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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Kotowboy on July 25, 2015, 03:07:17 PM
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In response to the other thread. Your favourite albums by your favourite bands.
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Green Day - Nimrod. Love Dookie but Nimrod is just 18 tracks of pure awesome and songwriting skill,
REM - Toss up between Out Of Time and Automatic For The People. But I think the latter wins. Special mention to Document also.
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory. Noel at the peak of his powers. Lost his Mojo soon after - only found it again recently for his two solo albums.
Dream Theater - Octavarium. A lovely mixed grill of what Dream Theater is about. Plus has their best song so far in the title track.
Mastodon - Crack The Skye. Extremely hard to pick a favourite as Leviathan on wards are all 5 stars albums.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets. Nuff said.
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Rush - 2112
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Dream Theater - Awake
The Flower Kings - Flower Power
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Devin Townsend - Terria
Neal Morse - Testimony 2
Yes - Close to the Edge
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Spock's Beard - The Light
U2 - Achtung Baby
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Kansas - Leftoverture
Blue Oyster Cult -Cultosaurus Erectus
Led Zeppelin - II
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Van Halen - Van Halen
The Decemberists - Picaresque
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Dream Theater - SDOIT
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Devin Townsend - Casualties of Cool/Ki/Ocean Machine: Biomech (I really really can't decide... whichever of these three fits my mood best wins)
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Leprous - Bilateral
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
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The National - Boxer. Greatest evolution in sound goes to these guys from Alligator to Boxer. Two fantastic albums-- but the maturity that appeared on Boxer makes it their best album, and my favorite album of all time.
BTBAM - Colors. Also the culmination of this band's sound for me.
Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True. One of the most creative bands ever. So disappointed they disbanded.
Mastodon - Crack the Skye. Same as you, Kotow, but I think CTS inches out Leviathan just a bit. Such an immersive album.
Fall of Efrafa - Elil. The best post-metal band who ever existed imo, whose trilogy of albums is just near perfect.
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights. What a phenomenal album with such great atmosphere. Shame they haven't captured the same feeling again, though they came really close with their newest album.
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago. The most emotional album for me. It channels so many different facets of emotion, and really presents Vernon at his rawest, most real.
Haken - The Mountain. Everyone knows how much I love this album. A capella, beautiful melodies, crazy experimentation-- Haken's best yet.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada. Though technically an EP, this is still their strongest release for me. Passion in both songs, emotion at its highest, and such a bleak atmosphere overall.
Anathema - Weather Systems. Again, great emotion, great atmosphere, beautiful vocals,
August Burns Red - Found in Far Away Places. At the moment, I like this album more than Constellations, my fav by them. The experimentation is great and the passion is just so strong throughout the album.
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight. The best post-breakup album out there. So emotional, so powerful, so real.
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Here's some of them:
Oceansize - Frames
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Boris - Flood
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Hands Like Antennas to Heaven
Converge - Jane Doe
The Cure - Disintegration
Sigur Rós - ( )
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Isis - Panopticon
Amplifier - Amplifier
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
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Dream Theater - Awake
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Transatlantic - SMPTe
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
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Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Skillet - Comatose
Shinedown - Us and Them
Daughtry - Leave This Town
Dream Theater - Dream Theater (Yes, I will say they have better critically acclaimed albums than DT12, like obviously Images and Words and Scenes From A Memory, but I have my reasons for picking DT12)
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore and Superstition
Matt Nathanson - Beneath These Fireworks
Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
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Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
System of a Down - Toxcity
King Diamond - Puppet Master
Dream theater - A tie between Awake/SFAM
Judas priest - Defenders Of the Faith
Iron Maiden - Killers
Misfits - Famous Monsters
Queensryche - A tie between Rage for order and Operation Mindcrime.
