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[msouva]

My favorites, mind you, and not "greatest" by anyone else's standards. Only my ears. No real order, but here goes:

-Radiohead- OK Computer
-Weezer- Weezer (blue)
-Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
-AFI- The Art of Drowning
-REM- Automatic for the People
-Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin I
-The Rolling Stones- 40 Licks
-Daft Punk- Discovery
-The Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness
-Radiohead- Kid A
-Alkaline Trio- From Here to Infermery
-Queen- A Night at the Opera
-Semisonic- Feeling Strangely Fine
-Boston- Boston
-Weezer- Pinkerton
-U2- War
-AC/DC- Back in Black
-Miles Davis- Milestones
-Green Day- Dookie
-The Who- Tommy

[KharBevNor]

My local HMV stocks both Nightwish and D&W...

I only actually own 4 of the albums on my list. I would buy them, but I listen to a lot of music, and I don't have much income. I'm planning on repaying the score to all my favourite bands when I get a job.

Of course, some stuff, like the Skyclad and the Current 93, I'd have trouble buying even if I wanted to. Seriously, you wanna piss the clerk at an indie record store off a lot? Go in and ask to order a Current 93 record. Especially a silly one, like Lucifer Over London or Crowleymass.

[Kai]

I'm so going to do that.

[Bastardous Bassist]

My local HMV stocks both Nightwish and D&W...

Down in [sarcasm] wonderfully cosmopolitan Charleston [/sarcasm], there are no really comprehensive record stores.  We have an indie shop, but I can't stand indie (sorry, and don't try to convince me otherwise, my roomate really likes indie, so I've heard a bunch of it.  I just plain don't care for it, at all), and they don't stock anything but indie, pretty much.  I mean, the local place that has a reasonable sized concert music collection (the size of which was recently reduced by them moving world music and new age into the same place, *sigh*) barely has any composers from after 1950.

[Kai]

Welcome to my world, my friend. The only two record stores of any worth here at all are both closing, which makes me super sad. The rest are basically a Sam Goody, and a shitty indie store. Seriously, guys, your music isn't good enough to warrant it's own shop.

[nEmoGrinder]

In no particular order:


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

I would like to point and laugh at anyone who has nothing AFTER 1999 on their list.  Classics are good but you can't miss out on your own generations music.  That's just being a rock snob.

oh and when you write Weezer - self titled, do you really have to add (blue)?  .....I'm safe we can all assume you're not talking about the green album...

nEmo

[Tago Mago]

1. Can, Tago Mago
2. Boredoms, Super AE
3. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
4. Tim Buckley, Starsailor
5. Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
6. Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
7. King Crimson, Starless and Bible Black
8. Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom
9. Faust, Faust
10. Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance
11. Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
12. Miles Davis, Live-Evil
13. Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand
14. Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
15. Yes, Close to the Edge
16. Patti Smith, Horses
17. Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1)
18. John Zorn, The Circle Maker
19. Amon Duul II, Tanz der Lemminge
20. Tom Waits, Alice

[Kai]

Oh, I'm certainly not discriminating against music nowadays. At least 3 of the albums on my list are post 1999 (I don't know when exactly Disco Volante was made). Considering that we're comparing a period of six years (1999 to Now) to 1950 to 1999, I think having 3/4 from 1999 is a pretty large amount on that list.


EDIT: And Tago Mago is such a great album.

[Storm Rider]

In no order, and limiting to one non-compilation album per artist:

Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (that's right, I like it more than Surfing with the Alien)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Testament - The New Order
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Dio - Holy Diver
The Doors - The Doors
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Star One - Space Metal
Rush - 2112
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Really, there were some pretty tough decisions. Every Testament album (yes, even the Ritual) is amazing, and I nearly took Number of the Beast or Piece of Mind over Somewhere in Time for my Maiden album.

[Kai]

It really is a bastard of a choice. I could probably replace any of those with some of mine, but these were more of a nostalgic descision than anything.

[Giantandre]

I had really forgot about In The Court of The Crimson King -- I put my copy on this morning (A pristine vinyl copy I might add) -- Wow it's a great album

[Kai]

My copy is on vinyl too. You just don't get the experience without the big cover and the planet with the weird face. So 70's.

[Tago Mago]

I have both the vinyl and the CD, courtesy of my dangerous habit of accepting any and all LPs my friends and family are wanting to get rid of.

[Hat]

My personal favorite albums, in alphabetical order.

