My 6-year old self is pissed at me for not including Don Henley's "Building the Perfect Beast" just because I remember loving The Boys of Summer back then.

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
The Replacements - Let It Be
Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
The Neville Brothers - Neville-ization (sssshhhhh don't tell cortez)

Listened to a lot then, virtually never now:

Tina Turner - Private Dancer

Special Mention:

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
Julie Brown - Goddess in Progress

AC/DC: '74 Jailbreak
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive
Meat Puppets: Meat Puppets II
Metallica: Ride The Lightning
R.E.M.: Reckoning

pre beer.

Honorable mention: Van Halen - 1984, Slayer - Haunting the Chapel, Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

The Smiths - s/t
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
Replacements - Let it be
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show

Again based on what I was actually listening to at the time








If I did it now it would include

REM - Reckoning
Blue Nile - A Walk across the rooftops
Manuel Gottsching - E2 E4
Talk Talk - It's my life

Bruce - Born in the USA
Prine - Aimless Love
Mats - Let It Be
Metallica - Ride the Lightning (fav metal album ever)
David Allan Coe - Just Divorced
Charlie Pickett & the Eggs - Cowboy Junkie EP