Top 10, 25, 50 rock albums you never tire of listening to

[student ad x]

Here's my current top 50 (I think )

1. Dream Theater: Metropolis: Scenes from a Memory
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer: Tarkus
3. The Beatles: Abbey Road
4. Rush: Moving Pictures
5. Cream: Disraeli Gears
6. Pantera: Cowboys from Hell
7. Joe Satriani: Flying in a Blue Dream
8. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
9. Yes: Fragile
10. Jethro Tull: Aqualung
11: Tool: Undertow
12: Humble Pie: Eat It
13: ZZ Top: Tres Hombres
14: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash
15: Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
16: Led Zeppelin: IV
17: Queen: A Night at the Opera
18: Boston: Boston
19: Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
20: Elton John: Honky Chateau
21: Triumph: Allied Forces
22: Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
23: Rush: 2112
24: Dream Theater: Images and Words
25: Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
26: Janis Joplin: Pearl
27: Queen: Innuendo
28: The Beatles: White Album
29: Dream Theater: Octavarium
30: Santana: Abraxas
31: The Cars: Cars
32: Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover
33: Steve Vai: Passion and Warfare
34: Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield
35: Megadeth: Countdown to Extinction
36: Blind Faith: Blind Faith
37: Foreigner IV
38: Electic Light Orchestra: A New World Record
39: Van Halen: I
40: The Police: Zenyattà Mondatta;
41: Genesis: Abacab
42: Scorpions: Love at First Sting
43: Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force
44: Metallica: Master of Puppets
45: ZZ Top: Afterburner
46: Alice in Chains: Dirt
47: Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
48: The Police: Synchronicity
49: Heart: Dreamboat Annie
50: Chicago XVII

 

[KingCrimson250]

To be honest, I'm a little surprised. You've got Scenes From a Memory, Fragile, Tarkus, 2112 and Images and Words up there but your favourite Genesis album is Abacab?

Cool idea for a thread though. I ought to post mine sometime soon

 

[Thunder Peel]

Good idea for a thread.

1. U2-The Joshua Tree
2. Beck-Sea Change
3. The Flaming Lips-The Soft Bulletin
4. Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. The Police-Synchronicity
6. Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticism
7. Radiohead-The Bends
8. Counting Crows-Recovering the Satellites
9. Nada Surf-The Weight is a Gift
10. Elvis Costello-Imperial Bedroom
11. R.E.M.-Reckoning
12. Oasis-(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
13. Coldplay-Viva La Vida
14. Barenaked Ladies-Maroon
15. They Might Be Giants-Apollo 18
16. Interpol-Turn on the Bright Lights
17. Keane-Under the Iron Sea
18. The Killers-Day & Age
19. Starflyer 59-Leave Here a Stranger
20. Plankeye-Strange Exchange
21. My Morning Jacket-Z
22. The Juliana Theory-Emotion is Dead
23. The Smiths-The Queen is Dead
24. Bjork-Vespertine
25. The White Stripes-Get Behind Me Satan
26. Matthew Sweet-Girlfriend
27. Switchfoot-New Way to be Human
28. Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
29. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
30. Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
31. The Clash-London Calling
32. Foo Fighters-There is Nothing Left to Lose
33. Talking Heads-Remain in Light
34. Cold War Kids-Loyalty to Loyalty
35. Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
36. The Editors-An End Has a Start
37. Fleet Foxes-Self-Titled
38. Modest Mouse-Good News for People Who Love Bad News
39. Weezer-Pinkerton
40. Snow Patrol-Final Straw

 

[BUCKFANDAN]

Thrice - Vhessu
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Sixx AM - The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack
Blinded Colony - Bedtime Prayers
Demons & Wizards albums
Outworld
Porcupine Tree - Deadwig
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Yearning - Merging Into Landscapes

Bu to OP, I will try some of those albums

 

[cygnusx1]

Here's my current top 50 (I think )

