What are your 10 favorite albums (or more if you want) ?

[P_A_Z]

1. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
2. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3. Pink Floyd - Relics
4. Pink Floyd - Meddle
5. Neurosis - Souls at Zero
6. Neurosis - Times of Grace/Grace
7. The Cure - Pornography
8. Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
9. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
10. Deftones - Around the Fur
11. Gojira - Magma
12. Isis - Panopticon
13. Tool - Lateralus
14. Tool - 10,000 Days

Edited June 9 by P_A_Z

[esselfortium]

Off the top of my head,

 

Guided By Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed

Kikuo - Kikuo Miku 4

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

the pillows - Runners High

 

List would probably be different depending on the day. Don't ask me to put them in order.

[P_A_Z]

Yes it can depend of the day, the season and your state of mind, but i think it is interesting.

[Geniraul]

Hopefully, mixtapes and compiles are allowed in this thread, too, so I will say:

 

1. Sexion d'Assaut — L'Apogée (Réédition, 2012)
2. Sexion d'Assaut — L'école des Points Vitaux (2010)
3. H Magnum — Gotham City (2016)
4. Wati B — Les Chroniques du Wati Boss, vol. 2 (2014)
5. Wati B — Les Chroniques du Wati Boss, vol. 1 (2013)
6. Lefa — Démineur, pt. 2: Démineur (2022)
7. Indila — Mini World (Deluxe) (2014)
8. Lefa — Fame: Famous (2020)
9. Gims — Subliminal: La Face Cachée (2013)
10. Gims — Mon Cœur Avait Raison (Double album; 2015)
11. Maska — Espace Temps (2014)
12. Sexion d'Assaut — Les Chroniques du 75, vol. 2: En Attendant "L'Apogée" (2011)
13. Black M — Les Yeux Plus Gros que le Monde: Le Monde Plus Gros que mes Yeux (2014)
14. Team BS — Team BS (2014)
15. The Shin Sekaï — The Shin Sekaï, vol. 2 (2014)

 

Of course, this list is not definitive and may vary, since it is not easy for me at all to choose the best projects among more than 200 that I know C:

 

P. S. P_A_Z, thanks for this thread!

Edited May 12, 2023 by Geniraul
Upgraded my list, as the thread had been transformed to 10 (or more) favorite albums instead of 5! [and no, it is not 5 factorial C:]

[spineapple tea]

Note: this is not a definitive list and is expected to change (likely by the end of the day)

 

1. V: The New Mythology Suite - Symphony X

2. Chaosphere - Meshuggah (Destroy Erase Improve/Catch Thirtythree can also swap into this spot depending on how I'm feeling)

3. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! - Megadeth

4. Inhuman Rampage - DragonForce (the one with Through the Fire and Flames)

5. Ride the Lightning - Metallica (can you believe I hadn't heard any of their albums except for their first and newest before this week?)

 

Can't wait to look at this post in a mere two weeks and ask what the fuck was wrong with me.

[Gregor]

52 minutes ago, esselfortium said:

Guided By Voices

Surprise, surprise. ;)

[dasho]

1. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 1

2. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 2

3. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 3

4. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 4

5. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 5

6. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 6

7. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 7

8. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 8

9. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 9

10. Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 10

Edited May 5, 2023 by dasho

[xScavengerWolfx]

Hmmmm. This one is kinda hard because there's a lot of albums i like but i had to choose my top 5....i guess it would be something like this.

 

5. Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails

 

4. Toxicity by System of a down

 

3. Start a war by Static X

 

2. House of gold and bones pt. 1 and pt. 2 (i am including both because i like both of them)

 

1. ...And justice for all by Metallica

 

So the reason why i like ...And justice for all album is because it was my second ever album i've heard by metallica. There first was black album (which i still have) but i went backwards into there album liberty and since i'm a long time fan i will say that if you want to get into them, i would say start with Master of puppets or ...And justice for all. I like ride the lighting but ...And justice for all is the one that really sticks out to me because i love the song To live is to die.

[continuum.mid]

1. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt (Computer World in the US) - Pretty much any Kraftwerk album could go here, but this one is a perfect representation of the inner life of a computer, and how computers affect the lives of humans.
2. Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom - Chaotic energy from start to finish, it's a really fun listen.
3. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - Probably the most normal pick on this list. I like the dramatic arrangements, the solos, and the attention to detail with its medieval theme. But back to weird electronica:
4. Skee Mask - Compro - A perfect icy techno album to kick back and relax to.
5. Autechre - Untilted - Slowly morphing and evolving electronic drum patterns, occasionally with minimal melodies on top but far from conventional. An absolutely fascinating listen.

 

I must be the only Doomer who's this into electronic music. Oh well, I love being the weird one anyway.

Edited April 29, 2023 by continuum.mid

[DrOcsid]

Favorites sure are hard, and it's even harder to order them in a specific way, but I'd probably pick something along the lines of:

 

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

David Bowie - Station to Station

The White Stripes - Elephant

[yakfak]

13 minutes ago, continuum.mid said:

1. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt (Computer World in the US) - Pretty much any Kraftwerk album could go here, but this one is a perfect representation of the inner life of a computer, and how computers affect the lives of humans.
2. Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom - Chaotic energy from start to finish, it's a really fun listen.
3. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - Probably the most normal pick on this list. I like the dramatic arrangements, the solos, and the attention to detail with its medieval theme. But back to weird electronica:
4. Skee Mask - Compro - A perfect icy techno album to kick back and relax to.
5. Autechre - Untilted - Slowly morphing and evolving electronic drum patterns, occasionally with minimal melodies on top but far from conventional. An absolutely fascinating listen.

 

I must be the only Doomer who's this into electronic music. Oh well, I love being the weird one anyway.

 

1, 3 and 5 all own :3 im into electronic stuff too

[jariditumim]

1. Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)
2. Closer (Joy Division)
3. Pornography (The Cure)
4. Faith (The Cure)
5. From the Lions Mouth (The Sound)

[hybridial]

hm... it's not definite really but here goes

 

Agalloch - Pale Folklore. The two following albums are generally considered bigger deals but I dunno, I think I like their debut the most. It's the most zen thing I've ever heard. 

 

Paradise Lost - Medusa. Not among their most popular albums I think but I absolutely love from beginning to end. The title track is beautiful, Fearless Sky is doom metal at it's peak and Blood and Chaos is an anthem for the ages. 

 

Swallow the Sun - New Moon. Yeah, I guess seeing Falling World live helps me pick this one. Hard to pick one album with a band this consistent but I will go with New Moon. 

 

Persefone - Core. Hard to put into words the splendour of this album. Just spectacular, a progressive opera based on the relationships of Demeter, Persephone and Hades. 

 

Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone. They did three albums in a row that are borderline interchangeable because of how evenly amazing they are. That I picked this just means I'm in an In Parting and By Moon and Star mood. Sublime. 

 

 

[Gregor]

These don't necessary contain my favorite songs (though a lot of them can be found in there) but are actual albums i love to delve into like a good book i keep coming back to or a great movie. They also have special meaning to me because of what they meant to me when i first discovered them.

 

1. Franz Schubert - Die Winterreise (1827)

2. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

3. The Beatles - White Album (1968)

4. REM - Automatic for the People (1992)

5. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)

 

(6. John Frusciante - Shadows Collide with People (2004)) - i don't really listen to much of his music anymore but there was a time when it meant the world to me.

 

 

 

"Die Winterreise" by Schubert isn't an album in the modern sense, since it wasn't recorded by the composer for obvious reasons, but it's very much an album in the sense of a connected collection of songs. In fact, it's very much a concept album, telling a complete story of a heartbroken man, leaving his home in a winter night, looking for his death. I love the version by Fischer-Dieskau from 1972.

