I know, I know...been there done that...but we do have a lot of newer members who might enjoy this...Pick ten of your favorite CDs, if you know what your all time are, groovy, it's tough for me...because one would naturally want to put in their favorite artists....anyway...

not necessarily in order...

Automatic - Jesus and Mary Chain (I just happen to be listening to it) as I refer to them especially with this one "The Beach Boys on crystal meth"

Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth (rumor has it they are playing it in its entirety at Lollapalooza this year...I am so f-ing there!!)

Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins (take your pick amongst this Blue Bell Knoll & Milk and Kisses for their best CD)

Beyond The Missouri Sky - Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny (as much as I love Pat Metheny Group) this acoustic CD is such an amazing piece of work I have to roll with it)

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush -- this has always been one of my favorites

As Above So Below - Barry Adamson (and his new CD is dangerously close to this one)

Very - Pet Shop Boys...the pinnacle of their fantastic career

New Adventures in Hi-Fi - REM - i don't what it is about this CD, but I love it...Lifes Rich Pageant is my fave from the IRS era

Solitude Standing - Suzanne Vega -- all the Luka buzz aside..this is a fabulous CD

and yes I left out many of my faves...The Church - try to pick one...right now I am leaning toward After Everything Now This...Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile - incredible...Miles Davis...one might lean toward Bitches' Brew, but I have always had a soft spot for Nefertiti...two other to make it 5 more...Security - Peter Gabriel and Together Alone by Crowded House            

It is quite difficult to choose just 10...but let's have a go anyhoo:

Girl from Arkansas - Rod Picott

Arena - Duran Duran

The Whole Story - Kate Bush

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Imagine - John Lennon

Rubber Soul - Beatles

A Secret History - The Divine Comedy

Black Cherry - Goldfrapp

The Rocky Horror Picture Show original soundtrack

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

The Prodigy - Experience

The Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Generation

DJ Shadow - Entroducing

The Knife - Silent Shout

Royksopp - Meldody AM

Bjork - Debut

Daft Punk - Homework

Leftfield - Leftism

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Air - Moon Safari

Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife

Depeche Mode - Violator

Royksopp - The Understanding

Coldplay - X & Y

moby - 18

Shoot, I'm gonna "cheat" like they used to do in Pulse (RIP ,Tower) for the Desert  Island Discs & do 10 Fave Box Sets!!! (heck, the last girl only put 5 discs on her list )    Beg, Scream & Shout ('60s Soul Singles),  Brain in a Box (Science Fiction music), The Beat Generation (Beatnik oriented collection), Star Time (JB, RIP), Chess Box (the classic R & B label comp), No Thank You ('70s Punk/New Wave), Nuggets ('60s Garage Rock Singles), Stiff Box (classic '70s/'80s British label comp), Phil Spector box, The Rolling Stones Singles Box,  oh crap! That's ten!!!

Kiss - Alive

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Anthrax - Among the Living

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

AC/DC - Back in Black

Pink Floyd - Animals

Pearl Jam - 10

Ramones - Anthology

 These were the CD's that kept me sane for 14 months in Iraq.

Alphabetized:

18- Moby (good call, angi)
Abbey Road- The Beatles ('cause, I mean, it has Something on it)
All Things Must Pass- George Harrison (just disc one, so's I can fit another CD in)
Automatic for the People- REM (one word. just one word. Drive)
Cream of Clapton ('cuz there's not just one Clapton album that I'd choose)
Eye to the Telescope- KT Tunstall (I'll be thinking about KT during those lonely, desert island nights. wait, was that too much information?)
Excitable Boy- Warren Zevon (I'm tempted to go with the Genius compilation, but I don't want to be too greedy)
Grace- Jeff Buckley (though I might jinx myself if I decide to go swimming in the surf later)
Monster- REM (their weakest album? feh, I say to that)
Wildflowers- Tom Petty (because'a that there string section on Good to be King)

There, the first and last time I (revise/do) a top-ten anything.

love songs for the retarded - queers

second edition - PiL

world contact day - groovie ghoulies

how to make enemies and irratate people - screaching weasel

black market clash - clash

sound effects - the jam

singles going steady - buzzcocks

Bona Drag - Morrisey

Louder Than Bombs - The Smiths

love is dead - MTX

Violator--Depeche Mode

Pretty Hate Machine--NIN

Wild!--Erasure

Twin Peaks Soundtrack

The Essential Heart (This is actually a 2 cd set of their greatest hits, but I'll count it as one)

The Crow Soundtrack

Fear--Toad The Wet Sprocket

Silent Force--Within Temptation

American Made Music to Strip By--Rob Zombie

Big Ones--Aerosmith

This one is so hard!  I mean, 10 best albums is a big task for me.....well I will give it a shot, in no particular order

Abbey Road - The Beatles (this brings back many good memories of childhood)

Add It Up - Violent Femmes (it's hard for me to pick just one Femmes album, this has all their greats on it except for Children of the Revolution)

Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too - New Radicals (I know they are a one hit wonder but the album is actually one of the best I have heard in a long time)

Quadrophenia - The Who (it's the Who, what more can I say)

Heavier Things - John Mayer (it's just great!)

(What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis (I love Oasis and this has pretty much all the songs that I adore on it)

Healthy in Paranoid Times - Our Lady Peace (This is a great politically driven album by a great Canadian band) 

That's all I got right now...I may have more later but I am having some issues with the thinking process tonight.

Rush - Moving Pictures

U2 - Rattle and Hum

REM - In Time

Twin Peaks - soundtrack

Greenday - American Idiot

Van Halen - OU812

The Cars - Greatest Hits

INXS - Kick

Queen - Greatest Hits

Simple Minds - Glittering Prize

I'll exclude the Polish things which would for sure be in my top ten (at least two or three) but nobody here knows them anyway.

Now let me do my amount of cheating ;-)

Rock music:

1. The Wall - Pink Floyd
2. Abbey Road - The Beatles
3. Concert in Central Prk - Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
5. L.A. Woman - The Doors
6. A Night at the Opera - Queen
7. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
8. The Doors- The Doors
9. Mesmerize/ Hypnotize - System of a Down
10. Revolver - The Beatles

Where the *** are two first Led Zeppelin albums and where is Jimi Hendrix??!?

Bah, but now let's include jazz and film music and other non-rock things... Here's what we get:

1. The Wall - Pink Floyd
2. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Concert in Central Park - Simon and Garfunkel
5. Fiddler on the Roof  (Soundtrack)
6. The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
7. L.A. Woman - The Doors
8. A Night at the Opera - Queen
9. Concerts in China - Jean Michel Jarre
10. Fire Walk With Me (Soundtrack)

AND if we include classical music... eeergh, I'm running away!!!

Oh good one!

My faves.....

1) Ornette Coleman "Naked Lunch Soundtrack"

2) Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"

3) Black Sabbath "Sabotage"

4) KISS "Double Platinum"

5) Tangerine Dream "ZEIT"

6) Yann Tiersen "Amelie Soundtrack"

7) Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland"

8) John Coltrane "Giant Steps"

9) Pink Floyd "Meddle"

10) The Future Sound of London "Lifeforms"

Yah!!!

WASSUP Smeds

I don't mind at all doing these over and over, because it's different every time.  Not in order of preference:

Brian Eno -- Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Joanna Newsom -- The Milk-Eyed Mender
Daryl Hall -- Sacred Songs
Massive Attack -- Mezzanine
David Bowie -- Low
London Sinfonietta -- Górecki's Third Symphony (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
King Crimson -- Three of a Perfect Pair
Interpol -- Turn on The Bright Lights
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane -- At Carnegie Hall
The Power Station -- The Power Station

Well since it's Ten of Your Favorite CDs and not actually Your Top Ten CDs, that makes this thread a helluva lot easier to do.  I'm loving this so far anyhow because as I'm reading over the lists of others, I'm going "OMG! I love that album too!" or "OMG! I haven't heard that in so long!" or even "OMG! Who the f**k is that?!"

So here's ten of my favorite CDs, no particular order at all.

This Fire - Paula Cole (even the Dawson's Creek theme, which was a great song until the show raped it)
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode (gave birth to my fave DM song, "Stripped")
Arena - Duran Duran (big up to Ange! I think I'm the only person in the US who owns that album)
Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears (from beginning to end, the album kicks so much ass)
Melissa Etheridge - Yes I Am
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack
Music For People - VAST
Traveling Wilburys, Vol 1 - Traveling Wilburys

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Nice choices there, Amanda....funny thing, I am getting ready to listen to Music For People as soon as I finish listening to The Richest Man in babylon for the umpteenth time...I think I could put this CD in my top 20...Meddle is my favorite Pink Floyd CD and that would (or should) be in my top ten,,,Animals is right up there too...that's awesome, Stripped is one of my favorite DM songs as well...Alan Wilder is dangerously close to putting out his new CD....finally!!! And if I had to pick a favorite Indigo Girls CD, it would probably be Rites of Passage, but from the self-titled CD, I adore the track "Love's Recovery", they played that one the first time I saw them in concert and it blew me away with its beauty. That is all for now.  

*wanders in with another 10*

Violator - Depeche Mode

Dirty Mind - Prince

VAST - VAST (big up to Manda for getting me into this one )

Cowboy - Erasure

Light Years - Kylie Minogue

The Very Best of Elvis Costello - Elvis Costello (well duh)

Blackpool Original Soundtrack

Songs from the West Coast - Elton John

Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran

Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps 

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

The Very Best of Elvis Costello - Elvis Costello (well duh)

The legend himself is coming to my little backwater burg at the end of the month to play at our bluegrass festival. I'm so excited, yet embarrassed 'cause I realize that I'm not as well-versed in his music as I should be.

Additionally, what the hell is he doing at a bluegrass festival?

1. ok computer - radiohead
2. yankee hotel foxtrot - wilco
3. trompe le monde - pixies
4. suacerful of secrets - pink floyd
5. sabbath bloody sabbath - black sabbath
6. selection sixteen - squarepuser
7. rossz csillag alatt szueletett - venetian snares
8. fire walk with me ost - angelo badlamenti
9. supermodified - amon tobin
10. before the dawn heals us - M83
11. a strangly isolated place - ulrich schnass

WASSUP Smeds

RUBY!!!!  What's shakin bakin?!?!

I have to add to my list....I forgot some crucial ones...

John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic ( I have this weird thing for Steve Winwood and Traffic in general)

Kenny Loggins Alive - Kenny Loggins (This album actually helped me realize how much I love music...I have it on vinyl, the original that my mom bought back in the day...)

Facelift - Alice in Chains 

Second Coming - Stone Roses

I think that's all for now....I am sure that I will have more as my "taste" of the month changes.... 

The revelations I had :

Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante 

The Missing Ensemble - Hidden Doors 

Naked City - The Complete Studio Recordings 

Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence is Sexy

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa 

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth 

Vincent Gallo - When

Bluebob 

John Zorn - The String Quartets 

Fantômas - Delirivm Cordia 

Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive

Helge Sten - Morals & Dogma 

Henrik Nordvargr Björkk - Vitagen

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons

Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field

Bumblefoot - Uncool

Merzbow & Jamie Saft - Merzdub

Squarepusher - Ultravisitor

This is really difficult, and whatever I put down will probably change somewhat come tomorrow. Still, here goes. I've based my list on the albums I have that have been, and continue to be most listened to by me.

NB: I'm not including soundtracks et al, just albums by complete artists

- Tori Amos, "Songs From The Choirgirl Hotel"

- Kate Bush - "Never For Ever"

- Kylie Minogue - "Light Years"

- Placebo - "Placebo"

- Belle & Sebastian - "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

- Turin Brakes - "The Optimist LP"

- The Beatles - "The White Album"

- Portishead - "Dummy"

- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - "Out Of Season"

- Saint Etienne - "The Sound Of Water"

Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps 

Have you heard any of their later stuff when they ditched the girl vocalist and the guitarist stepped up to the mike? Fantastic stuff. Hard to categorise - "Bloodsport" is the album to investigate.

Anyway, here is my list for today in no order (it will all change tomorrow):

Pet Shop Boys - Actually

New Order - Substance 1987 (the double-CD version - it's my list and I can cheat)

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Electronic - Electronic

Lou Reed - New York

Prince - Sign O The Times

Curve - Come Clean

Nirvana - Nevermind

Philip Glass - Satyagraha (Act Three)

Peter Gabriel - So

In truth, I've chosen favourite CDs by 10 different artists, but if I was being utterly honest there would be 1-2 more from NIN and PSB on there.

DMG

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