What 10 Albums?

[The Hypno-Toad]

Here it is. Its not quite a top 10 but its a list of all the albums who got more than two nominations.


1.) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (8)

2.) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (5)
Metallica - Black Album (5)

4.) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (4)
Led Zeppelin - IV (4)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spider From Mars (4)

7.) Radiohead - OK Computer (3)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets (3)
Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation (3)
Guns & Roses - Appetite For Destruction (3)
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (3)
AC/DC - Back In Black (3)


No real surprises there to be honest.


(if anyone else wants to add them up to check my maths, good luck!)

[Camoradi]

1) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2) The Clash - London Calling
3) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity
4) Scraping Phoetus off the Wheel - Hole
5) Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
6) PJ Harvey - Dry
7) Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here
8) Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone
9) Virginia Astley - From Gardens where we Feel Secure
10) Aldous Harding - Party

[Magpie1862]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

This thread is inhabited by fossils! The average age of these must be 45 years +

That's because a lot of more modern music is all about image, money, using the F and C word, and thinking they are radical and rebellious, it's all been done before.

Another fossil - from the early sixties.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The Hypno-Toad said:

But first, some surprises.



The Clash - Sandinista

Christ, you're not kidding. I think it's not nearly as bad as people say it is, but in the top 10 of anyone's album list......wow!

[jsc15]

In no real order and with many deletions to get down to 10 (soundtracks are a whole different list)...

R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Velvet Underground & Nico
Velvet Underground - 3rd album
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
U2 - Achtung Baby
Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

Honourable mentions to.....
David Bowie - Low
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
FGTH - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Madonna - True Blue
Tori Amos - Under The Pink
U2 - Zooropa
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I May See
Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up

[RobM77]

The Hypno-Toad said:

Right, first of all I know I have no life. Seriously I know.

But I decided a couple of days ago to a project that wasn't car or work related and I settled on working out what was the most popular album ever on PH based on the answers to this thread.

So with the only real rule that if you posted more than 10 in one list I just counted down from the top and stopped at number 10 and after very close to 500 individual albums, here we go.

But first, some surprises. No love for these universally acclaimed "Classic Albums," or massive sellers. All of them received no nominations at all.

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
The Clash - Sandinista
Bob Marley - Greatest Hits

Only one vote for:

Portishead - Dummy
Air - Moon Safari
Steely Dan - Aja
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Lou Reed - Transformer
Queen - Greatest Hits
U2 - War
Blondie - Parallel Lines
AC/DC - Powerage
Led Zeppelin - II
Who - Who's Next?
Velvet Underground & Nico
The Clash - the first album
U2 - Joshua Tree
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On?
Crowded House - Woodface
Foo Fighters - 1
Carole King - Tapestry
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
Van Morrison - Moondance
Paul Simon - Graceland
Miles Davies - Sketches Of Spain
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Which I guess shows that PHers have a more individual degree of taste than the herd and don't listen to what the critics think is 'right on.'

And the chart?

Not yet. Going to have some lunch first.

Thanks. Interesting.

The problem you’ve highlighted is that albums like Brothers in Arms or Thriller have loads of people who ‘like’ them, but few who love them so much they’d put them in their top ten. They’re the Ford Focus of the album world. They end up selling more, and being liked by millions, but aren’t loved by many. Album sales are binary, you either buy it or you don’t. The fact that I love Dark Side of the Moon twenty times as much as Brothers in Arms is not recorded by the sales figures - I just own a copy of each.