My top 20 albums of all time

this video is sponsored by the piano learning app scoove for a slightly more self-indulgent video today i want to talk you through my top 20 albums of all time but i have set a slight rule of this which is only one album per artist because otherwise half the list is literally going to be radiohead and the beatles and as much fun as that would be i'd like to get a bit more variety in there so let's start off with number 20 which [Music] is when you died there's a few different tuffy and steven albums i could have chosen for this but carrie and louelle is just a set of beautiful folk ballads with an amazing atmosphere and very heart-wrenching lyrics and it's just an all-round amazing piece of music [Music] number 19 is a slightly unusual album it's brian eno's reflection [Music] i've always found briony knows ambient music to be the perfect music for concentration so reading or writing and it's also amazing music to go to sleep to so this isn't an album that i'm going to be listening to when i'm driving around or on a run but if you want something to concentrate to then this one hour piece of ambient music creates such an amazing atmosphere and it sort of blankets out any other noise around you and allows you to really concentrate on what you're doing number 18 is mgmt's irregular spectacular and we could crush some plants this is very much a coming-of-age album for me because it came out when i was about 16 or 17 and at that time we moved house and i got my own bedroom for the first time and i spent about two days decorating it listening non-stop to this album on loop so it brings back a lot of memories of being 17 and sort of growing up [Music] so number 17 is quite a switching genre it's giant steps by john coltrane i never really grew up listening to jazz because neither of my parents were really into it but when i went to uni jazz was very much the music to be into in the crowd of muso's i was in so i very quickly got into john coltrane and most of my essays at uni were written listening to john coltrane often giant steps and it's an amazing piece of music that every time you listen to you kind of find something new in there and has such a variety of moods you've got obviously the intense and now quite famously memed giant steps [Music] but you've also got the atmospheric moody track name which is just an amazing piece of music to listen to when you're walking around at night time [Music] number 16 is either or by elliot smith elliot smith is another one of those artists where i could have chosen a few different albums but either or it's just an amazing set of songs oh you know fairly stripped back often quite low-fi but very raw very emotional and just beautiful pieces of music to listen to [Music] you [Music] number 15 is free-wheeling bob dylan by bob dylan [Music] everybody's got the heads bowed down sun don't shine before i really became a piano player i was very much a guitar player and a songwriter and dylan was very much someone who i aspired to be like particularly his earlier years his far more folky years and free willing bob dylan is probably the epitome of that sound that i was basically trying to copy there are so many legendary tracks on this album but i think my favorites have to be masters of war i can ever be heard and don't think twice it's all right the reason i'm a travelling on but don't think twice it's alright [Music] number 14 is three plus three by the isley brothers of all of the albums on this list this is the one that i've gotten to the most recently i think i only really discovered this album about six months ago um thanks to the amazing radio dj crew charles and this album has some amazing funky cover versions as well including listen to the music which is originally by the doobie brothers [Music] and a song that's almost more famous in its isley brothers form summer breeze number 13 is peter gabriel's sow in this proud land we grew up strong we were wanted this is an album i kind of came across um by chance because i was in the secondhand record store and i recognized it but i didn't really know much about peter gabriel and it only cost five pounds so i thought i'd get it and it turned out that so many of the songs on this album are not only new but absolutely loved and particularly big time which is such a tune you've also got sledgehammer [Music] and it's one of those albums which perfectly blends pop music with prog so it's like the most accessible prog music you could ever imagine [Music] [Applause] number 12 is regina spektor we've begin to hope so i mentioned earlier that when i first started out in music i was very much a singer-songwriter and i was modeling myself on bob dylan but once i stopped playing acoustic guitar and found myself more on the piano the songwriter which i was trying to copy was regina spektor regina has such a knack for heartfelt songs whether that's the heartbreaking samson or something more light-hearted like better [Music] regina specter is another one of those artists where i could have chosen a whole bunch of different albums um everything she writes is just oozing with creativity and so cheap and personality number 11 is sometimes they sit and think and sometimes they're just sit by courtney barnett [Music] courtney barnett's music is such a good blend of amazing lyric writing and really great sounding rock music and her lyrics just have such a sense of telling a story but also with a sense of humor to it i think my favorite song on the album has to be pedestrian at best but i'm also a big fan of elevator operators [Music] so just before we crack into the top 10 i'm going to take a second to talk to you about today's sponsor which is scoove if you've always been interested in learning to play the piano then you can get started right now with scoove scoove is an easy to use interactive app that can teach you real songs by classic artists like the beatles alicia keys and elton john start your free trial today with the link in the description okay so at number 10 we have the self-titled debut album from fleet foxes [Applause] fleet foxes somehow managed to create a new type of music by combining basically indie folk with gregorian plainchant this album has such a sense of atmosphere with those reverb laden harmonies and such an array of different instruments and often quite unusual structures as well i love so many songs on this album but i think one of my favorites has to be blue ridge mountain [Music] number nine is a band which i often consider to be the most underrated british rock band from the 70s it's 10cc [Music] there's at least three or four different ntc albums that i could have put in this spot but i chose to go with how dare you 10cc are one of those bands who looked at the studio inventiveness of a band like the beatles and just took it to a whole new level tracks like i'm mandy flyme and i want to rule the world have such a distinctive unique sound to them i think you'd really struggle to find a band who sounds like 10cc i wanna be a boss i wanna be a big boss i wanna pass the world around i wanna be the biggest possible past the world around [Music] number eight is one of my favorite musicians who's working today it's tame impala [Music] once again there's more than one tame and pilot album that i could have gone with for this but currents has to be my favorite this album has such good production and such good groove and amazing songwriting as well i think my favorite track has to be the lesser know the better [Music] but the song that actually got me entertainment pilot in the first place was let it happen [Music] number seven is snarky puppy with that album ground up if you're a musician and you've never listened to snarky puppy before you need to amend that because they take musicianship to a whole new level and albums like ground up the most amazing thing i find about them is that they were recorded live in front of an audience and you can actually watch the video of it being recorded live like how many classic albums can you listen to and actually see the music being created in real time the track that initially just absolutely hooked me on snarky puppy is thing of gold but this album is absolutely jammed with amazing tracks another classic for me is [Music] binky [Music] number six is an absolute classic it's dark side of the moon by pink floyd so when i was about 15 i was in the second hand cd store and i found the cd for dark side of the moon and it was one of those albums where it's just so iconic that i recognized it and i knew it was something that i should listen to but i hadn't really ever listened to too much floyd my my dad had played um another brick in the wall and money but i hadn't heard the whole of dark side of the moon so it was quite an experience hearing that for the first time and it is one of those albums where every single track on there is amazing and it almost has to be listened to as an album it can't really be broken up my favorite track on the album though has to be any color you like [Music] right we're into the top five albums now and at number five we have one of my favorite songwriters working today father john misty and his album pure comedy lord just a little more [Music] on the surface five of john misty's pure comedy might just seem like a nice collection of folk rock songs but if you listen a bit more closely to the lyrics you'll find that really it's a concept album written from the point of view of a folk singer living maybe 100 or 200 years in the future the opening track pure comedy sort of sets the concept up by talking about how absurd the human experience is but then most of the other songs on the album discuss other elements of how modern life has corrupted or ruined humans total entertainment forever talks about how virtual reality could be the end of humanity [Music] every night inside the oculus rift things that would have been helpful to know before the revolution talks about a revolution cause due to the effects of global warming it got too high [Music] and birdie talks about how technology could eventually fix but also ruin humanity [Music] and like i said before what the most chilling thing is about these songs is that most of them aren't sung from the point of view of someone now singing about potential futures trying to warn us they're sung from the perspective of someone who's already lived through these potential futures and now they're looking back on all of the odd and horrible things that have happened [Music] number four is timeout by the dave brubeck quartet [Music] today odd time