Best albums ever - What are your favorites?

[GalvestonDuck]

Why is it mostly just Beatles, classic rock, and current emo stuff? Guess I'm just an old-fashioned 80's pop kind of person (with a little country thrown in), but don't artists from some other genres qualify as "best" also?

I'd have to offer, in no particular order:
Garth Brooks -- The Chase and Ropin' The Wind
Amy Grant -- Straight Ahead (no doubt, the best Christian artist album ever)
Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Billy Joel's 52nd Street, Turnstiles, Piano Man, and Kohuept
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Footloose (it's as 80's as you get and let's face it -- ya gotta dance sometimes!)
OMPS to Ferris Bueller's Day Off
OMPS to Purple Rain (NOT one of my favorites, but didn't almost every song top the charts?)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (totally agree with harshrealm's choice above, even if MJ has truly gone downhill, you can't deny the greatness of the album)
The Carpenters - Christmas Portrait
Elvis - 30 Number 1 Hits
U2 - Achtung Baby
Beatles - SPLHCB (my fave of all theirs)
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Tapestry - Carole King

and a real oldie -- Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers

[azsnowman]

Got to have Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd on that list.

Steve

YES

[Janie2006]

Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets
Beck - Mellow Gold
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
and of course almost anything Riot Grrrrl!

[Meso]

Why is it mostly just Beatles, classic rock, and current emo stuff? Guess I'm just an old-fashioned 80's pop kind of person (with a little country thrown in), but don't artists from some other genres qualify as "best" also?

lol,I haven't seen any 'emo' bands mentioned
Except Green Day which is actually Pop Punk with eye liner and a bad attempt at emo ;p

[jasons2k]

I am a music freak and thus could list a good 50 albums I would consider "great". Here are some of my personal favorites:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moom
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Lynard Skynard - Gold & Platinum
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Clash - London Calling
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ectsasy
Depeche Mode - 101
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks
U2 - The best of 1980-1990
Evanescence - Fallen
Nickelback - All the Right Reasons

[Regit]

I am embarassed for forgetting one of the ALL-TIME greats!

Songs You Know By Heart - Jimmy Buffet (I have this on 33, cassette, CD, and Ipod).

[Tstormwatcher]

Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin IV
The Cure - Disintergration
The Eagle - Greatest Hits 1st one
America - History Americas greatest Hits
Dan Folgaberg - Love Songs(greatest hits)
Jimmy Buffet - Songs you know by heart(greatest hits)