Your Top 20 Albums Ever . . .

If you had to choose your top 20 albums ever, what would they be . . .

mine would be ...

1: Judas Priest - Painkiller
2: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
3: Megadeth - So Far, So Good . . So What?
4: Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
5: Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
6: Blind Guardian - Night at the Opera
7: Pantera - A Vulgar Display of Power
8: Metallica - ...and Justice for All
9: Slayer - Hell Awaits
10: Testament - The Gathering
11: Dark Angel - Times does not Heal
12: Death - The Sound of Perseverance
13: Death - Symbolic
14: Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
15: Angra - Temple of Shadows
16: Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
17: Carcass - Heartwork
18: Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
19: Iron Maiden - The X Factor
20: Judas Priest - Stained Class

i tryed but i can't do it, lol

Wow! That's hard to do. I can try, but my list might change at any given day of the week. I'm gonna try to keep it down to one release per artist. That might be difficult as well.

1. Aerosmith - Rocks
2. Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
3. KISS - Alive
4. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
5. Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
6. Judas Priest - Stained Class
7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind / Killers (tie!)
8. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
9. Deliverance - Weapons of our Warfare
10. Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
11. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
12. Dio - Holy Diver
13. Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery
14. Overkill - From the Underground & Below
15. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
16. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
17. Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice & Once Dead
19. Grave Digger - Excalibur
20. Believer - Sanity Obscure
21. Testament - Practice What You Preach
22. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
23. Fireball Ministry - The Second Great Awakening
24. Accept - Restless & Wild
25. Hirax - The New Age of Terror

I'm going to try...but I'm not going to rank them...

King's X - Dogman
Journey - Escape
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Vicious Rumors - Welcome To The Ball
Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
Trouble - The Skull
Dream Theater - Awake
Butch Walker - Letters
Dio - The Last In Line
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Dokken - Under Lock And Key
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Allen Lande - The Battle
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Kiss - Asylum
Stryper - To Hell With The Devil
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes


I could list more...

hmmmmmm.....

THE CURE- "Kiss Me Kss Me Kiss Me"
BLOOGOOD- 'Detenation"
ALICE COOPER- 'Welcome To My Nightmare"
DEADSY- s/t (1997)
IRON MAIDEN- "Number Of The Beast"
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS- "Decoration Day"
PETER GABRIEL- "So"
TOM WAITS- "Bone Machine"
16 HORSEPOWER- "Low Estate"
JOHNNY CASH- "Unchained"
KING'S X- "Gretchen Goes To Nebraska"
HANOI ROCKS- "Two Steps From The Move"
SCATERD FEW- 'Sin Disease"
JANE'S ADDICTION- "Nothing's Shocking"
GUNS N' ROSES- "Appetite For Destruction"
METALLICA- "Master Of Puppets"
KISS- "Double Platinum"
ROCK CITY ANGELS- 'Young Man's Blues"
MOTHER LOVE BONE- "Apple"
DAVID BOWIE- "Changesbowie"

I don't know that mine are really in any order of preference either and MAN, did I leave off a lot of great bands and albums that I love. Oh well, those are some of the one's that came to mind first.

Sorry,cant do it.Too many great cds

only 20? i'll try, but i cannot say that it won't change.

1.) Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
2.) Slayer - Reign In Blood
3.) Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4.) Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
5.) Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
6.) Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
7.) Warlock - Burning The Witches
8.) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
9.) Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
10.) Misfits - Earth A.D.
11.) Accept - Balls To The Wall
13.) Deicide - Legion
14.) Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
15.) The Gathering - If Then Else
16.) Danzig - II Lucifuge
17.) Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
18.) Darkthrone - Translyvanian Hunger
19.) Asphyx - God Cries
20.) Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings

The Doors- S/T
Rush- Caress of Steel
Ozzy- Diary of a Madman
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
Judas Priest- Stained Class
Deep Purple- Deepest Purple
Jimi Hendrix- Smash Hits
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
Elton John- Captain Fantastic...
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Dio- Holy Diver
Rainbow- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Queensryche- Mindcrime
Michelle Tumes- Listen
Saviour Machine- Legend I
Wedding Party- Anthems
Trouble- Run to the Light
Candlemass- Nightfall
Place of Skulls- The Black is Never Far
Devo- Freedom of Choice

