Revolver - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
The Joshua Tree - U2
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Nevermind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Grace - Jeff Buckley
London Calling - The Clash
London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

Great album but prefer Closer

Now I know why you post such 5H1T£!

Ten - Pearl Jam
A Crow Left Of the Murder - Incubus
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zep
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Light Grenades - Incubus
If you want Blood You've got it - AC/DC
Legend - Bob Marley
Angel Dust - Faith No More
Strange kind of love - Love and Money
2112 - Rush
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
Talking Heads 77 - Talking Heads

Oasis should've split up the moment they walked off the stage at Knebworth (Aug 96) instead of spending the next 13 years offering up re-heated leftovers.

If they'd done that they would be talked about in the same breath as the Pistols today as one of Britain's iconic bands. I get the feeling that even Noel Gallagher is partly of that opinion today.

It's a bit of a coin toss with me in regards to JD's two albums. I have a marginal preference for Unknown Pleasures but I love both albums to bits.

There is just an eerie, skeletel feel to UP which makes it timeless in my eyes. It's the sound of late 70's Britain in a nutshell. Damp,rotting and decaying as the Victorian industrial revolution came to a crashing halt bringing down the North of England with it.

I love Closer almost as much, but it's difficult to separate the music contained within from the personal situation which occured in the immediate aftermath of its recording (even now, 32 years after the event), particulary when listening to side 2.

They are both immense artistic statements however, made by bloody-minded people, the like of which would probably be nigh on impossible to make today.

Side 2 is a depressing listen and you have to wonder what was going through all their minds to come up with that.

Kudos to Factory too for allowing it to be made. Unlikely that we'd see anything like theses days

Jeez, good thread, but a tougher task than finding a decent half back for next season - here's a few that initially sprang to mind:

U2 - Boy
Joy Division - Closer
The Cramps -Smell of Female
Psychedlic Furs - Forever Now
The Cult - Dreamtime
The Smiths - The Smiths
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
The Associates - Sulk
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
REM - Automatic For The People
Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Ash - 1977
Shed Seven - A Maximum High
Verve - Urban Hymns
Coldplay - Parachutes

Can't believe nobody has given a shout to Primal Scream's - Screamadelica!
A true masterpiece and a defining album of its time.

morrison hotel by the doors with ease

The Strokes - Is This It?
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever To Tell
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Kanye West - Graduation
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
FatBoy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
The Cribs - The Cribs
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
K-Os - Yes!

Together Alone Anouk
Get Yer Ya-Yas Out Rolling Stones
Mr Wonderfull Fleetwood Mac
One foot in the Blues ZZ Top
Fretwork Bjorn Berge

Legend - Lennon
London Calling - The Clash
Sandinista - The Clash
This is the Modern World - The Jam
Setting Sons - The Jam
Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order
The Specials - The Specials
Spike - Elvis Costello
Legend - Marley
A Trick of thr Tail - Genesis

parallel lines, blondie

I like my music too and I have quite an eclectic collection but picking the ones I've listened to most at different times in my life in no particular order and excluding some awesome greatest hits albums to focus on the original albums:

1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
2) Meat Loaf A Bat Out of Hell
3) Various - Saturday Night Fever
4) Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
5) Carole King - Tapestry
6) Barbra Streisand - Memories (I know!)
7) Shania Twain - The Woman In Me (I know! I know!)
Frank Sinatra - Duets
9) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
10) Queen - A Kind of Magic
11) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
12) Police - Reggatta de blanc
13) The Clash - London Calling