Name your top ten fav albums of all time

[Chet]

nice to hear from you E.T.
not so many Japanese people here, wonder why.
thanks for your list.
I have to check out Ned Doheny, never heard of.

[E.T.]

Wow, Thank you for your warm welcome!

> not so many Japanese people here, wonder why.

I wonder why, too.
Maybe they are lazy to use English.
I'm not good in English. I don't use English in my daily life, except online.
I heard Steve and Richard studied Japanese, I'll follow their example.

Hard Candy by Ned Doheny, it's awesome sweet album, a kind of virgin killer... I guess.

I've never heard Stevie Wonder around Japan. It's interesting.

[Tin Bird]

David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
The Chameleons - Strange Times
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Stephen Duffy - I Love My Friends
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

So many others...very hard to make this decision!
So...some others that could be on the list given my mood that day...Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward; The Lilac Time - Paradise Circus, Astronauts; China Crisis - Diary of a Hollow Horse; Prefab Spout - Jordan: The Comeback; Stina Nordenstam - This is Stine Nordenstam; Bill Nelson - The Love that Whirls

[heartofdavid]

Nice to see a nod to Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time, Tin Bird. I love the Music in Colours album.

[godisinthesilences]

ok i feel so stupid.... Talk Talk created one of my all time favourite songs in the 80s "Its my Life". I can't believe I didn't remember that. I'm definitely going to get some other works by them

[Tin Bird]

ok i feel so stupid.... Talk Talk created one of my all time favourite songs in the 80s "Its my Life". I can't believe I didn't remember that. I'm definitely going to get some other works by them

just a heads up that Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock are a million miles away from It's My Life. they sound quite a bit like some of the Raintree Crow album if that gives you any clue. the songs have to be given time too...no 3 min pop songs. You will love them!

[godisinthesilences]

oh i know i listened to samples of them on iTunes... very much liked what i heard so far!

[Chet]

Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock are fantastic albums...

[Silver Moon]

I didn't really care for either on first listen... Both take a quiet place to listen to them, and full concentration! I didn't really 'get them' until maybe the 5th listen or so...

But then again nothing really jumps out at me at first listen... Sometimes, but not often!

-K-

[Tin Bird]

I didn't really care for either on first listen... Both take a quiet place to listen to them, and full concentration! I didn't really 'get them' until maybe the 5th listen or so...

But then again nothing really jumps out at me at first listen... Sometimes, but not often!

-K-

It's funny you say that...when I first bought Laughing Stock in 91...I took it back...I really did not like it at all. Then, about 6 or 7 years ago I gave it another try....not sure why, just heard so many great things...after sitting through the whole album several times I just thought, wow, this is the best album ever! I then worked my way backword until I had everything by them!

[Nicrobliz]

Wow, that's a tall order - even a top 20 would be tough! I'll probably change my mind after posting this but I'm omitting all Japan albums and releases by any of the ex-members:

David Bowie - 'Hunky Dory'
Slowdive - 'Just For A Day'
Joni Mitchell - 'For The Roses'
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma - 'Feelings'
Low - 'Things We Lost In The Fire'
Joyce and Nelson Angelo - 'Joyce and Nelson Angelo'
Stina Nordenstam - 'And She Closed Her Eyes'
Rachel’s - 'Systems/Layers'
Françoise Hardy - 'La Question'
Yuriko Nakamuro - 'Wind and Reflections'

[ob8]

Tough tough choice. Here's mine in no particular order :

David Sylvian Secrets Of The Beehive
Talk Talk Spirit Of Eden
Pete Namlook Silence
Future Sound Of London Lifeforms
David Bowie Outside
Burial Untrue
Global Communication 76:14
Kraftwerk Minimum Maximum
Lamb What Sound
Photek Modus Operandi

When i first heard Spirit Of Eden it really opened me up to music beyond the pop song, i used to fall asleep with it playing through the headphones on repeat all night so it would warp my brain musically. I think it worked !

[qdes]

Krister Linder - Songs From The Silent Years
David Sylvian - Blemish
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
Thomas Feiner & Anywhen - The Opiates Revised
Buck 65 - Secret House Against The World
Darren Hayes - Tension And The Spark
Saul Williams - Amethyst Rockstar
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
The Kelly Family - From Their Hearts
cLOUDDEAD - S/T

[Adrian]

I have managed to bring it down to ten - subject to change, and of course in no particular order:
Scott Walker - The Drift
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Daniel Lanois - Acadie
David Sylvian - Blemish (likely to be replaced by Manafon)
+minus - A Rainy Koran Verse (if you like the music on Manafon you should check this out)
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Plastikman - Consumed
Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying (this would be the disc most likely to be replaced by any number of others)

Of course I could go on... (The Orb, Blue Nile, Kate Bush, Peter Murphy, Kings of Convenience, No-man, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Francisco Lopez, Supersilent, Sigur Ros - to name but a few bands/artists)

[Sylvie]

Tough tough choice. Here's mine in no particular order :

David Sylvian Secrets Of The Beehive
Talk Talk Spirit Of Eden
Pete Namlook Silence
Future Sound Of London Lifeforms
David Bowie Outside
Burial Untrue
Global Communication 76:14
Kraftwerk Minimum Maximum
Lamb What Sound
Photek Modus Operandi

When i first heard Spirit Of Eden it really opened me up to music beyond the pop song, i used to fall asleep with it playing through the headphones on repeat all night so it would warp my brain musically. I think it worked !

Spirit of Eden is by far the most beautiful record ever made. I don't listen to it very often, but I have it in me and that is enough.