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

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

Can -- Mother Sky
Sting -- All This Time (live one)
Jah Wobble -- Passage To Hades
Frank Zappa -- The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Vlatko Stafanowsky -- Tretja Majka
Freddy Studder -- Seven Songs
Legendary Pink Dots -- Plutonium Blonde
Daniel Binelli -- Tango
Garry Burton/Astor Piazzolla Reunion

Beatles: Abbey Road
Stones: Exile
Chris Rea: Road to Hell
Joan Armatrading: Track Record
Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Neil Young: Tonights the Night
Genesis: Trick of the Tail
Steeley Dan: Aja
Elton John: Madman Across the Water
Who: Quadraphenia
Michael Franks: Art of Tea
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust.....
Mott The Hoople: All the Young Dudes
Alan Pasons: I Robot
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
Counting Crows: August and Everthing....
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Ricki Lee Jones: self titled
Roger Waters: Amused to Death
George Harrison: Concert for Bangladesh
Frank Zappa: Sheik Yorbouti (sp?)
Lyle Lovett: Joshua Love Ruth
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go my Way
Dire Straits: Love Over Gold
Jackson Browne: Pretender
Aersosmith: Get Your Wings
Sarah McClachlan: Surfacing
Alison Krauss: Forget About It