Had this dicussion last night with some friends.

What would you consider the top 5 albums of all time. Not based on sales, just on personal preference.

Here is mine in no particular order

Boston - Boston
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Pink Flyod - Wish You Were Here
The Eagles - Hotel California
AC/DC - Back in Black

I posted this on another board as well. - Just interested in what others think about various music.

holy shit jeff thats sacry

the only change i wouold make is led Zep Houses of the Holy instead of ac/dc

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Slayer - Reign In Blood
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Venom - Welcome To Hell
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?

theres waaaaaaay too much metal for me...

gimme some trance :rokk: :rokk: :rokk:


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Very hard to say top 5 albums as so much incredible music has been made and my tastes change from day to day and mood to mood
For today if I had to be stuck with only 5 CD's to play ....

Aerosmith - 9 Lives
Ella Fitzgerald - Live from Berlin
Frank Sinatra - the Reprise Years
Mary Prankster - Roulette Girl
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat


But I still need to work
Kid Rock - Cocky
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic
Jeremy and the Suicides - Subway to Success
Ramones - any great hits
Elvis - 30#1 hits
into the list for today and I still don't have any jazz or classical or Me First and the Gimmie Gimmie's

Pink Folyd - Delicate Sounds of Thunder
The Cure - Mixed Up
U2 - War
Notorious BIG - Life After Death**
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish **

**(not sure I'd feel the same way 10 years from now on these)

James Taylor's Greatest Hits
The Best of R.E.M.
Fear by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Legend by Bob Marley and The Wailers
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Gord's Gold by Gordon Lightfoot

Hmm.. more than five there oh well.. coulda listed a whole bunch more! :>))

Boy, I must be a weirdo...

Jethro Tull - Divinities
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Kansas - Leftoverture
Al DiMeola - Heart of the Immigrants
Al DiMeola - Kiss My Axe

Basically, I love anything by Tull, Rush, and most Kansas (Kerry Livgren's stuff). I like all kinds of music, but that's my favorite. :okthumb:

What about some real techno eh ?

Pengo: The complation
Scooter: Our happy hardcore
Ultrasonic: Live at Kinetic (seen 'em live too, fuck they rock)
Utah Saints: Two
Fear Factory: Remanufacture
Thunderdome: Best of 98
Prodigy: Fat of the land
Vinylgroover: World of vinylgroover Part 1 (an exemplary mixed set if you're after some cheesy techno)

there can never be too much metal.....

Floyd - Dark Side
Zeppelin - 2
Beatles - Sergeant Pepper
Beatles - Abbey Road
Jackson Brown - Running on Empty



(showing my age perhaps ?...lol)

:yowsa:

Highway 61 - Dyalan (The Father)
Born to Run - Springsteen (The Son)
Joe's Garage - Zappa (The Holy Ghost)
American Beauty - The Greatful Dead (The Apostles)
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - 4 Way Street - Just Kick-Ass Rock and Roll

Honorable Mention - Pure Prarie League, The Marshall Tucker Band, Lynard Skynard, Guess Who, BTO, Parliment and the Funkadelics, The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Band, Country Joe and the Fish, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Alman Brothers Band, The Doobie Brothers, and of course, Canned Heat ...

"and don't forget to boogie."

Steely Dan - Aja (or Greatest Hits)
Sade - No Ordinary (Or Greatest Hits)
The Police - Synchronicity (or greatest hits including all the Solo Sting hits)
NWA - Efilrofzaggin
Sweetback - Sweetback

WTF? No C&W? :salute:

Actually, if it were a Top 10 list, I would have Johnny Cash "American Recordings", Willie Nelson "Always On My Mind" and Marty Robbins "Big Iron" on the list.....



Last edited by SykkBoy at Jul 24 2003, 10:21 PM

Willie, Waylon, Merl, David Allen Coe, Johnny Paycheck (I got drunk with him once in beautiful downtown Rota, Spain), and Hank (both) ...

He gets off on country music
Cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
But he's just too friggin' old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder why

He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie ...
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust

Being much younger than most here, and much cooler, here are my picks:


Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Rage Against The Machine - Eponymous
Grim Skunk - Eponymous
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More rock

And for the last spot:
Weezer - Blue Album, Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams, NOFX - Punk In Drublic, Beck - Odelay, System of a Down - Eponymous, Beastie Boys - Ill Communication, Marylin Manson - Antichrist Superstar, Korn - Eponymous,

Sir you are a true connoisseur :okthumb:

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In a scrap yard that statement would hold true :P

:D

What's an album? <_<

Atomic Kitten – Right Now
Atomic Kitten – Feels so good
Blue – All Rise
Blue – One Love
Kylie Minogue – Fever
Enrigue iglesias – Enrique

I know im sad but I just love pop music… Im just a kid at heart :rokk:

Pd,
:D :D :D :D

For once, you're right...I AM too friggin' old! :D

BTW, Back in the day, I used to get drunk with Bill Haley, jam with Rick Nelson, and the band I was with used to play 'backup' for people like Ray Price and Charley Pride...

Oh, play me some mountain music
like grandma and grandpa used to play
Then I'll float on down the river
to a Cajun hideaway.


:hic:



Last edited by Torone at Jul 25 2003, 07:18 AM

Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Van Morrison - The Best Of
Keith Urban - The Ranch
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
T Rex - Greatest Hits
Rocky Horror Picture Show :awinky:

Honorable Mention - Skyhooks - The Collection, Cold Chisel - Chisel, The Angels - Their Finest Hour & then Some, John Cougar Mellencamp - All, Bob Segar - Greatest Hits, Bob Dylan - Masterpieces , Eagles - Hell Freezes Over, AC/DC - Back in Black, Kiss - Double Platinum, Garth Brooks - Double Live, Elton John - All, Bob Geldof - Loud Mouth, Dire Straits - All, Suzy Quatro - The Wild One



Last edited by HoneyBlond at Jul 25 2003, 11:39 PM

My mood changes but these are five that are always in my top 5

1. Automatic For The People - REM
2. Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo
3. There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters
4. Best of T-rex/Marc Bolan
5. Who knows, depends on my mood.

Journey - Greatest Hits
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Elton John - Greatest Hits
Nora Jones - Come Away With Me
Andrew Lloyd Weber - Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack
John Mellencamp - The Best That I Could Do

Current mood top 5:

Boston - Boston
AC/DC - Back in black
Motley Crue - Shout at the devil
Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for destruction
Slayer - Seasons in the abyss
:rokk:

Quick running off of the brain:

Biohazard - State of the world address
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal tendencies
Type O Negative - Slow deep and hard
SOD - Speak english or die
DRI - Dealing with it
Exodus - Bonded by blood
Queensryche - Operation mindcrime
Def Leppard - High and dry
Extreme - III sides to every story
Stryper - Soldiers under command
Twisted Sister - Under the blade
The last 2 Weird Al albums are pretty great also

The longer I think the harder listing favorite music gets..

..I'll shutup now :)

Forest - Led Zep was definately up there - but I couldn't decide between I, II, III, IV or houses, Back in Black was a theme Album for my HS basketball team so there is sentimental value there, no too many people sentimenatal over AC/DC :blink:

Rich C - Delicate Sound of Thunder does not count as an album to me - although it is fantastic it is compiled of songs from many albums, I feel the same about greatest hits albums.


Thanks to everyone for playing - you have helped me figure out some new CD's to buy
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I dont know if it's possible to narrow my interests down to 5 albums...

Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Genisis - Lamb lies down on Broadway
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Eagles - Hotel California
Supertramp - Live in Paris


Honerable Mentions: 10CC, SteelyDan, Bowie, Who, Hendrix, Clapton/Cream..... would be a long list...

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I've always thought of III as the definitive Zep album. Although I own a bunch of "Greatest Hits" CDs, I don't think of them as albums either when it comes to a list like this.

Lot of good music already mentioned here but here's a few others:

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five
Beck: Mellow Gold
U2: Joshua Tree
Grateful Dead: Dozin at the Knick (1990 Tour Live)
Bob Marley: Live at the Roxy (Fairly new cd and his highest quailty live cd I've heard)

Jeff

of every single zepplin albulm it soo hard to choose

LOL

But I also must add some

James Taylor Greatest Hits

Bob Marley Uprising

and of course

Jimmy Buffett Songs you know by heart

Got to love a CheeseBurger in Paradise!!!!!

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Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call,
Wanted to sail upon your waters
since I was three feet tall.
You've seen it all, you've seen it all.

Watch the men who rode you,
Switch from sails to steam.
And in your belly you hold the treasure
that few have ever seen, most of them dreams,
Most of them dreams.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
The cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late.

I've done a bit of smugglin'
I've run my share of grass.
I made enough money to buy Miami,
But I pissed it away so fast,
Never meant to last, never meant to last.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks,
But I've got to stop wishin',
Got to go fishin', I'm down to rock bottom again.
Just a few friends, just a few friends.

I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
And though I ran away, they'll come back one day.
And still could manage a smile
It just takes awhile, just takes awhile.

Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupations
just not around.
I feel like I've drowned,
Gonna head uptown

A Pirate Looks at 40

Even though I don't care for most Buffet that song comes close to the bone

Like I say, there's good players, great music and stories to be told in every genre

My top 5 almost always stay the same, but my top 10 switches a bit more based upon my mood...

An album that continues to grow on me more and more with each listen and might even crack my top 10 is Disturbed "Believe".

...and of course the definitive black metal album that launched a million imitators Venom "Black metal"

"lay down your soul to the god rock and roll..................uh...uh.....black metal!"

Sykk,
Your knowledge of crap music,rivals your knowledge of crap films ;-)))

Imnpressive in a bizzarro sorta way ;-))))

That's how I plan on winning the Webmaster Summit Golf Tourney, I'll be blasting some selections from Venom, Napalm Death, Satan, Impaler, Cannibal Corpse, Slim Whitman, Tool, Propogandhi, GWAR, TSOL and The Damned on a little ghetto blaster I'll be toting around...

...well, that's one of my strategies, but just in case there are a couple fellow metalheads about, I'll be toting a small ball ping hammer in my golf bag....

Nirvana - Nevermind
The Ramones - The Ramones
The Rolling Stones - Out of our Heads
Pearl Jam - Ten
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Yeah, these are 5 recordings I would take to a deserted island with me.