TOP 10: Favorite Non-Metal Albums

What are your top 10 favorite Non-Metal albums?

Those albums that are not Metal or even Hard Rock, but still essential albums that you LOVE!!!

I'd have to say mine are:

1. Enya - Watermark

2. Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within

3. OMD - Messages (Greatest Hits)

4. Delerium - Karma

5. A Flock of Seagulls - The Best Of  

6. Steve Roach - Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces

7. Razed in Black - Damaged

8. The Wild Swans - Space Flower

9. Mediaeval Baebes - Salva Nos

10. Book of Love - Candy Carol

I'll keep it to one album per artist, in no particular order:

Casting Crowns	Lifesong
Michael W. Smith	Freedom
Audiomachine	Tree of Life
John Powell	How to train your dragon
Third Day	Whereever you are
Lifehouse	No Name Face
Live	The Distance to here
Flatfoot 56	Black Thorn
The OC Supertones	Chase the sun
Alter Bridge	One day remains
Bon Jovi	These Days
The Electrics	Livin' it up when I die
Vivaldi/Bernstein	The Four Seasons

Missing Persons..Spring Session M
Missing Persons..Missing In Action
Duran Duran...Greatest Hits
Animotion...The Best Of
Power Station...The Power Station
Eddie Money...Eddie Money (Debut)
Loverboy...Get Lucky
Boston...Boston
Waylon Jennings...greatest Hits
Flock 14...brave new world?

Bob Dylan - Tempest
Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Joanne Shaw Taylor - The Dirty Truth
Gram Parsons - GP
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Bob Weir - Ace
Jerry Garcia - Garcia
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Syd Barrett - Barrett

Savage Amusement wrote:
Flock 14...brave new world?

Heck yah bro! Great call on that album! Underrated!

Hmmm... Might actually be a little hard to do but I will try. I have so many that I like and will have to do it off the top of my head.

1 - Styx - Paradise Theater
2 - Journey - Evolution
3 - The Outfield - Play Deep
4 - Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
5 - Beatles - Abbey Road
6 - Pink Floyd - Animals
7 - Bad Company - Self Titled
8 - Rush - Permanent Waves
9 - Bryan Adams - Reckless (which I haven't listened to in a LONG time and it is chock full of hits. I have it on vinyl and need to play it sometime).
10 - Boston - Debut

I tried not to repeat any bands to keep a variety. And I am sure this list would change on any particular day except for the #1 slot, that is my favorite album ever.

Let me pose everybody a question.... if this were asked again in 6 months do you think any of your current picks would change? I think for me it would not all of them but at least a couple of them. Anybody else this way?

Heres mine in no order

Pink Floyd- The Wall
Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Metric - Fantasies
David Bowie- Low
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Foo Fighters - ST
Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music Gifts From the Vatican Gift Shop
Violet Burning - Demonstrates Plastic & Elastic / This is the Moment (tie)

Not much would change on mine. Styx, The Outfield, Rush and Pink Floyd would probably remain on my list. In fact I am thinking right now Zeppelin III belongs on my list so it could change from hour to hour.

I hear ya, depends on my mood for music, theres times like right now where its David Bowie all the time. Theres times for me its Pink Floyd all the time. Just depends I guess. I think the core ones for me Bowie, Floyd will never change but Id say the last 3 might be in flux for me.

Yeah, my list would be pretty consistent. Might be one or two different in 6 months time. Depends I guess on if I found any albums that would overturn any of these.

By far, my two favorite non-metal albums are Turn it Around by Comeback Kid and Walk Home by Willows. Two fantastic, heartfelt hardcore albums.

I also really like Circle of Dust's debut, but that's industrial rock, which apparently some people think is metal. So I don't know if that really fits here. But I definitely would not call CoD a metal band.

2146 by Sabled Sun is a really cool dark ambient album, so that's worth mentioning.

If we jump into the realm of EDM, there were two acts called Varien and 7 Minutes Dead that collaborated and created an awesome EP called Mirai Sekai. It has a super futuristic sound and I love it.

I guess this wasn't much of a list, nor was it ten albums, but hey, it works.

I agree that Circle of Dust's first album was Industrial Rock, not Metal. However, their follow-up, Brainchild-Mindwarp is totally Industrial Metal.

Then their stuff afterwards is pretty Metal too. Even the re-recording of the debut.

Eh...I guess you could call Brainchild metal (but that's still really stretching it) but I'd say that Disengage is certainly not metal.

