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Best Album Ever Tournament -The Nominations


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Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Late For The sky - Jackson Browne

The Graceless Age - John Murry

Yonder Is the Clock - The Felice Brothers

Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit

Revolver - Beatles

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

 

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The Beatles - Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Wings - Band On The Run

The Jam - Sound Affects

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life

Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On

Travelling Wilburys - Traveling Wilburys Vol.1

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Very hard to limit to ten. Left some out, safe in the knowledge they’ll be nominated elsewhere. 

 

The White Album (The Beatles)

The Stone Roses (The Stone Roses)

Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)

The Joshua Tree (U2)

Graceland (Paul Simon)

Definitely Maybe (Oasis)

Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits)

Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen)

Tapestry (Carole King)

Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)

 

 

 

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Ziggy Stardust - Bowie

Exit Planet Dust - Chemical Bros

Vertigo - Groove Armada

Appetite for destruction - Guns n Roses

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Grand don’t come for free - Streets

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Squeeze - 45’s and under

Sgt Pepper

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Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Radiohead - Kid A

The Pixies - Doolittle

The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

Jeff Buckley - Grace

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

 

EDIT: removed - OK Computer - Radiohead

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Hunky Dory - David Bowie

 

Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 

 

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

 

Buckingham Nicks - Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks

 

Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield 

 

After the Gold Rush - Neil Young

 

Parallel Lines - Blondie

 

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

 

Actually - Pet Shop Boys

 

Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order

 

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Abraxas, Santana 

Exile on Main St,  Rolling Stones

Abbey Road, The Beatles

Heart Attack and Vine, Tom Waits 

After the Goldrush, Neil Young 

Canned Heats Cookbook, Canned Heat

Into the Music, Van Morrison 

Boz Scaggs and Band, Boz Scaggs

Hoy Hoy, Little Feat. 

Willy and the Poor Boys, CCR. 

Wanted to add a Doobies, some Soul or R&B but that's it off the top of my head. 

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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg

Spike : Elvis Costello

Automatic For The People : REM

Tracy Chapman : Tracy Chapman

Ancient Heart : Tanita Tikaram

Venus and Mars : Wings

Slade in Flame : Slade

#1 Record : Big Star

Punch The Clock : Elvis Costello

Flood; They Might Be Giants

 

 

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Just now, redheart said:

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg

Spike : Elvis Costello

Automatic For The People : REM

Tracy Chapman : Tracy Chapman

Ancient Heart : Tanita Tikaram

Imperial Bedroom : Elvis Costello

Back in Black : ACDC

Venus and Mars : Wings

Slade in Flame : Slade

Rubber Soul : The Beatles

#1 Record : Big Star

Bat out Of Hell : Meat Loaf

Punch The Clock : Elvis Costello

Flood; They Might Be Giants

Workers Playtime : Billy Bragg

 

You need to narrow it down to 10. 

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3 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Hoy Hoy would be a compilation but I will back you up on any of the studio records up to Time Loves a Hero.

I reckon their first two albums are pretty lame, really went up a few gears when they sorted the line up prior to Dixie Chicken.

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Talking Heads: Remain in Light.

Neil Young: After the Goldrush.

Kate Bush: Hounds of Love.

XTC: Black Sea.

The The: Mind Bomb.

The Handsome Family: Singing Bones.

Bonnie Prince Billy: I See a Darkness.

David Bowie: Hunky Dory.

Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen.

Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen.

 

 

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Picked 10 that might get overlooked:

 

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Oxygene - Jean-Michel Jarre

Moon Safari - Air

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

El Camino - The Black Keys

The College Dropout - Kanye West

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Sign O' The Times - Prince

Divenire - Ludovico Einaudi

You've Come A Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim

 

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