking out if you haven't heard them yet.
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Very good album, wouldn't have imagined them being all that great live but I will definitely try to catch them if they come round my way now.
 
Kristjan said:
I'll probably be 2-3 days late, sorry but the Uni assignment I'm working on after work has been taking up too much time lately

I'll try and finish it tonight but might not make it
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No worries, I will be a few days compilling anyway so just get me it when you can in the next few days.

I'm looking forward to your list, hoping to find some gems that I haven't heard of yet.
 
Just so everyone knows the final list WILL be posted by the 5th of February so any lists that aren't here will not be counted, I'm not gonna let this drift on like the movie thread has.
 
I almost forgot about this.

1 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2 The Band - The Band
3 Jeff Buckley - Grace
4 Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
5 Cornershop - When I was Born For the Seventh Time
6 Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36th Chamber
7 Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
8 Bob Marley - Catch A Fire
9 The Velvet Underground And Nico - The Velvet Underground And Nico
10 Neil Young - After The Goldrush
11 The Clash - The Clash
12 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
13 The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
14 Beatles - Rubbersoul
15 David Bowie - Hunky Dory
16 The Knife - Silent Shout
17 Justice - Cross
18 The Fugees - The Score
19 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
20 The Band - Music In Pink
21 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
22 Joy Division - Closer
23 Radiohead - OK Computer
24 Idlewild - The Remote Part
25 Nirvana - In Utero
26 REM - Automatic For the People
27 The Avalanches - Since I Left You
28 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
29 REM - Murmur
30 Daft Punk - Discovery
31 Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
32 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
33 The Pixies - Doolittle
34 Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
35 Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
36 Bright Eyes - Lifted... Or the Story is in the Soil
37 MIA - Arular
38 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
39 The Doors- The Doors
40 My Computer - Vulnerabelia
41 Nas - Illmatic
42 The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
43 Van Morrison - Moondance
44 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
45 The Stone Roses - the Stone Roses
46 Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
47 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
48 The Libertines - Up the Bracket
49 The GZA - Liquid Swords
50 Suede - Suede
 
1. The Doors - The Doors
2. The Doors - L.A Woman
3 . The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace
5. Dr. Dre - 2001
6. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
7. The Doors - The Soft Parade
8. Nas - Illmatic
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
10. Pearl Jam - Ten
11. Nirvana - Nevermind
12. Outkast - Aquemini
13. The Doors - An American Prayer
14. Nirvana - In Utero
15. Oasis - (What's The Story?) Morning Glory
16. Rage Against The Machine - RATM
17. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
18. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
19. Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
20. Michael Jackson - Thriller
21. The Doors - Strange Days
22. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
24. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
25. Blue & Exile - Below The Heavens
26. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
27. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
28. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
29. Metallica - Metallica
30. Janis Joplin - Pearl
31. Sex Pistols - Nevermind the bollocks...
32. Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger
33. Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
34. Blur - 13
35. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
36. Joni Mitchell - Blue
37. Michael Jackson - Bad
38. The Clash - Combat Rock
39. Blink 182 - Blink 182
40. Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
41. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
42. BB King - Deuces Wild
43. Outkast - Stankonia
44. Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words?
45. Linkin Park - Collision Course
46. Kanye West - The College Dropout
47. The Verve - Urban Hymns
48. Warren G - Regulate
49. Green Day - Warning
50. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
 
Right, managed to finish this in time

Criteria used:
My favorite albums who at some point in my life have all meant something to me
Max 2 albums by any artist/band (only 4 bands managed that in my top50 anyway)

Way different list from most others here and I don't doubt some choices come as a big surprise to some of you, most likely some albums many of you have never heard of as well :)
Although those who know me personally wouldn't be surprised by the top5 in the least.

1. Depeche Mode - Violator
2. Pet Shop Boys - Actually
3. Kraftwerk - Computer World
4. Yello - Stella
5. New Order - Technique
6. Carl Craig - More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Arts
7. Leftfield - Leftism
8. De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
9. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
10. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
11. Depeche Mode - Music For the Masses
12. Global Communications - 76:14
13. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
14. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
15. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
16. St. Germain - Boulevard
17. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
18. Motorbass - Pansoul
19. Pet Shop Boys - Very/Relentless
20. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
21. The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
22. Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess
23. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
24. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
25. Daft Punk - Homework
26. Vangelis - Blade Runner
27. Björk - Debut
28. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
29. Pixies - Doolittle
30. The Orb - U.F.Orb
31. Prince - 1999
32. The KLF - Chill Out
33. Bent - Programmed to Love
34. Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
35. Elbow - Asleep in the Back
36. Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills & Bellyaches
37. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
38. John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue
39. Lemon Jelly - Lemonjelly.ky
40. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
41. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
42. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
43. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
44. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
45. Metro Area - Metro Area
46. Portishead - Dummy
47. Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
48. The Clash - London Calling
49. Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
50. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -The Boatman's Call
 
Nice one people, most list are now in, just three we are waiting on I think now.

Nice list Kristjan, I own about half of them, the rest I may check out at some stage.
 
RedNome said:
And still no pictures :nono:
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Here you go then. I made a...few..adjustments so it's easier to wank over.

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This is fantastic and they all look mint to cap it off. Except Jim, the bastard:

 
Cornell said:
Here you go then. I made a...few..adjustments so it's easier to wank over.

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This is fantastic and they all look mint to cap it off. Except Jim, the bastard:

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See, now everyones happy :drool:
 
RedNome said:
Nice one people, most list are now in, just three we are waiting on I think now.

Nice list Kristjan, I own about half of them, the rest I may check out at some stage.
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nobody has voiced his outrage at seeing 2 Pet Shop Boys album there yet.. and here I was expecting some backlash ;)
 
Kristjan said:
nobody has voiced his outrage at seeing 2 Pet Shop Boys album there yet.. and here I was expecting some backlash ;)
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To be honest I was biting my tongue :smirk:, but it is a blot on an otherwise decent list.

Any chance you could recommend me some electronica that I probably haven't heard, I'm sure you've got plenty, something in the Leftfield moald maybe, or basically any obscure grreat albums that you have come across? That side of my collection has become quite stagnant recently, cheers.
 
RedNome said:
To be honest I was biting my tongue :smirk:, but it is a blot on an otherwise decent list.

Any chance you could recommend me some electronica that I probably haven't heard, I'm sure you've got plenty, something in the Leftfield moald maybe, or basically any obscure grreat albums that you have come across? That side of my collection has become quite stagnant recently, cheers.
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If you haven't got that Carl Craig album that is in 6th then get it a.s.a.p.
Possibly one of the best techno albums ever made

List me up which albums you don't know from my list and I'll let you if it's electronic or not
 
Kristjan said:
If you haven't got that Carl Craig album that is in 6th then get it a.s.a.p.
Possibly one of the best techno albums ever made

List me up which albums you don't know from my list and I'll let you if it's electronic or not
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I'll check that one out asap.

These are the only one I haven't heard or got.

10. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
12. Global Communications - 76:14
13. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
16. St. Germain - Boulevard
33. Bent - Programmed to Love
34. Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
37. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
38. John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue
41. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
44. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
45. Metro Area - Metro Area
 
10. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

Landmark electronic minimal album released first in 1984. Recorded as one 40 minute track but split up in 2 parts (A and B side) on the LP, later released on CD as 1 track. Sampled a gazillion times in later years by other artists, most notoriously in the club classic Sueno Latino.

12. Global Communication - 76:14

The best chill out album ever made, period. Everyone should own this masterpiece.

13. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

2nd best chill out album ever made and the best album released by the Warp label so far. Note that they're actually from Scotland, not Canada.
Here's the Aquarius track from the album


16. St. Germain - Boulevard

The first album from the French deep house producer more famous for his rather overrated Tourist album (which someone included in their list here I think)
You can easily find the Rose Rouge or Sure Thing videos from the Tourist album on YouTube but this album is much better and deeper IMO

33. Bent - Programmed to Love

If you like Lemon Jelly, you'll like Bent.

34. Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul

Another name for Masters At Work, American house producers who under this name work with legends like Roy Ayers, George Benson, Jocelyn Brown and more to produce a masterful fusion of house, funk, latin and disco.

37. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

First album from this German guy who produces a blissful chill out album that begs for a nice beach and some sun and sea.

38. John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue

Fabulous mix of Detroit techno and ambient sounds.

41. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

Very influential but often forgotten pioneering Japanese trio. This album was first released in 1979 and unlike Kraftwerk these guys were more focused on upbeat synth melodies. One of the trio is Ryuichi Sakamoto if you know him.

44. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

French duo (now a solo project). Sort of in the vein of My Bloody Valentine but a bit more electronic.

45. Metro Area - Metro Area

Two guys from New York who make a sort of dubby, minimal, house with a funk-disco flavour. Love this album.
 
41. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

Very influential but often forgotten pioneering Japanese trio. This album was first released in 1979 and unlike Kraftwerk these guys were more focused on upbeat synth melodies. One of the trio is Ryuichi Sakamoto if you know him.
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Interesting, I like Sakamoto.

Thanks for that Kristjan, I'll be checking them out and the others.
 
Oi, Rednome. Just got this today...

Lightspeed Champion - Falling off the Lavender Bridge

Early signs are very promising, I suggest you check it out my man
 
Another great album as well, should have made my list thinking about it, Photek - Modus Operandi, sort of a jungly drum and bass techno effort, fecking great.

Check it out franco.
 
I'm not a drum n bass man, but will give it a go

Lightspeed Champion is a guy who was in dodgy indie band Test Icicles. Thankfully, his new stuff is nothing like theirs. Quite melodic, might be too poppy for you, but I like it
 
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