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[wigfried]

this been done?

[jcknbl]

Probably, lets do it again. Are you looking for everyone to post their own lists or is this a combined effort?

[wigfried]

we can do it either way, depending on the level of effort people want to put forth.

[nescience]

INDIVIDUAL LISTS

Unless you like arguing.

and metal

[wigfried]

I like metal, but ok. Duly noted

[wigfried]

So lets see em.

[Bastardous Bassist]

In no particular order.

-Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play: Live at Birdland
-Sonny Rollins - Saxohphone Collosus
-George Szell with Cleveland Orchestra - D'Vorak's Three Great Symphonies (along with Carnival Overture and Smetena's Bartered Bride and "From My Life" arranged for orchestra)
-John Scofield - A Go Go
-Chris Potter - Traveling Mercies
-Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
-The Crown - Deathrace King
-Brad Mehldau - Live in Tokyo
-Brave - Searching for the Sun
-Edgar Meyer - Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites
-John Adams - Century Rolls (yeah, I like Adams, so what?)
-Racer X - Superheroes
-Medeski, Martin and Wood - Friday Afternoon in the Universe
-Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony/Bizzaro
-Nightwish - Once
-Pat Metheny - Trio Live
-The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas (tomorrow it might be Give)
-The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
-Thomas Ades - America: A Prophecy
-Pierre Boulez with Cleveland - Petrouchka and Le Sacre de printemps

[Rizzo]

AFI-Sing The Sorrow
AFI-The Art Of Drowning
Type O Negative-World Coming Down
KMFDM-XTORT
Sisters Of Mercy-Vision Thing
3 Inches Of Blood-Advance and Vanquish
Amen-We Have Come For Your Parents
Coil-Love's Secret Domain
Comeback Kid-Wake The Dead
ohGr-Welt
Error-Error
Horse The Band-R.Borlax
Nine Inch Nails-With Teeth
Nine Inch Nails-The Fragile
Interpol-Antics
The Mercy Cage-Scree:Transmissions
Ministry-Greatest Fits
Razed In Black-Damaged
Ramallah-Kill a Celebrity
ZAO-Parade Of Chaos

Not the 20 most influential, amazing, super great or technical. Simply my 20 favourite albums. It wasn't even very hard to decide, just went through itunes and picked my favourites.

EDITED:For grammar

[El Opium]

Here we go again:
Big Black-Atomizer
Polvo-Cor Crane Secret
Slowdive-Souvlaki
Birchville Cat Motel-Chi Vampires
Skullflower-Obsidian Shaking Codex/Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tie)
The Kinks-Village Green
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Neil Young-Everybody Knows this is Nowere
Bark Psychosis-Hex
Monoshock-Walk to the Fire
Can-Tago Mago
Avarus-Ruskeatimantti
Growing-The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Wire-Pink Flag
Swell Maps-Jane From Occupied Europe
Arvo Part-Tabula Rasa
Sonic Youth-EVOL
The Comsat Angels-Sleep No More
The Fire Show-Saint the Fire Show
My Bloody Valentine-Isn't Anything

[E. Spaceman]

In no particular order and trying to limit myself to one album per band and no compilations.

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catasatrophe Waitress
Radiohead - OK Computer
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Blur - Parklife.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Sonic Youth - Murray Street (or maybe Sister)
Pixies - Doolittle
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
ABBA - Arrival
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Kronos Quartet - Kronos Quartet Performs Phillip Glass
[/list:u]

[pat101]

I just can't do this, it's impossible.

[Spartan Pho3nix]

Let's do one album per artist.
Beatles – Abbey Road
Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bonnie 'Prince' Billie - I see the Darkness
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
Clash – London Calling
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Mogwai - Young Team (Mr. Beast?)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Silver Jews - American Water
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Talking Heads - The name of this band is Talking Heads (Cheapshot live record, I know, but so awesome)
(21) Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

[jcknbl]

Ok lets see.

This isn't an exact order but starts with the ones I think of first. They're also partly in alphabetical order b/c I went down itunes

My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
The Fiery Furnaces-Blueberry Boat
Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Daft Punk-Discovery
The Cure-Galore
Elliott Smith-s/t
Nick Drake-Pink Moon
The Flaming Lips-The Soft Bulletin
Iron & Wine-Woman King (so its actually and EP, shut up)
Lou Reed-Transformer
Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
The Olivia Tremor Control-Music From The Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
The Shins-Chutes Too Narrow
The Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Unicorns-Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
The Velvet Underground-The Velvet Underground & Nico

Ok, So the there are a few more slot and I can't decide between all the Deerhoof albums so they get the last set of slots all too themselves.

