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I'm IMing Homeschool and he has to do a "Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time" thing for school. He actually haven't really listened to any album all the way through so he just picked his favorite songs and then wrote about the albums they were on. Lame!

And I got to thinking, what about you guys?

Personally, I don't think I'd be able to come up with TEN, but I'd definitely be able to come up with three: "Revolver" by The Beatles, "Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys, and maybe one (or if I am stretching it two) by TMBG. Dunno which that'd be though. Oh, and perhaps "River of Dreams" by Billy Joel would make the list. Probably up higher since I don't like some of the songs on it very much. But it's awesome.

Oh, and The White Album would also make the cut. Definitely. So that makes, uh, 5-6 right there.

Maybe I'll have a whole ten of 'em when I'm 20 or something.

Oh, and "Dream of the Blue Turtles" by Sting. Definitely.

So wow more than I thought! I'll see if I can come up with a whole ten later.

EDIT: I have them all, plus a couple of runners-up. I'll post the list later today or probably tomorrow.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Here's the aforementioned 10 albums I haven't heard all of:

10. Hip To the Javabean - Lemon Demon
9. The Kingston Trio - The Kingston Trio
8. Automatic For the People - R.E.M.
7. Odelay - Beck
6. Recovering the Satellites - Counting Crows
5. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
4. They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
3. Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants
2. Lincoln - They Might Be Giants
1. Flood - They Might Be Giants

And just to reinforce how lame I am, I don't even own any of those albums. My dad owns two of them, though.

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I tend to be a Greatest Hits type of person. Here's my rough list (in their current order; it'll probably change in the near future):

1. Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe: Best of the Box
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Smashing Pumpkins: Greatest Hits
3. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best of Blue Oyster Cult
4. Def Leppard - Vault: Def Leppard's Greatest Hits
5. Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits
6. Styx - Styx: Greatest Hits
7. Judas Priest - The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight
8. The Beatles - 1
9. Trapt - Trapt
10. Nirvana - Nevermind

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Compilations do not count. GTFO.

Believe me, if they had counted, I would have included the Billy Joel or Paul Simon collections I have. BUT THEY DON'T. So I didn't. Nyah. D<

Actually, perhaps I'm being too harsh. I think whether compilations count really depend on your point of view. For me, though, I don't think so. But whatever floats your boat, Disk.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

This phrase...I've seen it used twice tonight already.

Yeah, I buy compilations because it is generally easier to get a specific band's good music instead of having to pay for several albums. Of course, I also borrow a bunch of my dad's music since he has so many CDs.


Nope.

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Let's see here.....

Honorable Mentions: The Black Album by Metallica, Issues by KoRn

10. Sehnsucht by Rammstein
9. Stunt by Barenaked Ladies
8. Master of Puppets by Metallica
7. Untouchables by KoRn
6. The Arockalypse by Lordi
5. Follow the Leader by KoRn
4. Mutter by Rammstein
3. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
2. Ride the Lightning by Metallica
1. KoRn by KoRn

A little heavy on the metal, but that's because I am devout worshiper at the Altar of Metal.

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Posting the list, because I can't sleep:

10. River of Dreams - Billy Joel

9. Four Symbols/ZoSo/IV - Led Zeppelin

8. The Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting

7. Factory Showroom - They Might Be Giants

6. Even in the Quietest Moments - Supertramp

5. Inside In - Mike Gordon

4. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

3. Abbey Road - The Beatles

2. The White Album - The Beatles

1. Revolver - The Beatles

Runners-Up: Cast Your Pod to the Wind by TMBG, Apollo 18 by TMBG, Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder

Originally was gonna write tl;dr essays about all of them but changed my mind.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

This is impossible. But here's a crappy list anyway.

1. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Metallica - Master of Puppets
4. Helmet - Meantime
5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6. Sublime - Sublime
7. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
8. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
9. Nirvana - Nevermind
10. The White Stripes - Elephant

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oh hay, wasn't that John Stainer's old band?

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On topic though, this is the best I can do. Almost 3 times the requested number and in no order but rough alphabetical, but screw you. There is not a single duff second of music on this list.

.1 - Bossk
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
Bloodsport - Sneaker Pimps
Black Market Music - Placebo
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Deja Entendu - Brand New
Drink Me - Queenadreena
Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
El Cielo - Dredg
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Echo Park - Feeder
Fancy Ultra Fresh - Freezepop
Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Hand Over Your Loved Ones/Suck Fony (same album, basically) - Wheatus
Horrorscope - Eve 6
Infested - The The
The Inside - Moses Mayfield
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
Mobile Estates - Citizen King
Middle of Nowhere - Hanson
Rings Around The World - Super Furry Animals
The Sleep - This Mourning After
So Long Scarecrow - Scarling.
Spawn of Dysfunction - Die So Fluid
Vespertine - Bjork
Walking with Strangers - The Birthday Massacre

1. Everything Goes Numb - Streetlight Manifesto
2. Keasbey Nights - Catch 22
3. Goodbye Cool World - Bomb the Music Inudstry! Free to download.
4. Somewhere in the Between - Streetlight Manifesto
5. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
6. The Great Depression - Defiance, Ohio Free to download.
7. Quantity is Job 1 - Five Iron Frenzy
8. Love Songs for the Apocalypse - Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
9. Cash, Money, Etc - Michael Jordan Touchdown Pass
10. The Fury of the Aquabats! - The Aquabats!

10. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge-MCR I am so sorry
9. The Subliminal Verses-SlipKnot
8. Korn Greatest Hits
7. Styx Greatest Hits
6. Nimrod-Green Day
5. Warning-Green Day
4. Animals-Pink Floyd
3. Queen Greatest Hits
2. Decomposer-The Matches
1. E. Von Dahl Killed The Locals-The Matches

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Yeah, it was. In my opinion, his talent showed more in this band than Battles. Battles is great and all but Stanier was just born to play metal. Anyway, check out Meantime if you haven't already. It's their best album and the reason I ever picked up a guitar.

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Alrighty, let's see here...

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
3. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
4. Animal Collective - Feels
5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
8. Battles - Mirrored
9. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
10. Boris - Pink

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Ballin', someone's actually heard of them. :D I think their second album is way better though. The only thing I don't really like about them is their vocals. Cedric seems to think that shouting out random words and calling it a "metaphor" is a substitute for actually writing stuff.

anyway back on topic

I'll make a list of favorite albums eventually. There's just a ton of stuff to choose from.

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BTW: Anyone counting these down from 1 to 10 is doing it wrong.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

10. The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
9. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
8. REM - Automatic For The People
7. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
6. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
5. The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
2. Soundgarden - Superunknown
1. Radiohead - The Bends

oh hey hi guys

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I think I love you.

I couldn't come up with 10. All I know is that The Else and John Henry (both TMBG) are first and second, respectively. And various albums by, like, theSTART and Scarling and Jack Off Jill and stuff.

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You can do better than that, give a real album.

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Issues. Happy now?

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It's because this is
Cranial bleeding
Leaches train the living
Cursed are they who speak its name
Ruse of metacarpi
Caveat emptor to all that enter here
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed


It's so DEEP.

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I'm just gonna dive right in and spitball on this list. Just off the top of my head. I might make some edits or post a new list if I feel some other albums are more deserving. But anyways, in no particular order...

1) Lateralus - Tool
2) None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
3) Back In Black - AC/DC
4) Nevermind - Nirvana
5) Discovery - Daft Punk
6) The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
7) Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
8) Age of Winters - The Sword
9) Music By Cavelight - Blockhead
10) Time Bomb - Buckcherry

I chose these 10 albums because they're the albums that I can listen to the whole way through with full satisfaction. They're the albums that are stringed together nicely, they're the albums with great album artwork and they're the albums with all-around top-notch production. I could have chosen a Rush album or an Iron Maiden album as one of my top 10 favorite albums, but I don't think there's an Iron Maiden or a Rush album in which every song is just as good as the one that precedes of follows it. See what I'm saying there? Ah whatever, you don't care.

This isn't my top 10 favorite albums fer definites though. I'm still undecided.

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I really need more albums. I barely have any. But out of the ones I have that won't get me mocked...

Dookie - Green Day
Together Alone - Crowded House
The Wall - Pink Floyd

Only three? Then I will add the others. As much as I love the ones above, they took some time to grow on me, while I liked the ones below straight away. Liking Dookie is fine while liking American Idiot is a crime against music, correct?

American Idiot - Green Day
Billy Talent II - Billy Talent
The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
Fallen - Evanescence

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."

No offense, but those are three albums I really can't stand.

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K, ten favorites and explanation. In order of oldest to newest.

1967 (Best year in music): The Velvet Underground & Nico
Perfect album and influential to nearly everything else I listen to.

Also 1967: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd
It's not Pink Floyd without the Barret man.

1979: London Calling by The Clash
It's very creative and a great variety of styles. None of their albums after this are any good; however.

1984: Zen Arcade by Husker Du
Second verse same as the first. Original and enjoyable. Although there are good albums by them after this one.

1988: Surfer Rosa by Pixies
I think I may be one of the few people that thinks this is a better record than Doolittle. Doolittle's pretty sweet, too.

1994: MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana
All of their music is great (I have all of their albums and Incesticide; I want With the Lights Out a bunch), but this one is my favorite.

1996: Pinkerton by Weezer
Beautiful album, and again is their last good album.

2003: Elephant by The White Stripes
=D

2003: Everything Goes Numb
2003 is a pretty decent year for ska. There actually two good albums (that I know of) during this year. This is one of them, and the other is Just One More by Mad Caddies.

And the tenth slot is empty. I can't figure out what's deserving of this, there are so many possible options from this decade for me to choose from. Yeah, most of my tunes are recent. Sue me.

There you go. Oh, and on a side note to Shwoo, I like American Idiot. 'Tis good, 'tis good. And most of you other people have rather wesome lists that I listen to like half of. I need to start listening to Neutral Milk Hotel.

Lol.

Is that from Roulette Dares? I knew I heard the word "exoskeleton" in there somewhere...

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No, dude, you're totally right. Surfer Rosa is SO much better than Doolittle, especially (although not exclusively) when paired up with Come On Pilgrim like it is on my CD.

Yeah.

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All I can give you is #1:
1. Smashing... Live!—New Japan Philharmonic

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10. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Props to the above guy who mentioned this. Zen Arcade is just a pure classic. Got the original 2xLP, too.

9. Ramones - Rocket to Russia
All the first four Ramones records were golden, but this one has "Teenage Lobotomy" and "Rockaway Beach" on it, and that's my favorite song from the Ramones. The early Ramones material, before it was all hijacked by the whole punk rock thing was great, like junkies attempting Beach Boys or something.

8. Velvet Undergound - White Light/White Heat
Once again, it was a very hard decision. I Funk love Velvet Underground, but I'm down with the noisy experimentation on this record a bit more than what they did on the others. I don't think it's applicable, so I didn't put down the Peel Slowly and See box set of the Velvet Undergound, but I would since it's all their material.

7. Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Basically every sucker DJ owes Bambaataa millions. Kraftwerk also owes Bambaataa millions, because who knew that anyone could actually make their stuff sound interesting?

6. Michael Jackson - Thriller
This would be a perfect pop record if it wasn't for "The Girl is Mine." That song is terrible. Notwithstanding, though, everything else is gold. People go nuts over the title track, and it's good, but I'm a "Beat It" man. Michael Jackson's monsterous talent shines through best on Thriller, and I'm never one to appreciate virtuosity because that's usually something for boring white people, but he does it like no one else.

5. Black Flag - Damaged
The quintessential angry, isolated, and ANGRY punk record which still sounds good and relevant even though it's like what, 26, 27 years old now? You believe Mr. Rollins when he's belting out "Funk GONNA PAY!" between verse and chorus on "Police Story." Black Flag is so antihero that even the excellent guitar work is still very thrashing and abrasive, especially on "Depression."

4. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
The quintessential angry, isolated, yet still somehow optimistic and idealistic raw punk record. "Walking Is Still Honest" is my favorite song of all time, hands down. It's the ultimate drunk sing-along record, too.

3. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
It's very difficult to decide which Jawbreaker album is the best to pick for this list, especially when they all sound different, but I think I'll go with this one. By the way, if you don't like Jawbreaker: you suck, you never were a teenager, or you've never heard of them. The end.

2. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to Funk with.

1. Defiance, Ohio - Share What Ya' Got!
I don't have to tell you why this is my favorite record. You can just listen to it, and decide for yourself.


It was really hard to pick the top 10. I've got more like a top 400.