Your top 5 favorite albums

[atomicholiday]

So you’re stuck on a desert island, you all know the rest.

List out your top five favorite albums of all time.  Here’s my list in no particular order.  And if you feel like it, tell us why you picked what you picked.

 

-Outfield - Play Deep

-Ozzy Osbourne - Ultimate Sin (Jake E Lee is my favorite guitarist and he was on top of his game for this album)

-Gary Numan - Telekon 

-Fastway - Trick or Treat motion picture soundtrack.(one of my top five movies.  I saw a lot of myself in Eddie Weinbauer)

-Great White - Once Bitten (Mark Kendall, another terrific guitarist)

Edited September 7, 2023 by atomicholiday

[JollySipper]

Albums I could listen to forever and never tire of?

Cake..... Fashion Nugget. This album kinda shaped my way of thinking when I was younger.

Primus..... Pork Soda. This one is about lonerism and isolation, something I've dealt with a lot, especially as a teen.

Meat Puppets..... II. Just an all around good album!

Hum..... You'd prefer an astronaut. It's a concept album about him and his girl's stellar love affair.

Tool..... Lateralus. This album came out right when I needed it in my life......

[Horrorshow]

Framed: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 

Funhouse: The Stooges 

Link Wray: Link Wray

White Blood Cells: The White Stripes 

American Recordings: Johnny Cash 

[Keef]

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy 

Pink Floyd - Animals

Guns n Roses - Use Your Illusion 1&2

Ugly Kid Joe - Americas Least Wanted 

[customline]

OK, this is gonna date me. 

Strange Days - The Doors

On the Threshold of a Dream - The Moody Blues

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Only 5?

Don't judge me ?

Edited September 7, 2023 by customline

[atomicholiday]

11 hours ago, Keef said:

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy 

Pink Floyd - Animals

Guns n Roses - Use Your Illusion 1&2

Ugly Kid Joe - Americas Least Wanted 

A fellow metal head!  I have a feeling our music collections look very similar. 

 

6 hours ago, customline said:

OK, this is gonna date me. 

Strange Days - The Doors

On the Threshold of a Dream - The Moody Blues

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Only 5?

Don't judge me ?

Nothing at all wrong with any of those!   They're some truly great classic albums in that list.   Heck,  Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands.   I tend to lean towards Animals. 

 

Some great stuff posted by everyone!   Let's keep it going and maybe some of us will discover a new favorite album from other members. 

[Mittagskind]

Yes - Relayer

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

OSI - Blood

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

Peter Fox - Stadtaffe

...

...

and everything of Porcupine Tree

Edited September 7, 2023 by Mittagskind

[Rob Hall]

Hmm.  Hard to narrow to 5.   50 would be easier. 

Pink Floyd-- The Division Bell

U2--The Joshua Tree

U2--Achtung Baby

Roxy Music--Flesh + Blood

Roxy Music--Avalon

and bonus:  Peter Gabriel--So

[Snake45]

Well, Warren Zevon died 20 years ago today, so two of mine would have to be Learning to Flinch and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

Linda Ronstadt's Mad Love would make my list today, too. 

Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. 

Now for my last I gotta pick the best of Tom Petty, Heart, or Meat Loaf. Ouch. 

 

[Fat Brian]

Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Paul Simon - Graceland

Soundgarden -  Down on the Upside

Kentucky Headhunters - Electric Barnyard

Tool - 10,000 Days

[customline]

2 hours ago, atomicholiday said:

A fellow metal head!  I have a feeling our music collections look very similar. 

 

Nothing at all wrong with any of those!   They're some truly great classic albums in that list.   Heck,  Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands.   I tend to lean towards Animals. 

 

Some great stuff posted by everyone!   Let's keep it going and maybe some of us will discover a new favorite album from other members. 

Yes, Animals is in a league of its own. Personally, as much music is out there, I tend to gravitate to the stuff I listened to as a young'n.  My 45 year old son is always trying to get me to listen to bands like Tool and Metallica but there's no memories in it for me. I discovered a few things when I was collecting vinyl that I really like and have those on CD. These days I don't listen much to music. I do like to watch live performance videos of various bands when im in a "mood"......."Pulse" is a favorite. ?

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[iamsuperdan]

Hmm...

 

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing

2. Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion

3. There's A Light - A Long Lost Silence

4. The Police - Message in a Box (yes, this is cheating, but needs to be done)

5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

 

Runners up:

Portishead - Dummy

Filter - Title of Record

Vy Pole - Woven Trail

Deftones - White Pony

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go

[atomicholiday]

41 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

Hmm...

 

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing

2. Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion

3. There's A Light - A Long Lost Silence

4. The Police - Message in a Box (yes, this is cheating, but needs to be done)

5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

 

Runners up:

Portishead - Dummy

Filter - Title of Record

Vy Pole - Woven Trail

Deftones - White Pony

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go

The Real Thing was an insanely good album!  So creative and unique for its time.  And Master of Puppets?  I heard it for the first time when I was sixteen.  It was a new album at that time.  It was almost a life changing experience for me back then.  Wish they were still putting out music like that one.?

[JollySipper]

22 minutes ago, atomicholiday said:

The Real Thing was an insanely good album!  So creative and unique for its time.  And Master of Puppets?  I heard it for the first time when I was sixteen.  It was a new album at that time.  It was almost a life changing experience for me back then.  Wish they were still putting out music like that one.?

Metallica has released some music recently, it's just as good if not better than their earlier stuff...... Very heavy, but very technical playing all in one!

[Mike 1017]

Pink Floyd                                                   Darkside of the Moon

Crosby, Stills Nash, and Young                 Deja Vu

James Brown                                              The Payback

Bee Gees                                                      Saturday Night Fever

Stanley Clark                                                School Days

I am gonna play these vinyl albums this weekend.

Mike

[Mike C]

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

Government Mule - The Deep End

John McLaughlin - Birds of Fire

Allman Bros. - Live at The Fillmore East

Peter Banks - The Two Sides of Peter Banks

[Chuckyg1]

In no particular order

Elvin Bishop - Raisin' Hell, (live).

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

Tom Petty - The Live Anthology

Steve Earle - El Corazon

The Who - Quadrophinia

 

[Mike C.]

1. Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me.

2. Stooges - Funhouse.

3. Clash - Sandinista.

4. The Jam - Snap!

5. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy.

6. Urge Overkill - Saturation.

7. Buffalo Tom - Let me Come Over.

8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henrys Dream.

9. Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation.

10. The Straitjacket Fits - Melt.

 

 

[Mike C.]

Opps! I went with 10.

[1972coronet]

1.)  Notorious Byrd Brothers * - Byrds 

2.) Piper at the Gates of Dawn *- Pink Floyd 

3.) White Light / White Heat *  - Velvet Underground 

4.) The Covent, the Sword & Arm of the Lord  - Cabaret Voltaire 

5.) Only Theatre of Pain - Christian Death

* Mono Mixes  

Edited September 8, 2023 by 1972coronet

[bbowser]

 Beatles.         Sgt Pepper

Beatles            White album

Led Zepplin      II and IV

Doobie Brothers.  any

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

God I'm old!

[slusher]

Kiss ………Double Platinum 

Bob Seger…….Greatest hits 3  or  Night moves

Def  Leppard…….Pyromania 

AC/ DC……….. Greatest hits

John Melencamp…….Scarecrow 

[slusher]

3 hours ago, bbowser said:

 

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

God I'm old!

Thought I was the only one who liked that song.   Listen too Moe Bandy song  Too old too die young.

[Horrorshow]

On 9/6/2023 at 7:05 PM, Horrorshow said:

Framed: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 

Funhouse: The Stooges 

Link Wray: Link Wray

White Blood Cells: The White Stripes 

American Recordings: Johnny Cash 

Ah! Forgot my all time favourite album 

Tons of Sobs by Free

[1972coronet]

Since everyone's adding another 5 faves :

1.) The Iceberg / Freedom of Speech  - Ice T

2.) Velvet Underground (alternate mix) - Velvet Underground 

3.) Dirt - Alice In Chains 

4.) The Soft Parade - Doors 

5.) Expensive 5hit [misspelling on purpose] - Fela Kuti & Afrika 70