The CD Times Top 100 Albums of All Time

[douglasb]

... will go live over at www.cdtimes.co.uk this evening at approximately 8.00pm.

Drag yourselves away from GTA4 for half an hour and give it a looksie.

I think your login details for the forums now work on the other Poisonous Monkey sites, so it might be fun to get your comments on the Top 100 over there rather than just in this thread.

Sorry it's taken so long. If we spent less time on the forums arguing about immigration and porn we might get more done!

D.

[Jimmyboy]

Interesting, it appears very 90's generation dominated which probably isn't a bad thing.

[new]

While I can properly pick my top 20 albums, I can never really rate them in any order & often wonder how people can.

I mean I just dont know how I would find out if Bowie's Hunky Dory "better" than Nirvana's Nevermind. I love both & both would be in my list, yet both are so different how could I compare or rate them against each other:shrug:

So I just can never vote in things where you have to number things in order of preference.

I dont really rate that list at all to be honest & find it somewhat flawed.
Yes there's some classic ones in there, but for me any top 20 album list that does not have Hunky Dory in it (let alone no Bowie in the top 50:brickwall ) is not to be taken seriously.

Also Tori Amos claims the top album by a female artist with Little Earthquakes while Janis Joplin & her album Pearl does not even get a look in anywhere in the top 100:suspect:

[Tony Ferrino]

Quick point - 'Metallica - Metallica' and 'Metallica - The Black Album' are the same thing (86 & 89).

[hedgie]

Best top 100 I've ever seen as it's closer to my tastes than you usually see! Sad I didn't manage to help coax one Marillion album into the top 100, but I can see a few that I voted for, I think. Powerslave was probably one of mine, although it's so long ago I'm not really that sure.

I think there is a flaw in the vote, though.

This

86 Metallica - The Black Album

and this

89 Metallica - Metallica

are the same album, which I guess means that this album should be much higher in the voting if the votes are combined, and that there is one more album in the top 100! Hope it's a Marillion one, but I think I'm clutching at straws (hint, hint!).

Edit: Took so long over that post that Tony Ferrino also noticed the same thing

[LouBarlow]

It's time to call in Mulder and Scully when Green Day outperform Husker Du

This.

[douglasb]

This

86 Metallica - The Black Album

and this

89 Metallica - Metallica

are the same album, which I guess means that this album should be much higher in the voting if the votes are combined, and that there is one more album in the top 100! Hope it's a Marillion one, but I think I'm clutching at straws (hint, hint!).


Ah ... balls. I will speak with admin and see what we can do.

[mjb1975]

Just my two cents but from a Muse point of view - and I appreciate it's very subjective - but there's no way on god's green earth that Black Holes & Revelations or Origin Of Symmetry are better than Absolution (which doesn't feature).

Absolution is just an amazing record and I'd go with OOS next, then BH&R which I thought was slightly disappointing.

Still, each to their own I guess.

[SimonI]

I have never knowingly heard any early Genesis. How can the distinctly average Duke be rated higher than Selling England, one of the most sublime albums of all time? Or does that reflect the greater popularity of post-Gabriel Genesis?

And Massive Attack Mezzanine higher than Blue Lines? The only memorable thing about Mezzanine is its forgetableness.

Nice to see Forever Changes in the list :thumbs:

[DeadYankee]

Well done to all involved in compiling and making some sense of that list. I’m not sure what it shows really – I mean, INXS, RHCP and Green day in the top 100 albums ever made? Stroll on. Trouble with these exercises, I think, is that people just stick down the last 10 things they heard. No Pistols FFS! Plus there was recorded popular music made before 1964 but that seems to have been eliminated from the public consciousness. The real beauty of such a list is that it makes you think about all the great albums that should be there but aren’t.

[douglasb]

Edited to show a substantial leap for Metallica and British Sea Power sneak in a last place!!!

[NicolaUK]

So how were these voted for?

[Lorne.t]

On here a long time ago!

[TheoGB]

On here a long time ago!

Yeah. Isn't it technically the DVDForums Top 100? :D

[Roy]

9 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Really? Blimey...

[Woz]

No Elvis? No Muddy Waters?

No Madonna?!

[Mr Majestik]

No Elvis? No Muddy Waters?


Should they be?

Lots of classic tracks but classic albums?

[DeadYankee]

True - the Elvis debut can't hold a candle to british sea power

[arrowst]

Quite surprised there's no Coldplay?

[gingertom]

How can the distinctly average Duke be rated higher than Selling England, one of the most sublime albums of all time? Or does that reflect the greater popularity of post-Gabriel Genesis?

And Massive Attack Mezzanine higher than Blue Lines? The only memorable thing about Mezzanine is its forgetableness.

Nice to see Forever Changes in the list :thumbs:

Duke was always seen as the transition from Old to new - old school tend to look at it as a sell out while the Genesis that became a huge commercial success started in essence with Duke.

I cant understand the omission of the pistols - and AC/DC not in the top 20? (at least Powerage is in) - but is Def Leppard - Pyromania better than any BON Scott AC/DC album

[douglasb]

Hey if you want baffling, a Belgian radio station published another Top 100 the day after ours and Deus had three albums in the Top 20!

http://www.stubru.be/node/56358

[Mr Majestik]

Hey if you want baffling, a Belgian radio station published another Top 100 the day after ours and Deus had three albums in the Top 20!

http://www.stubru.be/node/56358

Well dEUS are the only good band ever to come from Belgium.

[douglasb]

No love for Technotronic or 2 Unlimited?

[Jazzatola]

How can the distinctly average Duke be rated higher than Selling England, one of the most sublime albums of all time?For me Duke just pips Selling England as my favourite Genesis album. I think Selling England has better individual tracks but Duke has a consistency that makes it more than the sum of its parts. As Mike Rutherford always says, Genesis don't really have a definitive album but I think Duke is as close as they get.

[SimonI]

Of course - each to his own :thumbs: :)

But you make an interesting point - might listen to it again later and see how it goes...

[Jazzatola]

Having to choose between Duke and Selling England is an embarrassment of riches!

[meat puppet]

How can the distinctly average Duke be rated higher than Selling England, one of the most sublime albums of all time? Or does that reflect the greater popularity of post-Gabriel Genesis?

And Massive Attack Mezzanine higher than Blue Lines? The only memorable thing about Mezzanine is its forgetableness.

Nice to see Forever Changes in the list :thumbs:

Mate of mine who got me into a lot of different music...........I got myself a list and showed him what I was intending to buy. One of the albums was Blue Lines, he scrubbed through it and wrote Mezzanine ! I was suprised as BL was always the most popular.......he just said, nah, its got more to it.....I have both. I think they both have strengths, BL is written in a classic mold, a bit like Metallicas Black album v Master of puppets.

[LouBarlow]

I prefer Mezza too I think. Saying that Tricky's solo debut wipes the floor with both of them.

Can't believe 'Unknown Pleasures' didn't make the top 100 btw :nuts:

[meat puppet]

I prefer Mezza too I think. Saying that Tricky's solo debut wipes the floor with both of them.



That was one of those albums that passed me by for ages as I thought it was one of those hiphopettyrapperxfactor people...........then I listened to the album and wondered where I had been :shrug: Great album.