Music: Your top-25 albums

[Liberati0n*]

1. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
2. Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
3. Limbeck - Hi, Everything's Great
4. Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
5. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
6. Coheed and Cambria - No World for Tomorrow
7. Maritime - Heresy and the Hotel Choir
8. Tegan and Sara - The Con
9. The Wallflowers - Rebel Sweetheart
10. Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff

How have you even heard of Maritime, considering the rest of your list? That's a great album (although not their best), but putting it on a list with something as bad as Dave Matthews is kind of demeaning.

 

[samsquanch9*]

if someone says macklemore im gonna off myself

 

[samsquanch9*]

No order:

MBDTF
Graduation
Late Registration
College Dropout
808s
GKMC
Section.80
Control System
Take Care
MOTM
James Blake
Horse of a Different Colour
XXX
Madvilliany
Long.Live.Asap
Acid Rap
Habits & Contradictions
Wolf
B astard
EARL
Channel Orange

 

[kihei]

1. Loveless: My Bloody Valentine
2. Kind of Blue: Miles Davis
3. Faure: Piano Quintets: Faure Quintet of Rome
4. Faure : Requiem, Pavane: Montreal Sym/Dutoit
5. Bill Evans with Symphony Orchestra: Bill Evans
6. Beyond the Missouri Sky: Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden
7. Plastic Ono Band: John Lennon
8. In Rainbows: Radiohead
9. The Kinks Kontroversy: The Kinks
10. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
11. Roseland NYC Live: Portishead
12. Rubber Soul: The Beatles
13. Reckoning: REM
14. Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonatas: Jordi Savall and Ton Koopman
15. The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves: Cibelle
16. London Calling: The Clash
17. Rio Nocturne: Paulo Moura
18. The Colour of Spring: Talk Talk
19. Low: David Bowie
20. Ao Vivo: Djavan
21. Prokofiev/Ravel: Piano Concertos: Berlin Phil/Martha Argerich/Claudio Abbado :
22. Travels: Pat Metheny Group
23. Gorecki: Symphony 3: Polish Radio Sym/Kilanowicz/Wit
24. Heartaches and Harmonies: The Everly Brothers
25. Soundtrack: The Man with the Golden Arm
25. After Bathing at Baxter's: Jefferson Airplane (tie)

 

[aufheben]

No order...my personal favorites. Kinda have an obsession with the BJM, could have easily put 2 more of their albums on here.

1. Chopin - Nocturnes
2. Mozart - Symphonies ('Jupiter' if only one symphony counts as an album)
3. Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
6. Wire - 154
7. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery, Repetition and Noise
8. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back!
9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties Second Request
10. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It From the Man!
11. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
12. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
13. Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription
14. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
15. Nirvana - Nevermind
16. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
17. Don Caballero - American Don
18. The Clash - The Clash (US)
19. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
20. New Order - Substance
21. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
22. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
23. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
24. Fugazi - The Argument
25. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper

HM:

Depeche Mode - Violator
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Joy Division - Closer
Nirvana - In Utero
Wire - Pink Flag
Wire - Chairs Missing
Fugazi - 13 Songs

 

[reckoning]

This are just my personal favorites from my collection, so there's not a lot after 2000 or before the 70s. I'm not including live albums or compilations:

1) R.E.M. - Murmur
2) Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
3) Kate Bush - The Dreaming
4) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
5) Joni Mitchell - Blue
6) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7) PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
8) R.E.M. - Reckoning
9) Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
10) Arcade Fire - Funeral
11) Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
12) R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
13) The Beatles - Revolver
14) Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
15) Heart - Dreamboat Annie
16) Nirvana - In Utero
17) Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
18) Maria Mckee - Life Is Sweet
19) Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
20) Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
21) Prince - Sign O' The Times
22) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
23) Tragically Hip - Day For Night
24) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
25) Nirvana - Nevermind

 

[Note Worthy]

How have you even heard of Maritime, considering the rest of your list? That's a great album (although not their best), but putting it on a list with something as bad as Dave Matthews is kind of demeaning.

