Top Five Most Important Albums…

…According to you?

My Top Five (In no particular order):

� The Compass Point Sessions
� The Grace Jones Story
� Slave to the Rhythm
� Island Life
� Muse

All by Grace Jones. xD

The Velvet Underground and Nico
Dirty Mind
Revolver
Hunky Dory

Opeth – Still Life
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
Radiohead – OK Computer
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

impossible to limit it just to 5.

Squarepusher – Ultravisitor
Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things
Squarepusher – Go Plastic
Squarepusher – Music Is Rotted One Note
Squarepusher – Hello everything

in that particular order.

You see I don’t get how people can list muultiple instances of the same band. I don’t think one band can make all that many different radical changes in music.

It is possible in some cases. Grace started out in Disco, then turned to Rock, then turned to New Wave, then turned to r’n’b, then turned to Reggae, then turned to Dance Pop.

and somebody obviously hasnt heard any Squarepusher
hmmm – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxve603-4
or hmmmmmmmmm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qfeFqEbGUc

I’m with Hogan on this one. If youre most influential albums are all the same group, you’re probably boring and one dimensional.

9 yo Rush – Exit… Stage Left – first Rush album I heard, and my intro to prog
11 yo Dream Theater – Images and Words – took my progness up a level
15 yo No Use For A Name – Leche Con Carne – first punk I related to
17 yo Thrice – The Illusion Of Safety – culmination of styles I liked at the time
23 yo Protest the Hero – Kezia – expands farther on Punk/Metal/Prog sound

I’m with Hogan on this one. If youre most influential albums are all the same group, you’re probably boring and one dimensional.
Or perhaps you just enjoy their music to no end? I do listen other music, but Grace is and will always be number #1 in my book. That doesn’t make me one dimensional, just passionate.

I can see how they would be your favoritee albums or whatever but I guess it really defines on how you are thinking about the question. I took it as what do you think are the five most important albums to affect the music world. I only put up four because that is a hard question. I can see that other people are taking it differently but still don’t really get listing one band five times, if for nothing more than it being kind of boring.

My fault, I meant it on a more personal note. Which five albums are the most important to you.

I thought you meant which 5 albums most influenced you.

its still impossible for me to pick just 5. 10 maybe, definetly not 5.

and somebody obviously hasnt heard any Squarepusher
hmmm – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxve603-4
or hmmmmmmmmm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qfeFqEbGUc

Square pusher is less a true ‘time-tested’ musician than a mere novelty artist. I don’t think this type of thing is what should be on someone’s list. But to each his own.

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground and Nico
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
John Cale – Paris 1919
and the other frankly i have no idea, i cannot choose, i am really bad at any sort of favourite albums game

PNC – Rookie Card
Scribe – The Crusader
Flight Of The Conchords – ?
Holkeye & Roph – Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Can’t figure out more.

Iron maiden-BNW
Manowar-Battle hymn
Metallica-Reload
AC-DC-back in black
Hammerfall-Crimson thunder

Iron maiden-BNW
Manowar-Battle hymn
Metallica-Reload
AC-DC-back in black
Hammerfall-Crimson thunder

Of all the Metallica albums, you pick Re-Load? LUCY YOU HAVE SOME SPLAINING TO DO.

Of all the Metallica albums, you pick Re-Load? LUCY YOU HAVE SOME SPLAINING TO DO.
reload is most fond to my heart,because it is the first metallica album I ever heard…

Michael Jackson: "Thriller"- It was the first record I ever owned.
Metallica: "And Justice For All"- The first "Metal" album I bought.
Nine Inch Nails: "The Downward Spiral"- The first "Angst" album I bought.
Kate Bush: "The Dreaming"- My first fully-realized musical crush, just based on appearances and talent.
Soundtrack: "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night"- My longest sought album I bought. (Must’ve looked for that one for about two years, until I found it at a local Anime convention. Understand, this was YEARS before I found out about this site. Heh!)

Metallica: "And Justice For All"- The first "Metal" album I bought.
Soundtrack: "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night"- My longest sought album I bought. (Must’ve looked for that one for about two years, until I found it at a local Anime convention. Understand, this was YEARS before I found out about this site. Heh!)

Same here on Justice, and hell yeah, Symphony of the Night is bad ass.

reload is most fond to my heart,because it is the first metallica album I ever heard…

Fair enough.

backstreet boys – black and blue

Dream Theater – Scenes From a Memory (my first exposure to prog metal… Opened doors to so much good music, and DT is my favorite band)

Spock’s Beard – Snow (just an incredible prog rock epic album…)

Enchant – Juggling 9 or Dropping 10 (a prog metal/rock/fusion hybrid band. Fucking incredible)

Metallica – Master of Puppets (cemented my love for metal music)

Opeth – Deliverance (my first exposure to the incredible Progressive Death Metal monsters from Sweden. Incredible…)

Honorable Mentions:

Thrice – The Illusion of Safety
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Helloween – The Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II
Blue October – History For Sale
Less Than Jake – Borders & Boundaries

Opeth – Deliverance (my first exposure to the incredible Progressive Death Metal monsters from Finland. Incredible…)

Its Sweden.

