BLACK SABBATH
(1968- 2006)
(2011- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Master of Reality
2. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3. Vol. 4
4. Paranoid
5. Heaven and Hell
Favorite Ozzy solo album: Diary of A Madman
DREAM THEATER
(1985- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Awake
2. Scenes From A Memory
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
4. Images and Words
5. Train of Thought
LED ZEPPELIN
(1968- 1980)
(reunions: 1985, 1988, 2007)
Top Five Albums
1. Physical Graffiti
2. Houses of the Holy
3. Led Zeppelin III
4. Led Zeppelin IV/ZOSO
5. Led Zeppelin II
METALLICA
(1981- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Master of Puppets
2. Ride the Lightning
3. And Justice For All
4. Kill 'Em All
5. The Black Album
PORCUPINE TREE/STEVE WILSON
(1987- 2010 (hiatus))
Top Five Albums
1. In Absentia
2. Stupid Dream
3. Fear of A Blank Planet
4. Signify
5. Deadwing
Favorite Wilson solo album: The Raven Refused to Sing
QUEEN
(1970- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. A Night At the Opera
2. Queen II
3. Sheer Heart Attack
4. Innuendo
5. A Day At the Races
ULVER
(1993- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Perdition City
2. Shadows of the Sun
3. Bergtatt
4. Blood Inside
5. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR/PETER HAMMILL
(1967- 1972)
(1975- 1978)
(2005- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Still Life
2. Godbluff
3. Pawn Hearts
4. World Record
5. The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
Favorite Hammill Solo album: Over
TOM WAITS
(1972- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Rain Dogs
2. Bone Machine
3. Mule Variations
4. Small Change
5. Closing Time
YES
(1968- 1981)
(1982- 2004)
(2008- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Close to the Edge
2. Relayer
3. Fragile
4. Tales From Topographic Oceans
5. Going For the One
TOP TEN (in no particular order except for top five)
OPETH
(1990- Present)
Top Five Albums:
1. Blackwater Park
2. Damnation
3. Morningrise
4. Ghost Reveries
5. Deliverance
IRON MAIDEN
(1975- Present)
Top Five Albums:
1. Powerslave
2. Piece of Mind
3. Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
4. Killers
5. The Number of the Beast
MARILLION
(1979- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Brave
2. Clutching At Straws
3. Marbles
4. Afraid of Sunlight
5. Misplaced Childhood
DEATH
(1983- 2001)
Top Five Albums
1. Symbolic
2. The Sound of Perseverance
3. Human
4. Individual Thought Patterns
5. Leprosy
FRANK ZAPPA
(1955- 1993)
Top Five Albums (Studio)
1. Joe's Garage
2. Freak Out!
3. One Size Fits All
4. Sheik Yerbouti
5. Apostrophe
Live
1. Roxy and Elsewhere
2. Live In New York
3. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1/Vol. 2
RUSH
(1968- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. Permanent Waves
2. Grace Under Pressure
3. Hemispheres
4. Signals
5. Presto
GENESIS
(1967- 1998)
(2006- Present)
Top Five Albums
1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2. Selling England By the Pound
3. Wind and Wuthering
4. Foxtrot
5. A Trick of the Tail
Favorite Gabriel solo album: Passion
Favorite Hackett solo album: Voyage of the Acolyte
PINK FLOYD
(1965- 1994)
(2012- 2014)
Top Five Albums:
1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Animals
4. The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
5. The Wall
Favorite Roger Waters solo: Amused to Death
KING CRIMSON
(1968- 1974)
(1981- 1984)
(1994-2004)
(2007- 2008)
(2013- Present)
Studio:
1. Red
2. Discipline
3. In the Court of the Crimson King
4. Larks Tongues In Aspic
5. The Power to Believe
Live:
1. The Great Deceiver
2. Absent Lovers
3. Vroom Vroom
4. The Night Watch
5. The ProjeKcts
Favorite Fripp solo album: A Blessing of Tears
THE BEATLES
(1960- 1970)
Top Five Albums:
1. Abbey Road (all time favorite album)
2. Revolver
3. The White Album
4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Rubber Soul
Favorite Lennon album: Plastic Ono Band
Favorite McCartney album: Band On the Run
Favorite Harrison album: All Things Must Pass
A Master List of bands I've gotten into over the years
A
ABBA
Agalloch
Alice In Chains
Tori Amos
Anathema
Jon Anderson
Anekdoten
Anglagard
Animal Collective
The Animals
Anthrax
Antlers
Aphex Twin
Fiona Apple
Arcade Fire
Arcturus
Atheist
B
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
The Beach Boys
Beardfish
The Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Beck
Ben Folds
Ben Folds Five
Between the Buried and Me
Bjork
The Black Angels
Blackfield
Black Sabbath
Bloodbath
Blotted Science
Boards of Canada
David Bowie
Budgie
Kate Bush
C
Camel
Can
Jerry Cantrell
Johnny Cash
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Celtic Frost
Cocteau Twins
Coil
Coldplay
Col. Claypool's Fearless Frog Brigade
John Coltrane
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cryptopsy
The Cure
Cynic
D
Dalek
Dead Can Dance
Deafheaven
Death
Death Angel
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Discipline
Dissection
Djam Karet
DJ Shadow
The Doors
Down
Nick Drake
Dream Theater
Dungen
Bob Dylan
E
Echolyn
Edge of Sanity
Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Wizard
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Emperor
Endochine
Brian Eno
Brian Eno and David Byrne
Enslaved
Estradasphere
Exodus
Explosions In the Sky
F
Faith No More
Fantomas
Fates Warning
Fever Ray
Fish
The Flaming Lips
Fleetwood Mac
Floater
Florence and the Machine
Flying Colors
Foo Fighters
Robert Fripp
Fripp and Eno
G
Peter Gabriel
Galactic Cowboys
Genesis
Gentle Giant
Ghostface Killah
Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger
Kevin Gilbert
Philip Glass
Godflesh
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Gojira
Guapo
GZA
H
Steve Hackett
Haken
Peter Hammill
George Harrison
I
iamamiwhoami
Iron Maiden
Isahn
Isis
J
Jakszysk, Fripp and Collins
Jane's Addiction
Jellyfish
Jesu
Jethro Tull
Billy Joel
Elton John
Joy Division
Judas Priest
K
Keane
Killer Mike
King Crimson
King Diamond
King's X
The Kinks
The Knife
Kreator
KXM
Kyuss
L
Kendrick Lamar
Lamb of God
Led Zeppelin
John Lennon
Leviathan
Liquid Tension Experiment
Love
M
M83
Machine Head
Madvillain
Magma
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Aimee Mann
Marillion
The Mars Volta
Massive Attack
Mastodon
Mazzy Star
Paul McCartney
Megadeth
Mercyful Fate
Meshuggah
Metallica
Moby
Mogwai
Janelle Monae
The Moody Blues
Morbid Angel
Neal Morse
Mr. Bungle
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
N
Nas
The National
Neu!
Neurosis
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nile
Nine Inch Nails
NWA
O
Frank Ocean
Mike Oldfield
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Opeth
Le Orme
Ozzy Osbourne
OSI
Overkill
P
Pantera
Matthew Parmenter
Arvo Part
A Perfect Circle
Phideaux
Phish
Pink Floyd
Pixies
Poe
The Police
Porcupine Tree
Portishead
Primus
Procol Harum
Public Enemy
Q
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
R
Radiohead
Raekwon
Rage Against the Machine
Rainbow
Otis Redding
Lou Reed
Steve Reich
Rush
S
Scissor Sisters
Secret Chiefs 3 (and the satellite bands)
-Traditionalists (horror and western soundtrack oriented)
-Ishriquayan (middle eastern compositions)
-FORMS (organ/percussion driven compositions)
-Holy Vehm (Death metal)
-The Electromagnetic Azoth (electronic)
-UR (Surf rock)
Secret Colours
Secret Machines
Sepultura
Shining
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sigh
Sigur Ros
Nina Simone
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Slayer
Sleep
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Smashing Pumpkins
S.O.D.
Soft Machine
Sonic Youth
Spacemen 3
Spiritualized
Spock's Beard
Cat Stevens
Strapping Young Lad
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) and Scott Walker
Super Furry Animals
Supertramp
T
Talking Heads
Talk Talk
Testament
13th Floor Elevators
Tomahawk
Tool
Devin Townsend
Toy Matinee
Transatlantic
A Tribe Called Quest
Triptykon
U
Ulver
Umphrey's McGee
Unexpect
U2
V
Van Der Graaf Generator
Vektor
Vital Remains
Voivod
W
Tom Waits
Scott Walker
Kanye West
White Zombie
The Who
Wilco
Brian Wilson
Steven Wilson
Chelsea Wolfe
Wu Tang Clan
y
Yes
Z
Frank Zappa
Warren Zevon
The Zombies
