30 albums... for the rest of your life

[Kodos]

Aliens have come to take you to Planet X in the Valtar nebula! It will be a one-way trip. They tell you that you can only bring 30 CDs with you. No digital music is allowed. Furthermore, the CDs cannot be greatest hit packages or compilations or soundtracks. What do you take? :eek:

Here are mine, not in order. Just numbered for counting purposes.

1. Def Leppard - Hysteria
2. Def Leppard - Pyromania
3. Def Leppard - Slang
4. Van Halen - 5150
5. Boston - Third Stage
6. U2 - Achtung Baby
7. Van Halen - 1984
8. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
9. Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
10. Jon Bon Jovi - Destination Anywhere
11. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
12. Bodeans - Black & White
13. Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
14. Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
15. Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
16. Def Leppard - Adrenalize
17. Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
18. Dokken - Under Lock & Key
19. Genesis - Invisible Touch
20. Phil Collins - But Seriously
21. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
22. Green Day - Dookie
23. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
24. The Police - Synchronicity
25. U2 - Joshua Tree
26. Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
27. Heart - Heart
28. Poison - Flesh & Blood
29. Heart - Bad Animals
30. Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

[thesloppy]

Mogwai - Young Team
The Beatles - Revolver (UK)
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
The Stooges - Fun House
AC/DC - Powerage
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Palace - Viva Lost Blues
Palace - Lost Blues
Will Oldham - Joya
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Chavez - Ride the Fader
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Hayden - Skyskraper National Park
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Melvins - Lysol
Love - Forever Changes
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Elvis Presley - That's the Way it Is
Kiss - Alive!

[cartman]

I'll bite (also no particular order):

1. U2 - The Joshua Tree
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
6. Sublime - Sublime
7. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
8. Alan Parsons Project - Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
9. N.w.A. - Straight Outta Compton
10. Radiohead - O.K. Computer
11. Nirvana - Nevermind
12. R.E.M. - Out of Time
13. Led Zeppelin - IV
14. Van Morrison - Moondance
15. The Who - Tommy
16. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
17. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
18. Queen - A Night at the Opera
19. The Doors - The Doors
20. Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
21. The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
22. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
23. Van Halen - 1984
24. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
25. Pearl Jam - Ten
26. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
27. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
28. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation
29. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
30. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual

[path12]

All right, I'll give it a shot, trying to keep it to one per artist except Beck gets two. No order:

1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
2. Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles
3. One Step Beyond... - Madness
4. Trust - Elvis Costello
5. Argybargy - Squeeze
6. In Visible Silence - Art of Noise
7. Odelay - Beck
8. Mutations - Beck
9. Reckoning - R.E.M.
10. Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
11. Live From Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
12. Anodyne - Uncle Tupelo
13. Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
14. Tim - The Replacements
15. Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
16. Schoolboys in Disgrace - The Kinks
17. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
18. Gimme Fiction - Spoon
19. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
20. Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - Pavement
21. In Rainbows - Radiohead
22. 10000 hz Legend - Air
23. Trace - Son Volt
24. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
25. One More From The Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
26. Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre
27. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
28. Elephant - White Stripes
29. Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats
30. In Utero - Nirvana

[Honolulu_Blue]

I would be hard pressed to come up with 30, I think...

[Young Drachma]

No order.

Life would be over. But I'll bite.

Aloha - Sugar
+/- (Plus/Minus) - Let's Build A Fire
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Incubus - Morning View
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Outkast - ATLiens
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Frou Frou - Details
Bjork - Post
Live - Throwing Copper
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Machinehead - The Blackening
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling
Hilary Hahn - Mendelssohn & Shostakovitch Violin Concertos
Frank Sinatra - Songs For Young Lovers
Pearl Jam - Vs.
The Nixons - Foma
Sondre Lerche - Faces Down
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas
Deftones - White Pony
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Guster - Keep It Together
Susana Baca - Espiritu Vivo
Ray Lamontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black

[cartman]

I would be hard pressed to come up with 30, I think...

I had to think about it a bit, since compliations/best of/soundtracks couldn't be used. That's why I have no Rolling Stones on my list. None of their individual albums do much for me, but I love Hot Rocks 1&2.

[Kodos]

I had to leave out Queen for similar reasons.

