My top 10 favorite albums
10) Black Sabbath (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath)
9) The beatles (Rubber Soul)
8) The Cure (Boys don't Cry)
7) David Bowie (Hunky Dory)
6) Pink Floyd (The Wall)
5) Morphine (Cure for Pain)
4) Pink Floyd (Obscured by Clouds)
3) Fleetwood Mac (Then Play On)
2) The Pretty Things (S.F. Sorrow)
1) David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars) TIE
1) The Beatles (Abbey Road) TIE
Honerable mention: Velvet Underground and Nico (Velvet Underground and Nico)
Neil Young (Harvest, After the Gold Rush)
Beatles (everything not on list)
Pink Floyd (everything with WITH Roger Waters or Syd)
The Who (Tommy)
David Bowie (all with the Spiders band)
Reasons
10) In Black Sabbath's 1973 album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath they were taking a different direction that their previous four albums. The band slowed down their music and made it much more rhythmic, they had adopted a kind of progressive rock sound. Another addition to the band for this album was Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman. I feel that this album was a more evolved sound from their previous albums and I also think that it is a proclamation for how good Ozzy could have been if he wasn't a sell out.
9) Rubber Soul was when the Beatles took their band to a new level, It had incorporated an early sound of a pschedelic rock. I also feel that this era of the band was especially Lennon heavy which I much prefer.
8) Boys don't cry is actually the Cure's secon album. But in the words of Robert Smith (singer/songwiter for the cure) "it was our first good album". This album has a poppy/punky/dark vibe to it and I thinks that the conglomeration worked perfectly.
7) Hunky Dory includes multiple tributary tracks including song for Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, and oh you pretty things. Hunky Dory has a "a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class." (wikipedia)
6) The Wall is an indepth rock opera about the inner struggles of a man going through a mental breakdown. Questioning sanity seems to be predominantnt theme in Pink Floyds music. From Piper at the gates of dawn through what should have been their last album The Final Cut (after that Gilmore ruined the band). The Wall is just a masterpiece of an album.
5) Cure for Pain was Morphines second album, this band was great. they had a jazz/grunge sound that singer and songwriter Mark Sandman fused together perfectly with his vocals anrhythmim.
4) Considered by some (not me) to be Pink floyds last good album.
This albums was also a soundrack to Frenchch movie "The Valley"
This album contains similarhythm'sms throughout most songs to create more of a "whole" soundThisis is mfavoriteit Pink Floyd Album anI i think that anyone who hears it will like it.
3) Fleetwood Mawasn'tnt always a lame pop band. In the late sixties Peter Green was the singer/songwriter/vocals for the band and they had a blues/rock/progressive sound to them on this albumThisis album iphenomenalal and Peter Green was geniusus at making you feecertainan things from his music.
2) For S.F. Sorrow please read my blog on the Pretty Things
1) Abbey Road: The last album recorded by The Beatles anI don'tnt know if they could have ended it better. Fom the opening track Come Together through the final Her Majesty you cold tell that the band knew it was the end and wanted to do the best thing they had ever done. This album blends together creating a "feel" that no other album has done. In the track the End Ringo did his only drum solo ever with the Beatles and all three other members do a guitar solo together, then the line that makes the album "and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make". That said everything it needed to say.
1) Ziggy Stardust: Another Rock opera, this one has the musical touch of David Bowie. Throughout the whole album you can distinctly hear his influence from the Pretty Things. The whole along with Abbey Road has a unique "feel" to it. One of David Bowie's best skills was making climactic songsThehe whole albums comes together for one final song "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide" that features an orchestral sound that sound perfect, then after a second of silence there is one final chord to signify the albums completion.
If you have not heard this album go get it and listen to it now! Also remember that it is to be played at maximum volume.
