[carol m]

As voted by ABC TV audience (not a 'teen' channel):

10 U2 - Joshua Tree
9 Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
8 Red Hot Chile Peppers - Blood,Sugar, Sex, Magic
7 Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
6 Nirvana - Nevermind
5 Beatles - Sgt Pepper
4 Beatles - Abbey Road
3 Radiohead - OK Computer
2 Jeff Buckley - Grace
1 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Where's Bob?? Where's Mick?? Where's Angus?? Where's CSNY??

At least they got a good No 1 (and Hot August Night was nowhere to be seen!)

Who's Jeff Buckley? I must have been hiding in a cupboard - but I've never heard of him.
I thought the countdown was funny- they got from 10-2 with no sign of Dark Side of The Moon and a couple of guests were surprised when it turned up at 1. There was no way that was not going to appear on a top 10 list.

[737blues]

Makes you feel a bit 'Miffed', doesn't it?

[carol m]

Originally Posted by 737blues

Makes you feel a bit 'Miffed', doesn't it?

Or ready to declare 'War' maybe?

[carol m]

Hi Andrew, I'm no expert on Jeff Buckley but he was best known for his cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah which was on this album. Basically he was a good looking guy (many people seem to think so) with a good high pitched voice who drowned in a swimming pool. Like Dikko said, if you exclude the 3 covers on the album there's not much else of interest, and dying mysteriously was his best career move. I listened to this album a few years ago, and found it pretty ordinary. Many people think his version of Hallelujah is the best there is, and it's pretty good - certainly sung 'with feeling', but very different from the original. I was certainly amazed at his No 2 position for an album with really only one good song, and a cover at that. Also especially when you think of all the others that weren't there at all.

[scotty_b]

I can accept DSOTM at number one, as it really is a pretty amazing album. Sgt Pepper's is phenomenal - I would have put that at #1 myself, and The Joshua Tree was a pretty huge album, though if memory serves me correctly Gracelands was the biggest album of that time.
I am surprised that Jeff Buckley, Radiohead and RHCP made it into that group. I wonder what criteria were established to determine how albums would be ranked.
A Dylan album (perhaps 'Bringing it all back Home'?) really should have been there, and some other artists really do deserve to be in that list as well.
I know my favourite albums (A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue) will never make a list like this anyway, and I sometimes wonder what the point of such an exercise is - as it is so subjective. A British guitar magazine recently ran an article on the top 100 players of all time. Where was Tal Farlow, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, John Williams, Steve Morse, Tuck Andress and the like? Nowhere to be found, yet Noel Gallagher made the list?????

[cshude]

I agree- way too subjective. Although a side benefit (I guess) of seeing these lists is that it makes you feel superior to the dolts who voted. Example: Who in the world is Jeff Buckley and how can he have the number 2 album of all time? I think Back in Black by AC/DC should definitely be in there.

[carol m]

Hi Scotty,the albums were ranked by the number of votes submitted by the public, but presumably that is the ABC viewers mainly. Each person could vote up to 10 times (ie their top 10) I personally voted for DSOTM, and a couple of others plus 5 x Dylan's Highway 61 but all to no avail!
I'd forgotten about Gracelands, that was a great album.

PS Hi Chris.....not everyone who voted was a dolt, and yes I did have an AC/DC on my list

[scotty_b]

I guess one upside is that Shannon Noll didn't make it in the top 10.
As a long-time admirer of Midnight Oil I would have liked to see them in there, with it being an Australian list.

Out of curiosity Carol, why would you select Highway 61? The question is not a slight on the album at all, just curious. I like Bringing it all Back Home for it's historical relevance, but I could just as easily vote for Blood on the Tracks or Oh Mercy, as I think both are really strong albums.

[coldethyl]

What, no Guy Sebastian?
Thankfully!

How Nirvana got in there, I'll never know!
Oh well, nevermind!

[Stratrat]

I didn't see "Men at Work" anywhere on that list either!

[cshude]

Nice pun, coldethyl!
Stratrat- ditto on the Men at Work- Business as Usual is pretty awesome.

For the eclectic listener, I would propose Crowded House's debut album (more on the pop side- don't know how "rock" they wanted for the poll).

Also, I would make an argument for Sports from Huey Lewis and the News.

[Matty22]

Originally Posted by scotty_b

I guess one upside is that Shannon Noll didn't make it in the top 10.

Amen to that!!!! I swear if i hear the word, "Idol" one more time im going to loose my mind

[carol m]

It was actually 'Your Favourite Album' not necessarily the 'Best' Album which maybe made a difference. Did you notice that there was only one solo artist, no Australians, no women and no black music of any description - I don't know what that means really except that over recent years it's mostly all Bands except for female (usually American) solo singers which is presumably young female fans.

Scotty: Choosing which Dylan was a tough choice. Blood on the Tracks and Oh Mercy were possibles but I went with the earlier classics because I played them endlessly when a teen-ager, and they were such a revelation at the time for me - in England we were never exposed to any of the American 'Folk' tradition (or even American Country) so Dylan just blew me away -for example when compared to Cliff Richard!
.
It was between Highway 61, Freewheeling or Blond on Blond, and Highway got my vote for Like a Rolling Stone, Ballad of a Thin Man and Desolation Row, but Freewheeling had the great Don't Think Twice, Masters of War, Oxford Town, Bob Dylan's Blues, Hard Rain, Talking WWIII Blues - Hmmm, maybe I should have gone with Freewheeling......Oh well, it made no difference anyway - I got outvoted by the dolts

[scotty_b]

it is difficult isn't Carol - so many good songs/albums from Mr Zimmerman.
I identify with Oh Mercy for the same reasons you like the earlier albums - it appeared at the end of my teenage years when I was an arts/law student who would sit in Manning Bar at Sydney Uni discussing such things as lyrical depth and meaning with other pretentious gits....
I thought that 'Most of the Time' was really well written then, but I did not have the life experience to fully-appreciate the depth in that song...and now that I have experienced that aspect of life, at least I can fully appreciate Bob's song!