Your Top Albums - list 'em

[JustinRhoads1980]

For me this is how the order goes

-The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

-The Wall - Pink Floyd

-Reign in Blood - Slayer

-Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer

-God Hates Us All - Slayer

-Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera

-Black Metal - Venom

Those are just a few of the albums that I absolutely enjoy

 

[Glades]

Necrophagist - Epitaph

/thread

 

[Tech Wrath]

Metal
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Gorguts - Obscura
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Agalloch - The Mantle

Some Hip hop
Outkast - Aquemini
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Nas - Illmatic
Eminem - Marshal Mathers EP
Madvilian - Madvilliany (MF DOOM & Madlib collab)

Classical Pieces (all piano/harpsichord)
Chopin - Ballade no. 1
Brahms - Op. 1 Piano Sonata
Bach - Golberg Variations
Ravel - Miroirs
Scriabin - Op. 28 Fantasie

 

[Ancestor]

Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
Live after Death - Maiden
Destroyer - Kiss
Now, Diabolical- Satyricon
If You Want Blood - AC/DC
Holy Diver - Dio
Sacred Heart - Dio
Lights Camera Revolution - ST
In the Shadows - Mercyful Fate
Trilogy - Yngwie
Fire and Ice - Yngwie

*I just realized I called that Satyricon album King lol. Oh, well. It is my favorite song off the recording.

 

[Ancestor]

For me this is how the order goes

-The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

-The Wall - Pink Floyd

-Reign in Blood - Slayer

-Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer

-God Hates Us All - Slayer

-Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera

-Black Metal - Venom

Those are just a few of the albums that I absolutely enjoy

Seasons, man. I think it's their best album.

 

[mcleanab]

No particular order:

Rush - HOLD YOUR FIRE, POWER WINDOWS
Fear of God - WITHIN THE VEIL
Ozzy Osbourne - DIARY OF A MADMAN, TRIBUTE
Imogen Heap - SPEAK
Kiss - ALIVE, DESTROYER
Aimee Allen - A LITTLE HAPPINESS
Vai - SEX AND RELIGION
Clint Mansell - THE FOUNTAIN soundtrack
Dana Glover - TESTIMONY
Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin, Al Demiola - FRIDAY NIGHT IN SAN FRAN

Notable mentions:

Jane's Addiction - almost all their albums
Living Colour - the first two or three
Peter Gabriel - almost everything
Steve Stevens - MEMORY CRASH
And the most recent Skyharbor singles...

 

[Gunderslam]

Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
DevilDriver - Last of Kind Words

the list can go on but these always come to mind first

 

[ReignIB]

Death - Leprosy
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Slayer - Seasons
Slayer - South
Manowar - Hail to England
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
Trollfest - Brumlebassen
Cro-Mags - Age of Quirrel
AC/DC - Flick of the Switch
Viking - Do Or Die
King Diamond - Abigail
Finntroll - Nattfodd
The Meteors - Wrecking Crew
Sodom - Agent Orange
Led Zeppelin - II
Jerry Lee Lewis - Killer Country

 

[sevenfoxes]

Snot - Get Some

 

[bostjan]

Trying to think of albums where every song is as good as every other song...

Some bands are just really good at balancing out an album, and other bands just have a moment when nothing can stop them.

I think I have to go with:

Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction.

GnR was a great band for one album, and then an okay band for the next three albums, and then...hmm.

Green Day - American Idiot

I think Green Day just hit their stride late with that one. Dookie, for me, is also a great Green Day album, because I can spin that album top to bottom without every reaching for the skip button, but AI tells a coherent story, so I'll give that one the edge.

Buckethead - Cuckoo Clocks of Hell

There are a lot of Buckethead's albums that I can easily sit through the whole thing, but the fact that this one blew me away from start to stop after I thought I already knew what he was all about puts this as my favourite.

Estradasphere - It's Understood

I'm a fan of this band's original lineup. Their debut album was their best one, IMO. Their follow-ups were albums you could pick a couple songs, but this one is just pure genius and purely entertaining through and through.

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

Death had a lot of great albums, and Symbolic is a close second to this one, but any time I've tried to make myself a playlist of my favourite Death songs, I just want to include the entire last album, because I can't pick a moment that isn't 100%.

AC/DC - Back in Black

As much as I really don't listen to AC/DC as much as I used to, there's no weakness to find on that album, no throw-away track, not even a single moment where they aren't 100% AC/DC.

Collective Soul - Collective Soul

Same thing. Just every song is a banger and it's a fairly long album, too.

Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin

First time I heard this, I honestly couldn't bring myself to turn it off, even though I had stuff I had to do. There's almost no break in the momentum, and then when there is, it's emotive and brilliantly done. Even the bonus tracks are just as good - I'm not sure why they were listed as bonus material.

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

I would have included V: New Mythology Suite if this album didn't exist. Both are just unbelievable listening experiences, one's clearly more prog and the other more modern metal, and that's not to say that Symphony X's other concept albums are not as good, but this one is simply my favourite. It's like Russell Allen really broke out a little bit more into character or something.

