Music: Rank your favorite band/artist discography

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U2

The Joshua Tree 10/10
The Unforgettable Fire 9/10
War 8.5/10
Under a Blood Red Sky 8.5/10
Rattle and Hum 7.5/10
Achtung Baby 7.5/10
October 7/10
Boy 7/10

DIRE STRAITS/MARK KNOPFLER

Making Movies 9.5/10
Dire Straits 8.5/10
Love Over Gold 8.5/10
Brothers in Arms 8/10
On Every Street 7.5/10
Comminique 7.5/10
Shangri-La 7.5/10
All the Roadrunning 7/10
Sailing to Philadelphia 7/10
 

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all ratings are approximate

Rush
1. Hemispheres
2. Power Windows
3. A Farewell to Kings
4. Permanent Waves
5. Signals
6. Moving Pictures
7. Grace Under Pressure
8. Fly By Night
9. Caress of Steel
10. Clockwork Angels
11. 2112
12. Snakes and Arrows
13. Rush
14. Hold Your Fire
15. Presto
16. Counterparts
17. Vapor Trails
18. Roll The Bones
19. Test for Echo

Kansas
1. Kansas
2. Masque
3. Leftoverture
4. Song for America
5. Point of Know Return
6. Audiovisions

Led Zeppelin
1. Houses of the Holy
2. II
3. I
4. Physical Graffiti
5. III
6. IV
7 Presence
8. ITtOD

Iron Maiden
1. Somewhere in Time
2. 7Soa7S
3. Number of the Beast
4. Powerslave
5. Piece of Mind
6. Killers
7. Dance of Death
8. Brave New World
9. Iron Maiden
10. Fear of the Dark
etc

The Eagles
1. One of These Nights
2. On the Border
3. The Eagles
4. Desperado
5. Hotel California
6. Long Run
 

Aladyyn

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Megadeth

1. Rust in Peace
2. Youthanasia
3. Countdown to Extinction
4. Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?!
5. Endgame
6. Cryptic Writings
7. Killing Is My Business... and Business is Good!
8. So Far, So Good... So What!
9. The World Needs A Hero
10. United Abominations
11. Th1rt3en
12. Dystopia
13. The System has Failed
14. Risk
568. Super Collider

Overrated: Dystopia (don't understand the hype at all)
Underrated: Cryptic Writings, The World Needs A Hero, Youthanasia

Obscure Sphinx

1. Void Mother
2. Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual
3. Epitaphs

Ruined by my own unrealistic expectations: Epitaphs, but it's not my fault they released the amazing half of the album before release and not the mediocre middle tracks damn it.

Streetlight Manifesto


1. Everything Goes Numb
2. Somewhere in the Between
3. The Hands That Thieve

Overrated song: SITB title track

Deströyer 666

1. Unchain the Wolves
2. Phoenix Rising
3. Cold Steel... For an Iron Age
4. Wildfire
5. Defiance

Underrated album: Defiance. When your first 3 albums are the peak of the genre you play and the literal Holy Grail of extreme metal, it's hard to live up to expectations with an album that's merely very good.

The good Metallica albums


1. Kill 'Em All
2. Ride the Lightning
3. Master of Puppets

You can almost exactly pinpoint the moment when they ran out of Mustaine-written riffs.

80s Maiden


1. Powerslave
2. Killers
3. The Number of the Beast
4. Somewhere in Time
5. Iron Maiden
6. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
7. Piece of Mind

The only post-80s album that's really worth the time is Brave New World.

No Doubt

1. Tragic Kingdom
2. Return of Saturn
3. The Beacon Street Collection
4. No Doubt
5. Rock Steady

There are no other No Doubt albums.

Converge

1. Jane Doe
2. All We Love We Leave Behind
3. You Fail Me
4. Petitioning the Empty Sky
5. Axe to Fall
6. When Forever Comes Crashing
7. No Heroes
8. Halo in a Haystack (this is only here because there are no other albums to put above it)

Unbelievably consistent discography (except for the debut of course)

Elvenking

1. The Winter Wake
2. Heathenreel
3. The Pagan Manifesto
4. Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures)
5. Wyrd
6. Era
7. Red Silent Tides
8. The Scythe

Ghost Brigade

1. Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
2. Isolation Songs
3. IV - One With the Storm
4. Guided by Fire

In Mourning

1. Shrouded Divine
2. The Weight of Oceans
3. Monolith
4. Afterglow (a horrible smear)

80s King Diamond stuff

1. Abigail
2. Don't Break the Oath
3. Melissa
4. Conspiracy
5. Fatal Portrait
6. Them

Sigh

1. Imaginary Sonicscape
2. Hangman's Hymn
3. Gallows Gallery (one of those "so absurd it's actually great" albums)
4. In Somniphobia
5. Scenes From Hell
6. Hail Horror Hail
7. Scorn Defeat
8. Infidel Art
9. Graveward
10. Scenario IV - Dread Dreams

Sonata Arctica

1. Unia
2. Silence
3. The Days of Grays
4. Reckoning Night
5. Winterheart's Guild
6. Ecliptica

The other albums don't deserve a spot on any list, that's how completely unremarkable they are.

The Gathering (Anneke albums only)

1. Nighttime Birds
2. Souvenirs
3. Home
4. if_then_else
5. Mandylion
6. How To Measure A Planet

The Mars Volta

1. De-Loused in the Comatorium
2. Bedlam in Goliath
3. Frances the Mute
4. Noctourniquet
5. Amputechture
6. Octahedron
 

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Should probably update this:

Barenaked Ladies:

1) Maroon (2000)

Great:
Humour Of The Situation, Helicopters, Sell Sell Sell, Go Home, Tonight Is The Night, Falling For the First Time

Good:
Too Little Too Late, Pinch Me

Average:
Baby Seat, Off The Hook


2) Stunt (1998)

Great:
Light Up My Room, One Week, Who Needs Sleep?, I'll Be That Girl

Good:
Alcohol, It's All Been Done, Call And Answer, Some Fantastic, Told You So

Average:
When You Dream

Poor:
In The Car


3) Barenaked Ladies Are Men (2006)

Great:
Down To Earth, Quality, Half A Heart, Fun And Games, What A Letdown

Good:
Angry People, Beautiful, Maybe Not, Why Say Anything Nice?, Serendipity

Average:
Something You'll Never Find. Another Spin, Running Out Of Ink

Poor:
I Can I Will I Do, The New Sad


4) Barenaked Ladies Are Me (2006)

Great:
Bank Job, Adrift, Maybe You're Right, Take It Back

Good:
Easy, Wind It Up, Peterborough And The Kawarthas, Sound Of Your Voice

Average:
Vanishing, Bull In A China Shop, Rule The World With Love

Poor:
Everything Has Changed


5) Maybe You Should Drive (1994)

Great:
Jane, A, Am I The Only One, Life, In A Nutshell

Good:
These Apples, You Will Be Waiting, Great Provider

Average
Intermittently, Tiny Little Song, The Wrong Man Was Convicted


6) Gordon (1992)

Great:
If I Had $1000000, Enid, Grade 9, What A Good Boy, The Flag, New Kid (On The Block)

Good:
Brian Wilson, Be My Yoko Ono, King Of Bedside Manor, Crazy

Average
Blame It On Me, Box Set

Poor:
Hello City, Wrap Your Arms Around Me, I Love You


7) Grinning Streak (2013)

Great:
Odds Are, Did I Say That Out Loud?, Crawl, Smile

Good:
Boomerang, Limits, Best Damn Friend, Give It Back to You

Average:
Daydreamin', Gonna Walk

Poor:
Keepin' It Real


8) Silverball (2015)

Great:
Matter Of Time, Toe To Toe, Piece Of Cake, Globetrot, Silverball

Good:
Get Back Up, Here Before

Average:
Duck Tape Heart, Say What You Want, Hold My Hand

Poor:
Passcode, Narrow Streets, Tired Of Fighting With You


9) Born On A Pirate Ship (1996)

Great:
The Old Apartment, Just A Toy, When I Fall, I Live With It Every Day

Good:
I Know, This Is Where It Ends, Break Your Heart, Shoebox

Average:
In The Drink, Same Thing

Poor:
Spider In My Room, Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank


10) All Good Things

Great:
You Run Away, Every Subway Car, Another Heartbreak, Watching The Northern Lights

Good:
Jerome, How Long, Golden Boy

Average:
Four Seconds, Summertime, Ordinary

Poor:
The Love We're In, On The Lookout


11) Everything To Everyone

Great:
For You, Testing 1, 2, 3, War On Drugs, Take It Outside

Good:
Celebrity, Upside Down

Average:
Another Postcard, Shopping, Aluminum, Unfinished

Poor:
Have You Seen My Love?, Second Best

Interesting how tastes can change over a few years. :laugh:
 
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Fugazi:

1. Red Medicine
2. In On the Kill Taker
3. Repeater + 3 Songs
4. The Argument
5. End Hits
6. 13 Songs
7. Steady Diet of Nothing

nice list

Looking back on this list, I'd probably move End Hits up to #3, that album has grown on me over the years, I appreciate it so much more now. I'd also probably move The Argument ahead of Repeater as well. So my updated list would be:

1. Red Medicine
2. In On the Kill Taker
3. End Hits
4. The Argument
5. Repeater + 3 Songs
6. 13 Songs
7. Steady Diet of Nothing
 

Central PA Hawk Fan

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Converge

1. Jane Doe
2. All We Love We Leave Behind
3. You Fail Me
4. Petitioning the Empty Sky
5. Axe to Fall
6. When Forever Comes Crashing
7. No Heroes
8. Halo in a Haystack (this is only here because there are no other albums to put above it)

Unbelievably consistent discography (except for the debut of course)
Pretty good, I'm higher on Axe to Fall than a lot of Converge fans, I'd also have No Heroes slightly higher too. I'd go:

1. Jane Doe
2. All That We Love We Leave Behind
3. Axe To Fall
4. You Fail Me
5. Petitioning the Empty Sky
6. No Heroes
7. When Forever Comes Crashing
 

Central PA Hawk Fan

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Cave-In:
1. Jupiter
2. Perfect Pitch Black
3. Until Your Heart Stops
4. Tides of Tomorrow EP
5. Planets of Old EP
6. Antenna
7. White Silence
8. Creative Eclipses EP
9. Beyond Hypothermia
 

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Iron Maiden - all studio albums

1. Powerslave
2. Somewhere in Time
3. The X Factor
4. Brave New World
5. The Final Frontier
6. Piece of Mind
7. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
8. Killers
9. Iron Maiden
10. A Matter of Life and Death
11. Number of the Beast
12. The Book of Souls
13. Virtual XI
14. Dance of Death
15. Fear of the Dark
16. No Prayer for the Dying

King Crimson - all studio albums through the 1980s

1. Red
2. Larks' Tongues In Aspic
3. Discipline
4. In The Court Of The Crimson King
5. Islands
6. In The Wake Of Poseidon
7. Starless And Bible Black
8. Three of a Perfect Pair
9. Beat
10. Lizard

Yes - all studio albums through the early 1980s

1. Close to the Edge
2. The Yes Album
3. Fragile
4. Relayer
5. Tales from Topographic Oceans
6. Going for the One
7. 90125
8. Yes
9. Tormato
10. Time and a Word
11. Drama

Led Zeppelin - all studio albums

1. Led Zeppelin I
2. Led Zeppelin IV
3. Houses of the Holy
4. Led Zeppelin II
5. Led Zeppelin III
6. Physical Grafitti
7. Presence
8. In Through the Out Door

Black Sabbath - first eight albums only

1. Paraonoid
2. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3. Master of Reality
4. Black Sabbath
5. Sabotage
6. Volume 4
7. Technical Ecstasy
8. Never Say Die!

Pink Floyd - all studio albums through the 1970s

1. Animals
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Meddle
4. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Obscured by Clouds
6. The Wall
7. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. A Saucerful of Secrets
9. Ummagumma
10. Atom Heart Mother
11. More
 

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LOS STRAITJACKETS

Viva! Los Straitjackets 9.5/10
Damas y Caballeros! 9/10
The Velvet Touch of Los Straitjackets 9/10
'Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets! 8.5/10
The Utterly Fantastic and Totally Unbelievable Sound of Los Straitjackets 8/10
Sing Along with Los Straitjackets 6.5/10
Twist Party!!! 5/10


AC/DC

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 9.5/10
Back in Black 9/10
Powerage 8.5/10
Who Made Who 8.5/10
Highway to Hell 8/10
High Voltage 8/10
Backtracks 8/10
Let There Be Rock(AUS) 8/10
'74 Jailbreak 7.5/10
The Razor's Edge 6/10
 
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plank

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THE BEATLES(and solo)

Abbey Road 10/10
The Red Album 1962-1966 10/10
All Things Must Pass 9.5/10
The White Album 9.5/10
Revolver 9.5/10
The Blue Album 1967-1970 9/10
Let It Be 9/10
Magical Mystery Tour 9/10
Rubber Soul 8.5/10
Wings Greatest 8.5/10
Band on the Run 8.5/10
The Best of Darkhorse(1976-1989) 8.5/10
The Best of George Harrison 8.5/10
Past Masters Vol 2 8.5/10
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 8/10
The John Lennon Collection 7.5/10
Plastic Ono Band 7/10
Yellow Submarine 6/10
 

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Parliament:
Mothership Connection 4.5-/5
Motor Booty Affair 4+/5
Osmium 4-/5
Chocolate City 3.5+/5
Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome 3.5-/5
The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein 3+/5
Up For the Down Stroke 3/5
Trombipulation 2.5+/5
Gloryhallastoopid 2/5
 

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The Beatles (what I've listened to so far):

10/10:
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

9/10:
Abbey Road

8/10:
The Beatles (White Album)
Magical Mystery Tour (US)

7/10:
Rubber Soul
Help!

3/10:
Please Please Me

2/10:
Live at the Hollywood Bowl
 

M.C.G. 31

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1. good kid, m.a.a.d city
2. DAMN.
3. To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Section.80
5. Untitled unmastered

I go back and forth with GKMC and TPAB rankings, but DAMN. is firmly in #2 imo.
 

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No order:

Alter Bridge:

1. Fortress
2. ABIII
3. Blackbird
4. The Last Hero
5. One Day Remains


Gojira:

1. From Mars To Sirius
2. The Way of All Flesh (More of a 1B)
3. Terra Incognita
4. Magma
5. L'Enfant Sauvage
6. The Link


Meshuggah: (Tough, constantly changing list)

1. Koloss
2. Obzen
3. Nothing
4. Destroy Erase Improve
5. Chaosphere
6. Violent Sleep of Reason
7. Catch 33
8. Contradictions Collapse
 

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Some faves that nobody has done yet, based on quick consideration and not much thought. There have been times where some albums have been favored over others, but at this moment here we go:

Ozzy
No More Tears
Blizzard of Ozz
No Rest For The Wicked
Ozzmosis
Diary of a Madman

Tough to put the following in order. I like them all for different reasons.

Scream
The Ultimate Sin
Down To Earth
Bark at the Moon (although BATM itself is one of my favorite Ozzy songs)
Black Rain



Slayer
Reign in Blood
South of Heaven
Seasons in the Abyss
God Hates Us All
Diabolus in Musica
Christ Illusion
World Painted Blood
Show No Mercy
Hell Awaits
Repentless
Divine Intervention
Undisputed Attitude


Children of Bodom
Follow the Reaper
Hatebreeder
Hate Crew Deathroll
Are You Dead Yet?
Halo of Blood
Something Wild
I Worship Chaos
Blooddrunk
Relentless Reckless Forever



Black Label Society Top 5 only, Zakk is all over the place with his releases...
Order of the Black
Sonic Brew
The Blessed Hellride
Stronger Than Death
1919 Eternal



Amon Amarth top 5 only
With Oden on Our Side
Twilight of the Thunder God
Surtur Rising
Jomsviking
Versus the World


I was going to try to do The Black Dahlia Murder, but it's too hard. Everything is too close to put into order.
 

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Between the Buried and Me:

1) Colors: 10/10 - Perfection.
2) Parallax 2: 10/10 - Very close to being #1. On any given day the top 2 flip-flop.
3) Coma Ecliptic: 10/10 - A perfect album, but it never reaches the peaks of the top 2 albums. Each song is amazing, but nothing reaches the level of Sun of Nothing or Silent Flight Parliament.
4) Parallax 1: 10/10 - It's hard to rank a 3 song EP. Every song is perfect, but it has to be ranked lower than the other full length albums.
5) The Great Misdirect: 9/10
6) Alaska: 8.5/10
7) Between the Buried and Me: 8.5/10 - Very underrated IMO.
8) Silent Circus: 8/10
9) The Anatomy Of: 4/10 - Not needed. Wish they did more to make the covers their own.
 

Timeless Winter

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In Mourning

1. Shrouded Divine
2. The Weight of Oceans
3. Monolith
4. Afterglow (a horrible smear)

Another In Mourning fan? :handclap: I love Monolith the most. :heart:


anyway...


Insomnium

1. One for Sorrow
2. Above the Weeping World
3. Since the Day it All Came Down
4. Winter's Gate
5. Shadows of a Dying Sun
6. Across the Dark
7. In the Halls of Awaiting


Septic Flesh

1. The Great Mass
2. Codex Omega
3. Communion
4. Titan
5. Sumerian Daemons
6. Mystic Places of Dawn
7. Revolution DNA
8. Ophidian Wheel
9. A Fallen Temple


Swallow the Sun

1. Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
2. The Morning Never Came
3. New Moon
4. Songs from the North
5. Ghosts of Loss
6. Hope
 

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Queens Of The Stone Age

1. Songs For The Deaf (Song: 'God Is In The Radio', HM: 'Song For The Dead')
2. Queens Of The Stone Age (Song: 'Mexicola', HM: 'Give The Mule What He Wants')
3. Era Vulgaris (Song: 'Run, Pig, Run', HM: 'I Wanna Make It Wit Chu')
4. Rated R (Song: 'In The Fade', HM: 'The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret')
5. ...Like Clockwork (Song: 'Smooth Sailing', 'HM: 'I Appear Missing')
6. Lullabies To Paralyze (Song: 'Burn The Witch', HM: 'This Lullaby')
7. Villains (Song: 'Head Like A Haunted House', HM: 'The Evil Has Landed')
 

Fantomas

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Bob Dylan - a very subjective top 25.

1. Blood on the Tracks
2. John Wesley Harding
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Another Self-Portrait
5. Blonde on Blonde
6. The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
7. Desire
8. Bringing It All Back Home
9. The Basement Tapes Complete
10. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
11. New Morning
12. The Times They Are a-Changin'
13. Tell-Tale Signs
14. Nashville Skyline
15. Oh Mercy
16. The 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue
17. Street-Legal
18. Love and Theft
19. Before the Flood
20. Another Side of Bob Dylan
21. World Gone Wrong
22. Planet Waves
23. Slow Train Coming
24. Infidels
25. Time out of Mind
 

Fantomas

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Prince - haven't heard everything, but I'll do a top 10.

1. Sign o' The Times
2. Dirty Mind
3. Purple Rain
4. 1999
5. Parade
6. Gold Experience
7. The Black Album
8. Love Symbol
9. Come
10. Hits/B-Sides (just for the b-sides)

I'm not crazy about his later stuff, which has none of the earlier edge. Like most people.

Like with Dylan, the best thing about Prince is the unreleased/bootlegged material.
 

Fantomas

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I notice many people like Pink Floyd. There is something about this band that makes them the greatest thing ever while you're in your 20s and an afterthought when you reach your 30s.
 

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Great thread idea.

The Eagles

1. Desperado
2. One of These Nights
3. Hotel California
4. Eagles
5. The Long Run
6. On the Border
7. Long Road Out of Eden

Drake

1. Thank Me Later
2. NWTS
3. Take Care
4. More Life
5. If You're Reading This It's Too Late
6. Views
7. So Far Gone

Kanye West

1. Graduation
2. MBDTF
3. Late Registration
4. 808's
5. Yeezus
6. College Dropout
7. The Life of Pablo

Coldplay

1. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
2. X & Y
3. Parachutes
4. A Rush of Blood to the Head
5. Ghost Stories
6. A Head Full of Dreams
7. Mylo Xyloto

