top 5 favorite albums

what's your top 5 favorite albums? if you can't pin it down to just 5, or don't have a fave, what're the last 5 you listened to?

1.nine inch nails- broken
2.smashing pumpkins- pisces iscariot
3.sepultura- chaos ad
4.the eels- beautiful freak
5.dillinger escape plan- s/t

1. Slowdive - Souvlaki
2. Ian Brown - Golden Greats
3. Lush - Spooky
4. Black Box Recorder - England Made Me
5. Verve - A Storm In Heaven

There's no such animal as The Smiths "Greatest Hits".

i coulda sworn there was... i think we have a copy at it at work....

ps:slayer rules

The Very Best of the Smiths

minutemen- double nickels on the dime
husker du- zen arcade
sonic youth- daydream nation
hellacopters- payin' the dues
turbonegro- apocalypse dudes

are what come to mind this second...

deliverance

i have a better idea. instead of just listing your 5 favorite albums here, also put them in a little box and mail them to me. that way i'll actually be able to listen to them instead of just knowing their names.

Hey, thanks for telling me something I already know. I said there's no "Greatest Hits". There's:

1. The Singles
2. The Very Best Of
3. The Best Of Vol. 1
4. The Best Of Vol. 2
5. Hatful Of Hollow (Peel and Radio One Sessions)
6. The World Won't Listen (Singles and B-Sides)
7. Louder Than Bombs (Singles and B-Sides)

I've got 4 Morrissey/Smiths tattoos. I think I know my discographies. Thanks!

Last five in heavy rotation will do:

1. Ruins: 1986-1992
2. Wilco: Yahkee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Mum: Finally we are no one.
4. Calexico: Aerocalexico 2001 (this one keeps popping back in)
5. Lightning Bolt: Ride the Skies

Hmmm...
Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines
Better Than Ezra - Friction, Baby
The Sound and the Fury - Wisdom
Caroline's Spine - Monsoon
Music from the Succubus Club

Five all timers is always a problem, but start to finish, maybe I can knock it down to ten with the right to revise later (I'm always heavier on the older stuff with these lists):
1. Heavy Vegetable - Frisbie
2. Wire - Chairs Missing
3. Mission of Burma - Vs. and/or Signals, Calls & Marches
4. Cat Power - Moon Pix
5. Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
6. Chameleons - Strange Times
7. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of
8. Tindersticks - 1st album
9. Pixies - Doolittle or Surfer Rosa
10. Melt Banana - "Charlie"

hmm i change my mind every other day, but...

1. thrice- the illusion of safety
2. slick shoes- burnout
3. strung out- an american paradox
4. dogwood- building a better me
5. sick of change- these shattered lives

Nic, you're sooooo English!

i can feel the alterna-love flowing here...

last 5 albums i listened to
1.glassjaw- worship and tribute
2.further seems forever- teh moon is down
3.thursday- full collapse
4.pantera- far beyond driven
5.weezer- pinkerton

i can feel the alterna-love flowing here...

last 5 albums i listened to
1.glassjaw- worship and tribute
2.further seems forever- the moon is down
3.thursday- full collapse
4.pantera- far beyond driven
5.weezer- pinkerton

nine inch nails - the fragile
nine inch nails - downward spiral
garbage - version 2.0
peter gabriel - so
pop will eat itself - dos dedos mis amigos
massive attack - mezzanine
radiohead - ok computer

yeah, couldn't put down just five...

[Edited on Jul 31, 2002 by cellophane]

current top 5

Lovage - music to make love to your old lady by
Tosca - Suzuki
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Radioinactive - pyramidi
Kool Keith - Sex Styles

dang
Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions.
i can't choose five sorry. i need more

- U2: achtung baby
- radiohead: ok computer
- the flaming lips: the soft bulletin
- orbital: in-sides
- david bowie: rise and fall of ziggy stardust

Way to hard to do I'm sure I'll forget a really great one, but I'll give it a try.

1) The Beatles - White album
2) Everclear - Sparkel and Fade
3) Ani Difranco - Living in clip
4) Goldfinger - Hang ups
5) Less Than Jake - Lossing Streak

Ok, so these are just 5 really good albums most likely not the best, just some of my favorites.

Social Distortion "Mommy's little monster"
Ramones "Ramones"
Crucifix "Dehumanalization"
Stiff Little Fingers "Inflammable Material"
Valley Girl soundtrack

Ask me tomorrow and im sure it will change

whittling a list down to five albums is absurd but therapeutic.
with a list of ten you feel like you can simply throw out some random
albums and say well that's what they are this week.
but with a list of five you get a sense that these are albums that
matter and may never leave your collection, albums that may not be
everyone's favorites but that's why they're yours.

these are not in any order because they generally represent moods and
memories of times that i cherish.

you can probably tell by the list that i'm getting old.

def leppard - high n' dry
the church - remote luxury
aztec camera - high land hard rain
cheap trick - dream police
inxs - the swing

honorable mention
mark kozelek - what's next to the moon

top 5 that i could never get rid of:
1. pink floyd - dark side of the moon
2. faith no more - angel dust
3. alice in chains - jar of flies
4. medicine - the buried life
5. fear factory - demanufacture

today:
1. stretch arm strong - a revolution transmission
2. killswitch engage - alive or just breathing?
3. cave in - 2 song EP
4. darkest hour - so sedated, so secure
5. poison the well - tear from the red (i don't care what you people say, this is 10 times better than december. the heavy parts are heavier, the melodic parts are better. you people are crazy. crazy i say.)

Oh ... see, I thought you were saying there were no "Greatest Hits" because all The Smiths hits sucked.

I'm just kidding, just kidding ... it's Morrissey who sucks. Johnny Marr *is* the Smiths.

They Might Be Giants - Flood
Art Of Noise - "daft"
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
garbage - garbage
Fugees - The Score

But trying to pick Top 5 albums of any kind is soooo hard. There are about 20 albums that just barely didn't make the list above, and I deliberately avoided compilations and "Best Of" albums. I mean, I've got no Beatles there! No Simpsons! No jazz or classical at all! It's not really meaningful.

top 5 that i could never get rid of:
1. pink floyd - dark side of the moon
2. faith no more - angel dust
3. alice in chains - jar of flies
4. medicine - the buried life
5. fear factory - demanufacture

today:
1. stretch arm strong - a revolution transmission
2. killswitch engage - alive or just breathing?
3. cave in - 2 song EP
4. darkest hour - so sedated, so secure
5. poison the well - tear from the red (i don't care what you people say, this is 10 times better than december. the heavy parts are heavier, the melodic parts are better. you people are crazy. crazy i say.)

damn skippy!!! i'm so pissed that poison the well isn't gonna be with killswitch engage and kittie when they play here in a couple weeks.. i could tear my eyelashes out.. but then i'd look funny