<p>what are your top five albums of all time???</p>
<p>1) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
2) Metropolis Pt. 2 (Scenes from a Memory) - Dream Theater
3) Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
4) Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
5) Illmatic - Nas</p>
<p>i was just listening to wish you were here as i read your post. anyone else?</p>
<p>Bob Marley - Babalon By Bus</p>
<p>How could you leave out Bob? Guess what? Bob Marleys daughter lives really close to me. I just found out cause she got busted doing something bad.</p>
<p>1) Saosin by Saosin
2) Mean Everything to Nothing by Manchester Orchestra
3) Until the World Is Happy; Wake Up You Sleepyhead Sun by Small Leaks Sink Ships
4) Legend by Bob Marley
5) All Albums by Coldplay</p>
<p>Honorary mentions go to about 50 other bands/artists.</p>
<p>1) What’s the Story (Morning Glory)? - Oasis
2) Never Mind the Bollocks - Here’s the Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
3) 100 Broken Windows - Idlewild
4) The Clash - US Version - The Clash
5) Toss up between Urban Hymns by The Verve and “Heroes” by David Bowie</p>
<p>I like British music way too much, apparently</p>
<ol>
<li>Led Zeppelin II- Led Zeppelin</li>
<li>The Wall- Pink Floyd</li>
<li>Red, Yellow, and Blue- Born Ruffians</li>
<li>Highly Refined Pirates- Minus the Bear</li>
<li>Tell it to the Volcano- Miniature Tigers</li>
</ol>
<p>1) Grace by Jeff Buckley
2) (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
3) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
4) Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
5) Moondance - Van Morrison</p>
<p>I dont know why everyone likes pink floyd. I think the wall is fairly bland. Its boring and puts me to sleep. And the only 1 good song is sooooooo overplayed.</p>
<p>Current List:</p>
<p>1) Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill - Dare I say, like Dante’s Paradiso and Milton’s Il Penseroso transferred into album form, it somehow transcends music into art without ostentatiousness. “In a world that’s not so bad; in a world time was killing in the sun”</p>
<p>2) What’s the Story, Morning Glory? - Oasis - The ultimate look at modern life from the inside out, with all its beauties and ironies, and at humanity, free from nature and at once relishing and coming to terms with its new existential responsibilities. “You said the brains I had went to my head”</p>
<p>3) Alien Lanes - Guided by Voices - It’s really rather crude when you look at it from the outside, consisting of an almost ludicrous 28 tracks averaging what seems like a minute a piece. Nonetheless, once you enter its world, little gems like “Game of Pricks” and “My Valuable Hunting Knife” signify something not altogether better or worse, but different. “And the truth … is just a lie”</p>
<p>4) 100 Broken Windows - Idlewild - Idlewild is probably my dark horse favorite band, at once angsty and reserved, poignant and raw, intellectual and ironically shallow, this is a look at a world in which desire and freedom take a back seat to our natural flaws and unwillingness to become part of a way of living that is altogether too strange for us. “Why can’t you be more cynical?”</p>
<p>5) Souvlaki - Slowdive - So much aural radience, the kind that it seems would occur “When the Sun Hits”, is somehow made to feel so cold and empty. Loneliness exists even when silence is nowhere to be found. As bitterly painful as the lyrical content is, it is just as due to the nebulous quality of the harmonies in the background that give us a sense of feeling from the music. “Your messed up world still thrills me”</p>
<p>In no particular order: </p>
<ol>
<li>Radiohead - OK Computer, mostly because it changed my life.</li>
<li>Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca, because it’s the perfect synthesis of pop and art and weird time signatures.</li>
<li>Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady: best jazz album ever. period.</li>
<li>Hilary Hahn plays the Stravinsky Violin Concerto. totally bad-arse concerto!</li>
<li>Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend: perfectly-crafted, intelligent pop.</li>
</ol>
<p>1) The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place – Explosions in the Sky
2) Our Endless Numbered Days – Iron & Wine
3) Amelie and Good Bye Lenin soundtracks (tied) – Yann Tiersen
4) Xx – The xx
5) Teen Dream – Beach House</p>
<p>^Vampire Weekend are in my top 10, though.</p>
<p>1 - Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor by Lupe Fiasco - Quite possibly the most lyrical album of all time, by any artist, in any genre. This is an example on what all future hip-hop albums should be based on.</p>
<p>2 - Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool by Lupe Fiasco - If after four years, people still haven’t come close to completely uncovering the depth to the storyline, then it has to be an amazing concept album.</p>
<p>3 - Illmatic by Nas - A true classic. Hip hop would not be the same today if it weren’t for Illmatic.</p>
<p>4 - College Dropout by Kanye West - Kanye shows why he is one of the greatest producers ever. Possibly the best produced album of all time.</p>
<p>5 - The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem - Vintage Eminem. It’s absolutely incredible how much emotion he puts into every track.</p>
<p>Honorable Mentions - Lasers by Lupe Fiasco, Graduation by Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West, It Was Written by Nas, Untitled by Nas, The Black Album by Jay-Z, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by Outkast</p>
<p>Aw that was harder than I thought.
So I listed my top 5, and then some honorable mentions. :)</p>
<p>Top 5
Forever Young - Alphaville
In This Light and on This Evening - Editors
London Calling - The Clash
To Lose My Life - White Lies
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel</p>
<p>Honorable Mentions
Tonight - Franz Ferdinand
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
Boxer - The National
Manners - Passion Pit
Our Love to Admire - Interpol
XO - Elliott Smith
Their Satanic Majesties Request – The Rolling Stones</p>
<p>Diorama - Silverchair
Thriller - Michael Jackson
CexCells - Blaqk Audio
The Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie</p>
<p>Honorable mention goes to Electric Warrior - T.Rex.</p>
<p>Operation Ivy - Energy
The Clash - London Calling
Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
The Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves</p>
<p>The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!
If You’re Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
Songs About Leaving - Carissa’s Wierd
Read Music/Speak Spanish - Desaparecidos</p>
<ol>
<li>Chutes Too Narrow- The Shins</li>
<li>Speakerboxxx/The Love Below- OutKast (Kind of one album)</li>
<li>This Is Happening- LCD Soundsystem</li>
<li>Pink Moon- Nick Drake</li>
<li>Funeral- Arcade Fire</li>
</ol>
<p>That was incredibly difficult to narrow down.</p>
<p>damn… this is is tough but i have to say</p>
<ol>
<li>Food and Liquor - Lupe Fiasco.</li>
</ol>
<p>Words cannot explain how much win this album is. Charlie Sheen needs to learn WINNING from this album.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The Cool - Lupe Fiasco.
I can literally give the same explanation as above.</p></li>
<li><p>Not an album… but so close. The Warm Up - J.Cole
Idk what it is about this… but the man spits real, it’s like a vivid picture in my mind. And it was so slept on for a year… and people still picking it up.</p></li>
<li><p>Illmatic - Nas.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Nasty nas is just that. Nasty nas.</p>
<p>5… this is so freaking hard… mmm… Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
Just a special album. It has a different feel than albums I listen to.</p>
<p>Honorable Mention: First 3 Kanye Albums, Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z, Stillmatic, Friday Night Lights, Lasers, and that’s pretty much it.</p>
<p>1) Genesis - Foxtrot
2) Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane/ Yes - Close to the Edge
4) The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
5) Genesis - Nursery Cryme</p>