If you could only own 10 albums to listen to your whole life what would they be?

Steely Dan - Aja

Tom Waits - Closing Time

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

Dire Straits - Self Titled

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Jackie Brown OST

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Nirvana - Nevermind

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Pixies - Bossanova

Off the top of my head...

The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America

Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat

The Rainmakers - Flirting with the Universe

XTC - Black Sea

Morphine - Good

Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

The Mattoid - Great Lovers

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?

...or something like that...

Mostly replying as a personal challenge; I doubt anyone cares about my opinion. I think this is a hard but interesting challenge and I could probably spend a lifetime perfecting it, but this is my unadulterated first pass:

1. “Stardust” - Willie Nelson
2. “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” - Smashing Pumpkins
3. “Blue Lines” - Massive Attack
4. “Kind of Blue” - Miles Davis
5. “Wildflowers” - Tom Petty
6. “Blind Melon” - Blind Melon
7. “Loaded” - The Velvet Underground
8. “At War with the Mystics” - The Flaming Lips
9. “Dire Straits” - Dire Straits
10. “Pretty Hate Machine” - Nine Inch Nails

Fuck. How do you make a list like this without regretting every decision you made?!

Weird Al, all of them.

I anticipate a metric ton of "best of" albums, but I'll give it try avoiding that. In no particular order:

• Billy Joel - the Stranger
• Genisis - Genisis
• Beach Boys - Pet sounds
• the Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Muse - Resistance
• Rush - Permananent Waves
• Radiohead - OK Computer
• Boston - Boston
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Linda Ronstadt - What's New (that will throw a few folks off the trail)

I'm autistic, pick any ten albums and they will end up being my favourite albums as I continue to listen to them and they become my familiar.

311 - Grassroots

Tool - Undertow

Meshuggah - Obzen

Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth

Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion

Dr. Dre - 2001

Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction

Paul Oakenfold - Transport

First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle

1. Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
3. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
4. Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
6. Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook
7. Ray LaMontagne - Monovision
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
9. Tonic - Lemon Parade
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road

Gemini Syndrome - Memento Mori

Gemini Syndrome - Lux

The Beatles - One

Queen - Greatest Hits

Queen - Greatest Hits II

Aerosmith - Greatest Hits

Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits

NWA - Greatest Hits

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits

Otis Redding - Otis Blue Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On Michael Jackson - Off the Wall James Booker - Classified The Meters – Rejuvenation Darondo - Listen to My Song James Brown - Live at the Apollo Dr. Dre - The Chronic Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid Anderson .Paak - Malibu

Geez that's tough. Let's see if I can do 10:

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
3. Johnny Cash - At Folsum Prison
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
5. B-52s - B-52s
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
7. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
8. Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
9. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
10. The Beatles - Abbey Road

Number one by far: Perfect Circle Thirteenth step.

The rest are in the order I think of them off the top of my head:

System of a down: Toxicity and Mezmotize

Tool Aenema

Smashing pumpkins: Melon Collie

CCRs Greatest Hits

Pink Floyd: Echos

Metallica S&M

Live Throwing Cooper

Weezer

In no order:

• Mothership - Dance Gavin Dance
• Reimagined - Hail the Sun
• The Artist in the Ambulance - Thrice
• Appeal to Reason - Rise Against
• In Silico - Pendulum
• Good Kid - Good Kid
• Rhythm, Chord & Melody - The Reign of Kindo
• Wake - Hail the Sun
• To Speak, To Listen - Eidola
• NieR:Automata Original Soundtrack - Keiichi Okabe

Difficult...

• Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
• Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
• Prequelle - Ghost
• Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
• Ten - Pearl Jam
• Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield
• Vast - Vast
• English Settlement - XTC
• The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon and Vangelis
• Appetite For Destruction - Guns n Roses

I'll hate myself in a couple weeks for this selection because my taste varies week-to-week, but right now it'd be:

Devin Townsend: Ziltoid the Omniscient, Empath

Gojira: From Mars to Sirius, Magma

The Ocean: Phanerozoic I, Phanerozoic II (can I count these as one album?)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (I think they were going for a record for the longest album title ever).

Voivod: The Outer Limits

Mastodon: Leviathan and Crack the Skye

If Phanerozoic I and II count as a single album, then I'd ask if I can leave the last one open to be filled by a single random studio album of an artist of my choosing, replaced weekly/monthly.

Edit: removed one because I miscounted.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Tool - 10,000 Days

Rush - Test for Echo

Metallica - Metallica

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Michael Jackson - HIStory

BIGBANG - MADE

[bodyendtag] - Information Superhighway

Kumi Koda - BEST 2000-2020

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

This question gives me anxiety. Would learn to play guitar I guess.

• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
• Leo Delibes - Lakme
• Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
• Dire Straits - Making Movies
• Green Day - American Idiot
• The Manhattan Transfer - Brasil
• Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From the Moons
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
• Rush - 2112
• Supertramp - Breakfast In America

1. AC/DC - If You Want Blood
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
5. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
6. REO Speedwagon - Live, You Get What You Play For
7. Head East - Flat as a Pancake
8. Foghat Live
9. Kyus - Welcome to Sky Valley
10. Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'

Ugh this is so tough!

• The Beatles - Revolver
• Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
• Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
• Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
• Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
• David Bowie - Let's Dance
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
• Iggy Pop - Soldier
• CSNY - Déjà Vu

No order

• Pickin' on Modest Mouse - Iron Horse
• August and Everything After - Counting Crows
• Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid
• Manners - Passion Pit
• Dirt - Alice in Chains
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
• Silent Steeples - Dispatch
• The President of the United States of America - The President of the United States of America
• Building Nothing out of Something - Modest Mouse
• Dosage - Collective Soul

I reckon these would keep me going for a good old time.

• Colors - Between the Buried and Me
• The Shape of Color - Intervals
• Handmade Cities - Plini
• Odyssey to the West - Slice the Cake
• Esoteric Malacology - Slugdge
• Crux - Moon Tooth
• Death of a Dead Day - Sikth
• Daughters - Daughters
• Oxidized - Frontierer
• Doppelgänger - The Fall of Troy

In no order:

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
• Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
• Songs For The Deaf - Queens of The Stone Age
• Still Still Stellar - Hoshimachi Suisei
• You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters
• Station to Station - David Bowie
• Blackstar - David Bowie
• Hunting High and Low - a-ha
• Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
• DISCO4 :: Generations - Health

1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
2. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
3. Pink Floyd - Animals
4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
5. Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA
6. Yes - Drama
7. Yellowcard - Yellowcard
8. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
9. Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I've never actually listened to this in full but I love "September" off this album)
10. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love "Stan" but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I'm not much of an album guy in genres that aren't rock.)

This is hard but I’ll give it a go:

• The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
• Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness
• Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
• Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
• Midland - On the Rocks
• Volumes - Via
• King Gizzard - I’m in Your Mind Fuzz
• Rush - A Farewell to Kings
• Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
• Basement - Colourmeinkindess

I think I'd be pretty happy if I had these albums in a desert island scenario... especially if I could do some sampling/remixing 😜

1. The Planets - Gustav Holst
2. Billie Holliday on Verve
3. Charlie Parker on Verve
4. The Firebird suite - Igor Stravinsky
5. Gnossiene - Eric Satie
6. The Heart of Saturday - Tom Waits
7. Ready to die - The Notorious B.I.G.
8. 20 Street Years - DJ Muro
9. Brilliant Corners - Thelonius Monk
10. Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley

Trivium - in waves

Lorna shore - the pain remains

Metallica - master of puppets

Sum 41 - does this look infected

Arch enemy - rise of the tyrant

Florence and the machine - MTV unplugged

Frank turner - positive songs for negative people

Highly suspect - mister asylum

Maybeshewill - not for want of trying

The mountain goats - the sunset tree

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Aha - Hunting High and Low

Roxy Music - Avalon

Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill

Beatles - One

Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Elton John - Caribou

Subject to change without notice Edit: format

Dire straits-self titled

Queen- night at the opera

Sublime-self titled

Peter Paul and Mary -self titled

Fleetwood Mac- rumors

Annenmaykantereit-Schlagschatten

Carole king- tapestry

Pete Seeger-If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle

Cream- strange brew

Dave Brubeck- time out

This is wild, I didn’t realize how dated my music taste skewed. I wanted frank turner, cistem failure, modest mouse, Amy Winehouse, and Adele, but I couldn’t cut anything else.

Sun ra - Sound Sun Pleasure

Ms Lauren Hill - The Miseducation of Lauren Hill

D'Angelo - Black Messiah

Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Ethiopiques, vol. 21: Emahoy

Lucy - The Music Industry Is Pointless

Black Midi - Schlagenheim

Dean Blunt - Black Metal

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

My Body Valentine - Loveless

The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time

....Fucking brutal question.....

Always a tough format to pick just 10, but here goes:

• Leftfield - Leftism
• R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
• Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
• Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
• Orbital - In Sides
• Portishead - Portishead
• Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
• Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
• Beatles - Abbey Road
• Pulp - Different Class

But there's an awful lot that I would regret leaving behind.

Aly & fila - beyond the lights(already own it)
\ Craig Connelly - believe in magic
\ Silicon soul - staring into space
\ Jazzanova - In between
\ Deep dish - junk science
\ Nuspirit Helsinki – Nuspirit Helsinki
\ Giuseppe Ottaviani - alma
\ Dj patife - no Estrada
\ Kevin Yost – One Starry Night
\ Can't think the last one.

Without giving it tons of thought:

An Awesome Wave - Altj

Camp - Childish Gambino

Dear - Keaton Henson

So Long Forever - Palace

High Violet - The National

Trouble Will Find Me - The National

Romantic Works - Keaton Henson

Up From Below - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Looking through my collection here, ten is a lot easier that just one. In no particular order:

1. Roxy Music - Avalon
2. Philip Glass - Akhnaten
3. Electric Light Orchestra - Time
4. Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
5. Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the Songbooks
6. Glenn Miller - A Legendary Performer
7. Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth
8. Vangelis - Blade Runner
9. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
10. The Cult - Love

(Ask me again next week, or next month, and my list will probably change).

Bro I honestly can't even name 10 albums. I've never liked listening to albums because after the singles are over most of the songs suck imo. I basically have one playlist and it's just all of my favorite songs from every genre mixed into one thing, and it's basically the only thing I listen to lol.

@DrSleepless

One look at my album collection tells me that that is not conceivable.

Music @davetansley

know it's more recent stuff than not, but

Madvilliany - Madvillian Drukqs - Aphex Twin To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Since I Left You - The Avalanches The Glow, Pt. 2 - The Microphones Late Registration - Kanye West Remain In Light - Talking Heads Illinois - Sufjan Stevens The Money Store - Death Grips Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus

Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

• Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
• Blood on the Tracks: New York Session (Bob Dylan
• Willie and the Poor Boys (CCR)
• Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Tally Hall)
• 1990 (Daniel Johnston)
• Z (My Morning Jacket)
• I Had A Dream That You Were Mine (Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam)
• London Calling (The Clash)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
• Roast Beef (Biff Rose)

If I thought about it longer, I'd probably end up with a more varied list as far as genre.

Toe- For Long Tomorrow.

Delta Sleep- Ghost City.

Good kid- Good Kid 3.

Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial.

Radiohead- OK Computer.

Nirvana- Bleach.

RX Bandits- Mandala.

Stone Temple pilots- Core.

Blind Melon- Soup.

Mayday Parade- A Lesson in Romantics.

List just off the top of my head. Would be different if I thought about it longer.

In chronological order...

1 & 2 - The Beatles (White Album) (1968) by The Beatles 3 - La Invasión de los blátidos (1992) by Cuca 4 - In Utero (1993) by Nirvana 5 - Historias (1994) by Arjona 6 - Insomniac (1995) by Green Day 7 - Version 2.0 (1998) by Garbage 8 - Dónde están los ladrones? (1998) by Shakira 9 - Americana (1998) by The Offspring 10 - Enema of the State (1999) by Blink 182

10 times the first and last self-titled album of our school punk band "Auswurph" ! The bass had one string. The guitar 5, on a good day, on all other days more 3 to 4. The drums were stolen here and there -ask me how I know, I was the drummer - and our frontman was a certified psycho. No really, he was. Several stays in the psychiatry. I think there weren't even 10 cd's made... I can't remember exactly. Now as I think of it I can't remember anything of that time in detail, all a bit blurry, but one thing I can remember: it was the best album anyone had made since the invention of noise.

There are some tragic omissions here but i think i could make do with these 10.

• Spirit World Field Guide - Aesop Rock
• Good Kid M.A.A.D. City - Kendrick Lamar
• Run the Jewels 3 - Run the Jewls
• The Missing Man - AFI
• Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance
• October Forever - Driveways
• Gun Mouth 4 Hire: Horns & Halos 2 - Andre Nickatina
• Divisi - A Lot Like Birds
• Dedication 6 - Lil Wayne
• The Melody and the Enigmatic Nature of Volume - Evans Blue

• Sgt Pepper's, Beatles
• Morning Phase, Beck
• Origin of Symmetry, Muse
• In Rainbows, Radiohead
• What's the Story Morning Glory, Oasis
• Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
• Bossanova, Pixies
• Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits
• Pretty Hate Machine, NIN
• The Lord of the Rings film trilogy soundtrack

None? At that point, I'd just stop listening to music.

I can't play albums as it is, because hearing the same artist, the same songs, in the same order every time drives me crazy