top 10 albums?

[paradise_found]

ok, i know this is a tad cliche and all but...

gimme your top 10 albums of all time. and i mean "stuck on a desert island" top ten.

no particular order (artist - album):

1: Mr. Bungle - California
2: Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (arr. Fireworks)
3: OutKast - Aquemini
4: Bush - The Science of Things
5: Tub Ring - Zoo Hypothesis
6: Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
7: Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
8: Peter Gabriel - Passion
9: Gustav Holst - The Planets (arr. Isao Tomito)
10: Mudvayne - L.D. 50

[metalsoup111]

Holst ftw...

No particular order:

1.) The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
2.) Meshuggah - Chaosphere
3.) Yo-yo Ma - Bach Cello Suites
4.) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
5.) Tool - Ænima
6.) Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
7.) Death - Sound of Perseverance
8.) Atheist - Elements
9.) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
10.) Weather Report - Heavy Weather

I'd find a way to get it on said island...
11.) Thomas Lom - Vanhal and Dragonetti Concertos for Double Bass and Orchestra

[paradise_found]

weather report ftw.

imma hafta copy you and smuggle in my #11:

David Bowie - Hours...

[Joji]

no particular order:

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
2. Korn - Issues
3. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
4. DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Makers Hand
5. Godsmack - Awake
6. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
7. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
8. NIN - The Fragile
9. Motorhead - Overkill
10. Tool - Lateralus

[paradise_found]

no particular order:


3. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
6. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
8. NIN - The Fragile


classics.

[RipVanRagnarok]

Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Tool - Opiate
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
The Black Album - Metallica
Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie
Past, Present, and Future - Rob Zombie
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
Linkin Park - Meteora

[metalsoup111]

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

^^Fuck yeah! Take No Prisioners, Lucretia, and the ridiculous dueling solos at the end of Hanger 18 sold me on that album...

[Kade73647]

No order:

Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Tool-Undertow
Pantera-Vulgar display of power
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Rage against the Machine-Evil Empire
Otep-Sevas Tra
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Korn-Issues
Slipknot-Iowa
Sytem of a Down-Toxicity

[IceyHitsugaya23]

seriously no one included

Nirvana-Nevermind
or
Metallica-The Black Album

[Joji]

^^Fuck yeah! Take No Prisioners, Lucretia, and the ridiculous dueling solos at the end of Hanger 18 sold me on that album...

Lol, my favorite is Five Magics,

GIMME ALCHEMY!
GIVE ME SORCERY!
GIMME WIZARDRY!
THERMATOLOGY!
ELECTRICITY!
MASTER ALL OF THESE!
MAGIC IF YOU PLEASE!
BRING HIM TO HIS KNEES!

i know thats the remastered version, but i like the lyric written this way better lol.


nirvana sucks, overrated piece of garbage.

[Aidan]

lmao damn I need more metal, that's for sure. I only have a couple metallica songs, a dragonforce song and some jmetal.

My current list, though it's subject to change:

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
Americana - The Offspring
Cowboy Bebop OST 1 - Yoko Kanno, various artists
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats
The Kreisler Album - Joshua Bell
The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
Mule Variations - Tom Waits
Why Should The Fire Die? - Nickel Creek
By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers


Damn that was hard to narrow down.

[paradise_found]

nirvana sucks, overrated piece of garbage.

lololol and how!

[IceyHitsugaya23]

Dude Nirvana was the most influencial band of the 90's.
They lead the 90's music revolution so go fuck yourtself

[Aidan]

lolno
I like Nirvana, but no...

[paradise_found]

Dude Nirvana was the most influencial band of the 90's.
They lead the 90's music revolution so go fuck yourtself

woah, sir. i will not take my music cues on nirvana from someone who's location is "listening to nirvana" and who's profile pic is kurt (donald) cobain.

and there was no musical revolution in the 90's. don't get me wrong, i love the 90's music. most of my top 10 albums are from the 90's. but there wasn't a revolution. and if there was one, nirvana didn't lead it.

[Aidan]

yeah, 60's, 70's, and perhaps 80's are much more interesting in terms of the birth of genres like punk, metal, and psychedelic.

[Fornicaras]

Dude Nirvana was the most influencial band of the 90's.
They lead the 90's music revolution so go fuck yourtself

Go fuck yourself, Nirvana didn't revolutionize shit.

Anywho, at the moment it's....

Spawn of Possession-Noctabulant
Nexus 6-A Strange Habitat
Neuraxis-A Passage Into Forlorn
Pestilence-Consuming Impulse
Atheist-Piece of Time
Hexen-State of Insurgency
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Decrepit Birth-...And Time Begins
Decrepit Birth-Diminishing Between Worlds
Vesperian Sorrow-Regenesis Creation

That does it for now.

[Joji]

Dude Nirvana was the most influencial band of the 90's.
They lead the 90's music revolution so go fuck yourtself

Nirvana lead shit. kurt on his own attempted to create a suicidal revolution, didnt exactly work out. glad the guy is dead.


Iron Maiden-Powerslave


That does it for now.

omg pwn! havent listened to maiden in sooo long! im about to go into maiden mode and listen to every song lol.

[Kade73647]

Ministry and Tool kept my sanity through the 90's. All the grunge just about killed me. The whiney rock was second only to Glam rock of the 80's *shiver*

[paradise_found]

Ministry and Tool kept my sanity through the 90's. All the grunge just about killed me. The whiney rock was second only to Glam rock of the 80's *shiver*

D:
yeah, there was some whiny rock out there. but there was the good stuff, too. like helmet. god i miss helmet.
faith no more was pretty solid, too.

[Kade73647]

I have not thought of helmet in years.

But I will say 92 was good to me. Sepultura played our company picnic.

[RipVanRagnarok]

Tool is one of the greatest progressive metal bands ever. Enough said.

[metalsoup111]

If any band really forged an individual sound in the grunge movement it was not Nirvana. Bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains wear definately better musicians and were much more progressive to the genre. Kurt was a hideous guitar player and the bassist guy just kind of doinked. What Nirvana had was good drummer. Dave Grohl is wicked on the skins.

Imo, Tool was probably the most revolutionary band to kick 90's pop music's pansy ass...

[Aidan]

@Kade: Are you by any chance in/from Madison?

@rest of thread: I'll admit, I don't know much about the history of modern music and the details of different genres. I'd love to learn more about it though.

[Kade73647]

@Aiden Nope Germantown.....but I visit friends in Madtown.



@all....I say to you brothers let the rabbits wear glasses.

[metalsoup111]

^^Start being open to the idea of listening to anything, regardless, and give it all a chance...

[paradise_found]

@ aidan

i grew up playing in orchestras and taking music theory/history classes. you're not missin' that much, don't worry about it. lol

i agree with soup; try listening to a bunch of different things. for instance, i'd never listened to a note of avant-garde music until i picked up some mr. bungle (who i'd heard about through faith no more's mike patton). now i can't put the stuff down.

branch out and find something new that you like and then find that group's contemporaries and keep on going. your musical library will double within a year and you'll start listening to shit you'd have never thought.

e.g., so and so collaberated with so and so, and they worked with david bowie, and he did a bit with whatshisface, and now i love OutKast. true story.

[RipVanRagnarok]

If any band really forged an individual sound in the grunge movement it was not Nirvana. Bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains wear definately better musicians and were much more progressive to the genre. Kurt was a hideous guitar player and the bassist guy just kind of doinked. What Nirvana had was good drummer. Dave Grohl is wicked on the skins.

Imo, Tool was probably the most revolutionary band to kick 90's pop music's pansy ass...

You're damn right, MetalSoup. Too bad Layne Staley had to die too. I heard the AIC has a new volcalist, and that a new album is in the works. Staley's vocals were awesome.

[Aidan]

yeah, i mean I keep trying to find new stuff because I know a fair amount about music technically, I mean playing music... I've been playing around with making electronic music too.

[xTHHxAimiForevr]

The Mars Volta, Coheed - That's 8

Thrice - Alchemy Index 1,2 - 10!


P.S.- I love Tool!

[Rufix]

Good if you know at least half of it;P

1. OSTR-Tabasko
2. OSTR-Ja tu tylko sprzatam
3. OSTR-Masz to jak w banku
4. Frank Sinatra-Duets
5. Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble-The Kings of Swing
6. Kai Winding-Jazz For Playboys
7. Molesta Ewenement-Powrót
8. Pendulum-Hold Your Colours
9. Nate Dogg-Music and Me
10. Louis Armstrong-What a Wonderful World

[Fornicaras]

It's past ten, but screw it.

