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What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #150 –
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No order

Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - Middle
Pet Shop Boys - Behavior
Zero 7 - Simple things
Modonna - Ray of light
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock (one of the most sampled album)
Seal - Human Beings (if i have to pick one)
Jam & Spoon - Tripomatic Fairytales 2002 (best ambient album, hard to find)
Massive Attack - Protection
Talk Talk - Spirit of eden

nice collection B)

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #151 –
The Clash: London Calling
Slint: Spiderland (cover->my avatar)
Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
The Velvet Underground: First Album
The Stone Roses: First Album
The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead
The Pale Fountains: Pacific Street
Love: Forever Changes
Joy Division: Closer
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On

And lots and lots more... Nick Drake, Will Oldham, Tortoise, The Apartments, Yo La Tengo, Swell, Mark Eitzel, Red House Painters, The Notwist, Mogwai...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #152 –
In order of durability...

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Rolling Stones - High Tides & Green Grass
David Bowie - ChangesOne
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom

I've liked these the longest (~ 30 years) and still listen to them.

xen-uno
No one can be told what Ogg Vorbis is...you have to hear it for yourself
- Morpheus

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #153 –
Radiohead - The Bends (and OK Computer)
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (,Generation Terrorists and Known Your Enemy)
Nirvana - Nevermind (,Bleach and In Utero)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (Doolittle and Bossanova)
Built to Spill - Keep Like a Secret (and Normal Years)

Honorable mention: Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Ramones, Clash, Dead Kennedys,  Echo&The Bunnymen, The Smiths, REM, Guided by Voices, Beastie Boys, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Yo La Tengo, Mudhoney, PJ Harvey, Flaming Lips and others. I didn't know that this question was too difficult to answer 

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #154 –
air - moon safari
iron maiden - the best of the beast
eric clapton - unplugged
philip glass - solo piano
Buddha Bar II

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #155 –
ok, i've been lurking HA for a very long time just reading, but i finally registered cause i can give my input here.
top 10, no particular order:

millencolin - pennybridge pioneers
pearl jam - binaural
limp bizkit - three dollar bill y'all$
incubus - make yourself
tool - aenima
radiohead - ok computer
disturbed - the sickness
audioslave - audioslave
various artists - the matrix OST
smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness

just recently i completed buying all of these. all of them have touched my life in some way over the years.

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #156 –
This could change tommorow. But here goes my favourites in no particular order:

Guns'n'Roses - Use your Illusion I
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Alanis Morissette - Jagged little Pill
Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Duran Duran - Arena
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
The White Stripes - Elephant

Honourable mention to:
Barenaked Ladies
Stereophonics
Placebo
The Orb
Paul Young
Tracy Chapman
Roxette
The Beatles

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #157 –
There's no way I can pick my Top 5 (I like way too much)...but here's 5 I really like:

Tool - Opiate
Genesis - Foxtrot
Rush - 2112
Pink Floyd - Meddle
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

A couple others:
Benny Goodman - 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Blind Faith
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Rush - Permanent Waves

I have a very varied music collection...songs for every occassion

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #158 –
Top Five "Regular Music"... now, these are the top five that I actually like listening to, not just my top picks from wankerland:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame  :  Respect.

Tool - Lateralus  :  Not a big tool fan, but I am a big Lateralus fan.

Rage Against The Machine - Renegades  :  Much as I love their more socially concious albums, I just love their cover of "How I Could Just Kill A Man" that appears on this album a lot more

Aimee Mann - Lost In Space  :  I am embarrassed to admit to my friends that I like Aimee Mann, but I listen to this album a lot, and I do like it, so there!

2001 Score  + Holst's The Planets  :  I mention this because 1) 2001 was the movie that made me realize music was important and that I liked listening to it;  2)  The first thing I ever played on my bass clarinet was the Mars theme, basically got me interested in actually playing music.


Top Five Screwball Picks - The kind of music I listen to the 96% of the time....  AKA the time I'm not accidentally listening to some socially acceptable music

... on second thought, Ill just list artists here, becuae there's about 100 albums that I couldnt decide between for this top TEN.

1. Aphex Twin (incl AFX, Caustic Window, Polygon Window, Bradley Strider, ect..........)
2. Autechre
3. Venetian Snares
4. Amon Tobin
5. Boards Of Canada
6. Christ
7. Coil
8. Fennesz
9. Hrvatski
10. Oval
地獄

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #159 –
Lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Metallica - S & M
40 Below Summer - The Morning After
Linkin Park - Meteora

but i wouldn't call these my 100% favourite albums of all times, because there are many new things to discover, you never know...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #160 –
Only five???  This is difficult . . . . I can't do just five and I couldn't possibly put them in any order; here is a bunch:

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain
System of a Down - Toxicity
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Buck 65 - Talkin Honkey Blues
MC Paul Barman - Paullelujah!
NoFX - The War on Errorism
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Squarepusher - Big Loada or Go Plastic! (I just can't decide)
Jesse Cook - Vertigo
Morcheeba - Fragments of Freedom
Tool - Ænima
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Les Cowboys Fringants - Break Syndical
The Age of Electric - The Age of Electric
Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart

Just to name a few . . .
gentoo ~amd64 + layman | ncmpcpp/mpd | wavpack + vorbis + lame

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #161 –
Best guess at my top 5 (for today only):
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse [Industrial's defining band]
The Beatles: White Album [Pop masterpiece]
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here [44:28 of sonic bliss]
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication [Hip Hop w/instrumentals]
Bob Marley: Legend [Solid sampling of his work]

Honorable Mention:
Fatboy Slim: You've Come a Long Way Baby [Fresh beats]
Led Zeppelin: II [Raw power]
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables [Punk masterpiece]
Crunch O Matic: Caution Do Not Play [Techno / ambient beats from Trent Reznor]
The Police: Outlandos d'Amour [Ska/punk/pop solid offering]

Edit: Typo
Was that a 1 or a 0?

