Dory top50 #1 albums

[Dory]

Found this whole thing to be very hard - so after thinking about it and listening to so many7 albums again along the way, decided to stretch it into more than just one post on the thread.

[Dory]

Here are the albums that were in the first cut , but didn't make it any further : (though some may have been reprieved later as I have been so indecisive about it all - I can't be bothered double checking )

Alison Moyet Alf
Anastacia Anastacia
Beautiful South Carry On Up The Charts - The Best Of The Beautiful South
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Blondie Parallel Lines
Blur Parklife
Blur Think Tank
Bonnie Tyler Faster Than The Speed Of Night
Bread The Sound Of Bread
Chris Rea The Road To Hell
Culture Club Colour By Numbers
David Bowie Changesbowie
David Bowie Let's Dance
Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits Love Over Gold
Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Eminem The Eminem Show
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Erasure Pop! - The First 20 Hits
Evanescence Fallen
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Frank Sinatra Songs For Swingin' Lovers
Frankie Goes To Hollywood Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Girls Aloud The sound of – Greatest hits
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV
Kate Bush Hounds Of Love
Keane Hopes And Fears
Kids From Fame The Kids From Fame
Kylie Minogue Kylie - The Album
Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin The Song Remains The Same
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane
Meat Loaf Dead Ringer
Michael Jackson Thriller
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
Muse Absolution
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Original Soundtrack High Society (tied for one week)
Original Soundtrack Saturday Night Fever
Original Soundtrack West Side Story
Pet Shop Boys Very
Phil Collins No Jacket Required
Police Synchronicity
Queen Queen's Greatest Hits
Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way
Rick Wakeman Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah
Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simply Red Stars
Take That – Beautiful world
The Killers Hot Fuss
Tom Jones 20 Greatest Hits
Travis The Man Who
U2 War
Yazoo You And Me Both
Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans
Avril Lavigne Let Go
Beach Boys The Very Best Of The Beach Boys
Def Leppard Hysteria
Depeche Mode Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Katie Melua Call Off The Search
Moby 18
Moby Play
Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Right Said Fred Up
Simply Red Life
Stereophonics Performance And Cocktails

[Admin]

Some good stuff there, I'm guessing this was hard for you

[Dory]

yes - I find it almost impossible to rank order music, as so muvh depends on mood, And sometimesit is associations with specific memories, rather than quality that wins through too.

Here are the 'bubblers' just outside the top50 :

Genesis Invisible Touch
London Stage Cast Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

R.E.M. Automatic For The People
Original Soundtrack The Sound Of Music
Tom Jones 20 Greatest Hits
Peter Gabriel So
Genesis Abacab
Robbie Williams Greatest Hits - this decision was hard
Genesis We Can't Dance
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin 3

[Dory]

So now start my countdown. An odd mix of genres in places, but all great albums

50 Elvis Presley Elv1s - 30 Number 1 Hits - hre realy could sing. Though nowadays he'd just be blasted for not writing his own material
49 Annie Lennox Medusa - one or two real standout tracks on here
48 Abba Greatest Hits - lots of classic fun music
47 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells - i love the way he introduced each instrument
46 Alison Moyet Singles - another singer with an incredible voice
45 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here - prefer Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, but they weren't options here
44 Beatles 1 - so many classic songs all in one album
43 Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel - used to listen to this loads when at university
42 U2 War - the early albums are by far their best
41 Duran Duran Seven And The Ragged Tiger - wasn't too keen when my friends were Duranies and I was into heavy metal/progressive rock - now I wish I'd gone along to those concerts with them

[admiral]

Some very good albums in your first 10. Also tons of good ones in your "didn't make the cut" list.

[Dory]

40 Verve Urban Hymns
39 Keane Under The Iron Sea
38 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
37 Coral Magic And Medicine
36 Deep Purple Deepest Purple
35 Madonna The Immaculate Collection
34 Genesis Genesis
33 R.E.M. Out Of Time
32 Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters
31 Muse Black Holes & Revelations

[Dory]

30 Hollies The Hollies' Greatest
29 Original Soundtrack Grease
28 Human League Dare!
27 Will Young Friday's Child
26 Snow Patrol Eyes Open
25 Elton John The Very Best Of Elton John
24 Annie Lennox Diva
23 Travis The Invisible Band
22 Kylie Minogue Fever
21 Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast

[Chris]

Great so far Dory. Still to do mine as it's so difficult, got it down to 80 odd!!

[Dory]

Thanks Chris. I find these very hard, so in the end you just have to go with a rough order. Otherwise I would never be able to complete it.

[Dory]

20 Who Who's Next
19 Genesis Duke
18 Queen Innuendo
17 Eurythmics Greatest Hits
16 Cream Goodbye
15 Marillion Misplaced Childhood
14 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
13 Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning
12 Jethro Tull Stand Up
11 Robbie Williams I've Been Expecting You

[Dory]

It gets harder and harder to put these in order. CHanged my mind again before posting this.


10 Robbie Williams Swing When You're Winning - bought this after seeing the Royal Albert Hall concert on TV, just because there was nothing on the others channels that night...
9 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (Four Symbols) - a favourite for so many years. Stairway to Heaven was played every break for 2 years by a group at my sixth form, and I still love it despite that. When The Levee Breaks has always been a favourite for me too.
8 ABC The Lexicon Of Love - Nostalgia rules
7 Kate Bush The Whole Story - so many classics on here from an amazing songwriter
6 Robbie Williams Escapology - I was feeling very low in 2003. Not having listened to much chart based music for many years, I suddenly decided to rediscover it and bought half the albums in the top ten at the time (and subsequently discovered dotmusic too ). This was the album that got stuck in the CD player. It suited my mood at the time very well.

[Dory]

5 Robbie Williams Intensive Care
4 Yes Going For The One
3 Robbie Williams Rudebox
2 Tears For Fears The Hurting
1 Robbie Williams Life Thru A Lens

Putting the Robbie Williams albums in order is one of those things I just can't do. I missed Greatest Hits out of the top50 altogether due to including all the individual ones -as often it is albums tracks (and B-sides to singles) that I prefer. Though Radio is one of my favourite singles.

I'm almost glad Rush had no #1 albums, as trying to put 18 or so in order would be even tougher.

On the progressive rock front that is my roots -Yes had to feature high. Shame there were no King Crimson #1s.

Tears For Fears was one of the first albums I bought - (Mad World being the first single) and I have always loved it. Oddly enough, I never bought another of their albums until recently when I got a greatest hits.

[Admin]

Didn't know you were a Rush fan, yes that would have made it hard for you Cheers for sharing, I look forward to adding in all the 50 albums to the overall chart, and I'm sure you're looking forward to where they all end up.