Your favourite albums ever?

 Here's my favourite albums of all time. It's strictly Rock albums and doesn;'t contain Classical or Jazz. I am a huge fan of music critic Piero Scaruffi 
http://www.scaruffi.com/ 

1. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
2. The Doors - The Doors
3. Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
4. Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano
5. Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
6. Lorca - Tim Buckley
7. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
8. Faust - Faust
9. Good Son - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
10. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground
11. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
12. Uncle Meat - Frank Zappa
13. Y - The Pop Group
14. Fare Forward Voyagers (Solider's Choice) - John Fahey
15. Not Available - The Residents
16. Nail - Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
17. Hosianna Mantra - Popul Vuh
18. Fire of Love - The Gun Club
19. Suicide - Suicide
20. Parable of Arable Land - Red Krayola
21. Spiderland - Slint
22. Good - Morphine
23. Desertshore - Nico
24. Neu! - Neu!
25. Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters

Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens Of The Stone Age
Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age

Dream Theater -  Scenes From A Memory
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Opeth - Ghost  Reveries
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls 
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Daft Punk - Discovery
KISS - MTV Unplugged
Tool - 10,000 Days
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 

And many more...

Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane over the sea
Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Modest Mouse-  The Moon & Antarctica
Radiohead- Ok Computer
 
and a lot others

You know what's weird?  Given the fact that Tool is my all-time favorite band, you would THINK that I'd list one of their albums in my top five...but I can't.  Why not?  Well...because the other five that I listed are just way better to me.  =  /

Lostprophets - Fake Sound of Progress
Lostprophets - Start Something
Rise Against - Siren Song of Counter Culture
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Weezer- The Blue Album
The Pixies- Doolittle 
 

Tool - Aenima 
Dredg - Live at the Fillmore 
Weezer - Blue Album 
Deftones - Adrenaline 
Yeasayer - All Hour Symbals 
Pearl Jam - Versus
Radiohead - Kid A 
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication 
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged 
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt  
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
 
In no particular order.

I'm going to try to stick to more recent stuff; listing the classics would take too much time, so I'll only throw in some of those.
 
The Antlers - Hospice
St. Vincent - Actor
The Clash - London Calling (Favorite classic album ever)
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Strokes - Room on Fire
The Velvet Underground - Loaded (This is an amazing album; I sometimes prefer it to their debut, however, I own every VU album ever recorded)
Daft Punk - Discovery
Arcade Fire - Funeral 
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Roxy Music - Avalon
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal (Shocking, I know)
Nas - Illmatic (Only decent thing he ever did)
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
 
That's just a few.

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations 
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me 
Living End - White Noise 
Radiohead -Amnesiac  
Rise against - Appeal to reason 
Billy Talent - Billy Talent 
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American 
RHCP - Pretty much all of them  
Head Automatica - Decadance 
LightSpeed CHampion - Falling off lavender Bandwagons  
Pendulum - Hold You Colour 
Weezer - Blue Album  
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll rebel to anything 
Say Anything - Everything, ever 
Bloc Party - Intimacy 
Florence and the machine - Lungs 
Modest Mouse - We were dead before the ship even sank 
Forever the sickest kids - Underdog alma mater 

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins 
Nevermind by Nirvana 
Blue Album by weezer 
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park 
Full Collapse by Thursday 
Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World  
Static Prevails by Jimmy Eat World
Toxicity by System of a Down 
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket by Blink 182

In Silico - Pendulum 
Billy Talent III - Billy talent 
Billy Talent II - Billy talent 
Black holes and revelations - Muse 
American Idiot - Green Day 
Kasabian - Kasabian 
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian 
Only by the Night - Kings of Leon 
Because of the Times - Kings of Leon 
Rage Against The Machine - RATM 
Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy 
Fat of the Land - The Prodigy

1. Soulja Boy Tell'em - Crank That
2. Fall Out Boy - Take this to the Grave
3. Pink - I'm not Dead
4.  Rolling Stones - Aftermath
5. Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer

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• Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
• Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
• Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
• Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
• Desire - Bob Dylan
• John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
• Modern Times - Bob Dylan
• Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan
• The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
• After The Goldrush - Neil Young
• Harvest - Neil Young
• Live At Massey Hall 1971 - Neil Young
• Tonight's The Night - Neil Young
• Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House - Neil Young

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" @Br3adfan said:

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• Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
• Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
• Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
• Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
• Desire - Bob Dylan
• John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
• Modern Times - Bob Dylan
• Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan
• The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
• After The Goldrush - Neil Young
• Harvest - Neil Young
• Live At Massey Hall 1971 - Neil Young
• Tonight's The Night - Neil Young
• Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House - Neil Young

