Best albums of all-time

Iron Maiden : Killers - Seventh Son - Brave new World - Factor X
Motörhead : Overkill
Black Sabbath : Paranoid - Masters of Reality
Jethro Tull : Thick as a Brick
Dream Theater : Scenes from a Memory
Queensrÿche : Operation Mindcrime
Rush : Clockwork Angels
Simon and Garfunkel : any best of, but only with studio versions
Omen : Warning of Danger
Slayer : Seasons in the Abyss
Mastodon : Blood Mountain
Steve Harris : British Lion
Thin Lizzy : Chinatown
 
This isn't quite as clear cut for me, when I put an album on I listen to it in it's entirity regardless of whether I think a song is subpar or not, there are songs that I skip but they're for other reasons. So I'd have to go with the 'every note' type thing (with an extra parameter that if it's in the background I know what track it is, rather than merging into one :p), although I don't think I have a single album that I would use every track in a playlist.

W.A.S.P - Crimson Idol, Headless Children
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Sabaton - Art of War
UFO - Essential (do we count compilations?)
Motorhead - Inferno
Megadeth - System has Failed
Judas Priest - Painkiller, Screaming for Vengeance
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Scorpions - Humanity Hour 1
Tursias - The Varangian Way
Halford - Resurrection
Iron Maiden - Brave New World

I don't really think any of them are the best albums of all time, but they're some of my favourites and now I know your true purpose!
 
Holy Diver - Dio
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Hymn of a Broken Man - Times of Grace
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
80% of Maiden's material

I saw British Lion on someone's list, I held off due to mediocre reviews, perhaps I'll give it a shot.
 
The Anger & The Pain said:
Holy Diver - Dio
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Hymn of a Broken Man - Times of Grace
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
80% of Maiden's material

I saw British Lion on someone's list, I held off due to mediocre reviews, perhaps I'll give it a shot.
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It's not a leap-out-and-hit-you-in-the-face album, but I wouldn't go on reviews alone. Some of those people were expecting Maiden No.2.
 
The Anger & The Pain said:
I saw British Lion on someone's list, I held off due to mediocre reviews, perhaps I'll give it a shot.
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On mine ! This record is obviously not one the 10 best I've ever heard, but I was thinking of a kind of "lone island list" : which album would I take with me ? And the only solo album by Harry had to be there, period. And I listen to it on a regular basis and absolutely LOVE the basslines.
 
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As of now, bar Maiden... it changes a lot, but these are nearly always there:

Megadeth: RIP and PSBWB
Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith, Painkiller, British Steel
Black Sabbath: Sabotage, SBS, Master of Reality
Death: Symbolic, The Sound of Perseverance, Human
Nazareth: Hair of the Dog, the debut, Razamanaz, Close Enough for RNR, maybe also Loud and Proud
Atheist: Unquestionable Presence
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound and Foxtrot
Pink Floyd: Animals, WYWH, The Wall and DSOTM
Toxik: Think This
Deep Purple: In Rock (and probably Made in Japan)
Dark Angel: Leave Scars, Darkness Descends and Time Does Not Heal
Roy Wood: Boulders
Anthrax: Persistance of Time and Among the Living
Entombed: Left Hand Path
Rush: 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Moving Pictures... here I'm really not which albums to pick
Pestilence: Testimony of the Ancients and Consuming Impulse
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, either Aqualung or Minstrel itG
Voivod: Killing Technology and Dimension Hatröss
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Motörhead: Orgasmatron and Ace of Spades
David Bowie: TRAFO Ziggy Stardust ATSFM, Low
Dio: The Last in Line and Holy Diver
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Gentle Giant: Octopus and Three Friends
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Kreator: Extreme Aggression
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Mike Oldfield: Crises, Five Miles Out and Tubular Bells
Cryptopsy: Blasphemy Made Flesh
Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak, Johnny, Chinatown...
The Beatles: Abbey Road, The White Album and Rubber Soul
Immolation: Dawn of Possession
Sparks: The first three albums
The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed
Suffocation: Effigy of the Forgotten
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs and Bone Machine
Slade: Slayed?
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (Australian version - the one with Crabsody in Blue on it)
Evanescence: Fallen (nah, just kidding :p )
probably also Metallica: The First Four

In case I was forced to pick only one per band take into consideration only the first album mentioned.
 
ADX: Exécution
Artillery: By Inheritance
Bathory: Hammerheart, Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Blackfoot: Strikes
Blue Öyster Cult: Agents of Fortune, Blue Öyster Cult, Fire of Unknown Origin, Imaginos, Secret Treaties, Spectres, Tyranny and Mutation
D. R. I.: Dealing With It!, Dirty Rotten LP
Deafheaven: Sunbather
Death: Leprosy, Scream Bloody Gore, The Sound of Perseverance, Symbolic
Destruction: The Antichrist, Eternal Devastation, Infernal Overkill
Forbidden: Forbidden Evil
Gamma Ray: Land of the Free, Sigh No More, Somewhere Out in Space
Grave Digger: Excalibur, Knights of the Cross, Rheingold, Tunes of War
Helstar: Nosferatu
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Judas Priest: British Steel, Defenders of the Faith, Painkiller, Sad Wings of Destiny, Stained Class
King Diamond: Abigail, Conspiracy, The Eye
Kreator: Pleasure to Kill
Manilla Road: Crystal Logic, Voyager
Motörhead: 1916, Ace of Spades, Another Perfect Day, Bomber, Iron Fist, Orgasmatron, Overkill
Municipal Waste: The Art of Partying
Nuclear Assault: Game Over
Obituary: Slowly We Rot, Cause of Death
Overkill: Feel the Fire, From the Underground and Below, Horrorscope, Ironbound, The Killing Kind, Necroshine, Taking Over, The Years of Decay
Pentagram: Be Forewarned, Day of Reckoning, Pentagram (Relentless), Review Your Choices
Possessed: Seven Churches
Rage: Ghosts, Lingua Mortis, Perfect Man, Soundchaser, Speak of the Dead, Trapped!, 10 Years in Rage
Razor: Evil Invaders, Executioner's Song, Violent Restitution
Sabbat: Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterday)
Sodom: Agent Orange, M-16
 
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