What are your timeless albums?

[Triple7]

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Slipknot - Iowa
Korn - Korn
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Meshuggah - Obzen
Giant - Song
The Social Network - OST
Ovid's Withering - Scryers Of Ibis
Infant Annihilator - The Battle of Yaldabaoth

 

[Triple7]

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Slipknot - Iowa
Korn - Korn
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Meshuggah - Obzen
Giant - Song
The Social Network - OST
Ovid's Withering - Scryers Of Ibis
Infant Annihilator - The Battle of Yaldabaoth

 

[Triple7]

Quadruple post...whoa

 

[Emperor Guillotine]

You know the ones I'm talking about- you skip over them after a while, but whenever you remember them again, they're just as good as they were when you first heard 'em. Not like some of your other fly-by-night favorites that lose some of their mojo when you remember them and toss 'em back in the rotation a couple years later.

Aye, I know exactly what you mean, @Ordacleaphobia.

After reading through some of the responses shared by others in this thread, I had to sit and give this a good, hard bit of thinking considering how sentimental some of these albums are for me personally. And I wanted to make sure that link of sentimentality didn't cloud my perception of just how damn good these albums are to listen to.

Each of these albums has stuck with me for years now, and each one still hits me as though they were fresh and new to this day (even if the sound and/or technology used during the recording might convey otherwise in the soundscape nowadays).

Paramore - RIOT!
Silent Planet - The Night God Slept
Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound
Tycho - Dive
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network (Score)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Gone Girl (Score)
ERRA - Augment
Texas In July - Texas In July
Volumes - No Sleep
Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr & Kiss the Child

I'll probably carry these albums to the grave with me.

And of course, I guess it goes without saying that each of these albums has definitely influenced me in my own ongoing musical journey. I know that Paramore's RIOT!, Silent Planet's The Night God Slept, and Tycho's Dive were all just total "STOP EVERYTHING NOW!" moments that really made me halt and reassess everything that I thought I knew about music, feelings, and life (in a way) at the particular times when those albums each respectively came out and I listened to them for the first time as a youngster.

The rest that I'm listing below here are also heavy-hitters that have been in consistent rotation for me for years now. They are all banger after banger and close to making it into the definite list above, but just "not quite there"...yet. (Maybe it's me. Maybe it's the albums.) If I give them enough time, I'm sure some will join the ranks above.

Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Silent Planet - When the End Began
ERRA - Impulse
Volumes - Via
Counterparts - You're Not You Anymore
Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell And Home

 

[spudmunkey]

Morphine: "Yes" and "Cure for Pain"
NIN: "The Fragile" and "Downward Spiral
Portishead "Live at Roseland, NY"
VAST: "Visual Audio Sensory Theater"
Skid Row: "Slave to the Grind"
Megadeth: "Countdown to Extinction"
Vai: "Sex and Religion"
Sister Machine Gun: "Metropolis"
Guns and Roses: "Appetite for Destruction" and both "Use Your Illusion" I & II
The The: "Dusk" and "Naked Self"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "No More Shall We Part" and "Noctorama"
Tom Waits: "Mule Variations"

 

[gunch]

I’ve talked at length abt my death metal faves and old sumeriancore and southern coast death/metalcore (glass casket, btbam, wretched, etc) so I’ll go with non death metal genres

Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Ion Dissonance - Solace
Gaza - IDCWIGWID
Burnt By The Sun - The Soundtrack to Your Personal Revolution
Vision of Disorder - Imprint
Botch - American Nervoso
Norma Jean - O God, the Aftermath
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Car Bomb - Centralia

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Mastodon - Remission and Leviathan

I always throw at least a couple from both albums on nearly every playlist I make. Just so big, wooly, and busy sounding music that you can groove with.

 

[Snarpaasi]

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Periphery 2
Symphony X - The Odyssey

 

[efiltsohg]

To Mega Therion

 

[R34CH]

Linkin Park - Reanimation
Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache / As Daylight Dies
Finch - What it is to Burn
Mastodon - Crack the Skye

 

[Daddiikong]

I might have a bit of an eclectic list, and some of you may laugh, but:

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Vai - Sex and Religion
Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Blind Melon - Soup
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

 

[jaxadam]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

This is one of my buddy's favorite bands. I didn't even know other people knew about them.

