List 32 - Best of MoC

[Elvish]

For our first list of the new year, I'd like to do something a little different. We could either select a "Best of" list from albums that have been on MoC in the past or we could select a list from ones that were nominated, but not selected.

Or, we could always be boring and just have new suggestions

Anyone have feedback? Your input is welcomed

ETA: We're doing a Best of Music of Choice...vote for your 10 favorite albums from the master list below. We'll calculate the results and post polls to choose the final five albums.

Edited January 9, 2007 by Guest
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[Farin]

I think the "Best Of" is a great idea

the albums that weren't selected can be renominated anytime, but if this should be something special, then it should be special, don't you think?

but that's just mho

[phil]

I like it.

[Shawna]

that's a lotta lists to go through - more work for you, I think, Elvy. You sure you can keep from hurling for long enough to put that together?

[edna]

I agree with Farin... a best of would be fine...

[Elvish]

Air ~ Talkie Walkie (19)

Air ~ Moon Safari (31)

Alice Cooper ~ Trash (3)

Alice Cooper ~ Billion Dollar Babies (13)

Audioslave ~ Audioslave (5)

Beatles ~ Abbey Road (8)

Beatles ~ Beatles 1 (1)

Beck ~ Odelay (25)

Bjork ~ Medulla (1)

Black Sabbath ~ Paranoid (28)

Blind Melon ~ Blind Melon (12)

Bowie, David ~ The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust (10)

Buckley, Jeff ~ Grace (3)

Buckley, Jeff ~ Sketches (for my Sweetheart, the Drunk) (19)

Burke, Solomon ~ Don't Give Up on Me (7)

Burnside, R. L. ~ Bothered Mind (2)

Bush ~ Sixteen Stone (16)

Chieftains, The ~ Live (20)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (27)

Clash, The ~ London Calling (6)

Cocker, Joe ~ Mad Dogs & Englishmen (27)

Coldplay ~ Parachutes (24)

Crash Test Dummies ~ God Shuffled His Feet (23)

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Creedence Clearwater Revival (14)

Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Willy & the Poor Boys (25)

Crosby Stills Nash & Young ~ Déjà vu (29)

Clash, The ~ London Calling (6)

Dandy Warhols ~ 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia (22)

Depeche Mode ~ The Singles 86-98 (16)

The Doors ~ The Doors (15)

Donovan ~ Troubadour (11)

Dr John ~ Gumbo (9)

Dylan, Bob ~ The Essential Bob Dylan (1)

Dylan, Bob ~ The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (20)

Eagles, The ~ Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (11)

Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (23)

Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours (9)

Flogging Molly ~ Swagger (4)

Fogerty, John ~ The Blue Ridge Rangers (23)

Foo Fighters ~ The Colour and the Shape (11)

Foo Fighters ~ Foo Fighters (27)

Forrest Gump ~ Soundtrack (20)

Frampton, Peter ~ Frampton Comes Alive (18)

Franz Ferdinand ~ Franz Ferdinand (15)

Fugees, The ~ The Score (30)

Funkadelic ~ One Nation Under a Groove (6)

Gallagher, Rory ~ Irish Tour (5)

Goldfrapp ~ Black Cherry (13)

Gong ~ Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2) (18)

Gorillaz ~ Gorillaz (22)

Granddaddy ~ The Sophtware Slump (14)

Harper, Ben ~ Fight For Your Mind (31)

Harrison, George ~ All Things Must Pass (29)

Human Drama ~ The World Inside (6)

Incubus ~ Morning View (19)

Indigo Girls ~ Despite Our Differences (31)

Issak, Chris ~ The Baja Sessions (2)

Jefferson Airplane ~ Surrealistic Pillow (31)

Jellyfish ~ Spilt Milk (20)

Joel, Billy ~ The Stranger (22)

Joel, Billy ~ 12 Gardens Live (25)

Johnson, Jack ~ In Between Dreams (11)

Journey ~ Escape (14)

Junior Walker & The Allstars ~ Shotgun (15)

Keane ~ Hopes & Fears (7)

Kent ~ Isola (5)

Kilborn Alley Blues Band: The Kilborn Alley Blues Band

King, Carole ~ Tapestry (4)(18)

Led Zeppelin ~ How the West Was Won (2)

Led Zeppelin ~ Houses of the Holy (26)

Lewis, Jeffrey ~ The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (18)

Lifehouse ~ Lifehouse(7)

Little Charlie & the Nightcats ~ Nine Lives (8)

Little River Band ~ Man on Your Mind (23)

Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Street Survivors (3)

Madness ~ One Step Beyond (29)

Mahavishnu Orchestra ~ Inner Mounting Flame (16)

Marley, Bob ~ Legend Legend (17)

The Mamas & the Papas Greatest Hits (13)

Manic Street Preachers ~ The Holy Bible (2)(17)

Marillion ~ Afraid of Sunlight (9)

Mariott, Steve ~ Tin Soldier Anthology (27)

