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Muxnap
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OK ladies and gentlemen

this is your chance to put a little thought into your top 20 albums of all time. The purpose is to get you to think about your fav music, and dig a bit into your back catalog. IF you want, do an honorable mention, if you just can't leave out an album. Feel free to slag my taste, if I put it out there, I guess I deserve it


TOP 20 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (in order from best down)

1. Slayer ----- Reign In Blood
2. Clutch ----- Transitional Speedway Motor League
3. Pink Floyd ----- Wish You Were Here
4. Tool ----- Undertow
5. Public Enemy ----- Fear Of A Black Planet
6. Morphine ----- Cure For Pain
7. Boards of Canada ----- Music Has The Right To Children
8. Helmet ----- Meantime
9. Cop Shoot Cop ----- Release
10. Day Glo Abortions ----- Feed Us A Fetus
11. Frankie Goes To Hollywood � Welcome ToThe Pleasuredome
12. Black Sabbath ----- Heaven and Hell (w/Ronnie James Dio at the helm!!!!!).
13. Danzig ----- Lucifuge
14. Alice in Chains ----- Dust
15. Dr. Dre ----- The Chronic (the original).
16. Sons of Freedom ----- Self titled
17. Portishead ----- Dummy
18. AC DC ---- Highway to Hell
19. MC 900 Foot Jesus ----- Welcome to my Dream
20. Jimi Hendrix ----- Axis Bold as Love

Honorable Mentions

Robert Johnson ----- King Of The Delta Blues Jurassic Five ----- Quality Control
Two Live Crew ----- 2 Live Crew Is What We Are Narareth ----- Hair of the Dog
Twin Peaks Soundtrack (series, not movie). Underworld ----- Beaucoup Fish
Sex Pistols ----- Never Mind The Bullocks Tom Petty ----- Full Moon Fever
Bootsauce ---Brown album Faith No More ----- The Real thing
Paw -----Dragline Janes Addiction ----- Ritual De Lo Habitual
Soundgarden -Badmotorfinger NIN ----- Pretty Hate Machine
Screaming Trees ----- Sweet Oblivion The Smalls � My Sweet Little Angle
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
Kyuss ----- Blues For The Red Sun
Human Traffic Soundtrack Ramones ----Rocket to Russia
Lummox ----- Natural Born Swillers Kittens ----- In Bazooka and the Hustler
Jurassic Five ----- Quality Control Judas Priest ----- Unleashed In The East
Generation X ----- selftitles
Prodigy ----- The Fat Of The Land
Refused ----- Shape Of Punk To Come
Rocket From The Crypt ----- Circa Now
ACDC ----- Back In Black
Beastie Boys ----- Check Your Head Billy Bragg ----- Back To Basics
Bob Marley & the Wailers ----- Survival Brujeria -----Raza Odiada
The Cult ----- Love
Dystopia ----- Human =Garbage Filter ----- Short Bus - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 2:16am
Elliot
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(not in order)

Led Zeppelin IV
Tool - Aenima
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Nirvana - In Utero
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
Mr. Bungle - California
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Botch - We Are The Romans
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Just personal favorites. Not doing twenty, that's excessive. - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 3:36am
Lurker
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Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
GG Allin - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks, & Junkies
Dropkick Murphys - Do or Die
Black Flag - Damaged
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Johnny Cash - Complete Sun Singles Collection
The Exploited - Punk's Not Dead
Ramones - S/T
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
Motorhead - No Remorse (Best Of)
The Clash - S/T
The Stooges - Fun House
The Doors - Best Of
The Germs - MIA: The Complete Anthology
Anti-Nowhere League - We Are... The League
The Crusties - The Only Band Worth Hating
Beastie Boys - Sounds of Science Anthology
Hank Williams - 24 Greatest Hits - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 4:01am
knoblin
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The first guy was way off except about Bootsauce. To all you haters, "Get the funk out!"
Also, Tool, Alice in Chains and NIN are about the only other decent bands on that list. - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 8:25am
some girl...
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Damn it! No one put Belle and Sebastian on their list!!! (ha ha aha).

These are my favorite, not necessarily the "best"...
Bikini Kill- Pussy Whipped
Ladytron- Light & Magic
Soundgarden- Ultramega Ok (not their best but still my favorite)
Any of the Cure, Johny Cash or early Depeche Mode (late stuff is aweful)
Any Christmas album. Really, I like them all (especially "the birthday party"-LP!!- my boyfriend almost puked out of discust the other day when I put it on)
Huggy Bear- Weaponry listens to Love.
Pick any Billie Holiday and I'll listen to it all day.
Tricky- can't spell it... Maxi-i-something or other.
Portishead- self titled
Red Aunts- Drag
Nirvana- Bleach
Chicks on Speed- Re-releases of the unreleases
Jesus Lizard- Down - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:35am
ticklefish
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In random order:

U2: Joshua Tree
Radiohead: Ok Computer
Clash: London Calling
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Lucinda Williams: Essence
Badly Drawn Boy: Hour of Bewilderbeest
Peter Gabriel: Us
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Beatles: Abbey Road
Neil Finn: Try Whistling This
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Natalie Merchant: Motherland
Steve Earle: Jerusalem
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
New Model Army: Thunder and Consolation
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Waterboys: Fisherman's Blues
Police: Ghost in the Machine
Sinead O'Connor: the Lion and the Cobra
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:51am
Spark
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not in order:
Tool - Lateralis
Nirvana - In Uetro
Sublime - 40 oz to freedom
Zepplin - any album
I mother Earth - scenery and fish
Bush - sixteenstone
The Doors - fuck, ANYTHING
Smashing Pumpkins - Meloncolie
Collective soul - selftitled
Dave Mathews - Crash
Queen - Greatest hits

Now, can you tell that I am the product of early 90's MTV? Sadly, you could probably put on a Big Shiny Tunes One Cd and I could sing it word for word. well, so much for my musical taste of the moment... - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:30pm
The Ref
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In no particular order:

Level 42 Greatest Hits
Zep Houses of the holy
Sabbath Heaven & Hell (Dio)
Dio Holy Diver
Pink Floydd (Toss up) between The Wall & Animals & Wish you were here
Any ACDC with Bon Scott
James Taylors Greatest hits
Beestie Boys Check your head Billy Bragg
Jeff Beck Wired & Blow by Blow
Genesis Trick of the tail
Pearl Jam Vitology
Alice Cooper Welcome to my nightmare
Frank Zappa Live in New york or Zoots Alors
Rickie Lee Jones Self titled
Journey Raised on Radio
Peter Gabriel So
Pentara Far Beyond Driven
Joe Satriani Surfing with the alien
Dave Mathews Crash
Edgar Winter They Only come out at night - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 1:01pm
EVDAWG
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no order
beatles white album
hendrix are you experienced
floyd the wall
sabbath bloody sabbath
beatles revolver
nirvana nevermind
neil young harvest
metallica master of puppets
zeppelin 1234
doors la woman
alice in chains dirt
who whos next
floyd dark side
stp core
oasis whats the story
stones let it bleed
dead live europe 72
gnr use your illusions
tragically hip fully completely
u2 achtung baby
beatles rubber soul abbey road etc
deep purple machine head
cream disrali gears
beach boys pet sounds
plus many many more - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 3:05pm
Trailer Park Boy Julian
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�Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell� � Social Distortion
�Two Things at Once� � The Descendents
�Rumble! The Best of Link Wray� � Link Wray
�Raw Power� � Iggy and the Stooges
�Silky� � Andre Williams
�Nevermind� � Nirvana
�Doolittle� � Pixies
�Licensed to Ill� � The Beasties Boys
�Circa Now� � Rocket from the Crypt
�Psychedelic Jungle / Gravest Hits� � The Cramps
�Destroy - Oh - Boy� � The New Bomb Turks
�The Clash� � The Clash
�Empty Bottles Broken Hearts� � The Murder City Devils
�Live at Folsom Prison� � Johnny Cash
�O.G. Original Gangster� � Ice-T
�Do or Die� � Dropkick Murphy�s
�Grow Up!� � The Queers
�Hayseed Timebomb� � Nine Pound Hammer
�Mule Variations� � Tom Waits
�In Too Deep Again� � Spitfires - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 3:41pm
Muxnap
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Nice list Trailer Park!!! Lots of variety, me likey. Also kudos to some girl, the lion and the cobra is a sneaky and a goody!!!1 - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 4:46pm
Muxnap
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actually, I meant tickle fish. Also love the Disposable Heroes call!! - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 4:49pm
Jedi
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Iron Maiden � Number of the beast
Alice cooper � from the inside
Megadeth � countdown to extinction
Malmsteen � (the first rising force)
Steve Vai � Passion and warfare
Judas Priest � defenders of the faith
Black Sabbath � Sabotage and bloody sabbath
Al DeMeola � Elegant gypsy
Vanessa Mae � (anything by her)
Megadeth � peace sells
Metalica � ride the lightning and master of puppets
Paco De Lucia � (any)
Ozzy � (everything)
Heart � Brigade
Michael Jackson � dangerous
Alanis Morissette � Jagged pills
Cacophony � speed metal symphony
Shakira � ( I would do her laundry) haha
Halford � Resurrection - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 6:06pm
Spark
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You may have noticed that my list is considerably shorter than the others. perhaps it is because of my diminished attention span due to MTV. Kudos to the many others on here like me. i.e. Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys (and ill communication was thier best album) Alanis (haha) Metallica and yes who can forget pearl jam! - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 6:10pm
Ty Stranglehold
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No particluar order

Stiff Little Fingers - Imflammable Material
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Subhumans(Canada) - Incorrect Thoughts
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
UK Subs - Another Kind Of Blues
Forgotten Rebels - Surfin' On Heroin
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Butthole Surfers - Psychic, Poweless, Another Man's Sac
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Dwarves - Are Young And Good Looking
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Poison Idea - Kings Of Punk
Smogtown - Fuhrers Of The New Wave
Leatherface - Mush
Clash - S/T
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
Nomeansno - Wrong
Ramones - First 4 Records (tied)


SO MANY MORE!!!!!!!! - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 6:24pm
frank
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you fucks need to grab head tight and shake hard.
1. FEAR , FEAR
2. FEAR , FEAR
3. FEAR , FEAR
4. FEAR , FEAR
5. FEAR , FEAR
6. FEAR , FEAR
7. FEAR , FEAR
8. FEAR , FEAR
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11.FEAR , FEAR
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16.FEAR , FEAR
17.FEAR , FEAR
18.FEAR , FEAR
19.FEAR , FEAR
20.Glen Gould , Goldberg Variations (orignal and 1983 remake) - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:56pm
Lurker
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Fear never had an album called Fear. Their first one was "The Record" - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:57pm
The Ref
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Here's my pix. They are all tres coo!

1. Best of Melanie - "very hip"
2. Bette Midler - Broken Blossom - "totally kicks ass"
3. Jim Stafford - "Them crazy spiders 'n' snakes!"
4. Foreigner - Double Vision - "Me like"
5. Rupert Holmes- Singles - "Do you like Pina Colodas? I love them - so sweet!"
6. Neil Diamond - And the Singer Sings his Song - "Neil kicks!"
7. Charlie and the Pep Boys - Fantasy Girls - "Oh lala!" - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:59pm
lorralien
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you stole my list you rat bastard. - Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:40am
The Ref
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You like the Pep Boys too? Coo! - Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:43am
Fred the Dragon
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No particular order... (more than 20)


Led Zepplin - II
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Beck - Odelay
Blackalicious - NIA
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Doors - The Doors
Air - Moon Safari
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Beatles - White Album
Faith No More - King For A Day
Groove Armada - Vertigo
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
John Coltarne - A Love Supreme
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Outkast - Stankonia
Paul Simon - Graceland
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Radiohead - OK Computer
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Lou Reed - Transformer
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Tool - Aenima
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Portishead - Dummy
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Velvet Underground - Loaded - Wed, 9 Jul 2003 2:51am
Knoblin
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Hmm...some girl who likes the Huggybear..hmm...intriguing. Belle and Sebastian are bloody beautiful, actually. You should spin them when you're feeling that heartache.

My Random List:
Gram Parsons-Grievous Angel
Stiff Little Fingers-Inflammable Material
Ramones-S/T
The Slits-Cut
Rites of Spring-S/T
Minor Threat-Out of Step
Belle and Sebastian-If You're Feeling Sinister
Dylan-Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bowie-Hunky Dory
Velvet Underground and Nico-S/T
The Clash-London Calling
Vic Chesnutt-Little
Neil Young-After The Gold Rush
Magnetic Fields-69 Love Songs
Tom Waits-Franks Wild Years
Lou Reed-Transformer
Moss Icon-I dream about this record and wish i still had it and can't remember the name.
Slint-Spiderland
Stones-Exile
Beatles-Abbey Road - Wed, 9 Jul 2003 4:09am
_Griphin_
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Ya know, I tried to figure out what my top 20 favorite albums of all time were, there's too many good albums out there, here's a quick list. The first three are a no-brainer...

01> Metallica-Kill 'Em All
02> The Prodigy-The Fat of the Land
03> The Crystal MethOD-Vegas

Now the rest (in no particular order)...

04> D.O.A.-Hardcore '81
05> Suicidal Tendencies-Suicidal Tendencies
06> SubHumAns-From the Cradle... to the Grave
07> FrontLine Assembly-Tactical Neural Implant
08> Nirvana-Bleach
09> Public Enemy-Fear of a Black Planet
10> KISS-Destroyer
11> Joe Satriani-Surfin' With the Alien
12> Jimi Hendrix-Are You Experienced?
13> Iron Maiden-Killers
14> Napalm Death-Inside the Torn Apart
15> Motorhead-Ace of Spades
16> Death-Scream Bloody Gore
17> Fear Factory-Obsolete
18> GOB-How Far Shallow Takes You
19> Delerium-Semantic Spaces
20> Black Flag-Damaged - Thu, 10 Jul 2003 4:52am
ROSS B AY
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among the living - ANTHRAX
far beyond driven - PANTERA
bbc sessions - ZEP
souls of black / low - TESTAMENT
undisputed attitude / divine intervention - SLAYER
sabotage - SABBATH
s.e.o.d. - S.O.D.
dealing with it / thrash zone - D.R.I.
...and justice for all - METALLICA
push - GRUNTRUCK
badmotorfinger - SOUNDGARDEN
damaged - BLACK FLAG
come in and burn / weight - ROLLINS BAND
hard volume / do it - ROLLINS BAND
stay hungry - TWISTED SISTER
street survivors - SKYNYRD
hits '77 - ZZ TOP
back in '72 - BOB SEGER
mama said - LL COOL J
brutality of war - DISGUST
live at chelmsford - PISTOLS


Coo! - Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:16am
Rael
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Good albums are ones you don't have to push skip on:
1) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2) Gong - Angel's Egg
3) Caravan - The Land of Grey and Pink
4) Peter Gabriel - Us
5) Soft Machine - Volume 2
6) King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King
7) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
8) Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
9) Hayden - Skyscraper National Park
10) Gong - Camembert Electrique
11) Aphrodite's Child - 666
12) Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
13) Peter Gabriel - Up
14) .....yea, 20 is excessive for best albums ever... - Thu, 10 Jul 2003 8:22pm
ROSS B AY
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almost forgot..

REBEL YELL - BILLY IDOL - Thu, 10 Jul 2003 8:52pm
Ty Stranglehold
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I forgot: SLOPPY SECONDS - Destroyed - Thu, 10 Jul 2003 9:12pm
Knoblin
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I also forgot:Patti Smith-Horses
Boogie Down Productions-By All Means Necessary
Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions...
Max Romeo and the Upsetters-War Inna Babylon
Wire-Pink Flag - Fri, 11 Jul 2003 2:08am
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