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

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.

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

Linkin Park's Meteora or HybridTheory

R.I.P. Chester 🫡

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Hybrid Theory

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

If I had to pick just one.

Deftones - White Pony

Loved it as a teen, love it as an adult

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’

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

Jamiroquai - Dynamite

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty

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.

The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

The Velvet Underground and Nico.

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.

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

That album is a masterpiece.

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.

Audio slave - Out of exile

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

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

Probably a generic answer but lateralus or ænima.

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

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)

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.

I don't normally do superlatives, so my answer could change at any time soonish, really. That said, if I'd point to one album that I've reliably enjoyed a lot for quite a while, I'd say:

Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

Wikipedia, Bandcamp (original), Bandcamp (20th anniversary remaster), and they're on Spot & YT as well.

Boys For Pele - Tori Amos

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

Probably Touché Amoré - Stage Four

69 Love Songs from The Magnetic Fields

The whole Animals as Leaders discography. Incredible band.

La mécanique du cœur by Dionysos