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What cds do you have that you love and you think that is the diffintitve(sp?) album by that band.

Piller:fireproof(just a amazing second album
blindsidel:Silence(every song on the cd is a hit)
Underoath: They're only chasing safety(it brought the hardcore/screamo sound to the main stream)
Zao;funeral of God (Just a amazing hardcore album)
Demon hunter: the summer of darkness( the cd that got me into hardcore/metalcore)
Project 86: drawing black lines(classic stuff )

Well, here goes..... (btw it's spelled definitive)


Alarum: Eventuality
Aletheian: Dying Vine
Altera Enigma: Alteration
Amaran: Pristine In Bondage
Amon Amarth: Versus the World
Anata: Under a Stone With No Inscription
Andromeda: Extension of the Wish
At the Gates: Slaughter of the Soul
Atheist: Unquestionable Presence
Augury: Concealed
Between the Buried and Me: Alaska
The Black Dahlia Murder: Miasma
Canvas Solaris: Sublimation
Capharnaum: Fractured
Cephalic Carnage: Anomalies
Converge: Jane Doe
Crimson Moonlight: The Covenant Progress
Cult of Luna: Salvation
Cynic: Focus
Dark Tranquillity: Character
Daylight Dies: Dismantling Devotion
Death: Symbolic
The Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
Divinefire: Hero
Draconian: Where Lovers Mourn
Emperor: Prometheus
Ephel Duath: The Painter's Palette
The Esoteric: With the Sureness of Sleepwalking
Evroklidon: The Flame of Sodom
Extol: Undecieved
Frantic Bleep: The Sense Apparatus
The Firstborn: Unclenched Fists
Fractal Point: The Bizarre Machinery of the Universe
Frost Like Ashes: Tophet
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius
Gordian Knot: Gordian Knot
Gorguts: Obscura
Holy Blood: Waves Are Dancing
HORSE the Band: The Mechanical Hand
How Like a Winter: Beyond My Grey Wake
Ihsahn: The Adversary
Illogicist: Subjected
Imperanon: Stained
Insomnium: Since the Day It All Came Down
Into Eternity: Buried In Oblivion
Into the Moat: The Design
Ion Dissonance: Solace
Isis: Panopticon
Kalmah: The Black Waltz
Kekal: Acidity
Lengsel: Solace
Misery Signals: Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
Moonlyght: Progressive Darkness
Morphia: Fading Beauty
Mors Principium Est: Inhumanity
Mortification: Scrolls of the Megilloth
My Silent Wake: Shadow of Sorrow
Neuraxis: Trilateral Progression
Necrophagist: Epitaph
Novembers Doom: The Pale Haunt Departure
Omnium Gatherum: Years In Waste
Opeth: Still Life
Origin: Echoes of Decimation
Orphaned Land: Mabool
Pantokrator: Blod
Parakletos: Offerlammets Makt
Paramaecium: Within the Ancient Forest
Pavor: Furioso
Peccatum: Lost In Reverie
Possession: Eternally Haunt
Psycroptic: Symbols of Failure
Psyopus: Ideas of Reference
Renascent: Through Darkness
Rob Rock: Holy Hell
Scar Symmetry: Pitch Black Progress
Scarve: Irradiant
Sceptic: Unbeliever's Script
Schaliach: Sonrise
Sirenia: At Sixes and Sevens
Slechtvalk: At the Dawn of War
Sonata Arctica: Reckoning Night
Spastic Ink: Ink Compatible
Spiral Architect: A Sceptic's Universe
Stormlord: The Gorgon Cult
Subterranean Masquerade: Suspended Animation Dreams
Suffocation: Pierced from Within
Symbyosis: On the Wings of Phoenix
Sympathy: Arcane Path
Theory In Practice: Colonizing the Sun
Tourniquet: Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm
Tvangeste: Firestorm
Vehemence: Helping the World to See
Virgin Black: Elegant...and Dying
Yyrkoon: Occult Medicine

Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. Their Good Apollo album is tied for that spot.

Another great album is Five Iron Frenzy's All the Hype. It has so many solid tracks on it and really covers a wide spectrum of emotion, ranging from heartfelt to hilarious.

...I can't think of any more right now.

Madonna-Like A Prayer
Debbie Gibson-Electric Youth
Hilary Duff-self-titled
Janet Jackson-Rhythm Nation 1814

Roxy Music - Avalon
A-ha - Minor Earth Major Sky
Alan Parsons (Project/Band/Solo) - Try Anything Once

Live - Secret Samadhi
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
U2 - War
Dir en grey - Vulgar
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Current 93 - Swastikas for Noddy

I wouldn't call these the best, but I'd say that they are some of my personal favorites...

Pinkerton by Weezer
Pinkerton is just fantastic in every way. It has some of Weezer's best songs, like Tired, The Good Life, Why Bother?, and Across the Sea.

Vaya EP by At the Drive-In
The Vaya EP was released between In/Casino/Out and Relationship of Command, so it has the writing-style of some of the songs on RoC but the stripped down feel of In/Casino/Out. It's very raw and has some of my favorite ATDI songs on it, like Heliotrope, Rascuache, Proxima Centauri, and 198d.

The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot
I just love this CD. People accused Switchfoot of selling out when they wrote it, but it has some of Switchfoot's best songs on it. They added Jerome Fantomilas from Mortal to do programming, and their sound became more mature. Good, good stuff.

