Your top 10 favorite albums

[headonist]

mine would probably be...

Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Autechre - Amber
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Steve Roach - Immersion: One
Monolake - Hongkong
Yagya - Rhythm Of Snow
Gong - You
Magma - Trilogie
The Orb - Orblivion

[yiannis]

Depends on the mood really. Ozrics-wise I'm torn between Erpland and Strangeitude.

[OHR GANJALF]

OZRICS- ERPLAND, Pungent,Jurassic, underslunky, this depends on mood they are all good
Tool- Lateralus
A perfect Circle- mer de noms
shpongle-are you shpongled
Hendrix- Electric ladyland, Band of gipsys, are you experienced
yngwie malmsteem- rising force
Dream theater-scenes from a memory
Soda stereo- sueño Stereo
bob marley-exodus

better come back later there is so much more. sorry i can never follow the rules as in limiting to just 10

[yiannis]

I'm with you on Ozrics, Tool, Shpongle, Hendrix debut and Marley Ganjalf.

What does OHR stand for BTW?

[watermill]

OK i know i'm probably gonna get caned for some of these choices, because they're probably a bit too middle of the road, but sod it, here they are anyway.
I haven't got a top ten, because i like a lot of albums by a lot of different people all the same, just depends on the mood i'm in. The Ozrics i hold a special place for, because all their albums are special to me, so i'll do my list without including them, as they're a band apart for me, with the Ozrics i rediscovered music.
I do have a favourite album of all time, and thats Dark Side Of The Moon, every album i buy, gets measured against that, for me, that album is absolutely fautless.
Anyway here's a list of albums outside of the Ozrics that i regard as my favourites, a lot of them i was introduced to by listening to my dad's collection.

The Beatles:-

Beatles For Sale
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles
Abbey Road.


Rolling Stones:-

Beggars Banquet
Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street.


Santana:-

Abraxus
Caravanaserai
Lotus.


Genesis:-

Selling England By The Pound
Seconds Out.


Eagles:-

One Of These Nights
Hotel California.


Pink Floyd:-

Meddle
Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here.


Tangerine Dream:-

Electronic Meditation
Rubycon
Cyclone.


Eric Clapton:-

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
461 Ocean Boulevard.


Phil Collins:-

Face Value.


Mike Oldfield:-

Tubular Bells.


Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds.


Supertramp:-

Crime Of The Century.


ELO:-

Out Of The Blue.


George Harrison:-

All Things Must Pass.

[OHR GANJALF]

Oh Watermill man. I'm with you on 98% percent of your choices Great music and I have more. and same as you the Ozrics are Special to me, and "Dark Side of the Moon" I still have that on vinyl

Jeff Beck-Blow by Blow, you had it coming,live at ronnie scott
The Pink Floyd-The piper at the gates of Dawn
Steve Vai- Passion and warfare
Salvatore Accardo- Paganini Collection
Alice in Chains- Dirt
The Police
Astor Piazzolla- la camorra, The Rough Dancer, Tango:zero hour
Steve Stevens-Flamenco a Go Go
Black Sabbath- Dehumanizer
Curtis Mayfield- Superfly
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Depeche Mode-Violator
Dio
Eat static-Science of the Gods
Iron Maiden- Seventh son, Brave new world
kingston wall- 1
Led Zep- 1,2 and 4
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Birds of Fire
The Mars Volta- Deloused in the comatorium
Megadeth-Rust in Peace
Michael Jackson- Off the Wall
Jean Michael Jarre-
Niyaz
Peach-Giving Birth to a stone
Porcupine tree-
Queen-A night at the Opera
Radiohead-Ok Computer,Hail to the Thief
Red Hot Chili Peppers-californication
Robin Trower-Bridge of Sighs
Rush-Counterparts
Sex Pistols-never mind the bollocks
Solar Fields
Stone temple pilots-Purple
u2-the joshua Tree

Damn I got carried away. sorry , Yiannis "Ohr" means Ear

[yogbarogger]

Almost impossible to compile a list as I often hear a new album evey day that could fit into a top 100. Currently own 3500 albums in tangible format and about 80% could be in top 100, 20% of which in top 10 at any given moment, but here is off the top of my head a list

1. Ullulators - Monads of Mangonia
2. Pink Fairies - Never Never Land
3. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
4. The Timewriter - Diary of a Lonely Sailor
5. Hawkwind - Levitation
6. Dexter Wansel - Life On Mars
7. Optic Eye - Light Side of the Sun
8. Mrs. Jynx - Shark Carousel (just released last week)
9. Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
10. Herbie Hancock - Thrust

(I am of course excluding any Ozrics)

[yogbarogger]

Krautrock top 11

1. Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass
2. Neu! - '74
3. Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
4. Amon Duul II - Wolf City
5. Embryo - Embryo's Rache
6. Passport - Second Passport (ok, its fusion)
7. Harmonia - Musik von...
8. Emergency - Entrance
9. Epidaurus - Earthly Paradise
10. Gäa - Auf der Bahn Zum Uranus
11. Grobschnitt - Solar Musik Live

[kirk]

I've been looking for that Yatha Sidra release for 10 years Matt. I think it's that one anyway.
Very good electric guitar and Steel flute ? Is that the only one by Yatha Sidra ? I know nothing about the band.

