Music Your top five albums of all time

DavelinaJolie

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What a horrible question. Should be at least 10!

Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Lovage - Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By
New Model Army - The Ghost of Cain
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
 
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The Downward Spiral - NIN
RAM - Daft Punk
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Elephant - White Stripes
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
 

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Not doing multiple for one artist.

Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Another Green World (Brian Eno)
To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar)
Entroducing..... (DJ Shadow)
The Body, The Blood, The Machine (The Thermals)

Honourable Mentions: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Aphex Twin); Doolittle (Pixies); Handful of Earth (Dick Gaughan); Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan); Replicas (Tubeway Army)

Many more. It's hard to differentiate between the ones you like!
Aphex Twin and DJ Shadow are both great shouts!!
 

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In no order:

Nevermind
1999/Dirty Mind
The Stone Roses
The Bends
Purple Rain
 
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Yikes, tough one. In no particular order:

The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Tool - Lateralus
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til Du Dør
Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
 

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1. Tupac - Makaveli, Don Killuninati
2. Nas - Stillmatic
3. Royce Da 5’9 - Death is Certain
4. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
5. Bone Thugs n Harmony - East 1999
 

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Yikes, tough one. In no particular order:

The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Tool - Lateralus
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til Du Dør
Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
Would be absolutely nowhere near my top 5 but still like this pick.
 

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I see a lot of beautiful mentions in this thread..

Two I havent seen come by so far but deserve a mention for me are:

Paul Simon - Graceland
Justin Timberlake - FutureSexLoveSounds
 

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Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Fat of the Land - Prodigy
Axis Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix
 

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5. Bone Thugs n Harmony - East 1999
Still have this.. what an album.

King of Leon - Aha shake heartbreak
Kendrick Lamar - GKMC
Amy Winehouse - Back to black
The Streets - Original pirate material
The Verve - Urban hymns
 

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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Kendrick Lamar - GKMC
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Outkast - Aquemini
Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy

That's just off the top of my head and it would probably constantly be changing. Could've had ATLiens, Madvillainy, Lonerism, Illinois, Ctrl, Ok Computer, 99.9%, Swimming, TPAB or For Emma in there.
Great Albums

Mac's circles is just wonderful.. very hard to pick just five.. im a huge album fan. Ever since doggy style my first album.
 

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Purely 90s hip hop

Illmatic
Ironman
The Don Killuminati
Ready to Die
Doggystyle

What a golden period for the genre, could've easily listed another 20 I reckon
 

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  • Nirvana- In Utero
  • Black Flag- Damaged
  • Jeff Buckley-Grace
  • The Damned-Machine gun etiquette
  • Joy Division- Closer
Couldn't possibly pick an absolute best 5 but these are all just some of my favourites.
 

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I am not really great with albums but one of my favourites is The Renaissance by Q-Tip
 

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  • Nirvana- In Utero
  • Black Flag- Damaged
  • Jeff Buckley-Grace
  • The Damned-Machine gun etiquette
  • Joy Division- Closer
Couldn't possibly pick an absolute best 5 but these are all just some of my favourites.
Machine Gun Etiquette is a great album, good choice.
 

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  • Nirvana- In Utero
  • Black Flag- Damaged
  • Jeff Buckley-Grace
  • The Damned-Machine gun etiquette
  • Joy Division- Closer
Couldn't possibly pick an absolute best 5 but these are all just some of my favourites.
Nice to see In Utero there. I actually think it's aged better than Nevermind. Might also feel a bit fresher as it wasn't rinsed quite as much.
 

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Souness's Super Sub/George Weahs Talented Cousin
Leonard Cohen - Songs of love and hate
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks/Desire
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Ratm - self titled

Far too hard to only pick 5. Nirvana and zeppelin are probably my favourite bands and haven’t made it in today.
 

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Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Desire - Bob Dylan
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not - Arctic Monkeys
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
 

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Not in any particular order

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
Lemonade - Beyoncé
Black on both sides - Mos Def
Graduation - Kanye West
Blonde - Frank Ocean
 

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Dirt - Alice in Chains
Nevermind - Nirvana
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
Everything is fine - Amigo the Devil
Above - Mad Season
 

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Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Monterey
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Freddie King - Let's Hide Away And Dance Away
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
 

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Dream Theater - Images and Words.
Rainbow - Long Live RocknRoll
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
7th Wonder - Tiara
Opeth - Blackwater Park
 

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Joanna Newsom- YS
Bob Dyan-Blood on the Tracks-could be 5 of his on here.
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tim Buckley- Dream Letter(Maybe cheating with this one but it might be the best live album of all time as well, so screw it)
Radiohead- Kid A

Ask me tomorrow and at least 3 of them will change.
 

