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[Afro D. Luffy]

In the last few weeks, I've had an insatiable thirst for more music. So, I've been picking up tons of albums by bands that I've wanted to hear for a while. However, I'm reaching the end of this list and the desire is still strong. So, I'm curious if there are any albums that you guys and gals consider essential to a person's library. They don't really need to be constrained to any specific genre and, of course, it's all a matter of opinions, so don't shy away from sharing what groups you like.

Additionally, this thread could be of use to anyone else who has the same urge to try out some new music. So, to get this started, I'll post a list of albums I highly recommend.

Sing The Sorrow - AFI
Funeral - The Arcade Fire
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn... - The Blood Brothers
Pass The Flask - The Bled
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground - Bright Eyes
The Bronx I - The Bronx
Calculating Infinity - The Dillinger Escape Plan
Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtrack - Akira Yamaoka
Full Collapse - Thursday
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Vheissu - Thrice
Stomacher - Stomacher
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Phrenology - The Roots
Songs For The Deaf Queens Of The Stone Age
You Come Before You - Poison The Well
The Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
The Moon & Antarctica - Modest Mouse
Remission - Mastodon
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Antics - Interpol
White Pony - Deftones
Suffer - Bad Religion
Relationship Of Command - At The Drive-In
Dookie - Green Day
The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
The College Dropout - Kanye West
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
No Kill No Beep Beep - Q And Not U
Me Against The World - 2Pac
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
BBC Sessions - Led Zeppelin
Illmatic - Nas
Ready To Die - Notorious B.I.G.
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
End Hits - Fugazi
Doolittle - Pixies
Black Star - Black Star
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[Muad'dib]

I will edit as more come to me since I'm totally blanking now:

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against te Machine (Self Titled)
Bleach - Nirvana
Disraeli Gears - Cream
Document - REM

You beat me to it on Downward Spiral, Dookie, Me Against the World and White Pony. Nice list you've got going.

On a side note, a few years ago I would have totally agreed on the Smashing Pumpkins album but find it kind of depressing that a lot of songs from it have shown up in commercials and even the intro Whale Wars. My childhood may not have been that innocent, but it didn't need to get that violated.

EDITS:

Opiate - Tool
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[TimeChaser]

Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle
The Human Equation - Ayreon
Images & Words - Dream Theater
Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater
Horror Show - Iced Earth
A Sense of Purpose - In Flames
Epica - Kamelot
The Black Halo - Kamelot
Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche
Empire - Queensryche
Rapid Eye Movement - Riverside
Extinct Instinct - Threshold
Clone - Threshold
Hypothetical - Threshold
Critical Mass - Threshold
Subsurface - Threshold
Lateralus - Tool

Considering I have hundreds of CDs, I tried to keep it down to the minimum I could think of for now, stuff I really would recommend people give a try.

Rush
2112
A Farewell to Kings
Permanent Waves
Signals
Grace Under Pressure
Power Windows
Hold Your Fire
Roll the Bones
Counterparts
Test For Echo
Snakes & Arrows

As you can see, I am a huge Rush fan. They are my favorite band, I consider them the greatest rock band ever, and if anyone ever wants to check 'em out those would be the albums I would single out.
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[blackluster2008]

I have a huge number of albums/songs so I'll only put a few in this post.

The Dethalbum - Dethklok
Dethalbum II - Dethklok
Smile - L'Arc~en~Ciel
Yoshida Brothers, Vol. 2 - Yoshida Brothers
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
To All Tha Dreamers - SOUL'd OUT
Chroma - Cartel
Ultimate Santana - Carlos Santana
Stone Cold Classics - Queen (this is all the original band with Frankie Mercury)
18 Kids - Keith Urban
Defying Gravity - Keith Urban
How to Be a Megastar Live! - Blue Man Group
Riot! - Paramore
The Odyssey - Symphony X

Artists with my recommendation for just about anything from their catalog:

Chicago
Michael Jackson
Bon Jovi
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Anything composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Relient K
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Matchbox Twenty
Dan Fogelberg
The Beatles
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[Hitsugaya Toshiro]

I would have to add this one only because it was a perfect compliment to a great book.

"The Heroin Diaries" by SIXX A.M.

And some of my personal favorites:
"Battle Cry" by Omen

"What A Groovy Trick!" (Air Gear OST 1) by Skankfunk

"II" by Miss Crazy

"Famous Monsters" by the Misfits

"13 Halloweens", "The Traveling Vampire Show", and "Midnight Spook Show" by Calabrese

"18 Visions" by 18 Visions (they broke up after this album)

"Three Legs of Trouble" by Stone Rider

"Comatose", "Awake" and "Collide" by Skillet

"Requiem" by the Confession (they broke up after this album)

Also, any of the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona soundtracks by Shoji Meguro. In my opinion, he is just as good as Uematsu.
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[kit-kat]

I would have to say the Spring Awakening album, it should be for the older audiences for sexual content and language,

also it is a musical theater performance, but it is done in a very alternative way.
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[dream5111]

1.The Best of Atreyu-Atreyu
2.Three cheers for sweet revenge by My Chemical Romance
3.In Love and Death- The Used
4.Stadium Arcadium- Red Hot Chili Peppers
5.A Fever you can't sweat out- Panic! at the disco
6.Touched by the Crimson King-Wizards and Demons
7.If these walls could talk- Vic Mignogna
8.Master of Puppets-Metallica
9.Avenged Sevenfold-Avenged Sevenfold
10.Back For the Attack-Dokken
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[Wanspell]

•The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains
•City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
•Abbey Road - The Beatles
•Boston - Boston
•The Sickness - Disturbed
•The Slim Shady LP - Eminem
•Gorillaz - Gorillaz
•Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
•Painkiller - Judas Priest
•Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? - Megadeth
•...And Justice for All - Metallica
•Nevermind - Nirvana
•Frizzle Fry - Primus
•Jazz - Queen
•R - Queens of the Stone Age
•The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine
•Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
•Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
•Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
•Hypnotize - System of a Down
•A City Dressed in Dynamite - That Handsome Devil
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[sMy_PANCAKES]

*Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
*Virus - Hypocrisy
*Elephant - The White Stripes
*This is Thirteen - Anvil
*Mafia - Black Label Society
*Coma of Souls - Kreator
*Alice in Hell - Annihilator
*Heartwork - Carcass
*Among the Living - Anthrax
*Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
*Suiciety - Realm
*Eric the Red - Tyr
*The Hall of Olden Dreams - Dark Moor
*Holy Diver - Dio
*Rocket Ride - Edguy
*Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa
*Dairy of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
*Powerslave - Iron Maiden
*Swampsong - Kalmah
*Dahmer - Macabre

Just off the top of my head, really... 8D
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[Hitsugaya Toshiro]

Nice list there, sMy_PANCAKES. I have the majority of those and agree with you.
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The nice Germans, they are the Swiss or as they like to say the other white race. Now how butch is an army who has a wine opener on its knife? How tough are they in combat? "Many of you have never opened Chardonnay under fire." - Robin Williams

[HigurasiNoNakuKoroNiFan]

Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
The Offspring - Americana
Trivium - Shogun
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Mastodon - Leviathan
Tool - Lateralus
Sodom - M-16
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Voivod - Nothingface
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
At The Gates - Slaughter of The Soul
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of The Fist
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