Our top ten studio albums from favourite acts

Peter Hammill

The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974)
Over (1977)
In Camera (1974)
A Black Box (1980)
The Future Now (1978)
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973)
Fool's Mate (1971)
pH7 (1979)
Nadir's Big Chance (1975)
Sitting Targets (1981)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

F♯A♯∞ (1997)
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000)
Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P. (1999)
"No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (2024)
G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (2021)
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012)
'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' (2015)
"Luciferian Towers" (2017)
All Lights f**ked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (1994)


Edited by Saperlipopette! - March 25 2025 at 23:03

Jethro Tull

Miles Davis

1) Sketches of Spain
2) A Tribute to Jack Johnson
3) In a Silent Way
4) A Kind of Blue
5) Porgy and Bess
6) Milestones
7) Sorcerer
8) Miles Smiles
9) On the Corner
10) Bitches Brew

Steve Morse Band

1) The Introduction
2) High Tension Wires
3) Southern Steel
4) Structural Damage
5) Coast to Coast
6) Major Impacts II
7) Stand Up
8) Major Impacts
9) Split Decision
10) Stressfest

Art Zoyd are so hard... they have so much music that I love. Haven't listened to some of it in ages just because it's so much. I'm just listening to Le marriage du ciel et de l'enfer, which is brutally good, and I had almost forgotten about that.

Edited by Lewian - March 26 2025 at 07:42

Thanks for all the lists thus far. I have not been able to bring myself to arrange my lists in a way other than chronologically even if I do have preferences, but here's an attempt du du jour even if it ends up being quite arbitrary. My most recent listen is College EP, some great music on it, but it seems inessential to me...

Radiohead

Kid A (2000)
OK Computer (1997)
A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
Amnesiac (2001)
In Rainbows (2007)
Hail to the Thief (2003)
The Bends (1995)
The King of Limbs (2011)
Pablo Honey (1993, "Blow Out" is great)
College EP (2001)

Edited by Logan - March 26 2025 at 09:59

Steve Wyzard wrote: ALAN PARSONS PROJECT 1. Stereotomy 2. I Robot 3. Eye in the Sky 4. Pyramid 5. Tales of Mystery and Imagination 6. Gaudi 7. Turn of a Friendly Card 8. Vulture Culture 9. Eve 10. Ammonia Avenue SAGA 1. Worlds Apart 2. Heads or Tales 3. Silent Knight 4. Saga 5. The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes 6. Images at Twilight 7. The Security of Illusion 8. Wildest Dreams 9. Behaviour 10. Steel Umbrellas

Steve,

When I was putting my lists together, I chose artists that are among my very favorites, artists that are in my top 10-15 all-time. Steely Dan, Mahavisnu Orchestra and Led Zeppelin, for example, come up short with having released less than 10 studio albums.

Gentle Giant, ELP and Chicago fall short due to not having 10 studio albums I like. I'm a massive fan of each of these bands.

Gentle Giant's first 8 albums I quite like. Acquiring the Taste and Three Friends are among my favorite albums all genres included.

My love for ELP is based on the first 4 studio albums and 2 live albums, which solidified them as one of the very best Progressive Rock bands. Those albums spent a lot of time on the turntable. After that, it falls apart. I like some of Works, but beyond that the other ELP albums I don't care for.

Chicago it is about the Terry Kath years. The first two albums are phenomenal. The rest of the Kath years Chicago discography is at a minimum solid if not excellent. But, after his unfortunate death they became a different band.

That brings me to Alan Parsons Project a band I like, but nowhere close to a top 20 artist for me. So, I did not think of them. But, seeing your list made me think that all their studio releases are at least decent. So, I'll give some thought of where I would rank their discography and post later.

Herbie Hancock

Crossings (1972)
Empyrean Isles (1964)
Inventions & Dimensions (1964)
Mwandishi (1971)
Speak Like a Child (1968)
Maiden Voyage (1966)
Sextant (1973)
Sunlight (1978)
Blow-Up (1967)
Takin' Off (1962)

Siouxsie and The Banshees

Tinderbox (1986)
Peepshow (1988)
The Thorn EP (1984)
Juju (1981)
Kaleidoscope (1980)
Through the Looking Glass (1987)
Hyæna (1984)
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982)
The Rapture (1995)
The Scream (1978)

I was thinking about doing Siouxsie and The Banshees yesterday.

Juju (1981)
Tinderbox (1986)
Peepshow (1988)
Kaleidoscope (1980)
Hyæna (1984)
Peepshow (1988)
The Thorn EP (1984)
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982)
The Scream (1978)
Through the Looking Glass (1987)

^ I had to stream an EP for Radiohead to get up to ten. Magma I have lots by, including lives, and very happily I was given one live CD by a member of this forum as well as many others recently. I had heard the album, one of its best lives for me, but did not own it. Not expected by that person, but I want to send something back in return, just not sure what yet. As for The Necks, I would have a few more to go. Hanging Gardens is one of the biggest music highlights I have been exposed to in the past decade. Such a great album, imo.