Top 20 albums for you?

[goroth]

Gridlink for writing impeccable, top-tier grindcore

Damn straight!

[Big Mon]

1. Black Sabbath-Sabotage
2. Thin Lizzy-Fighting
3. Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell/Mob Rules
4. Rainbow-Rising
5. Black Sabbath-Volume 4
6. Deep Purple-In Rock
7. Fates Warning-Awaken the Guardian
8.Thin Lizzy-Black Rose: A Rock Legend
9.Fairport Convention-Liege and Lief
10. Pentangle-"/Iron Maiden-Killers
11. Mercyful Fate- Melissa/Fates Warning-The Spectre Within
12. Candlemass-Tales of Creation/Nightfall
13. King Diamond-Abigail/Fatal Portrait
14. Queen-"
15. Judas Priest-Unleashed in the East/Thin Lizzy-Live and Dangerous
16. Motorhead- Overkill
17. Mercyful Fate-Don't Break the Oath
18. A Rough Guide to Charley Patton
19. Queen-A Night at the Opera
20. Dokken-Tooth and Nail
...or something to that effect.

[Big Mon]

Oh shit.
This is very very difficult. I've numbered them just to make sure I get 20 in there. But it's not ordered 1-20, if you get my drift.

1 Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2 Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
3 Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
4 Meshuggah - Nothing
5 Gorguts - Colored Sands
6 Ulcerate - Stare into Death and be Still
7 Emperor - Prometheus - The Disceipline of Fire & Demise
8 Alice in Chains - Dirt
9 Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
10 Napalm Death - Apex Predator
11 Strapping Young Lad - City
12 Sepultura - Arise
13 Cult of Luna - Mariner
14 Krallice - Ygg Huur
15 Opeth - Still Life
16 Slayer - Decade of Agression
17 Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
18 Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
19 Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
20 Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

[Invisible Man]

Order not relevant:

1) Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within
2) Meshuggah - Koloss / Chaosphere / anything; they fucking rip
3) Deftones - White Pony
4) Fugazi - End Hits
5) The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
6) Soundgarden - Superunknown
7) At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
8) Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
9) Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
10) The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas
11) Bjork - Verspertine
12) Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
13) Dillinger - Miss Machine
14) Don Caballero - American Don
15) Battles - Mirrored
16) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
17) Bad Brains - Quickness
18) Gojira - Magma
19) Hella - Bitches Ain't Shit but Good People
20) John Frusciante - PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone
21) Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
22) Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

[MrNovember]

That's a difficult question. No real order, but I couldn't cut it down to 20 albums. How about 20 24 artists and their albums with the most impact on me instead?

1) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle
2) Led Zeppelin - IV, Physical Graffiti
3) David Bowie - Low, Ziggy Stardust
4) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks
5) Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps, On the Beach
6) Tragically Hip - Road Apples
7) Nick Cave et al. - Push the Sky Away, Grinderman 2
8) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs, Bone Machine
9) The National - Boxer, Alligator, Sleep Well Beast
10) Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt, I Love You! It's a Fever Dream
11) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky, Summerteeth
12) Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges and Claws, Live in Europe
13) Radiohead - Kid A, Hail to the Thief
14) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero, Downward Spiral
15) Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide, Skelethon
16) King Gizzard - KG, LW
17) Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
18) Fleet Foxes - Shore
19) Ben Frost - By the Throat
20) Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
21) John Prine - Bruised Orange
22) Beck - Guero
23) Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee
24) Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance

[dub]

One album per artist, the most listened to rather than perhaps "best". Chopped it down to 30 from 55. No order other than they came to mind.

• Today Is The Day - Willpower
• Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
• Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun
• Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
• Wipers - Is This Real?
• Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
• The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
• Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
• Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
• Tom Waits - Mule Variations
• Mule - S/T
• Bathory - Hammerheart
• At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
• The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
• High on Fire - The Art Of Self Defense
• Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
• The Mint Chicks - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
• Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
• Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
• Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
• Strapping Young Lad - City
• Boris - Akuma No Uta
• Old 97's - Fight Songs
• Mastodon - Remission
• Angels of Light & Akron/Family - Split
• Neil Young - On the Beach
• The Handsome Family - Through the Trees
• Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
• Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress

[coldbrightsunlight]

I could definitely pick 5-10 of those for my list dub. Great list.

