The Greatest* Albums Of All Time - a DiS listening club! 💿 CURRENT ALBUM: ERYKAH BADU - BADUIZM 💿

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Following this post and this thread, I’m committing myself to listening to the combined list of Consequence of Sound and Rolling Stone’s top 100 albums of all time! Fancy joining me?

*The full list is here:

Summary

Publication	Rank	Artist	Title	Duplicate
Consequence	100	Jane’s Addiction	Nothing’s Shocking
Consequence	99	Kamasi Washington	Heaven and Earth
Rolling Stone	99	Taylor Swift	Red
Rolling Stone	98	Lucinda Williams	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road	y
Consequence	97	Fugazi	Repeater
Rolling Stone	96	R.E.M.	Automatic for the People
Rolling Stone	95	Drake	Take Care
Consequence	95	System of a Down	Toxicity
Rolling Stone	94	The Stooges	Fun House
Consequence	94	Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Consequence	93	TLC	CrazySexyCool
Rolling Stone	92	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Axis: Bold as Love
Consequence	92	The Replacements	Let It Be
Rolling Stone	91	Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town
Consequence	91	The Who	Who’s Next?	y
Consequence	89	Green Day	Dookie
Consequence	88	Alice Coltrane	Journey in Satchidananda
Rolling Stone	87	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew
Consequence	87	Slayer	Reign in Blood
Consequence	86	Pearl Jam	Ten
Rolling Stone	86	The Doors	The Doors
Rolling Stone	85	John Lennon	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Consequence	85	Tupac	All Eyez on Me
Consequence	84	Smashing Pumpkins	Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Rolling Stone	83	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis
Consequence	83	Pretenders	Pretenders
Consequence	82	Peter Gabriel	So
Consequence	81	Adele	21
Rolling Stone	81	Beyoncé	Beyoncé
Consequence	80	Erykah Badu	Baduizm	y
Rolling Stone	80	Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Rolling Stone	79	Frank Ocean	Blonde
Consequence	79	The Police	Synchronicity
Consequence	78	Billy Joel	The Stranger
Rolling Stone	78	Elvis Presley	The Sun Sessions
Consequence	77	JAY-Z	The Black Album
Rolling Stone	76	Curtis Mayfield	Super Fly
Consequence	76	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead
Rolling Stone	75	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul
Consequence	75	Janelle Monáe	Dirty Computer
Rolling Stone	74	Kanye West	The College Dropout
Consequence	73	Parliament	The Mothership Connection
Consequence	72	My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	y
Rolling Stone	72	Neil Young	Harvest
Rolling Stone	71	Beyonce	Renaissance
Consequence	71	U2	The Joshua Tree
Rolling Stone	70	N.W.A	Straight Outta Compton	y
Consequence	70	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation
Rolling Stone	69	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	y
Consequence	69	Beastie Boys	Paul’s Boutique
Consequence	68	Frank Ocean	Channel Orange
Consequence	67	Radiohead	In Rainbows
Rolling Stone	66	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme
Consequence	66	Madonna	Like a Prayer
Rolling Stone	65	James Brown	Live at the Apollo
Consequence	65	Leonard Cohen	Songs of Leonard Cohen
Consequence	64	The Cure	Disintegration
Rolling Stone	63	Steely Dan	Aja
Consequence	63	Tom Waits	Rain Dogs
Consequence	62	Madvillain	Madvillainy
Rolling Stone	61	Eric B. & Rakim	Paid in Full
Rolling Stone	59	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book
Consequence	58	Nina Simone	I Put a Spell on You
Consequence	57	The Band	Music from Big Pink	y
Rolling Stone	57	The Band	The Band
Consequence	56	David Bowie	Hunky Dory	y
Rolling Stone	56	Liz Phair	Exile in Guyville
Consequence	55	Sly and the Family Stone	There’s a Riot Goin’ On	y
Rolling Stone	54	James Brown	Star Time
Consequence	54	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures
Consequence	53	Dr. Dre	2001
Rolling Stone	53	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland
Rolling Stone	52	David Bowie	Station to Station
Consequence	52	The Strokes	Is This It
Rolling Stone	51	Chuck Berry	The Great Twenty-Eight
Consequence	51	Johnny Cash	Live at Folsom Prison
Consequence	50	Iggy & The Stooges	Raw Power
Rolling Stone	50	Jay-Z	The Blueprint
Consequence	49	Guns N’ Roses	Appetite for Destruction	y
Rolling Stone	49	Outkast	Aquemini
Rolling Stone	48	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Exodus
Rolling Stone	47	Ramones	Ramones
Consequence	47	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	y
Consequence	46	Nine Inch Nails	The Downward Spiral
Consequence	45	Lady Gaga	The Fame Monster
Rolling Stone	45	Prince	Sign o’ the Times
Rolling Stone	44	Nas	Illmatic	y
Rolling Stone	43	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory	y
Consequence	42	AC/DC	Back in Black	y
Consequence	41	JAY-Z	Reasonable Doubt	y
Consequence	40	Pixies	Doolittle
Consequence	39	Taylor Swift	1989
Consequence	38	Paul Simon	Graceland	y
Rolling Stone	37	Dr. Dre	The Chronic
Consequence	37	OutKast	Stankonia	y
Consequence	36	Fiona Apple	The Idler Wheel Is Wiser
Rolling Stone	36	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
Consequence	35	Neil Young	After the Goldrush	y
Rolling Stone	35	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
Rolling Stone	34	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions
Rolling Stone	33	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black	y
Consequence	33	Rage Against the Machine	Rage Against the Machine
Consequence	31	Metallica	Master of Puppets	y
Rolling Stone	31	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	y
Rolling Stone	30	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced
Consequence	29	Pink Floyd	Dark Side of the Moon	y
Rolling Stone	29	The Beatles	The Beatles	y
Rolling Stone	28	D’Angelo	Voodoo
Consequence	28	Missy Elliott	Supa Dupa Fly	y
Rolling Stone	27	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	y
Consequence	26	The Ramones	Ramones
Rolling Stone	25	Carole King	Tapestry
Consequence	24	Black Sabbath	Paranoid
Consequence	23	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	y
Rolling Stone	22	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die
Consequence	21	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	y
Consequence	20	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love	y
Rolling Stone	20	Radiohead	Kid A
Consequence	19	Talking Heads	Remain in Light	y
Consequence	18	Beyoncé	Lemonade	y
Rolling Stone	18	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	y
Rolling Stone	17	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	y
Consequence	17	Patti Smith	Horses	y
Consequence	16	Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	Born to Run	y
Consequence	15	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars	y
Rolling Stone	15	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	y
Consequence	14	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	y
Rolling Stone	14	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main St.	y
Rolling Stone	13	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Consequence	13	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground & Nico	y
Consequence	12	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	y
Rolling Stone	12	Michael Jackson	Thriller	y
Rolling Stone	11	The Beatles	Revolver
Rolling Stone	10	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	y
Rolling Stone	9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks	y
Consequence	8	Radiohead	OK Computer	y
Consequence	7	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	y
Rolling Stone	6	Nirvana	Nevermind	y
Rolling Stone	4	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life	y
Consequence	4	The Clash	London Calling	y
Rolling Stone	3	Joni Mitchell	Blue	y
Consequence	3	The Beatles	Abbey Road	y
Consequence	2	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	y
Rolling Stone	2	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	y
Rolling Stone	1	Marvin Gaye	What’s Going On	y
Consequence	1	Prince & The Revolution	Purple Rain	y