1. Dream Theater: Metropolis: Scenes from a Memory
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer: Tarkus
3. The Beatles: Abbey Road
4. Rush: Moving Pictures
5. Cream: Disraeli Gears
6. Pantera: Cowboys from Hell
7. Joe Satriani: Flying in a Blue Dream
8. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
9. Yes: Fragile
10. Jethro Tull: Aqualung
11: Tool: Undertow
12: Humble Pie: Eat It
13: ZZ Top: Tres Hombres
14: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash
15: Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
16: Led Zeppelin: IV
17: Queen: A Night at the Opera
18: Boston: Boston
19: Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
20: Elton John: Honky Chateau
21: Triumph: Allied Forces
22: Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
23: Rush: 2112
24: Dream Theater: Images and Words
25: Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
26: Janis Joplin: Pearl
27: Queen: Innuendo
28: The Beatles: White Album
29: Dream Theater: Octavarium
30: Santana: Abraxas
31: The Cars: Cars
32: Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover
33: Steve Vai: Passion and Warfare
34: Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield
35: Megadeth: Countdown to Extinction
36: Blind Faith: Blind Faith
37: Foreigner IV
38: Electic Light Orchestra: A New World Record
39: Van Halen: I
40: The Police: Zenyattà Mondatta;
41: Genesis: Abacab
42: Scorpions: Love at First Sting
43: Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force
44: Metallica: Master of Puppets
45: ZZ Top: Afterburner
46: Alice in Chains: Dirt
47: Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
48: The Police: Synchronicity
49: Heart: Dreamboat Annie
50: Chicago XVII

Great selection bro !!! I was ticking them off ; check one yes !!! check two ....

 

[student ad x]

your favourite Genesis album is Abacab?

Those darn 80's left an imprint hard to shake

Cool idea for a thread though. I ought to post mine sometime soon

Looking forward to it. I suspect King Crimson will be on the list.

 

[student ad x]

Thanks Thunder Peel & BuckfanDan There's a few on each of your lists I'll have to check out. The benefit of the thread I reckon: I can discover music & listen to what others don't get tired of.

 

[student ad x]

Great selection bro !!! I was ticking them off ; check one yes !!! check two ....

If the list can be generally summed up: diverse

 

[3trees]

Current Favorites, depending on my mood:

Dream Theater:
Awake
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Images & Words
Train of Thought
Scenes From a Memory
A Change of Seasons
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance

Led Zeppelin:
Led Zeppelin
2
3
Untitled (Zoso)
Physical Graffiti
Presence
In Thru The Out Door
Houses of the Holy

Vernon Reid:
Known Unknown
Mistaken Identity
Other True Self

Living Colour: Vivid

The Eric Gales Band

Ian Moore

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Trouble Is

John Paul Jones: The Thunder Thief

Zebra:3.V
Talkshow: Talkshow

Satriani:
Surfing With The Alien
Is There Love In Space?
Crystal Planet
G3 - Satriani, Johnson & Vai

Frank Zappa: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Hendrix:
Axis Bold As Love
Live At The Filmore East

POD:
Satellite
Payable On Death

Pink Floyd:
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here

Lenny Kravitz:
Heaven Help
Are You Gonna Go My Way
Let Love Rule
Mama Said
5
Lenny
Baptism
Circus

 

[student ad x]

Current Favorites, depending on my mood:

Dream Theater:
Awake
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Images & Words
Train of Thought
Scenes From a Memory
A Change of Seasons
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance

Led Zeppelin:
Led Zeppelin
2
3
Untitled (Zoso)
Physical Graffiti
Presence
In Thru The Out Door
Houses of the Holy

Vernon Reid:
Known Unknown
Mistaken Identity
Other True Self

Living Colour: Vivid

The Eric Gales Band

Ian Moore

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Trouble Is

John Paul Jones: The Thunder Thief

Zebra:3.V
Talkshow: Talkshow

Satriani:
Surfing With The Alien
Is There Love In Space?
Crystal Planet
G3 - Satriani, Johnson & Vai

Frank Zappa: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Hendrix:
Axis Bold As Love
Live At The Filmore East

POD:
Satellite
Payable On Death

Pink Floyd:
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here

Lenny Kravitz:
Heaven Help
Are You Gonna Go My Way
Let Love Rule
Mama Said
5
Lenny
Baptism
Circus

 

[cygnusx1]

My taste is pretty varied ;

1. A Night at the Opera - Queen
2. Going For The One -Yes
3. Hemispheres - Rush
4. Tones -Eric Johnson
5. Smash hits , Jimi Hendrix
6. Street Legal , Bob Dylan
7. Blood On the Tracks ' Bob Dylan
8. Metropolis - Scenes from a Memory , Dream Theater
9. Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull
10. Images and Words - Dream Theater
11. Moving Pictures - Rush
12. Permanent Waves - Rush
13. L ; Steve Hillage
14. Tubular Bells 1 , 2 and 3 remastered - Mike Oldfield
15. Billy Joel - greatest Hits
16. Simon and Garfunkle- box set
17. Subsurface - Threshold
18. Dead Reckoning - Threshold
19. Critical Mass - Threshold
20. Relayer - Yes.
21. Led zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
22. In through the out door - Led Zeppelin
23. Slow Train Coming - Dylan
24. Saved - Dylan
25. Shot Of Love- Dylan
26. Mommy don't love daddy anymore , Resurrection Band
27. Colours - Resurrection Band
28. Afraid of Sunlight - Marillion
29. We can't Dance - Genesis
30. Then there were three- Genesis
31. 2112 - Rush
32. Songs From The wood - Jethro Tull
33. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
34. Original masters - Steeleye Span
35. Back In Line - Steeleye Span
36. Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
37. Synchronicity - The Police
38. Power - Kansas
39. In The Spirit of Things - Kansas
40. Kansas box set - Kansas
41 . Motivation Radio - Steve Hillage
42. Caress of Steel - Rush
43. Tomatoe - Yes
44. America - greatest hits.
45. Small Creep's day - Mike Rutherford
46. A Day at The Races - Queen
47. Queen I - Queen
48. Queen II - Queen
49. Sheer heart attack - Queen
50. Live at the Budokan _Bob Dylan

to be cont ......

 

[student ad x]

My taste is pretty varied ;

1. A Night at the Opera - Queen
2. Going For The One -Yes
3. Hemispheres - Rush
4. Tones -Eric Johnson
5. Smash hits , Jimi Hendrix
6. Street Legal , Bob Dylan
7. Blood On the Tracks ' Bob Dylan
8. Metropolis - Scenes from a Memory , Dream Theater
9. Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull
10. Images and Words - Dream Theater
11. Moving Pictures - Rush
12. Permanent Waves - Rush
13. L ; Steve Hillage
14. Tubular Bells 1 , 2 and 3 remastered - Mike Oldfield
15. Billy Joel - greatest Hits
16. Simon and Garfunkle- box set
17. Subsurface - Threshold
18. Dead Reckoning - Threshold
19. Critical Mass - Threshold
20. Relayer - Yes.
21. Led zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
22. In through the out door - Led Zeppelin
23. Slow Train Coming - Dylan
24. Saved - Dylan
25. Shot Of Love- Dylan
26. Mommy don't love daddy anymore , Resurrection Band
27. Colours - Resurrection Band
28. Afraid of Sunlight - Marillion
29. We can't Dance - Genesis
30. Then there were three- Genesis
31. 2112 - Rush
32. Songs From The wood - Jethro Tull
33. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
34. Original masters - Steeleye Span
35. Back In Line - Steeleye Span
36. Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
37. Synchronicity - The Police
38. Power - Kansas
39. In The Spirit of Things - Kansas
40. Kansas box set - Kansas
41 . Motivation Radio - Steve Hillage
42. Caress of Steel - Rush
43. Tomatoe - Yes
44. America - greatest hits.
45. Small Creep's day - Mike Rutherford
46. A Day at The Races - Queen
47. Queen I - Queen
48. Queen II - Queen
49. Sheer heart attack - Queen
50. Live at the Budokan _Bob Dylan

to be cont ......

 

[KingCrimson250]

Those darn 80's left an imprint hard to shake

Looking forward to it. I suspect King Crimson will be on the list.

Ask and ye shall receive, albeit perhaps a bit later than necessary.

1. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2. Anglagard - Epilog
3. Yes - Relayer
4. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
5. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
6. Taal - Skymind
7. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
8. Neal Morse - Question Mark
9. Anekdoten - Nucleus
10. Anglagard - Hybris
11. Genesis - Nursery Crime
12. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
13. Genesis - Foxtrot
14. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
15. Yes - Close to the Edge
16. Camel - Moonmadness
17. Anekdoten - Vemod
18. Dream Theater - Images and Words
19. Dun - Eros
20. King Crimson - Red
21. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
22. Rush - 2112
23. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
24. Led Zeppelin - Presence
25. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life

Well, that's all for now. As you can see my tastes aren't all that diverse - every single album on there (barring the Zep) is a prog album, and most of them are from the 70s!

What can I say? I know what I like

 

[student ad x]

Ask and ye shall receive, albeit perhaps a bit later than necessary.

1. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2. Anglagard - Epilog
3. Yes - Relayer
4. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
5. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
6. Taal - Skymind
7. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
8. Neal Morse - Question Mark
9. Anekdoten - Nucleus
10. Anglagard - Hybris
11. Genesis - Nursery Crime
12. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
13. Genesis - Foxtrot
14. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
15. Yes - Close to the Edge
16. Camel - Moonmadness
17. Anekdoten - Vemod
18. Dream Theater - Images and Words
19. Dun - Eros
20. King Crimson - Red
21. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
22. Rush - 2112
23. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
24. Led Zeppelin - Presence
25. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life

Well, that's all for now. As you can see my tastes aren't all that diverse - every single album on there (barring the Zep) is a prog album, and most of them are from the 70s!

What can I say? I know what I like

It would indeed appear so. Nice list What's your favorite Neal Morse song?

 

[KingCrimson250]

Hahahaha now THERE's a tough question. I find Question Mark to be a bit like Dark Side of the Moon in that even though there's different tracks, it all seems to be one song. So that'd be my pick. Question Mark. But that seems like a bit of a cop-out (LOL) so I might go with The Door off Sola Scriptura

 

[cygnusx1]

Hahahaha now THERE's a tough question. I find Question Mark to be a bit like Dark Side of the Moon in that even though there's different tracks, it all seems to be one song. So that'd be my pick. Question Mark. But that seems like a bit of a cop-out (LOL) so I might go with The Door off Sola Scriptura

I saw Neal at Nottingham gig UK , fronting Spock's Beard , he played guitar drums etc , during one song Mike Portnoy played drums while Neal sang and played guitar , great gig!

His conversion was interesting , as was his connection to Kansas songwriter musician Kerry Livgren who also became a Christian many years ago

 

[cygnusx1]

Bizzarely

 

[stonetoflesh]

Here are 30:

1. Gong - You
2. Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
3. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
4. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
5. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
6. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
7. Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
8. Heldon - Stand By
9. Six Organs of Admittance - Dust & Chimes
10. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
11. Judas Priest - Stained Class
12. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
13. Rush - Caress of Steel
14. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
15. King Crimson - The Great Deceiver
16. Univers Zero - Heresie
17. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
18. Bo Hansson - Sagan Om Ringen
19. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
20. Critters Buggin - Bumpa
21. Rush - Hemispheres
22. Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
23. H.P. Lovecraft - Live May 11, 1968
24. Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
25. Mammatus - The Coast Explodes
26. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
27. Gong - Angel's Egg
28. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
29. Genesis - Foxtrot
30. Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult

 

[Fed]

Not really in any order:

1. dredg - El Cielo
2. The National - Boxer
3. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
4. Nada Surf - Let Go
5. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
6. John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
7. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
8. Love - Forever Changes
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
10. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
11. Elliott Smith - XO
12. Radiohead - OK Computer
13. Oceansize - Effloresce
14. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
15. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
16. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
17. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
18. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
19. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
20. The Strokes - Is This It
21. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
22. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
23. Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
24. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
25. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves (technically an EP but better than most albums)

 

[staveoffzombies]

Nice to see some prog fans in here (and an Arrested Development fan judging by Fed's avatar)!

My top ten:

1. Dream Theater - Images and Words
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
4. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
5. Metallica - Master of Puppets
6. Rush - Moving Pictures
7. Led Zeppelin - Untitled
8. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
9. Opeth - Still Life
10. Three - The End Is Begun