Your Top Albums - list 'em

[G_3_3_k_]

Ok, I'll bite. No specific order other than the top 10. Mine is ALL over the place.

1. Big Wreck - In Loving Memory Of
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. U2 - The Joshua Tree
4. Tool - 10,000 Days
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
6. Soundgarden - Superunknown
7. Alice in Chains - Dirt
8. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
9. Muse - Absolution
10. BT - This Binary Universe
11. Radiohead - OK Computer
12. Metallica - Metallica
13. Metallica - And Justice For All
14. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
15. Radiohead - The Bends
16. Pink Floyd - Animals
17. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
18. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
19. U2 - War
20. U2 - October
21. U2 - Achtung Baby
22. The Cars - Heartbeat City
23. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
24. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
25. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
26. Tool - Opiate
27. Tool - Undertow
28. Tool - Aenima
29. Tool - Lateralus
30. STP - Core
31. STP - Purple
32. Big Wreck - The Pleasure and The Greed
33. Big Wreck - Albatross
34. Big Wreck - Ghosts
35. Big Wreck - Grace Street
36. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
37. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
38. BT - ESCM
39. BT - Movement in Still Life
40. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
41. Nine Inch Nails - Broken
42. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
43. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
44. The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
45. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
46. The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered But Never Outgunned
47. Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes
48. Muse - Drones
49. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
50. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
51. Baroness - Red Album
52. Baroness - Blue Album
53. Baroness - Yellow & Green
54. Baroness - Purple Album
55. The Cure - Disintegration
56. The Cult - Sonic Temple
57. Deftones - Around the Fur
58. Deftones - White Pony
59. Meshuggah - Nothing
60. Meshuggah - Obzen
61. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
62. Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
63. Leviathan - Scar Sighted
64. If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World
65. Bossk - Audio Noir
66. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
67. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
68. Periphery - PIII
69. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
70. Opeth - Damnation
71. Rush - Power Windows
72. Rush - Hemispheres
73. Rush - 2112
74. Boston - Boston
75. Van Halen - I
76. Van Halen - II
77. Van Halen - Diver Down
78. Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
79. Ozzy Osborne - No More Tears
80. Ozzy Osborne - Ozzmosis
81. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
82. Meshuggah - Catch 33
83. Meshuggah - Koloss
84. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
85. David Bowie - Heathan
86. Prince - 1999
87. Prince - Purple Rain
88. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
89. The Cult - Love
90. The Cult - Electric
91. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
92. Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
93. Joe Satriani - Time Machine
94. Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
95. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
96. Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basement of Hell
97. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
98. Bioshock - Original Soundtrack
99. The Orb - Orbvs Terrervm
100. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

 

[G_3_3_k_]

With no particular order:


11. Tycho - Epoch
...
26. Karnivool - Asymmetry
27. Karnivool - Sound Awake

Shit, I forgot Tycho and Karnivool...

 

[Tatu Aleksi]

I'll only post a Top 10, hard enough to do that...

1. Periphery - Juggernaut Alpha/Omega (I'll count that as one album...)
2. Tesseract - Altered State
3. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
4. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
5. Dixie Dregs - Dregs of the Earth
6. David Maxim Micic - Who Bit The Moon
7. Periphery III: Select Difficulty
8. Veil Of Maya - False Idol
9. Tesseract - Polaris
10. Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here

...and now I feel like I've missed some great albums! So some that made close to being in the list:
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
David Maxim Micic - Ego
Steve Morse Band - The Introduction
Chris Rea - Auberge (one of the best sounding records ever! Not so much my type of music, but so well made that I like it anyway)
Dream Theater - Awake
Also, all Periphery and Tesseract records are great and I listen to those a lot.

 

[apatheticbassist]

I wimped out at 40.

Not a bad list.

 

[Konfyouzd]

Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Allan Holdworth - Road Games
Andy Timmons - Ear X-stacy
Good Mob - Still Standing
Old Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers
Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Links
Tool - 10,000 Days
Nevermore - Godless Endeavor
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise

 

[LuciusBolt]

No Particular Order, Here is my list sorry about the length.

Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Death - Symbolic
Born Of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die Alive
Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
Breakdown Of Sanity - Perception
Crystal Lake - Helix
Coldrain - Fateless
Halestorm - Self Titled
In This Moment - Blood
Crossfaith - Ex Machina
Ignea - Sign Of Faith
Visionatica - Force Of Luna
Oracles - Miserycorde
Crystal Lake - The Sign
Trivium - Ascendancy (probably almost no 1 on my list)
Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
Light The Torch - Revival
All That Remains - Fall Of Ideals
Whitechapel - Our Endless War
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Chelsea Grin - Ashes To Ashes
Dream Theater - Self Titled (I think)
Any Given Day - Everlasting
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season (before they went pop)
Periphery - Periphery II
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
In Hearts Wake - Ark
Polaris - The Mortal Coil

