Top Music Albums

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Being someone who buys whole albums while only knowing one or two songs has disappointed me at times but greatly pleased me at others, because some albums only have one or two good songs on them while others are great all throughout. That's what made me think of making a topic like this. I'm curious what your top music albums are. So, what are your top 10 music albums?

Here's mine:
Waiting for My Rocket to Come-Jason Mraz
We Sing We Dance We Steal Things-Jason Mraz
Hopes and Fears-Keane
Perfect Symmetry-Keane
Clarity-Jimmy Eat World
Continuum-John Mayer
Come Away With Me-Norah Jones
Closer-Josh Groban
Awake-Josh Groban
All That You Can't Leave Behind-U2
(feel free to put things like greatest hits cds, movie/game soundtracks, etc.)

Also, I discovered a new band called The Airborne Toxic Event. Does anyone have their debut album yet? I just ordered it.

[Doan the Nado]

All of the Led Zeppelin and Rush albums I have are well-put-together, with me liking pretty much every song on the album.

The same is true to a lesser extent for Sublime, Megadeth, Metallica, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix (especially "Are You Experienced").

Some other great albums from my collection:
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (or simply their Greatest Hits album, which is better than AfD)
Godsmack - The Other Side (good acoustic versions of many of their best songs) and IV
The Juno Soundtrack
the Music from the OC albums have a ton of good indie music (It's true! Listen to them before you make fun of me
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (not the greatest music, but an interesting album because it tells a story)
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Tenacious D - both of their albums are a good listen
Flight of the Conchords - along with Tenacious D, funny songs and pretty solid albums
Eagles - The Very Best Of (it's kind of cheating to include a greatest hits album, but this is one of the best GH albums ever)
Van Halen - Van Halen
Audioslave - Audioslave
ilyAIMY - any of their albums (a really cool acoustic-rock band from Maryland with great girl and guy lead singers)
Eric Clapton - Unplugged, From the Cradle (both are pretty good)
Weezer - The Blue Album
Bob Marley - Legend
Simon and Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced lehnerd skinnerd
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Cream - Wheels of Fire

[The Smurf]

Wow, I wouldn't even know where to begin. I've amassed quite a collection over the years, and I tend to just upload full albums to my computer even if I only know a single song by the artist. Let me see:

The entire Rush discography is spectacular
Blues Traveler - Straight on Till Morning
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Live - The Distance to Here
Jimmy Eat World - Futures (still an all-time favorite)
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Dio, Blue Oyster Cult, Genesis, Black Crowes - respective Greatest Hits albums
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
Incubus - Light Grenades
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops (though the rest of their stuff is damn good, too)
Silvertide - Show & Tell (I fear they've broken up, but they kicked ass)
The White Stripes - Elephant (nothing they've done previously or since has come close to touching this one)

Those are just the "masterpieces" in my opinion. There's a ton of other stuff out there that I love. Music rocks.


-the smurf

[Doan the Nado]

If we're talking greatest hits albums, these are definitely the best hits albums in my collection. I have since replaced a few (GnR, Cream, SRV, Skynyrd... GnR wasn't really worth it but the rest were) with the band's entire collection of original albums.

Blue Oyster Cult - The Essential Blue Oyster Cult
The Eagles - The Very Best Of
Guns N Roses - Greatest Hits
The Who - My Generation: The Very Best of the Who
Cream - Gold
Counting Crows - Films about Ghosts: The Best Of
Pearl Jam - rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003
The Cranberries - Gold
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits
John Fogerty - The Best Of: The Songs of John Fogerty
Tom Petty - Greatest Hits
Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection
Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You
Staind - The Singles: 1996-2006
Steve Miller Band - The Best of 1968-1973 & Greatest Hits 1974-78
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
UB40 - The Very Best of UB40 1980-2000
Bob Seger - Greatest Hits & Greatest Hits 2
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold
Bob Marley - Legend (technically a hits album although people generally refer to it as an album unto itself)

Oh, and I forgot to include Beck's Odelay in my first post, that is a great original album as well.