This is kinda difficult. Flipper forgive me, but I have to do my top ten hip hop, and top ten rock/punk albums.
Rock/Punk in no particular order, and in some cases I have to put two albums from certain artists cuz you can't have one album over the other at times. It's a toss up depending on my mood, and the seasons.
1. Led Zeppelin I, and Led Zeppelin II
2. The Clash-self titled, and London Calling
3. Bad Brains-Black Dots
4. G.B.H.-City Baby Attacked by Rats, and City Baby's Revenge
5. Discharge-Decontrol: The Singles
6. Misfits- Walk Among Us, and Static Age
7. Queens of the Stone Age-Rated R, Songs for the Deaf, and Self Titled
8. Radiohead's Kid A, Amnesiac, Ok Computer, and Hail To the Thief
9. Interpol-Turn On the Bright Lights, and Antics.
10. TV On the Radio-Return To Cookie Mountain
Honorable mentions, Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire, Joy Division's Closer, Echo & the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here, The Cure's Pornography, Pink Floyd's The Wall, and Dark Side of the Moon. There's too many other's that should be mentioned on any given day. Wall Of Voodoo's Call of the West, Gang of Four's Entertainment!, The Exploited's Troops of Tommorrow, Soundgarden's SuperUnknown, jeez there's too many. Talking Head's Remain In Light and Speaking In Tongues.
Hip-Hop
1. Smif N Wessun's Dah Shinin
2. Mobb Deep's Hell On Earth
3. Cypress Hill's Temples of Boom
4. Kanye West's Late Registration
5. Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, and Death Certificate
6. Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
7. D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better
8. Nas-Illmatic, It Was Written, Stillmatic, Untitled
9. Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the 36 Chambers, and Wu-Tang Forever
10. Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele
Honorable mentions include NWA's Straight Outta Compton, Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready To Die, Clipse's Hell Have No Fury, Re-Up Gang's We Got It 4 Cheap vol.2, Showbiz & AG's Goodfellas, Compton's Most Wanted's Music to Driveby, jeez too many to list.