What are your personal all-time Top 5 albums?

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Really curious, what 5 albums you guys would pick as your personal all-time favorite / most important / most influencial records.

I'll begin with mine...

1. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
2. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
3. Paradise Lost - Icon
4. Tiamat - Wildhoney
5. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

 

[metropolis_4]

Hmm... this probably changes day to day, but right now this is what I'm feeling (not in any order):

1. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller
3. Les Paul & Mary Ford - The Hit Makers
4. Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted
5. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

That was really hard to narrow down to so few! And actually, I would say "all-time favorite", "most important", and "most influential" are probably 3 completely different lists for me!

 

[fretworn]

Friday night in San Francisco; live w Al, Paco & John
Romantic Warrior, RTF
2112, Rush
The Planets by Gustav Holst
Peter and the Wolf, with Leonard Bernstein, and the New York Philharmonic

Honestly, I could do this all day…

 

[Jarick]

My all time favorite albums, as of right now (aka desert island):

1. Alice In Chains - Dirt
2. Soundgarden - Superunknown
3. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
4. Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain 2
5. Pinegrove - Cardinal

My all time most important albums, as of right now (aka Mount Rushmore +1):

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Van Halen - I
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Nirvana - Nevermind

 

[fretworn]

Almost forgot. Pat Metheny’s going home, live, first cut “Are You Going with Me”

Roland gr8 … used to have a solid patch for that on the AxeFx2. Should rebuild it.

 

[la szum]

Great thread idea. I am gonna Fight Club and get back to ya.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Wow, this is gonna be subject to being edited later, but off the top of my head, and in no order...

Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
Train of Thought- Dream Theater
Permanent Waves- Rush
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John
VH1- Van Halen

 

[hemmelight]

Oof, that’s hard. Here’s the list for today:

Blackwater Park - Opeth
Fleet Foxes (1st album)
Wavering Radiant - ISIS
Lateralus - Tool
Diamond Life - Sade

Bonus: The Universe Smiles Upon You - Khruangbin

 

[mbenigni]

1. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
3. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
4. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
5. Black Sabbath - Sabotage

(After somewhere around my 20th ranking, my tastes are surprisingly eclectic.)

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

1. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
3. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
4. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
5. Black Sabbath - Sabotage

(After somewhere around my 20th ranking, my tastes are surprisingly eclectic.)

Great album, indeed!

 

[Whizzinby]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Hum - You’d Prefer an Astronaut
Deftones - Adrenaline
Queen - II
Oathbreaker - Rheia

 

[surffisherman]

Led Zeppelin II
Van Halen I
Van Halen Fair Warning
Fleetwood Mac Rumors

 

[Bob Zaod]

Wow thats a tough one because (and I was told this by a wise old Gypsy) I am a triple Gemini and thats why I change from day to day. I would normally say the first 5 Black Sabbath albums but I will put some variety in so as not to be boring..

1. Black Sabbath - Vol 4.
2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
3. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
4. Al Dimeola - Elegant Gypsy
5. AC/DC - Powerage

 

[Fireproof]

1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
2. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
3. AC/DC - Back in Black
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
5. The Beatles - White Album

 

[la szum]

5 Albums I could listen to the rest of my life if I only had 5 to listen to. No particular order.

Miles Davis ~~Kind Of Blue
Michael Schenker Group ~~ Assault Attack
Jeff Buckley ~~ Grace
Temple Of The Dog ~~ Temple Of The Dog
Van Halen ~~ Fair Warning

 

[Sleezy E]

Friday night in San Francisco; live w Al, Paco & John
Romantic Warrior, RTF
2112, Rush
The Planets by Gustav Holst
Peter and the Wolf, with Leonard Bernstein, and the New York Philharmonic

Honestly, I could do this all day…

The Planets

Now I'll have Jupiter in my head for the rest of the week

 

[Sleezy E]

Primus - Frizzle Fry
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - DSotM
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
G. Love and Special Sauce - self titled

I like pretty much every song on all of these albums

...I may edit this later....

 

[Stone]

Dayuum that's tough a top 5, i have at least top 50
But

Van Halen Fair Warning/VH1
Frank Marino Live 79
Joe Satriani Crystal planet
Steve Vai Passion and Warfare
Metallica Master of Puppets

but easily can name so many more

 

[DrewJD82]

Man, this is near impossible for me-

Floyd- PULSE
Steve Vai- Fire Garden
Alice In Chains- Dirt
Pantera- Official Live 101
Mastodon- Hushed And Grim

Really, I could put any album by any of those bands up there. Dream Theater’s Scenes From A Memory should probably be on that list because that album was HUGE for me when it came out. My best friend and I didn’t listen to ANYTHING else for 2 straight years, but the albums above had a bigger overall impact on me.

 

[fretworn]

The Planets

Now I'll have Jupiter in my head for the rest of the week

My parents put headphones on me at age 2 or so, and thus I know every note of that album; like deeply … soul deep