[Music] Top 10 favorite complete albums

[GasBandit]

Man, I haven't listened to an entire album since the 90s. Let's just say I got in on the MP3 thing way freakin' early.

Lesse.. hard to remember back then... uh... no particular order here... but I remember most listening to...

Tool - Aenima
Lords of Acid - Our Little Secret
I share Azurephoneix's conundrum with Metallica albums... but call me a poser, the Black Album is my favorite.
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Mack Daddy. I bought it only for "Baby Got Back" but I listened to the whole thing over and over.
Dave is right about The Wall.
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Ha ha ha... oh man... remember Korn? Damn I listened to a lot of Korn back then.
The Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba

And if you ever find yourself on a long road trip and need some eclectic entertainment, I recommend Wammo - Faster Than the Speed of Suck.

Anyway, like I said... I haven't really bothered with an actual album since 1998 or so... just grabbing top hits as MP3s and making my own playlists.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I have a friend that encourages everyone to make top 25 albums of all time lists every year. Here's mine from 2009, I was randomly looking up the last one to get a baseline, and well, it's way different than what I'd have now!

1 Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
2 Vampire Weekend - vampire weekend
3 the thermals - the body the blood the machine
4 Edgar Winter Group - They only come out at night
5 Office - Q&A
6 Boston - Boston
7 The Cars - The Cars
8 Michael Jackson - Thriller
9 The Postal Service - Give Up
10 Metallica - Master of Puppets
11 Nas - Illmatic
12 Rush - Moving Pictures
13 T.I. - Paper Trail
14 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
15 Panic at the disco - Pretty Odd
16 Pearl Jam - Ten
17 Phoenix - It's never been like that
18 The Who - Who's Next
19 Blues Brothers - Soundtrack
20 Lou Reed - Transformer
21 Lady Gaga - The Fame
22 Hold Steady - Stay Positive
23 Kanye West - Graduation
24 Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health
25 Franz Ferdinand - You could have it so much better

 

[Azurephoenix]

I share Azurephoneix's conundrum with Metallica albums... but call me a poser, the Black Album is my favorite.

The Black Album is still a solid album... nothing bad about that choice (now if you had put "Load" as your choice I would have had to say something horrible about it).

I have a friend that encourages everyone to make top 25 albums of all time lists every year. Here's mine from 2009, I was randomly looking up the last one to get a baseline, and well, it's way different than what I'd have now!

The fact that you have Master of Puppets on that list both surprises and impresses me. Good on you Charlie.

 

[sixpackshaker]

GasBandit, I got into mp3's early too. I just ripped everyone's cd collections.

 

[Shakey]

My quick list. It was kinda hard sticking to one album by Neil Young.

Neil Young - Tonights the night
Alison Kraus and Union Station - Two Highways
Blue Mountain - Dog Days
Gillian Welch - Revival
Gram Parsons - GP
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show
Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Wanted! The Outlawas

 

[sixpackshaker]

Bump for GP

 

[linglingface]

The first thing that came to mind was...
Chris Cornell - Scream

I know there are more that I love but ugh brain fart.

 

[CynicismKills]

Oh, was also a hard choice to leave off Protest the Hero's Fortress. Scurrilous is a solid album, also.

 

[Shakey]

Bump for GP

I was hard to choose between GP and Grievous Angel.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I was hard to choose between GP and Grievous Angel.

My copy is on one disk.

 

[Shakey]

My copy is on one disk.

Same here, but since they're actually separate albums I figured I'd chose one or the other.

 

[drawn_inward]

The Cars and Boston

Both great albums; especially The Cars!

Also, Traveling Wilburys Vol I = greatest rock coalition evah!

 

[Shakey]

I'm gonna drop The Outlaws for Willie Nelson - Red Headed Staranger. Not sure how I forgot that.

 

[Fun Size]

Mine seems to change constantly, but based on a spin through my current iPhone contents:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre is Evil
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Grim Fandango Soundtrack
Poe - Haunted
The Cure - Mixed Up
Tally Hall - Marvins Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Grandaddy - Sumday
Cake - Fashion Nugget

 

[Espy]

Okay, I have to add some new full albums:

Baroness Green & Yellow
Palms Self Titled

Both of these bands are just jaw-droppingy amazing post-rock and both of these albums are freaking incredible. Palms is 3 guys from ISIS and Chino from the Deftones and Baroness has been around forever but this double album is a real change in direction for them and it's great.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I don't have 10 to list, I'm too lazy to sort through them all and figure out which I like the most, but one album that I come back to time and again to listen to start to finish is The Hazards of Love by the Decemberists. It's a concept album (and I love those) that tells the story of a shapeshifting forest being falling in love with a woman, and the hazards they go through, told in a sort of operatic telling based in a Shakespearean green world (with magic forest queens and the like).

It's hard to link a song, since any song out of context is going to sound weird without the previous to give the story, but just listen to the awesome vocals of Colin Meloy, playing William, the fawn that shapeshifts into a man at night, and Shara Worden, playing the voice of the magic Forest Queen and William's adoptive mother.

 

[CynicismKills]

I'd have to add Nekrogoblikon's Stench to the list. It's easily one of the best metal albums I've ever listened to.

 

[Bowielee]

Man, I haven't listened to an entire album since the 90s. Let's just say I got in on the MP3 thing way freakin' early.

Lesse.. hard to remember back then... uh... no particular order here... but I remember most listening to...

Tool - Aenima
Lords of Acid - Our Little Secret
I share Azurephoneix's conundrum with Metallica albums... but call me a poser, the Black Album is my favorite.
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Mack Daddy. I bought it only for "Baby Got Back" but I listened to the whole thing over and over.
Dave is right about The Wall.
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Ha ha ha... oh man... remember Korn? Damn I listened to a lot of Korn back then.
The Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba

And if you ever find yourself on a long road trip and need some eclectic entertainment, I recommend Wammo - Faster Than the Speed of Suck.

Anyway, like I said... I haven't really bothered with an actual album since 1998 or so... just grabbing top hits as MP3s and making my own playlists.

It's weird how much of that is my guilty pleasure music. Just replace Sir Mix-A-Lot with Digital Underground's Sex Packets and it would be the same.