Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Beatles - white album

um, theres more but cant think right now

Sonic Youth - Sister
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Velvet Underground - VU

Urusei Yatsura - We are...
Stony Sleep - A Slack Romance
The Carpenters - Singles '69 - '73
Ground Zero - Plays Standards
Atari Teenage Riot - Delete Yourself

Not my actual top 5 albums. Some records I don't listen to that often because they're far too good.

Any five Elvis Costello albums. I'll take a bad EC over a good just-about-anyone else anyday. 'Cause I'm a freak.

ps-(I imidiatly thought of a Pavement album, but couldn't pick one. They've never made a solid, consistent masterpiece. Always gotta fast forward a few.)

Jackie-o Motherfucker--Flags of the Sacred Harp
Cat Power--Moon Pix
Sleater Kinney--Dig Me Out
Rachel's--Systems/Layers
Mirah--Advisory comittee

tough choices

Add the following:
the Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

5 more......

Eyehategod- Dopesick
Descendents- Milo Goes to College
Turbonegro- Ass Cobra
The Melvins- Houdini
Dr.Dre- The Chronic

never get sick of these

Gotta add some more to my list:

George Harrison - Living in the Material World
& the first three Wire albums

Animal Collective - Feels
Radiohead - Kid A
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
My bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation/Goo
Liars - Drums Not Dead

Elvis Costello-This Year's Model
Radiohead-The Bends
The Beatles-The Magical Mystery Tour
Faith No More-AngelDust
The Ravonettes-Pretty in Black

Sonics - BOOM
Sonic Youth - BMR
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
Dead C - White House

Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) - Venomous Villain
Stereolab - Sound Dust
Miles Davis - Silent Way Sessions

Sonic Youth - Dirty
Beck - Sea Change
Elliott Smith - XO
Jesus Lizard - Blue
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

Very hard to narrow down...

can i just say norma j, you have terrific taste in music

SY - Goo
Nirvana - Bleach
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
Mudhoney - Mudhoney
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

Sonic Youth - EVOL
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Sods - Under En Sort Sol
The Cure - Pornography
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity

Sonic Youth - 'Daydream Nation'
The Smashing Pumpkins - 'Siamese Dream' / 'MCIS'
The Beatles - 'White Album'
Pink Floyd - 'Dark Side of the Moon'
My Chemical Romance - 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' (I dont care what anyone says they rock!)

If Could have more that 10, the list would be endless; Radiohead, The Beach Boys, more Beatles, The Mars Volta, John Cage, Bob Marley, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Shostakovich (even though its not an album, I can never get bored of the Leningrad symphony)

Gracing the turntable recently:

Sparks - Kimono My House
STNNNG - Fake Fake
Wire - Chairs Missing
Led Zeppelin - IV

and on CD: Mudhoney - Superfuzz etc ... hits
Pussy Galore - Exile on Main Street

Less recently, but still so good:

Cream - Disraeli Gears
George Harrison - Living in the Material World
Redd Kross - Third Eye
Nirvana - Bleach
Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic

Runners up: Dwarves (Blood... and Must Die), American Hardcore, Flipper (Blow n Chunks), Black Sabbath (first two), David Bowie (Let's Dance, and Ziggy), and T. Rex (Electric Warrior, and Slider)

OH! And the new Yo La Tengo is really, really good!