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***** Albums in Your Collection

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Guest I Got Banned for Sucking

Yeah, I'd pretty much have to agree with AoO about the quality of the CDs in my entire collection.

 

Some more...

 

Queen - Greatest Hits

Nirvana - Nevermind

REM - Out of Time

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy/Yield

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

U2 - Achtung Baby

Björk - Post

Portishead - Dummy

Silverchair - Frogstomp

Blur - Parklife

Daft Punk - Homework

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining

Gomez - Bring It On

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

The Offspring - Americana (pending)

Van Halen - 1984

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Mark King - Trash

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

The Who - Tommy

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Powderfinger - Internationalist

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I'm going to avoid the obvious Beatles, REM, Clash, U2, etc. albums that have already been mentioned and go with these two gems:

 

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

This album is so damn beautiful. It has a great flowing sound, a beautiful theme, thoughful lyrics, and a great voice. It's timeless.

 

Reflections Eternal by Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek

This is hip-hop. Thought-provoking lyrics as always from Kweli. Great flow, greats beats (got to give it up to Hi-Tek.

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Gotta go with:

 

Nirvana: both In Utero and Nevermind

Offspring: Smash, Ixnay

Rancid: And Out Come the Wolves (I don't care for much of their stuff but this CD is awesome)

Green Day: Dookie, and also the early 1039 Slappy Hours or whatever it was called...it's a bunch of EPs

Black Sabbath: basically anything from Paranoid through Sabotage.

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Guest I Got Banned for Sucking
Gotta go with:

 

Nirvana: both In Utero and Nevermind

Offspring: Smash, Ixnay

Rancid: And Out Come the Wolves (I don't care for much of their stuff but this CD is awesome)

Green Day: Dookie, and also the early 1039 Slappy Hours or whatever it was called...it's a bunch of EPs

Black Sabbath: basically anything from Paranoid through Sabotage.

cabbageboy, have you heard Nimrod?

 

I'd say that it's up there aswell. Pretty much everything before Warning is.

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Guest Agent of Oblivion

Oh I don't agree about the quality of your cd collection at all.

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Guest I Got Banned for Sucking
Oh I don't agree about the quality of your cd collection at all.

Who's, cabbageboy's?

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Nevermind had the influence on a generation because of some different and nifty riffs, but it was a half decent record at best. In Utero was a better album overall.

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Well, to me In Utero is the better overall album. Nevermind is more of a collection of singles.

 

And Nimrod? I have the CD but it's never struck me as anything classic. Decent stuff but there's quite a bit of filler, or at least stuff that didn't make any impression.

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I thought Nimrod was an awesome album - some very underrated tunes on there, Uptight being one of them.

 

Some songs that you hear, listen to repeatedly for a while, forget about, put on the CD on and remember.

 

At least for me.

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Yeah Uptight was a nice song and King For a Day was also cool, but Nimrod is just one of those albums you sorta forget about and then put on one day and say "Hey this is decent." In other words it's about a ***1/2 album, not a *****.

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Guest The Winter Of My Discontent
Collective Soul- Self Titled

oh COME ON!!!!!!

 

I stood idly by while people pimped Green Day as ***** stars, but this?

 

Bah.

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Guest Agent of Oblivion

Blink 182 and Linkin Park were the two worst things mentioned, although Collective Soul is really really terrible.

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3 Doors Down - The Better Life

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants & Jacket

Green Day - Dookie

Pearl Jam - 10

Nirvana - Unplugged

STP - Core

Eminem - The Eminem Show

Metallica - Metallica

Offspring - Americana

Staind - Break the Cycle

Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

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I think that some people here and I have extremely different standards for what makes a 5* album.

 

But the ones from my collection that I would consider are:

 

Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Pink Floyd - Animals, Wish You Were Here & Dark Side (I might be a bit generous with Floyd)

 

And maybe the Pixies - Doolittle.

 

To be 5*, every song must be great.

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What qualifies *****? Just being critically acclaimed or widely praised?

 

Out of my collection, I'd say:

 

Master of Puppets and The Black Album - Metallica

Ten - Pearl Jam

1984 - Van Halen

Dookie - Green Day

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Guest The Winter Of My Discontent
3 Doors Down - The Better Life
You might as well be deaf

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3 Doors Down - The Better Life

Staind - Break the Cycle

Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

Damn AoO, and you thought that Blink-182 Linkin Park were the worst things mentioned...

 

I don't mean to rip you Jack, but 3 Doors Down and Limp Bizkit? You've got some great albums on your list, but those? Yikes.

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Jack, you've got some fun albums on your list, but majority of them don't come close to *****.

 

C Dubya and LPYC, That's some ***** shit. Same with you, JM.

 

How could I forget these two?:

 

System of a Down - both Toxicity and Steal This Album! A truly amazing band, two truly amazing albums.

 

Haven't heard their self-titled LP in it's entirety as yet.

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If I were to name names, the ones that stand out to me in my collection first are:

 

Black Sabbath's Self-titled

Tool-Undertow and Lateralus

Frank Zappa-Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti, and Freak Out

Sgt. Peppers, Revolver, White Album (token three)

 

Trout Mask Replica. I put this here because every person I've played it for has hated the shit out of it. However, I find it to be an astounding work of art that doesn't sound like ANYTHING else that has ever been recorded. It's proving itself to be one of the most influential things in my collection.

 

Ween-The Pod. Right the fuck on.

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Guest I Got Banned for Sucking

Alright AoO, it's official - when you die, I want your CDs.

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Guest I Got Banned for Sucking

Who would you pass it down to when you died?

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Guest I Got Banned for Sucking

Ok, here's another load:

 

The Clash - The Clash

Weezer - Pinkerton

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers/Their Satanic Majestie's Request

The Beatles - Rubber Soul/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heats Club Band

Bob Dylan - Desire

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

REM - Automatic for the People

The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

Suede - Suede

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists

Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Nirvana - In Utero

Happy Mondays - Pills n' Thrills and Bellyaches

Pulp - This is Hardcore

Travis - The Man Who

Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A./Starsailor

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Maiden of the Cancer Moon

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

The Who - The Who Sell Out

The Darkness - Permission to Land

The Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension

 

That'll do for now...

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Just remembered a few more I want to put in...

 

The Go-Betweens- Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express

Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible

Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska

Foo Fighters- The Colour And The Shape

Therapy?- Troublegum

Idlewild- Hope Is Important

Garbage- Garbage

Jimmy Eat World- Clarity

Funeral For A Friend- Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation

At The Drive-In- Relationship Of Command

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SOAD best album is their Self Titled. Toxicity is just a mediocore album, while many people bought the album thinking its the most hardcore thing they have ever heard. Steal This Album...well the title speaks for itself, because the effort in stealing the album is not worth it.

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Jack, you've got some fun albums on your list, but majority of them don't come close to *****.

 

C Dubya and LPYC, That's some ***** shit. Same with you, JM.

 

How could I forget these two?:

 

System of a Down - both Toxicity and Steal This Album! A truly amazing band, two truly amazing albums.

 

Haven't heard their self-titled LP in it's entirety as yet.

You're lucky you said you liked Bonnie Tyler, or else *shakes fist in anger*

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After scanning my collection, I found a few more:

 

The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers

The Who- Tommy

Cream- Disraeli Gears

The Black Crowes- amorica

The Roots- illadelph halflife

Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

The Mars Volta- de-loused in the comatorium

Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique

Liz Phair- Exile in Guyville

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