The 50 best albums ever made (Kind of)

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Allright, this weekend I was thinking about what 50 albums have changed my live forever and I came up with the following list (In alphabetic order):
(Actually "Spit" by Kittie also changed my life in some way but I can't call it one of the 50 best albums ever)

Aemen: Fooly Dressed
After Forever: Decipher
After Forever: Prison Of Desire
After Forever: Remagine
Allen - Lande: The Battle
Ambeon: Fate Of A Dreamer
Angelzoom: Angelzoom
Avril Lavigne: Under My Skin
Ayreon: Final Experiment
Ayreon: Into The Electric Castle
Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath: Never Say Die
Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi
Boards Of Canada: Music Has The Right To Children
Cradle Of Filth: Dusk... And Her Embrace
Cradle Of Filth: Midian
Cradle Of Filth: V Empire
Daniel Lioneye: King Of Rock'N'Roll
Dimmu Borgir: For All Tid
Finntroll: Jaktens Tid
Gnarkill: Gnarkill
HIM: Greatest Lovesongs 666
HIM: Razorblade Romance
Joseph Arthur: Big City Secrets
Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I'M From
Joseph Arthur: Our Shadows Will Remain
Mago De Oz: Finisterra
Mago De Oz: Gaia
Mandragora Scream: A Whisper Of Dew
Mandragora Scream: Fairy Tales From Hell'S Caves
Nightwish: Oceanborn
Nightwish: Once
Nightwish: Wishmaster
Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard Of Oz
Ozzy Osbourne: Diary Of A Madman
Ozzy Osbourne: Down To Earth
Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzmosis
Reutoff: Unseen Rituals
Shadow Project: Dreams For The Dying
Star One: Space Metal
Tiamat: Clouds
Tiamat: Wildhoney
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Tristania: Widow'S Weeds
Tristania: World Of Glass
Turbonegro: Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro: Ass Cobra
Within Temptation: Mother Earth
Within Temptation: Silent Force
Within Temptation: The Dance


Use this topic to post your own 50 favourite albums or to discuss the ones posted by other members!

 

Only 50?
random order:

Iron Maiden:
-Iron Maiden
-The Number of the Beast
-Brave New World

Metallica:
-Ride the Lightning
-Master of Puppets

Iced Earth:
-Burnt Offerings
-Something Wicked This Way Comes

Mercyful Fate:
-Melissa
-Don't Break the Oath

King Diamond:
-Fatal Portrait
-Abigail

Cradle of Filth:
-V Empire
-Dusk...and her Embrace

Theatre of Tragedy:
-Theatre of Tragedy
-Velvet Darkness They Fear

Samael:
-Worship Him
-Blood Ritual
-Ceremony of Opposites

Death:
all albums

Vader:
-Back to the Blind
-Morbid Reich

Morbid Angel
-Covenant

My Dying Bride:
-As the Flowers Withers
-Turn Loose the Swans
-The Angel and the Dark River

Sepultura:
-Beneath the Remains
-Arise
-Roots

Katatonia:
-Dance of December Souls
-Brave Murder Day

The Sisters of Mercy:
-Floodland

Candlemass:
-Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
-Nightfall
-Candlemass

Testament:
-The New Order
-Demonic
-The Gathering

Bathory:
-Hammerheart

Slayer:
-Reign in Blood
-Seasons in the Abyss

Judas Priest:
-British Steel
-Painkiller

Running Wild:
-Under Jolly Roger
-Black Hand Inn

Paradise Lost
-Gothic
-Icon
-Draconian Times
-Paradise Lost

time to end. I could go on like this to about 200 top albums

[ October 24, 2005, 12:48: Message edited by: Undertaker ]

 

BTDT - 885 All-Time Greatest Albums

My favorite radio station just finished playing this countdown last week. It was amazing, especially when they started playing the full albums of the Top 25. The results were determined by a listener poll, and 5400 people voted.

