Your 10 Favorite Albums

McMeghan

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1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. The Chemical Brothers - Further
5. Foster the People - Torches
6. Mogwai - Mr.Beast
7. Misteur Valaire – Golden Bombay
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Portishead - Dummy
10. God Is An Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright

tough job
 
1. Converge - Jane Doe
2. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
3. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
4. Protest the Hero - Kezia
5. Megadeth - Rust In Peace/Countdown To Extinction/Youthanasia (love all of them pretty much equally, can't pick one out)
6. The Chariot - One Wing
7. Omnia - Crone Of War
8. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
9. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
10. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick

The first 5 are set in stone, the others would probably be a lot different if I was asked another day.
 
man this is hard

after much thought and consideration...

10. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
9. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
8. Converge - Jane Doe
7. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
6. The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
5. Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
4. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
3. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
2. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
1. Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun

honorable mentions are everything else listed here
i hate The Beatles and Eminem wears thin pretty quick, but this is a good/great list.
What's the center one top row? I recognize all of the others, and I'm 90% sure I've seen that image before, but I can't place it.
The Angelic Process: Weighing Souls With Sand. <3

In no order:

Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What you Believe
Pixies - Doolittle
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough
Get Set Go - Ordinary World
Grouplove - Grouplove
Spoon - Girls can Tell
Swans - The Seer
The Blood Brothers - This Adultery is Ripe

Not even Deschain can hate this list!!
it's odd to have a new album on a best-of-all-time list, but i do like that CHVRCHES album.

don't really care about The Pixies, don't like Spoon, but yeah, also a solid list.

an odd choice for TBB though.
 


no order

neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
andrew jackson jihad - people that can eat people are the luckiest people in the world
agalloch - the mantle
blockhead - music by cavelight
godspeed you! black emperor - slow riot for new zerø kanada
rjd2 - deadringer
kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
the mountain goats - all hail west texas
helios - eingya
brand new - the devil and god are raging inside me
 

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Its not a best of all time its a 10 favourite albums list...

Runner-up
11. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

10. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
9. AC/DC - Back In Black
8. Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
7. The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
6. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms / On The Night (toss-up)
5. Various Artists - 2004 Grammy Nominees
4. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
3. Queensryche - Empire
2. Styx - Greatest Hits (/cop out)
1. Billy Talent - Dead Silence
 
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1. Agalloch - The Mantle
2. Burzum - Filosofem
3. Bathory - Hammerheart
4. Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
5. Ash Borer - Ash Borer
6. Sun Devoured Earth - Sun Devoured Earth
7. Intestine Baalism - Banquet in the Darkness
8. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
9. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
10. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
+agalloch burzum, darkthrone, boc
~bathory, drudkh
-bolt thrower

1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. The Chemical Brothers - Further
5. Foster the People - Torches
6. Mogwai - Mr.Beast
7. Misteur Valaire – Golden Bombay
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Portishead - Dummy
10. God Is An Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright

tough job
weird choice of mogwai album

+anco, chemical brothers, mogwai, portishead, god is an astronaut
~beach house, daft punk
-foster the people

1. Converge - Jane Doe
2. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
3. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
4. Protest the Hero - Kezia
5. Megadeth - Rust In Peace/Countdown To Extinction/Youthanasia (love all of them pretty much equally, can't pick one out)
6. The Chariot - One Wing
7. Omnia - Crone Of War
8. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
9. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
10. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick

The first 5 are set in stone, the others would probably be a lot different if I was asked another day.
+streetlight manifesto, the mars volta
~iron maiden, converge
-megadeth

What's the center one top row? I recognize all of the others, and I'm 90% sure I've seen that image before, but I can't place it.

In no particular order:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Clash - London Calling
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Death - Symbolic
This Heat - Deceit

Things that just barely didn't make the cut include Outkast's Aquemini, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, Warning's Watching From a Distance, Gorguts' Colored Sands, and Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come.
+nmh, the clash, raekwon, dylan
~death, talking heads

In no order:

Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What you Believe
Pixies - Doolittle
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough
Get Set Go - Ordinary World
Grouplove - Grouplove
Spoon - Girls can Tell
Swans - The Seer
The Blood Brothers - This Adultery is Ripe

Not even Deschain can hate this list!!
+modest mouse, grouplove, swans
~chvrches, pixies
-arcade fire
 
too tired / lazy to do writeups for once :< list has barely changed since the 2012 thread (which i did do writeups for)
  1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
  2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (I)
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
  4. Kylie Minogue - Fever
  5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
  6. Metric - Fantasies
  7. capsule - Sugarless GiRL
  8. HEARTSREVOLUTION - Switchblade EP
  9. Grimes - Visions
  10. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
honourary mentions (yes i realise this is seven more albums) (no duplicate artists tho):
  • Phantogram - Eyelid Movies
  • Genki Rockets - Genki Rockets I -Heavenly Star-
  • Ladytron - Witching Hour
  • Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
  • You Love Her Coz She's Dead - You Love Her Coz She's Dead
  • Purity Ring - Shrines
  • Vienna Teng - Dreaming Through the Noise
 

termi

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1 per artist becuz why not (no particular order, don't feel like it)

Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Radiohead - Kid A
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antartica
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Honorable mentions:
Anything on these three pages: https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Magus_The_Sexy/r4.5/1
In particular: The Modest Mouse albums, the Björk albums, the Slowdive albums, the Boris albums, Pink Floyd, Refused, Animal Collective, Belle & Sebastian, Coil (but heck I love all of em)
Also In Rainbows by Radiohead
 
hard to go w/ an actual top 10 since mine is changing all the time. not really in any order

pixes - doolittle
pixies - surfer rosa
bob dylan - blood on the tracks
talking heads - remain in light
dead kennedys - fresh fruit for rotting veggies
radiohead - kid a
dj shadow - endtroducing
madvillain - madvillainy
godspeed you! black emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas
el-p & killer mike - run the jewels
 
too tired / lazy to do writeups for once :< list has barely changed since the 2012 thread (which i did do writeups for)
  1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
  2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (I)
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
  4. Kylie Minogue - Fever
  5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
  6. Metric - Fantasies
  7. capsule - Sugarless GiRL
  8. HEARTSREVOLUTION - Switchblade EP
  9. Grimes - Visions
  10. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
honourary mentions (yes i realise this is seven more albums) (no duplicate artists tho):
  • Phantogram - Eyelid Movies
  • Genki Rockets - Genki Rockets I -Heavenly Star-
  • Ladytron - Witching Hour
  • Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
  • You Love Her Coz She's Dead - You Love Her Coz She's Dead
  • Purity Ring - Shrines
  • Vienna Teng - Dreaming Through the Noise
You're the one that got me into Crystal Castles back in that 2012 thread :)

Just thought I'd mention that, they're really great, so thank you!
 

2Pac - Me Against the World

Blur - Think Tank

Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Nas - Illmatic

Pendulum - Immersion

Rebelution - Bright Side of Life

Tribal Seeds - The Harvest
 

destinyunknown

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In no particular order, and not set in stone...

Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Pixies: Doolittle - I actually don't like their other stuff that much (I hate when they sing in spanish ughh) but yeah I love this album
Radiohead: OK Computer - Kind of a cliche but this album makes me reflect a lot. I also like most of the rest of their stuff but not as much as this.
The Clash: London Calling
Arcade Fire: Funeral - I had a really hard time deciding which of their albums I was going to put because I like all of them, but I just feel like Funeral is their best. This could probably change if you asked me at any other time though.
The Avalanches: Since I Left You
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion - Really didn't know which one to choose between this and Strawberry Jam but I feel this is overall their best album
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
The National: Boxer
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs - Ok, I admit that this album has some flaws and some songs (but thankfully not many) are filler. But what can you ask from an album with 69 songs? I like almost all of them and I see myself coming back to this album a lot. Listening to it all the way through is definitely an experience as well. To be fair, there are other albums I like that are on the whole better than this one, but I just wanted to include this on the list for some reason. Maybe it's just my current mood :')
 

Ash Borer

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too tired / lazy to do writeups for once :< list has barely changed since the 2012 thread (which i did do writeups for)
  1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
  2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (I)
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
  4. Kylie Minogue - Fever
  5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
  6. Metric - Fantasies
  7. capsule - Sugarless GiRL
  8. HEARTSREVOLUTION - Switchblade EP
  9. Grimes - Visions
  10. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
holy shit you have a lot of plays of Crystal Castles. Great album though
 

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current albums I'm listening to a lot atm (don't really have favorite albums):

i would set myself on fire for you: ...believes in patterns
converge: jane doe
tabula rasa: tabula rasa
isis: panopticon
oranssi pazuzu: muukalainen puhuu
ecocide: when will it end?
the dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
atheist: unquestionable presence
agalloch: ashes against the grain
lights: the listening

edit: few honorable mentions:

junius: the martyrdom of a catastrophist
i break horses: chiaroscuro
oперация Пластилин: lucky 7's - part i. electric
warpaint: warpaint
saké / submission hold: unnatural disasters split
avvika: s/t
opeth: still life
opeth: ghost reveries
 
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current albums I'm listening to a lot atm (don't really have favorite albums):

i would set myself on fire for you: ...believes in patterns
converge: jane doe
tabula rasa: tabula rasa
isis: panopticon
oranssi pazuzu: muukalainen puhuu
ecocide: when will it end?
the dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
atheist: unquestionable presence
agalloch: ashes against the grain
lights: the listening

edit: few honorable mentions:

junius: the martyrdom of a catastrophist
i break horses: chiaroscuro
oперация Пластилин: lucky 7's - part i. electric
warpaint: warpaint
saké / submission hold: unnatural disasters split
avvika: s/t
opeth: still life
opeth: ghost reveries
this list cured me of cancer.
 

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As usual, my lists only contain EDM, but this time, 3 non-DnB albums are present. I'll do more detailed write-ups later.



1. Etherwood - Etherwood

Favorite tracks: Begin By Letting Go / Weightless / Disposition (feat. Rocky Nti) / The Time Is Here At Last (feat. Hybrid Minds)

2. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour

Favorite tracks: Sounds of Life (feat. Jasmine Yee) / Hold Your Colour / Streamline / Still Grey

3. Daft Punk - Discovery

Favorite tracks: One More Time / Digital Love / Superheroes / Veridis Quo

4. Bachelors of Science - Science Fiction

Favorite tracks: Dreams Come True (feat. Saburuko) / Song For Lovers / The Ice Dance / Strings Track

5. High Contrast - High Society

Favorite tracks: High Society (feat. Dynamite MC) / Brief Encounter / The Persistence of Memory / The Basement Track

6. Netsky - Netsky

Favorite tracks: Iron Heart / Moving With You (feat. Jenna G) / Storm Clouds / Porcelain

7. Nu:Logic - What I've Always Waited For

Favorite tracks: Brown Shoes / Everlasting Days (feat. Lifford) / Start Again (feat. S.P.Y) / Halflight

8. The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea

Favorite tracks: Animus Vox / Between Two Points (feat. Swan) / Drive It Like You Stole It / Starve The Ego, Feed The Soul

9. Fred V & Grafix - Goggles / Games People Play

Favorite tracks: Goggles / Games People Play / Denmark Road

10. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

Favorite tracks: Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt / The Number Song / Organ Donor / Midnight In A Perfect World

Honorable Mentions:

• Klute - No One's Listening Anymore

Favorite tracks: Make A Stand / Finger In The Hole / Losing You / Saviour

• Celldweller - Wish Upon A Blackstar

Favorite tracks: Blackstar / Louder Than Words / So Long Sentiment / Against The Tide

• Frederic Robinson - Mixed Signals

Favorite tracks: Theme Park / Laughing At Clouds / Bloom / Mixed Signals

• S.P.Y - Back To Basics Chapter 1

Favorite tracks: Cold Harsh Air (feat. Total Science) / Brooklyn Dub / Riding The Void / Jelly Belly

• Camo & Krooked - Cross The Line

Favorite tracks: Make The Call / Cross The Line (feat. Ayah Marar) / Watch It Burn (feat. Ayah Marar) / Afterlife

• Mistabishi - Falling In Love / She Lied

Favorite tracks: Falling In Love (feat. Danman) / She Lied
 
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in no particular order (barring Emancipator):

1) Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough To Build Fires
2) Quasimoto - The Unseen
3) Blu - Her Favorite Colo(u)r
4) Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
5) J Dilla - Donuts
6) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
7) OVERWERK - After Hours
8) Pink Floyd - The Wall (ALL THE PARTS)
9) Protoje - 7 Year Itch
10) Bonobo - Days to Come
 
I'm gonna do more than 10 albums on my list becaue it' pretty damn hard to make them in order lol

Opeth: Still life & Blackwater Park
Iron maiden: Powerslave & The Number of the beast
Dream theater: Black clouds & silver linings
Steel Panther: Feel the steel/Balls out (funniest band ever)
AC/DC : Back in Black
Army Of The Pharaohs: Ritual of Battle
Daft Punk: Discovery
Death: Symbolic & The Sound of Perserverance
Demigodz: Killmatic
Rammstein: Sehnsucht
Diabolic: Liar & a Thief
Green Carnation: Light of day, day of darkness (it's actually a one hour long song lol)
Joe Satriani: The Extremist
 
my top ten favorites :~)



1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
2. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
5. Portishead - Dummy
6. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
7. Beach House - Bloom
8. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
9. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
10. The xx - xx
 

Bedschibaer

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Narrowing it down to only 10 is hard, but i gave it a try.

Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda: Probably the most priced and my most treasured record i own. It's hard to define this album, genre wise. World music, folk rock, freak folk, ambient, etc, it fits into many categories and i love every second out of it.
Death in June - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?: Death in June is the defining artist for neofolk, and this album is the defining album for Death in June. Young Douglas Pearce had the voice of an angel, and the lyrics are great and will always stay in my head.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada: I am a huge sucker for GY!BE so i had to include something, even though the decision was almost impossible to make since i love all of their albums. Slow Riot is one of the few records that i consider overall perfect. Technically it's an EP, but the two pieces are probably the most moving ones GY!BE ever made. Also Sophie is a qt.
Fennesz - Endless Summer: Electronic, ambient, glitch, electroacoustic, Fennesz is again an artist that is hard to label. His 2001 LP has been my jam ever since i found out about this austrian musician. This album still manages to give me goosebumps after listening to it for the felt thousand time.
Life in the Dark - The Sunya is Rising: LitD is a solo project by Zen Zsigo who is also in charge of Cremation Lily, Livimorket and Maths. All of his releases are incredibly hard to find, but i am incredibly happy i was able to dig up this gem. One of the most impressive showing of pure emotions. (it was also the only one of his works that had a cover on topsters, even though it's just plain black. #so_deep)
Coil - The Ape of Napels: Rip John Balance ;_;7. Always gives me loads of feels.
Can - Future Days: There are a couple of albums that could take this place, i just felt like putting some Krautrock album and Future Days felt like a worthy representation. Ege Bamyasi, Tago Mago, Faust IV, Cluster 2, Cottonwoodhill, alot things that could be in this place but i had to decide for one.
Urfaust - Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist: I used to listen to alot black metal "back then", nowadays i really don't anymore. Urfaust is one of the most innovative bands in the genre i know and one of the few i still actually enjoy. I am also a huge sucker for their first and third album and again i couldn't decide which one to take, even though this one has the dopest cover, that is probably why i took it.
Man's Gin - Smiling Dogs: I am really not into that kind of folk usually, and i can't remember how the hell i got to this band, but i love this album and got drunk to it alot, sue me.
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness: This thing is huge and probably my most listened album of all time. I don't know what to say about it anymore, other than that it still manages to leave me speechless. I love it and Dan is kinda cute no homo.

Honorable mentions: everything in here http://www.last.fm/user/Bedschibaer

A couple of the lists here made me cringe a little, others have really good picks. But i'm sure you are all wonderful people or something.
 

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