I'm Surprised that no CAN release made it into your top 11 there though. Bit surprised that there was a band called Epidauros too. They must have been greek (maybe).

[yogbarogger]

Yes, thats the Yatha Sidhra...all 4 parts are on youtube if you can find them. Mind blowing...oh I forgot

12. Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill (of course)
13. Can - Future Days (there you go)

I'd like to add 11. Pressurehed - Explaining the Unexplained to the other list too

Epidaurus, yes, great stuff - a bit nu-Kraut (especially their second album), more melodic prog I suppose. I think they are Swiss.

ah, on the subject of Greece

12. Aphrodite's Child - 666

[kirk]

Future Days more than Saw Delight ? Will defo check Yatha on youtube, I remember thinking it was superb at the time.

Can Were THE band of the 70's I think. Just completed buying all their stuff re mastered, superb.

[quinoa]

Ozrics are off the charts so...
Can-Can or is it called Inner Peace I like best.
Aphrodites Child-666 is a top choice along with
The Friends Of Mr. Cairo.
Glad to see Levitation Yog but I'd go with Warriors.
Black Sabbath has got to make an appearance in my list.
WSOSOUL4RnR
Roy Harpers Folk Joke Opus
Electric Ladyland
Rush 2112
Yesongs
John Denvers Greatest Hits
Rust Never Sleeps
Gong You
Van Halen 1
The Paul Winter Consorts Common Ground
Jean Luc Ponty Cosmic Messenger

[yogbarogger]

Saw Delight was the first I bought, but their earlier stuff is far superior.

Warriors is phenomenal, probably the album with no song that doesn't stand up to repeated listening - whereas Motorway City I have never understood the attraction - pedestrian compared to some of the others on Levitation

[quinoa]

Whos Gonna Win the Space Chase War.

[watermill]

How did i forget 666 by Aphrodites Child, All The Seats Were Occupied at the is an amazing track.
Another couple i grew up with which should have been on my list is Pentangle and Cruel Sister by Pentangle, plus Tales Of Topographic Oceans by Yes.
Iwould Include my Led Zeppelin Rematered 4 disc box set and the 2 disc Remastered Box Set 2, but strictly speakin, they're not propper studio albums, but they treasured in my household too.

[kirk]

Motorway City was the best thing I'd ever heard before discovering Ozric Tentacles in 1985.
Velmwind replaced it immediately, but I still like Motorway city, the version on Live 79. Hawkwinds stuff is always better live I think. Warriors is great, but the best versions of those tracks (well some of em) is Palace Springs live. Simon, Alan, Richard, Dave, Harvey. The HW line up for me.

[alberik]

Rush - Hold Your Fire
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Ivo Papasov - Balkanology
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Eat Static - Implant
Farmers Market - s/t
Meshuggah - Nothing
Solar Fields - Movements

More than five but these represent chronologically almost three decades of my passion for music as they have individually shaped and re-shaped my perception of music in the most profound way.

[quinoa]

Yes Kirk, I was at The Palace, phenomenal!
I can even pick out myself shouting. WOO! HOO!
My first HW gig! What a story...
Sorry if I told this one before.
6 of us left ColoRADo in a Toyota sr5 with a topper the night before
to arrive in LA just in time for the morning rush hour traffic.
We went straight to Santa Monica beach.
Grabbed a bottled beer, some ganja, stripped to our shorts and dove in
all while under the watchfull eye of the beach patrol.
Hung out for 2 hours with the Pacific and when we walked back to the truck
picking up some garbage along the way to deposite in the trash can that was
locked to a sign that said "no disrobing on the beach, no open containers (alcohol)
allowed on the beach, No glass on the beach..." All buzzed now we waved to the beach patrol
who were looking at us through binocuars. They were nice and waved back.
A college buddy who had all of our tickets recently moved there.
We got a hold of him and he took us up to the observatory
where we dropped tabs, watched the pendulum swing and chased dragons.
Then we went out for Thai food.
We got to the venue early and I noticed a bouquet of white carnations laying on the sidewalk.
I went to check it out and it was John Lennons star and his birthday.
Well I thought that John would really want me to have one of his carnations for my lapel
at my first HW gig which was on his birthday.
We tried to get several people to take our picture but they all thought
we were crazy or on drugs or some shit.
When here comes some guy out of the alley with his head down moving fast.
We asked "Hey man will you take our picture please. No one else will."
He stops and says "You want ME to take a picture of YOU. You aren't from around here are you?"
"No", we reply. "Were from Durango, ColoRADo where rad is our middle name." Hahaha
He asks "What are you doing here?"
We tell him "Were here to see Hawkwind!"
He replies "Oh, I've heard of them. They're still around?"
"Oh yea, you aughta come to the show tonight."
"Ummm I'm a little busy but thanks for the offer."
All this time I'm thinking hey I know this guy.
He finally says "Well does anyone have a camera?"
"Sure, here ya go dude" Tim hands him his camera. It wasn't turned on.
We all line up arms around each other.
He has a little trouble so I go up to him and say "Here, it's like this"
take the lens cover off and turn it on.
He snaps a picture and asks "Is that all?"
"Yep, thanks man."
As turns and walks away moving quickly
I say "Hey aren't you David Byrne?"
And he was gone. We walked out onto Hollywood Blvd
and there was his name in lights.
Apparently he had just finnished with sound check.
In between bands were having drinks in the bar area
and a waitress comes up and says "Did you hear about the UFO that landed
30 miles outside of Moscow and vaporized a little boy?"
I tell her "BS and that she shouldn't be telling people in our condition stories like that." Hahaha
We head to the balcony and there is Lemmy and Stacia
like they got a cloak of invisibility around them 'cause my 2 friends didn't notice. They left.
I tried to talk to Lemmey but he was as hammered as me by this time.
Several drinks of water later I find myself front row ready for HW to perform.
As you can hear they did not disappoint.
I remember Alan playing bass with his foot while he messed with the synth
as we were right in front of him.
After the show we said goodbyes, loaded up in the truck
and drove 12 hours back to school.
Just an awesome time etched into my memory.
Well, most of it anyway. Cheers

[ozricnutter]

Cool story Quinoa, have karma.

[ozricnutter]

Man its got to be early in the morning where you is.

[quinoa]

'bout 6am. Couldn't sleep. I've been up all night getting ready for camping/bat capturing this weekend.

[yogbarogger]

Palace Springs is phenomenal...isn't Bridget on that one? Back in the Box?

[quinoa]

The first 2 tracks, BitB and Treadmill, are not from the gig. They were recorded after HW got back to England and added to the begining of the show.

[kirk]

Thats a great vers of Treadmill too, one of the best Brock tracks lyricwise.

[kirk]

here Q

"No disrobing on the beach" indeed, That tickled me. Same as the show on telly with law enforcement officer John Pardo (something like that anway). It was on the other day and a police dog got shot. John Pardo said "He's shot the canine officer, Canine officer down requesting backup". I laughed for ages, still tickles me. I mean poor dog, but canine officer ?

[quinoa]

We were pulling our shirts and pants off, opening bottles of beer
as we were reading the huge sign and the cops said nothing, watching us the whole time.
Of course we were discreet with the beer and ganja.
Picking up trash on are way back just proved we were
environmentally conscious hippies from out of town.

Projecting human qualities to other species of mammals if not rocks
I find to be a common theme throughout history. Especially by new age hippie chicks.

Where is there another official studio version of Treadmill?
I love this track too, best one on the album IMHOtep.
I don't know of any other versions at all.

[kirk]

There's two more live versions, one on each disc of Nottingham rock city 90.

here's the lyrics

I'm so distant and so cold
I've lived too long and I'm so old
I've tried so many different ways
I've watched each one of them decay

I can't expound before the ages
While we are leafing through the pages
The office blocks from which we march
The mirrored shades of the patriarch

Caught by streams of constant motion
Most of the workers have no notion
Sitting glued to computer screens
Fingers raised - " must finish the scene"
Lounge lizards in penthouse flats
May soon find out where it's at
They gnaw away our hard earned pay
We walk the treadmill every day

I'm so distant and so cold
I've lived too long and I'm so old
I've tried so many different ways
I've watched each one of them decay

I can't expound before the ages
While we are leafing through the pages
The office block from which we march
The mirrored shades of the Patriarch

[spiralmind]

Thought I would pipe in.

Pink Floyd Meddle, because Echos is on it. Greatest song ever (that wasn't OT)! Basically sums up the beginnings of life. They talk about life crawling out of the sea. Funny I just saw a show that they discovered a fish with legs/fins that crawled out of the ocean over 300 million years ago. This fish had the same bone structure of all animal with hands. Basically the first link in our evolution. Cool!

Such a variety of music from the late sixties. One of the bands would be the early Steve Miller Band.
Sailor 1968 and Brave New World 1969 are just excellent.
Also Pink Flyod Ummagumma. The live album was off the charts on early acid trips.
Gun - Gunsight
The Litter - Emerge

Newer
Dead Flowers - Altered State Circus
Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstairs
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Last but not least is Shpongle. AWESOME!

There's 10ish, but it's so hard to choose.

[krisi]

I've managed to condense it down to 11 albums, but I think I'd be struggling to choose 10!

Ozrics - Sliding Gliding Worlds
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Steve Hillage - L
Steely Dan - Aja
Kraan - Wintrup
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Camel - The Snow Goose
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Gong - You
Caravan - Cunning Stunts
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Closer to it!

I feel like Hatfield and the North should be up there too, along with Utopia's first album.

[orpheus]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Ozrics - Sliding Gliding Worlds
Ozrics - Erpland
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jade Warrior - Way of the Sun