Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Beatles - white album

um, theres more but cant think right now

Sonic Youth - Sister
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Velvet Underground - VU

Urusei Yatsura - We are...
Stony Sleep - A Slack Romance
The Carpenters - Singles '69 - '73
Ground Zero - Plays Standards
Atari Teenage Riot - Delete Yourself

Not my actual top 5 albums. Some records I don't listen to that often because they're far too good.

Any five Elvis Costello albums. I'll take a bad EC over a good just-about-anyone else anyday. 'Cause I'm a freak.

ps-(I imidiatly thought of a Pavement album, but couldn't pick one. They've never made a solid, consistent masterpiece. Always gotta fast forward a few.)

Jackie-o Motherfucker--Flags of the Sacred Harp
Cat Power--Moon Pix
Sleater Kinney--Dig Me Out
Rachel's--Systems/Layers
Mirah--Advisory comittee

tough choices

Add the following:
the Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

5 more......

Eyehategod- Dopesick
Descendents- Milo Goes to College
Turbonegro- Ass Cobra
The Melvins- Houdini
Dr.Dre- The Chronic

never get sick of these

Gotta add some more to my list:

George Harrison - Living in the Material World
& the first three Wire albums

Animal Collective - Feels
Radiohead - Kid A
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
My bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation/Goo
Liars - Drums Not Dead

Elvis Costello-This Year's Model
Radiohead-The Bends
The Beatles-The Magical Mystery Tour
Faith No More-AngelDust
The Ravonettes-Pretty in Black

Sonics - BOOM
Sonic Youth - BMR
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
Dead C - White House

Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) - Venomous Villain
Stereolab - Sound Dust
Miles Davis - Silent Way Sessions

Sonic Youth - Dirty
Beck - Sea Change
Elliott Smith - XO
Jesus Lizard - Blue
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

Very hard to narrow down...

can i just say norma j, you have terrific taste in music

SY - Goo
Nirvana - Bleach
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
Mudhoney - Mudhoney
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

Sonic Youth - EVOL
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Sods - Under En Sort Sol
The Cure - Pornography
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity

Sonic Youth - 'Daydream Nation'
The Smashing Pumpkins - 'Siamese Dream' / 'MCIS'
The Beatles - 'White Album'
Pink Floyd - 'Dark Side of the Moon'
My Chemical Romance - 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' (I dont care what anyone says they rock!)

If Could have more that 10, the list would be endless; Radiohead, The Beach Boys, more Beatles, The Mars Volta, John Cage, Bob Marley, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Shostakovich (even though its not an album, I can never get bored of the Leningrad symphony)

Gracing the turntable recently:

Sparks - Kimono My House
STNNNG - Fake Fake
Wire - Chairs Missing
Led Zeppelin - IV

and on CD: Mudhoney - Superfuzz etc ... hits
Pussy Galore - Exile on Main Street

Less recently, but still so good:

Cream - Disraeli Gears
George Harrison - Living in the Material World
Redd Kross - Third Eye
Nirvana - Bleach
Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic

Runners up: Dwarves (Blood... and Must Die), American Hardcore, Flipper (Blow n Chunks), Black Sabbath (first two), David Bowie (Let's Dance, and Ziggy), and T. Rex (Electric Warrior, and Slider)

OH! And the new Yo La Tengo is really, really good!

The Beatles
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Sister
My Favorite Things (John Coltrane Quartet)
Reckoning (R.E.M.)

Did I forget to mention L7 Smell the Magic? I did.

L7 - Smell the Magic. A while ago, though, but it was in my player a lot.

Classic!

My Favorite Things ( Coltrane ) ... yes I copied but doesn't like this classic ?
Mutations (Beck)
Some Boots (Karate )
Sonic Nurse
Johannes Brahms, piano music by Kempff
...

You'll hear no objections from me, for one, on anything by Coltrane. I worship the man.

sister-sonic youth
daydream nation-sonic youth
the velvet underground and nico
you're living all over me-dinosaur jr.
loveless-my bloody valentine

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Sun Ra - Space is the Place
Legendary Pink Dots - Poppy Variations
Wire - 154
Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet

High Rise - Live
The Stooges - The Stooges
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
The Velvet Underground - The velvet Underground and Nico
Television - Marquee Moon

I'd like to add The Stooges - Funhouse to my list. Amazing.

Just what I was about to say!

Nice! I just heard it on christmas for the first time, and it grew on me so much since

The Stooges - Funhouse
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Chopin - Complete Nocturnes

and..... I can't decide on a fifth at the moment.

I can't pick 5 at the moment either...

One that I have been listening to a lot recently after owning it for years is Locust Abortion Technician by The Butthole Surfers

Bill Evans - Live at Montreux
Gilberto/Getz
Beck - One foot in the grave
Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
SY - DDN or NYCG&F, depends on the mood.

Really tough call though, as Bob Hund's "Omslag: Martin Kann" and Amon Tobin "Supermodified" are still regularly in my cd player years after their purchase

I have a friend who really likes Bob Hund and thus I have heard them a few times. They did a so-so cover of Pere Ubu's Final Solution if I remember rightly.

Sorry, rubbish post.

Indeed, and you're right, it's not their best song, though it came out on a slightly obscure 5-song ep. You can see the video here.

Graham Coxon covered them - in swedish! - on some Peel Session a few years back, the song was "Min Trampolin". Quite interesting.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Yanqui U.X.O.
Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra + Tra-La-La Band ~ Horses in the Sky
Every Sonic Youth album, to be honest...
At The Drive-In ~ Relationship Of Command
Both Neutral Milk Hotel albums.

You got the rest of ATD-I catalogue, k-krack?

If not, you should. It's all good.

John Zorn - Naked City
Toshinori Kondo - Fukyo (call me crazy...)
GSBE! - any album really
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Pavement - Crooked Rain

-I base these on the fact that they have all been in my 6 disc changer for a while, and I only have one slot that I change CD's in now...

bump, cause it's a decent thread