Your Top 25 Favorite Albums Thread

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

I've noticed the drums being off-time on older material as well... but not terrible or anything.
When the first heavy part kicked in, I couldn't even tell what key they were playing in; it sounded that muddy.

 

[Phanto]

I agree that the drums could be better but other than that I like it. Feels a little black and white/grainy

 

[symphonyXjapan]

Wow, this thread really got derailed..

 

[Phanto]

Yes let's refrain from discussion and post lists again. Lists are so much fun.

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

Sarcasm noted.

 

[The Stormbringer]

I like King Crimson. But you can't defend modern prog with a straight face like that.

Yeah, choosing "Oyster Soup" of all songs off of that magnificent album to represent KC is a little odd.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

Yes let's refrain from discussion and post lists again. Lists are so much fun.

Yay! Organization!

 

[Postulate]

Yeah, choosing "Oyster Soup" of all songs off of that magnificent album to represent KC is a little odd.

It touched my soul most deeply and was the best example of a prog group singing about meaningful things.

"Nothing lasts forever green thumb screw..."

Poetry

 

[The Stormbringer]

So you're trying to say the bit about the piece of lint on the penis of an alien in the title track didn't touch you deeply.

 

[Postulate]

So you're trying to say the bit about the piece of lint on the penis of an alien in the title track didn't touch you deeply.

Can there be any doubt that Adrian Belew is a poet after hearing that song?

 

[noble savage]

Can there be any doubt that Adrian Belew is a poet after hearing that song?

I have actually always loved the lyric:

"And if a bird can speak, who once was a dinosaur and a dog can dream, should it be implausible that a man might supervise the construction of light?"

Strange album. Although I do get a kick out of ProzaKc Blues.

On topic:

I realized that I didn't mention my favorite "non-prog" albums (In no order):

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (I have been listening to this album for 12 years and Trippin on a Hole In a Paper and Seven Caged Tigers still give me goosebumps.)

Pearl Jam - 10

Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

George Carlin - You Are All Diseased

George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing

 

[Prog is King]

I'm just curious to see what some of you newer member's Top 25 might be? Mine has changed since I posted my list. I'll have to make a new one. This is a great way to discover bands that we might not have heard or are not so familiar with.

 

[Lagtastic]

It's 26, I really couldn't find an album I could take off the list.

SX – V Stands alone, everything else is secondary.
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
SX – Divine Wings
Jason Becker – Perpetual Burn
Outworld - Outworld
Shadow Gallery – Room V
SX – The Odyssey
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
SX – Iconoclast
SRV – 6/17/85 Red Rocks Amphitheater
DT – Octavarium Yes, Octavarium
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
Pink Floyd – Dark Side
Yngwie – Genesis
Metallica – Lightning Yes, Lightning
Artur Rubinstein – The Chopin Collection
Rusty Cooley – Rusty Cooley
Cacophony – Speed Metal Symphony
Caravellus – Lighthouse and Shed (EXTREMELY hard to find, well worth your time if you like power/prog metal with a female singer. I found it in Russia. So much better and more inventive than their new album)
Mastodon – Leviathan
ZZ Top – Greatest Hits
Vinnie Moore – Time Odyssey
Pantera – Cowboys
Allman Bros – 1/9/71 Live at Fillmore East
Clutch – Clutch
Grateful Dead 5-8-77 Cornell University (Widely considered the greatest Dead show of all time. Worth a listen, even if you hate jam music. It really is that amazing.)

 

[Kenneth R.]

Alright, alright.

Peter Gabriel - So
Peter Gabriel - Us
Peter Gabriel - Up
Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
Anathema - Hindsight
Marillion - Seasons End
Marillion - Happiness Is The Road
Marillion - Marbles
Marillion - This Strange Engine
Pain of Salvation - 12:5
Yes - The Ladder
Rush - Counterparts
Mostly Autumn - For All We Shared
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Sigur Ros - ( )
The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Ulver - Perdition City

Foreigner - Inside Information
Dredg - Pariah, Parrot, Delusion
Demians - Building An Empire
The Tangent - Pyramids & Stars
Duncan Sheik - Daylight
Vertical Horizon - Live Stages
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

Dropping those for these:

Agalloch - The White EP
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Nightingale - Alive Again
Third Eye Blind - Blue
Kansas - Leftoverture
The Doors - The Doors

changes all the time... but yeah, a few are immortalized.

 

[metalxmetalx]

1- Symphony X: The Odyssey
2- Rainbow: Rising
3- Symphony X: The Divine Wings of Tragedy
4- Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force
5- Accept: Balls to the Wall
6- Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast
7- Black Sabbath: Paranoid
8- Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz
9- Scorpions: Blackout
10-Deep Purple: Machine Head
11- Symphony X: Twilight in Olympus
12- Black Sabbath: Live Evil
13- Scorpions: Fly to the Rainbow
14- Accept: Restless and Wild
15- Uli Jon Roth: Transcendental Sky Guitar
16- Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
17- Allan Holdsworth: Road Games
18- Megadeth: Rust in Peace
19- Kiss: Creatures of the Night
20- Symphony X: V
21- Blind Guardian: Nightfall in Middle Earth
22- Allen/Lande: The Battle
23- Derek Sherinian: Mythology
24- Angra: Temple of Shadows
25- ACDC: Back in Black

 

[Isaac_de_Moorea]

I just omitted a few albums (Top ten´s actually) that are not metal albums:

1 V: The New Mythology Suite (Symphony X)
2 Enter by The Twelfth gate (Michael Pinella)
3 Ride the Lightning (Metallica)
4 The Odyssey (Symphony X)
5 The Shadow Hunter (Angra)
6 Odyssey (Yngwie J. Malmsteen)
7 ... And Justice for All (Metallica)
8 Images and Words (Dream Theater)
9 Operation Mindcrime (Qüeensryche)
10 Awake (Dream Theater)
11 Master of Puppets (Metallica)
12 Divine Wings of Tragedy (Symphony X)
13 Second Life Syndrome (Riverside)
14 Black Halo (Kamelot)
15 Speed Metal Symphony (Cacophony)
16 Rapid Eye Movement (Riverside)
17 Twilight in Olympus (Symphony X)
18 Rebirth (Angra)
19 Cowboys from Hell (Pantera)
20 Hidden Treasures (Megadeth)
21 Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden)
22 Mythology (Derek Sherinian)
23 Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (LTE)
24 Sanctus Ignis (Adagio)
25 Beneath the Remains (Sepultura)

I know it lacks a little of diversity, but I´m actually exploring suggestions of these and other threads...

Edit: I will still list my other favorite albums, if someone of this forum will like a suggestion into acoustic/latin/instrumental/jazz or something that sounds like that:

Calle del Viento - Editus
Luis Salinas y Amigos en España - Luis Salinas
El Guitarrazo - Luis Salinas, Tomatito, Gonzáles
Best Instrumentals - Santana
Spain & Spain Again - Michael Camilo & Tomatito

Warning: They may sound too latin!