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My top five goes as follows, but it changes pretty frequently…
1. Illmatic by Nas 2. The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses 3. What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye 4. Mecca And The Soul Brother by Pete Rock and CL Smooth 5. Rounds by Fourtet
What about you guys? What kind of music do you listen to? Maybe we can get some good recommendations going!
Currently my most frequently listened albums are The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash and Sam’s Town by The Killers. Not five, but what are you going to do about it?
Come to think of it Legend by Bob Marley would probably be an appropriate third entry.
Eh, you might as well add “Bad by Michael Jackson” and “Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys” — I probably could ammend the list a dozen or so times more but I’ll leave it there. Five. Done.
I love Bad – Bought the spec edition when he died with ‘Street Walker’ on it – they should’ve used that over ‘Another Part of Me’
Love that special edition – especially the interviews with Quincy Jones.
I’ve got that album, but never actually listened to the interviews. :S
It’s worth it to hear some snippets of insight – especially the story behind “Speed Demon” which has one of the weirdest film clips (part of the Moonwalker movie) that MJ ever did!
Blackheart Revolution by Genitorturers
You Only Live Twice by Pain
Psalms of Extinction by Pain
ReLoad by Metallica
Toxicity by System of a Down
Someone’s angry…
Genitorturers? Dude.. full on! lol
Nice
A band everyone should see live at least once.
Gen shoved a strap on dildo into my mates mouth 😛
+1 for System of a Down
5. Pornography – The Cure
4. Disintegration – The Cure
3. Them Crooked Cultures – Them Crooked Vultures
2. Once – Nightwish (close call between that and Dark Passion Play)
1. Whatever I’m listening to right now. Which this week happens to be Probot.
I’m also impartial to pop-punk. Can I get a whoop whoop for Paramore! … Anyone?
Top five albums?
That’s a tricky one, so I’m going to limit myself to one album per artist.
In no particular order:
NIN – Year Zero (yes, I know the earlier stuff is probably more popular but this was the point where Reznor started to focus on the softer melodic stuff so it works well for me).
Dream Theater – Score (I’m so cheating with this one because it’s a three disc live album that contains about three albums worth of songs)
Queen – Jazz (my most listened to Queen album)
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around (the last album he released before his death, contains so many brilliant covers including Hurt)
Opeth – Ghost Reveries (Hard to split between this and Damnation but I appear to have listened to this one more).
There’s plenty of others but those are the first five, so I’ll go with them.
I freakin’ love The Man Comes Around, “American VI Ain’t No Grave” is pretty damn awesome too. Who’d have thought a cover of a Sheryl Crowe song would be one of my favourites? 😀
I didn’t even realise they released some of those albums post-humously. I’ll have to listen to them when I get a chance.
Ghost Reveries is brilliant, and is my favourite Opeth album.
A Warm Place!!!
Paul
Ace
Gene
Peter
and you have to throw in Johnny Cash as well
1. Tom Waits – Big Time
2. Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream
4. Van Morrison – The Best Of
5. The Pogues – The Best Of / The Dubliners – 40th Anniversary Reunion (Live)
No particular order. They’re all number 1.
PS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUj_FSarGI
You can’t tell me this isn’t one of the best songs ever written.
PPS: Mark, where’s your list?
NM, delete this and the prior one, cheers
See above!
Master of Puppets by Metallica
The Doors by The Doors
Ace of Spades by Motorhead
And Justice for All by Metallica
Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine.
Yeah I’m a bit of a metalhead, absolutely love Metallica.
Nice
I wholeheartedly approve! RATM FTW!
(List is not definitive and in no particular order)
1. The Wall – Pink Floyd
2. Orchestra Phantasma – Vicious Hairy Mary
3. Can’t decide which album, but something by Iron Maiden
4. Uninvisible – Medeski Martin & Wood
5. Life on Planet Groove – Maceo Parker
…I’m certain this list is wrong, but I’m posting it anyway.
I could work on this list all day, but given 15 mins to think about it…
1. Untrue By Burial
2. Incunabula by Autechre
3. Lift Your Skinny Fists By Godspeed
4. Drukqs By Aphex Twin
5. Takk By Sigur Ros
Cool list.
Seconded!
Thought I’d bump my hipster cred up a notch.
Also Nas?
I never would have pictured you for the rap type.
