Top 5 Albums of all time

[Dr_Avalanche]

I read someone suggesting that top 5 lists are a better way to learn something about a person than to ask them for example of a top 100 list - the extra information only adds noise instead of insight.

To follow that thought, what are your five most favorite music albums?

Mine are:

1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
2. The Knife - Deep Cuts
3. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
4. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
5. dEUS - The Ideal Crash

[Bagpuss]

I've only heard of two of those bands, I think we have little in common musically. I couldn't do a Top 5 Albums of all time, because I rarely go back to listening to an album after about a year, most I'll only listen to for a few months. I could give you my current Top 5, will you settle for that? Or Top 5 Albums I think you should hear (but probably haven't).

[Dr_Avalanche]

Current is fine - that's essentially what my list is, aside of a few albums I listen to a lot right now (that I excluded from the list) which I suspect are infatuations that will fade with time - like Justice's Cross, for example.

[Bagpuss]

Current no particular order

1. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
2. Lillie Allen - Alright Still
3. Nina Simone - Very Best of...
4. Joss Stone - Mind, Body and Soul
5. Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape

The one's in bold are my most recent CD purchases, I prefer Gwen's debut soul album however. I generally prefer female vocalists, and singers that you don't need to get the lyrics sheet out to discover what they are saying. If I was to do an All Time list the only album I'm sure would be in there is Casanova by The Divine Comedy, which oddly has a male lead vocal. I've been through a Metal (including thrash) phase when I was in my teens and indie and dance phase in my twenties, now I'm in my thirties I've grown out of most of that stuff. As you can see I have pretty mainstream tastes, although I do like the odd weird artist, and do have a love for J-Pop.

[Dark Jezter]

My favorite 5:

Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin)
Pronounced Leh-Nurd Skin-nurd (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
American IV: The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash)
Back In Black (AC/DC)
Devil Without A Cause (Kid Rock)

[wesi72]

In no particular order:

Queen - A Night At The Opera
Eagles - Hotel California
Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beach Boys - Sunflower

[Harry]

A Top Five?

Impossible. But here are ten albums I consistently return to year after year after year... And I didn't have to think too hard about this list, at least not as hard as a Top Five:

The Beatles - Revolver
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Al Green - Greatest Hits
John Wesley Harding - New Deal
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Delmore Brothers - Brown's Ferry Blues
Chuck Willis - Stroll On
Crowded House - Woodface

[Mr SmokeTooMuch]

Top 5 is impossible, so I just give a top 3

Re۰ac۰tor - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
Starless & Bible Black - king crimson
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd

[Dr_Avalanche]

Is it some kind of meme that it's impossible to answer with exactly the requested number?

[Steampunk]

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

[Thoth-Amon]

AC/DC - Back in Black
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Kiss - Destroyer
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil

[Cat of Ulthar]

Good selections, all.

Mine would be... I guess... as I can think of now... and restricting myself to one album per band...

Animals - Pink floyd
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
Killer - Alice Cooper
Powerslave - Iron Maiden

[Pigs in Space]

I have to admit, I have listened the death out of the top 5 albums I am going to list - so I don't put them on that much anymore. That said, the following are the ones that definately qualify as my favourite of all time:

Tool - Aenima (Any fuckin time, any fuckin day)
Rage against the Machine - Evil Empire (Rollin' down Rodeo with a SHOTGUN!!)
Nirvana - In Utero (cos I'm very Ape, and I'm very NICE)
Radiohead - OK Computer (like a cat, tied to a stake)
Soundgarden - SuperUnknown (Feel the rythym in your bones)

[Martin]

In no particular order (current picks off of the top of my head while scanning through my iPod):

The Naked Dutch Painter - Stew
Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple
I, Lucifer - The Real Tuesday Weld
Ear Food 1 & 2 - Ettin
20 Years of Tull - Jethro Tull

[Scutisorex Shrewlord]

Personal favorites here...

Well if we're doing recent I'll have to go with:

1. Fischerspooner "Odyssey"
2. Adult. "Gimme Trouble"
3. Amy Winehouse "Back To Black"
4. Gnarles Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
5. Ladytron "Witching Hour"

If it's all-time, I'll go with:

1. Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin"
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer "Emerson, Lake & Palmer"
3. Return To Forever "Where Have I Known You Before"
4. Steely Dan "Aja"
5. DEVO "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!"

[Bagpuss]

Jesus is this board just full of ageing rockers and metalheads? :rolleyes:

[Dr_Avalanche]

Jesus is this board just full of ageing rockers and metalheads? :rolleyes:

I think it's safe to say our average age is closer to 40 than 20. :cool:

[Cat of Ulthar]

I know... I felt so old when at the sword course we were talking about scaring movies and one of the guys was telling how scared he got when he watched Jurassic Park at the age of eight...:(

[Pigs in Space]

Jesus is this board just full of ageing rockers and metalheads? :rolleyes:


Who are you calling an Ageing Rocker?

[Steampunk]

Jesus is this board just full of ageing rockers and metalheads? :rolleyes:

:D

I am listening to Saigon Kick "The Lizard" right now. 15 years old and still awesome!

[Cat of Ulthar]

:D

I am listening to Saigon Kick "The Lizard" right now. 15 years old and still awesome!

Heh. 15 years old? That's 92, and so falls into the "new stuff"-category for me...

[Steampunk]

Heh. 15 years old? That's 92, and so falls into the "new stuff"-category for me...

Well, I listen to it and still cannot believe it was 15 years ago. It is still "new" to me, too. :D