What are your favorite albums?

Just a few

Meshuggah - destroy, erase, improve
Fates Warning - no exit
Arcadia - so red the rose
Skinny Puppy - cleanse fold manipulate
Guttural Secrete - nourishing the spoil
Orgy - candyass
Zeppelin - song remains the same
 
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Deftones - Around the Fur
Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
Lionheart - Undisputed

Just a couple I listen to over and over again.
 
That would be tough
Let say :
Abbey road - Beatles
Court of the Crimson King - king Crimson
SMPTE - Transatlantic
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Made Again - Marillion
Images and words - Dream Theater
Metropolis part 2 - Dream theater
the great adventure - the Neal Morse Band
Anesthize : Porcupine Tree
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd
OK computer - Radiohead
Universal - Anathema
Reload - Metallica
Best of Iron Maiden
And a Best of Deep purple, Hendrix and Led Zep, ...
 
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Some of my favorites:

Tool - Aenima
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graphitti
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Primus - Brown Album
Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Tom Petty - Wild Flowers
 
I'm surprised the lists are so short-I guess everyone is being uber selective???? And, though some very diverse, not as much diversity as I'd expect "naturally/statistically" from drummers (which gigging drummers often play all genres ). I hate/dislike country music but Shaniah Twain has an album that made it to my collection (gosh almost embarrassed to admit that) and I don't have a single rap contribution (though I listen to that on radio more than country). That said I've enjoyed reading the lists-some I've forgotten about so re-discovering music so worth the read. (also some I've never heard of-so awesome!).
 
Slum Village- Fantastic, Vol. 2
Modern Jazz Quartet- The Last Concert
Chick Corea & Return To Forever- Light As A Feather
Santana- Abraxas
Led Zeppelin II
The Who- Who's Next
Fela Kuti- Expensive Shit
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
Kacey Musgraves- Same Trailer, Different Park
The Black Keys- El Camino
Michael Jackson- Off The Wall
The Poets of Rhythm- Practice What You Preach
Cortex- Tropeau Bleu
The Bar-Kays- Soul Finger
Lettuce- Live At Blue Note Tokyo
Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media- Funky Stuff
Flower Travellin' Band- Kirikyogen
Anderson.Paak- Malibu
Vulfpeck- Vollmilch
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
Rolling Stones- Exile on Main St.
The Police- Zenyatta Mondatta
Incubus- Morning View
311- Transistor
Buddy Rich- Rich in London: Live At Ronnie Scott's
Steely Dan- Gaucho
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
Weezer- Self-titled [the "Blue Album"]
The Roots- The Roots Come Alive
The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Comatorium
Tom Petty- Wildflowers
James Brown- In the Jungle Groove
Squarepusher- Music is Rotted One Note
Neil Young- Harvest
Cannonball Adderly- Mercy Mercy Mercy!
Miles Davis- Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
 
Slum Village- Fantastic, Vol. 2
Modern Jazz Quartet- The Last Concert
Chick Corea & Return To Forever- Light As A Feather
Santana- Abraxas
Led Zeppelin II
The Who- Who's Next
Fela Kuti- Expensive Shit
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
Kacey Musgraves- Same Trailer, Different Park
The Black Keys- El Camino
Michael Jackson- Off The Wall
The Poets of Rhythm- Practice What You Preach
Cortex- Tropeau Bleu
The Bar-Kays- Soul Finger
Lettuce- Live At Blue Note Tokyo
Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media- Funky Stuff
Flower Travellin' Band- Kirikyogen
Anderson.Paak- Malibu
Vulfpeck- Vollmilch
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
Rolling Stones- Exile on Main St.
The Police- Zenyatta Mondatta
Incubus- Morning View
311- Transistor
Buddy Rich- Rich in London: Live At Ronnie Scott's
Steely Dan- Gaucho
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
Weezer- Self-titled [the "Blue Album"]
The Roots- The Roots Come Alive
The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Comatorium
Tom Petty- Wildflowers
James Brown- In the Jungle Groove
Squarepusher- Music is Rotted One Note
Neil Young- Harvest
Cannonball Adderly- Mercy Mercy Mercy!
Miles Davis- Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
Here we go. I feel like Pharaoh speak and it appears. Let it be written let it be done-guess I'll have to shave my head for the full effect.
 
Okay! Here goes!

CCR - CCR, Bayou Country, Green River, Willie and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory

Moody Blues - On the Threshold of Dream, A Question of Balance, Seventh Sojourn, To Our Children's Children's Children, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, In Search of the Lost Chord

Justin Hayward and John Lodge - Blue Jays

Apollo 100 - Master Pieces

Beatles - Rubber Soul, Meet the Beatles, Help, Hard Days Night, Introducing the Beatles

Kansas - Leftoverture, Monolith, Audio Visions, Point of Know Return

Kerry Livgren - Seeds of Change, Art of the State (with AD)

Little River Band - Sleeper Catcher, First Under the Wire, Time Exposure, The Net, No Reins

Paul Clark - Hand to the Plow, Change in The Wind, Aim for the Heart

Larry Gatlin - Love is Just a Game (original 1977 album)

Petra - Not of This World, More Power to Ya

Phil Keaggy - The Wind and the Wheat, Phil'p Side, Town to Town, Emerging

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat, Time Passages

Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky, Turn of a Friendly Card, Eve

Gerry Rafferty - City to City

Darrel Mansfield - Revelation, The Vision

Daniel Amos - Horrendous Disc, Shotgun Angel, Darn Floor Big Bite

Billy Smiley - New Night

Bee Gees - Trafalgar, Main Course

Eagles - Hotel California, Long Run

Aerosmith - Aerosmith

Atlanta Rhythm Section - A Rock and Roll Alternative

Dire Straits - Dire Straits, Communique, Love Over Gold, Live at the BBC

Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Friends (Movie Soundtrack 1971)

Neil Diamond - Tap Root Manuscript, Moods

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming

Bob Welch - French Kiss

The Who - Who's Next, Quadraphenia

Carpenters - A Song for You, Greatest hits

Degarmo and key - The Pledge, D & K, No Turning Back Live, To Extremes

Chuck Girard - The Stand

Tourniquet - Stop the Bleeding

Dallas Holm - All That Matters, I Saw the Lord, Just Right, Tell'Em Again

David Zaffiro - Yesterday's Left Behind

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather, Texas Flood

Extreme - III Sides to Every Story

Fireworks - Shatter the Darkness

Wall Brothers - At the Door, Start All Over Again

The Guess Who - Share the Land, Greatest Hits

Doobie Brothers - Taking it to the Streets, Minute by Minute

Survivor - Caught in the Game, Eye of the Tiger

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Songs in the Key of Life, Talking Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale

Steely Dan - Aja

Jeff Johnson - No Shadow of Turning

Richie Furay - Seasons of Change

Mychael Danna - Nativity Story

Ray Stevens - Everything is Beautiful, Gitarzan

Pat Terry - Humanity Gangsters, The Silence, Film at Eleven

Resurrection Band - Colours, Mommy Don't Love Daddy Anymore

2nd Chapter of Acts - Mansion Builder

Mark Heard - Dry Bones Dance, Mosaics, Ashes to Light

Living Sacrifice Band - A Call to Brokeness

Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl

Journey - Raised on Radio, Escape, Frontiers

Miklos Rozsa - Ben Hur Soundtrack

Hagood Hardy - Anne of Green Gables

Gordon Lightfoot - Dream Street Rose, Sundown, Summertime Dream, Shadows, Cold on the Shoulder, Salute

Keith Green - So You Want to go Back to Egypt, No Compromise, To Him who Has Ears to Hear, Prodigal Son

Tom Howard Ensemble - The Passage

Three Dog Night - Best of

Michael Omartian - Adam Again

I probably forgot some....
 
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I forgot Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
 
Genesis - Lamb lies down on Broadway
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Emerson Lake & Palmer- Tarkus
The Strawbs- Grave new World
Moody Blues- On the Threshold of a Dream
The Nice- Elegy
Van der Graaf Generator- Pawn hearts
 
Love Supreme, John Coltrane
Vs, Pearl Jam
Hard Days Night, The Beatles
Hank Mobley, Soul Station
Roots, Sepultura
Quark Strangness and Charm, Hawkwind
 
Genesis - Lamb lies down on Broadway
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Emerson Lake & Palmer- Tarkus
The Strawbs- Grave new World
Moody Blues- On the Threshold of a Dream
The Nice- Elegy
Van der Graaf Generator- Pawn hearts

Jethro Tull.....been real into them lately! If I could go back in time, I think a mid to late 70's Jethro Tull gig would be freaking unbelievable. Were they just a little too over the average folks head musically? Did they achieve all the fame that they could? Were they under appreciated? I watch some of the live stuff and I am blown away, like damn how did I miss this growing up? But then again, I think it went well over my head at the time. Tull, my latest music obsession.
 
Led Zep II or IV
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Gorrilaz - Gorrilaz
Sonic Youth - Goo
Liz Phair - Whipsmart
Atari Teenage Riot - Burn Berlin Burn
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Beastie Boys -- Ill Communication
Wedding Present - Bizarro
This is great because......The wedding present....are the worst band I have ever seen live and by some margin. So bad I can even recall it was in Kilburn, London. Don’t get me wrong, each to there own, but youthey were truly terrible, so much so that I have an allergic reaction more than 20 yrs after the gig. Also some bands can make good albums/ recordings even if they can’t actually play live well.
 
The Strawbs- Grave new World

Great album! I was thinking of putting it on my list, too, but ended up leaving it off. Killer title track.

Jethro Tull.....been real into them lately! If I could go back in time, I think a mid to late 70's Jethro Tull gig would be freaking unbelievable. Were they just a little too over the average folks head musically? Did they achieve all the fame that they could? Were they under appreciated? I watch some of the live stuff and I am blown away, like damn how did I miss this growing up? But then again, I think it went well over my head at the time. Tull, my latest music obsession.

From my understanding, they did pretty well for themselves. Maybe they weren't up there with ELP and Yes, but I think they were on the same level as Genesis and King Crimson. Pretty sure they were above Gentle Giant and The Strawbs in terms of recognition.
 
Too many to list all of them here, but if I had to pick ten desert island records:

King's X - Dogman
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and other stories)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Rush - Moving Pictures

It's hard to pick just ten records, but I'd be pretty happy with all of those.
 
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