The only rap album i bought recently is Dr. Octagon He is so nonsensical it’s like listening to an alzheimers patient rap.
Serrels! Nice number 1! I’m impressed!
1. The Black Album by Jay-Z
2. [Untitled] by Nas
3. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
4. Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z
5. The Cool by Lupe Fiasco
Oh! Also “Live Gothic” by Therion.
My five currently most listened to. Undecided on all-time faves, but these are definitely always on the playlist:
Danger Days – MCR
Black Parade – MCR
Dead Letters – Rasmus
Little Eve – Kate Miller Heidke
ABC For Kids Favourites Compilation (I have a 1 year old)
Silence- sonata arctica
Bringer of plagues- devine heresy
Acendency- trivium
Master of puppets- metallica
And justice for all- metallica
Silence? Nice. I prefer Reckoning Night (and Unia/Days of Grays aren’t bad, despite most people’s dislike) but that is an album I didn’t expect to show up in here even though it is a very good album.
I personally only ever picked up Ecliptica and winterheart’s Guild. I wanted to pick up more of their albums albums (and a million other things) back then and never got around to it.
They’re pretty consistent, so if you like Ecliptica, then the rest of them will definitely suit. The exception to this is the latest two albums (Unia and The Days of Grays), which have a somewhat different sound and don’t seem to be as well received.
Those two take a few listens to really get into, but they did grow on me.
I’m one of those people who can’t choose between my favorites – i’m indecisive like that
Some of my favorites that i can think of off the top of my head, though
Mutter – Rammstein
Sehnsucht – Rammstein
Lullabies to Paralise – Queens of the Stoneage
Songs for the deaf – Queens of the stoneage
HIMMELFAHRT – Megaherz
Herzwerk 2 – Megaherz
Hysteria – Def Leppard
GlaubeLiebeTod – OOMPH!
Wahrheit oder Pflicht – OOMPH!
Ego – OOMPH!
The Sickness – Disturbed
Believe – Disturbed
Leviathan EP – Alestorm
Captain Morgan’s Revenge – Alestorm
Follow the Leader – Korn
Iowa – Slipknot
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) – Slipknot
All Hope Is Gone – Slipknot
Man there are tonnes that i LOVE but my mind is freezing like it always does when i have to write a list
Alestorm.
Nice.
That is all.
Also Rammstein.
Anything IN MY NEW CAR! I got my license and drove to work for the first time today! YAY! 😀 So much difference to catching the goddamn bus! 😀 😀 😀 YAY!!!!!
Congrats!
Welcome to the awesomeness that is not having to catch public transport.
“I once farted on the set of the Blue Lagoon…”
It’s so awesome that got Nas and Pete Rock & CL on there!
For me off the top of my head:
* Jay-Z – The Blueprint
* Radiohead – OK Computer
* Mika Nakashima – Love
* Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
* Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
(Now I feel bad for not listing Madvillain, Midnight Marauders, De La Soul Is Dead, Below The Heavens, etc…top 5 is truly impossible)
OB4CL and Supreme Clientele.
They’d prob both be in my top 10.
You watching Wu-Tang next week at Enmore?
Ten – Pearl Jam
Razor’s Edge – AC/DC
Nevermind – Nirvana
Making Movies – Dire Straights
East – Cold Chisel
Ask me again this afternoon, and it will be completely different.
Kind Of Blue – Miles Davis
Ain’t That Good News – Sam Cooke
Super Bad – Terminator X & The Godfathers Of Threatt
Blade Runner – Original Soundtrack
Escape From New York – Original Soundtrack
Blade Runner soundtrack is boss.
Engel – Threnody
Devildriver – Last Kind Words
Trivium – Ascendancy
In Flames – Sounds of a Playground Fading
Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
Listening to:
1. Cage the Elephant – Cage the Elephant
2. Babylon – Skindred
3. Roots Rock Riot – Skindred
4. Mirror’s Edge OST
5. Perfect In Between – Champion
Pendulum’s Immersion sometimes get thrown into the mix, but only for the In Flames collab.
I have goldfish memory, and this list changes everytime I rediscover albums or buy new ones xD
Deep River – Utada Hikaru
Any album by The Cat Empire
The Hard Road: Restrung – Hilltop Hoods
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Nightmare Before Christmas OST – Danny Elfman
Also I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in this blog that doesn’t listen to hard rock or metal. Go me!
I totally noticed that too. I am scared to admit that my favorite genre of music is pop – and am a huge Celine Dion fan. I am also a huge gamer owning every gaming system. Guess I am just some sort of freak 🙂
Another Stone Roses fan. Good work.
I left out Best of’s because that’s too easy.
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Is this it – The Strokes
Ritual De Lo Habitual – Janes Addiction
Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Diary of Reinhold Meisner
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike.
As soon as you press enter you think of albums you forgot.
On my subs bench are
Air – Moon Safari
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Fear of a Black Planet – Public Enemy
I’m going to have to stop or i’ll be here all bloody day.
Unicron – seeing your name has made me think of No 6 – ‘Artistic Transformations’ – Vince DiCola.
What that man does with a piano blows my mind!
No order whatsoever and also I don’t have favourites, so I’ll use best of if needed.
The Who – various albums.
Rolling Stones – various albums
Justin Timberlake – Justified (what!? You wanna fight about it!?)
Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
Andrea Bocelli – most works.
Prince – pretty much everything he does.
Oh and I was watching The Last Samurai blu-ray last night I F’N LOVE that soundtrack.
And I may still shed a man tear at the end.
Oh and Daft Punk – Alive
Prince. Is. Awesome.
I like both JT albums, the productions were amazing! The Neptunes and especially Timbaland did their thing big time.
I went to his concert and it’s probably the best one I’ve ever been to.
In no particular order
We Are Not Alone – Breaking Benjamin
Dear Agony – Breaking Benjamin
Bat out of Hell – Meat Loaf
And yes it’s cheating picking best of albums but…
1 – The Beatles
Greatest Hits – Queen
I’m usually don’t like to expose my music tastes because think they’re terrible and people will make fun of me… but hey, I like what I like.
It’s also been a pretty long time since I bought a new album or even bothered to listen to entire albums, so this list is probably less of a strict “top five” and more of a “this is what I remember playing on my iPod most frequently”.
5. No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
4. Spiderbait – Grand Slam
3. Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell
2. Garbage – Garbage
1. Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Honourable mentions to:
Guns & Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Sonata Arctica – Ecliptica
Area 7 – Bitter & Twisted
The Living End – Modern ARTillery
Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts
Not terrible at all, if you were to bust out a Top 5 that included…
Rebecca Black
Miley Cyrus
Justin Beiber
Ke$ha
etc…
Then certainly, GTFO now! :p
Man Area 7 takes me back to early high school. Loved seeing them live. I’m a heavy music fan first and foremost but I still believe that ‘Ska’ is far and away the funnest musical genre. Nothing beats it live.
Long-term, in no particular order
Led Zepplin – Self-titled
American Idiot – Green Day
The Wall – Pink Floyd
Two Shoes – Cat Empire
Sonic Firestorm – Dragonforce
I’m a huge fan of American Idiot too. Wake Me Up When September Ends is one of those songs that can stop me in my tracks whenever I hear it. Jesus of Suburbia too.
1. The Offspring – Smash
2. Metallica – ReLoad
3. System Of A Down – Toxicity
4. The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia
5. Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
An eclectic mix, to be sure.
Geez… not sure if I can pick five. Let’s see… off the top of my head, subject to change at any given second:
1. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Derek & The Dominos)
2. Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
3. Exile on Main St (The Rolling Stones)
4. Live 1975-85 (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band)
5. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
Classy.
I had Born to Run stuck in my head last week. Can’t say I minded, though.
Late Registration – Kanye West
The Chronic – Dr Dre
Illmatic – Nas
The Blueprint – Jay-Z
The Eminem Show – Eminem
Damn that was hard, I had to leave off Enter the 36, Ready to Die, Paid In Full and Power.
Watch The Throne will bump one of these next week…
How about some different genres????
Arcade Fire-The Suburbs
Tegan & Sara- The Con
Deftones- Deftones
Radiohead-The Bends
Avenged Sevenfold- Self Titled
Out Come the Wolves – Rancid
Sams Town – The Killers
Funeral – Arcade Fire
Fat of the Land – The Prodigy
I can only name four but these are the albums I cna listen too without skipping a single song. That is a big deal for the attention span i have.
+1 for the stupidly hard basket to fill, mine changes based on what my current listening is, although I would agree there are a few albums that I always have time for.
