Getting bored of seeing the same questions on here so I thought I would throw this in the mix.
It’s too hard to pick just 5 though. It’s like asking someone to pick their top 5 porns
2-5. Varies depending on my mood at the time
Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker (Constant rotation all year long. This album speaks to me in a way few ever have.)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Chum - Dead to the World
Honorable mention - The Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas. I am not joking. This whole album is beyond smooth. I have to have that sometimes.
Potential to be a cool thread. Makes you realize how much the music industry has change and how few artists are putting out great albums anymore. It’s all singles. Don’t know if I could name my top five but I’ll try to pick five from different genres that EVERY song on the album is excellent.
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (thanks Jim)
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Sublime - Sublime
Dragged into sunlight - Hatred for Mankind (thanks again)
Andrew Dice Clay - The day the laughter died
Well, I’m 42, so all mine are from the 80s and 90s
Acid Bath-When the Kite String Pops
Nothingface-Audio Guide to Everday Atrocity
Slayer-Seasons in the Abyss
Metallica-Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets
Stuck Mojo-Pigwalk
Since SolRosenberg got to name the first 6 Sabbath albums as one pick and since I can’t limit my picks to specific albums I will just list my go to bands…
good call with Clutch. Easily one of my favorite bands
There are a lot more albums I have fond memories of, but few I come back to again and again.
This is a cool idea for a thread.
Reduced to Ashes by Deeds of Flesh - Brutal death metal at its finest. IMO maybe the best album ever recorded, excellent songwriting, constantly walking the line of chaos and sanity.
Take Care by Drake - Great chill album with lyrics from the heart.
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh by Morbid Angel - While a few songs seem out of place and awkward the main bunch of songs more than makes up for it, experimentation and with some great thought inducing lyrics. Tucker is like an ancient Sumerian god spewing forth litanies.
Souls to Deny by Suffocation - Often overlooked because its not Effigy or Pierced but this album is still very strong and manages to avoid the production problems of Effigy and has Smith as the drummer which Pierced does not. Love the opening riff and how it bookends the album.
Iowa by Slipknot - Raw emotion. One of the few albums that just generally feels ugly, feels like the hate and aggression the band was portraying was real. Also enjoy the nostalgia as I got into this album before I was even quite a teenager.
Live without? All of them. As much as I love music I can go without.
That said, as far reaching as my musical taste hs become, yeah Far Beyond Driven is still a goddamn fucking masterpiece of untouchable caliber, same with Sepultura, Arise.
I listen to a fuckload of music. On any given day I could pick 5 different albums and still end up happy about it.
the Who - Who’s Next
Zepplin - MotherShip
Social Distortion - Live at the Roxy
Chicago - Live at Carnegie Hall (native chicagoian and the political overtones of the album)
AC/DC Back in Black.
That is all, yet these tend to be subjective to the whims of the state of being at the time.
Still, when taking road trips these 5 always travel with me…
In no particular order
Brotha lynch hung-coathanga strangala trilogy(all three count as one)
Hatebreed-rise of brutality
Slayer-every album
Cannibal corpse-kill
Trizz-written in smoke
Anyone else here on that lynch and trizz shit?
Amon amarth any album, every day