Your Top Five Albums

[gene_stanley]

I thought I might start an Album thread:

5. Dresses To Kill (KISS)
4. Born To Run (B. Springsteen)
3. Revolver (The Beatles)
2. The Rising (B. Springsteen)
1. Darkness On The Edge Of Town (B. Springsteen)

as I look at this list I'm struck by how small my scope has become. I love U2, Tom Petty, 70's Corp. Rock, cheesy 80's tunes, and The Rat Pack(ers) too!

Gene

 

[Hunter]

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Blood Sex Sugar Magic By Red Hot Chili Peppers
Good Time By Alan Jackson
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers

no real order

 

[Haggises]

Queen by Queen (possible substitute - Live Killers or Night at the Opera)
Ride The Lightning by Metallica
The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden (or Piece of Mind)
First and Last and Always by The Sisters Of Mercy
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf

If I was taking only 5 till the end of time, I'd take those.

 

[_MementoMori_]

In no order (because I love them all too much):

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (untouchable)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (untouchable)
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly (rotating)
John Frusciante - To Record Only Water for Ten Days (rotating)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (rotating, but only with something else by Tom Waits)

 

[treewhale]

Oh, fun.

Led Zeppelin II
Draggin the Days - The Mahones
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues
Unforgiving Mistress - Corb Lund
From Fresh Water - Stan Rogers

Then Runners Up:
Beck -Odelay
Paul Simon -Graceland
Lipstick Lies & GFasoline - Fred Eaglesmith
Lovesick Broke & Driftin' - Hank 3
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Moxie Frouvous - Bargainville
And Stood there Amazed - Ian Tyson
Blue Horse - The Be Good Tanyas

 

[Luc]

Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Judas Priest - Turbo
AudioSlave - AudioSlave
Nirvana - Nirvana (2002)

 

[_MementoMori_]

Blue Horse - The Be Good Tanyas

Outstanding album! They do the best version of The Cuckoo (The Coo Coo Bird) I've ever heard.

 

[DiG3430]

In no particular order:

AC/DC - Powerage
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Buckcherry - Buckcherry
Green Day - Nimrod

 

[KyMash]

My top five today and in no particular order:

Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love and Death Metal
Junip - Fields
The Growlers - Hung at Heart
Pink Floyd - Relics
Ben Howard - The Burgh Island EP

 

[SmoovD]

Tough calls. Today's picks, no order:

PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
Gov't Mule: Dose
Be Bop Deluxe: Live in the Air Age
Richard & Linda Thompson: I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages

 

[treewhale]

Outstanding album! They do the best version of The Cuckoo (The Coo Coo Bird) I've ever heard.

You bet your sweet-harmonizing-breathy-mumbly-banjo-playing (Edit) Bippy they do!

Their version of "Waiting Around to Die" is my alarm in the morning. I am not a morning person.

 

[Patman27]

I love threads like this one. It is so interesting to see the lists all from one genre vs scattered lists. I'm going to have to find a copy of rain dogs to hear. Well, here are mine

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Black Keys - Thickfreakness
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Thelonious Monk - Alone in SanFrancisco

 

[Mr. Flay]

Oh man, I couldn't choose five is my life depended on it. It doesn't, does it? I mean, if it did, I'd rattle off five but I'd be lying.

 

[Acmemfg]

In no particular order.........

Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
Desperado-The Eagles
Exile on Main Street-The Rolling Stones
Too Far to Care-The Old 97s
The White Album-The Beatles

 

[oc_in_fw]

Led Zeppelin
LZ II
LZ IV
Animals- Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd

 

[ShaveYourSoul]

Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Beck - Guero
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000

 

[gene_stanley]

I too love The Old 97's!

 

[The Knize]

Impossible question, but:

Time (The Revelator)--Gillian Welch
Who's Next--The Who
Sticky Fingers--The Stones
Blonde on Blonde--Dylan
The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle--Springstein or, really, the then unnamed, E Street Band
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

 

[wagstaff]

Oh man, I couldn't choose five is my life depended on it. It doesn't, does it? I mean, if it did, I'd rattle off five but I'd be lying.

+1. Five GENRES would be brutal.

Still.... in the name of play....

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society - Mandance
Television - Marquee Moon
Paul Motian Trio - At the Vanguard

for now.

 

[ShaveYourSoul]

Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Beck - Guero
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000

I just realized I left out a major one

SRV - Texas Flood