Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Radiohead - Kid A
Slint - Spiderland
The Beatles - White Album

This is subject to change also...just my favourites this month I suppose.

First and Last and Always - Sisters of Mercy
Caution Horses - Cowboy Junkies
The Boatmans Call - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
XYOSFBIGKOU - Musica Transonic
Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain - Mono & World's End Girlfriend

The first three are permanent fixtures in my top 5 listing, the other two places are fluid.

sy- daydream nation
my bloody valentine- loveless
slint- spiderland
the beatles- revolver
battles- mirrored

i know battles is not even released yet but my god its a stunning album and its lodged firmly amogst my favourites ever. the criteria i use is an album is great if there is not one dud song on it and i dont have the desire to leavethe room until every second of it has played... all tese criteria apply to the above 5 albums.... again suject to change!

today's top 5 evah:

*godspeed you! black emperor - lift your skinny fists like antenna to heaven
*yes - fragile
*derek bailey - ballads
*jesu - conqueror
*yellow swans - drift

Maybe

1/ Sonic Youth - Evol
2/ John Coltrane - Ascension
3/ Robert Wyatt - Rock bottom
4/ Ornette Coleman - Free jazz
5/ Slint - Spiderland

1. Gang of Four - "Solid Gold"
2. Fugazi - "Repeater"
3. The Jam - "Setting Sons"
4. Public Image Ltd. - "Second Edition"
5. Joy Division - "Closer"

Stooges "Funhouse"
Debris' "Static Disposal"
Wipers "Over the Edge"
The Fall "Grotesque"
A Frames "s/t"

Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Horace Silver - Blowin the Blues Away
The Fall - The Unnutterable
Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya - The Mountain
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album

today..

1. tie: drive like jehu- yank crime (if you don't agree with me that "luau" is one of the best rock songs ever.. damn.)
sy- 1000 leaves
2. yo la tengo- and then nothing turned itself inside out
3. ted leo and the pharmacists- shake the sheets
4. polvo- cor-crane secret
5. deerhoof- reveille

this very moment:
1. Damaged-Black Flag
2. Labor-Aesop Rock
3. Are You Experienced?-Jimi
4. Illmatic-Nas
5. Black Rainbow-400 Blows

ok this is top 5 at this pont in time for me.....

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Mick Harvey - One mans treasure
Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
Led Zepplin - I
Grinderman - Grinderman

No Stones in your top 5, thread starter?

I'm surprised.

This week top (in no particular order):

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Yeah man! I like this one a lot!

Sticky Fingers comes in at number 6, currently. It's always in the mix for the top 10 or 15, but it faces tough, tough competition.

Neck and neck with the White Album, I might add. Could easily kick those Liverpool butts out of there at a moment's notice.

I'm omitting the Fall from my list, on account of them making more brilliant albums than most bands have songs.

Fushitsusha - I saw it...; NNCK - letters from the Earth; The Shaggs - Philosophy...; Hank Williams - Lost Highway; Urusei Yatsura - we are...

This list also implicitly suggests that classical pieces don't count as albums, which would be another list.

Impossible for me to narrow down but here goes:

Punk / metal:
1. Pissed happy children - pissed playground
2. Rorschach - remain sedate
=2. Infest - slave
3. Snuff - snuff said
4. Ripping corpse - dreaming with the dead
5. Slayer - reign in blood

Non punk / metal:

1. Slint - spiderland
2. Sonic youth - daydream nation
3. Unwound - future of what
4. dis- - the historically troubled third album
5. My bloody valentine - loveless

But I guess these lists change often.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Slint - Spiderland
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Glenn Branca - The Ascension

1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
3. Television - Marquee Moon
4. Stooges - Fun House
5. John Coltrane - Ascension

someone else here knows ripping corpse.

fuck me!