If you had ten albums to choose as representative of the style of music you like, what would they be? What songs stand out in that particular album? This is meant as a general question, so you can list bands from any decade, but the catch is they all have to be in the same musical style - don't just start listing all kinds of bands and albums. For example, if you're a fan of Metal music, what would you consider the essential ten albums to own? If you like Punk, which ten albums are the ones which you find yourself listening to over and over or that you consider important? So, think of the style/genre of music you like most and tell us what you think are the best, the most important, or the essential (recommendations). Hell! Even if it's not good, but has sentimental value attached to it - go ahead and name it! :)

Ten is a lot..how about the top 3?

Ten or less :confused: You can list three. Actually, everyone can list whichever ones they like - as long as they're in the same category of music :)

Originally posted by TopCat
Ten is a lot..how about the top 3?

**Retroman gives TopCat the biggest hug ever**
that's something I would say!! :) :)


I have to think about this one XXX dude :thumb:

The list I choose today is probably allot different than what I would have picked 20 years ago, I listen to mainly hard/classical rock from the 70's and 80's

1) Pyromania- Def Leppard
2) Billion Dollar Babies- Alice Cooper
3) Glass Houses - Billy Joel
4) Bat out of Hell- Meat Loaf
5) Back in Black- AC/DC
6) Van Halen II- Van Halen
7) Alive- Kiss
8) 2112- Rush
9) Live at Boudekan- Cheap Trick
10) The River - Bruce Springsteen
11) Fly like and Eagle- Steve Miller
12) Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
13) The Wall- Pink Floyd
14) 9 tonite-Bob Seger
15) Machine Head- Deep Purple

It's impossible for me to answer this question, because I like SO many different genre's. But, I guess I'll list my Top Ten "hard/alternative rock" (if you can call it that) albums:

1 - "Aenima" - TOOL

2 - "Lateralus" - TOOL

3 - "Mer de Noms" - A Perfect Circle

4 - "Dirt" - Alice In Chains

5 - "Dragline" - Paw

6 - "Above" - Mad Season

7 - "Louder Than Love" - Soundgarden

8 - "Wonder What's Next" - Chevelle

9 - "Deliverance" - Corrosion Of Conformity

10 - "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Impossible. I like just about every type of music. It would be unfair of me to leave it up to one genre. Although this is an interesting thread. :)

I like a lot of types of music too but New Wave & Rock are my favorites!!

Oh XXX, this is a toughy, because I love so many genres of music, but I'll see what I can do. I listen to a lot of New Wave artists. Here's my top 10 (in no paticular order though)

1. It's My Life - Talk Talk
2. Skylarking - XTC
3. London Calling - The Clash
4. Cosmic Thing - The B52's
5. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
6. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
7. The Collection - Ultravox
8. Mummer - XTC
9. True - Spandau Ballet
10. Lexicon of Love - ABC

Like daffy said - although my favourite genre is (and will be :D) Synthpop, I'm not minding any "borders" as long as I like the music...

The 10 outstanding albums of "my" genre and taste...:

1. DEPECHE MODE - Music For The Masses
2. NEW ORDER - Substance
3. FRONT 242 - Official Version
4. ALPHAVILLE - Forever Young
5. WOLFSHEIM - No Happy View
6. ELEGANT MACHINERY - Shattered Grounds
7. ULTRAVOX - Vienna
8. NEW SCIENTISTS - Pictures Of Reality
9. DE/VISION - World Without End
10. S.P.O.C.K - Five Year Mission

And now for the rest of the 999.990 albums... :lol:

Okay! My top favorite Metal albums are as follows!

1. Slayer - God Hates Us All
2. Slayer - Hell Awaits
3. Megadeth - Peace Sells
4. Anthrax - Among The Living
5. Ratt - Out of the Cellar
6. Def Leppard - Vault (Greatest Hits)
7. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
8. Slayer - South of Heaven
9. Lillian Axe - Psychoschizophrenia
10.Skid Row - Skid Row

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Here are my Classic Rock choices:

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. Tommy - The Who
3. News of the World - Queen
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. Precious Time - Pat Benatar
6. Four - Foreigner
7. Abbey Road - The Beatles
8. Aja - Steely Dan
9. Hotel California - The Eagles
10. Band on the Run - Wings

Damn! I go from 80's one minute to Limp Bizket another.

80's..................
1. Go Go's......... We got the beat.
2. Surf Punks.....My Wave.............
3. Sammy Hagar..Fast Times at Ridgemont High!!

Awright! I guess I asked this question to see the variety of musical tastes of the peeps who post here, plus it doesn't hurt to get a recommendation or two - or see who has similar likes :)

I didn't even have to think about this question. Although I love all sorts of music, I am a Synthpop/Futurist (incl. New Wave and New Romantic) fanatic to the core. I think there's more albums and compilations in that style in my collection than anything else. So, with that in mind - before I turn in for the night - I'll list the albums which I think could be a perfect introduction as well as albums which any Synthpop fan should no be without...

1. Quiet Life by Japan (1979)
2. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1980)
3. Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan (1980)
4. Vienna by Ultravox (1980)
5. Duran Duran by Duran Duran (1981)
6. Upstairs At Eric's by Yazoo (1982)
7. The Anvil by Visage (1982)
8. The Hurting by Tears For Fears (1983)
9. Black Celebration by Depeche Mode (1986)
10. Substance by NewOrder (1987)

Granted, the last one is more of a compilation instead of a full-fledged album. I'd consider that one an essential, must-have for anyone who hasn't been introduced to NewOrder's music or who has heard only one or two songs by them on the radio. I didn't list them by order of importance, but merely by order of appearance. All are equally good :)

Originally posted by surfnut
Damn! I go from 80's one minute to Limp Bizket another.

80's..................
1. Go Go's......... We got the beat.
2. Surf Punks.....My Wave.............
3. Sammy Hagar..Fast Times at Ridgemont High!!

Sweeeet.... I'd forgotten about the Surf Punks, "Punch Out At Malibu" was a great song too.

RIO -Duran Duran
Immaculate Collection -Madonna
Substance -New Order
Dream Into Action -Howard Jones

Okay... first I'll answer the question as it was asked, meaning the top 10 of my favorite genre of music.... Power / Jangle Pop

1. Adam Schmitt - World So Bright
2. Adam Schmitt - Illiterature
3. Tommy Keene - Strange Alliance
4. Tommy Keene - Run Now
5. Kix - Cool Kids
6. The Posies - Failure
7. The Posies - Dear 23
8. The Knack - Get The Knack
9. Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow
10. Candy - Whatever Happened To Fun

now I'll answer the question as though there were no specific genre being questioned, meaning that I consider these to be essential albums for any "well rounded" music fan... or my top 10 albums of all time (off the top of my head, anyway)...

1. The Knack - Get The Knack
2. Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
3. Aerosmith - Night In The Ruts
4. Cheap Trick - All Shook Up
5. Fear - Fear
6. Misfits - Earth A.D.
7. The Ramones - Road To Ruin
8. G.B.H. - City Baby Attacked By Rats
9. Geza X - You Goddamn Kids
10. Hanoi Rocks - Back To Mystery City

and unfortunately I can't narrow it down to 10... so I'm going with top 25 essential albums...

11. C.O.C. - Deliverance
12. Michael Manring - Thonk
13. Kix - Cool Kids
14. Detente - Recognize No Authority
15. Freur - Doot Doot
16. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
17. Redd Kross - Third Eye
18. Chris Stamey & Peter Holsapple - Mavericks
19. Jules Shear - The Great Puzzle
20. Skold - Skold
21. Bob James Trio - Straight Up
22. Delerium - Karma
23. Peter Murphy - Cascade
24. Love Siprals Downwards - Ever
25. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

Grant it, these are in no particular order, and I'm sure I've missed quite a few... but it's 3:00 am, and I'm winging it.


Back in for a quick edit... I thought of a few more.
26. The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
27. Dead Or Alive - Sophisticated Boom Boom

Okay... I'll stop now....sorry.

WOW! Some cool bands on these lists, stuff I would not expect. Such as Paw, Surf Punks, and Japan (really like this band). Very cool.

I guess this is a good thread to post this to. Back when VH1 did their show on the top 100 albums of all time it spured me to make my own list. I've been doing it slowly, really thinking about it, not just throwing albums on it that I like today and forget about tomorrow. Anyway, it's only up to 30 some albums so far. Here's the list so far, in alphabetical order (just doing the list is hard enough, ranking them from 1 to 100 would give me a stroke.)


April Wine -- The Nature Of The Beast
Bad Brains -- I Against I
Big F -- The Big F
Blade Runner -- movie soundtrack
Bottle Rockets -- The Brooklyn Side
Brickell, Edie & The New Bohemians -- Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars
Buzzcocks -- Singles Going Steady
Concrete Blonde -- Bloodletting
Concrete Blonde -- Free
Donnas, The -- American Teenage Rock N' Roll Machine
Earle, Steve -- Train A Comin'
Geza X -- You Goddam Kids !
Hell, Richard -- Blank Generation
I Love You -- I Love You
Iron Maiden -- Powerslave
Kiddie Porn -- Gift Of Hate
Marley, Bob -- Legends
Metallica -- Master Of Puppets
Misfits -- Walk Among Us
Mudhoney -- Mudhoney
Nirvana -- Bleach
Ramones -- fist 4 albums
Sade -- Greatest Hits
Soul Asylum -- Hang Time
Straw Dogs -- We Are Not Amused
Warrior Soul -- Last Decade Dead Century
Welch, Gillian -- Revival
Whiskeytown -- Stranger's Almanac
Wilco -- AM
Zappa, Frank -- Joe's Garage


If I ever get this thing done I'll post the other 70 albums then. :)

I have to agree with what Daffy said...it just depends on my mood also in choosing what type of music I listen to. Some days..I will listen to bands like AC/DC, VAN HALEN, WHITESNAKE, etc..

Some days...NIGHT RANGER, JOURNEY, PAT BENATAR, CHICAGO, REO, etc..

Some days..country music or classical music.

Instrumental versions of popular songs are nice too...

Out of my small collection I would say..

Tool- Undertow
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
Alice In Chain- Facelift or Unplugged

Originally posted by Tinajo
Okay! My top favorite Metal albums are as follows!

1. Slayer - God Hates Us All
2. Slayer - Hell Awaits
3. Megadeth - Peace Sells
4. Anthrax - Among The Living
5. Ratt - Out of the Cellar
6. Def Leppard - Vault (Greatest Hits)
7. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
8. Slayer - South of Heaven
9. Lillian Axe - Psychoschizophrenia
10.Skid Row - Skid Row

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Awesome list Tina!!!!

Lets see.

1. Slayer Reign in Blood

2. Slayer South of Heaven

3. Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath

4. Metallica Master of puppets

5. Slayer. Seasons of the Abyss

6. Anthrax. Among the living

7. Metallica. Kill em' all

8. Extreme. Extreme

9. Slayer. God Hates us all

10. Megadeth. Peace Sells

11. Slayer. Hell Awaits

12. Slayer. Decade of Aggression.

I have a ton more, but i'll keep the list short. :)

ok! I'll go with psychadelic rock/prog rock of the 60's and early 70's:

The Doors - The Doors
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealstic Pillow
Love - Love
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxa
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

:)

Ooops... You wanted a list by style, sorry about my previous post. Let's try it again.....

....for metal...


Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy (the best example of 80's hair metal in my book)

Metallica - Master Of Puppets (love 'em or hate 'em now it's still a good album)

Dokken - Under Lock And Key (Lynch is a guitar god!)

Circus Of Power - Circus Of Power (great bluesy HR/HM)

Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire (one of the BEST live bands I ever saw!)

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction (a great underground classic)

Testament - Practice What You Preach (the masters from the second wave of Bay Area thrashers)

Griffin - Flight Of The Griffin (another underground classic)

Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton (more hard rock than metal)

Madam X - We Reserve The Right (a fun album with some great big hooks)

...And for punk...

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (the one that started it all)

Modern Lover - The Modern Lovers (includes one of my favorite songs ever .. "Pablo Picasso" )

Gez X - You Goddam Kids! (one of the strangest albums I've EVER heard)

Johnny Thunders - So Alone (so good it hurts)

Ramones - any of the first 4 albums

Misfits - Walk AMong Us

Bad Brains - I Against I

Spermbirds - Something To Prove

Richard Hell - Blank Generation (took me awhile to get into this but now I love it)

Zero Boys - Vicious Circle (full on hardcore)

I simply prefer the speed / trash of all music out there. I do like some Heavy Metal of a softer variety. Since this has turned into a top ten. I won't hesitate.

1. Fastway (self titled 1983)
2. Dokken - Back for the Attack
3. Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
4. Dangerous Toys (self titled 1988)
5. Leatherwolf (self titled1987)
6. Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise
7. Testament - Practice What You Preach
8. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
9. Slayer- South of Heaven
10. Slayer - Reign in Blood

Alot of my favs are more of the softer metal for I would not like what I listen to today without. But, I did narrow it down to just 10. Just 10!

Damn! Jeff.. me, you and Slayergirl have pretty similar lists!

That's awesome!!! :banger: !!!!

New Wave:

New Order - Technique
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Howard Jones - Dream Into Action
A-ha - Hunting High And Low
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Alphaville - Forever Young
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Erasure - Wild
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love

Some day I could feel for more sad songs, sad music like Journey, Starship (some), Foreigner, Sting, Aha, The Bangles, Cheap Trick, Breathe, Bonnie Tyler, U2...

and another day I want some happy songs so Wake me up before you gogo, New Order, Loverboy, Guns'n'Roses, David Bowie, INXS, Eddie Van Halen, Wang Chung or anything else!! :D

or some others a big mix of this, i have like 6 or 7 minidisks of the 80s with about 65-70 music on each one so I have a large choice!! :cool:

Originally posted by TopCat
Out of my small collection I would say..

Tool- Undertow
Alice In Chain- Facelift or Unplugged

:thumb: Awesome!

I'm mostly into 80's metal, hard rock, classic rock, etc.

I listen to everything from bands like:

Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Scorpions
Dio
Black Sabbath
Guns N' Roses
Dokken
AC/DC
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Robin Trower
Joe Satriani
Motley Crue
Aerosmith
Rush
Led Zeppelin
April Wine
Van Halen
Livesay

The list can go on and on... ;)

I like
Hip Hop
Rap
and Alternative music.

Ok... this was crazy tough to narrow down, so I'm making this mainly 80s only because I'd never be able to break this down to 10 if I included all the early 90s as well... this was hard enough! :lol: Of all the genres I like (which is pretty much everything except country :p), Freestyle Dance is my fave. List in no particular order:

'Sa-Fire' - SaFire
'Show Me' - The Cover Girls
'Exposure' - Expose
'Scars of Love' - TKA
'Bad of the Heart' - George Lamond
'Cynthia' - Cynthia
'Party Your Body' - Stevie B
'Love Story' - Judy Torres
'Like a Stranger' - Johnny O
'Coro' - Coro

What ever happened to "Stevie B"

Stevie B. kept recording well into the 90s, but I think his heyday was mainly in the late 80s and early 90s. I was more of a Johnny O and Expose type of guy, though :)