Favorite album?

[snappydog]

GOT to be Mumford and Sons: Sigh No More. Literally a perfect album.
Coming in not far behind are:
Yoko Shimomura's Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections Field and Battle,
Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles,
Jack Savoretti's Between The Minds,
Muse's Black Holes and Revelations/ Origin of Symmetry/ Showbiz... actually, any Muse album bar Hullaballoo,
Nightwish's Dark Passion Play
and any of Tim Minchin's stuff ever. Yeah, I know his songs are supposed to be funny but they're unbelievably well written too.

 

[mikev7.0]

It would be very tough to pick my actual favorite so I'll just go with what's played the most right now: Gordon by the Barenaked Ladies.

 

[xqxm]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii

 

[larysalove]

Taras Kurchyk's Пісні Твоєї України Все по-новому. Every song is great and upbeat and most importantly Ukrainian.

Other than that, The Wall, pretty much anything queen has ever put out, Rosenrot, Hybrid Thoery, and Bon Jovi. Yea pretty much all of it.

 

[ntw3001]

Casanova by The Divine Comedy.

 

[Bored otter]

Rise against - The unraveling

 

[Randomtime]

Tough, current favourites are:

Orphaned Land: The never ending way of ORwarriOR
Iced Earth: The Dark Saga
Sonata Arctica: Reckoning Night
Blind Guardian: Nightfall in Middle Earth
Pink Floyd: Dark side or Wish you were here, depends
Queensrÿche: Operation: Mindcrime

 

[Caligulove]

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol

Either of those two

 

[MrGseff]

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Ben Konstantinovic - Rain Before the Storm EP
R.E.M - Out of Time

 

[Yopaz]

Either:
The Sufferer and the Witness - Rise Against

Start Something - Lostprophets
or
Toxicity - System of a Down

Leaning towards the middle one, but in truth I've never been good at being decisive...

I'd say Siren Song of the Counter Cult was stronger, but The Sufferer And The Witness is really great. Had the polished sound and several good songs. It's kinda hard to pick out one that's better than the other. Give It All and State of The Union on the first, Survive and The Good Left Undone on the other.

Welcome To the Masquerade - Thousand Foot Krutch. It's not the album with the music I like the best, but it's the album which I think reeks the most of talent from all the albums I like.

Either The Terror State or The Bright Lights of America by Anti-Flag. It's too hard to pick between the two since I like the way they experiment with their style in the latter and both albums got some solid material.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Master of Puppets; Ride the Lightning - Metallica
No Control - Bad Religion
The Beatles/White Album - The Beatles
Order of the Black - Black Label Society
The Poison - Bullet For My Valentine
Fiction - Dark Tranquillity
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
War is the Answer; Way of the Fist - Five Finger Death Punch
A Sense of Purpose; Soundtrack to Your Escape; Whoracle - In Flames
The Number of the Beast; Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons
Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
The Sufferer and the Witness - Rise Against
The Art of War - Sabaton
Over the Top - White Wizzard

What's that, "narrow your selections"? Pssh, no thanks.

 

[donatboy]

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Holy Diver - Dio

 

[WinterOrbit]

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Opeth - Still Life
Cynic - Traced In Air
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

You are rad. I'll add to this:

Picaresque by the Decemberists
Lateralus by Tool
In Absentia by Porcupine Tree
Hypersomnia by Entertainment for the Braindead

 

[CorruptedCow]

Lasers by Lupe Fiasco

 

[Blondi3]

Americana, by The Offspring

Smash is my favorite but Americana is right behind.

Muse - Showbiz/ Origin of Symmetry.

This too.

 

[Matthew Wilson]

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro

 

[Marcus McLean]

Chinese Democracy

 

[Valkyrie101]

... and we have a winner.

I'd also suggest Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and A Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden, but nothing really comes close to Painkiller.

 

[Jerious1154]

My all-time favorite is most definitely In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's the only album where I can't think of a single thing that could be changed or improved in any way.

Other close seconds:
Tigermilk - Belle and Sebastian
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Separation Sunday - The Hold Steady
Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
The Tyranny of Distance - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
The Monitor - Titus Andronicus

 

[JBGigas]

Opeth - Still Life
Opeth- Ghost Reveries
Tool - Lateralus
Muse - The Resistance (Yes, I think it's the best)
Slayer - Reign in Blood
The Decemberist - The Crane Wife
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Dio - Holy Diver
Moonsorrow - Chapter 5, Ravaged