Rank Your Favorite Bands' Albums

[J2112YYZ]

9 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

thinking back about Hard Wired.  i agree with you that's the problem.

 

1.  with the runtime.  making it a double was stupid.  they do single albums every time that long.

2,  2nd disc was ass it should have been just the one.

 

Mick

 

 

Create a separate playlist for Hardwired like I did. All of disc 1, Confusion and Spit Out The Bone. Now you have an 8 song classic album like Lightning and Puppets. Most of Hardwired disc 2 is filler.

[Segue Myles]

Nightwish:

 

1. Endless Forms Most Beautiful 

2. Dark Passion Play

3. Century Child

4. Wishmaster

5. Imaginaerum 

6. Once

7. Human Nature

8. Oceanborn

9. Angels Fall First

10. Yesterwynde

 

I'm really sad to put the two most recent albums towards the bottom. HN surpasses for having songs I love like Music, The Shoemaker, Endlessness and Pan. 

 

Yesterwynde has...sadly not one song I could call a favourite.

[Segue Myles]

Mastodon:

 

I've been on a real Mastodon kick lately, I'm thinking they might have the most spectacular discography in all of metal. I could make a defense for each and every single album being a masterwork.

 

1. Emperor Of Sand 

2. Crack The Skye

3. Blood Mountain

4. Leviathan

5. Hushed And Grim 

6. Remission

7. Once More 'Round The Sun

8. The Hunter

[bluefox4000]

Sparks.

 

Now this is massive.  i will only bew doing their straight studio albums.  not the including the soundtrack for some film they did or the Franz Ferdinand collab album. oh and also their useless album of re-recorded Sparks songs  Just Straight Sparks.

 

1. Indiscreet

2. Angst In My Pants

4. Whomp That Sucker

5. Kimono My House

6. Hippopotamus

7.Propoganda

8. Big Beat

9.  Sparks In Outer Space

10. A Steady Drip Drip Drip

11. No. 1 In Heaven

12. Introducing Sparks

13. Hello Young Lovers

14. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

15.  Lil Beethoven

16.   Exotic Creatures Of The Deep

17. Terminal Jive

18. Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

19. Interior Design

20. A Woofer In Tweeters Clothing

21. Sparks

22.  Music That You Can Dance To

23. Gratouitous Sax and Sensless Violins

24. Balls

25.  The Seduction Of Igmar Bergman

 

I know that's a lot but you must understand this band reinvented themselves every few albums.  and honestly the only albums i dislike are the last 4 on my list.  so this list is just me celebrating a band that very quickly took over my life, lol

 

This band is awesome. i always say this band is as if Queen had a baby with Zappa and then was screamed at by weird Al all its life.

 

And Al has cited this duo as an influence.  Now that i know Sparks yea.  You hear Russel's vocal tics all over Al's voice.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

21 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

Nightwish:

 

1. Endless Forms Most Beautiful 

2. Dark Passion Play

3. Century Child

4. Wishmaster

5. Imaginaerum 

6. Once

7. Human Nature

8. Oceanborn

9. Angels Fall First

10. Yesterwynde

 

I'm really sad to put the two most recent albums towards the bottom. HN surpasses for having songs I love like Music, The Shoemaker, Endlessness and Pan. 

 

Yesterwynde has...sadly not one song I could call a favourite.

Already aged badly 😅

[GeddyLeeRoth]

Not all-time favorite band, but somewhere at the bottom of my top 10...

MASTODON:

1. Blood Mountain

2. Crack The Sky

3. Emperor Of Sand

4. Leviathan

5. The Hunter

6. Hushed & Grim

7. Once More Around The Sun

8. Remission

[Segue Myles]

1 minute ago, GeddyLeeRoth said:

Not all-time favorite band, but somewhere at the bottom of my top 10...

MASTODON:

1. Blood Mountain

2. Crack The Sky

3. Emperor Of Sand

4. Leviathan

5. The Hunter

6. Hushed & Grim

7. Once More Around The Sun

8. Remission

I think it's safe to say they are in my top four bands ever with Rush, Pearl Jam and In Flames

[bluefox4000]

2 hours ago, GeddyLeeRoth said:

Not all-time favorite band, but somewhere at the bottom of my top 10...

MASTODON:

1. Blood Mountain

2. Crack The Sky

3. Emperor Of Sand

4. Leviathan

5. The Hunter

6. Hushed & Grim

7. Once More Around The Sun

8. Remission

 

your list is very different than mine but always good toi see more Mastodon fans.

 

I must be broken because i find EOS a total snoozefest but love the placement of CTS at least .

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

8 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

your list is very different than mine but always good toi see more Mastodon fans.

 

I must be broken because i find EOS a total snoozefest but love the placement of CTS at least .

 

Mick

EOS is phenomenal 😍 

 

I do remember being cold to it initially though

[bluefox4000]

Ok Nightwish

 

1. Dark Paassion Play

2. Century Child

3. Imaginearium

4.  Oceanborn

5. Wishmaster

6. Endless Forms Most Beautiful

7. Once

8. Yesterwynde

9. Human Nature

10. Angels fall First

 

I'm not as huge on EFMB as segue. NO WAY is it my fav.  I think the Anette era is by far my fav.  though Century Child is just a freakin' Madterpiece.

 

The Floor era has been by least fav sadly.  EFMB is really good but even it comes across as a hollow echo.

 

the recent two.........like......da fukk?

 

lol

 

I tried to like Yesterwynde.  it just ain't hitting.  and HN? gag me.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

9 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

Ok Nightwish

 

1. Dark Paassion Play

2. Century Child

3. Imaginearium

4.  Oceanborn

5. Wishmaster

6. Endless Forms Most Beautiful

7. Once

8. Yesterwynde

9. Human Nature

10. Angels fall First

 

I'm not as huge on EFMB as segue. NO WAY is it my fav.  I think the Anette era is by far my fav.  though Century Child is just a freakin' Madterpiece.

 

The Floor era has been by least fav sadly.  EFMB is really good but even it comes across as a hollow echo.

 

the recent two.........like......da fukk?

 

lol

 

I tried to like Yesterwynde.  it just ain't hitting.  and HN? gag me.

 

Mick

EFMB has gently dipped for me as well

[bluefox4000]

6 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

EFMB has gently dipped for me as well

 

 

i've been reading a lot of fan ranks and you'd be surprised by how many put EFMB last.  like a ton, lol

 

I won't  go that far but it isn't the best at all.

 

Part of the problem is the albums are just to long.  There's is so many needless things in each song.  like a majority of these songs could be cut right in half and i wouldn't miss it.

 

the only one they got it right on was DPP wouldn't change a note.  

 

That's one thing i like about the Tarja era.  the albums were all about 50 minutes.  Once might have been a little longer but all those records got in and out.  Pretty quickly.

 

Later NW can make DT blush with it's Self induldgence, lol

 

Mick

 

 

Edited October 1, 2024 by bluefox4000

[Segue Myles]

2 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

 

i've been reading a lot of fan ranks and you'd be surprised by how many put EFMB last.  like a ton, lol

 

I won't  go that far but it isn't the best at all.

 

Part of the problem is the albums are just to long.  There's is so many needless things in each song.  like a majority of these songs could be cut right in half and i wouldn't miss it.

 

the only one they got it right on was DPP wouldn't change a note.  

 

That's one thing i like about the Tarja era.  the albums were all about 50 minutes.  Once might have been a little longer but all those records got in and out.  Pretty quickly.

 

Later NW can make DT blush with it's Self induldgence, lol

 

Mick

 

 

I don't find NW as obnoxiously annoying as the worst DT, but I do agree it can be a chore.

 

EFMB I still have in my top three. But after nearly a decade, it's dimmed for me a little whilst DPP stays as magnificent as always.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Certainly I’ve done this before, but here’s Coldplay:

 

1. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

2. A Rush Of Blood To The Head

3. Mylo Xyloto

4. Parachutes

5. Ghost Stories

6. Everyday Life

7. X&Y

8. A Head Full Of Dreams

9. Moon Music

10. Music Of The Spheres

 

 

[Segue Myles]

1 hour ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

Certainly I’ve done this before, but here’s Coldplay:

 

1. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

2. A Rush Of Blood To The Head

3. Mylo Xyloto

4. Parachutes

5. Ghost Stories

6. Everyday Life

7. X&Y

8. A Head Full Of Dreams

9. Moon Music

10. Music Of The Spheres

 

 

Justice for X&Y

[Entre_Perpetuo]

7 minutes ago, Segue Myles said:

Justice for X&Y

To be honest, I would probably have it a lot higher if I’d heard it a year or so earlier than I did. I spent a lot of time with the records to either side of it before I ever listened to it, so it wound up like the forgotten middle child for me, but I really do love it. 

[bluefox4000]

Been playing a lot f opeth and here's how i'd rank them.  just be warned the prog/death Metal fans may be surprised but just calling what my ears hear.

 

1. Ghost Reveries

2. Pale Communion

3. Sorceress

4. Watershed

5.  Deliverance

6. In Caudio Venenum

7. Blackwater Park

8. Still Life

9. Hritage

10. Damnation

11. My Arms, Your Hearse

12. Morningrise

13. Orchid

 

As you can see the proghead in me loves when they are prog or mix in classic prog over the Death metal.  Does not mean i don't like his death growls.  but i prefer the nods too 70's prog in albums like Ghost Reveries, Pale Communion, Watershed and Sorceress.  and BTW Opeth use a ton of classic mellotron. Can't get more 70's prog than that!!!!!

 

Mick

 

 

As you can cleary see the proghead in me prefers the prog or prog leanin

[Wandering Hermit]

Avenged Sevenfold

 

1 The Stage

2 Life is But a Dream

3 Nightmare

4 Avenged Sevenfold

5 Hail to the King

6 City of Evil

7 Waking the Fallen

8 7th Trumpet 

[Segue Myles]

5 hours ago, Wandering Hermit said:

Avenged Sevenfold

 

1 The Stage

2 Life is But a Dream

3 Nightmare

4 Avenged Sevenfold

5 Hail to the King

6 City of Evil

7 Waking the Fallen

8 7th Trumpet 

Yeah this list...is brilliant

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Hey what if we did rankings AND added our favorite song from each?

 

Led Zep:

 

1. Zoso (Stairway To Heaven)

2. Led Zeppelin II (What Is And What Should Never Be)

3. Houses Of The Holy (Over The Hills And Far Away)

4. Physical Graffiti (In My Time Of Dying)

5. Led Zeppelin III (Since I’ve Been Loving You)

6. Led Zeppelin (Dazed And Confused)

7. In Through The Out Door (Fool In The Rain)

8. Presence (Achilles’ Last Stand)

[Union 5-3992]

Surprised I haven't done one for Joel. 2-5 can shuffle and I wouldn't argue.

 

1. The Nylon Curtain

2. The Stranger

3. Turnstiles

4. 52nd Street

5. Piano Man

6. River of Dreams

7. Glass Houses

8. Storm Front

10. Streetlife Serenade

11. The Bridge

12. An Innocent Man

10. Cold Spring Harbor

[Union 5-3992]

I'll make an attempt with the Elton albums I do know. His 70s run is still untouchable but even the lower ranked stuff has some great material on it:

 

1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

2. Honky Chateau

3. Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

4. Too Low for Zero

5. Tumbleweed Connection

6. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

7. Songs From the West Coast

8. Caribou

9. Rock the Westies

10. The Road to El Dorado

11. Elton John

12. The Union (With Leon Russell)

13. Madman Across the Water

14. Made in England

15. The Diving Board

16. The Captain and the Kid

17. Blue Moves

18. Wonderful Crazy Night

19. A Single Man

20. Peachtree Road

21. Empty Sky

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Last of the ones I do know: The Lockdown Sessions. It has a few good tracks on it but it's mostly just bleh. I've never even bothered with the 80s albums that lack Bernie.

 

[Union 5-3992]

On 10/20/2024 at 10:49 PM, Wandering Hermit said:

Avenged Sevenfold

 

1 The Stage

2 Life is But a Dream

3 Nightmare

4 Avenged Sevenfold

5 Hail to the King

6 City of Evil

7 Waking the Fallen

8 7th Trumpet 

 

A friend of mine let me borrow a copy of The Stage on vinyl. I should give that a shot tonight.

[bluefox4000]

I dunno know if i ever did what was my fav band until my early 20's.  if i did i forgot, lol.

 

don't need to replay any of these they are in my bones.

 

the Beatles

 

1. The Beatles (white Album)

2. Rubber Soul

3. Abbey Road

4. Revolver

5. Help

6.  Magical Mystery Tour

7. Hard Days Night

8. Let it Be (etither version)

9. Sgt. Pepper

10. Beatles For Sale

11. Please Please Me

12.  With The Beatles.

 

and i'm not counting Yellow Submarine.  Not a full album.

 

Mick

Edited October 25, 2024 by bluefox4000

[Segue Myles]

1. The Beatles

2. Rubber Soul

3. Revolver

4. Help!

5. A Hard Days Night 

6. Abbey Road

7. Sgt Pepper 

8. Let It Be

9. MMT

 

And then the rest blurs wonderfully