My UK List would include (I don't include the Beatles as I know them more from singles than albums):
XTC: Nonesuch, Skylarking, Apple Venus Vol. 1
Queen: A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races
Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street
Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Led Zeppelin: IV, Houses Of The Holy
Radiohead: OK Computer, Pablo Honey
Big Country: The Crossing
Cure, Kate Bush, Cure, Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, Paul McCartney, Elton John, ELO, Pretenders, Stone Roses, Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, Jesus And Mary Chain, Elvis Costello, Pogues, Supergrass
The UK list is terrible but any list would be up for massive debate given their musical history. Almost equally true of an American list (where is the US list anyway?)
The Canadian list is actually pretty solid.
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^^^ Some pretty good choices (Canada) there, but looked on the full list and not a single Tea Party album.
They were so underrated. Martin could play like 12 different instruments, their drummer was one of the best in the business, and for three guys they could make a ton of noise! Fusing world and symphonic sounds with industrial and electronic beats, albums with great poetry, they are one of my favorite Canadian bands if not the favorite.
Amen.
First live concert I ever went to was 13 Engines, Tea Party and Blind Melon at the Frank Sisson's Silver Doller Ballroom. Awesome Show.
I don't really think Pink Floyd is up there in the pantheon. They're good but I don't see how they fit into a list of Rolling Stones, Beatles, Radiohead, Bowie, Queen, Clash, Led Zepplin, Sabbath. Floyd was pretty gimmicky IMO and didn't really push anything like the aforementioned bands. That or maybe I just hate prog rock.
I don't really think Pink Floyd is up there in the pantheon. They're good but I don't see how they fit into a list of Rolling Stones, Beatles, Radiohead, Bowie, Queen, Clash, Led Zepplin, Sabbath. Floyd was pretty gimmicky IMO and didn't really push anything like the aforementioned bands. That or maybe I just hate prog rock.
I would say Floyd pushed more boundaries than most of the bands you listed.
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I don't really think Pink Floyd is up there in the pantheon. They're good but I don't see how they fit into a list of Rolling Stones, Beatles, Radiohead, Bowie, Queen, Clash, Led Zepplin, Sabbath. Floyd was pretty gimmicky IMO and didn't really push anything like the aforementioned bands. That or maybe I just hate prog rock.
It's quite easy to see where they fit in. Ahead of everyone on your list other than Stones,Beatles and Zep. Queen is probably the best of the rest IMO.
I'd like to see someone take a stab at the USA, it would probably be mostly hip-hop at this point, though.
My list would be:
1. The Replacements-Tim
2. REM-Document
3. The Doors-The Doors
4. Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
5. The Cars-The Cars
6. Bruce Springsteen-Born in the USA
7. Alice in Chains-Unplugged
8. Metallica-Ride the LIghtning
9. Pearl Jam-10
10. Talking Heads-Speaking in Tongues
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1. Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
2. Silverchair - Frogstomp
3. AC/DC - Back in Black
4. The Living End - The Living End
5. INXS - Kick
6. Powderfinger - Internationalist
7. The Presets - Apocalypso
8. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
9. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
10. Regurgitator - Unit
How a list of top Australian albums doesn't include Starfish by The Church (or The Church at all) and INXS's Shabooh Shoobah is beyond me. Espescially when crap like Silverchair and Hoodoo Gurus dominates the list.
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First live concert I ever went to was 13 Engines, Tea Party and Blind Melon at the Frank Sisson's Silver Doller Ballroom. Awesome Show.
I don't think any Tea Party album stacks up. They had some great singles especially 95-99 but none of their albums are widely considered to be phenomenal. By the way, I see they are back together and playing shows. Maybe some new music is coming?
Fully Completely seems like an odd choice too. I would rank both "Up To Here" and "Day For Night" as better Hip Albums.
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Well, even as a huge Zeppelin fan, I think most of their lyrics were utter gibberish and they (mostly Paige) were renowned for ripping off other artists and "borrowing" a lot of material from African-American blues musicians. The Beatles may have changed pop music but I wouldn't call anything pre-Sgt. Pepper's to be pushing the boundaries. The only band on your list really on par with Floyd as far as innovation and originality goes is Queen.
Really, though, the biggest reason Floyd deserve to be up there is because nobody was doing what they did when they did it. Everything they did was pretty well technically flawless while managing not to be completely sterile like some of the good technical players that came after them (i.e. Satriani). Gilmour might be one of the most gifted guitar players ever and the songwriting was top notch in the post-Barrett years.
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