A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Revolver
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - We Got Robbed! (Live in New Orleans)
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin - II
Neko Case - Blacklisted
NIN - The Fragile
Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
Radiohead - Kid A
Something For Kate - Beautiful Sharks
Spiderbait - Grandslam
TISM - www.tism.wanker.com
Tool - Aenima

I picked up a copy of In The Court of The Crimson King on Vinyl, even though I don't actually own a record player. It sang to me across the record store and I just had to buy it. Sometimes I will just put the CD on and stare at the vinyl case, blasted out of my mind.

[E. Spaceman]

My copy is on vinyl too. You just don't get the experience without the big cover and the planet with the weird face. So 70's.

While ITCOTCK's cover is glorious on vinyl, it pales when compared to A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson. Easily my most loved vinyl thingy

[Storm Rider]

HAHA THAT ALBUM'S ABBREVIATION IS ALMOST ITCOCK!

It had to be said.

[wigfried]

i'd do it but 90% of my choices are from before 1989 and i'm afraid i'd get banned.

[ozphactor]

i'd do it but 90% of my choices are from before 1989 and i'm afraid i'd get banned.

Ah, fuck 'em all, just do it. I'm pretty sure 90% of my choices would be from after 1989. So ban me.

[nescience]

Hell, over 50% of my list is pre-1989.  Let's see it!

[Hector Gilbert]

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

Can I just say that I LOVE your list?

I'll think of mine in the next while.

[Hector Gilbert]

Right, here's my list:

20. Entombed - Clandestine
19. Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
18. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
17. The Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die
16. Coil - Black Light District: A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
15. Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
14. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico
13. Jandek - Worthless Recluse
12. Tindersticks - Tindersticks  (1993)
11. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
10. Sonic Youth - EVOL
9. Death In June - ...But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
8. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
7. The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka
6. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
5. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichungen Des Patienten O.T.
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
1. Tangerine Dream - Zeit

[Technetium]

I'll limit it to one choice per band/artist. In no order...

Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
The Flower Kings - Unfold the Future
Opeth - Still Life
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Pink Floyd - The Wall
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Kansas - Leftoverture
King Crimson - Red
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
IQ - Subterranea
Agalloch - The Mantle
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Tool - Lateralus
Neal Morse - One
Devin Townsend - Terria
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Yes - Close to the Edge
Arena - The Visitor

[Storm Rider]

Holy crap, somebody else that listens to the Flower Kings. I salute your proggitude, sir.

Kickass list, btw.

[msouva]

oh and when you write Weezer - self titled, do you really have to add (blue)?  .....I'm safe we can all assume you're not talking about the green album...

nEmo

Well, this is true, but what if some poor unfortunate child comes across this list and search for Weezer? And what if their results come back in order of newest releases?

I think that would scar them for life. As much as I like Weezer, I see the Green Album and Make Believe as records that shouldn't be mentioned alongside Blue, Pinkerton and Maladroit. In the end, their overall album quality is still "good" in my book, but thanks to those two things, it is down from "excellent."

[nescience]

I always call Weezer - Weezer (1994) "Blue".  I don't think it's too much trouble to say that.

[Gryff]

I tried but I just can't do this… Highway 61 Revisited would be in there though.

[Kai]

Psh. The Times They Are A Changin is better.

Holy crap, somebody else that listens to the Flower Kings. I salute your proggitude, sir.

Kickass list, btw.

...Who the fuck are the Flower Kings?

[Gryff]

FIGHT YOU! Actually, you could just about make my top 20 all Bob Dylan albums and I wouldn't be too unhappy.

[Kai]

Shit, I could do that. Except for Blonde on Blonde. I don't really like that album too much. Replace it with Cash or something.

[Gryff]

No Blonde on Blonde? How come?

It's quite stylistically similar to Highway 61, so I don't understand why you would like one but not the other...

[Kai]

Something about it bugs me. I just really can't get into it. I know one of the reasons I hate it is the opening song; Rainy Day Women? It's just too ridiculous for me to delve into the album.

[Storm Rider]

Holy crap, somebody else that listens to the Flower Kings. I salute your proggitude, sir.

Kickass list, btw.

...Who the fuck are the Flower Kings?

The name sounds pretty weird, I admit, but the Flower Kings are an obscure prog rock band. The only reason I even know about them is because they're on Inside Out, the insanely good independent prog label. Maybe I'll put something of theirs up on the Forced Listening thread later.[/b]

[Gryff]

B…but everybody must get stoned!

I would try to convince you of Blonde on Blonde's worth, but it would probably just end up with me shouting song titles at you and being exasperated, so I won't go there.

[Gryff]

LEOPARD SKIN PILL BOX HAT!

Sorry, but seriously.

[DinosaursofRomania]

My first post ever shall be my favourite albums! YAY FOR ALBUMS!!! I can't really put them in an order from favourite to least favourite, cause that would be like ordering my children. (Not that I have children...)

