A few of my favorite classics:

• Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
• Yes - Close To The Edge
• Supertramp - Crime of the Century
• Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
• Genesis - Duke
• Nektar - Remember The Future
• Camel - Moonmadness

And for newer stuff, I’d go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

I’m late to the party but couldn’t miss putting Daily Bread’s album Invisible Cinema in the thread

No love for QOTSA? At least 3 spectacular albums, in no particular order:

Like Clockwork, Songs for the Deaf, Villains (contentious, I know, but I love it)

Nirvana - Nevermind

I know I am alone on this but,

my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge

Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique is and always will be an absolute masterpiece to me. It was awesome 20 years ago and still goes hard to this day.

Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

• The Foo Fighters - The Foo Fighters
• The Foo Fighters - The Color & The Shape
• 65daysofstatic - Wild Light
• Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
• The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

There isn’t a note I’d change on any of those albums.

Tool - Aenima

Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

Depeche Mode - Violator

Faith No More - The Real Thing.

Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
• At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
• Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
• Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
• My Morning Jacket – Z
• Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
• Radiohead – OK Computer
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Decemberists – Picaresque
• The Diggs – Commute
• The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
• The Libertines – s/t
• The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
• The Notwist – Shrink
• Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

German:

• Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

Blackwater Park - Opeth

Makoto Matsushita - First Light

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Psychology, Presto

Dogs in a Pile - Bloom, Not Your Average Beagle

Nautilus - Refrain

Teako Onuki - Mignonne, Sunshower

Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77, American Beauty

Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

Bad Religion - No Control, The Empire Strikes First

Led Zeppelin - II, IV

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien

War Bringer - Woe to the Vanquished

Havok - Conformicide

Loudness - Thunder in the East

Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places

Rainbow - Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes

Casiopea - CASIOPEA, Asian Dreamer, Material

Phish - Farmhouse, Hoist

Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Might’ve went a bit overboard lol

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i listen to a lot of songs from albums that have a lot of filler on them, but the one i always listen to straight through is born to run. thunder road is how every album should start, every side flip should be rewarded with born to run, and every album should end with jungleland.

throw-in: the sound of three fans clapping to welcome thunder road was also the perfect way to start the live set.

I agree with a lot of what people have already mentioned, so I’ll add a few I haven’t seen yet

• Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm
• Signs of the Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence
• Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
• Meshuggah - Obzen
• Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
• Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
• Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
• Oso Oso - Sore Thumb
• Polyphia - New Levels New Devils