Sorry if this has been done before, but I'm new here. :)

My picks...

1. 'Pet Sounds', The Beach Boys'
2. 'Revolver', The Beatles
3. 'Forever Changes', Love
4. 'Skylarking', XTC
5. 'Odessey and Oracle', The Zombies

top five, eh?

I'd have to say:

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Hello, Rockview - Less Than Jake
Everything Goes Numb - Streetlight Manifesto
Glee - Bran Van 3000
Warrior's Code - Dropkick Murphys

...but I'd put a disclaimer on there mentioning the fact that if you asked me tomorrow I'd probably come up with a slightly different list. That said, the above five fill the "desert island" test, so I suppose it works.

Caretaker, love the Red Dwarf quote....the Cat rules...Anyway, my top 5 albums;

American V- Johnny Cash (new fave)
Counterparts- Rush
Physical Graffiti- Led Zeppelin
Folsom Prison concert- Johnny Cash
Book of Secrets- Loreena McKennet

and a cheaters number 6- Robbie Robertson (self titled)

I consider the slight Canadian leanings a product of my Buffalo upbringing (could see Maple Leaf flags on a clear day from the old house) and the fact that I am a hockey fanatic...maybe Steph too...

favorite song..Alison, Elvis Costello...gf was named after it.

My Top 5, in no particular order

Alanis Morrisette--Jagged Little Pill
LL Cool J--Mama Said Knock You Out
Nine Inch Nails--The Fragile
Basement Jaxx--Remedy
Bush--Sixteen Stone

Honorable Mentions:

Fiona Apple--When The Pawn Hits...
The Crystal Method--Vegas
Kanye West--The College Dropout

I like a good variety and have recent gotten into some anime soundtracks so I'm always on the look for something new.

By the way, kudos to Live's Throwing Copper and Outkast's Aquemini being mentioned..two great albums I still own to this day.

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time
The Crow - Original Motion Picture Score

Whew, that's a tough one. My criteria were that they had to be albums I've loved for a long time, and that I would skip no more than one or two songs listening to them. Rounding out the top 15 or so: various Phantom soundtracks, Garbage - Version 2.0, Stellamara - Star of the Sea, Sarah McLachlan - Rarities, B-sides and Other Stuff, Medieval Baebes - Worldes Blysse, Madonna - The Immaculate Collection, Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, Kate Bush - The Whole Story, Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark.

Ok that was a nice diversion :)

Always a tough choice to narrow it down to five. But I never get tired of listening to these albums:

1. "Warren Zevon" - Warren Zevon (Really hard to choose - "Excitable Boy" and "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" by Zevon could have easily made the list).
2. "Ratcity in Blue" - Goodrats (The best band that never made it big).
3. "Pure Pop for Now People" - Nick Lowe (One of New Wave's pioneers).
4. "My Aim is True" - Elvis Costello (Back when he was still angry and original).
5. "Making Movies" - Dire Straits

i've lost count of all the great records over the years ruined by over playing on radio and tv.using records just as corny links in adverts and crappy programmes etc.theyre vampires feeding off other peoples talent

Funny how that very argument would lead almost certainly to any sort of communal musical base, leaving nothing but people who occasionally make music at home with noone around to hear it.

In order for the wider public, including you, Mr.I'm-so-politically-savvy-I'll-even-use-a-harmless-"list-your-favourites"-thread-as-a-soapbox, to have any access to music, those doing the music making need to have, at the very least, some compensation for all the time and money that it takes to conceive and produce and record the music itself.

Sure, for hundreds of thousands of years, people have been making music in caves by banging on rocks and stuff, but the development of music itself is a result of people getting paid for it, thus giving them both the incentive and the free time to do it more.

Am I to assume that the only music you listen to is stuff that you or your friends compose around a campfire or something like that, and that you have no recorded music whatsoever in your home or office or anywhere else? Cause if not, do us all a favour and tell us which Partridge Family album is your favourite.

And yes, the possibly over-zealous nature of this response *is* due, at least in part, to the barely literate nature of the post it is responding to. Blu-ray, if you are just learning to read/write and are actually an illiterate, or if every post you write it hastily pounded out in a life-or-death circumstance that completely precludes the option of accuracy in terms of spelling, capitalization or punctuation of any recognizably English kind, then let me know and you will have my utmost and completely sincere apologies. However, if you're just being lazy and ridiculous, please pay more attention.

Mmmmmm tricky one !!

Never mind the Bollocks -Sex Pistols
The Wall- Pink Floyd
In the Region Of The Summer Stars -The Enid
Maximum Minimum- Kraftwerk
Ariel -Kate Bush

This could be a list of over 50 Albums/Cd/downloads. Could put Elgar , Bach , Chopin . In there as well !

You know, I just couldn't get into Aerial. It's got a couple of good songs, but it didn't grab me as a whole.

I don't normally do these 'music' things, but...

1. Haunted - Poe

I have nothing else, mostly because I don't do this 'music' thing.

I'd have to put PJ Harvey's 4-track demos in my top five somewhere...

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

Subliminals - United State

Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo

and anything by A Trillian Barnacle Lapse

I believe you said an ear full, rich in thought.........dancers shouldn't perform recitials, actors shouldn't appear on stage (on screen), erotica shouldn't be seen? what makes music different? Think about it.

in no particular order

The Complex - Blue Man Group
any soundtrack album to any Star Wars movie
any soundtrack album to any Star Trek movie
Songs - Rich Mullens
So Much For Substitutes - Downhere
uuuuuuuuuh...just about any instrumental CD (classical, jazz, contemporary)

You're entitled to your opinion, but here's mine:

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... So what you're saying is people should only be allowed to express themselves creatively through visual, tactile and olefactory means? Or do you consider art and theatre and dance and perfume and all the other ways of expressing oneself a crime too?

Are you saying you've never listened to music and felt any kind of connection? Or are you just saying you hate everything made after 1970? Are you just stuck in the fucking 60's with The Beatles and Elvis? Or are you only interested in classical music and have decided that modern western art music just doesn't "do it" for you anymore? Do you feel that after the Swing and Bee Bop jazz eras everything just went down the shitter? That nobody does it quite like Sachmo and so to try is the ultimate sin?

I'm not sure if you're aware, but 90% of the people on this site are musicians... including Steph. Maybe you're joking, maybe not. But why the fuck would you write something like that on a site created by a hardcore musician and largely supported by hordcore musicians? You wouldn't. Unless you were trying to be an inflammatory fuck. Which you quite happily are, judging from your track record here.

Stop trying to be a gaping asshole, pissing people off because you have hate. I think you'll find you have a lot more fun and happiness in your life when you let go of the anger and the bitterness and start accepting life as a positive experience.

I am so sick of the teenage angst that seems to linger into middle-aged, supposedly "well-adjusted" people, creating angry, loudmouthed, know-it-all fuckheads who think people like them because they have a job and a house and a nice car, and who feel compelled to force their narrow-minded, intolerant world-view onto others because they "just don't get it".

No. We do get it. You're the one who doesn't. And that's why you hate everything and everyone and feel angry all the time. And frankly, although I just went on at length about it, I don't have time for fucks like you. Life is too short to give a shit about ignorant negative people who try to bring people down to join them in their misery.
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And that's my opinion. Anyone else?

Marg