Your Top 25 albums from the past 25 years

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

It is time to be brave and declare your top 25 albums from the past 25 years (that is 1985-2010). None of this "honourable mentions" bullshit, just your favourite 25 albums from this time period. If you are braver, you might even put them in order of preference. I am not that brave, therefore I won't. If you like, you can say why you chose a particular album.

Here are mine:

Rasputina - Thanks for the Ether
No other record sounds like this album, though many have tried to replicate it, but failing to notice if you are going to go all period, you can't take it too seriously.

Regina Spector - Soviet Kitsch
Her best album to date, allowing her quirks to flow free, yet they don't overshadow the tunes. Her albums since this magnum opus have failed to reach the heights of this record.

Metallica - Master of Puppets
See Diesel mac for more info.

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Bonkers chicks are hot, especially when they have the tunes to back it up.

Aerosmith - Pump
The pinnacle of their Geffen Years.

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Its pop punk, but holds more catchy songs than any other album I know. It is a monster.

Dave Matthews Band - Crash
Get your Dave on.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Another album that, with the exception of the album that came before it, has no real sonic predecessor. Orginal with a capital "O".

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
I find this album to be more satisfying than his other works.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Bonkers as they are talented. Carla Kihlstedt is also one of my favourite musicians, ever.

Tool - Lateralus
Beast of an album.

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
A great album. It just pips execution... to the post.

Incubus - Morning View
Great to listen to on sunny days.

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Rocking melancholy at its finest.

Alice in chains - Dirt
Seminal rock album of the 90's.

Bjork - Post
Great album. A toss up between this and Vespertine for her best album, but I think I enjoy this a little more.

Nickel Creek - This Side
acoustic goodness.

Pixies - Doolitte
The reason why 80's-90's alternative rock slaps the shit out of the pretenders today. (along with The Replacement's Let it be)

REM - Out of Time
REM - Automatic for the People
These two albums are quite possibly my all-time favourites. Good times.

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Prog-tastic.

Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Pre-solo Ryan Adams. All his whiskeytown material beat his solo output.

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
As far as I'm concerned, this is his best album to date.

Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
Great rock album.

Terrorvision - How to Make friends and influence people
You may laugh, but this album is killer, no filler.


Be brave!:wave:

[The Fraze]

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Its pop punk, but holds more catchy songs than any other album I know. It is a monster.

Nailed it.

[Buzzkill]

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Daft Punk - Discovery
Dr. Dre - 2001
Outkast - Stankonia
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
My Morning Jacket - Z (lots of people hate on this album, but I loved it)
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
The Strokes - Is This It
White Stripes - Elephant
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

Will post more later when I am able to actually think thoughts

[Triple A]

Here are my favs I think

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Notorious BIG - Life After Death
Of Montreal - The Gay Parade
Of Montreal - Aldhils Arboretum
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pixies - Doolittle
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
Saves the Day - In Reverie
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Strokes - Is This It
Sublime - Sublime
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Weezer - Pinkerton

[Buzzkill]

The Knux - Remind me in 3 Days...
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Radiohead - The Bends (didn't like it as much as other radiohead stuff, but it's still a great great album)

[erictheking]

Some really good stuff entered in here:

Smiths - Queen is dead - exceptional!
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Nirvana - Bleach & Nevermind
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for destruction (can I really include Gn'R & Nirvana in the same thread?)
Oasis: definitely/maybe
The Verve - Urban Hymns
RATM: RATM
and from hippy-hoppy
Snoop - doggy style
Onyx - bacdafucup
Cypress Hill - black sunday


25 is pretty hard though - geez

[Kapoutman]

IAM - L'École du Micro D'Argent
IAM - Revoir Un Printemps
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Wyclef Jean - The Carnival
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bran Van 3000 - Glee
Pulp - Different Class
Sublime - 40oz To Freedom
Sublime - Sublime
Shurik'n - Où Je Vis
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Akhénaton - Métèque Et Mat
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
Faf Larage - Ma Cause
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Interpol - Antics
MC Solaar - Prose Combat
Nirvana - Nevermind
Jean Leloup - Le Dôme
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby

[erictheking]

yeah different class - good shout...

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings


Really?

I love RK and that album has some good tunes, but I have always found it to be their weakest album. What about it makes you choose it over The Execution of all Things and More Adventurous?

