What are the 20 CD's you can't live without?

[Jester]

Come forth with your offerings!!

Here are mine. In no order.

1. Rising Force/ Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
2. Passion and Warfare/ Steve Vai
3. Destiny/ Stratovarius
4. Elements Part 1/ Stratovarius
5. Odyssey/ Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
6. Trilogy/ Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
7. Ecliptica/ Sonata Arctica
8. Alive in an Ultra World/ Steve Vai
9. The Final Countdown/ Europe
10. 1984/ Van Halen
11. Stand in Line/ Impellitteri
12. Keeper of the Seven Keys part 2/ Helloween
13. Keeper....part 1/ Helloween
14. Somewhere in Time/ Iron Maiden
15. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/ Iron Maiden
16. Maximum Security/ Tony MacAlpine
17. Infinite/ Stratovarius
18. Dragons Kiss/ Marty Friedman
19. Slippery When Wet/ Bon Jovi
20. Once/ Nightwish

These are my top 20. Every CD in my collection of over 500 is a treasure, but if I could only keep 20, these would be those.

What are yours.......?

Jesse

[stratohawk]

well, I cannot tell you that much... I have two ALL TIME FAVS, and then there are some other really really good ones:

so, the two best albums of all times IMO are

Stratovarius - Visions
Deftones - White Pony

Those two are unbeatable. Some other stuff I really love:

Stratovarius - Episode (and Stratovarius, and Infinite, 4th Dimension, ... *g*)
The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre (nobody knows that one, it actually came out after smash and before americana, but it's their best one)
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
The Rock - Filmscore (woooow, what a great soundtrack)
Coldplay - A Rush of blood to the head (nuthin to discuss about that one!)
Ill Nino - Revolution/Revolucion
H-BlockX - Fly Eyes
Semtex - Ignition equal Motion
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
System of a Down - Toxicity
Nightwish - Once
Keith Caputo - Died Laughing (that's such a genious album!! chilly, cool rock music!)
Deftones - Around the Fur
Cat Stevens - Best of
36 Crazyfists - A snow capped romance

[cliff]

great taste man!

Mine (no order)

1. Stratovarius - Dreamspace
2. Stratovarius - Destiny
3. Stratovarius - Episode
4: Gamma Ray - The Land Of The Free
5: Edguy - Mandrake
6 : Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
7 : Nightwish - Wishmaster
8 : Blaze - False Messiah
9 : Manigance - Ange ou Démon
10 : Avantasia - The Metal Opera
11 : Primal Fear - Primal Fear
12 : Squealer - End Of The World
13 : Rage - Unity
14 : Dyslesia - No Dares Win
15 : Masterplan - Aeronautics
16 : Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys
17 : Genius - A Rock Opera Part I
18 : Kreator - Enemy of God
19 : Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast
20 : Avril Lavigne - Let Go
21 : Metro - Metro (International Version)
22 : Tiktak - Jotain Muuta
23 : Nirvana - Nevermind
24 : Pearl Jam - Vs
25 : Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
26 : Metallica - Ride The Lightning
27 : Ana Johnsson - The Way I Am
28 : Vanilla Ninja - Traces Of Sadness
29 : After Forever - Invisible Circles
30 : Iron Savior - Dark Assault.
31 : Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
32 : Iron Maiden - Powerslave
33 : Edguy - Theater of Salvation
34 : Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
35 : Thunderstone - Tools Of Destruction
36 : Yngwie Malsmsteen - Odyssey
37 : Yngwie Malsmsteen - The Seventh Sign
38 : Kreator - Enemy of God
39 : Sinergy - The Bitch Is Back

Aaaah, too many albums. Let's see I'll just take my 20GB MP3 player!

[MaFiaBoY]

Dream Theater - Images And Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Stratovarius - Dreamspace
Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Elements 1
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
Ayreon - Into The Eletric Castle
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Pain Of Salvation - Be
Timo Tolkki - Hymn To Life
Rush - 2112


Same as cliff, iPods rule the world !

[NordicStorm]

Great idea for a topic!

Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus
Aerosmith - Rocks
Aerosmith - Draw the Line
Stratovarius - Destiny
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Chris Rea - On The Beach
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Deep Purple - Burn
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Sacred Heart
Whitesnake - Come an' Get it
Whitesnake - Ready an' Willing
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Unheilig - Zelluloid
Royal Hunt - Paradox
Royal Hunt - The Mission
Threshold - Subsurface
Threshold - Hypothetical
Ten - Babylon
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

I probably missed quite a few (bored at work without my record collection in front of me), but at the very least the ones mentioned above...yeah, that's way more than 20. I'll have to revisit and cut it down later on...

[StragOvariuS]

My 55 fave albums! sorry, its so long and seems like a sequence.

There's a huge sequence of malmsteen releases that i really love, almost all his discography.

1-Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
2-Iron Maiden - Seventh of son of a seventh of son
3-Iron Maiden - Piece of mind
4-Sodom - Masquerade in blood
5-Sodom - Till death do us unite
6-Sodom - Code Red
7-Sepultura - Arise
8-Sepultura - Beneath the remains
9-Obituary - Slowly we rot
10-Obituary - Dead
11-Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas
12-Stratovarius - Destiny
13-Stratovarius - Episode
14-Stratovarius - 4th Dimension
15-Stratovarius - Fright night
16-Stratovarius - Twilight Time
17-Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the mutilated
18-Cannibal Corpse - Worm Infested EP
19-Metallica - Kill'em All
18-Metallica - Ride the lightning
19-Destruction - Live without sense
20-Kreator - Coma of souls
21-Kreator - Extreme Agression
22-Helloween - Master of the rings
23-Helloween - Keepers 1 and 2
24-Gammaray - Powerplant
25-Edguy - Kingdom of madness
26-Edguy - Hellfire Club
27-Edguy - The savage poetry
28-Krisiun - black force domain
29-Krisiun - Apocalypctic Revelation
30-Jens Johansson - Heavy Machinery
31-Elton John - Duets
32-George Michael - Greatest Hits(well, can i add best of's? hehe)
33-Misfits - American Psycho
34-Misfits - Horror Hotel
35-Misfits - Walk among us!
36-Poison - Look what the cat dragged in
37-Poison - Flesh and Blood
38-Poison - Open up and say...AAAhhh!
39-Guns n roses - Appetite for destruction
40-Guns n roses - Lies
41-Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising force
42-Yngwie Malmsteen - Magnum Opus
43-Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching out
44-Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
45-Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
46-Yngwie Malmsteen - Eclipse
47-Yngwie Malmsteen - Trial By Fire
48-Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire And Ice
49-Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
50-Yngwie Malmsteen - Facing The Animal
51-Yngwie Malmsteen - Alchemy
52-Motorhead - Inferno
53-Motorhead - Bomber
54-Motorhead - Orgasmatron
55-Motorhead - Ace of spades

[Neorave]

Stratovarius - Intermission
Kansas - Song for America
Kansas - Masque (Remastered)
Kansas - Leftoverture
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Kansas - Monolith
Kansas - Audio Visions
Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere
Kansas - On the Other Side
Kansas - The Ultimate Kansas
Pink Floyd - THe Dark Side of the Moon
Boston - Boston
Eagles - The Best of the Eagles
Cellador - Leaving All Behind EP
The Beatles - 1
Final Fantasy: Advent Children - Soundtrack

[MaFiaBoY]

Kansas is an awesome band indeed !

[browneyedgirl]

20 albums?
No Order.

CVAT--Tolkki
All StratoAlbums
The Megadeth Albums
The Metallica Albums
Chicago Greatest Hits
Mike&the Mechanics Greatest Hits
Rhapsody--Dragonflame
Lacuna Coil--Comalies
Barry Manilow Greatest Hits
Ironmaiden--Number of the Beast
Led Zeppelin Greatest Hits(the one with the poor man carrying sticks)
Flock of Seagulls greatest Hits
Mister, Mister greatest hits
Eagles--greatest hits(the one with the skull!)
Steppenwolf-greatest hits
Etc. Etc.

Oh, shit. There are more than 20. And, yeah--most of my fav albums are greatest hits.
I used to wait for them because being a non-rich person I could not buy every album that came out!

[StragOvariuS]

There are so many albums that i love, i think that i need make another list.

[Stratolily]

Stratovarius
-Fright Night
-Twilight time
-Dreamspace
- Fourth Dimension
- Episode( will the sunrise? was the first Stratosong I've ever heard...)
- Destiny
-Infinite (with this album I fell in love with Stratovarius!)
-Elements part I
- Elements part II
- Stratovarius

Timo Tolkki
-Hymn To Life

Timo Kotipelto
- Waiting For The Dawn
-Coldness

Angra
-Angels Cry
-Holyland

Dream theater
-Metropolis part II: Scenes for a memory

Radiohead (these five album are too important to me, specially The Bends and OK Computer...)
-Pablo Honey
-The Bends
-Ok Computer
-Kid A
-Amnesiac

Coldplay( these two album are also too important, it has totally to do with the Radiohead albums, too many memories that it hurts, damn it!)
-Parachutes
- A rush of blood to the head

Nirvana
-Bleach
-Nevermind
-Incesticide
-In utero

Stone Temple Pilots
-Core
-Purple
-Tiny Music Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop
-Shangri La De Da


Foo Fighters
-Foo fighters

Better than Ezra
- Deluxe
-Friction baby
-How does your garden grow?

Jewel
-Pieces Of You

Capitán Memo
- El regreso de los robots (This is something that only a chilean guy/girl with like 23, 25 or more years old would understand. Well, I guess latinoamerican people too...)

Damn it! I put more of 20

[necrolog]

04- OK Computer : Radiohead
05- Wish You Were Here : Pink Floyd
06- Reign In Blood : Slayer
07- Master Of Puppets : Metallica
08- Bleach : Nirvana
09- Powerplant : Gamma Ray
10- No World Order : Gamma Ray
11- Keeper 2 : Helloween
12- Number of the Beast : Iron Maiden
13- Visions : Stratovarius
14- Black Sabbath : Black Sabbath
15- Un Vieux Hippie : Cayouche (Pure Acadian Folk Music.. haha)
16- Gore Obsessed : Cannibal Corpse
17- Back In Black : ACDC
18- Beneath The Remains : Sepultura
19- Arise : Sepultura
20- Any album by CCR

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Tough choice still....

[NeonVomit]

In absolutely no particular order at all whatsoever:

1: Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone
2: Savatage - Gutter Ballet
3: Stratovarius - Episode
4: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
5: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6: Rotting Christ - Genesis
7: Rotting Christ - Khronos 666
8: Naer Mataron - Skotos Aneon
9: Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
10: Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
11: Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
12: Yngwie Malmsteen - The Collection
13: Type O Negative - World Coming Down
14: Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
15: Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
16: Metallica - Ride the Lighning
17: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
18: Opeth - Morningrise
19: Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
20: Bathory - Blood Fire Death


There are so many more I could add.

[Stratofanius]

I'm not going to list 20 best. Too hard.
But I know three records that are VERY IMPORTANT to me that I always have to listen them:

Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Episode (japan edition with When the Night Meets the Day)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

[IceBreaker]

I'm not going to list 20 best. Too hard.
But I know three records that are VERY IMPORTANT to me that I always have to listen them:

Now I must second that with you.

For me the (only three or four) most important albums are:

Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Visions
Leningrad Cowboys - Go Space
Sonata Arctica - Silence (Asian edition with RtW)

[stratokiller]

Mayhem - Live In Leipzig
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem - Voice Of A Tortured Skull
Mayhem - Pure Fucking Armageddon
Burzum - Filosfem
Burzum - Hvis lyset
Burzum - Det som ... one of the best album !
DISSECTION - THE SOMBERLAIN ( Wonderful ! The best album in metal)
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bathory - Nordland Part 1
Bathory - Hammerheart
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Fright Night (The first song of Sratovarius I have heard was "Fire Dance", It was ... wonderful)
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying ? (Megadeth is a king of metal)
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
The Clash - The Clash (The best album of punk never written)
THE MOST IMPORTANT...
20ieth Century - The Consecration

[stratoplayer]