 

Autumn: Summers End

I did forget that one... but I don't know wich album should leave the list to put that one in...

Either The Dance, Midian, Never Say Die or Ass Cobra...

Same counts for
System Of A Down: System Of A Down...

[ October 24, 2005, 15:57: Message edited by: SleepleSS ]

 

No album has ever changed my life. My life is my own and I'm not about to let some mamma's boy or a guy screaming in a falsetto tell me how to be a man. I love music, but it certainly doesn't alter the way I live.

By the way, 50 of your favorite albums does not equate to the 50 best albums ever made.

 

add T2Bruno:

Do you take everything so litterally?

Let me refrase it for you then:

Wich 50 albums do you like best?

:S

And with changed my life i ment: Did completly blow me away, and changed my vision on music or something like that...

 

SleepleSS: What a great retort (I'm being sincere). I'm not a big fan of the same music you listen to, but I like your attitude.

Hmmm.... changed my vision on music...

Wings: Band on the Run and The Eagles (self-titled album) got me listening to Rock. From then on everything is a blur.

 

Here's my list in alphabetical order diverse and eclectic

Aerosmith: Pump
Armand van Helden: Nympho
Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash
Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club's Band
Black Sabbath: Sabbath bloody sabbath
Clannad: The magical ring
Coldplay: x & y
David Guetta: F*** Me I'm Famous
Deep Dish: George is on
Deep Forest: Deep Forest
Dido: No Angel
Dr Dre: 2001
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgey
Eminem: The Slim Shady LP
Enigma: Le Roi est Mort
Faithless: No Roots
Faithless: Reverence/Irreverence
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Genesis: Lamb lies down on Broadway
Groove Armada: Vertigo
Kate Bush: Lionheart
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffitti
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Metallica: And justice for all…
Paul Oakenfold: Perfecto Presents: Another World
Paul Oakenfold: Travelling
Paul van Dyk: Out there and back
Paul van Dyk: Reflections
Peter Gabriel: So
Pink Floyd: Wish you were here
Pink Floyd: Division Bell
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Portishead: Dummy
Prodigy: Fat of the Land
Prodigy: Music for the jilted generation
Queen: Queen II
Radiohead: Ok Computer
Radiohead: The Bends
Sasha: Airdrawn dagger
Sex Pistols: Never mind the bollocks
Stevie Nicks: Rock a Little
The Grateful Dead: Dead Live
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
The Who: Who are you
This Mortal Coil: It'll end in tears
Tiesto: Just Be
U2: After the Fire
U2: The Joshua Tree
Yes: Tales from the topographic oceans

 

1.Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
2.Uriah Heep - The magician's birthday
3.Wishbone Ash - Argus
4.Led Zepellin - IV
5.Deep Purple - Machine Head
6.Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
7.Black Sabbath - Sabbath bloody sabbath
8.Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
9.Queen - A night at the opera
10.Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith
11.Iron Butterfly - In a gadda da vida
12.Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico (the one with banana in the front cover)
13.Manowar - Sign of the hammer
14.W.A.S.P. - The last command
15.Twisted Sister - Under the blade
16.Gary Moore - Victims of the future
17.Accept - Balls to the wall
18.Iron Maiden -The number of the beast
19.Motorhead - Orgasmatron
20.Warlord - And the cannons of destruction have begun
21.Manilla Road - Open the gates
22.Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys part 1
22.Angel Witch - Angel Witch
23.Ozzy Osbourne - The ultimate sin
24.Dio - Holy diver
25.Motley Crue - Shout at the devil
26.Saxon - Strong arm of the law
27.Heir Apparent - Graceful Inheritence
28.Demon - The unexpected guest
29.Alice Cooper - Welcome to my nightmare
30.Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Rust never sleeps
31.Fates Warning - Night on broken
32.Emerson Lake and Palmer - Works
33.Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
34.Grand Funk - We're an american band
35.Hawkwind - In search of space
36.Kiss - Love gun
37.Scorpions - Taken by force
38.Annihilator - Alice in hell
39.Magnum - Vintage Magnum
40.Rush - A farewell to kings
41.Styx - The grand illusion
42.Queensryche - The queen of the reich
43.Savatage - Gutter Ballet
44.Nazareth - Hair of the dog
45.Jag Panzer - Ample destruction
46.Diamond Head - Lightning to the nations
47.Thin Lizzy - Black rose a rock legend
48.Rory Gallagher - Top priority
49.Whitesnake - Saints & sinners
50.U.F.O. - Phenomenon

 

My attention span is challenged by all the top 5/top 10 lists this board (and the playground) generate. Top 50?!?

Uh-uh.

Well. Anyway. I'll just go with "changed my outlook on music." Um. Disturbed got me thinking metal was great; then virtually every other metal band I encountered convinced me it was the worst musical genre I'd encountered. Death metal in particular.

*shudder*

 

3 Doors Down - Away from the Sun
A Static Lullaby - Faso Latido
AC/DC - Back In Black
Ash - Intergalactic Sonic 7
Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Emanuel - Soundtrack to a Headrush
Eric Clapton - Cream of Clapton
Feeder - Echo Park
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
Foo Fighters - One By One
Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation
Funeral for a Friend - Hours
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower
Green Day - International Superhits
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns n Roses - Use your Illusion I & II <-- That's two choices
Guns n Roses - Live Era
Hell is for Heroes - The Neon Handshake
Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
Inme - Overgrown Eden
Jimi Hendrix - Experience
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Lostprophets - Fakesoundofprogress
Lostprophets - Start Something
Michael Jackson - Number 1s
Muse - Showbiz
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Muse - Absolution
Muse - Hullabaloo Soundtrack
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Razorlight - Up All Night
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live in Hyde Park
Rooster - Rooster
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica - Orientation
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Sonata Arctica - Takatalvi
Taking Back Sunday - Where you Want to Be
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Used - In Love and Death
Velvet Revolver - Contraband

 

This is more of a "who likes what" list. This should be about "which changed what forever" list.

For example...

Nirvana changed alternative forever with Nevermind.
Black Sabbath invented metal.
Led Zep changed rock forever.
Metallica gave metal a complex, soulful, anthemic side, yet still retained an edge few could.

Etc

 

Except that metal was first used as a term to describe Led Zeppelin in Q magazine not Sabbath

And Nirvana IMO didn't change alternative it made it accessible and acceptable to the masses before alternative went back to a dark place again.

If we wanted we could argue this all day and not agree because music is personal choice

 

Wow, I saw Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in a few of your lists, how could I forget that one and pick Never say die? Beter change it .

On a side note: Midian is out System of a down is in.

still not sure wich album to drop for Autumn's summere end, maybe I must make it a top 100

 

Like Death gave us death metal
Candlemass gave us doom metal
Venom, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate gave us black metal
and so on

 

In no perticuliar order:

Testament - The Legacy
Testament - The New Order
Testament - Souls of Black
Testament - Demonic
Testament - The Gathering
Testament - First Strike Still Deadly
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Fight - War of Words
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Judas Priest - Demolition
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Agathodaimon - Chapter III
Venom - Black Metal
Venom - Welcome To Hell
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
Tiamat - Clouds
Tiamat - Skeleton Skeletron
Iron Maiden - Number of The Beast
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear
The Sins of Thy Beloved - Lake of Sorrow
My Dying Bride - The Angel and The Dark River
Anathema - Eternity
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Bathory - Bathory
Bathory - Under The Sign of The Black Mark
Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory
Dio - Holy Diver
Akercocke - Choronzon
Deicide - Serpents of The Light
Deicide - Legion
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Burzum - Burzum
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Burzum - Filosofem
Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
Mayhem - Deathcrush
Mayhem - Chimera
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Kataklysm - Victims of This Fallen world

I could go on and on, but here my top 50 picks.

 

Sleepless, I can safely say that I have not even heard of any of those albums, let alone listened to any of them.

In fact, I have only ever heard of a handful of all of the albums listed in this thread so far.

No way do I have time to list 50 albums so I will list the top 10 that have had the most impact on my life (not to say they are the greatest, just they have been important at various stages of my life):

The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album)
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume I and II
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Debbie Gibson - Out of the Blue
Talking Heads - Little Creatures
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Jeff Wayne - Musical version of The War of the Worlds
Hayley Westenra - Hayley Westenra

 

I'm not sure if there are fifty here, and they are mostly in no particular order:

The Beatles: Rubber Soul
The Beatles: Abby Road
The Beatles: Revolver
Yes: Close to the Edge
Yes: Going for the One
Yes: The Yes Album
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming
The Police: Ghost in the Machine
The Police: Sychronicity
Sting: The Soul Cages
The Cars: Candy O
Grateful Dead: American Beauty
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
The Who: Quadraphina
The Who: Who’s Next
The Rolling Stones: Beggar’s Banquet
The Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed
The Rolling Stones: High Tide & Green Grass
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
The Small Faces: Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
The Cure: Disintegration
Tears for Fears: Songs from the Big Chair
Evanescence: Fallen
REM: Eponymous
U2: Achtung Baby
U2: The Unforgettable Fire
Led Zeppelin: II
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
Steely Dan: Aja
Peter Gabriel: So
Van Halen: 5150
Rush: Moving Pictures
Eric Johnson: Ah Via Musicom
Steve Morse: High Tension Wires
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Lady Land
Asia: Asia
Boston: Boston
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
John Lennon: Double Fantasy

 

Well ,forget about 50 (no way I have time for that). Just a few off the top of my head that I don't think have been mentioned so far:

U2 - Joshua Tree
The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith
Chicago - Chicago (aka Chicago II)
Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments
Jeff Beck - Wired
Dire Striats - Brothers In Arms
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

 

Well, it's saturday night, I have a cold and trying to remedy it with some single malt so why not.

AC/DC - Highway to Hell
- Back in Black
Adams, Ryan - Demolition
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
- In Casino Out
Backyard Babies - Total 13
Billy Talent - S/T
Black Crows - By Your Side
- Amorica
Blind Melon - S\T
Bowie, David - Hunky Dory
Cash, Johnny - Live at San Quentin
- American Recordings IV
Cheap Trick - all the early records
Clash - London Calling
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
- Americas Vol. Dealer
Danzig - 4p
- Lucifuge
Demolition 23
Doors - Everything
Earle Steve - Jerusalem
Electic Six - Fire
Fu Manchu - King of the Road
Guns'n'Roses - Everything
Hellacopters - Paying the Dues
Interpol - Antics
Kiss - Destroyer
- Dynasty
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Led Zeppelin - II, III, IV & Physical Grafitti
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Coming Home
- Second Helping
MC5 - Kick out the Jams
- High Time
Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
Misfits - Everything with Glen Danzig
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
New York Dolls - Rock'n'Roll
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
NoFX - Punk in Drublic
- White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
Pearl Jam - Vs
- Vitalogy
Pink Floyd - The Wall
- Animals
Poison - Onen Up and Say... aah!
Pop, Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
Queens of the Stoneage - Songs for the Deaf
Rage Against the Machine - S\T
Ramones - Everything
Rancid - Everything
The Rolling Stones - Everything prior Tattoo You plus Steel Wheels
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Skid Row - S\T
Smith, Patty - Horses
Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
- Superunknown
System of a Down - Mesmerize
Temple of a Dog
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Tool - Aenima
Who - Who's Next
- Quadrophenia
Young Neil - Harvest

I don't know how many, but I'm sure it's enough.