KMC's Top 10 Albums 2012

Started by Kram3r10 pages
Originally posted by Funkadelic
1 Sign 'O' The Times - Prince
2 Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
3 Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
4 What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
5 Band Of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix
6 Mothership Connection - Parliament
7 There's A Riot Going On - Sly & The Family Stone
8 Exodus - Bob Marley
9 The Chronic - Dr. Dre
10 Me Against The World - 2Pac
11 Symphony Or Damn - Terence Trent D'Arby
12 Illmatic - Nas
13 Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
14 Curtis - Curtis Mayfield
15 Thriller - Michael Jackson
16 Emergency On Planet Earth - Jamiroquai
17 In The Jungle Groove - James Brown
18 Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
19 Caught Up - Millie Jackson
20 Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg

Okay, I'm pretty sure none of those were released in 2007. Also, everyone knows Purple Rain is the far more consistent album.

Dude, Purple Rain is a sellout, excellent but sellout

Originally posted by Funkadelic
Dude, Purple Rain is a sellout, excellent but sellout

WTF? Are you even aware of the definition of what "sell out" is? If anything, he sold in with that album. That album didn't betray any of the values or styles (that Prince is known for) for cash. In fact, it's the perfect example of Prince's style in the 80's.

He traded in all he was doing before that album for a rock & Roll album and after the album he makes totally different music.

Anyway I always preferred his 1985-88 period so maybe it's just me.

Originally posted by Funkadelic
He traded in all he was doing before that album for a rock & Roll album and after the album he makes totally different music.

Anyway I always preferred his 1985-88 period so maybe it's just me.

WTF? Have you heard Purple Rain? If you think Purple Rain is a "rock n roll" album, you obviously haven't heard it. At all. It's a Synth-based, Pop rock album that is totally in the vein of it's predecessor 1999. He wasn't trading anything. Little Red Corvette sounds like it could be on that album. The only underlying difference being that 1999 took on my "dance" tones. Yes, he totally ditched the sound when he created Around The World In A Day, just like he did with For You and Prince for Dirty Mind and Controversy and then ditched them for 1999 and Purple Rain. It's what brilliant musicians do, change and evolve their sound, if you can't understand that, then I have no idea how you appreciate Prince, because he does that all the time.

Originally posted by Kram3r
WTF? Have you heard Purple Rain? If you think Purple Rain is a "rock n roll" album, you obviously haven't heard it. At all. It's a Synth-based, Pop rock album that is totally in the vein of it's predecessor 1999. He wasn't trading anything. Little Red Corvette sounds like it could be on that album. The only underlying difference being that 1999 took on my "dance" tones. Yes, he totally ditched the sound when he created Around The World In A Day, just like he did with For You and Prince for Dirty Mind and Controversy and then ditched them for 1999 and Purple Rain. It's what brilliant musicians do, change and evolve their sound, if you can't understand that, then I have no idea how you appreciate Prince, because he does that all the time.

Ha, genius, telling someone their opinion is wrong. As if there's any sort of authority on what is 'better' in music.

But saying 'Purple Rain' is rock & roll, or a sellout album, is even more rediculous, to be fair.

Originally posted by The Grey Fox
Ha, genius, telling someone their opinion is wrong. As if there's any sort of authority on what is 'better' in music.

But saying 'Purple Rain' is rock & roll, or a sellout album, is even more rediculous, to be fair.

I never said it was wrong. At first I just offered my opinion on which Prince album I thought was better. Then he, as you rightly agreed, went on to say that it was "sell out" and "rock n roll" when those terms can't even be applied to that album.

It's 2009 now, and the official albums of '07 haven't even been named yet.

Now we should do one for '08 or '09. Hopefully people will have moved on to greener pastures musically speaking.

heh, I can't believe this thread is still here; a sticky even!

Change the title, or stop the nonsense!

Anyways...

2007

=10. Chimaira - Resurrection/ Porcupine Tree - FOABP
9. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
8. Panic Cell - What Doesn't Kill Us
7. The Berzerker - Animosity
6. Symphony-X - Paradise Lost
5. Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
4. Akercocke - Antichrist
3. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Onslaught - Killing Peace
1. Dark Tranquility - Fiction

2008

10. Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
9. Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League with Satan
8. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
7. Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
6. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
5. The Amenta - n0n
4. Satyricon - The Age of Nero
3. In This Moment - The Dream
2. Metallica - Death Magnetic
1. Opeth - Watershed

2009 (so far...) *subject to change

10. Ephel Duath - Through My Dogs Eyes
9. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
8. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
7. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
6. Agraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
5.

In no particular order, I'm to impartial to divide the top 10, even being in a top ten is amazing.

- The Bends - Radiohead
- Uknown Pleasures - Joy Division
- The Hurting - Tears for Fears
- Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
- The College Dropout - KanYe West
- Secret Samadhi - Live
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
- The Blueprint - Jay-Z
- Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
- Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan

I know it's not perfect, but it was really hard to limit it down to 10.

Originally posted by calvs
In no particular order, I'm to impartial to divide the top 10, even being in a top ten is amazing.

- The Bends - Radiohead
- Uknown Pleasures - Joy Division
- The Hurting - Tears for Fears
- Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
- The College Dropout - KanYe West
- Secret Samadhi - Live
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
- The Blueprint - Jay-Z
- Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
- Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan

I know it's not perfect, but it was really hard to limit it down to 10.

They've got to be the top ten albums of 2007, 2008 and 2009 (or either one of those years).

Originally posted by wicker_man
They've got to be the top ten albums of 2007, 2008 and 2009 (or either one of those years).

Everyone else seemed to post all-time bests

The music forum has really gone to utter shite.

2009 (in random order)

1. LIGHTS ~ "The Listening"
2. Owl City ~ "Ocean Eyes"
3. August Burns Red ~ "Constellations"
4. Dredg ~ "The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion"
5. Imogen Heap ~ "Ellipse"
6. Daughtry ~ "Leave This Town"
7. The Devil Wears Prada ~ "With Roots Above and Branches Below"
8. Skillet ~ "Awake"
9. Flyleaf ~ "Memento Mori"
10. Passion Pit ~ "Manners"

1.)Radio Head - The Bends
2.)Oasis-Whats the - Story Morning Glory
3.)Arctic Monkeys -For Whatever the People Say
4.)Justice-Cross
5.)2 many Dj's- As Heard on Radio Soulwax
6.)Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7.)Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
8.)Nivana - Nevermind
9.)Guns Roses - Appetite for Destruction
10.)Digitalism- Idealism

Best of 2009 (bit late I know):

1. Girls - Album
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Moss - Never Be Scared/Don't Be A Hero
4. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
5. White Denim - Fits
6. Baroness - Blue Record
7. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
8. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
9. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
10. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Pitchfork reader, by any chance?

Originally posted by Ugly Casanova
Pitchfork reader, by any chance?

No, not at all. I did discover most of these bands through a Dutch magazine named OOR though.