Your Top 5 Favorite Albums

[Buckeye Chris]

Here are the criteria:

1. It cannot be a "Greatest Hits" album.
2. It cannot be an anthology or compilation album
3. It cannot be a Various Artists album (e.g. Best of the 80s or Power Ballads)
4. It cannot be a movie soundtrack.

Here's mine

1: Tool - ?nima

2: Radiohead - OK Computer

3: Led Zeppelin - IV

4: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

5: A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step


Additional Albums (Almost Made It)
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Tool - Lateralus
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Deftones - The White Pony
10 Years - Autumn Effect
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

I have alot of favorite albums.

 

[Flocka]

1. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
2. Nas - Illmatic
3. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
5. Paul Wall & Chamillionaire - Controversy Sells

 

[BUCKYLE]

1. Outkast - Aquemini
2. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
3. Bob Marley - Legend (I know it's a "Greatest Hits" album...fuck off. )
4. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
5. Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

That leaves out The Chronic...Doggystyle...wow, I also seem to have many favorites...

 

[mrmozambique]

Can I make another suggestion? One of the things I always try to do when making these lists is to say the album has to have been out for at least five years. That way I don't choose my 'flavor of the day.' (which I tend to do)

 

[Buckeneye]

1) Chronic 2000
2) Battle for Los Angeles
3) Saturate
4) Morning View
5) Blue Sky Research

 

[BUCKYLE]

Also, every Tom Waits album ever made.

 

[scott91575]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. The Beatles - White Album
3. The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Led Zeppelin - IV
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

edit...oops, missed rule #7. In that case...

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. The Beatles - White Album
3. Led Zeppelin - IV
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. The Who - Tommy

After the first two in both categories it's a huge tie for #3, but #1 and #2 no doubt. I know people love Dark Side, as do I. Yet The Wall is still my favorite by a mile. I have seen that movie about 200 times. Love it. If you get a chance, pick up the DVD for commentary from Roger Waters and the animator for the film.

 

[Flocka]

1. Outkast - Aquemini
2. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
3. Bob Marley - Legend (I know it's a "Greatest Hits" album...fuck off. )
4. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
5. Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

That leaves out The Chronic...Doggystyle...wow, I also seem to have many favorites...

Good Shit. Aquemini and Ready to Die are def. top 10 for me. Chronic, Doggystyle, and about every Em cd are there too probably.

I wanted to put Legend, but some of us know how to follow rules.

 

[NFBuck]

5.) Social Distortion- Social Distortion
4.) Dropkick Murphys- Meanest Of Times
3.) Nirvana- Unplugged In New York ("concert album" or not)
2.) Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
1.) Tool- Aenima


Hon. Mention: Tool- Lateralus, Nirvana- In Utero, Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream, Pearl Jam- Ten, Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker, Ryan Adams- Love Is Hell, Radiohead- The Bends, Dropkick Murphys- Blackout, Flogging Molly- Within A Mile Of Home, Whiskeytown- Pneumonia

 

[mrmozambique]

In no special order...
Led Zeppelin III
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Slayer - South of Heaven
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Ask me again next week and they'll likely have changed...

 

[generaladm]

1. The Beatles, Abbey Road
2. The Wailers, Burnin'
3. Led Zeppelin II
4. Marvin Gaye, What's Goin On?
5. Oasis, What's the Story (Morning Glory)?

Honorable Mention: Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon; Sloan, Navy Blues; Enter the Wu-Tang; The Band, The Last Waltz; Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am...

 

[Buckeye86]

1. The Who - Who's Next

2. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

4. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People

5. The Clash - London Calling

Honorable Mention:

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

AC/DC - Back In Black

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

 

[Buckeye Chris]

5.) Social Distortion- Social Distortion
4.) Dropkick Murphys- Meanest Of Times
3.) Nirvana- Unplugged In New York ("concert album" or not)
2.) Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
1.) Tool- Aenima


Hon. Mention: Tool- Lateralus, Nirvana- In Utero, Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream, Pearl Jam- Ten, Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker, Ryan Adams- Love Is Hell, Radiohead- The Bends, Dropkick Murphys- Blackout, Flogging Molly- Within A Mile Of Home, Whiskeytown- Pneumonia

Thats why your the man :P "It can end no other way!"

Also Buckeye86, London Calling and Battle for LA are amazing albums. IMO the best song on BFLA is Know your Enemy...for obvious reason *coughmaynardcough*

 

[Muck]

 

[Flocka]

Also, every Tom Waits album ever made.

Same for me, but replace "Waits" with "Jones".