The Top 5 Albums Thread!

[hasblueshoes]

Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts
The Clash -London Calling
The Ergs! - Dorkrockcorkrod
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Why not?

[alexofoam]

in no particular order .....

And yes... I ended up with a top 10 list.

In Return - Torche
Silver EP - Jesu
Jane Doe - Converge
1 - Black Heart Procession
Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
Courtesy And Good Will Toward Men - Harvey Milk
Fantastic Planet - Failure
Relationship Of Command - At The Drive-In
Smile - Boris
October Language - Belong


Honorable Mentions

Purple - Miroslav Vitous,
EYEWTKAS - Glassjaw
Ample Fire Within - Ascend
Altar - Sunn 0))) & Boris
HEX: Or Printing In The Infernal Method - Earth
Minus The Herd - Ion Dissonance
Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
Misery Is A Butterfly - Blonde Redhead
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
I'm A Bird Now - Antony And The Johnsons
Nothing - Meshuggah
There's No 666 In Outer Space - Hella
Drum's Not Dead - Liars
Fahrenheit Fair Enough - Telefon Tel Aviv
Stories For Owls - Badgerlore
Skullgrid - Behold The Arctopus
Lon Gisland - Beirut

[effetebomb]

Hawnay Troof - Islands of Ayle (deluxe)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - OSIRUS ADVANCE: The Definitive ODB
Captain Ahab - After The Rain My Heart Still Dreams
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Hawnay Troof - Dollar and Deed

[my bloody television]

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Beatles - White Album
Animal Collective - Feels

[dragline]

This is so difficult it's practically impossible.

However, in no particular order, 5 albums that I consider amongst my favourites...

1. Hate Songs in E Minor - Fudge Tunnel
2. Pornography - The Cure
3. Red Medicine - Fugazi
4. Atomizer - Big Black
5. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

Other notable mentions also go to:

Faith - The Cure
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
White 1, White 2, Oracle and Black One - Sunn O)))

[smile_man]

Skullgrid - Behold The Arctopus

Srs?

[J-Fuzz]

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Dinosuar Jr - Dinosaur
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

[gishlullmoon]

at the moment

smashing pumpkins- can't decide ---gish siiamese dream mellon collie
goo goo dolls- super star carwash
blind melon- soup
dio - diamonds (199'2 best of dio cept it doesn't have "mystery on it"
tie between tripping daisy- i am an elastic firecracker and jesus and mary chain psycho candy

[CliffBass]

Tool-Lateralus
NIN-Downward Spiral
Alice In Chains-Dirt
Nirvana-Bleach
SP-MCIS
Pearl Jam-Ten

[tio makeke]

Miroslav Vitous - Mountains in the clouds (all-around best jazz album of my life)
Nucleus - Elastic Rock (Ian Carr just passed away, http://iancarr.tumblr.com/)
King Crimson - Lark's tongues in aspic (the distortion on the opening track... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kL38TcEwro&feature=related
Soft Machine - Third
Arti e Mestieri - Tilt

the honorable mention would definitely go to Linda Cohen - Leda for many personal reasons http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32696105&postcount=21

[Seizurema]

Skullgrid - Behold The Arctopus

Srs?

YOU DISSIN BOY?!?!!

And

King Crimson - Lark's tongues in aspic
Soft Machine - Third
Arti e Mestieri - Tilt

Yes.

[autopilot]

no order

slint - spiderland
frodus - and we washed our weapons at sea
brand new - the devil and God are raging inside me
mewithoutyou - catch us the foxes
polvo - celebrate the dark age

runner's :
failure - fantastic planet
nin - with teeth, the slip, downward spiral, the fragile
texas is the reason ep
sonic youth - sonic nurse

[gishlullmoon]

1.Smashing Pumpkins Gish
2.Goo Goo Dolls Superstar Car wash
3.Smashing Pumpkins siamese dream
4.Smashing PUmpkins MMellon Collie
5.SMshing pumpkines pisces
not very open to other artists im a sp nut but here are

other albums that have rocked my world
Dio- Diamonds(best of 1992)
Gin Blossoms (new miserable experience + congratulations i'm sorry)
some of sonic youth
all of Oasis is Gold
Helium (Pirate Prude + Dirt of Luck+ superball ep)
Black Sabbath (Dio Albums)
Jesus and Mary Chain- Psycho Candy
Tripping Daisy is really one of my favorites, if you have not heard them i recomend listening to them more than anyone i have mentioned---i am an elastic firecracker
blined melon- soup+ self titled
soul asylum- black gold

[sadzoo]

These aren't my top albums ever, it's just what I've been listening to most lately....

Radiohead - In Rainbows
NIN - Year Zero
John Parish and PJ Harvey - Dance Hall at Louse Point
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Your Bones
Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged

[Caesar]

Pink Floyd - Meddle (really all the floyd albums)
David Gilmour - On an Island
The last Grateful Dead concert I saw 6/25/95
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
The Beatles White Album


Just to add something from this century, I'll add The Shins - Wincing the Night Away.