CLUTCH - s/t & transnational speedway league.
KINGS X - Gretchen & Faith Hope Love
CATHEDRAL - Ethereal Mirror & Carnival
EXODUS - All
PRIMUS - All
TESTAMENT - have'nt heard a bad one yet.
STEELY DAN - All
DELIVERANCE - first 4
FAITH NO MORE - All

Right now it would be:
SDI:SIGN OF THE WICKED
VETO:VETO
OZZY OSBOURNE:BARK AT THE MOON
THE EXPLOITED:THE MASSACRE
JUDAS PRIEST:DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH
MANOWAR:SIGN OF THE HAMMER
VENOM:BLACK METAL
KISS:CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
METALLICA:KILL EM ALL
THOR:ONLY THE STONG
HAMMERFALL:GLORY TO THE BRAVE
MERCYFUL FATE:DONT BREAK THE OATH
RIOT:THUNDERSTEEL
WRATHCHILD UK:STAKK ATTAKK.
MOTORHEAD:OVERKILL
KROKUS:THE BLITZ
SAXON:DENIM AND LEATHER
RUNNING WILD:DEATH OR GLORY
MAYHEM:DE MYSTERIIS DOM SATHANAS
MORBID ANGEL:ALTARS OF MADNESS.

Man, I love this board's diversity.

ultmetal wrote:

Man, I love this board's diversity.

YEAH, I agree. I see that many people love 70s heavy rock too and thats cool. Not only the 80s were great, but also the 70s and lets dont forget about the 90s. HAIL FORUM, HAIL

Deliverance-Weapons of our Warfare

Altar Boys-Gut Level Music

Barren Cross-Rock for the King

Barren Cross-Atomic Arena

Vengeance Rising-Human Sacrifice

Mortification-Scrolls of the Megiloth

Saint-To Late for Living

Stryper-Soldiers Under Command

Messiah Prophet-Master of the Metal

Tourniquet-Stop the Bleeding

Deliverance-What a Joke

The Crucified-Pillars of Humanity

BLOODGOOD-self titled

Deliverance-Stay of Execution

Barren Cross-State of Control

Tourniquet-POD

Sacrament - Haunts of Violence

Seventh Angel-The Torment

Daniel Band-Run from the Darkness

Deliverance-1989

T-Roy wrote:

Deliverance-Weapons of our Warfare

Altar Boys-Gut Level Music

Barren Cross-Rock for the King

Barren Cross-Atomic Arena

Vengeance Rising-Human Sacrifice

Mortification-Scrolls of the Megiloth

Saint-To Late for Living

Stryper-Soldiers Under Command

Messiah Prophet-Master of the Metal

Tourniquet-Stop the Bleeding

Deliverance-What a Joke

The Crucified-Pillars of Humanity

BLOODGOOD-self titled

Deliverance-Stay of Execution

Barren Cross-State of Control

Tourniquet-POD

Sacrament - Haunts of Violence

Seventh Angel-The Torment

Daniel Band-Run from the Darkness

Deliverance-1989

Thats a cool white metal/hard rock list:metal:

20 is a lot, so it's gonna come out wrong but....

Black Sabbath- Sabotage (easy)
SAHB -Impossible Dream
Tad Morose-Sender of Thoughts
Amorphis-Elegy
Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody
Chameleons-Script of the Bridge
Journey-Next
Camel- Stationary Traveler
Celtic Frost-Cold Lake (with no apologies)
Black Sabbath- Eternal Idol
Judas Priest-Sad Wings
White Spirit-S/t
Veni Domine-Album of Labour
Epitaph(GER)- Stop, Look, & Listen
Magnum- Storyteller's Night
Sortilege-Metamorphose
Saint-20th Aniversary
Captain Beyond-s/t
Deep Purple-Burn
Baker Gurvitz Army-Elysian Encounter

The top 10 are pretty solid, the second ten are interchangable with about 20 others.

caniplaywithmadness? wrote:

i tryed but i can't do it, lol

+1, My head started to hurt.

ultmetal wrote:

Man, I love this board's diversity.

my list wasn't diverse. just metal + 1 punk band. you won't find any Prince albums on it. i'm so uncool.

Man that is just tough, but i'll do it. 25 is a better number than 20.

