What are your top 5 albums of all-time?

[I Coulda Hada VH]

I'll go first:

(1) Van Halen - Van Halen
(2) Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
(3) Rubber Soul - Beatles
(4) Hotel California - Eagles
(5) Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith

[VH1986]

5150
Van Halen
Sgt. Pepper
Licensed to Ill
The Joshua Tree

[Al Van Bundy]

1. Boston - Boston (1976)
2. Van Halen - Fair Warning (1981)
3. Rainbow - Rising (1976)
4. Black Sabbath - Volume 4 (1972)
5. King's X - Dogman (1994)

[wombattt]

1. Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

2. Abbey Road - The Beatles

3. Led Zeppelin III- Led Zeppelin

4. Fair Warning - Van Halen

5. Signals - Rush


The last one can change from day to day...between what I posted to The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion - The Black Crowes, The Nightfly - Donald Fagen, Can’t Buy A Thrill-Steely Dan, and about 10 others

[Dave's Dreidel]

I am sure this will change all the time, but here goes, best album in my opinion from each of my five favorite artists:

Van Halen I
Physical Graffiti
Number of the Beast
Moving Pictures
Live at Folsom

[Garywascooltoo]

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Queen - A Day at the Races
Extreme - III Sides
Boston - Third Stage
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

Honorable Mention: Muse - Absolution & Tool - Lateralus

[YankeeRose]

Van Halen - OU812

David Lee Roth - Eat Em' And Smile

The Who - Quadrophenia

Extreme - II Pornographitti

Whitesnake (1987)


Honorable Mentions: Queensryche - Empire, Boston , Journey - Arrival

[DJ Work'in Hard]

VH II
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Rocks - Aerosmith
Desolation Boulevard - Sweet
Lovedrive - Scorpions

[noise next door]

Top 20

1 Fair Warning
2 WACF
3 VH2
4 VH1
5 1984

6 Diver Down
7 The Pretenders
8 Candy-O / The Cars
9 Physical Graffiti
10 Some Girls / Rolling Stones

11 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road / Elton
12 Out of the Cellar / RATT
13 Don't Shoot Me / Elton
14 Zeppelin 4
15 Invasion of Your Privacy / RATT

16 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge / VH
17 Rumours / Fleetwood Mac
18 Madman Across the Water / Elton
19 OU812 / VH
20 Dressed to Kill / KISS

[Simon Ribeiro]

I'd go with:

1 - Van Halen - Fair Warning
2 - Megadeth - Killing is My Business ... And Business is Good
3 - Led Zep - Presence
4 - AC/DC - Flick of the Switch
5 - Tough job here. It has to be a BIG tie:
- Riverdogs - Riverdogs +
- Genesis - Duke +
- DT - 06 Degrees of Inner Turbulence +
- Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry +
- Tesseract - Altered State.

[The Rover]

Top 5 that I'd still listen to today:

1. TSRTS
2. ELP - WBMFTTSTNE:LAG:ELP
3. CHICAGO - AT CARNEGIE HALL
4. C,S,N&Y - 4 WAY STREET
5. GFR - MARK, DON & MEL: 1969-1971