-Billy Joel:Piano Man
-Bruce Springsteen:Born to Run
-Pink Floyd:Is there Anybody out there? The Wall Live 1980-1981
-The Decemberists:Picaresque
-Radiohead:Kid A
-Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
-Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
-Miles Davis:Birth of the Cool
-Vagelis:Blade Runner (Soundtrack)
-Harry Manx:West Eats Meet
-The Eagles: Hotel California
-Paul Simon: Graceland
-The Last Five Years (Soundtrack)
-Pink Floyd:Wish You Were Here (Best album art ever!)
-The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
-Yes: Close to the Edge
-Simon and Garfunkle: Greatest Hits

Damn, can't think of a last three.

[Kai]

Thick as a Brick and Close to the Edge are awesome albums.

[DinosaursofRomania]

Yeah, 70's prog is what it's all about. What's a good album by the Flower Kings? I'll check them out.

[Houdinimachine]

Oooh this is fun.


Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Fruit Bats - Mouthfuls
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Easily my favorite album of all time.)
Menomena - I am the Fun Blame Monster
Belle and Sebastion - The Life Pursuit
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Harvey Danger - King James Version
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
The Decemberists - Picaresque
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Green Day - Nimrod (Though American Idiot comes close because of Jesus of Suburbia)
The Roots - Phrenology


Yes... I have eclectic tastes.

[minkles]

Here:

1 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Shake The Sheets
2 The Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
3 Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West
4 Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
5 The Decemberists- Picaresque
6 The Beatles- Abbey Road
7 Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
8 Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
9 Of Montreal- The Sunlandic Twins
10 The Shins- Oh, Inverted World
11 Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
12 Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
13 The Beatles- The Beatles (White Album)
14 Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
15 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Hearts of Oak
16 Of Montreal- Satanic Panic in the Attic
17 The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
18 Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights
19 Arcade Fire- Funeral
20 The New Pornographers- Electric Version

[Storm Rider]

Yeah, 70's prog is what it's all about. What's a good album by the Flower Kings? I'll check them out.

Unfold the Future is indeed an amazing album, but it's not their typical style, it's got jazz elements to it. If you're looking for something that's more in their usual style, try Space Revolver first, it's also damn good. I don't have their latest album, or even any tracks from it, but I've heard it's pretty good, though not their best.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Yes... I have eclectic tastes.

I think that's pretty much the watchword of this place.  I'm so glad that everyone has such wierd and eclectic tastes.  In fact, it almost seems like the contest here is to see who can like the most eclectic and unknown bands, rather than the last forum where I was.  There the contest was who could like the most technical bands.  There was very little non-prog stuff that was accepted by them (it was the John Myung board, for anybody wondering).

[Storm Rider]

This is irrelevant, but John Myung is an incredible bassist. Just thought I'd through that out there.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Agreed, and those few regulars on his board were pretty darned good themselves.  In fact, that's one of the reasons I don't go there.  I'm just not an electric bass player any more.  I mean, I haven't played it at all since December, so in general, I wouldn't really understand what they were talking about.  Anyways, enough irrellevancy.

[Iwan]

It's nice to see that everyone is into several kinds of music. And maybe I've looked over it but there is absolutely NO Iron Maiden or Bruce "here are my genitals, feel free to kick" Dickinson (Thank you, mr. Elton) I LOVE IT!

My top 20 in no particular order;

Metallica 'Master Of Puppets'

Ancient Rites 'Blasfemia eternal'
Somebody mentioned 'Dim Carcosa'. It is also a great great album but 'Blasfemia eternal' is more brutal (don't worry, melodies are still there). Plus, nostalgic reasons.

Manu Chao 'Radio Bemba Sound System'
the perfect summer-BBQ-party-CD. I take it anywhere and it always gets great response.

Jimi Hendrix Experience 'Electric Ladyland'

John Hiatt 'Crossing Muddy Waters'

Black Sabbath 'Black Sabbath'

Kyuss 'Blues for the Red Sun'

Queens Of The Stone Age 'Songs for the deaf'

Yawning Man 'Rock Formations'

Bob Dylan one of his offcial bootlegs, the one from 1964 in New York.

Tool 'Lateralus'

The Mars Volta 'Frances the Mute'

Biohazard 'State Of the World Adress'
Nostalgia again? Well perhaps. And from a musical point of view; some of the best crossover metal ever produced.

Misery Loves Co. 'Misery Loves Co.'
I don't really expect much people to know them. It's industrial with an psycho edge.

Magnet 'The Wickerman: original soundtrack'

dEUS 'In a bar under the sea'

Evil Superstars 'Love is Okay'

Nirvana 'Unplugged'
This is by far one of the live albums ever. I also feel it displays another side of Cobain that you can't hear on 'Bleach or 'Nevermind'.

Robert Johnson 'The Complete Recordings'
Rather primitove recordings, lots of 'scratchy' noises but very soulful and wicked from time to time

Hawkwind 'Future Reconstructions -Ritual of the Solstice'
Just techno remixes of Hawkwind songs. Really great stuff. One of the few electronic albums I have

That should be about twenty.

[TrueNeutral]

- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

Sorry to burst your bubble.

[Kai]

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

Sorry to burst your bubble again. I almost also put Bruce's album The Chemical Wedding on there too. Seriously, what's wrong with the Maiden? And then you like, follow it up with Master of Puppets? what the fuck is up with that?

[Iwan]

I really DO NOT like Iron Maiden.
It's just that I can't take Iron Maiden and more specificly Dickinson seriously. Many people think the world of him as a singer. Whenever I hear him, I hear operette-esque singing lines (which I don't like) and whenever I see him, I see a guy doing something that appoaches a grand écart in the wrong direction.

I'll admit that Maiden and I got off at the wrong foot; I gave them a try when 'The X-Factor' was just released. Not. A. Good. Idea.

However, to end with a nice thing about Maiden; I really liked it that Bruce spoke his mind about Ozzy, Sharon's docu-soap and the American audience instead of rechewing and spitting out the same old crap about love, respect and admiration.

I really like 'Master of Puppets'. It has nothing to do with Maiden so, who ever suggests that I'm contradicting myself can go contradict himself.
'MoP' is just a very complete album; apart from the fast and venomous riffs, it has also some very clever softer parts (listen to it trough your headphones if you don't believe me). The softer parts are the reasons why I like 'MoP' better then '...And Justice for All'.
Once again, Metallica and Iron Maiden are two completely different bands.

Besides, just because I'm into metal (deep down I'm still a headbanger) doesn't mean that I have to like every bit of metal that's out there for sale or download.
I don't like Immortal or Maiden.
I've never checked out Judas Priest properly,
I don't think much of Anthrax,
I think Yngwie Malmsteen is a wanker who can't tell his penis from his guitar (which would explain a lot).
The pose around Manowar's music ('true metal!' 'Fakes shall die!') makes me want to go out and buy 'Yellow brick road' by Elton John.
And the whole 'We'll miss you, Dimebag, let's do a tribute'-thing makes me want to vomit. The fuckers who are all about love&respect now were the assholes who wished that Darrel would OD 5 to 10 years ago.

On the other hand, I recently rediscovered Type O Negative,
'Rust in peace' was the first metal album I purchased and it still finds a way to my CD-player,
Sepultura with Max is still awesome,
I can still appreciate a nice old school death metal album
and Trey Azagtoth plays some badass maniac solos.

So there are lots of thing that I like on Planet Metal but also lots of stuff that I really don't like. It's just that a lot of the things I don't like are heavily appreciated. And the current stae of metal isn't quite my cup of tea.
But that's just me. You really don't have to agree.

[Kai]

I'm just going to respond to it in order because it's easier for me that way.

Not to say that Master of Puppets is a bad album, I just find it suprising that  someone would like one and abhor the other. It's odd. I guess I can see the reasoning behind it. And that thing with Ozzy/Sharon? totally wins.

I'm not superbly keen on Immortal either.  Anthrax.. I really do like, but most of that is a nostalgic thing.  Yngwie I don't like. At all. Period. (You can play 80 notes in a second? Good, let's write a SONG now). Manowar are just so cheesy and elitist it hurts. The whole Dimebag thing bugged the shit out of me. Seriously, nobody was paying attention to DImebag since Pantera anyways. I mean, I'm not condoning shooting the guy, but I'm a little iffy on Pantera.


Type O Negative, Megadeth, Sepultra are amazing.

[TrueNeutral]

When I first heard them, I thought Manowar was a parody of fantasy metal and stuff. I thought it was pretty funny. Then I found out they were serious. Now I think it's hilarious.

I think the thing is that I don't really care about vocalists. I can listen to any vocalist except for black or death metal vocalists and not give a shit. (Don't give me that 'you just gotta get used to it' crap, I've tried to get into it countless times. I just don't like it.) Bruce Dickinson can be ridiculous sometimes, but hey, so can Hetfield.

[Kai]

Yeah, Manowar are pretty hilarious.


On the death/black metal growls: I originally hated them. completely, and I just couldn't listen to the music at all. Then about a year after that it just kinda clicked. I have no idea why.