nice collection B)

The Clash: London Calling
Slint: Spiderland (cover->my avatar)
Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
The Velvet Underground: First Album
The Stone Roses: First Album
The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead
The Pale Fountains: Pacific Street
Love: Forever Changes
Joy Division: Closer
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On

And lots and lots more... Nick Drake, Will Oldham, Tortoise, The Apartments, Yo La Tengo, Swell, Mark Eitzel, Red House Painters, The Notwist, Mogwai...

In order of durability...

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Rolling Stones - High Tides & Green Grass
David Bowie - ChangesOne
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom

I've liked these the longest (~ 30 years) and still listen to them.

xen-uno

Radiohead - The Bends (and OK Computer)
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (,Generation Terrorists and Known Your Enemy)
Nirvana - Nevermind (,Bleach and In Utero)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (Doolittle and Bossanova)
Built to Spill - Keep Like a Secret (and Normal Years)

Honorable mention: Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Ramones, Clash, Dead Kennedys, Echo&The Bunnymen, The Smiths, REM, Guided by Voices, Beastie Boys, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Yo La Tengo, Mudhoney, PJ Harvey, Flaming Lips and others. I didn't know that this question was too difficult to answer

air - moon safari
iron maiden - the best of the beast
eric clapton - unplugged
philip glass - solo piano
Buddha Bar II

ok, i've been lurking HA for a very long time just reading, but i finally registered cause i can give my input here.
top 10, no particular order:

millencolin - pennybridge pioneers
pearl jam - binaural
limp bizkit - three dollar bill y'all$
incubus - make yourself
tool - aenima
radiohead - ok computer
disturbed - the sickness
audioslave - audioslave
various artists - the matrix OST
smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness

just recently i completed buying all of these. all of them have touched my life in some way over the years.

This could change tommorow. But here goes my favourites in no particular order:

Guns'n'Roses - Use your Illusion I
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Alanis Morissette - Jagged little Pill
Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Duran Duran - Arena
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
The White Stripes - Elephant

Honourable mention to:
Barenaked Ladies
Stereophonics
Placebo
The Orb
Paul Young
Tracy Chapman
Roxette
The Beatles

There's no way I can pick my Top 5 (I like way too much)...but here's 5 I really like:

Tool - Opiate
Genesis - Foxtrot
Rush - 2112
Pink Floyd - Meddle
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

A couple others:
Benny Goodman - 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Blind Faith
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Rush - Permanent Waves

I have a very varied music collection...songs for every occassion

Top Five "Regular Music"... now, these are the top five that I actually like listening to, not just my top picks from wankerland:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame : Respect.

Tool - Lateralus : Not a big tool fan, but I am a big Lateralus fan.

Rage Against The Machine - Renegades : Much as I love their more socially concious albums, I just love their cover of "How I Could Just Kill A Man" that appears on this album a lot more

Aimee Mann - Lost In Space : I am embarrassed to admit to my friends that I like Aimee Mann, but I listen to this album a lot, and I do like it, so there!

2001 Score + Holst's The Planets : I mention this because 1) 2001 was the movie that made me realize music was important and that I liked listening to it; 2) The first thing I ever played on my bass clarinet was the Mars theme, basically got me interested in actually playing music.


Top Five Screwball Picks - The kind of music I listen to the 96% of the time.... AKA the time I'm not accidentally listening to some socially acceptable music

... on second thought, Ill just list artists here, becuae there's about 100 albums that I couldnt decide between for this top TEN.

1. Aphex Twin (incl AFX, Caustic Window, Polygon Window, Bradley Strider, ect..........)
2. Autechre
3. Venetian Snares
4. Amon Tobin
5. Boards Of Canada
6. Christ
7. Coil
8. Fennesz
9. Hrvatski
10. Oval

Lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Metallica - S & M
40 Below Summer - The Morning After
Linkin Park - Meteora

but i wouldn't call these my 100% favourite albums of all times, because there are many new things to discover, you never know...