No particular order

1. Stratovarius - Episode
2. '' '' - Visions
3. " " - Visions of Europe
4. " " - Fourth Dimension
5. " " - Stratovarius
6. " " - Elements pt. 1
7. Iron Maiden - Best of The Beast
8. Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
9. " " - Silence
10. Steve Vai - Real Illusions
11. " " - The Infinite Steve Vai, An Anthology
12. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
13. " " - The Odessey
14. " " - Twilight in Olympus
15. Rammstein - Herzeleid
16. " " - Mutter
17. " " - Reise Reise
18. Rhapsody - Tales of the Emerald Sword Saga
19. Nightwish - Oceanborn
20. " " - Wishmaster

[Bones]

1. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
2. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
3. Stratovarius - Dreamspace
4. Metallica - Metallica
5. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
6. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Pt. 2
7. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free
8. Megadeth - Youthanasia
9. Megadeth - Risk
10. W.A.S.P - W.A.S.P
11. W.A.S.P - Helldorado
12. Jason Becker - Perspective
13. David Lee Roth - A Little Ain't Enough
14. David Lee Roth - Skyscraper
15. Van Halen - Balance
16. Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
17. Symphony X - The Damnation Game
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
19. Ronnie James Dio - Holy Diver
20. Rainbow - Rising

Wow, this list was really difficult to create

[MaFiaBoY]

I'm not going to list 20 best. Too hard.
But I know three records that are VERY IMPORTANT to me that I always have to listen them:

Now I must second that with you.

For me the (only three or four) most important albums are:

Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Visions
Leningrad Cowboys - Go Space
Sonata Arctica - Silence (Asian edition with RtW)

For me that would be :

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Strato - Visions
DT - Train of Thought

[Twilight Legionnaire]

Stratovarius - Visions of Europe
Dream Theater - Live at the Budokan
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt II: Scenes from a Memory
Iron Maiden - Live after Death
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian - Live
Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tales
Symphony X - Live on the Edge of Forever
Therion - Vovin
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest - British Steel
Anthrax - Among the Living
Anathema - Judgement
Anathema - The Silent Enigma
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Evergrey - A Night to Remember
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Kamelot - Fourth Legacy
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Tarantula - Dream Maker

In no particular order. Also, I believe Live albums are allowed, so..

[Dawn_is_Here]

In no particular order (except the very first one):

Visions (Stratovarius)
Fourth Dimension (Stratovarius)
Episode (Stratovarius)
Destiny (Stratovarius)
Infinite (Stratovarius)
Waiting for the Dawn (Kotipelto)
Coldness (Kotipelto)
Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1 (Helloween)
Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 2 (Helloween)
Time Of The Oath (Helloween)
Avantasia Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 (Tobias Sammet & Cía.)
Heading for Tomorrow (Gamma Ray)
Land of the Free (Gamma Ray)
Somewhere Out in Space (Gamma Ray)
No World Order (Gamma Ray)
Angels' Cry (Angra)
Temple of Shadows (Angra)
Live After Death (Iron Maiden)
Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden)
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Iron Maiden)
Legacy of Kings (Hammerfall)
Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen)
Odyssey (Yngwie Malmsteen)
Fire & Ice (Yngwie Malmsteen)
Seventh Sign (Yngwie Malmsteen)
Magnus Opus (Yngwie Malmsteen)
Flight of the Migrator (Ayreon)
Stranger in us all (Rainbow)

Rock On!

[gon]

just 20?? impossible for me!

[iron_thunder]

oh god, there are so many! i'll put down the ones i can think of now, but it's so bloody overwhelming. maybe i'll post another 20 later
Wait, is this just metal albums? If it's not, i'll have to post another million later!

1. Garden of Shadows "Heart of the Corona"
2. Amon Amarth "Versus the World"
3. Immortal "At the Heart of Winter"
4. Stratovarius "Visions"
5. Stratovarius "4th Dimension" (really, any strato album... except maybe episode)
6. Sonata Arctica "Ecliptica"
7. Sonata Arctica "WinterHeart's Guild" (ok... again, all SA albums!)
8. Nightwish "Century Child"
9. Empyrium "Weiland"
10. Stryper "To Hell with the Devil" (you can laugh at me, it's ok!)
11. Pet Shop Boys "Please"
12. Pet Shop Boys "Behaviour" (mmm, pet shop boys)

oh fuck it, that's enough for now. the others will follow later! it's making me too anxious!