11. Lower Class Brats-Rather Be Hated Than Ignored

I fell in love with punk again recently.

[paradise_found]

The Mars Volta, Coheed - That's 8

Thrice - Alchemy Index 1,2 - 10!


P.S.- I love Tool!

whew. that is an unfortunate top ten, sir.

and i've never really understood tool's appeal. i mean, did you guys listen to "the pot"? that song is fuckin' weak, dudes. and maynard ain't all that and a bag of skittles, either.

zomg don't neg rep. i feel it coming so hard right now.

[metalsoup111]

Tool's music is about instumental(vocal) tone quality, overall psychodelic atmosphere, insane performance accuracy, and shear rhythmic complexity...

[paradise_found]

Tool's music is about instumental(vocal) tone quality, overall psychodelic atmosphere, insane performance accuracy, and shear rhythmic complexity...

instrumental vocal? that is an oxymoron, my good sir!
i know what you mean tho. :p

i understand what they are about, i guess. i just don't see what's so fantastic about them. although i don't quite feel "psychodelic" coming from them, they do have a distinct atmosphere. i will applaud that.

performance accuracy? i'm supposed to respect a band more because they can play their own songs right? that shouldn't be a merit; that should be a requirement. they wrote the damn thing, they might as well play it right, too.

and i grew up playing in orchestras and the like. the "rhythmic complexities" that tool uses in their songs is commonplace in a lot of romantic and neo-classical compositions. i guess it's just not that spectacular to me.

but hey. to each their own, right?

[Fornicaras]

Meh, I've gotta agree with you there, Paradise. I never really did like Tool very much either, I guess. If I wanna listen to something somewhat psychedelic but techinical, Then I'd much rather listen to Cynic's first album.

[metalsoup111]

^^Cynic is fucking nuts...

@paradise: lol. Instrumental and/or vocal tone quality. In our age of ProTools and other recording software in which is possible to completely alter pretty much everthing about recorded performance of musicians and singers. Things such a timbre, attack, and pitch can be effortlessly changed. Knowing that, it is still sad that a good performance is reason to praise a band. I don't think it would be to far out there to say Tool could be considered, among many others, as part of the "classical" music of our day...

[paradise_found]

the problem with classifying a "music of our day" is that there are so many definitive genres to consider. most things contemporary have an extremely LOW level of musicality to it all.

while i am a HUGE outkast fan, i still think the majority of their music is low quality. lyrically, however, they are leaps and bounds above their contemporaries.

and progressive bands like tool and (sigh) dream theater could indeed be considered the "classical" music of our time. (they do create rock-operas after all. nothing is more representative of the classical era than an opera) and yet bands like these seem to fall into grooves over time, thus diminishing their "composer" like status.

i think experimental music is the next big wave that music will take. or at least i hope so. i think it's the only thing that's really fresh anymore; the songs aren't repetitive within themselves, much less from song to song.

let's just pray this fucking indie wave goes away real soon. dirty fuckin' kids that can't play their roommate's guitar worth a shit but still try while wailing their own lyrics wrong in an off-pitch yet monotonous stream of syllables while wearing a busted up flannel shirt that they either got for thirty cents at the goodwill or fifty bucks at urban outfitters and you'll never know which.

goddamned indie fucks.

[Aidan]

The problem with indie is that as a genre label it's applied far too broadly, and so you have completely different things both labeled "indie" because they don't sound generic or poppy enough... also, there's such a range of quality. I won't argue that there's a LOT of shit out there.. but there are also amazing bands like The Mountain Goats. I hate the indie cred thing where the more esoteric a band is the "better" it is, though. That's utter bullshit. Newsflash: Often, bands get popular because THEY'RE GOOD. And just because they get popular doesn't mean they automatically suck.

[Fornicaras]

Meh, some indie is decent. What really pisses me off thoigh are those damn hardcore people.

Still, Cynic>all indie & hardcore bands.

[paradise_found]

perhaps i should have clarified:
goddamned TALENTLESS indie fucks. some indie is really fresh, the musicians doing a lot of new and different things. but usually not.

cynic is pretty righteous. i just stopped following them after their fifteen year hiatus.

