Via Chicago's Top 100 Albums of All Time: Summer 2008 edition

[gogo]

Both the Beatles' Let it Be and Let it Be Naked made the list

And even if you combined their votes, they still would come in 2 places behind The Replacements' Let It Be.

[myboyblue]

And even if you combined their votes, they still would come in 2 places behind The Replacements' Let It Be.

 

Right where it belongs.

[gogo]

I know this got the lovely Saint Genevieve in trouble once, but I'll admit that I don't really know much of the Replacements.

 

Also, I've been thinking about how much I'd have liked to have had Natalie's contribution to this list. I loved pretty much everything she ever recommended to me.

[uncool2pillow]

My biggest shock is no Steely Dan. They seem to come up a lot here. I know next to nothing about Neutral Milk Hotel. I'll have to check that out!

[deepseacatfish]

I know this got the lovely Saint Genevieve in trouble once, but I'll admit that I don't really know much of the Replacements.

 

Also, I've been thinking about how much I'd have liked to have had Natalie's contribution to this list. I loved pretty much everything she ever recommended to me.

I can tell you that XTC would probably have higher rankings if she was contributing.

[bobbob1313]

1. London Calling- The Clash

2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot- Wilco

3. Abbey Road- The Beatles

4. Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan

5. Pinkerton- Weezer

6. The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle- Bruce Springsteen

7. The Soft Bulletin- Flaming Lips

8. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel

9. Kid A- Radiohead

10. Kind of Blue- Miles Davis

11. Illmatic- Nas

12. Reinventing Axl Rose- Against Me!

13. Dookie- Green Day

14. Paul

[GtrPlyr]

On second look I see that 9 of my choices made the list.

 

01. Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City (I seem to be the only 1 who put this in their top 20 )

02. The Beatles - 1967-1970 (The Blue Album)

03. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

04. The Replacements - Let It Be

05. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

06. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

07. The Band - The Band

08. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

09. Television - Marquee Moon

10. Prince - Purple Rain

11. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

12. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

13. Bob Marley - Legend

14. The Millennium - Begin

15. Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson

16. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

17. Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon

18. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

19. Terry Callier - Occasional Rain

20. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

 

 

Unfortunately there were no great unknown discoveries on the list as I have all but 2 of them already. Only missing these ones:

 

The Mollusk -- Ween

Quebec -- Ween

[gogo]

01. Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City (I seem to be the only 1 who put this in their top 20 )

Bummer of a technicality on that one. Someone else had "#1 Record" as their #3 choice. Since these were two separate releases, I counted them as separate entries. If I'd counted them together, they would have hit at #64.

[mpolak21]

Thanks for all the great work, Maudie .

 

Here's how mine did...

 

 

1. The Beatles: Revolver

2. Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

3. Nick Drake: Bryter Layter

4. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

5. Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

6. The Velvet Underground and Nico: self-titled

7. The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society

8. Nico: Chelsea Girl

9. The Talking Heads: Fear of Music

10. Eels: Electro Shock Blues

11. Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

12. Radiohead: Kid A

13. Love: Forever Changes

14. Os Mutantes: self-titled

15. The Beatles: Rubber Soul

16. The Velvet Underground: self-titled (the third album)

17. Wilco: A Ghost is Born

18. Smog: Red Apple Falls

19. Bill Fay: self-titled

20. The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle

[Gobias Industries]

1. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

4. The Beatles - Revolver

5. The Beatles - Rubber Soul

6. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

7. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

8. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

9. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

10. The Band - The Band

11. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

12. The Beatles - The Beatles

13. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea

14. The Beatles - Abbey Road

15. The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo

16. The Band - Music from Big Pink

17. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks

18. Sigur R

[bsr8j]

Some people that did this survey must have thought this was Bob Dylan's top 100 albums.

 

I don't own a single Bob Dylan album.

 

Some people also must have thought their was an information cut off date of the late 70s.

 

Big ups to gogo for an awesome job with this!

[Kalle]

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Radiohead - Ok Computer

3. The Beatles - Revolver

4. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

5. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

6. The Band - The Band

7. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

8. Neil Young - On The Beach

9. The Beatles - White Album

10. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

11. Radiohead - Kid A

12. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

13. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

14. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

15. Ron Sexsmith - Retriever

16. The Arcade Fire - Funeral

17. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People

18. The National - Boxer

19. Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run

20. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

 

Surprised The Queen Is Dead and Band On The Run didn't make it.

[chisoxjtrain]

The Muppets?

 

Yes, the Muppets. I am a big fan, one of my biggest influences.

[bsr8j]

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

3. The Beatles - Revolver

4. Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)

5. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day

6. Ryan Adams - Gold

7. Nirvana - Nevermind

8. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

9. Weezer - Pinkerton

10. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

11. Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera

12. They Might Be Giants - Flood

13. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

14. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

15. Rufus Wainwright - Want One/Want Two

16. Wilco - Summerteeth

17. Pearl Jam - Ten

18. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

19. Cursive - Happy Hollow

20. Paul Simon - Graceland

 

I knew I should have gone with an all Dylan Top 20.

[radiokills]

i am quite surprised/saddened that unknown pleasures didn't make it.

[Guest Hollinger.]

Bummer of a technicality on that one. Someone else had "#1 Record" as their #3 choice. Since these were two separate releases, I counted them as separate entries. If I'd counted them together, they would have hit at #64.

 

 

Pretend I put the double album on there instead of just #1 Record.

[GtrPlyr]

Pretend I put the double album on there instead of just #1 Record.

Good to see I'm not alone in my Big Star love. I only went with the 2-fer CD because I couldn't bare choosing between the two records. Any of the first 3 Big Star records could've made my list really.

[Synthesizer Patel]

01 bob dylan | john wesley harding

02 the kinks | are the village green preservation society

03 fairport convention | liege & lief

04 super furry animals | guerrilla

05 beach boys | holland

06 john cale | paris 1919

07 the band | the band

08 randy newman | sail away

09 judee sill | heart food

10 wilco | a ghost is born

11 smithsonian folkways recordings | anthology of american folk music

12 scott walker | scott 4

13 joanna newsom | ys

14 the zombies | odessey & oracle

15 the kinks | muswell hillbillies

16 bob dylan | love & theft

17 doris duke | i'm a loser

18 animal collective | feels

19 the incredible string band | the 5000 spirits or the layers of the onion

20 tindersticks | simple pleasure

 

6 out of 20. apart from the fact it would have been nearly impossible to work out, i wonder what the list would have looked like if we'd done 100 choices instead of only 20? also, i'm a bit surprised the zombies and scott walker didn't make the top 100 - what's that all about?

[Littlebear]

apart from the fact it would have been nearly impossible to work out, i wonder what the list would have looked like if we'd done 100 choices instead of only 20?

 

We would have got several choices in common (Randy Newman, Judee Sill, Fairport Convention, Scott Walker...)

 

They weren't in my top 20, but easily in my Top 100

[GtrPlyr]

We would have got several choices in common (Randy Newman, Judee Sill, Fairport Convention, Scott Walker...)

 

They weren't in my top 20, but easily in my Top 100

Yep, most of those artists would've made my list too (I like Judee, but she might not have cracked my top 100.) Doris Duke and The Zombies would also have made it.

[rghammo]

1 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2 - The Beatles - The White Album

3 - Led Zeppelin - III

4 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

5 - Elliott Smith - Either/Or

6 - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

7 - Radiohead - The Bends

8 - Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

9 - Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

10 - Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac

11 - Tori Amos - Under the Pink

12 - Wilco - Summerteeth

13 - The Beatles - Abbey Road

14 - The Pixies - Doolittle

15 - Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

16 - The Clash - London Calling

17 - PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

18 - The Frames - Dance the Devil

19 - Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

20 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

 

Reading through the lists is lots of fun. Thanks for putting this together.

[Central Scrutinizer]

My list has to be the most boring. Does anyone else have as many in the top 100?

 

1. Beatles The Beatles

2. Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde

3. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band

4. Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street

5. The Clash London Calling

6. The Band The Band

7. Television Marquee Moon

8. Derek and the Dominos Layla and other Assorted Love Songs

9. Elvis Costello This Year

[CortezTheKiller]

10 of mine made it. Good to see Decoration Day place as high as it did.

[CortezTheKiller]

So it looks like 58 people sent you a list

I figured they'd be more. Oh well. Excellent idea and thanks for putting this together gogo. I took your idea and ran with it over to ninebullets.org.

[Guest Jules]

I know next to nothing about Neutral Milk Hotel. I'll have to check that out!

Don't bother.