I’ve not run a listening club before but I’d suggest

• we start this as a weekly thing and then see how things go
• chat / discussion / ratings etc encouraged

I hope you enjoy this, and I am relying on you for motivation to help me keep this going!

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So first up we have:

JANE’S ADDICTION - NOTHING’S SHOCKING

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Consequence of Sound review

With 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction helped lay the foundation for what would eventually become the alternative rock revolution of the ‘90s. Equal parts heavy and ethereal, it’s fitting that the album contains song titles like “Up the Beach” and “Ocean Size,” as the tracks play like waves crashing into the sea. Perry Farrell’s celestial voice, along with the dynamic playing of guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins, makes Nothing’s Shocking a truly unique album.

Combining the power of Led Zeppelin with the art-rock of The Velvet Underground on tracks like the explosive “Mountain Song” with its magnificent bass line, or the acoustic “Jane’s Says” with its heart-wrenching lyrics, Nothing’s Shocking represents a defining moment in what was soon to be a seismic shift in rock music. — Spencer Kaufman

I don’t think I’ve ever deliberately listened to a note of music by Jane’s Addiction. I’ll give it a listen later but feel free to dive in before me

[SunnyB]

In. So remember checking out some Jane a few years ago and liking it, but it didn’t get it’s hooks in deep enough to draw me back. Do love Jane Says though.

[TKC]

I’ll join in I think but only on some albums. Ain’t no chance I’m having Spotify show Remain in Light being played!

Nothing Shocking’s a good start

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@TKC

Ain’t no chance I’m having Spotify show Remain in Light being played!

Lots of full albums on YouTube!

I’m going to try to listen to everything on the list - we’ll see how it goes…

[drastic_measures]

Nothing’s Shocking? Clearly haven’t heard their own album!

(Not listened to it)

[Petagno]

I have listened to this album A LOT in the past but not particularly recently. Gonna go with my vibes review before re-listening…

Was obsessed with Jane’s Addiction when I was a kid. Initially got into them via the follow up Ritual De Lo Habitual after Been Caught Stealing got some serious rotation on fledgling MTV Europe. They were probably the first genuinely ‘alternative’ band I was aware of, as opposed to a lot of the more metal stuff I had been into up to that point. Felt like they had the world at their feet at that point. So, of course, they immediately split up. Fortunately Nirvana came along at just the right time.

