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I can't put them in order though.

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Nirvana - Nevermind

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Soundgarden - Ultramega OK

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

The Stooges - Raw Power

NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Leftover Crack - f**k World Trade

Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

Pearl Jam - Ten

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Weezer - Blue Album

Green River - Dry As A Bone/Rehab Doll

Melvins - Houdini

Iron Maiden - Killers

Korn - Korn

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

i don't have the album gene. i like making my own compilations of songs from various albums.

20. Mercury Rev | Yerself Is Steam
19. Enya | Watermark
18. Djam Karet | Reflections From the Firepool
17. Peter Gabriel | Passion (Music for The Last Temptation of Christ)
16. Polvo | Exploded Drawing
15. Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come
14. Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds Of
13. Throbbing Gristle | Second Annual Report
12. This Heat | This Heat
11. Colin Newman | A-Z
10. Joanna Newsom | Ys
9. Pink Floyd | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8. The Mothers of Invention | Freak Out!
7. The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico
6. Leonard Cohen | Songs of Leonard Cohen
5. Anthony Braxton | Saxophone Improvisations Series F
4. Captain Beefheart | Trout Mask Replica
3. Einstürzende Neubauten | Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
2. Neu! | Neu!
1. Tangerine Dream | Zeit

or thereabouts

20 - Terry Bozzio & Billy Sheehan, Nine Short Films
19 - King Crimson, Red
18 - The Beatles, Abbey Road
17 - Badlands, Dusk
16 - King Crimson, Discipline
15 - Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age
14 - Captain Beyond
13 - Chris Poland, Return to Metalopolis
12 - Meshuggah, Obzen
11 - The Mars Volta, Amputechture
10 - Tool, 10,000 Days
09 - Zach Hill, Astrological Straits
08 - Corrosion of Conformity, Deliverance
07 - The Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium
06 - Kyuss, Welcome to Sky Valley
05 - The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute
04 - Billy Cobham, Spectrum
03 - Core, The Hustle is On
02 - The Mars Volta, The Bedlam in Goliath
01 - Hella, There's No 666 in Outer Space

1. Aenima - Tool
2. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
3. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
4. De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
5. OK Computer - Radiohead
6. Lateralus - Tool
7. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
8. Animals - Pink Floyd
9. Silent Shout - The Knife
10. Ten - Pearl Jam
11. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
12. The Alchemy Index, Vol I (Fire and Water) - Thrice
13. Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
14. Kid A - Radiohead
15. Master of Puppets - Metallica
16. Play - Moby
17. Signify - Porcupine Tree
18. 90125 - Yes
19. The Joshua Tree - U2
20. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

in no particular order -

40 oz to freedom - sublime
reign in blood - slayer
straight outta compton - n.w.a
more fun than an open casket funeral - the accused
walk among us, static age, earth a.d. - misfits
the white album - the beatles
master of reality, paranoid - black sabbath
ramones - the ramones
f*ck world trade - leftover crack
no gods/no managers - choking victim
plastic surgery disasters/in god we trust, inc. - dead kennedys
return of the loving dead - nekromantix
killing joke - killing joke
iron maiden - iron maiden
energy - operation ivy
november-coming-fire - samhain
only theatre of pain - christian death

Going purely by last.fm playcounts over the last 12 months



Number 7 is a live bootleg of a performance of the music from the album Have One On Me, which is also at number 13. Counted together they would be at number 1, just barely topping Ladyhawke's self titled debut.

(In no specific order)

Album - Artist

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Den of Thieves - The Trews
Frampton Comes Alive! - Peter Frampton
Exodus - Angel Carson
Puppets in Blood - Theory of Hate
McCartney - Paul McCartney
Iowa - Slipknot
No Guts. No Glory - Airbourne
Rise - The Answer
Any Port in a Storm - The Dirty Heads
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
Leave a Whisper - Shinedown
Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes
Death Magnetic - Metallica
Molly Hatchet - Molly Hatchet
James Gang Rides Again - James Gang
Sound of Madness - Shinedown
Getting Away with Murder - Papa Roach

■ Korn - See You on the Other Side
■ Tool - 10,000 Days
■ Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
■ System of a Down - Mezmerize
■ Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway
■ Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
■ Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
■ Radiohead - The Bends
■ Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
■ Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
■ Dope - No Regrets
■ Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
■ Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
■ Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
■ Blur - Leisure
■ Disturbed - Believe
■ Nirvana - Nevermind
■ Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
■ Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
■ Gorillaz - Demon Days

My top 20 albums (in alphabetical order)
- The Cure - Disintegration
- Emilie Autumn - Opheliac
- Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsies
- Joy Division - Best Of
- King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
- King Missile - Mystical S**t
- KMFDM - Angst
- Korn - Follow The Leader
- Marilyn Manson - Portait Of An American Family
- Metric - Live It Out
- Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Opeth - Still Life
- A Perfect Circle - Emotive
- Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
- Rammstein - Mutter
- Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks...
- System Of A Down - Toxicity
- Tool - Lateralus

In No Real Order, These Were The First Ones That Came to Mind.

1.Nine Inch Nails-Pretty Hate Machine
2.Depeche Mode-Black Celebration
3.Ministry-The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
4.Gary Numan-The Pleasure Principle
5.Nitzer Ebb-Belief
6.Ladytron-Witching Hour
7.Julien-K-Death to Analog
8.Front 242-Front by Front
9.Skinny Puppy-Too Dark Park
10.Kraftwerk-Computer World
11.New Order-Low-Life
12.Depeche Mode-Violator
13.Massive Attack-Mezzanine
14.Front Line Assembly-Tactical Neural Implant
15.Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures
16.VNV Nation-Judgement
17.Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
18.Tones on Tail-Everything!
19.The Sisters of Mercy-Floodland
20.Front 242-Official Version

No particular order, albums I've enjoyed a lot over the years. I tried to leave out "best of" / compilations or DJ mix albums.

New Order - Technique
BT - ESCM
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Portishead - Dummy
Joy Division - Closer
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
Tori Amos - Under The Pink
Electronic - Electronic
808 State - Ex:El
Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
Enigma - MCMXC a.d.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
Candy Dulfer - Saxuality
Kodo - Best Of...
Lisa Ehdahl - When Did You Leave Heaven?
Garbage - Version 2.0
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I might See

I have considered, and of all the albums I've been privileged to listen to I'd say these were the 20 albums I have listened to most often with the most pleasure. Totally self indulgent list making ftw!

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Nirvana - Nevermind
Bjork - Homogenic
Neil Young - Harvest
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
The Beatles - White Album
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Radiohead - The Bends
The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory