My favourite 10 albums (Top 10 Albums)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Top 10 Albums
Date:	03/12/07 (104 review reads)
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Advantages: Could be some obscure stuff you should try >_>

Disadvantages: Too hard to limit it to just 10

After having done plenty of music album reviews and having a lot in my head recently, I've decided I'd write up my top 10. I know people may not agree with the selections or what I say, but nothing new there really is there, we are all people, we all have our own opinions and therefore will disagree, for example I'm not going to go with the celebrated albums that I've never choosen to listen to a la Sargeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band or Blonde on Blonde as I've never really gotten into either The Beatles or Bob Dylan. Also despite liking some of U2's later work I'm not a fan of Joshua Tree, so before people start asking how I missed out their favourites, it's because either I've not heard them, or I'm not a fan.

10.
Feather and Ston by Tom Baxter, an album by a very under-rated artists who's voice really is such a fantastic instrument. An album that show cases a young mans genius and shows that the Jeff Buckley inspiration is still going on strong. Although the album was released on a major label to no real success the music on it is wonderful, lyrically brilliant and vocally sublime. Although some tracks do seem to show a little bit of inexperience in young Baxter which does leave the album with some room for improvement.

9.
Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens, this album has to be on the list just for it's sheer vastness if nothing else. The album does have it's flaws, and sadly their are many of them but despite this I'd like to aknowledge my review of it was overly critical, the album has a good amount of quality songs as well as it's poorer tracks. Too many poor tracks can't detract from what it does do so well, which is show music can byt more lyrical than what we are being fed by the mainstream radio. Far from it just being a lyrical masterpeice the whole album opens up into what can only be described as an eclectic musical mad house for the crazy genius known as Mr. S. Stevens.

8.
Costello Music by The Fratellies, with all the "indie" bands around at the moment almost sounding all the same, and gleamed up far too much to really even sound like the good old "indie" music of the past this band's debut album just seems like a good old fashioned album made for an old fashioned sing song. A band who'se musical is argueably better when your drunk, and is almost made for the drunken atmosphere...and living in Paisley where the boys are from anyway makes me appreciate the music that little bit more.

7.
A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets despite loathing the whole "I'm a cockney geezer" attitude for the fact that Mike is in fact from Birmingham, I must confess the album is a sublime piece of stroy telling brilliance and as far as modern poetry goes is up there with the best of 'em. A concept album that really over shadows the rest of the mainstream concept albums and I'd go as far as to say is one of the greatest albums of any genre since 2000.

6.
Tim Buckley/Hello and Goodbye by Tim Buckley, The double album just emcompasses what early Tim Buckley work was about before the drugs took a hold of him, and before he tried to work his way through genre's he should have tried when not taking substances. A proper folk album with some pop mixed in for good measure and with it being a double album you get 2 for the price of one.

5.
KC Rules OK, by King Creosote, an album I've not actually reviewed for Dooyoo (oddly) and modern indie at it's best and by indie I mean Indie, not this soft rock guitar based stuff NME shove down our throats. The folk based album by Kenny Anderson is sublime in it's deeply cynical lyrics and it's some what dark humour which just goes to show that music can combine cynicism and poetry with folk and scottish tradition just fine. A hugely under-appreciated album.

4.
Greatest hits by Aerosmith this album is one of the few which weren't just a pleasure to review but was just so much fun to write about every second of the album was enjoyable and despite not being the perfect album it was not far away. The only real old school rock album on this list may shock some people but what the hell, every track was brilliant and not many albums in general can have such high praise really, can they? Oh and I know I'm not alone in thinking this is one of the best albums, being not only Aerosmiths best selling album, it's one of only a few to be certified Diamond by the RIAA.

3.
Draw by Matthew Jay takes the coveted 3rd position and yet on any given day the top 3 would be totally interchangeable with each other. An album I must confess to having repeatedly described as bargain of the millenium (yes already, just 7 years in) at an amazing 25p. A folky pop album which seems to have progressed the sounds of Buckley, Drake and Denver into a more now society.

2.
Grace by Jeff Buckley, Some will be very shocked this (in the legacy edition form) doesn't get the #1 spot on my list, but despite it arguably being my most played album ever just doesn't quite deserve the top spot, and I'll tell you why. Despite the vocal magic of Jeff's unassailable talent and his almost natural ability to be able to make anything sound like the world would crumble if he wanted it to, theirs a single huge flaw with the album Corpus Christi Carol. CCC is a track that I loathe, Jeff's performance of it add nothing to the album and actually takes away a little bit of the otherwise gleaming perfection.

1.
Four Leaves Left by Nick Drake is the most poetic of any album I've ever heard and for that reason it takes top spot. People who read my reviews probably know just how much I like the album with Drakes almost angellic vocals over a background of lyrical Picasso like paintings and stories that weave the mind so elequently. If poetry alone was as easy to get into as this album we'd have billions of budding poets on our hands.

Summary: A quick album by album talk of my top 10