A few rules with this one: first, you can only pick one album from any one artist/group & secondly, you can't pick a best of etc. & third, where stumped between a choice of two or possibly three really good or great albums from the same artist/band try to pick the album which you feel is the most "self-contained" statement/music wise.

 

Mine in no particular order:

 

1.    Blue Valentine - Tom Waits

2.    Moon Safari - Air

3.    Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight

4.    Yield - Pearl Jam

5.    Horses - Patti Smith

6.    Another Green World - Eno

7.    Remain in Light - Talking Heads

8.    Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk

9.    Hejira - Joni Mitchell

10.  Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground

11.  Big Calm - Morcheeba

12.  A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

13.  16 Lovers Lane - The Go Betweens

14.  The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

15.  Dummy - Portishead

16.  Calenture - The Triffids

17.  Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

18.  Sound Affects - The Jam

19.  Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones

20.  The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett

1. AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It

2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

3. Bob Marley - Exodus

4. TheTemptations - Masterpiece

5. Deep Purple - Made In Japan

6. Peter Tosh - Equal Rights

7. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74

8. Al Green - Let's Stay Together

9. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

10. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

11. Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon

12. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

13. Cream - Disraeli Gears

14. Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity

15. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory

16. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On

17. Hawkwind - A Space Ritual

18. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

19. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World

20. Janis Joplin (Full Tilt Boogie Band) - Pearl

Blimey, just looked at the completed list and realised that every album is from the 70's apart from Disraeli Gears!

In no particular order, and somehow managing to omit any number of albums by the likes of Donny Hathaway, Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, Al Green, Pentangle, SAHB,  Thin Lizzy, Peter Tosh, King Tubby, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Marianne Faithful, The Pretty Things, The Who, Joe Cocker, Jr Walker, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, The Doors  etc etc etc ad infinitum.

 

1. Chambers Brothers - Love Peace & Happiness
2. Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
3. Georgie Fame - Cool Cat Blues
4. Temptations - Puzzle People
5. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
6. Elvis Costello - Get Happy
7. The Jam - All Mod Cons
8. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Ju Ju
9. The Damned - The Black Album
10. Joy Division - Closer
11. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
12. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
13. Lou Reed - Magic And Loss
14. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
15. Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers
16. The Members - Chelsea Nightclub
17. Dr Feelgood - Malpractice
18. Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
19. Santana - Amigos
20. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

With special mention for The Best of Taste, still my favourite Rory Gallagher album (only Taste album I've ever owned); Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hits, and a Patti Smith 5-album box set that includes Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter, Wave and Dream of Life, In Memorium by Bob Marley - a double CD on Trojan that includes just about all the early classics. Jivin' With Jordan , a 4-CD Louis Jordan box set.

I could go on....
 

1  Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
2  Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies
3  Pink Floyd- Wish You were Here
4  The Eagles- Hotel California
5  Genesis- Selling England By the Pound
6  Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
7  The Specials- The Specials
8  Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
9  Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure
10 Bob Marley- Exodus
11 Talking Heads- Talking Heads:77
12 Elvis Costello- Armed Forces
13 Dido- No Angel
14 Frerika Stahl- Sweep Me Away
15 Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak
16 Dire Straights- Brothers in Arms
17 Bad Company- Straight Shooter
18 Lou Reed- Transformer
19 Alanis Morisette- Jagged Little Pill
20 The Verve- Urban Hymns

ahhh this is just too difficult....

^ yep - very difficult isn't it. Utter dismay that I couldn't include the likes of Costello, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Neil Young etc. etc. 

i have tried to do this many times.

1. Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself (Japanese Edition)

2. Zebrahead - Call Your Friends (J.E)

3. New Medicine - Race You To The Bottom

4. Less Than Jake - Anthem

5. Nickelback - Here and Now

6. Theory of a Deadman - Scars and Souvenirs

7. Default - One Thing Remains

8. The Blackout - Hope

9. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

10. Heavens Basement - Filthy Empire

11. Green Day - American Idiot

12. Cavo - Thick as Thieves

13. Saving Abel - Miss America

14. Lostprophets - Start Something (Its still a good album despite Ian Watkins being a sick bar steward)

15. Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up

16. Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve

17. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth

18. Tenacious D

19. 12 Stones - Anthem For The Underdog

20. Feeder - Comfort in Sound

Good god, one one album per artist! This is going to be hard, here goes:

 

1. Muse - Absolution (To try to explain this one, I am a huge Muse fan. Absolution was the first album by them I heard so for that reason it will always be my favourite.

2. Metallica - S&M

3. The Killers - Hot Fuss

4. BT - These Hopeful Machines

5. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

6. Deadmau5 - Random Album Title

7. Faithless - Reverence

8. Friendly Fires - Pala

9. Kasabian - Empire

10. Massive Attack - Mezzanine

11. Nero - Welcome Reality

12. Ludovico Einaudi - In A Time Lapse

13. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour

14. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

15. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

16. Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other

17. Tiesto - Elements of Life

18. White Lies - To Lose My Life

19. Wilkinson - Lazers Not Included

20. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby

can we split the difference at 50 every time i think of one, another turns up!

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

2. Arcade Fire - Funeral

3. U2 - Joshua Tree

4. Paul Simon - Graceland

5. Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake

6. Underworld - The Anthology

7. Radiohead - In Rainbows

8. Foo Fighters - One By One

9. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

10. xx - The xx

11. Madvillain - Madvillainry

12. Third - Portishead

13. The Prodigy - Experience

14. Original Pirate Material - The Streets

15. The Earth Is Not A Cold Hard Place - Explosions In The Sky

16. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

17. Behemoth - The Satanist

18. Northern Exposure: Expeditions - Sasha & John Digweed

19. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

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

Edited August 26, 201411 yr by the special one

In no particular order:

 

1. U2-The Unforgettable Fire

2. Bruce Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. The Beatles-Abbey Road

4. Oasis-(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

5. Robbie Williams- The Ego Has Landed

5. Hootie and the Blowfish-Cracked Rearview

6. Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

7. Peter Gabriel-So

8. Live-Throwing Copper

9. Bush-Sixteen Stone

10. Barenaked Ladies- Maroon

11. The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds

12. Pearl Jam-Ten

13. Sting-Brand New Day

14. Carole King-Tapestry

15. The Wallflowers-Bringing Down the Horse

16. Sister Hazel-Fortress

17. Savage Garden-Affirmation

18. The Police-Syncronicity

19. INXS-Kick

20. Mumford and Sons-Babel

Alright, I'm not sure I will be able to pick 20 as I do not wish to force anything in here because I feel I have to, so I'll try to get 20 but if end up a few short I'll just leave it at that.

 

20. Drake - Nothing Was The Same

19. The Notorious B.I.G - Ready To Die

18. The Weeknd - Trilogy

17. ScHoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions

16. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

15. Kiss - Hot In The Shade

14. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

13.

12. Fleet Foxes - Helpessness Blues

11. Joey Bada$$ - 1999

10. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE

9.

8.

7. Pro Era - PEEP: The Aprocalypse

6. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

5. Michael Jackson - Thriller

4. A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP

3. Kendrick Lamar -  good kid, m.A.A.d city

2.

1. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

 

I respected the rules that youlots set out but Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 and Jay-Z & Kanye West's Watch The Throne would also be in there somewhere.

1. The Smiths  - The Queen is Dead

2. Pink Floyd – The Wall
3. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
4. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
5. Tindersticks  - Tindersticks I
6. The Cure – Seventeen Seconds
7. The Who - Quadrophenia
8. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
9. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
10. Wedding Present – George Best
11. Bob Marley – Catch a Fire
12. Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around (only because I am assuming live albums are not allowed – would have been ‘At Folsom Prison’
13. Billy Bragg  - Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy
14. Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
15. Velvet Underground  - Velvet Underground & Nico
16. Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room
17. Editors – The Back Room
18. Jeff Buckley - Grace
19. The Kinks – Something Else
20. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die

1. Fightstar - Grand Unification

2. Keane - Hopes and Fears

I feel like I could post a list every day for a year and no two posts would be the same. Some absolutely ruthless cuts had to be made:

 

 

1. The Congos - Heart of the Congos

2. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

3. Rush - Hemispheres

4. The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana

5. Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man

 

6. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

7. Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend

8. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus

9. Pink Floyd - Animals

10. Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

 

11. Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side of the Moon (I realise this is sort of cheating)

12. Ronny Jordan - The Antidote

13. Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (although it could have been any of about five)

14. Larry Ridley - Sum of the Parts
15. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
 

16. Sly & the Family Stone - Life

17. Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black?
18. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
19. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
20. The Heptones - Party Time

1. pink floyd -the wall

2. talking heads - stop making sense

3.ian dury - new, bots and panties

4. led zepp - led zepplin 2

5.leftfield - leftism

6.james - the singles

7.underworld -the anthology

8. jimmy cliff - the harder they come

9.gil scott heron - pieces of a man

10.johnny cash - live at folsom

11.the editors - the back room

12. rudimental - home

13. arcade fire - neon bible.

14. the jam -all mod cons.

15. bobby womack - across 110th street

16. pulp - different class.

17. the sex pistols - anarchy in the uk.

18. bob marley - catch a fire

19.velvets - velvets and nico

20.the who - quadraphenia.

 

 

that is so difficult, no revolver, true stories, dark side of the moon aaagh

1)  Prince - Purple rain

2)  Led Zeppelin 2

3)  Led Zeppelin 1

4)  Eagles - Hotel California

5)  Beastie Boys - License to Ill

6)  Whodini - Whodini

7) NWA - Straight Outta Compton

8)  Dr. Dre - The Chronic

9)  Run DMC - Raising Hell

10)  Average White Band - Cut the Cake (has my favourite song of all time, "Cloudy")

11)  Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (This is my #1 album)

12)  Sara McLaughlin - Mirrorball

13)  Jethro Tull - Aqualung (I just love Cross Eyed Mary and Locomotive Breath)

14)  Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (early stuff, before they became crap)

15)  Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced "leh ..."
16)  Fleetwood Mac - Greatist Hits

17)  Elton John - Greatist Hits

18)  The Band - The Band

19)  Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

20)  Steely Dan - Aja (truly a gem of an album, only 8 songs)

Edited August 27, 201411 yr by Phillip

1. Orden Ogan - Easton Hope

Orden Ogan - To The End

Insomnium - In the Halls of Awaiting

Insomnium - Across the Dark

Unsun - Clinic for Dolls

Wintersun - Wintersun

Dissection - Reinkaos

Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth

Scar Symmetry - Pitch. Black. Progress.

HIM - Love Metal

HIM - Screamworks: Love in Theory & Practice

Sonata Arctica - For the Sake of Revenge

Amorphis - Silent Waters

Vehemence - God Was Created

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Kamelot - The Black Halo

Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: III

Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

AFI - Sing the Sorrow

Edited August 27, 201411 yr by G-Wrath

Oh dear - The Smiths is the only one I have heard of!  Woe is me!!

 

Have tried several times to do this and failed miserably!

I have discovered I left out two albums from my list that should've been the first ones on it.. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue and The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced.

Phillip - you have contravened rule No.2 - you can't pick best of albums, greatest hits albums etc. 

 

G-Wrath - you have contravened rule No.1 - you can't have more than 1 album from the same artist/band etc.

 

For these sins please make a small donation to the running costs of the site.

 

Moi - your tardiness has been noted - get on with it!

OK - don't have a lot of time today -- will post 10 now and the other ten later.  I have noted the rules!  But I can't do an order of merit - I'd have a nervous breakdown, and I'm sure you wouldn't want that!

 

1.  Bob Dylan - Desire (difficult - I also love Infidels and Another Side of Bob Dylan)

2. Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room (again a difficult choice!)

3. John Tams - Unity

4. REM - Green

5. The Double :Life of Véronique (soundtrack from the film)

6. Marianne Faithfull - A Perfect Stranger

7. Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagull

8. Jeff Buckley - So Real

9. David Bowie - Heathen

10. Runrig - Heartland

Edited August 28, 201411 yr by moi

The Gaslight Anthem, 59 Sound

Beastie Boys, Ill Communication

The Smiths, Meat Is Murder

Propagandhi, Potemkin City Limits

The Clash, London Calling

Alkaline Trio, From Here To Infimary

Interpol, Don't Turn Out The Bright Lights

Against Me!, Searching For A Former Clarity

The Offspring, Smash

Chuck Ragan, Feast or Famine

Green Day, Dookie

Blink 182, Enema of the State

The Slackers, Red Light

Hot Water Music, Caution

The Bouncing Souls, How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Captain Everything, Rocket Science

The Streets, Original Pirate Material

Rancid, ... Out Come The Wolves

The Foamers, self titled

Slayer, Reign In Blood

I've heard of FOUR of ForeverCarefree's!!!  Guess which four!