Your top 10 must have albums

[BusinessMan]

So we all have those albums that we love but eventually fade away into our music collection. However, I'm sure we all have those ones that we have to listen at least one song a day if not the whole thing.

Mine are (in no order of preference):

1. Devildriver- The Last Kind Words
2. Decapitated- organic hallucinosis
3. Disturbed- Indestructible
4. Machine head- The Blackening
Arch Enemy- Khaos legions (my first "death" metal album)
5. Slipknot- Iowa
6. Exodus- the atrocity exhibition- exhibit A
7. DIO- Holy Diver
8. Hour of penance- vile conception
9. Trivium- Shogun
10. Gojira- The way of all flesh.

Honor up
Pantera- vulgar display of power
Slayer- reign in blood
Allegaeon- fragments of form and function

What are yours?

 

[MrPepperoniNipples]

Don't know about once a day, but these albums always stand out for me

Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Spawn of Possession - Cabinet
Brendon Small - Brendon Small's Galaktikon
Death - Symbolic
Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
Obscura - Omnivium
Psycroptic - The Sceptor of the Ancients
Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Gorod - Process of a New Decline

 

[Hemi-Powered Drone]

Hm, in no order I'd say -

1. The Stranger - Billy Joel
2. Powerslave - Iron Maiden
3 and 4. Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1 & 2 - Helloween
5. Symphony of Enchanted Lands - Rhapsody (of Fire)
6. Master of Puppets - Metallica
7. Colors - Between the Buried and Me
8. True Blue - Tina Brooks
9. A Night at the Opera - Queen
10. A Night at the Opera - Blind Guardian

I can easily go back to these albums any day and listen to them from start to end.

I'm really into power metal, as you can guess, but I'm also really into a lot of other things. That's why it would be impossible to order them, I mean, how could you compare The Stranger to Colors, or True Blue to Master of Puppets, or even compare the two A Night at the Opera albums?

 

[Pikka Bird]

Mixin' it up a little here, I listen to a lot less metal than people would guess. These are just regular studio albums, but some of these artists have some spectacular non-album work under their belt too. Furthermore, these are chosen because of how they come together as albums and that's why you (sadly) won't see some of my favourite bands on here. For instance, I love the hell out of Queen, but I don't ever HAVE to listen to their songs in the order they're in on the albums and they often work better on their own, IMO.

On with it!

Jeff Buckley - Grace.
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues.
Metallica - Ride The Lightning.
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden.
QOTSA - Songs for The Deaf.
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight.
Moi Caprice - Once Upon a Time in The North.
The Jezabels - Prisoner.
Mew - Frengers.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz.

Yarp, that's what came to mind after mulling it over a little.

...I'd be surprised if this thread isn't a variant of more than a few old ones, though.

 

[JoshuaVonFlash]

1. Guns N Roses - Appetite for destruction
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
4. Jimi Hendrix - Axis as Bold as Love
5. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
6. Spawn of Possession - Incurso
7. Megedeth - Rust in Peace
8. Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
9. David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
10. The Who - Who's Next

Honorable 11 would be QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf.

 

[Mprinsje]

In no order except 1-3

Converge - Jane Doe
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Eyehategod - Take as needed for pain
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Mastodon - Remission
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
And So I Watch You From Afar - S/T

 

[stevexc]

Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle
BTBAM - Colors
HORSE The Band - Pizza EP
Phil Collins - Face Value
Pearl Jam - Ten
Tool - Undertow
Winterhorde - Underwatermoon
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Enslaved - Ruun
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mastodon - Leviathan
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage (Acts I, II, and III)

EDIT Bonus Live DVD Section!

Alice In Chains - Unplugged
Mastodon - The Workhorse Chronicles
HORSE The Band - Earth Tour

Double edit: Don't tell anyone but we're gonna pretend this was my 1000th post, k? k.

