Ben Folds and his cohorts are vastly under-rated. I saw them live at the House of Blues in New Orleans, and they put on one of the best live shows I have ever seen. Ben really gets into it, heart and soul. They did a great rendition of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.”
Okay, my album choice would be “The Beatles” AKA “The White Album.”
Moe said:
One word, Moe… Toccata 
I try to listen to that at least once a day…
-dook the weird
Elvis Presley’s “Elvis '56”
But if I’m being honest, it’s more like Nine Inch Nails “the Fragile.” Though I worship the King, I’m still a nut for NIN.
Hey! I yoosta work for the guy who PRODUCED that album! Howard Scott…check the credits.
Wonder whatever happened to that old fucker…he was bald as a cueball and had the HUGEST walrus moustache, back in '84…
So many Rush quotes, so little time…
If their lives were exotic and strange
They would likely have gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane
–
You know how that rabbit feels
Going under you speeding wheels
Bright images flashing by
Like windshield towards a fly
Frozen in that fatal climb
But the wheels of time
Just pass you by…
We see so many tribes - overrun and undermined
While their invaders dream of lands they left behind
Better people - better food - and better beer
Why move around the word when Eden was so near
The bosses get talking so tough
And if that wasn’t evil enough
We get the drunken and the passionate pride
Of the citizens along for the ride
I’m an old fogey, too.
Gotta be “Late for the Sky” by Jackson Browne.
Goldfinger “Hang Up’s” its like my whole like, my horrible luck with women. its not my favorite, but it definately speaks to me.
right now i am listening to NOFX’s newest. “Pump Up the Valium” its good,
THE album that gave me the most goosebumps. is a MetallicA album, actually its kinda a rough sounding album, Kill Em ALL. but the late great Cliff Burton’s Bass solo, it was like he reached out from the grave and spoke to me. it affected me so much i had to pull over and litsen to it again.
the strange part is i was not a metallica fan when he died, i was only 5 i belive, (born in 1980, not sure when he passed) but it changed me forever
Add It Up- Violent Femmes
Sure, it’s kinda of a greatest hits album, so that’s sort of cheating, but it was my first Femmes experience and it spoke to me like nothing had ever spoken to me before. Since then, I’ve also discovered a love for Bob Dylan, but his albums don’t really represent me as well as that single one did.
I’ve got to second fnord, Kill 'Em All is life changing. After I heard that, I was hooked on the hard stuff forever. “Motorbreath” still gives me goosebumps!
BTW fnord, is “Pump Up the Valuum” as good as they said it would be? I am not much of a NOFX fan but I enjoy the early albums (Liberal Animation, etc.). Is it fast?
its fuckinghilarious. probably the most vulgar cd i have ever heard, transgender operations, and a reprise of Louise. some is slow, but most is fast. all of it funny.
I’ll have to get it. Liza & Louise is my favortie NOFX song.
I’ll never forget the first time you kissed me
NOW I WANT YOU TO FIST ME
Good man.
“Combat Rock” by the Clash or anything by Eddie Cochran.
There’ve been so many good albums that my life has been wrapped up in, along the way. Thirty years ago, it was Sweet Baby James, Tull’s Aqualung, Cat Stevens’ Tea for the Tillerman, CSNY Four-Way Street, and a bunch of others. Fifteen years ago, it would have been Graceland, Mellencamp’s Scarecrow and Lonesome Jubilee albums, and Si Kahn’s Home and Unfinished Portraits albums.
Speaking of South African music, Swiddles, you might like one of my '90s mainstays, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, particularly Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World and Third World Child. (CCBW is the album that’s most like me, now, in answer to the OP.) After Graceland, it was hard not to like Johnny Clegg.
The other album that I’ve been playing nonstop the past few years is Joan Osborne’s Relish. Anybody know what happened to her? She kinda fell off the edge of the earth. But that one album was pretty amazing.
Today, I’m definitely Beck’s Mutations.
Until recently, my life was Tom Wait’s Small Change.
Now it’s a little closer to Ani Difranco’s Up Up Up Up Up Up
What the hell am I doing with my life?
Murmur - R.E.M.
This album really opened up some “doors of perception” for me.
It was such a huge paradigm shift from what everyone else was doing musically at the time that it really stood out. The murky lyrics, the layered sound and jangling guitars. Nothing I had heard before prepared me for it. (You could hear the influences of Velvet Underground and the Byrds, but R.E.M. was light years beyond anything those groups had done.) I was completely entranced from the first listen.
This may sound silly to those who don’t love music as much as I do, but this album even helped determine my choice of graduate schools. I was so taken with it that I decided to go to Athens, GA so I could immerse myself in the music scene there. UGA was already on my list of possibilities, but Murmur was the clincher.
Yep yep yep. Little Earthquakes is definitely the album for me. Check the sig. 
And whoops, song changed for today. Today it’s “Don’t Speak,” by No Doubt. I’m not a huge fan of the band, but today the song is just speaking to me.
I saw Tull mentioned, so let me just add Thick as a Brick to the list. Wow!! what a fantastic piece of music. also:
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Bela Fleck - Tales From the Acoustic Planet
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior, and Live
Prokofiev - 2nd & 3rd piano concertos
Yes - Tales from Topographical Oceans
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Ravi Shankar & Phillip Glass - Passages
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse