Got this from my friend John Carson off of Facebook, here’s my list, in no particular order…
1) Trinity Sessions by the Cowboy Junkies
2) Help by the Beatles
3) Cookin’ by the Miles Davis Quintet
4) The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused
5) Waitin’ for the Night by the Runaways
6) Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen
7) Goldburg Variations (1981) by Glenn Gould
8) Let it Bleed by the Rolling Stones
9) Sarah Vaughn with Clifford Brown by… well, you can guess
10) The Lion and the Cobra by Sinead O’Connor
11) Chapter Two by Roberta Flack
12) Live in London ’69 by the Beach Boys (my very first album!)
13) Surfer Rosa by the Pixies
14) 20 All TIme Greatest Hits by James Brown
15) Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy
16) Three Feet and Rising by De La Soul
17) Bach the Sonatas and Partitas by Paul Galbraith
18) The Best of Bill Haley and the Comets
19) Live at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
20) Elephant by the White Stripes
21) Burnin by Bob Marley and the Wailers
22) Retrospective by KRS 1
23) Sounds of India by Ravi Shankar
24) The Lexicon of Love by ABC
25) RIO by Duran Duran
There’s plenty more of course, these are the first ones off the top of my head. I haven’t bought any albums in a long time, mostly just singles. I’d like to see some of your lists!