Top 5's - a game

I actually loved Piper from the very beginning, I owned it pretty early (I was probably 11 when I got it). I grew up hearing psychedelic music around the house though, so it's in my DNA.

Ah fuck, Rush is a hard one. Hmmmmm

1. S/T
2. Moving Pictures
3. 2112
4. Permanent Waves
5. Grace Under Pressure

Pink Floyd, technically the first one's not an offical album, but it's my favorite Floyd recording so the hell with it

1. Live At Pompeii
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Meddle
4. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
5. Darkside Of The Moon

I'm surprised to see so much love for Piper. Pow R Toch is a fave, is that Waters doing the screeching?

1. Wish You Were Here
2. Meddle
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Piper at The Gates Of Dawn
5. Dark Side Of The Moon

Wow Atom Heart Mother, while I enjoy it from time to time it's a lower tier album for me.

Pink Floyds top 5 for Asshats

1.Wish You Were Here
2.Meddle
3.The Wall (i know too overplayed, but I still love it)
4.Obscured by Clouds
5.Animals

Top 5 Rushes for dumbasses

1.Permanent Waves
2.2112
3.Rush
4.Moving Pictures
5.Hemispheres

This is considering I've never heard a lot of Rush, never been a big Rush fan, these are pretty much the ones I recall hearing and thought were good, haven't heard a lot of there 80s stuff and none of anything from 90s and 2000+ stuff. Hell all I own is own is a greatest hits and only jam that sometimes.

I never heard any of the early Floyd stuff either so my list may be kinda bias.

gershom wrote:

Top 5 Rushes for dumbasses

1.Permanent Waves
2.2112
3.Rush
4.Moving Pictures
5.Hemispheres

This is considering I've never heard a lot of Rush, never been a big Rush fan, these are pretty much the ones I recall hearing and thought were good, haven't heard a lot of there 80s stuff and none of anything from 90s and 2000+ stuff. Hell all I own is own is a greatest hits and only jam that sometimes.

We need to rectify that, I'll pass you all the Rush studio stuff.

Atom Heart Mother was an album I didn't appreciate when I was younger, but that has changed as my musical tastes grew.

Akeldama wrote:

Wow Atom Heart Mother, while I enjoy it from time to time it's a lower tier album for me.

As I started going backwards into their catalog, this is one of those weird ones(also Ummagumma and the early soundtracks) that I really like. They were really taking chances and trying to find their sound in the post-Barrett era! It made for some interesting music. It's almost a forgotten period after the success of Dark Side.

chewie wrote:

Akeldama wrote:

Wow Atom Heart Mother, while I enjoy it from time to time it's a lower tier album for me.

As I started going backwards into their catalog, this is one of those weird ones(also Ummagumma and the early soundtracks) that I really like. They were really taking chances and trying to find their sound in the post-Barrett era! It made for some interesting music. It's almost a forgotten period after the success of Dark Side.

I couldn't agree more, in fact that particular ere, post-Barrett pre-Dark Side Of The Moon is my fave.

Who's next?

Go for it man!

Artist #6: Jethro Tull

1. A Passion Play
2. Stand Up
3. Minstrel In The Gallery
4. Stormwatch
5. Crest Of A Knave

That one was REALLY hard! They have such a strong catalog and different phases.

you're KILLING ME. I need to ponder this one for a little while.

this is damn near impossible for me...

1. Stand Up
2. Minstrel In The Gallery
3. Songs From The Wood
4. Thick As A Brick
5. Aqualung

Jethro Tull

1. The Christmas Album
2. Aqualung
3. Minstrel in the Gallery
4. Thick as a Brick
5. A Passion Play

this was difficult

"The Christmas Album" is excellent, I just got that one last year.

Choosing JT was hard. I think I rotated all but "A Passion Play" in and out of that.........

I love A Passion Play, but it was an album I got a long time after the others, so it's never quite crept into my top 5.

Conversely, an album like War Child that I didn't used to like, I now adore.

1. War Child
2. Stand Up
3. Songs From The Wood
4. Aqualung
5. Thick As A Brick

Shawn D. wrote:

I love A Passion Play, but it was an album I got a long time after the others, so it's never quite crept into my top 5.

Conversely, an album like War Child that I didn't used to like, I now adore.

War Child is cool!!!! That's another that got rotated out...... just barely.

I put Stormwatch in for the "Out In The Country" era(I like all three of those albums, none are weak).


Nightcap is a GREAT comp album as well. It has the original Passion Play/War Child idea(called Chateau D'Isaster Tapes) on one cd and b-sides on the other. Pick it up if you haven't yet!

Led Zeppelin
1. Zoso
2. II
3. I
4. III
5. Houses Of The Holy

Kansas
1. Point Of Know Return
2. Masque
3. Kansas
4. Leftoverture
5. Vinyl Confessions

Black Sabbath
1. Heaven & Hell
2. Mob Rules
3. Master Of Reality
4. Black Sabbath
5. Cross Purposes

Rush
1. Moving Pictures
2. Counterparts
3. 2112
4. Fly By Night
5. Power Windows

Pink Floyd
1. Wish You Were Here
2. Dark Side Of The Moon
3. The Wall (by default)
4.
5.
Don't know enough of the others to rank them

Jethro Tull
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5.
Don't know any other than the song "Aqualung"....