I have more but I will stop here

 

[SenorDingDong]

 

[dogletnoir]

i will just list 10 albums that i can always listen to as a type of restorative tonic,
and that have also influenced how i hear and make music:
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny
Crosswinds - Billy Cobham
Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics - Jon Hassell / Brian Eno
Step It - Bill Connors
Discipline - King Crimson
The Sixteen Men Of Tain - Allan Holdsworth
We Like It Here - Snarky Puppy
Handmade Cities- Plini

 

[dogletnoir]

i will just list 10 albums that i can always listen to as a type of restorative tonic,
and that have also influenced how i hear and make music:
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny
Crosswinds - Billy Cobham
Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics - Jon Hassell / Brian Eno
Step It - Bill Connors
Discipline - King Crimson
The Sixteen Men Of Tain - Allan Holdsworth
We Like It Here - Snarky Puppy
Handmade Cities- Plini

 

[dogletnoir]

i will just list 10 albums that i can always listen to as a type of restorative tonic,
and that have also influenced how i hear and make music:
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny
Crosswinds - Billy Cobham
Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics - Jon Hassell / Brian Eno
Step It - Bill Connors
Discipline - King Crimson
The Sixteen Men Of Tain - Allan Holdsworth
We Like It Here - Snarky Puppy
Handmade Cities- Plini

 

[Laurenz75]

Veleno by FA

 

[waffles]

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Slayer - Reign in Blood
3. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
4. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
5. Death - Leprosy

Basically the 5 records that made me want to pickup a guitar. Of course there's many more but I'm not sure how to rank them.

 

[Merrekof]

The linear scaffold by Solefald. Hands down my favourite ever

 

[BenjaminW]

1. Moving Pictures - Rush
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. 2112 - Rush
5. Thriller - Michael Jackson
6. Master of Puppets - Metallica
7. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater
8. The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
9. Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
10. Bad - Michael Jackson

 

[Descent]

My top ten in no particular order...

1. Coroner - Mental Vortex
2. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
4. Slayer - South of Heaven
5. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
6. Voivod - Dimension Hatross
7. Carcass - Heartwork
8. Venom - Black Metal
9. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
10. Bathory - Return of Darkness and Evil


.... ouch apparently 10 is too small...

11. Metallica - Master of Puppets
12. Sodom - Agent Orange
13. Opeth - Blackwater Park
14.Deep Purple - Burn
15. Death - Human
16. Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
17. Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
18. Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
19. Megadeth - Peace Sells...
20. AC/DC - Back in Black

 

[Descent]

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Slayer - Reign in Blood
3. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
4. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
5. Death - Leprosy

Basically the 5 records that made me want to pickup a guitar. Of course there's many more but I'm not sure how to rank them.

Man, just swap Morbid Angel with Coroner and our lists will match

 

[chinnybob]

This looks fun!

From a quick look through my iTunes library here are my top fifteen (trying to keep the number down to force myself to be honest) in no order other than the top two:

1. Hand. Cannot. Erase. - Steven Wilson
2. Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
3. As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage
4. Pure Heroine - Lorde
5. They Liked You Better When You Were Dead - Fightstar
6. Chuck - Sum 41
7. Futures - Jimmy Eat World
8. The Silicone Veil - Susanne Sundfør
9. Threads - Now, Now
10. Effloresce - Oceansize
11. Start Something - Lostprophets
12. Hours - Funeral For A Friend
13. Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83
14. ...And Justice For All - Metallica
15. Team Sleep - Team Sleep

Could easily go on but I want to limit this to the albums that actually mean something to me rather than those I just think are really good (sorry The Blackening, sorry Crack The Skye, sorry The Number Of The Beast).

 

[Ilia Tilev]

I can't list 1000 albums so i will pick 10 in no particular order
1. Oasis - all albums
2. Rainbow - all albums
3. Masahiro Andoh - Andy's
4. Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
5. Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
6. David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0
7. Yuya Komoguchi - Pictures
8. Mondo Grosso - MG4
9. Mitsuro Sutoh - Favor of my friends 1997 and 2003.. (both albums are with the same name)
10. Jacob Colier - In My Room

Bonus - Casiopea - all albums and T-Square - all albums

There are far too many to list here but that's a start

 

[Aumann]

Mine is also pretty diverse i think:

1. Asymmetry - Karnivool (sound awake fans will kill me)

2. Language - The Contortionist

3. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute

4. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

5. Blue sky noise - Circa Survive

6. Lateralus - Tool

7. Deftones - Koi no Yokan

8. Vola - Applause of a distant crowd

9. Wake - Hail the sun

10. No Place - A lot like birds

Bonus - Gogo Penguin - 2.0

Funnily enough, almost no 7-string bands, even though i moved to pretty much 7-string exclusive.

 

[binz]

There's too much overlap with my taste that I have to fill the gaps and check the ones from your list I haven't listened to yet, thanks!