Rank you favourite band/group/artist's best albums and Top 3 tracks on each.

[brooks_thompson]

3.

the purple chick edit of this is much better than the brian wilson version released in 2003.

3. child is the father of the man
2. surf's up
1. heroes and villains

kind of tough to do since it was a concept album, and like their best album 'pet sounds' should really be listened to in its entirety.

2.

this was the last album of new material before 'pet sounds', and it shows. the second side is a collection of 5 gorgeous ballads that finally hinted at brian wilson's true potential as a songwriter.

3. kiss me baby
2. she knows me too well
1. please let me wonder

1. eh, guess my post is too big. it's 'pet sounds'

still the end all be all for songwriting and production in the modern pop era. if you've never heard it, do it, no matter if you only love hip hop/rap or think it's too old.

3. you still believe in me
2. i'm waiting for the day
1. god only knows

[RidonKs]

bump, great thread, let's see that zep write-up pete

[BankShot]

For lack of better adjectives, I consider myself a discerning and emphatic Otis Redding fan.

Surprisingly enough, my current favorite Otis album is his posthumous effort... "The Immortal Otis Redding"

In following the direction of the OP... here are my Top-3 tracks of this album:

The Happy Song ( Dum-Dum-De-De-De-Dum-Dum)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L3UNYC8U5g

What can I say.... one of my all-time-favorite Otis songs. Its me and my lady's song... it jams up and down.

Hard to Handle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZxN9iQM7OY

Sampled and covered by the famous (Black Crows) and your average friday-night-bar-band.... the piano riff at the beginning, especially when the bass/drums join, gets me every time.

.... tough decision for my #3 off this album, so I'll give you two up-beat songs, and a slower, heartfelt jam.

You've Made a Man Out of Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4yZXTuizg

Nobody's Fault But Mine.... please listen to Steve Cropper's rhythm guitar work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwx3hwO9_Z0

Champagne and Wine

Listen to this song.... please... but there are no Otis-original versions of this song available. Only shitty covers.

I'll leave you with another classic, yet underrated, Otis ballad...

Cigarettes and Coffee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0eUE0nBbA8

Its early in the morning.... about a quarter to three....

[BankShot]

[TennesseeFan]

[COLOR="Red"]5. Octahedron[/COLOR]

[COLOR="Red"]3. Teflon
2. Halo of Nembutals
1. Cotopaxi[/COLOR]

[COLOR="Yellow"]4. The Bedlam in Goliath[/COLOR]

5. Wax Simulacra
4. Aberinkula
3. Metatron
2. Goliath
1. Conjugal Burns

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]3. Amputechture[/COLOR]

5. Vermicide
4. Tetragrammaton
3. Meccamputechture
2. Viscera Eyes
1. Day of the Baphomets

[COLOR="Green"]2. De-Loused in the Comatorium[/COLOR]

5. Inertiatic ESP
4. Drunkship of Lanterns
3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
2. Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt
1. Cicatriz ESP

[COLOR="Blue"]1. Frances the Mute[/COLOR]

3. Frances the Mute
2. Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus
1. Cassandra Gemini

[Bigsmoke]

Kendrick Lamar
A.D.H.D.
Keisha Song
vanity slave

Joe Budden
Just to Be Different
clothes of a mannequin
inseperable


my favorite artist is actually Nas but he has too many classics to just pick 3 songs.

[Eat Like A Bosh]

Tupac Amaru Shakur

1. Me Against the World
2. All Eyez on Me
3. 7 Day Theory

1. Pain Featuring Stretch
2. My Block Remix
3. Changes

Eminem

1. The Marshall Mathers LP
2. The Eminem Show
3. The Slim Shady LP

1. Stan Featuring Dido
2. Lose Yourself
3. Till I Collapse Featuring Nate Dogg

Basically exactly what I was thinking!

My third one will be Linkin Park.



Albums:
1. Hybrid Theory
2. Meteora
3. A Thousand Suns

Songs:
1.In the End
2. Numb
3. Runaway or New Divide

[Jan95]

Red Hot Chili Peppers


5. Mothers Milk
3. Nobody Weird Like Me
2. Subway to Venus
1. Higher Ground

4. Stadium Arcadium
3. Strip My Mind
2. Tell me baby
1. Hard to Concentrate

3. Californication
3. Around the World
2. Otherside
1. Californication

2. Blood Sugar Sex Milk
3. The Power of Equality
2. Suck my Kiss
1. Under the Bridge

1. By The Way
3. The Zephyr Song
2. Can`t Stop
1. Don`t forget me

This is completely personal opinion. Most of the people would not agree with this list, but this is the way I like.

[RidonKs]

but this is the way I like

hey man, you gotta like the way you like, otherwise what's to like?

[RaininThrees]

K-Os

1. Atlantis: Hymns For Disco

1.) Valhalla
2.) ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL
3.) The Rain

2. Yes!

1.) The Aviator
2.) 4 3 2 1
3.) Burning Bridges

3. Joyful Rebellion

1.) Crabbuckit
2.) Man I Used To Be
3.) The Love Song

No Exit though?

Love Heaven Only Knows, Superstarr Pt. Zero.

[L.Kizzle]

MICHAEL JACKSON / Jackson 5ive / The JACKSONS


Triumph 1980 The Jacksons
Your Ways
Lovely One
Time Waits For No One


Off The Wall 1979 Michael Jackson
Off The Wall
I Can't Help It
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough


Moving Violation 1975 Jackson 5ive
Moving Violation
Honey Love
You Were Made (Especially For Me)