Albums you can't do without

[Rare Bird]

As the titles says

[Rare Bird]

Hundreds but below i guess

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP):
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Tarkus
Pictures At An Exhibition
Trilogy
Brain Salad Surgery
Welcome Back My Friends

King Crimson:
In The Court Of The Crimson King
In The Wake Of Poseidon
Lizard
Islands

Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM):
Storia Di Un Minuto
Per Uno Amico
L'Isola Di Niente
Photos Of Ghosts
Cook
The World Became The World

Van Der Graaf Generator:
The Aerosol Grey Machine
The Least We Can Do Is Wave
H To He, Who Am The Only One
Pawn Hearts

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Affinity
Aphrodites Child - 666

[steveinspain]

Very quickly - Genesis 'Seconds out' - a brilliant live album with some fantastic drumming interplay (?)
Allman Brothers Live at fillmore east
More to come, but dashing out now..

[Macca]

A couple or three:

Steeley Dan - Pretzel Logic
Led Zep - 1 to 4 and Phys Graff
Frank Sinatra - Live at the Sands
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies
Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix in the West

From 'Mr Mainstream' :)

[TheGreenManalishi]

Kate Bush - Sensual World, Aerial and HOL
The Who - Who's Next
The Verve - Urban Hymns

[John]

Jeff Buckley Grace
Nick Cave Murder Ballads
John Coltrane Giant Steps
Miles Davis A Kind of Blue
Al Dimeola Paco De Lucia John Mclaughlin Friday Night in San Francisco
Nick Drake 5 Leaves Left
Dream Theatre Images and Words
Peter Gabriel Passion
Jonas Helborg Temporal Analogues of Paradise
Bireli Lagrene Inferno
Bireli Lagrene and Vic Juris Live
Montrose
Pain Of Salvation One Hour At Concrete Lake
Pain Of Salvation The Perfect Element
Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane
Spiral Architect A Sceptic Universe
Strunz and Farah Live
Surinder Sandhu Cyles and Stories
UFO Strangers in the Night
Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice

[Nigel]

Bireli Lagrene Inferno

classic LP John but bettered by his follow up, "Foreign Affairs" imo.

[St3v3]

Queens of the Stone Age - QOTSA
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Isis - Oceanic
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

:)

[John]

Bireli Lagrene Inferno

classic LP John but bettered by his follow up, "Foreign Affairs" imo.
I enjoy both but I perfer Inferno but the live album with Vic wowwwwwwww

[webby]

Crowded House - Together Alone

[Joe]

Everything by:
The Stooges
The Velvet Underground
Half Man, Half Biscuit.

[Jason P]

OOOhh, tough one this...

Anything by Jackie Leven, though if pushed I'd have to choose either Shining Brother Shining Sister or The Mystery Of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery Of Death
Grace - Jeff Buckley
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart
Dream Harder - The Waterboys
A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
The Lark Ascending - Vaughn Williams (OK not an album per se as I have a few different pressings)
Spem In Alium - Thomas Tallis (ditto to the above)

That'll do for now...

Jason

[Puffin]

Gaucho - Steely Dan
Aja - Steely Dan
Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Kamakiriad - Donald Fagen
Circus Money - Walter Becker
The Dude - Quincy Jones
Blam - The Brothers Johnson
Back On The Block - Quincy Jones
Catch A Fire - Bob Marley
Ambient Translations of Bob Marley - Bill Laswell
Who's Next - The Who
Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple
Led Zep 4
Rainbow Bridge - Hendrix
All Along The Watchtower (the track) - Hendrix
Fourplay - Fourplay
The Hunter - Jennifer Warnes
Flowers In The Dirt - Paul McCartney

[Covenant]

Close to the edge-Yes
Astral weeks-Van Morrison
The lamb lies down on Broadway-Genesis
Pink Moon-Nick Drake
DSOTM-Pink Floyd

[Alex_UK]

In no particular order, the first few off the top of my head:

Groove Armada - Vertigo
U2 - Joshua Tree
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Faithless - Reverrance
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Air - Premieres Symptomes
Rolling Stones - Stone Age
Leftfield - Leftism
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Sleepthief - The Dawnseeker
Sam Brown - 43 Minutes

[Themis]

Ok, the list may be long... with no particular order:

Yes
The Yes Album
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Relayer
Close to the Edge

Jethro Tull
Thick as a Brick
A Pasion Play
Minstrel in the gallery
Aqualung

EL&P
Tarkus
Trilogy
Pictures at an exhibition

Genesis
A trick of the Tail
Selling England by the pound

King Crimson
In The Court Of The Crimson King
In The Wake Of Poseidon

Kansas
Leftoverture
Point Of Know Return

Roy Harper
Folkjokeopus
Flat Baroque and Berserk
Stormcock
Lifemask
HQ
Bullinamingvase

Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Abbey Road
Magical Mystery Tour

Jefferson Starship
Dragon Fly
Red Octopus

Pink Floyd
Meddley
More
Dark side of the moon
Wish you were Here

Rick Wakeman
The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table
The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Prince
Parade
Sign o' the Times
Purple Rain

Tangerine Dream
Rubicon
Phaedra
Stratosfear

10cc - Deceptive Bends
Golden Earring - Switch
Flys - Own
Amon Duul - Hijack
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Deep Purple - Machine Head
The Doors - Strange Days
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Green Day - American Idiot
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space
Japan - Quiet Life
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run
Santana - Caravenserai
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
The Who - Who's Next
Rage Against The Machine - RATM

I tried to keep it short. I put no French or Greek. :lol:

[webby]

There are too many for me too, but I will add:

U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby!
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Crowded House - Woodface
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years (for the title track alone)
The Verve - Urban Hymns