Our top ten studio albums from favourite acts

Steve Wyzard wrote: ALAN PARSONS PROJECT 1. Stereotomy 2. I Robot 3. Eye in the Sky 4. Pyramid 5. Tales of Mystery and Imagination 6. Gaudi 7. Turn of a Friendly Card 8. Vulture Culture 9. Eve 10. Ammonia Avenue SAGA 1. Worlds Apart 2. Heads or Tales 3. Silent Knight 4. Saga 5. The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes 6. Images at Twilight 7. The Security of Illusion 8. Wildest Dreams 9. Behaviour 10. Steel Umbrellas

Steve,

When I was putting my lists together, I chose artists that are among my very favorites, artists that are in my top 10-15 all-time. Steely Dan, Mahavisnu Orchestra and Led Zeppelin, for example, come up short with having released less than 10 studio albums.

Gentle Giant, ELP and Chicago fall short due to not having 10 studio albums I like. I'm a massive fan of each of these bands.

Gentle Giant's first 8 albums I quite like. Acquiring the Taste and Three Friends are among my favorite albums all genres included.

My love for ELP is based on the first 4 studio albums and 2 live albums, which solidified them as one of the very best Progressive Rock bands. Those albums spent a lot of time on the turntable. After that, it falls apart. I like some of Works, but beyond that the other ELP albums I don't care for.

Chicago it is about the Terry Kath years. The first two albums are phenomenal. The rest of the Kath years Chicago discography is at a minimum solid if not excellent. But, after his unfortunate death they became a different band.

That brings me to Alan Parsons Project a band I like, but nowhere close to a top 20 artist for me. So, I did not think of them. But, seeing your list made me think that all their studio releases are at least decent. So, I'll give some thought of where I would rank their discography and post later.

Thanks for all the lists thus far. I have not been able to bring myself to arrange my lists in a way other than chronologically even if I do have preferences, but here's an attempt du du jour even if it ends up being quite arbitrary. My most recent listen is College EP, some great music on it, but it seems inessential to me...

Radiohead

Kid A (2000)
OK Computer (1997)
A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
Amnesiac (2001)
In Rainbows (2007)
Hail to the Thief (2003)
The Bends (1995)
The King of Limbs (2011)
Pablo Honey (1993, "Blow Out" is great)
College EP (2001)

Edited by Logan - March 26 2025 at 09:59

Art Zoyd are so hard... they have so much music that I love. Haven't listened to some of it in ages just because it's so much. I'm just listening to Le marriage du ciel et de l'enfer, which is brutally good, and I had almost forgotten about that.

Edited by Lewian - March 26 2025 at 07:42

Miles Davis

1) Sketches of Spain
2) A Tribute to Jack Johnson
3) In a Silent Way
4) A Kind of Blue
5) Porgy and Bess
6) Milestones
7) Sorcerer
8) Miles Smiles
9) On the Corner
10) Bitches Brew

Steve Morse Band

1) The Introduction
2) High Tension Wires
3) Southern Steel
4) Structural Damage
5) Coast to Coast
6) Major Impacts II
7) Stand Up
8) Major Impacts
9) Split Decision
10) Stressfest

Jethro Tull

Peter Hammill

The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974)
Over (1977)
In Camera (1974)
A Black Box (1980)
The Future Now (1978)
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973)
Fool's Mate (1971)
pH7 (1979)
Nadir's Big Chance (1975)
Sitting Targets (1981)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

F♯A♯∞ (1997)
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000)
Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P. (1999)
"No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (2024)
G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (2021)
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012)
'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' (2015)
"Luciferian Towers" (2017)
All Lights f**ked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (1994)


Edited by Saperlipopette! - March 25 2025 at 23:03

Pink Floyd

Meddle (1971)
Saucerful Of Secrets (1968)
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967
The Wall (1979)
Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Wish You Were Here (1975)
Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Obscured By Clouds (1972)
Animals (1977)
The Final Cut (1983)

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Ummagumma
Meddle
Dark Side of the Moon
Atom Heart Mother
Animals
A Saucerful of Secrets
Obscured by Clouds
The Final Cut
The Division Bell

Van der Graaf Generator
Still Life
Godbluff
H to He Who Am the Only One
The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
A Grounding in Numbers
Pawn Hearts
World Record
Do Not Disturb
Present
Trisector

Genesis
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound
Nursery Cryme
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Wind and Wuthering
A Trick of the Tail
Trespass
Duke
Genesis
Invisible Touch



Edited by someone_else - March 26 2025 at 01:54

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - March 25 2025 at 15:55

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