Your top 3 favorite / most influential albums!

[ThurgoodMarshal]

​I had to go Top 5 because I'm indecisive. In no particular order...

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (1990)
Tool - Aenima (1996)
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (2006)
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
August Burns Red - Constellations (2009)

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

There's a good chance we would have been friends in high school haha I Spent a lot of time listening to NFG and Say it Like you Mean it.

Nice! My band was on Warped Tour with NFG in 2002 and another band in college opened for The Starting Line. Seems like forever ago.

 

[Entropy]

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
To me I haven't heard an album that mirrors the listening experience I had with this one. I'm not even sure I can explain it. For me they hit it perfectly for someone who's life is filled with doubt and despair with periods of happiness. It's life in an album.
2. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
I listened to this album non-stop in college and still find it to be fresh and intense. Every song is a sing-a-long.

3. Built to Spill, Keep it Like a Secret
Maybe it's my love for Carry the Zero, but this is just a fun album to play at full blast while cruising around.

Clearly I was in college in the late 90s early 2000s with my list.

 

[algonacy]

These are not my 3 favorites (I don't think I can do that), but these are the 3 that influenced me the most.

1. Rush - Moving Pictures
2. U2 - Joshua Tree
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Clearly I was in college in the late 1980s with my list

 

[Psiclone]

1. Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground)
2. Quadrophenia (The Who)
3. Substance (Joy Division)

 

[mustangcy]

1. Radiohead - Ok Computer
2. Failure - Fantastic Planet
3. Nirvana - Nevermind

 

[Cyclonick182]

This is tough but:

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication


Close runner ups though are:
The Academy Is... - Self titled
Alkaline Trio - Goddammit
Taking Back Sunday - Tell all your friends
Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
New Found Glory - self titled

 

[oldman]

Jethro Tull - Living In The Past (A Christmas Song really gets me)
Led Zep - Physical Graffiti (The hard driving guitar riffs in this album are killer)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1st album I ever bought at 12 yrs old, and still one of my favorites)

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

This is tough but:

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication


Close runner ups though are:
The Academy Is... - Self titled
Alkaline Trio - Goddammit
Taking Back Sunday - Tell all your friends
Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
New Found Glory - self titled

We too would have hung out. That TBS album is fantastic. Throw in some Brand New and you've got yourself a pretty nice lineup.

TBS is coming to Urbandale the day we play OSU.

 

[Cyclonick182]

Nice! My band was on Warped Tour with NFG in 2002 and another band in college opened for The Starting Line. Seems like forever ago.

Band name? Curious if I've heard anything by your band.

 

[cyowan]

In no particular order (a la "High Fidelity"):

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction. Simply put one of the best rock albums ever. Made me feel like a badass the first time I heard it even though I was a freckled faced kid.

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP. Came out in 2000 when I was in high school, feeling outcast even though I wasn't, and full of teenage angst. This album hit at exactly the right time for me. "The Way I Am" still gets me going.

Incubus - Make Yourself. Just love this band and this album played constantly in my cd player during high school and college. Saw them 3 times and loved every second.

 

[MeanDean]

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Van Morrison - Moondance
Carol King - Tapestry

 

[cyowan]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. And it sounds like most everyone agrees on that too.

Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction. Most likely the first full album of classic rock I had listened to. Really opened me up to everything from there.

Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP/The Eminem Show. Got these albums at the same time when I was a kid and definitely wasn't supposed to have them either.

I suspect we would have been friends.

 

[Clone1138]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Alice in Chains - Unplugged
Mad Season - Above

God I love that album and performance. I literally had to buy a second copy of that CD because I wore through the first one with so many listens. Completely awesome beginning to end.

 

[ThurgoodMarshal]

Band name? Curious if I've heard anything by your band.

Got me curious too. I remember going to Warped at that amphitheater in Council Bluffs around that time.

 

[ThurgoodMarshal]

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
To me I haven't heard an album that mirrors the listening experience I had with this one. I'm not even sure I can explain it. For me they hit it perfectly for someone who's life is filled with doubt and despair with periods of happiness. It's life in an album.
2. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
I listened to this album non-stop in college and still find it to be fresh and intense. Every song is a sing-a-long.
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Love love love both of these albums. Personally, I put In Rainbows just barely ahead of Ok, Computer but it's incredibly close.

 

[SC Cy]

311 - Music

Live - Throwing Copper

Guns-n-Roses - Appetite for Destruction

 

[burn587]

Oasis- What's the story morning glory?
I love pretty much every song on this album.

Nirvana- Unplugged
Try and not get chills listening to Kurt belt out the last chorus of Where did you sleep last night?

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
I actually didn't get turned on to this album until recently but Five Years may be the best album opener of all time IMO.

If I got a 4th I would go with Weezer- The Blue Album. I love 90's alternative and there's no better example of that then Weezer.

 

[drlove]

Interesting. When I think Springsteen, my top 2 are easily "Born To Run" and "The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle". Anything outside those 2 are a different conversation.

 

[CYCLNST8]

1. Wagner "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
2. Beethoven Symphony #6 "Pastoral"
3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer "Brain Salad Surgery"

Ah- REAL classic rock!

In that case, I would also like to give a shout-out to Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.