I realize it is dead in this message group but what the hell. Let's talk about something other than weight loss. I have started working my way through the list mentioned in the discussion title. I realize how subjective any list is so I certainly don't see it as the be all and end all of the best albums of all time. I recently have gotten into better sounding audio (nice headphones, DAC, Digital Music Player) and what better way to enjoy them than listening to some of the best albums of the past 50 or so years. I am 48 years old so a lot of this music is familiar to me. More than the music I certainly know almost all of the artists but I have never listened to many of them. Typically I listen to heavy metal (NWOBHM, Death, Thrash, MetalCore), pop, rap and a touch of classical. What has struck me listening to many of these albums is how good the production value on some of these albums is even if I truly don't like the music. The following are some examples of bands I have never listened to yet have enjoyed while going through this list.

Beach Boys - Petsounds
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks
Michael Jackson - Thriller - Obviously know almost every song from pop radio but production is spot on!
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Joni Mitchell - Blue
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Ramones - Ramones
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Lou Reed - Transformer
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Paranoid
Grateful Dead - American Beauty

With the exception of Sabbath I had listened to no album by any of the above mentioned artists. No that I have started this little project I have found that I prefer to listen to albums as a whole rather than random songs. I get a much better feel for the artist if I listen to the whole work.

So what are you guys listening to?