Don't have a favorite album. I listen to so much stuff, I love too many albums. But, I've really been into Don Ross lately. Passion Session is a really great album. Check it out.
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A couple I always come back to are:

Faith No More - Angel Dust (Just an amazing album from top to bottom. I love Mike Patton's vocals on this one)
Supreme Beings of Leisure - Supreme Beings of Leisure (Great groovy, loungey tunes)
The Police - Message in a Box (The complete recordings which really shows the evolution of the band)
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Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and also Essence is very good.
Big Head Todd - Sister Sweetly and All the Love You Need is also very good.
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave

That's all just some off the wall stuff that I've really been enjoying lately. Trinity Sessions is an incredible voice at work, Big Head Todd is just good easy listening, Lucinda has a gravely voice and sings stuff from the heart. She's 100% sex. And Johnny is just the badassest. :-)
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Just a few of my favorites...

The Feeding - American Head Charge
From Here to Infirmary - Alkaline Trio
As The Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!
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I finally got to think about my favorite albums...
Zep - Zoso and Zep II
Boston - Boston
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
I could go on for a long time, but those are classics that are off the top of my head.
Solid plays from front to back.
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Devils Night Out-The Mighty Mighty Bostones One of my Favorite.

The Who-Then And Now it's a greatest hits album.

AC{DC-If you want Blood you Got it.

These are just some of the albums i really got into.
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Wicked! Some great choices that I don't have yet... you guys are the best :-)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimmie Back My Bullets

Being born 'n bred in the South, I love rock n' roll and blues. Southern rock is the ultimate combination of both with lyrics that express our experience and way of life. Needless to say, Skynyrd is the quintessential Southern rock band.

When most people think Skynyrd, and Southerners are no exception, they think Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama (maybe Gimmie Three Steps and Curtis Lowe) but the Gimmie Back My Bullets album is Skynyrd and Van Zant at full maturity. "Trust, ""Every Mother's Son," and "All I Can Do Is Write About It."

The later song is my favorite Skynyrd song period. It's a beautiful song about the South's natural, rural, beauty. If you like Skynyrd and haven't heard "All I Can Do Is Write About It" you need to!!! Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQvKU8Iaz4

:-)
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Supertramp - Crime of the Century
AC/DC - Back in Black
Phil Collins - ...But Seriously
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Peter Framption - Frampton Comes Alive
Alan Parsons - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Alan Poe
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Neil Diamond - Hot August Nights
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Hear
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
Dire Straits - On Every Street
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Who's Next - The Who
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

Thats enough for now...
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I can't pick one artist/group, let alone one single album.

A few years ago, I was talking with Ernest Williamson and David Smith (keyboards and bass guitar for Michael Burks) and we were talking about great guitarists (besides their boss, who is a _phenomenal_ blues guitarist in his own right) and we all had kind of the same opinion, and that is picking a single artist over another is very difficult at best, picking a single album over all others, even more so, especially if the artist has a diverse catalog. I love Jimi Hendrix's work, I love Duane Allman's work - two totally different players, I can't classify one as better than the other, sure, once can nitpick technical playing characteristics if they want, but not all great music is made that way. Get into a diverse artist like Zappa for example, don't ask me to pick a single one of FZs albums as my favorite, it's simply not possible, and I have probably every FZ album ever made and then some to pick from.

One thing I will say though, is that I usually prefer the live albums, with all their imperfections over the studio work. Even the technically horrid ones, like the original version of Live at Leeds from The Who, with all it's recording errors and dodgy mic cables causing the clicking and poping, is something that captures the true essense of a band.
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Wouldn't call this list my "favorite albums", but what I am listening to on while bicycle riding recently:

ABBA - Greatest Hits
Guns & Roses - Apetitie for Destruction & Use Your Illusion II
Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
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My top 10 changes on a daily basis but my #1 is always the same:

#1 = The Who "Quadrophenia"

The rest as of today:

Television "Marquee Moon"
Iggy & The Stooges "Raw Power"
Social Distortion "Live at the Roxy"
Screaming Trees "Sweet Oblivion"
Jesus & Mary Chain "Darklands"
Dave Alvin "Blue Blvd"
Rose Tattoo "Assault & Battery"
Jerry Lee Lewis "The Session"
The Godfathers "Birth, School, Work, Death"
Mazzy Star "So Tonight That I Might See"

Also:

Get some Volbeat baybeee!

MCS
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"Huron Street" is another great album from Don Ross. Been on an acustic kick lately. Thin Air from "Huron Street"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZx_c...eature=related
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:-)

I also love And Justice for All

AC / DC - Back in Black

Pretty much any Incubus album
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Sorry Dustin I can't just add one. I try and throw a few different things into the mix here.

1) Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac
This is a great collection of some of the early work by Fleetwood Mac when it was a blues band. Pre Stevie Nick and with three great guitarists!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8

2) Loaded by The Velvet Underground
This would be their more commercial successful album. I still enjoy The Velvet Underground and Nico but Loaded is great start to finish it also has amazing writing. It's great early New York rock/psychedelic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumh...eature=related

3) Vs. God, More Songs About Girlfriends And Bubblegum, This Sh!t Is Genius and Midwestern Songs Of The Americas (any of these albums) by Dillinger Four. Still some one of my favorite Punk bands. Funny, witty, smart as hell lyrics and a great band to see live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEB7...eature=related

4) Minx by Leatherface (runner up albums are The Last, Mush, and Cherry Knowle)
I was lucky to enough to see this British Punk band years ago and still enjoy their music today. The lead singer Frankie Stubbs has an unusual voice, it's like having Tom Waits singing punk rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW-G4SBompk
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Allman Brothers - Live At Fillmore East
Johnny Winter And - Live
Traffic - Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
Jeff Beck - Truth
Ry Cooder - Into The Purple Valley
Steve Earle - Guitar Town


I may be back later.
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Dave, you should check out the Cowboy Junkies doing Sweet Jane.
The punk bands you like aren't too hardcore. There's another punk band called the Rugburns that I used to enjoy. They're kind of a pop/punk hybrid. The stuff that's on youtube is basically the pop. What I could find, anyways. Their albums flesh out a lot funner.
Here's one that's a bit more what they're about. My carphone's on the pill.
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yes and no. I was trying to find something to post from the bands.

I have a slew of punk music and was into for a lot of years. Everything from pre-punk, 77 punk, 80's hardcore and into the 90's with Lookout and the start of a lot of the pop punk. These are still some of my favorites along with Screeching Weasel/Riverdales.
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Anything by Victoria Williams or Maia Sharp, both amazing singer songwriters.

Wonderful World by Victoria is a great interpretation of a classic.

There's a reason Bonnie Raitt loves Maia's work.
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I would agree with that one, Scott, but the way they screw up one of the lovliest line in music on that same album, by changing Hank Williams' classic verse to "The silence of a falling star/Lights up a purple haze" makes me cringe each time I hear it.

Who the hell would fark with Hank Williams, I wanna know!
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