List your top 5 favorite albums

[KitFisto]

After the "bottom 100" thread it got me thinking. List your personal top 5 favorite albums. Try to leave out "Greatest Hits" type stuff. Here are mine. I like these albums pretty much first song to last all the way through.

The Cure - Disintegration
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
Flyleaf - Flyleaf

 

[Vince]

Wu Tang - Enter the Wu Tang
Prodigy - Experience
Leonard Cohen - Songs (first three albums)
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Epsilon - Extol.Nihil

 

[kain4521]

Johnny Cash- From San Quinton
AC/DC- Back in Black
Chris LeDoux- Live
Kiss- Love Gun
Stevie Ray Vaughn- Texas Flood

 

[Darth Loki]

Nice idea for a thread. This will give me something to think about on the way to work. And I already know that you named one of mine Kit

 

[IronFingaz]

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Method Man - Tical / Ol' Dirty ******* - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version / GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords / Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... / Ghostface Killah - IRONMAN (5-way tie)

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Nas - Illmatic / Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die (tie, can't pick one)

Nice pick, Vince

 

[BadMoon]

Nirvana - Nevermind
Korn - Self titled
Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction
Green Day - Dookie
Not sure

 

[McHavyck]

Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - 10
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever to Tell
The Cure - Disintegration
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

 

[Darth Loki]

1. Energy - Operation Ivy

2. Destruction by Definition - Suicide Machines

3. And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid

4. I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love - My Chemical Romance

5a. Keasby Nights - Catch 22

5b. How it Goes - Big D and the Kids Table


Nevermind would be #7 but who's counting

 

[Vince]

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Method Man - Tical / Ol' Dirty ******* - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version / GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords / Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... / Ghostface Killah - IRONMAN (5-way tie)

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Nas - Illmatic / Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die (tie, can't pick one)

Nice pick, Vince

Also nice albums.

I want to add these too:

GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Ghostface Killah - IRONMAN

Next to Enter the Wu-Tang the best three hip-hop albums ever, my favourite is Liquid Swords, that album is just INSANE !! I'm afraid Hip Hop will never get this good again !

 

[ProgMatinee]

God. This list of mine changes all the time.

I'm not sure if these are really my 5 favorite, but they are nice and diverse and maybe would be my desert island picks.

Kate Bush- Hounds of Love
Fates Warning- Parallels
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Jethro Tull- Thick As A Brick
Peter Gabriel- So (or maybe a greatest hits)

 

[IronFingaz]

Also nice albums.

I want to add these too:

GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Ghostface Killah - IRONMAN

Next to Enter the Wu-Tang the best three hip-hop albums ever, my favourite is Liquid Swords, that album is just INSANE !! I'm afraid Hip Hop will never get this good again !

Yeah, Hip-Hop won't reach the same level it did in the early to mid-'90's. Not with all that "ringtone" rap that's coming out lately. Fortunately there are people keeping it alive, like MF Doom, Madlib, Little Brother, Nas, Murs and so on.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Method Man - Tical / Ol' Dirty ******* - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version / GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords / Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... / Ghostface Killah - IRONMAN (5-way tie)

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Nas - Illmatic / Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die (tie, can't pick one)

Nice pick, Vince

Great list Anders! I consider those among my favorite Hip-Hop albums of all time!!

I'll add a few more:
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
De La Soul -Stakes Is High
Madvillain - MadVillainy
MF Doom - MM..Food
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever

No way I could pick just five!!

 

[The ill Jedi]

Also nice albums.

I want to add these too:

GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Ghostface Killah - IRONMAN

Next to Enter the Wu-Tang the best three hip-hop albums ever, my favourite is Liquid Swords, that album is just INSANE !! I'm afraid Hip Hop will never get this good again !

Another fellow Hip-Hop Lover!!!

Liquid Swords is just pure Genius (no pun intended).
Cuban Linx was waaaaay ahead of it's time a true classic.
IRONMAN was Ghostface's best effort of his career, he'll never be able to top it.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Yeah, Hip-Hop won't reach the same level it did in the early to mid-'90's...Fortunately there are people keeping it alive, like MF Doom, Madlib, Little Brother, Nas, Murs and so on.

Those is bold are some of my favorite MC's/Groups today.

 

[occulum]

No love for Dre's The Chronic?

I had many a good times listening to that one back in the day....

 

[Vince]

No love for Dre's The Chronic?

I had many a good times listening to that one back in the day....

Can't compare with the Wu.
Dre is way too soft in my opinion.

Nothing beats the Wu-Tang Clan !

 

[occulum]

well I know he's not gonna seal anybodys ass up and keep feedin'em and feedin'em, but its still good ****...

 

[The ill Jedi]

well I know he's not gonna "seal anybodys ass up and keep feedin'em and feedin'em", but its still good ****...

That's 'sew' not 'seal'.

Yes, 'The Chronic' was a great album, but I can't compare it to the other stuff I listed. It's more of a party album than anything.

 

[IronFingaz]

Great list Anders! I consider those among my favorite Hip-Hop albums of all time!!

I'll add a few more:
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
De La Soul -Stakes Is High
Madvillain - MadVillainy
MF Doom - MM..Food
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever

No way I could pick just five!!

Bought that one last week along with Fear Of A Black Planet and Apocalypse '91

Let's add some more to the list

A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths And Rhymes / The Low End Theory
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising / De La Soul Is Dead
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
The Game - The Documentary
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Killah Priest - Heavy Mental
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Outkast – Aquemini
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Mecca And The Soul Brother
Run-DMC – Run-DMC
Slick Rick – The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Ultramagnetic Mc’s – Critical Beatdown

 

[IronFingaz]

Another fellow Hip-Hop Lover!!!

Liquid Swords is just pure Genius (no pun intended).
Cuban Linx was waaaaay ahead of it's time a true classic.
IRONMAN was Ghostface's best effort of his career, he'll never be able to top it.

1. Couldnt have said it better.
2. He changed the game with that album.
3. He came damn close with Supreme Clientele, though.