Top 5s

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Albums from 1982:

5. Prince - 1999
4. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
3. XTC - English Settlement
2. Duran Duran - Rio
1. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

 

[Incandenza]

Dire Straits

1. Making Movies
2. Brothers in Arms
3. s/t
4. Love over Gold
5. Comminque

Really, only their last album stinks.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Talking Heads' studio albums:

5. Speaking in Tongues
4. Talking Heads: 77
3. Fear of Music
2. More Songs About Buildings and Food
1. Remain in Light

 

[Incandenza]

1. Fear of Music
2. Little Creatures
3. More Songs about Buildings and Food
4. Talking Heads: 77
5. Speaking in Tongues

I just can't get through the second half of Remain in Light. Side 1 is the best thing ever, though.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Fair enough. I love all of those stilted spoken word pieces on the second half just as much as the tracks on the first. 'Seen and Not Seen' is one of the best songs on there, imo.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Little Creatures? Wow. Don't get that placement at all.

1. Fear of Music
2. Remain in Light
3. Speaking in Tongues
4. More songs...
5. '77

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Albums that have provoked disgust, offense, incredulity, or formal complaints from coworkers at one time or another in my adult working life:

1. Mr. Bungle-California
2. Frank Zappa-Sheik Yerbouti
3. John Coltrane-Ascension
4. Ween-The Pod
5. Boris-Absolutego

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

I just can't get through the second half of Remain in Light. Side 1 is the best thing ever, though.

I never liked The Overload until I listened to it driving home once in the middle of winter in a car with a broken heater, and I was so strung out and hungover I was sweating. "Ah, so that's what this song is about!"

 

[Gary]

Led Zeppelin

1.) III
2.) Houses of the Holy
3.) Physical Graffiti
4.) IV
5.) I

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I'd say

5. Physical Graffiti
4. Led Zeppelin III
3. Houses of the Holy
2. Their untitled fourth album
1. Led Zeppelin

 

[Brocklock]

I'll do top 5 Talking Heads

1. Remain In Light
2. Fear Of Music
3. Speaking In Tongues
4. More Songs About Buildings And Food
5. Talking Heads: 77

 

[Byron The Bulb]

DYLAN

1. Blonde on Blonde
2. Blood on the Tracks
3. Bootleg Series Volume 4
4. Bootleg Series Volume 5
5. Highway 61 Revisited

 

[Youth N Asia]

R.E.M.

1. Murmur
2. Reckoning
3. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
4. Life's Rich Pageant
5. Automatic For The People

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Hip Hop Albums of the 00s.

5. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
4. Paper Trail - TI
3. College Dropout - Kanye West
2. Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
1. Stankonia - Outkast

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Hip Hop Albums of the 00s.

1. (tie) Madvillain - Madvillainy
1. (tie) Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
4. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
5. Cam'ron - Purple Haze

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

DYLAN
1. Blonde on Blonde
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. The Bootleg Series Vol. 5
4. Blood on the Tracks
5. Desire
Honorable mention to Infidels, which I really like mostly due to Mark Knopfler's production. Really surprised to see Inc is a big fan of Dire Straits for some reason!


BEACH BOYS
1. Sunflower
2. Wild Honey
3. Pet Sounds
4. The Beach Boys Today!
5. Love You

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Robert Zimmerman

1. Blonde On Blonde
2. Bringing It All Back Home
3. Blood On The Tracks
4. Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Bootleg series vol. 4, I think?)
5. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

5. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
4. Bringing It All Back Home
3. Another Side of Bob Dylan
2. Blonde on Blonde
1. Highway 61 Revisited

 

[Kinetic]

Dylan

1.Blonde on Blonde
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. The Basement Tapes (the official Columbia version)
5. Blood on the Tracks

Joni Mitchell

1. Blue
2. Court and Spark
3. The Hissing of Summer Lawns
4. Hejira
5. For the Roses

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Dylan:

1. Blood on the Tracks
2. Highway 61
3. Bringing it All Back Home
4. Blonde on Blonde
5. The Times they are a-Changin'

Admittedly, I'm nuts, but don't you guys get tired of sifting through Blonde on Blonde to get to the really good parts? I don't think I've started this one on the first song since I got it.

 

[Kinetic]

The first song might be the only one that I don't totally love. Everything else is Dylan in peak form as a lyricist playing brilliantly-arranged songs with a group of musicians who were attuned to what he was trying to accomplish. What's not to like?

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Well, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, for starters. I can do without most of side 3 as well.

 

[Kinetic]

Well, that's just kind of an amusing throwaway song, like "Koka Kola" on London Calling or roughly 1/4 of the White Album. Side 3 has the funny "Norwegian Wood" parody "4th Time Around" and Todd Rundgren cover fodder "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine." Brilliant. If they had any Dylan on Spotify, I'd listen to it right now.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

I don't like Kola Kola or a lot of the White Album either. I have no sense of humor for that sort of thing.

 

[Incandenza]

Look at Czech Republic of Oblivion over here.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Someone photoshop Czech's beard picture on that pic of me looking all crazy eye.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

5. The Times they are a-Changin'

This is the only '63 - '67 era Dylan album that hasn't really stuck w/ me. Approximately half of the songs are really good, but the (almost) 'every song must be political' approach seems really tiresome and heavy-handed by the end. I suppose he probably wouldn't have transitioned from Freewheelin' to Another Side without it, but both of those records sound way better to my ears.

Admittedly, I'm nuts, but don't you guys get tired of sifting through Blonde on Blonde to get to the really good parts?

Kind of, but not really. I can't remember the last time I listened to it all the way through, but I think that's just because I haven't had a major Dylan listening phase this year and double albums require more dedication. At least forty of its sixty minutes are pure gold, but I suppose the few lesser songs ensure that I will always prefer Highway 61 Revisited.

 

[Youth N Asia]

WARREN ZEVON TRACKS

1. Lawyers, Guns And Money
2. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
3. Excitable Boy
4. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
5. Charlie's Medicine

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Tracks on 69 Love Songs

5. "When my Boy Walks Down the Street"
4. "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits"
3. "Yeah! Oh Yeah!"
2. "Papa Was a Rodeo"
1. "The Luckiest Guy On the Lower East Side"

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I've never been able to make it to disc 2.

Post-punk:

5. Wire - Chairs Missing
4. The Slits - Cut
3. This Heat - Deceit
2. Public Image Limited - Metal Box
1. Gang of Four - Entertainment!