Your All-Time Top 10 Favorite Albums

[Roy Tucker]

Originally Posted by dsmith421

My friend saw Buckner at the Southgate last week and he apparently fired his band in the middle of the show. Weird.

My son was at that show and told me the same thing.

[M2]

Metalist

Top 10 favorites that others have mentioned in this thread

Elastica - Elastica (Justine Frischman affects me in indecent ways)
Beatie Boys - License to Ill (great litmus test album in the '80s, people who liked were capable of having fun, people who didn't weren't)
The Cars - The Cars (almost a perfect album)
Black Flag - Damaged (THE definitive American hardcore record, used to be in a band that covered "Rise Above")
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (hard to choose between this and "This Year's Model", the guitar riff at in "Miracle Man" puts this one over the top for me)
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies (makes me feel guilty that I don't drink more)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps (or, how I learned to love distortion)
Talking Heads - Little Creatures (the first side of the album was good, the second side was glorious, if only they had released it a month earlier so I could have listened to "Road to Nowhere" during my high school graduation)
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz (forget about all those Black Sabbath dirges, Ozzy came out rocking in his first solo album, there's still radio stations in central Maine where you can hear "Steal Away" played on the radio)
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (little known fact, this album was played as background music for Entertainment Tonight at various points during the mid-90s, now that is subversive)

Would have had to go with Chemical Brothers if someone had picked "Dig Your Own Hole" and Husker Du if someone had picked "New Day Rising".

[Johnny Footstool]

Beatie Boys - License to Ill (great litmus test album in the '80s, people who liked were capable of having fun, people who didn't weren't)

"The New Style" is one of the best rap songs ever. Twenty years ahead of its time.

[vaticanplum]

I was getting too much work done so I decided to try this again. I tried REALLY REALLY HARD TO GET IT TO TEN OK GUYS but I had to cut out jazz and blues to do it.

Ok Computer - Radiohead
Is This It - The Strokes
In It For the Money - Supergrass
Below the Branches - Kelley Stoltz
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
London Calling - The Clash
Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Live at Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

I'd be happy to post that top 50 list though. There's a place where you can do it with pretty pictures -- frazy.com

[Ravenlord]

i don't think this is possible to do...

Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
Alice Cooper - Killer
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
Alice Cooper - The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Anthrax - Among the Living
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
The Beatles - Anthology
Johnny Cash - American I
Johnny Cash - American II
Johnny Cash - American III
Johnny Cash - American IV
Johnny Cash - American V
Johnny Cash - The Legendary Johnny Cash
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
Eucharist - Mirror Worlds
Merle Haggard - Haggard As I Am
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Edward the Great
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?!
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson - Anthology
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Savatage - Handful of Rain
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
Savatage - Poets and Madmen
Slayer - Reign in Blood
System of a Down - Toxicity


...and i'm right...i have what, 40 listed? and i still feel weird about leaving some stuff off.

[Edskin]

Good lists, but all of you are wrong, unfortunately.

So, here is the CORRECT answer to the all-time Top 10 albums:

Note** I am not including "best of's" or live performances, in which case this list would be very different-- just studio albums.

10. Pearl Jam- Ten
9. Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet w/ Butterfly Wings
8. For Squirrels- Example
7. Dave Matthews Band- Crash
6. Phish- Hoist
5. Dave Matthews Band- Busted Stuff
4. Blues Traveler- Traveler and Thieves
3. Weezer- The Blue Album
2. Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming
1. Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets

[pedro]

Originally Posted by Edskin

Good lists, but all of you are wrong, unfortunately.

So, here is the CORRECT answer to the all-time Top 10 albums:

Note** I am not including "best of's" or live performances, in which case this list would be very different-- just studio albums.

10. Pearl Jam- Ten
9. Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet w/ Butterfly Wings
8. For Squirrels- Example
7. Dave Matthews Band- Crash
6. Phish- Hoist
5. Dave Matthews Band- Busted Stuff
4. Blues Traveler- Traveler and Thieves
3. Weezer- The Blue Album
2. Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming
1. Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets

I really like the song Mighty KC by For Squirrels.

[Puffy]

1. Appettite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
2. Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
2(a). Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
3. Pearl Jam - Ten
4. Candlebox - Candlebox
5. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
6. Run DMC - Raising Hell
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
8. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illision II
9. Soundgarden - Superunknown
10. Pearl Jam - Vs.

[Red Leader]

Originally Posted by Puffy

1. Appettite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
2. Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
3. Pearl Jam - Ten
4. Candlebox - Candlebox
5. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
6. Run DMC - Raising Hell
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
8. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illision II
9. Soundgarden - Superunknown
10. Pearl Jam - Vs.

Dude, you already submitted your list on the first page.

you're getting old.

[Puffy]

Originally Posted by Red Leader

Dude, you already submitted your list on the first page.

you're getting old.

You sure about that, Sherlock Holmes??

[Red Leader]

Originally Posted by Puffy

You sure about that, Sherlock Holmes??

Absolutely. not.

(and you can call me John)

[Edskin]

I really like the song Mighty KC by For Squirrels.

Great band. Two members (singer and bass player) were killed in a car crash shortly after this album got somewhat popular. Had the makings of a pretty good band-- they managed to produce one great album. "Mighty KC" is about Curt Kobain....FYI.

[pedro]

Originally Posted by Edskin

Great band. Two members (singer and bass player) were killed in a car crash shortly after this album got somewhat popular. Had the makings of a pretty good band-- they managed to produce one great album. "Mighty KC" is about Curt Kobain....FYI.

Yeah, I remember that. Very sad.

I actually have the CD. I like it quite a lot. Very REM like.

[Razor Shines]

Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band
Metallica (Black) - Metallica
What's the Story (Morning Glory) - Oasis
Appetite for Destruction - G n' R
Zuma - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Out of the Vein - Third Eye Blind (I'm embarrassed to admit that one)
Australia - Howie Day
Brad Paisley - Mud on the Tires
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

[Razor Shines]

What about the top ten live (not the band) albums:

Live Era '87-'93 - G 'n R
Live @ The Red Rocks - Dave Matthews Band
Live On Two Legs - Pearl Jam
Folsome Prison - Johnny Cash
Unplugged - Nirvana
Unplugged - Dashboard Confessional
Live @ Billy Bob's Texas - Pat Green
Any Given Thursday - John Mayer
Live @ Luther College - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Across a Wire: Live in NY - Counting Crows