Music: The Definitive What are Your Top 25 Albums?

[Oxbow Lakes]

That Unwound album is phenomenal. And Life Without Buildings is awesome. I had to look twice to make sure I really saw that band on a list. And then a third time because I HAVEN'T EVEN LISTENED TO THAT LIVE ALBUM. I have Any Other City and the Love Trinity single.

Heeeell yeah. Any Other City is phenomenal as well, I just listen to it rarely nowadays since I prefer most of the live versions. Live album is definitely worth checking out if you like them, sound is a bit looser and rawer, and I think Sue Tompkins sputtering around fits really well to the live setting. Also some awkward yet funny banter by Sue between the songs!

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Heeeell yeah. Any Other City is phenomenal as well, I just listen to it rarely nowadays since I prefer most of the live versions. Live album is definitely worth checking out if you like them, sound is a bit looser and rawer, and I think Sue Tompkins sputtering around fits really well to the live setting. Also some awkward yet funny banter by Sue between the songs!

Awesome! Excited for this!

 

[Enga Olly]

Zappa/MOI - We're Only In It For The Money
Zappa/Mothers - Roxy & Elsewhere
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Permanent Waves
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
David Bowie - Station to Station
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Motorhead - Overkill
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rainbow - On Stage
Max Webster - High Class in Borrowed Shoes
Scorpions - In Trance
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Yes - The Yes Album
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Goddo - An Act of Goddo
Saga - World's Apart
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Judas Priest - Stained Class

Probably fairly easy to build demographic characteristics of me from that list

 

[Hockey Outsider]

Without too much thought, here's my list (any genre, max one album per artist, studio albums only, and no compilations):

1. A Tribe Called Quest - "The Low End Theory"
2. Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
3. Blackalicious "A2G" (EP)
4. Blaze Bayley - "Silcion Messiah"
5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Emerson, Lake & Palmer"
6. Fela Kuti - "Expensive Shit"
7. Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"
8. Jaco Pastorius - "Jaco Pastorius"
9. Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
10. King Crimson - "Red"
11. Led Zeppelin - "Led Zeppelin I"
12. Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew"
13. Nas - "Illmatic"
14. OutKast - "Aquemini"
15. Pink Floyd - "Animals"
16. Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime"
17. Rage Against the Machine - "Rage Against the Machine"
18. The Roots - "Do You Want More?!!!??!"
19. Slayer - "Hell Awaits"
20. Stanley Clarke - "School Days"
21. The Stooges - "Fun House"
22. Weezer - "Weezer"
23. The Who - "Quadrophenia"
24. Wishbone Ash - "Argus"
25. Yes - "Fragile"

By genre - I'd loosely categorize 6 albums as heavy metal, 6 as "mainstream" rock, 5 as hip-hop, 4 as progressive rock, 3 as jazz (two specifically as bass guitar virtuoso jazz), and 1 as "world". I counted RATM's debut as rock, but you could easily categorize it as hip-hop (or even metal - which is why these labels are rough approximations only). I thought I'd have more progressive rock albums but many of the rock or metal albums have obvious prog influences (I'd even argue that a few of the hip-hop albums, albeit indirectly, have a prog influence).

By year - one album from the 1960's, 12 from the 1970's, 3 from the 1980's, 8 from the 1990's, and a single album from the 21st century (released in 2000). I'm not a grumpy old man.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

In no order

Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Sabbath - Masters of Reality
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Boston - Boston
ELO - Out of the Blue
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Stevie Wonder - Song in the Key Life
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On
Metallica - And Justice for All
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Green Day - Dookie
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
Slipknot - Iowa
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Blues Traveler - Four
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Magic Sword - Legend
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

 

[Kravtsov420]

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Led Zeppelin - IV (as much as I love Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Alice In Chains - Dirt
AC/DC - Back in Black
Van Halen - Van Halen
Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Cult - Sonic Temple (shoutout, Eletric)
Audioslave - Audioslave
Stone Temple Pilots - Core (Purple is amazing too)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell or Vulgar Display of Power (both are amazing)
All That Remains - Fall of Ideals
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies or End of Heartache
August Burns Red - Messengers
Controversial: Creed - Human Clay

A newish album but one of the best albums I’ve heard over any genre recently

Northlane - Alien

And here are my remaining albums from the rap/hip-hop world

Logic - Under Pressure
Nas - illmatic
J. Cole - Forest Hills Drive
Travis Scott - Rodeo
Dr. Dre - 2001
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron

Mix of Sugar Ray/Sublime/Bob Marley
Aer - The Reach


And yes, I know I have an impeccable taste in music. XOXOXO