Top 5 albums: A get to know you thread.

[zinescene]

1. Metallica - Kill Em All
2. Boston - Boston
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. Def Leppard - Pyromania

Honorable Mention:

Led Zeppelin - IV
Metal Church - Metal Church
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Black Sabbath - BS/Heaven & Hell
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Kansas - Leftoverture
The Doors - The Doors

 

[DTJeff]

Can never pick just 5, so I gotta do 5 honorable mentions as well....

01.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
02.Queensryche - Operation : Mindcrime
03.Savatage - Streets
04.Edguy - Hellfire Club
05.WASP - The Crimson Idol

-Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth
-Dream Theater - Images and Words
-Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
-Evergrey - In Search of Truth
-Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

 

[AngraRULES]

Can never pick just 5, so I gotta do 5 honorable mentions as well....

Savatage - Streets

How could I have forgotten this!?

 

[TribunalRecords]

Journey - Escape
Dream Theater - When Dream & Day Unite
Rush - Moving Pictures
Marillion - Seasons End
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

 

[MysticX9]

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

Yeah, gonna have to do the same thing and list 10 - I could actually list dozens and they would pretty much be equal but here are some that have stood the test of time for me:

Rush - HEMISPHERES
Black Sabbath - HEAVEN AND HELL
Judas Priest - UNLEASHED IN THE EAST
Iron Maiden - PIECE OF MIND
Queensryche - THE WARNING
Scorpions - LOVEDRIVE
Michael Schenker Group - S/T
Gary Moore - VICTIMS OF THE FUTURE
Dokken - TOOTH AND NAIL
Ozzy Osbourne - DIARY OF A MADMAN

Bunch of others. Maybe I should list another 10 that have come out in the last two decades

 

[NuclearFire166]

I have been reading through this forum for almost a month and finally decided to contribute. This thread seems to be most perfect for an introduction.

The following are albums that I have listened to the most over the years (Picking just 5 was an agonizing process):

Deep Purple – Machine Head
Uriah Heep – Demons and Wizards
Black Sabbath – Dehumanizer
Nightwish – Oceanborn
Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne

 

[AeonicSlumber]

My favorite Zappa disc!!!

He never put out a bad release. It was a chore and a half for me to decide my favorite of his catalog.

 

[The Invisible Guest]

I have been reading through this forum for almost a month and finally decided to contribute.

Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne

Welcome .. nice choice here. It would probably make my top 15-20.



Britt

 

[edgeofthorns]

If I were stranded on a desert island, I don't think I could go on without these.

5. Badlands - s/t
4. Dio - Holy Diver
3. Nightwish - Century Child
2. Savatage - Wake of Magellan
1. Savatage - Dead Winter Dead

~Brian~

 

[DADRocks]

Tough choices, not in any order:

1. Dream Theater, Scenes from a Memory
2. Symphony X, V
3. Lillian Axe, Love and War
4. Leatherwolf, Streat Ready
5. tie, Testament, The New Order and Raintime's Flies & Lies

Could be in my top 5 (above are mainly sentimental, but still tops):
- Kamelot, Karma and every cd after
- a lot of the Harem Scarems
- a lot of the D-A-Ds
- Kingcrow's Phlegethon
- Amorphis' Skyforger & Silent Waters

 

[truemindframe]

Most influential albums that have stuck with me ever since the first listen..

Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
RAGE - Unity
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Adagio - Underworld

 

[J-Dubya 777]

He never put out a bad release. It was a chore and a half for me to decide my favorite of his catalog.

A fine album, indeed. I don't think FZ put out anything "bad", but some of the early stuff, as well as the CP3 era stuff can be damn hard to listen to....

 

[KYF_Cincinnati]

1. Metal Church - Metal Church - 1984
2. Queensryche - The Warning - 1984
3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning - 1984
4. Dio - Holy Diver - 1983
5. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind - 1983
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6. King Diamond - Abigail - 1986
7. Loudness - Thunder In The East - 1985
8. Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force - 1986
9. Metallica - Master of Puppets - 1986
10. Halloween - Don't Metal With Evil - 1985

Honorable Mention:
Fates Warning - No Exit - 1988
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at The Moon - 1983
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time - 1986
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance - 1982
Iron Maiden - Powerslave - 1984
Sanctuary - Refuse Denied - 1988
Icon - Night of The Crime - 1985
Exodus - Bonded By Blood - 1985
Attacker - Battle At Helm's Deep - 1985
Exorcist - Nightmare Theatre - 1986

 

[nomisofsiman]

I keep thinking there will come a point where my top 5 will start to fall from the list. Year after year though they remain the same.

#1 Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
#2 Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
#3 Megadeth - Rust In Peace
#4 King Diamond - Them
#5 Queensryche - Rage For Order


Britt

Interesting. I would've thought king diamond would be first for you. I also didn't know you were that much of a qr fan.

 

[Pellaz]

Ozric Tentacles - Afterswish

Weirdo!






Looking at everyone's lists, I can say with certainty that, if I were to pick an additional ten all-time-faves, that PoS' Perfect Element would be on there, as well as at least one Rush album, Orphaned Land's Mabool, QR's Operation:mindcrime, and a few others.
Picking just five makes me cry.

 

[Soundscape]

top 3 are clear, I could throw 15 records in a hat for the last 2 and be fine with whatever 2 came out.

 

[Taliwakker]

van halen-fair warning
mr bungle-s/t
jellyfish-spilt milk
dream theater-images and words
steve vai-passion and warfare

 

[DarkOne]

I keep thinking there will come a point where my top 5 will start to fall from the list. Year after year though they remain the same.

Britt

Same here. I suspect it's a combination of how much time you spend with one album nowadays and what you heard in your more formative years.

Steve in Philly

 

[oldboy]

1) Defenders of the Faith
2) The Number of the Beast
3) Nightfall in Middle Earth
4) Thick as a Brick
5) Symphony of Enchanted Lands
6) Piece of Mind
7) Sad Wings of Destiny
8) Operation Mindcrime
9) Lemuria/Syrius B
10) Images and Words

 

[No Username]

These albums define me...

Magnets by The Vapors
Division Bell by Pink Floyd
ISOT by Evergrey
Modus Vivendi by Tad Morose
Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon