[tru blu]

In lieu of sundry intellectual considerations, I decided to go with records I actually find myself playing a lot:

Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
The Clash - London Calling
Billie Holiday & Lester Young - A Musical Romance
Miles Davis - Filles De Kilimanjaro
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Television - Marquee Moon
Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado


One honorable mention:
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics

 

[poiuy]

I'll give this a go...

Studio Albums;

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
Sg. Peppers - Beatles
Rage Against The Machine - RATM
The Way Up - Pat Metheny Group
Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
OK Computer - Radiohead

Live Albums;

Try! - John Mayer Trio
Live at Luther College - Dave Matthews & Tim Renoylds
Flood - Herbie Hancock
Live Art - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Live at Montreaux - Miles Davis and Quincy Jones
Central Park Concert - Paul Simon
Unplugged - Eric Clapton
Art of the Trio, Vol 3. - Brad Mehldau
Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
Live at Sin-E - Jeff Buckley

That wasn't much fun... I think you need at the very least 50 albums to figure someone out!

 

[monolith]

No order, and not including jazz or Dick's Picks and subject to change:

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition] (or, if you don't count the deluxe edition, I'll take them Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival)
Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Radiohead - OK Computer
Basilisk - A Joyless March Through the Cold Lands
Sunn O))) - 00 Void
Isis - Celestial
Led Zeppelin - III

 

[Davey]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tru blu /img/forum/go_quote.gif In lieu of sundry intellectual considerations, I decided to go with records I actually find myself playing a lot: Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado

Don't see much Arto Lindsay talk around here, but he's got a string of very fine albums in the last 10 years. Noon Chill from 1998 may be my favorite most days, but any of them could replace it on another day, especially that great one you mention that preceded it, or Prize that followed. Nice recordings too.

 

[johnnylexus]

No particular order ...

Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Beatles - White Album
Led Zeppelin - 1
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
The Who - Who's Next
Procol Harum - Home
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
CSN&Y - Deja Vu
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next

 

[tru blu]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Davey /img/forum/go_quote.gif Don't see much Arto Lindsay talk around here, but he's got a string of very fine albums in the last 10 years.

Great to hear someone else out there digs Arto. Given his history—started the bands DNA and the Ambitious Lovers, was an early Lounge Lizard, produced Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte and Laurie Anderson and recorded for Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe label—you'd think more folks would at the very least know his name. I'd probably call him a genius if I didn't think that word was thrown around too liberally.

 

[Happy Camper]

Pink Floyd-DSotM
Supertramp-Crime of the Century
C,S,N,Y-Four Way Street
EC-Unplugged
Alan Parsons Project-I Robot
Zep-Zep I
Beatles-Abbey Road
Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms
Pink Floyd-Animals
Neil Young-Harvest

 

[uofmtiger]

I don't have a top ten, but I will make a list since this is in the spirit of learning about music tastes. Just deciding a favorite Beatles album is practically impossible, but these are the first albums that popped into my head:

Frank Sinatra "Sings for Only the Lonely"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
Beatles "Help!"
Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street"
Magic Sam "West Side Soul"
Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"
The Clash "London Calling"
AC/DC "Back in Black"
Johnny Hartman "John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman"
Elvis "Elvis Is Back!"

It would be a little bit easier to do a top ten for a specific genre, but there it is!

 

[japc]

You guys are eccletic.

Right now my top10 is:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Anathema - Eternity
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin ...
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Morgoth - The Eternal Fall / Resurrectio Absurd
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

 

[Metaphysical]

hmm... for now:

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2
Led Zeppelin - III
Incubus - Morning View
Gym Class Heroes - The Papercut Chronicles
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Atmosphere - Overcast!
Nas - Illmatic
Led Zeppelin - IV (Zoso)
Sublime - 40 Ounces to Freedom
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King


Highly subject to change

 

[mtkversion]

Jay-Z - The Black Album
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vizion
Outkast - ATLiens
Pelican - Australasia
Beck - Sea Change
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

Snoop - Doggystyle
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)

 

[Zarathustra19]

Well, according to Last.fm, my top ten in terms of listening volume have been:

1. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
2. Funeral: In Fields of Pestilent Grief
3. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
4. Peter, Bjorn and John: Writer's Block
5. Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
6. The Decemberists: Picaresque
7. Gary Jules: Gary Jules
8. Blue October: Foiled
9. The Divine Comedy: Victory for the Comic Muse
10. British Sea Power: Open Season

Some of them are in fact my favorite albums, but according to me:

1. Funeral: From These Wounds
2. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
3. Peter, Bjorn and John: Writers Block
4. Jeff Buckley: So Real
5. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
6. Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
7. Sunn O))): Oracle
8. Cradle of Filth: Thornography
9. Dissection: Reinkaos
10. Gernotshagen: Märe aus wäldernen Hallen

 

[monolith]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zarathustra19 /img/forum/go_quote.gif 7. Sunn O))): Oracle

Really? Oracle? Over 00 Void AND White1 AND White2?

Also, while I'm here, Reinkaos? Really? Over the other two?

 

[LFF]

Dang. This is hard. Here are my top 10 at the moment (chages all the time):

in no order:

1) Led Zeppelin - IV
2) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Vinyl)
3) Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
4) Cannonball Adderly feat. Bill Evans - Know What I Mean? (Vinyl)
5) Art Pepper - Meets Rythm Section (Vinyl)
6) Bebo Valdes - Bebo de Cuba
7) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (Vinyl)
8) Nirvana - In Utero (German Vinyl)
9) White Stripes - Icky Thump
10) Gypsy Kings - Gypsy Kings (Vinyl)

 

[Tone Def]

Subject to change and in no particular order...

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Nas - Illmatic
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
R.E.M - Automatic for the people
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Foo Fighters - The Colour and Shape
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York