What's your all-time top 10 favorite albums?

[Nomansvally]

What's your all-time top 10 favorite albums?

Give it a real think over and please post, I know it's hard! Everything within music is allowed here, it's no only-metal or this and that list, it's what's YOU I'm talking about. Also try to do a top 10 with only one band/artist per. album, but I'm not going to arrest you if you put two or three albums of the same band/artist. It's for diversity's sake... You choose!

Here's my list whereas the top 5 is solid as a rock, the other half may tend to mix places:

1. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
2. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (1972)
3. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse (1998)
4. Enslaved - Below The Lights (2003)
5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1968)
6. Zbigniew Preisner - La Double vie de Véronique [Soundtrack] (1991)
7. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1973)
8. Yes - Fragile (1972)
9. John Lee Hooker - Live at Cafe Au Go Go [Live] (1966)
10. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

( 11. Motörhead - Overkill (1978) )

Good luck!

 

[Mr. Josey Wales]

bob dylan - blood on the tracks
beatles - sgt peppers
miles davis - kind of blue
charles mingus - mingus ah um
john coltrane - a love supreme
opeth - still life
king crimson - in the court
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
nektar - remember the future
mahavishnu orchestra - birds of fire

 

[NFU]

this is often tough...as it changes yearly. i can do a top 20 for you, not 10. but heres where i stand right now:

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
3. Yes - Close To The Edge
4. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

6. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8. Rush - 2112
9. Scott Walker - Scott 3
10. Marvin Gaye - Whats Goin On

11. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
12. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
13. Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
14. The Moody Blues - In Search Of the Lost Chord
15. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms

16. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
17. Deep Purple - Burn
18. Flasket Brinner - Flasket
19. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
20. Elton John - Madman Across The Water

honorable mentions: sixteen horsepower, carole king, john coltrane and bo hansson.

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

1.Opeth-Blackwater Park
2.Tool:- Aenima
3.The Beatles- White album
4. Pantera:- Far beyond driven
5. Enslaved:- Ruun
6. The Doors:- Waiting for the sun
7. Symphony X:- V
8.Metallica:- Master of puppets
9. Black Sabbath:- Paranoid
10. Akercocke:- Words that go unspoken, deeds that go undone

 

[daz436]

15. Bo Hansson - Attic Thoughts

Awesome.
(edit - damn you took it off your list)

This changes weekly, so obviously the order is held in loose esteem, but here's 10 that are most often up there:

1. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
2. Opeth - Still Life
3. Blockhead - Music By Cavelight
4. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
5. Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
6. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
7. Stanley Clarke - If This Bass Could Only Talk
8. Serart - Serart
9. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
10. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

also mention: George Duke, Yusef Lateef, Frank Zappa

 

[illidurit]

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink
6. The Beatles - White Album
7. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
8. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
9. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
10. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

 

[Zephyrus]

1. Borknagar - Quintessence
2. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
3. Hypocrisy - Virus
4. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
5. Borknagar - The Archaic Course
6. Opeth - Still Life
7. The Kovenant - Animatronic
8. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
9. Dark Tranquillity - Character
10. Hypocrisy - Abducted

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

I think NFU and Illidurit both have a sepcial place in their hearts for my 7th pick....

 

[affinityband]

As of a recent change -

1. The Beatles - Sgt Peppers (Because it was music as i first knew it...)
2. Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
3. Jeff Buckley - Grace
4. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
5. Paatos - Timeloss
6. Dissection - Storm of the Lights Bain
7. Tirill(recently fell in love with her) - A Dance With the Shadows
8. The Mars Volta - deloused in the comatorium
9.Tool - Lateralus (A long time love for this one)
10. Honeychuch (Extremely recent but i think itl stick it does what the album says too) - Make me Feel Better

 

[illidurit]

my heart doesn't have a section for pretentious shit 'prog' metal

 

[NFU]

I think NFU and Illidurit both have a sepcial place in their hearts for my 7th pick....

since id rather choke on cat vomit.

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

 

[arzachel]

my top 25:
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Jeff Buckley - Grace
King Crimson - Red
Rush - Hemispheres
Camel - Mirage
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Yes - Close to the Edge
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Led Zeppelin - III
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Bo Hansson - Attic Thoughts
Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Iron Maiden - killers
Opeth - MAYH
Enslaved - Monumension
Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Genesis - Foxtrot
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

It's too hard to pick just ten.

 

[Sadguru]

Ok, I'll give it a try:

1. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
2. Sigur Rós - ( )
3. Elend - Winds Devouring Men
4. Canaan - A Calling to Weakness
5. Opeth - Blackwater Park
6. Empyrium - Weiland
7. In The Woods... - Omnio
8. Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
9. Pain of Salvation - BE
10. ISIS - Panopticon

 

[Detric]

pink floyd - wish you were here
caravan - in the land of grey and pink
porcupine tree - the sky moves sideways
king crimson - in the court of the crimson king
magma - inédits
eloy - dawn
led zeppelin - IV
yes - close to the edge
weidorje - weidorje
rush - 2112

 

[Towedwart]

Yes - Relayer
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Opeth - Still Life
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
The Beatles - Revolver

Not really in order.

 

[Abhorsen]

Revolver
Red - King Crimson
Close to the Edge - Yes
Clouds - Joni Mitchell
Selling England By the Pound - Genesis
Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
The Complete Live at the Village Vanguard - John Coltrane
Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio
Solo Concert - Ralph Towner

 

[Death_To_False_Metal]

Let's try this :

Opeth Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree in Absentia
Metallica Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden¨Powersalve
Rush Permanent Waves
Pink Floyd The Wall
Megadeth Rust in peace
Chick Corea Live At Blue Note Tokyo
Sting Ten Summoner's Tale
Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets
Led Zep Physical Grafitti

but 10 is hard so I can't put Wes Mongtomery, Dream Theater, Sepultura, Peter Gabriel, Beatles, Deep Purple, Guitar trio (McLaughlin/Di Meola/Paco), fuck I give up !

 

[SextoyAddiction]

my heart doesn't have a section for pretentious shit 'prog' metal

Oh my.

What if my heart does?

Am I a bad person?