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Steely Dan - Aja

Tom Waits - Closing Time

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

Dire Straits - Self Titled

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Jackie Brown OST

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Nirvana - Nevermind

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Pixies - Bossanova

Off the top of my head...

The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America

Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat

The Rainmakers - Flirting with the Universe

XTC - Black Sea

Morphine - Good

Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

The Mattoid - Great Lovers

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?

...or something like that...

Mostly replying as a personal challenge; I doubt anyone cares about my opinion. I think this is a hard but interesting challenge and I could probably spend a lifetime perfecting it, but this is my unadulterated first pass:

1. “Stardust” - Willie Nelson
2. “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” - Smashing Pumpkins
3. “Blue Lines” - Massive Attack
4. “Kind of Blue” - Miles Davis
5. “Wildflowers” - Tom Petty
6. “Blind Melon” - Blind Melon
7. “Loaded” - The Velvet Underground
8. “At War with the Mystics” - The Flaming Lips
9. “Dire Straits” - Dire Straits
10. “Pretty Hate Machine” - Nine Inch Nails

Fuck. How do you make a list like this without regretting every decision you made?!

Weird Al, all of them.

I'm autistic, pick any ten albums and they will end up being my favourite albums as I continue to listen to them and they become my familiar.

I anticipate a metric ton of "best of" albums, but I'll give it try avoiding that. In no particular order:

• Billy Joel - the Stranger
• Genisis - Genisis
• Beach Boys - Pet sounds
• the Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Muse - Resistance
• Rush - Permananent Waves
• Radiohead - OK Computer
• Boston - Boston
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Linda Ronstadt - What's New (that will throw a few folks off the trail)

Otis Redding - Otis Blue Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On Michael Jackson - Off the Wall James Booker - Classified The Meters – Rejuvenation Darondo - Listen to My Song James Brown - Live at the Apollo Dr. Dre - The Chronic Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid Anderson .Paak - Malibu

311 - Grassroots

Tool - Undertow

Meshuggah - Obzen

Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth

Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion

Dr. Dre - 2001

Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction

Paul Oakenfold - Transport

First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle

Gemini Syndrome - Memento Mori

Gemini Syndrome - Lux

The Beatles - One

Queen - Greatest Hits

Queen - Greatest Hits II

Aerosmith - Greatest Hits

Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits

NWA - Greatest Hits

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits

1. Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
3. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
4. Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
6. Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook
7. Ray LaMontagne - Monovision
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
9. Tonic - Lemon Parade
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road

In no order:

• Mothership - Dance Gavin Dance
• Reimagined - Hail the Sun
• The Artist in the Ambulance - Thrice
• Appeal to Reason - Rise Against
• In Silico - Pendulum
• Good Kid - Good Kid
• Rhythm, Chord & Melody - The Reign of Kindo
• Wake - Hail the Sun
• To Speak, To Listen - Eidola
• NieR:Automata Original Soundtrack - Keiichi Okabe

Difficult...

• Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
• Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
• Prequelle - Ghost
• Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
• Ten - Pearl Jam
• Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield
• Vast - Vast
• English Settlement - XTC
• The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon and Vangelis
• Appetite For Destruction - Guns n Roses

Geez that's tough. Let's see if I can do 10:

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
3. Johnny Cash - At Folsum Prison
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
5. B-52s - B-52s
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
7. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
8. Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
9. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Tool - 10,000 Days

Rush - Test for Echo

Metallica - Metallica

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Michael Jackson - HIStory

BIGBANG - MADE

[bodyendtag] - Information Superhighway

Kumi Koda - BEST 2000-2020

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

I'll hate myself in a couple weeks for this selection because my taste varies week-to-week, but right now it'd be:

Devin Townsend: Ziltoid the Omniscient, Empath

Gojira: From Mars to Sirius, Magma

The Ocean: Phanerozoic I, Phanerozoic II (can I count these as one album?)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (I think they were going for a record for the longest album title ever).

Voivod: The Outer Limits

Mastodon: Leviathan and Crack the Skye

If Phanerozoic I and II count as a single album, then I'd ask if I can leave the last one open to be filled by a single random studio album of an artist of my choosing, replaced weekly/monthly.

Edit: removed one because I miscounted.

Number one by far: Perfect Circle Thirteenth step.