Corrected. I’m not sure why I thought it was Finland…

Slipknot, their first album. As much as I can’t stand them now, it was what got me into metal. For a little while I was listening to rap in gr10. I am quite ashamed.

Tristanias Beyond the Veil album, as it introduced me to a more gothic type of metal.

Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here. No Explanation needed. Its just good.

Iron Maidens Rock in Rio album. They’re an excellent live band and this CD has alot of their good songs on it.

Draconian has two albums I started listening to at the same time. Where Lovers Mourn and The Burning Halo. I just added these because its my most recent love.

It was hard narrowing this down to 5, well, 6.

backstreet boys – black and blue

Wrong thread, see "top 5 albums not even worthy of being toilet paper."

Wrong thread, see "top 5 albums not even worthy of being toilet paper."

ITS OBVIOUSLY LIEK THE MOST INFULENTIAL ALBUM EVER :O

Brownstone – From The Bottom Up (exposed the soul scene for me)
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory ()
Metallica – Master Of Puppets (ignited my love for thrash metal)
Necrophagist – Onset Of Putrefaction (my introduction to technical death metal)
Boyz II Men – II (listened to this 24/7 as a kid)

Pink Floyd – Animals
Failure – Fantastic Planet
Hum – Downward Is Heavenward
Slowdive – Souvlaki (with all the bonus tracks)
Porcupine Tree – The Sky Moves Sideways or Deadwing. Can’t decide right now.

Porcupine Tree – The Sky Moves Sideways or Deadwing. Can’t decide right now.

I thought Deadwing was average at best, nowhere near In Absentia or Lightbulb Sun in terms of creativity and lyrics, though lyrics have never been a strong point for Steven Wilson, some of his lyrics are embarrasingly bad.

Moonsorrow – H�vitetty
Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance
Savatage – Hall of the Mountain King
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
In Flames – The Jester Race/Black Ash Inheritance

Just current, not of-all-time.

These are me personally, not greatest or anything like that. Just to be clear.

The Ataris–So Long, Astoria
Green Day–Nimrod
My Chemical Romance–I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
Our Lady Peace–Clumsy
The Ataris–Blue Skies, Broken Hearts…Next 12 Exits

If you’d like to flame MCR in specific, join me over at the MCR thread, where I am currently fending off a flurry of attacks. 😛

i like punk music more than anything in the world. so mine are pretty much all punk.

in no particular order

kid dynamite – kid dynamite
311 – grassroots
dead kennedys – fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
leftover crack – mediocre generica
against all authority – 24 hour roadside resistance

honorable mentions:
the clash – US version
the descendents – milo goes to college
the adolescents – the adolescents
propaghandi – today’s empires tomorrows ashes
bouncing souls – maniacal laughter

recent stuff:
witch hunt – blood red states
leftover crack – fuck world trade
the lawrence arms – apathy and exhaustion
shook ones – facetious folly feat

i like punk music more than anything in the world. so mine are pretty much all punk.

in no particular order

kid dynamite – kid dynamite
311 – grassroots
dead kennedys – fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
leftover crack – mediocre generica
against all authority – 24 hour roadside resistance

honorable mentions:
the clash – US version
the descendents – milo goes to college
the adolescents – the adolescents
propaghandi – today’s empires tomorrows ashes
bouncing souls – maniacal laughter

recent stuff:
witch hunt – blood red states
leftover crack – fuck world trade
the lawrence arms – apathy and exhaustion
shook ones – facetious folly feat

<3

The Clash- The Clash
The Lillingtons- Death By Television
The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
Ramones- Every record
Screeching Weasel- My Brain Hurts

Honorable Mentions:

Dredg- Catch Without Arms
The Unlovables- Crush Boyfriend Heartbreak
The Queers- Love Songs For The Retarded
Green Day- 10,39/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Adolescents- Adolescents
Belle & Sebastian- Tigermilk
Teenage Bottlerocket- Total
Cheap Trick- At Budokan
The Lawrence Arms- The Greatest Story Ever Told

There’s two Metallica albums in mine:

1) Metallica: And Justice For All
2) Slipknot: Iowa
3) Metallica: S&M
4) Black Sabbath: Reunion
5) Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)

Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Negura Bunget – Om
Iron Maiden – Rock in Rio
The Vision Bleak – Carpathia
Moonsorrow – Veris�keet