My top 10 Albums (not all prog)

In specific f**king order:

1 - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

2 - Small Change - Tom Waits

3 - Jesus Christ Superstar - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice

4 - Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

5 - Abbey Road - The Beatles 

6 - Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

7 - Bone Machine - Tom Waits

8 - The Mollusk - Ween

9 - Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

I can't, at this time, choose a tenth. It's not that there aren't several albums in the running, but it comes down to this conversation in my brain:

Well do I like the first thirty seconds of How to Disappear Completely off of Radiohead's Kid A more or less than the last couple minutes of Tiny Tears from Devin Townsend's Terria or am I underrating too many songs off of The White album like Yer Blues or Birthday to set it on the same level as Jockey Full of Bourbon or Cemetery Polka from Waits' Rain Dogs? And what the hell do I feel about this half minute or that forty second instrumental segment as compared to this two-minute pseudo filler or that slightly messy vocal hook on verse four of such and so?

There are a good couple hundred albums I don't want to live without, from Peter Gabriel's Untitled # III, Savatage's Hall of the Mountain King, and Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town, to The Seatbelts' Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack, Vangelis' Blade Runner, and Kate Bush's Hounds of Love. From Bjork's Vespertine to The Band's Music From Big Pink. From Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (or John Wesley Harding or Time out of Mind) to Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate. From Rainbow's Live in Germany to Pain of Salvation's Perfect Element 1. From Ayreon's The Human Equation to The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (Or Let it Bleed, or Beggar's Banquet). From King Crimson's Red to The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper (or Revolver). I can't decide on number ten. I can't do it.

This changes every day:

1. Sing To God- Cardiacs

2. On Land And In The Sea- Cardiacs

3. Fas Ine....- Deathspell Omega

4. Lick My Decals Off, Baby- Captain Beefheart

5. NoMeansNo- Wrong

6. Wha-Ha-Ha- Shinotukiwa Betsu

7. Shunned Country- Bob Drake

8. Book Of Horizons- Secret Chiefs 3 (should've been higher)

9. Speechless/ Gravity/ Cheap at Half The Price- Fred Frith (couldn't decide)

10. Spratleys Japs- Pony (Tim Smith's godly side project)

Probably will change my mind three seconds from now, probably should have more Cardiacs in there, and SC3, and SGM should also be there. And abotfjhba;lfkghaf;oighedfspogihjv

Great album, glad to see it on your list. 

The Early Singles: Pink Floyd - PF

The Pavilion of Dreams - Harold Budd

The White Album - The Beatles

Blade Runner Soundtrack - Vangelis (that's probably the one without strings)

Aguirre Soundtrack - Popol Vuh

Heroes of Might and Magic III soundtrack - Paul Romero (oh yeah!)

Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies

Rosemary Lane - Bert Jansch

Ambient #2: The Plateaux of Mirror - Brian Eno and Harold Budd

Forbidden Forest - George Winston (perf. by The Taliesin Orchestra)

That's the best I can do (where I prefer ambient over rock).

 

Here is my quick Top 10 list:

 

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

Gentle Giant - Free Hand

The WHO - Quadrophenia

Led Zep - Presence (pure guitar Godliness)

YES - Going For The One (too many great YES records to pick only one.)

RUSH - Hemispheres

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (best recording ever made???)

Nektar - Recycled

Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall

 

I need to squeeze in these extra 3

 

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

Elton John - Captain Fatastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy

 

Cheers!

 

DM