I actually prefer the re-recording of the debut. Though I do miss tracks like Exploration and Technological Disguise, the re-recorded version of Nothing Sacred (which is my favorite CoD song) is so much better than the original. I'm really glad that they took Amazing Grace out of the end of it, because that was really bad and broke the mood in the original.

Keith Green - The Prodigal Son
Liberation Suite - Same
Colourhaze
Run DMC - Down With The King
Django Reinhardt
M83 - Oblivion OST
Jars of Clay - Same
Jars of Clay - Much Afraid
Aphex Twin - Druqs
Vangelis - Bladerunner OST

My number one for sure
Family Force 5 - Business Up Front/Party In The Back

These in no specific order:

Flatfoot 56 - Knuckles Up
Children 18:3 - Self Titled
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
The Highwaymen - Highwayman
Flyleaf - Self Titled
Matty Mullins - Self Titled
7eventh Time Down - Just Say Jesus
Mars Ill - Backbreakanomics
LA Symphony - The End Is Now

sadvader, good call on M83! Very good band from France! I love em!

I don't listen to a whole ton of non metal... but I really like these a lot:

Alcest - Shelter
The Anna&Chenbiao - Grace
Kauan - Kuu...
Musk Ox - Woodfall
My Silent Wake - The Anatomy Of Melancholy (Last Volume)
Neun Welten - Vergessene Pfade
Sexit - Vtak z Atlantiku
Wovenhand - Consider The Birds
The 3rd And The Mortal - Painting On Glass
16 Horsepower - Folklore

Honorable Mentions:

Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa
Musk Ox - Musk Ox
My Silent Wake - Preservation Restoration Reconstruction
Neun Welten - Destrunken
Wovenhand - all other albums
The 3rd And The Mortal - In This Room
16 Horsepower - all other albums

I like this topic so am resurrecting this ancient post.

I typically prefer to list favorite songs rather than records, since most of my all-time favorite songs are on records with a lot of filler.  

But here are some favorite non-metal full records.  I am deliberately excluding "Best Of" albums because otherwise I'd be tempted to make them all best-of's:

1.  Seal - Seal II (1994)
2.  The Police - Synchronicity
3.  The Fixx - Elemental
4.  Billy Squier - Don't Say No
5.  Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
6.  Toto - XIV
7.  Steely Dan - Aja
8.  Henry Paul Band - Grey Ghost
9.  Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player
10. Annie Lennox - Medusa

Top 10 Non Metal Favorite Albums....

Pink Floyd- Relics
David Bowie - Low
Metric - Art of Doubt
Weezer- Teal Album
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
Dido - Life for Rent
Violet Burning - Demonstrates Plastic & Elastic
Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues
Cherie Currie - Blvds of Splendor
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Honorable Mentions:

Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire

Constantine wrote:
3.  The Fixx - Elemental

That's dedication.  I don't think anyone stuck with The Fixx after 1985.

Even with only one album per band (which I'm doing now) this should be easy. Ranking is more difficult, but here goes:

1: Neal Morse - One
2: Toto - The Seventh One
3: Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
4: Yes - Close to the Edge
5: Camel - Mirage
6: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
7: Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
8: ZZ Top - Eliminator
9: Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman - The Hound of the Baskervilles
10: Tuomas Holopainen - The Life and Times of Scrooge

I am a sucker for old threads.  

Sports  Huey Lewis and the News

A perfect LP imo.

I read this thread and was amazed that someone in 2016 had exactly the same taste in music as me, only to realise it was me under an old username, now "Guest".

Erasmus wrote:I read this thread and was amazed that someone in 2016 had exactly the same taste in music as me, only to realise it was me under an old username, now "Guest".

That's interesting!   Whenever I see "Guest" on old posts, I always assume they are no longer here.
Now I know that isn't always the case 

I couldn't mention a top ten, since I've never listened to or owned any full albums from any non metal artists aside from a few artists. Though I enjoy most forms I'd music when I hear them.
My top non metal artist is Jewel of whom I own 3 albums from, my favorite being her album *this way*.
Unless you count Evanescence as nonmetal, which most count them as metal but many metal elitists would say they arent, I think they are on the verge of metal but are more so dark gothic hard rock, I own their first two albums. My favorite being their 2nd one.
I also own a best of Platinum Blonde, a best if Heart(and one actual album on tape), and a best of Michael Jackson album. And I own a best if the Rolling Stones.
That's about it.