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I'm not sure some people here even enjoy 30 different artists

 

Sure they do. "List your top 30 artists" on TRF = "Top 75 artists with a 50 way tie at the #75 spot"...even though they'd put a disclaimer that the artists are in no particular order

 

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Earl only likes one band and they're called TURBOGOO!

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I'm not sure some people here even enjoy 30 different artists

 

Sure they do. "List your top 30 artists" on TRF = "Top 75 artists with a 50 way tie at the #75 spot"...even though they'd put a disclaimer that the artists are in no particular order

 

:P

Earl only likes one band and they're called TURBOGOO!

Speaking of Earl, where has he been?

 

Maybe he eloped.

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I'm not sure some people here even enjoy 30 different artists

 

Sure they do. "List your top 30 artists" on TRF = "Top 75 artists with a 50 way tie at the #75 spot"...even though they'd put a disclaimer that the artists are in no particular order

 

:P

Earl only likes one band and they're called TURBOGOO!

Speaking of Earl, where has he been?

 

Maybe he eloped.

He's got his lifelike blow-up doll "Lisa" (made in Japan,obviously) and is furiously staining it with his noxious fluids. It started out with pinkish skin but now already it's a dirty cream...

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ACDC - Powerage

Alice In Chains - Dirt

April Wine - Nature of the Beast

B52s - Wild Planet

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Boston - Boston

Cheap Trick - Budokan

Cold Chisel - East

DEVO- Are We Not Men

Dire Straits - Making Movies

Doors - Soft Parade

Eagles - Live 1980

Genesis - Abacab

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Iron Maiden - Killers

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door

Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8,...1

Pink Floyd - Animals

Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

Queen - News of the World

REM - Green

Robert Plant - Principle of Moments

Supertramp - Famous Last Words

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

X - More Fun In the New World

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Who - Quadrophenia

Wings - Over America

Zebra - Zebra

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ACDC - Powerage

Alice In Chains - Dirt

April Wine - Nature of the Beast

B52s - Wild Planet

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Boston - Boston

Cheap Trick - Budokan

Cold Chisel - East

DEVO- Are We Not Men

Dire Straits - Making Movies

Doors - Soft Parade

Eagles - Live 1980

Genesis - Abacab

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Iron Maiden - Killers

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door

Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8,...1

Pink Floyd - Animals

Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

Queen - News of the World

REM - Green

Robert Plant - Principle of Moments

Supertramp - Famous Last Words

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

X - More Fun In the New World

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Who - Quadrophenia

Wings - Over America

Zebra - Zebra

 

No Rush?

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  1. Aerosmith - Rocks
     
  2. The Who - Who's Next
     
  3. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
     
  4. Pink Floyd - Meddle
     
  5. Rush - Hemispheres
     
  6. Humble Pie - Smokin'
     
  7. Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
     
  8. Mott The Hoople - Mott
     
  9. Grateful Dead - Mars Hotel
     
  10. Alice Cooper - Killer
     
  11. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
     
  12. Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach
     
  13. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
     
  14. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
     
  15. Crosby, Stills & Nash - debut
     
  16. David Bowie - Ziggy
     
  17. Faith No More - Album of the Year
     
  18. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters
     
  19. Led Zeppelin -IV
     
  20. The Beatles - The White Album
     
  21. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
     
  22. U2 - The Joshua Tree
     
  23. YES - Close to the Edge
     
  24. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
     
  25. Van Halen - Diver Down
     
  26. The Doors - The Doors
     
  27. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down
     
  28. Peter Frampton - Something's Happening
     
  29. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted
     
  30. Kyuss - And the Circus Leaves Town

** I didn't select any live albums

Some nice choices here .... Mott is a great album, as is the Humble Pie one .... totally forgot about these!