[Young Drachma]

I had to think about it a bit, since compliations/best of/soundtracks couldn't be used. That's why I have no Rolling Stones on my list. None of their individual albums do much for me, but I love Hot Rocks 1&2.

They are aliens, they'd never know the difference. ;)

[Scarecrow]

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[Karlifornia]

Guns 'N' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Nirvana- In Utero
Cursive- Happy Hollow
Sunny Day Real Estate- How It Feels To Be Something On
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism
Snoop Doggy Dogg- Doggystyle
Weezer- Blue Album
Weezer- Pinkerton
Grandaddy- What Happened To The Fambly Cat?
At The Drive-In- Relationship Of Command
The Mars Volta- Frances The Mute
The White Stripes- Elephant
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks
Fugazi- 13 Songs
DMX- It's Dark, and Hell Is Hot
Oasis- What's The Story, Morning Glory?
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
Smashin Pumpkins- Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
Placebo- Without You I'm Nothing
David Bowie- Station To Station
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Alanis Morrissette- Jagged Little Pill
Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
Spoon- Gimme Fiction
Bright Eyes- Lifted
Radiohead-The Bends
Radiohead-OK Computer
The Good Life- Novena On A Nocturn

[path12]

Shit. How did I forget White Stripes and Spoon? Now I've got to edit.

[Honolulu Blue]

I would be hard pressed to come up with 30, I think...

HB #2 here.

Yeah, it was difficult for me to come up with my 30, but I considered it a challenge and got it done. Besides, I might change my mind about many of these tomorrow, or next week, or next month.

Drumroll please...

* The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
* The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
* The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
* The Police - Ghost in the Machine
* The Police - Synchronicity
* Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
* Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun
* Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
* "Weird Al" Yankovic - "Weird Al" Yankovic
* "Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D
* "Weird Al" Yankovic - Dare to be Stupid
* The Cars - The Cars
* The Cars - Heartbeat City
* Genesis - Abacab
* Genesis - Genesis
* The Fixx - Reach the Beach
* The Fixx - Phantoms
* Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
* Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
* Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
* Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
* Tony Carey - Some Tough City
* Whitney - Whitney Houston
* The Power Station - The Power Station
* Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast
* John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
* Prince - Around the World in a Day
* Billy Joel - Glass Houses
* Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
* Quiet Riot - Metal Health

[Buccaneer]

30 is a lot to list (esp. no GH) and to read, imo.

(going through my Cover Flow)

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
About Face - David Gilmour
Hotel California - Eagles
Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Bad Animals - Heart
Bebe Le Strange - Heart
Brigade - Heart
Desire Walks On - Heart
(shit, just pick all of the Heart albums)
(and pick each of the Pink Floyd albums)
How To Dismantle and Atomic Bomb - U2
The Joshua Tree- U2
October - U2
War - U2
Quadrophenia - The Who

[st.cronin]

The Police - Regatta de Blanc
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Radiohead - Amnesiac
John Zorn - Naked City
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - II
Bjork - Post
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Paul Motian Band - Motian in Tokyo
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't Stand the Weather
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith
Foetus - Nail
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months...
Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Bob Marley - Natty Dread
Portishead - Dummy
Shakira - Unplugged

[Groundhog]

Radiohead - OK Computer
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - s/t
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Caravan - s/t
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
The Coral - Roots & Echoes
Cake - Fashion Nugget
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Gong - You
Hatfield and the North - s/t
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
King Crimson - Red
Mr. Bungle - California
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Supertramp - Even In the Quietest Moments
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Fragile
Yes - The Yes Album
10cc - How Dare You

[Danny]

30 copies of the Thriller single

[QuikSand]

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Beatles, Revolver
Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Steely Dan, Aja
Peter Gabriel, Security
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (III)
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood
David and David, Welcome to the Boomtown
The Police, Synchronicity
Steve Earle, El Corazon
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Texas Flood
Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis
Johnny Cash, Live from San Quentin
John Hammond, Wicked Grin
Beck, Odelay
Radiohead, The Bends
Radiohead, OK Computer
White Stripes, Elephant
Cake, Fashion Nugget
Counting Crows, August and Everything After
Black Keys, Attack and Release
Sufjan Stevens, Come on Hear The Illinoise
Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
The Roots, The Tipping Point

[condors]

It was harder than i thought to slim it down to 30

1-Queensryche-Queensryche(5 song cd)
2-Queensryche-Rage for Order
3-Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
4-Queensryche-Empire
5-Queensryche-Hear in the Now Frontier
6-Queensryche-Q2K
7-Queensryche-Tribes
8-Ramones-Ramones
9-Ramones-Leave Home
10-Ramones-Rocket to Russia
11-Ramones-End of the Century
12-Ramones-Animal Boy
13-Black Sabbath-Paranoid
14-Van Halen-Van Halen
15-AC/DC - Back in Black
16-Judas Priest-British Steel
17-Led Zepplin - IV
18-Deep Purple - Machinehead
19-Joan Jett-Glorious results of a mispent youth
20-Joan Jett-I love rock n roll
21-Joan Jett-Bad Reputation
22-Dokken-Unleashed in the East
23-Kiss-Alive
24-Aerosmith-Rocks the album does
25-Deep Purple-Perfect Strangers
26-Anthrax-Among the Living
27-Megadeath-So Far So Good So What
28-Metallica-And Justice for All
29-The Runaways - Queens of Noise
30-Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

I need more

[Radii]

Metallica - Metallica
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Pearl Jam - ten
Bon Jovi - slippery when wet
U2 - Joshua Tree
Poison - Open up and say... Ahh!
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Led Zepplin - IV
Live - Throwing Copper
REM - Automatic for the People
Jewel - Pieces of You
Jewel - Spirit
Sarah McLachlan - fumbling towards ecstacy
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Sarah McLachlan - Aterglow
Billy Joel - piano man (apologies to Quiksand)
Billy Joel - the stranger
Elton John - Elton John
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Beatles - White Album
Simon and Garfunkel - sounds of silence
Simon and Garfunkel - parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Simon and Garfunkel - bridge over troubled water
Beach Boys - pet sounds
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - Strange Days
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Eagles - Hotel California
Barenaked Ladies - Everything to Everyone



Eric Clapton Unplugged, U2's Rattle and Hum, Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park would all 3 get more play than any of the 30 listed above with just one, maybe two exceptions if they were allowed.

[Apathetic Lurker]

No order..

Rock Goddess- Hell Hath No Fury
Rock Goddess
Motorhead- 1916
Motorhead-Bomber
Girlschool- Demolition Man
Girlschool- Screaming Blue Murder
Bernie Torme- Turn Out The Lights
Iron Maiden-
Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind
Martina McBride-Timeless
Azyl P- Azyl P live
Vader- De Profundis
Atomik Harmonik-Vriskaaaaj !
Motley Crue- Dr Feelgood
Motley Crue-Girls Girls Girls
Sweet-Desolation Boulevard
Sweet-Level Headed
Slade-Slayed
Slade- Whatever Happened To Slade
Nightwish-Amaranth
Kiss-Destroyer
Toby Keith-White Trash With Money
J. Strauss-Collection

Thats it off the top of my head

[kurtism]

Jeff Buckley, Grace
Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique
Beck, Odelay
Duke Ellington, Live at Newport 1956
Jellyfish, Spilt Milk
Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend
Big Star, #1 Record
Lyle Lovett, Live in Texas
Martin Sexton, Live Wide Open
Richard Thompson, More Guitar
Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds Five
Wynton Marsalis Septet, In This House, On This Morning
XTC, English Settlement
The Clash, London Calling
Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
U2, The Joshua Tree
REM, Fables of the Reconstruction
Tom Waits, The Heart of Saturday Night
Ryan Adams, Gold
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Pornographers, Electric Version
Luka Bloom, Turf
Barenaked Ladies, Rock Spectacle
The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
Chris Whitley, Living With the Law
Grant Lee Buffalo, Mighty Joe Moon
Prince, Sign O the Times
Wilco, Being There
The Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me

Tried to limit/minimize repeat performances by the same artists, and keep a relatively wide spread of styles. Ask in a week, at least 20% of this list would no doubt be different.

[spleen1015]

None of you sluts like Live?

[Scarecrow]

I want to be on the ship with Quick. #31 & 32 for me were Kind of Blue and Love Supreme - I just couldn't decide between the two and took Stevie Wonder instead.

