Can we do top 10's of the classics?

[Silent Runner]

I've also been thinking about a definitive Wu-Tang/RZA productions list, dipping into all of the essential solo tracks and posse cuts. Now that will be hard.

Please do, I'd love to get into some Wu but there's so much out there I've no idea where to start.

[Rsdio]

That's easy, you start with 36 Chambers

[the_debaser]

Please do, I'd love to get into some Wu but there's so much out there I've no idea where to start.

You've probably heard some of their tracks, like Gravel Pit or Triumph. I'm not even going to attempt a Wu Tang list though as it's just going to be impossible. Good luck, Cal.

Also, get hold of 36 Chambers, it's just about the best thing ever created by anyone ever. Ever.

[Ben]

I'm jealous of anyone experiencing the Wu-Tang for the first time, so much good stuff.

[noizu]

here's a stab at KRAFTWERK

Komettenmelodie II - Autobahn

Radioactivity - Radioactivity

Autobahn - The Mix

Trans Europe Express - The Mix

The Man Machine - The Man Machine

Home Computer - the Mix

Tour de France - single

Neon Lights - The Man Machine

Vitamin - Tour de France Soundtracks

Franz Schubert - Trans Europe Express

(everyone knows The Model already...)

WIRE

French Film Blurred - Chairs Missing

The 15th - 154

Reuters - Pink Flag

Sand In My Joints - Chairs Missing

Advantage In Height - The Ideal Copy

Lowdown - Pink Flag

Come Back In Two Halves - A Bell Is A Cup, Until It Is Struck

Ahead - The Ideal Copy

No Warning Given - Read & Burn 3

On Returning - 154

[Silent Runner]

yeah I have the Bobby Digital and Pretty Tonay albums, they're both excellent, but I somehow missed out on the original We stuff. I'll bag 36 chambers, I think.

[alex_ferguson]

There doesn't appear to be a top 10 for Michael Jackson, so I'm going to try.

1. Billie Jean

2. Beat It

3. Bad

4. Thriller

5. Smooth Criminal

6. Stranger In Moscow

7. Blood on The Dance Floor

8. Black or White

9. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

10. Earth Song

Probably missed a few out but I think that list is more or less okay.

[imp]

here's a stab at KRAFTWERK

Komettenmelodie II - Autobahn

Radioactivity - Radioactivity

Autobahn - The Mix

Trans Europe Express - The Mix

The Man Machine - The Man Machine

Home Computer - the Mix

Tour de France - single

Neon Lights - The Man Machine

Vitamin - Tour de France Soundtracks

Franz Schubert - Trans Europe Express

What's The Mix? Also: needs some Computerworld surely?

[Everything's Gone Green]

I really enjoyed The Mix when it came out (it was the first Kraftwerk record I bought), but it's quite poorly regarded now.

[Rsdio]

WIRE

French Film Blurred - Chairs Missing

The 15th - 154

Reuters - Pink Flag

Sand In My Joints - Chairs Missing

Advantage In Height - The Ideal Copy

Lowdown - Pink Flag

Come Back In Two Halves - A Bell Is A Cup, Until It Is Struck

Ahead - The Ideal Copy

No Warning Given - Read & Burn 3

On Returning - 154

Mine would be pretty different:

Outdoor Miner - Chairs Missing

Reuters - Pink Flag

Map Ref 41 Degrees North, 93 Degrees West - 154

A Question of Degree - Single

Lowdown - Pink Flag

The Agfers of Kodack - Send

The Fifteenth - 154

Marooned - Chairs Missing

Single KO - 154

Practice Makes Perfect - Chairs Missing

[Boozy The Clown]

Wu Tang Clan

1. Da Mystery of Chessboxin'

2. Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin Ta Fuck Wit

3. Protect Ya Neck

4. Wu Tang 7th Chamber Pt 2

5. Re-united

6. Heaterz

7. Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)

8. Uzi (Pinky Ring)

9. Iron Flag

10. C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)

Nothing from the new album cos I ain't heard it yet.

