Your top ten all time favorite Albums

[Loop2kil]

I define a great album as one that you can listen to from start to finish without the urge to skip a song or 2. Please do not include 'best of' albums as this defeats the purpose of a quality studio album. I'm gonna try to avoid listing more than 1 album from a single artist but do as you wish in that regard.

1. Alice 'n Chains - Dirt (not necessarily my favorite band but this album is great)
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. Godsmack - Faceless
4. GNR - Appetite for destruction
5. Marilyn Manson - Superstar
6. Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill - This was a hard choice
7. Megadeth - So far, So good, So what.
8. Tool - Undertow
9. Hatebreed - The rise of brutality
10. Chevelle - Wonder what's next

 

[Pepsi90919]

tool - lateralus
matthew good - avalanche

 

[Chaotic42]

1. Metallica - Black Album
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
3. Widespread Panic - Ain't Life Grand
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
5. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
6. Live - Throwing Copper
7. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
8. 311 - 311
9. Blues Traveler - Four
10. The Who - Who's Next

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Not listing more than one album per band (lest Iron Maiden take up half the list )...

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Killers
3. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
4. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
5. Testament - Low
6. Savatage - The Hall of the Mountain King
7. Dream Theater - Images & Words
8. Megadeth - Killing is My Business... and Business is Good
9. Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmoore's Rainbow
10. Queensryche - The Warning

 

[The Lurker]

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2. Alice In Chains - Dirt
3. Soundgarden - Superunknown
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Nirvana - Nevermind
(the rest are up for debate)
6. Radiohead - Kid A
7. Jeff Buckley - Grace
8. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
9. Tool - 10,000 Days
10. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - (Someone had to mention it)

Tool's Aenima came to mind, but it doesn't really fit the "not skipping any songs" criteria.

 

[adairusmc]

1. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
2. Metallica - S&M
3. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
4. Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
5. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
6. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
7. The Band - Music from Big Pink
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
9. Johnny Cash - American II: Unchained
10. Sublime - 40oz to Freedom

I know a couple of them are live albums and not studio albums, but I don't care - they are still superior to a studio album with the same material.

 

[Loop2kil]

Soundgarden - Superunknown (The 4th of july is a fantastic tune)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone Temple Pilots - Core

How did i forget about Core...man any of these could have made it in my 10

 

[Loop2kil]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Not listing more than one album per band (lest Iron Maiden take up half the list )...

Exactly otherwise mine would have been full of Metallica and Pantera

Though i do like Maiden, i just couldn't come up with an album i wouldn't skip songs.

 

[FettsBabe]

In no certain order

GNR - Appetite for Destruction
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Sugarland
Keith Urban - Days Go By (tis song on it)
Kiss (pick one!)
ACDC (pick one)
Metallica (pick one)
Kenny Rogers (pick one)
Alabama (pick one)
Rolling Stones (pick one)
Eagles (pick one)
Bonjovi (pick one)

Oh, yeah just 10, how about 12

 

[boomer6447]

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Eagles - Hotel California
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles - Revolver (or white album or sgt pepper)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Tom Petty - Damm the Torpedos
Steely Dan - Aja
AC/DC - Back in Black
MeatLoaf - Bat out of Hell
John Mayer - Room for Squares


Wow....guess I showed my age...all except for one was released over 25 years ago...

 

[edro]

Led Zeppelin - IV
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Tool - 10,000 Days
NIN - With Teeth
Metallica - Black Album
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Korn - Follow the leader
Slipknot - Volume 3
System of a Down - Toxicity
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

As others already know... picking 10 is pretty tough. I tried to tap into all my favorite genres.

