Rank the Albums of your Favorite Musical Artists

[Enduro]

Michael Jackson
1. Thriller
2. Bad
3. Dangerous
4. Ben


Iron Maiden
1. Number of the Beast
2. Piece of Mind
3. Powerslave
4. A Matter of Life and Death
5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6. The Book of Souls

Off the Wall and Killers are my favorite albums respectively for MJ and Maiden. Not on your top lists? Any reasons why?

Haven't listened to enough of those albums.

[vanguard96]

Michael Jackson
1. Thriller
2. Bad
3. Dangerous
4. Ben


Iron Maiden
1. Number of the Beast
2. Piece of Mind
3. Powerslave
4. A Matter of Life and Death
5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6. The Book of Souls

Off the Wall and Killers are my favorite albums respectively for MJ and Maiden. Not on your top lists? Any reasons why?

Haven't listened to enough of those albums.

DiAnno Maiden is great sort of punkish & less theatrical than Bruce.
As for Off the Wall it doesn't have the pretense of say Dangerous or HIStory
Just pure unadulterated, youthful MJ. Obviously if you don't like commercial disco then it may not work for you

[Leftbehind]

Bands in bold are those I've heard everything by, which you could crudely class as narrowing to my favourite bands, but the truth is I'm just as passionate about many of the albums for artists where I've lost interest in their future work/direction or have put some of their work off for later.

The Smiths: Meat Is Murder > The Queen Is Dead > The Smiths
The Cure: Disintegration > The Top > Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
REM: Murmur > Document > Green
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking > Ritual de lo Habitual > Kettle Whistle
Alice in Chains: Dirt > Jar of Flies > Alice in Chains
Nirvana: Nevermind > In Utero > Bleach
Pearl Jam: Ten > Yield > Vs
Stone Temple Pilot: Core > Purple > Tiny Music...
Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible > Generation Terrorists > Everything Must Go
Radiohead: The Bends > OK Computer > Kid A
Green Day: Dookie > Insomniac > Nimrod
Matthew Good Band: Underdogs > The Audio of Being > Beautiful Midnight
Our Lady Peace: Clumsy > Happiness...Is Not a Fish You Can Catch > Naveed
Oasis: Definitely Maybe > What's the Story Morning Glory? > The Masterplan
Blur: Parklife > Modern Life Is Rubbish > The Great Escape
The Verve: A Northern Soul > A Storm in Heaven > Urban Hymns
Suede: Dog Man Star > Suede > Coming Up
Pulp: Different Class > His & Hers > This Is Hardcore
The Bluetones: Return to Last Chance Saloon > Science & Nature > Expecting to Fly
The Sundays: Reading, Writing & Arithmetic > Blind > Static & Silence
The Sugarcubes: Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! > Life's Too Good > Stick Around For Joy
The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? > No Need to Argue > Bury the Hatchet
Ryan Adams: Love Is Hell > Demolition > Heartbreaker
Muse: Origin of Symmetry > Showbiz > Absolution
The Music: The Music > Welcome to the North > Strength in Numbers
Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica > Good News for People Who Love Bad News >  We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

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MercyMe
1. Welcome to the New
2. Lifer
3. The Generous Mr Lovewell
4. All That Is Within Me
5. The Hurt & The Healer
6. Almost There

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Maroon 5
1. Songs About Jane
2. It Won't Be Soon Before Long
3. V
4. Overexposed
5. Hands All Over

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

AC/DC - Back in Black

Styx - Equinox

Dio - The Last in Line

more later

[Badger]

The Beatles:
2. Help

No...

The Beatles:
12. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

NOOOOO

Screams the man who only ranked Rubber Soul their 9th best album.

[Badger]

I was planning on doing a full ranking post later, but Nicky and LLR's rankings of The Beatles albums are so bad that I feel compelled to do a correct one:

1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. The White Album
4. Rubber Soul
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Help
9. Beatles for Sale
10. Let It Be
11. Please Please Me
12. With The Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine

Much better! so I have to admit means rather partial of Sergeant Pepper's, and definitely think overrated Magical Mystery Tour buy a few notches.

[Badger]

Led Zeppelin:
2
4
1
H of h
3 (always underrated)
Physical Graffiti ( some of Zeppelin best songs including Kashmir on this album, but way too much filler)

[Badger]

Pink Floyd
DSoTM
Wish you were here
Animals
Meddle
The wall ( primarily for comfortably numb)
Momentary lapse of reason

[Badger]

IRON MAIDEN
Piece of Mind
Number of the Beast
Powerslave ( very strong third place)
Somewhere in Time ( highly underrated)
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

YES
Fragile
Closer to The Edge
The Yes album
Relayer
Tales From topographic oceans
Yes (1969 album)

90215 several steps below most but not all their prior albums

PUBLIC ENEMY
Fear of a Black Planet
Apocalypse 91
Takes a nation of millions to hold us back
Yo, bum rush the show
He Got Game ( underrated, but admittedly on this list in no small part for the stone cold stellar title track)

MIKE NASO
Liberals would rather be politically correct then Protect America
Political correctness is destroying our country
If blacks would not shuck and jive and complain so much they can get ahead just like white people
My mother is impressed with my giant Ginger penis (live album)

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

1. Southeastern - definitely not the best in terms of classic hits but obviously the deepest in quality by an untouchable margin
2. Something More Than Free - Two haunting ones and a strong front ~2/3 before you get to the back-end...
3. The Nashville Sound - Initially lower because the early releases were so poor they brought it down, but this is a solid project with four insta-classics and two nice hidden gems, which is enough to maintain the top three position.
4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "Cigarettes & Wine" holds up and "Streetlights" is probably one of the most underrated cuts but lacks much behind that
5. Sirens of the Ditch - not many boring skip songs which initially prompted me to put this higher but really hard to place anything here remotely close to his best
6. Here We Rest - Hard to believe an album with probably his best is last but it's not an 'album' if there is little beyond that.

Too difficult to rank most other favourites outside of Bruce/Strait/Beatles due to catalog depth (or extremely obvious quality variance for some classic country or folk artists), so I will leave at that for now since those have been done.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Also my favorite Maiden album. So many legendary licks on that record.

[Badger]

Here's a few - with Prince & Roxy Music I can't limit it to 3.

Prince
1. Purple Rain - deluxe edition on order
2. Dirty Mind
3. 1999
4. Sign 'o' the Times
5. Controversy
6. Around the World in A Day
7. Parade
8. Diamonds & Pearls
9. Prince
10. Symbol Album

Roxy Music
1. Stranded - for now
2. Roxy Music
3. Country Life
4. For Your Pleasure
5. Avalon
6. Siren
7. Flesh + Blood
8. Manifesto!

Brian Eno
1. Before & After Science
2. Here Come the Warm Jets
3. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

John Barry
1. Lion In Winter
2. You Only Live Twice
3. The Last Valley

Jerry Goldsmith
1. Planet of the Apes
2. Rudy
3. The Blue Max

Jean Michel Jarre
1. Oxygene
2. Equinoxe
3. Zoolook

Tangerine Dream
1. Phaedra
2. Stratosfear
3. Force Majeure

Vangelis
1. Bladerunner
2. Spiral
3. L'apocalypse des animaux

Parliament
1. Mothership Connection
2. Funkentelechy vs The Placedo Syndrome
3. The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein

Funkadelic
1. Maggot Brain
2. Cosmic Slop
3. America Eats Its Young

Chaka Khan
1. What 'Cha Gonna Do For Me
2. Chaka Khan
3. Chaka

Rufus
1. Ask Rufus
2. Rufusized
3. Masterjam

Michael Jackson
1. Off the Wall
2. Thriller
3. Bad

Iron Maiden
1. Killers
2. Iron Maiden
3. Powerslave

Camel
1. The Snow Goose
2. Stationary Traveler
3. Mirage

King Crimson
1. The Court of the Crimson King
2. Red
3. Discipline

David Bowie
1. Low
2. Station to Station
3. "Heroes"

Come on man. How can you not include Larks tongues in aspic among at least the top three King Crimson albums?

[Murica!]

This'll be a hard one, but let's give it a go.

1916
------
Last Call For Heroes

AJJ
------
People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People in the World
Knife Man
Christmas Island
The Bible 2

American Football
------
American Football
American Football(II)

Amon Amarth
-----
Jomsviking

Big Black
-----
Atomizer
Songs About ing

Brand New
-----
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Deja Entendu
Your Favorite Weapon

Cap'n Jazz
-----
Shmap'n Shmazz

Car Seat Headrest
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Teens of Denial
How to Leave Town

The Chameleons
-----
Script of the Bridge

Crywank
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Tomorrow is Nearly Yesterday and Every Day is Stupid
James is Going to Die Soon
Narcissist on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Don't Piss on Me, I'm Already Dead

The Cure
-----
Seventeen Seconds
Three Imaginary Boys
Disintegration
Pornography
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Days N Daze
-----
Rogue Taxidermy
Crustfall

The Dead Kennedys
-----
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

FIDLAR
-----
Too
FIDLAR

Flatsound
-----
I Clung to You Hoping We'd Both Drown
Sleep

The Front Bottoms
-----
The Front Bottoms
Rose
Talon of the Hawk
Back on Top

Fugazi
-----
Repeater
13 Songs
Steady Diet of Nothing

The Gaslight Anthem
-----
The '59 Sound
American Slang
Get Hurt

The Hotelier
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Home Like NoPlace is There
It Never Goes Out

I Hate Myself
-----
Ten Songs = Four Songs

Jawbreaker
-----
24 Hour Revenge Therapy = Dear You
Bivouac
Unfun

The Jesus and Mary Chain
-----
Psychocandy

Joy Division
-----
Unknown Pleasures
Closer

Joyce Manor
-----
Never Hungover Again
S/T

Kino
-----
A Star Called Sun
Blood Type
Last Hero
The Black Album

La Dispute
-----
Wildlife
Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair

McCafferty
-----
Beachboy

Metallica
-----
Ride the Lightning
Kill 'Em All
Master of Puppets

mineral
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The Power of Failing
EndSerenading

Modern Baseball
-----
Sports

Modest Mouse
-----
This is a Long Drive For Someone with Nothing to Think About
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Moon & Antarctica

New Order
-----
Movement
Power, Corruption and Lies
Brotherhood
Low-life

Nirvana
-----
In Utero
Nevermind

All of Pat the Bunnies bands all together
-----
Love Songs For the Apocalypse
Probably Nothing, Possibly Everything
Burn the Earth! Leave it Behind!
-Ramshackle Glory's stuff goes here-

Paul Baribeau
-----
Paul Baribeau
Grand Ledge

The Pixies
-----
Surfer Rosa
Doolittle

Radiator Hospital
-----
Torch Song
Something Wild

Radiohead
-----
OK Computer
A Moon Shaped Pool
The Bends

Rage Against the Machine
-----
Rage Against the Machine
The Battle of Los Angeles
Renegades
Evil Empire

The Smiths
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Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
The Queen is Dead

Sorority Noise
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You're Not as ______ As You Think
Joy Departed
Forgettable

Sunny Day Real Estate
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Diary
How It Feels To Be Something On
LP2

Walter etc./Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra
------
Overwhelmed and Underdressed
Well Soon

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Fever to Tell
Show Your Bones

phew

[Grumpier Than Thou]

How dare you not include How It Feels To Be Something On in your SDRE ranking. Their best album by a mile.

Also #hottake putting You're Not As ____ As You Think as the best Sorority Noise album

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Rush
1. Moving Pictures
2. 2112
3. Permanent Waves
4. A Farewell to Kings
5. Hemispheres
6. Fly by Night
Rush
Caress of Steel

[Murica!]

How dare you not include How It Feels To Be Something On in your SDRE ranking. Their best album by a mile.

Also #hottake putting You're Not As ____ As You Think as the best Sorority Noise album

Oh looks like I did forget it, oops.

Wasn't aware that that's such a controversial opinion lmao.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

How dare you not include How It Feels To Be Something On in your SDRE ranking. Their best album by a mile.

Also #hottake putting You're Not As ____ As You Think as the best Sorority Noise album

Oh looks like I did forget it, oops.

Wasn't aware that that's such a controversial opinion lmao.

It is IMO. Joy Departed is the only album of theirs that I can listen to all the way through. Not really my style of music, but I can dig a few tracks on their other two records.

[Murica!]

With the release of their new EP, my McCafferty ranking has changed to:
Thanks. Sorry. Sure
Beachboy

Both are great albums and I highly recommend everyone give 'em a try.

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Led Zeppelin
1. Untitled
2. Physical Graphitti
3. In Through The Out Door
4. II
5. III
6. Houses of the Holy
7. I

[brucejoel99]

Bruce Springsteen:
1. Born to Run
2. Darkness on the Edge of Town
3. Nebraska
4. The River
5. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
6. Born in the U.S.A.
7. Tunnel of Love
8. The Rising
9. Wrecking Ball
10. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
11. Magic
12. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
13. The Ghost of Tom Joad
14. Devils & Dust
15. Lucky Town
16. Working on a Dream
17. High Hopes
18. Human Touch

Billy Joel:
1. The Stranger
2. 52nd Street
3. Glass Houses
4. Turnstiles
5. Piano Man
6. The Nylon Curtain
7. An Innocent Man
8. River of Dreams
9. Storm Front
10. Streetlife Serenade
11. The Bridge
12. Cold Spring Harbor

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Bruce Springsteen:
1. Born to Run
2. Darkness on the Edge of Town
3. Nebraska
4. The River
5. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
6. Born in the U.S.A.
7. Tunnel of Love
8. The Rising
9. Wrecking Ball
10. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
11. Magic
12. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
13. The Ghost of Tom Joad
14. Devils & Dust
15. Lucky Town
16. Working on a Dream
17. High Hopes
18. Human Touch

The worst performer in history.  Ugh.

[LabourJersey]

Talking Heads
1. Remain In Light
2. Stop Making Sense (Especially the Special Edition)
3. Speaking in Tongues
4. Fear of Music
5. The Name of This Band...
6. Talking Heads 77
7. Little Creatures
8. More Songs about Buildings & Food
9. Naked
10. True Stories

Definitely a gap in quality between 1-6 and 7-10

[Badger]

Bruce Springsteen:
1. Born to Run
2. Darkness on the Edge of Town
3. Nebraska
4. The River
5. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
6. Born in the U.S.A.
7. Tunnel of Love
8. The Rising
9. Wrecking Ball
10. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
11. Magic
12. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
13. The Ghost of Tom Joad
14. Devils & Dust
15. Lucky Town
16. Working on a Dream
17. High Hopes
18. Human Touch

The worst performer in history.  Ugh.

AND you hate The Who?

DIAF