Loveless !

No spiderland, no Abbey Road, nor Eusa Kills or Slanted and Enchanted.

I think I am also going for Loveless. I am going to see MBV in Manchester this summer. The only reunion I think that's going to be great I think. Or are my emotions masked by shear nostaligia

Nice list. It is always interesting to see what people post in their list.

As for me:

Joshua Tree
Blue in Green
Revolver
Paid in Full
Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney

The Joshua Tree (if I could only pick one)
also have to agree on Revolver
+
Dark Side of the Moon
Life's Rich Pageant
Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros
Under the Pink
and an honorable mention to Elbow's Cast of Thousands.

All of the above chosen because they hang together thematically/musically as a true musical experience rather than just a collection of one or two good songs with lots of filler. Musically they must also stand the test of time. "Cast of Thousands" comes very close but falters near the end of the album.

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.

funeral
or
doolittle

for me.

there are bands I love more in general, and there are records with better songs but those two records are like "this is what I have to say"

its a hard question.

Hmmmm... Depends on the mood. Here's a short list of candidates:

Kind of Blue
Out of the Blue
Oxygene
Dummy
Unknown Pleasures

Simon and Garfunkel (best of)
Dummy
Dark Side of the Moon
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Buena Vista Social Club

What, no one added OK Computer to the list? For me, I think it was one of the albums I played the most for the longest period of time...

Pink Flag

Aretha's Gold.

Kind of Blue
The Last Waltz
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
The White Album
The Bridge
Cassandra Wilson's Tribute to Miles Davis
World Without Tears

in the aeroplane over the sea

Some favourites:

Tracy Chapman's Let It Rain
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now
Moby's 18

And the Besieged soundtrack!

Pet Sounds / The Beach Boys

Blood on the Tracks
Aja

loreena mckennitt- the visit
penderecki- utrenja (if you can find it)
bjork- homogenic
mothers of invention- freak out
alban berg- lyric suite

Another Green World - Brian Eno
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Acadie - Daniel Lanois

Forever Changes (Love)
The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground)
The United States Of America (The United States Of America)

Heaven or Las Vegas

I'm with you.

For me it's also Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, without question. That record was one of those few moments where an album caught my ear in the first moments I heard it, and it's seemed fresh to me for nearly 17 years now.

I feel it's just an amazing record. I'm trying to place another favorite record up there (maybe the Smiths, Hatful of Hollow, or New Day Rising, Dolittle?) but I really don't get the same visceral response from any other record.

Arise, Therefore
Purple Rain
Speaking in Tongues

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
I'm not surprised to be the first to mention it, but I am surprised that no-one has mentioned my silver medalist: Astral Weeks.

Highway 61 Revisted (Bob Dylan)
Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
Shoot out the Lights (Richard and Linda Thompson)
Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)

XO
Loveless
Abbey Road
Kind of Blue
Areoplane over the sea
Revelling/Reckoning(ani difranco)
Chutes Too Narrow
Plastic Ono Band
Chrome(Catherine Wheel)

1. OK Computer- undeniably brilliant. Thom Yorke is a genius.

2. Meat is Murder- completely and utterly original and exciting. Johnny Marr's guitar work combined with lyrics that are somewhere between the despair of The Smith's earlier works and the jangle-pop of their latter was always going to be groundbreaking.

3. A Crow Left of the Murder- rock bristling with emotion and intellect. This is where Incubus became the band they were always meant to be, and where they gained the respect they deserved even from non-rock fans.

These are my three. I could go on forever explaining the intricacies of each, the details that add an extra dimension to each piece of work and elevate them from being good to brilliant. However, when it comes down to it, these are simply the albums that have brought me the greatest amount of pleasure and have achieved to the highest degree what music is meant to do, to make existence more pleasurable.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"- Alduos Huxley

Other contenders are Odyssey Number 5, Is This It, The Bends, Absolution and Strangeways Here We Come.