What's your top 15 albums?

[MX7]

Masami Akita and Russell Haswell - Satanstorade - Rhythmic pop noise
Asobi Seksu - Citrus - US loud guitar pop
Boris - Pink - Pummelling power trio
Deerhoof - Reveille - Creepy and lovely
Deerhoof - The runners four - Self indulgent and lovely
Lightning Bolt - Peel session - Drum and bass
Melt Banana - Cactuses come in the flocks - Ear scrapingly joyous
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Swirly precise guitar pop
Pulp - Different class - Social realist pop
Rugar - My girl, the princess - Faux nostalgia
Shonen Knife - Burning farm - Half an hour of joy
Slowdive - Souvlaki - Oh my God. If I don't find my skull lighter, I'll, like, slit my wrists
Trencher - Lips - Tongue in cheek slab of nasty
USK - Music is my girlfriend -Best Chiptune Album of All Time
Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of glee and the Dadaist happy hardcore - Jittery breakcore
Whitehouse - Birdseed - Dead meat

plus 100 more.

[Square King]

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.

Adding Feedbacker to this list. Boris is excellent and a little schizophrenic. Look out for Tides - Resurface, too.

Boris - Pink - Pummelling power trio
Deerhoof - Reveille - Creepy and lovely
Deerhoof - The runners four - Self indulgent and lovely
Lightning Bolt - Peel session - Drum and bass
Melt Banana - Cactuses come in the flocks - Ear scrapingly joyous
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Swirly precise guitar pop
Slowdive - Souvlaki - Oh my God. If I don't find my skull lighter, I'll, like, slit my wrists

Props on all of these!

[charlie chong]

1.black sabbath-s.t
2.wu tang clan -36 chambers
3.gravediggaz -niggamortis
4.goblin-profondo rosso
5.soft machine 2
6.ultramagnetic m.cs -critical beatdown
7.kool g rap -live and let die
8.faust tapes
9.company flow-funcrusher plus
10.amon duul-2 yeti
11.king crimson-court of the crimson king
12.can-soundtracks
13.mf doom-operation doomsday
14.dj screw- 3 n da morning
15.cenobites

this is too hard probbly another 40 or so albums i rank as good as these

[dingsbums]

a top 15 is nearly impossible - but I try (this are the LP's I can listen to and never get tired of them)
in no order

Life of Agony - River Runs Red
Jaylib - Champion Sound
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
The Bamboos - Rawville
John Lee Hooker - Burnin'
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Korn - Life is Peachy
The Royals - Ten Years After
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Prince - Musicology
Fred & The New J.B. 's - Breakin' Bread
Nirvana - In Utero
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Sinead O' Connor - Throw Down Your Arms

[tommyb]

drive like jehu - yank crime
death - the sound of perseverance
sonic youth - daydream nation
hella - tossup: hold your horse is/the devil isn't red
mogwai - come on die young
make believe - of course
arab on radar - yahweh or the highway

Hell yes. Great albums. Anyway

Boris - Pink
Trapped Under Ice - Stay Cold
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Torche - Meanderthal
True Colors - Focus On the Light
Cursed - III: Architects of Troubled Sleep
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
Champion - Promises Kept
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Y@k Ballz - Scifentology Pt. 1
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Blacklisted - Heavier Then Heaven, Lonelier Then God
Thursday - Full Collapse
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Saetia - A Retrospective
Jesu - Silver
Old Man Gloom - Seminar II/Seminar III toss up

Okay, so 17 albums.

[szycag]

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Oval - Ovalcommers
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Madvillain - Madvillainy

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Clark - Turning Dragon
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Radiohead - Kid A

Brian Eno - Another Green World
Autechre - Confield
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Prince - Purple Rain
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

[evil_ash_xero]

I see that the shmups forum, overall, like to rock.

[szycag]

You were expecting maybe R&B?

[CMoon]

J-Pop

[professor ganson]

Masami Akita and Russell Haswell - Satanstorade - Rhythmic pop noise
Asobi Seksu - Citrus - US loud guitar pop
Boris - Pink - Pummelling power trio
Deerhoof - Reveille - Creepy and lovely
Deerhoof - The runners four - Self indulgent and lovely
Lightning Bolt - Peel session - Drum and bass
Melt Banana - Cactuses come in the flocks - Ear scrapingly joyous
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Swirly precise guitar pop
Pulp - Different class - Social realist pop
Rugar - My girl, the princess - Faux nostalgia
Shonen Knife - Burning farm - Half an hour of joy
Slowdive - Souvlaki - Oh my God. If I don't find my skull lighter, I'll, like, slit my wrists
Trencher - Lips - Tongue in cheek slab of nasty
USK - Music is my girlfriend -Best Chiptune Album of All Time
Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of glee and the Dadaist happy hardcore - Jittery breakcore
Whitehouse - Birdseed - Dead meat

plus 100 more.

OK, I just listened to nearly all of these (minus the ones I already know by heart), and now I want the 100 more.

[tommyb]

Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of glee and the Dadaist happy hardcore - Jittery breakcore

"Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole" is better in my opinion, but that album is great. Is that the one with the 8-bit song?

[Rob]

I see that the shmups forum, overall, like to rock.

If by rock you mean attentively listen with headphones, I know I do.

[professor ganson]

I see that the shmups forum, overall, like to rock.

If by rock you mean attentively listen with headphones, I know I do.

I just bought some headphones yesterday, and they are decidedly lo-fi. $30 Sony ones. I like, though, that they have volume control because I can use them with my supergun and finally hear some of the gaming music I've been missing. Without volume control, way, way too loud.

[No_not_like_Quake]

Neat to see Goblins listed by some. I don't listen to their music outside of watching Argento's (and Dawn of the Dead) films but liked what I heard.

I don't feel like making a list of 15 albums, I'd always forget something. Basically, most of my favorite albums have Jah Wobble playing on them.

[tommyb]

White Zombie - La Sexorcisto has to get added to my list.

[Battletoad]

Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Finntroll - Ur jordens djup
Breach - Kollapse
Waltari - Big Bang
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Oomph! - Wunschkind
Dredg - Leitmotif
Turisas - Battle Metal
Wintersun - Wintersun
Dark Fortress - Séance
Vader - Litany
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
The Ocean - Precambrian
Amaran - Pristine in Bondage
Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells

Top 25 or so would be easier to chose...

[scrilla4rella]

ok, why not:

LFO- Advance
Bjork- Homogenic
GZA/Genius- Liquid Swords
Madvillian- Madvillianry
Radiohead- OK computer
Rage Against the Machine- Evil Empire
Ultramagnetic MCs- Critical Beatdown
Autechre- Tri Repeatae ++
Curtis Mayfield- Curtis
Daft Punk- Homework
Tricky- Maximquae
Board of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children
Led Zeplin II
Mu-ziq- Lunatic Harness
Susumu Yokota- Sakura

[AraraSPAMWitch]

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SLAYER LOVE?????????????

In no particular order....

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Dissection - The Somberlain
Skepticism - Alloy
Jesu - s/t

HAIL SATAN

[MmSadda]

Not sure I could name a top 15, and I'd kill myself trying to pick a single top album, but I've really appreciated these over the past several years:
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome
The Roots - Phrenology
Zebrahead - MFZB
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
John Frusciante - Shadows Collide with People
Okkervil River - The Stage Names/The Stand Ins (two albums released individually that form one concept album - think Kill Bill)
The Beatles - Abbey Road or Magical Mystery Tour
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains or Jar of Flies
Sean Price - Monkey Barz
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves


...hell that's as many as I can come up with right off... but that's a pretty solid list right there, as far as I'm concerned.

[MmSadda]

Boris - Pink - Pummelling power trio
Lightning Bolt - Peel session - Drum and bass


plus 100 more.

EXCELLENT choices! Actually saw both of them in Cleveland a few years back. Lightning Bolt is a band to check out live if you ever get the chance.

[CMoon]

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Dissection - The Somberlain
Skepticism - Alloy
Jesu - s/t

HAIL SATAN

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

[AraraSPAMWitch]

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Ha ha, I may be an elitist metal head bastard (scratch that, I am an a elitist metal head bastard), but I've also been playing sax for a while and think Coltrane is the best goddamn sax player I've heard. I don't dig too much jazz, but at times the genre approaches transcendental and that album for me is the apex of what jazz should be. But my opinion is kinda whack, if it isn't evil as fuck I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

[Marc]

OK, in no order...

The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
Planes Mistaken For Stars - Up In Them Guts
Juno - A Future Lived In Past Tense
Love Battery - Dayglo
Paw - Dragline
The Icarus Line - Mono
T. Rex - Tanx
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Alice In Chains - s/t
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Deftones - Adrenaline
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Quicksand - Manic Compression
Handsome - s/t

[CMoon]

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Ha ha, I may be an elitist metal head bastard (scratch that, I am an a elitist metal head bastard), but I've also been playing sax for a while and think Coltrane is the best goddamn sax player I've heard. I don't dig too much jazz, but at times the genre approaches transcendental and that album for me is the apex of what jazz should be. But my opinion is kinda whack, if it isn't evil as fuck I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

No need to explain man, just finding the humor in it.

[sjewkestheloon]

I did snort coffee in a good way when I saw one of the most out reaching and celebratory religious albums listed amongst the Satan worship.

If you like that I urge you to listen to Charles Mingus' The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner, which is another jazz suite album that easily equals, or maybe even surpasses, Coltrane's effort.

[mesh control]

Born Against - Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children
Rorschach - Protestant
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Navio Forge - As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
125, Rue Montmatre - S/T 7"
Three Shades of Dirty - Paper Roses
Ache Hour Credo - demo
Black Flag - My War
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Gray Matter - Food for Thought
Haymarket Square - Magic Lantern
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Joy Division - Closer

[Koa Zo]

Tricky- Maximquae

I really wanted to put this on my list, but couldn't decide if I like Pre-Millennium Tension more.
Glad it showed up form someone!
same with this:

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

[TriggerHeartExelica]

Lets see
Tool 10,000 Days
Tool Lateralus
Tool Undertow
Tool Aenima (yes I am a huge TOOL fan!)
Five finger death punch War is the Answer
Five finger death punch The Way of the Fist
Crossfade self titled
A Perfect Circle Mer De Noms
APC Thirteenth Step
Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family
Cold Year of the Spider
Marilyn Manson Smells like Children
System of a Down Toxicity
Lacuna Coil Comalies
Puscifer V for Vagina

[emphatic]

I am a huge TOOL

Sorry, couldn't resist. It's an awesome band.

[Herr Schatten]

Lacuna Coil Comalies

Interesting. I didn't know they were popular outside of Europe.