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    • pechelmanP
      pechelman
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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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                                        • mclaincauseyM
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                                          Great shit; Lucero just dropped a new one this week, great live band! Fugazi was absolutely formative for me. Their shows were so great. I really loved their label in general, lots of great bands on Dischord.

                                          Think it, be it.

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                                          • todyT
                                            tody
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                                            While we're on the topic of Dischord - Glen E. Friedman is putting put a new book on Minor Threat, I'm really looking forward to that!

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