It's RHCP, I know it is.

 

that's already been listed.

Oh yeah. duh. haha I voted for it too :lol:

And the Oscar goes to... lol

9. Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

 

Year: 1994

RateYourMusic status: 4.19 (1994: #4 / all-time: #196)

 

6613 points

18 votes

highest rank: #1 - stel-la, #1 - __therese, #4 - busybeeburns, #4 - yellowish, #4 - Zavosh, #6 - Lera, #7 - lunar1126

 

Grace is the first and only complete studio album by Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994 (see 1994 in music). The album is named after the title track, "Grace," co-written by Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas. While the album initially had poor sales, only peaking at #149 in the US, it received wide critical acclaim. Since Buckley's death in 1997, the album appears to gain more fans each year and has now sold over 2 million copies worldwide. An extended version of the album was released in 2004, subtitled Legacy Edition, which peaked at #44 in the UK. It celebrates the album's tenth anniversary.

 

Several popular rock musicians, including Thom Yorke of Radiohead and Matthew Bellamy of Muse, listed Jeff Buckley among their influences, while the album has been hailed by veteran artists Neil Peart of Rush, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan.

 

Jeff Buckley was many things' date=' but humble wasn't one of them. Grace is an audacious debut album, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. And that's a fair starting point for his music: Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz. At his best -- the soaring title track, "Last Goodbye," and the mournful "Lover, You Should've Come Over" -- Buckley's grasp met his reach with startling results; at its worst, Grace is merely promising.[/quote']

 

The Highlight

 

"Last Goodbye"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8PMRrYdQPj8

Grace is a great album indeed. congrats! well deserved!

w00t w00t

and the winner of the ninth place is Jeff Buckley???

oh well,i want more i want it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NIIIIIIk,you must end till champion league

Halleljuah :wacko:

wehee

Now where's my candy? :cheesy: lol

 

So I smell X&Y...

I need to go soon :uhoh: really want to see the top 8

oh this just keeps getting better, agaetis byrjun exempted :P

 

what a tragedy though. theres something about killing talented young male american musicians in the most tragic accidents, jim morrison, hendrix, jeff buckley. gah it sucks :(

I dont know how long can i stay,but not so long so hurry up

oh this just keeps getting better, agaetis byrjun exempted :P

 

what a tragedy though. theres something about killing talented young male american musicians in the most tragic accidents, jim morrison, hendrix, jeff buckley. gah it sucks :(

 

Elliott Smith :cry: :cry:

8. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

 

 

Year: 1995

RateYourMusic status: 3.90 (1994: #42 / all-time: #1509)

 

6618 points

19 votes

highest rank: #2 - noreign, #2 - tilkingdomcome, #4 - Areej, #8 - winnie

 

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis' date=' released in October 1995. The album went straight to #1 in the UK, selling 347,000 in its first week. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were #1s. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, including over 4.3 million copies in the UK, 14x platinum, and is currently the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history.[1'] In addition, Morning Glory has gone 4x platinum in the United States. [2]

 

The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band's two most famous songs, "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger", along with "Champagne Supernova" and their first UK #1 single, "Some Might Say".

 

Despite often being cited as inferior to Oasis' debut album by critics, in 1997 Morning Glory was named the 5th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

 