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DT - Images and Words
Iron Maiden - 7th son
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis - Foxtrot (or Wind & Wuthering)
Marillion - Clutching at Straws (or Seasons End)
Camel - Moonmadness (or The Snow Goose)
Rush - Moving Pictures
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Jon & Vangelis - The Friends of Mr Cairo
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Joe Satriani - The Extremist (or Surfing with the Alien)
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite (or The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
Manowar - The Triumph of Steel
The Police - Synchronicity
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Radiohead - Kid A
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
James LaBrie - Static Impulse
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
Yes - Close to the Edge
The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Shawn Lane - Powers of Ten
Animals as Leaders - Weightless
Cynic - Focus
Al Di Meola - Casino
Linkin Park - Hybird Theory
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery
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Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Dream Theater - SDOIT
Daft Punk - Discovery
Queen - Night At The Opera
U2 - The Joshua Tree
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I will add some bands comparing to other thread because I didn't want to write my least favorite albums if I don't know them all (yes, I don't know all albums of my all favorite bands :P )
Dream Theater - SFAM
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Anathema - Weather Systems/We're Here Because We're Here
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Rush - Permanent Waves
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Rush - Hemispheres
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Porcupine Tree - sooooo difficult. Stupid Dream or Deadwing
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Haken - The Mountain
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Fates Warning - Disconnected
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Queensryche - Rage for Order
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Yes - Going For the One
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Queen - News of the World
Faith No More - Angel Dust (though I haven't heard the new one)
King's X - Dogman (though I haven't heard the two newest ones)
Galactic Cowboys - Let It Go
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Anthrax - The Sound of White Noise (though I still haven't heard Worship Music...I'm just not big into thrash any more)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What (though I haven't heard anything post-TWNAH...which I really liked, but see above)
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This gonna be long:
The Beatles - Magical Mistery Tour
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Cure - Disintegration
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Protest The Hero - Kezia
Dream Theater - SDOIT
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Daft Punk - Discovery
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
The Who - Who's Next
The Stooges - Fun House
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Depeche Mode - Violator
Camel - Mirage
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
The National - Boxer
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Metallica- Master of Puppets
Dream Theater- Scenes From a Memory
Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil
Sum 41- Screaming Bloody Murder
Pantera- Cowboys From Hell
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1. Dream Theater: Images and Words. The only album in my iTunes folder that I rated every song
as having four or five stars. 'Nuff said. Just barely edges out SFAM.
2. Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast. The gold standard for traditional metal. Just barely
edges out Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.
3. U2: Achtung Baby. The Joshua Tree, while sounding completely different, is a close second.
4. Nightwish: Wishmaster (for studio albums); If live albums count, End Of An Era. Great power
metal with a great female vocalist. Oceanborn and Century Child are excellent too, as
is Imaginaerum, though the style was completely different by then.
5. The Tea Party: Edges of Twilight. Wolfking will vouch for this. Great hard rock with a smattering
of Eastern influences. Differs greatly from and vastly superior to their later
electronic and acoustic-tinged albums.
6. Within Temptation: The Unforgiving. Their best album by a mile. Sharon had perfected her "rock"
voice by this album and there's nothing hard to defend on it (unlike Hydra)
other than maybe Sinead. Solid from beginning to end if you don't try too
hard to follow the concept and enjoy the songs as individual entities.
7. KISS: Destroyer. Good songwriting, at least for them, albeit with help from Bob Ezrin and others.
Their best production up till then. The only album of theirs I can listen to from
beginning to end other than their "live" albums or any of their dozen or so
best of/greatest hits packages.
8. Queensryche: Operation: Mindcrime. Until SFAM, this was the best rock opera of all time (sorry,
The Who, Pink Floyd, etc.).
9. Megadeth: Youthanasia. I know I'm in the minority, but I like their second mainstream album
slightly better than their first, mostly on the strength of Train of Conse-
quences and A Tout le Monde [the original, not the happy-sounding
Cristina Scabbia abomination (and I like Cristina Scabbia, though not
so much her band)].
10. Metallica: Master of Puppets. This album just did more for me than prog-favorite ...And Justice
For All and mainstream juggernaut The Black Album. And you
can actually hear bass on it.
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Protest the Hero - Volition
Devin Townsend - Depending on the mood I'm in, Terria or Epicloud
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Porcupine Tree - I want to say Lightbulb Sun or Stupid Dream but honestly I think it's Deadwing
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Judas Priest- Defenders of the Faith
Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dio- Heaven and Hell
Rush- Moving Pictures
Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
Stryper- No More Hell to Pay
Symphony X- Odyssey
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Primal Fear- Delivering the Black
Saxon- Sacrifice
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JEFF the Brotherhood - We are the Champions
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Karate - In Place of Real Insight
A Great Big Pile of Leaves - The Fiery Works II (technically an EP, but whatever)
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork
Bear Hands - Distraction
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Earthless - Sonic Prayer
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Rozwell Kid - Too Shabby
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Dream Theater - SDOIT
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Journey - Escape
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (although it could almost be a tie with the two Randy Rhoads albums)
Metallica - The Black Album
Whitesnake - 1987
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
KISS - Revenge
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Dio - Holy Diver
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Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (best album ever)
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (but Wowee Zowee is incredibly close)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Death Grips - The Money Store
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
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Doing the same bands from the other thread:
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Agalloch - The Mantle
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Along with a few others:
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes - Close to the Edge
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
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Rush - Moving Pictures
Dream Theater - SDOIT
Queen - A Kind of Magic
Toto - Hydra
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Blue Öyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
The Police - Synchronicity
Soilwork - The Living Infinite
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Alice In Chains - Dirt
A few new ones:
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Kingston Wall - Kingston Wall 2
Amorphis - Eclipse
Yes - Close to the Edge
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My favourite Dire Straits album is actually On Every Street. Might be an odd choice for some.
I forgot : Therapy? - Troublegum. An amazing album and one that they've equalled only a couple of times since 1994.
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Dream Theater - SDOIT
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Journey - Escape
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (although it could almost be a tie with the two Randy Rhoads albums)
Metallica - The Black Album
Whitesnake - 1984
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
KISS - Revenge
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Dio - Holy Diver
Van Halen were so good that they did your favourite Whitesnake album ;)
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Whoops! :lol Thanks for pointing that one out. Must have still had VH on the mind when I wrote that one. :biggrin:
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And you make fun of my spelling. Shame on you Blob. Shame on you.
I am enjoying this.
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Dream Theater - Awake, with the self-titled a close second.
Steve Vai - Alive in an Ultra World
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Extreme - III Sides to Every Story
Led Zepellin - IV
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Mike Keneally - Sluggo
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Metallica - Master of Puppets
King Crimson - Discipline
The Beatles - Abbey Road or Rubber Soul. Depends on the mood.
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
Haken - Visions
Because of Mangini, I just discovered UK. Night After Night is an amazing album.
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And you make fun of my spelling. Shame on you Blob. Shame on you.
I am enjoying this.
:lol I got a year wrong. That's nothing compared to your daily atrocities!
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Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Muse - Absolution
Opeth - Morningrise
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
Wintersun - Time I
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And you make fun of my spelling. Shame on you Blob. Shame on you.
I am enjoying this.
:lol I got a year wrong. That's nothing compared to your daily atrocities!
And there is my wrestling name. CAPTAIN ATROCITY! :lol
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And you make fun of my spelling. Shame on you Blob. Shame on you.
I am enjoying this.
:lol I got a year wrong. That's nothing compared to your daily atrocities!
And there is my wrestling name. CAPTAIN ATROCITY! :lol
OMG, get to the chat thread right now. I have a surprise for you. :lol
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Judas Priest- Defenders of the Faith
Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dio- Heaven and Hell
Rush- Moving Pictures
Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
Stryper- No More Hell to Pay
Symphony X- Odyssey
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Primal Fear- Delivering the Black
Saxon- Sacrifice
Some great picks there!
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Fall of Efrafa - Elil. The best post-metal band who ever existed imo, whose trilogy of albums is just near perfect.
Huh. A band about Watership Down.
Interesting.
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A.C.T - Silence
Anathema - Distant Satellites
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Haken - Aquarius
Kent - Du & Jag Döden (You & Me Death)
Leprous - Coal
Meshuggah - ObZen
Opeth - Probably a tie between Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries, can't decide
Periphery - Juggernaut (Juggernaut: Omega if I had to choose)
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (probably, also hard to decide)
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. or The Raven That Refused to Sing
TesseracT - One
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Anathema - Weather Systems
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Nightwish - Century Child or Imaginaerum
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Rush - Moving Pictures
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
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Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Wow.
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Yep.
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Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Wow.
Is that anything like choosing The Final Frontier as your favourite Trek movie?
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Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Wow.
Nothing wrong with that.
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Nothing wrong indeed, I like The Final Frontier too, but #1? That was unexpected for me.
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
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There are days when I would consider A Matter of Life and Death, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son or even The Number of the Beast, but for me it always comes back to The Final Frontier. Good to see that I've gotten the approval of the resident Iron Maiden expert.
Is that anything like choosing The Final Frontier as your favourite Trek movie?
As someone who isn't a hardcore Trek fan and doesn't really know the fanbase's opinion on each movie, I'd guess that it's more like choosing Into Darkness. The Final Frontier is Iron Maiden's most recent album and the latest step in a stylistic shift they've been on for the past few albums. The fanbase is pretty much split on whether Maiden's most recent few albums are good or not.
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I haven't watched Trek. :angel:
I think TFF is good, again, but I would take all three albums you've mentioned over it.
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Radiohead - OK Computer
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Megadeth - Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo Vol. 1
Death - Symbolic
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Thrice - The Illusion of Safety
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
The Misfits - Famous Monsters
In Flames - Whoracle
Neil Young - Harvest
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Using the same list from the other thread:
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Anathema - Probably We're Here Because We're Here
Opeth - Probably Ghost Reveries
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Haken - Visions
Deftones - Really hard to choose between Around the Fur, White Pony & Koi No Yokan
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Radiohead - OK Computer
Tesseract - Altered State
Maybeshewill - Not For Want of Trying or I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Tool - Can never decide between 10,000 Days or Lateralus
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
I found this much harder than the other thread. There are a few clear favourite albums for some of the bands, but with others, I find it far more difficult to separate their best work.
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
Thats whats so cool about Maiden. There's no question that every release from Maiden is someone's favourite somewhere.
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
Thats whats so cool about Maiden. There's no question that every release from Maiden is someone's favourite somewhere.
I could almost see No Prayer being *someone's* favorite if they were really into that sortof approach....and if I were to really squint.
But anyone who thinks VXI is Iron Maiden's single "best album" is out of their freakin minds. I know there are people who like it, and that's fine. But favorite? As a whole album? Really? I would think that person had to be trolling.
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
Thats whats so cool about Maiden. There's no question that every release from Maiden is someone's favourite somewhere.
I could almost see No Prayer being *someone's* favorite if they were really into that sortof approach....and if I were to really squint.
But anyone who thinks VXI is Iron Maiden's single "best album" is out of their freakin minds. I know there are people who like it, and that's fine. But favorite? As a whole album? Really? I would think that person had to be trolling.
someone somewhere, guaranteed
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Dream Theater - Images & Words (this was actually tough as hell)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time (though A Matter Of Life And Death could well beat it some other day)
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega
Wintersun - Wintersun
Between The Buried And Me - Colors (hands down)
Stam1na - Viimeinen Atlantis
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
Death - Symbolic
Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
Meshuggah - ObZen
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Sum 41 - Chuck
Coldplay - X&Y
Green Day - American Idiot
I've seen some very good lists here! Was kinda suprised how many people consider Mastodon to be one of their favorite bands.
Also, No Prayer For The Dying definitely kicks ass. And Virtual XI sucks ;D
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Also, not exactly favorite bands anymore but still:
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
The Strokes - Is This It
Franz Ferdinand - S/T
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
System of a Down - Toxicity
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
Thats whats so cool about Maiden. There's no question that every release from Maiden is someone's favourite somewhere.
I could almost see No Prayer being *someone's* favorite if they were really into that sortof approach....and if I were to really squint.
But anyone who thinks VXI is Iron Maiden's single "best album" is out of their freakin minds. I know there are people who like it, and that's fine. But favorite? As a whole album? Really? I would think that person had to be trolling.
someone somewhere, guaranteed
Well then someone, somewhere thinks Dedicated to Chaos is Queensryche's all time, flawless, untouchable masterpiece. Or St. Anger and Lulu are Metallica's crowning achievements.
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Said no one ever.
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I'm pretty sure there is someone who thinks St. Anger is the best Metallica record.
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Which just proves that some people drink way too much and/or do way too many drugs.
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.000000001 of the Metallica fan population? :lol
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
Thats whats so cool about Maiden. There's no question that every release from Maiden is someone's favourite somewhere.
