Best albums of all-time

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So what are your favourite albums of all-time — the ones you know from the first note to the last, can play from start to finish without skipping a song, and that you can play over and over again and never, ever get tired of?
 
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Every Iron Maiden album except A Matter Of Life And Death.
Every Genesis album except Calling All Stations.
Ride The Lightning
 
Somewhere in Time, Powerslave and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
The Chemical Wedding by Bruce Dickinson
Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
Ride the Lightning by Metallica
Still Life by Opeth
Images and Words by Dream Theater
In the Court of the Crimson King and Red by King Crimson
Selling England by the Pound by Genesis
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Argus by Wishbone Ash
Black Market by Weather Report
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Elegant Gypsy by Al Di Meola
Violator by Depeche Mode

In no order. Might be missing some.
 
mckindog said:
So what are your favourite albums of all-time — the ones you know from the first note to the last, can play from start to finish without skipping a song, and that you can play over and over again and never, ever got tired of?
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Well, favourite albums for me are a little different to albums that I never skip songs on, but here goes.

Favourite Albums
1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
2. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
3. Rainbow - Rising
4. Judas Priest - Painkiller
5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
6. Blind Guardian - Tales From the Twilight World
7. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
10. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Albums that I never skip songs on (Actually this is quite tough, there's a metric ton of albums where I dislike 1 song from it)
Night of the Stormrider
Rising
Painkiller
Powerslave
Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
BG - Imaginations From the Other Side
Priest - Nostradamus (Disc 2)

Is all I can think of atm. The album with the lowest overall rating here is Heading For Tomorrow and I think is around the 70-80s in my album rankings.
 
Hmmm that's a toughie. No order because it generally depends on my mood, but these albums stay pretty consistent with me.

Stand Up- Jethro Tull
The Chemical Wedding- Bruce Dickinson
Powerslave- Iron Maiden
40 oz. to Freedom - Sublime
The X-Factor - Iron Maiden
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Morningrise - Opeth
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
The Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra
Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
 
Unknown One said:
Well, favourite albums for me are a little different to albums that I never skip songs on, but here goes.
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Agreed. Some of my favorite albums of all time have at least one skippable song. Here's some in no order:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Symphony X - The Odyssey, V
Iced Earth - Horror Show, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs, Mule Variations, Bone Machine
Common Rotation - The Big Fear, Keep an Open Galley
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman, Telling Stories
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark, Field Songs
Powderfinger - Vulture Street
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Anthrax - We've Come For You All

I'll have more, but this is all I can think of right now.
 
Oooohh....difficult..... it changes all the time.

That said, these would normally make the list, in no particular order:

Iron Maiden - Debut album
Marillion - Marbles (always makes the list!)
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Yes - Classic Yes
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed
Jethro Tull - Broadsword And The Beast
Rush - Moving Pictures
Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds
David Lee Roth - Eat 'em And Smile
Dio - Magica
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

I could go on and on ;)
 
Here's a list of my favorite 15.
1. Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden
2. The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
3. The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson
4. Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
6. Train of Thought - Dream Theater
7. The Wall - Pink Floyd
8. And Justice For All - Metallica
9. Rust in Peace - Megadeth
10. Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory - Dream Theater
11. Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
12. Animals - Pink Floyd
13. Moving Pictures - Rush
14. Death Magnetic - Metallica <-- Yep I just went there.
15. Among the Living - Anthrax

Albums that I'd consider adding
Aenima - Tool
Art of War- Sabaton
The Blackening - Machine Head
 
Albums are in no particular order except alphabetical by artist. This was really the best way for me to go about this. Go through all the artists I have in my music library and choose the albums that fall under the Best Album category for me. These are the albums that I know from the first note to the last, can play from start to finish without skipping a song, and that I can play over and over again and never, ever get tired of. The list may change from time to time depending on my mood but these fit that description perfectly.

Silver and Gold - ASAP (Yes...really.)
Help!/Rubber Soul/Sgt. Peppers - The Beatles
David Gilmour - David Gilmour
Machine Head/Burn - Deep Purple
Killers/POM/SIT/SSOASS - Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin III/Houses of the Holy/Physical Graffiti -Led Zeppelin
Ride the Lightning/...And Justice for All - Metallica
Meddle/Obscured By Clouds/DSOTM/Animals - Pink Floyd
State of Mind/Welcome to the World - Psycho Motel
A Farewell to Kings/Permanent Waves/Moving Pictures - Rush
The Slider - T. Rex
The Joshua Tree - U2
The Who Sell Out/Who's Next - The Who
 
I have a lot of these, I'm not even really sure what my number one album of all time would be. I guess I'll just stick to metal/rock for this list, otherwise I'll probably get carried away :p These might not be all time classics or anything, but they're albums that I never get tired of and listen to frequently. Also have very few (if any) "skippable" songs.

The Beatles - Abbey Road/The Beatles/Revolver
Devin Townsend - Addicted/Terria
Pink Floyd - Animals/Dark Side of the Moon/The Final Cut (yea really)/The Wall
Dream Theater - Awake/Images & Words/Scenes From a Memory/Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Radiohead - The Bends
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape/Wasting Light/There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Chroma Key - Dead Air For Radios
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol 1
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Extreme - III Sides to Every Story
Dramagods - Love
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life and Death/Piece of Mind/Powerslave/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/Somewhere in Time
Haken - The Mountain/Visions/Aquarius
Queen - A Night At the Opera
Symphony X - The Odyssey/Paradise Lost/V
Judas Priest - Painkiller/Screaming For Vengeance
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Rush - Permanent Waves
Chalk Dinosaur - Sediment
Spock's Beard - Snow/V
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pinkly Smooth - Unfortunate Snort
 
mckindog said:
So what are your favourite albums of all-time — the ones you know from the first note to the last, can play from start to finish without skipping a song, and that you can play over and over again and never, ever get tired of?
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Preparing a new game? ;)
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
Agreed. Some of my favorite albums of all time have at least one skippable song. Here's some in no order:

Powderfinger - Vulture Street
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..good to see an Australian band on your list Knicko.

No filler all killer in my list of favourite albums. Each has dominated my collection for long periods of time. In no particular order:

The band name escapes me - Somewhere in Time, A Matter of Life and Death, The Final Frontier
Radiohead - Kid A
Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone
Russian Circles - Memorial
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Metallica - Master of Puppets
King Diamond - Them
ISIS - Oceanic
 
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