What are you top 5 albums of all time?

[Hazy992]

I know, I know! I might as well ask you to pick which of your children is your favourite, but come on it'll be fun!

So yeah which are your top 5 all time favourite albums? You don't have to order those five if you don't want (I'm not THAT cruel), but if you think you can then go for it!

Here's mine;

The Birthday Massacre - Violet
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

These aren't, of course, in rank order. That would be impossible

 

[the Dept of Science]

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices
Tigermilk - Belle and Sebastian
Separation Sunday - The Hold Steady

 

[LightspeedJack]

Radicals - OFWGKTA
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Plagues - The Devil Wears Prada
There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret - Bring Me The Horizon (longest album title ever)
For Those Who Have Heart - A Day To Remember

 

[Sleepy Sol]

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Tool - Lateralus
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies EP
Pearl Jam - Ten
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

...These are actually pretty recent. I listen to so much music that I don't often remember everything I listen to, unfortunately.

 

[bluepotatosack]

This is not going to be at all accurate, what I'm really going to do is list 5 albums I really like and have great respect for.

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Bonobo - Days to Come
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

 

[JaceArveduin]

Memories of a Time to Come - Blind Guardian

It's not quite out yet, but that's going to trump everything in my most humble opinion.

 

[Rooster893]

Radiohead - OK Computer
R.E.M. - Document
Beck - Mellow Gold
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Define the Great Line- Underoath
Children of Fire- Oh, Sleeper (I know it recently came out but it's fucking amazing)
The Slim Shady LP- Eminem
Straight Outta Compton- NWA
Take This To Your Grave- Fall Out Boy

Radicals - OFWGKTA
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Plagues - The Devil Wears Prada
There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret - Bring Me The Horizon (longest album title ever)
For Those Who Have Heart - A Day To Remember

Might I say sir, you have good taste in music.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

Tool - AEnima , Lateralus
Opeth - Damnation , Ghost Reveries
Mastodon - Leviathan , Blood Mountain
Machinehead - The Blackening
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen

As you can tell I couldn't make a decision on some of them and there is over 5.. Deal with it bro!

 

[joe-h2o]

Counting Crows - This Desert Life
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
Semisonic - All About Chemistry
Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor

Hard to narrow down to just five!

 

[Macabre9037]

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Picaresque - The Decemberists
Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Weezer(Blue Album) - Weezer

 

[SycoMantis91]

Ten off the top of my head, so clearly not definitive:

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana - Incesticide
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Led Zeppelin - s/t
Primus - Pork Soda
Tool - Aenima

Like I said, it'd take years of inner-debate to narrow it to five because I listen to and love so much music.But here's a few. i could think of much more obscure if given the time.

 

[Chased]

Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Om - Conference of the Birds
Gojira - The Art of Dying
Mew - Frengers
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Edit: Also My Downfall by Venetian Snares and Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy by Mum.

 

[Sleekgiant]

A Perfect Circle - The Thirteenth Step
RISHLOO - Terras Frames
Riverside - Out Of Myself
Indukti - Idmen
Esoterica - The Fool

 

[gorfias]

I don't really do albums anymore, all too often you get three hits and six wastes-of-space, but if I had to choose I'd point point at Metallica's discography and go "That". Perhaps Appetite for Detruction, Use your Illusion 1/2, most of Alice in Chains' releases, and STP's Core, if you absolutely insisted on a little band diversity.

Funny, when Green Day did "American Idiot" many music commentators were bemused: the idea of an album with a cohesive theme being the smash it was blew their minds: wasn't supposed to happen any more in this age of Itunes and individual downloads.

I can see why you don't do albums anymore... they so often disappoint. But when they work, they are amazing. That written,

Green Day: American Idiot
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Beatles: Abby Road
Kiss: Destroyer
Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic

Dang, there's more than 5 but those were at the top of my head.

 

[WeAreStevo]

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Megadeth - Rust in Peace

You sir, made my day.

Both Powerslave and Rust in Peace were the first two albums that got me into both bands...

Way back in the early 90s...

God I feel old now...

 

[WeAreStevo]

My top 10 (5 was too hard) favorite albums (in no particular order)

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (the album is an entire story told by hair metal. Hair metal is the second best way to hear a story.

Pink Floyd - The Wall (This is the best way to tell a story. Amazing album)

Oingo Boingo - Good For Your Soul

The Cramps - Stay Sick!

VNV Nation - Empires

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe

Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (their last good album IMO)

Fear - The Record

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (only because this album came out when I was in High School and I was hella goth >_>)