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Black Hole Sun was the song that I couldn't not hear everywhere I went the summer this album was out. I think it's a cool-as-hell song and all, but the rest of this album is just crazy-good.

Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

I mean, it's just another album that I can never shut off once it starts.

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2 - Scenes from a Memory

I know some people have a problem with a song or two on this album. For me, the album is damn near perfection. The only thing I don't particularly like is the humping going on in the studio before the keyboard solo in "Home." That moment does take me out of the experience, but I'm including it anyway, because I love DT and I love this album. It does seem like every one of their albums has one thing or another that makes me go "meh," and then the other 96% of the album takes me to the next level of auditory enjoyment. SfaM is more like 99.5% great and 0.5% two people masturbating in a vocal both.

Led Zeppelin/Metallica/Pink Floyd/Emerson Lake and Palmer/Iron Maiden

All these bands put out albums that just had one excellent song after another, and the way their albums were so coherent... I won't even list them, though, partially because I don't even know how to properly reference Zeppelin's untitled album that everyone seems to think has a title.

 

[TedintheShed]

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Tool- Aenima
Led Zeppelin-zoso/IV/untitled
Fear Factory- Obsolete
Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power
AC/DC- Back in Black
Iron Maiden-Peice of Mind or The Number of the Beast (I can never decide)
Queensryche- Operation: Mind Crime
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Megadeth- Peace Sells
Ozzy- Blizzard/Diary (Recorded at same time iirc)
Guns n Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengence
Van Halen - I

I'm sure I'll remember more later

 

[VBCheeseGrater]

In no particular order...

• Kind Diamond - Abigail - Start to finish masterpiece, such memorable lines and riffs
• Pink Floyd, Dark Side of The Moon - It's as good as it's reputation, plus once you've seen an album's music spinning on the ceiling that helps.
• Metallica - Metallica - The songs speak for themselves
• Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction - closest thing to getting b-slapped by a record.
• Grateful Dead - AoxomoxoA - Studio album but can almost hear the chemicals dripping in background - great songs once again.
• Opeth - Ghost Reveries
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams - nothing Billy Corgan has done before or after has come close to this, soundtrack to first breakup, an emotional journey

 

[Headache]

1. Metal Church - The Dark
2. Pantera - Vulgar display of power
3. Dio - The last in line
4. Ozzy - Blizzard of Oz
5. Ozzy - Diary of a madman
6. Metallica - Ride the lightning
7. W.A.S.P. - electric circus
8. Judas Priest - Double live 98
9. Metal Church - Metal Church
10 Slayer - Reign in blood/Divine Intervention
11 Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
12 Dio - Holy Diver
13 Black Sabbath - Headless cross
14 Motley Crue - Shout at the devil
15 Ozzy - ultimate sin
16 Sepultura - Roots bloody roots
17 Accept - Balls to the wall
18 Killswitch Engage - end of heartache
19 Helloween - Walls of Jericho
20 Venom - Black Metal/ In league with Satan
21 Metallica - Master of puppets
22 Black Sabbath - sabbath bloody sabbath
23 Twisted Sister - Stay hungry
24 Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
25 Amon Amarth - With Odin on our side


Honorable mentions:
Kreator/Sodom/Carcass
Overkill/Exodus/Obituary
Manowar
Slipknot
Mercyful Fate
Iced Earth/ Shadows Fall
Dokken/Ratt
Megadeth
Flotsam and Jetsam
Disciple
Dying Fetus!

 

[BTrip]

Not in order

King Diamond - Abigail
Ihsahn - angL
Obscura - Akroasis
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Destrage - The King is Fat N' Old
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Enslaved - E
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Nightingale - The Closing Chronicles
BTBAM - Colors
Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River
Persefone - Spiritual Migration
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson 1+2
Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

I only listed 20 but there's so many it's hard to choose

 

[Open Lane]

shawn lane - powers of ten live
Return to forever - the romantic warrior
Ozzy - rr tribute
Judas priest - unleashed in the east
Cacophony - speed metal symphony
Joe stump - speed metal messiah
Dio - last in line
Marty friedman - wall of sound
Pat martino - live at yoshi’s
Allan holdsworth - metal fatigue

 

[NateFalcon]

Trying to think of albums where every song is as good as every other song...

Some bands are just really good at balancing out an album, and other bands just have a moment when nothing can stop them.

I think I have to go with:

Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction.

GnR was a great band for one album, and then an okay band for the next three albums, and then...hmm.

Green Day - American Idiot

I think Green Day just hit their stride late with that one. Dookie, for me, is also a great Green Day album, because I can spin that album top to bottom without every reaching for the skip button, but AI tells a coherent story, so I'll give that one the edge.

Buckethead - Cuckoo Clocks of Hell

There are a lot of Buckethead's albums that I can easily sit through the whole thing, but the fact that this one blew me away from start to stop after I thought I already knew what he was all about puts this as my favourite.

