1. Led Zeppelin..."The Song Remains The Same"

2. Beatles...."Abbey Road"

3. Allman Brothers..."Beginnings"

4. Santana..."Borboletta"

5. Various artists..."Woodstock"

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but I'll try in no particular order:

Led Zeppelin: Presence
Rush: Exit - Stage Left
Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness
Carcass: Symphonies of Sickness
Napalm Death: Harmony Corruption

Time Out-Dave Brubeck Quartet
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

music as the BB's. Actually went to a concert of theirs - what's left
of them - not too long ago - and it was a blast.

"Humans" Bruce Cockburn
"Tumbleweed Connection" Elton John
"So" Peter Gabriel
"Indigo Girls" Indigo Girls
"Revolver" The Beatles

Lots and lots left out, but that's not too bad a list.

is a truly wonderful album from first note to last. Too bad those space aliens stole the real Elton John (and Rod Stewart) sometime in the mid-1970s and left behind those crappy clones.

It seems few even know of the existence of Tumbleweed Connection—Elton John's best LP.

1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti and II: Obvious I'd rank all the LZ albums as the best but I narrowed it down to these 2 as my favorite and I'll just put them in the #1 slot. They define to me just the ultimate perfect albums that must be listen to from start to finish.
2. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue: First album ever bought - started it all with my love affair with music/
3. Green Day - American Idiot: This album really defined what our country was post-9/11 George W. Bush. I still love driving to it all the time and probably my favorite of all the modern albums post 2000.
4. Yes - The Yes Album: I love this entire album and it was seeing Starship Troopers performed live that started my love affair with live music.
5. Buena Vista Social Club Soundtrack: Thank you President Obama for finally opening up Cuba. I hope to travel to Cuba so I can finally experience Cuban music in Cuba. This is probably my favorite sound track and the music is so rich and vibrant.

Obviously I didn't go witih what I thought the greatest albums were of all time but what I felt were 5 albums that I would want to have always even if someone took away all my other albums.

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
King Crimson - Red

Subject to change at any time with no advance warning.

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

Dave Burbeck, Take Five

The Beatles, Rubber Soul

The Doors, The Doors

The Four Tops, Reach Out

2. The Beatles, The White Album
3. The Who, Sell Out
4. Kanye West, The College Dropout
5. The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
6. New Order, Brotherhood

I put six because whenever I do a top five it always gets me thinking about a sixth, a seventh, an eighth, etc. I can't live without all of them and many others by Ella Fitzgerald, The Beastie Boys, r.e.m., Joni Mitchell, Prince, tons more!

2. Ray Charles, Modern Sounds of Country Music
3. The Clash, Sandinista!
4. Kraftwerk, Trans Europe Express
5. Charlie Parker, The Savoy Sessions
6. Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace

Wait. That's six! Oh crap, I forgot Muddy Waters, Hard Again. I gotta start over.

And Dylan-- shoot, don't get me started:

Highway 61 Revisited
Bringing it all Back Home
Blonde on Blonde
Infidels

Then there's Dire Straits Alchemy and Brothers in Arms

I know-- I've exceeded my limit...!!

NRPS, New Riders of the Purple Sage
American Beauty, Grateful Dead
Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
Ask the Fish, Leftover Salmon
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

I note a paucity of women and women groups. Should I start a new thread for that, or does anyone want to chime in with a few albums by female artists?

I'll split a Joni Mitchell vote between "Blue" and "Court and Spark."

2. Lauren Hill, The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
3. The Supremes, Anthology
4. Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns
5. The Pretenders, Isle of View
6. Patti Smith, Easter

Oh wait. That's six. I've gotta start over. 1. Wanda Jackson, Rockin' With Wanda....

Born to Run - Springsteen
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
American Beauty - Grateful Dead
Wish You were Here - Pink Floyd

Tomorrow's list will be different.

Derek & The Dominos "Layla"
Allman Brothers "Fillmore East"
Jefferson Airplane "Surrealistic Pillow"
Beatles "White Album"

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#2 Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
#3 Iron Maiden - Powerslave
#4 AC/DC - Highway to Hell
#5 Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Guess I'm lost in the eighties...

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Neil Young - On the Beach
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

1. Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro
2. Rhapsody in Blue, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Oscar Levant, piano
3. "Vertigo", original soundtrack album, Bernard Herrmann
4. Dizzy Gillespie, Something Old, Something New
5. Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Massey Hall Concert

1. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
2. Desperado - Eagles
3. Tommy - The Who
4. Boston (I) - Boston
5. Hemispheres - Rush

(this is for the mood I'm in tonight (subject to change......)

1. Hendrix: Electric Lady Land
2. Coltrane's Love Supreme
3. The Doors 1st Album
4. Floyd: Ummagumma
5. Cream: Disraeli gears

can't do it, sorry. impossible to pick just 5

1. 6 and 12 string guitar--Leo Kottke
2. Scenes from the South Side--Bruce Hornsby
3. Strange Days--the Doors
4. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--the Beatles
5. Sailing to Philadelphia--Mark Knopfler

3. Future Sound of London "Dead Cities"
2. Orbital "In Sides
1. Synergy "Cords"
5. Wendy Carlos "Beauty in the Beast"
4. Isao Tomita "The Planets"

The Papua New Guinea Translations being my narrow favorite.

1. Rubber Soul
2. Sgt. Pepper
3. Hendrix-Are You Experienced
4. The Doors-
5. Country Joe & The Fish-Electric Music For the Mind And Body

"Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd

"Ashes Are Burning" - Renaissance

"The Yes Album" - Yes

"Where Have I Known You Before" - Return To Forever

"Foxtrot" - Genesis

AC/DC, Highway to Hell



Pink Floyd, Darkside of the Moon



Heart, Dreamboat Annie



Metallica, And Justice for All

Harvest -- Neil Young
American Idiot -- Green Day
Synchronicity -- The Police
There Goes Rhymin' Simon -- Paul Simon
The Beatles (White Album) -- The Beatles

I can't pick five. There are too many good ones.

I can go with Desire for Bob Dylan.

Live at the Filmore for The Allman Brothers.

We can all remember this one.

Bruce Springsteen "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
AC/DC "Back in Black"
The Beatles "The White Album"
U2 "The Joshua Tree"
Steely Dan "Gaucho"

and by top 5 I mean artistically, not necessarily my favorites (though I do like them)-
Graceland- Paul Simon
Revolver--Beatles
Swiss Movement- Les McCann/Eddie Harris
Midnight Special- Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee
Hank Williams- 40 Greatest Hits

...and with some difficulty I've narrowed to these. The list of those close following is fairly long.

Twelve - Patti Smith
Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

1. Led Zeppelin, "Physical Graffiti"
2. The Smiths, "The Queen is Dead"
3. Ramones, "Leave Home"
4. Husker Du, "Zen Arcade"
5. Slayer, "Reign in Blood"

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
American Idiot - Green Day
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

But if I had to pick:

1. The Mothers Of Invention: Freak Out!
2. Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero
3. Porcupine Tree: In Absentia
4. Queens of the Stone Age: Songs For The Deaf
5. Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

Honorable mentions:

6. Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom
7. Tenacious D - Tenacious D
8. Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way

Some current favorites:

AC/DC - Rock Or Bust
Ensiferum - One Man Army
Slightly Stoopid - Top of the World
Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase
The Pineapple Theif - Little Man
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Wolfmother - New Crown
Jack White - Lazaretto
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Dropkick Murphys - Signed And Sealed In Blood
The Offspring - Smash
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

1.- Yes Close to the Edge
2.- Santana Abraxas
3.- Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
4.- Emerson Lake and Palmer Trilogy
5.- Sergio Mendez Brazil '66

Bachata Rose - Juan Luis Guerra, merengue and other DR sounds
Pon Moun Paka Bouge - Pepe Kalle, soukous from Kinshasa
Vini Pou - Kassav', the superstars of zouk, one of the greatest bands to ever exist. French Antilles.
Aretha's Gold - her first greatest hits album of her early and best songs.

Marley, Guerra, and Kassav' all have phenomenal song writing and arranging skills, extraordinary talents.

Modern sounds built off the great musical heritage of their respective countries.

there are hundreds of others I could name. There are whole genres of music I love that I haven't even listed.

Quadrophenia- The Who
Moonmadness- Camel
Disraeli Gears- Cream
Revolver- The Beatles

because I've listened to it 5 gazillion times .

Goodbye Jumbo -- World Party
REM -- Murmur/Reckoning (tie)
Avalon -- Roxy Music
Figure 8 -- Elliott Smith
Hatful of Hollow -- The Smiths

Other favorites:

Starfish -- The Church
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Abbey Rd. -- Beatles (especially side 2 -- my 2nd baby was born to that)
Special Beat Service -- English Beat
Shabooh Shoobah -- INXS
American Idiot -- Green Day
Franz Ferdinand -- Franz Ferdinand
Ocean Rain -- Echo & the Bunnymen
The House of Love -- The House of Love
Strange Times -- The Chameleons
Nowhere -- Ride
Turn on the Bright Lights -- Interpol
Harvest Moon -- Neil Young
Armed Forces -- Elvis Costello
AM -- Arctic Monkeys
Graceland -- Paul Simon

Ahh, crap, there are a lot more I could put down ... hard to pick.

1. THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX: The Atomic Bitchwax

2. HEAVY PLANET: Bong Hits from the Astral Basement

3. ALL THEM WITCHES: Our Mother Electricity

4. SONIC YOUTH: EVOL

5. INSOMNIUM: Shadows of the Dying Sun

6. UMA THURMAN: I am the High Fucking Priestess

7. VAN HALEN: Van Halen