[noizu]

I really enjoyed The Mix when it came out (it was the first Kraftwerk record I bought), but it's quite poorly regarded now.

Yeah some of The Mix sounds horrible and cheesy now, especially the dance beat welded onto Radioactivity....

always liked its versions of Autobahn and Trans-Euro Express though. Plus they're shorter than the originals so it saves anyone new to the stuff listening to 20 minutes of Autobahn first go!

[the_debaser]

Rage Against The Machine

Maria - Battle of LA

Freedom - RATM

Killing in the name - RATM

Year of tha Boomerang - Evil Empire

Bullet in The Head - RATM

Testify - Battle of LA

Bulls on Parade - Evil Empire

How I could just kill a man - Renegades

Know your enemy - RATM

Calm like a bomb - Battle of LA

Nirvana (ignoring Teen Spirit) -

Aneurysm - Incesticide

About a Girl - Bleach

Heart Shaped Box - In Utero

Lithium - Nevermind

All Apologies - In Utero

Oh, me - Unplugged

Drain You - Nevermind

Where did you sleep last night? - Unplugged

Negative Creep - Bleach

Been a son - Incesticide

[johnj]

First person to put all of the top tens on a dvd and mail it round with pretty covers wins.

I shall add a list when I get in tonight !

[SeanR]

no yarr "rom requests" etc!

[Made of Ghosts]

Cease the debate, here's the real Radiohead list.

Street Spirit (The Bends)

Paranoid Android (OK Computer)

Exit Music (For A Film) (OK Computer)

Lucky (OK Computer)

Idioteque (Kid A)

Pyramid Song (Amnesiac)

Life In A Glass House (Amnesiac)

There There (Hail To The Thief)

Reckoner (In Rainbows)

Jigsaw Falling Into Place (In Rainbows)

Also have some Blur, mostly avoiding the big hits, and with nothing from Parklife. (Not because it makes a more interesting list, just because nothing on there is good enough. I wub being controversial.)

For Tomorrow (Modern Life Is Rubbish)

Blue Jeans (Modern Life Is Rubbish)

The Universal (The Great Escape)

Fade Away (The Great Escape)

You're So Great (Blur)

Death of a Party (Blur)

Coffee & TV (13)

Trimm Trabb (13)

On The Way To The Club (Think Tank)

Sweet Song (Think Tank)

Also The Shins. Even though they've only had three albums. Actually, listen to these and there's not much need to buy Wincing The Night Away.

New Slang (Oh Inverted World)

Girl Inform Me (Oh Inverted World)

Kissing The Lipless (Chutes Too Narrow)

Young Pilgrims (Chutes Too Narrow)

Saint Simon (Chutes Too Narrow)

Gone For Good (Chutes Too Narrow)

Sleeping Lessons (Wincing The Night Away)

Australia (Wincing The Night Away)

Phantom Limb (Wincing The Night Away)

Spilt Needles (Wincing The Night Away)

Wilco:

Far Far Away (Being There)

Can't Stand It (Summerteeth)

I'm Always In Love (Summerteeth)

How To Fight Loneliness (Summerteeth)

Summerteeth (Summerteeth)

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

Jesus, Etc (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

Ashes Of American Flags (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

Hummingbird (A Ghost Is Born)

Panthers (A Ghost Is Born bonus disc)

To conclude, an 'alternative' (ish) Pulp list (although I don't think anyone's done them yet):

Mis-Shapes (Different Class)

I Spy (Different Class)

Something Changed (Different Class)

Bar Italia (Different Class)

This Is Hardcore (This Is Hardcore)

TV Movie (This Is Hardcore)

Seductive Barry (This Is Hardcore)

Wickerman (We Love Life)

The Birds In Your Garden (We Love Life)

Sunrise (We Love Life)

[Couch Corpse]

The Beatles

Draft

Penny Lane

Strawberry Fields

Something

Two of Us

A Day in the Life

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Dear Prudence

A Hard Day's Night

Help

Yer Blues

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

Let It Be

Revision 1 And Final

Penny Lane

Two of Us

Something

Strawberry Fields

I Saw her Standing There

A Hard Day's Night

Let It Be

A Day in the Life

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

One of the hardest things I've ever had to do, and it's still wrong.

