Taken from www.channel4.com - do you agree that these were the top 100 albums of all time? I wouldn't have thought that Radiohead was myself at number one...but do discuss...

THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS


RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
U2 - The Joshua Tree
NIRVANA - Nevermind
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
OASIS - Definitely Maybe
THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
MADONNA - Like a Prayer
GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
THE BEATLES - Revolver
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
THE BEATLES - The White Album
QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
JOHN LENNON - Imagine
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
BJORK - Debut
THE DOORS - The Doors
ABBA - Arrival
MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
DURAN DURAN - Rio
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
JOY DIVISION - Closer
THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
BLUR - Parklife
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
THE SPECIALS - Specials
THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
THE CLASH - London Calling
THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
PIXIES - Doolittle
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
PATTI SMITH - Horses
THE WHO - Tommy
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
DIDO - No Angel
AIR - Moon Safari
ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE JAM - All Mod Cons
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
MOBY - Play
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
JONI MITCHELL - Blue
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
PULP - Different Class
KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
BECK - Odelay
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
LOVE - Forever Changes
PAUL SIMON - Graceland
NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
THE STROKES - Is this It
MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
THE EAGLES - Hotel California
JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!

It was a better mix than I expected there to be.

i'm cautious with anything connected to paul Weller though.

I thought Queen would've been higher up...

*cough*BULLSHIT*cough*

^My thought exactly.

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:D

where is abbey road?

London

i knew someone would say that, but why is it missing!!!

I don't know...I could name a half dozen that should be on there and aren't. I told Dave before he posted it...that list is not very good.

for one thing, i dont think this is listed in order from best down. it is just all 100 best albums in no order.

second, i dont understand why coldplay's album "parachutes" is on the list. Shouldn't "a rush of blood to the head" be on there? a rush... was far better. i havent heard all of the songs from parachutes.... but it didnt sound like anything special.

It's in order...check the link.

hmmmmm not sure.. I can't even believe Duran Duran are on there for Rio, The Jam and Robbie Williams being on there just makes a mockery of it really. Also quite surprised they put George Michael's Faith on there instead of Listen Without Predjudice which was a zillion times better in every way.

Oh well...one mans jewels are another mans rubbish.

RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
Most overrated album EVER.

Sgt Peppers, Revolver and the White Album should have been the top 3.

wow, only 4 days late with this one....

shock horror - people will disagree with the list!!

Why isn't there more Floyd on the list, like The Wall and Wish You Were Here?

No Steps?

No Steps?
Maybe for the teenybopper's list, but not for serious music lovers ;)

It was voted for by vhannel 4 viewers wasn't it? I as actually surprised it wasn't more dominated by modern music.

lol! Nobody could ever agree with these lists - can't you all marvel in the quality that is present rather than dwelling on that which isn't?!

ALANIS MORISSETTE, COLDPLAY, DURAN DURAN, SEX PISTOLS, BLUR, MEAT LOAF, THE PRODIGY, THE LIBERTINES, HAPPY MONDAYS, DIDO, OUTKAST, MASSIVE ATTACK, EMINEM, GEORGE MICHAEL, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, MOBY, THE STREETS and ROD STEWART???

that list is a joke to anyone who's serious about music. it is compiled by people who have a biased love for a certain artist (ie, robbie williams) but don't know jack shit about music as a whole. so many great albums missing from that list it's scary (and quite sad). so much greater stuff out there if only people would find the time to go looking and not just lazily rely on what the radio or TV force feeds down their lug'holes!!

I agree that Alanis Morissette should be on there, its a quality album, nothing she's done since has beaten it.

I would have expected 'The Colour and the Shape' from Foo Fighters to be on there, and the other Coldplay album. Parachutes was ok, but not their best of the two.

There were only 125 nominations. Silly really.

Hmm... Marvin Gaye's 'Whats going on' is a classic no doubt about it but his later albums 'Lets Get it On' and 'Here my dear' are better in my opinion. The last track on 'Lets Get it On': 'Just to keep you satisfied' is the best thing Gaye ever did. Its spine tinglingly good and it stops you dead in your tracks. An ode to a crumbling / failed marriage and cowritten by his estranged wife. What its doing on a record devoted to sex is anyones guess but it is a sublime moment.

Radiohead's OK Computer is genuis though.

i'm happy to accept people will have differing opinions as far as their view of quality music is concerned, which is why i rarely comment in these threads even when the likes of robbie williams or oasis are mentioned in the context of 'greatness', but i always have trouble believing so many people apparently adore U2.

what is wrong with you bloody people?

ah now there i am in agreement

U2 are crap!

Streets with no name was a fantastic song though.

i think they have done some great songs but seem to rely on 'anthems' to scroe them big hits and thus lots of fans.

Nirvana, being the great band they were, should've been in the top ten but never at number 3. Dark Side of the Moon shoulda got higher...

Sgt Peppers, Revolver and the White Album should have been the top 3.


Possibly the three most overrated albums ever.

I think the list is generally OK.

Smokey Robinson?
four tops?

where are my friends?

i'm shocked that ooberman didn't get into the top twenty.

on a slightly less sarcastic note... people (and who, exactly? were you offered a chance to vote in this?) were given 125 albums to choose from, and one of them was by the bloody scissor sisters. pet sounds is number one for me, no doubt about it.

Martyn you have a luke skywalker (x-wing fighter pilot outfit) avatar (or is it biggs?), plus good tastes in music (it seems). this board needs you!! ;)

Alf Poier all the way

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Surely there has to be something from Simon and Garfunkle in there?

