jazzfromhell,

Point taken. That "rule" of mine has never been set in stone. I just don't want to miss out on any rock by waiting til I get much older and decide that it doesn't appeal to me any more. But, of course, that's only a mindset that can be simply dimissed.

And after considering what some others have written, maybe we can pull off a Top 25. Yes, 100 is too much. But 10 isn't enough to display what you're really into.

My tastes change depending on mood, so here's what I'm going with today.

Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
King Crimson – Red
Gov’t Mule – Dose
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Pink Floyd – Animals
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream
Brufford/Levin – Upper Extremities
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Frank Zappa – Make a Jazz Noise Here
Jaco Pastorious – The Birthday Concert
Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Robin Trower – Twice Removed From Yesterday
Blue Oyster Cult – Self Titled
Miles Davis – On the Corner
Allan Holdsworth – The Sixteen Men of Tain
The Beatles – The White Album
Billy Joel – Cold Spring Harbor
Screaming Headless Torsos – 1995
Danzig – How the Gods Kill
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Deep Purple – Made in Japan
Billy Cobham – Spectrum
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Albert Collins – Ice Pickin’
Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee

I was going to be ambitious and try to make a top 100, but top 25 really would be a better idea. I'll put something together in a minute.

Edit: Alright, I tried.

The Band – Music from Big Pink
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
The Kinks – Face to Face
Nick Cave – Tender Prey
Neil Young – On the Beach
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
Elvis Costello – My Aim is True
Monks – Black Monk Time
Tom Waits – Heart of Saturday Night
Bob Dylan – Desire
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Neil Young – Comes a Time
The Kinks - Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
The Beatles – The Bealtes [White Album]
Van Morrison – Moondance
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Iron & Wine – Creek Drank the Cradle
Nick Cave – Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
The Stooges – Funhouse
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Brian Eno – Another Green World

I don't know if this is a project still underway, but I'm working up a list of 100 for you. However, something I read earlier indicated that an album was only ranked if it appears on two or more ballots. An album placed near the top of a single ballot could have enough points to qualify, couldn't it?

JcS

Well, Joey, as apposed to other websites I've participated at and scored lists, this board doesn't seem like it's going to have enough participants for this to really work. That's why I changed it to 25 rather than 100. I meant to start a new board entitled The 25 Greatest... As far as only including those that appear on more than one list, I'm afraid that's the only way I'm going to score it, if it's my project. If enough people submit lists, we would have a fairly decent display of what we have in common musically.

I missed that you had offically cut it to 25. I'll work up something for you in the next few days.

As for scoring it your way, you are correct--it's your project, and you should do it however you see fit. You'll get some anomalies either way you go, with a small sampling to work with.

Do we include live albums or "best of" compliations?

JcS

Do we include live albums or "best of" compliations?


Don't know why I haven't mentioned this yet, but live albums are just fine with me. Best of really isn't fair, so please leave those off. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing your list and I'll probably have a 25 Greatest... board up soon.

1 WAITING FOR COLUMBUS--Little Feat
2 MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR--Beatles
3 REVOLVER--Beatles
4 WISH YOU WERE HERE--Pink Floyd
5 WHO'S NEXT--The Who
6 LOVE AND THEFT--Bob Dylan
7 SGT. PEPPER--Beatles
8 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON--Pink Floyd
9 RUBBER SOUL--Beatles
10 COURT AND SPARK--Joni Mitchell
11 ARE YOU EXPERIENCED--Jimi Hendrix Experience
12 GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD--Elton John
13 LOST IN SPACE--Aimee Mann
14 ONE ALL--Neil Finn
15 KATY LIED--Steely Dan
16 IMPERIAL BEDROOM--Elvis Costello
17 WOODFACE--Crowded House
18 BACHELOR #2--Aimee Mann
19 REMAIN IN LIGHT--Talking Heads
20 ACHTUNG BABY--U2
21 ALL THINGS MUST PASS--George Harrison
22 A MAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE--Alejandro Escovedo
23 RINGO--Ringo Starr
24 OK COMPUTER--Radiohead
25 LIVE BULLET--Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

Were I asked to replicate this list from scratch next week, I couldn't do it, either in components or order. I'm quite sure WAITING FOR COLUMBUS would top the list, and the Beatles would do as well if not better (leaving A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and ABBEY ROAD off the list just seemed wrong!). The list of those bubbling under was about 40 discs.

