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My picks:

 

1. Led Zeppelin - II

2. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

3. Deep Purple - In Rock

4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory

5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

6. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

7. Rush - Permanent Waves

8. The Who - Who's Next

9. Yes - Close to the Edge

10. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

11. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

12. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

13. Pixies - Doolittle

14. Opeth - Blackwater Park

15. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

16. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

17. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

18. Alice in Chains - Dirt

19. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

20. Prince - Sign o' the Times

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1. the Beatles-White album

2. Billy Joel-the Stranger

3. Steely Dan-The Royal Scam

4. Dream Theater-Scenes from a Memory

5. Toto-Fahrenheit

6. Queen-A Night at the Opera

7. Pink Floyd-Animals

8. Bruce Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town

9. Rush-Hold Your Fire

10. Beatles-Rubber Soul

11. Eagles Hotel California

12. Jimmy Eat World-Futures

13. Frank Zappa-Live In NY

14. Dream Theater-Images and Words

15. Green Day-21st Century Breakdown

16. Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon

17. Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

18. Boz Scags-Silk Degrees

19. Beatles-Abbey Road

20. Dire Straits-Making Movies.

 

the white album is my fav. the rest are random order. but these are albums that through my life i've played to death. mostly retro in my top 20. but hey i like this list, lol.

 

Mick

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Mystic Slipperman

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These are in relative order, mind you::

 

 

1) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

2) The Who - Who's Next

3) Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

4) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

5) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps

6) Yes - The Yes Album

7) Rush - Signals

8) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

9) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

10) Pink Floyd - Meddle

11) Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

12) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

13) Grateful Dead - Europe '72

14) Crowded House - Time On Earth

15) The Cars - The Cars

16) Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

17) Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

18) Sandy Denny - Sandy

19) Joni Mitchell - Hejira

20) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

 

 

i know I am forgetting at least 20 others, and I only chose 1 album per artist for this list....

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bluefox4000

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These are in relative order, mind you::

 

 

1) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

2) The Who - Who's Next

3) Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

4) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

5) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps

6) Yes - The Yes Album

7) Rush - Signals

8) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

9) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

10) Pink Floyd - Meddle

11) Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

12) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

13) Grateful Dead - Europe '72

14) Crowded House - Time On Earth

15) The Cars - The Cars

16) Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

17) Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

18) Sandy Denny - Sandy

19) Joni Mitchell - Hejira

20) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

 

 

i know I am forgetting at least 20 others, and I only chose 1 album per artist for this list....

 

it was hard and i have so many albums i love that i nixed for my list.

 

i could make a list of 200 and feel bad i left stuff off, lol

 

Mick

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IbanezJem

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Hmmm...without putting lots of thought into it, I would not want to be without -

 

Rush - Permanent Waves, Hemispheres, Moving Pictures, 2112

Van Halen - 1, Fair Warning and 1984

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps, Ragged Glory, Hitchhiker

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien, Flying In a Blue Dream

Steve Morse - Split Decision

Deep Purple - Purpendicular

Steve Vai - Real Illusions, The Story Of Light

Lou Reed - Ecstasy

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

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Lorraine

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I'm no good at lists and ratings, but I will give this a shot.

 

1. Quadropenia

2. Days of Future Passed

3. Frampton Comes Alive

4. Blood Sweat & Tears

5. Candy-O

6. Abbey Road

7. Aja

8. The Royal Scam

9. Beggar's Banquet

10. Who's Next

11. Close To The Edge

12. Billion Dollar Babies

13. Synchronicity

14. Disraeli Gears

15. After The Gold Rush

 

 

That's it for now. I know there are more, but I'm drawing a blank.

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JohnRogers

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I’m assuming no greatest hits albums?

1. Permanent Waves

2. Moving Pictures

3. Hi Infidelity

4. Asia

5. Operation Mindcrime

6. Bat of Hell

7. Signals

8. 2112

9. Appetite for Destruction

10. Empire

11. Who’s Next

12. 5150

13. Power Windows

14. Born to Run

15. 1776

16. Diver Down

17. Hold Your Fire

18. Glass Houses

19. Black Sunday

20. Tragic Kingdom

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Nova Carmina

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How much does this pay? I mean, to truly articulate such would be a tremendous expense in effort on my part. ;)

 

Oh, there will be no money -- but on your death bed, you will receive the admiration and approval of a bunch of cool Rush fans. So you've got that going for you, which is nice.

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Rush -- Hemispheres

The Beatles -- Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album

Wire -- 154, Change Becomes Us

Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here

Radiohead -- OK Computer

Led Zeppelin -- IV, Physical Graffiti

The Kinks -- The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

Rod Stewart -- Every Picture Tells a Story

The Church -- Further Deeper

The Gun Club -- Mother Juno

The Wedding Present -- Take Fountain

Nirvana -- Nevermind

My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless

Pixies -- Trompe Le Monde

REM -- Automatic for the People

Teenage Fanclub -- Songs from Northern Europe

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Nova Carmina

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Sure, I'll play.

 

1. The Beatles -- Sgt. Peppers

2. Led Zeppelin -- Physical Graffiti

3. Rush -- A Farewell to Kings

4. --- Grace Under Pressure

5. --- Power Windows

6. --- Permanent Waves

7. Iron Maiden -- Live After Death (I don't care if a live album is cheating -- I'm taking it!)

8. Metallica -- Master of Puppets

9. --- The Black Album

10. Led Zeppelin -- Led Zeppelin I

11. Jethro Tull -- Aqualung

12. The Rainmakers -- The Good News and the Bad News

13. Deep Purple -- In Rock

14. AC/DC -- Dirty Deeds

15. Pink Floyd -- Meddle

16. --- Wish You Were Here

17. The Drive-by Truckers -- The Dirty South

18. The Beatles -- Let It Be

19. Kiss -- Love Gun

20. Pearl Jam -- Ten

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Segue Myles

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Ok I will try.

 

My number album is set in stone, and has been since 2006:

 

1. Lacuna Coil- Karmacode

 

My top five may also include:

 

2. Nightwish- Endless Forms Most Beautiful

3. Fleet Foxes- Foxes

4. Fleetwood Mac- Mirage

5. Toto- Fahrenheit

 

Then:

 

6. Khoma- The Second Wave

7. Lacuna Coil- Unleased Memories

8. Nightwish- Dark Passion Play

9. Paradise Lost- Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us

10. Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind

 

11. Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run

12. Iron Maiden- Somewhere In Time

13. Trivium- Ascendancy

14. Sonata Arctica- Reckoning Night

15. Paradise Lost- Symbol Of Life

16. Machine Head- Bloodstones And Diamonds

17. Lacuna Coil- Comalies

18. Alter Bridge- ABIII

19. Within Temptation- The Silent Force

20. Nightwish- Century Child

 

It's not the most varied list.

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RushFanForever

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I'm going to do a Canadian album list.

 

1. Neil Young - Heart of Gold

2. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile

3. Bryan Adams - Reckless

4. The Band - Music From Big Pink

5. k.d. lang - Ingenue

6. Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World

7. Rush - 2112

8. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

9. Joni Mitchell - Blue

10. Rush - Moving Pictures

11. The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

12. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

13. Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train

14. Daniel Lanois - Acadie

15. Ian Thomas - The Runner

16. Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July

17. Troyka - Troyka

18. Marc Jordan - Blue Desert

19. The Guess Who - American Woman

20. Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire

 

Bonus

 

21. FM - Black Noise

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no particular order

 

Hemispheres (duh)

ATWAS

Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

UK -UK

RHCP - blood sugar sex magik

RHCP Stadium Arcadium

Soundgarden - Bad Motorfinger

Soundgarden - Superunknown

AIC - Dirt

AIC - Jar of Flies

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

Kansas - LeftOverture

Pat metheny - still life talking

Pat metheny - secret story

SRV - Texas Flood

SRV - In Step

Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Incubus - Science

Yes - Fragile

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OK, I'll say only one per band allowed...

 

These five live releases:

Wings Over America

Frampton Comes Alive

Cheap Trick at Budakon

Alchemy (Dire Straits)

Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)

 

These 15 studio efforts:

Boston

Highway to Hell

Dirt

Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!

Wild Planet (B52s)

More Fun In The New World (X)

10, 9, 8, 7...1 (Midnight Oil)

The Wall

Killers (Iron Maiden)

Zep IV

Soft Parade (Doors)

Fair Warning

Heaven and Hell

East (Cold Chisel)

A Passion Play

 

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The Beatles - The Beatles

Beck - Odelay

The Clash - London Calling

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Bob Dylan - New Morning

Brian Eno - Another Green World

King Crimson - Red

Nirvana - Nevermind

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain

R.E.M. - Murmur

The Replacements - Let It Be

Rush - Moving Pictures

Simon and Garfunkel - Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Wire - Pink Flag

XTC - Black Sea

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

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In no certain order...

 

Rush: Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, Hemispheres

Pink Floyd: Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Exodus

Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

Jethro Tull: Aqualung

Screaming Trees: Dust

Boston: (debut)

R.E.M.: Document, Murmur

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream

Led Zeppelin: IV

Jane's Addiction: Ritual de lo Habitual

Beck: Odelay

Living Colour: Vivid

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s

Michael Jackson: Off The Wall

 

 

Some artists I just had to list more than one of their albums. But everything on here I can listen to anytime, my mood doesn’t matter.

 

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1. The Who – Live at Leeds

2. ELP - Tarkus

3. The Who – Who’s Next

4. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

5. The Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

6. The Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup

7. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother

8. Pink Floyd - Animals

9. Black Sabbath – Master of Reality

10. Traffic – Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

11. Yes – Close to the Edge

12. Aerosmith – Rocks

13. Rush – Hemispheres

14. Rush – Permanent Waves

15. Van Halen – Fair Warning

16. Jethro Tull – A Passion Play

17. Genesis – Lamb Lies Down and Broadway

18. Led Zeppelin – IV

19. Led Zeppelin – II

20. Stone Temple Pilots – Purple

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OK, I'll say only one per band allowed...

 

These five live releases:

Wings Over America

Frampton Comes Alive

Cheap Trick at Budakon

Alchemy (Dire Straits)

Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)

 

These 15 studio efforts:

Boston

Highway to Hell

Dirt

Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!

Wild Planet (B52s)

More Fun In The New World (X)

10, 9, 8, 7...1 (Midnight Oil)

The Wall

Killers (Iron Maiden)

Zep IV

Soft Parade (Doors)

Fair Warning

Heaven and Hell

East (Cold Chisel)

A Passion Play

No Live Killers. Well, I screwed that list up.
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