Top 20 Loudest Albums of All Time (with videos)
 

http://news.q4music.com/2007/06/the_..._of_all_t.html

20 - Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat (Verve, 1967)
19 – AC/DC, Back In Black (Columbia, 1980)
18 – Sunn0))), White (Southern Lord, 2006)
17- Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced? (Track, 1967)
16 – Aphex Twin, I Care Because You Do (Warp, 1995)
15- Black Flag, Damaged (SST, 1981)
14 – The Birthday Party, Prayers On Fire (4AD, 1981)
13 – Motorhead, No Sleep Til Hammersmith (Bronze, 1981)
12- Led Zeppelin, Led Zepplin (Atlantic, 1969)
11 – Neil Young – Arc Weld (Reprise, 1991)
10 – Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks (Virgin, 1977)
9 – Atari Teenage Riot – The Future Of War (DHR, 1997)
8 – My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything (Creation, 1988)
7 – Napalm Death, Scum (Earache, 1987)
6 - The Who, Live At Leeds (Track, 1970)
5 – Big Black, Songs About Fucking (Touch And Go, 1987)
4 – The Jesus And Mary Chain, Psychocandy (Blanco Y Negro, 1986)
3 – Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (Def Jam, 1988)
2 – Slayer, Reign In Blood (Def Jam, 1986)
1 – The Stooges, Funhouse (Elektra, 1970)


I'm surprised Loveless wasn't picked over Isn't Anything thats a way louder record.I also feel Bardo Pond should have been on here too, What about sonic youth too? They eat noise for breakfast.


So What do you all think ? what's missing? whats done right?

Funhouse is so right.

Doesn't it depend when your knob is?

Metal Machine Music, perhaps?

No Ramones? No Refused? Fuck that shit.

No Swans!!!!??

Weren't they dubbed THE loudest band in the world at one point?

its probably "loudest for the time they were released". i still dont agree with any of it. i mean, aphex twin? hes best stuff of the idm and ambient electronic vein, and i own every one of his records, and not one, not even "i care because you do", has ever stricken me as particularly loud.

granted my bitching, those are still great records. "loudness" is just a stupid thing to measure, cuz im pretty sure manowar technically has the loudest record ever made, i saw something on tv about they setting a guiness record for it, and theyre horrible.

i've got a guitar wolf record that's supposed to have been recorded or mastered at a volume that you can't actually record things at, or some such malarkey. either way, lists like this are silly.

any peter paul and mary album should've been on the top of the list.

No Dinosaur Jr ? The loudest band (see the loudest gig thread)?

I personally find Raw Power much louder than Fun House.

by Q.........
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White Light/White Heat should be much higher. but I guess I shouldn't suspect much from Q

No Einstuerzende Neubauten?

This list makes no sense. Psychocandy isn't that loud on record, it must have been recorded at extreme volume, but the actual record isn't master that loud.

No Dinosaur either, as already pointed out.

Psychocandy is not my fave from JAMC

no lightning bolt and countless other much louder bands

Also, Astrobrite. A few one their albums are tons louder than 3/4 of that list.

Do they mean loud in a socio-conscious way?