Top 3 albums of all-time

[RedRover45]

I know we're currently running top three songs but what about albums. I would suggest we don't include 'Best of' or 'Greatest Hits'.

My three are

Reckless - Bryan Adams
New Jersey - Bon Jovi
Definitely Maybe-Oasis

[RobTheRover]

Possibly not the 3 finest albums of all time but these are 3 I keep coming back to.

Stone Roses - Stone Roses
RATM - RATM
Love,  Ire and Song - Frank Turner

[Filo]

Master of Puppets- Metallica
Bat out of Hell- Meatloaf
Duke- Genesis

[LongbridgeMGRover]

Ziggy Stardust -David Bowie
Argus-Wishbone Ash
English Boys, Working Girls-Deaf School

And my criteria for this...?  All from the 70s, still play them today and all so good i have bought them twice, vinyl and then CD or Download!!

And for thise unfamiliar with Deaf School, nothing to do with that place opposite the Racecourse but the finest exponents of the Art Rock genre.

[Sheepskin Stu]

Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld by The Orb
Chill Out by The KLF
OK Computer by Radiohead

[coventryrover]

Ok computer by radiohead
so tonight by mazzy star
Nevermind by nirvana

[BillyStubbsTears]

Three lost classics of quintessentially 1980s British pop music

Reading, Writing and Arithmetic: The Sundays. Every track sounds like the perfectly crafted pop song that you heard years ago and forgot.

Manic, Magic, Majestic: Band of Holy Joy. Searing, raw tales from the losing underbelly of the Thatcher years. Asymmetric lovers wandering the streets with no money in your pocket, but still knowing that they're better than the Kitsons in the GTi. No-one wrote the soundtrack of that age better than Jonny Brown and his mates. A mate of mine once said that Jonny Brown sounded like his need to tell his story exceeded his vocal capability to do so. Which is exactly how music from the soul should sound. If there has ever been a more desparate song that Killy Car Thieves, or Where it Hurts; or a more spellbindingly beautiful song from the gutter than Nightjars, I've never heard them. And they were mates with Vic Reeves.

A Walk Across the Rooftops: The Blue Nile. Stripped down to pin pricks of sound, but perfectly crafted to turn dank Glasgow nights into soaring Greek epics. Crystal sharp.

I could listen to each of those non-stop for a weekend and never grow tired of them

[River Don]

I have been listening to a lot of my old electronic stuff lately, so...

Computerworld - Kraftwerk
Bytes - Black Dog Productions
Power, Corruption and Lies - New order

[nightporter]

Violator - Depeche Mode

OK Computer - Radiohead

August and Everything After - Counting Crows

[The Red Baron]

The Fall- This Nation's Saving Grace
Cocteau Twins- Head over Heels
XTC- English Settlement

[TheFunk]

Dance Craze Soundtrack - The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness + others

Sign O The Times - Prince

Infected - The The

Not even any room for any Parliament or Funkadelic may have to rethink.

[IDM]

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Hatful of Hollow - the smiths
Head over Heels - Cocteau Twins

[RobTheRover]

Infected - The The

Bloody hell, forgot that one.  I love that album.

[roversdude]

Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but 3 that had a huge impact on my teenage years
If you want blood - Ac/dc
Overkill - Motörhead
Led zeppelin iv

[wilts rover]

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

[Highland Rover]

Underated album.....Working man's cafe by Ray Davies , and it was a freebie with a newspaper.

Best blues album....Last of the Jelly Roll Kings by Frank Frost and Sam Carr

Thirdly , Disraeli gears by Cream

[BillyStubbsTears]

Ahh The Cocteau Twins.

I always preferred them when they stopped being goths and started making pop music. From Treasure to Heaven or Las Vegas, they were simply wonderful. My favourite was Blue Bell Knoll.

[IDM]

I stopped at Treasure.. But Head over Heels takes some beating.  I prefer a lot of the relatively early "indie" stuff from around '82-'84...

[Al4475]

Trying not to repeat any here (2 of nightporter's would (be right up there - known him a long time and our tastes are very similar) so...
U2 - joshua tree
REM - automatic for the people
PULP - different class

[River Don]

Al,

I like U2 Joshua Tree, what I think lifts it up is the involvement of Brian Eno.

Brian Eno is a far greater talent than U2. For me, It is his injection of creative genius as producer that really lifts that album.

[GM-MarkB]

The Number of the Beast - Maiden
Back in Black - AC/DC
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush .... The Ninth Wave on side 2 is as good a collection of music as has ever been comitted to vynil IMO

[BillyStubbsTears]

The Holy Trilogy from Simple Minds before they settled for making stadium anthem w**k.

Empires and Dance
Sons and Fascination
New Gold Dream

For a couple of years, they were beyond astonishing.

[River Don]

BST

Simple minds were another act I liked but they were much better before they began to turn into U2.

I liked their early years.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Empires and Dance is one of the most astonishing albums ever made. It's like a mad-nightmare of a Europe on the edge of nuclear annihilation. Full of fascination, confusion, bewildering changes of pace and style. One moment optimistic and danceable. The next broodingly dark. Like a mixture of Cabaret and Threads. This Fear of Gods is a candidate for the finest track of the whole period. Kraftwerk meets Joy Division in an Istanbul bazaar.

How the hell they could go from that to Alive and f**king Kicking in half a decade is a question that philosophers will struggle with for centuries. Mortgages to pay I guess.

[RobTheRover]

To be fair to Jim Kerr, it did get him in Patsy Kensitt's undergarments, so not all bad.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Aye but that were no great achievement in them days. There were more people could claim that than were at the legendary Donny-Dover match at OBV.

[RobTheRover]

I'm only jealous.....

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've got me own little carnal memory.

Late 80s. She was going out with Dan Donovan from Big Audio Dynamite. Went to see them at the Leadmill. The band, including a still pert Patsy came in through the front entrance and walked through the crowd to the stage. Young Patsy  rubbed her svelte torso against mine as she pushed past.

Great days.

[IDM]

She was OK BST, but I always preferred C Grogan.  Mind you, the blonde singer of the Primitives wasn't too bad either...

[RedRover45]

Not bad lads, but still couldn't hold a candle to Wendy James of Transvision Vamp. Wish I could have found out if she was as dirty as she looked ....