What 10 albums do you find yourself playing? It doesn't have to be in a particular style, or even be the one of the genre's defining moments. More of the ones that you're fond of. As much as my tastes change, I'd have to go with, in no particular order:

1. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
3. Bastro - Diablo Guapo
4. Death - Human
5. Fugazi - The Argument
6. Big Black - The Hammer Party
7. Killing Joke - s/t
8. Zeni Geva - Freedom Bondage
9. Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
10. Tad - Inhaler or Salt Lick/God's Balls

The first 10 off the top of my head, in no particular order:

1. Cat Power - Moonpix
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Weedeater - Sixteen Tons
4. Gang of Four - Solid Gold
5. Wire - Chairs Missing
6. Boards of Canada - Geoggadi
7. Gary Numan - Replicas
8. Stooges - Funhouse
9. Joan of Arc - So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Even as my tastes evolve, I can still go back to all of these and love them as much as the day I first heard them.

In no perpendicular odor:

1 Love- Forever Changes
2 Silkworm- Developer
3 Weezer- Pinkerton (give me shit about this one all you want)
4 Richard Hell and The Voidoids- Blank Generation
5 Elliott Smith- XO
6 The Zombies- Odessey and Oracle
7 The Velvet Underground and Nico
8 Joni Mitchell- Blue
9 Minutemen- Double Nickels On The Dime
10 The Who- Quadrophenia

I can think of at least 40 more records I love equally as much as these ten. Goddamn these lists!

Go ahead and add 'em! This thread is turning out to be a good birthday wish-list.

Skronk wrote:4. Death - Human

Excellent. Not the usual choice.

I'm bad at lists, and most of y'all are going to say some of the stuff I would want to say anyway (Wire, Minutemen, etc.), so here are a couple:

U.S. Maple "Talker"
Ornette Coleman "Science Fiction"

For whatever reason, I have a huge soft spot for The Vandals "Live Fast, Diarrhea". Dumb, fun, punk rock, but a record I have listen to probably hundreds of times, and still has hundreds of more listens left.

no particular order:

I have a feeling this has been done before...but fuck it, I'm not looking.

Off the top of my head in no particular order, ten perfect albums:

Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
PiL - First Issue
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
DNA - On DNA
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Suicide - Suicide
The Stooges - Fun House
Greg MacPherson Band - Night Flares

Germ War wrote:Ornette Coleman "Science Fiction"

That is pretty ridiculous that we simultaneously posted the same record...

Aneurhythmia wrote:

Skronk wrote:4. Death - Human

Excellent. Not the usual choice.

Not as good as Individual Thought Patterns.