Top 10 Albums of All Time

[Demonspell]

Oh, I still love my little lamb, it's just that it's a bit... heavy. If it was the length of SEBTP (~50 minutes), composed of maybe these tracks:

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Fly on a Windshield
In the Cage
Back in NYC
Hairless Heart
The Carpet Crawlers
Lilywhite Lilith
Anyway
The Lamia
The Colony of Slippermen
The Light Dies Down on Broadway.

A thousand lashes for neglecting Chamber of 32 Doors and It. Regardless of whatever dead spaces might exist, I still consider it to be the best double album ever made.
And let the Ipod burn, you'll need someone to carry the computer out!

 

[spikes77]

Empyrium - Weiland
In the woods... Omnio
In the woods... HEart of the ages
Opeth - Morningrise
Ulver - Bergtatt
Agalloch - Pale folklore
Maudlin of the well - Leaving your body map
Arcane Sun - Arcane sun
Summoning - Minas morgul
Unicorn - Eversince

 

[Dev]

Excellent list. What is Unicorn?

 

[Ellestin]

Excellent list. What is Unicorn?

 

[Dev]

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Excellent list. What is Unicorn?

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[Dev]

oickthx.

 

[spikes77]

bump

Was just listening to the second Dornenreich album, and have always thought it was super underrated if you're into that sort of thing--Anyway, for nostalgia--- let's see who we can unearth from the shadows with this thread

2006 list --- (most have remained!)

Empyrium - Weiland
In the woods... Omnio
In the woods... HEart of the ages
Opeth - Morningrise
Ulver - Bergtatt
Agalloch - Pale folklore
Maudlin of the well - Leaving your body map
Arcane Sun - Arcane sun
Summoning - Minas morgul
Unicorn - Eversince

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1st tier

Maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving your Body Map (fuck you, it was always supposed to be a double album)
Ulver - Bergtatt
In the Woods... - HeArt of the Age
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Agalloch - The Mantle
Sigh - Imaginery Sonicscape
Amorphis - Elegy
Dornenreich - Bitter ist's dem Tod zu Dienen
Opeth - Morningrise
Arcane Sun - S/t


2nd tier

Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles
Dusk - Majestic thou in Ruin
In the Woods... - Omnio
Opeth - Orchid
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Unholy - Gracefallen
Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure


Non-Metal

Tenhi - Maaaet
Controlled Bleeding - Dub Songs from a Shallow Grave
Empyrium - Weiland
Autechre - Tri Repeate
Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
Little Dragon - S/t
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Mount Eerie - Dawn
Tapage - Fallen Clouds
Bad Religion - Against the Grain

 

[J.]

i have no idea. I can tell you that Ruin of Beverast - Foulest Semen of the Sheltered Elite is Top 10. What a monster that album is. I like the others, but that one just pummels.

Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs is another one. That album doesnt get old.

 

[Ellestin]

always have my list handy:

Dirge - And Shall the Sky Descend
Isis - Panopticon
In The Woods... - Omnio
Elend - Winds Devouring Men
Drawn - A New World?
Isis - Oceanic
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

that is so lame

Anthems is still up there, Omnio and Nattens probably, And Shall the Sky Descend I guess borderline top 10. Drawn and Elend's great albums but nowhere near a top 10 these days. The love for Isis + Sigur Ros definitely a thing of the past. Every now and then I still lust for "So Did We" / "In Fiction" but that's about it. Should rework the whole thing but can't be arsed.

 

[Ellestin]

Btw nice selection spike!

 

[spikes77]

i have no idea. I can tell you that Ruin of Beverast - Foulest Semen of the Sheltered Elite is Top 10. What a monster that album is. I like the others, but that one just pummels.

Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs is another one. That album doesnt get old.

It's interesting when Rain came out, I was still listening to CD's in my disc player-and I spent a ton of time on it. By 2009, I was listening to tracks with the mp3 player--and while I did listen to Foulest a bunch--it was not the same. I know Foulest had a lot more doom incorporated--which was definitely a change from the previous two, although not in a negative sense (and I was much more into doom in 2009 than now). Regarding Obsequiae, I loved Aria--but think that the first album had more songs I enjoyed--and had better bass throughout. I think they have yet to release their best material--which is an intriguing thought to be sure.

 

[spikes77]

that is so lame

Anthems is still up there, Omnio and Nattens probably, And Shall the Sky Descend I guess borderline top 10. Drawn and Elend's great albums but nowhere near a top 10 these days. The love for Isis + Sigur Ros definitely a thing of the past. Every now and then I still lust for "So Did We" / "In Fiction" but that's about it. Should rework the whole thing but can't be arsed.

Be arsed! -- do it! Also, I want to see your non-metal list as well (J yours as well).

 

[Hell Mike]

everything here is so cold

 

[CiG]

As of right now, extremely subject to change of course.

Metal:

1. Manilla Road - Metal
2. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
3. Scald - Will of Gods is Great Power
4. Bathory - Hammerheart
5. Manowar - Hail to England
6. Voïvod - Dimension Hatröss
7. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
8. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight of the Idols
9. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
10. Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers

Non-metal:

1. Wishbone Ash - Argus
2. Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
3. Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
4. Sandy Denny - Sandy
5. Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
6. Genesis - Trespass
7. Canned Heat - Future Blues
8. Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Scream
9. Devo - Freedom of Choice
10. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

Maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving your Body Map

 

[NAD]

Danzig 4p
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Negura Bunget - 'N Crugu Bradului
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
In the Woods... - Omnio
Agalloch - The Mantle
Ulver - Bergtatt

I feel both dirty and retro for a variety of reasons for making this post.

 

[einride]

In the Woods... - Omnio

this is just one of those albums, man

it keeps growing and growing and it doesn't even matter that i've listened to it for fifteen or twenty years, it never grows stale, every time you just keep discovering more stuff and loving it more and more

when i'm sick and tired of all other music i can always just sit back and relax with 299 796 km/s, it just feels like home. i never do not want to listen to omnio.

 

[Ellestin]

that post made me want to spin the CD right fucking now.

I would if I didn't need to poop first.

 

[NAD]

I am very weather-centric when it comes to music, always have been. I can't listen to Kyuss in January anymore than I can hear Emperor in July. But man, that Omnio, home indeed. It's always just right.

Someone on RC sent me a CD-R many moons ago, I think it was Carbonized. I spun it a few times and thought "cool, will pay attention later." Finally got an actual CD in 2017 and it rarely leaves my sight.

EDIT: I found an old post about Omnio from 15 years back and I referred to it as "good but not great." I also made fun of Crowbar in the same thread. This is why I should slap my past self. What a maroon.