[Spartan Pho3nix]

Dude. You totally forgot Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music.

Best...album...evah....

</sarcasm mode off>

[jcknbl]

See, this is the thing about these sort of threads. They're always tainted by what you happen to be listening to at the moment. I've been listening to Transformer and Galore a lot recently and so somehow they ended up on that list. Theres a pretty good chance that I'll be over them in a little while. I think maybe half my list is stable and half could change pretty quickly.

[Cap'n Derk]

Time for me to toss my hat into the ring

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Primus - Sailing The Seas of Cheese
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Rush - Permanent Waves
Calexico/Iron and Wine - In The Reins
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
The Moog Cookbook - Ye Olde Space Band
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

[almost thursday]

20) weezer - maladroit

19) gerogerigegege - tokyo anal dynamite

18) cursive - domestica

17) saves the day - stay what you are

16) dj shadow - the private press

15) the locust - plague soundscapes

14) charles bronson - complete discocrappy

13) bjork - medulla

12) sounds like violence - the pistol

11) pig destroyer - 38 counts of battery

10) black rebel motorcycle club - take them on, on yr own

09) aphex twin - the richard d james album

08) alexisonfire - alexisonfire

07) v/vm - sometimes good things happen

06) dj shadow - entroducing

05) my bloody valentine - loveless

04) arcade fire - funeral

03) nine inch nails - the downward spiral

02) rival schools - united by fate

01) converge - jane doe

[nEmoGrinder]

Psht, this is what I do in me free time anyways!



Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

Matthew Good - Rooms [EP]

Radiohead - OK Computer

Deftones - White Pony

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Hopesfall - No Wings To Speak Of [EP]

A Static Lullaby - ...And Don't Forget To Breathe

Cursive - Domestica

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Brand New - Deja Entendu

Team Sleep - Team Sleep

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

Explosions in the Sky - Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever

Thursday - Full Collapse

Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Fear Before The March Of Flames - Odd How People Shake

Our Lady Peace - Clumsy

The Pillows - FLCL OST


Yes that's more than 20, so sue me

[Mikendher]

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Apples In Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
The Beatles - Help!
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Animal Collective - Feels
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


That was harder to do than I though it would be.

[nescience]

Offhand at work, this is a quick list with a rough order (aren't they all?), but I've always considered Low to be my "favorite", most-enjoyable, most-personally-influential desert-island disc.

20 Harmonia - Deluxe
19 Boredoms - Super Ae
18 Glenn Branca - The Ascension
17 Sloan - One Chord to Another
16 Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
15 Sonic Youth - Sister
14 XTC - Drums and Wires
13 Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
12 Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
11 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
10 King Crimson - Discipline
09 Zoot Woman - Living in a Magazine
08 Daft Punk - Discovery
07 Velvet Underground - Loaded
06 Daedelus - Invention
05 Queen - Jazz
04 M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
03 Phoenix - United
02 Brian Eno - Another Green World
01 David Bowie - Low

[StrikeThePostman]

If this list was really "of all time" for me, it would include some Radiohead and Beck, but I'm kind of burnt out on them these days.  It's not in any order, either.

Graceland : Paul Simon
Perfect From Now On : Built to Spill
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan : Bob Dylan
Clouds Taste Metallic : The Flaming Lips
Grace : Jeff Buckley
If You're Feeling Sinister : Belle and Sebastian
Sweden : The Mountain Goats
Rejoicing in the Hands : Devendra Banhart
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea : Neutral Milk Hotel
Pictures at an Exhibition : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Kill the Moonlight : Spoon
Seven Swans : Sufjan Stevens
Pink Moon : Nick Drake
Metaphorical Music : Nujabes
I Should Coco : Supergrass
The Meadowlands : The Wrens
There's Nothing Wrong With Love : Built to Spill
You Forgot It In People : Broken Social Scene
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads : Talking Heads
The Mysterious Production of Eggs : Andrew Bird

[Kid Modernist]

Paul Simon - Graceland
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Bob Marley - Exodus
The Cure - Disintegration
Mogwai - Young Team
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplan Over the Sea
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Velvet Underground - The VU and Nico
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
The Doors - The Doors
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Clash - London Calling

[chamberk]

Sure, why not?  In no real order..

