Favorite Albums

[.Sy™]

Ever? Meaning albums you love from top to bottom (all killer, no filler). Or you can just name albums you have on repeat these days if that's too much of a hassle.

 

I made a Top 100 a while ago (incl. singles compilations and soundtracks):

 

 

In chronological order, I could never rank them.

 

Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

The Beatles - With the Beatles

The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

The Beatles - Revolver

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Doors - The Doors

The Doors - Strange Days

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Beatles - The White Album

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

The Doors - L.A. Woman

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

The Who - Quadrophenia

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols

Television - Marquee Moon

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

Joy Division - Closer

Michael Jackson - Thriller

The Smiths - The Smiths

The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Michael Jackson - Bad

The Smiths - “Louder Than Bombs”

The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come

Joy Division - Substance

Nirvana - Bleach

Morrissey - Bona Drag

Michael Jackson - Dangerous

Nirvana - Nevermind

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Nirvana - In Utero

Nas - Illmatic

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

Coldplay - Parachutes

Radiohead - Kid A

The Strokes - Is This It

Jay-Z - The Black Album

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething

Kanye West - The College Dropout

Morrissey - You Are the Quarry

Common - Be

Kanye West - Late Registration

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

Kanye West - Graduation

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Daniel Merriweather - Love & War

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Jamie Cullum - The Pursuit

The xx - xx

Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Adele - 21

Childish Gambino - EP

Frank Ocean - nostalgia, ULTRA.

James Blake - James Blake

Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne

Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city

Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Disclosure - Settle

Drake - Nothing Was the Same

Jamie Cullum - Momentum

Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

Kanye West - Yeezus

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Michael Jackson - Xscape

 

 

[LEGION]

I willl just do the Album on repeat thing

nice list, btw.

 

-To Beast or not to Beast by Lordi

-MBDTF by Kanye West

-Watch the Throne by Kanye West & Jay-Z

-Well, it's about time by 7 Dollar Taxi

-The Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z

-808's & Heartbreaks by Kanye West

-Gates of Dalhalla by Hammerfall

-Babez for Breakfast by Lordi

-Aggro Berlin by Sido

-Bad by Michael Jackson

-Thriller by Michael Jackson

 

But there are various artists where I can just listen to every song they have out there....like Johnny Cash or Bob Dylan and, to an extent Lordi too.

[Poe Øhlin]

This will probably be a short list as their aren't very many albums I can pop in at anytime and just listen to beginning to end, which is how I decide if it's a favorite.

 

• Mayhem - Deathcrush
• Mayhem - Dawn of the Black Hearts
• ?? (Kuroyume) - Nakagara O...
• Slipknot - Slipknot
• Disturbed - 10,000 Fists
• Marilyn Manson - Portrait of An American Family
• Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
• Yui - Holidays in the Sun
• Maximum the Hormone - Rokkinpo Goroshi
• Dir En Grey - All of their albums

[Royal Nakamura]

• Madvillain (MF DOOM/Madlib) - Madvillainy
• Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• Nas - Illmatic
• Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
• Frank Ocean - channel, ORANGE
• Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
• Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On
• Jay-Z - The Blueprint
• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• The Beatles - Rubber Soul
• Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse
• Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes & Cosmogramma or his Reset EP from '07
• Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
• SBTRKT - SBTRKT
• Sun Kil Moon - Benji
• Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
• Common - Be
• Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
• N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds
• Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
• Captain Murphy - DUALITY
• Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
• Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

I'm maybe forgetting some, at the moment. When I think about it, it feels like I've listened to a lot of albums until I've actually listed down my favourites or whatever. Eh, I only started listening to full-lengths in, like, late 2012/early 2013 so I guess I'm cool.

 

Sy: I thought, for one second, you had Iggy Azalea's The New Classic on there. Then, I saw Iggy & The Stooges.

[Fried]

I've started to type out my list 4 times now and each time I've got to start over. heh...

 

I'm gonna think about this one.

[Chips.]

In Search Of is 100x better than Seeing Sounds Nakamura. Check it out.

[Royal Nakamura]

I honestly do need to check that out. It's been sitting on my phone for ages but I haven't tried it.

 

Which version, btw? Lots of people say the U.K version's better, I think even Tyler said so himself. But eh, not like it matters all that much anyway.

[Ziggy Vercetti]

 

I'll edit this again later with a srs post

[Creepia]

Metallica;

Kill em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, The Black Album, Death Magnetic.

 

Pantera;

Cowboys From Hell, Far Beyond Driven, The Great Southern Trendkill

 

SlipKnot;

SlipKnot, Iowa, All Hope Is Gone

 

Ghost;

Opus Eponymous, Infestissumam, If You Have Ghost(EP)

 

DOWN;

NOLA

 

Trivium;

Ascendancy, Shogun, In Waves

 

Disturbed;

The Sickness, 10 Thousand Fists, Indestructible

 

Korn;

Follow The Leader, Korn, Untouchables, MTV Unplugged, See You On The Other Side

 

Dropkick Murphys;

The Meanest of Times, The Warriors Code, Blackout

 

Exodus;

Bonded By Blood, Fabulous Disaster

 

Iron Maiden;

Iron Maiden, Killers, Seventh Son, Feat Of The Dark

 

Machine Head;

The Blackening

[Royal Nakamura]

You don't think Metallica's self-titled is pretty great, too? Or you think it's good but pales in comparison to your favourites of theirs?

[Oldsie]

Hmm, will come back to this. I listen to a lot of different stuff, so it'll be hard to compile an accurate list without forgetting something.

[Fried]

These are the albums that have had a profound impact on me over the years.

 

Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel

James Brown - Payback

Lisa Gerrard - The Mirror Pool

Dead Can Dance - Towards The Within

Darkthrone - ABITNS / UAFM / TH

Burzum - Burzum / DSEV / HLTO

Amon Düül - Paradieswärts Düül

Amon Düül II - Yeti

Whitehouse - New Britain / Buchenwald

Sutcliffe Jugend - When Pornography Is No Longer Enough

Death In June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust / But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?

Current 93 - Tamlin / Lucifer Over London

Yabby You - King Tubby's Prophecy of Dub

Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate / Melissa / Don't Break The Oath

Richard Moult - Ethe

Love - Forever Changes

Phil Spector - Back To Mono box set

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds / Smile

David Bowie - Heroes

Public Image Limited - Metal Box

Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle

Mutiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood

Vlad Tepes - Black Legions Metal

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Deicide - Legion

Original Nuggets Compilation

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness / Blessed Are The Sick

Nuit Noire - demos

S.V.E.S.T - Urfaust

Smiths - Meat Is Murder / World Won't Listen

 

I had better stop there. There's so many but these ones have had a profound, almost life changing effect on me for many different reasons.

 

 

[Anno Domini.]

Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now

You Me At Six - Cavalier Youth

Mallory Knox - Signals

Funeral For A Friend - Your History Is Mine: 2002-2009 (a best of album)

Avenged Sevenfold

Tenacious D - Pick Of Destiny

My Chemical Romance - Danger Days

letlive. - Fake History

A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You

Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour

 

Honourable Mentions:

Taking Back Sunday - New Again

Brand New - Deja Entendu

Ed Sheeran - +

Paramore

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

[sam the d00d]

My favorite of album of all time is Say Anything's ...is a Real Boy. Amazing song writing. Songs are heartfelt, sad, aggressive, funny. It's a band literally run by a bipolar person and you can really tell that with the variation on this album. It perfectly captures what it feels like to he in your late teens-20s, insanely relateable. It's a bit of a cult classic for a reason. Definitely one of the classics of its genre and time.

[Ziggy Vercetti]

Real list,gonna try to make it short

 

 

 

Dr. Dre's -The Chronic and 2001.... Detox too

2Pac's-Me Against the World-Greatest Hits

Snoop Dogg's-Doggystyle,Tha Doggfather,Paid tha Cost to be da Boss,R&G:The Masterpiece,Tha Blue Carpet Treatment,Malice n Wonderland and Doggumentary

Warren G-Regulate...G Funk Era

Eminem-The Slim Shady LP-MMLP2

NWA-Straight Outta Compton

Jay-Z-Reasonable Doubt - Watch the Throne

Nas- It Was Written,I Am,Stillmatic,God's Son,Hip Hop Is Dead,Untitled and Life is Good

Notorious BIG-Ready to Die,Life After Death and Duets:The Final Chapter

DMX-It's Dark and Hell Is Hot,Flesh of My Flesh,Blood of My Blood,....And Then There Was X,Grand Champ,Year of the Dog... Again and Undisputed

Busta Rhymes-The Coming,When Disaster Strikes,Genesis,The Big Bang and Back on My B.S.

JT-Justified-20/20 Experience

MJ-Off the Wall-Xscape

Rita Ora-Ora

J.LO-J.Lo/J to Tha L-O! The Remixes-A.K.A

Guns N' Roses-Appetite for Destruction

The Beatles-Abbey Road

Nelly Furtado- Loose and The Spirit Indestructible

Nelly-Country Grammar-5.0

Katy Perry-One of the Boys-Prisim

Demi Lovato- Unbroken-Demi

Ariana Grande-Yours Truly-My Everything(I know it hasn't dropped yet but I can tell imma like it just by listening to a few released tracks)

David Guetta- One More Love-Nothing but the Beat 2.0

John Cena & Tha Trademark-You Can't See Me(I'm dead serious)

Nickelback *incoming hate* - The Long Road-Dark Horse

M.I.A-Kala and Matangi

Fat Joe-Jealous Ones Still Envy-The Darkside Vol. 1

Drake-So Far Gone-NWTS

Lil Wayne-Tha Block Is Hot-Tha Carter IV

Nicki Minaj-Pink Friday/Pink Friday The Re-Up

Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory-The Hunting Party

Gym Class Heros-...For the Kids-The Papercut Chronicles 2

Jadakiss-Kiss tha Game Goodbye-The Last Kiss

The Game/Game-The Documentary-Jesus Piece

Kendrick Lamar- good kid MADD city

A$AP Rocky-Live.Love.ASAP-Long. Live. ASAP

Iggy Azalea-The New Classic

OutKast-Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik-Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Selena- Selena and Dreaming of You

Selena Gomez-A Year Without Rain,When the Sun Goes Down and Stars Dance

Shakira-Laundry Service,She Wolf and Shakira

DEV-The Night the Sun Came Up

Far East Movement- Free Wired-Dirty Bass Enrique Iglesias-Escape-Sex & Love

Daddy Yankee- Barrio Fino,Barrio Fino en Directo,El Cartel:The Big Boss,Daddy Yankee Mundial and Prestige

Ja Rule-Pain is Love-R.U.L.E

Bootsy Collins-Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band

Bone Thugs N Harmony- E.1999 Eternal and Stength & Loyalty

Travie McCoy-Lazarus

Britney Spears-Oops!... I Did It Again-Britney Jean

Miley Cyrus-Can't Be Tamed-Bangerz

P.Diddy/Diddy/Sean Combs,Sir Combs,etc- No Way Out-Last Train To Paris

Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill & Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

RUN DMC-King of Rock

50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin'-Animal Ambition

Wiz Khalifa-Rolling Papers-O.N.I.F.C... Blacc Hollywood when it drops

Bruno Mars-Doo-Wops & Hooligans-Unorthodox Jukebox

Krewella-Get Wet

Chris Brown-Chris Brown-X

Trey Songz-Trey Day-Trigga

Lupe Fiasco-Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor-Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1

T.I- Trap Muzik-Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head....Paperwork: The Motion Picture when it drops

Kreayshawn-Somethin' 'Bout Kreay

Riff Raff-Neon Icon(dead serious)

 

 

 

Just some of my favorite albums. I can go on and on but I'll stop there.

 

Got plenty plenty more Rock,Pop,Rap,R&B,etc album favs.

<<<< Total music head right here.

[Lyriqz ✪]

Highway 61 Revisted - Bob Dylan

Thank You Happy Birthday - Cage The Elephant

Downtown Battle Montain - Dance Gavin Dance

Happiness - Dance Gavin Dance

Don't Say We Didn't Warn You - Does It Offend You, Yeah?

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Da Roach - Dope D.O.D.

Folie A Deux - Fall Out Boy

LP1 - FKA twigs

The Flamingo Trigger - Foxy Shazam (There's on stinker but I listen to the rest sooo much.)

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Kickin' & Screamin' - Krizz Kaliko

Wheel - Laura Stevenson

Conversation Piece - A Lot Like Birds

The Sucker Punch Show - Lovedrug

Watching Movies With The Sound Off - Mac Miller

Electra Heart - Marina & The Diamonds

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Origin Of Simmetry - Muse

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Bleach - Nirvana

In Utero - Nirvana

Pretty. Odd. - Panic! at the Disco

Conditions Of My Parole - Puscifer

Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens Of The Stone Age

Until We Have Faces - Red

Master Of My Make Believe - Santigold

Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira

Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses - Slipknot

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

First Impressions Of Earth - The Strokes

The Seer - Swans

KOD - Tech N9ne

Sickology 101 - Tech N9ne

Something Else - Tech N9ne

Welcome To Strangeland - Tech N9ne

Cloud Adventures - Tha Trickaz

Bone Machin e - Tom Wait s

Lateralus - Tool

10.000 Days - Tool

Wolf - Tyler, The Creator

Civilian - Wye Oak

Yael Naim - Yael Naim

 

 

 

[Creepia]

You don't think Metallica's self-titled is pretty great, too? Or you think it's good but pales in comparison to your favourites of theirs?

I said it. "The Black Album". It's called both, theres no real official title.

[Grenade.]

Oh christ, I'l just make a list here and probably edit it about 26 times. In no order

 

• Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
• Eminem - MMLP
• Eminem - Eminem Show
• Eminem - SSLP
• Kanye West - MBDTF
• Kanye West - Graduation
• Kanye West - Late Registration
• Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
• Brand New - Deja Entendu
• Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
• Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
• My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
• My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
• Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
• Outkast - Aquemini
• City & Colour - Little Hell
• City & Colour - Sometimes

That's just like super top tier shit for me. I really like a lot of other albums.

[Chips.]

I honestly do need to check that out. It's been sitting on my phone for ages but I haven't tried it.

 

Which version, btw? Lots of people say the U.K version's better, I think even Tyler said so himself. But eh, not like it matters all that much anyway.

I'm not sure what the UK version is, I know there was a re release that made the songs sound different. I liked both but personally preferred the original release.

[Kirky]

Probably forgetting a couple, but here's my list:

 

Paramore - Riot!

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Kendrick Lamar - GKMC

Eminem - The Eminem Show

Eminem - MMLP

Eminem - SSLP

Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt

Jay Z - The Blueprint

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Kanye West - The College Dropout

Kanye West - MBDTF

Stereophonics - The best of Stereophonics: Decade in the Sun

Biggie Smalls - Ready to Die

Michael Jackson - Bad

Ariana Grande - Yours Truly

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - The Complete Harry Potter Film Music Collection

[Mind_Trip]

(No Specific Order)

 

Spiders - Flash Point

•

Selah Sue - Selah Sue

•

Dirty Loops - Loopified

•

Justin Moore - Justin Moore

Justin Moore - Outlaws Like Me

Justin Moore - Off the Beaten Path

•

The Vincent Black Shadow - Fears in the Water

The Vincent Black Shadow - El Munstruo

•

Randy Houser - Anything Goes

Randy Houser - They Call Me Cadillac

Randy Houser - How Country Feels

•

Buchanan - All Understood

Jay Buchanan - Locust & Wild Honey

Rival Sons - Before the Fire

Rival Sons - Pressure & Time

Rivals Sons - Head Down

Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie

•

Brett Eldredge - Bring You Back

•

Eliza Doolittle - Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle - In Your Hands

•

Versa - Fixed at Zero

•

Daley - Those Who Wait

Daley - Days & Nights

•

Alana Grace - Break the Silence

Alana Grace - With One Word

•

Danny Gokey - My Best Days

Danny Gokey - Hope in Front of Me

•

The Virginmarys - King of Conflict

•

Katie Armiger - Katie Armiger

Katie Armiger - Believe

Katie Armiger - Confessions of a Nice Girl

Katie Armiger - Fall Into Me

•

Darling Parade - Battle Scars & Broken Hearts

[Vapor]

In no particular order:

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

Disturbed - Believe

Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

Disturbed - Indestructible

Disturbed - Asylum

Disturbed - The Lost Children

Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace - One-X

Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now

Celldweller - Celldweller

Celldweller - Wish Upon a Blackstar

Alter Bridge - Blackbird

Alter Bridge - ABIII

Tremonti - All I Was

Stone Sour - Come Whatever May

Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust

Poets of the Fall - Sings of Life

Poets of the Fall - Temple of Thought

Breaking Benjamin - Saturate

[Royal Nakamura]

 

I honestly do need to check that out. It's been sitting on my phone for ages but I haven't tried it.

 

Which version, btw? Lots of people say the U.K version's better, I think even Tyler said so himself. But eh, not like it matters all that much anyway.

I'm not sure what the UK version is, I know there was a re release that made the songs sound different. I liked both but personally preferred the original release.

Yeah, I saw people refer to that as the UK version. It's the live release of the album.

 

Creeping: Oh right, my bad!

[.Sy™]

Speaking of Black Albums, I have no idea how I forgot to add Jay's to my list. I've edited this list at least 10 times now.

 

@Lyriqz: Have you heard Swans' To Be Kind? They go all-Tool in the first half of the record and it's glorious.

[Lyriqz ✪]

I did and I liked it a lot until Bring The Suns or whatever that really long track is called. Very atmopheric but just too long and monotone, it bugs me. I appreciate the mood of the album as a whole and that it's actually different but that one song kinda ruined my experience in a "Oh, I feel like listening" kinda way. Oxygen is very redeeming though.