Ok, i've become sorta aurally blinkered in my listening, everything is crap these days but i'm willing to be corrected, so i need your help to broaden my musical horizons again.

Can you recommend 20 (or however many) records, new or old, by anyone that i really can't live without?

Thanks in advance.

the king of limbs

Done. I like it but i'm not in love with it.

thanks though, i'll keep listening to it.

Black Keys Brothers
Felice Brothers - celebration, Floraida
Tallest man on earth - the wild hunt
Dawes
Yuck
A.A Bondy - American Hearts
Stone Foxes - Bears and BUlls
Portugal. The Man
The Frames
Swell season
Glen Hansard
Mason Jennings
Justin Townes Earle
Bon Iver

The National Park Service - Ghost Town Girls

billtop solo will change your life

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
By Divine Right - Bless This Mess
Feist - The Reminder
Toots & the Maytals - The Very Best of Toots & the Maytals
Constantines - Shine a Light
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Hayden - Everything I Long For
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Ween - The Mollusk
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
The Band - The Band
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

the scott weiland covers record

Failure - Fantastic Planet
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward

I could not imagine not knowing these albums.

Leaving out PJ since I assume you have Ten, Vs, Vitalogy, & Yield.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Buddy Rich - The Best of the Pacific Jazz Years (best of but what the fuck)
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Van Halen - Women & Children First
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Mad Season - Above
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Slayer - South of Heaven
Death - Symbolic
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Whose Buying?
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Them Crooked Vultures - ST
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

In no particular order, ones you may not have heard, but still pretty mainstream (so I'm not putting in shit like Highway 61 Revisited or Exile on Main Street)

1. Afghan Whigs - 1965
2. Black Keys - Thickfreakness
3. Blur - Blur
4. Kinks - Aurthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
5. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
6. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
9. Pixies - Doolittle
10. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
11. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
12. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
13. Soulsavers - Broken
14. Velvet Underground - Loaded
15. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
16. The National - Boxer
17. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
18. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
19. David Bowie - Station to Station
20. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness

Hey Strat, how is Portugal. The Man?

SLowly making my way through their music....im really enjoying so far. Pretty exciting stuff...kind of all over the map? one of my favorites :

Some really good albums that you may or may not know that are not that mainstream. I've stuck to things that haven't showed up in this thread already.

1. And you will know us by the trail of dead – Source Tags & Codes
2. At the drive-in – Relationship of Command
3. Built To Spill – Perfect From Now On
4. Low – The Great Destroyer
5. Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today…
6. Kyuss – Welcome To Sky Valley
7. Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities
8. Slint – Spiderland
9. Shellac – At Action Park
10. Pinback – Summer in Abbaddon
11. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
12. Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
13. Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary
14. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
15. The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
16. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
17. The Delgados – The Great Eastern
18. Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
19. Sigur Ros – Takk
20. The Frames – Fitzcarraldo

Aw man, I remember Pinback.

Fuck yeah to all of these.

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (classic rock)
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard lakes Are ...... (ipod cuts of the rest of the title) (no idea how to label them)
The Band - The Band (classic rock)
Bob Marley - Burnin' (deluxe edition to get the extra live cd from same era) (reggae)
UB40 - File (reggae)
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (country rock)
Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' At Midnight (blues)
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Alone and Acoustic (blues)
Sally's Hot - Eat Your Greens (punk)
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (progressive rock)
Queen - II (classic rock)
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (classic rock)
Dire Straits - Alchemy (classic rock)
AC/DC - Powerage (rock)
Prince - 1999 (pop)

1. Robert Wyatt - "Rock Bottom"
2. Unwound - "Repetition"
3. Sonic Youth - "Sister"
4. Charles Mingus - "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"
5. Slint - "Spiderland"
6. The Stooges - "Funhouse"
7. The Pretty Things - "S. F. Sorrow"
8. Dirty Three - "Ocean Songs"
9. Big Star - "Radio City"
10. Sun Ra - "Lanquidity"
11. Dennis Wilson - "Pacific Ocean Blue"
12. Black Sabbath - "Sabotage"
13. Brian Eno - "Ambient 1: Music for Airports"
14. Miles Davis - "In a Silent Way"
15. Nick Drake - "Pink Moon"
16. Public Enemy - "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
17. Slowdive - "Pygmalion"
18. Neil Young - "After the Goldrush"
19. Mission of Burma - "Vs"
20. Fripp & Eno - "Evening Star"

With tastes like this, it's a wonder you and I don't agree more on PJ-related things.