Let me preface this by saying I'm generally not a fan of emo, punk, or anything of the sort... but a few of the albums in here may speak contrary to that, especially the first one.

Brand New - Deja Entendu
By far, every single track on this album is intricately thought-out and sonically fleshed-out. The blend of songs, subtle shifts of style and the emotion of it all is really quite stunning. Leaps and bounds ahead of their first album Your Favorite Weapon, and definitely beyond anything their fellow hugely-popular emo band Taking Back Sunday ever wrote. I recommend this album to anyone.

Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
While there are two tracks that I find far less enjoyable than the rest (Les Lumieres and A Light at the End of the Tunnel) they still fit perfectly into the flow and mix of the album. With equal amounts abstract, acoustic, contemporary, industrial, electronica, post-hardcore, noise, and screamo, this album, from song one, takes you through so many auditory twists and turns it may leave you feeling ethereal and at the same time, animalistic. The lyrics, once you find out what they actually are, will blow your mind. Considering the album is about a man with memories of things that never happened who lived a life that never existed, I don't find that surprising. Two 18-year-old guys made this masterpiece. Chew on that for a while.

Tool - Ænima
Take all the core elements of what rock, metal, and just music in general is supposed to be, a hugely talented band, and quite a bit of Jungian theory, wrap it up in a neatly-arranged, perfectly-composed package and you'll get Ænima. Every track throws note after note of carefully controlled sonic assault at you, but the most notable tracks are "Forty-Six & 2," "Ænema," and perhaps "H" or "Eulogy," difficult to decide between them.

E.S. Posthumus - Unearthed
It's difficult to say what makes this completely original piece of musical art work, but imagine if you can what classical music would sound like if it were revived into today's society. Listen to it.

There are a few others I could listen to repeatedly and never tire of them, but these are my top three, easily.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN - TOXICITY

I loved EVERY SINGLE song on this album, Prison Song was a great intro to the album, and really got you into it. The short, thrashy tracks such as Jet Pilot and X were perfect transitions between the longer, more progressive songs. It was just brilliant. There was no filler here either, all the songs were tight, and if you listen past the end of Aerials, there's like 2 minutes of crazy african music and sound effects done by the band, it was wicked. Steal this Album(2003) was good too, but it was just a jumble of random tracks left over from the Toxicity album... After STA, SOAD just lost there sound in my opinion. TOO experimentational, not enough solid music...

NEIL YOUNG - AFTER THE GOLDRUSH

This album is timeless. My Dad listened to it on 8-track in a huge buick back in the day and I still listen to it on C.D. in my aveo, lol. Every song is beautiful, and there's everything from folk to rock to some country stuff on here. If Like a Hurricane had been on this album it would be the best album ever written ever. Like a Hurricane is the best Neil Young song ever written, but every song on this album is a close second. Other notable NY albums (and there are LOTS of them) include Harvest(1974), Harvest Moon(1992), Tonight's the Night(1975), Zuma(1975), and RE-AC-TOR(1982)...

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - FRANKENSTEIN GIRLS WILL SEEM STRANGELY SEXY

This is what happens when you write 30 songs, can't decide which to throw on a C.D., so you throw them all on. It's just nuts, the whole C.D. is unrelentless crazy noise which is MSI's sound in a nutshell. The C.D. is all about kind of "Fuck it if it's a proper C.D., we think it's cool". I loved it!

TOOL - LATERALUS

I'll agree with you, Ayos, about TOOL, but I think LATERALUS was better, I just friggin loved Lateralus! Schism is like the best Tool song ever written as well, with Lateralus coming a close second, the feel of this C.D. is amazing, and if you need a perfect time to listen to this C.D. and are kind of a romantic, drive around at 3 a.m. when it's lightly snowing and listen to Lateralus alone in your car, you just get in this zone that's unlike anything else. Aenima is good too, as well as their new one, 10,000 Days...

Mmmmm 'Dark Side of the Moon' is also a CD I find perfect in every way. Not one bad track on it.

At the Gates: Slaughter of the Soul is personally a masterpiece to me. The tracks never dull as each track has a unique melody to it and it goes on until the end with almost no repetitive sound in each track. Love it and it's a classic.