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Awesome list. Nice to see a fellow Dylan fan (and by the looks of it a rather rabid Dylan fan). What do you think of "Love and Theft" & Oh Mercy? "

  
1.System of a down-Toxicity 
2.Nirvana-Bleach 
3.Metallica-St.Anger 
4.Rammstein-Sehnsucht 
5.Rammstein-Völkerball 
6.Guns 'n' Roses-Appetite for Destruction 
7.System of a down-Hypnotize 
8.Metallica-Master of Puppets 
9.Iron Maiden-Piece Of Mind 
10.Megadeth-United Abominations 
11.Ozzy Osbourne-No More Tears 
12.Trivium-The Crusade 
 
 
And a tons of more,but those are awesome.

1. Electro-Shock Blues - Eels
2. Kid A - Radiohead
3. Nevermind - Nirvana
4. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
6. Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilema
7. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
8. Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age
9. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
10. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
 
Maybe.

" 1. Electro-Shock Blues - Eels 2. Kid A - Radiohead 3. Nevermind - Nirvana 4. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers 5. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine 6. Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilema 7. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun 8. Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age 9. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet 10. Opeth - Ghost Reveries Maybe. "

Radiohead - In Rainbows 
Radiohead - Kid A 
Radiohead - Hail to the Theif  
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Generic, I know, but you can't deny it) 
Pink Floyd - Animals 
Arcade Fire - Funeral (Neighborhood #3 FTW) 
Blur - Think Tank 
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven 
Led Zeppelin - III 

1. Afro - Dizzy Gillespie
2. Live at the Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers
3. The White Album - The Beatles
4. With Strings - Charlie Parker
5. Nothing Shocking - Jane's Addiction
6. Bossanova - The Pixies
7. Layla and Other Love Songs - Derek & the Dominos
8. Take 5 - Dave Brubeck Quartet
   
9. Everyone Knows this is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
10. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe - Jimmy Smith
11. Quadrophenia - The Who
12. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
13. Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
14. Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.
15. Check Your Head - The Beastie Boys
16. Version 2.0 - Garbage
17. What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis
18. The Birth of Cool - Miles Davis
19. Abby Road - The Beatles
20. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
    

A few of my favourites are:
 

• Patrick Wolf - 'Wind in the Wires'
• Biffy Clyro - 'Vertigo of Bliss'
  
• Arcade Fire - 'Funeral'
• Brand New - 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me'
• Bon Iver - 'For Emma, Forever Ago'
• The Postal Service - 'Give Up'
• The Cure - 'Galore'
• Band of Hoses - 'Everything All of The Time'
• Death cab for Cutie - 'Narrow Stairs'
• Radiohead - 'Ok Computer'
• The Shins - 'Oh, Inverted World'
• TV on the Radio - 'Dear Science'
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Fever to Tell'
• Elbow - 'Cast of Thousands'
  

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

" Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens Of The Stone Age Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age "

My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Weezer (Blue Album) - Weezer
Thriller - Michael Jackson
License to Ill - Beastie Boys
Guero - Beck
Odelay - Beck
Sea Change - Beck
Comfort Eagle - Cake
Chameleon Circuit - Chameleon Circuit
Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
The Police - The Police
Myths, Legends,  and Other Amazing Adventures, Vol. 2 - The Aquabats
The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
 
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. They're not in any particular order by the way.

My Favorite Albums are:  

• Black Sabbath- Paranoid
• AC/DC- Back in Black
• AC/DC- Highway to Hell
• Metallica- Metallica (aka The Black Album)
• Tom Petty- Wildflowers 
  

" Dream Theater -  Scenes From A Memory Metallica - Master Of PuppetsOpeth - Ghost  Reveries Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls  Porcupine Tree - Deadwing "

" You know what's weird?  Given the fact that Tool is my all-time favorite band, you would THINK that I'd list one of their albums in my top five...but I can't.  Why not?  Well...because the other five that I listed are just way better to me.  =  / "

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" Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning "

Supercar - 'Highvision' + 'Three Out Change'
Number Girl - 'School Girl Distortional Addict' + 'Sappukei'
Foo Fighters - 'The Colour and the Shape'
Radiohead - 'Kid A'
Brand New - 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me'
Weezer - 'Pinkerton'
Jimmy Eat World - 'Clarity'
bloodthirsty butchers - 'Banging the Drum'
Cassino - 'Sounds of Salvation'
Northstar - 'Is Thing Thing Loaded?'
Jeff Buckley - 'Grace'
My Bloody Valentine - 'Loveless'
Deftones - 'White Pony'
The Pixies - 'Surfer Rosa + Come On Pilgrim'
Rage Against the Machine - Self-titled
Thursday - 'Full Collapse'
toddle - 'dawn praise the world'
Utada Hikaru - 'Deep River' + 'Ultra Blue' + 'Heart Station' (Love these equally. Relaxes me so much.)

