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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-27-09 06:07 PM
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I don't think this has been done yet, take your favorite band and rank their albums
This is especially helpful if your band isn't that all popular and you want to get the word out.


Trans Siberian Orchestra / Savatage (Same band, different names)

1. Christmas Eve and Other Stories (A Masterpiece)
2. Streets (A VERY underrated album, an incredible metal album)
3. Dead Winter Dead (Rock version of Carol of the Bells originated on this album)
4. Christmas Attic
5. Handful of Rain
6. Beethoven's Last Night
7. Night Castle (Came out Today, just listening to it for the first time, so it could rise or fall on the list)
8. Lost Christmas Eve
9. Poets and Madmen
10. Wake of Magellan

Have yet to get Hall of the Mountain King or Gutter Ballet, but both are supposed to be very good.


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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-27-09 08:05 PM
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1. U2
1. Boy (the most passionate, heartfelt album of my lifetime)
2. War (similar to Boy, but with more maturity; I still like Boy's rough edges, though)
3. The Joshua Tree
4. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (grows on me over time)
5. October (underrated; somber counterpoint to Boy and War)
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind (they actually sound like U2, not a bad Stone Roses cover band)
7. The Unforgettable Fire (uneven, but MLK, Pride, and Bad are among the best U2 songs)
8. Achtung Baby (overrated. Always preferred the Lillywhite stuff)
9. Rattle and Hum (much maligned, and kind of incoherent, but really not as bad as people claim)
10. No Line On The Horizon (a disappointment; Eno meddled too much once again)
11. Zooropa (Eurotrash)
12. Pop (Can we retcon this out of the catalog?)
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:43 AM
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46. U2 is ONE of my favorite bands. My list would be a bit different:
1. The Unforgettable Fire (I could listen to this a million times. I love the soundscapes)
2. Joshua Tree
3. War/Under a Blood Red Sky (same era, so I lump 'em together)
4. Achtung Baby
5. Boy
6. All That You...
7. How to Dismantle...
8. Rattle and Hum
9. No Line...
10. October (just never could get into this album, for some reason)

11 & 12 I completely agree. This was the decade when I stopped listening to U2. I never bought these albums and never will.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 10:44 AM
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2. this died last night, trying it again during the day shift
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 10:47 AM
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3. Modest Mouse
Edited on Wed Oct-28-09 10:49 AM by EastTennesseeDem
1. The Moon & Antarctica (my all time favorite record)
2. This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think about
3. The Lonesome Crowded West
4. Everywhere and his Nasty Parlour Tricks
5. Good News for People who Love Bad News
6. Building Nothing out of Something
7. We Were Dead Before the Ship even Sank
8. No One's First and You're Next
9. Interstate 8
10. The Fruit that Ate Itself
11. Sad Sappy Sucker
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 08:41 AM
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54. Still can't decide between Moon & Antarctica and Lonesome
as my favorite. Really depends on my mood.
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 10:32 AM
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57. The Moon & Antarctica separates itself from the rest of the pack for me in that
Edited on Fri Oct-30-09 10:40 AM by EastTennesseeDem
it was the first and only album by any band that I listened to the first time and instantly loved it. I didn't need a repeat listen to re-digest it all. I am also always in the mood for it. When I have nothing to do, I turn it on.

That's not to say I don't love TLCW. I do; Cowboy Dan is my favorite Modest Mouse song. Early Modest Mouse drips of indie brilliance. TMAA just has the whole package--beautiful, heartbreaking, terrifying, hypnotic, serene, hard, and texturally perfect.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 11:29 AM
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4. Bookmarking for evening Pacific time.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 11:54 AM
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5. The Smashing Pumpkins
Edited on Wed Oct-28-09 11:55 AM by Tommy_Carcetti
1. Siamese Dream--Best rock album ever made. Every song is a perfect 10. Every song completes the album.

2. Pisces Iscariot--A B-side album that is A-side quality in every way. "Starla" is absolutely incredible, probably my favorite single Pumpkins song.

3. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
a. Twilight to Starlight--Other than "XYU" which I don't care for, this disc would have ranked up with Siamese Dream as the perfect album.
b. Dawn to Dusk--Not quite as good as Twilight to Starlight, but still very solid. The trio of "Gallapagos", "Muzzle" and "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" towards the end is excellent.

4. Machina--Many Pumpkins fan list this album as their least favorite. To me, it is their most underrated. Fuzes old style Pumpkins electric guitar with some of the more eclectic new-style Pumpkins sounds. Has a great "wall of sound" feel to it.