Mark Bolan & T Rex ~ Electric Warrior (15)

Marshall Tucker Band, The ~ The Marshall Tucker Band (13)

Mellencamp, John ~ Scarecrow (17)

Metallica & the San Francisco Symphony ~ S&M (26)

Mogwai ~ Happy Songs for Happy People (20)

Nicks, Stevie ~ Bella Donna (25)

Oasis ~ Definitely Maybe (21)

Pavement ~ Crooked Rain (12)

Petty, Tom ~ Wildflowers (26)

Pink Floyd ~ Animals (6)

Pixies ~ Best of (3)

Placebo ~ Without You I'm Nothing 924)

Portishead ~ Dummy (10)

Primus ~ Sailing the Seas of Cheese (9)

Pulp ~ His n Hers (4)

Queen ~ Sheer Heart Attack (19)

Queen ~ A Night at the Opera (30)

Queens of the Stone Age ~ Songs for the Deaf (28)

Queensryche ~ Operation Mindcrime (3)

R.E.M ~ Domument (7)

R.E.M. ~ In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (11)

R.E.M. ~ Monster (24)

Ramones, The ~ Rocket to Russia (8)

Ramones, The ~ It's Alive (19)

Radiohead ~ Ok Computer (12)

Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ blood sugar sex magik (17)

Redding, Otis & Carla Thomas ~ King & Queen(12)

Requiem For A Dream Soundtrack (9)

Rice, Damien ~ O (20)

Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers ~ Americano (12)(21)

Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers: Honky Tonk Union (31)

Rolling Stones ~ Beggars Banquet (28)

Royksopp ~ Night Out (27)

Rundgren, Todd ~ Something/Anything? (21)

Rush ~ All The World's a Stage (29) (7)

Scissor Sisters ~ Scissor Sisters (22)

Skolnick, Alex ~ Goodbye to Romance (6)

Scorpions, The ~ Love at First Sting

Simon & Garfukel Greatest Hits (28)

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland Floodland (17)

Small Faces ~ Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (16)

Smashing Pumpkins ~ Adore (24)

Smiths, The ~ Singles (29)

Sonic Youth ~ Daydream Nation (14)

Sonic Youth ~ Rather Ripped (26)

Soul Asylum ~ Black Gold: Best of (28)

Starz ~ Violation (13)

Stellastarr ~ stellastarr* (30)

Stone, Joss ~ The Soul Sessions (18)

Stone Roses ~ Second Coming (10)

Styx ~ The Grand Illusion (16)

Taylor, James ~ Sweet Baby James (14)

Tedeschi, Susan ~ Hope & Desire (22)

Tedeschi, Susan ~ Wait for Me (8)

Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 (10)

U2 ~ How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (1)

U2 ~ The Joshua Tree (10)

U2 ~ Rattle & Hum (24)

Vanilla Fudge ~ Then & Now (1)

Velvet Undergroud: The Velvet Undergroud & Nico (21)

Washington, Grover ~ Winelight (4)

Wet Willie ~ Best of (5)

White Stripes, The ~ Red Blood Cells (25)

Who, The ~ Who's Next (23)

Who, The ~ The Who By Numbers (26)

Who, The ~ Endless Wire (30)

Wonder, Stevie Innervisions (2)

Yardbirds, The ~ BBC Sessions (4)

Young, Neil ~ Prarie Wind (21)

Edited December 30, 2006 by Guest
looks much better now...

[Elvish]

That's a HUGE list

Sooo, since I don't want to make a bunch of polls (and since that wouldn't really be fair anyway - restricted to only 10 options per poll)...shall we institute Old 55's Top 10 voting rules? And if we do, would you be kind enough to help me tally them, Martin?

Edited December 31, 2006 by Guest
edited 'cause i fixed the list

[Tenacious_Peaches]

How exciting! What do we do, Mama Elvy?

Never mind. I was typing as you were posting. Just call me Quick Draw McGraw.

Edited December 29, 2006 by Guest
I just explained myself. Raise up out of my business.

[Elvish]

Still hashing out a system

Edited December 29, 2006 by Guest

[Elvish]

Okay, we're going to use the Top 10 system to make our numbers more manageable and then do polls.

So, post your favorite 10 albums from the monster list above.

thanks!

[Elvish]

Okay, I've refined the list - it's much prettier and more user friendly now (as user friendly as a list of 155 albums can be )

[Shawna]

oooo I get to be the first!

1. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers ~ Honky Tonk Union

2. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers ~ Americano!

3. Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours

4. Stevie Nicks ~ Bella Donna

5. Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Street Survivors

6. Eagles ~ Greatest Hits 1971-1975

7. Billy Joel ~ The Stranger

8. Simon and Garfunkel ~ Greatest Hits

9. Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive

10. Journey ~ Escape

[edna]

1- Jefferson Airplane ~ Surrealistic Pillow (31)

2- Rolling Stones ~ Beggars Banquet (28)

3- Velvet Undergroud: The Velvet Undergroud & Nico (21)

4- Simon & Garfukel Greatest Hits (28)

5- Bowie, David ~ The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust (10)

6- Beatles ~ Abbey Road (8)

7- Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Willy & the Poor Boys

8- Crosby Stills Nash & Young ~ Déjà vu (29)

9- King, Carole ~ Tapestry (4)(18)

10- The Mamas & the Papas Greatest Hits (13)

I had to leave out gems such as "Innervisions" and other...

[Farin]

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ blood sugar sex magik (17)

2. Coldplay ~ Parachutes (24)

3. R.E.M. ~ Monster (24)

4. Queen ~ A Night at the Opera (30)

5. Beck ~ Odelay (25)

6. Foo Fighters ~ Foo Fighters (27)

7. Clash, The ~ London Calling (6)

8. Dylan, Bob ~ The Essential Bob Dylan (1)

9. Metallica & the San Francisco Symphony ~ S&M (26)

10. Queens of the Stone Age ~ Songs for the Deaf (28)

wow, that was hard... I could have easily put my 11-20 here and be very satisfied

[The Seeker]

1.Who, The ~ Who's Next (23)

2.Small Faces ~ Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (16)

3.Who, The ~ The Who By Numbers (26)

4.Oasis ~ Definitely Maybe (21)

5.Mariott, Steve ~ Tin Soldier Anthology (27)

6.Beatles ~ Abbey Road (8)

7.Harrison, George ~ All Things Must Pass (29)

8.Joel, Billy ~ The Stranger (22)

9.Rolling Stones ~ Beggars Banquet (28)

10.Simon & Garfukel Greatest Hits (28)

[katie_sane]

1. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

2. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

3. Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren

4. Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton

5. The Stranger - Billy Joel

6. Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks

7. Tapestry - Carole King

8. Rocket To Russia - The Ramones

9. Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

10. S&M - Metallica

[Shawna]

oooo I missed Peter Frampton - can I replace my #9 - the Joshua Tree with Frampton Comes Alive?

Never mind - it was open for edit still, so I did it.

Edited December 30, 2006 by Guest

[Carl]

Great idea. Before I make my pics, I'd like to take a moment to thank Elvish for being so good at this. Thank you Elvish.

Who, The ~ Who's Next (23)

Bowie, David ~ The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust (10)

Issak, Chris ~ The Baja Sessions (2)

Cocker, Joe ~ Mad Dogs & Englishmen (27)

Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers ~ Americano (12)(21)

Junior Walker & The Allstars ~ Shotgun (15)

Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 (10)

Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ blood sugar sex magik (17)

Small Faces ~ Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (16)

Incubus ~ Morning View (19)

[Mike]

So true, we appreciate Elvish so much. This was indeed a great idea.

Rush ~ All The World's a Stage (29) (7)

Who, The ~ Who's Next (23)

Crosby Stills Nash & Young ~ Déjà vu (29)

Beatles ~ Abbey Road (8)

Pink Floyd ~ Animals (6)

Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours (9)

Styx ~ The Grand Illusion (16)

U2 ~ The Joshua Tree (10)

Harrison, George ~ All Things Must Pass (29)

Eagles, The ~ Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (11)

[edna]

Hey, Elvy...

[Lucky]

1. Marshall Tucker Band, The ~ The Marshall Tucker Band

2. The Mamas & the Papas Greatest Hits

3. Rundgren, Todd ~ Something/Anything?

4. Queen ~ Sheer Heart Attack

5. Eagles, The ~ Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

6. Little River Band ~ Man on Your Mind

7. Junior Walker & The Allstars ~ Shotgun

8. Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers: Honky Tonk Union

9. Alice Cooper ~ Billion Dollar Babies

10. Young, Neil ~ Prarie Wind

[bluesboy]

1. Doors - The Doors

2. Beatles - Abbey Road

3. Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

4. Bob Marley - Legend

5. Led Zep - How the West was Won

6. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

7. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

8. Marshall Tucker - The Marshall Tucker Band

9. Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen

10. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour

[Tenacious_Peaches]

Shout out to Mama Elvy for running things around here! Holla!

1] Wonder, Stevie ~ Innervisions

2] Crosby Stills Nash & Young ~ Déjà vu

3] Clash, The ~ London Calling

4] King, Carole ~ Tapestry

5] Ramones, The ~ Rocket to Russia

6] Joel, Billy ~ The Stranger

7] Queen ~ A Night at the Opera

8] Fugees, The ~ The Score

9] Funkadelic ~ One Nation Under a Groove

10] Tedeschi, Susan ~ Wait for Me

[bluesboy]

Amen ! Mama Elvy Amen !

[Red Fish]

I wish I didn't have to include several by the same artist, but I don't know enough, dagnabbit!

1: Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

2: Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan

3: The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

4: Beatles - Beatles 1

5: Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan

6: Beatles - Abbey Road

7: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Creedence Clearwater Revival

8: Pink Floyd - Animals

9: Simon & Garfukel Greatest Hits

10: Beck - Odelay