Favorite 5 CD's

I'm looking to buy some new CD's and I need some reccomendations, so what are your favorite 5 CD's of all time ever.

There is a lot of good music out there. It necessitates categories. What genere and style do you like? I think your request is too broad.

wow...scary challenge...but I accept (I will also make my answer ecclecitc as to accompany many musical tastes)

*in no particular order*

*ahem*

The Beatles- Revolver
Radiohead- Ok Computer
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
The Clash- London Calling

whoo that was fucking HARD...and my list would probably be different if you asked me tomorrow

[Edited on Feb 25, 2006 by MessyJessy]

well, I like punk, metal, dance, house, swing, jazz, classical, neo-classical, trance, rock and roots. There's not a lot I wont listen to.

Fuck, only 5 albums... hmm. here goes:

(1)Everything But the Girl's "Temperamental"

(2)Steely Dan's "Gaucho"

(3)Hüsker Dü's "Zen Arcade"

(4)Soul Coughing's "Ruby Vroom"

(5)Underworld's "A Hundred Days Off"

MY ALL-TIME DESERT ISLAND TOP FIVE RECORDS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1.) The Mr. T Experience ~ Love is Dead

2.) Weezer ~ Pinkerton

3.) Jawbreaker ~ Dear You

4.) Elliott Smith ~ Either/Or

5.) The Get Up Kids ~ Something to Write Home About

But you know what? That isn't enough. I'm going to add the rest of my Top Ten, because my Top Five is usually a revolving door.

6.) Elvis Costello ~ Armed Forces

7.) Ozma ~ Rock and Roll Part Three

8.) The Clash ~ London Calling

9.) Jimmy Eat World ~ Static Prevails

10.) Pinback ~ Blue Screen Life

Cat Power - The Greatest
Cat Power - You Are Free
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Cat Power - What Would The Community Think
Cat Power - Myra Lee

X5

RainTreeCrow -RainTreeCrow

Secrets Of The Beehive -David Sylvian

Revolver -Beatles

A Thousand Leaves -Sonic Youth

Another Green World -Brian Eno

The Verve Pipe (self-titled) 1999
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon 1994
The New Pornographers - Electric Version 2003
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater 1998
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs 2001

DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-ism
Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Lyrics Born - Later That Day
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow


It'll probably change by sunday...those are dope though.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Converge - Jane Doe
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Fugazi - Repeater
Summer's End - S/T

Miles Davis - 'Bitches Brew'
DJ Shadow - 'Endtroducing'
The Who - 'Live at Leeds'
Public Enemy - 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
Tortoise - 'Millions now living will never die'

Tom Waits - Small change
Mark Lanegan - Scraps at midnight
Kyuss - Blues for the red sun
Danzig - Lucifuge
Alice in chains - Dirt

meshuggah - catch33
soilwork - std
in flames - come clarity
cynic - focus
death - itp

oh yeah i hear ya

The Crystal Method - Tweekend
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
Orbital - In Sides
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

[Edited on Feb 25, 2006 by windermere]

Once again.....it's very easy to do...and the peole who say "OMG!!!11111 I can't pick just five" are silly.

1. The Pixies - Doolittle
2. Throwing Muses - House Tornado
3. Weezer - Weezer
4. The Killers - Hot Fuss
5. Social Distortion - Social Distortion

may be liable to change, but the 5 that I go back to time and time again and never grow old are;

1 - Jeff Buckley - Grace
2 - Tool - Aenima
3 - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4 - Jewel - pieces of you
5 - Metallica - Master of puppets.

tool - lateralus
flickerstick - welcoming home the astronauts
the bangkok five - 10, the hard way


those ones are definites but i couldnt pick a definite last two.

Dude there have been some awesome recommendations so far, but im gonna list 5 essential albums of this year (or late last year in the we are scientists case):

Giant Drag (www.giantdrag.com) - Hearts & Unicorns

Tilly and the Wall (www.tillyandthewall.com) - Wld Like Children

Fall of Troy (www.thefalloftroy.com) - Doppleganger

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballard of Broken Sea's

We Are Scientists (www.wearescientists.com) - With love & Squalor

and you have to check out the Tool (www.toolband.com) album when its released in May *fingers crossed*

well my favorite is hedwig, but shes really more of a tranny.

Five must have (off the top of my head)

Clash - London Calling
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (LA's Desert Origins)
Ween - Pure Guava
Weezer - Pinkerton

Pixies- Doolittle
Alkaline Trio- Good Mourning
Green Day- Kerplunk
Rancid- ...And Out Come The Wolves
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Axis/Bold as Love.