Favorite Album of All Time

[Killerpuppies]

Dream Theater - Images and Words/Scenes from a Memory
Balance of Power - Perfect Balance
Queensryche - Rage/Mindcrime/Empire
Everygrey - In Search of Truth/Recreation Day
Harem Scarem - Mood Swings/Weight of the World
Threshold - Hypothetical
Conception - Flow
Kamelot - Black Halo

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Man, what a tough question.......
For metal - I'd have to go with Maiden's # of the Beast....
Pop (ish) - Beatles - White Album
Glenn's new genre "prog/fucked up metal" - Freak Kitchen - Dead Soul Men with a close second by Ron Bumblefoot Thal "Hands"

J-Dubya

 

[BlindPanzer]

Man, what a tough question.......
For metal - I'd have to go with Maiden's # of the Beast....
Pop (ish) - Beatles - White Album
Glenn's new genre "prog/fucked up metal" - Freak Kitchen - Dead Soul Men with a close second by Ron Bumblefoot Thal "Hands"

J-Dubya

Hey we agree on something!!!!!! :hotjump: :hotjump: :hotjump:

 

[Schmeg]

DOH!!!

How could I have forgot Conception's Flow. Yes, definitely. If I had to pick ONE greatest progressive rock/metal album of all time. FLOW!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Hey we agree on something!!!!!! :hotjump: :hotjump: :hotjump:

Heh, I saw that tour 3 times that year (1982)....
There wasn't a bigger Maiden sack-swinger than me back then....
See? I'm not all bad, as long as PoS is left out of the discussion.....

J-Dubya

 

[Taliwakker]

Van Halen-Fair Warning

 

[Greykiller]

Gosh how is it possible to choose just one?

When I think of this question, my immediate response is...it depends on the time of day, the season, my mood, how loud I can play the album...

Over 600 albums in my collection right now--as I said before about 100 prog and 100 metal. The other 400 range from rap to country to classical.
Choosing 1 is impossible. If I had a 6 disc changer in my car, and could ONLY have 6 disks, I would probably have these albums in the player:

Magnitude 9: Decoding the Soul
Digital Ruin: Listen
The Vapors: Magnets
Evergrey: In Search of Truth
Tool: Aenima
Dream Theater: Live at Budakon

...but if you asked me tomorrow I would probably have changed my choices for 5 of those 6 disks...


EDITED because I changed my mind right after the post...

 

[rockyracoon]

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream ( I don't care what you say, there are some great metal moments there)

Most recent addition would be Conception - Flow. That album is just flawless...

 

[Creeps]

Hmmm... care to elaborate on their sound?

A rock band that could thrash w/ talented musicians. Kinley "Barney" Wolfe is an undiscovered (virtually) bass playing phenom, you may have caught him on tour w/ the Cult on the Ceremony tour in which they did do a Lord Tracy song live "Barney's Wank", basically a double bass drum bass-player showcase instrumental type deal.

They had great radio friendly tunes and songs that were just cool. Humor, metal, rock.. all of it.

They had 1 single that got a lot of airplay in Florida "Out With The Boys", a killer thrash tune "Piranha" (shameless plug for the band I'm in we cover it religiously), sappy ballad that has more class than anything that came out pre-hair 1989 called "Foolish Love", 3HC (3 headed chick) humor rap type song.

Saw them live at Summers on the beach, the "drum solo" was the drummer would pick gals out of the audience make them wear hard hats (which were triggered for his drum sound) they'd get on their knees and he'd do the drum solo on their heads.

They were just plain old FUN.

 

[SavaVIDude]

Gosh how is it possible to choose just one?

When I think of this question, my immediate response is...it depends on the time of day, the season, my mood, how loud I can play the album...

Over 600 albums in my collection right now--as I said before about 100 prog and 100 metal. The other 400 range from rap to country to classical.
Choosing 1 is impossible. If I had a 6 disc changer in my car, and could ONLY have 6 disks, I would probably have these albums in the player:

Magnitude 9: Decoding the Soul
Digital Ruin: Listen
The Vapors: Magnets
Evergrey: In Search of Truth
Tool: Aenima
Dream Theater: Live at Budakon

...but if you asked me tomorrow I would probably have changed my choices for 5 of those 6 disks...
Magnitude 9: Decoding the Soul
Digital Ruin: Listen
The Vapors: Magnets
Evergrey: In Search of Truth
Tool: Aenima
Dream Theater: Live at Budakon

EDITED because I changed my mind right after the post...

My suggestion:

Step #1 - Write this list down:

Magnitude 9: Decoding the Soul
Digital Ruin: Listen
The Vapors: Magnets
Evergrey: In Search of Truth
Tool: Aenima
Dream Theater: Live at Budakon

Step 2:

Run your finger down this list.

Step 3

Stop your finger on one line of this list.

Step 4

Congratulation!! You've picked one!!

Just fuckin' with ya, bro!!

Peace,
Chris

 

[Greykiller]

Well, when you put it THAT way...

I would go with Evergrey.

Thing is, if you say "This Album" is the best of all, and grade all other albums on a curve (with "This Album" being 100%), there are about 30 albums that come in at 99.9+% for me...

 

[Kenneth R.]

at the moment:
Unicorn - Emotional Wasteland

 

[KingsGene]

1. Kiss - Alive!
2. Rush - All The World's A Stage
3. UFO - Strangers In The Night
4. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
5. Dream Theater - Images and Words

 

[sccaldwell]

The order might change tomorrow, but for right now it's...

1. Pain of Salvation- One Hour by the Concrete Lake
2. Enchant - Break
3. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
4. Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory
5. Ark - Burn The Sun
6. Conception - Flow
7. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
8. Rush - 2112
9. Vanden Plas - The God Thing
10. Enchant - Juggling 9 or Dropping 10

And though it's too new to justify putting it in my Top Ten ("newness" hasn't completeloy worn off yet), I'm thinking Circus Maximus' "The 1st Chapter" might wind up there one day...it's in my top 20, anyway. Ditto for Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing".

For some less obvious "favorite CD" choices, I'd probably put Triumph's "Thunder Seven" and Winger's "Pull" in my top 25.

Craig

 

[The Coastal King]

For my favourite album, I would nominate...

Dream Theater - Images And Words or Scenes From A Memory
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Nightwish - Century Child
Queensrÿche - Empire or Operation: Mindcrime
Savatage - Streets
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

Some of those albums are at a very high level from start to finish, while others balance out the one or two relatively weaker tracks with a song or two (or three or four) that amazes me.

I will go with Streets, because it is greatness even before it hits the incredible stretch of slow songs that closes out the album, a stretch that is capped with Believe, which never fails to blow me away even after several hundred listens and would make my list of nominees for favorite song of all time.

 

[Bryant]

Same here with honorable mentions


Dream Theater - Images and Words
DIO - Holy Diver
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance

I have so many more

Bear

Excellent choices. Those three would easily make my top twenty.

I would add:

Queensryche - O:M
AC/DC - Back in Black
Vanden Plas - The God Thing
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Accept - Metal Heart and Balls to the Wall
Powermad - ABsolute Power
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - S/T
Pagans Mind - Celestial ENtrance
Evanescence - Fallen

........more that I am forgetting.


Bryant