If you mentioned hospice by the antlers, any radiohead album, funeral by arcade fire, pinkerton by weezer, or loveless by My Bloody Valentine, I consider you a friend. If you mentioned 2 or more of these, you are my hero.

Huh.  For some reason I expected way more heavy metal bands.
 
Some of my favorites would be:
 
Pretty much every Radiohead album
Modern Life is Rubbish - Blur
Achtung Baby - U2
Permanent Waves - Rush
Pretty much all of The Clash
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello
The Eraser - Thom Yorke
The Extremist - Joe Satriani
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

Master of Puppets-Metallica

...And Justice for All-Metallica

The Future-Leonard Cohen

Almost Human-Voltaire

Best of Queen- Queen (Yeah, yeah, it's a best of, but I really don't care, I can listen to any song on it and be happy)

Dirt-Alice in Chains

Ten-Pearl Jam

Bat Out of Hell-Meatloaf

Ten Thousand Fists-Disturbed

Bavarian Breadfruit-Mazzy Star

Yellow My Sky Captain-Pazz Lechtanin

Lateralus-Tool

Thirteenth Step- A Perfect Circle

And what the hell I'll throw in damn near anything Kris Kristofferson has written and performed.

@SenorTinman said:

" My Aim is True - Elvis Costello This Year's Model - Elvis Costello Weezer (Blue Album) - Weezer Thriller - Michael Jackson License to Ill - Beastie Boys Guero - Beck Odelay - Beck Sea Change - Beck Comfort Eagle - Cake Chameleon Circuit - Chameleon Circuit Mellon Collie and The Infinite Space - The Smashing Pumpkins The Police - The PoliceMyths, Legends,  and Other Amazing Adventures, Vol. 2 - The Aquabats The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists That's all I can think of off the top of my head. They're not in any particular order by the way. "

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Pixies - Doolittle
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Black Keys - Magic Potion
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
Thom Yorke - Eraser
They Might Be Giants - Flood
The White Stripes - Elephant
Beck - Sea Change
TV on the Radio -  Return to Cookie Mountain
Television - Marquee Moon
The Strokes - Is This It?
Franz Ferdinand -  Franz Ferdinand
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

Right now I'd have to go with
 

• Hide Your Face - hide
• Psyence - hide
• Ja, Zoo - hide with Spread beaver
• Use Your illusion I - Guns n' Roses
• Lies - Guns n' Roses
• Appetite for Destruction - Guns n' Roses
• Blue Blood - X JAPAN
• Dahlia- X JAPAN
• Jealousy - X JAPAN
• Goover - High and Mighty Color
• Vulgar - Dir En Grey
• Uroboros - Dir En Grey
• Requiem: Floral Edition - Phantasmagoria
• Racial Mixture - Screw
• Noble - Versailles
• Vollage sans Retour - Malice Mizer
• Dix Infernal - Moi Dix Mois
• Bad - Michael Jackson
• Ruined Kingdom - Hizaki Grace Project
•  Gensou Ningyou Kigeki~MAGICAL TRICK DOLLS CINEMA~ - Pure Q&A
• Magnya Carta - An Cafe
• Primitive Impulse - Dope Headz
• The White Album - The Beatles
• Abbey Road - The Beatles
• Never Mind the Bollocks....- Sex Pistols
  

1.) Ride the Lightning- Metallica 
2.) The Dark Side of the Moon: Pink Floyd 
3.) Master of Puppets: Metallica 
4.) The Great Southern Trendkill: Pantera 
5.) The Marshall Mathers LP: Eminem 
6.) Ixnay on the Hombre: The Offspring 
7.) Break the Cycle: Staind 
8.) Load: Metallica 
9.) Appetite for Destruction: GNR 
10.) At Folsom Prison: Johnny Cash

Way way way too many to name off, but here's some of my all time favorites:
 
High Tide's Sea Shanties - 1969
Lucifer's Friend s/t - 1970 
Icecross's s/t - 1973
Destruction's Sentence of Death - 1984
Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness - 1989 
Atheist's Piece of Time - 1989
Obituary's Cause of Death - 1990 
Coroner's Mental Vortex - 1995
Opeth's Still Life - 1999
Onslaught's Killing Peace - 2007