Beatles - sgt. Peppers
Pink floyd - dark side of the moon
Daft punk - discovery
Ween - the mollusk
Radiohead - ok computer
Dylan - blood on the tracks
Broken social scene - you forgot it in people
Chemical brothers - surrender

it changes yearly I think but rght now I'm going with::
miles Davis- get up with it. (amazing album- super hard compression on everything)
broadcast- haha sound (front to back dope)
trans am- red line ("-- -- -- -- --")
prodigy (mobb deep)- H.N.I.C. (not a front to backer but still really solid)
radiohead- amnesiac/kid a/ hail to the thief (this little span is some of the best music ever made. I would also include johnny greenwood's soundtrack score to the film "bodysong" but not thom yorke's solo joint. just never got into it.)
and as a wild card:
squarepusher- music is rotted one note
plus:
ghostface- supreme clientel

charlie mingus "ah hum"
husker du "zen arcade"
pixies "surfer rosa"
joy division "unknown pleasures"
de la soul "3 feet high and rising"
public enemy " it takes a nation..."
soul II soul "club classics volume 1"
pavement "slanted and enchanted"
clouddead "clouddead"
my bloody valentine "isn't anything"
minutemen "double nickel on the dime"
piero ciampi "il mondo di piero ciampi"
otis redding "otis blue"
pop group "Y"
pere ubu "the modern dance"


oops, sorry!
i've yet posted ...

here are my tops

Pink Floyd- Meddle
DJ Shadow- Endtroducing
Buddy Guy- Man and His Blues
Odd Nosdam- Burner
Tortoise- Standards
Neil Young - Harvest
Sole- Bottle of humans
Tristan Palma-Showcase In A Roots Radics Drum & Bass
Donovan- Cosmic Wheels
Beatles- The white album
The Rascals- Once upon a Dream
Mulatu Astake and his Ethiopian Quintet- Afro-Latin Soul
Buck 65- Vertex
Burning Spear- Creation Rebel
DJ Signify- Sleep No More
Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
Leonard Cohen -Songs of Leonard Cohen
THEM-THEM
Scientist- Rids the World of the curse of evil vampires
Four Tet- Pause
Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
MF Doom - Operation DoomsDay !!!
ODB - Return to 36 Chambers
The Litter- Distortions
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Portishead- Dummy
Nobody-Soul Mates
Beird- It's getting Beard in Here
Dr. Robutnik- For those who left the ground
Ras G- Beats of mind
Flying Lotus- 1984
S.Maharba- SHE EP
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Animal Collective- Feels
Black Moth Super Rainbow- Dandelion Gum
Prefuse 73-Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Oh No- Ethiopium
Hieroglyphics -third eye vision
sjob movement-s/t


those are my favorites off the top of my head

well sticking to hip hop we got:
MF Doom: operation doomsday(best samples ever and best mf flows ever)
Mobb Deep:infamous (if your into street rap, its just classic)
tribe called quest: midnight mauraders( no explanation)
the roots: illadelph halflife (i think this was their peak, flows and beats)
the pharcyde: bizzare rhyde (i dont even like all the tracks but this was some creative shit on their part with a bunch of classic tracks)
company flow: funchrusher plus (all i gotta say is dayuum, this was the album that opened my mind up to more interesting beats, i first heard it with mr. len when i lived in NY, he acted like it wasnt good)

woord that company flow album is so dope

MHZ - table scraps
The Brotherhood - Elementz
KRS One - Return of the boom bap
Shyheim - Shyheim A.K.A. the Rugged Child

redman- dare iz a darkside
ween- chocolate and cheese
public enemy- fear of a black planet
ice cube-death certificate
beasties- check your head
zappa/mothers- only in it for the money
clouddead- s/t
de la soul- is dead
atcq- midnight marauders
soilent green-deleted symphony

+1, Dope list. cant believe i forgot bizzare rhyde , ive seen her eat 22 burritos when times is rough, seen in the back of taco bell in handcuffs

pharcyde raised the bar with that one when it came out, everyone was like dam, "you can have fun and make hip hop, wow"! they suck ass now but whatever, alot of music sucks now. but i tstick behind my man MF Doom, i love how he puts words together, you kinda gotta have an idea of what he's talkin about. some shit i dont even realize till like 3 years after i first heard it then im like oh "he copped a pound with brown money" bought a pound of weed with pennies. like "sittin in class with my wet in a flask, you want a sip get a paper water glass, how im sposed to know when your mouth been last". his scenarios always have me laughing.

mf got me into rap.

top x albums mildly chronological

Regurgitator - Tu Plang
Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust Inc.
Operation Ivy - s/t
Sublime - Robbin' the Hood
Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story
Madvillainy
Quasimoto - The Unseen
MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday
Special Herbs 0-9
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Ras_G - Ghetto Sci-Fi

Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots/ Soft Bulletin

but i could pick random stuff from eveyones list and create a whole nother top five. such good music out there that the mainstream totally ignores............................................

Alltime fav. :

Portishead - Dummy

me two

i forget those, sorry

can - tago mago
neu!-neu!
sly & the family stone - there's a riot goin on
parliament - mothership connection
tom waits - swordfishtrombones
arrested development - "3 years...(etc)"
public image limited - metal box (also known as: "second edition")
r.e.m. - "document" / "lifes riches pageant"
simple minds - "new gold dream"
vv.aa. - "headz" (mo wax records)
primal scream - "screamadelica"

(more to come, sorry again...)

Deftones - White Pony
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Sole - Selling Live Water
Dälek - Abandoned Language

I guess...