Top ten favorite all time albums?

[Envenom]

Come on, every board needs a "Top ten favorite albums" thread. Voila, now X Freaks has one.

Should be pretty self-explanatory. Name your ten favorite all time albums.

To make it a tad easier for myself, I'll make a top ten heavy metal albums and top ten non metal.

HEAVY METAL:

1. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
2. Pagan Altar - Volume One
3. Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
4. Magnesium - Live Qruel
5. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
6. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
7. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
8. Brocas Helm - Black Death
9. Dark Quarterer - s/t
10. Solstice - New Dark Age

NON-METAL:

1. Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties (featuring my all time favorite song Astronomy...)
2. KISS - Alive!
3. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
4. Blue Öyster Cult - s/t
5. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
6. Blue Öyster Cult - Imaginos
7. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothinh
8. Gary Moore - Run For Cover
9. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
10. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll

[Kim Kyung Ho]

Sounds like fun! ^_^
I think my list is going to be dominated by certain artists though  I'll tell you what i'll do. I'll only put one album per artist or else my chart will look a bit silly. There will only be two people on it! rofl

1. X Japan - Art of Life (1993)
2. Kim Kyung Ho - 00:00:1998 (1998)
3. David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
4. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning (1999)
5. Toshi - Toward the Way (2003)
6. Steelheart - Self Titled (1990)
7. Yoshiki - Eternal Melody II (2005)
8. Ours - Distorted Lullabies (2001)
9. Muse - Origin of Symmetry (2001)
10. Alias - Self Titled (1990)

[aaroni]

I tried figuring this out awhile ago. Was really tricky. These are top ten albums of the few albums that I can listen to front to back without skipping a track. I'm sure if you ask me this a month later, my answers will be different.

Not in any particular order:

1. John Lennon- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
2. Metallica- Master of Puppets
3. X- Blue Blood
4. Guns N' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
5. System of a Down- Toxicity
6. hide- Hide Your Face
7. Megadeth- Countdown to Extinction
8. The Beatles- Revolver
9. Paul McCartney- Memory Almost Full
10. Ozzy Osbourne- Blizzard of Ozz

[TG]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
X - Blue Blood


Bonus: My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise (this is actually an EP )

[DopeHead]

1. Luna Sea - Mother
2. X JAPAN - Blue Blood
3. Faith no More - The Real Thing
4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
5. Buck-Tick - 13kai wa Gekkou
6. Poets of the Fall - Signs of Life
7. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
8. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
9. Yutaka Ozaki - Trees Lining a Street
10. Waltari - So Fine!

I have a pretty random music taste ^^

[Crock.Extinction]

In no particular order:

X - Blue Blood
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Devil Doll - Dies Irae
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Mago de Oz - Finisterra
Lacrimosa - Elodia
Metallica - ... And Justice For All
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parede
Necrophagist - Epitaph

Plus:

Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence

[LunaSlave]

No repeat artists, top 10...this was SO HARD beyond the first 4, which are pretty much set in stone.

1) hide - PSYENCE
2) Radiohead - OK Computer
3) The Beatles - Abbey Road
4) Shiina Ringo - karuki zamen kuri no hana
5) Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
6) Depeche Mode - Violator
7) The Cure - Disintegration
VNV Nation - Empires
9) Imperative Reaction - Eulogy fior the Sick Child
10) The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always

[Crock.Extinction]

X - Blue Blood
Mago de Oz - Gaia
Death - Sound of Perseverance
Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha
Devil Doll - Dies Irae
Lacrimosa - Elodia
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parede
Iron Maiden - Can't decide ... I'd say all of em ...
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Metallica - ... And Justice For All
Luzbel - Pasaporte al infierno

[TheCrimsonIdol]

I'm not sure I could have a permanent top 10 albums list, but right now 10 albums I am really enjoying are:

1. X Japan - Dahlia
2. KISS - Asylum
3. Prince - 1999
4. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
5. W.A.S.P. - Kill Fuck Die
6. Michael Jackson - Invincible
7. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
8. Gorillaz - Demon Days
9. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
10. Van Halen - OU812

[rafaelo]

X-Blue blood
X-Vanishing Vision
hide-PSYENCE
Luna sea-Shine
Kiss-Alive II
Motley Crue-Girls girls Girls
X-Jealousy
Luna sea-Mother
hide-hide your face

[Rafaell]

X Japan - Dahlia
Mucc - Houyoku
The Yellow Monkey - 8
Kyosuke Himuro - In the mood
Garnet Crow - The twilight valley
Moi Dix Mois - Dix infernal
Lareine - Imperial concerto
Versailles - Noble
Spitz - Togemaru
Raphael - Mind soap

[Brandon]

Thats a hard one...not in any particular order, but...

X - "Blue Blood"
Gallhammer - "Ill Innocence"
Dir en grey - "Uroboros"
Kasabian - "Kasabian"
GPKISM - "Atheos"
Sublime - "Sublime"
Mindless Self Indulgence - "You'll Rebel To Anything"
Dir en grey - "Withering To Death"
D'espairsRay  - "Coll:set"
Versailles - "Jubilee"

[Beauty/Broken]

This is actually quite hard for me, as through my entire life and phases of different music genre infatuation there are always songs on any given album which I truly dislike, so even the best albums, in my eyes, have some real crud on them.

In no order:

Queen - Innuendo (minus Delilah, which if I could, I would erase permanently from existence)
X Japan - Ballad Collection
Blink 182 - Self-Titled
Muse - Absolution
Hide - Psyence
X - Blue Blood
Dead End - Shambara
T.M. Revolution - Vertical Infinity
Genesis - Selling England by the pound
Luna Sea - Mother

[Le Psyence]

mmmm let's see...
in no particular order (it depends on my mood)

X - Jealousy or Vanishing Vision
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Gackt - Mars
The Rasmus - Dead Letters
Def Leppard - Adrenalize
Phantasmagoria - Requiem ~Funeral Edition~
Tool - 10,000 Days
hide - Psyence
Interpol - Antics