If Definitely Maybe was an unintentional concept album about wanting to be a rock & roll star' date=' (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is what happens after the dreams come true. Oasis turns in a relatively introspective second record, filled with big, gorgeous ballads instead of ripping rockers. Unlike Definitely Maybe, the production on Morning Glory is varied enough to handle the range in emotions; instead of drowning everything with amplifiers turned up to 12, there are strings, keyboards, and harmonicas. This expanded production helps give Noel Gallagher's sweeping melodies an emotional resonance that he occasionally can't convey lyrically. However, that is far from a fatal flaw; Gallagher's lyrics work best in fragments, where the images catch in your mind and grow, thanks to the music. Gallagher may be guilty of some borrowing, or even plagiarism, but he uses the familiar riffs as building blocks. This is where his genius lies: He's a thief and doesn't have many original thoughts, but as a pop/rock melodicist he's pretty much without peer. Likewise, as musicians, Oasis are hardly innovators, yet they have a majestic grandeur in their sound that makes ballads like "Wonderwall" or rockers like "Some Might Say" positively transcendent. Alan White does add authority to the rhythm section, but the most noticeable change is in Liam Gallagher. His voice sneered throughout Definitely Maybe, but on Morning Glory his singing has become more textured and skillful. He gives the lyric in the raging title track a hint of regret, is sympathetic on "Wonderwall," defiant on "Some Might Say," and humorous on "She's Electric," a bawdy rewrite of "Digsy's Diner." It might not have the immediate impact of Definitely Maybe, but Morning Glory is just as exciting and compulsively listenable.[/quote']

 

The Highlight

 

"Don't Look Back In Anger"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D-ysg62GmFo

:dozey: no comments about that one...

Not bad at all! Go Oasis!

Great album.

great album,but im not sure if the 8th best

:bomb:

1-7 are 3 Coldplay and 4 Radiohead.

 

7: X&Y

6: Hail to the Thief

5: Parachutes

4: Kid A

3: The Bends

2: OK Computer

1: AROBTTH

 

^my predictions

good, but Kid A will beat The Bends maybe. Hopefully

:\ um, ok. let's just move on to #7 shall we :uhoh: lol

oh lol no way for httt

7. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

 

 

Year: 2003

RateYourMusic status: 3.87 (2003: #62 / all-time: #2558)

 

7545 points

20 votes

highest rank: #2 - Areej, #2 - Rad-Cold, #3 - anna111, #4 - Gitta Rensolo, #5 - njshaw, #5 - yellowish

 

Hail to the Thief (subtitled "The Gloaming") is the sixth studio album by English rock band Radiohead, released on June 9, 2003 in the United Kingdom and June 10 in the United States. It debuted at number one in the U.K. and at number three in the United States. As of January 2007, Hail to the Thief has sold 932,000 units in the U.S.

 

After two Radiohead albums that featured heavily processed vocals, less guitar, and strong influence from experimental electronics and jazz, Hail to the Thief was seen as a return to alternative rock, drawing its sound from every era of the band's existence. Preceded by the single "There There", the album reached number one on the U.K. charts, and met with modest but worldwide commercial success. It also received mixed but mostly positive notices from critics.

 

Radiohead's admittedly assumed dilemma: how to push things forward using just the right amounts of the old and the older in order to please both sides of the divide? Taking advantage of their longest running time to date' date=' enough space is provided to quench the thirsts of resolute Bends devotees without losing the adventurous drive or experimentation that eventually got the group into hot water with many of those same listeners. Guitars churn and chime and sound like guitars more often than not; drums are more likely to be played by a human; and discernible verses are more frequently trailed by discernible choruses. So, whether or not the group is to be considered "back," there is a certain return to relatively traditional songcraft. Had the opening "2 + 2 = 5" and "Sit Down. Stand Up." been made two years before, each song's slowly swelling intensity would have plateaued a couple minutes in, functioning as mood pieces without any release; instead, each boils over into its own cathartic tantrum. The spook-filled "Sail to the Moon," one of several songs featuring prominent piano, rivals "Street Spirit" and hovers compellingly without much sense of force carrying it along. Somewhat ironically, minus a handful of the more conventionally structured songs, the album would be almost as fractured, remote, and challenging as Amnesiac. "Backdrifts" and "The Gloaming" feature nervous electronic backdrops, while the emaciated "We Suck Young Blood" is a laggard processional that, save for one outburst, shuffles along uneasily. At nearly an hour in length, this album doesn't unleash the terse blow delivered by its two predecessors. However, despite the fact that it seems more like a bunch of songs on a disc rather than a singular body, its impact is substantial. Regardless of all the debates surrounding the group, Radiohead have entered a second decade of record-making with a surplus of momentum.[/quote']

 

The Highlight

 

"There There"

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h_eBqlFpnNY