What are some of your favorite albums or CD's?

In regard to Funk/R&B, a must have essential album

would be the album Cameosis by the Funk/R&B group Cameo.

That album was released in the year 1980.

Marvin Gaye albums

What's Going On (1971)

Let's Get It On (1973)

Here, My Dear (1978)

Many albums have a few great songs and lots of fillers. Bob Lind's Elusive Butterfly has that one great song, but I could never get through the rest of it.

Rap group:
Boogie Down Productions
featuring KRS One

1987 Criminal Minded Released


1988 By All Means Necessary


1989 Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop

Metallica: Ride the Lightning
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Slayer: Reign in Blood
Megadeth: Rust in Peace
Death: Symbolic

That's horrible...

That's horrible also.

Goddamn, boy, have you considered finding a music store and telling the nice man that you need a taste in music?

musical taste is about as subjective as anything... there are no wrong answers...

Agreed

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Punch Brothers, Punch (this might ultimately be my choice)
New Pornographers, Challengers
Steeley Dan, Aja
Bruce Hornsby, Bride of the Noisemakers (HA! A double live album!)
ABC, How to Be a ... Zillionaire!
Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
Metric, Fantasies
Diana Krall, When I Look Into Your Eyes
Jenny Lewis, The Voyager
Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs
Rickie Lee Jones, The Evening of My Best Day or Pirates
Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, and Yo-Yo Ma, Appalachia Waltz
Aimee Mann, Magnolia soundtrack or Lost in Space or @#%&*! Smilers or Mental Illness
Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling

The complete string quartets of Beethoven performed by the Quartetto Italiano

"Jazz Samba by Stan Getz"

"Stone Free a Tribute to Jimmy Hendrix"

Absolutely my favorite album

Highway 61 Revisited
Belafonte
a Leadbelly album that's in my collection
Dustbowl Ballads - W Guthrie
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
John Lennon - Ono Band
Cheap Thrills
Jerry Lee Lewis (released March, '58)
Elvis is Back
Little Richard - ('58, The Fabulous)
Rehearsals For Retirement - Phil Ochs
It's My Way - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Any Day Now - Joan Baez

The list is endless, so I will quit