What is your all-time top ten album list?

Cosmiceddie

Cosmiceddie

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I think this list is easier to create than the all-time top ten song list, isn't it?

Let me show yours.

Here's mine:

01. Brave New World - Iron Maiden
02. Altitude - Autumn
03. The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson
04. A Matter Of Life And Death - Iron Maiden
05. Afraid Of Sunlight - Marillion
06. Seasons End - Marillion
07. Resurrection - Halford
08. No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith - Motörhead
09. Live Evil - Black Sabbath
10. Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne
 
Wow...this is virtually impossible for me. Since it's a Maiden board, I'll simplify things and just do top 10 metal albums.

Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/Brave New World (can't choose)
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
 
Any list with Odyssey and Ghost Reveries is alright with me.

I'm still thinking about this, don't think I could do ten favorite albums either. Maybe I'll simplify it to 10 metal albums as well.
 
My Favorite Ten Metal Albums (at least as of today):

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Guardian - Live
Dio - Holy Diver
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Rainbow - Rising

Am I cheating by putting live albums on there? (I guess not -- original post had a few! By the way, Cosmiceddie: try getting your hands on Live at Hammersmith. Essentially the same setlist as Live Evil, but a MUCH better performance and mix.)

Still thinking about all-time favorite albums regardless of genre.
 
Right off the top of my head, so I might be missing some stuff, but here it is:

1. Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden
2. The Chemical Wedding by Bruce Dickinson
3. Powerslave by Iron Maiden
4. In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
5. Images and Words by Dream Theater
6. Ride the Lightning by Metallica
7. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
8. Still Life by Opeth
9. Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
10. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, Moving Pictures by Rush, or Ghost Reveries by Opeth.
 
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

Slightly easier than the top 10 songs, but not by much.
 
Alright, let's have a shot at this.

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Emilie Simon - La marche de l'empereur
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
 
Cornfed Hick said:
By the way, Cosmiceddie: try getting your hands on Live at Hammersmith. Essentially the same setlist as Live Evil, but a MUCH better performance and mix.)
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I beg to differ here. I do have the 'Live At Hammersmith' CD, but I must say that I don't like the sound and the performance of the tracks as much as on 'Live Evil'. The guitar and the bass sound too tame to me on the former one.

I still think that 'Live Evil' is one of the very best produced live albums ever. The sound of the guitar and the bass is huge, really fat and punchy. It has the best versions of 'Iron Man' and 'N.I.B.' ever, to boot.
 
I have Bone Machine as a close number two, though Mule Variations is not far behind either.
 
Yeah, Bone Machine would be my number three. I'm a big fan of the Swordfish-Rain-Frank's Wild Years trifecta, as well. You can't go wrong with Tom Waits. You can go weird, but never wrong.
 
Cosmiceddie said:
I beg to differ here. I do have the 'Live At Hammersmith' CD, but I must say that I don't like the sound and the performance of the tracks as much as on 'Live Evil'. The guitar and the bass sound too tame to me on the former one.

I still think that 'Live Evil' is one of the very best produced live albums ever. The sound of the guitar and the bass is huge, really fat and punchy. It has the best versions of 'Iron Man' and 'N.I.B.' ever, to boot.
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I am having a deja-vu here. Or better, this starts to make sense: Cornfed likes tame instead of fat and bassy sound, since he prefers the original release of British Steel. ;-)
*runs in opposite direction of L.A.*
 
Shadow said:
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
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Did you hear that the entire Roxy show is being released later this month? Looks pretty good, I'll be buying it just for RDNZL. :D

Still trying to think about this. I might have a top 3 together :p
 
Cosmiceddie said:
I beg to differ here. I do have the 'Live At Hammersmith' CD, but I must say that I don't like the sound and the performance of the tracks as much as on 'Live Evil'. The guitar and the bass sound too tame to me on the former one.
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The bass is definitely boosted across the board on Live Evil, but you can just turn the bass knob on your stereo to get the same effect. You can actually hear Geezer's bass much better on Hammersmith. Sounds more realistic. Live Evil has an artificially boosted and compressed sound that, not for nothing, muddies the mix and pushes Dio's incredible voice to the background. (I may be wrong, but I believe I read that Live Evil may have been the tipping point in the overall friction that led to Dio's departure from the band. He got pissed about the mix on that album, as well as them leaving his middle name off the liner notes. Or, maybe I have it backward, and the band did those things because they were pissed he was leaving. Either way, the mix suffers.) I also think the energy level is much greater on the Hammersmith disc, but that's just me.

Forostar said:
I am having a deja-vu here. Or better, this starts to make sense: Cornfed likes tame instead of fat and bassy sound, since he prefers the original release of British Steel. ;-)
*runs in opposite direction of L.A.*
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Har-har. Dude, just turn up the volume on the original. It fucking smokes the remaster.
 
I'm was in dire need of an update.
1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
2. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
3. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
4. Pink Floyd - The Wall
5. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
6. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
7. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
8. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
9. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
10. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
 
Only 1 album per band, only studio albums. The order is random except for the first two.

1) Judas Priest - Painkiller
2) Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Ramones - Rocket to Russia

Also up there:

Dimmu Borgir - Darkness Enthrone Triumphant
Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall (or maybe another album)
Metallica - Ride the Lightning (or Master of Puppets)
Rush - Moving Pictures
Anorexia Nervosa - Drudenhaus
Bal-Sagoth - some album (maybe Starfire...)
and lots I have forgotten about...
 
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1. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
2. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
4. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
5. Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
6. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
7. Testament - Days of Darkness
8. Dream Theater - Octavarium
9. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
10. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider

That's pretty much my top 10 Metal albums. I don't listen to much music outside of Metal so it might be my top 10 albums overall but 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac might get in there and perhaps a couple of Thrice albums. Including 'Days of Darkness' might be cheating because it's a Best Of but it's the definitive Testament album for me, so sue me.
 
Cosmiceddie said:
I think this list is easier to create than the all-time top ten song list, isn't it?

Let me show yours.

Here's mine:

01. Brave New World - Iron Maiden
02. Altitude - Autumn
03. The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson
04. A Matter Of Life And Death - Iron Maiden
05. Afraid Of Sunlight - Marillion
06. Seasons End - Marillion
07. Resurrection - Halford
08. No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith - Motörhead
09. Live Evil - Black Sabbath
10. Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne
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I think about this a lot and my list would be this

1. Iron Maiden: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Megadeth: Rust in Peace
3. Metallica: Ride the Lightning
4. Iron Maiden: Powerslave
5. Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell
6. Slayer: Reign in Blood
7. Alice in Chains: Dirt
8. Opeth: Blackwater Park
9. Death: Leprosy
10. Black Sabbath: Master of Reality
 
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