Estradasphere - It's Understood

I'm a fan of this band's original lineup. Their debut album was their best one, IMO. Their follow-ups were albums you could pick a couple songs, but this one is just pure genius and purely entertaining through and through.

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

Death had a lot of great albums, and Symbolic is a close second to this one, but any time I've tried to make myself a playlist of my favourite Death songs, I just want to include the entire last album, because I can't pick a moment that isn't 100%.

AC/DC - Back in Black

As much as I really don't listen to AC/DC as much as I used to, there's no weakness to find on that album, no throw-away track, not even a single moment where they aren't 100% AC/DC.

Collective Soul - Collective Soul

Same thing. Just every song is a banger and it's a fairly long album, too.

Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin

First time I heard this, I honestly couldn't bring myself to turn it off, even though I had stuff I had to do. There's almost no break in the momentum, and then when there is, it's emotive and brilliantly done. Even the bonus tracks are just as good - I'm not sure why they were listed as bonus material.

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

I would have included V: New Mythology Suite if this album didn't exist. Both are just unbelievable listening experiences, one's clearly more prog and the other more modern metal, and that's not to say that Symphony X's other concept albums are not as good, but this one is simply my favourite. It's like Russell Allen really broke out a little bit more into character or something.

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Black Hole Sun was the song that I couldn't not hear everywhere I went the summer this album was out. I think it's a cool-as-hell song and all, but the rest of this album is just crazy-good.

Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

I mean, it's just another album that I can never shut off once it starts.

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2 - Scenes from a Memory

I know some people have a problem with a song or two on this album. For me, the album is damn near perfection. The only thing I don't particularly like is the humping going on in the studio before the keyboard solo in "Home." That moment does take me out of the experience, but I'm including it anyway, because I love DT and I love this album. It does seem like every one of their albums has one thing or another that makes me go "meh," and then the other 96% of the album takes me to the next level of auditory enjoyment. SfaM is more like 99.5% great and 0.5% two people masturbating in a vocal both.

Led Zeppelin/Metallica/Pink Floyd/Emerson Lake and Palmer/Iron Maiden

All these bands put out albums that just had one excellent song after another, and the way their albums were so coherent... I won't even list them, though, partially because I don't even know how to properly reference Zeppelin's untitled album that everyone seems to think has a title.

Of all the albums Cuckoo clocks of hell is an oddball but killer choice...I love that album along with Bermuda Triangle and Kaliedoscalp

 

[Bentaycanada]

To name a few.....

Vision of Disorder - Imprint
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Metallica - Ride The Lightening
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Converge - Petitioning The Empty Sky
Enslaved - Ruun
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Cynic - Focus
Mastodon - Crack The Skye

....off the top of my head.

 

[binz]

1. TesseracT - Altered State

As much as I love Dan Tomkins, Ashe O'Hara has the voice of an angel. Didn't listen to any other album continuously that much.


2. Tool - 10.000 days

To me the most complete Tool album where even the interludes are amazing. Full body chills everytme it reaches the 'overwehlemed as one would be placed in my position..' part in Rosetta Stoned.


3. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant

First super disappointed because there were basically no heavy parts, then grown to love it in it's entirety. The songwriting is insane, sheer perfection.


4. Periphery Juggernaut Alpha/Omega

I see this as one long-ass album (which it was also originally intended). I love the story (and the fact that its written like that) and the journey it takes the listener on both musically and lyrically.


5. Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot

Djazz, Djent in Jazz. Weirdest shit you'll ever hear, but it's awesome!

 

[Evan89]

Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Cynic - Focus/Traced In Air
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
Savatage - Streets
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Freak Kitchen - Move
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Just a few off the top of my head.

 

[ChugThisBoy]

With no particular order:

1. Periphery - Periphery II
2. Periphery: Alpha & Omega
3. Gojira - Magma
4. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
5. Trivium - Crusade
6. Trivium - Shogun
7. Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
8. Devin Townsend - Transcendence
9. Devin Townsend - Addicted!
10. Devin Townsend - Casaulties Of Cool
11. Tycho - Epoch
12. Monuments - Gnosis
13. Monuments - The Amanuensis
14. Monuments - Phronesis
15. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
17. Lamb Of God - Sturm Und Drang
18. Brad Sucks - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
19. Tesseract - Sonder
20. Tesseract - Polaris
21. Tesseract - Altered State
22. Plini - all of his stuff
23. David Maxim Micic - all Bilo's
24. Destiny Potato - Lun
25. August Burns Red - Constellations
26. Karnivool - Asymmetry
27. Karnivool - Sound Awake
28. Tool - 10,000 Days
29. Tool - Aenima
30. Tool - Lateralus
31. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
32. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
33. 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance
34. Keith Merrow - All his stuff
35. Parkway Drive - Atlas
36. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
37. Parkway Drive - Horizons
38. Mastodon - Sultan's Curse
39. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
40. Intervals - The Shape Of Colour

There's plenty more but this is my kinda Top 40