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chreen from In Your Mind Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Jun 6th 2011 at 1:58:46 PM

What is your favorite album by a band/artist's discography.

For me it's

The Beatles - The White Album

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

edited 6th Jun '11 1:58:55 PM by chreen

It's metafiction about metafiction about metafiction. More serious message: Don't you wish you watch everything that happens in the wo
thelittleman66 gobblygoop from Deep in Chris-Chan's ego Since: Mar, 2011
gobblygoop
#2: Jun 8th 2011 at 12:18:55 PM

Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy (for now. II and Physical Graffiti come in a close second)

Metallica- Ride the Lightning (I'm also fond of Justice and DM)

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

Rush- Moving Picture

What do ya mean I ain't kind? Just not your kind...
NWOWWE ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL from E-Town, PA Since: Aug, 2010
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
#3: Jun 8th 2011 at 1:15:46 PM

The Four Tops - Main Street People

The Spinners - Dancin' and Lovin'

edited 8th Jun '11 1:16:00 PM by NWOWWE

cutewithoutthe Góðberit Norðling Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
Góðberit Norðling
#4: Jun 8th 2011 at 1:48:23 PM

Taking Back Sunday- Where You Want To Be

Brand New- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#5: Jun 8th 2011 at 5:36:36 PM

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Machinae Supremacy - Redeemer
Therion - Deggial (yay non-sheep choice)

I guess it is.
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#6: Jun 8th 2011 at 7:04:42 PM

Led Zeppelin - the fourth
Rush - Moving Pictures
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Anthrax - Among the Living
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Yes - Close to the Edge
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

...hey, you asked.

no one will notice that I changed this
OurGLORIOUSLeader Since: Dec, 1969
#7: Jun 8th 2011 at 7:27:06 PM

Brave and bold choices, I know.

edited 8th Jun '11 7:27:12 PM by OurGLORIOUSLeader

DarkDecapodian The Prodigal Returns from the fold Since: Apr, 2009
The Prodigal Returns
#8: Jun 8th 2011 at 10:07:09 PM

Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Pitchshifter - Industrial
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Tool - Undertow
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Dir en Grey - Vulgar

I usually have a definite favourite album of any artist I like, so the list could go on for way longer.

edited 8th Jun '11 10:07:23 PM by DarkDecapodian

Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?
JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#9: Jun 9th 2011 at 1:44:12 AM

Get ready for the memetically blatant:

  • Swans, Soundtracks for the Blind or Swans Are Dead
  • Wire, 154 or Read & Burn 03
  • Coil, Horse Rotorvator or Music to Play in the Dark or Unnatural History II
  • Angels of Light, Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home
  • Sonic Youth, A Thousand Leaves
  • Throbbing Gristle, TG 24 or 20 Jazz Funk Greats
  • Merzbow, Cycle or 1930
  • Current 93, Dogs Blood Rising or Thunder Perfect Mind
  • Bügsküll, Gargamelodies or Snakland
  • The Olivia Tremor Control, Black Foliage Animation Music
  • Neutral Milk Hotel, On Avery Island
  • Nurse With Wound, Spiral Insana or Thunder Perfect Mind
  • Cabaret Voltaire, Methodology: Attic Tapes 1974-1978 or Red Mecca
  • Legendary Pink Dots, Asylum or Chemical Playschool Volumes 11, 12 & 13
  • Jandek, Glasgow Friday or Six and Six

edited 9th Jun '11 1:47:13 AM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
AsTheAnointed Since: Jan, 2010
#10: Jun 9th 2011 at 5:52:28 AM

  • Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
  • Kamelot - The Black Halo
  • Symphony X - The Odyssey
  • Opeth - Blackwater Park
  • Circus Maximus - The First Chapter
  • Ayreon - The Human Equation
  • Sonata Arctica - Unia (a controversial choice, however I think it's an intelligent and evocative album that utterly blows away the cheesy power metal kack that took up most of its predecessors)
  • Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
  • Helios - Caesura
  • Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
  • Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
  • Fightstar - Grand Unification
  • Joe Satriani - The Extremist
  • Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

sca_punk Not-Not-Not Your Academy from sca_punk's computer Since: Apr, 2010
Not-Not-Not Your Academy
#11: Jun 9th 2011 at 2:34:23 PM

Usually with my favorite bands their most acclaimed/classic album is always my favorite, so I'll just list artists where my choice for favorite album is weird:

  • Agalloch - White EP
  • Beck - Modern Guilt
  • The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
  • Fugazi - 13 Songs
  • Kanye West - Graduation
  • mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes
  • My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss EP
  • Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
  • Out Kast - AT Liens
  • Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
  • R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
  • Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
  • The National - Alligator

They're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail. http://www.last.fm/user/sca_punk
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#12: Jun 9th 2011 at 5:24:47 PM

Kanye West - Graduation

That is weird...

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
PadurKaril Bile Connoisseur from San José, CA Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Cigarettes and Valentines
#13: Jun 14th 2011 at 2:16:28 AM

Brand New — Deja Entendu
Showbread — The Fear Of God barely edging out No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical
From First To Last — Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount
Emery — The Weak's End
A Skylit Drive — Adelphia
As Cities Burn — Hell Or High Water
Brave Saint Saturn — Anti-Meridian

I'd rather the world betray me, but I won't betray the world.
HopelessRomance I'm not dead yet! from Minnesota, USA. Since: Mar, 2010
I'm not dead yet!
#14: Jun 14th 2011 at 9:17:04 AM

  • Relient K: Five Score and 7 Years Ago
  • Mika: The Boy Who Knew Too Much
  • Adele: 21
  • Natasha Bedingfield: Unwritten
  • Bowling For Soup: Sorry for Partyin'
  • Mc Frontalot: Secrets from the Future

We're going to spread this shit like Nutella.
TheSanityAssassin My name is awful. from A prison in space Since: Jan, 2010
My name is awful.
#15: Jun 14th 2011 at 1:02:22 PM







Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Pink Floyd - Animals
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who am the Only One
Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock
Black Sabbath gets three.
Ozzy era: Master of Reality
Dio era: Heaven and Hell
Tony Martin era: TYR
Motörhead - Overkill
I'll stop here.

edited 14th Jun '11 1:03:59 PM by TheSanityAssassin

last.fm
Trollage Since: Dec, 1969
#16: Jun 14th 2011 at 11:47:02 PM

KMFDM - Naïve

Best album ever. End of discussion

Tre could be worse from the front to the back, that's where I was at (Unlucky Thirteen) Relationship Status: Singularity
could be worse
#17: Jun 15th 2011 at 12:33:13 PM

I've quite a few.

  • Death Cab For CutieNarrow Stairs
  • The Postal ServiceGive Up (technically their only album but I love it so much it had to be here)
  • Does It Offend You YeahYou Have No Idea...
  • Justin TimberlakeFutureSex/LoveSounds
  • WeezerBlue or Pinkerton
  • Vampire Weekend — Contra
  • RihannaGood Girl Gone Bad
  • Owl CityOcean Eyes
  • Passion Pit — Chunk of Change (technically an EP, but whatever)
  • Daft PunkDiscovery or Alive 2007
  • Calvin Harris — I Created Disco
  • Dntel — Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (as James Figurine)
  • MIAMaya
  • David Guetta — One Love
  • deadmau5 — 4x4=12

edited 15th Jun '11 12:38:58 PM by Tre

oh, that's why I need this binary mind //
CinemaZebra from The Texas Panhandle Since: May, 2011
#18: Jun 15th 2011 at 3:21:07 PM

Cardiacs - On Land And In the Sea
Ruins - Burning Stone
Swans - The Great Annihilator
Wire - Pink Flag
Magma - Live
Eider Stellaire - III

edited 15th Jun '11 3:21:19 PM by CinemaZebra

"My brain used to be a little bitch, so I mugged it's ass." -kegisak
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#19: Jun 15th 2011 at 3:48:20 PM

I'm just gonna take my overall top 10 artists on last.fm and post my favorite album by each:

  • David Bowie - Low *
  • The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
  • Weezer - The Blue Album *
  • They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
  • Ween - The Mollusk
  • Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
  • Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
  • Eels - Electroshock Blues
  • Tom Waits - Rain Dogs *
  • Beck - Odelay

Asterisks denote bands I haven't heard everything by.

I don't think I listen to The Spinto Band quite as much as the charts reflect - I think it's just because I have a bunch of their self-released albums on my computer, and those have a lot of tracks to them.

edited 15th Jun '11 3:50:09 PM by MikeK

KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
Jackass Detector
#20: Jun 15th 2011 at 3:51:50 PM

Discounting the five albums I wouldn't live without:

  • Metallica - ...And Justice for All
  • Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  • Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory EP
  • Death - Symbolic
  • Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
  • Nas - Stillmatic
  • Sadistik - The Balancing Act
  • Nujabes - Modal Soul
  • Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
  • Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.
iamathousandapples The Collective from Northeast Ohio Megablob Since: Oct, 2009
The Collective
#21: Jun 15th 2011 at 5:09:06 PM

Controversial Choices! (Because let's face it, posting the same bands albums just gets boring)

BTBAM: Alaska
Marillion: Season's End
The Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis
Pain Of Salvation: One Hour By The Concrete Lake
Rush: Power Windows
Yes: Going For The One
Barenaked Ladies: Everything To Everyone

edited 15th Jun '11 5:09:23 PM by iamathousandapples

"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl Pilkington
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