I'd have to say the two part album Pulse with all of that trance techno stuff from the nineties, I was just a little kid when I heard most of those songs on that and it got me interested in some kind of music as a kid which was important.

Is This It? - The Strokes.

Argh, I couldn't name a single album either to be my favourite either. It's also likely that I'd come up with completely different answers depending on when you asked me, and at other times I'd keep adding "and this... and that" until every album in my CD collection are regarded as favourites.

Putting it briefly though, I'd have to go for post-Revolver Beatles albums because I'm on that side of the coin it seems. There are classics on both sides, but I've still not got tired of Sgt. Pepper's (we thank you guys though for HIDDEN TRACKS )and The Beatles so I guess that seals that one. Automatic For The People by REM has been a favourite for a while, but quite a few of their albums are good, especially the late '80s ones. Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief counts on the folk front (which you can't escape from in this house, but that's not a bad thing). I'm a bit torn as far as jazz goes because most of the ones I have are vague compilations... I'll go for Art Blakey's Moanin'. Some people find it hard to be interested in jazz, but the title track there is pretty sweet, and well-known to a degree too.

I've never been into live music all that much, but there are some great live albums. Two favourites I can name now are Stand In The Fire by Warren Zevon and Rush's Exit... Stage Left, which is the album that got me into Rush, as big as I know they are elsewhere.

Finally... soundtracks. Scarface, catchy '80s pop that works well and has nostalgia value for me. It's all good.

I think I missed the point of this discussion a little.

I guess, the one album that's had the most profound long-standing affect on me would have to be Daft Punk's Discovery. I bought it when I was ten, and it was my first album ever. I liked it because it was catchy, and years later, I've come back to it and I love it more than ever. Not only has it shaped my appreciation for music, but it's also heavily inspired in my own music productions.

Also, I really love Ladyhawke's self titled debut. The songs on that album are catchy, varied, and are layered with a wonderful '80s vibe. I love her so.

I could probably think of more, but they're two that definitely leap to mind.

No question about it - the best album of all time is...

Blues - Jimi Hendrix

i have a really hard time choosing favorite anythings

but

alopecia; elephant eyelash - why?
the great depression - defiance, ohio
uh, every album/EP/single after Danse Manatee - animal collective
symbolic - death
in absentia; deadwing - porcupine tree
dopethrone - electric wizard
crime EP - against me!
fuck bitches, get euros - super mash bros
traveller - the lord weird slough feg
blue train - john coltrane

Achromatic wrote:

Agalloch's 'Ashes Against the Grain', Atheist's 'Elements', Death's 'Symbolic,' Ulver's 'Perdition City', 'The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place' by Explosions in the SkyAgents of Oblivion's self-titled

holy shit marry me

Master of Reality - Black Sabbath

Blood Mountain - Mastodon
Relationship of Command - At the Drive In
Meat is Murder - The Smiths

Yeah, I picked three.

:queen:

Some of my favorite albums of all time, I can't just chose one.

Porcupine Tree- Deadwing
Mastodon- Crack The Skye (best album of 2009 definately)
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Isis- In The Absence of Truth
Tool- Lateralus

Theres 5. I'd say Crack the skye, Deadwing and In the Absence of truth are the top three though. But my favorites always change too. :$