The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 26

Another forum that I frequently visit put together a list years ago where the only rule was you couldn’t include any album from Rolling Stones 500 greatest list. The final list was really interesting. I specifically remember Hats by The Blue Nile being in the top 5 of that list. Now that I’m seeing it pop up on a lot of these lists as well I’m thinking it’s time I finally give it a listen.

 

Been using this thread as inspiration, but now I've come tor realize I just need not to overthink it and just go with it.

 

That is an excellent followup activity

 

Had to just give up and stop tinkering. Top half is pretty strictly my favorites, but because the next tier is like 50ish I leaned a little more towards artists I hadn't included yet or that I didn't think would get other votes.


1. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
2. Dire Straits - Making Movies
3. Old 97s - Satellite Rides
4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
5. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
6. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
7. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
8. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
9. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
10. The Beatles - The Beatles
11. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
12. REM - Automatic for the People
13. Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
14. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
15. Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
16. Dan Wilson - Free Life
17. John Fullbright - Songs
18. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
19. Shovels & Rope - Little Seeds
20. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
21. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
22. Carole King - Tapestry
23. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
24. Jim Ford - Harlan County
25. Houndmouth - Little Neon Limelight
26. Colin Hay - Man @ Work
27. The Stone Poneys - Evergreen, Vol. 2
28. Wilco - AM
29. Old 97s - Too Far To Care
30. X - Los Angeles
31. Bob Dylan and the Band - The Basement Tapes
32. Blondie - Eat to the Beat
33. Sam Cooke - One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club
34. The Beatles - Abbey Road
35. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
36. Mike Doughty - Smofe + Smang (Live in Minneapolis)
37. Joni Mitchell - Blue
38. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
39. The Who - Who’s Next
40. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
41. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
42. Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
43. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
44. Lake Street Dive - Free Yourself Up
45. Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
46. Sara Bareilles - Little Voice
47. Neil Young - Time Fades Away
48. Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
49. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
50. Augustana - Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt


HMs that it hurts to leave off:
REM - Monster and Document, Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas, anything by Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Madonna, Waylon Jennings, Phil Ochs, Patti Smith, Elton John or George Harrison.

 

1. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town - Racing in the Street
2. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound - Here's Looking at You, Kid
3. The Killers - Sam's Town - This River is Wild
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - Suburban War
5. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle - Go Home
6. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade - Famous Last Words
7. Tegan and Sara - The Con - Dark Come Soon
8. The National - High Violet - Lemonworld
9. Lorde - Melodrama - Hard Feelings/Loveless
10. The Cure - The Head on the Door - Push
11. New Order - Low-Life - Sub-Culture
12. Japandroids - Celebration Rock - Younger Us
13. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Black Me Out
14. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run - Backstreets
15. The Replacements - Tim - Swingin' Party
16. The Horrible Crowes - Elsie - Blood Loss
17. Tom Waits - Mule Variations - Come On Up to the House
18. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again - Catalina Fight Song
19. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino - Batphone
20. Sam Cooke - One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club - Bring It On Home to Me
21. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures - Disorder
22. Paramore - After Laughter - Idle Worship
23. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones - In the Room Where You Sleep
24. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish
25. David Bowie - Low - Sound and Vision
26. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska - Johnny 99
27. Alex Cameron - Forced Witness - Country Figs
28. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - (Antichrist Television Blues)
29. Lord Huron - Strange Trails - Cursed
30. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor - A Pot in Which to Piss
31. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 - Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1
32. Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours - Mood Indigo
33. The Glow - The Ghosts Are Out... - You Have No Idea
34. Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Calgary
35. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps - Demi Moore
36. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe - Science/Visions
37. The National - Trouble Will Find Me - Graceless
38. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer - Django Jane
39. Butch Walker - Afraid of Ghosts - 21+
40. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy - Cruel
41. M83 - Saturdays=Youth - Graveyard Girl
42. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory - Time Turned Fragile
43. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies - Age of Consent
44. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Countdown
45. Weezer - Blue Album - Surf Wax America
46. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion - Warm Blood
47. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow - Seventeen
48. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love - One Step Up
49. The Cure - Disintegration - Pictures of You
50. Frank Ocean - Blonde - Nikes

 

Emotion is gonna be top 5 isn’t it

As it should be.

 

Really cool list, especially these picks. Eat to the Beat JUST missed mine, too.

Also I haven't heard that Stone Poneys record but any Linda Ronstadt makes me smile

 

If I realized Live at the Harlem Square Club or As Tall As Lions had a real shot, I'd have fudged the sorting to get them on my list. So much for strategy.

 

Tough choice for me between that and some of her solo (Heart Like a Wheel especially). You should check it out!

 

I love her whole run from Heart Like a Wheel through Mad Love, but yeah I need to get to some Poneys stuff for sure.

 

will start with inspectorkemp's list tomorrow. got 18 lists done so far.

the top 10 so far, as it stands, is:
1. Fleetwood mac - Rumours
2. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
3. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
5. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
6. Nas - Illmatic
7. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
8. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
9. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

maybe I just delete the list lol. jk. still have about another half of the lists left, so a lot can change. maybe we give it another week to allow more lists to come in?

 

goddamn fleetwood mac lmao

 

whatever, the people have spoken(/are speaking). the cool part of this list for me is gonna be the lower reaches any way

 

I should probably listen to that album again

 

I've only heard two of these albums lmao. My taste is so shitty

Whatever I'll always rep Jars of Clay

 

Ah shit I forgot As Cities Burn

 

being on this website and not having heard all three of 59 sound, cttm and clarity is pretty impressive frankly

 

Of those 3, I’ve only heard clarity

 

Does me moving Hounds to #2 make it number 1? I’ll do it!

 

Clarity is just such a special album for me. Cuts straight to the soul

 

Considering the nature of consensus, that's actually a pretty cool list. 18 is only like half the ballots though

 

no haha. there’s a 13 point difference rn.

 

yep. still a lot more. just figured i’d give an update

 

we have 700+ albums right now. about half the lists left. what number do we think we want to stretch this out to? more than 100 definitely seems doable.