I could almost see No Prayer being *someone's* favorite if they were really into that sortof approach....and if I were to really squint.
But anyone who thinks VXI is Iron Maiden's single "best album" is out of their freakin minds. I know there are people who like it, and that's fine. But favorite? As a whole album? Really? I would think that person had to be trolling.
I'd much more easily believe someone having VXI or NPFTD as their favorite than FOTD. Because FOTD includes several songs that are just pointless. Like The Apparition. And Weekend Warrior, which might qualify as a blight on the Maiden discography (watchoo gonna do on Monday... watchoo gonna do... watchoo gowna do...).
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Rush - Moving Pictures
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Symphony X - TDWOT
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Chicago - 17
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Ayreon - 01011001
Anathema - WHBWH
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Tower of Power - Back To Oakland
Metallica - Master of Puppets
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I forgot one: Brand New - Daisy
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There are days when it's in my Top 3.
Thats whats so cool about Maiden. There's no question that every release from Maiden is someone's favourite somewhere.
I could almost see No Prayer being *someone's* favorite if they were really into that sortof approach....and if I were to really squint.
But anyone who thinks VXI is Iron Maiden's single "best album" is out of their freakin minds. I know there are people who like it, and that's fine. But favorite? As a whole album? Really? I would think that person had to be trolling.
I'd much more easily believe someone having VXI or NPFTD as their favorite than FOTD. Because FOTD includes several songs that are just pointless. Like The Apparition. And Weekend Warrior, which might qualify as a blight on the Maiden discography (watchoo gonna do on Monday... watchoo gonna do... watchoo gowna do...).
In spite of its flaws....I think FOTD is a HUGE improvement over NPFTD. I honestly cannot listen to a single track on that album. It's that bad. That being said, I haven't even picked it up in a decade. BYDTTS is the *true* blight in IM's catalog. I can't decide if I hate that song more than TAatG or not.
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Funnily enough, in my teenage angst days I binned my cassette of NPFTD I was so annoyed with how awful I thought it was, particularly Bruce's constipated talk/"singing" on that record, combined with the fact that it was classed as a "double album" so it cost twice as much for the cassette than Seventh Son had (an album I absolutely I adored at the time) and I barely had a bean to my name at that age. If I'd been smarter I'd have tried to sell it to someone... Probably the most surprising thing about NPFTD is that they managed to release two albums afterwards that sounded even worse.
I do own it on CD these days, but I'd rank it right at the bottom of the Bruce-era(s) albums. I've gotten over the vocals to an extent too, though that's in part because he started singing normally again with the Skunkworks album so I can treat it as a passing phase.
Anyway, my choices:
1) Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
2) Def Leppard - Hysteria
3) Rush - Grace Under Pressure
4) Devin Townsend - Terria (Addicted pushes it close)
5) The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies (fanclub edition, not the one diluted by the extra songs with the terrible cover art)
6) Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
7) Type O Negative - World Coming Down
8) Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
9) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
I've left off Scar Symmetry, who're an odd band for me - I love their sound, I've got all their albums, according to Last.FM they're my 10th most listened to artist over the last 8 years... and yet I'm struggling to remember how more than a handful of their songs actually go off the top of my head. They're obviously very much a background music band.
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Funnily enough, in my teenage angst days I binned my cassette of NPFTD I was so annoyed with how awful I thought it was, particularly Bruce's constipated talk/"singing" on that record, combined with the fact that it was classed as a "double album" so it cost twice as much for the cassette than Seventh Son had (an album I absolutely I adored at the time) and I barely had a bean to my name at that age. If I'd been smarter I'd have tried to sell it to someone... Probably the most surprising thing about NPFTD is that they managed to release two albums afterwards that sounded even worse.
I do own it on CD these days, but I'd rank it right at the bottom of the Bruce-era(s) albums. I've gotten over the vocals to an extent too, though that's in part because he started singing normally again with the Skunkworks album so I can treat it as a passing phase.
Anyway, my choices:
1) Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
2) Def Leppard - Hysteria
3) Rush - Grace Under Pressure
4) Devin Townsend - Terria (Addicted pushes it close)
5) The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies (fanclub edition, not the one diluted by the extra songs with the terrible cover art)
6) Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
7) Type O Negative - World Coming Down
8) Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
9) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
I've left off Scar Symmetry, who're an odd band for me - I love their sound, I've got all their albums, according to Last.FM they're my 10th most listened to artist over the last 8 years... and yet I'm struggling to remember how more than a handful of their songs actually go off the top of my head. They're obviously very much a background music band.
Nice :tup It's my 2nd or 3rd Rush album, I love it. I don't see enough praise for it here.
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Funnily enough, in my teenage angst days I binned my cassette of NPFTD I was so annoyed with how awful I thought it was, particularly Bruce's constipated talk/"singing" on that record, combined with the fact that it was classed as a "double album" so it cost twice as much for the cassette than Seventh Son had (an album I absolutely I adored at the time) and I barely had a bean to my name at that age. If I'd been smarter I'd have tried to sell it to someone... Probably the most surprising thing about NPFTD is that they managed to release two albums afterwards that sounded even worse.
I do own it on CD these days, but I'd rank it right at the bottom of the Bruce-era(s) albums. I've gotten over the vocals to an extent too, though that's in part because he started singing normally again with the Skunkworks album so I can treat it as a passing phase.
Anyway, my choices:
1) Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
2) Def Leppard - Hysteria
3) Rush - Grace Under Pressure
4) Devin Townsend - Terria (Addicted pushes it close)
5) The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies (fanclub edition, not the one diluted by the extra songs with the terrible cover art)
6) Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
7) Type O Negative - World Coming Down
8) Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
9) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
I've left off Scar Symmetry, who're an odd band for me - I love their sound, I've got all their albums, according to Last.FM they're my 10th most listened to artist over the last 8 years... and yet I'm struggling to remember how more than a handful of their songs actually go off the top of my head. They're obviously very much a background music band.
Nice :tup It's my 2nd or 3rd Rush album, I love it. I don't see enough praise for it here.
A top.5 Rush album for me! Red Sector A and The Enemy Within are in my top.10 Rush songs of all time.
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Dreamtheater- Images and word
Metallica- Black album
Mr. Big- Big, Bigger, Biggest
Racer X- Superheroes
Joe Satriani- Surfing with the alien
Steve vai- Alien love secret
Led Zeppellin- Physical grafitti
Acdc- Back in black
Eric johnson- ah via musicom
Lacuna coil- Comalies
Animal as leader- Weightless
Devourment- Butcher the weak
Carcass- the heartwork
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Marillion - Brave
Dream Theater - SFAM
Rush - Rush In Rio
Iron Maiden - 7Soa7S
Pearl Jam - Ten
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Led Zeppelin - 4
Tift Merritt - Tambourine
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Dream Theater - SFAM
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (They're all top notch though)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (Ask me tomorrow and it could be pretty much any album except the debut)
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Grace will probably take it back sooner or later)
Neal Morse - Testimony 2 (ask me tomorrow and it could just as well be One)
The Flower Kings - (this one's too tough, probably, Paradox Hotel, Space Revolver or Stardust We Are)
Steve Vai - The Story of Light
Haken - The Mountain
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Blackfield - Blackfield
OSI - Blood
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In the Comatorium
The Aristocrats - The Aristocrats
Pink Floyd - Animals
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
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I'm pretty sure there is someone who thinks St. Anger is the best Metallica record.
I might be the closest thing to that person you will encounter. I have more interest in St Anger and Lulu than pretty much anything else they’ve done, and if I put on anything by Metallica these days, it’s generally one of those albums, or occasionally Ride the Lightning, a Load/Reload mix, or a general Best Of mix.
Having said that, I wouldn’t call either their best album.
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Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
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I forgot one: Brand New - Daisy
Still haven't got around that one.
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My 10 favorites, in alphabetical order by band name:
Alter Bridge - Fortress
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of D-Generation
Dream Theater - Images and Words
dredg - El Cielo
In Flames - Whoracle
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
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Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
:tup
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Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. or Grace For Drowning, can't decide.
Dream Theatre - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia or Lightbulb Sun, varies on the day.
