Absolute favorite albums?

Soundgarden - Superunknown
AC/DC - Back in Black
Jamiroquai - Funk Odyssey
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

 

Alice in Chains-Jar of Flies
The College Dropout-Kanye West
Gin Blossoms-New Miserable Experience

 

Nearly everything made by Cloudkicker

The Perfect Element part 1 and 2: Pain of Salvation

01011001: Ayreon

Animals as Leaders: Animals as Leaders

At the Dreamers Edge: Chimp Spanner

 

Anyone listen to rap here??
EMINEM - KAMIKAZE

 

Ok Computer - Radiohead
The Money Store - Death Grips
Unknown Pleasures (no pun intended) - Joy Division

 

Led Zeppelin I
Wish You Were Here (Floyd)
Out of the Blue (ELO)

 

Master of Puppets - Metallica
City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
Once, Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish
Hydra - Within Temptation
King of Kings - Leaves Eyes
The Quantum Enigma, The Holographic Principle - Epica

 

Back In Black ~ AC/DC
Baptized in Filth ~ Impending Doom
Therapy Session ~ NF
A Decade of Destruction ~ Five Finger Death Punch
Anomaly ~ Lecrae
Awake ~ Skillet

 

Great lists! I'll have some new sounds to audit at the gym.
I collect vinyl - over 500 lps - don't get me started!

Classic Rock / Prog stuff
Sgt Peppers (#1 on Rolling Stones top 500) - Read the Wikipedia and you'll understand why... all done on 4 channel recording equipment - Alan Parsons helped engineer it at Abbey Road Studio.

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Self titled / these guys were beyond good...
Check this out-

The Doors - Soft Parade

Trick of the Tail - Genesis

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (Oh yeah, Parsons worked on this one too)

Yes - Fragile (Roger Dean album art was awesome)

King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic

Any Led Zeppelin

Any Steely Dan (The group was named after a strap-on dildo in William Burroughs Naked Lunch book)

Any Supertramp

Newer stuff
RHCP - The Getaway - awesome album cover
Collective Soul - Dosage
Animals as Leaders (yep, that's an 8 string guitar)
Daft Punk

Jazz and Prog Jazz
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Stanley Clark - School Days
Anything Spyro Gyra
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow


Classical
Dvorak - New World Symphony
Holst - The Planets
Aaron Copeland - Appalachian Spring (.. and Fanfare for the Common Man - ELP covered this song)

Bottom line... to much good music - not enough days in one lifetime to experience it all.

Cheers,
HF