1. Aerosmith - Rocks (1976)
2. Thin Lizzy - Black Rose (1979)
3. Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (1992)
4. Love/Hate - Wasted In America (1992)
5. King's X - Dogman (1994)
6. Hanoi Rocks - Back To Mystery City (1984)
7. Redd Kross - Neurotica (1987)
8. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick (1977)
9. Alice In Chains - Facelift (1990)
10. Johnny Thunders - Que Sera, Sera (1985)
11. Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
12. The Dictators - Bloodbrothers (1978)
13. The Nymphs - The Nymphs (1991)
14. Green River - Rehab Doll (1988)
15. Enuff Z'Nuff - Strength (1990)
16. Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams (1974)
17. The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack (1964)
18. New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973)
19. Rory Gallagher - Tattoo (1973)
20. Led Zeppelin - III (1970)
21. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
22. The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q. (1995)
23. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
24. Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth - Robespierre's Velvet Basement (1985)
25. The Answer - Rise (2006)

Can't be done..... but I'll try anyway. Here is a list of some of the most imporant albums in my life:


Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Kiss - Destroyer & Unmasked
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
Metallica - Master Of Puppets & Ride The Lightning
Deliverance - s/t
Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice
Accept - Russian Roulette
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry & Come Out And Play
Queensrÿche - The Warning
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin & Blizzard Of Ozz
TNT - Knights Of The New Thunder
Artch - Another Return To Church Hill
Equinox - Auf Wiedersehen
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind & The Number of the Beast
Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children & s/t
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Saint - Too Late For Living
Annihilator - Set The World On Fire
In Flames - The Jester Race

ah man i cant do. i can name a few but they ar not in order

metallica - all
opeth - all
sabbath - most of them
dream thetaer - images and words
pantera - cowboys from hell, vulgar display
slayer - reign in blood
megadeth - rust in peace, united abominations
iron maiden - somewhere in time/ self titled - tie!
judas priest - piankiller
nightwish - all

thats all i can think off at the moment

Hard to say my favorites, but I will try. My favorites changes all the time.

In no particular order...
01. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
02. Amoprhis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
03. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
04. Savatage - Gutter Ballet
05. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
06. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
07. Motörhead - Overkill
08. Sabbat - Dreamweawer
09. Death - Symbolic
10. Obituary - Cause Of Death
11. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
12. Judas Priest - Stained Class
13. Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
14. Devastation - Idolatry
15. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
16. Overkill - The Years Of Decay
17. Exodus - Bonded By Blood
18. Coroner - No More Color
19. Rush - 2112
20. Saxon - Strong Arm Of The Law

I'm going to add 20 more...

Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation
Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall
Fates Warning - Parallels
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Hall & Oates - Big Bam Boom
Deliverance - Weapons Of Our Warfare
Impellitteri - Answer To The Master
Tad Morose - A Mended Rhyme
Dio - Strange Highways
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Queensryche - The Warning
Solitude Aeturnus - Downfall
Barren Cross - Atomic Arena
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Journey - Infinity
Sacred Warrior - Wicked Generation

HERETIC - The Breaking Point
REVEREND - s/t
KISS - Animalize
IRON MAIDEN - The Number of the Beast
JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming For Vengeance
RAGE - Secrets in a Weird World
ANTHRAX - Among the Living
LOUDNESS - Thunder in the East
TNT - Knights of the New Thunder
VICIOUS RUMORS - Warball
QUEENSRYCHE - s/t
W.A.S.P. - s/t
STEEL PROPHET - Messiah
ARMORED SAINT - Delirious Nomad
TESTAMENT - Practice What You Preach
METAL CHURCH - s/t
METAL CHURCH - The Human Factor
MEGADETH - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying ?
BLACK SABBATH - Born Again
FLOTSAM & JETSAM - No Place For Disgrace
TANKARD - The Meaning of Life
LAAZ ROCKIT - Know Your Enemy
ACCEPT - Balls to the Wall
HELLOWEEN - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

and so on (that list is in no particular order)

I'm going to add 20 more...

Van Halen - 5150
Vertical Horizon - Go
Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower
Bon Jovi - These Days
Edwin McCain - Messenger
Cheap Trick - In Color
Marvelous 3 - Hey! Album
Harem Scarem - Higher
Pete Lesperance - Down In It
London Calling - You're So Lucky
Adriangale - Crunch
Extreme - Waiting For The Punchline
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits (red cover)
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Dokken - Back For The Attack
Quietdrive - When All That's Left Is You
Whiteheart - Tales Of Wonder
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun