Zagat has a music survey running right now. Just for yuks, here are my selections for some of the best albums of all time:
Selected from their list:
- AC/DC, Back in Black
- Beatles, The, The Beatles (White Album)
- Devo, Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo!
- DiFranco, Ani, Living in Clip
- Led Zeppelin, IV
- New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
- Queens of Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf
- R.E.M., Murmur
- Replacements, The, Let it Be
- Roxy Music, Avalon
- Rundgren, Todd, Something/Anything?
- Rush, Moving Pictures
- They Might Be Giants, Flood
- U2, War
- Uncle Tupelo, No Depression
My write-ins:
- Ani DiFranco, Dilate
- The Smiths, The Smiths
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold As Love
- Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey
Not a complete list of my favorite albums, by any means, but a good start, based on the stuff they had to choose from, and a few things that popped into my head at the time.