Top 5s

[Incandenza]

I like Your Arsenal more than I do any Smiths album!

 

[CookieMueller]

Well, that kind of makes sense. It, along with Southpaw, are completely unlike any of his other albums, including Smiths stuff. It also had a few singles. It seemed to be around the time he stopped releasing singles separately from albums.

 

[Incandenza]

Oh, for various reasons I got burned out on the Smiths a long time ago. If I'm mood to listen to anything Moz-related these days, it's usually his solo stuff.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Lo-fi Mountain Goats records

5. The Coroner's Gambit
4.Full Force Galesburg
3.Sweden
2.Zopilote Machine
1.All Hail West Texas

Hi-fi Mountain Goats records

5.All Eternals Deck
4.The Sunset Tree
3.We Shall All Be Healed
2.Tallahassee
1.Heretic Pride

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Earth:


1. Hex...or Printing in the Infernal Method
2. The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
3. Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
4. Earth 2
5. Pentastar: In the Style of Demons

Maybe my favorite currently active band. Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2 comes out next year. keeeeeeeee

 

[Gary]

Death:

1.) Human
2.) Symbolic
3.) Sound of Perseverance
4.) Individual Thought Patterns
5.) Leprosy

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Ooh, good one.

1. Individual Thought Patterns
2. Symbolic
3. Human
4. Leprosy
5. The Sound of Perseverance

ITP is right there in my favorite metal albums ever. LaRoque and Chuck's duelling solos on there are fucking astounding, and then throw in Hoglan and DiGiorgio? That's a disgustingly good lineup

 

[Brocklock]

1. Individual Thought Patterns
2. Symbolic
3. The Sound of Perseverence
4. Scream Bloody Gore
5. Human

Scream Bloody Gore is so sloppy (well for Death) and amazing.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I'd chime in but all I own is Leprosy and Sound of Perseverance and I don't care much for the latter.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Have you at least listened to Individual Thought Patterns? Gun to my head, a list of essential metal albums, this would be like...2.

Death - Overactive Imagination

If you're not sold after the first track, you're probably kind of a sack of shit.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Essential metal albums:

1. Slayer- Reign in Blood
2. Death- Individual Thought Patterns
3. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
4. Mercyful Fate- Don't Break The Oath
5. Neurosis- Through Silver In Blood

Covers a lot of bases, nothing TOO obscure. Pretty happy with that, actually.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I don't even like Metal and I like that track.

Best metal album of all time is Whitesnake (s/t).

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Yeah, everything I've heard off of Individual Thought Patterns has been solid as hell. I get that they're important as hell to metal (especially considering an entirely massive sub-genre that seems to take up the majority of metal bands over the last 20 years was pretty much fucking named after them) and Chuck was an insane musician, but I can always find a few other bands doing similar things to them that I enjoy more.

Although saying I'm not a fan of Death isn't accurate, but it's almost like saying you're not a fan of Death is akin to saying you don't care much for Black Sabbath or Venom: your opinion loses credibility in the eyes of other metalheads, even if you like a lot of the same stuff as them.

My version of the top 5 essential metal albums (trying to spread out by genre, importance therein, and my own personal enjoyment)
1. Slayer - Reign in Blood
2. Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
3. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
4. Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness (though, admittedly, I'm not much of a black metal fan)
5. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (I've soured on them a whole hell of a lot recently, but this was practically THE metal album the year it came out)

 

[Red Baron]

Top Five Essential Metal Albums

1.) Metallica: Load

1.) Motorhead: Overkill
2.) Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
3.) Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
4.) Opeth: Blackwater Park
5.) Slayer: Seasons of the Abyss

Top Five Rush Songs

1.) The Spirit of the Radio
2.) Subdivisions
3.) Red Sector A
4.) La Villa Strangiato
5.) The Trees.

 

[Gary]

Top 5 metal albums

1.) Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath Vol. 4
2.) Death-Human
3.) Emperor-In the Nightside Eclipse
4.) Electric Wizard-Dopethrone
5.) Megadeth-Rust in Peace

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Classic rock songs that I like more than Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" but less than Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Look At Little Sister":

1. U2-In the Name of Love
2. Fleetwood Mac-Tusk
3. Don Henley-Dirty Laundry
4. Steppenwolf-Magic Carpet Ride
5. 38 Special-Hold On Loosely

 

[alkeiper]

Top 5 Ways to Leave Your Lover

1. Just drop off the key
2. Just slip out the back
3. Hop on the bus
4. Make a new plan
5. You don't need to be coy

 

[Czech]

Hi-fi Mountain Goats records

5.All Eternals Deck
4.The Sunset Tree
3.We Shall All Be Healed
2.Tallahassee
1.Heretic Pride

#1 was always The Sunset Tree till I listened to Tallahassee wire to wire probably every day from May through July. Heretic Pride at #3 either way.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Pavement albums:
5. Brighten the Corners
4. Terror Twilight
3. Wowee Zowee
2. Slanted & Enchanted
1. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Bizarre rankings. How could I ever have thought that Terror Twilight was better than literally anything. I would now say that every Pavement album is superior to the one that came after.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Replacements:

5. All Shook Down
4. Pleased to Meet Me
3. Hootenanny
2. Tim
1. Let It Be

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Black Lips Albums

5.Black Lips
4.Arabia Mountain
3.200 Million Thousand
2.Good Bad Not Evil
1.Let it Bloom

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

2012 albums:

5. Coexist
4. Kill For Love
3. Lonerism
2. good kid, m.A.A.d city
1. R.I.P.

I didn't do a very good job of staying up to date this year, so these are all relatively 'high profile' releases. Gonna try to correct that in 2013.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I didn't do a very good job of staying up to date this year, so these are all relatively high profile releases. Gonna try to correct that in 2013.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

2012

5) Beach House - Bloom
4) Burial - Kindred EP
3) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2) Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
1) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel blah blah blah

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Poptones, have you listened to good kid maad city yet?

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Yeah, last night. I liked it just fine, but I can't see it becoming part of my regular rotation.

I thought that Chromatics album Alfie mentioned was pretty bad.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I strongly doubt that either Kill for Love or Coexist would have made the cut if I hadn't devoted most of my 2012 listening to discovering more specialised stuff (krautrock, techno, garage rock) from yesteryear.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

2012

1 - Kamelot - "Silverthorn"
2 - The Magnificent - "The Magnificent"
3 - Jorn - "Bring Heavy Rock to the Land"
4 - Tremonti - "All That You Are"
5 - Call Me No One - "Last Parade"

Honarable Mention - Trillium - "Alloy"

Biggest Disappointment

Delain - "We Are The Others"

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Several best o' various decades lists

00s:
5) Jay-Z - The Blueprint
4) Michael Mayer - Immer
3) Madvillain - Madvillainy
2) Luomo - Vocalcity
1) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

90s:
5) Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
4) Outkast - Aquemini
3) Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
2) Slint - Spiderland
1) Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand

80s:
5) Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
4) The Birthday Party - Junkyard
3) Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
2) Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
1) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

70s:
5) Joni Mitchell - Blue
4) The Stooges - Fun House
3) Wire - Pink Flag
2) Nick Drake - Pink Moon
1) Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

60s:
5) The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle
4) The Band - Music From Big Pink
3) The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
2) Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963
1) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

You Can't Hide Your Love Forever at 3 is bang on

5. This Year's Model
4. Tago Mago
3. Cut
2. Entertainment!
1. Station to Station