TBC
 

JurassicTunga

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My Favourite Bands and album rankings:

Cavalera Era Sepultura(Haven't listened much to their later stuff after Cavalera left. The guy in my avatar<---)

#1 Sepultura:
1. Beneath The Remains
2. Arise
3. Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation
4. Chaos A.D.
5. Schizophrenia
6. Roots

#2 Bolt Thrower:

1. War Master
2. Realm of Chaos
3. For Victory
4. IVth Crusade
5. Those Once Loyal
6. Mercenary
7. In Battle There is No Law
8. Honour - Valour - Pride

#3 Death:

1. Leprosy
2. Human
3. Scream Bloody Gore
4. Symbolic
5. Spiritual Healing
6. Sound of Perseverance
7. Individual Thought Patterns

#4 Metallica:

1. ...And Justice For All
2. Master of Puppets
3. Ride The Lightning
4. The Black Album
5. Kill Em All
6. Death Magnetic
7. Hardwired... To Self Destruct
8. Load
9. Reload
10. St. Anger

#5 Slayer:

1. Reign In Blood
2. South of Heaven
3. Seasons in the Abyss
4. Hell Awaits
5. Show No Mercy
6. God Hates Us All
7. Divine Intervention
8. Christ Illusion
9. World Painted Blood
10. Repentless
11. Diabolus in Musica

As well as Tool:

1. Lateralus
2. Ænima
3. 10,000 Days
4. Undertow

Can easily change of course, but I think that's a pretty solid ranking in my book.
 
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Pink Floyd:

1. DSOTM
-Yeah, it's cliche to rank this first, but it really was the most iconic album of the 70's IMO. It remained on the Billboard's LP/tapes chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. That's insane. And to me, it doesn't even feature a definitive top 3 song from Floyd all time. But you simply cannot beat it top to bottom. There isn't a bad song on there and most of them are among the greatest classic rock productions ever. It blended the reaches of early Floyd psychedelic features and a more modern progressive sound for the time perfectly. A pure masterpiece.

2. Wish You Were Here
-Has my favorite Floyd song of all time on it. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is the quintessential Floyd production. It literally encompasses just about every sound from Floyd to that part of their careers. And given it was a perfect title and tribute to Syd Barrett, how can you not just listen in awe? Gilmour's 4 mystical 4 notes opening in part 2 are forever etched into my brain. They could have released Shine as a stand a lone and it would have sold millions of copies.

3. Meddle
-This is where I personally throw a curve ball to many other Floyd lovers. "One of these days" is such an incredible way to open an album. I honestly think it was a 1971 version of any great Tool song that would come 25-30 years later. So comparable which makes what Floyd was able to do with far less technical advancements of that time, all the more incredible. Pillow of Winds and Fearless are hidden gems in their catalog. And last, but certainly not least, Echoes was their pre-Dark Side masterpiece. The Live in Pompeii version is my favorite performance of any Floyd song ever.

4. The Piper at the Gates Dawn
-The Syd Barrett era (which wasn't long anyway) was a bit too psychedelic for me personally but it's hard to ignore or rate this gem of an album any lower. Barrett had a huge influence on Waters specifically. And you can find pieces of this style on the greatest Floyd songs from any album on the list. Personal favorites are Lucifer Sam and Interstellar Overdrive (sort of an Echoes lite song).

5. The Wall
-I personally think some folks overrate the Wall to one degree or another. It's a fantastic album, don't get me wrong, but there is more fluff on it, than some of the other albums on this list, especially the ones above it. Obviously Comfortably Numb is pure brilliance, and I love Goodbye Blue Sky, but you can sort of tell this was the end of the line for the group in terms of having any collective input and unity as a whole.

After that, I think you can sort of start to lump many of the remaining albums into more tier like structures although Obscured by Clouds is quite underrated IMO.

Favorite Songs Personally:

1. Shine
2. Echoes (especially the Live in Pompeii version)
3. Time
4. Us and Them
5. Comfotably Numb
6. Hey You
7. Any Coulour You like/Brain Damage/Eclipse
8. Interstellar Overdrive
9. One of these days
10. Mother

Really almost all of their catalog is amazing. :)
 
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