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    • deancleanD
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      [mention]steelworker [/mention] nice choice on the Ramones. I think I listen to other Ramones albums more these days but that first one just blew me away. I love listening to it on vinyl turning it up loud and hearing those symbols crash.
      I hated Sandinista when I first heard it. I love the Clash but that album just did nothing for me. Then listened to it years later and I couldn’t believe how much I loved it. What was my younger self thinking!
      I also wanted to put some Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash on the list but I could never narrow down an album from all that material.

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      • mclaincauseyM
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        @pechelman:

        I can't pick five but many of the ones I'd consider have been mentioned, so here's five more that would be on my list for consideration that I didn't see mentioned at all. Apologies if I missed one already mentioned.

        Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
        Queen - A Night at the Opera
        Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
        Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
        King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king

        Two more
        Jethro Tull - Aqualung
        The Beatles - Abbey Rd

        Great list @pechelman

        Zappa is absolutely not for everyone but I think Hot Rats has broader appeal than most of his catalog. I caught the bug when I shoplifted “Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life” double cassette when I was a dumb kid. I rediscovered him freshman year in college when I bought “Joe’s Garage” used CDs freshman year. I just couldn’t believe how good the drums sounded and how well they were played. Colaiuta remains my favorite drummer to this day, edging drummers like Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.

        When I was an even dumber kid I got deeply into King Crimson. At least I wasn’t dumb about music. “Red” was the album that got me, then “Crimson King,,” then “Discipline.” I also enjoyed their contemporary stuff and got to see them live with the Bruford/Mastelotto battery, which was a dream come true.

        Daft Punk is on my bucket list to see live so I was gutted for many reasons when they called it quits.

        Think it, be it.

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        • pechelmanP
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          Thanks @mclaincausey. Clearly you're a man of fine taste 😃

          There's so much of Zappa that I love and still some that I have a hard time listening to. But certainly as a composer and on the guitar he was incredible. Joe's is another favorite of mine but also dig his jazzy stuff on waka/jawaka, the classical side on yellow shark, and pretty much everything where he shuts up and plays his guitar including that album. Muffin man, black napkin, watermelon in Easter hay, peaches, gumbo variations, green genes, rdnzl, Montana, etc. His catalog is so impressive and varied.

          If there was a good thing about pandemic, it was having a lot of time to explore lots of music I missed when I was younger due to different priorities.

          For me, while I can't say those sounds above are my top 5 they are certainly some favorites. Specifically, I like albums that work and evolve from beginning to end of possible tell a longer story. In particular I've always thought the opening track on that black Sabbath album is the best album opening ever which is partly why I picked it over paranoid which has a couple more of my favorite songs.

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          • deancleanD
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            [mention]pechelman [/mention] [mention]mclaincausey [/mention] Zappa is definitely an acquired taste. I couldn’t really get on to him until I heard joes garage. That album is great. I remember having Little Green Rosetta played at my wedding. Dance floor cleared of course but i it’s such a great tune!

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            • Bfd70B
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              @Twistlock:

              My Top 5 albums (many which would have made it have already been mentioned) in no particular order:
              Sisters of Mercy- First and last and always
              Blood Red Shoes- Box of Secrets
              The Goats- Tricks of the Shade
              Dinosaur Jr.- Bug
              NoMeansNo- Small parts isolated and destroyed

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              The Goats. Bold choice.

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              • neph93N
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                @Bfd70:

                @Twistlock:

                My Top 5 albums (many which would have made it have already been mentioned) in no particular order:
                Sisters of Mercy- First and last and always
                Blood Red Shoes- Box of Secrets
                The Goats- Tricks of the Shade
                Dinosaur Jr.- Bug
                NoMeansNo- Small parts isolated and destroyed

                Gesendet von meinem SM-A536B mit Tapatalk

                The Goats. Bold choice.

                SoM top of the list. Awesome choice.

                «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                • GardenStateG
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                  Top 5:

                  Metallica - Black Album (…And Justice For All close runner up)
                  Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
                  The Meteors - In Heaven
                  Run the Jewels - RTJ 2
                  Ghost - Seven Inches of Satanic Panic

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                  • B
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                    Today's Top 5;




                    Do you see what happens when you find a stanger in the Alps!?! - Walter Sobchak (TV Edit)

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                    • todyT
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                      @Bored In Breck - Nice that the Descendents made the list. Saw them live this summer, I really enjoyed that.

