My taste in music has changed drastically over the past month or so. Radiohead and The Doors used to be my two favorite bands, and now I wouldn't put any of their albums in my top 10. Same with Jeff Buckley and Cat Power. I've just gotten into so much better stuff. It's most likely because my focus on cinema as my favorite art form has shifted to music. But here's my list:

1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
4. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
5. Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
6. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
7. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
8. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
9. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
10. Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting it On

It'll change again in a month or two.

I think these are mine; very rough, with little thought, and absolutely no order:

"Endtroducing" by DJ Shadow
"Mysteries of Funk" by Grooverider
"Desire" by Bob Dylan
"Melody AM" by Röyksopp
"Dig Your Own Hole" by The Chemical Brothers
"Veneer" by José González
"Like Hearts Swelling" by Polmo Polpo
"The Science of Breath" by Polmo Polpo
"Play" by Moby
"John Wesley Harding" by Bob Dylan

Constantly changing, it seems. I suppose that's a good thing.

"Kid A" by Radiohead
"OK Computer" by Radiohead
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
"( )" by Sigur Rós
"Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd
"Waiter: "You Vultures!" " by Portugal the Man
"Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"Funeral" by Arcade Fire
"The Velvet Underground & Nico" by The Velvet Underground
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel

I'd be interested to hear why Another Side of Bob Dylan is your favorite Dylan album, I've always felt it has some outstanding songs but at the same time Dylan hadn't yet completed his transition from writing topical songs, although "Chimes of Freedom" has some outstanding lyrics.

It's good to see someone who rates "Remain in Light" as highly as I do.

I also find Capo's list rather appealing, "Endtroducing" is a great album, and I love seeing the utterly underrated "John Wesley Harding" on your list.

As for my own list, although I don't really have one, for the benefit of the thread I'll post the ten albums I most enjoy at the moment:

"Blonde on Blonde" - Bob Dylan
"Another Green World" - Brian Eno
"Remain in Light" - Talking Heads
"Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society" - The Kinks
"Doolittle" - The Pixies
"Lust for Life" - Iggy Pop
"Low" - David Bowie
"Music from Big Pink" - The Band
"Zombie" - Fela Kuti and Afrika 70
"Bringing it All Back Home" - Bob Dylan
"Trans-Europe Express" - Kraftwerk

Holy crap that's a great list. Good call on Another Green World.

I enjoy Another Side of Bob Dylan more than his others because it encompasses so many different things, from humor to heartache. All of Dylan's characteristics just come together so perfectly in the album; charming, funny, melodic, and romantic.

As for Remain in Light, that album is just plain ADDICTING. I can't think of a better way to open an album than with Born Under Punches, and I love how Byrne just starts the whole thing off by yelling, "AH!"

i bet none of you guys have heard of any of these ..
1.Arsonists--as the world burns
2.Mf Doom---Madvillany
3.Cage---Movies for the blind
4.One.Be.lo---S.O.N.A.G.R.A.M
5.Louis Logic---Misery loves comedy
6.Cage---Hellz winter
7.Apathy---Eastern Philosophy
8.Mf Doom---Viktor Vaughn Vauderville villain
9.Binary Star---self titled
10.Freestyle---Etched in stone

1)Beatles-Revolver
2)Beatles-Rubber Soul
3)Beatles-Abbey Road
4)Oasis-Defintley Maybe
5)Oasis-What the story
6)Elvis-Evlis at sun records
7)Michael Jackson-Dangerous
8)Coldplay-X and Y
9)Beatles-White Album
10)Elvis-Elvis Presley

I gave Another Side a listen the other day, it really has some outstanding songs. What weakens it for me are the sloppy performances (he recorded the album during an all-night alcohol binge, perhaps not the best choice). I've found that most of the songs on the album improved tremendously in live performaces.

Do you have any Talking Heads albums other than Remain in Light?

Yeah, Fear of Music, which isn't nearly as good, but still a great album nonetheless.

I'd like to hear "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" next.

haven't posted for ages but heres mine, not in any particular order and totally off the top of me head:

dj shadow - endtroducing
daft punk - homework
bjork - homogenic
bob dylan - blood on the tracks
radiohead - ok computer
flaming lips - soft bulletin
interpol - turn on the bright lights
velvet underground - & nico
pixies - surfer rosa
public enemy - it takes a nation of millions...
the strokes - is this it

Excellent list, mattress. I love me some Pixies.

yeah, to be honest i could have listed any of their albums. all great.

Very true... But Surfer Rosa and Doolittle probably contain some of their best material.

See, this is why I can never get myself to rank a sturdy "top ten" list for music. I always list the two or three albums that I contain an unconditional love for, and then whatever else I'm listening to at the time. Right now, I see a geaping hole in my list that needs some Pixies, Nirvana, Sonic Youth... Ten spots just isn't enough.

Not Ranked:

1. Songs for Swingin' Lovers (1956/Frank Sinatra)
2. Frank Sinatra sings for Only the Lonely (1958/Frank Sinatra)
3. In the Wee Small Hours (1955/Frank Sinatra)
4. Kind of Blue (1959/Miles Davis)
5. Ella Fitzgerald sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957/Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington)
6. The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975/Tony Bennett & Bill Evans)
7. The Wall (1979/Pink Floyd)
8. Highway 61 Revisited (1965/Bob Dylan)
9. The Concert Sinatra (1963/Frank Sinatra)
10. Let it Bleed (1969/Rolling Stones)

yeah. every list needs the pixies

still good list you've got there. was listening to 'funeral' by the arcade fire earlier. still great. looking forward to the second album in march

I downloaded a pirated copy. It's not as good as Funeral, but still very cool. It has sort of a 1980s new-wave feel to it; more so than the last album. It actually reminds me of Echo and the Bunny Men a little.

Some things change from time to time.

In Utero (Nirvana)
Dirt (Alice in Chains)
The Moon and Antarctica (Modest Mouse)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
What's Goin' On (Marvin Gaye)
Evil Empire (Rage Against the Machine)
Desire (Bob Dylan)
Rain Dogs (Tom Waits)
Axis: Bold As Love (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

These lists are impossible to keep constant. Time to update again.

In chronological order:

"The Velvet Underground & Nico" - The Velvet Underground (1967)
"Maggot Brain" - Funkadelic (1971)
"Meddle" - Pink Floyd (1971)
"Double Nickels on the Dime" - Minutemen (1984)
"Energy" - Operation Ivy (1989)
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)
"40 oz. to Freedom" - Sublime (1992)
"OK Computer" - Radiohead (1997)
"Kid A" - Radiohead (2000)
"( )" - Sigur Rós (2002)

"10 albums and not an Italian in the bunch of them! C'mon , boomba, boomba, boomba, boomba...la da di da di da dee deetle dee deetle dee deet."

Fuck yeah!

I didn't think you'd take to Double Nickels so quickly. That's so cool.

Here's my updated list

1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Brian Eno - Another Green World
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road
5. The Stooges - Fun House
6. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
7. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
8. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
9. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
10. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen

not really in order, for me its hard to determine what makes something better than another but those are the best 10 albums ive heard (illmatic is #1 though)

illmatic - nas
blonde on blonde - bob dylan
all eyez on me - tupac shakur
get lifted - john legend
sgt. pepper - the beatles
shaved fish - john lennon
ultimate collection - the temptations
lost tapes - nas
thriller - michael jackson
highway 61 revisited - bob dylan