 

[Spineshank]

In no order:

Dark Tranquillity - Haven
Finch - What It Is To Burn
Stutterfly - Broken In Pieces
GNR - Appetite For Destruction
GNR - Use Your Illusion 1&2
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Himsa - Courting Distaster and Tragedy
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Caliban - The Opposite From Within

 

[KarmaPolice]

Not in Order

Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Hail to the THeif
(Now I love radiohead a lot and since I always say you cant say one album is better then the other, they all have to be the best so...yeah thats most of my list...pablo honey doesn't count)
Green Day - Dookie (First CD)
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antartica
Gorillaz - Self Titled
Sigur Ros - ()

 

[davestar]

Hum - Downward is Heavenward
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
System of a Down - Toxicity
Tool - Aenima
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Byzantine - ...and They Shall Take Up Serpents
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Alice In Chains - Dirt

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
Not in Order

Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Hail to the THeif
(Now I love radiohead a lot and since I always say you cant say one album is better then the other, they all have to be the best so...yeah thats most of my list...pablo honey doesn't count)
Green Day - Dookie (First CD)
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antartica
Gorillaz - Self Titled
Sigur Ros - ()

Dookie ain't their first album

/music snob

 

[dwell]

I think...

AC/DC - Back in Black
GNR - Appetite for Destruction
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beatles - Let it Be
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Liz Phair - Exile in Guysville
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Public Enemy - Nation of Millions

 

[mk]

10 arbitrarily chosen favourite albums, in no particular order:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Anathema - Judgement
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Depeche Mode - Violator
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium
The Gathering - Mandylion
Global Communication - 76:14
Paradise Lost - Icon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Tristania - Beyond the Veil

 

[RaiderJ]

White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000 is a great one!

 

[Jeffwo]

Originally posted by: boomer6447
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Eagles - Hotel California
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles - Revolver (or white album or sgt pepper)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Tom Petty - Damm the Torpedos
Steely Dan - Aja
AC/DC - Back in Black
MeatLoaf - Bat out of Hell
John Mayer - Room for Squares


Wow....guess I showed my age...all except for one was released over 25 years ago...

Add Steve Miller Band "Fly Like an Eagle" and it's close to my list!

 

[clamum]

Rough order:

1. Pennywise - Full Circle
2. The Queers - Punk Rock Confidential
3. Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
4. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
5. Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
6. Pennywise - About Time
7. NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum
8. Blink-182 - Enema of the State
9. Ten Foot Pole - Rev
10. Millencolin - Home From Home

 

[mpitts]

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
3. The Beatles - Revolver
4. Green Day - American Idiot
5. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
6. Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
7. Public Enemy - It Take A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
8. Counting Crows - August and Everything After..
9. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
10. All - Breaking Things

Just missed:

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
Cake - Motorcade of Generocity
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
deftones - adrenaline
face to face - face to face
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Green Day - 39/Smooth
Green Day - Insomniac
Green Day - Dookie
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Pennywise - Full Circle
Blink-182 - Enema of the State
Blink-182 - Dude Ranch
Ten Foot Pole - Rev


I could probably go on forever..

 

[rbV5]

Hard to pick 10, and in no particular order, Todays list

Scorpions - Taken by Force
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Pink Floyd - Animals
Rory Gallagher - Against the Grain
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Tom Petty - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox
Rush - 2112
ACDC - Highway To Hell
Riot- Fire Down Under

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Avoiding multiples, and in no particular order...

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Tool - 10,000 Days
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Matthew Good Band - Underdogs
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Green Day - American Idiot
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Audioslave - self-titled
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

I own multiple albums for each of these bands.

It's sad that I only managed to squeeze one Canadian band in there, but hey, it's definitely tough to narrow it down to 10.

 

[Toonces]

For some reason this thread makes me think of John Cusack in High Fidelity

1. The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
2. Brand New - Deja Entendu
3. The Get Up Kids - Eudora
4.Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
5. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
6. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
7. Weezer - Blue Album
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
9. Radiohead - The Bends
10. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
11. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
12. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

There's a few others but a dozen is already more than what's allowed

 

[jonnyGURU]

Ah... let's see....

In no particular order.....

TMBG - John Henry
ELO - A New World Record
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Traveling Wilbruys - Volume 1
PWEI - This is This
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
APP - Stereotomy
New Order - Brotherhood

My apologies to anyone I may have missed.