Some All-time Favorite Albums/ CDs:
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Well ...  just for starters, these are essential in any serious rock collection -
if you ask me ...
 
 

"Fragile,"  "Close To The Edge,"  and  "Relayer"  by  Yes

"Sixteen Stone"  by  Bush

"The Beatles" (aka the "White Album")  by  The Beatles
(and just about anything else by them - especially the later material ...)

"Metallica" (aka the "Black Album")  and "Master of Puppets"  by  Metallica

"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"  by  The Smashing Pumpkins

"Get Your Wings"  and "Rocks"  by  Aerosmith

"Collective Soul"  by Collective Soul

"Throwing Copper"  by Live

"Pet Your Friends"  by  Dishwalla

"Villains" by The Verve Pipe

"Eat A Peach,"  "Brothers and Sisters,"  and  "A Decade of Hits 1969-1979"
by the Allman Brothers Band

"Chicago 5"   by Chicago - actually, their first 6 albums ...

anything  by

"Leftoverture"   and  "Point Of Know Return"  by  Kansas

"Pieces of Eight,"  "The Grand Illusion,"  and  "Paradise Theater"  by Styx

"Cosmo's Factory," "Green River," "Willy & The Poorboys" and just about anything else  by
Creedence Clearwater Revival

"Core"  and  "Purple"  by  Stone Temple Pilots

"Blood Sugar Sex Magik"  by  Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Trilogy"  and "Brain Salad Surgery"  by  Emerson, Lake and Palmer

"Sheer Heart Attack"  and  "Queen"   by  Queen

"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and  "Heaven and Hell"  by  Black Sabbath

"Agents Of Fortune"  and  "Spectres"  by  Blue Oyster Cult

"Foreigner,"  "Double Vision" and  "Head Games"  by  Foreigner

"Who's Next" and  "Quadrophenia"  by  The Who

"Songs For Beginners"  by  Graham Nash

"Blackmore's Rainbow,"  "Rising,"  and  "Long Live Rock and Roll"  by Rainbow

"Ten"  by  Pearl Jam

"Stormbringer,"  "Burn,"  and  "Machine Head"  by  Deep Purple - and of course  their early 70's live album,  "Made In Japan"

"Love It To Death,"  "Killer,"  "Muscle Of Love,"  "Billion Dollar Babies," "Welcome To My Nightmare,"  and  "School's Out,"  by  Alice Cooper

"Innervisions"  and "Songs In The Key Of Life"  by  Stevie Wonder

"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,"  "Honky Chateau," and  "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player"   by  Elton John

"Jackson Browne" (aka "Saturate Before Using")  by  Jackson Browne

"Deja Vu"  and "Four Way Street"  by  Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

"Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel" and  "Darkest Days"  by  Stabbing Westward

"Foo Fighters"  by Foo Fighters

"Sticky Fingers"  by The Rolling Stones

"Easter"  by  The Patti Smith Group

anything  by  Grand Funk Railroad -
especially the  "Closer To Home"  and  "We're An American Band"  albums

"Bloodshot"  and "Full House"  by  the J. Geils Band

"Don't Say No"  by Billy Squier

"Third Eye Blind"  by Third Eye Blind

"The Bends" by Radiohead

"Whatever And Ever Amen" by Ben Folds Five

"Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs"  by  Derek and the Dominos

"Little Queen" by Heart

anything by.Three Dog Night
but especially " Naturally," "Seven Separate Fools" and "Golden Biscuits"

"Crime Of The Century" by Supertramp

"My Own Prison"  by Creed
 

and many more...

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So ...  What is the "best album of all time?" Well, that would be kind of hard to determine -
based on many different pluses and minuses on different recordings, and lots of other variables.
But I'd say that these are some pretty close contenders:

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I'll keep adding to these as I think of others -
and as people write in with their opinions on this.

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