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0
Anathema - Weather Systems
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# Infinity
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Flying Colors- Flying Colors
Destiny Potato- Lun
Boris - Feedbacker
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Out of the top of my head, goes somethig like this:
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Anthrax - Among The Living
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Dream Theater - Scenes And Words
Ford, Robben - Talk To Your Daughter
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Journey - Escape
King's X - Dogman
Led Zeppelin - IV
Level 42 - True Colours
Magnum - Wings Of Heaven
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Metallica - Load
Morse, Neal - ?
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime
Roth, David Lee - Skyscraper
Satriani, Joe - The Extremist
Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan
Spock's Beard - V
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Thunder - Laughing On Judgement Day
Toto - Kingdom Of Desire
Townsend, Devin - Ocean Machine/Biomech
Van Halen - F.U.C.K.
Whitesnake - Ready An' Willing
Yes - Close To The Edge
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Dream Theater- Six Degrees
IQ- The Seventh House
Marillion- Clutching at Straws
The Who- Quadrophenia
Yes- Tales from Topographic Oceans
I got a music boner just typing that.
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Dream Theater- Six Degrees
Periphery- Juggernaut (Omega, if I had to choose. Title track is the best song they've written by FAR)
Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Haken- Visions
Bullet For My Valentine- The Poison
Slipknot- Slipknot
Paramore- Brand New Eyes
Transatlantic- Bridge Across Forever
Ghost- Infestissumam
Led Zeppelin- IV
Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory
Metallica- Black Album
Muse- Absolution
Rush- 2112
I've more, but I think 15 is enough :lol
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Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
The Beatles - Help!
Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Creed - Weathered
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Eve6 - Speak in Code
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Green Day - American Idiot
Hoobastank - The Reason
James LaBrie - Impermanant Resonance
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience (1 of 2, White Album)
Metallica - Load
Neal Morse (Prog Albums) - Testimony Two
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
OSI - Free
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
Styx - Edge of the Century
Sum41 - Underclass Hero
Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane
311 - Uplifter
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Weezer - Blue Album/Pinkerton
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
Funny to compare the list from the least liked album, and see how many bands followed up my least liked album with my favorite, or vice versa.
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Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
The only Blink album I enjoy.
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Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
The only Blink album I enjoy.
It's a really good album, but strange that you don't like Dude Ranch or Enema of the State because it's all pretty much the same kind of thing... they didn't end up changing their sound until the self titled album
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Enema is a bit too poppy and childish for ma and Blink 182 is too mature.
TOYPAJ is about right.
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Enema is a bit too poppy and childish for ma and Blink 182 is too mature.
TOYPAJ is about right.
I can understand that. It is their best.
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Anthem Part 2 is stupidly catchy and The Rock Show is such a great pop rock song.
There are lots of other great melodies and choruses on the album too.
Blink 182 sounded too similar to Tom's other bands and wasn't fun enough - and too many songs had that same thing where he plays an octave chord on the major 7th.
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Dream Theater - Awake
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Evergrey - The Inner Circle
Led Zeppelin - IV
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressable
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Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressable
:hefdaddy
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Only from bands I've heard practically all the discography of:
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Flying Colors - Second Nature
Epica - The Phantom Agony
Haken - The Mountain
Muse - The Resistance
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
Nirvana - Nevermind
Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage & Grace
Spheric Universe Experience - Unreal
To-Mera - Exile
Radiohead - OK Computer
Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood
Linkin Park - The Hunting Party
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Dream Theater: Images and Words
Metallica: And Justice for All
Maiden: Somewhere in Time
Priest: Stained Class
Rush: Moving Pictures
Scorpions: Blackout
Heart: Dreamboat Annie
Van Halen: Van Halen I
Megadeth: Rust in Piece
Symphony X: Divine Wings of Tragedy
Led Zeppelin: IV
Queensryche: Mindcrime
Accept: Metal Heart
Exodus: Fabulous Disaster
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Accept: Metal Heart
Awesome! :metal
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Blink 182 sounded too similar to Tom's other bands and wasn't fun enough - and too many songs had that same thing where he plays an octave chord on the major 7th.
Yeah, I listen to Mark's +44 album "When Your Heart Stops Beating" waaaay more than the self-titled. That's the direction I wish they went in.
Only from bands I've heard practically all the discography of:
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage & Grace
This all looks familiar :tup
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Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Anathema - Weather Systems
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, Vol. 1