10-Smash by the offspring
this was the first cd i got into back in first or second grade

9-Something Wild by Children of Bodom
Whether bodom sucks now or not, that was a great CD

8-One of the Boys by Katy Perry
what can i say? im a sucker for katy perry :D

7-Dark Passion Play by Nightwish
It got me into new metal so yeah...

6-In a Flesh Aquarium by Unexpect
AMAZING

5-Dead Heart in a Dead World by Nevermore
makes me hate the government and i love to hate that government

4-This Godless Endeavor by Nevermore
Great CD and a great song. thumbs up nevermore

3-Holographic Universe by scar symmetry
my favorite melodic black metal album yet plus sci fi lyrics are pretty interesting

2-all sonata arctica cd's
they are all pretty much the same idea, but i love it

1-New World Messiah by Nocturnal Rites
all around amazing album

But I've listened to lots and lots of albums. :P I'm just picky I guess.

Well, I don't know. Even with prog I think there are too many repeated ideas on albums, so I'm satisfied with just the best songs on them. Usually the epics, which I feel have more thought and ideas put into them. ^^
(There are exceptions though. Frost*'s latest album only got one "great" song, and that was the shortest one; Toys. Awesome prog pop song. :D)

1Bush(16 stone) this was my first cd i ever bought back in day, so ill start my list here. not really into them anymore.

2Metalica(and justice for all...) every riff is burned into my brain. @metalica plsplspls stop making albums.

3Sage Francis(personal journals) 10 out of 10

4Bob Marley& Wailers(Greatest hits) Irie vibes, who aint' down w/ that?

5Aesop Rock(Labor days) f.r.e.s.h.

6Blind melon(soup) R.i.P Shannon Hoon. soup was even better than the first self titled album.

7Flaming lips(yoshima battles the pink robots) this got me through so tough times.

8Perfect circle(mer de noms)everything from Maynard is gold. interesting fact mer de noms translates to sea of names.
latin i thinks. ( )

9Chris Cornell(Unplugged in Sweden.) im burning a hole in this cd.

10Damien Rice (O)the albums name is O as in Ovaltine.


note that these are albums that are important to me, not my favorites. nor is this in order.

these 10 albums possibly changed my life. changing the way that i see things. ty for this thread ^that was fun.

One of them is The Tipping Point.
It is leading me to read the actual book, and made me
look up Malcolm Gladwell.
I'll brb with more.

10) October Rust - Type O Negative

Probably the first "metal" band i really got into, I just love the sound of this album, the thickness of the bass / guitar sound and the way the drums crash in a semi - eighties sorta way. The song structures are great too, and its humorous, not stupid humorous, but dark humorous.


9) Terria - The Devin Townsend Band

Epic. Everything about this is Epic, whether its a rant like "Earth Day" or a reflective piece like "Nobody Here" it all has a larger than itself feel, a true sense of trascendence.


8) 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Midnight Oil


This may be somewhat dated sonically, but the themes and concepts in the songs are as modern as they come, plus I am a sucker for the nice thick eighties production on this album.


7) The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters


Still a favorite of mine on the basis of its strong, well composed, excellent songs. Really great soft / loud dynamics as well!

6) Augie March - Sunset Studies

Epic (again - I like music of this nature if you couldn't guess it already...) light on the ears, folky in places yet not lacking in weight lyrically or in terms of meaning. It's big open and all encompaqssing like the country it comes from.


5) Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins


I LOVE overwrought concept - ish, double albums with all my might, and this one doesn't disappoint at all. It's got everything i have ever wanted in an album.


4) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

As I said, big time sucker for overwrought concept albums, and this is no exception - packed with Genesis' most inventive, experimental sounding music, and Gabriel's myriad of odd lyrics, this is an instant classic in my mind...

3) Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)


Delves into the minds of stalkers, assassins, criminals and folks who have found themselves on the wrong side of psychological spectrum... and then closes with one of the greatest anti - racism songs of all time, Biko. Classic from start to finish, strives to find new ground in terms of sound amd succeeds enormously.

2) Automatic for the People - R.E.M

So many times this album has pulled me through bad times. Its so subtle, yet intense, and in the times I need it, it even sounds sympathetic, which is often when I call upon it, when I need some sympathy music.


1) Act of Free Choice - David Bridie

Not alot of people will know this one, but its my favorite album of all time, its just got great song structure, a warmth to its sound, a great mixture of electronics, rock and ponderous, storytelling lyrics, as well as political statements about West Papua. Its imagery is so strong, and it doesn't spare a note in some sort of meaningful way... as it fades towards its end, it seems to coocoon you and uplift you and send you on your way inspired. I'd encourage anyone, anywhere to seek it out. It's that good.

Not my favorites, but most important to me.


1. Nevermind - Nirvana

This is the first CD I ever owned. That's why I can't ever review this album objectively, because it brings me back to elementary school on the bus, listening to it on a sh*tty walkman that skipped all the time with crappy headphones that actually went over your head(this is pre-earbud era, people)


2. Revolver - The Beatles

This album was like a sledgehammer in my head. But in a good way. This began my obsession with the Beatles.

3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

This is like Revolver in that it set me off on a completely different musical path. Also, it's my favorite album of all time. Also, it's the only album I've ever shed a tear to without previous circumstances forcing it out of me.

4. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrisette

The first album pounded into my head subconsciously from a parent,. It was from ages 3-8. Whenever I was in the car with my mom, she would blast this.

Has anyone else noticed how good the lyrics are on this album?

5. The Wall - Pink Floyd

This is the first album I ever deeply analyzed, and is also the first album I ever put a giant set of headphones on my head, laid on my bed and turned the lights off and just let it soak into me. Consequently, I instinctively know almost everything in this album, and yet I still don't find it boring.

6. Kid A - Radiohead

This is the most recent I've put on here(in terms of how long ago I first heard it), but this album blew my mind. I'd never heard anything like it. It was the second totally mind****ing album I've ever heard. The first I heard was F# A# (Infinity), but I like this one more.

7. The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground

While not completely mindf*cking, this comes close. Also, when I fell in love with the songs 'Heroin' and 'Venus in Furs', I like to think of that as the starting point for my descent into musical elitism and snobbery.

8. IV - Led Zeppelin

Goddamn son, this is some "getting me into rock and roll" type sh*t right here.

9. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

This is the only album on here that retrospectively I hate myself for liking. But I did. Yup, in Middle School, I was a "Linkin Park" type of person. F*ck.


That's all I've got.

Yes.

That really is a great album. I think it's actually a little underrated in terms of REM albums. I have to say I don't listen to it much any more but when I do it's always in the fall. It's such a fall album.

I thought it sucked too but I never cried over it.

You need to grow some tougher marbles dude.

lol.

Hope you didn't cry as much as the singer.

...or maybe davey's just a little more secure in his masculinity than you...

You ==> :bonkhead: <== me

Why are you guys getting mad at Sam? He's only speaking the truth: "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" is one of the ****ing worst albums ever made, yet grown men who scratch their heads at the lyrics of masterpieces like Yes's Close to the Edge cut off their own nutsacks for Neutral Milk Hotel. And lets not even mention all the hype that sprung up after Pitchfork's review a few years back...:crazy:

...but thats a topic for another thread, lol. :D

This will probably change a bit in a few months, but here it goes.

10. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
9. Chuck Berry - The Very Best Of
8. The Jam - Compact Snap! (a compilation album, I know, but it was the first Jam album I got and opened my eyes to the group. And it's still the best "best of" album I've ever heard.)
7. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV
6. The Who - My Generation
5. Blur - Parklife
4. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
3. Bob Dylan - Bringing or All Back Home
2. The Kinks - Arthur (or the Decline or Fall of the British Empire)
1. The Beatles - Revolver

You might have a point if this was a thread about "best" or "worse" albums. Re-read what this thread is supposed to be about...

...or maybe it was a joke. Give it a rest already.

Actually, when I cry to NMH it's usually soft and sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Bright Eyes and Elliot Smith....