                      And I missed the post by @GardenState - OTMAPP, hell yeah!

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                      • popvultureP
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                        The ATDI, HWM and Avail were all in heavy, heavy rotation for me during my college years. And of course Descendents, albeit a bit earlier for me. Nostalgic picks right there!

                        WTB
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                        • P
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                          top 5 music
                          pixies - trompe le monde
                          sonic youth - daydream nation
                          nomeansno - small parts isolated and destroyed
                          the fall - perverted by language
                          melvins - bullhead

                          those albums are closest to my heart, could fit at least another 50 that also move me every time they i hear them. music is fantastic, although (IMO) definitely not going in the right direction.

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                          • seawolfS
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                            Top 5 (this is going to be difficult):

                            Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
                            Grateful Dead: Europe 72, or as I like to call it, the Christmas Album
                            Pearl Jam: Vs
                            Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
                            Daft Punk: Discovery

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                            • GardenStateG
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                              @tody:

                              @Bored In Breck - Nice that the Descendents made the list. Saw them live this summer, I really enjoyed that.

                              And I missed the post by @GardenState - OTMAPP, hell yeah!

                              The Meteors are such a good band.

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                              • october rustO
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                                I'd probably have a different list 15 minutes from now, but off the top of my head:
                                5. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
                                4. Depeche Mode - Violator(maybe Music for the Masses)
                                3. The Clash - London Calling
                                2. Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
                                1. Danzig - Lucifuge

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                                • gouki74G
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                                  So hard to choose, too many great bands, albums but here's the 5 albums I'd carry with me for a road trip:
                                  High on Fire: Death is this Communion
                                  The Sword: Gods of the earth
                                  Doomriders: Darkness come alive
                                  Red Fang: Murder the mountains
                                  Nofx: Single Album

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                                  • jerkulesJ
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                                    @gouki74 said in Your Top 5:

                                    Doomriders: Darkness come alive

                                    Heck yeah, this has been a saviour on long runs recently.

                                    @riffblaster-general 😉

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                                    • Stuart.TS
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                                      Hmm an age old, impossible question.

                                      Nas illmatic
                                      Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown
                                      Uniform Choice scream for change
                                      Ani Difranco imperfectly
                                      Kate Bush Sensual World

                                      They all get weekly play on CD, and I haven't got bored yet. Been listening to all of them since years of release.

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                                        Bob Dylan - blood on the tracks
                                        Eric Clapton - journeyman
                                        Derek & the dominos - layla and other assorted love songs
                                        Neil Young - harvest
                                        Bruce Springsteen - born in the usa

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                                        • Crispy HeronC
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                                          @Stuart-T said in Your Top 5:

                                          Hmm an age old, impossible question.

                                          Nas illmatic
                                          Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown
                                          Uniform Choice scream for change
                                          Ani Difranco imperfectly
                                          Kate Bush Sensual World

                                          They all get weekly play on CD, and I haven't got bored yet. Been listening to all of them since years of release.

                                          Eclectic. Can’t beat a bit of West Coast Straight Edge.

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                                          • natehateN
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                                            choose my favorites would be to hard so i'm going with authors, directors, and live bands

                                            authors:
                                            Cormac McCarthy
                                            Chuck Palahniuk
                                            Jack Kerouac (i have a thing for all the beat writers)
                                            Charles Bukowski
                                            Ken Kesey
                                            and an honorable mention to Hunter Thompson

                                            directors:
                                            The Coen Brothers
                                            Wes Anderson
                                            Paul Thomas Anderson
                                            Quentin Tarantino
                                            Stanley Kubrick
                                            honorable mentions to Jeff Nichols, Savage Steve Holland (better off dead is my number 1 with a bullet all time favorite movie), David Fincher

                                            live bands :
                                            Lucero
                                            Fugazi
                                            Bane
                                            Flag (the black flag band thats not black flag but has more actual past members then black flag, including my 2 favorite black flag singers)
                                            Flogging Molly
                                            honorable mentions Dropkick murphy's, Converge, Hatebreed, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie boys, Terror, American Nightmare, Neil Diamond, Braid, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

                                            don't you know there ain't no devil? only god when he's drunk!

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