What's your top 15 albums?

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:26 pm

I have a hard time figuring out what mine are, but i'll give it a shot...in no particular order and subject to change:

The Beatles- White Album
Radiohead- OK Computer
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
U2- The Joshua Tree
The Cure- Disintegration
Pixies- Doolittle
The Cure- Pornography
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Soundgarden- Superunknown
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Metallica- Ride The Lightning
Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
U2- Achtung Baby
Guns N' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Nirvana- Nevermind

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:48 pm

damn dude, no offense but that is one hell of a cliche list.. granted theyre (nearly) all good albums but cmon..

hard this but heres 15 of the best albums ever made, solid stuff straight thru, will never tire of any of them..

scorpions - fly to the rainbow
at the gates - slaughter of the soul
alec empire - intelligence and sacrifice
Kent - vapen & ammunition
black sabbath - black sabbath
pink floyd - wish you were here
refused - shape of punk to come
cyndi lauper - shes so unusual
dark funeral - diabolis interum
raging speedhorn - raging speedhorn
oddproject - second hand stopped
raised fist - fuel
offspring - smash
misfits - collection 2
UFO - strangers in the night

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:12 pm

Off the top of my head and without thinking at all:

The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Joanna Newsom - Ys
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Vol. 2
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Gorky 5
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City

That'll change.

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:40 pm

sven666 wrote:damn dude, no offense but that is one hell of a cliche list.. granted theyre (nearly) all good albums but cmon..

I just think they're awesome. I mean, I was debating putting some Smiths stuff on there and whatnot...but that probably would have been just as cliched.
Nearly? Man, they ALL are great!

EinhanderZwei · Post by **EinhanderZwei** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:47 pm

Not a chart, I'll just list them in random order...

Pretty Maids - Jump The Gun
Motorhead - No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
Laaz Rockit - Know Your Enemy
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying?
SOD - Speak English Or Die
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Scanner - Hyper Trace
Michiru Yamane - Castlevania: SOTN OST
Razor - Evil Invaders
Believer - Extraction From Mortality

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:32 pm

Same, no particular order

Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
Nightstick - Death to Music
Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom
Om - Variations on a Theme
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Trouble - The Skull
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering
Corrosion of Conformity - Technocracy
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Clutch - s/t
Buzzov*en - To a Frown/Welcome to Violence
Benumb - Soul of the Martyr
Grief - Miserably Ever After

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:44 pm

I listen mostly to classic rock, but my stuff is all over the map these days, including a fair bit of classical and Big Band music. That said, some of my favorites include:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle
Led Zeppelin - IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
The Beatles - Abbey Road, Magical Mystery Tour
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Weezer - Blue Album
Boston - Third Stage
Eagles - Hotel California
Blue Man Group - Audio
TMBG - Lincoln

NR777 · Post by **NR777** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:59 pm

In no particular order, and subject to change:

Necrophagist - Epitaph

Skinny Puppy - VIVISect VI

Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror

Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy

Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History

Strapping Young Lad - Alien

Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Meshuggah - Destroy, Erase, Improve

Faith No More - Angel Dust

Blood For Blood - Spit My Last Breath

Goblin - Complete Discography

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:35 pm

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Broadcast - Work & Non Work
Gene Clark - No Other
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Espers - II
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Marissa Nadler - Songs III
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Shellac - At Action Park
Six Finger Satellite - Law of Ruins
Slint - Spiderland
U.S. Maple - Acre Thrills
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

I don't stray too far from sounds I liked growing up when it comes to all-time favorites. I like my arena alternative and classic radio rock.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:13 pm

Rob wrote:
I don't stray too far from sounds I liked growing up when it comes to all-time favorites. I like my arena alternative and classic radio rock.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised by your list considering how much metal you seem to listen to.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:23 pm

Acid King wrote:Same, no particular order

[great bands]

You are awesome. Needs more Boris, though.

Mine are likely to change at any moment, but:

Isis - Panopticon
Boris - Dronevil
Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth
Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Tortoise - TNT
Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals
Mogwai - tossup: Happy Songs for Happy People/Come On Die Young
Ghosts & Vodka - Addicts & Drunks
Russian Circles - Enter
El Ten Eleven - Every Direction is North
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
Adrian Belew - Side One

ColonelFatso · Post by **ColonelFatso** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:38 pm

Not an easy question to answer, but I could give it a shot.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Division Bell
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Supertramp - Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America, Even in the Quietest Moments
The Who - Who's Next, The Who Sell Out
Dave Brubeck quartet - Time Out (C-c-c-c-combo breaker)
The Eagles - Hotel California, Desperado
Billy Joel - The Stranger

This excludes a lot of stuff I've only heard in collected form, etc.

