Heartland

as voted for by channel 4 viewers

rather worryingly, it appears i have good taste, owning 85 of them

RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
U2 - The Joshua Tree
NIRVANA - Nevermind
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
OASIS - Definitely Maybe
THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
MADONNA - Like a Prayer
GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
THE BEATLES - Revolver
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
THE BEATLES - The White Album
QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
JOHN LENNON - Imagine
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
BJORK - Debut
THE DOORS - The Doors
ABBA - Arrival
MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
DURAN DURAN - Rio
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
JOY DIVISION - Closer
THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
BLUR - Parklife
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
THE SPECIALS - Specials
THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
THE CLASH - London Calling
THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
PIXIES - Doolittle
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
PATTI SMITH - Horses
THE WHO - Tommy
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
DIDO - No Angel
AIR - Moon Safari
ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE JAM - All Mod Cons
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
MOBY - Play
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
JONI MITCHELL - Blue
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
PULP - Different Class
KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
BECK - Odelay
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
LOVE - Forever Changes
PAUL SIMON - Graceland
NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
THE STROKES - Is this It
MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
THE EAGLES - Hotel California
JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!

Yeah, it always alarms me when I realise how many "top albums" I own...

It started off so well - Kraftwerk etc... I was very pleased and started singing "Showroom Dummies" ... but when they put Oasis above The Beatles (and indeed, Pepper above Revolver which is just wrong), I started getting IRATE.

I've seen worse

But floodland should've been in

(In last studio brussel top 100 (singles) of all times, the temple of love was at 23 (came from 26 or something), so that was more like it )

PATTI SMITH...

that is all.

Sorry to sound awfully naive, but what is it? A list of people's favourite albums?

I assume it's a list of punters' faves, not critics, otherwise Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye would be in the top five of the list, not somewhere down.

Was Radiohead the number one fave amongst voters, or is the list random?

It's Channel 4 Television's list of the top 100 albums as voted for by general public listed in order 1-100.

I wouldn't have had DSOTM as Floyd's best; or IV as Led Zep's best, or The Queen Is Dead as the Smiths' best... I could go on.

Which Smiths would you have as superior to Queen is Dead? As a complete album, rather than a collection of songs?

And who could actually vote for Dido? Bland, insipid, tedious. I was relieved to give my copy away to a friend, on condition she took it to Russia and I never had to see or hear it again.

andymackem wrote: And who could actually vote for Dido? Bland, insipid, tedious. I was relieved to give my copy away to a friend, on condition she took it to Russia and I never had to see or hear it again.

My mum and I both hate her, and we started taking the p*ss... "Ooh, she's really giving it laldy!" etc...

(I presume you are familiar with that phrase, mackem... )

andymackem wrote:Which Smiths would you have as superior to Queen is Dead? As a complete album, rather than a collection of songs?

I rate Strangeways and The Queen Is Dead Equally. I think the only fault with QiD is that "I Know It's Over" and "Never Had One Ever" are sequenced one after another and on the wrong day that can be just a bit too much.

The Bee Gees were in the list, with their Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Ironically, and sadly for them, it was far from their favourite period of their music (they hated it!), even if it was their most commercially successful. They also penned a phenomenal number of hits for other people.

Watched it with my friend's band. Much disagreement was had, stunned over Number One. Ultimately though, I came away from it convinced the Majority of the People have got it wrong again.

Hence why I don't get involved.

Will we ever see a Sisters album in one of these...? No Cure either, or Siouxsie, or Bauhaus, or Nick Cave, or any of their contemporaries...

If you want to see a list with the Sisters and, err, I think the Cure is in too, this might be a better one . It's last years studio brussels album 100

Album 100 (2004)