Yeah there is, but I don't think they were all that high up.

when they do these "greatest of all time" lists then they shouldnt allow anything that is less than say 10 or 20 years old... obviously it has to be in proportion to the time span of the medium being judged. There may be some great newer stuff but by the nature of the 'greatest of all time' title it has to have at least stood the test of time

I thought The Bends was a much better album than OK computer. Not a bad list though overall.

Surely there has to be something from Simon and Garfunkle in there?

Bridge Over Troubled Water was on there. Great album that.

Bridge Over Troubled Water was on there. Great album that.

cheers Blunther, I missed that when I scanned the listt.

My favourate song from Simon and Garfunkle is "Homeward bound" - it really sums up that feeling of looking forward to going home.

Martyn you have a luke skywalker (x-wing fighter pilot outfit) avatar (or is it biggs?), plus good tastes in music (it seems). this board needs you!! ;)

it's all an illusion. i own the third stereophonics album.

I ignored this thread at first, but I've just gotten around to watching the full programme. I picked OK Computer as my best album, but never imagined it would be the viewer's choice.

Being the unfashionable geek I am I was surprised to find I have twelve of the 100:

RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
THE STROKES - Is this It

Out of the other 88, are there any I should be rushing straight out to buy...?

Actually, I've just noticed that the main page on 101cd.com has Grace by Jeff Buckley and Nevermind for £4.99 each - I guess people must have been thinking the same way as me :D

Quite tempted to get the Nirvana album actually - is it much cop?

Actually, I've just noticed that the main page on 101cd.com has Grace by Jeff Buckley and Nevermind for £4.99 each - I guess people must have been thinking the same way as me :D

...and if you look at the page for Grace, "People Who Bought This Title Also Bought: COLDAPLAY - PARACHUTES, NICK DRAKE - FIVE LEAVES LEFT, JONI MITCHELL - BLUE, RADIOHEAD - OK COMPUTER, AIR - MOON SAFARI".

Heh heh heh.

excellent self-talking-to skills, wakefield boy. give nevermind a miss for the time being, and go straight to doolittle. you also need to get pet sounds.
from the list, i own:

RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
NIRVANA - Nevermind
OASIS - Definitely Maybe
THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
THE BEATLES - Revolver
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
THE BEATLES - The White Album
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
THE DOORS - The Doors
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
BLUR - Parklife
THE CLASH - London Calling
PIXIES - Doolittle
HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
MOBY - Play
PULP - Different Class
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
THE STROKES - Is this It

which is 27. :rock:

Not one Cliff Richard album in the 100. >(

OK Computer is a good record, but number one?! I have all (but one) of their albums, but frankly I think they're overrated.

As for the Bends, I suppose it belongs in the top 100, but to me it sounds like Thom ripped off Jeff Buckley. Bends did come out a year after Grace.

Quite tempted to get the Nirvana album actually - is it much cop?

Nevermind's reputation is a bit overinflated, not exactly groundbreaking when comapred to alot of indie bands from the late 80's. In my opinion, In Utero, their 1993 album, is ten times better.

thank fuck there is no cliff richard up there, he is neither musical or talented. hes famous for being a christian and thats a shit reason to be famous.i cant believe charlie... or anyone has never heard nevermind, its the defining album of our generation (or am i just making sweeping assumptions about the generations of people on this website)

was actually happy to see radiohead doing so well, they are the most original band since pink floyd, and its good to see them appreciated.

As for what was missing:

iron maiden
Carlos santana
eric clapton?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

maybe not the best compiled list, but not far off

to confirm my position... cliff richard sucks donkey balls!

any fucker who can get a number one by singing the lords prayer to auld langs arm (or however the fuck you spell it) deserves fuckin shooting

one more time CLIFF=CUNT

Why isn't there more Floyd on the list, like The Wall and Wish You Were Here?
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn also. :)

I don't understand how Automatic For The People is way up there. R.E.M. have made much better albums (Murmur may actually be the greatest album ever released).

Nevermind's reputation is a bit overinflated, not exactly groundbreaking when comapred to alot of indie bands from the late 80's. In my opinion, In Utero, their 1993 album, is ten times better.
Agree completely. Nevermind is hardly up there with other rock records of the time IMO.

Joy Division and the Pixies albums are two that everyone should own. So raw, emotional, fantastic lyrics and from the heart...and have great tracks for dancing too.

I agree with Dinp, the Foo Fighters Colour and the Shape should be there. Janis Joplin too.....

to confirm my position... cliff richard sucks donkey balls!

any fucker who can get a number one by singing the lords prayer to auld langs arm (or however the fuck you spell it) deserves fuckin shooting

one more time CLIFF=CUNT
Actually when you put it like that youre right. He is a talentless cunt who wants shooting.

The Pixies were better than Nirvana. Surfer Rosa and Come On Pilgrim are almost as good as Dolittle and a fair bit better than Nevermind. Nevermind is good though.

nevermind is a huge album, its the album of the nighties. I don't know anyone who listens to rock music in there 20's that hasnt been influenced by this album, granted you get bored of it after a few years, but you cant underestimate its impact.

Whilst i agree that musically pixies are far better, they're just not as famous, or significant.

wheres Lemar?

^a long long long long long long long long way down!

maybe in the 84'000's or so

Seriously if Lemar ever makes a Top 100 list, the Universe will implode in a fit of ill logic.

top 100 reality tv musicians

well if you could list 100 of them, lemar may feature, but id be surprised if even 1 person from this list makes any other.

top 100 singles last night repeated on ch4, usual 'imagine' bollocks.