Top 5 albums: A get to know you thread.

[mel_progson]

List your top 5 albums ever. Probably done before, but theres probably enough new members and enough time passed to justify a new thread.

Mine are;

1.Dream Theater-Images and Words
2.Def Leppard-Hysteria
3.Megadeth-Rust in Peace
4.Nevermore-Dead Heart in a Dead World
5.Iced Earth-Night of the Stormrider

 

[Angrafan]

The Gathering- How to Measure a Planet?
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Anathema - A Fine day to Exit

 

[J-Man]

Nightwish - Wishmaster
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Allman Brothers Band - Back Where it all Began
Slade - Get your Hands off My Power Supply
Hawkwind - The Xenon Codex and Hall of the Mountain Grill

 

[Prog_Please]

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4. ISIS - Oceanic (Panopticon and In The Absence Of Truth would be 6 & 7)
5. Tool - Lateralus

 

[DarkOne]

A few are constant:

1. Savatage - Streets
2. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
3. Judas Priest - Painkiller
4. Symphony X - V (New Mythology)

#5 shifts around depending upon my mood. Right now, I think it would be:

5. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga


It's funny when I look at those. I like a LOT of new music, and don't think I live in the past, but those albums stick with me as my favs.

Steve in Philly

 

[johan68]

1. Marillion - Marbles
2. Marillion - This Strange Engine
3. Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast
4. Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
5. Hawkwind - Sonic Attack

 

[johan68]

Nightwish - Wishmaster
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Allman Brothers Band - Back Where it all Began
Slade - Get your Hands off My Power Supply
Hawkwind - The Xenon Codex and Hall of the Mountain Grill

Slade and Hawkwind = Win...

 

[jem777az]

Wow, it's so hard to pick just 5! So I guess I'll pick 5 that influenced me the most(in no particular order).

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Kiss - Alive
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Soulfly - Soulfly
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

 

[TwizstedJesus]

Fates Warning "No Exit"
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"
Savatage "Streets"
Black Crowes " 3 Snakes & 1 Charm"
Dream Theater "SFAM pt II"

 

[Perditions Ghost]

Morgana Lefay - Maleficium
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Pink Floyd - The Wall

 

[grilled_cheese]

PINK FLOYD - Animals
MEGADETH - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
QUEENSRYCHE - The Warning
ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - The Turn of a Friendly Card
SAINT VITUS - Mournful Cries

 

[hoodaman]

1. Toto - The Seventh One
2. Eric Clapton - August
3. Evergrey - Recreation Day
4. Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
5. Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites

Honorable mention to:

Novembers Doom - The Knowing
Sevendust - Animosity
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic Calling

 

[eppst1]

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Megadeth - Rust in Piece
Borknagar - Archaic Course
Amorphis - Tales From a Thousand Lakes
Queensryche - Mindcrime

I guess Death - Spiritual Healing and Over Kill - Years of Decay could fit also.

 

[FALCON_FURY]

Nevermore - dreaming neon black
Iced Earth - the Dark Saga
Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the concrete lake
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice

 

[nightwish58]

1. Angra- Holy Land
2. Symphony X- Divine Wings
3. Eternity X- The Edge
4. Helloween- Keepers 1 and 2
5. Megadeth- Rust In Peace

That was my way of getting an extra album in there!

 

[AngraRULES]

1. Angra- Holy Land
2. Symphony X- Divine Wings
3. Eternity X- The Edge
4. Helloween- Keepers 1 and 2
5. Megadeth- Rust In Peace

That was my way of getting an extra album in there!

Surprised I don't see Return to Heaven Denied in there.

 

[AngraRULES]

Here's my top 10, not in any particular order. Couldn't pick just 5.

Angra - Holy Land
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. II Scenes From a Memory
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
ARK - Burn the Sun
Riverside - Out of Myself
Angra - Rebirth
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

 

[The_Metal_Messiah]

1. Dream Theater - Awake
2. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
3. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
4. Def Leppard - Pyromania
5. 3-way tie between Van Halen's s/t, II, and Fair Warning

 

[J-Dubya 777]

1) The Beatles - Revolver
2) Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbuti
3) Iron Maiden - Killers
4) Freak Kitchen - Dead Soul Men
5) Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck


5 is really not enough