And what's up with all the OK Computer? Don't get me wrong, I like the album, but everytime I listen to it I feel like putting a gun to my head - by far one of the most mood depressing albums I've ever heard.

[Karlifornia]

None of you sluts like Live?

...not as much as their own lead singer does ;)

[Young Drachma]

None of you sluts like Live?

Quite a bit. But you know, gotta diversify.

[Young Drachma]

I want to be on the ship with Quick. #31 & 32 for me were Kind of Blue and Love Supreme - I just couldn't decide between the two and took Stevie Wonder instead.

And what's up with all the OK Computer? Don't get me wrong, I like the album, but everytime I listen to it I feel like putting a gun to my head - by far one of the most mood depressing albums I've ever heard.

My choices were aimed at making sure that I was upbeat, given the long trip.

[Karlifornia]

And what's up with all the OK Computer? Don't get me wrong, I like the album, but everytime I listen to it I feel like putting a gun to my head - by far one of the most mood depressing albums I've ever heard.

I never find myself getting depressed by music. In fact, "depressing" music can often make me feel better. Maybe it's the whole misery loves company thing.

[Groundhog]

I never find myself getting depressed by music. In fact, "depressing" music can often make me feel better. Maybe it's the whole misery loves company thing.

Indeed. I find "depressing" music (ie. music with lots of minor chords and downbeat lyrics) to be on the whole more interesting than regular major key stuff, for whatever reason. Even when I'm playing around on a guitar, I prefer to strum Em than E. :)

[Groundhog]

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Beatles, Revolver
Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Steely Dan, Aja
Peter Gabriel, Security
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (III)
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood
David and David, Welcome to the Boomtown
The Police, Synchronicity
Steve Earle, El Corazon
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Texas Flood
Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis
Johnny Cash, Live from San Quentin
John Hammond, Wicked Grin
Beck, Odelay
Radiohead, The Bends
Radiohead, OK Computer
White Stripes, Elephant
Cake, Fashion Nugget
Counting Crows, August and Everything After
Black Keys, Attack and Release
Sufjan Stevens, Come on Hear The Illinoise
Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
The Roots, The Tipping Point

There's a few things on this list I'm not familiar with, but more so than anybody else's list, I could probably survive quite happily with these 30 discs.

[Karlifornia]

Indeed. I find "depressing" music (ie. music with lots of minor chords and downbeat lyrics) to be on the whole more interesting than regular major key stuff, for whatever reason. Even when I'm playing around on a guitar, I prefer to strum Em than E. :)

My first guitar teacher told me that minor chords were the musical equivalent to a "cliffhanger" ending in a movie. I find the chord that gives me that feeling more than any other is B7.

[Kevin]

Supertramp - Paris
Ron Hynes - Get Back Change
Bruce Springsteen - the River
U2 - Joshua Tree
Eagles - Hotel California
Matt Andersen - Live at Liberty House
Chuck Brodsky - Tulips for Lunch
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Stan Rogers - Turnaround
Van Morrison - Moondance
Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks
Ron Hynes - Cryers Paradise
Minglewood - Drivin Wheel
Dave Gunning - Lost Tracks
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Muddy Waters - Hard Again
Boston - Boston
Willie Nelson - Stardust
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits
Jennifer Warrens - Famous Blue Raincoat
Dave Gunning - House for Sale
Chuck Brodsky - Colour Came One Day
CCR - Green River
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Johnny Cash - the Legend of Johnny Cash
John Lee Hooker - The Healer
J. P. Cormier - Another Morning
Stan Rogers - Fogarty's Cove
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather

[BYU 14]

Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
Cheap Trick - Silver anniversary concert
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Boston - Boston
Kiss - The Box set
Kansas - Leftoverture
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
The Knack - Get the Knack
The Cars - Greatest Hits
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Hanoi Rocks - Three steps from the move
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Nazereth - Hair of the Dog
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns N Roses - Use your illusion 1
Guns N Roses - Use your illusion 2
Dokken - Breaking the Chains
Motorhead - 1916
Motorhead - Everything louder than everyone else
Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits 1 and 2
NWA - Straight outta Compton
Poison - 20 years of rock
Foghat - Live
Queen - Jazz
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen - Live Killers
TLC - Crazy, Sexy, Cool

[Qwikshot]

