12-10-2009, 05:57 PM
I usually break Hip albums into two tiers in my head. The run from Road Apples to In Violet light which are all basically tied as 'the best', meaning that they are all solid albums straight through with no more than 2 throwaway tracks on each.
Tier two would be Up To Here and the last three albums, which all contain great songs, but I can't think of as consistent records.
That's the easy part, ordering the albums within these two tiers is hard and probably changes from day to day, but this is the best I can do:
1 - Fully Completely
2 - In Violet Light
3 - Road Apples
4 - Phantom Power
5 - Trouble at the Henhouse
6 - Day For Night
7 - Music at Work
8 - We Are the Same
9 - Up to Here
10 - World Container
11 - In Between Evolution
Hopefully I don't regret something here!
:jump
EDIT: It seems strange to see D4N and M@W in the middle of my list (two of my favourite records by any band) but the others are just too good!
Tier two would be Up To Here and the last three albums, which all contain great songs, but I can't think of as consistent records.
That's the easy part, ordering the albums within these two tiers is hard and probably changes from day to day, but this is the best I can do:
1 - Fully Completely
2 - In Violet Light
3 - Road Apples
4 - Phantom Power
5 - Trouble at the Henhouse
6 - Day For Night
7 - Music at Work
8 - We Are the Same
9 - Up to Here
10 - World Container
11 - In Between Evolution
Hopefully I don't regret something here!
:jump
EDIT: It seems strange to see D4N and M@W in the middle of my list (two of my favourite records by any band) but the others are just too good!
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