Your Favorite Albums of All Time

[FreeViarga3524]

I didn't know that. Freaking incredible.

[daBurninator]

• ...Is a Real Boy - Say Anything 
• The End is Near Here - Five Iron Frenzy 
• The Sufferer and the Witness - Rise Against
• 12:34 - Authority Zero
• Anthem - Less Than Jake
• Infinity on High - Fall Out Boy
• Head for the Door - The Exies
• Absolution - Muse
• In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
• Phobia - Breaking Benjamin
• Move Along - All-American Rejects
• One-X - Three Days Grace
• Lights Out - Sugarcult
• Brace Yourself for the Mediocre - Roper
• Don't You Fake It - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• All That We Needed - Plain White T's
• Getting Away With Murder - Papa Roach
• The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
• Futures - Jimmy Eat World
• Light Grenades - Incubus
• American Idiot - Green Day
• Good Morning Revival - Good Charlotte
• Destroy to Create - The Flatliners
• Sam's Town - The Killers

[Floyd Pinkerton]

18. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
19. Pink Floyd - The Wall

Putting The Final Cut ahead of the Wall deserves a +1

[tape-leg]

I'm pretty well-versed in everything between Dark Side and The Final Cut and IMHO The Final Cut is the worst from that era.  It has value, but The Wall is a better chunk of music.  I dunno, I haven't listened to the Final Cut in a while.

Doin' this again:

- American Beauty - Grateful Dead
     (The timeless classic, cliché as it may be.)
- Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
     (Because I haven't heard Blonde On Blonde yet.)
- The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
     (Hard to pick one standout album, but I guess it's this.)
- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
     (Same goes for Pavement.)
- Rift - Phish
     (Phish albums don't tend to have as much of the sentimental comfort that albums by other bands have, but Rift is pretty diverse and interesting, and it's their only concept album.)
- Moving Pictures - Rush
     (Rush is hard because every album has a consistent number of great songs.  This tends to be everyone's favorite, though.)
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
     (As of yet I've only listened to '73-'81 Pink Floyd, and I like all five of those albums about equally, and it's really hard to chose just one.)
- The Deep End, Vol. 1 - Gov't Mule
     (A heartwarming tribute to Allen Woody with lots of great collaborations.)
- Anthem of the Sun - Grateful Dead
     (Pinnacle of Dead psychedelia.  Really interesting recording/mixing method.)
- The Yes Album - Yes
     (Very diverse and just plain amazing music.)

There, I actually thought about it this time.

[that_lufis]

A Night at the Opera - Queen
Moving Pictures - Rush
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Agents of Fortune - Blue Oyster Cult
Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
A Day at the Races - Queen
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
The White Album - The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Astro Lounge - Smash Mouth
Who's Next - The Who
Snakes and Arrows - Rush
Book of Dreams - Steve Miller Band

Far from complete.

[Sonic the Werewolf.]

OK, let's change this a little bit. My musical taste has changed a bit over the past two years, so I deleted my old post and remade it. (In no particular order, of course.)

Faith No More- The Real Thing
Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys- Check Your Head
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Nas- Illmatic
Radiohead- OK Computer
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin II
A Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called  Quest- The Low End Theory
Alice In Chains- MTV Unplugged/Dirt (can't decide which one I like more.)
The Fall of Troy- Doppelganger
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
Dethklok- The Dethalbum
Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil
Metallica- ...And Justice For All
The Who- Who's Next
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
The Roots- Do You Want More?!!!??!
Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang
Dream Theater- Images & Words
Megadeth- Rust in Peace
Rush- Moving Pictures
Rush- 2112

There, now I never have to remake it again.

(...Or do I?
...
No, I don't.)

[tape-leg]

My 2008 update.

Rush - Moving Pictures
Yes - Close To The Edge
Grateful Dead - In The Dark
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses

[The Chort]

Let's open up the old iTunes and have a look-see, shall we? I've probably left off one or two that should've been on here, and given a spot to a couple who didn't really make my Top 25, but who cares? It's pretty close. I'll break it down by genre.