Justifications on request.

Of course the next fool who tries will have totally different picks, in fact I could do another list equally as good without repeating a song.

[larrydavidsanger]

Melvins

A History of Bad Men

Hooch

Skin Horse

Revolve

Night Goat

Queen

Sweet Willy Rollbar

Creepy Smell

It's Shoved (Spot the rip off by Nirvana)

Youth of America (Cover)

[Made of Ghosts]

Justifications on request.

Request: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey?!?!?!

Anyway, for fun, here's a list of mine that doesn't share any of yours -

Eleanor Rigby

Tomorrow Never Knows

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

For No One

I'm Only Sleeping

Help

Because

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Yesterday

The Long And Winding Road

- and I only had to remove A Day In The Life and Strawberry Fields. And neither of us have Hey Jude.

[Couch Corpse]

Request: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey?!?!?!

Anyway, for fun, here's a list of mine that doesn't share any of yours -

Eleanor Rigby

Tomorrow Never Knows

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

For No One

I'm Only Sleeping

Help

Because

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Yesterday

The Long And Winding Road

- and I only had to remove A Day In The Life and Strawberry Fields. And neither of us have Hey Jude.

It's horrible, it's like having to choose between your kids in a hostage situation, in fact I'd choose some of these songs over my kids if I had any.

Anyway, Me and My Monkey, it's just a kick ass song with a killer base line, it was between this and Yer Blues (and Helter Skelter) as the most ballsy song on the White Album, but I went with this even though Yer Blues is probably better but this is more fun a big fuck off from Lennon about his drug habit.

For No One is one I forgot, it's a lovely song from Paul (he makes it look easy to churn out these melodies) and one that has a strong emotional history for myself. I was thinking of Cry Baby Cry which I would have picked over I'm Only Sleeping, hmmm, maybe. And in fairness I totally forgot about Tomorrow Never Knows, one which I would gladly replace anything in my list for. Like I said, too hard.

[kerraig UK]

hahahaha I cant believe you actually attempted the beatles. I wouldnt even try!

So many of my 'cool' friends think The beatles suck, and to everyone of them I just look at them patronisingly. its so obvious they just havent listened.

[Rsdio]

Or they could just not like them. I certainly wouldn't say they're bad or anything but they've never done much for me and I've listened plenty.

[Jolly]

here's a stab at KRAFTWERK

Komettenmelodie II - Autobahn

Radioactivity - Radioactivity

Autobahn - The Mix

Trans Europe Express - The Mix

The Man Machine - The Man Machine

Home Computer - the Mix

Tour de France - single

Neon Lights - The Man Machine

Vitamin - Tour de France Soundtracks

Franz Schubert - Trans Europe Express

Also have some Blur, mostly avoiding the big hits, and with nothing from Parklife. (Not because it makes a more interesting list, just because nothing on there is good enough. I wub being controversial.)

For Tomorrow (Modern Life Is Rubbish)

Blue Jeans (Modern Life Is Rubbish)

The Universal (The Great Escape)

Fade Away (The Great Escape)

You're So Great (Blur)

Death of a Party (Blur)

Coffee & TV (13)

Trimm Trabb (13)

On The Way To The Club (Think Tank)

Sweet Song (Think Tank)

Amazingness. I was just about to come in and ask for list on those very two bands. Thanks fellas!

(With Blur it's more of a long overdue education for me, rather than a real interest in thier music. I'm from Colchester and my mum was really good friends with Dave Rowntree the drummer when they were at school. I think my mums rather biased madness over them always placed them in the "ignore" pile during my youth, but it's about time I took a look at them as a grown up to see what they were like.

FUN FACT! - Dave Rowntree knitted me a shawl)

[Kelthink]

Nine Inch Nails:

1 - We're In This Together (The Fragile)

2 - Sin (Pretty Hate Machine)

3 - Heresy (The Downward Spiral)

4 - And All That Could Have Been (And All That Could Have Been)

5 - Starfuckers Inc. (The Fragile)

6 - Last (Broken)

7 - 10 Miles High (Things Falling Apart)

8 - Big Man With A Gun (The Downward Spiral)

9 - The Great Below (The Fragile)

10 - Self Destruction, Final (Further Down The Spiral)

Also, I hated the last two albums, so that probably doesn't help.

