[Macola]

Well, since it was so hard to come up with 15 songs, top ten albums may be easier. Most of my favorites are concept or theme albums. Too bad there aren't many these days, where every track is worth the price of the CD...

1. Misplaced Childhood--Marillion
2. Dark Side of the Moon--Pink Floyd
3. Making Movies--Dire Straits
4. Radio K.A.O.S--Roger Waters
5. Love Over Gold--Dire Straits
6. Brothers in Arms--Dire Straits
7. Dire Straits--Dire Straits (anyone see a pattern here?)
8. Bat out of Hell--Meat Loaf
9. Clapton--Live in Japan (don't remember the title)
10. Seasons--Magna Carta

[Face Ache]

Off the top of my head...

The Wall--Pink Floyd
Hot Shot--Shaggy
Out Of The Bag--The Gadflys (Aussie)
Greatest Hits--The Cruel Sea (Aussie)
Gold (greatest hits)--Cold Chisel (Aussie)
Aliens Ate My Buick--Thomas Dolby
So Much For The Afterglow-- Everclear

And I'll pinch some from Macola...

Making Movies--Dire Straits
Love Over Gold--Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms--Dire Straits
Bat out of Hell--Meat Loaf

That's eleven. It's better if it goes up to eleven.

[Mr. Blur]

okay, here goes, in no particular order, and likely to change every week. and as a tribute to "the tap" i'll go up to 11 as well
Peter Hammill: Over
the Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
la D�sseldorf: 1st
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory
Barry Adamson: Soul Murder
Wire: Chairs Missing
Television: Marquee Moon
Lisa Germano: Happiness
the Casualties: Assume Crash Positions

[file]

Nirvana-Nevermind
MC Hammer-Hammer Time
Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique
Barbra Streisand-Love Will Always Last

[juanvaldes]

Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Metallica - Metallica
...And Justice for all - Metallica
Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
Sublime - Sublime
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nevermind - Nirvana

[Steve]

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine

Seconded.

Add:
Fashion Nugget - Cake
All - Weezer

[malvolio]

Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Eno - Another Green World
Eno - Before and After Science
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico - June 1, 1974
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Velvet Underground & Nico - Banana album
Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Patti Smith - Horses

Okay, I'll stop at 11. I could go on like this all night, though.

[scottiB]

The first that pop into my head:

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II
The Who: Who's Next
U2: The Unforgettable Fire
Jeff Buckley: Grace
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Herbie Hancock: Headhunters
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

[Justin W. Williams]

Tool - Aenima
Disturbed - The Sickness
Sevendust - (Whatever their first album is called)
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)
MxPx - Teenage Politics

No particular order there.

[Thrax]

Volume 8: The Threat is Real - Anthrax
Rust in Peace - Megadeth
Master of Puppets - Metallica

[starman]

Long list. I live and breathe music.

Rush - Hold Your Fire
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Rush - Moving Pictures
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Journey - Escape
Journey - Frontiers
Journey - Departure
Journey - Infinity
Journey - Evolution
Journey - Dream After Dream
Van Halen - Diver Down
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
AC/DC - Back in Black
Blondie - Parallel Lines
B-52's - Rock Lobster
NIN - The Fragile
NIN - The Downward Spiral
NIN - Quake Soundtrack
Lynard Skynard - Live
The Eagles - Hotel California
Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Beatles - Everything, especially the White Album (grew up with that album)
Vangelis - Heaven and Hell
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39
Vangelis - Spiral
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Queen - Everything they've ever done
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Everything they've ever done
Paul Simon - Graceland
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

Soundtracks:
Star Wars
Empire
Final Fantasy X
Star Trek: TMP
Star Trek II
Aliens
Edward Scissorhands
Rocky Horror

I listen to too much friggin' music.

Mike

[scaught]

Originally posted by file:
Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique

best beastie boys album by far.

[pixelghetto]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Weezer - Blue album
Weezer - Pinkerton
Nirvana - Nevermind
Deftones - White Pony
Deadsy - Self Titled
Orgy - Candyass
Failure - Fantastic Planet
On - Shifting Skin
Duran Duran - Rio
The Cure - Disintigration
VNV Nation - Future Perfect
Faith No More - Angel Dust

[OreoCookie]

Fourteen Pieces -- Cosmic Baby
Stellar Supreme -- Cosmic Baby
White On Blonde -- Texas
On A Day Like Today -- Bryan Adams
Unplugged -- Bryan Adams
Love Songs -- Miles Davis
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy -- Sarah McLachlan
Mirrorball -- Sarah McLachlan

[ringo]

Whole albums?

Nirvana - Bleach
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged: Live in New York
Soundgarden - Superunknown
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of the Knife
Sonic Youth - SYR1 (Perspectives Musicales)
Bratmobile - Pottymouth
Velvet Underground - What Goes On: Disc Three
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Man or Astroman - Destroy All Astromen!
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Zap Mama - A Ma Zone

[philzilla]

IN NO ORDER!