I find this sort of thing impossible but it's interesting seeing what people choose.

[Never]

4) Fugazi - End Hits

Nice, I thought I was the only person that liked End Hits best

I find this sort of thing impossible but it's interesting seeing what people choose.

It really is, I already had to go back and edit mine once (to add jackie o motherfucker, bringing me up to 25)

[Blood_mountain]

In no particular order...

1 - Jawbox - S/T
2 - Elliott Smith - XO
3 - The Beatles - Revolver
4 - Nirvana - Nevermind
5 - Seaweed - Spanaway
6 - Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
7 - Green Day - Dookie
8 - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
9 - Jawbreaker - Dear You
10 - The Beatles - White Album
11 - The Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
12 - Seam - The Problem with Me
13 - Elliott Smith - ST
14 - Fugazi - Red Medicine
15 - Sloan - Smeared
16 - Joy Division - Substance
17 - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
18 - Pixies - Doolittle
19 - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
20 - Radiohead - OK Computer

[Blood_mountain]

Like with most others, these are not in order and also done fairly hurriedly, so it's a mix of all-time classics and current favs

2. Modest Mouse – This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About

Anytime someone says the word "Dramamine" I get that song stuck in my head for a couple of days.

[Warpsmasher]

Of course compilations are allowed! The Bevis and Butthead Experience and Nativity in Black are two ALL time favorites of mine.

I enjoyed those a lot too. Also love the Judgment Night and Spawn soundtracks, and the two Judas priest tribute albums, mostly for the Devin Townsend/SYL content.

Digging so deep into the past just puts me in mind of everything else I was in to at whatever given time...so these are not ordered, with multiples for some, and not selected for overall importance to me in the grand scheme of things, just some stuff I have played a lot over the years and think is tops, and 20 just barely starts it. Tooth and Nail, Somewhere In Time, Live After Death, City, Superunknown, La Sexorcisto are all major classics for me too. VDoP is my favorite Pantera, IX Equilibrium is favorite Emperor, Formulas Fatal to the Flesh favorite Morbid Angel, South of Heaven favorite Slayer, Blues favorite Kyuss, self titled favorite Bungle.

Robert Calvert - Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-veiled Throne of Ultima Thule, Battle Magic
Dev/Null - Lazer Thrash, Necrobestial Sadobreaks
Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipeout & Burn Berlin Burn!
Motorhead - Bastards
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Hawkwind - Zones, The Xenon Codex, Space Bandits, Space Ritual, Warrior on the Edge of Time
Killah Priest - Heavy Mental, The Psychic World of Walter Reed, Planet of the Gods, Rocket To Nebula
Megadeth - Peace Sells through Rust In peace
Metal Church - self titled and Blessing in Disguise
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys part 2 and Chameleon (Helloween-related: Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow, Insanity & Genius, Somewhere Out In Space)
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Kiss - Alive & Alive II
Badlands - Self titled & Voodoo Highway
Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
Fishbone - The Reality of my Surroundings
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth n Ashes
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit & Jenny Death
Overkill - Feel The Fire & Taking Over
The Crown - Deathrace King

[goroth]

Amazing list Warpsmasher!

A whole bunch of them could easily have turned up on my list.
I remember when a buddy of mine busted out the demanufacture cassette and let me borrow his Walkman. It was a holy shit moment.

[dub]

I had a similar moment with an instrumental version of Zero Signal being used in the intro the the PC game Carmageddon.

Also fuck yeah, Sixteen Horsepower!

[goroth]

Yeah! They are one of the most metal un-metal bands out there. Brutal.

[lost in music]

I fiddled around with the order a whole bunch, but I kept wanting to switch things around after the top 5, so I gave up. Top 5 are solid.

1. DJ Food – Kaleidoscope
2. Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
3. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
4. 50 Foot Wave – Power & Light
5. The Cure – Disintegration
6. CHVRCHES – Screen Violence
7. Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
8. Prince – Purple Rain
9. Faith No More – Introduce Yourself
10. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
11. Blondie – Self-titled
12. B-52’s – Self-titled
13. Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion
14. Taylor Swift – Fearless
15. Paramore – Self-titled
16. My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
17. Blonde Redhead – Melody of Perfect Damaged Lemons
18. Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
19. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
20. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk