your 5 essential albums

[diewhitegirls]

The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!

Coheed and Cambria- Second Stage Turbine Blade

A Silver Mt. Zion- Horses in the Sky

Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary

[lithiumsys]

Fuck this is difficult, in no order:

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

The Fall of Troy - The Fall of Troy

Converge - You Fail Me / Jane Doe (can't choose)

Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies

Meshuggah - Nothing

[wiretapscars]

1) Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

2) Skinny Puppy-Too Dark Park

3) Slowdive-Pygmalion

4) Scarface-The Fix

5) Sparta-Porcelain

[JRE48675]

1. The Narrator - All That to the Wall

2. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

3. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

4. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

5. Pavement - Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition

[the owl]

for today:

Fennesz - Endless Summer

Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me

J Dilla - Welcome To Detroit

Portishead - Dummy

Mobb Deep - The Infamous

[coleslawyum]

I'm feelin' the post with Milli Vanilli. That was my shit back in the day.

Along with the Juice soundtrack, but that aint gonna make this list.

John Coltrane: Crescent

Jimi Hendrix: Blues

Willie Colon: Crime Pays

Nas: Illmatic

The Allman Brothers Band: Eat A Peach

Shit, it just too hard to name five.

Honorable mentions:

Freddie Hubbard: Sky Dive

Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti

Sade: The Best Of

Alice In Chains: Dirt

Duke Ellington: Black Brown & Beige

There's too much music in the world to narrow down to five, but here's what I got spinning now:

Keith Jarrett: The Koln Concert

[drainpipe]

Here's a try, but five's just too few

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a#oo

Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

Aidan Baker - The Sea Swells a Bit...

ISIS - Panopticon

The Besties - Singer

[destructodisk]

Telefon Tel Aviv - Farenheit Fair Enough

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Nine Inch Nails - Still

Arovane - Tides

Vast Aire - The Way of the Fist Vol. 1-4

Sole - Selling Live Water

+ more

[astro black]

Dj Krush- MiLight

Dj Cam- Mad Blunted Jazz(deluxe)

Logh- Evertime a Bell Rings An Angel Gets His Wings

Mf Doom- dOOmsdAy

Mogwai- Cody

[Dae]

Wu-Tang - Enter the wutang

Nas - Illmatic

Biggie - Ready to Die

Big L - Life of da poor and dangerous

Jay-z - Reasonable Doubt

[Dogfish]

1. Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff

2. Sigur Rós - Von

3. A Silver Mount Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms

4. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

••••••

CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rêve , Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary come damn close.

[Serge]

Ta Det Lungt - Dungen

Ratatat - Ratatat

Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

23 - Bloc Party

Discovery - Daft Punk

[keagan]

avey tare and kria brekken- Pull Hair Rub eye.

I've decided that avey tare and kria brekken are the best mum side project.

[chronoaug]

just some ones off the top of my head without repeating artists.

Sam Cook- Live at Harlem Square 1963

NMH- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Bob Dylan- Another Side of Bob Dylan

Elliott Smith- Self Titled

Jeff Buckley- Live at Sin-e

Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The Beatles- Beatles for Sale

Andrew Bird- The Swimming Hour

Big Star- Third/Sister Lovers

The Mountain Goats- All Hail West Texas

Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Red House Painters- 1

I'm leaving out some doozies but it's late. Fuck a 5 albums. Depends on the mood and how much i've listened to someone lately. Often i'll start listening to an artist, and then listen to all of their songs and then switch around a bit. I don't do "mix tapes" very often.

[the_state]

NMH- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Bob Dylan- Another Side of Bob Dylan

Elliott Smith- Self Titled

Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

fixed........

[Guest thing4kicks86]

Infamous 1st Albums:

Reasonable Doubt- Jay-Z

Illmatic- NaS

Doe or Die- AZ

Be- Common

The Infamous (no pun intended) - Mobb Deep

(Newely Adopted) Donuts- Dilla

[dcrevolution40]

Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity 1

Ghostface Killah - Pretty Toney

Outkast - Idlewild

Three 6 Mafia - Most Known Unknown

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

[dizzle]

Dr Dre - Chronic 2001

Wu Tang - Enter the Wu Tang

Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

Nas - Illmatic

Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity

[Ichigo100%]

Lupe Fiasco-Food and Liquor

Jay-z- Reasonable Doubt

Common-Like water for chocolate

Kanye West-Graduation

Notorious BIG- Ready To Die

[chronoaug]

fixed........

switch pavement with jeff buckley and i'd probably be set for life

[tuddy]

1. dredg - el cielo

2. coheed and cambria - second stage turbine blade

3. on the might of princes - where you are and where you want to be

4. kanye west - the college dropout (graduation is creeping up though)

5. ben folds five - whatever and ever amen

that was tough, there are prolly 50 more albums i could have thrown up there.

[docnbhd]

More than 5, but a good mix:

"Revolver" - Beatles

"White Light/White Heat" - Velvet Underground

"Village Green Preservation Society" - The Kinks

"Pink" - Boris

"March into the Sea EP" - Pelican

"Oceanic" - Isis

"Twilight" - Suicide File

"This Pen is a Weapon" - The Ghost

"Hail to the Thief" - Radiohead

"Machina and the Machines of God" - Smashing Pumpkins

"Complete Birth of Cool" - Miles Davis

"Time Out" - Dave Brubeck

"Live at the Kremlin" - Ravi Shankar

"Life After Death" - Notorious B.I.G.

"We Should have never lived like we were skyscrapers" - Chin Up Chin Up

"The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place" - Explosions in the Sky

[magus1234]

Whos Kurt Cobain?

[CBM]

FUCK this is hard, and i know i have probably forgotten something but. . .

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

Wowee Zowee - Pavement

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

dammmmmn it hurt to leave pixies, bowie, dylan, joy division, etc, etc off that list.

[mrbrightsside]

Kid A

OK Computer

Hail to the Thief

Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo

Artifact - STS9

[Matay]

[Guest jmatsu]

^LOL. hahahahahah

[palabok]

1) Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

2) De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead

3) Balzac - Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu (fucking long title.. had to c/p it.)

4) ELO - Time

5) The Doors - Strange Days

[likelife]

1) belle & sebastian- if you're feeling sinister

2) bjork- homogenic

3) erlend oye- unrest

4) radiohead- amnesiac

5) soda stereo- comfort y musica para volar

[Guest DUM]

Lupe Fiasco-Food and Liquor

Jay-z- Reasonable Doubt

Common-Like water for chocolate

Kanye West-Graduation

Notorious BIG- Ready To Die

really really?

Did you discover hip hop yesterday?