If I could only have one album from the....

Beatles - White Album
Stones - Let It Bleed
Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Steel Dan - Katy Lied
XTC - Oranges And Lemons
Neil Young - Live Rust
REM - Document
Jackson Browne - For Everyman
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent And the E Street Shuffle
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Jethro Tull - The Minstrel In The Gallery
Phish - Billy Breathes
Radiohead - Kid A
Ok, time to stop.

Man, this thread is dating us!!! I'd like to see a histogram of audiophile age (OK - why collect the data... bell curve centered somewhere near 50 years, skewed distribution with a 10-year standard deviation to the left and a 20-year SD to the right.) Right???

By the way, I agree with the OP on the best Dead album: Wake of the Flood (followed by maybe American Beauty and Live Dead - concerts are much better than albums).

Pink Floyd : Meddle
Dire Straits : 1st LP
ZZ Top : Tres Hombres
Queen : 1st LP
Beatles : Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan : Greatest Hits Vol. II
Steve Miller : Fly Like an Eagle
Robin Trower : Bridge of Sighs
Harry Chapin : Heads and Tales
David Bowie : Space Oddity
CSN+Y : déjà vu
Flash and the Pan : 1st LP
Lightnin Hopkins : Best of
Muddy Waters : Folk Singer
BB King : Live from Cook County
Elvis Costello : My Aim is True
Willie Nelson : Stardust
Rolling Stones : Exile on Main Street
Blue Oyster Cult : Agents of Fortune
Genesis : Selling England by the Pound
Jimmi Hendrix : Electric Ladyland
Cowboy Junkies : Trinity Sessions
Moody Blues : Days of Future Passed
Alan Parsons : Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Heart : Dream Boat Annie
Black Sabbath : Master of Reality
Doors : 1st LP
John Lee Hooker : Serve You Right to Suffer
Son House : The Father of the Delta Blues
Jefferson Airplane : Surrealistic Pillow ....and on and on and on

Masters of Reality; Sunrise on the Suffer Bus
Concrete Blonde; Bloodletting
Crowded House; Woodface
The Tragically Hip; Fully Completely
Max Webster; Blockheads
Big Sugar; Heated
Headstones; Smile and Wave
Lenny Kravitz; Mama Said
Joe Satriani; The Extremist
U2; Zooropa
T-Rex; The Slider
INXS; Welcome to Wherever You Are
Tom Petty; Full Moon Fever
ZZ Top; Deguelo
John Mellancamp; Whenever We Wanted
The Fixx; Walkabout
54-40; Smiling Buddha Cabaret
Bootsauce; The Brown Album
Robert Cray; I was warned
Melissa Etheridge; Brave and Crazy
Tom Waits; Bone Machine