As with any music board, this one is full of broad tastes. I thought it'd be interesting to share and compare a favorite albums list. Here's mine:

(in no particular order except for the top two)

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Neil Young - On The Beach
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

* this list strictly pertains to personal preferences and influence, not intended to reflect a "best ever" notion

Pixies - "Doolittle"
The Beatles - "Revolver"
Radiohead - "Kid A"
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Shake the Sheets"
Bob Dylan - "Blood on the Tracks"
Radiohead - "OK Computer"
Beck - "Odelay"
Nirvana - "Nevermind"
The Velvet Underground - "The Velvet Underground"
The White Stripes - "De Stijl"

From 1 to 10 starting at the top. That list defiintely has some "best" influence in it, so it's not completely a favorite list, but I do highly enjoy everything listed. I think if I tried a favorite list it would change on a weekly basis.

The National: Alligator
M Ward: Transfiguration of Vincent
Adorable: Against Perfection
Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Radiohead: Kid A
Jazz Butcher: Waiting for the Love Bus
John Cale: Words for the Dying

The last two artists I could pick from about half a dozen albums so these are more or less arbitrary choices representing a larger body of work...actually that's true of several artists on here.

Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
You Am I - Hourly Daily
Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School
Kinks - Village Green
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Toots and the Maytals – Funky Kingston
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Wrens – Meadowlands
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine

Rosemary: The National are definitely included! I would've liked to throw Alligator and Boxer on there but at this point and time there is nothing on my list I could part with so it remained intact.

Mine would go something like this ...

Led Zeppelin IV
The National - Alligator
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (others very close)
Radiohead - OK Computer (cliche but still my favorite of their whole discography)
Pedro The Lion - Winners Never Quit
The Wrens - The Meadlowlands
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

- M

Massive Attack - blue lines
Joy Divison - unknown pleasures
The National - alligator
The Mars Volta - de loused
Wolf Parade - apologies to the queen mary
John Frusciante - to record only water for ten days
M83 - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
Mogwai - come on die young
Sophia - people are like seasons
Okkervil River - black sheep boy

Very cool to see M83 elephantman. I'm just getting into their older stuff, and I'm enjoying myself very much.

Here is a rough list:

The National - Boxer
Working for a nuclear free city - Businessmen & Ghosts
Radical Face - Ghost
Sigur Rós - Agćtis Byrjun
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing...
Interpol - Antics
Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head
Air - Moon Safari
Menomena - Friend & Foe

In no particular order. No instrumentals allowed.

Pink Floyd, "Animals"
Radiohead, "The Bends"
The Smiths, "The Queen Is Dead"
Belle & Sebastian, "If You're Feeling Sinister"
Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin II"
The National, "Boxer"
Fairport Convention, "Liege & Lief"
Neutral Milk Hotel, "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"
The Clash, "London Calling"
Guided By Voices, "Bee Thousand"

Constantly changing and in no particular order:

Sticky Fingers The Stones
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin
Ragged Glory Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Animals Pink Floyd
Desire Bob Dylan
Decoration Day Drive-By Truckers
Exile on Main St. The Stones
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen
The White Album The Beatles

I have got to get Ragged Glory.

Understatement.

Walk Away Now, did you hear they are issuing first time vinyls of Praire Wind, Live At The Fillmore East, and Live At Massey Hall? Wooooo

Yeah. But $30, $30, and $40 for those will keep them out of my vinyl collection. I pretty much have everything the man has released on CD. On vinyl, my Neil collection is rather small - Tonight's the Night, Live Rust, Harvest, American Stars n Bars, and Rust Never Sleeps.

I'm trying to limit myself to one per artist.

Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
The National - Alligator
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Leonard Cohen - The Best Of
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
The Postal Service - Give Up
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Yann Tiersen - Amelie Soundtrack

I just picked the records that I always go back to, the ones that never get old...