When I was looking through goofyfish's thread of what's on the cd I was amazed at how much music is out there that I never heard about. Especially some of the stuff that goofyfish was listing. He must have stacks of albums from the floor to the ceiling.

What I was thinking here was for eveyone to list their seven favorite albums, kind of as a buyers guide for anyone who wished to enlarge their collections. I could easily come up with thirty favorite albums or even some larger number but I figure most else of what I would list is going to be on someone else's list anyway. The idea here is more to see which albums come up time and again.

My personal favorites are all from the time when I was a partying teenager in the seventies, a time when I was young and stupid and still learning the fine art of drinking and puking into the toilet at school dances without splattering all over my pants. I find that certain music has a way of connecting with you in some metaphysical way and what could be first thought of as just clashing noise could become a cherished treasure. When I first heard Grand Funk Railroad's "Survival" playing on my brother's turntable I walked into the room just when there was a lot of primal screaming coming from some song and I thought my brother must be nuts to listen to such stuff, but later, after he kept playing it and after I listened to it a few more time, it came to be a favorite.

Now I'll list my seven, but they're not necessarily in an absolute order because I probably like them all equally well.

Billion Dollar Babies--Alice Cooper
Machine Head--Deep Purple
Demons and Wizards--Uriah Heep
Dark Side of the Moon--Pink Floyd
Deju-vu--Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Dallas Tayler and Greg Reeves
Survival--Grand Funk Railroad
Love it to Death--Alice Cooper

I'll list my seven

1 - Rammstein - Mutter
2 - Rammstein - Herzeleid
3 - Karmic Jera - Zombies, Blood and Go, Go Girls
4 - Static - X - Machine
5 - Rammstein Unreleased Compilation - Me
6 - Mad Capsule Markets - Osc Dis
7 - Marylin Manson - Holywood

The Lonely Position Of Neutral - TRUSTcompany
Sticks and Stones - New Found Glory
Jimmy Eat World - Jimmy Eat World
From Chaos - 311
Hoobastank - Hoobastank
Burn It Black - Injected
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park


And some more, because I can't leave'em out without feeling guilty:

Lateralus - TOOL
LoveHateTragedy - Papa Roach
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
A Place In The Sun - Lit
Toxicity - System Of A Down
A New Found Glory - A New Found Glory
The Fallout - Default
Astro Lounge - Smashmouth
Beautiful Midnight - Matthew Good Band
Camino Palmero - The Calling
Le Roi est Mort.... - Enigma
Smash, Ixnay on the Hombre, Americana, Conspiracy of One - Offspring
The Return Of Saturn - No Doubt
Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte
Clarity - Jimmy Eat World
All of Our Lady Peace's albums
Matrix Soundtrack, Lord of the Rings ST, Queen of the Damned Soundtrack, Remember The Titans S/T

MCMX A.D. - Enigma
Karma - Delerium
Latin Train - Arturo Sandoval
Moon Flowers - Carlos Santana
Friday night at San Francisco - Al DiMeola, Paco Delucia, John McCaughlin
Dark Side of Oz - Pink Floyd
Orphero Negro sound track.

Just to split up the list format...

I don't really have that many albums (probably less than 7 in total) :o cos I tend to just copy stuff of the radio (whereas often with albums there's are several songs I odn't like, or I get fed up with hearing the same group for ages in a row, but I'm quite fond of My Linkin Park one, thought before you start to stereotype me, I like the first and thrid Britney Spears ones too... :p

Oh, and keep meaning to get a JEW one, but not sure which one. :confused:

..but I'm quite fond of My Linkin Park one,..
Yeah!! Linkin Park!! :D :D Hey, are you planning to get Reanimation? I heard FRGT10, but it's not that great :( And have you seen their DVD? I don't know what's on it, so I'm trying to find out whether it's a good deal or not. :D

Oh, and keep meaning to get a JEW one, but not sure which one. :confused:
They have Static Prevails, Clarity, and Jimmy Eat World, but I went to a website and I found they had a ton of singles and songs that were on other CD's in collaboration with other bands. But you must get Jimmy Eat World, since it's like their "debut" album. :D Plus, you can just download a bunch of their other songs off the Internet. Some of my faves are Goodbye Sky Harbor, Believe In What You Want, and Clarity. :) :)

Not seen LP remix album, but heard of it. Only seen POA remix, that's cool, it's on MTV a lot. :D Thing is, I can't really afford to buy both LP and JEW. :( which one do you recommend? Maybe I shoudl wait a while before buying LP, so that it's on discount?

The way I got to hear of JEW was when a friend gave me an mp3 with them on, so they're just random JEW songs, but I love all of them ("Sweetness", "The Middle", "Blood, Sweat, Sugar", "Clarity", "A Praise Chorus", "A Sunday", "Call It In The Air", "If you Don't Don't", "Lucky Denver Mint" "Rockstar", "Seventeen" and "Thinking, that's all".) Do you know which album has most of those songs on? and I usually think a debut album the worst, cos the group/person is just finding their style...? :confused: I shall consider it next time I'm in a music store. :)

Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi - Enigma

Not seen LP remix album, but heard of it. Only seen POA remix, that's cool, it's on MTV a lot. :D Thing is, I can't really afford to buy both LP and JEW. :( which one do you recommend? Maybe I shoudl wait a while before buying LP, so that it's on discount?
I really don't know which one I should recommend, since I love them both.. :( Linkin Park is awesome, but JEW has more history. I guess that waiting for a while is a good idea, or you could just download the entire album off the Net (thanks to those wonderful MP3 rippers :D), and transfer it to a portable device or burn it to a CD.

