In no particular order...

1)The Clash - London Calling

2)U2 - The Joshua Tree

3)Pink Floyd - The Wall

4)Pink Floyd - Animals

5)Elvis Presley - The Sun Records

6)The Allman Bros. - Live at the Fillmore

7)Kiss - Alive!

8)Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

9)The Black Crows - Self-Titled

10)Led Zeppelin - Self-Titled

11)Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

12)Van Halen - Fair Warning

13)AC/DC - Back In Black

14)Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell

15)Dio - Inferno: Last In Live

16)The Beatles - The White Album

17)Yes - Fragile

18)SRV - The Real Deal:Greatest Hits Vol.2

19)The Cult - Electric

20)Soundgarden - Superunknown

They say the first thing to go as you get older is your memory and I forget what the second is. On that note, here is my top 20, in no particular order.

Blues Brothers - Briecase Full of Blues

Queen - The Game

Huey Lewis - Sports

Harry James - King James Version

Pavoratti, Domingo & Carreras - The Three Tenors

Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

Anything Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Big Band in general.

Anything, Sinatra, Bennett, Dino, etc.

Anything, Elvis, Holly, Domino, Platters, Berry, etc.

Did I mention Classical? Rossini, Vivaldi, Mozart, the killer B's, Schubert, etc.

I'm leaving out a ****load of others in almost every music genre except Rap, forget Rap.

I forget the rest...what was this thread about anyway?

1- Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run

2- John Mellenkamp- Rain On the Scarecrow

3- The Doors- The Doors

4- Van Morrison- Astral Weeks

5- Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon

6- The Beatles- Revolver

7- David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust

8- CCR- Green River

9- Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

10- Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town

11- U2- The Joshua Tree

12- The Band- The Band

13- The Allman Bros.- Eat a Peach

14- The Eagles- Desperado

15- Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin

16- Queen- A Night at the Opera

17- The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds

18- Van Morrison- Moondance

19- Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic

20- Bruce Springsteen- The River

Not really a top 20, Just the rock albums I probably listen to the most.

Led Zeppelin I

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin Presence

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Phish Rift (rock???)

Van Halen Van Halen

Montrose Montrose

Accept Restless and Wild

Black Sabbath Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath Masters of Reality

Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell

UFO Strangers in the Night

Iron Maiden Piece of Mind

Aerosmith Rocks

Scorpions Lovedrive

Judas Priest Britsh Steel

Not sure about top 20

Anything by Sones, favorites "Some Girls" and "Let it Bleed"

Anything by Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Dean Martin

Most Van Morrison CD's

Dire Straits

BB King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters!

Steve Miller Band

Queen

Talking Heads

Eric Clapton-especially Pilgrim

Bruce Springsteen

Damn that is way over 20, sorry but I like those folks!

Charlie

I'm seeing some that didn't make it on my list but man it was hard to leave them off...Led Zepplin III and Physical Graffiti (This album personally got me through some tough times and I would have included it on my top twenty except for the unbelievably long and utterly boring Kasmir...that song was bad enough without seeing Jimy Page playing alongside P. Diddy) and the other one that almost made it was the Allman Brothers live from the Fillmore East (Whipping Post was the third song they played during the reception of our wedding after we danced to Harvest Moon by Neil Young and Thank You by Led Zepplin)

Top 20? Criminy that's tough. Well, here's a sampling, anyway:

Deep Purple Made in Japan

Pink Floyd Wish you were Here

Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Jethro Tull Broadsword and the Best

Rainbow Long Live Rock and Roll

Frank Marino Live

Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire

Rainbow Live

Steve Morse High Tension Wires

Black Sabbath Sabotage

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd Divsion Bell

Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood

Deep Purple Machine Head

Dixie Dregs Industry Standard

Deep Purple Burn

Dixie Dregs Dregs of the Earth

Yngwie Malmsteen Marching On

Frank Marino What's Next?

Allan Holdsworth Sand

Don't know if I have a top 20, as I listen to mostly jam bands, Live Stuff.

I do occassionaly listen to a very large album collection.

Frank Zappa (Were only in it for the money)

Frank Zappa (weasels ripped my flesh)

The Doors (Strange Days)

Ronnie James Dio (Holy Diver)

The Cars (The Cars)

Styx (Pieces of eight)

Rush (2112)

Rush (Permanent Waves)

Yes (Toramato)

Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon)

John Prine (Prime Prine)

Frank Zappa (Joes Garage Acts 1 2 3)

Led Zepplen I

Jimmy Hendrix (Axis Bold as Love)

Jimmy Hendrix (Are you Experinced)

Oh well, you get the idea.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

This is a little different, I have in my spare time put together a personal list of Metal albums that I felt gave a good taste of different styles and changes over the years. It's never done, and I couldn't make it a top 20 so as of today...

1. Black Sabbath – Paranoid (1971)

2. Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972)

3. AC/DC – Back in Black (1980)

4. Motorhead – No Sleep‘til Hammersmith (1981)

5. Ozzy Osbourne – Diary of a Madman (1981)

6. Venom – Black Metal (1982)

7. Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast (1982)

8. Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break the Oath (1984)

9. Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith (1984)

10. S.O.D – Speak English or Die (1985)

11. Slayer – Reign in Blood (1986)

12. Metallica – Master of Puppets (1986)

13. Guns and Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987)

14. Suicidal Tendencies – How will I laugh tomorrow…(1988)

15. Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness (1989)

16. Godflesh – Street Cleaner (1990)

17. Death Angel – Act III (1990)

18. Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger (1991)

19. White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 (1992)

20. Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power (1992)

21. Carcass – Heartwork (1996)

22. Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (1996)

23. Type O Negative – October Rust (1996)

24. Rage Against the Machine – Battle of Los Angeles (1999)

25. Rammstein – Mutter (2001)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Box set (or all albums)

The Dead - All Dicks Picks

Led Zep - I

Led Zep- II

Led Zep - IV

Led Zep - Physical Grafiti

Jeff Beck - Truth

Joe Walsh - Look What I've Done

Janes Addiction - Nothings Shocking

Sublime - 40oz to Freedom

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk

Stones - Exile on Main Street

Stones - Some Girls

Stones - Sticky Fingers

.......I think I'm over 20??

Nirvana - Nevermind

Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-1978

Metallica - And Justice for All

Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits

Korn - Korn

Korn - Life is Peachy

Stutterfly - Broken In Pieces

OnceOver - These Precious Days

Trivium - Ascendancy

Nothingface - Skeletons

Chimaira - The Impossibility of Reason

Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by 4 Cellos

Tool - Undertow

Staind - Dysfunction

Pearl Jam - Ten

Queen - Greatest Hits 1, 2

From Autumn to Ashes - The Fiction We Live

36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance

Damn, there are some good listings above, but I am just more into blues/jazz/and saloon music!

Forgot Louis Prima and Keely Smith....just about anything!

Also like most blues artist and just love Billie Holliday music. Etta James, Tina Turner, Edith Pifaf among others!

How can you leave Johnny Cash and George Strait off any list, and Randy Travis, oh and David Allen Coe, Jerry Jeff Walker and Kinky Friedman!>??!?

Music appreciation covers a wide range and I have never heard anything that can replace Ole Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra for clairity and quality! But really dig Nat King Cole as well....rambling now, go smoke a cigar and have a drink! OK

Charlie

I haven't bought an album in 20 years, but quickly from memory (and my 8track tape collection).

The Cars- The Cars

Cheap Trick- LIVE at Budakon (for proper spelling, ask adroomi).

Def Leppard- Pyromania

AC/DC- Dirty Deeds

Queen- Greatest Hits

Billy Joel- Greatest Hits (before he found C Brinkley and got all messed up).

KC & The Sunshine Band- Part 3

The Knack- Get the Knack

Devo- Freedom of Choice

38 Special- Wild Eyed Southern Boys

Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits

Rolling Stones- Tattoo You

ELO- Greatest Hits

Ramones- Ramones

The Who- Face Dances

Soundtrack from The Blues Brothers.

Rick Springfield- Working Class Dog

Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Greatest Hits

Bob Seger and Silver Bullett Band- Nine Tonight

REO Speedwagon- Hi Infidelity

Good luck psycho-analyzing that group of songs. I left Best of ABBA out because I thought I might get flamed for that one.

I cannot post a top 20.. they continue to revolve daily and I've got tons of music that changes by how the day has been???

Hog

8trackdisco,

You are worried about getting flamed for ABBA but not KC and the Sunshine Band?

Van Morrison- Astral Weeks

Too lazy to compile a list tonight, but nothing else even comes close to this.

Hey 8track, do they still make albums? I laughed when you said you went through your 8track collection then I realized....I still have a handfull of 8tracks that have never been opened, wrapped in plastic. And I still have an 8 track player. I guess I can sell them as antiques soon.

Uncleb,

So, you have ABBA slated above KC & The Sunshine Band? Glad you gave it some thought. I can live with that decision 🙂

John Hay,

No albums. But the worst 8track ever- Styx Paradise Theatre. Not because of the music, but because 3 songs got cut in half. Hated that, it really ruined my mood- rolling down the highway in my 81 white, rusted, Honda Civic. I had the world by the ass.

Had a hard time getting the ladies though.. Go figure.

(Maybe it was my Kraco Power Booster).

Criminy, I KNEW I'd foget a couple unforgettables in my list above. I have to add:

Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue (If you haven't heard this, get it quick!)

Pink Floyd The Wall

Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs

Rainbow Rainbow Rising (Stargazer is a favorite!!)

Frank Marino The Power of Rock N Roll (Great driving music)

Also in no particular order:

Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting

The Cure- Disintegration

Joy Division- Closer

The Misfits- Legacy of Brutality

Morrissey- Bona Drag

The Smiths- Strangeways Here We Come

The Cult- Electric

Depeche Mode- 101

The Cure- Pornography

Metallica- Kill Em All

Joan Osborne- Relish

Counting Crows- August and Everything After

Bob Marley- Uprising

Faith No More- Angel Dust

Cowboy Junkies- Trinity Sessions

Danzig 2- Lucifuge

Danzig 3- How the Gods Kill

Danzig 4

Madness- One Step Beyond

Hole- Live Through This

Marilyn Manson- Mechanical Animals

For a total of 21.

Honorable Mention: Guns N Roses- Appetite for Destruction

J