R&P: Which of these 250 albums are your favorites?

Question

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/q1001_songs.htm#q250
As voted by the readers of Q magazine, these are the top 250 albums released during the lifetime of the magazine

Interesting? why not
Which of these 250 albums are your favorites?

BQ: any flat out clunkers , in your opinion?
any strange omissions?

Have Fun!

Answer 1

ample evidence of why i stopped buying that magazine over 10 years ago...



of those 250, i own these:

7. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses – 1989

29. R.E.M. – Automatic For The People – 1992

30. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless – 1991

41. Pearl Jam – Ten - 1991

44. Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine – 1992

62. Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak – 2004

81. Suede – Dog Man Star – 1994

82. Mumford And Sons – Sigh No More – 2009

92. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm – 2005

105. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes – 2008

116. Suede – Suede – 1993

119. Queens Of The Stoneage – Rated R – 2000

121. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights – 2002

139. R.E.M. – Out Of Time – 1991

164. The Xx – The Xx - 2009

179. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell – 2003

192. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion – 2009

199. The National – Boxer – 2007

226. Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman – 1988

228. Galaxie 500 – On Fire – 1989

229. Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking – 1988

241. PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – 2000

248. Sugar – Copper Blue – 1992



favourites of those:

galaxie 500 (which is light years better than the xx)

rated r (beaten by keane? coldplay? kasabian?)

pj harvey



as with all these kinds of polls, timing is everything; hence the inclusion of very recent releases so high up.



clunkers?

david gray, damien rice, travis and the aforementioned keane. middle-of-the-road mush for the middle-aged.



omissions?

ferment - catherine wheel (1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcrj-FFK4MM

workbook - bob mould (1989)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc-fROR3NN0

stupid dream - porcupine tree (1999)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8niJQdFQtU

swagger - the blue aeroplanes (1990)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWF09T_62Bk

submarine bells - the chills (1990)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddiqVtM_Jw

the music - the music (2002)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFLj5o8F84

daydream nation - sonic youth (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scdneir87LQ

Answer 2

U2 - The Joshua Tree

U2 - Actung Baby

U2 - All That You Can Leave Behind

U2 - Pop

U2 - Zooropa

U2 - No Line On The Horizon

U2 - How to Dismantle an Automic Bomb

R.E.M. - Out of Time

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Pearl Jam - Ten

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Majik

Metallica - Metallica

Robbie Williams - I've Been Expecting You

Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love

Bruce - Springsteen - The Rising

The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

The Waterboys - Fisherman Blues

Lou Reed - New York

INXS - Kick

David Bowie - Heathen

Aerosmith - Pump

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory

Pet Shop Boys - Actually

David Gray - White Ladder

George Michael - Faith

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Price - Sign 'O' The Times

Depeche Mode - Songs About Faith and Devotion

Depeche Mode - Violator

Green Day - Dookie

Green Day - American Idiot

Nirvana - In Utero

Nirvana - Nevermind

The Cure - Disintegration

Michael Jackson - Bad

The Verve - Urban Hymns

Coldplay - X & Y

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The Killers - Day & Age

The Killers - Hot Fuss

The Killers - Sams Town

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Gloring

Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

Paul Simon - Graceland

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

Janes Addiction - Nothing Schocking

Answer 3

I hate to say it but the readers of Q magazine are complete donkeys. The Killers at number 17, while The Flaming Lips, Spiritualized, Lou Reed and Public Enemy are not even in the top 100!!



Tender Prey - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction

Extricate - The Fall

3 Feet High And Rising - De La Soul

New York - Lou Reed

The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips (Should have been waaaay higher in the rankings)

Enter The 36 Chambers - The Wu Tang Clan

Surfer Rosa - The Pixies

Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized

Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

It Takes A Nation Of Millions.. - Public Enemy

Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Demon Days - Gorillaz

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses



BQ: I don't know about clunkers, but i'd rather lick a sweaty armpit than have to listen to the following albums...



Hot Fuss - The Killers

The Man Who - Travis

White Ladder - David Grey

Day And Age - The Killers

No Angel - Dido

Answer 4

Impressions of this list:



1. I see the "best" albums were also very mainstream mega-sellers. Oasis twice?? U2 twice?? Radiohead twice?? That suggests to me that the readers of Q magazine aren't especially deep listeners, rendering everything else on the list suspect.



2. Magazine readers not being musicologists, the albums are also severely weighted towards the most recent. Although two albums from 1987 made it, there is very little from the mini-renaissance of good albums that came out from '88-'92



3. As a British magazine, this list is hugely Anglocentric. Oasis wouldn never have made the top 10 in America, let alone twice. I doubt Radiohead would be up there twice too...



So, it offers nothing useful really, but it does provide a glimpse into what mainstream, social climbing Brits like...

Answer 5

208. Alice In Chains – Dirt – 1992



67. Metallica – Metallica – 1991



27. Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction – 1987



90. Def Leopard – Hysteria – 1987



2. Nirvana – Nevermind – 1991



59. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – 1995



56. Nirvana – In Utero – 1993



102. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral – 1994



112. The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamise Dream – 1993



96. Prodigy – Fat Of The Land – 1997



140. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory - 1994



247. Slipknot – Slipknot – 1999



Ummm, and where are Type O Negative, Soundgarden, Megadeth, Godsmack & Korn on this list??? Q Magazine obviously does not know how to put together a list consisting of the top 250 albums. I noticed that the majority of this list was just "spacefillers" in my opinion, and whoever compiled this list took a few awesome albums and dumped a whole mess of garbage into it. Where is Pink Floyd - The Wall, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rush, or ZZ Top??? You can pretty much tell that there was NO effort put into this list.

Answer 6

Good evening Punch :)



We have to skip the first 26 to find an album I own!

[#27 = "Appetite For Destruction" by GN'R]



In fact, for albums I own / have owned, the next is #58.

After that it's: #93, #165 {embarrasing!}, #191{of course}, and #217.



I do have two songs from #36, but they were individual downloads. Actually, there are 5 or 6 on that list where I may own a song or two, but never the album...





BQ: Okay, given that the magazine only started in 1986, I can understand why it has so much from the last 15 years on there. But those years were my teens and 20s, and a lot of that music is just... well... so-so...



Where was Tori Amos, or Type O Negative...?!

Answer 7

Several Faves In There :

Wrecking Ball -Emmylou Harris No 182

Ragged Glory- Neil Young No 172

Dummy -Portishead No69

Wild Wood -Paul Weller No 60

Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan no 105

Amused to Death- Roger Waters no 224

The Division Bell -Pink Floyd no 93

bring It On - Gomez no 250 (Surely this should be higher than this!)



BQ Fat out Clunker (IMHO) I know some people will say its sacrilege Radiohead OK Computer

( Ive got it no many time how much I Hear it & Try to like it I can't)





Omissions:

Sleeps With Angels - Neil Young

Flowers in the Dirt - Paul McCartney

Rattle & Hum - U2 (Why Is this album always panned? iMHO its great.)

Gold - Ryan Adams

Cloud 9 - George Harrison

Traveling Wilbury's Vol ! - Traveling Wilburys

Bootleg series vol 4 (Manchester Free Trade Hall) - Bob Dylan



Theres A few to think of

Answer 8

Radiohead – Ok Computer - 1997

Radiohead – The Bends – 1995

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel – 1998

Radiohead – Kid A – 2000

Arcade Fire – Funeral – 2004

Radiohead – In Rainbows – 2007

My Bloody Valentine – Loveless – 1991

Jeff Buckley – Grace – 1994

The Cure – Disintegration – 1989

Pixies – Doolittle – 1989

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – 1995

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation – 1988

Portishead – Dummy – 1994

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible – 2007

Beck – Odelay – 1996

Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral – 1994

Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes – 2008

Air – Moon Safari – 1998

Queens Of The Stoneage – Rated R – 2000

Beck – Sea Change – 2002

Radiohead – Amnesiac – 2001

Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - 1994

Moby – Play – 1999

Pixies – Surfer Rosa – 1998

Sigur Ros – Takk… - 2005

Talk Talk – Sprit Of Eden – 1988

Slint – Spiderland – 1991

Tom Waits – Mule Variations – 1999

Elliott Smith – Xo – 1998

Godspeed You Black Emperor – F#A#~

Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man - 1988

Answer 9

Nevermind, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Black Holes And Revelations, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Hot Fuss, American Idiot, Parklife, Urban Hymns, Californication, Dookie, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Fame, X&Y, Oracular Spectacular, Weezer (blue), Pinkerton, I'm Wide Amake, It's Morning, Tracy Chapman, Boy In Da Corner,



a few that i'm very surprised by



ones that should have been there: bullet in a bible, warning, international superhits, billy talent I, billy talent II, billy talent III, dude ranch, enema of the state, take off your pants and jacket, only revolutions, all killer no filler, a fever you can't sweat out, black parade, three cheers for sweet revenge, liberation transmission, meteora, minutes to midnight, hybrid theory, love ire and song, stop drop and roll!!!, echo park, from under the cork tree, a present for everyone, when your heart stops beating.

Answer 10

Oasis- What's The Story (Morning Glory)

The White Stripes- White Blood Cells

Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP

Weezer- Pinkerton

Elliott Smith- XO

Paul Simon- Graceland

N.W.A- Straight Outta Compton

Green Day- Dookie

Jeff Buckley- Grace

Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique





BQ:

Everything on that list by Kings Of Leon... I think they're awful. U2 also.

Answer 11

My favorites would be:



1 Nirvana-Nevermind

2 Coldplay-A Rush Of Blood To The Head

3 The Killers-Hot Fuse

4 Kings Of Leon-Only By The Night

5 G&R-Appetite For Destruction

6 The Killers-Sams Town

7 Coldplay-Parachutes

8 Pearl Jam-Ten

9 Red Hot Chili Peppers-Californication

10 Coldplay-Viva La Viva or Death and all his friends

11 Alanis Morissette-Jagged Little Pill

12 Kings Of Leon-Aha Shake Heartbreak

13 Kings Of Leon-Youth and Young Manhood

14 Prince-Sign O The Times

15 Coldplay-X & Y

16 Alice In Chains-Dirt

17 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss-Raising Sand

18 Slipknot-Slipknot

19 Nine Inch Nails-Downward Spiral

20 Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood,Sugar,Sex Magik

21 The Killers-Day and Age

22 Bruce Springsteen-The Rising

23 Johnny Cash-American Records

24 Aerosmith-Pump



BQ All U2,Pet Shop Boys.Beastie Boys and Madonna are pure crap IMO KLUNKERS

Strange Omissions~~~ NO JUDAS PRIEST!!!!! WTH?? No OZZY,No Black Sabbath,No DIO,no AC/DC!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 12

U2 – Achtung Baby – 1991

Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction – 1987

The Verve – Urban Hymns – 1997

Pearl Jam – Ten - 1991

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – 1995

Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape – 1997

Def Leopard – Hysteria – 1987

Pink Floyd – The Division Bell – 1994

U2 – Zooropa – 1993

Aerosmith – Pump – 1989

Inxs – Kick – 1987



these are my favorites as I have actually paid money to own these on CD had a few others in the list but some bastard stole them!

Answer 13

There's like 5 bands on this list. Take away Oasis, Radiohead, Blur, Coldplay, and Gorillaz and you're left with about 10 albums. Also, given this list, one would think that Kings Of Leon are the greatest American rock band of the last decade. Most lists suck and seem to be designed just to annoy people but this one in particular is very unimaginative and sucky.



Here's one I liked: Sign O The Times - Prince



Clunkers: A lot.

Answer 14

Fleetwood Mac – Tango In The Night – 1987

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand – 2007

Pink Floyd – The Division Bell – 1994

Def Leopard – Hysteria – 1987

Aerosmith – Pump – 1989



BQ: Most of the ones listed. But than I like Classic Rock.

Answer 15

1. Radiohead – Ok Computer - 1997

2. Nirvana – Nevermind – 1991

3. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory – 1995

4. Oasis – Definitely Maybe – 1994

5. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – 2006

7. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses – 1989

8. Radiohead – The Bends – 1995

10. Muse – Black Holes And Revelations – 2006

13. Blur – Parklife – 1994

18. Radiohead – Kid A – 2000

23. Radiohead – In Rainbows – 2007

25. Gorillaz – Demon Days – 200

27. Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction – 1987

36. Florence And The Machine – Lungs – 2009

42. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Californication - 1999

56. Nirvana – In Utero – 1993

57. Queens Of The Stoneage – Songs For The Deaf – 2002

59. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – 1995

63. Green Day – Dookie – 1994

112. The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamise Dream – 1993

126. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik – 1991

132. Nirvana – Mtv Unplugged In New York – 1994

141. Weezer – Weezer (Blue) – 1994

208. Alice In Chains – Dirt – 1992

213. Weezer – Pinkerton – 1996



In my opinion weezers "pinkerton" should be higher as should red hot chili peppers "blood sugar sex magik", nirvanas "unplugged in new york" alice in chains "dirt" and smashing pumpkins "siamese dream"