Bands aren't listed in any particular order, but albums are listed in most-to-least-favourite order within bands

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:39 pm

I'm not very knowledgeable about music and I haven't listened to a whole lot. In fact I'm only just discovering what sort of things I like. My list will not have a lot of variety. With that said, here's what my current favorite albums are are in no particular order:

Dream Theater:
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
Awake
Train of Thought

Rush:
Moving Pictures

Mastodon:
Leviathan
Crack the Skye
Blood Mountain

Megadeth:
Rust in Peace
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

Iced Earth:
The Glorious Burden

Anvil:
Anthology of Anvil

Stéphane Picq & Philip Ulrich:
Dune: Spide Opera

Dethklok:
Dethalbum
Dethalbum II

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:36 pm

TigerCraneFist · Post by **TigerCraneFist** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:37 pm

hard question for sure... some of these are pretty consistent while some of these probably wouldn't make the list next week as my favorites change often.

Souls of Mischief- 93 til infinity
Metallica- ... and justice for all
Warzone- Dont for get the struggle, Dont forget the streets
Nas- illmatic
White Zombie- La Sexorcisto: Devli music Vol.1
Monster Magnet- Spine of God
Unida- Coping with the urban coyote
De La Soul- De la soul is dead
Gorilla Biscuits- Start Today
Killing Time- Brightside
Iron Maiden- Somewhere in time
Horror Move- Horror Movie
Regraped/Shiny Beast- split 12"
Flower Travellin band- Satori
Descendents- I dont want to grow up
Sheer Terror- Just cant hate enough

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:49 pm

My taste is quite varied so (in alphabetical order):

Björk - Post
Can - Tago Mago
Carl Craig - More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Massive Attack - Protection
Mikami Kan - Hiraku Yume Nado Arujanashi...
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Scientist - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:51 pm

CIT wrote:The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Damn it, that should have been on my list as well.

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:53 pm

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Attack!!
Styx - The Grand Illusion, Cornerstone
Jethro Tull - Aqualung / My God
Journey - Escape
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Black Mages - The Black Mages, The Black Mages II: The Skies Above
Kansas - Leftoverture
Collective Soul - Collective Soul
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Billy Squier - Don't Say No

Standard disclaimers apply.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:13 am

Hard to pick just 15.

Slowdive - Pygmalion
Mojave 3 - Ask me tomorrow
Trembling Blue Stars - Her Handwriting
Silvania - Paisajes III
Transient Waves - Sonic Narcotic
Wire - 154
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hyæna
The Cure - Pornography
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
Chapterhouse - Blood Music
Medicine - Shot forth self living
Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band
Ride - Going Blank Again
Bark Psychosis - Codename:dustsucker
Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:34 am

Oh God! 15 is in no way enough. Never has been, still isn't.

Order is irrelevant:
1) Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
2) Love - Forever Changes
3) Amon Duul 2 - Yeti
4) Can - Monster Movie
5) Faust - Tapes
6) Syd Barrett - Barrett
7) White Heaven - Out
8> Wire - Chairs Missing
9) Terminals - Touch
10) Pin Group - (all collected on one CD)
11) Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
12) Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
13) Vajra - Tusgaru
14) Bardo Pond - Amanita
15) Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (I'm not fuckin' with you)
16) Roxy Music - Stranded
17) Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
18) Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
19) Genesis - Lamb lies down on broadway
20) King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
21) Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for Violins
22) Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
23) John Coltrane - African Brass

I'm cutting it off here. There wasn't even enough space for Metal to make it on here. That's how cruel limiting it to 15 is.

Edit: Somehow that means Fleetwood Mac's Tusk > Metal. Holy shit!!!!

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:39 am

Tori Amos ~ Boys For Pele
Metalica ~ Ride the Lightning
Indigo Girls ~ Swamp Ophelia
Tom Petty & the Heartbrakers ~ Wildflowers
Chaos Field ~ soundtrack
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
Vince Guaraldi ~ A Charlie Brown Christmas
Bruce Springsteen ~ Born to Run
Paul Simon ~ The Rhythm of the Saints
John Coltrane ~ Love Supreme
Prince ~ Purple Rain
Beth Orton ~ Central Reservation
Phil Collins ~ Face Value
Genesis ~ Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Primus ~ Frizzle Fry

some of those albums I haven't listened to in a long time, but I know that every time I hear them I love them and can sit and listen straight through one song after another and then need to hear it again.
Many of the albums you guys listed could be on my list.
To think, kids these days don't even know what it's like to listen to an "album"

edit: I did not read past the second post before posting mine, all of these were off the top of my head.
CMoon: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, recognize!

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:20 am

Herbert - Scale
Bob James - 1
Bob James - 2
Daft Punk - Discovery
Chemical Brothers - We are the night
Justice - Cross
Propeller Heads - Decksdrumrockandroll
Various Artists - Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Yuzo Koshiro -Streets Of Rage2 soundtrack
Mettalica - Ride The Lightning
Mettalica - And Justice For All
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Mr Oizo - Lambs Anger
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Toe Jam and Earl Panic on Funkatron Arranged Album

Most songs now I discover individually on the internet.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:21 am

Square King wrote: Isis - Panopticon
Boris - Dronevil
Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth
Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Tortoise - TNT
Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals
Mogwai - tossup: Happy Songs for Happy People/Come On Die Young
Ghosts & Vodka - Addicts & Drunks
Russian Circles - Enter
El Ten Eleven - Every Direction is North
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
Adrian Belew - Side One

These are some of my favorites! Very nice list.

caldwert · Post by **caldwert** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:37 am

Rough sketch off the top of my head:

Rage Against the Machine - self titled
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Toadies - Rubberneck
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Kula Shaker - K
The Who - Who's Next
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Blind Melon - self titled
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It From The Man!
Dandy Warhols - ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
The Living End - Modern Artillery

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:15 am

I was having so much fun, I couldn't stop at 15. How about 20?

don caballero - tossup: don caballero 2/what burns never returns
drive like jehu - yank crime
tortoise - millions now living will never die
death - the sound of perseverance
sonic youth - daydream nation
hella - tossup: hold your horse is/the devil isn't red
tera melos - drugs to the youth
polvo - today's active lifestyles
prince - the black album
cryptopsy - none so vile
unwound - repetition
led zeppelin - houses of the holy
p.e.e. - now more charm and more tender
flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
mogwai - come on die young
make believe - of course
arab on radar - yahweh or the highway
shellac - at action park
upsilon acrux - radian future
ativin - german water

Joe T. · Post by **Joe T.** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:31 am

All time would be too difficult so I'd say this is a mix of current and longstanding favorites. No particular order:

Sleep- Sleep's Holy Mountain
Boris- Akuma no Uta
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Minny Pops- Drastic Measures Drastic Movements
Paradroid- Romanticism in Robot Systems
Mattias Shuster- Atemlos
Solid Eye- Fruits of Automation
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva.Noto- Vrioon
Espers- II
Cabaret Voltaire- Red Mecca
Arpanet- Inertial Frame
Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principal
Neu!- 2
The Sword- Age of Winters

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:51 am

tough to do but I'll list some favorites…

Hoverphonic - a new stereophonic sound spectacular
Olive - trickle
The Cure - desintigration
Mono - formica blues
Black Moon - enta da stage
Ice Cube - death certificate
Wu Tang Clan - enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)
Duran Duran - duran duran
Chicago - chicago 17
R.Kelly - 12 play
A Tribe Called Quest - low end theory
Dubstar - goodbye
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun

these are some albums I can listen from front to back…

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:07 am

I always try to think of lists like this off the top of my head, less thinking, more gut reaction. It's like if my apartment were on fire and I had to grab some CDs to save, these are probably the first ones I'd think of.

Square King wrote: You are awesome. Needs more Boris, though.

Thanks. Youv'e got some good ones too. I've never really gotten into into Boris although the version of Feedbacker with Merzbow is awesome and their collaboration with Sunn0))) is pretty good too.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:13 am

CMoon wrote:I'm cutting it off here. There wasn't even enough space for Metal to make it on here. That's how cruel limiting it to 15 is.

Edit: Somehow that means Fleetwood Mac's Tusk > Metal. Holy shit!!!!

fleetwood mac are awesome so no shame in that, personally i would have liked to have tango in the night on my list but yeah... 15 albums..

it seems pretty safe to say that the shmupsforum in general likes: pink floyd, metallica and black sabbath

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:30 am

Acid King wrote:I always try to think of lists like this off the top of my head, less thinking, more gut reaction. It's like if my apartment were on fire and I had to grab some CDs to save, these are probably the first ones I'd think of.

Square King wrote: You are awesome. Needs more Boris, though.
Thanks. Youv'e got some good ones too. I've never really gotten into into Boris although the version of Feedbacker with Merzbow is awesome and their collaboration with Sunn0))) is pretty good too.

You should hear Smile which is like Led Zepplin metal with heaps of style, and if you want some serious slow burn/slow build doom check out Absolutego.

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