[Timmo]

On The Way To The Club (Think Tank)

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Also, your lists were 30% gay, soz.

[emjay2kay]

The Beatles

Penny Lane

Two of Us

Something

Strawberry Fields

I Saw her Standing There

A Hard Day's Night

Let It Be

A Day in the Life

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

Eleanor Rigby

Tomorrow Never Knows

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

For No One

I'm Only Sleeping

Help

Because

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Yesterday

The Long And Winding Road

Well... here's another alternative, again not using anything that has gone before.

And Your Bird Can Sing

You Never Give Me Your Money

Lady Madonna

Norwegien Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

I'll Be Back

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology 3 Version)

Blackbird

Fixing a Hole

Rain

Hey Bulldog

I almost posted a list before, but wasn't sure about opening the can of worms. That above is the list I came up with, except I had Strawberry Fields Forever in there instead of Rain. Otherwise the list is the same as what I did yesterday (in my head.)

[imp]

Bjork

Human Behaviour - Debut

Army of Me - Post

Hyper Ballad - Post

Hunter - Homogenic

Joga - Homogenic

Frosti/Aurora* - Vespertine

Where Is The Line - Medulla

Oceania - Medulla

Triumph of a Heart - Medulla

All Is Full Of Love - Greatest Hits

*Frosti is a short (1.30) introduction that flows into Aurora. It's not strictly necessary to enjoy Aurora, but it is very good.

If the list looks a bit Medulla Heavy, substitute Oceania or Where is the line for It's In Our Hands from the Greatest Hits. In fact, it's probably just easier to get the greatest hits, it's a great introduction to Bjork.

[Couch Corpse]

hahahaha I cant believe you actually attempted the beatles. I wouldnt even try!

So many of my 'cool' friends think The beatles suck, and to everyone of them I just look at them patronisingly. its so obvious they just havent listened.

It's actually quite easy, you can't really go wrong.

[imp]

Cocteau Twins

Wax and Wane - Garlands/BBC Sessions

Sugar Hiccup - Head Over Heels/Lullabies to Violane volume 1 (12" Version of the song)

Feather-Oar-Blades - Lullabies/Lullabies to Violane volume 1.

Kookaburra - Aikea-Guinea/Lullabies to Violane volume 1.

Lorelei - Treasure

Aloysius - Treasure

Blue Bell Knoll - Blue Bell Knoll

Cico Bluff - Blue Bell Knoll

Cherry Coloured Funk - Heaven or Las Vegas

Heaven or Las Vegas - Heaven or Las Vegas

This Heat

Horizontal Hold - This Heat/Made Available: Peel Session (this version is a couple of minutes longer)

Twilight Furniture - This Heat

24 Track Loop - This Heat

Rainforest - This Heat

Health and Efficiency - Health and Efficiency

Paper Hats - Deceit

Cenotaph - Deceit

A New Kind of Water - Deceit

Rimp Romp Ramp - Made Available: Peel Sessions

Repeat - Repeat

I know they only had two proper albums, but they're so bloody good, I thought more people should hear their stuff.

[Mr Do 71]

Cocteau Twins

Wax and Wane - Garlands/BBC Sessions

Sugar Hiccup - Head Over Heels/Lullabies to Violane volume 1 (12" Version of the song)

Feather-Oar-Blades - Lullabies/Lullabies to Violane volume 1.

Kookaburra - Aikea-Guinea/Lullabies to Violane volume 1.

Lorelei - Treasure

Aloysius - Treasure

Blue Bell Knoll - Blue Bell Knoll

Cico Bluff - Blue Bell Knoll

Cherry Coloured Funk - Heaven or Las Vegas

Heaven or Las Vegas - Heaven or Las Vegas

The wonderful Cocteau Twins.