 

[nostealbucket]

The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Dillinger Escape Plan- Calculating Infinity
Fredrik Thordendal- Sol Niger Within
King Crimson- Red (or Court...)
Mr. Bungle- S/T (or California)
Tangaroa- One Hand For the Knife, One Hand for the Throat
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (didn't expect that, did you?)
Radiohead- Ok Computer
Between the Buried and Me- Colors
The Fall of Troy- Doppelganger

 

[Pweaks]

In no specific order

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Faith No More - King For a Day, Fool For a Lifetime
Opeth - Still Life
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage(2000)
Deftones - White Pony(or any Deftones record)
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rush - Hemispheres
Yes - Fragile

 

[Cyntex]

Wretched - Beyond The Gate
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Aesop Rock - Skeleton
Mastodon - Remission
Death - Symbolic
Hank Williams III - Straight To Hell
Veil of Maya - ID
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

 

[Cyntex]

I totally forgot about this one, frikkin awesome record.

Don't know about once a day, but these albums always stand out for me

Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds

 

[The Mirror]

I never listen to any record once a day. In fact I often won't listen to other peoples music for weeks and concentrate on my own playing, but these are 10 records that are essential in my opinion and for my musicial taste:

Evergrey - The Inner Circle
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Dream Theater - Awake
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Strapping Young Lad - City
Subway To Sally - Mitgift
Eric Fish - Alles im Fluss

Oh... Are these already 10? Ahh... fu** it.

Everything else from Tool and Devy.

 

[kaaka]

As far as metal is concerned and in no particular order

Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Wintersun - Wintersun
Wintersun - Time I
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Yngwie Malmsteen - Double Live
Masterplan - Aeronautics
Luca Turilli - King of the Nordic Twilight
Ensiferum - Ensiferum

 

[Xaios]

I hate these, they're always insanely difficult to pick.

In alphabetical order:

Angra - Temple of Shadows
Darkane - Layers of Lies
Disillusion - Back To Times of Splendor
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt II: Scenes From A Memory
In Flames - Colony
In Flames - Clayman
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Portal - Blood Red Tape
Tool - Lateralus

 

[coreysMonster]

Tool - Lateralus
Meshuggah - Nothing (the original, not the re-mastered version)
Bjork - Human Behavior
Aphex Twin - Druqs
System of a Down - Toxicity
Slipknot - Iowa
Strapping Young Lad - City
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Cloudkicker - Portmanteau
t.A.T.u - 200 km/h in the wrong lane (I'm serious, freakin love that album)

 

[gunch]

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

 

[Force]

I can't say I listen to these regularly as there are so many awesome albums to get through but these will always be special to me........

1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
2. Megadeth - So Far So Good.....So What
3. Sepultura - Arise
4. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
5. Rush - Presto
6. Pagans Mind - The Celestial Entrance
7. Sonata Arctica - Silence
8. Annihilator - Never Neverland
9. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
10. Def Leppard - Hysteria

Honorable mentions

Accept - Metal Heart
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Rage - Trapped
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
Europe - Prisoners In Paradise
Gamma Ray - No World Order

 

[gorthul]

Converge - Jane Doe
Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory And Injury
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Korn - Follow The Leader
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise
Sigur Rós - ()
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing.....

Those albums are complete game changers in my opinion. I would recommend these to anyone, even if they don't like this style of music.

 

[ghost_of_karelia]

1. Moonsorrow - Viides Luki: Hävitetty
2. Wintersun - Wintersun
3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4. Mastodon - Leviathan
5. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
6. Baroness - Red Album
7. In Flames - The Jester Race
8. Agalloch - Pale Folklore
9. Ulver - Bergtatt
10. Pearl Jam - Ten

Honourable 11 is Mastodon's Blood Mountain.

 

[Primitive Guitarist]

Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Ihsahn - After
Gojira - l'avant savage
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - Burn To Shine
Primus - Pork Soda
Beastwars - Beastwars
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Mudvayne - LD-50

Something like that