What are your top 5 Albums of all time?

[laurence]

Element of Light - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Reckoning - R.E.M.
In The Aeroplene Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Hollywood Town Hall - Jayhawks
Concert Program - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

the last two would probably vary with Through The Windowpane by Guillemots replacing one or the other at various points.

 

[User169]

Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
Seamonsters - Wedding Present
Beatsongs - Blue Aeroplanes
Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express - Go-Betweens
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Springsteen

 

[Hitchington]

A Certain Ratio - I'd Like to See You Again
Sonic Youth - Goo
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The The - Soul Mining

 

[MontyVeda]

I must admit to turning Now 4 into a couple of plant pots with the help of a heat gun... but i did have two copies of it.

 

[donnydave]

Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Placebo - Placebo
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Metallica - Black Album
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

 

[slowwww]

Live at The Marquee - Nine Below Zero
One more from the road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Live at The Greek - Jimmy Page and The Black Crows
Live in Europe - Rory Gallagher
Strangers in the night - UFO

 

[postman]

These bring me so much joy.As a youngman in 1962 onwards,you cannot understand what the Beatles did for us.

Sgt Peppers
Please Please Me
A Hard Days Night
No Ordinary World Joe Cocker
San Quentin Johnny Cash.

 

[pplpilot]

A Certain Ratio - I'd Like to See You Again
Sonic Youth - Goo
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The The - Soul Mining

Soul Mining, fine choice I still think infected tops it though...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If by 'top' we mean the albums I listen to the most then in no particular order it would currently be

Pornography - The Cure
New Favorite - Alison Kraus and The Union Station
Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch
Lexicon of Love - ABC
Wild Mood Swings - The Cure

 

[Archie_tect]

The resurrection of this thread reminds me how much more fun this place once was...

In 2008... I wasn't here then... tell me more.

 

[Mattonsea]

Sandinista ---- The Clash
Everything Must Go --- Maniac Street Preachers
Tour De France ---- Kraftwerk
Chasing Status ---- No More Idols
Watermark ------ Enya

 

[02GF74]

difficult but could be something like this:
unknown pleasures - joy division
killing joke - killing joke
garbage - garbage
strange little girls - tori amos
murder ballads - nick cave and the bad seeds

 

[the_mikey]

difficult but could be something like this:
unknown pleasures - joy division
killing joke - killing joke
garbage - garbage
strange little girls - tori amos
murder ballads - nick cave and the bad seeds

+1 for Killing Joke

 

[Hitchington]

Soul Mining, fine choice I still think infected tops it though...

I was thinking about Infected (an outstanding album), but I've been listening to Soul Mining at lot recently so at this time it beats Infected

 

[CharlieB]

Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
Can - Future Days
the Beatles - Revolver
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Ultravox - Vienna