[Aman]

I can't do them in order, mind you:

The Beatles - The White Album (Just my favorite Beatles album in terms of creativity and lyrics)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Broke the barriers for Jazz)

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Helped create Jazz Fusion)

Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Some of the most orgasmic guitar riffs ever in an album)

Yes - Fragile (Some great, accessible, and multiple-genre progressive rock with a great bass recording)

King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (One of the most meaningful progressive records I have ever heard, and broke the barriers for rock music in general)

Utopia - RA (The perfect blend of pop and prog, with humor and fantastic group singing thrown in)

Neil Young - After the Goldrush (A beautiful album with a beautiful voice)

Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters (Young Girl Sunday Blues is a phenominal track, and overall this album possesses some of the best psychedelic sounds of all time)

Cream - Wheel of Fire (Crossroads and White Room are classic tracks)

Cannonball Adderly - Phenix (Some of the most funky jazz to ever be heard)

Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters (Jessica and Ramblin' Man are both classic tracks - great southern jam rock)

Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo (The best jazz-rock fusion album to ever be created)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Simply the best concept album to ever be written - beautifully sung, played, produced, and written)

Led Zeppelin - II (Great guitar licks, brilliant instrument compilation, and classic tracks all around, including "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", "Moby Dick", and "What is and What Should Never Be")

Yes - Close to the Edge (Three great tracks, each with unique character and majesty. The title track is sublime)

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (The 2nd best concept album to ever be written - poetic, intelligent, thoughtful, and meaningful - the concept of life to death in one album was invented by this band)

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land (Simply-put the most energetic 60s music to ever be produced)

Talking Heads - Remain in Light (The best attitude I've ever heard from an album - satircal, great instrumentation, and very good production value)

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (Simply put, Bob Dylan's prime - some of his best singing work and by-far his most poetic work)

 

[Masonjar]

I would probably revise this, but I don't have time now.. here's my top 30 from a similar thread about a year or so ago:

01 Husker Du - NEW DAY RISING
02 Sonic Youth - EVOL
03 Replacements - TIM
04 Joy Division - CLOSER
05 R.E.M. - DOCUMENT
06 The Smiths - THE QUEEN IS DEAD
07 Pink Floyd - ANIMALS
08 New Order - POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES
09 Stone Roses - STONE ROSES
10 Black Sabbath - PARANOID
11 Iron Maiden - PIECE OF MIND
12 The Cure - DISINTEGRATION
13 Slint - SPIDERLAND
14 My Bloody Valentine - LOVELESS
15 Minutemen - THE PUNCH LINE
16 Metallica - MASTER OF PUPPETS
17 The Jesus Lizard - GOAT
18 Bark Psychosis - HEX
19 Mercury Rev - YERSELF IS STEAM
20 Hum - DOWNWARD IS HEAVENWARD
21 The God Machine - SCENES FROM THE SECOND STOREY
22 Public Image Ltd. - METAL BOX
23 Coil - LOVE'S SECRET DOMAIN
24 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - HENRY'S DREAM
25 Meat Puppets - UP ON THE SUN
26 The Clash - SANDINISTA!
27 Slayer - SOUTH OF HEAVEN
28 The Jesus & Mary Chain - PSYCHOCANDY
29 Massive Attack - MEZZANINE
30 The Pogues - IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE WITH GOD

(add ins: Slowdive - SOUVLAKI, Pale Saints - IN RIBBONS, Radiohead - OK COMPUTER)

-jar

 

[Kikkoman]

I'm sure I missed a bunch of albums I realy like, but I think this is a pretty accurate list of 20 albums I'd have somewhere in at least my top 50. I broke them up into two major groups, and list them by the artists name not any ranking system. Rock just means that basicly the music has guitars, drums, and maybe vocals. EDM (electronic dance music) is either synthesised, made up of mixed samples, or a combination of those.

Rock
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Gong - Magick Brother
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's
Kinks, The - The Village Green Preservation Society
Love - Forever Changes
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Ramones - Self Titled
Skip Bifferty - Self Titled
United States Of America, The - Self Titled
Velvet Underground and Nico, The - Banana album
Velvet Underground, The - White Light/White Heat
Who, The - The Who Sell Out
Who, The - Who's Next

EDM
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy EP
Chi-A.D. - Virtual Spirit
Pigs in Space - Self Titled
Pleiadians - I.F.O. (Identified Flying Object)
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Squarepusher - Go Plastic

 

[eyeteeth]

x

 

[Riordan]

no order, and missing at least 20 more...

dinosaur jr - you're living all over me
hüsker dü - zen arcade
screaming trees - dust
pixies - surfer rosa
afghan whigs - black love
new model army - thunder & consolation
waterboys - this is the sea
walkabouts - new west motel
nick cave - henry's son
system of a down - toxicity
yes - fragile
skunk anansi - stoosh!
heather nova - siren
loreena mckennitt - live in paris & toronto
jethro tull - thick as a brick
r.e.m. - automatic for the people
the cure - staring at the sea
neil young - rust never sleeps
bad religion - no control
chris deburgh - crusader (quite possibly the most underrated album of the 70s)

 

[Masonjar]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riordan no order, and missing at least 20 more... dinosaur jr - you're living all over me hüsker dü - zen arcade screaming trees - dust pixies - surfer rosa afghan whigs - black love new model army - thunder & consolation waterboys - this is the sea walkabouts - new west motel nick cave - henry's son system of a down - toxicity yes - fragile skunk anansi - stoosh! heather nova - siren loreena mckennitt - live in paris & toronto jethro tull - thick as a brick r.e.m. - automatic for the people the cure - staring at the sea neil young - rust never sleeps bad religion - no control chris deburgh - crusader (quite possibly the most underrated album of the 70s)

Henry's Son? The Good Dream?

For me The Good Son is only a notch below Henry's Dream. Lots of whiskey definately helps in forming bonds with music.. Those were good times.

And as for R.E.M., there are so many that list AUTOMATIC among their favorites, but to be honest, I've just never connected with that one. Maybe I need to try again, it's been 4 years or so since I last listened to it. Always liked OUT OF TIME better. Same with GREEN. DOCUMENT was my life for a year, GREEN just didn't connect.

-jar

 

[Riordan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masonjar Henry's Son? The Good Dream? For me The Good Son is only a notch below Henry's Dream. Lots of whiskey definately helps in forming bonds with music.. Those were good times. And as for R.E.M., there are so many that list AUTOMATIC among their favorites, but to be honest, I've just never connected with that one. Maybe I need to try again, it's been 4 years or so since I last listened to it. Always liked OUT OF TIME better. Same with GREEN. DOCUMENT was my life for a year, GREEN just didn't connect. -jar

*blushing* i actually had to buy henry's dream three times (once stolen, once terminally borrowed), strange that i screwed up that title. i agree on the good son, but not on document - that was the one i could never really get into (the one i love and 'it's the end of the world' excepted).

 

[blessingx]

R.E.M. was the first band I ever saw twice in concert (and still one of probably only four). Hell even remember them when they briefly went by Rapid Eye Movement.

I can't really listen to any of their stuff anymore, but I always thought they were at their best on Fables of the Reconstruction (the album they reject). Sure it's a murmuring, artsy mess, but that seems the most REM-ish of all their albums. Not sure Stipe became anymore articulate when he became more literal. Maybe so, but less interesting anyway. Think they maxed out at Murmur, Reckoning and Fables. Then again I'm still trying to figure out why people still buy U2 albums.

 

[elan]

I dunno...these are my picks as I see it at the moment. This can change rather quickly...

Bob Dylan - Live in 1966 "The Royal Albert Hall Concert"
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Fred Neil - The Many Sides of Fred Neil
Grateful Dead - Live in Europe '72
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
The Who - Live at Leeds
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Sonics - Boom

 

[elan]

Whoops double post!

 

[crazyfrenchman27]

Lol, I can’t pick children, but here it goes (not in order, by any means):

Pennywise – Full Circle
Pennywise – About Time
Portishead - Dummy
The Offspring - Ignition
Strung Out – Twisted by Design
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
The Beatles – The White Album
U2 – War, Boy, heck, all of them but Joshua Tree?
Sarah McLachlan – Mirrorball
Sublime – 40 Oz to Freedom
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream, Gish
Eric Clapton – Cream of Clapton
Thrice – Identity Crisis, Illusion of Safety
Millencolin – Pennybridge Pioneers
Operation Ivy – Energy
Air – Moon Safari
Delerium – Best of Delerium

And, Of Course…

Britney Spears – My Prerogative

Sorry, big time Punk and Pennywise fan, I apologize for my bias.

Lots of good music out there….can't listen to it all at once...if it's not there, I'll get it into the rotation eventually...I plan on living forever.

-Matt

 

[Jasper994]

Hmmm some of my favorites in no particular order:

Depeche Mode - Violator
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room
Diana Krall - Live in Paris
LeAnn Rimes - This Woman
Boyz II Men - Throwback, Vol. 1
Britney Spears - In the Zone (puts on flame suit; what can I say, it's a good dance album)
Cantus - Let Your Voice be Heard (available at Borders or cantusonline.org)
D12 - D12 World
Dixie Chicks - Fly
Eminem - The Marshal Mathers LP
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Evanescence - Fallen
Garth Brooks - Fresh Horses
Garth Brooks - The Hits
Garth Brooks - Sevens
Garth Brooks - Scarecrow
Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger
Infected Mushroom - I'm the Supervisor
Hans Zimmer - Gladiator Soundtrack
James Horner - Titanic Soundtrack
Jane Monheit - Taking a Chance on Love
Jesse Cook - Gravity
Jewel - Spirit
Josh Groban - Closer
Josh Groban - Josh Groban
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 1
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Lee Ann Womak - I Hope You Dance
Linkin Park - Meteora
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park - Reanimation
Live - The Distance to Here
Live - Throwing Copper
Collective Soul - Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets
Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season
Michael Jackson - History
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs
Peter Cetera - World Falling Down
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
Rob Thomas - Something to be...
Sade - The Best of Sade
Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball
The Cure - Galore

 

[jumping jupiters]

This is more the "In Heavy Rotation" list than "On A Dessert Island" type of thing:

Roberta Flack - First Take
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Wilco - a ghost is born
Wilco - Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot
John Coltrane - Son Ship
Howlin Wolf - The London Sessions
Sade - Diamond Life
Audioslave - Audioslave
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Johnny Cash - American IV - When the Man Comes Around
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
Dave Matthews - Some Devil
Bartok - Fritz Reiner - Living Stereo
Miles Davis - Plays Carnegie Hall
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Diana Krall - The Look Of Love
Sara K - (sampling)

 

[itay]

Don't Have 20 , but they Are My Favourite

Beatles -Sgt.Pepper
Camel - Mirage
Dire Straits- Money For Nothing
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall ( The Album that changed my Musical Taste )
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Kill Bill Vol.1 Soundtrack

 

[bong]

okay... i'll play:

1. The Cure - Pornography or Faith, depending on the mood
2. Ride - Nowhere
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies
5. Blur - Think Tank
6. Radiohead - Kid A
7. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
8. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
9. Catherine Wheel - Chrome
10. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture and Morality
11. Keane - Hopes and Fears
12. New Order - Movement or 1981-1982 EP, depending on mood
13. Placebo - Once More With Feeling
14. Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed
15. Starsailor - Love is Here
16. The Human League - Dare!
17. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
18. The Rapture - Echoes
19. Muse - Absolution
20. Depeche Mode - Violator