TOP 10 Favourite albums!

[Disciple of Vedder]

A daunting task, but I'll give it a shot.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

PEARL JAM- No Code
PRINCE- Love Symbol Album
THE BEATLES- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
QUEEN- Sheer Heart Attack
THE CLASH- London Calling
CAKE- Fashion Nugget
KAISER CHIEFS- The Future Is Medieval/Start The Revolution Without Me
BILLY JOEL- Glass Houses
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS- By The Way
THE SHINS- Wincing The Night Away

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

KT TUNSTALL- Tiger Suit
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS- Flight Of The Conchords
THE STROKES- First Impressions of Earth
FRANZ FERDINAND- Tonight
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS- Streetcore
THE DOORS- Waiting For The Sun
THE WHITE STRIPES- Elephant

[pacman9270]

In no particular order:

1. "Off the Wall" - Michael Jackson
2. "Purple Rain" - Prince
3. "Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth" - Jason Mraz
4. "Crash" - Dave Matthews Band
5. "The 18th Letter" - Rakim
6. "Under the Table and Dreaming" - Dave Matthews Band
7. "Tyrese" - Tyrese
8. "Legend" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
9. "5" - Lenny Kravitz
0. "All Rebel Rockers" - Michael Franti and Spearhead

Other Favorites:
1. "Anthology" - A Tribe Called Quest
2. "Continuim" - John Mayer
3. "Thriller" - Michael Jackson
4. "Twisted" - Keith Sweat
5. "Songs in the Key of Life" - Stevie Wonder

[charlieray1]

Pretty hard to say! I'm sure several would change depending on when you asked me, but here goes:

Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Rubber Soul - Beatles
Revolver - Beatles
Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones - Monkees
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Sun Sessions - Elvis
Intentional Heartache - Dwight Yokam
Gilded Palace Of Sin - Flying Burrito Brothers
?? (too many possibilities -- so this is a 20 way tie )

[Woodsy]

What comes to mind, at the moment in no particular order...

De-Loused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta
Illusion of Safety by Thrice
Album by Girls
Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
OK Computer by Radiohead
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Attack and Release by The Black Keys
Congratulations by MGMT
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Waiter: You Vultures! by Portugal. The Man

[comperic2003]

1. Sign O The Times - Prince
2. The Name of This Band is Talking Heads - Talking Heads
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Purple Rain - Prince and The Revolution
5. Sail Away - Randy Newman
6. American Recordings - Johnny Cash
7. I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
8. 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
9. Stankonia - Outkast
10. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

Great idea for a thread John.

For me it depends on the period, but these most always make up my basic listening. In no particular order

Loreena McKennitt- Nights from the Alhambra
Porcupine Tree- Stupid Dream
Pink Floyd- DSotM
Johnny Hiland- Johnny Hiland
Dream Theater- Black Clouds and Silver Linings
The Beatles- 1967-1970 Blue Album
Stevie Ray Vaughan- The Sky is Crying
Deep Purple- Machine Head
J.J. Cale- Naturally
Rush- Moving Pictures

Well, some years later some have stayed, some have dropped.

1 - DSotM - Floyd (there's just no way I can put this any place other than 1st, the quintessential perfect prog album)
2 - The Raven that Refused to Sing - Steven Wilson (What I consider this millennium's lovechild of DSotM, Steven Wilson can do no wrong)
3 - Machine Head - Deep Purple (Talk about kick-ass hard rock )
4 - Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree (Another sublime Steven Wilson album)
5 - People, Hell and Angels - Hendrix (If you've heard, you understand)
6 - SRV - The Sky is Crying (This was the hardest to chose, love all SRV )
7 - Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin d'une Cinquième Saison (I think only John gets this unfortunately)
8 - Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield (the 2011 SHM-SACD master preferably)
9 - Wish You Were Here - Floyd (Yep 2 Floyd )
10 - Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

This is by no means definitive as many could be listed, but probably closer than was my old list

Edit: Why is this not in the general music section ????

[Johnny Vinyl]

Edit: Why is this not in the general music section ????

Moved!

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Johnny Vinyl

Moved!

Thanks, plus somehow I got a Chinese flag up there hehe

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by pentatonic

Thanks, plus somehow I got a Chinese flag up there hehe

Not anymore you don't.

[pentatonic]

Originally Posted by Johnny Vinyl

Not anymore you don't.

hehehe, you got me almost peeing my pants buddy, thanks

[Falconer]

OPETH - Blackwater Park

[filmnut5]

Originally Posted by filmnut5

My Top 10 Albums:

1. Judas Priest-British Steel (1980)
2. AC/DC-Back in Black (1980)
3. Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
4. Fleetwood Mac-Rumours (1977)
5. U2-The Joshua Tree (1987)
6. Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell...Dio on vocals (1980)
7. AC/DC-Powerage (1978)
8. Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic (1975)
9. Rob Zombie-The Sinister Urge (2001)
10. Kiss-Destroyer (1976)

Small edit but my Top 5 are anchored. There isn't a bad cut (IMO), on any of these 5.

[VictoryAtNight]

This was a difficult list for me to make, as there are some artists with multiple albums that I love. In no particular order.


Life - The Cardigans
Staring At The Sea - The Cure
The Dandy Warhols Come Down - Dandy Warhols
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Best Of 00-10 - Ladytron
Lust - L.o.A.
Rock Steady - No Doubt
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Eight Arms To Hold You - Veruca Salt

[Angel Eyes]

This is a very tough call but thought I would play along as well.

1. The Power and the Majesty. (1978) no audiophile should be without this in their vinyl collection. Long out of print and $$$ if you can find it Sealed or NM.

The Power And The Majesty - YouTube

Just a sample

2. The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3. Elvis - Elvis is Back
4. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
5. The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
6. Frank Sinatra at the Sands (w/ Count Basie)
7. Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
8. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
9.Supertramp - Crime of the Century
10. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

[blacknumber1]

In no particular order...

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Tool - 10,000 Days
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of a Blank Planet
Therapy? - Infernal Love
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Faithless - Reverence
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Type O Negative - World Coming Down
Johnny Cash - American IV : The Man Comes Around

[Dispatch Ninja]

Free - Heartbreaker
Tool - Lateralus
CunninLynguists - A piece of strange
JJ Grey & Mofro - Lochloosa
Blue Sky Black Death - Noir
Deltron - 3030
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Outkast - Atliens
Sadistik - Flowers for my father
Mgmt - Oracular spectacular

[thejokerha13]

2Pac: All Eyez on Me
Slipknot: Iowa
Eminem: The Slim Shady LP
Dr. Dre: The Chronic
The Devil Wears Prada: Zombie EP
In This Moment: Blood
Nirvana: In Utero
Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory
N.W.A.: Straight Outta Compton
Thug Life: Thug Life Vol. 1

[RudyC]

pink floyd - dsotm, wywh, animals
jimi hendrix - electric ladyland
fleetwood mac - tusk
electric light orchestra - on the third day
zz top - the 1st album
neil young - everybody knows this is nowhere
genesis - nursery cryme
the doors - the doors
2pac- makaveli 7 day theory
derek dominos - layla

[Thomas Irwin]

It's very difficult to choose - but, ten off the top of my head, in no particular order:

01. Aimee Mann - Whatever
02. The Cure - Disintegration
03. Kitaro - An Enchanted Evening
04. Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets
05. Lush - Split
06. Pink Floyd - The Wall
07. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
08. Sarah Brightman - Dive
09. Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
10. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

[Astro Zombie]

Alphabetical order. This was pretty hard...

Back in Black - AC/DC
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps
Lightning to the Nations - Diamond Head
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
Ride the Lightning - Metallica
Walk Among Us - Misfits
Out of Our Heads (US) - The Rolling Stones
Reign In Blood - Slayer