01. led zeppelin - physical graffiti
02. slayer - reign in blood
03. the beatles - sgt. pepper
04. jane's addiction - nothing's shocking
05. nine inch nails - pretty hate machine
06. iron maiden - powerslave
07. nomeansno - wrong
08. rush - moving pictures
09. the prodigy - experience
10. a - hi:fi serious
11. nwa - straight outta compton

i could've gone on...

all those albums had a serious effect on my life, in one way or another. with the exception of three of them, i am lucky enough to have enjoyed them since the week they were released

[file]

Originally posted by scaught:


best beastie boys album by far.

yeah, but beastie boys is hard to judge by album. They change with the times.

ill communication is classic in it's own 90s sort of way. but yeah, paul's boutique was one of the better albums whole and whole

[Mr. Blur]

Originally posted by malvolio:
Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Eno - Another Green World
Eno - Before and After Science
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico - June 1, 1974
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Velvet Underground & Nico - Banana album
Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Patti Smith - Horses

Okay, I'll stop at 11. I could go on like this all night, though.

hey - i've got every one of those cd's too.

[maxelson]

Hm. VERY difficult. In no particular order:

Goldberg Variations- Glenn Gould
Nighthawks at the Diner- Tom Waits
Mule Variations- Tom Waits
Blood Money- Tom Waits (see a pattern emerging?)
Closing Time- Tom Waits
Come Away With Me- Norah Jones
Pink Moon- Nick Drake
Script for the Jester's Tear- Marillion (and happy to see another classic Marillion listener on the board)
Red- King Crimson
Crossing Muddy Waters- John Hiatt
Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
Mingus Ah Um- Charlie Mingus
Best of- Leonard Cohen
Peter Gabriel- pretty much all of it.
Lamb Lies Down on B'way- (REAL) Genesis- one of the most perfect records ever.
Sleepless- King Crimson
Big Mama's Door- Alvin Youngblood Hart
King of the 12 string Guitar- Ledbelly
The Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden (OLD favorite)
Smiling Phases- Traffic
The Man Who Sold the World- David Bowie
Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane
Walk on the Wild Side- Best of Lou Reed

That's off the top of my head.

[maxelson]

Originally posted by file:


yeah, but beastie boys is hard to judge by album. They change with the times.

ill communication is classic in it's own 90s sort of way. but yeah, paul's boutique was one of the better albums whole and whole

Not bad for a band that started out as a joke (and stayed one, IMO. Fight for your Right to Party was high school for me and I have never been able to get past it).
Aw, maw you're just jealous it's the BEAST-EEE BOYZ!
I laugh even now.

[philzilla]

dang. just seeing max's name here reminds me i left tool & king crimson off my list. bugger. i bet i left loads more real important stuff off too.

ahh well. s'only a list on a message board on the interweb. it's not like i'm gonna LOSE SLEEP OVER IT or anything...


damn.

[file]

Originally posted by maxelson:

Not bad for a band that started out as a joke (and stayed one, IMO. Fight for your Right to Party was high school for me and I have never been able to get past it).
Aw, maw you're just jealous it's the BEAST-EEE BOYZ!
I laugh even now.

I AGREE WITH YOU

but....rap at that time was not so sophisticated as now. even though they admit those songs are a joke in their cd booklet in the "sounds of science" box set...i think those songs

fight for your right
hey ladies
brass monkey

are funny in a kick ass sort of way. i know all the words to fight for your right

[roger_ramjet]

"Who's Next" - the Who
"Harvest" - Neil Young
"Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis
"Live at the Roxy" - Social Distortion
"Time Out of Mind" - Dylan
"London Calling" - the Clash

[maxelson]

Originally posted by roger_ramjet:
"Who's Next" - the Who
"Harvest" - Neil Young
"Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis
"Live at the Roxy" - Social Distortion
"Time Out of Mind" - Dylan
"London Calling" - the Clash

And this IS a pleasant surprise!
Where've you been, muzak man?
A fine list. Who's Next is the kind of record what does damage to car speakers, what with my total inability to play it at human tolerance level decibles and all.

[roger_ramjet]

Originally posted by maxelson:

And this IS a pleasant surprise!
Where've you been, muzak man?

Went up to East Longmeadow last Saturday. That's where my brother and his family live. He had taken his wife out to dinner earlier in the evening so she let him out of jail. We headed towards downtown Springfield. I wasn't expecting much. Was I surprised! Stumbled on this local band that BLEW ME AWAY - Po' Boy and the Red Hats. Wow! Were they good - little Blues, some original stuff, a killer cover of "All Along the Watchtower" - I was totally impressed.

Other news: "T" is coming back from Paris in early November or maybe late October. I'm a happy boyo.

[maxelson]

Happy for ye, my friend! Good to get the cuddle back in your... uh... what rhymes with cuddle?
At any rate, I think that I have seen this Po' Boy advertised i the local entertainment rag. Well, now, if that is an endorsement, I'll make the effort to get out to see them next time they are in Learyville!

[Vanquish]

there is too much good music, so I have no all time favourite album.