5.Adore--Corgan and Company still manage pretty well without Jimmy Chamberlain on this one. It's the Pumpkins darkest album, influenced heavily by the death of Corgan's mother. It came out during a rather downer of a summer for me, so it was a good angst relief for me.

6. Zeitgeist--Not especially memorable except that it was just good to know the Pumpkins were back (well, at least Billy and Jimmy, and at least for one album). I do like "Death from Above" which was only on select versions of the CD (and thankfully the version I bought). Without "Death from Above" it probably would have been at the bottom of the rankings.

7. Gish--I know, I know, some people claim this debut album is the most "pure" of the Pumpkins album, and hipster Pumpkin-critics will often throw this out as "the Pumpkins' one good album" in their enlightened opinions. But for me, it's probably my least favorite, not because it is bad by any stretch of the imagination, but other than "Rhinoceros", "Crush" and the unorthodox "My Daydream" the songs themselves don't stand out in particular. I found Gish to be your expected debut album where the band was still finding itself, and things didn't truly click until Siamese Dream.

I'm omitting Machina II because that is download only and not something that can really be judged in a single sitting because there's no particular order to it. (Although "In My Body" is both great and depressing). And apparently in a similar light there is Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, which is also download only and coming out this month one song at a time. (I don't know, I'd much rather a traditionally released physical CD). It will be interesting to see how everything sounds with Billy being the only original member left in the group, but then again, with arguably the exception of Chamberlain, Billy really was the band.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:20 PM
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38. my top 3: siamese dream, gish, machina
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 10:15 PM
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6. Judas Priest
Edited on Wed Oct-28-09 10:43 PM by Iggo
1. Stained Class (includes my favorite song, Beyond The Realms Of Death)

2. Sin After Sin (side 2 is simply perfect, beginning with Let Us Prey and culminating with one of the most beautifully set up and hardest hitting metal songs of all time, Dissident Aggressor)

3. British Steel (#1 on most fans' lists)

4. Sad Wings Of Destiny (Victim Of Changes, The Ripper, Dreamer/Deceiver, Tyrant, Genocide, Island Of Domination)

5. Screaming For Vengeance (title track and Hellion/Electric Eye are worth the price of admission)

6. Point Of Entry (better than I remembered)

7. Painkiller (WAY better than I remembered)

8. Defenders Of The Faith (radio friendly)

9. Hell Bent For Leather (surprisingly, not as good as I remembered...lol.)

10. Rocka Rolla (raw, some good stuff, but forgettable)

11. Ram It Down (I'm starting to like this one, and I see it maybe moving up the list in the near future)

12. Angel Of Retribution (slick, but nothing special)

13. Nostradamus (huh?)

14. Jugulator/Demolition (Tim 'Ripper' Owens...um, no)

15. Turbo (still worse than the Tim 'Ripper' Owens albums)

If I could include one of their five live albums, it'd be the album I cut my metal guitar-playing teeth on, Unleashed In The East, and it'd probably be between British Steel and Sad Wings.

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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 08:37 AM
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52. Sad Wings would be my #1
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 11:15 AM
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61. I can see that, re: Sad Wings.
Edited on Fri Oct-30-09 11:15 AM by Iggo
Those top four are pretty interchangeable. No argument against any one of them being #1.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 10:30 PM
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7. Let's see
I only have three of their albums, but I'd say:

1. Along comes . . . The Association
2. Insight Out
3. Renaissance

Rankings subject to change depending on my mood.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 10:40 PM
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8. I'll do Nine Inch Nails.
1. Year Zero (perhaps the best concept album recorded between 2000 - 2010)
2. Pretty Hate Machine (Trent's debut still ranks among the best)
3. The Downward Spiral (NIN's most passionate release, still as good as when it was first released)
4. Broken (Trent as his angriest, one of the best EPs of the past two decades)
5. The Fragile (Sprawling double album, one that first got me into serious music)
6. (not the best NIN release but it has some damn good tracks like Only and The Hand That Feeds)
7. The Slip (the free release doesn't have the album feel that everything else NIN does but it still rocks)
8. Ghosts I-IV (NIN's instrumental album is too much to take in one sitting, it's better if split up)
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:09 AM
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12. You rank PHM above TDS too?
The Downward Spiral is a great album, but Pretty Hate Machine is one of my top three albums of all time.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:42 AM
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14. I think we're in the minority of NIN fans here.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:27 PM
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17. pretty hate machine is an incredible album
one of my faves, too
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:18 PM
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21. That's about how I would rank them as well...
...TDS was excellent, but PHM was monumental ground-breaking. IMHO
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 10:43 PM
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9. I would try doing this with the Beastie Boys, but
I don't think I could. I'd just sit here, staring at the screen trying to figure out the middle few albums.

It might be the end of me. I'm afraid.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 03:08 PM
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35. No, you can do this! I'll help (since you helped me out recently)
1. Paul's Boutique

Okay, you can take it from here....
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:27 PM
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41. Nah, his list would start with Ill Communication.
When he grows up he wants to settle down in the suburbs and have that record's babies. Well known fact.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 08:29 AM
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51. LOL! n/t
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 09:03 AM
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56. +1
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 11:00 PM
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10. Elvis Costello
1. Get Happy!!
2. This Year's Model
3. Armed Forces
4. Imperial Bedroom
5. My Aim is True
6. Almost Blue
7. Blood and Chocolate
8. King of America
9. Trust

...and the rest...
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:23 PM
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40. my top 3: get happy!!, imperial bedroom, this year's model
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 08:39 AM
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53. I'd have to switch 1 & 2
mostly because This Year's Model completely rocked my world the first time I heard it.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-28-09 11:08 PM
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11. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1970 Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
1975 Symphonion Dream
1972 Will the Circle Be Unbroken 4 68 — — Platinum —
1967 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1968 Rare Junk — — — — — —
1969 Alive — — — — — —
1971 All the Good Times — 162 — — — — United Artists
1974 Stars & Stripes Forever 32 28 — 25 — —
1976 Dirt, Silver and Gold 28 77 — — — —
1978 The Dirt Band — 163 — — — —
1979 An American Dream — 76 — 63 — —
1980 Make a Little Magic — 62 12 64 — — Liberty
1981 Jealousy — 102 — — — —
1983 Let's Go 26 — — — — —
1984 Plain Dirt Fashion 8 — 5 — — — Warner Bros.
1985 Partners, Brothers and Friends 9 — — — — —
1986 Twenty Years of Dirt 10 — — — Platinum —
1987 Hold On 14 — — — — —
1988 Workin' Band 33 — — — — —
More Great Dirt 38 — — — Gold —
1989 Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two 5 95 3 57 Platinum Gold MCA
1990 The Rest of the Dream 53 — — — — —
Live Two Five 50 — — — — — Capitol
1992 Not Fade Away — — — — — — Liberty
1994 Acoustic — — — — — —
1997 The Christmas Album — — — — — — Rising Tide
1999 Bang, Bang, Bang — — — — — — DreamWorks
2002 Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Three
2004 Welcome to Woody Creek
2009 Speed of Life
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:47 AM
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13. The Rolling Stones
1.Let it Bleed
2.Beggar's Banquet
3.Sticky Fingers
(These first three came out one after another'68'69'70 and if you ask me tomorrow the order might be different, Their finest creative period)
4.Through the Past Darkly
5.Some Girls
6.Tattoo You
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:43 AM
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15. No Exile?
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:04 PM
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43. always thought they should have edited it down to a single great album
rather than an okay double album

your right though
I probably should have included it

its from the same great period as my three favorites
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:22 PM
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16. Rush...
Signals (1982)
Roll the Bones (1991)
Moving Pictures (1981)
Vapor Trails (2002)
Snakes & Arrows (2007)
Grace Under Pressure (1984)
Permanent Waves (1980)
2112 (1976)
Counterparts (1993)
Power Windows (1985)
Test for Echo (1996)
Presto (1989)
Hold Your Fire (1987)
Hemispheres (1978)
Rush (1974)
Caress of Steel (1975)
A Farewell to Kings (1977)
Fly by Night (1975)