1)Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
2)IV - Led Zeppelin
3)Stay Positive - Hold Steady
4)Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
5)Being There - Wilco
6)Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
7)Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues - Nick Cave
8)Thriller - Michael Jackson
9)Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
10)What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
11)Otis Blue - Otis Redding
12)The Name of the Band is - Talking Heads
13)Who's Next - the Who
14)Live at the Apollo - James Brown
15)College Dropout - Kanye West
16)Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
17)White Album - Beatles
18)Exile on Main Street- Rolling Stones
19)Tidal - Fiona Apple
20)Paranoid - Black Sabbath
21)London Calling - Clash
22)Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
23)Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
24)License to Ill - Beastie Boys
25)Ramones - The Ramones
26)Feeling Kinda Patton - Patton Oswalt
27)At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
28)Surfer Rosa - Pixies
29)Room on Fire - Strokes
30)Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

[Passacaglia]

I took a look at my ratings, and since it seemed boring to list the Top 30 in terms of average rating per album, I also made it so that I could only have one album from each artist, and one album per year.

Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson - At the Opera House
Vince Guaraldi - The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Blondie - Blondie
Steely Dan - Aja
Rupert Holmes - Adventure
Genesis - Abacab
Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going!
Police - Synchronicity
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
New Order - Technique
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
REM - Out of Time
Sundays - Blind
Velocity Girl - Copacetic
Portishead - Dummy
Love Jones - Powerful Pain Relief
Joe Jackson and Friends - Heaven & Hell
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Saint Etienne - Sound of Water
Shins - Oh, Inverted World!
Apparat Organ Quartet - Apparat Organ Quartet
Dido - Life For Rent
Au Revoir Simone - Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation
Innocence Mission - We Walked in Song
No Kids - Come into my House

[Passacaglia]

Also, my ratings are a work in progress, so songs get a chance to be rated higher the more often they come up in shuffle. I think I was late adding the Beatles to my ipod, so their albums are lagging behind everything else.Some places where I'd look at a year and think, "oh, I'd probably rather have some other album than what came up":

1981: October by U2 over Abacab
1982: The Dreaming by Kate Bush over Hello, I Must Be Going!
1984: The Smiths by The Smiths over Sports
1987: Happy Come Home by Victoria Williams over Introduce Yourself (but it would be a tough call)
1989: Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails over Technique
1994: David Byrne by David Byrne over Dummy
1999: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds Five over Central Reservation
2000: The Noise Made By People by Broadcast over Sound of Water
2005: Cansei de Ser Sexy by CSS over Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation
2007: Places Like This by Architecture in Helsinki over We Walked in Song

[lcjjdnh]

Eat A Peach -- Allman Brothers
The Band -- The Band
Music From Big Pink -- The Band
Pet Sounds -- The Beach Boys
Wild Honey -- The Beach Boys
Abbey Road -- The Beatles
The Beatles (White Album) -- The Beatles
Revolver -- The Beatles
Nashville Skyline -- Bob Dylan
Hammersmith Odeon, London Live '75 -- Bruce Springsteen
The Clash -- The Clash
London Calling -- The Clash
Deja Vu -- CSNY
Time Out -- Dave Brubeck
Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs -- Derek & the Dominos
My Aim is True -- Elvis Costello
This Year's Model -- Elvis Costello
Are You Experienced -- Jimi Hendrix Experience
Axis: Bold as Love -- Jimi Hendrix Experience
A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane
Swiss Movement -- Les McCann and Eddie Harris
Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis
Otis Blue -- Otis Redding
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain -- Pavement
The Bends -- Radiohead
Exile on Main Street -- The Rolling Stones
Let it Bleed -- The Rolling Stones
Astral Weeks -- Van Morrison
Moondance -- Van Morrison
Loaded -- Velvet Underground

[QuikSand]

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Beatles, Revolver
Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Steely Dan, Aja
Peter Gabriel, Security
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (III)
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood
David and David, Welcome to the Boomtown
The Police, Synchronicity
Steve Earle, El Corazon
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Texas Flood
Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis
Johnny Cash, Live from San Quentin
John Hammond, Wicked Grin
Beck, Odelay
Radiohead, The Bends
Radiohead, OK Computer
White Stripes, Elephant
Cake, Fashion Nugget
Counting Crows, August and Everything After
Black Keys, Attack and Release
Sufjan Stevens, Come on Hear The Illinoise
Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
The Roots, The Tipping Point

Re-thinking, after a bit of time has passed... still generally happy with this list, but:

1. Must find room for Talking Heads, Remain In Light. That's a top priority. Just a blunder last time on my part.

2. I think I could cut out the Cake. Love it, but maybe not quite here.

3. I'm listening to Abbey Road right now, and most times I do I kick myself for not raking this as my favorite Beatles. So, maybe it is? Okay, two Beatles, and Revolver only edging out Rubber Soul, I'd note.

4. I can drop out a deep-cut fave of mine, David & David, but it is really great and 100% worth streaming for free.

5. Have to leave the John Hammond album here, as it's my backdoor way to include Tom Waits and I like it even better than Raindogs. But the latter would be more of a crowd pleaser, and that's a worthy consideration. Kinda depends if anyone is in the car with me, got it?

6. Yes, I still think that's my favorite Black Keys album. They stay in.

6a. Beck, same.

7. I am oddly fine with two rap albums at the end, but am put off by four jazz albums at the beginning. I feel like I either should put in 12 jazz albums or none. I'll stick with 4, but it's an uneasy compromise to me.

8. Dusty Springfield just seems like she's in serious trouble on this liferaft.

9. I think I need to put Arcade Fire's The Suburbs here, too. Maybe I could push off a Peter Gabriel album. 20 years ago, no chance, but today, yeah, I reckon I could let PGIII go.

[Groundhog]

Pretty happy with my list still. If I were to do the same thing again today probably 20 albums would change, but I'd still be happy with those 30 albums. A bit disappointing that there haven't been any albums released in the last 10 years that I'd add to my list. Never thought I'd become one of those guys that never listens to anything new!

[AENeuman]

Albums?

Conversation with a student the other day:
i just got into the Beatles this weekend, I love them!
Cool, what albums have heard?
All of them.

It probably took me years the buy, gather and hear all the Beatles. Today, instanly and free-ish.

[Julio Riddols]

1 - Metallica - Master of Puppets
2 - White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
3 - Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
4 - Ghost - Meliora
5 - Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
6 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
7 - Alice In Chains - Dirt
8 - Rick James - Street Songs
9 - Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
10 - Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
11 - Talking Heads - 77
12 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
13 - Tame Impala - Currents
14 - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
15 - Neil Young - Harvest
16 - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
17 - Ramones - Ramones
18 - Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
19 - Heart - Dreamboat Annie
20 - Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
21 - Sharon Jones and the DAP Kings - Soul Of A Woman
22 - Strand of Oaks - Heal
23 - The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
24 - Blondie - Parallel Lines
25 - Genesis - Invisible Touch
26 - The Doors - The Doors
27 - The Cars - The Cars
28 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
29 - The Roots - The Tipping Point
30 - Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

I want to probably diversify a little more into the hip hop and old school blues genres, but this is my initial list.

[Groundhog]

Albums?

Conversation with a student the other day:
i just got into the Beatles this weekend, I love them!
Cool, what albums have heard?
All of them.

It probably took me years the buy, gather and hear all the Beatles. Today, instanly and free-ish.

Yeah, Spotify (or streaming music in general) is a bit of a revelation. That said, having to order and wait a month for various obscure discs in my 20s gave me an appreciation (aka, made me give a lot of albums more of a chance than I would if I just searched on Spotify and hit play) for some stuff that I doubt I would have had otherwise.

[Ksyrup]

While I have moved entirely to digital (although I still buy CDs when they are part of a special order/kickstarter-type of thing), I can't shake albums or purchasing music. I want to own it - it's almost part of an identity or something. And I am buying tons of more music now than I ever have.

[Groundhog]

While I have moved entirely to digital (although I still buy CDs when they are part of a special order/kickstarter-type of thing), I can't shake albums or purchasing music. I want to own it - it's almost part of an identity or something. And I am buying tons of more music now than I ever have.

Yeah, that's not an uncommon thing with us "pre-digital" folks. For a long time I would still download my own copies of everything digital I bought, and if it was from a walled garden streaming service that didn't allow that, I would download "illegal" copies, and store them on a drive on my PC that I would in all probability never look at again.

I forced myself to stop doing it a few years ago, and never looked back... I even threw out a large % of my CD collection, which had all been ripped to mp3 a long time ago. I had a really large collection and it was strangely liberating just chucking them away.

[BYU 14]

Mine has changed a bit, but still some from my original post in 2008 (bolded are on my original)

In no particular order
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Cheap Trick - Budokon
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Boston - Boston
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Queen - Night at the Opera
Queen - News of the World
One Drop - Mission Boulevard
One Drop - Black Book Diaries
Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire
Guns N Roses - Appetite
Gyptian - Sex. Love & Reggae
Bob Marley - Exodus
The Cars - Candy-O
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Dokken - Breaking the Chains
Fair Warning - Fair Warning
Scorpions - Blackout
Kiss - Destroyer
Journey - Infinity
LA Guns - Cocked and Loaded
Magic - Don't Kill the Magic
Metallica - Master of Puppets
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
TLC - Crazy, Sexy, Cool
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Motorhead - 1916

[corbes]

1. Paul Simon, Graceland
2. Paul Simon, Rhythm of the Saints
3. Gillian Welch, Time the Revelator
4. Gillian Welch, Revival
5. Brigitte Engerer, Chopin Nocturnes
6. Emerson String Quartet, Shostakovich String Quartets
7. Trey Anastasio Band
8. Phish, Billy Breathes
9. Phish, Farmhouse
10. Phish, A Live One
11. Grateful Dead, American Beauty
12. Habib Koite, Ma Ya
13. Rokia Traore, Tchamantche
14. Boubacar Traore, Kongo Magni
15. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, That's It!
16. Dr. John, Gumbo
17. The Jayhawks, Tomorrow the Green Grass
18. The Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music
19. Beatles, The White Album
20. Phyllis Dillon, One Life to Live
21. Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around
22. Dianne Reeves, Good Night Good Luck
23. Bob Marley, Exodus
24. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights
25. Oliver Mtukudzi, Tuku Music
26. Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed
27. Talking Heads, Remain in Light
28. Beatles, Rubber Soul
29. Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
30. Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison

[QuikSand]

Totally agreed with the note above -- I love Johnny Cash and Hank Williams (and fairly little else from the "country" genre), but don't have any working knowledge of their albums, just compilations and live stuff. Live from San Quentin makes my list, but I'm leaving out a ton of stuff I really like from both of them by doing so.

[thesloppy]

I've opened this thread multiple times and scrolled to a random list that I catch that catches my eye, and I'm like "that guy has good taste!".....of course, it's my list every time.

[Scarecrow]

Back in Black - AC/DC
Odelay - Beck
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Boston - Boston
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
x - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Escape - Journey
Devil Without a Cause - Kid Rock
Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO) - Led Zepplin
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zepplin
Metallica - Metallica
x - Tragic Kingdom -No Doubt
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Automatic for the People - REM
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Aja -Steeley Dan
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Licensed to Ill - The Bestie Boys
The Cars - The Cars
x - Who's Next - The Who
1984 - Van Halen
90125 - Yes

10 years and still pretty accurate. Deleting 3 (in italics), and adding:

Fashion Nugget - Cake
(What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
Galore - The Cure

[Julio Riddols]

Haha, just realized this thread was necromanced.

My list would have been almost all hip hop a decade ago.

[bob]

- [ ] Alice In Chains - Dirt
- [ ] Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
- [ ] Pearl Jam - Vs
- [ ] Pearl Jam - Ten
- [ ] Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
- [ ] Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
- [ ] Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
- [ ] Stone Temple Pilots - Core
- [ ] Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
- [ ] Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers - Americano
- [ ] Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers - Honky Tonk Union
- [ ] Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
- [ ] Temple of the Dog
- [ ] Audioslave
- [ ] Audioslave - Out of Exile
- [ ] The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
- [ ] Chris Cornell - Euphoria Mourning
- [ ] Mad Season - Above
- [ ] R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
- [ ] Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
- [ ] Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- [ ] Lauren Hill - Miseducation
- [ ] Them Crooked Vultures
- [ ] Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
- [ ] Metallica - Black Album
- [ ] Soundgarden - Superunknown
- [ ] Oasis - What's the Story
- [ ] Janes Addiction - Ritual
- [ ] Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
- [ ] Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium