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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Sept 2, 2016 13:41:08 GMT -5
We have these threads focusing on people's favorite video games in various categories all the time, but I'm sure most people here have just as much a passion for music as well. So I'm wondering, what are your top 30 (or whatever - that's just what I tried to limit myself to) albums of all time?
I'll start:
1. Animals by Pink Floyd
2. Rubber Soul by The Beatles
3. Läther by Frank Zappa
4. Kill 'em All by Metallica
5. Countdown to Ecstacy by Steely Dan
6. Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan
7. Hell Awaits by Slayer
8. Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
9. One Size Fits All by Frank Zappa
10. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
11. Waka/Jawaka by Frank Zappa
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles
13. Joe's Garage Acts II & III by Frank Zappa
14. Among the Living by Anthrax
15. Disreali Gears by Cream
16. Sin After Sin by Judas Priest
17. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
18. Ramones by Ramones
19. Blondie by Blondie
20. Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch by Frank Zappa
21. Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd
22. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
23. B-52's by The B-52's
24. Deep Purple in Rock by Deep Purple
25. Strange Days by The Doors
26. Extreme Agressions by Kreator
27. The Nightfly by Donald friendan
28. The Who Sell Out by The Who
29. Ixnay on the Hombre by The Offspring
30. Live at the Rainbow by Focus
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Post by IrishNinja on Sept 2, 2016 17:12:17 GMT -5
Illmatic Enter the 36 Chambers Midnight Marauders Ready to Die Me Against the World Thriller Live from Folsom Prison Kind of Blue Entroducing Metaphorical Music
...fuck i'm forgetting a lotta stuff
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Post by moran on Sept 2, 2016 19:06:01 GMT -5
Oh man.....in no particular order I guess and limiting myself to one per artist/group:
1. Danzig - 2: Lucifuge 2. Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill 3. Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape 4. Alice in Chains - Dirt 5. Misfits - Collection 1 6. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 7. Anthrax - Persistence in Time 8. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance 9. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul 10. Mastodon - Crack in the Skye 11. GWAR - Violence Has Arrived 12. Emperor - Prometheus 13. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time 14. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 15. Prince - Purple Rain 16. Down - Nola 17. COC - Deliverence 18. Oingo Boingo - s/t 19. Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar 20. Primus - Frizzle Fry 21. Queen - A Night at the Opera 22. ODB - N**** Please 23. Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime 24. Type O Negative - October Rust 25. Mr. Bungle - s/t 26. Carcass - Heartwork 27. Scissorfight - Guaranteed Kill 28. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 29. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction 30. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil 31. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town 32. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz 33. KISS - s/t 34. Weird Al - UHF 35. David Lee Roth - Eat Em and Smile
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 20:26:27 GMT -5
There was something like this on Twitter a little while ago, but it was only seven albums. This feels like I can let my belt out a little, ha ha. Aside from the first few, though, most of these are just in random order.
1. Purple Rain - Prince 2. The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails 3. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails 4. The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New 5. Deja Entendu - Brand New 6. The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters 7. Nevermind - Nirvana 8. Sixteen Stone - Bush 9. Purple - Stone Temple Pilots 10. Superunknown - Soundgarden 11. Unplugged - Alice in Chains 12. Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent 13. The Blueprint - Jay Z 14. The Black Album - Jay Z 15. Music - 311 16. Phantoms - Acceptance 17. Take This to Your Grave - Fall Out Boy 18. The Everglow - Mae 19. Emotion is Dead - Juliana Theory 20. This is a Stick Up...Don't Make it a Murder - Hit the Lights 21. The Mixture - B'z 22. Delirium - Ellie Goulding 23. Chroma - Cartel 24. Almost Here - The Academy Is... 25. So Wrong, It's Right - All Time Low 26. New Found Glory - New Found Glory 27. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1 - Coheed & Cambria 28. Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg 29. The Chronic - Dr. Dre 30. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters 31. Let it Enfold You - Senses Fail 32. Say It Like You Mean It - The Starting Line 33. Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday 34. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd 35. Weezer (The Blue Album) - Weezer 36. Smash - Offspring 37. Throwing Copper - Live
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Post by alphex on Sept 2, 2016 20:44:04 GMT -5
Oh lord. In no order.
Conditions - Full Of War Saosin - Saosin Bon Jovi - New Jersey Survivor - Vital Signs Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected? Zico Chain - The Devil In Your Heart Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Car Wash (these guys have no flawless record, but their highs are so high I just had to include one) Bad Religion - Generator Megadeth - Youthanasia
Ixnay On The Hombre almost made the list; great pick @son of Suzy Creamcheese! The one Ramones album I'd put in would either be Leave Home, Road To Ruin or Too Tough To Die, though. Also s/o to moran for Somewhere In Time!
Top 5 video game OSTs: Streets Of Rage 1 Donkey Kong Country Mega Man X Mega Man 7 Street Fighter 2
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 22:59:31 GMT -5
SoR1 and not 2? Shots fired.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 2, 2016 23:45:49 GMT -5
In no order let's say top 10 to keep this constrained
Aqualung - Jethro Tull Tusk - Fleetwood Mac Candy-O - The Cars Ride the Lightning - Metallica Act II - The Protomen Queen II - Queen The Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks Paradise Theater - Styx Heavy Metal Soundtrack - Various Purple Rain - Prince
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Post by GamerL on Sept 3, 2016 0:14:58 GMT -5
I'm a pretty casual music fan so about the only albums I can think of where I make a note to usually listen to the entire thing rather than individual songs are the Pink Floyd albums Dark Side through The Wall.
It's simply amazing stuff, I really couldn't pick a favorite because all of them, Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall are all equally amazing and what's interesting, are also all very different from one another despite being recognizably Pink Floyd.
I admit though that the bombast of The Wall has a certain appeal to me.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 3, 2016 0:53:19 GMT -5
I'm a pretty casual music fan so about the only albums I can think of where I make a note to usually listen to the entire thing rather than individual songs are the Pink Floyd albums Dark Side through The Wall. It's simply amazing stuff, I really couldn't pick a favorite because all of them, Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall are all equally amazing and what's interesting, are also all very different from one another despite being recognizably Pink Floyd. I admit though that the bombast of The Wall has a certain appeal to me. You know actually Pink Floyd and Prince's Purple Rain are what pushed me from being a casual fan into loving albums. Not to sound like a snob, but this is the internet and intentions get misconstrued, so picture if you will my scruffy face alight in excitement as I say these words. Listening to whole albums is just the best way to experience music. You get whole new contexts to your favorite songs. Like listening to The Wall after listening to so many of those songs on their own was mind blowing. And even if it's not a narrative driven album like The Wall or Purple Rain you still get this. Like Tusk by Fleetwood Mac (The song) becomes so much more powerful and filled with hurt when you listen to Tusk (the album). That recurring line of "Don't say that you love me, just tell me that you want me" just hits harder after the rest of the album after things like What Makes You Think You're the One. Well the context of the album is that everyone was just pissed off at everyone for sleeping around with everyone else. But, even without knowing that, it really comes across if you listen to the album back to front. But listening to the singles you miss small things like Angel or Sara possessing this subtle feeling of nostalgia. And dear god Aqualung gains so much from the rest of the album. It ceases being this neat song about a homeless man being misjudged. And gains this status of being a thesis statement. On how perceptions and reality are weird, and what God is. Because what place in "God's Great Design" does a miserable thing like Aqualung or Cross Eyed Mary hold?
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Sept 3, 2016 3:04:36 GMT -5
SoR1 and not 2? Shots fired. I'm with him. The SoR1's BGM is more varied, and I like its compositions better, too.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Sept 3, 2016 3:27:35 GMT -5
I'm a pretty casual music fan so about the only albums I can think of where I make a note to usually listen to the entire thing rather than individual songs are the Pink Floyd albums Dark Side through The Wall. It's simply amazing stuff, I really couldn't pick a favorite because all of them, Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall are all equally amazing and what's interesting, are also all very different from one another despite being recognizably Pink Floyd. I admit though that the bombast of The Wall has a certain appeal to me. Like The Great Klaid said, I think that albums are the way to go when it comes to music. If you like an artist, you owe it to yourself to seek out their albums instead of sticking to singles and loose songs. I know plenty of people who like a lot of songs by an artist, but haven't taken the time to listen to one of their albums. You'll be missing out on so many songs that way. And indeed, listening to an album is simply the superior experience for most music. Next time you like a song or artist, listen to an album instead. I think everyone has a serious music fan in them. Interestingly, one case where I think listening to the full album is the worse experience is The Wall, but that's just because half of the songs suck IMO.
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Post by GamerL on Sept 3, 2016 4:37:45 GMT -5
I know exactly what you guys mean, I went through a period of time there where I made a note to listen to full albums, but I fell out of the habit of that, it doesn't help that I tend to listen to music when I'm doing something else, so finding the patience to sit and listen to a whole album can be a challenge. But it's something I need to do more often, I know. Interestingly, one case where I think listening to the full album is the worse experience is The Wall, but that's just because half of the songs suck IMO. It's true, The Wall is a little overstuffed, it's not as tight and lean as say Wish You Were Here, but I think it's forgivable because it's the only one that's a full on rock opera with an actual story rather than a vague "concept album" By the way, I wonder how many people around my age are even aware of Pink Floyd? I'm lucky in that I saw the movie of The Wall on VH1 once as a kid, it scared the shit out of me but needless to say phrases like "how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" stuck with me, as did the name Pink Floyd itself. So later when I was older and able to search out music Pink Floyd was one of the first bands I checked out, listening to Dark Side of The Moon for the first time when I was 16 was a seminal experience.
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Post by alphex on Sept 3, 2016 6:34:40 GMT -5
SoR1 and not 2? Shots fired. I'm with him. The SoR1's BGM is more varied, and I like its compositions better, too. Keep The Groovin', Fighting in the Street and the intro theme alone required me to pick SOR1. Go Straight is up there, too, but the intro theme... man, that is IMO one of the most concise pieces of music to envoke a very particular feeling. Describing it with words would result in a piece that takes much longer to read than it does for the piece to convey the sentiment, so, in other words, it is the perfect way to express that feeling, which alone makes it extremely impressive, maybe even perfect, as a piece of art: This could not be said better, this way of expression cannot be improved upon. And then there's the nature of that particular feeling, the whole skyscraper, crime-ridden big city in the 80s, melancholy vigilantism, hopeful desperation... AND THAT'S JUST THE FIRST COUPLE OF NOTES. Really, it speaks to me, who never got into a street fight at all.
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Post by moran on Sept 3, 2016 6:47:09 GMT -5
alphex thanks, same to you for Youthanasia. Interesting pick and great album. Very underrated. And The Great Klaid for saying the words that need to be said and for picking Act II. I've been obsessed with Protomen all year and don't know why I didn't put it on my list.
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Post by alphex on Sept 3, 2016 6:59:54 GMT -5
alphex thanks, same to you for Youthanasia. Interesting pick and great album. Very underrated. It was either that one or So Far, So Good, So What!, and Youthanasia is the more complete album of the two, even if Mary Jane and In My Darkest Hour slay. Rust In Peace is also up there, but most of the songs feel rather technical, whereas Youthanasia is more immediate in its delivery. Also I just noticed that Jason X picked New Found Glory and Senses Fail. Interesting picks. I love Sonny by New Found Glory (yeah, not on that particular album), and whatever their singer does, I gotta figure out a way to copy it, since he's in a moderately succesful band and way in his 30s, but dated both Sherri Dupree and Hailey Williams. Maybe it's the name? Also, speaking of Sherri Dupree, Brand New's "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me" is a great one.
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