[Triple A]

Honestly could have gone either way, since I love both of those just about equally as much. Take Offs and Landings was the first album I heard of theirs and the one I have listened to the most and remember immediately "falling in love" with it from the very first track, so had to pick that. Also keep trying to elaborate but sounds so pretentious, but I dunno, all her songs on the first album sound more "innocent"/"simple" or something and I <3 them.

[RP]

this will take me some time

[Bad Company]

I've been meaning to do this for a while. Had one typed up, but lost it.

I'll get started now

1. Crowded House - Woodface
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. Weezer - Pinkerton
4. Weezer - Blue Album
5. Sublime - Sublime
6. NOFX - Punk in Drublic
7. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
8. U2 - The Joshua Tree
9. Tool - Lateralus
10. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
11. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
12. Dr. Dre - 2001
13. Prodigy - Fat of the Land
14. Pendulum - Hold your Colour
15. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
16. Oasis - What's the story morning glory.
17. Rage against the Machine - Rage against the Machine

[The Mask]

images and words is fucking awful. i put it on just last week cause i remember everyone bummed it at college so i bought it to see what the fuss was and hated it then too. pretentious and gay as fuck.

anyway, my albums. i will probably forget a few since i don't have all my mp3s here :'(

nirvana - nevermind
nirvana - incesticide
my bloody valentine - loveless
biffy clyro - infinity land
biffy clyro - vertigo of bliss
biffy clyro - blackened sky
biffy clyro - puzzle
radiohead - the bends
radiohead - kid a
pixies - doolittle
prodigy - fat of the land
failure - fantastic planet
stina nordenstam - dynamite
stina nordenstam - people are strange
sepultura - chaos AD
oasis - definitely maybe
oasis - what's the story (morning glory)
the cure - disintegration
metallica - master of puppets
mad capsule markets - osc dis
the stone roses - self titled
john frusciante - to record only water for 10 days
fleetwood mac - tango in the night
queen - innuendo
pink floyd - a momentary lapse of reason

[FakeLaser]

I'll try...

Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Animal Collective - Feels
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths - The Smiths
Incubus - Morning View
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Madvillain - Madvillany
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Weezer - Pinkerton
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Vol I & II
DJ Shadow - ...Endtroducing
Atlas Sound - Logos
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Cure - Disintegration

[The Mask]

14. Pendulum - Hold your Colour


...fucks sake

[Bad Company]

im still not sure, its just filler for now, will probably get dropped.

[FakeLaser]

Kinda wish I put more rap albums, gonna give a SHOUT OUT to

A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
Outkast - Stankonia
Dr. Dre - 2001
Antipop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
Notorious BIG - Life After Death
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst

As well

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Honestly could have gone either way, since I love both of those just about equally as much. Take Offs and Landings was the first album I heard of theirs and the one I have listened to the most and remember immediately "falling in love" with it from the very first track, so had to pick that.

I get that. More Adventurous was the first album of theirs that I got and is the one that I have listened to the most. That is why I chose it above the others.

[The Mask]

im still not sure, its just filler for now, will probably get dropped.

nah i meant i'd probably maybe have put that in mine :'(

[Bad Company]

It's a very good album. But I also haven't completely thrashed the tits off it in a while, so that's probably why I feel so good about it.

[DaveWadding]

AC/DC – The Razor’s Edge – 1990
Ace Frehley – Anomaly – 2009
Dr. Dre – 2001 – 1999
Evanescence – Fallen – 2003
Flogging Molly – Within a Mile of Home – 2004
Garth Brooks – Fresh Horses – 1995
GNR – Appetite for Destruction – 1987
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son – 1988
Ja Rule – Rule 3:36 – 2000
Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams – 2004
Jay-Z - The Blueprint – 2001
John Mayer Trio – Try! Live – 2005
Judas Priest – Painkiller – 1990
Ludacris – Word of Mouf – 2001
Maroon 5 – Songs about Jane – 2002
Mastodon – Crack the Skye – 2009
Matchbox 20 – Yourself or Someone like You – 1997
Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood – 1989
Nelly – Country Grammar – 2000
P.O.D. – Satellite - 2001
Pearl Jam – Ten – 1991
Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way – 2002
Santana – Supernatural – 1999
T.I. – Urban Legend – 2004
U2 – The Joshua Tree - 1987

I was going to type up comments, but just go ahead and make fun of me now. I pretty much limited it to one album per artist and tried not to cheat by using live records or something.