EWB's All-Time Favorite Album: 2012 Edition

[Hobo]

I'm shocked TroutMaskReplica's #1 album isn't Trout Mask Replica.

[KONGO]

It should be somebody's #1, though. Have we done a top all-time songs list recently? That'd probably be impossible to compile but I'd like to see it.

[TroutMaskReplica]

It is a great album and it needs more votes!

[fr34k]

I'd prefer a list that takes longer to count out where people are able to chose more albums personally. I'll obviously still submit a list regardless, but as SRN, would probably be more likely to strategically vote if I am limited to 20.

But twenty is already a lot to count .

[Skummy]

1. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits

2. Tilt by Scott Walker

3. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

4. Masters Of Reality by Black Sabbath

5. Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart

6. Station to Station by David Bowie

7. Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

8. Agharta by Miles Davis

9. ...Sings For Only The Lonely by Frank Sinatra

10. Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth

11. Liquid Swords by GZA

12. Warmer Corners by The Lucksmiths

13. Berlin by Lou Reed

14. Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull by Earth

15. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

16. Vincebus Eruptum by Blue Cheer

17. I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen

18. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

19. Hex Induction Hour by The Fall

20. Degradation Trip by Jerry Cantrell

A lot of bands I can't help but think are missing from up there, but who I couldn't decide on a single album by. It's quite similar to last time we did this, and I've tried to do a mix of albums I think are objectively "the best", or essential listening, and personal favourites, or albums I listened to an awful lot of when they came out. It took a lot of willpower to not vote for "I Get Wet" by Andrew W.K.

TroutMaskReplica is awesome, and deserves mad respect for putting Pharoah Sanders on his list.

[RPS]

1. M.I.A. - Kala

2. The Clash - London Calling

3. Kanye West - College Dropout

4. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

5. Michael Jackson - Thriller

6. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

7. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair

8. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

9. Blur - Parklife

10. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

11. Gorillaz - Demon Days

12. Ramones - Ramones

13. Outkast - Stankonia

14. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now

15. Daft Punk - Discovery

16. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner

17. George Michael - Faith

18. Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude

19. Basment Jaxx - Rooty

20. Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches

Edited December 15, 2012 by RockPaperScissors

[deli]

• Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
• LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
• The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
• Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
• The Avalanches - Since I Left You
• My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• The White Stripes - Elephant
• Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
• Massive Attack - Mezzanine
• The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
• Arcade Fire - Funeral
• Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
• Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• The Beatles - Revolver
• DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
• Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
• Outkast - Stankonia
• Gorillaz - Demon Days

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[VerbalPuke]

If I were going to vote Captain Beefheart, then I'd agree with Skummy on Safe as Milk. Also glad to see Blue Cheer on his list, cheers to that (get it?, cheers...Blue Cheer).

[TroutMaskReplica]

Safe as Milk is a great shout. Probably bubbling just below my top 20 actually.

[Your Mom]

The majority of you I havent even heard of half your choices. I might do this later

[jack95]

1. Morrissey- Viva Hate

2. Johnny Cash- American: The Man Comes Around

3. The Smiths- The Queen is Dead

4. Laura Marling- I Speak Because I Can

5. Tom Waits- Closing Time

6. Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues

7. Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound

8. Laura Marling- Alas I Cannot Swim

9. Outkast- Aquemini

10. Leonard Cohen- Songs of Leonard Cohen

11. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes

12. The Clash- Sandinista!

13. Johnny Cash- American: Ain't No Grave

14. The Horrible Crowes- Elsie

15. Laura Marling- A Creature I Don't Know

16. Public Enemy- How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul

17. Frank Turner- Love Ire & Song

18. Josh T. Pearson- Last of the Country Gentlemen

19. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros- Here

20. Luke Haines- 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling

[probablyoliver]

I've decided the theme for this ballot will be 'suitably mental'. There's a few albums I had to leave out. And that's terrible. A lot of these wouldn't and didn't make my top artists list, but I like to think that these twenty albums are all works of absolute genius and need to be experienced. Plus I figured I'd try and go all out and make a list of twenty albums that likely have no chance of appearing on the finished list. Like, at all.

1. Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order

2. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmmes

3. Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective

4. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

5. Selected Ambiet Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

6. Surfer Rosa - Pixies

7. Mirrored - Battles

8. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles

9. Homogenic - Bjork

10. My Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

11. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

12. Knock, Knock - Smog

13. Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats

14. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

15. Raccoo-oo-oon - Raccoo-oo-oon

16. You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Death from Above 1979

17. Elephant Shoe - Arab Strap

18. Pornography - The Cure

19. The Curtain Hits The Cast - Low

20. On Fire - Galaxie 500

[GoGo Yubari]

Astonished to see Magical Mystery Tour on two lists. As far as I'm concerned it's pretty weak as an album, it just happens to have some fantastic songs on it.

[Hobo]

It is supposed to go Album - Artist name guys.

[Darnez FC Forever]

1. Ride the Lightning - Metallica

2. Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche

3. The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

4. Prisoners - The Agonist

5. Unto the Locust - Machine Head

6. Worship Music - Anthrax

7. Shogun - Trivium

8. News of the World - Queen

9. The Way of the Fist - Five Finger Death Punch

10. Asylum - Disturbed

11. Renegade - Hammerfall

12. Love Gun - KISS

13. South of Heaven - Slayer

14. The Unexpected - Beautiful Sin

15. Come Clarity - In Flames

16. Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold

17. Dark Passion Play - Nightwish

18. The Silent Force - Within Temptation

19. Masters of Reality - Black Sabbath

20. Haymaker - Throwdown

[reyrey619]

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy- Kanye West

2. The College Dropout- Kanye West

3. Food & Liquor- Lupe Fiasco

4. Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)- Wu-Tang Clan

5. Everything Goes Numb- Streetlight Manifesto

6. Blueprint LP- Jay-Z

7. Weezer (Blue Album)- Weezer

8. The Cool- Lupe Fiasco

9. 2001- Dr. Dre

10. Hell Hath No Fury- Clipse

11. In Search Of...- N.E.R.D.

12. Stankonia- Outkast

13. House of Balloons- The Weeknd

14. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3- Coheed & Cambria

15. Night Ripper- Girl Talk

16. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx- Raekwon

17. The Marshall Mathers LP- Eminem

18. Three Cheers For Disappointment- The Arrogant Sons of Bitches

19. Low End Theory- A Tribe Called Quest

20. Reasonable Doubt- Jay-Z

Whew, that was tough.

[Your Mom]

Are greatest hits frowned upon? It feels like kind of a cheat. I dont know

[VerbalPuke]

I don't think so, if you honestly believe one to be one of your all-time favorites then no reason you should exclude it.

[gunnar hendershow]

Some Greatest Hits albums have entirely new songs, new versions of songs, b-sides and rarities. Some, though not many, albums are put together in this way through piecing together old, unreleased songs into a collective body of work. The great majority consist of songs already released just put back in a compilation format.

It depends on how liberal fr34k wants to be, it's his call. as VP said, if you genuinely consider something a favorite of yours then I wouldn't have a problem with it. I only bring up the definitions to help him decide exactly how he wants to draw the line.

[Your Mom]

Heres an example. Instead of including like 3 No Doubt Albums I was just going to include "the singles" which collects well all their singles and their cover of "It's my life".