ten records that do the most for you as a person. list 'em.

(no particular order)

Pearl Jam: No Code

The Who: Who's Next

Jeff Buckley: Grace

The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge

REM: Reckoning and Fables of the Reconstruction (can't decide between brilliant and incredible, tie here)

Soundgarden: Superunknown

Allman Brothers: Eat a Peach

Led Zeppelin: III

Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left

Rush: Signals

Sun Kil Moon-Ghosts of the Great Highway
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
Grouper-Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill
The Knife-Silent Shout
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Lift Yr Skinny Fists..
Yo La Tengo-I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One
The Unicorns-Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Sonic Youth-Evol
The Replacements-Tim
Jens Lekman-When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog

Pearl Jam, Yield
Pearl Jam, No Code
REM, New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Elvis Costello, Get Happy
Miles Davis, In a Silent Way
Thelonious Monk, Solo Monk
Tom Waits, Glitter and Doom Live
Frank Sinatra, The Complete Capitol Singles

Hmm...


Pearl Jam- Binaural
The Beatles- Revolver
The Who- Who's Next
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Soundgarden- Down On The Upside
Talking Heads- Fear Of Music
Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Rolling Stones- Goat's Head Soup
The Beatles- Rubber Soul

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Martin Sexton - Black Sheep
The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

Pearl Jam: Vitalogy
Gin Blossoms: New Miserable Experience
Refreshments: Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy
My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves
Counting Crows: This Desert Life
Weezer: Pinkerton
Dave Matthews Band: Under The Table And Dreaming
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Goo Goo Dolls: Dizzy Up The Girl
The Who: Quadrophenia

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Nirvana - In Utero
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
The Who - Who's Next

Not necessarily my ten favorite, but if I could only keep ten albums, I'd consider these:

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
King Crimson - In The Court...
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
The Black Crowes - Amorica (I actually like After The Frost... better, but would keep Amorica)
Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic
Lost in the Trees - All Alone in an Empty House

Dang.. Forgot

I think I'd drop Graceland for Exile.

Considered

and

I bought Watertown upon the advice of a RM'er several years ago .. love it to this day.

Watertown is near the top of Sinatra albums I want but don't own. I've only ever been able to find it for a very high asking price.

#1 Record and Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star
Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
Parachute - The Pretty Things
the third Velvet Underground album
Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
the white album
Okonokos - MMJ
Marquee Moon - Television
So Tonight That I Might See - Mazzy Star

Ahh .. found it at Amoeba records in Los Angeles for about 10.99 back in 2004 --- preowned. Early 00's were a Golden Era for used cd buying; cd's were still made plentifully and thus the availability was greater.

Used cds are much harder to find (and at a higher price) in 2011 than in 2004 -- noticed a considerable change as the medium has changed. I don't have an iPod, but I'm wondering how much of Sinatra's works have made it to the format.

THIS.

Was really close to listing that one - along with "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" and "London Calling".

off the top of my head

No Code
Yield
hard to pick a Stones album... Aftermath?
AiC -Jar of Flies
Mc5 - Kick out the Jams
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
GnR - Appetite
MMJ - Okonokos
Sun Kil Moon-Ghosts of the Great Highway
Tool - Aenima (thats the one with Hooker With a Penis, right?)

Double Nickels on the Dime Minutemen
Magnolia Electric Co. Songs:Ohia
Surf's Up The Beach Boys
On Fire Galaxie 500
Super ae Boredoms
Silver and Gold Neil Young
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter
The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers
Live at the Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements Stereolab

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Gomez - In Our Gun
Do Make say Think - & Yet & Yet
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
Beck - Mutations
Veruca Salt - American Thighs
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Caspian - The Four Trees
Arms & Sleepers - Black Paris '86
Minus the Bear - Acoustics

I'd want a little of everything I like

Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Dead Can Dance - Spleen And Ideal
Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug And Pint
VNV Nation - Praise The Fallen
Mariah Carey - Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
The Clash - London Calling
Schubert's "The Great" symphony
King Crimson - Beat

Pearl Jam - Vs
Slayer - South of Heaven
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Van Halen - Women & Children First
Mad Season - Above
Pink Floyd - Animals