Top 11 favorite albums of all time

List your favorite albums of all time and limit to 11.

Mine:

1) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2) Beatles - White Album
3) Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 
4) Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia
5) Arcade Fire - Funeral
6) Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane over the sea
7) Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
8) Beach House - Teen Dream
9) Velvet Underground and Nico
10) Primal Scream - Screamadilca
11) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen
love - forever changes
husker du - zen arcade
zombies - oddesey and oracle
misfits - walk among us
gi/teen idles/soa/youth brigade - 4 old 7"s on a 12"
hoodoo gurus - stoneage romeos
Jesus Mary Chain - Darklands
Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
VU - Nico

After the Gold Rush
On the Beach 
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Rust Never Sleeps
Live Rust
Crazy Horse at the Fillmore 
Harvest
Tonight's the Night
Weld
Zuma
Ragged Glory

No Code
Boy With the Arab Strap
At Mount Zoomer
Silent Alarm
The Weight is a Gift
Funeral
OK Computer
Turn On the Bright Lights
Violator
After the Gold Rush
The Cars

Songs For The Deaf
Led Zeppelin
You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Kid A
Enter The Wu-Tang [36 Chambers]
Fever To Tell
Discovery
Low End Theory
Ready To Die
Appetite For Destruction
De Stijl

this list varies by the nanosecond but here is my new one


Venezuela Zinga Son Vol 1             Los Amigos Invisibles
Africa Brasil                                   Jorge Ben
Live at the Velvet Lounge (boot)      Outer Body Llama
Live at Atlantic Studios                   AC/DC
Gilberto Gil (1969)                        Gilberto Gil
Five Guys Walk into a Bar              Faces
Complete Columbia                        Billie Holiday
Trompe Le Monde                          Pixies
Nigeria                                          Grant Green
Honestidad Brutal                            Andres Calamaro
Dylan                                            Bob Dylan

chaz wrote:

hoodoo gurus - stoneage romeos

I am glad someone remembers that album.  I saw them on that tour at the old 930 club.  Great album. 

1. Jesus & Mary Chain ?Psychocandy?
2. Meat Puppets ?II?
3. Verve ?A Northern Soul?
4. Jane?s Addiction ?Nothings Shocking?
5. Stone Roses s/t
6. Minutemen ?Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat?
7. Palace Music ?Viva Last Blues?
8. John Coltrane ?Love Supreme?
9. White Stripes ?White Blood Cells?
10. The Knife ?Silent Shout?
11. Joy Division ?Closer?

"Eleven Plus Eleven" by Nine Below Zero
"The Kernels XI (11)" by Dirty Bomb
"Seven come Eleven" by Benny Goodman
"The 11th Hour" by Rancid
"11:11" by Rodrigo y Gabriela
"11:11" by Rufus Wainwright
"11 O'Clock Tick Tock" by U2
"Song Eleven Could Take Forever" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
"11 A.M." by Incubus
"11th Dimension" by Julian Casablancas
"9/11 Fever!!!" by Bomb the Music Industry
"…And the World Files for Chapter 11" by The Flatliners
"Drinking For 11" by Mad Caddies
"9/11 Was (An Inside Joke)" by Star Fucking Hipsters
"Seven Come Eleven" by Johnny Horton
"Eleventeen" by Kimya Dawson
"Hang 11" by John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
"Commemorative 9/11 T-Shirt" (also "Commemorative ____ T-Shirt") by Oceansize
"11 Months + 29 Days" by Confederate Railroad
"Eleven" by Primus
"The Eleven" by The Grateful Dead

damn.. I answered it wrong..  :'(

Can I post a list of 75 favorite artists?  narrowing it down to 11 would take time on a Cray computer to figure out.

hutch wrote:
damn.. I answered it wrong..  :'(

Oh wait.  I think that was me.

kosmo wrote:
Can I post a list of 75 favorite artists?  narrowing it down to 11 would take time on a Cray computer to figure out.

I just took my Top 100 list and lopped off the first 11.

This was a nice conference call diversion.  Only limited to studio-recorded LPs, not collections or live albums.  Probably looks something like this:

(1) Paul Simon "Graceland"
(2) The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead"
(3) Camera Obscura "Let's Get Out of This Country"
(4) Beach Boys "Pet Sounds"
(5) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Willy and the Poor Boys"
(6) The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses"
(7) The Replacements "Tim"
(8) The Velvet Underground "The Velvet Underground & Nico"
(9) Ella Fitzgerald "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook"
(10) Ramones "Ramones"
(11) Yo La Tengo "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One"

honorable mentions:

Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker"
Beatles "Revolver"
Belle & Sebastian "If You're Feeling Sinister"
The Clash "The Clash"
The Cure "Disintegration"
Dismemberment Plan "Emergency & I"
Drive-By Truckers "Southern Rock Opera"
Bob Dylan "Nashville Skyline"
The Jam "All Mod Cons"
Jens Lekman "Oh You're So Silent Jens" (a collection, whatever)
Magnetic Fields "Holiday"
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies"
New Pornographers "Mass Romantic"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Ready to Die"
Outkast "ATLiens"
R.E.M. "Reckoning"
The Shins "Oh, Inverted World"
The Strokes "Is This It?"
Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"
Lucinda Williams "Lucinda Williams"
Stevie Wonder "Talking Book"

(1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
(2) AC/DC - Back in Black
(3) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
(4) Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard
(5) Michael Jackson - Bad
(6) Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell
(7) Eagles- Their Greatest Hits (1971?1975)
(8 ) Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
(9) Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
(10) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
(11) Shania Twain - Come on Over

vansmack wrote:
(1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
(2) AC/DC - Back in Black
(3) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
(4) Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard
(5) Michael Jackson - Bad
(6) Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell
(7) Eagles- Their Greatest Hits (1971?1975)
(8 ) Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
(9) Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
(10) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
(11) Shania Twain - Come on Over

That looks like the best selling ablums of all time list.  I would say #9 and #10 are quite worthy of being on the list.

vansmack wrote:
(1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
(2) AC/DC - Back in Black
(3) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
(4) Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard
(5) Michael Jackson - Bad
(6) Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell
(7) Eagles- Their Greatest Hits (1971?1975)
(8 ) Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
(9) Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
(10) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
(11) Shania Twain - Come on Over

So how about 12 through 22, we all know that's where the good stuff is ;)

Did you say list your top 11 favorite albums, or you top 11 favorite ROCK albums?

Because that's all everyone seems to be listing.

kosmo wrote:
So how about 12 through 22, we all know that's where the good stuff is ;)

Thank you for letting me post Britney:

(12) Led Zeppelin - IV
(13) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
(14) Michael Jackson - Dangerous
(15) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(16) Céline Dion - Falling into You
(17) Mariah Carey - Music Box
(18) The Beatles - 1
(19) Céline Dion - Let's Talk About Love
(20) Backstreet Boys - Millennium
(21) The Beatles - Abbey Road
(22) Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time