JcS

I'm gonna go ahead and give the full 100 a try. The list I have made includes a pretty lot of classical which makes it tricky because it's usually more about composition than one specific recording. As it stands now my list doesn't include any Zeppelin or the rap classics Paid in Full and Raising Hell. Maybe I can shuffle things around and make room. Usually when I like a band a few of their records will appear in a block because I like them about the same and generally consider the lot better than what's a bit lower on the list, if you know what I mean. A few selections are quite obscure. In that case I will try to provide a link.

100) Gum- vinyl http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2026
99) Crash Worship- This (Cassette only afaik) http://www.charnel.com/charnel/bands...scography.html
98) Ramones-Pleasant Dreams
97) Kristen Hersh-Hips and Makers
96) Cecil Tayler-Unit Structures
95) DJ Screw Legend
94) Scarface Chopped and Screwed
93) Sue Anne Harkey - I Tell You Everything (Just Not Out loud)
http://mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/20...ersion-of.html
92) DJ Screw- Biggie Verses Pac
91) DJ Screw- 3 in the Morning Part 2
90) South of Heaven
89) Reign in Blood
88) Archie Shepp-Attica Blues
87) Pet Sounds
86) The Chronic
85) Beggars Banquet
84) Satanic Majesties Request (I know, but I really like it)
83) Exile On Main Street
82) Sticky Finger
81) Let It Bleed
80) Let It Be
79) Sgt. Pepper's
78) Revolver
77) White Album
76) Magical Mystery Tour
75) Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan
74) Bod Dylan The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [BOX SET] (hee hee)
73) The Times They Are A'Changin'
72) Wu Tang-The W
71) Genius- Liquid Swords
70) Ol Dirty Bastard- Return to the 36 Chambers
69) Busta Rhymes- Extinction Level Event
68) Enter The Wu Tang Clan (36 Chambers)
67) Methodical 2000
66) Miles- Live Evil
65) Kind of Blue
64) Pete Seeger- We Shall Overcome: Complete Carnegie Hall Concert
63) Are You Experienced
62) Axis: Bold As Love
61) London Calling
60) Sandinista
59) Roger Waters- The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
58) The Final Cut
57) Ummagumma
56) The Wall
55) Animals
54) Kid A
53) Sea Change
52) Flaming Lips- Hit To Death in the Future Head
51) Jesus and Mary Chain- PsychoCandy (There's no way there's 50 albums better than this but what the f---)
50) Butthole Surfers-Locust Abortion Technician
49) Soft Bulletin
(ok that leaves out Yoshima which isn't right but I must soldier on)
48) Evol
47) Sonic Youth-Confusion is Sex
46) Sister
45) Bad Moon Rising
44) Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 / The Gong on the Hook & Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street / Tone Roads No. 1 / Hymn: Largo Cantabile, for String Orchestra / Hallowe'en / Central Park in the Dark / The Unanswered Question - Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
43) Burl Ives- Poor Wayfaring Stranger (just a coincidence, I swear)
42) Vivaldi- Four Season
41) Perotin / The Hilliard Ensemble
40) Bach- Minuet in G
39) The Brandenburg Concertos
38) LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC
37) Moonlight Sonata
36) Don Giovanni
35) Mozart- Symphony No. 41 In C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter'
34) Mozart's Requiem
33) Beethoven's 3rd
32) Beethoven's 7th
31) Beethoven's 9th
30) Beethoven's 5th
29) Beethoven- String Quartet In A Minor, Op. 132
28) Yo! Bum Rush The Show
27) Nations
26) Marvin Gaye- Live!
25) Let's Get It On
24) What's Going On
23) The Complete Robert Johnson
22) Leadbelly's Last Sessions
21) Ornette Coleman- Skies of America
20) Ornette Coleman- Free Jazz
19) The Shape of Jazz To Come
18) Xenakis- Metastasis/Pithoprakta/Eonta
17) Karlheinz Stckhausen -Hymnal
16) Elliott Carter- Sonato for Cello and Piano
15) Ramones- NYC 1978
14) Leave Home
13) Rocket To Russia
12) Ramones
11) Prima Materia- Peace On Earth The Music of John Coltrane http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...9520807?n=5174
10) McCoy Tyner- Echoes of a Friend
9) Sketches of Spain
8) John Coltrane- Crescent
7) African Brass
6) Interstellar Space
5) Kulu Se Mama
4) Expression
3) A Love Supreme
2) Ramones- It's Alive
1) Ready To Die