[Zooropa]

Originally Posted by bread man

That's because those albums rule.

True, but I disagree about Revolver. I never understand how people say Rubber Soul/Revolver was the best Beatles era. Phenomenal songs, sure, but still very raw compared to the songwriting evolution that was to come for them.

[Mattlock]

I was going to buy a copy of the Queen is Dead today, but Border's wasn't carrying it. Every time it's in stock, I just can't justify spending 21 dollars on it.

[meatfinger]

Originally Posted by Zooropa

True, but I disagree about Revolver. I never understand how people say Rubber Soul/Revolver was the best Beatles era. Phenomenal songs, sure, but still very raw compared to the songwriting evolution that was to come for them.

I agree with you. I'd go so far as to say that Revolver is one of my least favorite Beatles albums (excluding the early stuff that doesn't so much matter).

[bread man]

Originally Posted by Mattlock

I was going to buy a copy of the Queen is Dead today, but Border's wasn't carrying it. Every time it's in stock, I just can't justify spending 21 dollars on it.

It's always on sale for like $10 around here. Not that it isn't worth the 21, but yeah.

[Zooropa]

Originally Posted by meatfinger

I agree with you. I'd go so far as to say that Revolver is one of my least favorite Beatles albums (excluding the early stuff that doesn't so much matter).

Rubber Soul is my least favorite. A lot of the earlier poppy stuff The Beatles did is stronger than a lot of Rubber Soul even. As far as I'm concerned, Lennon's contributions are the only reason that album is any good.

[Kenny C.]

Man, this is really hard. I'll try to post my list today or tomorrow after I think about it a bit.

[Role Modlin]

Originally Posted by Zooropa

True, but I disagree about Revolver. I never understand how people say Rubber Soul/Revolver was the best Beatles era. Phenomenal songs, sure, but still very raw compared to the songwriting evolution that was to come for them.

I struggled with which albums to put...I originally had Help! before either one of those. I may be in the minority but I'm not a huge fan of the later stuff. Honestly...I find myself listening to the stuff from the first two or three albums more than anything else...including Rubber Soul and Revolver.

[bread man]

I pretty much only ever listen to Revolver and Abbey Road, to be honest.

[Zooropa]

I may be the only person in the world who believes The White Album is not only the best album of the 60s, but the best album ever. It was Lennon's peak as a songwriter, and McCartney's also. George's came later on Abbey Road. There are just so many mind-blowing songs on that album: "Happiness is a Warm Gun," "Helter Skelter," "Sexy Sadie," "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey," "Glass Onion." As far as I'm concerned it was Rock and Roll's high point in songwriting. I once wrote a short piece on what the album could have been like had it been released as a single album instead of double. I concluded it would have been majorly regarded as the best Beatles album.

[Hopeful]

Originally Posted by Mr. Role Modlin

I struggled with which albums to put...I originally had Help! before either one of those. I may be in the minority but I'm not a huge fan of the later stuff. Honestly...I find myself listening to the stuff from the first two or three albums more than anything else...including Rubber Soul and Revolver.

I totally agree with you. Having grown up in that era, when With The Beatles came out, I loved that album. Then, I had to get Please, Please Me, Hard Day's Night, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Help, and so forth. Still have the vinyls in storage to this day. I liked those albums because they showed a lot of the '50's influence in their music. I didn't care too much for the later albums, although I liked the White Album. Those boys from Liverpool were good. They pretty much owned the '60's, along with many of the British invasion groups. But, I was also heavily into R&B/soul, Motown, and many of the Doo Wop biggies in the early '60's. Then, toward the latter part of the decade, psychedelic music came into play and things got weird, though some good things came out of that music.

[Micahb]

I will only do decades that I lived in.
I was born in the 10th month of 1989, and I choose not to include that decade.
It shall be noted that my favourite CD from my year of birth is Pretty Hate Machine.
My list kind of sucks because it's taken up by just a few bands. Oh well. It's still what I listen to most.

1990s
10) Blink 182 - Enema of the State
9) Nine Inch Nails - Broken
8) Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
7) Nirvana - Nevermind
6) Weezer - Pinkerton
5) Tool - Ænima
4) Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3) Weezer - Blue Album
2) Radiohead - OK Computer
1) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2000s
10) Hawksley Workman - (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves
9) Tool - Lateralus
8) The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
7) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
6) Tool - 10,000 Days
5) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
4) Nine Inch Nails - With_Teeth
3) Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound
2) Goon Moon - Lickers Last Leg
1) The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

There. Finished it.

[Kenny C.]

Here's 2 decades, in no order, for now.

1960s
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Beatles - Revolver
The Stooges - The Stooges
Miles Davis - *****es Brew

1990s
Weezer - Blue
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Radiohead - OK Computer
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Weezer - Pinkerton
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Of Montreal - Cherry Peel
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

[thelitguy]

This thread is so awesome I'm gonna' re-do mine to bump it! Kind of...

1960s:

1. The Beach Boys- The Beach Boys Today!
2. The Beatles- Revolver
3. Simon and Garfunkel- Bookends
4. The Ronettes- Featuring Veronica
5. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
6. The Turtles- Turtle Soup
7. The 13th Floor Elevators- The Psychedelic Sounds of
8. Merle Haggard and the Strangers- Mama Tried
9. the Zombies- Odysey and Oracle
10. The Supremes- Supreme's A Go Go


1980s:

1. The Smiths- Queen is Dead
2. The Pixies- Surfer Rosa
3. New Order- Substance
4. Prince-1999
5. Rem- Document
6. Bob Dylan- Slow Train Coming
7. Willie Nelson- Always on My Mind
8. Madonna- Madonna
9. The Human League- Dare!
10. X- See How We Are



Those are the two decades that are really important to me. The others will come later. Maybe.

[bread man]

Awesome lists. I was talking to my uncle at Christmas and he was telling me how he saw X open for Iggy Pop years ago, it sounded so awesome.

[corporate]

Let's see...

1980s
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
Thriller - Michael Jackson
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues
3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
...

1990s
OK Computer - Radiohead
Rid of Me/Dry - PJ Harvey
Enter The Wu-Tang(36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
I Bificus - Bif Naked
Illmatic - Nas
Korn - Korn
Clear Blue Skies - Juggaknots
Post - Bjork
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon
¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones? - Shakira

2000s
Blacklisted - Neko Case
The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom
Kid A - Radiohead
Arular - M.I.A.
Any Other City - Life Without Buildings
Supreme Clientele - Ghostface
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea - PJ Harvey
Elephant - The White Stripes
The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
El Perro del Mar - El Perro del Mar