The Top 5 Albums Thread!

[Ghost Hip]

Or if you want to be stranded on an island... what albums would you bring?

I decided to make this thread after listening to Noah and the Whale's new CD. So here are mine:

1. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. Nirvana: In Utero
3. The Vines: Highly Evolved
4. The White Stripes: White Blood Cells (mostly because of "This Protector")
5. Daft Punk: Discovery

Feel free to list runner ups!

Noah and The Whale: Peaceful The World Lays Me Down and Smashing Pumpkins: Pisces Iscariot

[ohsojayadeva]

these lists are painful for me, and they're normally top 10. top 5? harsh.

depeche mode - songs of faith and devotion
jeff buckley - grace
tom waits - bone machine
joy division - unknown pleasures
bauhaus - burning from the inside


runner ups:
the cure - pornography
smashing pumpkins - adore, SD
ours - distorted lullabies, mercy
NIN - with teeth
gary numan - pure

and about 100 others im sure

[Gunner Recall]

These threads are usually dangerous, but I'll bite...this place is pretty laid back. There are other bands/albums I'm more into, but I'm going with albums I completely dig front to back...considering I can only have 5.

Brand New - Deja Entendu (props to the local boys for an awesome album during a time of generic victory bands)
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (jack white w/ an entire band. nuff said.)
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (yes there are other songs on this album besides a favor house/blood red summer...)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (first cd I ever bought...cassettes were much cheaper!)
Between the Buried and Me - Colors/colors live (a 64 minutes song split into 8 parts...top album of 2007 and still top of 2008 for me. White walls/ants of the sky made my head explode, and they pull off all of their songs live flawlessly)

Runner up picks are cheating!

Anything involving Iron Maiden, Satch/Howe/Gilbert/Buckethead/John 5, At the Drive In/TMV, Thrice

[glitch]

These threads are usually dangerous

Yeah, but for a completely different reason here.

Talk about serendipity, just two nights ago we re-watched that John Cusack movie -- High Fidelity. I used to be one of those guys: making out my top-5, top-10, top-whatever lists for everything. Uh uh, baby. I finally broke that habit and don wanna go back.

-- glitch.@#$%!

[Seizurema]

No order

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Foxtrot
Yes - Relayer
King Crimson - The Nightwatch (or Discipline :/ depends)
Frank Zappa - Roxy And Elsewhere

Runner's up
Nektar - Recycled
Spock's Beard - Snow
Spock's Beard - The Light
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - Discipline
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
Frank Zappa - The Greatest Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Magma - Mekanik Destructiw Kommandoh
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Close To The Edge
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

Yeah I really couldn't do with just 5.

[smile_man]

No particular order.

Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
Clouds Taste Metallic - The Flaming Lips
You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel - Atlas Sound
Right Now You're In The Best of Hands. And If Something Isn't Quite Right Your Doctor Will Be Here In A Hurry - Bear Vs. Shark
Give It Back! - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Feel Good Lost - Broken Social Scene
The Photo Album - Death Cab For Cutie
We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes - Death Cab For Cutie
You're A Woman I'm A Machine - Death From Above 1979
HEALTH - HEALTH
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Summerteeth - Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Fabulous Muscles - Xiu Xiu

WHAT NOW?

[Tell-Electro]

New Moon- Elliott Smith
Relationship of Commad- At the Drive-In
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?- Metric
So Jealous- Tegan And Sara
Smile- Beach Boys
White Album/Singles from that period- Beatles
You're a Woman I'm a Machine- Death From Above 1979
Help!- Beatles


From the last few posts I guess the Five album rule has gone out the window?

[Ghost Hip]

I guess so

[4str0_p4dt]

lol smile mitch? so alt.

hmm top 5, i guess:

Frances the Mute- The Mars Volta (I could put every TMV album here but i'll just leave it at this one)
Trout Mask Replica- Captain Beefheart
In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
Mirrored- Battles
Freak Out!- The Mothers of Invention (others would include- LP- Holy Fuck, broken social scene- broken social scene, Strawberry Jam- Animal Collective, and many others)

Top 5 ep's:
tremulant- the mars volta
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada- Godspeed you! black emperor
Heads up!- Death from Above 1979
People- Animal Collective
The Locust and Melt Banana Split- The Locust/ Melt Banana (others would be Vaya- At the Drive-In, The Horrors, Is Is- yeah yeah yeahs, planet shhh!, and <<<<<1/4- Strobe Light Individual, to be you and me- broken social scene, many others)

[Ghost Hip]

oooo The Horrors, I'm always afraid to bring them up due to some people are strongly opposed to them.

[wunder rocket]

This is hard but I refuse to break the Top 5 rule. Holy crap this is hard. I feel like if it was Top 5 lately it'd be a whole other list.

No order:
Know Your Enemy by Manic Street Preachers
101 by Depeche Mode
Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths
Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
The Kick Inside by Kate Bush

I also just noticed that 4/5 of those choices were made before I was born or just around when I was born.

[jrmy]

This is a toughie. I think, in no particular order:

In the Valley of Dying Stars - Superdrag
Uncle Anesthesia - Screaming Trees
Painful - Yo La Tengo
Nowhere - Ride
Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans

I may have to revise this forty times over the next ten minutes. We'll see where the mood takes me.

[basti moon]

Svarte Greiner - Knive
Sunn o))) + Boris - Altar
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - The Mirror Man Sessions
Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace
John Luther Adams - Red Arc/Blue Veil

Uprunners
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Sunn O))) - Oracle
Biosphere - Autour de La Lune
Angora Static -
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Everything else by Captain Beefheart, Van Der Graaf Generator or Cinematic Orchestra.

You people have horrible taste in music
I'm kidding

[Communarchy]

Though the Sunn 0)))/Boris split is Sunn's shinning moment, I'd go with Black One over Oracle for solo Sunn. But then again I'm in to the black metal thing, so it's a given for me.

My Personal Top 5 (no order)

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Loveless - MBV
Red - King Crimson
Second Stage Turbine Blade - Coheed and Cambria
Souvlaki - Slowdive

Honorable Mentions

Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Islands - King Crimson
Melon Collie... - Smashing Pumpkins
Kick Out the Jams - MC5 (dare you to find a better live album)
Houses of the Holy - Led Zep
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
Morning Star - Fripp and Eno
Ege Bamyasi - Can (represent)
Just For A Day - Slowdive
Fun House - The Stooges
The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw - Pelican
...and god damn it I have to edit in some Sonic Youth...Daydream Nation and Murray Street.

[Communarchy]

Oh, and I'll second that Tom Wait's Bone Machine way up there and raise you the entirety of Nick Cave's catalogue.