Your ten top albums...

[undarrenworld]

...for today!

If I could choose mine...

Underworld - STITI
Underworld - OWB
Apollo 440 - Millenium Fever
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
Radiohead - OK Computer
Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell
New Order - Technique
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Futureshock - Phantom Theory

Yours?;)

[Jan]

in no particular order:

Underworld - Pizza for Eggs
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született
The Orb - Orblivion
Daedelus - Denies the Days Demise
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Daft Punk - Homework

edit: this also reminds me that we did not have an album poll for 2007.

[BeautifulBurnout]

OMG what a difficult question. Especially for a dinosaur like me! I can think of 10 albums that have really marked me, but I will put them in more or less chronological order rather than order of preference I think. OK - here goes:

The White Album - The Beatles
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Tarkus - Emerson Lake and Palmer
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
Animals - Pink Floyd
Regatta de Blanc - The Police
Gone to Earth - David Sylvian
and you see... I am running out of space already. So I will miss out most of the 80s and go straight to
STITI - UW

I told you this was difficult :p

[mmm skyscraper]

Bowery Electric - Beat
New Order - Brotherhood
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Larry Young - Unity
Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

[IsiliRunite]

Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Nas - Illmatic
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
OutKast - Aquemini
Orbital - Orbital 2
The Orb - U.F. Orb
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Fuke - Risotto

[ceramic'cow]

Oh fucking hell. I tried this with a friend the other week. We got to something like 35 really significant albums each..

here goes, in no particular order (except for Pet Sounds, which is actually, without doubt, the best album ever recorded. If you disagree, it's just because you haven't 'got it' yet. Seriously. Give it a few more listens. There's not a single note played through the entire record that could have been better in any way. Sheer pop perfection.) - pretty much just the first ones that come in to my head. I'm not really very sure beyond the first 5.


1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2. David Bowie - Low
3. Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
4. Khonnor - Handwriting
5. Tom McRae - Just Like Blood
6. Radiohead - The Bends
7. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
8. Lightning Seeds - Jollification
9. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
10. Six. by Seven - The Closer You Get


Hmm. I'm not entirely happy with that, but it's a start. The top 5 here are all definitely in my top 10. But I could quite happily swap Unknown Pleasures for Closer, and I just know there's about a dozen cracking albums that I've temporarily forgotten about.

Anyway, the moral of this story is LISTEN TO PET SOUNDS.

[King of Snake]

well here's a kind of list, more than 10 but still misses some entries :)

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld - Second Toughest In the Infants
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Technasia - Futuremix
Orbital - Brown Album
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
New Order - International (ok it's a compilation but it's the one I listen to most often)
Fluke - Risotto
Dreadzone - Second Light
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Global Underground - 76-14
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n Thrills 'n Bellyaches
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
Junkie XL - Big Sounds of the Drags
Tom Waits - Closing Time

[dubman]

Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Daft Punk - Homework
Beck - Odelay
Autechre - LP5
Polmo Polpo - Like Hearts Swelling
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Autechre - Confield
Radiohead - OK Computer
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish

this is what happens when you get really REALLY into music at a young age and you dont have the funds to support a broad swath of music genres. it's not going to be awesomely unique or adventurous but it's still going to be damn important to you. i think there only two albums from this decade on here. tsk tsk.

close calls:

Avalanches - Since i Left You
Sigur ros - Agaetis Byrjun
The Books - Lemon of Pink
Bjork - Homogenic
Air - Moon Safari
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Aphex Twin - RDJ Album
Burial - Untrue
Mr. Oizo - Moustache(Half a Scissor)
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts.

[m.g.]

Mmm... that's too difficult... & i have to do this every day of the year, it'll probably change every time. So, a top ten "classic" list valid for today in no particular order...

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Yello - Stella
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The Aloof - Cover The Crime
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Joy Division - Closer
Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

VoilÃ*... to be continued ;)

[Strangelet]

well... this is tough because a majority of my all time top 10 albums, based on biographical importance, are currently unlistenable. So this is what my favorite media player says are the top ten played in the past few months

joey beltram - the rising sun
dj spooky - creation rebel
goldfrapp - 7th tree
the changelings - astronomica
band of horses - everything all the time
funkadelic - maggot brain
catherine braslavsky - hildegard von bingen: the marriage of the heavens and the earth
scientist - scientist meets the spaced invaders
atlas sound - the let the blind blah blah blah... (most pretentious title evar!!!)
fuck buttons - street horrsing

[den]

