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^Yeah I am loving the eclectic spirit of this thing.

Too bad about those live albums... Some bands are just faaaaar superior in a live setting.

Magma fx.....and The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, SBB, Kraan, Grobschnitt, Derek & the Dominoes, Allman Bros, Cream, Santana and so forth. Some of these artists aren't even featured on my list, because their studio releases weren't good enough. Allman Bros, Jimi and Grobschnitt most notably.
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I'm loving how all over the map most of these lists are, usually when you ask for a top 10 or 20 you get a vibe, you go out to top 200 and you see how diverse peoples tastes really are.
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Damn that list is eclectic. Nicely done sirThumbs UpClap
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This'll do for now, I'll add in another 16 later. At another time (when it's not 2 AM) It'll be interesting to see how this compares to the lists I posted 7 years ago, and I wonder how many of us there are that posted in all 3 polls?
  1. Kayo Dot- Choirs of the Eye
  2. Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part 1
  3. Fen- Epoch
  4. Genesis- Foxtrot
  5. Pink Floyd- Animals
  6. Van der Graaf Generator- Still Life
  7. White Willow- Terminal Twilight
  8. The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds
  9. Opeth- Blackwater Park
  10. maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map
  11. Kayo Dot- Coyote
  12. Quella Vecchia Locanda- Il Tempio Della Gioia
  13. White Willow- Storm Season
  14. Universe Zero- Clivages
  15. The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Commatorium
  16. Unexpect- Fables of the Sleepless Empire
  17. Van der Graaf Generator- Godbluff
  18. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
  19. Ihsahn- After
  20. Le Orme- Felona e Sarona
  21. Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
  22. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso- Darwin!
  23. Burst- Lazarus Bird
  24. Far Corner- Far Corner
  25. Kayo Dot- Hubardo
  26. maudlin of the Well- Bath
  27. King Crimson- Lark Tongues' in Aspic
  28. Leprous- Bilateral
  29. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
  30. Soft Machine- Third
  31. Bubu- Anabelas
  32. Virgin Black- Requiem: Mezzo Forte
  33. Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
  34. Hiromi- Spiral
  35. Between the Buried and Me- The Parallax II: Future Sequence
  36. Gnidrolog- Lady Lake
  37. maudlin of the Well- Part the Second
  38. Indukti- SUSAR
  39. Madder Mortem- Deadlands
  40. Kayo Dot- Blue Lambency Downward
  41. Billy Cobham- Spectrum
  42. To-Mera- Exile
  43. Marillion- Script for a Jesters Tear
  44. Intronaut- Valley of Smoke
  45. Riverside- Anno Domini High Definition
  46. Premiata Forneria Marconi- Storia di un Minuto
  47. Anathema- The Silent Enigma
  48. Virus- Carheart
  49. Paatos- Timeloss
  50. Fen- Dustwalker
  51. Symphany X- V: The New Mythology Suite
  52. Comus- First Utterance
  53. Anglagard- Hybris
  54. Mastodon- Crack the Skye
  55. Deathspell Omega- Fas--Ita, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
  56. Nemo- Si Partie I
  57. Dark Suns- Grave Human Genuine
  58. Vanden Plas- The God Thing
  59. My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans
  60. Transatlantic- SMPTe
  61. Opeth- My Arms, Your Hearse
  62. Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane
  63. Sieges Even- The Art of Navigating by the Stars
  64. Muse- Absolution
  65. Genesis- Selling England by the Pound
  66. Cynic- Traced in Air
  67. White Williow- Sacrament
  68. Opeth- Still Life
  69. Renaissance- Scheherazade and Other Stories
  70. Pain of Salvation- Entropia
  71. The Sound of Animals Fighting- The Ocean and the Sun
  72. Yakuza- Of Seismic Consequence
  73. Shining- V: Halmstad
  74. National Health- Of Queues and Cures
  75. Khan- Space Shanty
  76. Guapo- 5 Suns
  77. Pendragon- The Masquerade Overture
  78. Opeth- Orchid
  79. Marillion- Brave
  80. Isis- Wavering Radient
  81. Fen- The Malediction Fields
  82. Kayo Dot- Coffins on Io
  83. Peter Hammill- Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
  84. Karnivool- Sound Awake
  85. Island- Pictures
  86. Van der Graaf Generator- The Least We can do is Wave to Each Other
  87. In the Woods... Omnio
  88. Birds and Buildings- Bantom to Behemoth
  89. Peter Hammill- Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
  90. IQ- The Seventh House
  91. Pain of Salvation- One Hour by the Concrete Lake
  92. Drawn- A New World?
  93. Art Zoyd- Musique Pour L'Odyssee
  94. In the Woods... Strange in Stereo
  95. Cult of Luna- Salvation
  96. To-Mera- Delusions
  97. Il Balletto di Bronzo- Ys
  98. NeBeLNeST- ZePTo
  99. Quella Vecchia Locanda- Quella Vecchia Locanda
  100. Peccatum- Lost in Reverie
  101. Disilluision- Back to Times of Splendor
  102. Renaissance- Turn of the Cards
  103. Gnidrolog- In Spite of Harry's Toenail
  104. Os Mutantes- O A e o Z
  105. hAND- Kintsugi
  106. Enslaved- Isa
  107. Marillion- Seasons End
  108. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso- Io Sono Nato Libero
  109. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Mother's Milk
  110. Gojira- From Mars to Sirius
  111. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
  112. Headspace- I Am Anonymous
  113. Sigh- Hail Horror Hail
  114. Osanna- Palepoli
  115. Marillion- Clutching at Straws
  116. Dream Theater- Awake
  117. Gojira- The Way of All Flesh
  118. Canvas Solaris- The Atomized Dream
  119. King Crimson- Red
  120. Renaissance- Novella
  121. The Mars Volta- The Bedlam in Goliath
  122. Ihsahn- Eremita
  123. Alcest- Ecailles de Lune
  124. Goblin- Roller
  125. Pendragon- Pure
  126. Anglagard- Viljans Oga
  127. Discipline- To Shatter All Accord
  128. IQ- The Wake
  129. Ellipsis- Imperial Tzadik
  130. John Zorn- Interzone
  131. Alan Sorrenti- Aria
  132. Giant Squid- The Icthyologist
  133. Anglagard- Epilog
  134. Intronaut- Prehistoricisms
  135. In the Woods... HEart of the Ages
  136. Frequency Drift- Over
  137. Living Colour- Stain
  138. Present- Le Poison Qui Rend Fou
  139. King Crimson- Islands
  140. Premiata Forneria Marconi- Per un Amico
  141. Diablo Swing Orchestra- Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delerious
  142. Enslaved- Ruun
  143. Marillion- Misplaced Childhood
  144. Madder Mortem- All Flesh is Grass
  145. Ram-Zet- Intra
  146. Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
  147. Jane's Addiction- Ritual De Lo Habitual
  148. The Mars Volta- Amputechture
  149. Genesis- Trespass
  150. Jane's Addiction- Strays
  151. Riverside- Rapid Eye Movement
  152. Marillion- Afraid of Sunlight
  153. IQ- The Road of Bones
  154. Threshold- Clone
  155. Phideaux- Doomsday Afternoon
  156. Sikth- Death of a Dead Day
  157. In Lingua Mortua- Sona des Refuses
  158. Virgin Black- Elegant... and Dying
  159. Leprous- Coal
  160. Protest the Hero- Scurrilous
  161. Premiata Forneria Marconi- L'Isola di Niente
  162. Museo Rosenbach- Zarathustra
  163. The Gathering- How to Measure a Planet?
  164. Wolves in the Throne Room- Black Cascade
  165. Marillion- Marbles
  166. Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother
  167. Muse- Origin of Symmetry
  168. Threhsold- Wounded Land
  169. Rolo Tomassi- Cosmology
  170. The Tangent- A Place in the Queue
  171. Nemo- Presages
  172. Wobbler- Afterglow
  173. Jane's Addiction- Nothing's Shocking
  174. Psychotic Waltz- Into the Everflow
  175. Symphony X- The Divine Wins of Tragedy
  176. Red Hot Chili Peppers- By the Way
  177. U Totem- U Totem
  178. Vaura- The Missing
  179. Saens- Escaping from the Hands of God
  180. Koenji Hyakkei- Angherr Shisspa
  181. Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
  182. Le Orme- Uoma di Pezza
  183. Proto-Kaw- Early Recordings from Kansas
  184. My Dying Bride- For Lies I Sire
  185. maudlin of the Well- My Fruit Psychobells... a Seed Combustable
  186. Canvas Solaris- Cortical Tectonics
  187. hAND- Breathing
  188. Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
  189. Curved Air- Phantasmagoria
  190. Cult of Luna- Somewhere Along the Highway
  191. Edge of Sanity- Crimson
  192. Threshold- Wounded Land
  193. Area- Caution Radiation Area
  194. Epica- The Divine Conspiracy
  195. Madder Mortem- Desiderata
  196. Disillusion- Gloria
  197. Eloy- Ocean
  198. SubRosa- No Help for the Mighty Ones
  199. Giant Squid- Cenotes
  200. Novalis- Novalis



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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by Kazza3 Kazza3 wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Here are my top 250 albums per my ratings in progfreak.  