Only five??? This is difficult . . . . I can't do just five and I couldn't possibly put them in any order; here is a bunch:

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain
System of a Down - Toxicity
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Buck 65 - Talkin Honkey Blues
MC Paul Barman - Paullelujah!
NoFX - The War on Errorism
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Squarepusher - Big Loada or Go Plastic! (I just can't decide)
Jesse Cook - Vertigo
Morcheeba - Fragments of Freedom
Tool - Ænima
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Les Cowboys Fringants - Break Syndical
The Age of Electric - The Age of Electric
Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart

Just to name a few . . .

Best guess at my top 5 (for today only):
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse [Industrial's defining band]
The Beatles: White Album [Pop masterpiece]
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here [44:28 of sonic bliss]
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication [Hip Hop w/instrumentals]
Bob Marley: Legend [Solid sampling of his work]

Honorable Mention:
Fatboy Slim: You've Come a Long Way Baby [Fresh beats]
Led Zeppelin: II [Raw power]
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables [Punk masterpiece]
Crunch O Matic: Caution Do Not Play [Techno / ambient beats from Trent Reznor]
The Police: Outlandos d'Amour [Ska/punk/pop solid offering]

Edit: Typo

Dibrom, you've damn good music taste
too bad Immortal split
i'm looking forward for the new one for DHG and Cryptopsy (Flo is the ultimate metal drummer)

Judas Priest-Painkiller
Halford-Ressurection
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Iron Maiden-Brave New World
Enya-A Day Without Rain

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Days of the New - Days of the New II (Green Album)
Nirvana - Bleach
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Slipknot - Slipknot

If I had to pick just five albums, I suppose those would be at the top of the list. These are all albums that when I listened to them, changed the way I felt or thought about music. Also, I can still go back and listen to them at any time and never get tired of them.

OK, here I go:

1. Radiohead - OK Computer

2. Air - Premiers Symptômes

3. Arab Strap - Philophobia

4. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dreams

5. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump


The Winner here is obvious to me among the list. OKC changed my whole perception of Music. As for the other 4, they are in no particular order. Or maybe yes, they are sorted by the emotional potential emanating from them.

I guess your "favourite album ever" is also the soundtrack of your life; or it is somehow related to a specific event or period etched into your mind. I mean the memory associated to the music. Or vice versa?

I reckon I could swap 2 here for other albums depending on my mood..

1. Primus - Frizzle Fry
2. The Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover
3. Ruins - Tzomborgha
4. Opeth - Still Life
5. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

The order constantly fluctuates (and sometimes the contents of the list, as well), but that's the top five for me.

OK: I'll bite, although it may conform to many lists here

No order:
Tool - Lateralus
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
N.W.A. - Straight Outa Compton
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Honerable Mention (including compilations) (5 is WAY to few, many of these are equal to the above):

Phish - Just about anything
Tool - Just about anything
Bone Thugs 'n Harmony - Just about anything, but specificaly "Thug World Order"
2Pac - Just about anything
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (You may not like it now, but don't tell me you didn't then )
Nas - Illmatic and Stillmatic
Nirvana - In Utero and Nirvana
The Beatles - 1
Rob Zombie - Past, Present and Future
RHCP - Greatest Hits
Rammstein - Just about anything
Incubus - Make Yourself
Rush - Moving Pictures
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Coldplay - Parachutes

I don't have any favourites. My mood changes way too often. Favourite artists, however, are pretty constant. e.g. Roxette, Crash Test Dummies, Norah Jones, Bruce Hornsby, etc...

difficult to think of individual albums but at least one off the top of my head:
Smahing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

as for artists/material for compilations:
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Toni Braxton
Mariah Carey
Frank Sinatra
Dennis Day
Tony Bennet
Tupac
Manhattan Transfer
Sarah Brightman
Bach/Beethoven/others in that genre
Benny Goodman/Artie Shaw/etc
Eminem

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Prince - LoveSexy

ManOWaR - Into glory Ride

Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill

Top 5:
Autechre: Tri Repetae++
FSOL: Dead Cities
Plaid: Double Figure
Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy
Saint Germain: Tourist

Other great albums:
NIN: The Downward Spiral
Ministry: Psal 69
Goldie: Timeless
Sepultura: Roots
Strapping Young Lad: City

