Top Five Albums of your Favourite Artists

[moginie]

Yes I have. Wonderful music. As far as collaborations go, Eno's albums with Harold Budd
are two of the best albums I've ever heard.

Yes! Plateaux Of Mirror has been a go-to of mine for years.

 

[Roddy]

Rush:
1. Power Windows
2. Signals
3. Grace Under Pressure
4. Hemispheres
5. Moving Pictures

Devin Townsend/SYL:
1. Addicted
2. Epicloud
3. City
4. Terria
5. Ocean Machine

 

[Ram-Man]

Faces

1. A Nod’s As Good As a Wink … to a Blind Horse
2. Ooh La La
3. Long Player
4. First Step

Only produced the four albums all enjoyable listens if you’re into blues rock.


INXS

1. The Swing
2. Listen Like Thieves
3. Kick
4. Elegantly Wasted
5. Full Moon, Dirty Hearts

 

[The hands of stone]

Toto
1-Toto IV
2-Toto
3-Hydra
4-The Seventh one
5-Isolation

 

[hawkheart]

Surprised Street Fighting Years isn't there, but I may be biased.

This Is Your Land still has that visceral impact on me after all these years.

yeah SFY would have been next cab off the rank. I love This Is Your Land. I remember seeing Lou Reed join the Minds on stage for that song in ‘89 in Barcelona.

 

[hawkheart]

Echo & The Bunnymen

Ocean Rain
Heaven Up Here
Porcupine
Crocodiles
Echo & The Bunnymen

 

[OnTheRocks]

Slayer
Reign in blood
South of heaven
Hell awaits
Seasons in the abyss
Diabolus in musica

 

[goldfinger]

Dire Straits:
Making Movies
Dire Straits (actually this is probably a tie for 1st)
Love Over Gold
Brothers in Arms
Communique

Springsteen:
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Born to Run
Greetings From Asbury Park
Born in the USA
Nebraska

REM:
Green
Out of Time
Automatic For The People
New Adventures in Hi Fi
Document

 

[moginie]

Dire Straits:
Making Movies
Dire Straits (actually this is probably a tie for 1st)
Love Over Gold
Brothers in Arms
Communique

Springsteen:
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Born to Run
Greetings From Asbury Park
Born in the USA
Nebraska

REM:
Green
Out of Time
Automatic For The People
New Adventures in Hi Fi
Document

That first Dire Straits album is one of those seminal late 70s, late night albums. Great memories listening to that with people who were way older than me doing stuff that way older people did.

 

[goldfinger]

That first Dire Straits album is one of those seminal late 70s, late night albums. Great memories listening to that with people who were way older than me doing stuff that way older people did.

I've lost count of the number of times I've played it... would be in the thousands I reckon!

 

[tucky74]

Wiggles

big red car
wake up jeff
toot toot
yummy yummy
dance,dance!

….and only 51 to choo Choo choose from

 

[moginie]

Wiggles

big red car
wake up jeff
toot toot
yummy yummy
dance,dance!

….and only 51 to choo Choo choose from

Solid choices.

I'd find room for Wiggle Bay in there.

 

[eldorado]

Dire Straits:
Making Movies
Dire Straits (actually this is probably a tie for 1st)
Love Over Gold
Brothers in Arms
Communique

Springsteen:
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Born to Run
Greetings From Asbury Park
Born in the USA
Nebraska

REM:
Green
Out of Time
Automatic For The People
New Adventures in Hi Fi
Document

Hmmmm...


REM
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Automatic For the People
Out of Time
Green
Up

Dire Straits

Love Over Gold
Communique
Making Movies
Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms

Springsteen

same as yours, but throw in The River instead of Asbury

 

[Nathan Detroit]

Hmmmm...


REM
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Automatic For the People
Out of Time
Green
Up

Dire Straits

Love Over Gold
Communique
Making Movies
Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms

Springsteen

same as yours, but throw in The River instead of Asbury

Wow, no love for Document...