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1 Van Halen - Fair Warning

2 Rush - Permanent Waves

3 Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream

4 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

5 Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone

6 Steve Earle - El Corazon

7 Aerosmith - Rocks

8 Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

9 Guns `N` Roses - Use Your Illusion II

10 Lindsey Buckingham - The Seeds We Sow

11 Kaki King - Legs To Make Us Longer

12 David Lee Roth - Eat `Em and Smile

13 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors

14 Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

15 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

16 Pearl Jam - Ten

17 Neil Young - On The Beach

18 Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

19 Alanis Morrisette - Havoc and Bright Lights

20 Steve Morse - Split Decision

21 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It`s Blitz

22 Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

23 Lou Reed - New York

24 Molly Hatchet - Flirtin` With Disaster

25 Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

26 Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

27 Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South

28 Deep Purple - Purpendicular

29 Arcade Fire - Funeral

30 The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Hmmmmm .... I totally forgot about the Smiths ..... The Queen Is Dead has my 'holy trinity' of Smiths songs ... Cemetry Gates, followed by Bigmouth Strikes Again, followed by The Boy With The Thorn In His Side ... brilliant!
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  1. MC 5 - Kick Out The Jams
     
  2. The Bob Seger System -The Bob Seger System (aka Ramblin' Gamblin' Man - Seger's 1st album)
     
  3. Kraftwerk -Autobahn
     
  4. Quicksilver Messenger Service -Quicksilver Messenger Service
     
  5. Alice Cooper -Love it to Death
     
  6. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Trilogy
     
  7. Al DiMeola - Elegant Gypsy
     
  8. Lee Michaels -Lee Michaels (3rd album)
     
  9. Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
     
  10. Jimmy Hendrix Experience - Are You Experenced?
     
  11. Dick Hyman - Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman
     
  12. Michael Hedges -Live on the Double Planet
     
  13. Rush - Moving Pictures
     
  14. Allman Brothers Band - Live at Filmore East
     
  15. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
     
  16. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
     
  17. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
     
  18. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
     
  19. Shadowfax - The Dreams of Children
     
  20. Andreas Vollenweider - Down to the Moon
     
  21. Lorena McKennit - The Book of Secrets
     
  22. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
     
  23. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
     
  24. Procul Harum -Shine On Brightly
     
  25. Frank Zappa - Over-nite Sensation
     
  26. Humble Pie - Performance (Rockin' the Filmore)
     
  27. Virgil Fox - Heavy Organ: Bach Live at Winterland
     
  28. The Who - Live at Leeds
     
  29. Jeff Beck - Truth
  30. Yes - Close to the Edge.

Nice choices pj!!

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Rush - Moving Pictures

Cheap Trick - Lap of Luxury

Van Halen - 1984

Metallica - black album

Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Duran Duran - Rio

Evanescence - Fallen

Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Pearl Jam - Ten

Nirvana - Nevermind

David Bowie - Heroes

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Muse - The Resistance

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Taylor Swift - Red

Lady Gaga - The Fame

Shawn Mendes - Handwritten

Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th Son

Judas Priest - Turbo

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

Beatles - Abbey Road

White Stripes - Elephant

Queen - Night at the Opera

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Kate Bush - The Red Shoes

Cranberries - No Need to Argue

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

Nice to see Kate in there!!
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no particular order and good luck keeping up with my random ADHD selections.

 

Rush – hemispheres

Soundgarden – Superunknown

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Majik

The Black Crowes – Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Alice in Chains – Dirt

Stone Temple Pilots – Core

Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life

Stevie Ray Vaughn – Texas Flood

Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

The Dregs – Night of the Living Dregs

Emerson Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

Jimi Hendrix – Axis Bold as Love

Cream – Disreali Gears

Kansas – LeftOverture

Kate Bush – Hounds of Love

Living Colour – Vivid

Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction

Tool – AEnima

Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Dave Matthews Band – These Crowded Streets

The Smithereens – Green Thoughts

System of a Down – Toxicity

AudioSlave – Out of Exile

Chicago Transit Authority – self titled debut

U2 – The Unforgetable Fire

Yes – Fragile

Jeff Beck - Wired

zz top – Tres Hombres

UK - UK

Hounds Of Love is a masterpiece!
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ACDC - Powerage

Alice In Chains - Dirt

April Wine - Nature of the Beast

B52s - Wild Planet

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Boston - Boston

Cheap Trick - Budokan

Cold Chisel - East

DEVO- Are We Not Men

Dire Straits - Making Movies

Doors - Soft Parade

Eagles - Live 1980

Genesis - Abacab

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Iron Maiden - Killers

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door

Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8,...1

Pink Floyd - Animals

Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

Queen - News of the World

REM - Green

Robert Plant - Principle of Moments

Supertramp - Famous Last Words

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

X - More Fun In the New World

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Who - Quadrophenia

Wings - Over America

Zebra - Zebra

I would listen to all of this!!
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I would've also included Freak Out (1966) by Frank Zappa on my list as well.

 

The song 'Trouble Every Day' from the album sums up what 2020 has been all about.

 

The primary lyrical themes addressed on the song are racism, social injustice, and sensationalist journalism.

Frighteningly way ahead of it's time!
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In no particular order:

 

David Bowie - Station to Station

Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City

Montrose - S/T

Y&T - Earthshaker

Buckingham Nicks - S/T

Judas Priest - Killing Machine

BOC - Cultosaurus Erectus

Scorpions - Blackout

Diamond Head - White Album

Riot - Fire Down Under

Budgie - Power Supply

Motorhead - Bomber

George Benson - Breezin'

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Prince - Purple Rain

Megadeth - RIP

UFO - Obsession

Whitesnake - Ready & Willing

Alice Cooper - From the Inside

Pat Travers - Heat in the Street

Def Leppard - On Through the Night

Iron Maiden - S/T

Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

Journey - Evolution

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Dio - Holy Diver

Heart - Little Queen

Van Halen - VH1

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In no particular order:

 

David Bowie - Station to Station

Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City

Montrose - S/T

Y&T - Earthshaker

Buckingham Nicks - S/T

Judas Priest - Killing Machine

BOC - Cultosaurus Erectus

Scorpions - Blackout

Diamond Head - White Album

Riot - Fire Down Under

Budgie - Power Supply

Motorhead - Bomber

George Benson - Breezin'

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Prince - Purple Rain

Megadeth - RIP

UFO - Obsession

Whitesnake - Ready & Willing

Alice Cooper - From the Inside

Pat Travers - Heat in the Street

Def Leppard - On Through the Night

Iron Maiden - S/T

Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

Journey - Evolution

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Dio - Holy Diver

Heart - Little Queen

Van Halen - VH1

Nice!

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In no particular order:

 

David Bowie - Station to Station

Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City

Montrose - S/T

Y&T - Earthshaker

Buckingham Nicks - S/T

Judas Priest - Killing Machine

BOC - Cultosaurus Erectus

Scorpions - Blackout

Diamond Head - White Album

Riot - Fire Down Under

Budgie - Power Supply

Motorhead - Bomber

George Benson - Breezin'

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Prince - Purple Rain

Megadeth - RIP

UFO - Obsession

Whitesnake - Ready & Willing

Alice Cooper - From the Inside

Pat Travers - Heat in the Street

Def Leppard - On Through the Night

Iron Maiden - S/T

Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

Journey - Evolution

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Dio - Holy Diver

Heart - Little Queen

Van Halen - VH1

Great list! Some super albums here. Edited by zepphead
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Will try, in no order:

 

Lacuna Coil- Karmacode

Nightwish- Dark Passion Play

Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run

Khoma- The Second Wave

Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind

The Gathering- Nighttime Birds

The Doors- The Doors

Love- Forever Changes

Jimmy Eat World- Futures

Iron Maiden- Somewhere In Time

Rush- Grace Under Pressure

Toto- Fahrenheit

Fleetwood Mac- Mirage

Thrice- Vheissu

Biffy Clyro- Puzzle

The Beatles- Rubber Soul

Dream Theater- Awake

Judas Priest- Sin After Sin

Taylor Swift- Reputation

Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes

Paradise Lost- Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us

Trivium- Ascendancy

AFI- Sing The Sorrow

Funeral For A Friend- Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation

Within Temptation- The Silent Force

The Juliana Theory- Emotion Is Dead

Taking Back Sunday- Louder Now

Killswitch Engage- As Daylight Dies

Mariah Carey- Butterfly

All That Remains- The Fall Of Ideals

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a bit chronological in my order of discovery...but not entirely

 

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

Led Zeppelin - Presence

Alice Cooper - Killer

Rush - Hemispheres

Max Webster - High Class in Borrowed Shoes

Pink Floyd - Animals

Triumph - Just a Game

Black Sabbath - S/T

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

KISS - Alive

Queen - Jazz

Van Halen - Women and Children First

Teenage Head - S/T

The Diodes - S/T

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

David Bowie - Station to Station

Scorpions - In Trance

Frank Zappa/MOI - We're Only In It For The Money

Jeff Beck - Truth

Yes - The Yes Album

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

Rainbow - On Stage

FM - City of Fear

Goddo - An Act of Goddo

April Wine - Stand Back

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live

Motorhead - Overkill

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

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Here, I'll post the first 30 albums that I would consider serious top ten contenders, one per band:

 

Queen - A Night At The Opera

Rush - A Farewell To Kings

Muse - The Resistance

Genesis - Foxtrot

David Bowie - The Rise Ad Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Yes - Close To The Edge

Aerosmith - Pump

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico

Van Halen - Women And Children First

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Judas Priest - Stained Class

Anthrax - Among The Living

Pink Floyd - Animals

Styx - Crystal Ball

The Beatles - Abbey Road

OutKast - Aquemini

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Misterwives - Connect The Dots

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All Of His Friends

Radiohead - The Bends

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree

The Who - Quadrophenia

Boston - Boston

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Green Day - Nimrod

Dream Theatre - Awake

King Crimson - Red

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

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I'm not sure some people here even enjoy 30 different artists

 

Sure they do. "List your top 30 artists" on TRF = "Top 75 artists with a 50 way tie at the #75 spot"...even though they'd put a disclaimer that the artists are in no particular order

 

:P

Earl only likes one band and they're called TURBOGOO!

Speaking of Earl, where has he been?

 

Maybe he eloped.

He's got his lifelike blow-up doll "Lisa" (made in Japan,obviously) and is furiously staining it with his noxious fluids. It started out with pinkish skin but now already it's a dirty cream...

 

By now it’s deflated after being violently “punctured” a few hundred times.

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Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

Deep Purple - In Rock

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

Kansas - Leftoverture

Thin Lizzy - Black Rose

Rainbow - Rising

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Van Halen - Fair Warning

ZZ Top - Deguello

KISS - Creatures of the Night

Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

Overkill - Ironbound

Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

AC/DC - Powerage

The Who - Who's Next

Allan Holdsworth - Sand

Chick Corea Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask

Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

Al Di Meola - Kiss My Axe

Yes - Going For the One

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

TOTO - Turn Back

Dio - Holy Diver

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Buckethead - Inbred Mountain

Budgie - In For the Kill

Uriah Heep - Abominog

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Accept - Balls to the Wall

UK - UK

Queensryche - The Warning

Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Boston - Boston

Blue Oyster Cult - A Fire of Unknown Origin

MSG - Assault Attack

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I'm not sure some people here even enjoy 30 different artists

 

Sure they do. "List your top 30 artists" on TRF = "Top 75 artists with a 50 way tie at the #75 spot"...even though they'd put a disclaimer that the artists are in no particular order

 

:P

Earl only likes one band and they're called TURBOGOO!

Speaking of Earl, where has he been?

 

Maybe he eloped.

He's got his lifelike blow-up doll "Lisa" (made in Japan,obviously) and is furiously staining it with his noxious fluids. It started out with pinkish skin but now already it's a dirty cream...

 

By now it’s deflated after being violently “punctured” a few hundred times.

She burst his bubble.

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ACDC - Powerage

Alice In Chains - Dirt

April Wine - Nature of the Beast

B52s - Wild Planet

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Boston - Boston

Cheap Trick - Budokan

Cold Chisel - East

DEVO- Are We Not Men

Dire Straits - Making Movies

Doors - Soft Parade

Eagles - Live 1980

Genesis - Abacab

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Iron Maiden - Killers

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door

Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8,...1

Pink Floyd - Animals

Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

Queen - News of the World

REM - Green

Robert Plant - Principle of Moments

Supertramp - Famous Last Words

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

X - More Fun In the New World

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Who - Quadrophenia

Wings - Over America

Zebra - Zebra

 

No Rush?

They are a given, I think.
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