Your Top Five Albums

[Henry Bemis]

Of all time, or just at the moment, and in whatever order you choose. (Also, semi-related, read/see High Fidelity.)

Mine:
1.) Party Doll & Other Favorites: Mary-Chapin Carpenter
2.) Bat Out of Hell II: Meat Loaf
3.) Sail Away: Randy Newman
4.) Cloudburst: Eric Whitacre
5.) Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea: PJ Harvey

 

[Saney]

1. Ultra Beatdown: DragonForce
2. Inhuman Rampage: DragonForce
3. The Power Within: DragonForce
4. In This Life: Jet Black Stare
5. Queen: Greatest Hits: Queen
...
Yeah, I really like DragonForce.

 

[darkhorse816]

1. Revolver-The Beatles
2. Abbey Road-The Beatles
3. Rubber Soul-The Beatles
4. All Things Must Pass-George Harrison
5. Lennon Legend (I know, it's a compilation, but it's all the gems in one place)-John Lennon

 

[CatParty]

no particular order (except L7 is always #1)
L7- Bricks Are Heavy
Siouxsie and the Banshees- Juju
X-Ray Spex- Germ Free Adolescents
Adult.- Anxiety Always
Mephiskapheles- God Bless Satan

 

[JimReynolds]

This list is constantly changing and mostly depends on my mood.
5. Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch)- Peter Gabriel
4. Billy Breathes- Phish
3. Remain in Light- Talking Heads
2. Close to the Edge- Yes
1. We're Only in it for the Money- The Mothers of Invention

 

[Male]

In no order and I decided to list EIGHT just cause
Talk Talk- Laughing Stock
Wu Tang- Enter the 36 Chambers
And So As I Watch You From Afar- And So As I Watch You From Afar
Steve Roach- Arrival
Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Pelican- What We All Come To Need
Tetsu Inoue- Ambiant Otaku
Slint- Spiderland

 

[Smokedaddy]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pat Metheney Group
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Khaled - some Arabic title I don't remember
Boom Shaka - Best Defenses
The Philadelphia Metropolitan Orchestra or whatever it's called - Bach, Brandenburg Concertos
John Coltrane - Soultrane

I could go on, but - nah.

 

[FaithfulZappa]

Off the top of my head:

1. Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa & the Mothers
2. Black Yankee Rock - Chocolate Genius Inc.
3. Whatever and Ever, Amen - Ben Folds Five
4. Parade - Prince
5. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Albums subject to change, save for the Zappa album. That one will always hold the number one spot.

 

[TL 611]

• Press to Play - Paul McCartney (don't hate, I'm a major McCartney fangirl)
•Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance (don't hate, I was an emo fag, this album is all that remains)
• Islands - Ludovico Einaudi (don't hate, I know it's mainly overused television advert sort of classical music but it sounds so pretty)
•The Clash - The Clash
•Scary monsters - David Bowie

Kinda all over the shop genre wise I know, oh and in no particular order, I can't compare them to rank them

 

[trip2themoon]

Renaissance: Sasha and John Digweed
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Stone Roses
Vangelis: Antarctica Soundtrack
Metallica: Kill 'Em All

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Not in order

-Bodyguard Soundtrack
-Mariah Carey - MusicBox (middle school nostalgia)
-Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill (ditto)
-Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
-Garbage - Garbage

 

[BentDuck]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (cliche, I know.)
Queens of the Stone Age's Self Titled album
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Cursive - Domestica
Nas - Illmatic

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Lord knows this changes like all the time but here are my current top 5.

Dr. Dre- The Chronic
The Game- The R.E.D. Album
Wu Tang Clan- Enter the 36 Chambers
Ignite- Our Darkest Days
Blink 182- Dude Ranch

I'm sure tomorrow a week from now it'll be completely different

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

Lust in Space--GWAR
Nostradamus--Judas Priest
Beyond Hell--GWAR
American IV--Johnny Cash
Violence has Arrived--GWAR

 

[Prowldent]

Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
Right Away! Great Captain - The Eventually Home
Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Only two of those are constant (Devil and God and Low Level Owl). Everything else is subject to change.

 

[tehpope]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The KLF - Chill Out
Prince - Parade
Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess
Daft Punk - Discovery

It's been this way for year or two, with only Impossible Princess being added in. Sign 'o the Times could easily be swapped with Parade.

 

[Cid Highwind]

Old thread, but none of these albums were mentioned:

Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Church - Priest=Aura
The Cure - Happily Ever After (it's Faith and Seventeen Seconds as one album)
Suede - Coming Up
Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack

 

[Globe]

Lust in Space--GWAR
Beyond Hell--GWAR
Violence has Arrived--GWAR

I'm amazed/vaguely disappointed that Ragnarok didn't get an honorable mention As for mine;

Throwing Copper - Live
The Mollusk - Ween
White Pepper - Ween
Quebec - Ween
Shinola - Ween (Yeah. Even Ween's throw-away material is brilliant)

 

[Picklepower]

Lust in Space--GWAR
Nostradamus--Judas Priest
Beyond Hell--GWAR
American IV--Johnny Cash
Violence has Arrived--GWAR

I'm a huge Gwar fan!, my top favorite Metal/rock albums are, in no order

1. AntiChrist Superstar- Marilyn Manson
2. Dynasty - Kiss (yeah I know, I picked the disco one.)
3. Lust in Space- Gwar
4. Sehnsucht -Ramnstein
5. Peace Sells- Megadeth

 

[BentDuck]

Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor (all I would listen to my Freshman year of college. I initially didn't have too many positive experiences in college until I returned a couple years later, but it's this album that kept my sanity intact my freshman year.)
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough (no better IDM/Glitch music to get into)
DJ Shadow - Entroducing (showed how old music can be piecemeal into amazing music)
Namco Sound Team - R4 (showed how video game music can be a force to be reckoned with.)
Afterlife - Simplicity Two Thousand (definitive chillout album. The perfect winter time album. It's all I listened to during snow storms and study sessions in the winter.)