signatures in jazz or jazz inspired music is nothing unusual when it's sort of par for the course but when dave brubeck made this album most jazz music was in 4-4 this album is basically a set of experiments in how odd time signatures could be used in jazz of course you've got the iconic take 5 in 5 4 time but you've also got blue rondo alaterk which is a nine eight time or three to get ready which starts in three four time but then starts to jump between 3 4 and 4 4. [Music] so we're now in the final three and at number three is david bowie with hunky dory even back in 1971 at the beginning of bowie's career he's already making an album that changes the way that other people make music that sounds like nothing that's ever been made before that has colorful poetic lyrics [Music] inventive avant-garde instrumentation [Music] and more than just one song that would go down as one of the greatest songs of the 20th century [Music] so we're on to the final two and anyone who's a regular subscriber will know that there's two artists in particular who haven't made an appearance yet and you're probably wondering which one's at number two and which one's at number one well this was very hard this really was very hard but at number two is the beatles with sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band i don't need to tell you that sgt pepper is one of the greatest albums of all time and i also don't have to tell you that there are so many other amazing beatles albums that could have gone in the spot but to me personally i think sergeant pepper has to be my favorite beatles album it is a close competition though abby rhode is also in there and the white album but sergeant pepper particularly tracks like lucy in the sky with diamonds and within you without you those are some of my favorite songs of all time and this album just means so much to not only the history of music production but to me as well as a budding musician because when i got into this album at the age of about 13 it just completely opened my mind to what music could sound like and the the potential for music and how music pop music could be more than just um a cheap throwaway thing it can be what people would consider art so sasha and peppa's lonely hearts band has to be my favorite beatles album [Music] which of course leaves one obvious band for the number one spot i think people probably could have guessed that this band would be at the top um it's radiohead and choosing the favorite album for this was actually probably harder than the beatles this was a very close competition but my favorite radiohead album and my favorite album of all time is in rainbows although i now own this album as a physical when i first got it i got it as a download on that pay what you want scheme and i got it on my ipod and that day i had to do my paper round which was basically three hours of dropping off advertising newspapers that no one really wanted so it was a really boring trek around a whole bunch of streets but that afternoon i listened to in rainbows four or five times on a loop i literally just had the whole thing on a loop and i loved every single track on it um i remember just falling in love with the atmosphere of the tracks and the grooves of the track that the groove of 15 steps [Music] the hypnotic rhythm of weird fishes [Music] the only track that actually took a while to win me over was videotape at first it was actually the track um a bit like revolution nine on the white album where i find myself skipping it each time but eventually i came round to it and now i do really like videotape um but yeah that is a hard decision to make what your favorite radiohead album is but in rainbows is mine [Music] so that was my top 20 albums of all time and hopefully maybe there's something in there which you hadn't heard of before so you can go and discover that now um i'm actually going to do a follow-up video to this on my patreon where i'll look at another 10 albums which didn't quite make the cut so if you're interested in that do consider supporting me on patreon and if you've got a favorite album which wasn't on my list then do leave it in the comments down below because one of my favorite things about doing this channel is learning about new music so do feel free to recommend anything you like and thank you as always to all of the wonderful people who support me on patreon including the names you see on screen right now and andrei science diagram andrew andrew brown andrew sussman austin barrett austin russell bob mckinstry brittany parker cameron oliveira colin aiken chris cabell christopher ryan david rivers donald howard dr darren wicks elena scorchenko s ben hansen eugene leroy fd hodor yolamo latona hamesh brocklebank hugo miller james kao j.a kochensparger john dye josh sandalin justin vigor mark heit mark zegenhagen max o'keefe melody composer squared melanie schoenert michael vivian nancy gillard nathan lawrence nathaniel park paul miller paul paisle peter dunphy pioche milowski richard pride roger clay sam lin scott finley sean kennedy steve daly stephen lazzaro tim beaker toma aharoli tricia adams tim payne toot victor levy fidel flowers vladimir kodakov and [Music] volte [Music] you

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Published: Fri Apr 02 2021