But I must add:
All the Cake albums
the 2 Louise Attaque albums: "comme on a dit" and "Louise Attaque"

[ink]

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Radiohead Kid A
The Cure Disintigration
Love and Rockets Express
Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants
Pink Floyd Dark Side (yeah, yeah, a shoe-in)
Orbital 2
New Order Substance 1987
Caifanes El Silencio

[G4ME]

Juan you are the man no only did you have most of the bands that I like on the list you had Anima over Lateralus, great choice. RATM Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, RHCP, Nirvana.

well looking at my itunes most played looks like the album that comes on top is

The Fragile (NIN)
Undertow (TOOL)
Anima (TOOL)
Lateralus (TOOL)
Evil Empire (RATM)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Pulse (great live Pink Floyd)
Pretty Hate Machine (NIN)
Rage Against The Machine (RATM)
Smashing Punkins Greatest Hits
Pi The Sound Track

right now I am listening to

non other the Sober

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

Jane�s Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Dada - Puzzle
The The - Dusk
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
The Sundays - Blind
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten

oh, almost forgot... Now That's What I Call Music, Vols. 1-10

ha! just kidding, folks.

[rob5243]

OK Computer - Radiohead
Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd
Selected Ambient Works II - Aphex Twin
Homewerk - Daft Punk
Odelay - Beck
Music has the right to Children - Boards of Canada
Lifeforms - Future Sound of London

[nbnz]

OK Computer - Radiohead
Last Splash - The Breeders
Clouds Taste Metallic - The Flaming Lips
The Color And The Shape - Foo Fighters
Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo
Are You Gonna Kiss It Or Shoot It - Head Like A Hole (HLAH)
The Best of James - James
Leftism - Leftfield
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Yield - Pearl Jam
Achtung Baby - U2
I Should Coco - Supergrass

[pixelghetto]

Originally posted by ink:
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Cure - Disintigration

You rawk! \m/

[ink]

Originally posted by nbnz:
The Best of James - James

Yay! A James fan!
I would have picked Wah-Wah myself (gotta luv Brian Eno), but the best is good too.

[SOLIDAge]

Oasis-Whats the Story Morning Glory?
Oasis-Heathen Chemistry
Smashing Pumpkins-Machina
Smashing Pumpkins-Machina II
Bush-Golden State
Bush-The Science of Things
Beck-Sea Change
Silverchair-Freak Show
Moby-Play
Radiohead-OK Computer

SOUNDTRACKS
Magnolia
Final Fantasy VIII
StarWars

[thunderous_funker]

Top of my head list of what i listen to most excluding Jazz or classical because that would just be too much:

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Boby Dylan - Times Are a Chagin'
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zepelin I-IV
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
John Lee Hooker - Box set
Muddy Waters - Box set
Howlin' Wolf - Box set
RAdiohead - OK Computer
ELO - Time
ELO - New World Record
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Peter Gabrial - Passion
Peter Gabriel - US
Bauhaus - The Sky's gone out
Bauhaus - Mask
PIL - Flowers of Romance
Clash - London Calling

[ink]

Why does everyone like OK Computer better than Kid A? I really like both, but I definately give the edge to Kid A for having more homogenous album feel to it; OK Computer seems to be more of a collection of really good songs. My favorite Pink Floyd songs are not on Dark Side, and yet Dark Side is definately their best album. Just curious.

[Fallout]

Machine Head - the more things change...
Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
NIN - The Downward Spiral
NIN - Broken
N.W.A. - Greatest Hits
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster
Bloodhound Gang - Hooray For Boobies

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
hey - i've got every one of those cd's too.

Obviously you are a man of culture and taste.

[Face Ache]

Originally posted by thunderous_funker:
ELO - Time

Nice album cover. I did a mural of it over my old fridge and sold it for more than I bought it for.

[Thrax]

Originally posted by maxelson:

Not bad for a band that started out as a joke (and stayed one, IMO. Fight for your Right to Party was high school for me and I have never been able to get past it).
Aw, maw you're just jealous it's the BEAST-EEE BOYZ!
I laugh even now.

Ahhh... The Beastie Boys. Quite possibly the only punk band to turn into a rap group.

A bit of trivia: Anthrax' I'm The Man, the second ever rap-metal song, was supposed to be a collaboration between Anthrax and the Beastie Boys. The Anthrax members enjoyed rapping so much that they ended up taking all the lyrics; leaving nothing for the Beastie Boys.

[tpitts1]

Metallica Black

[ThisGuy]

Originally posted by ink:
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Radiohead Kid A
The Cure Disintigration
Love and Rockets Express
Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants
Pink Floyd Dark Side (yeah, yeah, a shoe-in)
Orbital 2
New Order Substance 1987
Caifanes El Silencio

i don't know you, but i want to be your friend. we have the exact same taste in music. are you into file sharing??? hehehe

[Zimphire]

Here are some of mine,

(Not in any order)

Any Jane's Addiction CD
Queen Adreena "Taxidermy"
Pink Floyd (anything)
Deconstruction
PJ Harvey "To bring you my love"
Poe (Junkie, Haunted etc)
Portishead (anything)
Smashing Pumpkins "Gish"
Veruca Salt (American Thighs)

I am sure there aer more, but there is my current favs based on my top list in iTunes.