most likely lateralus. Tool was my first concert i went for the tour of this album. This cd was probably one of the first i flogged to death but never really got sick of.

Getting into tool led me into other bands that were a lot more different from the nu metal i was listening to at the time. It was definately led me on to bigger and better things in a musical sense and opened my ears in a lot of ways. I dont listen to it much now but i still like to put it on every now and then.

Top 6:

Velvet Underground - VU&N
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Dj Shadow - Entroducing

Wilco - YHF

Of the albums I own and have listened to? That's still a hard one, with all those great Beatles albums floating around, and Yes' period of amazing (71-75), and all the like, but then you have masterpieces like Radiohead's [i]OK Computer[/i] and [i]Kid A[/i].

Man, it's a pretty tough fight in my mind between [i]The White Album[/i], [i]Fragile[/i], [i]Tales From Topographic Oceans[/i], [i]OKC[/i], and [i]Kid A[/i]. I think I am going to sit down and listen to all of them and get back to you guys on this.

[U]The Postal Service - Give Up[/U]

but man some good Jimmy Eat World and Dog and Everything cd's too...

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

Anthrax - Persistence of Time

Honorary mentions:

Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Pink Floyd - Animals

Right now it is Pearl Jam's [I]Yield[/I].
Of all time it is probably The Beatles' [I]Abbey Road[/I].

[QUOTE=Med57]Something odd happened to me the other day in that I suddenly wondered whether [i]OK Computer[/i] was really my favourite album of all time, or whether I'd just got used to thinking of it that way (I hadn't listened to the whole thing for a while). Then I put it on again and I realised that although it's not clearly above everything else like it used to be, I still can't really see anything else overtaking it anytime soon. :-\ So I'm still as hopeless a fanboy as ever.[/QUOTE]

Weird. Same exact thing happened to me with OKC. I still hold it in the same position, but the last listening experience wasnt too memorable. (I fell asleep in the middle of it)

What a mean question to ask:

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West, anything by the Decemberists, and Transatlanticism are close, Tool-Lateralus, Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here are closer...but:

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

The music never ceases to amaze me, the story never ceases to intrigue me, and it's one of maybe 5 that I can listen to without ever getting tired of.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

Gotta stick to my favorite band of all time and their greatest album.

The Pixies - Doolitle
Nirvana - In Utero
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

Tool-Lateralus

[QUOTE=Salivation]Tool-Lateralus[/QUOTE]

cool, but Wish You Were Here is still better

Radiohead- The Bends...no one evr says The Bends