The way I got to hear of JEW was when a friend gave me an mp3 with them on, so they're just random JEW songs, but I love all of them ("Sweetness", "The Middle", "Blood, Sweat, Sugar", "Clarity", "A Praise Chorus", "A Sunday", "Call It In The Air", "If you Don't Don't", "Lucky Denver Mint" "Rockstar", "Seventeen" and "Thinking, that's all".) Do you know which album has most of those songs on? and I usually think a debut album the worst, cos the group/person is just finding their style...? :confused: I shall consider it next time I'm in a music store. :)
Well, four of the songs (Sweetness, The Middle, A Praise Chorus, and If You Don't, Don't) are on the Bleed American CD, but Clarity, A Sunday, and Lucky Denver Mint are on Clarity. Thinking, That's All, Seventeen, Rockstar, Call It In The Air are on Static Prevails. And I've never heard of Blood, Sweat, Sugar, though it sounds like RHCP's album Bloodsugarsexmagik. :D So basically, you have a fair amount from each album...:p :D
Yeah, I might have been a bit rash in saying Jimmy Eat World is their debut album, because they have 2 more before that, but it's the album from which we hear their songs on the radio (i.e. Bleed American, The Middle, Sweetness). :)

I'm gonna make it ten favorite albums...sort of in order

1. Tool - Lateralus
1. Tool - Aenima
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Korn - Life is Peachy
5. 40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance
6. Boy Hits Car - Boy Hits Car
7. Tool - Undertow
8. Slipknot - Slipknot
9. Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
10. Nonpoint - Statement

In no particular order:
Crosby Stills and Nash - Daylight Again
Airforce - Do What You Like
Monty Python Sings
Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

hahahahahaha these lists are laughable at best.

i bet most of them represent mp3 collections too.

How dare you laugh at Tool! :mad: Ah, just kidding, I don't care. :D And you're right, most of them are albums d/l'ed off the Net, because not everyone gets allowance (:(), or has a job...yet!

Just got these from the library:

Razorblade Suitcase - Bush
Dream Suite - Suzanne Ciani

1) Bob Marley - Legend
2) Korn - Korn
3) Jimmy Hendrix - Are you experienced?
4) Nirvana - Unplugged
5) Santana - The best of...

Ah, pure extacy:D

Kauja pie Saules by SKYFORGER

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Black Moon

The London Suede -- Dog Man Star
Belle and Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle and Sebastian -- Tigermilk
The Flaming Lips -- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Joy Division -- Substance
The Pixies -- Trompe Le Monde
Nick Drake -- Pink Moon
Super Furry Animals -- Rings Around the World
The Beach Boys -- Pet Sounds
Wire -- Chairs Missing
The Verve -- A Northern Soul
Sonic Youth -- Daydream Nation


Disclaimer: This is more than 7 (yes, really). It isn't really all encompassing or written in stone. Its dependent on the current mood and on what the ol' memory wants to spit up. And um, its not counting stuff I'm sure I'd put on there that I haven't really heard like The Clash, The Beatles, The Cure, and um, blah blah blah...

pink floyd - final cut
roger waters - radio kaos, hitchhikers.....
cure - disintegration
marley - uprising
black uhuru - all

The White Album-Beetles

"you-may-be-a-lovah-but-you-aint-no-dancah" is my msn nickname.

~Dream Suite - Suzanne Ciani!~

Wow! Absolutely beautiful music, can't go wrong with orchestral music and piano solos! :D So full of hope and optimism...not a human voice, purely instrumental. I wonder what makes it so appealing? It just enters your ear so easily, blends into your thoughts, and it never intrudes, just enhances. :) Like a parasite, but a pleasant one. :D

The Clash - Singles
and
Moby - Play

KICKS ASS!!!!

Hmmm ... in no particular order:

• Styx - Paradise Theater
• Savatage - Streets: A rock opera
• King Diamond - Them
• Tanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart, Everybody's Angel
•_Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
•_Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (my first "deviant" album)
•_Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant
•_Boiled in Lead - Songs from "The Gypsy"
• Floater - Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone
• Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human

Well, that's 10. The list can be done several ways. Those are the first to mind. In terms of my pop culture progression, though, it's a different list:

1) Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
2) Steve Miller - ______ (contains "Electro Lux Imbroglio", "Jet Airliner", "Jungle Love", and a couple of others)
3) Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
4) Styx - Kilroy Was Here
5) Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
6) King Diamond - Them
7) Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
8) Anthrax - Among the Living
9) Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
10) Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - In Step

(Beyond that, the lists get too massive; for instance, Tanita Tikaram's Ancient Heart and Tangerine Dream's Legend: Soundtrack are vital sonic experiences to me, but they're hardly part of my rock and roll progression. A pop-culture progression would take ages.)

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

Nirvana's "Nevermind' is in my opinion the best album ever.

I am also quite fond of Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

My seven favourite which happen to be Metal of some form. I probably should broaden my taste a littlle but I bought Jazz CD the other day so its a start

Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Testament-Legacy
Megadeth-Rust In Peace
Cryptopsy-None So Vile
Emperor-Anthems to the Welkin at Dust
Black Sabbath-Master of Reality
Nevermore-Dead Heart in a Dead World

Jimi Hendrix- Axis Bold as Love

Oasis- Morning Glory

Massive Attack- Blue Lines

Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie

Radiohead- OK Computer

Led Zep- III

Velvet Underground & Nico

James Brown- Live at the Apollo

Doors- Doors

Strokes- Is this it?

Of course, some clearly don't belong there and some Artists deserve a spot (Dylan/ Beatles/ Smiths) but since I have only heard them through compilations I can't say anything about the albums

Honourable mentions to: Blur- Blur, Portishead- Portishead, RAGM- RAGM, Television- Marquee Moon. Nirvana- In Utero(better than the overrated Nevermind).