Bowie (not including live/comps):

1) Aladdin Sane
2) Station to Station
3) Ziggy Stardust
4) Hunky Dory
5) Diamond Dogs
6) Heroes
7) Scary Monsters
8. Low
9) Heathen
10) Lodger
11) Reality
12) Earthling
13) The Man Who Sold the World
14) Young Americans
15) Let's Dance
16) Hours
17) Never Let Me Down
18. Black Tie White Noise
19) Outside
20) Tonight

Edit: forgot Hours!

I need to get that Wire DVD. That and the Can DVD are on my "to get" list, but I hardly ever think about buying band DVDs.

Also, A-Z has just never had any staying power with me. On the surface, it has a great 154 type of sound, but the sounds have always seemed like arty noodling.

I messed up on Sonic Youth and left some stuff out, should be:

1. Daydream Nation
2. Sister
3. Dirty
4. Evol
5. Goo
6. Murray Street
7. Washing Machine
8. Sonic Nurse
9. A Thousand Leaves
10. Confusion Is Sex
11. Goodbye 20th Century
12. NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Flaming Lips

1. Clouds Taste Metallic
2. The Soft Bulletin
3. In a Priest Driven Ambulance
4. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
5. Hit to Death in the Future Head
6. Zaireeka
7. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

8. Oh My Gawd!!!
9. Telepathic Surgery
10. Hear It Is

Sadly, I only have the above Bowie albums. Here's how I'd rank them:

1. Low
2. Hunky Dory
3. Station to Station
4. Ziggy Stardust

5. Young Americans


Brian Eno

1. Here Come the Warm Jets
2. Another Green World
3. Ambient 4: On Land
4. Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy

...and that's all I have

Low is probably a nearly perfect album, and I think there are 7 bowie records ahead of it. That is an artist with a deep catalog.

continuing the thread for my own amusement...

Led Zeppelin

1. III
2. Physical Graphitti
3. Houses of the Holy
4. (IV)
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Presence
7. II
8. In Through the Out Door


Beatles

1. Abbey Road
2. The White Album
3. Sgt. Pepper's
4. Revolver
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Let It Be
7. Rubber Soul

Guided By Voices

1. Alien Lanes
2. Bee Thousand
3. Mag Earwhig!
4. Isolation Drills
5. Vampire on Titus
6. Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
7. Under the Bushes Under the Stars
8. Earthquake Glue
9. Propeller
10. Devil Between My Toes
11. Universal Truths and Cycles
12. Sandbox
13. Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
14. Do the Collapse
15. Half Smiles of the Decomposed


Dressy Bessy

1. Little Music
2. Pink Hearts Yellow Moons
3. Dressy Bessy
4. Sound Go Round


Yes

1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile
3. The Yes Album
4. Relayer
5. Going For the One
6. Tormato
7. Yes
8. Tales From Topographic Oceans
9. Time and a Word


Juliana Hatfield

1. Only Everything
2. Bed
3. Total System Failure
4. Become What You Are
5. Hey Babe
6. Beautiful Creature
7. In Exile Deo


Cornershop

1. Woman's Gotta Have It
2. Hold On It Hurts
3. Handcream For a Generation
4. When I Was Born For the 7th Time


Gomez

1. Bring it On
2. Liquid Skin
3. Split the Difference
4. In Our Gun

Not I!

1. The Bends
2. Kid A
3. Amnesiac
4. OK Computer
5. HTTT
6. Pablo Honey

Modest Mouse:
1. Moon & Antarctica
2. Lonesome Crowded West
3. This is a Long Drive
4. Fruit that Ate Itself
5. Good News
6. Sad Sappy Sucker

Death Cab:
1. We Have the Facts
2. Something About Airplanes
3. The Photo Album
4. Transatlanticism

more later, requires too much thinking for me right now.

i wondered how long it would take to turn this into a radiohead rating thread

anyway
Kid A
Bends
OK Computer
Amnesiac
(Airbag)
(My Iron Lung)
HTTT
Pablo Honey

1. OK Computer
2. Kid A
3. The Bends
4. My Iron Lung
5. Airbag/How Am I Driving?
6. Amnesiac
7. Itch
8. Pablo Honey
9. HTTT


1. Ziggy Stardust
2. Station to Station
3. Low
4. Alladin Sane
5. Hunky Dory
6. Diamond Dogs
7. Heroes
8. The Man Who Sold the World
9. Scary Monsters
10. Space Oddity

um, Drama? 90125?

