Your all time favorite albums

[Metaltastic]

I'm amazed a thread like this hasn't been posted before (or at least not recently), but I wanted to get an idea of everyone's music tastes. So here's mine (top 15):

- Behemoth – Demigod
- Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper
- Cradle of Filth – Midian
- Dream Theater – Images and Words
- Evergrey – In Search of Truth
- In Flames – Clayman
- Journey – Raised on Radio
- Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
- Kamelot – Epica
- Opeth – Ghost Reveries
- Pain of Salvation – One Hour by the Concrete Lake
- Soilwork – A Predator’s Portrait
- Dan Swano – Moontower
- Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
- Sonata Arctica – Silence

I think the best way to sum up my tastes is I generally prefer modern over classic and especially European over American. So what about you guys? And PLEASE keep it under 20 - in past "top whatever" threads, the OP (usually Ermin ) specifies that it should only be a certain few, and someone always comes in with like 50 entries - narrow it down people, it's a good exercise (that above list has been honed down over the years, and Scar Symmetry just knocked Iron Maiden off the list)

 

[Metaltastic]

Also, THIS IS ONLY FOR MUSIC APPRECIATION, not production

 

[Dom Ostarig]

Dissection - Reinkaos
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Sepultura - Roots
Burzum - Filosofem
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
Novembers Doom - Welcome to Fade
Passage - Passage
Borknagar - Epic
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Venom - Resurrection
Rotting Christ - Sleep Of The Angels
Crematory - Illusions

Hehe

 

[aramism]

talk about metalhead lol.... some good choices but my personal taste is pretty all over the place


this is a "soft" order meaning they are not firm in their place


1- pearl jam - ten
2- dream theater - awake
3- guns n roses - appetite for destruction
4- miles davis - kind of blue
5- system of a down - system of a down
6- eagles - hotel california
7 - tool - lateralus/10,000 days
8- meshuggah - chaosphere
9- opeth - ghost reveries
10 - beatles - take your pick (probably sgt pepper or white[blackbird is my favorite song of all time])
11- the prodigy - the fat of the land
12- led zeppelin - III
13- protest the hero - fortress
14- jason becker - perpetual burn
15- john coltrane - a love supreme
16- stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
17 - lamb of god - new american gospel

 

[Altitudes]

I'll just go down my iTunes list...

Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Boston - Boston (I actually like the production of this too, haha)
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder or Follow the Reaper
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Greatest Hits (Can I do that? )
Crosby Stills and Nash - Self-Titled
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
In Flames - Lunar Strain or Jester Race
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
Led Zeppelin - III or IV
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Opeth - Still Life
Pink Floyd - I CAN'T CHOOSE! AHH... Darkside, Animals, or Wish You Were Here
Symphony X - ARG... Either Divine Wings or V

I listen to so many genres of music so I left a LOT of bands that I love. I wanted a pretty balanced list

 

[Morgan C]

#1 Opeth - Blackwater Park
#2 In Flames - Reroute to Remain
Those two a step above everything else, the best albums ever made imo. Reroute to Remain got me in to metal (before that I didn't listen to music), Blackwater Park got me into Opeth.. 'nuff said.

#3 Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
#4 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
#5 Dream Theater - Train of Thought
#6 Opeth - Damnation
#7 Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
#8 Tool - 10000 Days
#9 Kamelot - The Black Halo

 

[K Odell]

Killswitch Engage-Alive Or Just Breathing
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Exodus-Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Dream Theater- Awake
Megadeth-Peace Sells

 

[GuitarHack]

Carcass - Necroticism
Carcass - Heartwork
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick
Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
Deicide - Deicide
Slayer - Reign in blood
Megadeth - Killing is my Business
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Megadeth - So far so good
Megadeth - Rust (except for some songs)
Metallica - Puppets
Death - Spiritual Healing
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Chimaira - Impossibility of reason
Chimaira - Resurrection
Devildriver - Fury of our makers hand
Gun's n Roses - Appetite (thanks to aramism's list for the reminder) Mr Brownstone

As you can see I need some more modern albums in my list .Todays music just doesn't seem to get my attention like the older stuff did. It just isn't as "catchy" to me, or I am just getting old now and out of touch.

Marcus as an example, I haven't heard more than 2 mins of any of your list.

 

[Ermz]

The VERY best

Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
In Flames - The Jester Race
Opeth - Still Life
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

The runners up

Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
In Flames - Whoracle
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Sepultura - Arise
Emperor - Prometheus
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Behemoth - Demigod
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Dan Swano - Moontower

The non-metal

Kammarheit - The Starwheel
Raison D'etre - The Empty Hollow Unfolds
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days (nostalgic reasons mainly)

 

[wyllie]

I'm amazed a thread like this hasn't been posted before (or at least not recently), but I wanted to get an idea of everyone's music tastes. So here's mine (top 15):

- Behemoth – Demigod
- Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper
- Cradle of Filth – Midian
- Dream Theater – Images and Words
- Evergrey – In Search of Truth
- In Flames – Clayman
- Journey – Raised on Radio
- Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
- Kamelot – Epica
- Opeth – Ghost Reveries
- Pain of Salvation – One Hour by the Concrete Lake
- Soilwork – A Predator’s Portrait
- Dan Swano – Moontower
- Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
- Sonata Arctica – Silence

I think the best way to sum up my tastes is I generally prefer modern over classic and especially European over American. So what about you guys? And PLEASE keep it under 20 - in past "top whatever" threads, the OP (usually Ermin ) specifies that it should only be a certain few, and someone always comes in with like 50 entries - narrow it down people, it's a good exercise (that above list has been honed down over the years, and Scar Symmetry just knocked Iron Maiden off the list)

Im surprised the great cold distance(or any katatonia) didnt make that list.

 

[NickL]

Scott Walker- The Drift; Tilt
The Beatles- Revolver
Opeth- Still Life; My Arms Your Hearse
Radiohead- Kid A
Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Comus- First Utterance
Leonard Bernstein conducting Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Gorguts- Obscura
Miles Davis- Bitches Brew

 

[Torniojaws]

I'm sure we've had a thread like this a few years ago, but anyway. I'll list albums chronologically: first album = first album that I really liked and still like, last one = latest album that I really like and will most likely like for like end of times' worthlike like):

I had to extend this a wee bit to fit them all, and even that wasn't enough. So, here's my favourites from 1991 to 2005:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Sentenced - Down
Fear Factory - Demanufacture

Helloween - Better than Raw
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
In Flames - Whoracle
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
Opeth - Still Life

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Strapping Young Lad - City

Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
Delerium - Spiritual Archives
Testament - The Gathering
Ice Ages - Strike the Ground
Noise Unit - Drill

Dream Theater - Awake
Ulver - Perdition City
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Karl Sanders - Saurian Meditation
Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom. Sathanas

The Amenta - Occasus
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Steril - Egoism
Dargaard - In Nomine Aeternitatis
Sephiroth - Cathedron

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Velvet Acid Christ - Fun with Knives

 

[Aaron Smith]

Down the iTunes list (26 albums...oops!):

Anathema - A Natural Disaster
The Arcane Order - In The Wake Of Collisions
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine (hard to pick though)
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission
Chimaira - Resurrection
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
Failure - Fantastic Planet
Fenix TX - Lechuza (maybe? I still find this CD extremely enjoyable for some reason...)
Finch - What It Is To Burn
Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
Head Automatica - Popaganda
Jimmy Eat World - Futures (tough to choose!)
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing (The End of Heartache is a close second, though)
Living Sacrifice - The Hammering Process
Loudermilk - The Red Record
Meshuggah - obZen (Chaosphere is VERY close)
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Opeth - Watershed (tough call on this one, plus I got into this band kind of late)
Paramore - Riot! (I seriously love every song on this album!)
Plankeye - Relocation
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos (tough call)
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Swallow The Sun - Hope
30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie

 

[gorath23]

Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die
Agalloch - Ashes against the Grain
Opeth - Still Life
In Flames - Jesters Race
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
Katatonia - Great Cold Distance
AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
Empyrium - Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
G'n'R - Appetite for Destruction

Plus probably Slumber's 'Fallout', but I only just got this, so time will tell.

Honourable mention, best of/No 'one' album:

Dire Straits
Gilmour/Floyd.
Bathory

 

[gorath23]

30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie

Ooh, snap, I thought I might get flamed for that one.

 

[AXI]

I'll keep it at a top 10:

1) Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2) Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
3) Opeth - Damnation
4) Devin Townsend - Terria
5) Meshuggah - Catch 33
6) Mnemic - Mechanical Spin Phenomena
7) Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama
8) Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
9) Thomas Dybdahl - One Day You'll Dance For Me New York City
10) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

[LSD-Studio]

Nevermore- TGE, DHIADW
Priest - Painkiller
Testament - The Gathering
Metallica - RTL, MoP, black album
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Devildriver - Fury
Dissection - storm of the
In Flames - Clayman, reroute
King's X - Dogman
Carcass - Heartwork
KSE - EOH
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes, tmtc
Pantera - Vulgar Display, Powermetal
Susperia - Vindication
Tool - 10000 days


and many more that I can't remember atm

 

[Felix Neumann]

Okay...I would die for this ones:

1. Abbey Road (The Beatles)
2. Revolver (The Beatles)
3. Seventh Son of a seventh son (Iron Maiden)
4. The sound of perseverance (Death)
5. The Black Album (Metallica)
6. The White Album (The Beatles)
7. Sgt Peppers (The Beatles)
8. Spiritual Healing (Death)
9. wish you were here (Pink Floyd)
10. Seasons in the Abbyss (Slayer)

 

[poidaobi]

Vehemence - God Was Created

 

[ahjteam]

The general idea: http://www.last.fm/user/ahjteam/charts?rangetype=overall&subtype=artists

115194 plays since 27 Nov 2004

edit: but all time favourite?

Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime > everything else