[ru57y]

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine. 
 
If I had to live on a desert island with nothing but those 2 CD's, a PSOne, a 4:3 TV, Headphones and a NTSC-J copy of Vib Ribbon, I'd be set. 

 

[metalsonata]

The Clash: London Calling. 
 
I could live without oxygen, so long as I had this album to keep me going.

 

[sling5s]

Depending on Mood:
 
Dark Side of the Moon  & The Wall
Ok Computer

 

[MacedonianHero]

Here are my "on an island" ablums in no particular order:
 
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Back in Black - AC/DC
Zoso (aka Zeppelin IV) - Led Zeppelin
Moving Pictures - Rush
The White Album - The Beatles
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Joshua Tree - U2

 

[Navybsn]

Desert island choices:

Rush - Presto (although it could be any of their albums)
Miles Davis - The Birth of the Cool
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Yonder Mountain String Band - Yonder Play Their Bluegrass Favorites
Grateful Dead - Reckoning
Megadeth - Rust in Peace

One from every genre I listen to: Prog, jazz, classical, bluegrass, folk, metal. I could add a ton more, so I'm hoping my island would have wifi and a place to plug in my iPod.

 

[kenammo]

If I could only choose one...
 

 

[SurfWax]

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Zuma

 

[Destroysall]

This is difficult to give a title to, but if I have to choose... it would be Trivium's album, "Shogun". It's influenced me immensely as a musician, and I heavily adore the usage of story-telling through music.
 

 
Destroysall.

 

[StratocasterMan]

Quote:

 
To quote a one Phil Ochs: "It's impossibly good, it just can't be that good. How can a human mind do this?"

 
I have a tendency to agree with you. You may be correct.
 
However, I might have to pick something like this, even though it isn't a "real album." I dare say, without this, "Highway 61 Revisited" would never have been possible, and certainly nothing as latter day as Pink Floyd, a band named after bluesmen. There's virtually nothing in this thread that's not derivative. It's all building on the past. Pretty much every record mentioned is in debt to this stuff:
 

 
Of course, Robert Johnson got it from somewhere too, but our recorded documentation doesn't go back too much further. We start to get into sheet music instead of recordings...

 

[SurfWax]

Love that Robert Johnson set, have the box myself!

 

[cb2222]

My favorite changes every other week. This week it is:

 

[Ethix]

I've listened to pretty much every album already posted.
I want to share these because this thread has excellent taste and these albums significantly changed my life.
 

 

[wuwhere]

I like all those Pink Floyd, Led Zep, and many others. But since there can only be one,

 

[cb2222]

I've listened to pretty much every album already posted, but I wanted to share these because this thread has excellent taste and these albums significantly changed my life.

+1 for Pavement. I just pulled all their CDs out the other day. Wow! I really miss them.

 

[Ethix]

Yeah, Pavement was really special. They'll definitely be missed, but that's what we have their albums for
Just checked out a song from Aja by Steely Dan, wuwhere.
 
Really good.. definitely getting the album.