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Subject to change at any moment, but if I was running out of the house this very moment it would be:

 

Rush - Clockwork Angels (I picked this over AFTK, PeW, Hemispheres because it's longer!)

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Ultravox - The Collection (a greatest hits album, since I can't choose)

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

Nightwish - Imaginaerum

 

Ha I see you really did enjoy that album! Fantastic stuff! Have you heard Dark Passion Play yet? That is one of my top five!

 

For some reason I cannot buy stuff from iTunes on my computer (probably because I don't want to "upgrade" to v.11) so I need to get it another way. Now that you've reminded me I should go deal with that now...

 

Do so! DPP is a very personal album, and to get the most out of its lyrical depth you may just want to give a little glance at the bands history...but overall it is just a perfect album!

 

Okay, downloading now on another computer :)

 

The first track is a thirteen minute roller coaster ride, deeply personal and absolutely perfect. My all time favourite epic

 

Okay, I've heard DPP a couple times now. I like it. I'm a fan of that big, bombastic sound. I do like Imaginaerum a lot more though—in part because Storytime is such a fabulous song, and it's what drew me in.

 

Both are absolutely wonderful! I think my preference of DPP is because it was my first Nightwish album, but I also really love The Poet And The Pendulum, Master Passion Greed, Seven Days To The Wolves and Meadows Of Heaven more than anything on Imaginaerum.

 

As for Storytime, it was my favourite single of 2011, I remember playingbit non stop!

 

Also, hunt down these b-sides:

 

The Escapist

While Your Lips Are Still Red

The Heart Asks Pleasure First

Eva (demo)

 

All are absolutely fantastic! Left off, I imagine, due to the abundance of riches (and I still prefer the Eva demo with male vocals).

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Oh, Segue, have you seen the Imaginaerum movie? I just watched it and thought it was very good. It is dark and intense, and of course the music suits it perfectly.

 

http://youtu.be/8RodGL65eDM

 

Ooh! Must watch!

 

Btw their is a separate soundtrack album as well. Thats also very good stuff!

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Rush -- Exit Stage Left (edging out Hemispheres as this way I also get Xanadu and Red Barchetta)

Wire -- Change Becomes Us

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Best of Leonard Cohen

XTC -- Apple Venus Vols I and II

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Mine:

 

Lacuna Coil- Karmacode: My all time favourite album!

 

Khoma- The Second Wave

 

Fleetwwod Mac- Tusk

 

Nightwish- Dark Passion Play

 

Rush- Hold Your Fire

 

 

Rush "Hemispheres"

Marillion "Clutching At Straws"

Boston "S/T"

Iron Maiden "Killers"

Steely Dan "Aja"

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Toughie.

 

1. Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective

2. Tomboy by Panda Bear

3 Mix Cd's, one for Animal Collective related stuff, one for They Might Be Giants, and one for everything else.

 

I could list my other top albums, but if I knew I would never hear anything else again, I would make sure to take a sample of everything.

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Ha. It would be way too easy to include some live albums or boxed sets on this list soI'll go with the tried and true formula here...

 

Animals

Signals

Abbey Road

Starless and Bible Black

Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Pt. 1

 

The 5th one was tough, Could have probably gone in a few different directions there.

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Rush -- Exit Stage Left (edging out Hemispheres as this way I also get Xanadu and Red Barchetta)

Wire -- Change Becomes Us

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Best of Leonard Cohen

XTC -- Apple Venus Vols I and II

 

2 1/2 months later I'd replace XTC with Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. Otherwise, I chose wisely.

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Right now I can only really say:

King's X - Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

 

 

I'm keeping sure to keep the other slots open rather than filling them with something I'd regret. Candidates include, however:

 

Yes - Close to the Edge

Yes - Going for the One

Angra - Rebirth

Angra - Temple of Shadows

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

Rush - Grace Under Pressure

Rush - Signals

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Right now:

 

Strangeways- Native Sons

Styx- Pieces Of Eight

Lacuna Coil- Broken Crown Halo

Trillion- Trillion

Kansas- Point Of Know Return

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Howzabout I just get to take my iPhone. Much more portable (albeit less appealing sound) than a CD or record.

 

Anyway....

 

Rush - Permanent Waves

The Police - Synchronicity

Commodores - All the Great Hits (lame to do a greatest hits album, I know, but I love the Commodores)

Misfits - Legacy of Brutality

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

 

An odd mix, I know, but I have to have a variety for various moods.

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Studio albums:

The Who - Quadrophenia

Rush - Permanent Waves

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

Deep Purple - In Rock

 

Live albums:

Rush - Exit Stage Left

Black Sabbath - Reunion

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Rainbow - On Stage

The Who - Live At Leeds

(and doing my best to smuggle in Judas Priest's "Unleashed in the East"...)

 

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Right now and if I restrict myself to one album per artist (I know counting PT and SW as separate artists is pushing it)

 

Rush - Permanent Waves

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

Camel - Breathless

Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to Sing

 

If I had to chose again tomorrow, who knows...

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The Who - Quadrophenia

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Rush - Different Stages

Heart - Dog & Butterfly

Genesis - Platinum Collection

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Right now.

 

Steely Dan-The Royal Scam

Spock's Beard-Day for Night

Peter Gabriel-Melt

Steely Dan-Katy Lied

Bee gees-Still Waters

 

Mick

 

I have heard the Bee Gees one and thats a wise choice. I don't know Spocks though. Is that a good place to start?

 

Spock's is a great modern prog band. Day for Night is one of my favs.....but i would start with either The Light which is their debut or The kindness of Strangers. Both excellent albums.

 

Mick

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Right now.

 

Steely Dan-The Royal Scam

Spock's Beard-Day for Night

Peter Gabriel-Melt

Steely Dan-Katy Lied

Bee gees-Still Waters

 

Mick

 

I have heard the Bee Gees one and thats a wise choice. I don't know Spocks though. Is that a good place to start?

 

Spock's is a great modern prog band. Day for Night is one of my favs.....but i would start with either The Light which is their debut or The kindness of Strangers. Both excellent albums.

 

Mick

 

I'm familiar with Nick D'Virgilio. Have you ever checked out any Mike Keneally stuff?

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Right now.

 

Steely Dan-The Royal Scam

Spock's Beard-Day for Night

Peter Gabriel-Melt

Steely Dan-Katy Lied

Bee gees-Still Waters

 

Mick

 

I have heard the Bee Gees one and thats a wise choice. I don't know Spocks though. Is that a good place to start?

 

Spock's is a great modern prog band. Day for Night is one of my favs.....but i would start with either The Light which is their debut or The kindness of Strangers. Both excellent albums.

 

Mick

 

I'm familiar with Nick D'Virgilio. Have you ever checked out any Mike Keneally stuff?

 

No but i will check him ouut.

 

Mick

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Studio albums:

The Who - Quadrophenia

Rush - Permanent Waves

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

Deep Purple - In Rock

 

Live albums:

Rush - Exit Stage Left

Black Sabbath - Reunion

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Rainbow - On Stage

The Who - Live At Leeds

(and doing my best to smuggle in Judas Priest's "Unleashed in the East"...)

 

^^^Now here's some one who knows how to do it, and here are mine:

 

Studio:

JHE-Electric Ladyland

The Bob Seger System-self titled (aka Ramblin' Gamblin' Man)

Yes- Close to the Edge

Rush-Moving Pictures

Al DiMeola- Elegant Gypsy

 

Live:

Rush-Exit Stage Left

The Who-Live at Leeds

ELP- Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends,Ladies & Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer

MC 5-Kick Out the Jams

Michael Hedges-Live On the Double Planet

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