Eh, I like DMB. I know they get a lot of hate but I enjoy the music. I saw them when they came to Busch Stadium in 2008 and they put on a great show.

What's your favorite Maritime album? I have all of them but I really enjoy Heresy.

By the way, as far as me hearing of Maritime, I got to talking to the lead dude in Motion City Soundtrack (Justin Pierre) at a concert a few years ago and he's a huge fan of theirs and recommended them. I gave them a listen and really liked them.

 

[Liberati0n*]

What's your favorite Maritime album? I have all of them but I really enjoy Heresy.

I think We, the Vehicles is the best, but that one is very good too. I don't really even count it, but the first album is pretty bad after the first two (excellent) songs. The newest one has some standout songs ("Annihilation Eyes" is one of the best songs I've ever heard, even after a huge number of plays) but is the weakest of the three that matter in my opinion.

By the way, as far as me hearing of Maritime, I got to talking to the lead dude in Motion City Soundtrack (Justin Pierre) at a concert a few years ago and he's a huge fan of theirs and recommended them. I gave them a listen and really liked them.

Interesting. All the guys in the band are older and do it around other full-time jobs, so they don't tour much. I (and probably most fans) know of them because the singer and drummer were in the Promise Ring in the 90s. (If they talked that up more they'd probably have a much bigger following.)

Is your name a reference to the Superchunk album?

 

[Note Worthy]

I think We, the Vehicles is the best, but that one is very good too. I don't really even count it, but the first album is pretty bad after the first two (excellent) songs. The newest one has some standout songs ("Annihilation Eyes" is one of the best songs I've ever heard, even after a huge number of plays) but is the weakest of the three that matter in my opinion.



Interesting. All the guys in the band are older and do it around other full-time jobs, so they don't tour much. I (and probably most fans) know of them because the singer and drummer were in the Promise Ring in the 90s. (If they talked that up more they'd probably have a much bigger following.)

Is your name a reference to the Superchunk album?

Yep. It's actually two things; the Superchunk album and the Motion City Soundtrack song of the same name (which they took from the Superchunck album name). So it all goes back to that album, which I really enjoy.

 

[4thlinegrinders]

no order, just 25 most listened to

london calling - the clash
exile on main street - rolling stones
is this it - the strokes
licensed to ill - beastie boys
unknown pleasures - joy division
in rainbows - radiohead
velvet underground & nico - velvet underground
led zeppelin 4 - led zeppelin
favourite worst nightmare - arctic monkeys
hello nasty - beastie boys
raw power - the stooges
funeral - arcade fire
the libertines - the libertines
l.a.m.f - johnny thunders & the heartbreakers
marquee moon - television
brothers - black keys
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - dead kennedys
down by the jetty - dr feelgood
sublime - sublime
modern vampires of the city - vampire weekend
AM - arctic monkeys
the undertones - the undertones
damned damned damned - the damned
new york dolls - new york dolls
lust for life - iggy pop

 

[OpethianWolfe]

1. Opeth- Still Life
2. Agalloch- The Mantle
3. Steven Wilson- The Raven That Refused To Sing
4. Ne Obliviscaris- Portal of I
5. King Crimson- In The Court of The Crimson King
6. Pink Floyd- Animals
7. Dream Theater- Images and Words
8. Gazpacho- Night
9. Unexpect- Fables of The Sleepless Empire
10. Porcupine Tree- Signify
11. Nightwish- Century Child
12. Anathema- Judgement
13. Opeth- Blackwater Park
14. Tool- Lateralus
15. Jethro Tull- Aqualung
16. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
17. Camel- Moonmadness
18. Riverside- Anno Domino High Definition
19. Leprous- Bilateral
20. Mastodon- Crack The Skye
21. Megadeth- Rust In Peace
22. Blind Guardian- Imaginations From The Otherside
23. The Mars Volta- Amputechture
24. Devin Townsend- Terria
25. Dredg- El Cielo

 

[Liberati0n*]

Yep. It's actually two things; the Superchunk album and the Motion City Soundtrack song of the same name (which they took from the Superchunck album name). So it all goes back to that album, which I really enjoy.