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Elliott Smith - XO
Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Who - Who's Next
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Weezer - s/t (blue)
The Eels - Electro-shock Blues
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Clash - London Calling
Led Zeppelin - III
Radiohead - The Bends
The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things

[TheFoolOnTheHill]

1. Skyclad-Prince of The Povert Line
2. Pink Floyd-The Wall
3. Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
4. The Beatles-White Album
5. The Beatles-Abbey Road
6. The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street
7. The Rolling Stones=Sticky Fingers
8. John Lennon-Plastic Ono Band
9. George Harrison-All Things Must Pass
10. Modest Mouse-The Moon And Antartica
11. Black Sabbath-Paranoid
12. Metallica-Master of Puppets
13. Metallica-The Black Album
14. Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited
15. Miles Davis-Bitches Brew
16. The Who-Quadrophenia
17. The Who-Tommy
18. Queen-A Night At The Opera
19. The Doors-The Doors (debut)
20. Rush-2112

[Red House Painters]

There's no way I'll be able to make a definite list, especially with older albums, so here's a preliminary brainstorm.  Albums I'm fairly certain could go on there:

The Decemberists - Picaresque
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - Summerteeth
Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Weezer - Blue
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

Definitely at least one Beatles album.  This is hard.

[Giantandre]

New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Minuetmen - Double Nickles on The Dime
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Radiohead - Kid A
The Wrens - Meadowlands
Godspeed You Black Emporer! - F#A#oo
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Leftfield - Leftism
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but  Shafts of Light Sometimes...
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid In Full
Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjon
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Thats for this week ---- 1 from each artist

[Merkava]

- The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
 - And You Will Know Us... - Source Tags & Codes
 - Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
 - Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
 - The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
 - Fugazi - Red Medicine
 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
 - Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
 - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
 - Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
 - Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
 - Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
 - The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
 - The Shins - Oh! Inverted World
 - Mock Orange - Mind is Not Brain
 - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
 - Frog Eyes - The Golden River
 - Talking Heads - '77
 - Bear Vs Shark - Terrorhawk

[Bastardous Bassist]

Pictures at an Exhibition : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Which version do you have, and how is it?

Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto

That's a pretty darned good album.  It's one of those ones that pretty much nobody talks about, or at least nobody I know, because it just isn't as agressive as the more popular (at least among my friends) jazz albums are.

[sandocho]

In no order:

Leonard Cohen - The Future
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nick Cave - Let Love In
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
John Zorn - The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
Jandek - Telegraph Melts
Alec Empire and Merzbow - Alec Empire vs. Merzbow
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs - Black River Falls
Daniel Johnston - Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Syzygys - Complete Studio Recordings
Marc Ribot - Spiritual Unity
Naked City - Black Box [Torture Garden/Leng Tch'e]
Lambchop - Nixon
16 Horsepower - Folklore
Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Christian Marclay - Records 1981-1989

[StrikeThePostman]

Pictures at an Exhibition : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Which version do you have, and how is it?

Ack, I forgot to note.  Well, I have the orchestral version, done by the Philadelphia Orchestra.  It's really wonderful (the recording could be better though).  However, I put it up there mostly because it was originally written for the piano and I'm working through it now.  It's a lot of fun to play.

[Joseph]

Well, much like the others, I won't list mine in order, and I won't list more than one by each artist.  And of course, these are my favorite records, not what I consider the best.

The Doors - The Doors
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Weezer - Pinkerton
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Beck - Odelay
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the See
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Who - Who's Next
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People

  This is all liable to change depending on how I'm feeling though.

[Kai]

In no particular order:


Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Tenacious D - S/T
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Beatles - Abbey Road
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin'
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Judas Priest - Painkiller
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Primus - Frizzle Fry
The Residents - Animal Lover
Rush - Hemispheres

EDIT:

Dude. You totally forgot Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music.

Best...album...evah....

</sarcasm mode off>

Hey, I acutally Like that album. Seriously, I think it's pretty awesome.


Also, I like to point and laugh at the people who have nothing on there list made before 1999.

[Revenge_Therapist]

20. Bad Religion- No Control
19. John Coltrane- Lush Life
18. Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
17. GSYBE!-Slow Riot for.....
16. Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
15. Operation Ivy- Energy/Hectic LP
14. John Coltrane-One Down One Up; Live at the Half Note.
13. Against Me!-As the Eternal Cowboy
12. Skinny Puppy-VIVIsectVI
11. Mono- Under the Pipal Tree
10. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
09. Against Me!- Reinventing Axl Rose
08. Sonic Youth- Dirty
07. Nirvana- Incesticide
06. John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk-S/T
(As an aside this is an excellent studio album, it may be out of print however, so check out the new Live at Carnagie Hall Record.)
05. Boris The Sprinkler-8 Testicle Pogo Machine
04. Dead Kennedys- Frankenchrist
03. Ted Leo/Rx-Hearts of Oak
02. Fugazi- Repeater
01. The Clash- London Calling

[Skibas_clavicle]

Alkaline Trio - S/T
Alexisonfire - S/T
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in the People
Beulah - Yoko
Fischerspooner - #1
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
Mogwai - Come On, Die Young/Mr. Beast
Pixies - Doolittle
The Beatles - Revolver
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyrrany of Distance
Weezer - The Blue Album
Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
Pinback - S/T
The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
Wilco - AM
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Quasi - Hot Shit!

