Current Events > What are your top 5 albums of all time? No BS, no ties, top 5 all time

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Mine

1. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
2. The National - Alligator
3. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
4. New Order - Singles
5. The Clash - London Calling
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Bob Marley - Exodus
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
Neil Young - Harvest
TLC - CrazySexyCool
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
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Now That's What I Call Music 22
Now That's What I Call Music 17
Now That's What I Call Music 34
Now That's What I Call Music 9
Now That's What I Call Music 5
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Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan

Cuz he spits hot fire

The Cool
Reasonable Doubt
MBDTF
Midnight Mauraders
Bake Sale

No order.
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boxington posted...

Bob Marley - Exodus
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
Neil Young - Harvest
TLC - CrazySexyCool
The Weeknd - House of Balloons

cool taste

MacDaMurderer posted...

The Cool
Reasonable Doubt
MBDTF
Midnight Mauraders
Bake Sale

No order.

I'm listening to MBDTF again recently and it just blows my mind how many things are at play there and how well it all works. Under a less deft hand it would've been a complete mess, but he made it work and created a hip hop landmark
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The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
From the Dark Side of the Moon (Mary Fahl)
The Dark Side of the Moonshine (Poor Man's Whiskey)
The Dub Side of the Moon (Easy Star All-Stars)
The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon (Flaming Lips, Stardeath, White Dwarfs, Henry Rollins, Peaches)

It'd take me hours to sift through my collection and pick the top 5 of all time. And I'm too lazy to do that. I can give 5 strong contenders, though.

Porcupine Tree - "Anesthetize"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not"
Opeth - "Still Life"
Scissor Sisters - "Ta-Dah"
Oresund Space Collective - "Organic Earthly Flotation"
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5. AFI- Black Sails In The Sunset
4. BROCKHAMPTON- SATURATION (Trilogy, but if you ask me to get specific, III)
3. Rise Against- Revolutions Per Minute
2. Kanye West- Late Registration
1. Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly

Honorable mentions:
Alter Bridge- Fortress
Deltron 3030- Deltron 3030
The Wonder Years- Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing
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Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
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Chinese Football - Chinese Football
DJ Okawari - Kaleidoscope
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Rise Against - The Sufferer & the Witness
Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
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In no particular order:

Opeth - Damnation
Demon Hunter - Triptych
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Alexander Perls/009 Sound System - 009 Sound System
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The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Fastball - All the pain money can buy
Deftones - Diamond Eyes or Koi no Yokan
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
People in Planes - Beyond the Horizon

Great lists guys (except the Pink Floyd guy)

DezDroppedFreak posted...

The Wonder Years- Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing

My man!

Joelypoely posted...

Chinese Football - Chinese Football

Did you listen to their more recent stuff? Just as good imo
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Obstacle2 posted...

Great lists guys (except the Pink Floyd guy)

Hey now!

Fine...

The Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin 2
Paranoid
Electric Ladyland
Red Headed Stranger

Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
Mount Moriah - s/t
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Lights - The Listening
Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long
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I really wanted to throw devil and god on my list too, but it's been a while since I've listened to it. I'm sure it still holds up, for the longest time that is the only album I would listen to.

Obstacle2 posted...

Joelypoely posted...

Chinese Football - Chinese Football

Did you listen to their more recent stuff? Just as good imo

Yep definitely agree. I enjoy Electronic Girl and The Box especially. What are your favourites?
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Opeth - Blackwater Park
Deftones - Deftones
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Coheed and Cambria - From Fear Volume 1

I've really loved "Magma" by Gojira since it released, could move to the top 5 eventually.
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Loving all the diversity!

Stewman_Magoo posted...

I really wanted to throw devil and god on my list too, but it's been a while since I've listened to it. I'm sure it still holds up, for the longest time that is the only album I would listen to.

Still holds up vro, I listen to the first 4 songs on repeat for hours on end

Joelypoely posted...

Yep definitely agree. I enjoy Electronic Girl and The Box especially. What are your favourites?

Awaking Daydream was my fav, but I loved all the songs on the EP
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5. i cant think of a fifth
4. Pulp - Different Class
3. Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1. The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Steely Dan - Aja
Yes - Close to the Edge
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
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Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
Madvillain (MF DOOM and Mad Lib) - Madvillainy
David Braid - Flow
Carla Bley - Social Studies
Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes from the Underground

always subject to change
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Queen II
A Night At The Opera
Made In Heaven
The Game
Jazz
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Zodd3224 posted...