It's hard to come with a top ten, considering how much you like a whole album, how much you actually listen to it, and how much you want to represent one of your favorite bands. A few of my favorites that I always want to listen to:

Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Snuffy Jenkins - Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Beck - Sea Change
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Underworld - STITI
Busker Soundcheck - Welcome to Buskerland
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Loscil - First Narrows
Weezer - (Blue album)
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Nivana - Unplugged
Trainspotting soundtrack

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

Ahh, ok, let's give it a try:

Cardiacs - Sing to God (I know this would be #1)
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
XTC - Skylarking
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum
Sparks - Kimono My House
Cornelius - Point
They Might Be Giants - s/t

[holden]

Hmmm, lesse...here's 11 that are definitely in my top 25 or so:

The Orb - The Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Orbital - Orbital 2 ("brown album")
Peter Gabriel - Security
Fluke - Risotto
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
The Sundays - Static & silence
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
The Caulfields - L
The Borrowers - The Borrowers

[matt]

think i have to do 2 sets of 10. first my top 10 fave albums of all time off the top of my head (so there could be some ommissions) and the order isn't really that important:

1 songbook super furry animals
2 screamadelica primal scream
3 dubnoheadwithmybassman underworld
4 dummy portishead
5 entroducing dj shadow
6 blue lines massive attack
7 moon safari air
8 since i left you the avalanches
9 ladies & gentleman... spiritualized
10 alligator the national

and then my ten favourite albums today that i've been listening to the last week or so:

1 boxer the national
2 hercules & love affair hercules & love affair
3 antidotes foals
4 third portishead
5 the age of the understatement the last shadow puppets
6 evil urges my morning jacket
7 soulstickers the timewriter
8 staying in diskjokke
9 vampire weekend vampire weekend
10 in ghost colours cut copy

[Rog]

over 40 years of listening to music in 10 albums:eek::eek:
oh well, here we go (in no order) - and for today only as i'm bound to have missed 30 or 40.......

1. Umma Gumma - Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
3. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
4. STITI - Underworld
5. Leftism - Leftfield
6. Pills thrills & bellyache - Happy Mondays
7. Brown album - Orbital
8. In Search of space - Hawkwind
9. Never mind the bollocks - Sex Pistols
10. Ziggy stardust - David Bowie

[viddy]

01 - Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants (the Japanese version, because it includes Born Slippy.Nuxx)
02 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
03 - Prodigy - Fat of the Land
04 - Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
05 - Thomas Newman - Road To Perdition
06 - Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Mysterious Skin
07 - Carl Cox - Mixed Live at Crobar Nightclub in Chicago
08 - Enigma - The Cross of Changes
09 - Hive - Devious Methods
10 - Hybrid - I Choose Noise

[darktrain]

totally off the top of my head, not in order:

underworld - stiti
kmfdm - nihil
beastie boys - pauls botique
dj shadow - endtroducing
the amps - pacer
beck - odelay
blackalicious - blazing arrow
guns n roses - use your illusion 1/2
aphex twin - i care because you do
nine inch nails - the downward spiral

hrmm...viva le 90's, eh?

[pafufta816]

nine inch nails - the downward spiral
underworld - second toughest
soft cell - this last night in sodomy
the velvet underground - white light/white heat
john zorn - the big gundown
meshuggah - catch 33
king crimson - discipline
whitehouse - cruise
foetus - deaf
dj spooky - riddim warfare


i adore all of these albums for one reason or another. i like most of them because of their production, like soft cell or nine inch nails, those albums were a full decade ahead of the rest of music at the time in how they were done.

[bas_I_am]

Been meaning to chime in on this

Robert Miles Organik
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Queen Jazz
Biosphere Microgravity
Swayzak Himawari
SpookyGuargantuan
Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld A Hundred Days Off
Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants
The Cure Disintegration

I don't understand why there isn't more talk about Organik. This is not cheese laden like his previous output, but, in my humble opinion one of the most complexe, perfectly executed albums ever recorded. Looking forward with immense anticipation to his new album at the end of the year. According to his web site, Robert Fripp is providing guitar.

[bryantm3]

Genesis - Duke
Depeche Mode - Violator
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Moby - Early Underground
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
New Order - Substance (i know it's not an album, but most of the stuff here isn't on the albums)
Brand X - Moroccan Roll
Frank Zappa - Studio Tan

[kid cue]

DJ DB - History Of Our World Part 1
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut
GZA - Liquid Swords
DJ /rupture - Gold Teeth Thief
Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
The Velvet Underground - s/t
Burial - Untrue