Our Newest Album Ever! by Five Iron Frenzy
This has to be the definitive Five Iron Frenzy album. It has Suckerpunch, Every New Day, and a host of other good FIF songs on it. The fact that it has Every New Day makes it worth whatever price you could pay for it.

The Light of Things Hoped For by Brave Saint Saturn
Reese Roper is a genius. I love this CD a lot. It's emotionally raw and powerful.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips (a lot of people like The Soft Bulletin better but Yoshimi is kind of upbeat...I like it better for the Lips)
The Lips at their weirdest, mos' def. It's just a pleasant album to listen to.

Adventures In Tokyo by Calibretto 13
People who thought that acoustic punk was weird when Calibretto was around hadn't heard At the Drive-In's "Acrobatic Tenement." Adventures In Tokyo kind of has a feel similar to that album. Crusin' the Strip, Dear Beelzebubba, Father, and America are favorites on that CD.

A Thought Crushed My Mind by Blindside
..it's A Thought Crushed My Mind. I shouldn't have to say anything, so I won't.

No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical by Showbread
This CD is in a three-way tie for my favorite album of 2004. Showbread is fantastic, and their live show is amazing. If you don't like them, you're an idiot (so says my t-shirt).

Catch For Us the Foxes by mewithoutYou
This CD has perhaps some of the most powerful, profound lyrics of any CD I've ever listened to. The music is incredible. Aaron Weiss' vocals are raw, and he bounces around different ranges going from manic chatter to shouting to whispering all throughout. Poetry set to music.

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3 by Coheed and Cambria
This CD is just epic. People who don't like Coheed because of Claudio's voice are missing out, because IKSSE:3 is a fantastic album. Rather than fantasy rock/metal, this is sci-fi rock. It's a cohesive beast, a powerful CD with a complex story to tell.

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Sufjan Stevens is every indie music fan's darling right now, and there's a good reason for it. Michigan has some of his most powerful work, but For the Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti is by the his most touching. Good stuff.

Project 86 - Drawing Black Lines
This is kinda like Blindside. It's Drawing Black Lines. I shouldn't have to say anything else.

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In the Comatorium
When At the Drive-In broke up, the more powerful force behind that band, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar a Rodriguez-Lopez left to form The Mars Volta. There's a definite salsa influence behind this epic progressive rock. They run a gamut of so many styles on this CD. It's fantastic.

Um, let's see....

FAILURE - Fantastic Planet: The first FAILURE album I ever got, and it holds as the best Ken Andrews cd I've heard.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes: The perfect mix of art, melody, and chaos. Trail of Dead hit hard with this album, and it remains my favorite to this day.

Crazy Town - Darkhorse: Although Crazy Town is not my favorite band, this cd holds as another of my favorites for some reason. I'm not really sure why, but I *really* like this cd.

Foreign Objects - The Undiscovered Colors And Numbers/Universal Culture Shock: Probably my favorite "heavy" cd. They keep their music edgy, fluid, and chaotic, but it retains a bit of melody. Very interesting stuff.

Lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress: One of the best all-around cd's I've ever heard. Aggression, angst, emotion, anger, sadness, all rolled into one album. I wouldn't be complete without owning this album XD

Eric wrote:Tourniquet: Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm

Oh i forgot about that on my list that cd is awesome. I also like When Moth and rust destroy but not as much as Microscopic view.

Norma Jean - Bless The Martyr, Kiss The Child
Dead Poetic - New Medicines
MxPx - Let It Happen
Mortal - Nu-En-Jin
Kids In The Way - Safe From The Losing Fight
As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse
Staple - Staple
Slow Coming Day - Fairwell To The Familiar
Stavesacre - Speakeasy
He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood
Trust Company - The Lonely Position Of Nuetral
Calibretto 13/Calibretto - Dead By Dawn

Lessee, so many bands that I like have been hit or miss over their albums. How many of them really have a deffinative one?

The Beatles Revolver. Voted the 1# best rock album of all time on one of those VH1 countdown thingies. Sgt. Pepper is fine, but this is the album that sums up everything great about The Beatles (Unless you could count Past Masters Vol. 1, but that'd clearly be cheating)

The Doors. A prime example of a band that did it best the first time and spending the rest of their days trying to catch up (though Strange Days is nearly as good)

Led Zepplin ZOSO. It's got stinkin' "Stairway to Heaven" on it, for crying out loud. What else do you need to know?

Boston. THE classic rock album. The pinacle of arena rock and blueprint for virtually every guitar solo in the 1980s. So many people ripped these guys off that the album sounds very cliched now (unfortunately).

Paul Revere & The Raiders The Spirit of '67. These guys started out as a Rolling Stones wannabe garage band and ended up a copycat pop song machine. This album caught them in between and trancended both.

Deep Purple. I came really close to listing Machine Head, since that's got "Smoke On The Water" and everyone knows that, but their '69 self-titled album is really the best picture of the band's sound as a whole even if it doesn't have a recognizable hit.

PFR Them. Another one where I started to put down one album (in this case Great Lengths) but changed my mind at the last minute. Probobly their most mature album, plus it's got their single best song: "Anything"

The Monkees Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Good thing this isn't a topic for great album titles.