Doolitle - Pixies
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Century Flower - Shelleyan Orphan
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Aion - Dead Can Dance
Reading, Writing & Arithmetic - The Sundays
Workers Playtime - Billy Bragg
Mask - Bauhaus
Love what others are listing
here are a few others to add
Procol Harum-A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Billie Holiday-At Storyville
Etta James-At Last
Bob Marley-Exodus
Emmylou Harris- Bluebird
Bonnie Raitt- Takin My Time
Charlie Parker- Bird and Diz
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
B.B. King-Live in Cook County Jail
Carol King- Tapestry
and I have still left out Sam Cook, Otis Redding etc, etc,etc.
No compilations? Oops. My bad.
Three substitutions to my list, then:
Instead of Greatest Hits by the Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed, since it includes “Gimme Shelter.”
Instead of Greatest Hits by Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, since it includes three of my favorites of his, the title track, “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “Desolation Row.”
Instead of Greatest Hits by Hall and Oates, I’ll go with the Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s. From, er, the ridiculous to the sublime.
Bringing it all Back Home- Dylan
Hot Rats- Zappa
American Songs- Johnny Cash
Music From Big Pink- The Band
King of the Delta Blues Singers- Robert Johnson
Flying Burrito Brothers- Gilded Palace of Sin
Captain Beefheart- Mirror Man
Amigo- Arlo Guthrie
Who’s Next- The Who
Let it Bleed- Stones
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Radiohead - In Rainbows
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Tori Amos - Scarlet’s Walk
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
National - Trouble Will Find Me
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans
Buggles: The Age of Plastic
Vangelis: Heaven and Hell
Daft Punk: Discovery
Peter Gabriel: Car (PG1–first self-titled album)
The Cars: The Cars (self-titled)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes
Elton John: Too Low for Zero
Prince & The Revolution: Purple Rain
I’d probably swap-out Elton John for a good recording of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring if that counts as an album.