[Fornicaras]

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of The Dead is one "indie" band I enjoy, though I use the term indie pretty loosely.

Cynic is still awesome, man. Their new CD is pretty badass, IMO.

[paradise_found]

yeah, i meant INDIE indie. the ones that wear girl's jeans and have beards. hate em.

is it good? i meant to check it out, just never got around to it...

[Fornicaras]

Oh. Fuck that, I hate those whiney bastards.

Yea, I dig it. It doesn't have as much death metal in it but it's still really progessive and what not.

[Aidan]

oh god, red hot chili peppers is pwning me right now.
I actually think By The Way is my favorite album by them.

[paradise_found]

really? i think "one hot minute" is their best. everything after "californication" just sounds like a rehash of "californication". and "by the way" and "stadium arcadium"? SAME ALBUM.

like system of a down. first two albums were pretty awesome, but there was absolutely no evolution after "toxicity". they just kept that sound.

[Fornicaras]

I worshipped SOAD for a while, then realized they weren't as great as I thought. Nowadays I only dig their first album.

[paradise_found]

I worshipped SOAD for a while, then realized they weren't as great as I thought. Nowadays I only dig their first album.

same here really. there are some tunes off toxicity that i'll listen to for nostalgia's sake, but that shit can't touch CUBErt.

[DarkBunny]

1.Opeth-Blackwater Park
2.Dimmu borgir-il sorte diaboli
3.cradle of filth-midian
4.metallica-ride the lightning
5.lamb of God-sacrament
6.system of a down-hynotise
7.tool-10,000 days
8.Deicide-the stench of redemption
9.Trivium-the crusade
10.cradle of filth-Damnation

[kirwan464]

Cant think of ten but one awesome album is combichrist - what the fuck is wrong with you people

[Lune]

This is actually really tough. Hmm...

1. Over the Next Hill - Fairport Convention.
2. Sing a Chorus With Me? - Anthony John Clarke
3. Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
4. A Night at the Opera - Queen
5. Strange Times - Moody Blues
6. Employment - Kaiser Chiefs
7. Sheet Music - 10CC
8. Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
9. Tenacious D - Tenacious D
10. Tommy - The Who

[fifenfk]

1.Life After Death - Notorius BIG.
2.Nirvana - Nevermind
3.Metallica - Metallica (black album)
4.Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots
5.Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
6.Deftones - Around The Fur
7.Tiësto - Just Be
8.Korn - Life Is Peachy
9.Atmosphere - Sevens Travels
10.Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 1

[Kyo]

1. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
4. Portishead - Live @ Roseland, NYC
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. Tool - Lateralus
7. Rammstein - Mutter
8. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
9. Ez3kiel - Barb4ry
10. Deadmau5 - Random Album Title


Among my faves are also : Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon, Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance, Ez3kiel - Battlefield, R.A.T.M - The Battle of Los Angeles, Massive Attack - Mezzanine & Pixies - Surfer Rosa

[Rosh]

Thriller Michael Jackson
Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
Jay-z The Blueprint
Notororius B.I.G Ready to die
Linkin Park - Meteora
2pac All eyes on me
Four Symbols (Led Zeppelin Vol.4) Led Zeppelin
Elton John's Greatest Hits Elton John
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette
Marvin Gaye lets get it on

[MaidenPacoima a.k.a Sloth]

hmmmm...tough to choose...

not in any particular order:

Iron Maiden-Piece Of Mind
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
AC/DC-Let There Be Rock
Bad Brains-Rock For Light
The Offspring-Ixnay On The Hombre
Suicidal Tendencies-Suicidal For Life
Megadeth-So Far, So Good....So What?!
Bruce Dickinson-Accident Of Birth
Sublime-40 Oz. To Freedom
Creedence Clearwater Revival-Any Album!


so many more bands that I listen too...but those are the ones I go back too.

[rhinowls]

1. Revolver - The Beatles
2. Dirt - Alice in Chains
3. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
4. Youth and Young Manhood - Kings of Leon
5. Animals - Pink Floyd
6. Live at Cook County Jail - B.B. King
7. Undertow - Tool
8. Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi - Thievery Corporation
9. Fugazi - Marillion
10. Permanent Waves -Rush