BQ: No. 94 "Lady gagagaga" <------ thats how its spelled in the list but anyway she shouldnt be anywhere near this list let alone the top 100

Answer 16

"Reader-based" lists remind me of why critics are around. Good ones:



Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Post - Bjork



BQ: Radiohead, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Strokes... and a few others should ideally not even be there. But it's just a reader poll, the average reader has no taste or perspective. I didn't even see any Beatles, Q readers must be every modern Britpop fan and a few other philistines.

Answer 17

Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers or The Downward Spiral-Nine Inch Nails

Answer 18

OK Computer, Unplugged In NY, Loveless, Automatic For the People and The Stone Roses



BQ: Only By The Night + Whatever People Say I Am being up that high = Lol.

Answer 19

Nirvana "Nevermind"

Radiohead "OK Computer"

Radiohead "The Bends"

Radiohead "Kid A"

Radiohead "In Rainbows"

Guns N' Roses "Appetite for Destruction"

R.E.M. "Automatic for the People"

Jeff Buckley "Grace"

Coldplay "Parachutes"

Depeche Mode "Violator"

Pearl Jam "Ten"

Rage Against the Machine- Self-titled

Nirvana "In Utero"

Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie..."

Eminem "Marshall Mathers LP"

Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation"

Metallica "Metallica"

Depeche Mode "Songs of Faith and Devotion"

Portishead "Dummy"

Beck "Odelay"

Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"

Radiohead "Amnesiac"

Nirvana "Unplugged"

Bjork "Post"

R.E.M. "Out of Time"

Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"

Pixies "Surfer Rosa"

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "The Boatman's Call"

Johnny Cash "American Recordings"

Dr. Dre "The Chronic"

Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball"

Bob Dylan "Time out of Mind"

Tom Waits "Mule Variations"

N.W.A. "Straight Outta' Compton"

Radiohead "Pablo Honey"

Alice in Chains "Dirt"

Weezer "Pinkerton"

Fugees "The Score"

Elliott Smith "XO"

Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"

Morrissey "Viva Hate"

Beastie Boys- Ill Communication

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds- Tender Prey

Slipknot- Slipknot



Slipknot, Bright Eyes, Waits, Nirvana, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Fugees, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Coldplay, Cash, Metallica, Dylan would all be on my top 250 if not higher.



BA: U2. Can't stand U2. Solid list, though.

Answer 20

For whoever was asking there is Soundgarden on their its number 564 Black Hole Sun.



I think Crazy Train or Bark at the Moon should have been on the list

Answer 21

Hybrid Theory totally

Answer 22

R.E.M. - "Automatic for the People"

Sonic Youth - "Daydream Nation"

New Order - "Technique"

Wilco - "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel"

The Pixies - "Surfer Rosa"

PJ Harvey - "Rid of Me"

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - "Ragged Glory"

The Pogues - "If I Should Fall From Grace with God"

Lou Reed - "New York"

The Waterboys - "Fisherman's Blues"

Tom Waits - "Mule Variations"

PJ Harvey - "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea"

Sugar - "Copper Blue"

Answer 23

INNX - Kick

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Answer 24

I've never seen or read the magazine but I assume it's a COMEDY magazine like MAD?

Answer 25

One fave

Nothings Shocking



BQ: What

Answer 26

i quit around 50 after seeing a lot of the bands i despise and the only one i saw that i liked before i quit was "rage against the machine"





no offense to Q but that list was crap

Answer 27

Take That - Beautiful World

Took me right back to my teenage years...

Answer 28

Alice in Chains- Dirt

pretty much epic album.



Soundgarden should've been included (: or maybe i didnt see them...



have fun!

Answer 29

Dookie by Geen Day.

Answer 30

none, i like this one: the other side of down - david archuleta

Answer 31

that one

Answer 32

Bettles