Top 20 albums for you?

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, The Bags (from Boston) are maybe the second most well know Bags (after the L.A. punk band).

Perhaps not only for me, this Boston hardcore classic:



(can't be a Boston punk without having listened to this a wicked lot.)

[Dandolin]

wicked awesome, that

[LaoWiz]

Wooo!

Lotsa good stuff here.
@Laowiz - I have never dug Naked City, even though on paper I should. Will have to go back to it. Good to see Goat on there as well. That is fucking brutal. Hardest guitar tone ever recorded.

Man, I love the Torture Garden LP, still sounds as fresh as it did way back when it came out. Fav track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXfhO5vkWXg

This is a great album, total slow burn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDP19Vieg7k

This Zeni Geva needs to be on my list, as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5z5KTmEEe0

[Blackened Soul]

Interesting to see Rhythmeen on there - that is in my opinion one of ZZ's best albums and it's crazy underrated.

Yeah I don’t get why it isn’t more loved! Super tuned down Texas blues inspired by vampires, how can you not love that

[Never]

Aww seeing these in your lists warmed my heart:

Melt Banana - Fetch & Duster (UC)
Bedhead - Transaction De Novo (coupleonapkins)
Number Girl's Sappukei & Tera Melos s/t (backwardsvoyager)
Melt Banana - Scratch or Stitch (lordgalvar)

Also very sympatico w/ LaoWiz's list.. damn ton of stuff on backwardsvoyager & LG's lists I don't know, gotta dig in

[Never]

Turns out after reading the thread, I couldn't get back to work until I finished a list --

Alpine Decline - Life's a Gasp
Animal Collective - Feels
Arab on Radar - Yahweh or the Highway
Ashra - New Age of Earth
At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
Bajaga i Instruktori - Prodavnica Tajni
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Boredoms - Super Ae
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Cap'n Jazz - An Alphabetapolothology
Chin Up Chin Up - This Harness Can't Ride Anything
Dear Eloise - any album, all albums
Duster - Contemporary Movement
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Jackie O Motherfucker - Liberation
Les Filles de Illighadad - Eghass Malan
Les Rallizes Denudes - '77 Live
Mainliner - Mellow Out
Melt Banana - Teeny Shiny
Microphones - It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Oxford Collapse - Remember the Night Parties
Rabbit Island - Deep in the Big
The Clash - 3cd box set that my dad had and I stole from him
Yellow Swans - Going Places

Hon. Mentions:
bloodthirsty butchers - kocorono (I mean, its cover is just a picture of a muff)
France - Meltdown of Planet Earth
Laurie Anderson - Big Science (pretty much my first album as a kid, somehow)
Skip Skip Ben Ben - 鏡中鏡 Mirror in Mirror
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire (of Emeralds) - s/t
Zazen Boys III (ffo Number Girl & Beefheart)

[Dapper Bandit]

Some cracking picks on first glance!

In no particular order:

Parliament - Mothership Connection
Painkiller - Guts of a Virgin/Buried Secrets
Chic - C'est Chic
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante
Steve Reich - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira OST
Discordance Axis - Inalienable Dreamless
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Melt Banana - Cellscape
Faraquet - Faraquet
Battles - Gloss Drop
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes
Keelhaul - Subject to Change Without Notice
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Shackman
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar


Shoutouts to
Miles Davis (how do you pick just one?!)
Kendrick Lamar
Biggie Smalls
Gridlink for writing impeccable, top-tier grindcore
All those new-age / sounds of nature albums me mam listened to
David Wise
Koji Kondo
GY!BE
Tortoise AND Jeff Parker

[Chankgeez]

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)

Used to love that Praxis album.

As for Eno, I'll take Discreet Music.

As for Sun Ra (and Miles as well), it's very tough. Maybe every live date from 1960 to 1975 (at least for Miles)?

Based on looks alone, I'll possibly take this Sun Ra:

[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.