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Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

Shine On is so beautiful. Then the middle songs, especially the title track, scratch that more catchy, accessible itch.

Jagged Little Pill

Not so easy to answer! But Vivaldis four seasons has been a great companion over the last 50 years

Discovery - Daft Punk

Demon Days by Gorillaz

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness.

It is not to my tastes anymore, but at the time when I was very swept up in it, it was truly an immersive and transformative experience. As a piece of art, I feel that it was a tremendous success.

Nirvana - Nevermind

No question. I got it when I was 15 in '91. Over the years, I've seen countless bands of various genres. My tastes evolved, and frankly, some of the records and CDs I loved at that age have not held up as my taste and musical appreciation broadened, but this one's timeless. For a while, I preferred In Utero for its rawness, but Nevermind is basically flawless in my opinion.

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Album I would listen to start to finish on any given day: Rubber Soul by the Beatles.

Favorite overall album to listen to: Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Most important album: London Calling by The Clash

Air, Moon Safari

The Battle of Loss Angeles by RATM, probably?

Soul Food by Kognitif if we're measuring it by how much I love it relative to it's popularity

Goldberg Variations. In particular, the 1981 recording played by Glenn Gould.

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

If I had to pick just one.

Hybrid Theory

I don't really know. Kinda depends in the mood I'm in I guess.

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Alice in Chains - Facelift

FIDLAR - FIDLAR

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

EDIT (some more):

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

Pearl Jam - Ten

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park) is objectively the greatest album of all time in my subjective opinion

My Head is an Animal (Of Monsters And Men) is probably my personal favorite though

Deftones - White Pony

Loved it as a teen, love it as an adult

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde

Everyone I’ve talked to seems to gravitate to Doolittle or Come On Pilgrim as a favorite Pixies record, or the album that defines their vibe. But for me this album was my entry point not just for them, but to a bigger musical world and I’m forever grateful for that.

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

Right now it's a toss-up over:

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Graceland by Paul Simon

Time by Electric Light Orchestra

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper

(I really love them all; other top contenders are Born to Run by Springsteen and Untitled by Blink-182)

what an absolutely brutal question! yet my answer never changes:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

Oof that’s a hard one. One of the below:

Jimmy Eat World ‘Clarity’

Mineral ‘The Power Of Failing’

Neutral Milk Hotel ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’

The Decemberists ‘Picaresque’

The Velvet Underground and Nico.

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty

Jamiroquai - Dynamite

Audio slave - Out of exile

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV.

That album is a masterpiece.

Sgt. Peppers.

I've got it on vinyl and this is definitely the way to hear it. Not because of quality but because it has to be heard in one go, not as separate songs.

I've heard it many times throughout the years and I still find new meanings to the songs depending on where I am in my own life.

Van Halen (first album)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-t6hyYOvcs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen_(album)

I choose to interpret this question as: "what album has been your favorite for the longest part of your life?" This was the first album I liked when I was a lil' kid even tho I didn't really understand what they were singing about. It's still a great listen, every song rocks, and some songs (like "Eruption") are legendary.

Currently I'm in a rediscovery / re-appreciation phase so:

Sinead O'Conner - The lion and the Cobra

The Doors - Morrison Hotel

Probably all time favourite, although it fades in and out of rotation:

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2

R.E.M. - Reckoning. All killer no filler

My favourite changes constantly, but right now it’s Masks Off by Jesse Welles. I’ve said it several times here before but Lemmy would really like his lyrics and more folks here need to check him out.

Yellow by Baroness.

Well, technically its a double album: Yellow & Green. And I would say Green is a close second.

Something about it just blew my mind. Like, I had heard Baroness before, stuff from Red and Blue. They had a song or two on the early Guitar Hero games. I just thought "oh another okay metal band, whatever". Yellow and Green were just... Different. The tone, the vocal style. The whole approach to writing ans playing guitars was different than what i was used to. Thr production has this kind of modern dirtiness, like the noise came from radiation or something. The lyrics are absolutely battling, as they were translated across multiple languages and the meaning was only clinging to them by a thread. The album art is incredible too. The bass is perfect, never too much or too little. The drums use disco and other dance beats along side this metal-ish music in a fantastic way.

It kind of felt it cane fron another dimension. A different timeline where English and western music evolved similarly to ours, but jjsy different enough to be uncanny.

ohh it's an insanely difficult question since I've gone through so many music phases and now listen to almost all of them

the album I've played the most and has had the most influence on me is probably The Shamen - Axis Mutatis, The Shamen had a few big hits off their first album, this second album was more experimental and I don't think it hit as well with the party crowd, but to me it has some excellent lyrics, melodies, sound design.

Close second is Skinny Puppy - Mind The Perpetual Intercourse

Probably Touché Amoré - Stage Four

Probably a generic answer but lateralus or ænima.

The Best Of of Tears for Fears

Boys For Pele - Tori Amos

She does so much with the orchestration that I'm still finding new elements

October Rust - Type O Negative.

The quintessential goth metal album. Their layers of sound, Pete’s incredible ability to make the most sardonic lyrics sound romantic and the bands utter control of melodic harmony make it an album that I have listened to an innumerable amount of times since its release. There really is something special here than no band since has captured on tape. It came out when I was a sophomore and immediately became something that I knew would be with me my entire life. This album bleeds sensuality with a not so subtle wink and nod to the ridiculousness of the human condition in a way few, if any before or after it ever have. It is equal parts sexy and hilarious. Type O was a band whose depth was often missed by the outlandish nature of who their frontman Peter Steele was. A man capable of being a sulking giant with a broken heart one second and a sexy rock and roll god doing a centerfold photoshoot for Playgirl the next.
I never stopped loving this band for that perfect mixture of mischief, tongue in cheek self awareness and Gen X melancholy they brought to everything they did. There are great albums by them before this one and great ones after. But October Rust stands as a truly unique album without peer in my heart for all time.

Moving forward a little,

Gin - Cobalt

This is a pure slab of American Black Metal by way of a multi-instrumentalist that grew up on 90’s alternative, particularly Tool. It bridges the gap between two eras of metal so effortlessly it boggles the mind at times. Erik Wunder played all the instruments and was the primary songwriter on this album and it is so complete in a way that can only be achieved through that singular of a vision. It’s like a dark mirror version of the first Foo Fighters record in a myriad of ways. He sadly passed away last year and was only able to perform these song live a few times in the decade and half since its release. I was lucky enough to catch two of those performances and they were as beautiful as I had hoped.

His passing hit like a brick as I was able to talk quite a bit with him on Facebook in during the early years of the band and spend some time in person when they played near me. He was always very gracious and intelligent in person. He had that specific blend of honesty and intelligence that separates the good from the great in music. I often wonder what could have become of the band if he had been able to find more stable vocalists and the ability to create while sober. It’s a real bummer we will never know.

Finally,

…Like Clockwork- Queens of the Stone Age

This is one of those albums that came at exactly the right time in my life to become an encapsulation of moments of darkness and hope being perfectly intertwined. It gave me a place to put my sadness, my longing, my fears and my dreams while I sorted out who I would be for the second half of life on this planet. There are moments of spite that feel so real you can almost feel the tension in the rooms that inspired it. Then there are moments of such soulful beauty and longing you can’t help but get lost in thoughts of heartbreak right along with the band. I truly believe Josh Homme wrote his opus here. It’s the perfect Queens album and, in my opinion, the greatest rock and roll album of all time.

It used to be Donny Osmond's Greatest Hits but now it's Lou Reed's New York.

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