Wow. 250+ albums rated 9/10 or above?!
That is out of 7400+ albums.  I'm bound to think that at least some of them are magnificent or stellar.  Otherwise what the heck am I doing listening to all of this music.

Oh, sure, but it's an impressive number, and an impressive number of total albums, nonetheless.
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Very hard...this is as good as it gets:
 
1King Crimson — Larks' Tongues in Aspic 
2King Crimson — Lizard 
3Jethro Tull — Minstrel in the Gallery 
4Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin 
5Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin II 
6The Mars Volta — The Bedlam in Goliath 
7Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel [2] 
8Gentle Giant — Octopus 
9Robert Fripp — Exposure 
10King Crimson — Discipline 
11Genesis — Selling England by the Pound 
12Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
13Gentle Giant — In a Glass House 
14Pink Floyd — Animals 
15Jethro Tull — Thick as a Brick
16King Crimson — Red 
17Genesis — The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 
18Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon 
19King Crimson — In the Court of the Crimson King 
20David Bowie — Scary Monsters 
21Yes — Fragile 
22Brian Eno — Here Come The Warm Jets 
23Pink Floyd — Ummagumma 
24Led Zeppelin — Houses of the Holy 
25Pink Floyd — The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 
26Return to Forever — Romantic Warrior 
27Jim Morrison — An American Prayer 
28Bill Bruford — Feels Good to Me 
29The Mars Volta — De-Loused in the Comatorium 
30David Bowie — Heroes 
31Genesis — Nursery Cryme 
32 Eno/Byrne — My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts 
33Tool — 10,000 Days 
34Peter Gabriel — Security 
35Bob Marley — Uprising 
36Frank Zappa — Apostrophe (') 
37Pink Floyd — Obscured by Clouds 
38Peter Gabriel — Passion 
39The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Electric Ladyland 
40The The — Infected
41Ten Seconds — Ten Seconds 
42Talking Heads — Remain in Light 
43Joni Mitchell — Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 
44David Bowie —  Space Oddity
45Gong — Angel's Egg 
46Jon Anderson — Olias of Sunhillow 
47Green Carnation — The Quiet Offspring 
48Andy Summers & Robert Fripp — I Advance Masked 
49Brian Eno — Another Green World 
50King Crimson — Islands 
51Porcupine Tree — Deadwing 
52Coleman Hawkins — Body & Soul 
53David Bowie — Lodger
54David Sylvian — Gone To Earth 
55Jethro Tull — Aqualung 
56Yes — Close to the Edge
57Yes — Tales from Topographic Oceans
58Laurie Anderson — Mister Heartbreak 
59The Mars Volta — Frances the Mute 
60Gong — The Flying Teapot 
61Sebastian — Den Store Flugt 
62Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel [3] 
63The Beatles — The Beatles (white)
64Tool — Ζnima 
65Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel [1] 
66David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust
67Jethro Tull — Heavy Horses 
68D-A-D — Helpyourselfish 
69Genesis — Foxtrot 
70U2 — Achtung Baby 
71Ulver — Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell 
72The Cure — Three Imaginary Boys 
73The Decemberists — The Crane Wife 
74Al Di Meola — Elegant Gypsy
75At the Drive-In — In/Casino/Out 
76Rieflin-Fripp-Gunn — The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior 
77Far East Family Band — The Cave Down to the Earth 
78Gentle Giant — Gentle Giant 
79Sebastian — Ulvehψjen 
80George Harrison — All Things Must Pass 
81Jethro Tull — Stormwatch 
82Povl Dissing — Lykkeland 
83Lynyrd Skynyrd — Second Helping 
84Pearl Jam — Ten
85Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
86Nina Hagen — Nina Hagen Band 
87Paul Kantner, Grace Slick and David Freiberg - Baron von Tollbooth….
88Supertramp — Crime of the Century 
89Pere Ubu — The Modern Dance 
90Talking Heads — Fear of Music 
91Alanis Morissette — Jagged Little Pill 
92Stone Temple Pilots — Merry Melodies 
93Talk Talk — The Colour of Spring 
94Tracy Chapman — Tracy Chapman 
95King Crimson — Starless and Bible Black 
96David Bowie — Hunky Dory 
97The Call — Reconciled 
98Led Zeppelin — Physical Graffiti 
99Pink Floyd — More 
100Robbie Robertson — Robbie Robertson 
101Robert Fripp String Quintet — The Bridge Between 
102Robert Plant — Pictures at Eleven 
103Sebastian — Blψd Lykke 
104Stanley Clarke — School Days 
105Sinιad O'Connor — The Lion and the Cobra 
106The Beatles — Abbey Road 
107The Decemberists — The King Is Dead 
108Thelonious Monk — Round Midnight 
109Kitaro — Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai
110Green Carnation — The Acoustic Verses 
111David Bowie — Low 
112Aksak Maboul — Onze danses pour combattre la migraine 
113Adrian Belew — The Lone Rhino
114Amos Lee — Last Days At The Lodge 
115Cheikha Rimitti — Sidi Mansour 
116Frank Zappa — We're Only in It for the Money 
117Paul Kantner & Grace Slick — Sunfighter 
118Puscifer — V is for Vagina
119Mahavishnu Orchestra — Visions of the Emerald Beyond 
120Robert Plant — Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar
121Slapp Happy — Sort of...Slapp Happy 
122Stan Getz & Bill Evans — Stan Getz & Bill Evans 
123坂本龍/David Byrne 一 The Last Emperor 
124Jethro Tull — Songs From the Wood 
125Vaya Con Dios — Time Flies
126The Doors — The Doors 
127Talking Heads — Naked 
128Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen — The League of Gentlemen 
129Yezda Urfa — Sacred Baboon 
130Camel — The Snow Goose 
131Skunk Anansie — Paranoid and Sunburnt 
132Bjφrk — Debut 
133The Savage Rose — Black Angel 
134Shakti — Natural Elements 
135Riverside — Rapid Eye Movement 
136Porcupine Tree — Signify 
137Bill Rieflin — Birth of a Giant 
138dredg — The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion 
139Gasolin' — Gasolin 
140Foxygen — We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic 
141Gentle Giant — The Missing Piece 
142Indukti — S.U.S.A.R. 
143John Zorn — The Circle Maker
144Lunatic Soul — Lunatic Soul II 
145Jukka Tolonen — A Passenger To Paramaribo 
146Megadeth — Youthanasia 
147Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
148No-Man — Flowermouth 
149Andrew Lloyd Webber — Variations 
150Colour Haze — Tempel 
151David Byrne — The Catherine Wheel 
152Deep Purple — Who Do We Think We Are 
153Marianne Faithfull — A Child's Adventure 
154Opeth — Orchid
155ProjeKct X — ProjeKct X
156Pain of Salvation — Road Salt One 
157Robert Palmer — Maybe It's Live 
158The The — Dusk 
159Nina Simone — Angel of the Morning 
160John Lennon — Imagine 
161Anekdoten — Vemod 
162Creed — Weathered 
163The Future Sound of London — Lifeforms 
1641 Giant Leap — What About Me? 
165Tψmrerclaus — Tψmrerclaus 
166Al Di Meola — Land of the Midnight Sun
167Gasolin' — Gasolin' 2 
168Art Bears — Winter Songs 
169Massive Attack — Protection 
170Cynic — Traced in Air 
171Amy Winehouse — Back to Black 
172Andreas Vollenweider —Behind the Gardens
173Keiko Matsui — White Owl 
174Strawbs — Burning for You 
175Ayọ — Gravity At Last 
176D-A-D — Simpatico 
177Roger Waters — Amused to Death 
178Soft Machine — Seven 
179Van Halen — Women and Children First 
18010cc — How Dare You! 
181Culpeper's Orchard — Culpeper's Orchard 
182Bon Iver — For Emma, Forever Ago
183Paul Simon — Still Crazy After All These Years
184Simple Minds — Street Fighting Years 
185The Moody Blues — In Search Of The Lost Chord 
186Tool — Lateralus 
187Goat — World Music 
188Queen — Sheer Heart Attack 
189Kings of Leon — Come Around Sundown 
190Bondage Fruit — Bondage Fruit 
191Opeth — Watershed 
192Rush — Caress of Steel
193Red Snapper — Making Bones 
194Samla Mammas Manna — Mεltid 
195Alice Cooper — Welcome to My Nightmare 
196Eurythmics — Revenge 
197Kate Bush — The Kick Inside 
198Midlake — Antiphon 
199The Fall of Troy — In the Unlikely Event 
200Secret Oyster — Straight to the Krankenhaus 
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ranking albums is difficult. I just looked back on the list I made a week ago and was astonished by the choices.  Blue Lines before The Yes Album?  What the hell was I thinking?
That really is so true.  I tend to rank individual albums as I listen to them.   So I might listen to an album and think that it is great and give it an 8 or 9.  But then I look at a list like my top 250 above and think how in the world can such and such an album be on this list...I like it...but it isn't one of my top 250 albums.  It just happened to get a higher ranking on the day that I assigned that ranking.  When you are basically dealing with 5 stars and only the really best and really worst get 5s or 1s it is really hard to differentiate between albums.  The 10 ranking is a little better, but really most things are either 7s, 8s, or 9s.  I try and differentiate levels of like by the decimals, but ranking so many albums makes it very difficult to result in some sort of accurate order without going back and changing things based on comparisons and other rankings....and I've really yet to do that other than maybe at year end when i am compiling my top 10 list for the current year.
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After all of you are done ranking your lists you can join me here in the nut house...lots of people to talk to. We're all alone but there's lots of people to talk to...
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ranking albums is difficult. I just looked back on the list I made a week ago and was astonished by the choices.  Blue Lines before The Yes Album?  What the hell was I thinking?
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

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Damn that was much harder than I thoughtOuch
....and all I've done is list 200 albums. There's definitely no order yet, and I am struggling to see how I'm ever going to pull that offLOL

So you now have written them down in some random order.
Make a new list on which you start with the first (random) album on your list, and then add further albums one by one, always putting them in "correct" order with those that are already there. This becomes harder the more albums are already there, granted, but I think it remains doable until you reach no. 200.
I know that some albums can just not really be compared and some of the decisions to make there are very hard, in which case you can do just something that feels about right.
Still this will produce a ranking that should be almost as good as it gets in manageable time.
Certainly it's better than looking at a list of 200 and waiting for an order to form in your head.
(Maybe this idea is trivial and nothing new for you and you're agonising about all the decisions that there still are to be made, but in any case it probably can't hurt to post this...)




Thanks dad

Not really what I meant though...what I was getting at is that I simply don't have favourites among my favourite albums.
....and yes I wouldn't know how to compare albums like Liquid Swords, Out to Lunch and Forever Changes - 3 completely different albums that I happen to love just about equally. Gangsta rap vs avant jazz vs psych poprock.

There are of course some albums that I prefer over others, but we're talking less than 50. The problem then is ranking those buggers.
Either way, I promise to have finished my list before the deadline. In the end the order doesn't really matter all that much to me, as it changes on a daily basis.
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Originally posted by Kazza3 Kazza3 wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Here are my top 250 albums per my ratings in progfreak.  

Wow. 250+ albums rated 9/10 or above?!
That is out of 7400+ albums.  I'm bound to think that at least some of them are magnificent or stellar.  Otherwise what the heck am I doing listening to all of this music.
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I will be back before the deadline
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Here are my top 250 albums per my ratings in progfreak.  

Wow. 250+ albums rated 9/10 or above?!
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Here are my top 250 albums per my ratings in progfreak.  Take them for what they are worth.  If I get time I will try and sort and rank and maybe add or eliminate but for now this is an alright place sitter.

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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Damn that was much harder than I thoughtOuch
....and all I've done is list 200 albums. There's definitely no order yet, and I am struggling to see how I'm ever going to pull that offLOL

So you now have written them down in some random order.
Make a new list on which you start with the first (random) album on your list, and then add further albums one by one, always putting them in "correct" order with those that are already there. This becomes harder the more albums are already there, granted, but I think it remains doable until you reach no. 200.
I know that some albums can just not really be compared and some of the decisions to make there are very hard, in which case you can do just something that feels about right.
Still this will produce a ranking that should be almost as good as it gets in manageable time.
Certainly it's better than looking at a list of 200 and waiting for an order to form in your head.
(Maybe this idea is trivial and nothing new for you and you're agonising about all the decisions that there still are to be made, but in any case it probably can't hurt to post this...)
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Damn that was much harder than I thoughtOuch
....and all I've done is list 200 albums. There's definitely no order yet, and I am struggling to see how I'm ever going to pull that offLOL
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Points: 14830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2015 at 11:51
I was just curious how strongly classical music would feature in such an exercise, but as things stand, that's not so clear because some don't include classical because it doesn't score high enough for them whereas some others don't include it for other reasons such as "it isn't an album genre". Well, so be it then, at the end of the day it's anyone's own decision.

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 Did you read the OP? He strongly advised not to list classical.

If you read the OP again you'll realise that listing specific albums is discouraged but listing classical works (assuming the best interpretation you know) is fine.
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I want to adopt everyone else's list and take them all out to dinner. I've just been reminded about a lot of great albums.
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

I'd be really surprised if anyone else on this site makes a list with nearly as much southern rock in it! LOL
That's what I was thinking as I read this list: "Man, there's a whole lot of southern rock on there!"
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