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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:45 AM
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47. Wow. Fly By Night and Caress of Steel are at the top of my Rush list.
I definitely liked their earlier stuff the best.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:41 PM
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18. Spinal Tap
Rock 'n' Roll Creation
Smell the Glove
Brainhammer
Bent for the Rent
Nerve Damage
Tap Dancing
Intravenus de Milo
The Sun Never Sweats
Blood to Let
Spinal Tap Sings "(Listen to the) Flower People" and Other Favourites
We Are All Flower People
Shark Sandwich
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wysimdnwyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:00 PM
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19. Doing two, just because I can
Widespread Panic:
1. Space Wrangler - Their first is still their best.
2. 'Til the Medicine Takes - Many of the songs were radio friendly, and several of their biggest hits are included.
3. Everyday - Widely considered their best effor, but the first two are better IMO.
4. Widespread Panic - Their second effort holds up surprisingly well.
5. Bombs and Butterflies - All other songs aside (they're mostly very good), "Hope in a Hopeless World" earns this record an edge over...
6. Ain't Life Grand - Arguably better than B&B, but lacking anything up to the level of "HIAHW".
7. Free Somehow - After a few mediocre (for WP) efforts, Free Somehow finds the band improving again. The full-time addition of Jimmy Herring on lead guitar is a big reason for this.
8. Earth to America - Almost as good as FS, but not quite.
9. Ball - There are a few good songs included, but there are several that are pretty weak.
10. Don't Tell the Band - Don't tell the band that this record wasn't very good. The two good songs ("Little Lilly" and "Big Wooly Mammoth") can't make up for the several bad ones.

If you're interested in getting one record by WP, I would suggest one of the live ones. You'll get a good variety and will get to experience the band in full force. Live in the Classic City is a fantastic triple disc.




Seven Mary Three:
1. Orange Ave. - Improving on their previous record, this one IS 7M3. If you thought "Cumbersome" defined this band, think again.
2. Rock Crown - A strong departure from the grunge sound of their first record, RC showcases the type of music 7M3 is best at.
3. Day and Night Driving - Like WP, 7M3 spent a few years "in the wilderness". D&ND finds them back playing their best. Strong songwriting makes this record stand out above the previous two.
4. American Standard - Yes, it's here. And it's damned good. If you liked the grunge sound of the early '90s, this will suit you just fine. And do yourself a favor - actually listen to the words. You will be impressed.
5. Dislocation - A few decent songs, but nother spectacular.
6. Economy of Sound - This is where 7M3 went awry. Not good, fellas.

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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:17 PM
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20. Depeche Mode. My top 10
1. Violator
2. Music For The Masses
3. Songs Of Faith & Devotion
4. Ultra
5. Sound Of The Universe
6. Playing The Angel
7. Black Celebration
8. Construction Time Again
9. Catching Up With Depeche Mode
10. Some Great Reward
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:25 PM
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24. I'd switch the top two, but not much argument from me!
I was actually going to do them but you beat me to it!
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:28 PM
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26. I could probably go either way myself...
...but top to bottom, it's hard to beat Violator.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:23 PM
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22. They Might Be Giants
1.Flood
2.They Might Be Giants
3.Lincoln
4.Apollo 18
5.Mink Car
6.John Henry
7.Factory Showroom
8.The Else
9.The Spine
10. Cast Your Pod To The Wind

I didn't rank greatest hits or the children's albums (I don't have the children's albums).

Now, for a complete change of pace, I'm going to do Madonna

1.Music
2.Confessions on a Dance Floor
3.American Life
4.Ray Of Light
5.Like A Prayer
6.Madonna
7.Bedtime Stories
8.Like A Virgin
9.True Blue
10.Erotica
11.Hard Candy
12.I'm Breathless

once again, I've left out the compliations & I also left out her two live albums (the two live albums are great and would rank in the top half of her catalogue, IMHO).

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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:17 PM
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37. God I love TMBG.
Thanks for making me smile.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:24 PM
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23. my favorite band is the cure, so i'm going to do my top five
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 02:42 PM by fizzgig
1. disintegration. enough said :)
2. show. i know this is a live album, but it's such an incredible performance. they're one of my two favorite bands to see live.
3. the head on the door. i think it's another really strong album. good mix of some poppy stuff and darker stuff.
4. japanese whispers. it's one the first cds of theirs i picked up and i still love it.
5. boys don't cry. pretty different from a lot of their stuff.

and, fwiw, their new album mostly sucks.

edit: had a brain fart
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:26 PM
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25. No Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me?!?!??!
:spank:

I'd replace 3 Imaginary Boys with Faith.

:-)
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:39 PM
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29. those would be my next two
and i totally meant boys don't cry, not three imaginary boys. duh. :eyes:

i saw them last year and the final encore was all from boys don't cry. i think i can die happy now that i've heard them play 'killing an arab' live.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:42 PM
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30. Wha??? They're back to playing "Killing An Arab" live?
Wow!

Damn! I missed them last time around.