I've really loved "Magma" by Gojira since it released, could move to the top 5 eventually.

Damn it, I forgot about Gojira.
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Hmm, right now I think it'd be:

No Other
Slanted & Enchanted
Siamese Dream
Sign 'o' the Times
Secret Treaties
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1. XTC- Skylarking
2. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
3. Portishead- Dummy
4. Can - Ege Bamyasi
5. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
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Paper_Okami posted...

1. XTC- Skylarking
2. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
3. Portishead- Dummy
4. Can - Ege Bamyasi
5. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

woke taste
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In no order:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lh-'nrd 'Skin-'nrd)
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
Grateful Dead - Mars Hotel
The Dillards - Back Porch Bluegrass
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
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Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Akercocke - Goat of Mendes
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Tarot - Stigmata
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Quadrophenia
Appetite for Destruction
Scenes from a Memory pt. 2

and others
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Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
The Who - Quadrophenia
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Van Halen
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Radiohead - OK Computer
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Nirvana - In Utero
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
And I feel like I have to put some pop punk, rock, or emo album on here with how much I've listened to. Fuck it, I'll go full basic bitch and say American Idiot.

In no particular order and that's extremely subject to change just depending on my mood. 5 minutes from now I could say something completely different. Radiohead is the only one for me that I know for sure holds a definitive spot regardless of my mood.
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Gamer99z posted...

Nirvana - In Utero

Should I buy that, if I still like Nevermind?

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Motrhead -Overkill
Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
System of a Down - Toxicity

jimmy eat world - clarity
built to spill - perfect from now on
failure- fantastic planet
everything everything - get to heaven
mae - the everglow
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Gamer99z posted...

Nirvana - In Utero

Should I buy that, if I still like Nevermind?

Yeah, honestly is recommended all of their albums, including Unplugged and Live at Reading. Some of their songs come off completely different live (especially in unplugged obviously) but even regular songs. I feel they were truly one of the great live bands.

And fwiw I narrowly chose In Utero over Nevermind. Both are favorites of mine.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
Radiohead: Ok Computer
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Cake: Fashion Nugget
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication
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Kanye- Dark Twisted Fantasy
OutKast- Aquemini
The Weeknd- Trilogy
John Coltrane- Blue Train
Jay-Z- American Gangster
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Gamer99z posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Gamer99z posted...

Nirvana - In Utero

Should I buy that, if I still like Nevermind?

Yeah, honestly is recommended all of their albums, including Unplugged and Live at Reading. Some of their songs come off completely different live (especially in unplugged obviously) but even regular songs. I feel they were truly one of the great live bands.

And fwiw I narrowly chose In Utero over Nevermind. Both are favorites of mine.

Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies, huh.

To amazon!
edit: just amazon'd

Antifar posted...

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
The Who - Quadrophenia
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Van Halen

You surprisingly have excellent taste in music tbh.
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Gamer99z posted...

Yeah, honestly is recommended all of their albums, including Unplugged and Live at Reading. Some of their songs come off completely different live (especially in unplugged obviously) but even regular songs. I feel they were truly one of the great live bands.

And fwiw I narrowly chose In Utero over Nevermind. Both are favorites of mine.

I'd have gone with their first album as the best one but, yeah, it's pretty much all damn good.
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Im surprised no one has mentioned Chronic 2001.
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Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Common - Be
The Beatles - Revolver
J Dilla - Donuts
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
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Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
The Doors - The Doors
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

I like all types of music, but it's mostly classic rock that gets the nod for me for top personal favorite albums because, well, the entire albums were designed to be listened to.
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1. Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Pink Moon by Nick Drake
3. Dummy by Portishead
4. War by U2
5. Rid of Me by PJ Harvey
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Downtown Battle Mountain
The Blueprint
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kezia
Suburbia, Ive Given You All and Now Im Nothing
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These are my five roadtrip albums. Thay haven't failed me yet.

Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Songs For The Deaf
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Ill Communication
Rumours
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Buckethead - Electric Tears
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Burial - Untrue
Purity Ring - Another Eternity
Tycho - Epoch

Just going with my gut on these, since there are way too many albums to consider for this...ask me this 10 years ago and this would have been rock/metal up and down, but since about 2011 or so I have been really into electronic music of most shapes and sizes... Always gonna be a Buckethead fan though.
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5. Venom - Welcome To Hell
4. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
3. G N R - Appetite For Destruction
2.Metallica - Kill Em' All
1. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

That was hard.
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