Songs For The Deaf – Queens Of The Stone Age
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
The Living End – The Living End
Origin Of Symmetry – Muse
Let’s Face It – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (I have no idea what it is about this album, but I love it)
The Current 10, based on current rotation
Turtleneck & Chain – The Lonely Island
Eight Arms To Hold You – Veruca Salt
Imaginary Friends – Freezepop
Fatty Gets A Stylist – Fatty Gets A Stylist
Remember – The Fiery Furnaces
Version 2.0 – Garbage
The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating – The Living End
Carnavas – Silversun Pickups
Swoon – Silversun Pickups
Hot Dogma – TISM
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
Antidotes – The Foals
Pala – The Friendly Fires
Since I Left You – The Avalanches
Siamese Dream – The Smashing Pumpkins
Hmm, top 5 is really hard… these albums would definitely be up there for me. I missed bands like Radiohead, Muse, Massive Attack etc.
Love the transitions in Since I Left You.
Never really gave it much though so I don’t really have a top five but, at least for me, I consider these five albums to be amazing:
Killswitch Engage – Alive or Just Breathing
Shiina Ringo X Saito Neko – Heisei Fuuzoku
Shiina Ringo – Shouso Strip
Radiohead – OK Computer
Placebo – Black Market Music
Top 5 Albums of ALL TIME
1. The Gold Experience – The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
His best ever album and one that was never commercial (1995) due to the bizzare name change, the title track ‘Gold’ is one of the greatest anthems that nobody heard. Apart from Gold, ‘Endorphinemachine’, ‘Now’ and ‘Shy’ are the standouts
2. Fore – Huey Lewis and the News
Full of mega-hits like ‘Power of Love’ and ‘Hip to be Square’ this is from an era when rock band knew how to play instruments and construct a tune. ‘Doin it all for my Baby’, ‘I Know What I Like’ and ‘Simple as That’ are the standouts
3. All Eyez on Me – 2Pac
Simply the best rap album (a double CD no less) ever made, nothing can touch it – its simultaneously abrasive, offensive and deep, during the late 90s this is what I would have on in the car. ‘How do U want it’, ‘Life Goes On’ and ‘Only God Can Judge Me’ are the standouts
4. XXX – Chicago
Only discovered Chicago this year, and I’m currently hooked on this – their 2006 LP which doesn’t waste one single note, the perfect blend of power ballad, soulful rock and horns. ‘King of Might Have Been’, ‘Better’ and ‘Already Gone’ are standouts
5. The Hardline According to – Terence Trent D’Arby
There’s a lot I could’ve nominated for this spot – Jamiroquai, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Michael Jackson – bit this album from the now obscure TTD (he changed his name to something weird) is a tour de force which cannot be pinned to the decade in which it was made, in fact it sound nothing like anything made in the 80’s. ‘Wishing Well’, ‘If You All Get to Heaven’ and ‘I’ll Never Turn my back on You’ are standouts.
My five
Funeral- Arcade Fire
Black Holes and Revelations -Muse
This Modern Glitch – The Wombats
Odd Blood – Yeasayer
Any Johnny Cash album.
OMG Wombats fan! Instafriend+1
Hi 5
Yeah i really like thoose guys liked them for ages. That album is on loop in my car. Favourite song is Anti-D
A View From The End Of The World
Overworld
Redeemer
Deus Ex Machinae
Arcade (Though it isn’t exactly an album)
All by Machinae Supremacy, addicted to their music atm. It’s sort of a unique style of metal.
United Paper People – Kisschasey
Frogstomp – Silverchair
The Golden Year – Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
What Ever People Say I Am – Arctic Monkeys
Bleed American – Jimmy Eat World
Wow that was hard, these are albums where i wouldnt skip a song =)
That Arctic Monkey album is like time travelling to ’06. So many memories associated with it. Saw ’em live in ’07 too.
Dark side of the moon – pink Floyd
Revolver – beatles
Paranoid – black sabbath
Sgt peppers – beatles
Damnation – opeth
I like you.
thought i was the only one but dude above menioned 1st
pink floyd – dark side of the moon
beatles – st peppers
pink floyd -wish you were here
led zepelin – mothership coz its got all his best in one
angus and julia stone- down the way
It is difficult to pick five, but I think my favourites would be:
– “De-loused in the Comatorium” by The Mars Volta
– “Grace” by Jeff Buckley
– “Lightbulb Sun” by Porcupine Tree
– “Illinois” by Sufjan Stevens
– “Fractions” by Decoder Ring
Other great albums that I love and still want to mention are:
– “Kurr” by amiina
– “Pink” by Boris
– “Strange Bird” by Augie March
– “Takk” by Sigur Ros
– “What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have” by Sarah Blasko
Hard to pick just five. But here goes. I’ve limited my choices to one album per band, and the list is in no particular order.
Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
Definitely Maybe – Oasis
Master of Puppets – Metallica
Battle of LA – Rage Against the Machine
Nevermind – Nirvana
Honourable mentions go to
Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
The Blue album – Weezer
Far Beyond Driven – Pantera
Blood Sugar Sex Magik- RHCP
Sonata Arctica: Days of Grays
Sabaton: Coat of Arms
Metallica: Ride The Lightning
Tool: Aenima
Kyuss: …And The Circus Leaves Town
Within Temptation: The Silent Force
MGS2 OST
DragonForce: Sonic Firestorm
Avalon OST
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Top 5 is too difficult. Top 10 was bad enough, I had to leave loads out.
You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and put some honourable mentions in.
Van Canto: Tribe of Force
Monster Magnet: Dopes to Infinity
Deftones: White Pony
White Pony is a fantastic album!
As is Aenima.
Led Zeppelin – IV
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Metallica – Black album
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
The 5 which have stood the test of time with me:
1. Katalyst-manipulating agent
2. Avalanches-since I left you
3. QOTSA- songs for the deaf
4. Brazilian Girls-New York City
5. Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
Also, Phoenix, even though none of their album make my top 5, ‘too young’ is my single favourite song of all time.
In no particular order:
1. Joshua Tree- U2
2. Good News For People Who Love Bad News- Modest Mouse
3. Moon Safari- Air
4. Dude Ranch- Blink 182
5. TMNT Original Movie Soundtrack! T.U.R.T.L.E. Power!
“Nine-point-Nine-Five” – I still don’t know what they were singing about!
Yeah me neither! But man that soundtrack brings back some memories
Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
How Sweet, Innocence – Explosions in the Sky
Best Kept Secrets – Lamb
The Hard Road Restrung – Hilltop Hoods
Sol-fa – Asian Kung-Fu Generation
In fact, add Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Album: A Rock Adventure to the list.
The Downward Spiral
Homogenic
Infinity
and I cant remeber…in no specific order.
I’m not much of an albums person, I’m the sort of person who’ll grab individual songs rather than a whole album. So rather than list my favourite albums as a whole, I’ll just put down albums I have a lot of songs from, just to be different.
In no particular order
1 – Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head/ X&Y (honestly can’t split them)
2 – Sonata Arctica – Winterheart’s Guild
3 – Two Steps From Hell – Nemesis
4 – Within Temptation – The Heart of Everything
5 – Les Miserables (Greatest Musical Ever)
Top 5… damn!
1 – Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
2 – At The Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul
3 – Dark Tranquillity – Fiction
4 – Metallica – Master Of Puppets
5 – In Flames – Colony
In no particular order:
– Powderfinger – Vulture Street
– Foo Fighters – Color and the Shape
– Pulp – Different Class
– Gorillaz – Demon Days
– They Might Be Giants – John Henry
Plenty more, but I can listen to these any time and just get carried away with the music. Had the pleasure of seeing them all live, too!
Man, haven’t done one of these in ages. Right now would have to be:
Shellac – Excellent Italian Greyhound
David Bowie – Reality
Failure – Fantastic Planet
Tortoise – TNT
Type o Negative – Bloody Kisses
1. Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters 2. RHCP – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
3. REM – Automatic For The People
4. Pearl Jam – Ten
5. REM – Accelerate
In no particular order…
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
Underworld – Everything, Everything
The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us
Tool – Aenima
Sasha & Digweed – Northern Exposure: Expeditions
Chosen because these are the albums I keep going back to. Each one is simply a pleasure to listen to, time and time again.
What a surprise, 70% of people here either like metal, music from 30 years ago exclusively, or radio rock. Don’t you ever worry about being a complete cliche as somebody who plays video games?
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
V – Van She
Turning On – Cloud Nothings
Idealism – Digitalism
Causers of This – Toro y Moi
Why on earth would we worry? People like what they like. Don’t you ever worry that if you take everything so seriously you’ll never have any fun?