They are the 2 greatest bands in history

10. Silverchair "Frogstomp"-1995
Daniel's lyrics were simular to what i was feeling at the time..
9. Disturbed "The Sickness"-2000
The first "Nu Metal" album I bought. My friends and I would just blast it when we were walking(we always had a stero with us for some reason)
8. All-American Rejects "Move Along"-2005
Wow the first time I heard them I was like "Wow these guys are ***." Well now since I have been listening to them I think they are really talented. Also me and my friend used to just play it even though I hated it.
7. Mushroomhead "XIII"-2003
I got this album last year for my birthday. It got me through a lot of stuff that my friend was doing. Made me lose a couple of friends too (They liked Slipknot) and got me into Rap-Core.
6. KoRn "Coming Undone"-2005
I used to listen to this everyday when I got home from school in the 6th grade. It got me through my homework and people at school
5. Nirvana "Nevermind"-1992
I hate this album...but it got me into Nirvana. It was too mainstream but my friend(which died last year) showed me it so it will always be here even though I hate it.
4. Pearl Jam "Ten"-1991
Jeremy..that song is like my life right I wanted to commit suicide so much last year..luckly Pearl Jam Nirvana and Alice in Chains came to me in time.
3. Alice in Chains "Dirt"-1992
This album is just a masterpiece. Got me through my 3rd suicide attempt.
2. All-American Rejects "All-American Rejects"-2001
This album surprised me. Because it was the first ever Pop-Punk album I have listened too. So that changed me.
1. Nirvana "In Utero"-1993
This album changed me...Nirvana changed me into a depressed grunge freak that wants to commit suicide just doesn't have the balls to do it. Ask any of my friends...in Middle School I was like so happy and go luckey then in 8th grade when my friend and dog died...I started to listen to Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's talent..and it has changed me forever..I dont listen to Nu-Metal anymore now I listen to Grunge.."In Utero" is the best ablum ever made.

Cool. How about you make a 10-albums list...

Not going to bother with ten, so here's five.

5. Madvillain - Madvillainy
Got me into hip-hop, it's as simple as that.

4. Green Day - American Idiot
Sure their earlier stuff is better, but this is the only one I remember. I spent so many hours just listening to this as much as I could when it came out.

3. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
Got me into music.

2. Muse - Absolution
Probably the only album I (secretly) still like now just as much as I did 6 years ago.

1. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Do I really need to explain?

Extremely far from my current music taste but I suppose that's just as well.

Very nice choices all 'round, including your No. 1!!!

Bit of an overstatement dont you think? Yes, its hyped to high heaven, and overrated, but its still a fine album.

I cant help but think people lay hate upon this album because its somehow cool to do so.

Brand New - Deja Entendu
I didn't even know the word "emo," I just really appreciated the diversity and emotion of the songs, as well as a lot of the lyricism. I listened to the CD until it wore out.

Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
I had heard a couple songs before by Thrice, and besides Deadbolt, none really inspired me to buy a cd. I ended up getting this CD out of some pizza box deal, and couldn't put it down.

The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade
This was my introduction to alternative fused with electronic... or however you want to classify them. The CD sat on a shelf for a while, and it wasn't until I needed a new CD for my car that I realized the catchiness and playability of this CD.

Franz Ferdinand - Self Titled
It's just danceable. Plain and simple. Totally upbeat. I fell in love with Auf Achse.

Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler
So this was like... end of junior high school. At the time, it was an awesome CD, and reinforced my desire to play drums. This was before I realized the entity that was Neil Peart.

Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window
Who knew piano rock could be fun?

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Again. I had no idea of the stupid concept that was "Emo." It was just a good collection of great songs.

AFI - Sing The Sorrow
I had known about AFI for a bit, but I was never into a lot of their more punk songs (discounting cruise control.) but they caught my attention with The Art Of Drowning's "The Days of the Phoenix." When Sing The Sorrow came out, I realized that the whole atmosphere of this CD was awesome. Then came decemberunderground, which was a total letdown.

I could post a couple more, but they'd likely just blend in with the other bands. Jimmy Eat World, No Use For A Name, GOB. I've never been a huge classic rock fan.

10. ZAO - All Else Failed
9. Yes - Close to the Edge
8. Delton 3030 - Deltron 3030
7. Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
5. The Beatles - Revolver
4. White Zombie - La Sexocisto
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
2. Rush - 2112
1. King Crimson - In the Court

I used to love this album so much back in the day haha. Good memories.

1. Led Zeppelin 4 CD compilation
My dad had this and a lot of their tapes as well. I just remember loving CD 3. Achilles Last Stand, Kashmir, Trampled Underfoot were my 3 favorite. I didn't even understand how great this band was but I just completely loved them and played these CD's over and over.

2. Deltron 3030
I was very big into hip hop when I was younger and I believe this was the first CD I owned (besides Baha Men). The title track blew my mind when I first listened to it and I think it was the first time I fell in love with music.

3. Journey - Greatest Hits
Listening to this made me want to become a singer. Every song perfectly blends pop with great musicianship and this album was my first foray out of 70s classic rock and 90s hip hop.

4. Brand New Deja Entendu
I couldn't ever understand why I loved this band so much. I certainly wasn't impressed by the technical skill and didn't think anything about them was that great. But I couldn't stop listening. This album made me realize current rock music is being made in the world and it's music I can enjoy.

5. Blackalicous - Nia
Just a purely amazing album that I couldn't stop listening to for a very long time.

6. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
I know just about every word to every song on this album. So many memories go along with it.

7. Pink Floyd - The Wall
Blew my mind. I can laying on the floor in my living room blasting Comfortably Numb. I was transported to a different world as I became the music.

8. Bone Thugs & Harmony - East 1999 Eternal
I was into this album when I was about 4 years old. Never outgrew it.

9. Saosin - Translating the Name
Where Journey made me want to become a singer, I actually became one when I was so fascinated with Anthony Green and this band. Seven Years has a couple hundred plays on my computer. As I got more and more into hardcore music, I found bands I was disappointed with. Saosin resurrected me into the genre and I stayed for quite a while.

10. Lion of the North - The Compass Calls
Only 4 songs but it got me into emo music. I wrote my college essay about this band. I still can't stop listening to them.

These are great albums. I proudly own both.

Agreed, this album is in my top 10 somewhere. Though a couple of the tracks are kind of corny.

In no particular order:

The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth.
I remember listening to 30 second samps of songs on this album over and over again on iTunes. I didn't really like what I was hearing, but for some reason I kept wanting to listen. When I listened to the full album, it didn't have that old Strokes feel that I came to love, but I still kept listening. Every run through I gave it, I slowly began to like it more and more, until I eventually loved it. Its important because it expanded my musical tastes a bit to more experimental music. Sure, the album wasn't extremely experimental, but it was a step towad listening to more innovative, different music.

Dillinger Escape Plan: Irony is a Dead Scene.
I can't believe how I discovered this band. I remember looking through some playlist on iTunes with songs selected by the vocalist from AFI, which was one of my favorite bands at the time. One of Dillinger's songs was on the playlist, and as soon as I heard the 30 second sample, I instantly became obsessed. The band had that chaos and complexity that I always wanted to hear more of in the current bands I liked. The reason I put this Dillinger album down in particular is that it had Mike Patton doing vocals on it. After hearing the album, I checked out who Mike Patton was, which eventually led me to discovering Mr. Bungle. Which leads me to...

All of Mr. Bungle's albums.
I discovered the band and wanted to buy their albums, but I had to leave with my family for a vacation in California. I ended up buying the albums while we were vacationing there and listened to them almost religiousley. The long car rides to get each place gave me alot of time to listen. Every time I listened to the band, I liked them more and more.

All of Hella's albums.
Like Mr. Bungle, it wasn't just one particular album, its the entire band. This band got me into even more Noisy, experimental and mathy rock.

whoa, what?
i love that ep, what was your essay about exactly

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Greatest Hits ------- Lynyrd Skynyrd

a great compliation of Skynyds music. Every single song is good, not a dud on the whole album, only thing that could make it better was if they had added Four Walls of Raiford and Was I Right Or Wrong.

2. Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix ------ Jimi Hendrix

Actually, all of my Jimi Hendrix albums tie for second. I have to select this album from all of my Jimi Hendrix albums solely because it overall has the MOST of my favorite songs on it. It leaves out many many great songs less recognized but it overall is the best.

3. Electric Ladyland ------ Jimi Hendrix

A lot more on the softer, more emotional side of Jimi's music. Love what he does on this album. Gypsy Eyes is masterpiece. He changes it up with a great drum intro and the lyrics are deep and well thought out. Overall, an album by Jimi that should be put into a museum.

4. Waylon Jennings Greatest Hits ------- Waylon Jennings

Best country music album ever made. Full of good rhythm. This album is what country music is all about. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way is a song that really highlights why Waylon broke away from the Nashville crowd and did his own thing. I have yet to play this album and have someone not like it.

5. Alice In Chains Unplugged ----- Alice In Chains

Very different direction from their heavier stuff like Facelift and Dirt, but they pulled it off beautifully. Jerry Cantrell's guitar skill and music writing skill really stands out in this album. I love this album also because you can really HEAR Layne Staley's voice. In some of the heavier albums, it seems to get drowned out at times. I would suggest anyone who likes this albums to get the music video of them live. its worth seeing them in action.

6. Led Zeppelin (the one with the flying zeppelin on the front) --- Led Zeppelin

I like this album the best of all my Zeppelin albums because of it's blues tendency. Babe Im Gonna Leave You gives me goosebumps when i listen to it. Plant puts so much feeling and emotion in it and Page matches it with his guitar skill and together they are amazing. I Can't Quit You Baby is especially good and should get more recognition than it does. Many more great songs on the album.

7. Into the Wild Sountrack ----- Eddie Vedder

Just Eddie Vedder's voice, and an acoustic guitar. What more could you want?

7. Willie & Family Live ----- Willie Nelson

Willie at his best. Great guitar playing, deep touching lyrics (Red Headed Stranger, If You Could Touch Her At All), then on the other hand, some real hard core honky tonk tunes (Whiskey River, I Gotta Get Drunk). I guarentee if people would listen to this album they would like Willie Nelson.

8. Above ------ Mad Season

Its a shame this was Mad Season's only album, because they were an amazing group. All of the songs are great on this album. Their sound was very unique and different from Layne Staley's former stuff. Mark Lanegans' voice adds a nice touch and so do the awesome guitar riffs and bongos. I would highly suggest this album to any Mark Lanegan and Layne Staley fans.

9. Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits ------- Fleetwood Mac

I'm a huge Fleetwood Mac fan and it is because of this album. Its got all of Fleetwood Mac's good songs EXCEPT Gold Dust Woman, and The Chain, and thats saying something because Fleetwood Mac has alot of great songs.

10. The Doors ------ The Doors

Great album by The Doors. It has alot of Jim's more physcadelic tracks on it with more off-beat and crazy lyrics. That is why i like it so much.

^ Greatest hits albums are frowned upon in these types of threads. Sort of like cheating.

Not a bad list though.

oh, my apologies. :(

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Rust In Peace - Megadeth

L.D. 50 - Mudvayne

Continent - The Acacia Strain

All Systems Decay - Entropy

502 - Blackroom

And They Shall Take Up Serpents - Byzantine

Ascendancy - Trivium

10. Digitalism - Idealism
It's this album that opened doors to me, not just doors to electronic music but rather doors to openmindedness, before that I didn't listen to much more than heavy metal.

9. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Dark, cold, but somehow comforting. It helped me through some difficult periods in my life.

8. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
My first introduction to one of the most innovative artists the world has known. The first day I heard it was after a teacher in school suggested it to me. I came home and I listened to it for the rest of the day, completely amazed by it's beauty.

7. Rush - Moving Pictures
I read about this album somewhere on the internet, and decided to buy it as soon as I could find it. The next day I picked it up from a secondhand record shop and put it on my turntable. I loved their sound, light but very touching. This was the album opening the doors to Progressive music, and soon albums by Camel, Genesis and Yes followed.

6. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Their first, best and last album they ever recorded, Never Mind The Bollocks got home with me after I had seen it in a store, and it grabbed my attention by the pink letters on a flashy yellow background. I played it a lot in my early teens, singing the complete album and pretending to be Johnny Rotten. I rediscovered it about a year ago, and saw them live in the summer. Critics were bored, but I had the time of my live in the mosh pit shouting along hundreds people who felt the same way.

5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
I remember hearing Like A Rolling Stone on the radio and searching for one of his records in my dad's collection. I found Blonde On Blonde and put the first disc on my turntable. It still remains my number one album he ever recorded. And I'm very thrilled to see hem in April, when he's coming to Belgium.

4. Led Zeppelin - Remasters
This is a compilation album, but it was the first time I really listened to them, on our way to France.

3. The Doors - The Doors
Their debut record, which has always intrigued me with it's dark sound and, more importantly, Morrison's incredible voice. Throughout my years of growing up, this is probably the only album that I've been listening too since I was just a little boy.

2. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young at it's best, I remember nights lying awake just listening to this record, and not being able to understand that a song like My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) was only performed by one man, one guitar and one harmonica.

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
This is my favourite album of all time. It grabbed me when I was about 11 years old when my brother gave it to me. The energy and skill displayed in this album still amazes me and it remains most played album out of my entire life.

Not bad not bad. Just curious, if you were a teenager when NMTB came out what does that make you now?

No, it wasn't released when I was a teen, I bought it when I was in my early teens, I'm 18 for the moment ;)

Ministry - Lay Lady, Lay
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

and more other songs :)

1. Achtung, Baby - U2
2. Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths
3. The Joshua Tree - U2
4. Give Em Enough Rope - The Clash
5. Vs. - Pearl Jam
6. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
7. The Bends - Radiohead
8. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
9. In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra
10. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

It's more just a list of my 10 favorites...but I suppose they're important to me!