Tiamat - Skeleton Skeletron
Metallica - The Black Album
Outkast - ATLiens
Deine Lakaien - Kasmodiah
Thomas D - Lektionen In Demut (transl: Lessons In Humility)

no particular order

My Top 5 with no special order:

Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Orbital - Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Jan Hammer - 1st Seven Days
XTC - too many - best collection
Synergy (Larry Fast) - 1st
k d lang - Ingenue
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death, Killer
Ted Nugent - Tooth, Fang and Claw
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Mike Oldfield - 1st 3
Peer Gynt Suite
Beatles - Revolver...
currently Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Bill Nelson/Bebop Deluxe, Focus, John Finn Group,

hmm. i change my mind all the time, but albums i keep coming back to:

1. Portishead - Dummy (i wish it was mastered better though)
2. Ludwig Van - 9th symphony (f*** yeah. say it loud!)
3. Miles Davis - Kind of blue (so so so soooo chill i want to melt into my beer)
4. Regurgitator - Unit ( there's a lot to be said for pointless happimusic)
5. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (2 record set, lots of flipping to do, but worth it)

there's others in there, but these are the discs i keep returning to and never get bored of (like lentils )


honourable mentions:

UltraKillDeathDai - You've never been so born into death (okay, my friends made it but it's genuinely innovative and unheard-of)

James Last - Hammond-a-gogo (got this for $0.5 at an op-shop. best money i ever spent, you'll laugh till you're sick at the horribly mutilated show tunes. so good they never put it on CD)

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon. of course... this one's in SQ and i can't find a decoder (i hear the Tate II is the shizzy, but i think DPLII is based on it, so i might get one of thems), so i have to put up with stereo.

Devo - Freedom of choice. Great house-cleaning music (hehehe... i don't hear it enough looking at the state of the place)

Jamiroquai - Travelling without moving. ooh yeah. mastered surprisingly well. surprising in that it sounds dull until you crank it to chest-kicking levels when it's brilliant.

The Cat Empire - self titled. this is just fun music. if you've ever got pissed at St. Kilda beach in summer you'll love this CD. fekking CDS200 though.

1) Beatles - Abbey Road (not a bad song there)
1) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Paco de Lucia - Entre Dos Aguas
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Billie Holliday - Lady In Satin (classic)
AC/DC - Jailbreak '74
Sarah Brightman - Dive
Hamelin's rendition of Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Etudes (2-discs)

plus a million more... I can't even say what my top 50 albums are, really, aside from my personal compilations.

The only certain thing is that Abbey Road and Dark Side are the two best albums ever made

Halford-Ressurrection
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Iron Maiden-Brave New World
Enya-A Day Without Rain

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The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
Muse - Absolution (2003)
Outkast - The Love Below (2003)

Though it's really hard to choose.
Classical music is not included, as it's not in albums.
I was also listening to Saint-Preux, and if I knew the title of that disc, it would surely be included.

Top 5 in no particular order:

REM - Automatic for the People
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Radiohead - OK Computer
Hem - Rabbit Songs
Pearl Jam - Ten

Also:

Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - Abbey Road
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
They Might Be Giants - John Henry
The Delgados - Peloton

n00b coming in to an interetsing thread...

Top 5 (at the moment):
1. Queensryche - Promised Land
Didn't have the patience to listen to most of it, save Bridge and Damaged. Revisted it after it was stolen, and recently bought it used to rid myself of Xing-encoded MP3s.
1. Ian Moore - Modernday Folklore
3. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
4. EL&P (selftitled)
Karn Evil 9 1st Impression (Part 2) is impossible to get away from, as is Lucky Man. So I bought a few of their albums, and was not dissappointed.
5. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Honorable:
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Benefit, Stand Up
- EL&P - Brain Salad Surgery, Trilogy
- Jesus Christ Superstar
How Ian Gillan can never manage in the studio with Purple, but did such an amazing job here, we may never know.
- Rainbow - Rainbow Rising
- Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
- Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
Got it again, much like Promised land. Too loud, but still an excellent album.
- The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Turn of a Friendly Card
- Deep Purple - Made in Japan
- Queen - A Night at the Opera
Come on, the whole album would be worth it for The Prophet's Song and Good Company
- Queensryche - The Warning, Operation: Mindcrime
- Pink Floyd - DsotM, The Division Bell, The Wall, Animals
- Faith No More - The Real Thing
(Dio might be added as my collection grows)

arg this is impossible. ok, solid albums where absolutely every song is great, hold up to many listens, flow well from one song to another and i feel good when i listen to:

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Cafe Tacuba - Re
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
* still trying to think what to put here -
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1

lol, i don't know. impossible. 5 is too few. can i do 5 per genre or something?

i'll probably come back and edit this in a minute, not sure about the last 3.

had to try hard not to include:
Mercury Rev (Deserter's Songs - first half is amazing)
Broken Family Band (Jesus Songs - not full length and covers)
Babasonicos - Jessico (where did this come from )
Fiery Furnaces (Blueberry Boat - too new)
Sparklehorse (Good Morning Spider - any would do, some weak songs though)
Mano Negra (Patchanka - their 1st and most fun, but any would do).
June Panic - Baby's Breadth (seems great but again too new for me to say)
Kult - Ostateczny krach systemu korporacji (no idea what this is about but wow)
Optiginally Yours - Exclusively Talentmaker (yeah probably too 'novelty')
Amparanoia - El Poder de Machín (what fun)
Beach Boys - Surf's Up (later Beach Boys work was amazing and not all about Surf
Fruit Bats (lovely bit of americana, also Jack Johnson, Iron and Wine and loads of others are hard to exclude)
Los Pericos - Big Yuyo (silly but i love it & all their albums)
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (amazing interesting exp. rock i choose this over Soft Bulletin its a bit less calculated)

er i gotta cut this short i could be here forever

there's also a few albums i really love that i don't feel like sharing ehe, keep them special just for me one or two Basque, one or two from Colombia, Argentina and some others that you probably won't have heard of anyway.

Six

Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (Coltrane, Chambers, Garland, Philly Joe)
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Love - Forever Changes
Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser

1. Beatles-Sgt. Peppers
2. Styx-Grand Illusion
3. Saturday Night Fever
4 Spaced Out-The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner
5. Elton John- Yellow Brick Road

Honorable Mention:

Mr. Rogers- You are Special
Toto I
Dexter Wansel Voyager
All the beatles albums

I am new to this Forum. I think it is very informative and helpful.

As for my favorite albums, I'll list the ones I enjoy ever track of.

1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. Temple Of the Dog - s/t
3. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
4. Audioslave - s/t
5. Pearl Jam - Yield

I look forward to future posts, Thanks.

1. Limp - Orion
2. Coil - Time Machines
3. Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
4. Vir Unis - Aeonian Glow
5. Faith & The Muse - Anwynn, Beneath The Waves

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
2. ROmantic Mode - Vision of Love
3. ROmantic Mode - Dimensions
4. TWO-MIX - BPM143
5. TWO-MIX - Fantastix

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Iron City Houserockers - Pumping Iron & Sweating Steel: The Best of Iron City Houserockers
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
REO Speedwagon - Live: You Get What You Play For
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Legend

Current Top 5
Tool - Ænima
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

Worth Mentioning
Deftones - Around The Fur
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
Mudvayne - L.D 50
StoneSour - StoneSour

OK, why not.

Pixies, Doolittle
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
The Clash, London Calling
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings And Food
Air, Moon Safari

Honourable Mentions:

Nirvana, Nevermind
Radiohead, The Bends
Pearl Jam, Ten
Eels, Beautifl Freak
Counting Crows, August and Everything After

Edit: limited my list to ten...

1. Faith No More - "Angel Dust"

For me, probably the perfect "complete" album. There's no filler, no padding & everything just works.

2. Melvins - "Houdini"

Another incredible album. Listening to it there's nothing out of place & all instrumentation and vocals sound huuuge!!

3. David S. Ware String Ensemble - "Threads"

Mr. Ware can wrench an unfathomable amount of noise out of his Sax but this recording highlights his compositional abilities. My favourite Jazz recording of all time by my favourite Jazz musician.

4. Cult Of Luna - "The Beyond"

Woah! Oppressively heavy record. Some of the best "singing" I have ever heard.

5. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "Moanin'"

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. This record seriously swings - fantastic!

In no peticular order, 1-just about every focus album,2-van de graff generator godbluff,3-kansas-MASQUE,4-black sabbath-sabbath bloody sabbath,5-andy williams greatest

five random pics:

Death In June - nada!
Unbroken - life.love.regret.
Gray Matter - food for thought
Ornette Coleman - the shape of jazz to come
Chain of Strenght - the one thing that still holds true

no particular order :

Brandy - Never Say Never
Air - Premiers Symptomes
Madonna (or should I say William Orbit) - Ray of Light
Christina Aguilera - Stripped
Moby - Play

I don't know if these are the ones that I prefer, but all of them are definitely very good albums.

Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Live Frogs [Live] [2 Sets] [2001]

Have you heard the second set? (disk 2)... Its Pink Floyd's Animals, Track for track, Covered live by Les Claypool and some very mentionable musicians live. The quality of the recording is also, quite amazing.

Check it out, I gurantee you will be thanking me

Hopefully I'm here to rectify all your sins

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man (1971) (US)
Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Etc - 1979 (France)
Public Enemy - Fear of the Black Planet (US)
Marcos Valle - Previsao Do Tempo (Brazil)
The Rolling Stones - Made In The Shade - 1975 (UK)

And many more such as La Cliqua, Brassens, Brel, Boris Vian, Roy Ayers, ErikTruffaz, Donal Byrd, James Brown, Françoise Hardy, Radiohead, The Stooges & Iggy pop, Greatful Dead, The Doors, Cream, Ruben Blades, Cure, Caetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, Kool & The Gang, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, KRS One, Boby Lapointe, Luz Casal, Zero 7, Tricky, Saint Germain, Cerrone, Bizet (Carmen), Albinoni: Adagio, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Warda, Ali Farka Toure, etc.... too many

Singles I'm listening lately:
Jacqueline Taieb - 7 Heures Du Matin // I love it
Donald Byrd - Dominoes
Buddy Rich - The Beat Goes On
Erick Morillo - Dancing
George Moustaki - on est tous des pédés
La Cliqua - Freaky Flow (Le Remix 95)
2 Man Sound - Que Tal America
Lil Louis - New Dance Beat
DJ Spinna & Rich Medina - Reality
D.I.T.C. - Da Enemy // mind blowing
Cut Killer (feat. Fabe, 113, etc..) - Soirée Assurée
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Hudson Al & Soul Partners - How do you do

....

By the way *Radiohead* was the most recurrent group it seems in this thread.

I love foobar

Cheers everyone

Yvan

Top 5+1

Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Runner ups

Crosby, Still, Nash and Young - Déjà Vu
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Supertramp - Breakfeast in America
Boston - Don't Look Back
Kansas - Leftoverture
Eagles - Hotel California
Styx - Pieces of Eight

Rookies

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
U2 - Achtung Baby
The White Stripes - Elephant

*reads thread to end*
*head now hurts trying to decide which one (5?)...*
*ouch...trys anyway*

in no particulare order...
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Only picked this one cause it was the hook that got me addicted. Could easily be DSOTM or Ummagumma's live side.

Ghoti Hook - Bananna Man
First cd I ever bought. I have had heard it so many millions of times but it still is awsome

Rage Against The Machine - [insert album here]
Love most all their stuff but haven't listened to most of it in the album format

Chevelle - Point #1
Their first album. It could easily be Wonder What's Next, but I think I like point #1 more

Tool - Lateralus
yeah there's no need to comment

honorable mention includes but is not limited to:
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Alien Ant Farm- ANThology
Bob Marley - Legend
Evenescence -Not For Your Ears.

A favorite artist question might be easier since most everything I get now I rip and give it one or two listens then toss it in my everything playlist and am just pleasently supprised when it pops up. To that effect could easily put these artists in with the above:
Five Iron Frenzy
John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
Nirvana
Offspring

Screw It can I just give up and just post a copy of my album list in foobar?



I'm gonna have to agree with you on thse two...
Mars from The Planets is awsome and Also Sprach Zarathustra and that whole intro scene to 2001 are great

edit:Punctation what's that?

Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium
Edward Ka-Spel - Tanith And The Lion Tree
The Sisters Of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Swans - The Great Annihilator