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #162 –
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Hrmm.. it's pretty much impossible to name my top 5 albums, so I'll name top 5 bands instead:
- Emperor
- Immortal
- Dissection
(The great 3... who really got me interested in extreme metal... I recently went to see Immortal in San Fransisco a couple months back and they put on the best show I'd ever seen.. it was simply awesome.)
- Aphex Twin
- Autechre
- Acid Bath
- Arcturus
Other stuff that's really damn good:
- Ulver
- (any of Garm's other work)
- Bola
- Plaid
- Katatonia
- Lustmord
- Skinny Puppy
- I, Parasite
- Android Lust
- Solefald
- Summoning
- Abigor
- Korova/Korovakill
- Thorns
- Dismal Euphony (except their latest)
- Death
- Suffocation
- Cryptopsy
- Nile
- Soilwork
- Einherjer
- Borknagar
- Nevermore
- Novembers Doom
- Children of Bodom
- Old Man's Child
- Bal-Sagoth
- Opeth
- Zyklon
- Myrkskog
- Dodheimsgard
- Thyrfing
- Mithotyn
- Windir
- At The Gates
- The Crown
- Ebony Tears

Dibrom, you've damn good music taste     
too bad Immortal split 
i'm looking forward for the new one for DHG and Cryptopsy (Flo is the ultimate metal drummer)
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #163 –
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Halford-Ressurection
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Iron Maiden-Brave New World
Enya-A Day Without Rain

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #164 –
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Days of the New - Days of the New II (Green Album)
Nirvana - Bleach
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Slipknot - Slipknot

If I had to pick just five albums, I suppose those would be at the top of the list. These are all albums that when I listened to them, changed the way I felt or thought about music. Also, I can still go back and listen to them at any time and never get tired of them.

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #165 –
OK, here I go:

1. Radiohead - OK Computer

2. Air - Premiers Symptômes

3. Arab Strap - Philophobia

4. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dreams

5. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump


The Winner here is obvious to me among the list. OKC changed my whole perception of Music. As for the other 4, they are in no particular order. Or maybe yes, they are sorted by the emotional potential emanating from them.

I guess your "favourite album ever" is also the soundtrack of your life; or it is somehow related to a specific event or period etched into your mind. I mean the memory associated to the music. Or vice versa?

I reckon I could swap 2 here for other albums depending on my mood..

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #166 –
1. Primus - Frizzle Fry
2. The Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover
3. Ruins - Tzomborgha
4. Opeth - Still Life
5. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

The order constantly fluctuates (and sometimes the contents of the list, as well), but that's the top five for me.

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #167 –
OK:  I'll bite, although it may conform to many lists here 

No order:
Tool - Lateralus
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
N.W.A. - Straight Outa Compton
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Honerable Mention (including compilations) (5 is WAY to few, many of these are equal to the above):

Phish - Just about anything
Tool - Just about anything
Bone Thugs 'n Harmony - Just about anything, but specificaly "Thug World Order"
2Pac - Just about anything
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (You may not like it now, but don't tell me you didn't then  )
Nas - Illmatic and Stillmatic
Nirvana - In Utero and Nirvana
The Beatles - 1
Rob Zombie - Past, Present and Future
RHCP - Greatest Hits
Rammstein - Just about anything
Incubus - Make Yourself
Rush - Moving Pictures
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Coldplay - Parachutes

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #168 –
I don't have any favourites. My mood changes way too often.  Favourite artists, however, are pretty constant. e.g. Roxette, Crash Test Dummies, Norah Jones, Bruce Hornsby, etc...

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #169 –
difficult to think of individual albums but at least one off the top of my head:
Smahing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

as for artists/material for compilations:
---
Toni Braxton
Mariah Carey
Frank Sinatra
Dennis Day
Tony Bennet
Tupac
Manhattan Transfer
Sarah Brightman
Bach/Beethoven/others in that genre
Benny Goodman/Artie Shaw/etc
Eminem

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #170 –
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Prince - LoveSexy

ManOWaR - Into glory Ride

Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #171 –
Top 5:
Autechre: Tri Repetae++
FSOL: Dead Cities
Plaid: Double Figure
Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy
Saint Germain: Tourist

Other great albums:
NIN: The Downward Spiral
Ministry: Psal 69
Goldie: Timeless
Sepultura: Roots
Strapping Young Lad: City

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #172 –
Tiamat - Skeleton Skeletron
Metallica - The Black Album
Outkast - ATLiens
Deine Lakaien - Kasmodiah
Thomas D - Lektionen In Demut  (transl: Lessons In Humility)

no particular order

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #173 –
My Top 5 with no special order:

Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Orbital - Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

What Are Your 5 Favorite Albums Of All Time?

Reply #174 –
Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Jan Hammer - 1st Seven Days
XTC - too many - best collection
Synergy (Larry Fast) - 1st
k d lang - Ingenue
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death, Killer
Ted Nugent - Tooth, Fang and Claw
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Mike Oldfield - 1st 3
Peer Gynt Suite
Beatles - Revolver...
currently Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Bill Nelson/Bebop Deluxe, Focus, John Finn Group,