Edited April 29, 2023 by Gregor

[ZeMystic]

1.  The Afterman: Descension - Coheed and Cambria

2.  Maps of Non-Existent Places - Thank You Scientist

3.  Periphery IV: Hail Stan - Periphery

4.  Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

5.  Run The Jewels 3 - Run The Jewels

 

I totally could've added multiple albums done by the same band, but I wanted to keep things interesting.

[Deadwing]

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the moon

Genesis - Selling england by the pound

Supertramp - Crime of the century

Riverside - Love, Fear & Time Machine

[Lippeth]

Gwar - Violence Has Arrived

Kraftwerk - Techno Pop

Toadies - Rubberneck

Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness

Daft Punk - Discovery

 

At least for today anyway.

[PsychEyeball]

Frank Zappa And The Mothers of Invention - Roxy & Elsewhere

Probably my all-time favorite Zappa album right next to "The Grand Wazoo". I picked this one because I feel like it's the most complete Zappa album ever, with the best lineup of musicians he ever assembled in Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Tom Fowler, Ruth Underwood and Chester Thompson. This is Zappa at his proggiest (even though he never considered his music to be prog-styled) while keeping a healthy dose of humor and stage antics.  

 

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II

The first album I ever bought with my own money and while I rarely ever listen to it much anymore, this music forever will remain engrained in my mind. Very freaky and minimalistic ambient music, mixing it up with chaotic soundscapes and every once in a while, the most beautiful disarming music ever heard. The newest version of the album on sale online at Warp serves as a definitive version, including bonus tracks like Hankie and the meditative Stone in Focus (although the tracks on that release have no names, they're just all numbered)

 

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

A masterpiece of the 70s prog movement. Set up as a very abstract play and featuring a strange story about the tales of a young man stuck in an alternative reality New York. Beautiful art rock that knows when to hack it up, but also when to remain more quiet and moody. This is often considered as the moment when Genesis died, which I wholly disagree with. They still would make great music after this, but this remains their watershed moment and would never be topped.

 

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Probably the heaviest album Porcupine Tree would make in their prog metal phase that started with In Absentia and by far the most focused. Contains Anesthetize, which will forever remain the best song they ever made, clocking in at a massive 17 minutes. Half of this album would become crowd favorites at live shows and for good reason. Excellent mixture of moods, paranoia and crunching metal riffs.

 

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

The second full album they made would be their most developed and darkest. None of its 66 minutes and 6 seconds (muahahahaw) runtime ever feels wasted and while the album mostly treads ambient psychedelic territory, it is the kind more apt to give you nightmares and anxiety. While their first album seemed interested in bringing back distorted shots of nostalgia and childhood, this is more interested in being a bad trip.

[continuum.mid]

11 minutes ago, Lippeth said:

Kraftwerk - Techno Pop

so glad you appreciate that album, it's super underrated

 

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[Sneezy McGlassFace]

This answer changes any day of the week because there's so much amazing music out there but right now it is:

1. Corpo Mente (self-titled)
2. Buckethead and Travis Dickerson's Thanatopsis - Anatomize
3. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
4. Goreshit - With all my heart
5. Ulver - Bergtatt

[Maribo]

The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Zomba Promo version)

Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

DJ Screw - Chapter 214: Old School

DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed

Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

 

bonus stuff for fun: favorite 12" EDM singles:

Spoiler

Ten City - My Peace of Heaven

Todd Edwards - Saved My Life

Mari Kvien Brunvoll - Everywhere You Go (Villalobos Mixes)

D-Train - You're the One for Me

Lil' Louis & The World - Club Lonely

[yakfak]

this heat "deceit"

art bears "world as it is today"

front 242 "front by front"

magma "kohntarkosz"

parliament "funkentelechy vs. the placebo syndrome"

 

my terrible 70s/80s centric taste

[smeghammer]

Hmmm... top 5 albums... That depends on state of mind a lot, but always high are classic rock, with excellent vocalists. I won't go with the obvious Maiden or Saxon stuff...

 

Triumph - Surveillance - The man's range is extraordinary

 

 

Black Sabbath - Tyr - anything with Tony Martin singing. SO underrated:

 

 

Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear:

 

 

And I'll have to go with Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath as well...

 

And let's go with Michael Kiske:

 

 

 

 

[DynamiteKaitorn]

Gonna force myself to NOT pick 5 albums by The Killers and instead go for 1 album from 5 different bands/artists. Here's my 5 in no specific order:

 

The Killers - Battleborn (Pressure Machine is SUPER close though)

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Meteora & Minutes to Midnight were close)

Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth

Kaiser Chiefs - Stay Together (Employment was close)

[Jizzwardo]

The Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright

Marietta - Summer Death

Worst Party Ever - Anthology

American Football - American Football (1999)

Dominique Guiot - L'Univers De La Mer (just started listening to this one recently but I think its really cool)

 

Can't say any of them are ordered except for Just Got Back which is my number 1, by a really large margin. 

[dew]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Portishead - Dummy

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

 

I would give 5 different names on a different day, it's just a vibe of the moment.

[Bugslide]

1. MF DOOM & Madlib - Madvillainy

2. Gorillaz - Demon Days

3. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

4. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (Random Access Memories could swap with this)

5. Frank Ocean - Blonde

 

The top 3 are pretty locked in, but the last two could swap with a few other albums.

[esselfortium]

Looking through the other replies so far, big thumbs up to Deadwing, Geogaddi, Fear of a Blank Planet, and Station to Station. Love those.

 

4 hours ago, Gregor said:

Surprise, surprise. ;)

It was one album out of five, give me a break! :P I could've just linked my top 30 GBV albums and called it a day, but I do listen to more than that.

[EPICALLL]

1. Queen - Innuendo (1991) [admittedly mainly because of it's flagship song; "The Show Must Go On"]
2. Jack Stauber - Pop Food (2017) [sound design > writing]
3. Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002) [for some strange reason, I've always preferred this to MMLP, I'm still not sure why]
4. Weezer - Pinkerton (1996) [If you are one of those people who don't like this album, I have one thing to say to you; Why?]
5. System of a Down - Toxicity (2001) [I love me some Progressive Rock mixed in with Metal]


Honorable Mentions:
1. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010) [This album bleeds experimental blood, and I love it for that]
2. Weezer - The Blue Album (1994) [Who doesn't like the blue album?]
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) [There's the MMLP, easily the most compelling Em album, but like I said, sound > writing]
4. C418 - Minecraft Volume Beta (2013) [Easily the best video game OST, no competition]
5. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) [Progressive rock turned up to 11, just that simple]

Boom. Done. I can move on now.

Edited April 29, 2023 by EPICALLL

[Egyptian Guardian]

1. Boards of Canada - Music has the right to Children

2. Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92

3. The Cosmic Jokers - The Cosmic Jokers

4. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

5. Klaus Schulze - Timewind 

 

4 hours ago, PsychEyeball said:

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II

The first album I ever bought with my own money and while I rarely ever listen to it much anymore, this music forever will remain engrained in my mind. Very freaky and minimalistic ambient music, mixing it up with chaotic soundscapes and every once in a while, the most beautiful disarming music ever heard. The newest version of the album on sale online at Warp serves as a definitive version, including bonus tracks like Hankie and the meditative Stone in Focus (although the tracks on that release have no names, they're just all numbered)

 

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

The second full album they made would be their most developed and darkest. None of its 66 minutes and 6 seconds (muahahahaw) runtime ever feels wasted and while the album mostly treads ambient psychedelic territory, it is the kind more apt to give you nightmares and anxiety. While their first album seemed interested in bringing back distorted shots of nostalgia and childhood, this is more interested in being a bad trip.

 

I literally put down 2 of my favorite albums down that are by the same artists you have on your list before I even read that. I'm not even joking. LMFAO.