If you could only listen to 5 albums for the rest of your life...

which you they be?

Mine are:

1. Frank Sinatra - In the Small Hours

2. The Beatles - The White Album

3. Weezer - Pinkerton

4. Paul's Botique - Beastie Boys

5. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

edited 6th Jun '11 2:00:44 PM by chreen

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Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash

Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock n' Roll

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Bad Religion - Generator

Alice In Chains - Dirt.

edited 6th Jun '11 2:16:40 PM by Jonny0110

Even though I'd inevitably get bored listening to any five albums only...

• Booker T. And the M.G.'s - Green Onions
• Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama!
• John Mayall - Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton
• Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
• Wilson Pickett - The Exciting Wilson Pickett

edited 6th Jun '11 2:32:20 PM by TheGloomer

I find this choice difficult to make...

• Deftones - Diamond Eyes
• Driv3r Soundtrack
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Mastodon - Crack The Skye
• The Protomen - Act II: The Father Of Death

Linkin Park - Linkin Park Underground*

Gorillaz - Demon Days
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Collapse Under the Empire - Systembreakdown
Deftones - Diamond Eyes

edited 6th Jun '11 2:51:35 PM by KitsuneInferno

"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.

• Battles - Mirrored
• Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
• Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
• Owen Pallett - Heartland
• Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites

I think that's a selection of albums that covers some, if not all, of the facets of my musical taste. Not necessarily my 5 favourite albums, but the five that cover the broadest range while still being awesome.

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Good to see Diamond Eyes getting some love. By far my favourite Deftones album.

1. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
2. Dream Theater - Images And Words
3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory
4. Dream Theater - Awake
5. Dream Theater - Octavarium

Why yes, I am a little obsessed

Because I choose to.

1. Rush- Power Windows
2. Depeche Mode- Playing the Angel
3. Homestuck Vol 4
4. Homestuck Vol 2
5. Homestuck Vol 3

I'm the kind of person who listens to individual songs rather than entire albums, even though I try to do the latter.

edited 6th Jun '11 3:30:18 PM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.

• TG 24 As the name suggests, it's 24 hours of Throbbing Gristle
• Anthems - a two disk Best Of collection
• Greatest Shit - a two disk Best Of collection
• Fat of the Land
• Attack Decay Sustain Release

The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.

• The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
• Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
• The Clash - Sandinista!
• Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
• Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

If I'm going to only listen to five albums for the rest of my life, I'm going to have as much variety as possible.

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Have One On Me really is a brilliant album. Didn't realise you were a Joanna Newsom fan!

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Oh, I'm pretty much a fan of anything (that's not Dream Theater)

I prefer Ys, personally, but I'd rather listen to Have One on Me for the rest of my life (because it has more songs and I'm not as familiar with it)

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Three is all I'll need.

1. Merzbow, Merzbox
2. Klaus Schulze, The Ultimate Edition
3. Leslie Howard, Liszt: The Complete Piano Music

Speaking seriously, I have no idea. Maybe the first two of those, actually; sounds like a good life endeavour...

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Hmm... do boxsets count?

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Sorry, but that's cheating, and I kind already just wanted you to list studio albums.

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• Rush - Moving Pictures
• Led Zeppelin - IV
• Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
• Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
• The Beatles - Revolver

Might switch out the Maiden for either Blue Oyster Cult's Secret Treaties or Megadeth's Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?. Yes I am cheating sorta.

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• Queen- Queen
• Ozzy Osbourne- Blizzard of Ozz
• Boston- Boston
• Van Halen- Van Halen
• Reel Big Fish- Cheer Up!

edited 6th Jun '11 9:48:38 PM by 11Numb

• Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
• Mercyful fate - Melissa
• Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
• Manilla Road - The Deluge
• Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

edited 7th Jun '11 2:09:55 AM by brc2000

Took a while, but I finally settled on the following:

• Death — Individual Thought Patterns
• Acid Bath — When the Kite String Pops
• Type O Negative — World Coming Down
• Judas Priest — Sad Wings of Destiny
• Sigur Rós — Takk... (because I need something relaxing and ambient)

last.fm | RYM

1. Kraftwerk - Man-Machine 2. Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg 3. Burzum - Filosofem 4. Summoning - Oath Bound 5. Led Zeppelin - IV

edited 7th Jun '11 6:14:41 AM by accaris

Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Traccion Acustica - Enanitos Verdes

UnPlugged - Soda Stereo

The Joshua Tree - U2

Who's Next/Quadrophenia/Tommy (Whichever of those three. Don't feel like choosing right now) - The Who.

Sadly, I know I will look at this list and go "Duuuuude, why would you choose X when you can have Y?" in a few weeks as my taste changes.

"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.

Right now, I'd probably take... compositions included:

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue / Bedrich Smetana - My Country / Sade - Love Deluxe / Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001 / Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth

edited 8th Jun '11 2:35:37 AM by BrotherGil

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• Darren Criss - Human
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (I find that album comforting)
• Relient K - 5 Score and 7 Years Ago
• Adele - 21
• Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin'

We're going to spread this shit like Nutella.

Okay, so that's gonna be hard because not a lot of my favorite albums are ones that wouldn't make me want to off myself (which is an important thing to consider when you're limiting your music selection for the rest of your life).

• Agalloch - The Mantle (it's depressing but beautiful)
• Autechre - Tri Repetae (just a perfect electronic album)
• Cynic - Focus (blows my mind every time I listen to it)
• Gorguts - Obscura (considered From Wisdom to Hate, but this one just lasts longer)
• Seefeel - Quique (not imperfect, but has some of the most beautiful ambient music I've ever heard)