1 nirvana - nevermind
2 radiohead - ok computer
3 metallica - the black album
4 pearl jam - ten
5 coldplay - a rush of blood to the head
6 red hot chili peppers - californication
7 buckley, jeff - grace
8 moby - play
9 radiohead - the bends
10 nirvana - unplugged in new york
11 deus - in a bar, under the sea
12 u2 - achtung baby
13 rem - automatic for the people
14 deus - worst case scenario
15 smashing pumpkins - mellon collie & the infinite sadness
16 white stripes - elephant
17 deus - the ideal crash
18 gorky - gorky
19 pixies - doolittle
20 red hot chili peppers - blood sugar sex magik
21 smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
22 air - moon safari
23 eels - beautiful freak
24 metallica - master of puppets
25 admiral freebee - admiral freebee
26 tool - aenima
27 live - throwing copper
28 coldplay - parachutes
29 rage against the machine - rage against the machine
30 pink floyd - dark side of the moon
31 novastar - novastar
32 massive attack - mezzanine
33 queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
34 moloko - statues
35 muse - origin of symmetry
36 muse - absolution
37 daft punk - homework
38 pink floyd - the wall
39 tool - lateralus
40 therapy? - troublegum
41 metallica - and justice for all
42 radiohead - kid a
43 waits, tom - closing time
44 u2 - the joshua tree
45 radiohead - hail to the thief
46 pixies - surfer rosa & come on pelgrim
47 offspring - smash
48 bowie, david - the rise & fall of ziggy stardust & the spiders of mars
49 soulwax - much against everyone's advice
50 nirvana - in utero
51 k’s choice - cocoon crash
52 smiths - the queen is dead
53 beatles - the white album
54 red hot chili peppers - by the way
55 rammstein - mutter
56 ozark henry - birthmarks
57 cure - disintegration
58 counting crows - august & everything after
59 massive attack - blue lines
60 sioen - see you naked
61 levellers - levelling the land
62 metallica - st. anger
63 placebo - black market music
64 rem - out of time
65 placebo - without you i'm nothing
66 sex pistols - never mind the bollocks
67 morissette, alanis - jagged little pill
68 st germain - tourist
69 hooverphonic - the magnificent tree
70 2 many dj's - as heard on radio soulwax, pt.2
71 doors - the doors
72 guns n roses - appetite for destruction
73 prince - sign o' the times
74 afghan whigs - gentlemen
75 dj shadow - entroducing
76 young, neil - harvest
77 rem - green
78 velvet underground & nico - velvet underground & nico
79 arid - little things of venom
80 kowlier, flip - ocharme ik
81 lamb - what sound
82 cure - pornography
83 portishead - dummy
84 foo fighters - one by one
85 beatles - sgt pepper's lonely heart club band
86 linkin park - hybrid theory
87 placebo - sleeping with ghosts
88 springsteen, bruce - born to run
89 prodigy - music for the jilted generation
90 sisters of mercy - first & last & always
91 doors - LA woman
92 amos, tori - little earthquakes
93 beastie boys - hello nasty
94 oasis - what's my story morning glory
95 hendrix, jimi - electric ladyland
96 dido - life for rent
97 prince - purple rain
98 reed, lou - berlin
99 rolling stones - exile on main street
100 simple minds - new gold dream

timsinister wrote:Will we ever see a Sisters album in one of these...? No Cure either, or Siouxsie, or Bauhaus, or Nick Cave, or any of their contemporaries...

What do you think?

We can all feel safe in the knowledge that we are superior.

andymackem wrote:Which Smiths would you have as superior to Queen is Dead? As a complete album, rather than a collection of songs?

Not sure now... OK, I take that back

Just noticed (I think I'd fallen asleep by this time) no. 14 Coldplay?

Coldplay?

Coldplay??

Who the **** voted for ****ing Coldplay?

markfiend wrote:Just noticed (I think I'd fallen asleep by this time) no. 14 Coldplay?

Coldplay?

Coldplay??

Who the **** voted for ****ing Coldplay?

I hadn't fallen asleep by then - but they sent me off to the land of nod pretty darned quick (shouting "who the f**k voted for them!)

boudicca wrote:

andymackem wrote: And who could actually vote for Dido? Bland, insipid, tedious. I was relieved to give my copy away to a friend, on condition she took it to Russia and I never had to see or hear it again.

My mum and I both hate her, and we started taking the p*ss... "Ooh, she's really giving it laldy!" etc...

(I presume you are familiar with that phrase, mackem... )

You've lost me there. I only lived in classy parts of Glasgow. Jordanhill for me, dahling. But I'm sure I told you that.

markfiend wrote:Just noticed (I think I'd fallen asleep by this time) no. 14 Coldplay?

Coldplay?

Coldplay??

Who the **** voted for ****ing Coldplay?

One of the most boring bands ever invented...
But I'm glad to see Jeff Buckley and "Grace" on the list!

Rio as a better album than Never Mind The Bollocks... as well?

And how the f*ck did anything by Abba get in? I sometimes despair of humanity.

markfiend wrote:Rio as a better album than Never Mind The Bollocks... as well?

And how the f*ck did anything by Abba get in? I sometimes despair of humanity.

ABBA?

Something just for us swedes

markfiend wrote:It's Channel 4 Television's list of the top 100 albums as voted for by general public listed in order 1-100.

I wouldn't have had DSOTM as Floyd's best; or IV as Led Zep's best, or The Queen Is Dead as the Smiths' best... I could go on.

Couldn't agree more with you there.


Joy Division


And WTF was radiohead even doing in the top 100? Let alone the top??

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz May as well listen to Coldplay.

Good point. How come Closer was down but not Unknown Pleasures? I'm not saying one's better than the other, but surely they both deserve to be in the top 100.

And FFS, Paranoid? Give me Master of Reality every time.

It's angering up my blood now...

It looks like there were only 125 to choose from if I'm reading this right....

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/t ... /1-25.html

'Cos the White Album was in there...

...I've had "Mother Nature's Son" stuck in my head all day.

"Born a poor young country boy,
Mother nature's son,
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone..."

Folk'll think I'm a hippy!

boudicca wrote:Folk'll think I'm a hippy!

and a long haired one at that