Really haven't listened to them enough to do the ranking justice, but:

1. Meddle
2. Piper at the Gates of Dawn

3. Dark Side
4. Saucerful of Secrets*
5. Ummagumma
6. Atom Heart Mother*
7. Wish You Were Here

...XX. The Wall
...XX+1. The Final Cut

I like those first two a lot, and the next 5 are pretty good, not great IMO. The Wall never did much for me, and I never liked The Final Cut at all. I think I like More and maybe Obscured by Clouds, but I've only heard each one once or twice.

*The only ones I actually own.

Apparently I imagined that.



Don't know either of the EPs, but I'll sub in a comp instead:

1. Lonesome Crowded West
2. Building Nothing Out of Something
3. This Is a Long Drive for Someone...
4. Good News
5. Moon & Antarctica

Never got all the love for M&A...

10 and 11 respectively if you must know.

I had no idea Kiss had so many albums, amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t touch drugs.

I really need to get to know Bowie. I have two classic albums and only know a few more songs thru comps and radio.

I’m seriously impressed with your knowledge Drinky. If I remember correctly you are in your mid 20’s but just by the albums you posted in this thread it seems like a 40 year old. Possibility someone who gets free comps from working in the business. I know a lot of people on this board blow away my music knowledge but feel I can hold court fairly well. Sometimes I need to step back and just acknowledge it. Yeah for modern technology.

I have always wondered something? Own Beck One Foot In the Grave, and is criminally underplayed, and know there is a song by the same name. However I don’t believe that song I’m looking for is on that album, as I have looked. Any help anyone, where is that song?

This thread should go on for 20, 30 or 40 pages. Make it the biggest Obner thread in our two short months.

I have only talked about more recent bands, or two 80’s being the oldest. Didn’t want to get into my complete classic catalogs but if it keeps going I want to.

So what do you say?

Original Artyfacts From The…

First Era (America) – Vol I
First Era (America) – Vol III
British Empire – Vol I
First Era (America) – Vol II
British Empire – Vol II
First Era (America) – Vol IV
British Empire – Vol III
British Empire – Vol IV

Pink Floyd:
The Wall
Obscured by Clouds
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Meddle
Animals
Atom Heart Mother
More (soundtrack)
The Final Cut
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Momentary Lapse of Reason
Division Bell

The Killers:
Hot Fuss

"One Foot in the Grave" is on Stereopathetic Soulmanure. It's one of a handful of good songs on there.

Thanks for the compliments.


Animal Collective (& members of):

1. Sung Tongs
2. Here Comes the Indian
3. Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
4. Campfire Songs
5. Danse Manatee
6. Young Prayer

Not sure I can do this justice, but this would be my ranking:

1. Animals/Wish You Were Here (tie)
3. Dark Side of the Moon
4. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
5. Division Bell
6. Atom Heart Mother
7. Meddle (mostly for "One of These Days", "Seamus" and "Echoes")
8. Obscured by Clouds
9. Final Cut
X. Saucerful of Secrets
XI. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
XII. More
XII. Ummagumma (the studio disk drags it down)

I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

You have to hear Animals -- I mean, if you even remotely liked Wish You Were Here, you'll...well, you'll remotely like Animals. But they're completely different -- Wish You Were Here is to synthesizers what Animals is to guitars.

I only own:

1. WYWH
2. Animals
3. Meddle
4. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Atom Heart Mother


Tindersticks

1. Tindersticks (debut)
2. Curtains
3. Tindersticks II
4. Simple Pleasure
5. Can Our Love...
6. Trouble Every Day
7. Waiting For the Moon

Cheers for tackling that one. I think I'd have to agree.

Discuss? I always thought I was crazy for thinking The Final Cut was the best album by Floyd. It never made any sense on the surface but somehow connected with it. Never really knew anyone who agreed with me, I thought I was nuts (which might be true anyways). Until last year I came across this in Stylus Magazine. Finally someone somewhere felt something with this that I did. Looking to write out an explanation, I looked at what AMG would say. “This is more like a novel than a record, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation are used as effect. This means that while this has the texture of classic Pink Floyd, somewhere between the brooding sections of The Wall to the monolithic menace of Animals, there are no songs or hooks to make these radio favorites. The even bent of the arrangements, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the dedicated listener. Several of those listeners maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts, and it certainly is an achievement of some kind -- there's not only no other Floyd album quite like it, it has no close comparisons to anybody else's work.” It’s there Kid A.

Of the one that I own:

1. The Final Cut
2. Meddle
3. Dark Side
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Animals
6. Atom Heart Mother
7. The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
8. The Wall
9. More Soundtrack


XX. The Division Bell