:cry:

My "die happy" moment was when I got to hear them play "Lovecats".

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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:49 PM
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31. i think i've heard nearly every song on my 'die happy' list
just off the top of my head: love cats, jupiter crash, disintegration (not that i ever doubted they'd play it), 100 years (absolutely killer live), push, caterpillar, from the edge of the deep green sea.

here's the set list from the show

- something off the new album, i have no idea what it was
- prayers for rain
- a night like this
- end of the world
- love song
- to wish impossible things
- pictures of you
- lullaby
- maybe someday
- the perfect boy
- from the edge of the deep green sea
- hot hot hot
- the only one
- the blood
- the walk
- push
- friday i'm in love
- just like heaven
- if only tonight we could sleep
- wrong number
- 100 years
- and another new one i don't know

encore 1: homesick and disintegration

encore 2: freakshow, close to me and why can't i be you

encore 3: boys don't cry, jumping someone else's train, grinding halt, 1015 saturday night and killing an arab
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:55 PM
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32. Wow, what a fantastic show! My favorite live Cure moment
was during the tour for...gosh! It must have been Disintegration.

Anyway, it was summer here in Phoenix and it was an outdoor concert and even though it was night it was about a million degrees out.

During "Hot Hot Hot" one of the speakers over the stage caught on fire!! They played on, although when Robert Smith noticed he did a visible double-take. However, none of them missed a single beat and the song continued while stagehands lowered the speaker, extinguished the fire, and replaced and raised the new speaker.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:57 PM
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33. that's amazing
they always put on a fantastic show. last year's show was perhaps the most perfect show i've ever seen. it was at red rocks, the weather was perfect, we got to watch a nearly full moon rise and there was a fantastic thunder storm with the most incredible lightning over denver.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 03:01 PM
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34. Sounds magical. *sigh* They do always put on a great show.
I hope RS never retires. He's always threatening to, but he's done it so many times now that I'm starting to think that he won't.

I hope I can see them at least one more time.

That was my hope for the Cramps, though.

:cry:
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:31 PM
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27. B-52's
1.B-52's
2.Wild Planet
3.Cosmic Thing
4.Good Stuff
5.Whammy!
6.Bouncing Off The Satellites
7.Mesopotamia
8.Funplex

I haven't had time to fully appreciate "Funplex" yet. It may end up moving up the scale over time. IMHO, "Good Stuff" was exactly that, and is underrated.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 02:38 PM
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28. R.E.M.
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 02:45 PM by Coventina
1.Life's Rich Pageant
2.Reckoning
3.Fables of the Reconstruction
4.Document
5.Automatic For The People
6.Out of Time
7.Murmur
8.Dead Letter Office
9.Green
10.Around the Sun
11.Monster
12.New Adventures in Hi-Fi
13.Reveal

I realize I'm missing "Up" and "Accelerate". I don't have those albums, so I can't judge them.

on edit: Yes, this is my third "favorite" band. So I'm going to quit now. It was such a fun game, I couldn't do just one.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 12:49 AM
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45. I would move Green up to #2, but I agree 100% with #1...
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:48 AM
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48. I completely agree with Life's Rich Pageant as #1. My list:
1. Life's Rich Pageant
2. Murmur
3. Reckoning
4. Document
5. Out of Time
6. Fables of the Reconstruction (or is it Reconstruction of the Fables?)
7. Green
8. Automatic for the People (I stopped listening to them after this album)
9. Dead Letter Office
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 10:34 AM
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58. REM fans like the pre-Scott Litt stuff better
Longtime fans (like myself) generally prefer the murkier, moodier stuff produced by Mitch Easter, Don Dixon, or Joe Boyd, along with the Don Gehman produced "Pageant".

I'd put "Fables" at the top (not a conventional choice, I know), with Murmur/Chronic Town second.

I liked "Accelerate"; It's a bit of a throwback to the "Life's Rich Pageant"/"Document" sound.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 09:30 PM
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36. Nomeansno.
Wrong
0+2=1
All Roads Lead To Ausfahrt
Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed
The Day Everything Became Nothing
Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie
You Kill Me
Sex Mad
Generic Shame
Mr. Right and Mr. Wrong
The Worldhood of the World (As Such)
Mama
Why Do They call Me Mr. Happy?
Live and Cuddly
In The Fishtank
Would We Be Alive?


