What is your absolutely favourite 5 albums of all time?

Haven't seen these list for a while so I made one, also trying to keep up with the generation nowdays, and perhaps build up my vinyl collection.

Feel free to insert album arts as I love those!

This post has been edited by quarantined: Feb 9 2015, 02:37 PM

MY GENRE is from ROCK, METAL, ALTERNATIVE and everything in between.

Therefore,

My TOP 5 favourite albums in no particular order

1) Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold

2) 30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War, the new album rocks too!

3) Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

4) System of a Down - Toxity or Mezmerize

5) Metallica - Master of Puppets


My criteria for choosing the favourite albums would be
a) Almost, if not all, the songs in the albums are great to listen
b) While there maybe some songs in the album that are not that great, they are listenable (if you know what I mean)

Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind


The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing (toss-up between this and Hometowns, also by the RAA)


Keaton Henson - Dear...


Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea


The Wooden Wolf - 14 ballads Op. 1

^whoa NSFW

Anyways, mine. Went through a lot of generics and noises alike, but below heavily influenced and helped improve my playing A LOT

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

This is as much a list of my top albums as it is a list of albums that I will not get tired listening to and which defined my life as a guitarist and musician.

In no particular order:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2 - Scenes from a Memory (1999)

Mr Big - Live in San Francisco (1992)

Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (1998)

Yngwie Malmsteen - Inspiration (1996)

Steve Vai - Fire Garden (1996)

This post has been edited by EnTaroAdun23: Feb 9 2015, 11:01 PM


Attached image(s)

Let me add another 5, cause anything by Dan Swano is magic











Simple but tasteful playing, godly guitar tones in the mix

Appetite For Destruction GnR

Just notice this 5 album always on my phone, car and other media

And Justice For All - Metallica
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity
Abigail II (The Revenge) - King Diamond
Ashes Of The Wake - Lamb Of God

how to choose 5 la...but here we go

and why TS again dont have anything...

This post has been edited by Everdying: Feb 10 2015, 11:01 AM


Attached thumbnail(s)

Cause I can't pick 5 as well.. hahahah. Feel free to post more if you want.
I'm seeing some interesting ones already: Mono, Pain of Salvation, and the Fountain OST

Here's mine, ok I cheat abit.




This post has been edited by quarantined: Feb 10 2015, 03:53 PM

This post has been edited by quarantined: Feb 10 2015, 04:04 PM

since its more free and ez


led zep 4

my all time favorites - on vinyl, cd and hdmedia:

#1 pink floyd: wish you were here


#2 alan parsons project: eye in the sky


#3 led zeppelin: led zeppelin ii


#4 wishbone ash: live dates


#5 jeff wayne: war of the worlds


This post has been edited by AVFAN: Feb 10 2015, 04:36 PM

5 of my more modern choices...

Top 5 playalong records


Drop A#


Drop B, Drop A#


C Std, Drop C


Std tuning, Drop D


Drop B, Open D5 down tuned 1-1/2 steps

I wouldnt say this is my top 5 but the sounds of these albums are sure very clear in my head

I don't even need to post my top 5, they've all been posted already, you guys rock as much as I do!

Ditto.

I would just like to add angra's angels cry.

1. Paranoid (Black Sabbath)



2. Ride The Lightning (Metallica)


3. Killers (Iron Maiden)


4. Electric Tears (Buckethead)


5. Rust In Peace (Megadeth)


This post has been edited by haizeel: Mar 16 2015, 10:36 AM

This. The Seatbelts

Basslines on The Real Folk Blues is

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Mine Top 5
1.Radiohead - Ok Computer
2.Oasis - Whats The Story (Morning glory)
3.The Strokes - Is This It
4.Radiohead - In Rainbows
5.Lagwagon - Lets Talk About Feelings

I listen to a lot of alternative music (well actually I listen to A LOT of diff genres) but here's my general top 5:



Radiohead - Kid A



Radiohead - In Rainbows




Radiohead - Hail To The Thief





Foals - Holy Fire




Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder..

Probably gonna get a lot of hate for this but what the heck.

1. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe

2. Katy Perry - The Complete Confection

3. Lorde - Pure Heroine

4. Lady Gaga - Artpop / The Fame Monster

5. Taylor Swift - 1989

I have only 1 in my mind, Passenger - All the little lights

My top 5 list - mostly Alternative Rock

1) Peterpan - Bintang Di Surga


2) Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)


3) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not


4) Radiohead - Pablo Honey


5) Coldplay - Viva la Vida

wah i saw DT, anathema, pink floyd, srv. good stuffs and erotic cakes too boot. me would add eric johnson's venus isle and ah via musicom.

GNR all the way

I'm more of a metal rock doggy so here goes.
1) My Chemical Romance- Welcome to the black parade (It's my favorite since 2007)
2) Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil
3) Asking Alexandria- The Death of Me
4) Paramore- Brand New Eyes
5) The Pretty Reckless- Going to Hell

Out of all no grunge genre?

1. Pearl Jam - Ten
2. Soundgarden - Superunknown
3. Stone Temple Pilot - Purple
4. Alice In Chains - Dirt
5. Soundgarden - Down on the upside

this one like my niece top album je. especially pretty reckless introduced it to me coz she like the girl. and them antz creeping down there looks legit

STP classic le, i like the vocalist, and when he went to VR i like VR too! but passed my days already i used to listen to soundgarden allthetime during teenage years. and pearl jam, well no need to say lah.

Me too..!! Grunge scene all the way..

Lot of grunge bands previously but not all being introduced into our mainstream. Just like Pearl Jam I BELIEVE most of the ppl in malaysia only realized this band exist when their song 'Last Kiss' keep on playing on radio. And it's not even their own song..!!!

Frustrated.. Sigh

it's an acquired taste also the ones who likes them have undying love, and the one who don't like them will have intense hate and never listening to them ever again, I used to scoff at jazz fusion for being boring and all but after a while listening i can get to appreciating them, at least ppl don't go meh, they're all right. (applies to modern pop and rock songs alike)

This post has been edited by pj_guitarist: Apr 15 2015, 05:25 PM

Ants?

them antz on your banner. my comp screen is bigggg i was swatting them digital antz with contempt when i saw them the first time

Oh~ haha it's jamming out~

Everybody's has to start somewhere you know

My shot at this.....

1) Radiohead - The Bends

OK Computer is one that put this Band on the map, but to me this is the album that started all the groundwork. The purest style of Radiohead music is displayed in every song in this album, minus all the electronica stuff. We all talking about Thom Yorke at the peak of his game, singing passionately without all the murmurings and chantings which eventually became a signature in all those post OK computer albums.




2) Incubus - Morning View

Lost a bit of funk compared to their earlier works, this album opened the doors to commercial success. Nice to Know You and Wish you were here were radio friendly hits but the true gem is Aqueos Transmission




3) A Perfect Circle - Mers Der Nom

When the frontman of Tool decides to go mellow, APC is born. James Maynard Keenan's signature vocals is still very evident in APC, but the heavy riffs are now now replaced with haunting melody and tones which set the backdrop of this album.



4) Nirvana - Nevermind

Alice in Chains' Dirt and Pearl Jam's Ten can be a contender here, but Smells Like Teen Spirit song is too contagious to ignore, it has reach out to more masses than the latter combined.




5) Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Move aside Fred Durst, you totally got owned by the dual vocal combo of the powerful Chester B. and hard rapping M. Shinoda. They took the whole rap metal scene into whole new level, even bursting into audience who doesn't listen to rap and metal in the first place. Nevermind the commercial success, you got to admit, the dual vocals was something refreshing in the scene at that time, the two of them blended together excellently.





Notable shoutouts: All Tool Albums are GREAT!, Foo Fighter's Color and the Shape, Pearl Jam's Ten, Oasis's Whats The Story Morning Glory and RATM!

Don't know if Linkin Park was ever metal enough to be considered metal. I mean, Look at Zach de la Roche and Rage Against the Machine. THAT is rap metal.

LP was too poppy back then, and nowadays they are a lot more poppy.

That being said, my current top 5 are



Death Grips - Exmilitary.

The rapper does not rap. He yells almost all the time, and it just hits me on some sort of visceral primal level. Always admired rappers, but never got into hip hop before listening to this. The energy level is at 11.



Your Old Droog - Kinison

Its a rock themed rap album thats exceccuted very well.



Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Seems every band's second or third album is a darker version of their previous work, but anyways, the Monkeys here give off a very whimsical yet simultaneously dark atmosphere with the instrumentation that suits the songwriting perfectly. In my opinion Crying Lightning is one of the best told made up break up songs, with its metaphors and beating around the bushes.



When you just want to chill, and float on.....



Lyrics are decent on most tracks, but by GOD their guitar work is catchy. Its modern pop rock at its finest.

Boleh tambah lagi tidak? Hehehe

1. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
2. Slayer - Season in the Abyss
3. Heart of a Coward - Hope and Hinderance
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
5. After the Burial - In Dreams

1# The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (1972)
2# Queen - A Day At The Races (1976)
3# The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
4# Ariana Grande - Yours Truly (2013)
5# One Direction - Made in the A.M. (2015)

Honourable Mention :
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train (1956)
- 5 Second Of Summer - 5 Second Of Summer (2014)
- One Direction - Midnight Memories (2013)
- Royal Blood - Royal Blood (2014)
- Ariana Grande - My Everything (2014)
- Queen - Queen (1973)
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1973)
- As Long As The Money Lasted - Royale (2015)

My top 5 fav albums:-

1) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
3) Nirvana - Nevermind
4) Radiohead - OK Computer
5) Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast

I'll tambah I guess.

1) Slint - Spiderland
2) American Football - American Football
3) Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
4) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5) Nas - Illmatic