What are the best albums of all time?(requested)

[androidlove]

love and rockets - earth sun moon

[Resonant- Serpent]

John Corigliano: Altered States
Swans: The Great Annihilator
Skinny Puppy: Last Rights
Tangerine Dream: Force Majeure
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
Sisters of Mercy: Reptile House EP
Autechre: Ganz Graf
Throbbing Gristle: DOA
Emperor: Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children/Geogaddi/Dayvan Cowboy
Portishead: Third
Wendy Carlos: Tales of Heaven and Hell
Christopher Young: Hellraiser/Hellraiser 2

[vurt]

the swans

[EuripidesMac]

The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles <= yes it's cheating
The Jam - Setting Sons
Switchfoot -The Beautiful Letdown

[jplanet]

Some people have some really interesting lists of things I haven't heard - I'm afraid most of mine are all pretty much the "consensus" of best albums, such as:

Beatles - Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper's
Led Zeppelin - I, II, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon

Some which might be personal to me, or specifically to fans of these bands:

Yes - Relayer
ELP - Trilogy
Spock's Beard - Snow
Heart - Dog & Butterfly

[deaf dunderkwac]

I was trying to pick one album from one of my true inspirations but I couldn't

so here's a utuBe of

warning-severely great drum wanking in this

[ozmoz2008]

In your mind
What are the best albums of all time?

It seems that they are often related to a specific time in my life.

But some that seems to past the test of time;

Genesis- Lambs lies down on Broadway
Yes- Yessongs (live album the best one IMO)and Going for the One
Miles Davies- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Bitches Brew
Santana- Abraxas
Deep Purple- Deep Purple in Rock
Supertramp- Crime of the Century
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Harmonium- Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
Weather Report (many of them Black Market, Mysterious Traveller and MrGone)
Jean-Michel Jarre- Zoolook and Equinoxe
Geoffrey Oreyema- Exile
John McClaughin- Shakti and many Mahavishnu albums
Mike Oldfield- QE2, TubularBells
U2- Achtung Baby
Vangelis- "The best of"
Pat Metheny- Offramp
Beatles- The White album
Mussorgsky- Picture at an exhibition (by many orchestras)

And so many soundtracks...

There is already many other good suggestions in the present thread too!

[paradiddle]

N'importe quel album de Fernand Gignac ou ben Michel Louvain!

[Redmerkurii]

John Shuttleworth - The Yamaha Years

Sublimely craptacular - can't get enough of this stuff.

[Moe Shinola]

In no particular order:

Eric Johnson - Tones
Ali Farke Toure w/ Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Allan Holdsworth - IOU
King'x X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska & Faith Hope And Love
Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
Astronaut Wife - Flying Saucer
Call And Response - Winds Take No Shape
Damon And Naomi w/Kurihara - Songs To The Siren(live)
Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature
BT - B-Sides And Rarities
Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina & Diamonds And Rust
Pat Metheny - Pat Metheny Group & Question And Answer
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

I could go on and on and on...

[tomg]

I could go on and on and on...

Me too but people are starting to list some of my favorites, that's why I'm waiting for this to hit 10 pages before I jump in.

Here's a few...

Fleetwood Mac - Then Play on
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
Santana - III
Santana - Caravanserai
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Close To The Edge
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Lee Ritenour - Rit
Lee Ritenour - Earth Run

[Gosh]

these are the ones that founded my lifelong love for electronic music (maybe not the best albums from these groups/musicians but for me the most influential):
tangerine dream-force majeure
peter baumann-transharmonic nights
edgar froese-stuntman
jean michel jarre-oxygen
klaus schulze-timewind
kraftwerk-die mensch maschine
space art-trip to the center head
michael garrison-in the regions of sun return
vangelis-china
kitaro-silk road
space-magic fly
i still love these albums and these artists, although i have discovered many more (and more recent) albums in this field of electronic music.
oh, and one more album that had a great influence on my musical tastes when i started to buy and listen to my first lps was ocean from eloy. while i agree that some of the critics concerning eloy are right (frank borneman is definitely not a blessed singer and some of the english texts really sound like a bad translation from german to english) eloy are still my heroes and i'm very much looking forward to their new cd wich will be out by the end of november.
cheers

[D.H. Miltz]

Restricting myself to one album per band or performer & off the top of my head & in no order except Tim's always at the top:

The Replacements - Tim
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Willie Nelson - Willie Nelson Sings Kristofferson
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Phil Ochs - Rehearsals for Retirement
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Vic Chesnutt - Little
Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone
The Muffs - Blonder and Blonder
Fugazi - Repeater
Wilco - Summerteeth
Son Volt - Trace
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

[galwaypark]

As was your earlier mention of 'An Electric Storm'. Nothing else like it. Ever.

Hmmm, I've always thought Broadcast wrapped it up pretty nicely, especially on 'Haha Sound' (which, in my book, deserves a mention in this thread.)

anyway, back OT:

The Cure - Disintegration

[philipc68]

Lots of albums I know and love in this thread, here's a couple that often seem to get forgotten in "best of" lists...

The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
(seriously! this is up there with the Beatles)

Emitt Rhodes - S/T and The American Dream are both great

The Millennium - Begin