[jcknbl]

Kai wrote:

Also, I like to point and laugh at the people who have nothing on there list made before 1999.

I know what you mean, but at the same time music isn't just notes and chords. Its a cultural artifact and a product of a particular culture. Most of us here are young and grew up up with certain concepts, assumptions and paradigms ingrained in us- different ones than other generations grew up with. So it makes sense that people here will tend to have music from the past few years on their list. Thats the music that is part of us. I think its silly to only listen to new stuff but at the sametime I think there are reasons other than ignorance to value contemporary albums above older ones.


Ok, that probably makes no sense and its really verbose and pseudo-intellectual. I apoligize. Kids, this is what happens when you take cultural studies/critical theory courses...

[nescience]

Oh, whatever.  Shut up and buy a Velvet Underground album, kids.

PS: A quick once-over reveals that EVERYONE who lists on this thread has at least one pre-99 album.

Edit: accidentally posted the following message in a new post instead of editing into this post.  I've now merged the two posts:

I took the liberty of compiling a top 25 of our top lists so far, tallied by number of votes with ties broken by average rank.  All items on unranked lists are given the rank of 10.5 (even you small list people... sorry, you're penalized for giving smaller lists!).  here goes:

25 tie
24 Daft Punk - Discovery
23 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
22 The Doors - The Doors
21 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
14 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
14 Weezer - S/T (blue)
14 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
14 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
14 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
14 Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
14 Death Cab for Cutie - Transantatlanticism
13 Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
12 The Clash - London Calling
09 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
09 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
09 Belle and Sebastian - If you're Feeling Sinister
08 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
07 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
06 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
04 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People
04 Radiohead - OK Computer
03 Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
02 The Beatles - Abbey Road
01 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

[Spartan Pho3nix]

That's a fricken decent compiled list. However, I think it would be more fair if you simply said every album was worth the same and counted how many times it appeared on the page.

Pretty sour over rank number 3?

[nescience]

Yeah, I was gonna do that but I forgot.  Here are vote counts:

3 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3 Weezer - S/T (blue)
3 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
3 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
3 Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
3 Death Cab for Cutie - Transantatlanticism
3 Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
3 The Clash - London Calling
4 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
4 Belle and Sebastian - If you're Feeling Sinister
4 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
4 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
5 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
5 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People
5 Radiohead - OK Computer
7 Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
7 The Beatles - Abbey Road
8 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

[Bunnyman]

Just to mix things up...

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Autechre - LP5
Autechre - Envane
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Dntel - Life is full of Possibilites
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Atmosphere - Lucy Ford
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
NaS - Stillmatic
Mouse on Mars - Vulvaland
o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C.
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Pharcyde - Plain Rap
Photek - Modus Operandi
Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX, and 909
the Future Sound of London - Accelerator
Luke Vibert - Kerrier District
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

[amok]

having trouble narrowing it down so this is probably way off, just the first list that came to mind-

Conjure One - Self-Titled
Delerium - Poem
Qntal - Qntal II
M83 - Before The Dawn...
Four Tet - Rounds
Covenant - Northern Light
Code 64 - Storm
The Birthday Massacre - Nothing & Nowhere
Evil's Toy - Silvertears
Null Device - A Million Different Moments
The Nine - Dreamland
Wideband Network - Universe
Mind.In.A.Box - Lost Alone
New Order - Technique
Mesh - Who Watches Over Me
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Decemberists - Castaways & Cutouts
Radiohead - OKC
VNV Nation - Advance & Follow v2

[TrueNeutral]

In no specific order.

- Temple Of The Dog - S/T
- EElS - Electro-shock Blues
- EElS - Daisies to the Galaxy
- Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
- Orgy - Vapor Transmission
- Deadsy - Commencement [Demo Release] (someone gave me Orgy and Deadsy as a gift and I listened to them out of politeness. I'm glad I did, 'cause they grew on me)
- Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
- The Foo Fighters - The Colour And Shape
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
- Metallica - Master Of Puppets
- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Under The Sea
- Weezer - The Blue Album
- Midtown - Save The World, Lose The Girl (I don't recommend this to anyone, I just have an emotional attachment to it)
- The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
- Toshiro Masuda - Naruto Season One Original Soundtrack
- Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
- Rammstein - Mutter
- Radiohead - OK Computer

[KharBevNor]

I won't do an order, this time round. Apart from alphabetical

Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
Bathory - Blood on Ice
Carpathian Forest - Defending the Throne of Evil
Count Nosferatu Komanndo - Ultraviolence Uber Alles
Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Current 93 - Cats Drunk on Copper [Live at the Union Chapel]*
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan
Finntroll - Visor Om Slutet
Immortal - Battles in the North
Inkubus Sukkubus  - Wytches
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Skyclad - Prince of the Poverty Line
Sol Invictus - Death of the West
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Es Reiten Die Toten so Schnell, or, The Vampire Sucking at It's Own Vein
Type O Negative - October Rust
Waylander - Reawakening Pride Once Lost
Wyrd - Huldrafolk

Man, I'm mellowing out in my old age.


* Yes, a live album, but owing to the quality of the recording equipment used and the chapel acoustics, it remains one of their highest fidelity releases and contains almost certainly the best versions of Horsey, Black Flowers Please, Happy Birthday Pigface Christus, The Bloodbells Chime and Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil, amongst others.

[Thrillho]

Nah I can't just throw it off like this. I need to do some serious thinking about this, even though none of you care!

Although my first limitation is going to be - it has to be out of the CDs that I physically own, not just MP3.

[nescience]

Although my first limitation is going to be - it has to be out of the CDs that I physically own, not just MP3.

Well fucking of COURSE.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Well fucking of COURSE.

Well, two of the albums I included, I don't actually have a CD or record of them.  I do, however, have the entire album, because my friend pirates lots of music.  I fully intend to buy the album, but I haven't done so yet.  I actually intend to buy at least one of those albums quite soon...

[Giantandre]

Ok How about a 1999 - 2006 Fav. list ---- " You Know ... For The Kids"

M.I.A. - Arular
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Wilco - Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot
Johnny Cash - America IV (The Man Comes Around)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap Vol 2
Kayne West - The College Dropout
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Explosions in The Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
DJ Danger Mouse(Jay Z & The Beatles) - The Grey Album
Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sasha - Involver
St. Germain - Tourist
LCD Soundsystem - S/T
The Postal Service - Give Up
The White Stripes - Elephant
Zero 7 - When It Falls

Jesus Christ - I had to edit right after I finished -------

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

from the top of my head:

Under Byen - Det er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen
Under Byen - Kyst
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Bonnie 'prince' Billy - I see a Darkness
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Xiu Xiu - Fabolous Muscles
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Decemberists - Her Majesty
Radiohead - Kid A
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Loreena McKennitt - Book of Secrets
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Pixies - Doolittle
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes(Scarlet's Walk is a close second)

pretty boring list...

[nescience]

Well fucking of COURSE.

Well, two of the albums I included, I don't actually have a CD or record of them.  I do, however, have the entire album, because my friend pirates lots of music.  I fully intend to buy the album, but I haven't done so yet.  I actually intend to buy at least one of those albums quite soon...

Heh.  You've listened to all the albums on your list before, so I think we can let you live.  My comment is more an agreement with Dynamite's personal preference.  I do feel that if an album is good enough to make a Top 20 it deserves to be bought at some point.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Heh.  You've listened to all the albums on your list before, so I think we can let you live.  My comment is more an agreement with Dynamite's personal preference.  I do feel that if an album is good enough to make a Top 20 it deserves to be bought at some point.

Oh, clearly, but very few record stores that I know carry either Demons & Wizards or Nightwish (the two artists whose album I'm missing).  I think I'm going to make an amazon.com order as soon as I make some more money (my only regular gig is not happening the next two weeks, which means more time to practice, and no money).  I've got a reasonable amount of stuff coming up, though, so I should be making some money.

edit:  I just remembered where most of my money went: 1) recently stocked up on alcohol (some pretty reasonable wine, beer, and my personal favorite: good gin), and I just started dating someone.  Bye-bye money!

[blood_and_thunder]

In no particular order.....

Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm
Hot Water Music - Caution
Cave In - Antenna
The Crown - Deathrace King
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Dillinger Escape Plane - Miss Machine
Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3
Cecil - Subtitles
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Bane - It All Comes Down To This
Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
Bad News - Bad News
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Life Of Agony - Soul Searching Sun
Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
Farside - The Monroe Doctrine
Liberty 37 - God Machine

I typed these out rough at first, and it took bloody ages to go back and put capital letters on and spell everything right.