I'll go with:

Who's Next
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Chicago at Carnegie Hall
Derek & the Dominos at the Fillmore East
Something New - The Beatles
Grand Funk Railroad - Survival

Greatest Hits collections don't count, maybe live albums shouldn't either (even though I included a few).

Second Album - Roy Buchanan

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Super Session - Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Stephen Stills

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Originally posted by Storm:
... Queensrÿche - Rage For Order ...

Put on some quality headphones and dig into this one. It's got to be the best album of the 80s. Surely it's Queensrÿche's best.

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Originally posted by maxdog:
Blood on the Tracks- Dylan.

My dad used to wake us up on Sunday morning with that album.

The Captain and Me
Fore
Abbey Road

Oh man. Great thread!

INXS - X
U2 - Joshua Tree
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
A-ha - Stay On These Roads

Okay that's all over the landscape, style-wise. The thing is, I'm a full album guy and I hope that with the internet, iTunes, and singles/EPs being so popular, that the idea of an album doesn't go away. So many of the albums in this thread are so prolific because they tell a story. A story about the artist, a time in your life or history. Etc.

Man Arc, what a great idea.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Queen - A Kind of Magic
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind, Somewhere in Time
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures at an Exhibiton
Triumph - Allied Forces

Lyle Mays - Lyle Mays
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Bill Bruford - One of a Kind (Progressive rock, Allan Holdsworth on guitar)
Donald Fagan -The Nightfly
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

Some I agree with and some I don't...but, some great answers so far. I would nominate The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed.

Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Police - Syncronicity
Rush - 2112

Creedence - Cosmos Factory.

Cream - Disraeli Gears

Hendrix - Band of Gypsys

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

The Clash - London Calling

Clapton - EC Was Here

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Eagles Greatest Hits - the first one

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

These are ones that I own that come to mind, I'm sure there are more:
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch (1974)
Linda Ronstadt - What's New (1983)
Chris Isaak - San Fransisco Days (1993)
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (1992)
Sade - Love Deluxe (1992)
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (1970)
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)
Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn (1991)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe (1987)
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses (1987)
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky - (1983)

Being a Winwood and Mason fan I'll toss in Traffic- Shootout At The Fantasy Factory.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.

Big Audio Dynamite - This is Big Audio Dynamite

Alanis Morissette. Jagged Little Pill 1995.

I think these albums are all good too.

Wonder What’s Next: Chevelle

Forever Blue: Chris Isaac

Brothers in Arms: Dire Straits

The Highway: Holly Williams

Living and Dying in 3/4 Time: Jimmy Buffett

10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads): Kenny Wayne Shepherd and others

Come On In: R.L. Burnside

Santana III: Santana

Exit 0: Steve Earle and the Dukes

Separate Ways: Teddy Thompson

Til the Casket Drops: ZZ Ward

I wanted badly to put a Van Morrison album on this list. “Enlightenment” comes close. “Astral Week’s” is considered by many to be among the GOAT—I have to be in the mood though.

Dire Straits: Love Over Gold
Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind

The Guess Who- "American Woman"
if forced to pick one other than greatest hits.

City to City - Gerry Rafferty

Love-Forever Changes