You Top 50 Group Albums of All Time

[abacchus]

Stay cool, cold or as u are! First thing, its no duplicate of the Top 10 list. And is never gunna replace that thread and I dont intend that. I mean how many out there r patient or crazy enough to draw up a "top 50" except for ...well, we'll see! In fact I have a list that just keeps growing like a tree - nearly 100 ranked and another 100 or so unranked - but for me its a bit like a compass in the woods of the mega music industry. So if I want I can wander off the path with my head on and not lose too much time! I expect to slot in some Katatonia and Anathema albums some time soon.

MY LIST OF THE BEST ROCK / METAL ALBUMS

1 LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zepellin III 1971 folk rock, heavy blues rock, metal
2 REM - Automatic for the People 1992 rock, folk, pop
3 SOAD - Toxicity 2001 nu metal, ethnic folk
4 LED ZEPPELIN - Four Symbols 1973 rock, folk, metal
5 NIRVANA - Nevermind 1990 grunge

6 THE DOORS - The Doors 1967 rock, folk, blues, ethnic
7 OPETH - Blackwater Park 2000 metal (guitar, death, blak, doom), folk
8 KATATONIA - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (inc "bonus" track Sulfur!) 2001 rock (unique ; hard doomy Cure)
9 LED ZEPPELIN - Physical Graffitti 1975 rock, folk, country, ethnic, blues
10 RADIOHEAD - Ok Computer 1998 ?? alt rock, Western

11 THE DOORS - Strange Days 1968 rock, folk, country, theatre
12 U2 - Joshua Tree 1985 ? rock, country
13 REM - Out of Time 1989 pop, rock, country, Beach Boys
14 LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zepellin II 1970 rock, blues, soul
15 OPETH - Morningrise 1996? metal (alt, death), folk

16 LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zepellin I 1969 heavy rock, heavy blues, folk
17 OPETH - Still Life 1999 metal (guitar (inc grungy!?) death), folk
18 VELVET UNDERGROUND - Velvet Underground 1967 ?
19 RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - By The Way 2002 rock, surf pop (Beach Boys?)
20 KATATONIA - Brave Murder Day 199.. ? alt rock, death metal

21 BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath 1970 ?
22 THE DOORS - Waiting for the Sun 1969
23 THE SMITHS - The Queen is Dead 1985?
24 THE DOORS - L.A.Woman 1972
25 GUNS 'N' ROSES - Appetite for Destruction 1986 rock, metal, country?, folk

26 SONIC YOUTH - Daydream Nation 1988 ? alt rock
27 COLDPLAY - X & Y 2005 alt pop (synth), rock, folk
28 LACUNA COIL - Comalies 2003
29 LED ZEPPELIN - Houses of the Holy 1974
30 AUDIOSLAVE - Audioslave 2003

31 KATATONIA - Viva Emptiness 199.. ?
32 VIRGIN BLACK - Sombre Romantic 2001?
33 KATATONIA - Tonight's Music 2001?
34 QUEEN - A Night at the Opera (inc Bohemian Rhapsody) 1982 ?
35 PRINCE - Sign o' The Times 1987 ?

36 OPETH - Deliverance 2002
37 DEFTONES - Around the Fur 1997 ....a few standout tracks
38 PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon 1973
39 GEORGE MICHAEL - Listen Without Prejudice 1988 ...ok, its a solo album!
40 THE BEETLES - Revolver (?) 1966 ?

41 RADIOHEAD - The Bends 1994?
42 COLDPLAY - A Rush of Blood to the Head 2002
43 FEEDER - Pushing the Senses 2005
44 BON JOVI - Slippery When Wet 1986
45 SOUNDGARDEN - Badmotorfinger (?) 1996 ?

46 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - RATM 1995
47 DEF LEPPARD - Hysteria (?) 1985
48 LACUNA COIL - Unleashed Memories 2001
49 COVERDALE PAGE - untitled 1992 ?
50 THIN LIZZY - Jailbreak 1974 ?

As you can see, I come a bit more from the rock stable than metal but I like the heavy, the hard and dark. Im pretty open minded but I cant stand boy bands and I cant stand bands more interested to "shock" or "show off "than the music. For example, Im wary of bands that have to wear masks, ya know what I mean?! If you want to convey something, you've got to do it through the music or forget it...........

 

[Divatkreació]

First, I think your genre definitions are really odd. What the hell is "western" style in Radiohead's OK Computer? Or LFDGD's "hard doomy Cure"? Weird. And second, your releasing years on Katatonia albums are all wrong... And in the other albums as well.

Well, enough of the whole napping, I'll put a few essential albums in my life here (no particular order):

Katatonia - Brave murder day
Katatonia - Last fair deal gone down
Katatonia - Tonight's decision
Novembre - Novembrine waltz
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sentenced - North from here
The Cure - Faith
Embraced - Within
Anathema - Judgement
Opeth - Damnation
Metallica - ...And justice for all
Black Sabbath - Black sabbath
Porcupine Tree - In absentia
Tenhi - Kauan
At the Gates - Terminal spirit disease
Death - Scream bloody gore
David Bowie - Hunky dory
Queens of the stoneage - Songs for the deaf
Mokoma - Kurimus

But to be honest, I don't think no one gives a damn about my favorite records.

 

[abacchus]

Divat, fair comment. A lot of people think labelling a band or its music is pointless or even disrespectful and I appreciate that. But, while were on this topic, why are HMV and Virgin guilty of this? They have to file their stock. Otherwise some people'd be looking in their shop for a needle in a haystack!!! Obviously, if the public want to know what an album is about, they have to listen to it.

Just so u know, I originally prepared my list with my own private reference in mind. I just copied and pasted this list from my PC cos that was the easiest thing to do. Maybe Im a bit casual with my choice of words sometimes ...."doomy", hehe! Of course, I know the limitations of putting "genre labelling" there and I dont mean anyone on this forum to take them too seriously. Maybe I shouldve cut those details out but I thought I didnt have the time. Im new to this forum and I figure to put my interests here is a good way to start talking.

I put "western" by Radiohead's album cos, for my reference, I meant "Wild West movie style" was an influence for this album. So if one day I wanted to compose my own music with this influence, I might refer to this album again to see how Radiohead did it. It is well known that Ennio Morriconne was an inspiration for this album. Its blatantly clear in the fourth track Exit Music (For a Film) while in other places its there but a bit more subtle.

Some similarity to "Cure" was something that just struck me especially in the vocals of a few of the tracks on LFDGD. Maybe its just my point of view or just coincidence. Of course, Im DEFINITELY not saying that label defines the album!

Regarding dates, again, this list was originally for private reference and where I'm not sure about a date I put a "?" beside it. So if I got some dates wrong, sorry, but I post this to tell people my interests, not to pretend to people I got all the facts right!!!!

I think if youre serious about music you have to be interested in and looking out for influences etc

Divat, I see a lot of those on your list I quite like which gives me some confidence to maybe listen to some of the others on your list.

 

[m0rtis]

abacchus, you really like long posts do you ? =)

 

[JesterOfDeath]

Wow this would take a bit but i guarantee 3 or 4 Katatonia albums are in there.

 

[stefan86]

If I get immensely bored later today, I'm gonna try doing one of those.

 

[Cerulean]

This sucks.
Oh and Opeth is "guitar, death, blak, doom, folk"? Wtf?

 

[m0rtis]

yeah opeth use guitars =)

 

[Divatkreació]

Thank you for clearing things out there. Didn't mean to sound like a bitching and whining ducker there, heh

 

[A Stranger]

Divat, fair comment. A lot of people think labelling a band or its music is pointless or even disrespectful and I appreciate that. But, while were on this topic, why are HMV and Virgin guilty of this? They have to file their stock. Otherwise some people'd be looking in their shop for a needle in a haystack!!! Obviously, if the public want to know what an album is about, they have to listen to it.
etc etc etc

Dear god that was a rant!

I think a top 50 fav songs would be more realistic. Well done with the patience in actually makin a list tho.

 

[Limbonic]

This sucks.
Oh and Opeth is "guitar, death, blak, doom, folk"? Wtf?

Haha, quite a classifcation.
I don't get how they got some of those classifications at all.

 

[EvilVince]

Off the top of my head -

1. Macabre - Dahmer
2. Carcass - Necrotism: Descanting the Insalubrious
3. Slayer - Reign In Blood
4. Thought Industry - Black Umbrella
5. Amorphis - Elegy
6. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7. Rotting Christ - Sleep Of The Angels
8. Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
9. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
10. The Thought Industry - Shortwave On A Cold Day
11. In Flames - The Jester Race
12. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
13. Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
14. Thought Industry - Outer Space Is Just A Martini Away
15. When - The Lobster Boys
16. In Flames - Reroute To Remain
17. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
18. Rotting Christ - Genesis
19. Malevolent Creation - Retribution
20. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
21. Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
22. Napalm Death - Utopia Banished
23. Amorphis - Am Universum
24. Melt-Banana - Speak Squeak Creak
25. GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe
26. Thought Industry - Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads, & God's Flesh
27. Napalm Death - Diatribes
28. Death - Human
29. Anthrax - Among the Living
30. GWAR - America Must Be Destroyed
31. When - Psychedelic Wunderbaum
32. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
33. To/Die/For - Jaded
34. Faith No More - Angel Dust
35. Thought Industry - Songs For Insects
36. Death - Symbolic
37. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
38. Pyogenesis - Twinaleblood
39. Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
40. Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
41. Deicide - Deicide
42. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
43. When - Pearl-Harvest
44. Macabre - Murder Metal
45. Rotting Christ - A Dead Poem
46. Moonspell - Darkness & Hope
47. Tiamat - Judas Christ
48. Dave Brockie Experience - Songs For the Wrong
49. Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life
50. Entombed - Same Difference

-Vince

 

[FREE_DG]

Actually, it's "The Beatles".

 

[Aprilhäxan]

I tried to think of my top 50 playlist last night when I couldn’t sleep, and you know, it’s even more boring then to count sheep, so… sorry, I didn’t “pass the test”

 

[Lyude]

I tried to make a list but I can`t...

It's very hard to me...

 

[xXBraveMurderDay]

1. "Blackwater Park" by Opeth
2. "Wages Of Sin" by Arch Enemy
3. "Whoracle" by In Flames
4. "Colony" by In Flames
5. "The Great Cold Distance" by Katatonia
6. "Brave Murder Day" by Katatonia
7. "Ghost Reveries" by Opeth
8. "Damnation" by Opeth
9. "Heartwork" by Carcass
10."Terminal Spirit Disease" by At The Gates

Sorry, I don't have a top 50..

 

[Fuga Psicogénica]

I think this is my favourite album list:

KATATONIA - Dance Of December Souls
EDGE OF SANITY - Spectral Sorrows
TIAMAT - Clouds
EMPEROR - Anthems...
HYPOCRISY - Abducted
EDGE OF SANITY - Prugatory Afterglow
EDGE OF SANITY - Crimson I
KATATONIA - Brave Murder Day
KATATONIA - Discouraged Ones
KATATONIA - Last Fair...
KATATONIA - Viva Emptiness
KATATONIA - The Great...
NOVEMBRE - Dreams D´Azur (I Wish I...)
NOVEMBRE - Classica
NOVEMBRE - Novembrine Waltz
AT THE GATES - Slaughter Of...
OPETH - Morningrise
OPETH - Deliverance
KLIMT 1918 - Undressed Momento
KLIMT 1918 - Dopoguerra
HYPOCRISY - The Final Chapter
PARADISE LOST - Gothic
WHITESNAKE - 1987
OFFENSE - Aside
DISSECTION - The Somberlain
DISSECTION - Storm Of...
EMPEROR - IX Equilibrio
EMPEROR - In The Nightside...
DREAM THEATER - Images & Words
DREAM THEATER - Metropolis
TIAMAT - Wildhoney
THE GATHERING - Always
AMORPHIS - The Karelian...
AMORPHIS - Tales From...
OCTOBER TIDE - Grey Dawn
NICK CAVE &... - No More Shall...
PINK FLOYD - Wish You...
TOTO - IV
TIAMAT - Cain
TIAMAT - Prey
DARK TRANQUILLITY - The Gallery
OCTOBER TIDE - Rain Without...
DORMANTH - Valley Of Dreams
CRADLE OF FILTH - The Principle Of...
CRADLE OF FILTH - Vampire
ANATHEMA - Serenades
ANATHEMA - The Silent Enigma
ANATHEMA - Pentecost III
ANATHEMA - Alternative 4
ANATHEMA - Judgement

Only 50, it isn´t enough for me...

 

[Fredy_Brown]

What will be next? "Your favourite metal bands?" of "Write more bands into one thread!"

 

[The Foreverlorn]

In a kind of spontaneous order...

1. Carcass - Heartwork
2. Entombed - Clandestine
3. At the Gates - Terminal spirit disease
4. Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes
5. Desultory - Bitterness
6. Katatonia - Discouraged ones
7. Death - Spiritual healing
8. Anathema - Serenades
9. Gåte - Iselilja
10. Gorefest - Erase
11. Edge of Sanity - The spectral sorrows
12. Opeth - Blackwater park
13. Running Wild - Port royal
14. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
15. In Flames - The jester race
16. Cathedral - The carnival bizarre
17. Paradise Lost - Gothic
18. Pentagram - Be forewarned
19. This Empty Flow - Nowafter
20. The Cure - Wish
21. Depeche Mode - Black celebration
22. Pungent Stench - Been caught buttering
23. Disharmonic Orchestra - Not to be undimensional conscious
24. Dismember - Like an everflowing stream
24. Pestilence - Testimony of the ancients
25. Morgoth - Cursed
26. Therion - Lepaca kliffoth
27. Arch Enemy - Stigmata
28. Armageddon - Crossing the rubicon
29. Entombed - Left hand path
30. Entombed - Wolverine blues
31. Katatonia - Last fair deal gone down
32. Anathema - A natural disaster
33. Confessor - Condemned
34. Cathedral - The ethereal mirror
35. Cathedral - Soulsacrifice E.P.
36. Asphyx - The rack
37. Nevermore - Dead heart in a dead world
38. Nevermore - Enemies of reality
39. Nevermore - In memoriam E.P.
40. Nevermore - Dreaming neon black
41. Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
42. Down - Nola
43. The Cure - Disintegration
44. Death - Human
45. Death - Individual thought patterns
46. Carcass - Necroticism...
47. Darkane - Insanity
48. Darkane - Expanding senses
49. Edge of Sanity - Purgatory afterglow
50. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

 

[Weathered]

that's silly... come on guys... the top 10 is interesting. at least you get to know which bands the folks around here do like, but a top 50 is senseless...