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The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
 

 

[samsquanch]

Sleep - Dopesmoker
Metallica - Kill 'em all
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Waylon Jennings - This Time
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
John Coltrane - First Meditations
Hawkwind - Space Ritual

 

[TJ Elite]

I haven't replied to this thread earlier, because I thought that it would be too difficult to pick only ten albums from my collection of nearly 2000 albums, but today I decided to give it a go. The result is naturally a huge compromise and far from the truth, but I don't think I could ever name just ten albums and be happy with the list. I decided not to take soundtracks into consideration and to name as few classical and jazz albums as I could, because both could easily fill the entire list. In the end I still ended up with perhaps one more classical album than I had hoped, but I just couldn't leave Arvo Pärt unmentioned. I also noticed that for some reason I tended to prefer the more accessible albums when I was trimming the list down to ten names. The end result is a mixture of very well know albums and some personal favorites.
 
Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa
Boris - Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
Freezepop - Future Future Future Perfect
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Mike Oldfield - Music of the Spheres
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

 

[Ynoskire]

Three of those albums are in my top20 as well, nice list 

. (Jarrett, Boris and Steve Reich)

 

[A Love Supreme]

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The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
 

I adore that album. It's a shame about what happened after it.....
 
 
10. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
9. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
8. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
7. Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
6. Pharoahe Sanders - Karma
5. Neu! - Neu!
4. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
3. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

 

[exnx]

My Top 10 Favourites:
 
Hella: Hold Your Horse Is (2002)
Joanna Newsom: Ys (2006)
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
Dan Deacon: Bromst (2009)
Future Islands: In Evening Air (2010)
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
The Avett Brothers: Four Thieves Gone (2006)
The Streets: Original Pirate Material (2002)
Clipse: Lord Willin' (2002)
 
 
Honorable Mention:
 
Interpol: Antics (2004)
Xiu Xiu: La Forêt (2005)
Animal Collective: Sung Tongs (2004)
Spice Girls: Spice (1996)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F♯ A♯ ∞ (1997)

 

[manveru]

Hmmmm...this is really impossible unless you try to exclude jazz, classical, world, or soundtracks. Nonetheless:
 
Spock's Beard - Snow
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone
The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer (Gods, choosing just one album is unfathomable!)
J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D Minor BWV 565
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings (The Complete Recordings)
 
 

 

[MohawkUS]

Here are my top 7

7. Electric Wizard - We Live
6. Immortal - Battles in the North
5. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
4. Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult
3. Ascend - Ample Fire Within
2.Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction
1. Bathory - Destroyer of Worlds

 

[khazar]

My top 8:
Dinosaur jr - you're living all over me
Smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
Ride - nowhere
Metallica - kill 'em all
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage against the machine - Rage against the machine
Pearl jam - ten
My bloody valentine - loveless
 
 

 

[TexasBuck]

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Interpol - Our Love To Admire
 

Glad to see someone else loves this one too.  Seems like almost everyone, critics and fans alike, consider it the 3rd best Interpol album.  I love "Antics" and "TOTBL" too, but "Our Love To Admire" is my favorite.

 

[manveru]

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Glad to see someone else loves this one too.  Seems like almost everyone, critics and fans alike, consider it the 3rd best Interpol album.  I love "Antics" and "TOTBL" too, but "Our Love To Admire" is my favorite.

 
Yeah. To be honest I was tempted to list the self-titled, which seems to get very little love 

, as lately I'm really into about the first half or three fourths of this album. I actually think it's a little unfair to call any one of their albums the greatest because they keep evolving over time, but  I think OLTA was the most consistently good.

 

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Box Of Frogs - Box Of Frogs
The Police - Regatta De Blanc
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Dream
Pixies - Bossanova
Radiohead - The Bends
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Snatch Soundtrack
My Morning Jacket - Z
BlackHawk Down Soundtrack

 

[BobSaysHi]

Quote:

Here are my top 7
7. Electric Wizard - We Live
6. Immortal - Battles in the North
5. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
4. Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult
3. Ascend - Ample Fire Within
2.Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction
1. Bathory - Destroyer of Worlds

 

 

[Akabeth]

 
This thread has been bugging me ever since I discovered head-fi and now at twenty one years of age, I've become ever-more certain that there's still too much music I'd like to get my hands and ears on. My tastes are still maturing and preferences ever changing but what I, as a novice listener have ascertained, is that, great music never loses its impact.
 
So when I do catalog some sort of a preliminary list, I hope I'll remember to post it here. 

 

 

[EmptyTalk]

In ABCD order:
 
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?  A: We are Devo!
Isis - Panopticon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
Radiohead - The Bends
Rush - Moving Pictures
The Clash - The Clash (U.S. Version)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Tool - Lateralus
U2 - Achtung Baby
 
Man, I need to listen to more modern stuff . . .