I'm going to have a bash at this. Please post your predictions while I have a think. Bear in mind that:

I have honestly not compiled my own top ten albums list since I was about 15

I haven't really bothered with albums for at least 5 years, except by my Top Artists

Therefore this list will be basically "what my best 10 albums were when I was 15"

grouchland


I always assumed you were like 14, huwypooey.

15 nearly 16 mate

1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. The Smiths - The Sound Of The Smiths (unfortunately the only Smiths album that I have)
4. Interpol - Antics
5. Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
6. The Strokes - Is This It?
7. Sigur Ros - Takk...
8. We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
9. White Lies - To Lose My Life...
10. MGMT - Congratulations

Wow, I really need to step out of the last decade!

The Bends - Radiohead
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence - Glassjaw
Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac
Liquid Swords - GZA
Kid A - Radiohead
The Rising Tide - Sunny Day Real Estate
Sgt Peppers - The Beatles
The Shape Of Punk To Come - Refused
Nevermind - Nirvana
Alas, I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling

1.  Pale Fountains , Pacific Street
2. Boo Radleys, Giant Steps
3. Feelies, The Good Earth
4. Cardinal, Cardinal
5. Stone Roses, Stone Roses
6. Sparklehorse, Vivadixietransmissionsubmarineplot
7.  The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground (3rd album)
8. Primal Scream, Screamadelica
9. Love, Forever Changes
10. Flaming Lips , The Soft Bulletin

1) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2) Pet Shop Boys - Actually
3) The Human League - Dare!
4) New Order - Substance
5) Pixies - Trompe le Monde
6) Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life
7) Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
8) Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da corner
9) The Avalanches - Since I Left You
10) Richard X - Richard X Presents his X Factor vol 1

Note: I stuck to a one album per artist rule (including side-projects as well), and my favourite PSB and Luke Haines albums do change quite a bit.

Nice list.

It's good to see we're almost all agreed on the sublime genius of The Velvet Underground & Nico.

all gone now...one has to have standards, and compromises are for fools

I get the feeling that, beside which album by 'the group' is at number 1, that has been the same since about 82 hasn't it

Digging no.9 on hoppo's list.

Where's your list at, BeeRose? It doesn't pay to overthink these things.

I've just spent the last half hour putting all this into a spreadsheet. Between us so far we've chosen 132 different albums, so cheers for that.

While I was doing this I decided to check out that Black Box Recorder what Thomas put in his list and it's very good.

this is my last post because i'm going away somewhere and after that i'll have a life. i may return in a massive blaze of calling people mongs if i decide to come to latitude next year

NICK DRAKE - FIVE LEAVES LEFT  
JOHN MARTYN - SOLID AIR 


can you give those two albums 5 points a piece? 

thought so

cheers

1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
5. The National - Boxer
6. Justice - Cross
7. Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
8. The Strokes - Is This It
9. J-Dilla - Doughnuts 
10. Burial - Untrue

Erm, yeah...i need to delve deeper into musical history and enjoy it more. I mean i like Velvet Underground & Nico but....i dunno just prefer these

I always have a lot of trouble ordering these, they're all interchangable for first place really, along with about 5 others that are not on this list. But I'll go with:

1.Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
2.Kraftwerk - Computer World
3.William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
4.Radiohead - Kid A
5.Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
6.Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
7.Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
8.The Knife - Silent Shout
9.Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
10.Eels - Beautiful Freak

1. The Strokes - Is This It
2. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
4. XTC - Drums and Wires
5. Velvet Underground - & Nico
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
7. The Clash - London Calling
8. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
9. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
10. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust...

Gosh, I'm so indie aren't I? 

Oh, and The Beatles are my favourite band - but they're more of a singles band imo, the same goes for Michael Jackson.

1 Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
2 Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs
3 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
4 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
5 Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
6 The Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Generation
7 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
8 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues
9 Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
10 2ManyDJS - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2

Always a challenge, but here goes...

1. Joy Division - Substance 1977-1980
2. Led Zeppelin - Remasters
3. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lynatic Asylum
4. Seasick Steve - Man from another time
5. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
6. Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
7. Nirvana - Nevermind
8. Ian Brown - Solarised
9. Paul Weller - Stanley Road
10. Fun Lovin' Criminals - 100% Colombian

1- Frederic Chopin - Nocturnes
2- Radiohead - Kid A
3- Pantha du Prince - this bliss
4- Midlake - the trials of Van Occupanther
5- The Streets - Original pirate material
6- Four tet - Rounds
7- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
8- Serge Gainsbourg - De Gainsbourg a Gainsbarre
9- Junior Senior - Hey hey my yo yo
10- Flaming Lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots

Velvet Underground & Nico could easily have been on my list (probably the most obvious omission along with The Queen is Dead) and I am listening to it now to prove it.