To help get over their absence, I consoled myself but making my way through their meagre back catalogue. It’s hard to pick a favourite between Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual as, despite both being uniquely Jane’s Addiction, they are both very much their own thing. While Ritual contains some fully out there space rock on its second side, the most experimental they ever got, NS offers a wider platter - something for everyone.

Largely instrumental Up The Beach sets the tone with some slow build rock grind, before Ocean Size showcases their trademark sound; everything works perfectly in tandem - Perry’s weird squark of a voice and Dave Navarro’s skyscraper guitar, but also the lesser sung heroes of Stephen Perkin’s muscular percussion and Eric Avery’s hypnotic bass. After a fairly pummelling opening duo, we are then into some forays into whimsy with Had A Dad and Standing In The Shower…Thinking. They’ve always had the knack of not getting too po-faced about stuff. Centre-piece Summertime Rolls washes over you in a delightful six minutes of psychedelia before we get heavy with Mountain Song. Trivia fans - this was an existing song which they’d recorded for punk western film Dudes that featured Flea from RHCP in its cast. And guess who turns up on the next track Idiots Rule playing trumpet? It’s only Flea from RHCP isn’t it! Jane Says is obviously their signature song, and it is more loveliness along the lines of Summertime Rolls but with an even more mellow vibe and some charming steel drums. There’s then 60 seconds of oddity with lounge moment Thank You Boys because, well, why not. Album closer Pigs In Zen is a live favourite which always sees Perry ad-libbing the central spoken word section. Seen them do it a bunch of times, but I do love the album version - “I’m in the midst of a traaaaaaauma.”

So yeah, love this album. Not sure exactly where it would feature in my own personal top 100 but can guarantee it would be near-ish the top. It’s a 9/10 for me…

Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song (Official Video)

[andyvine]

only ever heard Been Caught Stealing and Just Because as far as im aware, so this’ll be interesting

[Caedus]

Love it. Used to be a purely Ritual man as it was the one i was into back then. I have grown to love Nothing Shocking though. Production dates it a bit but there are some choons for sure. More glam i guess.

Sorry this is a quick post

[Kallgeese]

Know this album inside out but will give it a listen this afternoon anyway.

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[Tuna]

in

[Marwood]

I’m in. Will give the first album a list and report back.

[TeaRex]

Being in a metal band and hearing this album on release must have been like having made Flash Gordon, and watching Star Wars.

Just blew the windows out of metal. Had groove, swagger, genuine unease, darkness, sexiness, light. Couldn’t believe what I was hearing, and I’d heard Pigs in Zen on the…‘scream’(?) Compilation, so I knew they were doing something alien and special already. Absolute game-changer 10/0 work of brilliance.

Nothing else they did comes close for me.

[Kallgeese]

Christ I’ve copped so many moves from Eric Avery’s bass playing on this record and Ritual…. What a PLAYER.

Amazing how an album fronted by a man as unbearable as Perry Farrell can be this good. ‘Ted, Just Admit It…’ is excellent. ‘Standing In The Shower, Thinking’ is maybe the only misstep and even then it’s a laugh.

Don’t think it’s one of the best one hundred albums ever but it’s a really good record with some great playing on it and sometimes that’s what you need.

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[Tuna]

never listened before - it’s alright

yer man’s vocals aren’t my bag really but musically there’s some fun stuff going on. probably would have been more into this if I’d listened as a teenager, riffs and that

[robluvsnic]

Oof! This is one hell of a commitment ccb. You’re looking at a good 18 months!

I’ll enjoy dipping in and out. Nothing’s Shocking is a great album to start. I’ll have another listen after the weekend and come back with comments, rating, chat.

[Ombudsman]

Great thread idea! And also good for me it’s started with a band I’ve never bothered listening to.

Initial thoughts: not as bad as I’d always presumed based on 1. funk rock and 2. Dave Navarro’s trousers

[JaguarPirate]

I be in

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@Ombudsman

1. funk rock and 2. Dave Navarro’s trousers

Oh boy, I’m going to hate this album

[sycamore]

my advice would be to give yourself to Perry Farrell’s vibes

don’t really know anything about him beyond Jane’s, but there’s a unique arty hippyish (in a good way imo) vibe he has that is the emotional core of the music

like, a sort of childlike sweetness mixed with a radical post-US punk thing (I always felt like he was railing against traditional rock machismo, in a way - he certainly felt like he existed in contrast to it)

also as @Kallgeese says, Eric Avery’s basslines are godly; they’re of a post-punk lineage, which I reckon is a good hook for DiSers

as for Dave’s guitar, I tend to think of it like it’s graffiti over the walls of the rhythm section. or like… waves