Favorite Album Thread

[Lord Gloom]

oh man awesome recommendation

i just downloaded it... 4 songs in and absolutely loving this right now

any other good albums by this band even though you're not too familiar

i just grabbed their discography but pretty much everything is quality

please mr. lostman is really good too i would check that out

 

[Ripchord]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

This, most of keloggsequent's post, and Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary.

 

[Hyra]

Hello Rockview - Less Than Jake

One of the best albums I have ever heard. This is the pinnacle of the band's song writing ability. Their new album comes back to this style, 10 years later. I'm actually considering writing an in-depth review of this album for the Entertainment Review forum.

 

[Squarewalker]

currently, without repeating bands, and in rough order..

1. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
2. Pain Of Salvation - BE
3. Bon Jovi - These Days
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Blackfield - Blackfield II
6. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
7. Kamelot - The Black Halo
8. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
9. Opeth - Blackwater Park
10. Pain - Psalms Of Extinction
11. Wintersun - s/t
11. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
13. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
14. Radiohead - The Bends
15. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

 

[spies]

The Replacements - Let it be
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Pixies - Doolittle
Television - Marquee Moon
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (though Burning from the inside has better singles imo)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Joy Division - Closer
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Slowdive - Souvlaki

are all albums that I consider essentials

 

[God.]

gonna do top 10 for now. ill probably try for something bigger like 25 later.

10.

Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement

9.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

8.

American Water - Silver Jews

7.

The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest

6.

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

5.

Oaklandazulasylum - Why?

4.

Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices

3.

Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement

2.

cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD

1.

Endtroducing ... - DJ Shadow

 

[Vampy34]

(In no particular order)

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

The Beatles - Revolver

The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

UNKLE - Never Never Land

Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane (shut up a gf got me into them and now i can't stop listening aaaaaaaaaaaaaa)

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

 

[Doctor Heartbreak]

Oh boy don't know if I could do a ranked list but uh some albums I enjoy are:

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Under The Sea
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pixies - Doolittle
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
GZA - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP

I share some tastes with some people here apparently!

 

[BAD WOLF]

10. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
9. Twentysomething - Jamie Cullum
8. Rise Of The Tyrant - Arch Enemy
7. Eidolon - Dark Fortress
6. Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
5. Nymphetamine - Cradle Of Filth
4. The Black Album - Metallica
3. There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters
2. In Sorte Diaboli - Dimmu Borgir
1. Reign In Blood - Slayer

If you haven't heard of these, check them out, you won't be disappointed.

 

[akuchi]

1. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
2. Doolittle - Pixies
3. Suede - Dog Man Star
4. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
5. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
6. Bossanova - Pixies [noticing a theme here?]
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. Portishead - Third
9. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
10. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

aaa. The Who's Quadrophenia, Le Tigre - This Island, The Smiths' Strangeways Here We Come.. the Manic's Send Away The Tigers and Everything Must Go.. Suede - Suede [and Coming Up], PT's In Absentia.. oh my there's so many pretty albums.

 

[grizzly bear]

top 5 of all time is probably-

1. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2. Elliott Smith- XO
3. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (so underrated)
4. Radiohead- The Bends
5. The Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

 

[Toby]

1. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
2. Doolittle - Pixies
3. Suede - Dog Man Star
4. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
5. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
6. Bossanova - Pixies [noticing a theme here?]
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. Portishead - Third
9. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
10. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

aaa. The Who's Quadrophenia, Le Tigre - This Island, The Smiths' Strangeways Here We Come.. the Manic's Send Away The Tigers and Everything Must Go.. Suede - Suede [and Coming Up], PT's In Absentia.. oh my there's so many pretty albums.

Ahhh yes, Suede, the 90s answer to David Bowie. Best song = Trash, am I right or am I right? Teh London Suede...

Cheers for bringing back memories man.

 

[Altmer]

there's far too many, but...

Pain of Salvation - Be/Remedy Lane
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (the wall/dsotm are amazing too)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit/Judgement/A Natural Disaster
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pain - Dancing with the Dead
Portishead - Dummy
Radiohead - OK Computer
Muse - Absolution
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Converge - Jane Doe
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Nightwish - Century Child
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstasy
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Kamelot - The Black Halo

and many, many, many more

 

[Captain Falcon]

Myths of the Near future - Klaxons is my favourite album.

 

[Annhialator Zero]

1. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
3. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
5. Muse - HAARP (Only album of their's I have but I love it)

Would have more Maiden but I think you get the idea.

 

[Big Bayou]

Oh man...maybe Bizarre II Ride the Pharcyde?

Or perhaps Terminator X & the Valley of the Jeep Beets.

And Lela is ridiculous.

Hmm can't forget I Wish My Brother George Was Here...

The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Vol. 1 is sweet too. Apparently Gabby Pahinui and his sons just brought over a few generators and some equipment to a deserted island and recorded this thing over like 4 days. I think I cried like a minute into the 2nd track the first time I ever heard the album.

Cuban accents are a bitch to understand but El Kilo still kicks ass and so does Orishas. Have they ever even made an "average" album?

I could go on forever but my favorites change so often it wouldn't mean much anyways.

 

[havoc]

some of my all-time favorites:

Faith No More - Angel Dust

Beck - Midnite Vultures

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets

and more recently:

Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

 

[Doomsday]

7. Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

6. Redeemer - Machinae Supremacy (underground edition, mind you)

5. Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses

4. Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation

3. S&M - Metallica (for me, this is also my favorite live album ever)

2. Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Most of these change from time to time, though I tried to pick the kind of stuff I will still listen after years and years of first stumbling upon it. In fact, out of those, Remedy Lane was what I most recently listened to.

 

[Deschain]

I was listening to Shape of Despair's Angels of Distress and thinking "damn this is a good album, I wonder what my favorite albms are", then came up with this. I actually listen to a lot of dfiferent music just my absolute favorites all seem to be prog/metalish stuff as you can see if you even know who these bands are lol

50. The Morningside - The Wind, Trees, and Shadows of the Past
49. Alchemist - Organasm
48. Korai Orom - 2005
47. Monumentum - Ad Nauseum
46. Ephel Duath - The Painter's Pallette
45. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
44. The Spacious Mind - Mind of a Brother
43. Enslaved - Isa
42. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
41. Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
40. Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers
39. In the Woods... - HEart of the Ages
38. Empyrium - Songs of Moors & Misty Fields
37. Dalek - Absence
36. Anekdoten - Nucleus
35. Mar de Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express
34. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
33. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
32. Negura Bunget - Om
31. Enslaved - Monumension
30. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
29. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
28. Ulver - Perdition City
27. Agalloch - The Mantle
26. Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
25. Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
24. Ram-Zet - Escape
23. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
22. Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
21. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
20. Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
19. maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
18. Shulman - Soundscapes and Modern Tales
17. Opeth - Blackwater Park
16. Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
15. Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment
14. Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
13. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
12. Opeth - Still Life
11. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
10. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
9. Ulver - Blood Inside
8. In the Woods... - Strange in Stereo
7. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
6. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
5. Pink Floyd - Animals

4. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways

3. Void of Silence - Human Antithesis

2. Dodheimsgard - 666 International

1. In the Woods... - Omnio

fuck man, that's a pretty good list. i'm familiar with probably 3/4 of those, and while only a few are my "favorites" the rest of them are definitely good for a listen from time to time.

i've tried and tried to make a "definitive" list, but i don't think i ever will.

i keep track of this sort of thing on rateyourmusic though, and here are my 5/5 albums: http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Praemorior/r5.0

EDIT: and reading through the thread, there's a lot of awesome albums mentioned.

if someone put a gun to my head and asked me what my three favorite albums were, i'd probably say this:

01 Virgin Black: Elegant...and Dying

02 Bright Eyes: Fevers & Mirrors

03 Opeth: Still Life

 

[Altmer]

STILL
FUCKING
LIFE

glad to see some more appreciation for that one

man oh man was it awesome when Opeth played serenity painted death live

 

[Deschain]

STILL
FUCKING
LIFE

glad to see some more appreciation for that one

man oh man was it awesome when Opeth played serenity painted death live

yes...yes it was. <3