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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:22 PM
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39. Crowded House
1. Together Alone - Not their best-selling album. In fact probably their least popular. But it is quite possibly my favorite album of all time if I were forced to choose one.
2. Temple of Low Men
3. Crowded House
4. Woodface
5. Time on Earth

The ones in the middle would shift positions for me depending on my mood. But definitely the latest album, while good, was not their best. It was essentially a Neil Finn solo album that got molded into a CH album. I'm looking forward to the next studio album, which will be the first full album with the new lineup (RIP Paul Hester).
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:37 PM
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42. Rage Against the Machine
1. Evil Empire (Amazing album that anyone with any left leaning tendencies should own)
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. Renegades (A lot of people think this was either a sell-out or them half assing their way out of a four album deal, but for any Rage fan it was insight to their musical backgrounds and some of their best work.)
4. The Battle of Los Angeles (A solid album but just not as good as the other three)
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 12:45 AM
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44. Van Halen
Fair Warning - Their best album ever. And the first to NOT rely on the band's early club days material.

Van Halen I - Still one of the best debut albums in history, "Eruption" is still the standard that all other recorded guitar solos are measured by

Van Halen II - Literally the songs that didn't make the first album, so slightly worse than the first, but still solid.

Women and Children First - Their third album, yet featuring some of their oldest material. (two songs written and recorded for a demo in 1973 - rerecorded in 1980) Despite the age, it works well, and this album also features the only David Lee Roth/Eddie Van Halen acoustic duo "Could This Be Magic"

Diver Down - Yeah, half the songs are covers, but nobody does them like VH. And the other half, the original songs, are worth the price.

1984 - The album with all the big hits, ranked last? Why, you ask? One reason : Synthesizers. Never should have been there, and a warning of the shit that would come later. Aside from those two cheesy assed songs though, the rest of it is still great.

I will say nothing about that Van Hagar tripe, or that godawful abortion of an album with Gary Cherone. Word is that there will be a new album next spring with a tour to follow. The old songs sounded great in 2007, but the question is, can they deliver a worthy album after a 25 year break??
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:50 AM
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49. Yes, Fair Warning was by far their best, and most underrated.
It wasn't radio-friendly enough, and many people never even heard it.

I liked the Van Hagar years, so I'd still have them on a list, but to each their own.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:59 AM
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50. Metallica
1. Master of Puppets

2. Ride The Lightning

3. And Justice For All...

4. Kill'em All

5. Black Album

6. Load

7. Death Magnetic

8. St. Anger

9. Re-Load

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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:08 PM
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63. I never heard anything after #5 on your list.
Kill 'Em All still has a soft space in my heart. I was one of the first people in my town to ever listen to those guys. I bought that album just for the title. I remember them playing our City Hall auditorium to a crowd of about 500, when they were on the Ride the Lightning tour. I liked 'em best when they were nobodies.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 09:02 AM
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55. Pavement
1. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
2. Wowee Zowee
3. Watery, Domestic (EP)
4. Slanted & Enchanted
5. Perfect Sound Forever (EP)
6. Demolition Plot J-7 (EP)
7. Slay Tracks (EP)
8. Spit on a Stranger (EP)
9. Brighten the Corners
10. Major Leagues (EP)
11. Terror Twilight
12. Shady Lane (EP)
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 10:42 AM
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59. Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
Guitar Town
Train a Comin'
I Feel Alright
El Corazón
Transcendental Blues
Exit 0
The Mountain
Jerusalem
The Hard Way

Not rated: Any live recording; "Townes" (Townes Van Zandt covers); "Sidetracks" (outtakes, movie soundtrack stuff, etc); "Washington Square Seranade", "Revolution Starts Now" (don't own the albums)
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 11:01 AM
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60. My favorite band X....

Wild Gift
Under The Big Black Sun
More Fun In The New World
Beyond And Back: The X Anthology
Ain’t Love Grand
See How We Are
ALL other EP’s and comps...

I guess they are pretty much in order of release...that's the way I lived it...wouldn't trade that for gold.

Film:
The Unheard Music
X Live-In Los Angeles

Tikki
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 12:47 PM
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62. Porcupine Tree:
1. Stupid Dream
2. The Incident
3. In Absentia
4. Lightbulb Sun
5. Deadwing
6. Up The Downstair
7. Signify
8. Voyage 34
9. Recordings
10. Nil Recurring
11. Fear Of A Blank Planet
12. The Sky Moves Sideways
13. On The Sunday Of Life
14. Staircase Infinities
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