Top 5 albums: A get to know you thread.

[Bamafan]

5 really isn't enough, but here goes:

Rush - Moving Pictures
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
SRV - Texas Flood
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ozzy - Blizzard of Oz

Honorable mention:
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Kingcrow - Phlegethon
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of a Blank Planet
Pink Floyd - The Wall

 

[Comic Book Dude]

Holy crap....only 5?
Judas Priest- Sad Wings Of Destiny
Queen-Jazz
Ben Folds-Rockin' The Suburbs
Beatles-Revolver
ZZ Top-Deguello

 

[J. Golden]

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Cure - Disintegration
The Eagles - Hotel California
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell

no that probably is not right, damn only 5 is difficult.

 

[Pellaz]

Devin Townsend, Ocean Machine (or Ocean Machine, Biomech if you have an original copy)
Fear Factory, Obsolete
Type O Negative, October Rust
Dream Theater, Metropolis Pt II: Scenes From A Memory
(tie) Celldweller, Celldweller or Ozric Tentacles, Live Underslunky

 

[AeonicSlumber]

Faith No More - The Real Thing
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Yes - Fragile
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

 

[zedowns]

Here's my top 10, outside of the top three the order gets shaky.

1. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
2. The Dear Hunter - Act II
3. Dream Theater - Awake
4. Circus Maximus - Isolate
5. Oceansize - Frames
6. Dream Theater - Images and Words
7. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
8. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
9. Pain of Salvation - One Hour By the Concrete Lake
10. Between the Buried and Me - Colors

...FOUR of those are 2007 releases, which is pretty ridiculous.

 

[Diabolik]

Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Blind Guardian - Nightfall on Middle Earth
Heathen - Breaking the Silence
Helloween - Keepers of the Seven Keys Part 1

 

[Akumu]

Kamelot - Epica
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Madder Mortem - Desiderata
Conception - In Your Multitude
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

Honorable mentions: Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness; Epica - The Phantom Agony; Redemption - The Fullness of Time. I feel like I'm forgetting some really obvious ones, too. Oh, well.

 

[Fire breath]

in no particular order

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
Death - Symbolic
Death - The Sound of Perseverance

next 5

King Diamond - Them
Virgin Steele - Invictus
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Falconer - st
Nocturnal Rites - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

 

[happytimes]

top 5 is difficult when you reach my age but right off the top of my head and based upon how much I still listen to these:

Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Spock's Beard - V
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
Bonepony - Stomp Revival
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

 

[Claus / Intromental]

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

My favorite Zappa disc!!!

 

[Tommy3328]

Hughes/Thrall - Hughes/Thrall
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Queen - Queen II
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

Way too many honorable mentions:
Thin Lizzy - almost everything
Y&T - Black Tiger
Uriah Heep - Return to Fantasy
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Judas Priest - British Steel
Blind Guardian - almost everything

 

[Claus / Intromental]

#1 and #2 are very much set in stone.
The next 3 are pretty interchangeable with each other, depending on my mood.

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
2. Voivod - Nothingface
3. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
4. Orphaned Land - Mabool
5. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium

 

[J. Golden]

#1 and #2 are very much set in stone.
The next 3 are pretty interchangeable with each other, depending on my mood.

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
2. Voivod - Nothingface
3. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
4. Orphaned Land - Mabool
5. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium

Out of all the people's postiings I read in here I think you, Matt, and I have the most similar taste in music. Now you just need to come around to Tank.

 

[Claus / Intromental]

Out of all the people's postiings I read in here I think you, Matt, and I have the most similar taste in music. Now you just need to come around to Tank.

It's a North Carolina thing

 

[General Zod]

Sorry... I'm going to cheat and list 10. It's just too early to do the mental math required to narrow this down any further. In alphabetical order...

Bon Jovi - 7800
Kamelot - The 4th Legacy
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Queensryche - Rage for Order
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice

 

[Justin G]

This is tough, and I imagine at least part of this list would change depending on my mood, but here goes:

1. Dream Theater: Images and Words
2. Savatage: The Wake of Magellan
3. Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
4. Opeth: Blackwater Park
5. Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time

 

[Justin G]

#1 and #2 are very much set in stone.
The next 3 are pretty interchangeable with each other, depending on my mood.

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
2. Voivod - Nothingface
3. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
4. Orphaned Land - Mabool
5. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium

Interesting. Tales... over Fragile?

 

[Riceloft]

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2 Scenes From A Memory
2. Quensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
3. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
4. Transatlantic - SMPTe
5. Kamelot - Epica

Honorable Mention:

Oasis - Be Here Now
Symphony X - V
Dreyelands - Rooms of Revelation
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Pain of Salvation - "BE"
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

 

[Dustin]

Ummmmm…… it changes often. Off the top of my head today:

1. Toto – Kingdom of Desire
2. Fates Warning – Perfect Symmetry
3. Savatage – Gutter Ballet
4. Queensryche – Rage for Order
5. Asia - Asia