The rest are in the order I think of them off the top of my head:

System of a down: Toxicity and Mezmotize

Tool Aenema

Smashing pumpkins: Melon Collie

CCRs Greatest Hits

Pink Floyd: Echos

Metallica S&M

Live Throwing Cooper

Weezer

Ugh this is so tough!

• The Beatles - Revolver
• Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
• Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
• Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
• Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
• David Bowie - Let's Dance
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
• Iggy Pop - Soldier
• CSNY - Déjà Vu

1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

2. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play

3. Pink Floyd - Animals

4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes

5. Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA

6. Yes - Drama

7. Yellowcard - Yellowcard

8. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

9. Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I've never actually listened to this in full but I love "September" off this album)

10. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love "Stan" but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I'm not much of an album guy in genres that aren't rock.)

Probably Rust in Peace

I reckon these would keep me going for a good old time.

• Colors - Between the Buried and Me
• The Shape of Color - Intervals
• Handmade Cities - Plini
• Odyssey to the West - Slice the Cake
• Esoteric Malacology - Slugdge
• Crux - Moon Tooth
• Death of a Dead Day - Sikth
• Daughters - Daughters
• Oxidized - Frontierer
• Doppelgänger - The Fall of Troy

This question gives me anxiety. Would learn to play guitar I guess.

In no order:

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
• Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
• Songs For The Deaf - Queens of The Stone Age
• Still Still Stellar - Hoshimachi Suisei
• You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters
• Station to Station - David Bowie
• Blackstar - David Bowie
• Hunting High and Low - a-ha
• Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
• DISCO4 :: Generations - Health

I think I'd be pretty happy if I had these albums in a desert island scenario... especially if I could do some sampling/remixing 😜

1. The Planets - Gustav Holst
2. Billie Holliday on Verve
3. Charlie Parker on Verve
4. The Firebird suite - Igor Stravinsky
5. Gnossiene - Eric Satie
6. The Heart of Saturday - Tom Waits
7. Ready to die - The Notorious B.I.G.
8. 20 Street Years - DJ Muro
9. Brilliant Corners - Thelonius Monk
10. Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley

No order

• Pickin' on Modest Mouse - Iron Horse
• August and Everything After - Counting Crows
• Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid
• Manners - Passion Pit
• Dirt - Alice in Chains
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
• Silent Steeples - Dispatch
• The President of the United States of America - The President of the United States of America
• Building Nothing out of Something - Modest Mouse
• Dosage - Collective Soul

1. AC/DC - If You Want Blood

2. Nirvana - Nevermind

3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

4. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

5. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan

6. REO Speedwagon - Live, You Get What You Play For

7. Head East - Flat as a Pancake

8. Foghat Live

9. Kyus - Welcome to Sky Valley

10. Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'

• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
• Leo Delibes - Lakme
• Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
• Dire Straits - Making Movies
• Green Day - American Idiot
• The Manhattan Transfer - Brasil
• Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From the Moons
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
• Rush - 2112
• Supertramp - Breakfast In America

Trivium - in waves

Lorna shore - the pain remains

Metallica - master of puppets

Sum 41 - does this look infected

Arch enemy - rise of the tyrant

Florence and the machine - MTV unplugged

Frank turner - positive songs for negative people

Highly suspect - mister asylum

Maybeshewill - not for want of trying

The mountain goats - the sunset tree

Aly & fila - beyond the lights(already own it)
Craig Connelly - believe in magic
Silicon soul - staring into space
Jazzanova - In between
Deep dish - junk science
Nuspirit Helsinki – Nuspirit Helsinki
Giuseppe Ottaviani - alma
Dj patife - no Estrada
Kevin Yost – One Starry Night
Can't think the last one.

Dire straits-self titled

Queen- night at the opera

Sublime-self titled

Peter Paul and Mary -self titled

Fleetwood Mac- rumors

Annenmaykantereit-Schlagschatten

Carole king- tapestry

Pete Seeger-If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle

Cream- strange brew

Dave Brubeck- time out

This is wild, I didn’t realize how dated my music taste skewed. I wanted frank turner, cistem failure, modest mouse, Amy Winehouse, and Adele, but I couldn’t cut anything else.

Always a tough format to pick just 10, but here goes:

• Leftfield - Leftism
• R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
• Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
• Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
• Orbital - In Sides
• Portishead - Portishead
• Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
• Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
• Beatles - Abbey Road
• Pulp - Different Class

But there's an awful lot that I would regret leaving behind.