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Not in any particular order

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
Lemonade - Beyoncé
Black on both sides - Mos Def
Graduation - Kanye West
Blonde - Frank Ocean
Interesting Kanye album to opt for.
 

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Would be absolutely nowhere near my top 5 but still like this pick.
To me it’s such a cohesive album, with a beautiful soundscape. Was a big fan of her for years, and this one just blew me away. Sentiment will have to have a say, no chance I could whittle it down to 5 if not :nervous:
 

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No order...

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The National - Alligator
Sigur Ros - ( )
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
 

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Radiohead - Kid A
Hardest decision was which Radiohead album goes in. OK Computer could of been selected and I'd of been absolutely ecstatic with it's inclusion. In Rainbows I think my be a better constructed album in it's entirety for full end to end listening, it has incredible energy and rhythm and I remember buying the limited edition LP set when it was released on the special website that allowed fans to pay what they wanted for their music.

I had discovered OK Computer, sat alone, at 1am, in the small spareroom of my mothers house, just the glow of my old, hand me down beige PC illuminating the room. I had been waiting hours for my dial up torrent download to finish so I could open the file in my WinAmp program. I had spent the last few years gorging on Nu-Metal and after many purchases of Q Magazine here in the UK, realised there was a huge world of music I had yet to discover. As we all know, young teenage boys measure the currency of cool in music, trainers and girls. Well, mainly girls but you know what I mean. I had just finished the top 100 albums of all time issue of Q Magazine and saw "OK Computer" and sought out downloading it as I couldn't afford the CD.

Finally the torrent ends and I grab my old headphone cans and plug them into my PC aux port and click play. In that dark room, I cannot explain how the first 20 seconds Airbag affected me and do it any justice to the moment. This totally alien noise, seemingly bereft of instruments I could name, swallowing the entire room, myself and everything I knew about music into it. I felt enveloped, frozen and it was equally parts terrifying and exciting. A doorway into something other, something strange and new. I would kill to have that moment again to be honest. And luckily I did, when I downloaded Kid A a few months later and heard Everything In Its Right Place.

So it's a toss up between the two but I went with Kid A as I just couldn't have an album with Idioteque on it, which to my mind is one of the greatest songs ever committed to tape.

Kanye West - MBDTF

I had liked some of Kanye's work before, mainly listening the Through the Wire on repeat at any opportunity. But this album helped me immeasurably, working in a job I despised where my only respite was that I had to drive to different locations in between being in the office. Honestly, surrounded by some utterly contemptible human beings and being paid less than minimum wage was enough to send me insane. Now I am older and life isn't what I thought was promised, driving a beat up old car and struggling to make enough money to put fuel in the car to sustain a job that barely covers my rent. F*cking ridiculous.

But as soon as I heard this album and got the CD and driving to and from the office, nothing could touch me. Nothing could hurt me. I felt invicible, I felt ten feet tall, like a Monster, I felt like there was more and that I didn't have to settle. It took me another three months but I left that job and things picked up. Whenever this album comes on I am transported back to my old car, driving, singing the lyrics badly and never skipping a track. A pure, front to back album where every song is a banger and you fall in love with music all over again.

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
This is the first LP I bought, (well part of a group of LP's in Brighton (Led Zepp/Revolver). It's also the first album I played in my first house. I had no furniture yet, just a mattress, a kettle, a few boxes of clothes and possessions and no broadband installed so no TV. I did have an old LP though and this album always reminds me of that time, sitting in my first house, a tiny one bed affair but feeling like the King of my own Castle.

Sitting on a mattress but with Sir Duke, I could of been on a beach in St Tropez, I also contest this a great album for putting on when you ahve chores to do around the house or are decorating. It's a record full of life, soul and love and I couldn't not have it in the list.

I cannot decide on the final two at the moment! Some considerations:

Neil Young - Harvest
Thursday - Full Collapse
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Max Richter - Memoryhouse
Finch - What it is to Burn
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday (Complete)/Madvillainy
 

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This is just near impossible to do. I can't make lists, plus 'best album' sounds so big that I don't know what fits the bill. So to make it easier for myself, I'll compile a list of great albums of different kinds of music I'd like to keep if I only got to keep a couple - like fourteen. (Cause even getting it down to fourteen has taken far too much time.)

Bad Religion -The Empire Strikes First
Cowboys Fringants - L'expédition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Harmoniun - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
Ice Cube - The Predator
Klein Orkest - Het leed versierd
Midlake - The Courage of Others
Pater Moeskroen - Niets is wat het lijkt
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Vangelis - See You Later

I'll try and resist the temptation to keep editing this.