Other than metal, some of my all-time favorite albums (just great from start to finish) are:

Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure Vol. 2 East Coast Edition - this is probably one of the best electronic/trance mixes of all time

Outkast - ATLiens - this album just flows great from beginning to end

 

[dmlinger]

Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood
He Is Legend - It Hates You (close second)
Circa Survive - Juturna
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Saosin - Translating the Name
Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne
Dashboard Confessional - MTV Unplugged (this one changed my young life)
Beloved - Failure On
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety

There are many more but I cant think right now. I was heavily influenced buy the albums that came out between 2003 and 2005 with a few exceptions. There are a lot that I listened to back then, but these are albums I still listen to, to this day. They survived.

 

[bostjan]

Hmm.

I guess I'm weird, but this is my default position on albums I like.

 

[zappatton2]

Morphine: "Yes" and "Cure for Pain"
NIN: "The Fragile" and "Downward Spiral
Portishead "Live at Roseland, NY"
VAST: "Visual Audio Sensory Theater"
Skid Row: "Slave to the Grind"
Megadeth: "Countdown to Extinction"
Vai: "Sex and Religion"
Sister Machine Gun: "Metropolis"
Guns and Roses: "Appetite for Destruction" and both "Use Your Illusion" I & II
The The: "Dusk" and "Naked Self"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "No More Shall We Part" and "Noctorama"
Tom Waits: "Mule Variations"

I would definitely cite Appetite and Slave to the Grind as albums that defined my musical awakening in the late 80's/early 90's, but prop on mentioning Metropolis!! I didn't think anyone had even heard of Sister Machine Gun, back in the late 90's I was playing that album for anyone who would listen, thoroughly convinced it would become a breakthrough classic. Think I might have to listen to that today.

 

[Necky379]

Allman Brothers - Where it All Begins
Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Van Halen - F.U.C.K.
Hendrix - Woodstock
Norma Jean - O’ God, the Aftermath
Himsa - Courting Tragedy and Disaster
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma

 

[mcleanab]

Just thinking of this the other day... in no particular order:

PARALLELS - Fates Warning
HOLD YOUR FIRE - Rush
SUNSHINE DUST - Skyharbor
FRIDAY NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO - Al, Paco, John
ALIVE! - Kiss
ULTIMATE SIN - Ozzy
DIARY OF A MADMAN - Ozzy
TRIBUTE - Ozzy
ROCKS - Aerosmith
A LITTLE HAPPINESS - Aimee Allen
SEX AND RELIGION - Vai

There's so more, but that's what I got for now...

 

[spudmunkey]

I would definitely cite Appetite and Slave to the Grind as albums that defined my musical awakening in the late 80's/early 90's, but prop on mentioning Metropolis!! I didn't think anyone had even heard of Sister Machine Gun, back in the late 90's I was playing that album for anyone who would listen, thoroughly convinced it would become a breakthrough classic. Think I might have to listen to that today.

Ooh, I was a HUGE SMG fan. I went to the 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 record release show, and was apparently such a mainstay on their forum, they mentioned me in their Positron! Records comic book. Ha! Metropolis is #1, then Burn, then 5.0 but it's waaaaaaay different.

 

[gnoll]

Some come to mind that I've listened to since ages and I feel I'd never get tired of:

Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Rammstein - Mutter

 

[Amer Alameddine]

Based on what I listen to regularly:

Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Faceless - Autotheism
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Speaking of Deftones, Stephen Carpenter writes really tasteful down-tuned riffs, and is one of the main inspirations for me to pickup an 8 string.

 

[slan]

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Slipknot - Iowa
Korn - Korn
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Meshuggah - Obzen
Giant - Song
The Social Network - OST
Ovid's Withering - Scryers Of Ibis
Infant Annihilator - The Battle of Yaldabaoth

Love to see Giant listed here. Incredible album.