I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.
It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.
I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.
Aether realm- Tarot
Alphabetically by bands:
The Agonist:
- Prisoners
- Orphans
Alestorm:
- Seventh Rum of the Seventh Rum
- Sunset On The Golden Age
- No Grave But The Sea
Arch Enemy:
- Deceivers
- War Eternal
- Rise of the Tyrant
As I Lay Dying:
- Shaped By Fire
Avatar:
- Dance Devil Dance
- Hunter Gatherer
- Hail the Apocalypse
Godsmack:
- The Oracle
- Faceless
Parasite Inc:
- Dead And Alive
- Cyan Night Dreams
System Of A Down:
- Steal This Album!
- Mezmerize
Did a quick scroll and didn’t see:
Smash - The Offspring
I’m not going to claim that it was ground breaking music or anything, but it just dropped at a time when it was able to hit maximum nostalgia for me.
Not in order: -Heavy metal soundtrack-various -it’s a kind of Magic-Queen -Time-ELO -Ten Summoner’s Tales -Sting -Greatest Hits-Howard Jones -Asia-Asia -Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morrisette -No Angel-Dido
I’m sure I’m forgetting some, but these are all definitely coming with me to the island.
Hmmmm that’s tough.
And I don’t think I can properly rank them because I’m weird about ranking things. But:
Master of Puppets
Somewhere in Time
…And Justice for All
Appetite for Destruction
Fate of Norns
That would do for top 5, yeah.
After that,
Dimmu Borgir, In Sorte Diaboli
Kataklysm, Goliath
Dio, Holy Diver
Pantera, Vulgar Display
Metallica, 72 seasons
Yeah, I think that’s a solid list based on a combination of just liking the albums and the fact that I prefer to listen to them in their entirety rather than limiting myself to a few songs off of them.
Which, I could probably do 20 by that standard, and more than that if I included metal adjacent albums/bands like ac/dc. You know, the ones that ride right on that edge between metal and hard rock.
And, truth is, when it comes to Metallica and Amon Amarth, all of their albums are like that at least sometimes. Like, the load/reload albums aren’t where I always want to hear the whole album, but I often do. Same with Maiden there.
I’m not saying I don’t have favorite songs off of those albums, I do. It’s just that I always want to hear the rest after I hear those lol. Justice and Master in specific, it’s hard to not want to enjoy them the way i first heard them, with the songs flowing into one another as the album plays.