I always assumed Motion City Soundtrack was a Fallout Boy-type band. The name just sounds like that.

 

[Note Worthy]

I always assumed Motion City Soundtrack was a Fallout Boy-type band. The name just sounds like that.

Well, they did do a tour with Fall Out Boy years ago (back in 2003 or '04 I believe). But I don't think they are like Fall Out Boy. Their first album "I Am The Movie" has one of the most original sounds. Just my opinion, of course.

But to me nothing matches their follow up effort "Commit This to Memory". Just a stellar album from start to finish.

 

[chasespace]

1. Avenged Sevenfold-"City of Evil"
2. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross-"The Social Network Soundtrack"
3. twenty|one|pilots-"Regional at Best"
4. Alexisonfire-"Old Crows/Young Cardinals"
5. Dethklok-"The Dethalbum"
6. The Devil Wears Prada-"Dead Throne"
7. Enter Shikari-"Common Dreads"
8. Butch Walker and the Black Widows-"I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart"
9. Girl Talk-"All Day"
10. Four Year Stong-"Enemy of the World"
11. Frank Turner-"England Keep My Bones"
12. AWOLNATION-"Megalithic Symphony"
13. Rise Against-"Appeal to Reason"
14. Linkin Park-"Hybrid Theory"
15. Flobots-"The Circle in the Square"
16. A Day to Remember-"What Separates You From Me"
17. The Narrative-"The Narrative(Self-titled)"
18. Mae-"(E)vening"
19. All That Remains-"The Fall of Ideals"
20. Enter Shikari-"A Flash Flood of Colour"
21. Passion Pit-"Gossamer"
22. Parkway Drive-"Horizons"
23. A Day to Remember-"Homesick"
24. Tech N9ne-"All 6's and 7's"
25. Bring Me the Horizon-"There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret"

 

[Everlasting]

Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
Avantasia - The Metal Opera II
Edguy - Tinitus Sanctus
Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation
Rhapsody - Power Of The Dragonflame
Avantasia - The Metal Opera I
Edguy - Hellfire Club
Edguy - Theater of Salvation
Edguy
DAD - Monster philosophy
DAD - No fuel left for the pilgrims
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Rhapsody - Symphony of enchanted lands
Galneryus - Advance To The Fall
Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys I
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
The Offspring - Smash
The Beatles - Let it be
Mr Big - Hey Man
Wintersun - Wintersun
Masterplan - Masterplan
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thundergod


Something like this. Random order, maybe The Scarecrow is number 1, but it changes depending on mood...

 

[Necropolis]

Avantasia - The Scarecrow
...
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thundergod

You really like power metal, huh? Nice to see that someone else as well thinks that Keeper I is better than II. Walls Of Jericho is the best Helloween album IMO though.

1. Avenged Sevenfold-"City of Evil"
...
25. Bring Me the Horizon-"There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret"

There's not one album here that I've heard (I think so at least) but is that Bring Me The Horizon album any better than Suicide Season (to be specific, is it a lot better)? Because you know, that's one of the worst albums I've heard.

Okay, not gonna comment every list on this thread but some interesting picks, some surprising picks and some less surprising. I'm thinking that I'll listen My Bloody Valentine's Loveless soon because that's another album that I've been suggested a lot. Actually, I think I'm going to start to listen albums from Rate Your Music's top-100 that I haven't heard (I have heard about 45): http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

 

[Acadmus]

Normally I'd have a hard time doing this, but there's a site I saw linked here about 5 years ago that does just this sort of thing

So my top-100 is here:

http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=826

 

[Kensu]

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
2. Faust - Faust (1971)
3. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
4. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
5. Neu! - Neu! (1973)
6. Eno - Another Green World (1975)
7. Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return (1988)
8. Miles Davis - *****es Brew (1970)
9. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
10. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)
11. Soft Machine - Third (1970)
12. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Nail (1985)
13. Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings (1982)
14. Morphine - Good (1992)
15. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
16. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
17. The Gun Club - Fire of Love (1981)
18. Fugazi - Repeater (1990)
19. Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (1990)
20. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
21. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
22. The Residents - Not Available (1976)
23. Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (1967)
24. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)
25. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Electric Heavyland (2002)

mine changes from week to week, I go through majority of the albums again and discover more each week so things get bumped up/down.

 

[Leafsdude7]

I'd probably have a much easier time doing the top-10 thing like many here, but the thread title is 25, so I'll do 25.

1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Barenaked Ladies - Maroon
3. Counting Crows - August And Everything After
4. The Beatles - Revolver
5. Matchbox 20 - Yourself Or Someone Like You
6. David Gray - Foundling (Deluxe Version)
7. David Usher - Strange Birds
8. Arcade Fire - Funeral
9. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
10. Barenaked Ladies - Born On A Pirate Ship
11. The Beatles - Help
12. The Beatles - Abbey Road
13. U2 - Achtung Baby
14. Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
15. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
16. David Gray - Life In Slow Motion
17. Grapes Of Wrath - These Days
18. David Usher - Little Songs
19. Our Lady Peace - Happiness...Is Not A Fish You Can Catch
20. U2 - Joshua Tree
21. Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
22. Stir - Holy Dogs
23. Sense Field - Tonight And Forever
24. Stabilo - Happiness And Disaster
25. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

HM:
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
Dishwalla - Opaline
Enya - The Celts
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
David Gray - Draw The Line
Matchbox 20 - Mad Season
David Usher - If God Had Curves
Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

 

[Big Ed]

Roughly in order... And using only one album per band.

1. Brand New – The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
3. Cap’n Jazz – Analphabetapolothology
4. Misfits – Walk Among Us
5. Strand of Oaks – Pope Killdragon
6. La Dispute – Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
7. Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
8. Eisley – Room Noises
9. Owen - L'Ami du Peuple
10. Rites of Spring – Rites of Spring/End on End
11. Weezer – Pinkerton
12. The Front Bottoms – The Front Bottoms
13. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
14. Circa Survive – Blue Sky Noise
15. The Antlers – Hospice
16. Pixies – Doolittle
17. Embrace – Embrace
18. Colour – Anthology
19. This Town Needs Guns – Animals
20. Enter Shikari – Take to the Skies
21. Touché Amoré - ...to the Beat of a Dead Horse
22. Death Grips – Exmilitary
23. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
24. Saetia – A Retrospective
25. Have Heart – The Things We Carry

 

[chasespace]

There's not one album here that I've heard (I think so at least) but is that Bring Me The Horizon album any better than Suicide Season (to be specific, is it a lot better)? Because you know, that's one of the worst albums I've heard.

It mainly depends on your taste. They transition from a screamo/hardcore band to a more post-hardcore band working in more clean lyrics and yells as opposed to Oli screaming everything. It's my favorite album of theirs. "It Never Ends" and "Alligator Blood" are two songs that pretty much show what the album has to offer, "It Never Ends" being on the slower, more lyrical side while "Alligator Blood" relies more on screams/yells and riffs.

 

[S E P H]

My only rule is I limited it to just one album per band.

1. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta [Best Song: Sankaritarina](Finland)

2. Dream Theater - Images and Words [Best Song: Take the Time](USA)

3. Pagan's Mind - Engimatic: Calling [Best Song: Supremacy, Our Kind](Norway)

4. Haggard - Tales of Itheria [Best Song: Chapter IV: The Sleeping Child](Germany)

5. Threshold - March of Progress [Best Song: Coda](England)

6. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera [Best Song: Punishment Devine](Germany)

7. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider [Best Song: Mystical End](USA)

8. Therion - Secret of the Runes [Best Song: Schwarzalbenheim](Sweden)

9. Riverside - Annio Domini High Definition [Best Song: Hybrid Times](Poland)

10. Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild [Best Song: Victoria's Secret](Finland)

11. Wolfchant - Calling of the Black Wind [Best Song: Black Fire](Germany)

12. Soundgarden - Superunknown [Best Song: Superunkown](USA)

13. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet [Best Song: Anesthetize](England)

14. Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders [Best Song: On Impulse](USA)

15. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles [Best Song: As Tyrants Fall](Italy)

HM In No Order
Age of Nemesis - Eden
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Death - Symbolic
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Finsterforst - Rastlos
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poison
Korn - Untouchables
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Lamb of God - Ashes of Wake
Maximum the Hormone - Buiiki Kaesu
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Rush - Moving Pictures
Suidakra - The Arcanum
Windir - Arntor
Zao - Awake?

 

[Necropolis]

My only rule is I limited it to just one album per band.

1. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta [Best Song: Sankaritarina](Finland)
...
Zao - Awake?

Great list, although I hate Ensiferum and I don't like Moonsorrow and Dream Theater too much at all tbh. Oh yeah and Sonata Arctica... terrible band as well IMO. But Symbolic, The IVth Crusade, Night Of The Stormrider, A Night At The Opera, Coma Of Souls are all very good albums at least.

 

[kihei]

I don't know how to state this question so it sounds nice, not snarky, because I'm not trying to piss off Dream Theater fans. But here it is: how long did it take for you to tell the band's songs apart? I am admittedly a casual listener at best, but it seems to me that in their concert movie anyways most of their songs have nice, though not especially memorable, beginning-type beginnings and then after a bit of that, everybody just starts ostentatiously displaying all of their considerable chops in one massive jumble of hundred mile per hour music making, most of which sounds excruciatingly similar to me. Is it just me or can the band be pretty impenetrable at times? Second question: if one accepts the previous reasoning as not being totally irrational, what then makes Dream Theater more than a band of mere flashy show-offs?

 

[S E P H]

Great list, although I hate Ensiferum and I don't like Moonsorrow and Dream Theater too much at all tbh. Oh yeah and Sonata Arctica... terrible band as well IMO. But Symbolic, The IVth Crusade, Night Of The Stormrider, A Night At The Opera, Coma Of Souls are all very good albums at least.

- Ensiferum with Mäenpää was beastin', new Ensiferum I could understand why you hate them.
- Dream Theatre is a beast of a band, but since Portnoy left it hasn't been the same.
- Moonsorrow > Everything else, surprised you don't like them, but I am a huge folk metal fan.
- I don't know I think I should've had Bolt Thrower higher, they are a pretty damn underrated band.

I don't know how to state this question so it sounds nice, not snarky, because I'm not trying to piss off Dream Theater fans. But here it is: how long did it take for you to tell the band's songs apart? I am admittedly a casual listener at best, but it seems to me that in their concert movie anyways most of their songs have nice, though not especially memorable, beginning-type beginnings and then after a bit of that, everybody just starts ostentatiously displaying all of their considerable chops in one massive jumble of hundred mile per hour music making, most of which sounds excruciatingly similar to me. Is it just me or can the band be pretty impenetrable at times? Second question: if one accepts the previous reasoning as not being totally irrational, what then makes Dream Theater more than a band of mere flashy show-offs?

Too be honest you should ask this question to Slayer fans, every song sounds the same. You need to listen to DT again to tell how unpredictable the songs are. The song structure could be the same per songs, but the unpredictability that Portnoy does on the drums (as a fellow drummer) is pretty insanely awesome.