Five Albums

[Freak93]

If you could have five albums to listen to for the rest of time, what would they be? (No compilation albums )

Nirvana - Nevermind (Cobain at his best)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (My favorite concept album ever)
Weezer - Weezer [Blue Album] (You have to love geek rock)
Bayside - Bayside (It is basically a coin flip between this and 2004's Sirens and Condolences)
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (Barely won compared to 1999's There Is Nothing Left To Lose/This just has more balance)

[USN]

Lean Into It -Mr Big
Hey Man -Mr. Big
Bump Ahead -Mr. Big
Mr. Big -Mr. Big
Van Halen II -Van Halen

[JETS393]

I would be fine with just the Blue Album actually

[Freak93]

jets393 said:

I would be fine with just the Blue Album actually

Top to bottom it brings it.

[SlammySammy2121]

Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Fly on the Wall
Garth Brooks - Double Live

[D-Mac]

why is this here?

[detroitbasketball]

Ninja bump duh

[Keeper]

This is a good thread though, I will post mine when I'm not scrambling to write an essay.

[Freak93]

Mine has changed.

Bayside - The Walking Wounded
Elliot Smith - XO
Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Smoking Popes - Get Fired

[detroitbasketball]

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Beatles - Revolver
Queen - Queen II

I could have easily made a list of 20, but...

[PrimadonnaPictures]

"Sublime" - Sublime
"Stange House" The Horrors
"You're A Woman, I'm A Machine" - Death From Above 1979
"Elephant" - The White Stripes
"Power Destiny" - VCR

[dkgojackets]

Aiden - Conviction
AFI - I Heard a Voice: Live from Long Beach
Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
Three Days Grace - One-X
Aiden & Stalins War - A Split of Nightmares

[sep]

Thriller - Michael Jackson
The Joshua Tree - U2
Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
Nevermind - Nirvana
Back in Black - AC/DC

Dang, that was tough with only five choices.

[Keeper]

Radiohead - Kid A
The best album released so far this decade, I can't really write a summary. The right album at the the right time, beautifully haunting, lyrically relevant, and a complete departure from what the public expected out of the band that gave the world the rock anthem of the 90's.


Neutral Milk Hotel - Into the Aeroplane Over the Sea
If Jeff Mangum truly never records another song, very few, if any artists, will have left behind such a masterpiece with their final work. From the opening verse to Mangum's final cry, the lyrics are so incredibly intense in comparison to nearly anything else ever written. An album that references incest, amongst other disturbing topics, should not result in something so beautiful, but Mangum crafts the most incredible pictures through his words. My favorite album of all time.


Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Recorded in Springsteen's own bedroom as mere demo tapes, and then just released as is, Nebraska is the best performance put out by one of the United States' best artists. When trendy kids make claims like Bruce is just out-dated rock, or he was just in it for the money, I make sure they hear this and shut their mouth. Perhaps my favorite folk album.


Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
The defining work of the post-rock genre. Efrim Menuck's opening monologue on "The Dead Flag Blues" is one of the most chillingly beautiful things committed to pen, and the record that followed is one that every act to copy their sound has failed to match. I could've named another GY!BE release, but it is the rawness of their opener that makes this one my pick


The National - Alligator
It may only be three years old, but I needed an album that was a bit more fun, and while the baritone of Matt Berniger likely wouldn't do the trick for many, the urgency and energy of the record makes it hard to top. The album closes with the song "Mr. November", which contains my favorite chorus of all-time. The pop-culture aware, melodramatic, and unique polished American lyrics of The National are hard to draw comparisons to, and should be heard by everyone for them self.