 

[eldorado]

Wow, no love for Document...

Document was very close, it's like the turning point between early REM, which I quite like, and mid-period REM, which I love.

Early to mid, to me at least, means less jingle-jangle arpeggios on guitar, and vocals that are clear and upfront in the mix.

 

[Nathan Detroit]

Document was very close, it's like the turning point between early REM, which I quite like, and mid-period REM, which I love.

Early to mid, to me at least, means less jingle-jangle arpeggios on guitar, and vocals that are clear and upfront in the mix.

For me it's their "peak". Feels like they got it right between the grindy early stuff and the almost poppy later. I very much enjoy the mid-period stuff, but really like the energy from Document. Full disclosure, it's also the first tour I saw them live and it stuck. By far their best of some very good (and one really poor) performances I later saw in the 90s.

 

[Ram-Man]

Wiggles

big red car
wake up jeff
toot toot
yummy yummy
dance,dance!

….and only 51 to choo Choo choose from

Anyone who doesn't have WIGGLY, WIGGLY CHRISTMAS (1996) in their top 5 cannot be considered a true fan.

 

[moginie]

Anyone who doesn't have WIGGLY, WIGGLY CHRISTMAS (1996) in their top 5 cannot be considered a true fan.

Was played to death at my place. The offspring put it on at Christmas now just to see me getting triggered.

 

[tucky74]

Anyone who doesn't have WIGGLY, WIGGLY CHRISTMAS (1996) in their top 5 cannot be considered a true fan.

That’s true,was very bored cooking spaghetti boll last night,googled the wiggles and couldn’t believe how many albums they have realised, just made up a list. They sure are a money spinner.

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

i personally find it pretty hard to pick five albums from most of my faves. most of my top artists have 2-3 albums at their peak and the rest tend to range from bad to great (obviously a generalisation). but i prefer to move onto another "seminal" album (whatever that means lol) from another artist than explore albums that aren't as highly regarded. basically genre-hopping rather than discography diving.

so with that logic i think a top three for some of my recent jams makes more sense

Fishmans
Long Season
Something in the Air
Uchu Nippon Setagaya

Kate Bush
Hounds of Love
The Kick Inside
Never For Ever

Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works #2
Selected Ambient Works #1
Come to Daddy

Pavement
Crooked Rain
Slanted + Enchanted
Wowee Zowee

Deafheaven
Sunbather
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
i don't really like their other albums haha

 

[arupist]

I would love to reply to this thread, but I have not listened to an album in about 30 years.

So I guess you could say my favourite artist is Hush.

Favourite songs

Hush
Sounds of Silence
Silence is Golden
Enjoy the Silence
Turn That s**t Off!

 

[Tuck In]

Very late to this thread and could spend a long time debating the REM and Springsteen orders above…..but I thought I’d add a little something different:

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).

1. Architecture & Morality
2. Dazzle Ships
3. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
4. Organisation
5. Punishment of Luxury

They span a long time (I’m old!) and offer a wide span in their repertoire. Immediately recognisable hooks of their singles, baroque and Krautrock album pieces, the perversity of abandoning success by releasing Dazzle Ships when they did, and their current and latest albums standing the test of time. All this underpinned by a love and admiration of Kraftwerk.

 

[Tuck In]

Very late to this thread and could spend a long time debating the REM and Springsteen orders above…..but I thought I’d add a little something different:

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).

1. Architecture & Morality
2. Dazzle Ships
3. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

 

[hawkheart]

The Church

1. Starfish
2. Priest = Aura
3. Gold Afternoon Fix
4. Heyday
5. Sometime Anywhere

 

[Randy Campbell]

Badmotorfinger
Superunknown
Down on the upside
Louder than love
Ultra mega Ok

Aenima
Undertow
10000 days
Lateralus
And I have been waiting a decade for the fifth

Waited 13 years for,
Fear Inoculum

The Real Thing
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Album of the Year
Angel Dust
We Care a Lot