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Not your top 5, not your top 10. Narrow it down to your top 3. For some reason I was thinking about it on the way home, and though I had to weed out 2 albums, I narrowed it down to my favorite 3 albums. I based it on the amount of time I spent listening to them, and the quality of the albums from start to finish. I can pretty much listen to these albums all the way through at any time and not have to skip around.
Of course, I'm dating myself here as we all may with this. In no particular order:
Tupac Shakur - Me Against The World Orgy - Candyass B.O.N.E. - E. 1999 Eternal
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B.O.N.E. - E. 1999 Eternal
Did I ever mention I went to high school with the members of Bone? Used to sit at the other end of the long table as them at lunch, even back then they were always beating on the tables and working on rhymes.
Ok but to my picks
Wisconsin Death Trip-Static X Machine-Static X Aaron Lewis' acoustic album(cant remember the exact name)
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I do believe I remember you talking about that in the past. I loved that album. It has probably about as unique- and eery- a sound that you'll find in a hip hop album.
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Very tough to name favorite albums. But here are the three albums that I have that I have enjoyed the most over the past however-many years of my life:
1. Grateful Dead "Europe '72"
It's a live album that is freaking awesome. Double CD of goodness.
2. Rawkus presents Soundbombing II
This was from the golden age of east coast underground rap. When this album came out Rawkus had a roster of rappers, DJ's and MC's that is legendary. The whole album plays like a mixtape with each track having a full-length intro with beat-juggling and general sweetness.
3. DJ Shadow vs. Cut-chemist "Product Placement"
This album came out with an extremely limited release, with only 6000 original copies pressed. The album is a collection of old school soul and jazz samples that play out into a catchy album with two 30 minute sets. I have burned copies of this CD for several people with all sorts of musical tastes and everyone always comments on the intensity and inventiveness that are showcased by these two DJ's.
***Bonus***
David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars"
This is the first album I ever owned. My old man bought it for me when I first got a boombox. The whole album is great---and it is by far my favorite Bowie album
****Honorable Mentions****
J. Rawls "The essence of" Nirvana "Unplugged in NY" Sublime "Stand by your van" Smashing Pumpkins "Melancholy and the Infinite Saadness" Black Star "Black Star" The Minutemen "Double Nickels on the Dime"
(I am kind of a music junkie.)
(or maybe just a junkie.)
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Pearl Jam - Ten
Metallica - Black
Ace of Base - The Sign
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I really have too many "favorites" to pick three, but I just narrowed it down based on the three that I listen to the most and which I can listen to all the way through, often times more thna once.
1. Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone
2. Trivium - Ascendancy
3. Alternate Sound of Life - Self Titled (No name band out of California)
3a. Tool - Aenima 3b. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
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1. The Beatles - White Album 2. Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance 3. Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip
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1. Clutch - Clutch 2. Clutch - Blast Tyrant 3. Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills
What can I say? I love me some Clutch.
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Judas Priest...Unleashed in the East
Judas Priest...Unleashed in the East
Judas Priest...Unleashed in the East
Go Browns!!!
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...in no order (since it changes from time to time):
- Red Hot Chili Peppers / Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Smashing Pumpkins / Siamese Dream - Marilyn Manson / Mechanical Animals
RHCP fan since '88.
Funny, I don't like Manson's other stuff (well Beautiful People and some other covers). That album is just put together.
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Beatles... Abby Road
George Strait...50 Number 1's.
Pink Floyd..Dark Side of the Moon
That is probably a order as well.
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LA Guns - Self Titled
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Guns & Roses - Appetite for Destruction
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"Beginnings" - The Allman Brothers
"Making Movies" - Dire Straits
"The Royal Scam" - Steely Dan
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Grateful Dead - Without a Net A double disc set of live Dead goodness.
Widespread Panic - Light Fuse, Get Away A double disc of live Panic thunder.
Blind Melon - self titled An album of very well crafted songs with poignant lyrics.
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Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Counting Crows - Live Across a Wire
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Metallica - Master of Puppets
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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1. Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone
Awesome album,definitely one of my favorites. If we were just naming our top three RIGHT NOW it would have made my top three. What also hurt it was the fact that all of Breaking Benjamins albums have been so good that I couldnt pick a favorite out of them.
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Top 3? Holy smokes.... actually that is a pretty easy question
Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti Pink Floyd- Animals The Grateful Dead-Europe 72
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In no particular order...
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (I'm still not sick of it) The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
if you want to add live CDs
Rage Against The Machine - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium Our Lady Peace - Live Metallica - Live S#*! Binge & Purge
If you wanna go with Greatest Hits:
Grateful Dead Pink Floyd's Pulse Cream of Clapton
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1. Megadeth Countdown To Extinction
2. Led Zepplin Signs
3. Metallica Ride The Lightning
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deftones - white pony
radiohead - the bends
metallica - master of puppets
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I quit buying albums a few years back. I used to buy them excessively, but now I just download songs here and there. It sort of forces you more into the mainstream, where as I used to listen to tons of stuff back in HS and college that most people probably never really have. I used to blow so much money on CDs back when all I listened to was hip hop.
Way back in late 98, early 99 I heard a song called Blue Monday from a group called Orgy. That kind of opened my ears to get back into rock music. They were such a fresh sound with an intriguing look. That electronic/industrial rock and glaring vocals hooked me.
Speaking of the Deftones, Change is one of my favorite rock songs, which came off that album. I love how it is quiet and calm, then just explodes into the chorus.
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You know that "Blue Monday" is a New Order song, right? New Order/Joy Division was pretty darn good.
Narrowing it down to a top 3 for me is nigh impossible, but here are 3 records I could listen to continuously and never grow tired of:
Slayer - Reign In Blood Frodus - And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
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Slayer-Christ Illusion
Pantera-Vulgar Display of power.
Rancid- and out comes the wolves.
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Man,....I was not gonna do this,.... Fragile,....Yes Monster,.....Steppenwolf Closer To Home,....Grand Funk Railroad And in that genre's "age," a hundred others that make the world of favorites too big to whittle down to just 3. Led Zepplin Three Dog Night America Black Sabbath DeepPurple (that's what's on my new Walkman as I type,...) Elton John Steve Miller James Gang AC/DC Aerosmith GNR E,L.&P Styx ELO The Boss My head is spinning,....forget it. 
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no clear cut top 3, but I'll throw these three out there:
Exile on Main Street-Stones. The White Album- The Beatles Layla- Derek and the Dominoes
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Yeah, I can't believe that they remade that song. Blue Monday was kind of drab, and Orgy rocked it out. 
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Way back in late 98, early 99 I heard a song called Blue Monday from a group called Orgy. That kind of opened my ears to get back into rock music.
My story is pretty similar. Obviously if I went to high school with Bone, you get a good picture of my high school environment. So my musical influences in those formative years was early hip hop. Public Enemy,Boogie Down Productions. Pre gangster rap stuff. During those years I heard the Pink Floyd,ELO,Supertramp type stuff from my dad. I hated it then, but now looking back realize how good most of it was. Anyways, around 1991 or so(I graduated from high school in 92) my cousin and I went to see the Beastie Boys at the Cleveland Agora. Well there was a band nobody ever heard of that opened for them. That bands name was Nirvana. Their style did not fit the crowd type that was there at all, but they opened with Smells Like Teen Spirit and by time they were done they had that whole place just hooked. Completely changed the direction of my musical tastes and I have never looked back.
That is why I still believe Nirvana to be the most influential rock band of the modern era. JMO
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Come on....I know there has to be more country music fans.
I do agree though....rocks lends itself to more favorite albums being many are theme based with some though of how the whole package will mix together....sort of like opera.
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I like country but I tend to like old country like willie, waylon and Cash.
I love bluegrass but it is such an acquired taste that I didnt mention any of it.
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It's interesting some of the responses here. Don't seem to mesh with what I would have guessed to be the personalities of some. DP17, a rap fan? I wouldn't have guessed that at all.  But I think BTH are the most underrated rappers of all time. E.1999 Eternal is a great album. The icing on the cake is they are from Cleveland. My top 3: Led Zep - Physical Graffiti Led Zep II Pearl Jam - Ten Pop quiz: Who knows why Pearl Jam named their first album Ten?
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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if i had any interest in pearl jam, i may be able to tell you the answer to that question.
p.s. - if we're going to start talking about 80's/90's grunge music:
alice in chains >>>>> pearl jam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nirvana
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I have to add:
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Grand Funk - Live Album
As my musical preferences change back and forth over the years, I never tire of these three. I've been working out to Master of Reality since the mid '70s.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
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That live album was pretty good....Are you ready!!
Good stuff...thanks for reminding me of that...I wore that album out back in the day...I guess around 1970 or so.
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Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu (36 Chambers)
Slayer - South of Heaven
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This is very difficult. The first 2 for me are no-brainers, but I have many that could go in spot #3. I'd have to say it breaks down like this.
1. EMF - Stigma 2. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land 3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
I picked Thriller in #3 because it holds a very dear place in my heart and history, since it was the first album I got when I was 7 years old.
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fat of the land is a GREAT album, very underappreciated.
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Rage Against the Machine- Self Titled
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Metallica- Master of Puppets
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1. Quadrophenia - The Who
ask me another day and the next two will be something different
2. The Wall - Pink Floyd (insert any Floyd album here)
3. "Singles" Sound track. It contains the following.. "Would?" - Alice in Chains "Breath" - Pearl Jam "Seasons" - Chris Cornell "Dyslexic Heart" - Paul Westerberg "The Battle of Evermore" - The Lovemongers (Heart) "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" - Mother Love Bone "Birth Ritual" - Soundgarden "State of Love and Trust" - Pearl Jam "Overblown" - Mudhoney "Waiting for Somebody" - Paul Westerberg "May This Be Love" - Jimi Hendrix "Nearly Lost You" - Screaming Trees "Drown" - The Smashing Pumpkins
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Nirvana - "unplugged in NY"
Rage Against the Machine - "RATM"
Slayer - "South of Heaven"
Honorable Mention PanterA - "Vulgar Display of Power" Type O Negative - "Bloody Kisses"
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