Your top 10 must have albums

[ThePhilosopher]

Tool - Lateralus
Pearl Jam - Ten
Korn - Korn
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Deftones - White Pony
Machinehead - Burn My Eyes
Mudvayne - LD 50
Dream Theater - SFAM
Prince - Purple Rain
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses

Mentions:

Metallica - Load/Reload
Mushroomhead - XX
Slipknot - Slipknot
Chevelle - Family System
Nightwish - Wishmaster

 

[BucketheadRules]

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Dream Theater - Awake
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Faith No More - The Real Thing
The Wildhearts - Earth vs the Wildhearts
Feeder - Echo Park

I'll probably have changed my mind tomorrow.






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Sod it, I need some more:

Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Ride - Going Blank Again
Haken - The Mountain
Opeth - Watershed
Radiohead - The Bends
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Protest the Hero - Volition
Big Black - Songs About F*cking
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Carcass - Heartwork
More Queen - let's just take Greatest Hits I and II
Swans - The Seer
Rival Sons - Head Down
Turbowolf - Turbowolf
Tool - Lateralus
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Periphery II

Can't narrow it down. Ever.

 

[ForThisGift]

In no particular order (except RIP Oceansize)

Oceansize - Frames
Deftones - White Pony
Norma Jean - Oh God, The Aftermath
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Dredg - El Cielo
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Karnivool - Sound Awake
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

 

[cjms1997]

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm burning star IV (both volumes)
Coheed and Cambria - In keeping the Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
Haken - The Mountain
Haken - Aquarius
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

I won't number them, because they're not in any order. If you can't tell, I'm a bit of a progfag, but oh well. I love these albums will all of my being. Of course, I could definitely fit more albums on here, but you made me choose only 10. I take no shame in doubling up on these bands though, because .... you they're amazing bands.

 

[Frankenstrat]

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Weezer - Blue Album
Dream Theater - Images and words
Metallica - Ride the lightning
In Flames - Whoracle
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
In Flames - The Jester Race

 

[Nats]

I can never come up with ten so I'll start firing from the hip:

Calculating infinity
Scenes from a memory
Miss machine
Permanent waves
And justice for all

That's all I got for now.

 

[broj15]

no particular order

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f# A# ∞
2. Silencer - Death, Pierce Me
3. Suis La Lune - Quiet, Pull The Strings
4. Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious
5. Moldar - Five Songs/Last 5 (2 ep's, 10 songs. I'll count it as 1 album)
6. Flesh Born - All The Pain I Built Up
7. Age Sixteen - Open Up, Finders Keepers
8. Lord Snow - Lord Snow
9. La Quiete - La fine non è la fine
10. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

Honorable mention: The Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit

 

[gunch]

In no particular order (except RIP Oceansize)

Oceansize - Frames
Deftones - White Pony
Norma Jean - Oh God, The Aftermath
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Dredg - El Cielo
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Karnivool - Sound Awake
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

You... I like you.

 

[broj15]

Deftones: White Pony
Radiohead: Amnesiac
Don Caballero: For Respect
Hosemobile : What Can & Can't Go On
Botch: American Nervoso
American Football: LP and EP
This Town Needs Guns: Animals
Thursday: Full Collapse
Ulcerate: Everything Is Fire
Maudlin of the Well: Leaving Your Body Map

Botch and American Football are bother great.

 

[TheStig1214]

1. Mastodon - Leviathan
2. Scale the Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
3. Karnivool - Themata
4. Tool - 10,000 Days
5. TesseracT - One
6. Kyuss - Sky Valley
7. Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
8. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer
9. Big D and the Kid's Table - How It Goes
10. Strapping Young Lad - City

 

[Stuck_in_a_dream]

In no particular order:

1. Pink Floyd: The Wall.
2. Dream Theater: Images & Words.
3. Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force.
4. Rush: Any of Hemispheres, Permmanent Waves, or 2112.
5. Steve Vai: Passion & Warfare.
6. Planet X: Quantum.
7. Allan Holdsworth: Hard Hat Area.
8. Opeth: Blackwater Park.
9. Obscura: Cosmogenesis.
10. Metallica: Ride the Lightning.

 

[Fenriswolf]

And Justice For All-Metallica
Vandalism- Deluhi
Greatest Hits-Travis Tritt
Apocryphal-Goatmill
The Black Album-Metallica
Ascendancy-Trivium
Live at the Roxy-Social Distortion
Shogun-Trivium
Long Gone Daddy-Hank 3
American Idiot-Green Day, it's the album that got me to pick up a guitar, it has to be in my top 10.

I just realized I'm not as music as I used to be, because it took me forever to just think of 10 albums I listen to all the songs on.

 

[poopyalligator]

1. Earth wind and fire- greatest hits
2.Thrice- Vheissu
3.The Dear Hunter- Act 2
4.Circa survive- On letting go
5. Scar Symmetry- Holographic Universe
6. Darkest hour- Deliver us
7. Bad Rabbits- American love/stick up kids EP
8. Jimmy Eat World- Futures
9. George Benson- Breezin
10. Bad Religion- Stranger than fiction


There is my top ten that I couldnt live without. It is pretty diverse and awesome.

 

[Veldar]

I'm going to take this from the angle that it's the 10 albums to show someone what music I like.

• Isis - Oceanic
• Gorillaz - Demon Days
• Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
• Meshuggah - Koloss
• Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
• Vision of Disorder - Vision of Disorder
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
• My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise EP (If it has to be albums then Swervedriver - Raise)
• Mastodon - Crack the Skye

I think it's a fine list, there are other bands but I think for only 10 albums it offers diversity.

 

[AlejoV]

I would pick, (in no particular order):

1- Periphery Self Titled.
2- Periphery II.
3- Animals As Leaders Self Titled.
4- Volumes- Via.
5- Meshuggah- Destroy Erase Improve.
6- Meshuggah- Chaosphere.
7- Zelliack- Noir Tone EP.
8- Radiohead- OK Computer.
9- All stuff from Muse, (except for The 2nd Law).
10- Panzerballet's stuff.

 

[Blasphemer]

1. Russian Circles - Station
2. Scale the Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
3. Animals as Leaders - s/t
4. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
5. Pelican - City of Echoes
6. Tera Melos - Drugs/Complex
7. Native - Wrestling Moves
8. Cynic - Traced in Air
9. Meshuggah - Nothing
10. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

 

[Deception]

1. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2. TesseracT - One
3. Periphery - Periphery II
4. Uneven Structure - Februus
5. Circles - Infinitas
6. David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0
7. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
8. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
9. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
10. Meshuggah - Koloss

Honourable mentions:

The Faceless - Autotheism
Cloudkicker - The Discovery
Protest the Hero - Volition
Everything else by BTBAM and TesseracT

 

[Entropy Prevails]

Since I got pretty late into Metal, my list consists solely of albums from the 2000s

Meshuggah - Catch 33
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
The Ocean - Pelagial
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Mastodon - Leviathan
Slipknot - IOWA
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
The Safety Fire - Mouth of Swords
Animals as Leaders - Selftitled

Very honorable mentions:

Unhuman - Selftitled
Revocation - Selftitled
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Soilwork - The Living Infinite

 

[abandonist]

CCR - All

 

[celticelk]

Jeez. I'm not sure I could pick ten - my listening habits fluctuate quite a bit, depending on what's been released lately and what mood I'm in. If I had to pick 10 albums that would sort of explain my tastes, this week it might look something like this:

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Samothrace: Life's Trade
Earth: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Lyria
Baroness: Blue Record
Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages
Steely Dan: Aja
Tool: Lateralus
Metallica: s/t
Pelican: The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw