not counting "classic music" :

Suicide - first s/t
SY - bad moon rising
Marlene Kuntz - il Vile
Clouddead - s/t
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar
Three Second Kiss - music out of music (or Shellac a 1000 hurts)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
SY - NYC G&F
Ulan Bator - Vegetale
The Black Heart Procession - three

no offense to anyone, but I cannot believe that NYCG&F is anyone's favorite SY album. It is a near impossibility in my mind.

Considering CIS, Daydream, Sister, Evol, Thousand Leaves, Nurse, Bad Moon Rising, etc

Van Morrison-Veedon Fleece
Velvets-White Light White Heat
the Stones-Exile
Royal Trux-Twin Infinitives
Black Flag-Damaged
Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures
Captain Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica
the Stooges-Fun House
Charles Mingus-Black Saints and the Sinner Lady
Stevie Wonder-Innervisions

Changes all the time though.

Great list. These would all be bubbling somewhere around my ten right now, too.

It's probably my fav album ever. Not just SY-wise.
Anyways, I just realized I went for the albums that most influenced me, there's an infinite amount of amazing stuff in music history.

Hmm, something like this I guess?

1. Sonic Youth - EVOL
2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
4. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
5. Swans - Children of God
6. The Fall - Hex Eduction Hour
7. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
8. Slint - Spiderland
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral... My Trial
10. John Fahey - America

now uhm:

1. Eric's Trip - Love Tara (1993)

2. Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998)

3. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (1985)

4. Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl (1994)

5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)

6. Slint - Spiderland (1991)

7. Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)

8. Smog - Wild Love (1995)

9. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)

10. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Rob, you're being crazy today!

1. Velvet Underground & Nico
2. Enter the 36 Chambers
3. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
4. Freak Out
5. Daydream Nation
6. The Stooges s/t
7. Tha Carter III
8. In Utero
9. My War
10. Ready To Die

Bad Moon Rising, Confusin is Sex, Daydream nation, Sister, Evol,

some fucking masterpieces of contemporary skronk rock, and it just strikes me as weird that NYCG&F would be more of a fave to any sonic youth fanatic than those previously mentioned.

This is really difficult...

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
The Beatles: White Album
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Mr. Bungle: Disco Volante
Naked City: Torture Garden
Sielun Veljet: Suomi-Finland (a really great finnish band from the 80's)
Stooges: Fun House
Can: Tago Mago
The Clash: Sandinista!
Fugazi: In On the Kill Taker

don't worry none taken for me it just so different so loose yet somehow so altogether......

Why is it so strange for someone who is making a list of personal favourites to choose a particular record over another one by the same band?

10. Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
9. Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno-IAO chant from the Cosmic Inferno
8. The Beach Boys-Smile
7. White Light/White Heat-The Velvet Underground
6. L.A.M.F.- Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
5. Take It From The Man!-The Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. Dragnet-The Fall
3. Sound Of Confusion-Spacemen 3
2. Confusion Is Sex-Sonic Youth
1. Raw Power-Iggy & the Stooges

NYC Ghosts & Flowers evokes a completely atmosphere than the ones you mentioned though.

I think NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a perfectly acceptable choice. Renegade Princess is a jam!

Oh man. These 4 right here are classics. This was my favorite list so far, though the Prurient choice shocked me!

No way I can do a top ten in order, so I'm just gonna pick ten I really like off the top of my head:

1. Sonic Youth - Goo
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
6. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
7. The Vines - Winning Days
8. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

It's like someone claiming Paul mcCartney is their favorite pop star and choosing his turgid classical music album as their fave of his.
one can choose what one wants, but it is still puzzling to me.