What are you top 5 albums of all time?

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Nouw

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In no particular order, my 5 favourite albums right now are:

Plastic Beach. Gorillaz.
It's message, or lack of, is what I like about it so much. By that I mean that it's a environmental-themed album that doesn't tell you to do this and don't do that. It also has a few damn good songs like Rhinestone Eyes and Cloud of Unknowing. Favourite song for message is definitely Superfast Jellyfish. Although I haven't really figured out the meaning of the others :p. Musically, my favourite is Plastic Beach. For now anyway, they always change.
Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd.
My first Pink Floyd album. I discovered them last year December and I absolutely adore them. I also like the Wall. The music and lyrics are brilliant. I have no favourite song because it's an outstanding concept album. It's one big song.
Discovery. Daft Punk.
The musicality is also what makes this album my favourite Daft Punk one. From the poppy One More Time to funky? Short Circuit, I love all the songs. It's heavy use of samples does not stir me away, they really use them well. I also like it for it's message about the music industry. Watch Interstella 5555. Did I mention that, that's the animated film that goes with it?
Prophet of the Last Eclipse. Luca Turilli.
A Power Metal album with a Sci-Fi theme. Set on Alkor Zephyr, it tells the down-fall of Arkan and the planet to the cold and his lover. The story is told through it's lyrics but of course, musically it's top too. My favourite Power Metal album, sorry Rhapsody :p.
Rust in Peace. Megadeth.
Hangar 18 and Peace Sells were my first two Megadeth songs. I have now branched out to many of their other ones but Rust in Peace stands out because of the songs' messages. Holy Wars...the Punishment Due is about religion and the Punisher. Yes the Marvel anti-hero! It also has Hangar 18, a song about aliens :). And my favourite Rust in Peace...Polaris. Yes I do sing the chorus outloud to the confusion of my friends. "I SPREAD DISEASE LIKE A DOG!"

I haven't really listened to the Beastie Boys as an album so they're not up there.
 

thespyisdead

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Californication has to be one of them, the rest i do not know... i can't rank the rest of what i listen in any specific order
 

AbyssalSanhedrin

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In no order:

Venom - Welcome to Hell
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness/Blessed are the Sick
Repulsion - Horrified
 

The Virgo

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My Top 5:

Seconds Out - Genesis
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Yes, I do like more than just Pink Floyd and Genesis, but I may just like one or two songs off the album of others while I love every song in the mentioned albums. "Sgt. Pepper's" is also a good one, but I enjoy those other albums more. I like Bohemian Rhapsody, but I have no idea what else is on that album. And I love the whole soundtrack for Inception, but I think it's unfair to put film-score soundtrack up against music. Prog-Rock could still hold its own against a movie score, though ...
 

Ed_Fox

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Frank Turner - Love, Ire and Song
Furry Lewis - Fourth and Beale
King Tubby - Declaration of Dub
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
 

jonasbgehr

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1Pink Floyd Wish you were here
2 Jethro tull Thick as a Brick
3 Kansas Leftoverture
4 Curved Air Air Airconditing
5 Fish Vigil in a Wildernes of mirrors
 

Bazoozle

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In no specific order:

Moving Pictures - Rush
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Ghosts That Linger - Trocadero
Only By Night - Kings of Leon

All over the place, eh?
 

Berenzen

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First Circle- Pat Matheny
The Big Roar- The Joy Formidable
Sufferer and the Witness- Rise Against
Lateralus- Tool
Live it Out- Metric

Yeah, I have an eclectic taste in music
 

fenrizz

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Metallica - Master of Puppets

The Ark - In Lust We Trust

Røyksopp - Junior

Nightwish - Oceanborn

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Led Zeppelin - IV
 

Zhandarr

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Protest The Hero - Fortress
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry

If you like any of these I love you.

PTH's other albums would've made this list but that would've been unfair. As would Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto and Muse's Absolution.
 

Silvianoshei

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Wow, Counting crows? Incubus? People have some good taste!

Here goes:

1. Incubus, A Crow Left of the Murder/S.C.I.E.N.C.E (TIED, I'm sorry, I can't decide)
2. Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
3. Ben Folds - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
4. Audioslave - Audioslave (self-titled)
5. Ben Kenney - Maduro

Stuff that just missed out:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Audioslave - Revelations
Incubus - Everything else. Seriously, I love everything band has done.
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Soundgarden - ...Everything.
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
RHCP - Californication
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angles
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
 

Browbeat

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Five albums? And they can't be the same band?! Kidding. Let's try this... Stated Artist, more or less in order of favorite, winning album and one that it just beats out.

Opeth - Ghost Reveries (Runner-up: Blackwater Park)
Ayreon - 10101001 (Runner Up: Into the Electric Castle)
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution (Runner-up: Ziltoid the Omniscient)
Celldweller - eponymous album (Runner-up: Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head) - tough to call out albums, seeing as most of them are just a batch of a few tracks.
Lonely Island - Incredibad (Runner-up: Turtleneck and Chain)

Cheating!

Fair to Midland - Fables of a Mayfly (Runner-up: Arrows and Anchors)
 

Sprinal

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The problem I have with these threads is that many people simply write what they like.
I also have this problem and I thus do not usually add my "best of all time" list.
Also the other thing is that popular =/= good. Again this is often missed yet really isn't as much of a problem.
yet I may add a few proberbly not the best {of all time} yet by no means bad:
Good Charlote - The young and the hopeless
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
Led Zeppelin - IV
Opeth - Watershed
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto 413
etc
Note if you were to date these it would be noted that they would be all fairly recent (with and exception being Vivaldi) and probably not remembered in 50 years.
 

WalrusPowers

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5. Daft Punk - Discovery
4. Chemical Brothers - We are the Night
3. Pulp Fiction - OST
2. Deep Purple - the Deep Purple Singles
1. Chemical Brothers - Further
 

Ectoplasmicz

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This is mighty difficult, and i've actually been thinking for a good amount of time about this. While i probably missed a few glaringly obvious choices in my mind, this is what i've come up with :)

Nirvana - Nevermind
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Beck - Mellow Gold
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
 

Elementary - Dear Watson

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LightspeedJack said:
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)
You've obviously never heard of:

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right

Or:

Soulwax:Most of the remixes we've made for other people over the years except for the one for Einstürzende Neubauten because we lost it and a few we didn't think sounded good enough or just didn't fit in length-wise, but including some that are hard to find because either people forgot about them or simply because they haven't been released yet, a few we really love, one we think is just ok, some we did for free, some we did for money, some for ourselves without permission and some for friends as swaps but never on time and always at our studio in Ghent.
 

Ieyke

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Top 5?
Uh....pick 5 of these:

Incubus - Make Yourself
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Eve 6 - Eve 6
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Linkin Park - Meteora
Staind - The Singles: 1996?2006 (kind of cheating...)
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow


So many choices.....
 

Elementary - Dear Watson

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Nouw said:
Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd.
My first Pink Floyd album. I discovered them last year December and I absolutely adore them. I also like the Wall. The music and lyrics are brilliant. I have no favourite song because it's an outstanding concept album. It's one big song.
I know what you mean here, and I do love the album, but I actually prefer Meddle and Wish you were here myself... Although if I was picking a favourite from Dark Side, it would definately be Great Gig in the Sky!!

Nouw said:
Discovery. Daft Punk.
The musicality is also what makes this album my favourite Daft Punk one. From the poppy One More Time to funky? Short Circuit, I love all the songs. It's heavy use of samples does not stir me away, they really use them well. I also like it for it's message about the music industry. Watch Interstella 5555. Did I mention that, that's the animated film that goes with it?
Good choice, but personally I always feel the 2nd half of the album drops the ball compared to the first...
I prefer Homework myself... Even though it doesn't have the classics that Discovery has, I feel that it works better al the way through... Saying that, nothing beats Aerodynamic...

And Don't forget... The best Daft Punk album: Tron:Legacy!!! :p

Nouw said:
Prophet of the Last Eclipse. Luca Turilli.
A Power Metal album with a Sci-Fi theme. Set on Alkor Zephyr, it tells the down-fall of Arkan and the planet to the cold and his lover. The story is told through it's lyrics but of course, musically it's top too. My favourite Power Metal album, sorry Rhapsody :p.
Haha! I don't thing the rest of the band would mind that you prefer their lead guitarists solo stuff to theirs! I've heard more of their band stuff myself, but I have heard that Luca on his own is pretty awesome!
 

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Number of the Beast/Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

No Sacrifice No Victory - HammerFall

Human Remains - Hell

Nevermind - Nirvana

Who's next - The Who

1987(Or Whitesnake) - Whitesnake