Best Ever Albums

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

CA Dreamin — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:56:15 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 06/23/2014 18:56

Superunknown

1. Let Me Drown
2. Superunknown
3. Like Suicide
4. My Wave
5. Head Down

Pump

1. F.I.N.E.
2. Love in an Elevator
3. Janie's Got a Gun
4. The Other Side
5. Young Lust

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

1. Torture
2. Catch
3. How Beautiful You Are
4. Just Like Heaven
5. Like Cockatoos

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

rayword45 — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:35:17 GMT

Author: rayword45

Posted: 06/12/2014 03:35

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

1. God Only Knows
2. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
3. Caroline, No
4. Wouldn't It Be Nice
5. I'm Waiting For The Day

Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

1. 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
2. Gypsy Eyes
3. All Along The Watchtower
4. Long Hot Summer Night
5. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

In Utero - Nirvana

1. Heart-Shaped Box (ONLY if this is the Albini 1993 mix. If it's not, throw this down to 4 and shift everything else)
2. Milk It
3. Serve The Servants
4. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
5. Scentless Apprentice

SMiLE (or the sessions) - The Beach Boys (Real sketchy calling this a classic)

1. Cabin Essence
2. Heroes and Villains (HUGELY acquired taste, I couldn't understand a lick of it first listen)
3. Surf's Up
4. Good Vibrations
5. Vega-Tables

You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr (Don't dispute this)

1. Little Fury Things
2. Just Like Heaven
3. Raisans
4. In A Jar
5. Kracked
6. Sludgefeast (If Just Like Heaven doesn't count)

Tonight's The Night - Neil Young

1. Borrowed Tune and Albuquerque (completely tied)
3. Mellow My Mind
4. Tired Eyes
5. Tonight's The Night

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

1. Kangaroo
2. Blue Moon
3. Nighttime
4. Stroke It Noel
5. Big Black Car

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Listmeister — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:56:37 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 06/11/2014 13:56

I'll have a go.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
1. A Day in the Life
2. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. When I'm Sixty-Four
5. Within You Without You

The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (1968)
1. Ride My See-Saw
2. Om
3. Legend of a Mind
4. Dr. Livingstone I Presume
5. House of Four Doors

The Who - Tommy (1969)
1. Pinball Wizard
2. Christmas
3. We're Not Gonna Take It
4. Acid Queen
5. Sally Simpson

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (1970)
1. Travelin' Band
2. Lookin' Out My Back Door
3. Who'll Stop the Rain?
4. I Heard it through the Grapevine
5. Up Around the Bend

The Who-Who's Next (1971)
1. Won't Get Fooled Again
2. Baba O'Reilly
3. Bargain
4. Love Ain't for Keeping
5. Getting in Tune

Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick (1972)
1. The opening section, about being Thick as a Brick
2. The bit about Biggles, Robin and Superman
3. The "Do You Believe in the Day" part
4. The bit about teaching his son to play monopoly and sing in the rain
5. The bit about the poet and the painter

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

soundguardian — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:01:49 GMT

Author: soundguardian

Posted: 06/11/2014 08:01

Yes! Let's do this! These are all more recent "new classics" of the past 25 years

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas [1990]
1. "Iceblink Luck"
2. "Heaven or Las Vegas"
3. "Cherry Coloured Funk"
4. "Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires"
5. "Fotzepolitic"

Portishead - Portishead [1997]
1. "Undenied"
2. "Mourning Air"
3. "All Mine"
4. "Western Eyes"
5. "Over"

Portishead - Dummy [1994]
1. "Glory Box"
2. "Sour Times"
3. "Wandering Star"
4. "Roads"
5. "Mysterons"

Depeche Mode - Violator [1990]
1. "Enjoy the Silence"
2. "Personal Jesus"
3. "World in My Eyes"
4. "Waiting for the Night"
5. "Halo"

Soundgarden - Superunknown [1994]
1. "Fell on Black Days"
2. "Black Hole Sun"
3. "Spoonman"
4. "The Day I Tried to Live"
5. "Superunkown"
and oh my gawd so many more that deserve to be listed - "Limowreck" and "Mailman" are excellent as well!