Alternative
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Meteora - Linkin Pank
Minutes to Midnight - Linkin Park
Human Clay - Creed
Weathered - Creed

Christian
After the Music Stops - Lecrae
Amped - Clique 116
The Compilation Album - Clique 116
Real Talk - Lecrae
13 Letters - Clique 116
Lifesong - Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns - Casting Crowns
The Collection - Acappella
Heaven and Earth -Acappella
Radiance - Acappella

Classic Rock
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Big Ones - Aerosmith
Back in Black - AC/DC

Country
Greatest Hits - Kenny Chesney
Me and my Gang - Rascal Flatts

Pop
Chasing Daylight - Sister Hazel
Live Live - Sister Hazel

Other
Jurassic Park Soundtrack - John Williams
Jock Jams - Various Artists
Remember the Titans Soundtrack - Various Artists

As you can see, my music tastes are eclectic, to say the least. My favorite artists are well represented here, from the screaming and guitar wailing Linkin Park to the melody driven Sister Hazel. My favorites include Bon Jovi, a singer who's been around for the better part of three decades, to the relatively young stylings of Lecrae and Clique 116, the best Christian rappers in the business, in my opinion.

[FreeViarga3524]

Now with numbers!

1. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. Moving Pictures - Rush
3. Brother, Sister - mewithoutYou
4. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
5. De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
6. Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child - Norma Jean
7. No Sir, Nihilism is not Practical - Showbread
8. Boxer - The National
9. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
10. Crisis - Alexisonfire

[Bonkava!]

1. Moving Pictures - Rush - The first album I ever had by this band. I learned about them... (ogod this'll make me look stupid) from Guitar Hero, and I got the album, and it "Rush"ed right to the top of my list
2. Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants - What, no Flood? This guy must be crazy!
3. Hotel - Moby - I just... really like this album.
4. Population Override - Buckethead - Although most of my favorites of his songs are off of other albums, this is the album that really says "SOLID" to me.
5. Tommy - The Who - Another favorite of mine.
6. John Henry - They Might Be Giants - Yeah, no Flood. Great album, just not my favorite.
7. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse - Bukowski is worth the entire album.
8. Barenaked Ladies Are Me ver. 2.0 - Barenaked Ladies - I was going to put Are Men on here, and then I remembered that Are Men is now sold bundled with Are Me, which is another great album, and decided to include both of them.
9. Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick and 3's and 7's.  Nuff said.
10. Dream Theater - Images and Words - And somehow Take The Time has avoided being put in Rock Band -_-

Those aren't really in an order, but I tried to put them in the best order I could

It's hard for me to decide 10 favorites, though.

[Snakewater]

Numbers later.  I plomise.

1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. Running with Scissors - Weird Al
3. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
4. Room on Fire - The Strokes
5. Flood - They Might Be Giants
6. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Good News for People Who Like Bad News - Modest Mouse
8. Bang Bang Rock and Roll - Art Brut
9. Songs About Jane - Maroon 5
10. Give Me Words to Speak - Aaron Shust

Honorable Mention - Shake the Sheets - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

/you've probably never heard of half of these bands and the other half are probably tastelessly mainstream

[Mr. Teatime]

UPDATED

1. Outside Closer - Hood
2. Phantom Power - The Tragically Hip
3. Goo - Sonic Youth
4. The Bends - Radiohead
5. The Wall - Pink Floyd
6. Absolution - Muse
7. The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
8. Amnesiac - Radiohead
9. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
10. World Container - The Tragically Hip

[tape-leg]

I always try too hard and my lists are always wrong.  This time I'm gonna try to think about what is truly and sentimentally my favorite.

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Phish - Farmhouse
Rush - Moving Pictures
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Rush is so consistent and good at making solid albums that it's almost impossible to choose and standout.  Towards the bottom of the list it gets real hard to choose ones that are really accurate.  I would say the first six are definitely all time favorites and the first nine artists are definitely all time favorites.