What are your favourite albums of all time?

Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust

Dave Edmunds - DE 7th

Vanilla Fudge: Vanilla Fudge (1967)

Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run

Sweet Billy Pilgrim: Crown and Treaty

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk

Frank Zappa: Absolutely Free

Blondie: Blondie (1976)

Nick Lowe: The Convincer

and many others

Bringing it all Back Home - Bob Dylan

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa

Curiche - Newen Afrobeat

Graceland - Paul Simon

Brandenburg Concertos - Johann Sebastian Bach

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Aman Iman - Tinariwen

Play Traditional Cajun Music - The Balfa Brothers

Blue Train - John Coltrane

Concerti Grossi - George Handel

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

The Velvet Underground  - The Velvet Underground

The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers

Sound Affects - The Jam

Some fantastic picks all around!

Mine are:

Approximately Infinite Universe - Yoko Ono
Histoire De Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg
The Beatles - The Beatles
Innuendo - Queen
Forever Changes - Love
Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
London Calling - The Clash
A Long Vacation - Eiichi Ohtaki
Mishima - Philip Glass
The Disintegration Loops Vol. 1 - William Basinski
The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Fantasic!  I was lucky enough to pick up an original "Mint" condition, promo copy of "A day at the races" on double LP.  One of my little gems in my collection

What a great topic!  Thanks for posting this.

I'm a huge music lover and collector of music on many different formats.  Personally I find that "today's stuff" doesn't really do anything for me.  Maybe it's to do with my hearing sensiitivity and I can hear all the flaws in production, or to the other extreme of it being over produced because the band/artist rely on that in order to make them palletable for the average listener 

Making a definitive "all time list" is difficult because I like so much from so many different genres, however I will list some of my "go to" albums (in no particular order) :

Forget About It - Alison Kraus
The Bridge - Billy Joel
DJ Kicks - Kruder & Dorfmeister
Sting - .....All This Time
Joe Cocker - Cocker Happy
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister
West Side Story - Original Soundtrack (conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
Goldie - Timeless
Doug Macleod - Exactly Like This
Liquid Spirit - Gregory Porter
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
Barber's Adagio For Strings - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Berstein
Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
Deep Forest - Deep Forest
Riding With The King - Eric Clapton & B.B. King
Bjork - Debut
Promise Me - Beverley Craven
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
Blackstreet - Another Level
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
Phil Colins - ...But Seriously
Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out!
Pressure Drop - Toots And The Maytals
Faithless - Sunday 8pm

I have to physically stop myself there as I know I will go on and on and bore you all to tears 

If there's anything in there you don't recognise, or you know the barnd/artist but not the alsbum, definately find somewhere to get access to it to give it a listen

I'm a fan of Queen. My favorite album is The Works. 

They played a Ruts song on 6 music this morning, the Tubes where good to.

I have good memories of 'White Blood Cells'. I'd heard 'Finding It Hard...' and decided to buy the CD. That sent me onto a route of listening to The Cramps, Kinks, New York Dolls and other raw, garage-y type of sounds.

De Stijl was Jack White at his creative best. White Blood Cells was the Noughties' Equivalent of 'Never Mind the B*****ks' in terms of revolution in musical direction. The rest of the albums were good, but not jaw-dropping.

I should also add 'Desire' and 'Blood on the tracks' by Dylan. That was when he was going through his Divorce and really had to express himself.

Also, maybe 'I should Coco' and 'In it for the Money' by Supergrass. They were a Progressive Pixies, in so many ways.

Magical Mystery tour and Sergeantv Peppers are the only two full Beatles lbumscI have

Yes, melody matters to me

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (25th anniversary, DELUXE edition!)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool

808 State - NewBuild
808 State - Utd. State 90
808 State - Cubik/Olympic/Pacific

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs

Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Stereolab - Peng!
Stereolab - Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
Stereolab - Aluminium Tunes
Stereolab - Oscillions from the Anti-Sun (it includes a DVD of their music videos and TV appearances)
Well, anything really, by Stereolab. You might have guessed, I do like them!

Bassomatic - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Bass

I did go through a bit of a Beatles period in the late 80's - "OOOh! it's 20 years since Sgt Pepper!"
But I must admit that I prefer Magical Mystery Tour to Sgt Pepper.

Dark Side of the 80s
Something I found one Saturday afternoon, rooting around in Double 4 Records in Stockport. Can we include compilation albums?
In that case, there's various housey, acidy, dancey tunes on various housey, acidy, dancey albums that I like. [ I still can not believe that Voodoo Ray is over 30 years old! ]

I've been playing a fair bit of Cocteau Twins and All About Eve through the recent wintery months.

There's some really good, melodic choices on your list.

My tastes have waxed and waned over the years, but 

Things that stand out:

Abba's greatest hits (for my sins: at 17!)

Crime of the Century Supertramp

Beach Boys greatest hits

Smile Brian Jones

Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd

Cocteau Twins Head over Heels, Garlands, Victoria Land

March Violets 

Kate Bush The Kick inside, Lionheart, Never for Ever, Hounds of Love, Arial. I have all her albums actually, but the others are spottier

Japanese Whispers, Disntegration, The Cure

Lacrimosa, Satura

Engelsstaub Malleus Maleficium, Ignis Fatuus

Ikon a moment in Time, Flowers for the Gathering

All about Eve All about Eve, Touched by Jesus  Ultraviolet, Scarlet

Theatre of Tragedy Assembly Musique

Florence and the Machine, Ceremonials

A fairly recent favorite. Richard Thompson, 13 Rivers

en.wikipedia.org/.../13_Rivers

Just about everything by both RT and John Cale.

i have indicated a strong liking of a Joe Walsh album below, but I'd also like to also say that if there is a song I now thoroughly detest it is "Hotel California". It is constantly overplayed, where I live, by people who seem to think it is a celebration of the West Coast lifestyle. I detest it it even though it at least has the decency to highlight the numerous pitfalls of the muso world. Arghh! Nightlife and playboyism be damned!

The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get - Joe Walsh. It has haunted me for decades, and I imagine that it has also haunted Joe and the rest of the band. Also great cover artwork! It's just one of those "What the f*** is this all about?" type of albums. Not bad at all for a bunch of classic hotel room trashers! Which has about zilch in common with my own preferred conduct. 

en.wikipedia.org/.../The_Smoker_You_Drink,_the_Player_You_Get

I didn't know about that but I did read a book by an Oxford professor a psychologist lent me years ago where he wrote that he was certain Glenn Gould was Autistic.

I liked a story of how Glenn Gould was called in to do concerts (or was it a single concert, maybe?) at the last minute, in substitute for another pianist that had taken ill, because Gould could reel off the music on minimal/zero practice. I'd like to find that story written down as I was told the details and they've been slowly dropping from my memory.

If anyone can confirm any such details about the story, that'd be rather good.

Nice to 'De Stijl' in the list. I reckon I'm about due another listen to some Magazine and Jesus and Mary Chain too.