Dirt - Alice in Chains [1992]
1. "Down in a Hole"
2. "Would?"
3. "Rain When I Die"
4. "Rooster"
5. "Them Bones"
6. "Dirt" (yes, cheating, I know)

Ride - Nowhere [1990]
1. "Dreams Burn Down"
2. "Vapour Trail"
3. All of the others, equally amazing

Jeff Buckley - Grace [1994]
1. "Grace"
2. "The Last Goodbye"
3. "So Real"
4. "Hallelujah"
5. "Dream Brother" or "Lover You Should've Come Over" (can't decide)
Really connected with this one recently!

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine [1992]
1. "Killing in the Name (of)"
2. "Take the Power Back"
3. "Bullet in the Head"
4. "Wake Up"
5. "Know Your Enemy"

Massive Attack - Mezzanine [1998]
1. "Teardrop" (duh)
2. "Angel"
3. "Dissolved Girl" (so pretty!)
4. "Inertia Creeps"
5. "Black Milk" or "Risingson"

Bjork - Homogenic [1997]
1. "Bachelorette" (PERFECT, PERFECT, PERFECT)
2. "Joga"
3. "Hunter"
4. "All Is Full of Love"
5. "Unravel"

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

AgainstMeAgainstYou — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:35:02 GMT

Author: AgainstMeAgainstYou

Posted: 06/11/2014 02:35

It's occurred to me that my Mellon Collie chart has a colossal hole in it. I seem to have forgotten one of the greatest pieces of recorded sound ever.

Mellon Collie

1: Tonight, Tonight
2: Thru the Eyes of Ruby aka HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU FORGET THIS, YOU DUMBASS?
3: 1979
4: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
5: Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

jqmusiclove — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 01:32:09 GMT

Author: jqmusiclove

Posted: 06/10/2014 05:32

Kid A:

1. Idioteque
2. How To Disappear Completely
3. Everything In Its Right Place
4. Kid A
5. Optimistic

Pinkerton:

1. Pink Triangle
2. Across The Sea
3. Falling For You
4. Butterfly
5. El Scorcho

The Downward Spiral:

1. Hurt
2. Closer
3. March Of The Pigs
4. Piggy
5. Mr. Self Destruct

Revolver:

1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Here, There And Everywhere
3. Love You To
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. I Want To Tell You

The Bends:

1. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2. Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
3. My Iron Lung
4. (Nice Dream)
5. Fake Plastic Trees

Pablo Honey:

1. Creep
2. Stop Whispering
3. Thinking About You
4. How Do You?
5. I Can't

Amnesiac:

1. I Might Be Wrong
2. Pyramid Song
3. Hunting Bears
4. You And Whose Army?
5. Knives Out

Hail To The Thief:

1. Myxomatosis
2. The Gloaming
3. Sit Down, Stand Up
4. Where I End And You Begin
5. There There

In Rainbows:

1. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
2. Reckoner
3. All I Need
4. House Of Cards
5. 15 Step

The King Of Limbs:

1. Give Up The Ghost
2. Codex
3. Bloom
4. Lotus Flower
5. Separator

In Utero:

1. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
2. Heart-Shaped Box
3. Rape Me
4. All Apologies
5. Pennyroyal Tea

Nevermind:

1. Territorial Pissings
2. Polly
3. Something In The Way
4. Drain You
5. Come As You Are

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Lastings — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 22:31:59 GMT

Author: Lastings

Posted: 06/10/2014 02:31

Agreed and understood.. But, nonetheless, this is a discussion amongst members of this site. And when you're having a discussion amongst members of this site, it's safe to assume that a 17 year old album that said member group has agreed upon to be the best off all time is a "classic".

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

benpaco — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:08:13 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 06/10/2014 00:08

Lastings wrote:

the esteemed users here at BEA

Yeah I guess but we're just a group of people who like making lists and have similar tastes. Let's be real here for a moment, our top 20 includes In Rainbows. We're a little skewed towards Radiohead. Other things come from us having specific tastes. Loveless and Suburbs, while both great and critically acclaimed albums, don't really show up in the top 50 outside of music forums like this. Yankee Foxtrot Hotel and others are in our top chunk, but they really wouldn't be outside of an environment like this. In fact, I'd say a majority of people around me have never of Wilco. Soft Bulletin and Illinoise are both a little strange as well. And to have such Classics as James Taylor, Chicago, and many others nowhere near the top 1000 even is quite strange.

We're a specific community, and while I love this community, it is quite specific.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

AgainstMeAgainstYou — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:09:43 GMT

Author: AgainstMeAgainstYou

Posted: 06/09/2014 22:09

Lastings wrote:

fitter happier? while it is a bit trance inducing and worthy of praise as an album piece, I can't imagine giving it a high rating as a stand-alone song.

I've played it on its' own several times. I love it. It does of course help that it is essential to the articulation of the anti-consumerism/forebodings of the 21st century message that permeates OK Computer, but on its' own I just really think it was a unique, really cool approach.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Lastings — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:07:09 GMT

Author: Lastings

Posted: 06/09/2014 22:07

AgainstMeAgainstYou wrote:

There's no song on OK Computer that isn't 10/10 IMO. But I very recently did a ranking of every Radiohead song (well, technically, just the 89 album tracks) and my rankings for each Radiohead album reflect that. One has to be at the bottom, after all.

fitter happier? while it is a bit trance inducing and worthy of praise as an album piece, I can't imagine giving it a high rating as a stand-alone song.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Lastings — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:04:40 GMT

Author: Lastings

Posted: 06/09/2014 22:04

Puncture Repair wrote:

Do OK Computer, Funeral and Is This It actually have 'classic' status?

It would be tough to suggest that the #1 album of all-time, as voted upon by the esteemed users here at BEA, would not have classic status.

Also, it was released 17 years ago. saying it's not old enough to have classic status right now would be like saying Born to Run or Dark Side of the Moon weren't old enough to be considered classics in 1990. weird, right? I know.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

AgainstMeAgainstYou — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:01:58 GMT

Author: AgainstMeAgainstYou

Posted: 06/09/2014 22:01

Lastings wrote:

seemingly no love at all for Electioneering or Airbag off of OK Computer.. both great songs.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Lastings — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:59:31 GMT

Author: Lastings

Posted: 06/09/2014 21:59

seemingly no love at all for Electioneering or Airbag off of OK Computer.. both great songs.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

manurock — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:31:29 GMT

Author: manurock

Posted: 06/09/2014 21:31

OK Computer

1. Karma Police
2. No Surprises
3. Lucky
4. The Tourist
5. Exit Music

I know they aren't the obvious choices (apart from Karma) but they are my favourites.

Dark Side of the Moon

1. Time
2. Us and Them
3. The Great gig in the Sky
4. Brain Damage
5. Eclipse

These are generally the top rated tracks apart from Money, which I find a good song but it doesn't fit for me in the general tone of the album.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

AgainstMeAgainstYou — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 12:37:23 GMT

Author: AgainstMeAgainstYou

Posted: 06/09/2014 16:37

Gish

1: Rhinoceros
2: Tristessa
3: I Am One
4: Bury Me
5: Daydream (shoot me. I like Daydream a lot.)

Mellon Collie

1: Tonight, Tonight (DUH!)
2: 1979 (the song that made me a SP fan; this is more based on that, though the song would still make top five in its' own right.)
3: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
4: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
5: Jellybelly

Adore

1: For Martha
2: Crestfallen
3: Ava Adore
4: To Sheila
5: Appels + Oranjes

Pablo Honey

1: Lurgee
2: Blow Out
3: You
4: Vegetable
5: Anyone Can Play Guitar

The Bends

1: Planet Telex
2: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3: The Bends
4: Fake Plastic Trees
5: My Iron Lung

Amnesiac

1: You and Whose Army?
2: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
3: Life in a Glasshouse
4: Pyramid Song
5: Knives Out

Hail to the Thief

1: Where I End and You Begin.
2: A Wolf at the Door.
3: Sit down. Stand up.
4: 2 + 2 = 5.
5: We suck Young Blood.

In Rainbows

1: Videotape
2: Jigsaw Falling into Place
3: Reckoner
4: All I Need
5: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

The King of Limbs

1: Little by Little
2: Give Up the Ghost
3: Lotus Flower
4: Bloom
5: Separator

In Utero

1: Pennyroyal Tea
2: Rape Me
3: All Apologies
4: Heart-Shaped Box
5: Serve the Servants

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

meccalecca — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 12:03:39 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 06/09/2014 16:03

SquishypuffDave wrote:

It seems that the term "classic" has nothing whatsoever to do with the music itself. All it's really describing is the culture surrounding it. And who gives a toss about that?

Well, culture is a pretty big deal isn't it. What's the 60s without the hippies and the 80s without hilarious hair styles. As much as the music needs to be remembers, the other parts of the culture shouldn't be forgotten, they create an atmosphere and context to appreciate these old artifacts

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

SquishypuffDave — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 06:32:48 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 06/09/2014 10:32

Puncture Repair wrote:

I don't think so. Classics need to be timeless. I'm sure a lot of albums that sounded great in their time have dated poorly, and it's hard to tell which albums we listen to today will sound aged in ten or twenty years.

Classics may well be propaganda, and if it is, it's the fact that it's still propaganda that makes it a classic.

If in 10 years time society decides OK Computer has aged poorly, will it lose classic status? What about Revolver? How many people need to agree that it has aged well or not?

It seems that the term "classic" has nothing whatsoever to do with the music itself. All it's really describing is the culture surrounding it. And who gives a toss about that?

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Grzywa — Mon, 9 Jun 2014 05:35:45 GMT

Author: Grzywa

Posted: 06/09/2014 09:35

Surfer Rosa

1. Bone Machine
2. Where is My Mind ?
3. Gigantic
4. Tony's Theme
5. Cactus

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

benpaco — Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:18:49 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 06/08/2014 18:18

an_outlaw wrote:

There are no "instant classic" albums. It's like... you can't make a 12 year old Whiskey in a day.

It's weird you say this, I was going to say it should be a 12 or 13 year time period for an album to be a classic ... 😲

IMO, Is This It is a classic by now. Grace, In Utero, ITAOTS, Mellon Collie, The Blue Album, Illmatic, Soft Bulletin, Wu Tang, Californication, Play, Either/Or, Stankonia, Sublime, Reasonable Doubt, The Bends, and OK Computer are classics by now. I think my cutoff is 2001. But here's a weird idea:

I don't remember 2001 and before it. I can remember some music released from 2002 on, I remember having heard it on the radio when it was new. Can't say that about anything 2001 or before. So what if we each draw the line internally and personally as albums we can't remember being without? Does that make any sense?

EDIT: I'll probably pick at least a few of these to do lists of later, too.

Re: Top 5 Songs From Classic Albums

Anonymous — Sun, 8 Jun 2014 13:56:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/08/2014 17:56

From the three first albums overall on Bea:

Ok Computer:

1.Let Down
2.Lucky
3.No Surprises
4.Karma Police
5. Paranoid Android

The Dark Side of the Moon:

1. Time
2. Us and Them
3. Money
4. The Great Gig in the Sky
5. Brain Damage

Revolver:

1. Tomorow Never Knows
2. For No One
3. Here There and Everywhere
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. And Your Bird Can Sing

And from my favorite album over all, Selling England by the Pound:

1. The Cinema Show
2. Firth of Fifth
3. Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
4. The Battle of Eping Forest
5. I Know What I Like