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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

 
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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!

 
Are the four that you know:
 

The Clash, Green Day, The Smiths, Beastie Boys?

You might also know Blink182.

 
Oops - no, I can't count - it was five - I know these four and Gaslight Anthem

 
Section 2

11.  Father John  Misty - Fear Fun

12.  Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock

13. Jackson Browne - I'm Alive

14.  Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

15. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

16. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World

17. Lou Reed - The Raven

18. Drever, McClusker and Woomble - Before The Ruin

19. Neil Young - After the Goldrush

20. Damien Rice - O

And I KNOW as soon as I have posted this I'll think of others.....

 
No particular order (apart from number 1) :

1. Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP

2. Dr Dre-2001

3. Kanye West- Late Registration

4. Michael Jackson- Bad

5. The Clash- London Calling

6. Fall Out Boy- From Under the Cork Tree

7. Katy B- On a Mission

8. The Streets- Original Pirate Material

9. Rudimental- Home

10.Disclosure- Settle

11.Bob Marley- Exodus

12.Sum 41- All Killer no Filler

13.Incubus- Morning View

14.Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American

15.Jay Z- The Black Album

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

17.Black Eyed Peas- Elephunk

18.Avril Lavigne- Let go

19.Taking Back Sunday- Louder Now

20.Paramore- Riot!

That was bloody difficult! 

 
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1. The Strokes - Is This It?

2. Oasis - Definitely Maybe

3. Nas - Illmatic

4. The Clash - London Calling

5. Arctic Monkeys - AM

6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

7. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City

8. Kanye West - Late Registration

9. Queen - The Game

10. The Killers - Hot Fuss

11. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

12. Nirvana - Nevermind

13. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

14. David Bowie - Ziggie Stardust

15. Biggie - Life After Death

16. The Black Keys - El Camino

17. The Beatles - Revolver

18. Tame Impala - Lonerism

19. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

20. Blur - Parklife

 
Hmm... This probably changes with my mood. In no order:

Taylor Swift - Red

Green Day - Dookie

Green Day - Nimrod

Green Day - American Idiot

Blink 182 - Enema of The State

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

The Killers - Sam's Town

Bowling for Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance

Less Than Jake - Anthem

Eminem - Curtain Call

 
Gem said:
Hmm... This probably changes with my mood. In no order:

Taylor Swift - Red

Green Day - Dookie

Green Day - Nimrod

Green Day - American Idiot

Blink 182 - Enema of The State

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

The Killers - Sam's Town

Bowling for Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance

Less Than Jake - Anthem

Eminem - Curtain Call
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rules, rules, rules one album per artiste 

 
  1. Bob Dylan: Bringing it all Back Home
  2. Muddy Waters: Hard Again
  3. Danny Bryant: Live
  4. Kate Rusby: Sleepless
  5. Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska
  6. Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert
  7. Homemade Jamz Blues Band: Pay me no Mind
  8. Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
  9. Gary Moore: Still got the Blues
  10. Joni Mitchell: Blue
  11. Janiva Magness: Bury him at the Crossroads
  12. Don McLean: American Pie
  13. Thin Lizzy: Black Rose
  14. Walter Trout: Go the Distance
  15. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Heart of  Stone
  16. Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested
  17. Pink Floyd: Wish you were Here
  18. Night Porters: Feelin’ Good
  19. Blues Band: Official Bootleg Album
  20. Deep Purple: Machine Head

Suspect the list will change next week.

 
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Yes! It's BY FAR his best. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded. 
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It's my personal favourite, but in terms of originality and breaking new ground in hip hop I can see why some of his later albums are considered in higher esteem. Late Registration is his contribution to the classic hip hop genre.

Illmatic is obviously still the hip hop standard though, I think GKMC by Kendrick is the only thing to have come close to it since.

 
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Jonty said:
It's my personal favourite, but in terms of originality and breaking new ground in hip hop I can see why some of his later albums are considered in higher esteem. Late Registration is his contribution to the classic hip hop genre.

Illmatic is obviously still the hip hop standard though, I think GKMC by Kendrick is the only thing to have come close to it since.
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Personally, I think Kanye was at his highest level on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But ever since Watch The Throne it's been more bragging of what he's got rather than pointing out the social ills which make the majority of his early albums such as College Dropout and Late Registration, I also think the production level on MBDTF is in another dimension compared to any other of his projects. It's a matter of perspective though I guess, to each his own.

And about Illmatic being the hip-hop standard, I don't totally agree with that, Illmatic is the standard in it's own kind, because apart from Good Kid Maad City, which released 18 years later, there aren't albums that create a better visual for you when listening, when you listen to Illmatic it feels like New York.

But I don't think there exists such a thing as hip-hop standard, that's marginalizing the genre as especially in 2014, there so many different kinds of hip-hop you can't say there is one greatest, Nas is arguably the greatest story-teller, but you can't compare Illmatic to let's say 36 chambers, which to some is times better than Illmatic, personally I think theyr'e both creme of the crop albums that shouldn't be compared but both credited as hip-hop classics.

 
Couldn't really split some of them so I've put in an 'or' once or twice.

1. Billy Bragg -Victim of Geography

2. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope or London calling

3. Editors - An End has a start

4. Green Day - Dookie or American idiot

5. Half man half biscuit - Back in the DHSS

6. The Jam - Setting sons

7. Manic street preachers - generation terrorists

8. The 1975 - The 1975

9. The Vaccines - what did you expect from

10. Killers - hot fuss

11. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous, or Jailbreak or Johnny the fox.

12. Teardrop explodes - Kilimanjaro

13. The Strokes - is this it or first impessions of earth

14. Echo & the bunnymen - heaven up here or crocodiles

15. Stereophonics - word gets around

16. The skids - Days in Europa or scared to dance

17. The Ramones - It's alive

18. REM - automatic for the people

19. Proclaimers - sunshine on Leith

20. Andrew lloyd webber - phantom of the opera (and that's not in there for shock or comedy value either).

 
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