What five albums should everyone have in their album collection.

In no particular order

Nevermind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Appetite For Destruction - Guns n' Roses
Definately Maybe - Oasis
Pills n Thrills n Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
The White Album - The Beatles

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Patience - George Michael
Look Sharp! - Roxette
What's the Story (Morning Glory) - Oasis

On the subject of Greatest Hits collections, my five would be :-

Abba - The Singles 1972-1981 (vinyl, 5LP box-set)
Familiar to Millions - Oasis (OK, not strictly a greatest hits)
Greatest Hits 1970-2002 - Elton John
Ladies & Gentlemen - George Michael
Singles 1980-2000 - U2

Let it Be - The Beatles - a sparse and raw look at a band falling apart.

An Innocent Man - Billy Joel - just a truly terrific album

White Ladder - David Gray - adds new meaning to the phrase "Get Down", don't listen to it more than twice in one day without calling the Samaritans first

Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf and Steinman - Meatloaf only ever cut it when Steinman wrote for him and this album has the most stupendous opening/title track in the whole history of history itself, ever, probably.

Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams - okay he doesn't have the voice of Sinatra et al, but he knows how to put on a show, and more importantly have fun doing it in an arrogant jumped up little twat kind of way.

As for greatest hits albums the five I would go for would be

The Rolling Stones
Abba
The Bee Gees
REM
John Denver

Honorable mentions in both departments would go to Guns and Roses, John Lennon, Travelling Wilburys, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan/T Rex, Led Zepplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, U2, Police...the list goes on

Nicki

-Led Zeppelin:LZ
-Pink Floyd:Dark side of the moon/Medle
-Yngwie Malmsteen-Rising Force
-Deep Purple:Deep Purple in rock
-Black Sabbath:Heaven and Hell
-The Doors:The Doors/L.A. Woman
-Ozzy Osbourne:Blizzard of Ozz
-Dio:Holy Diver
-Rainbow:Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

toughie--
i must think--

Don't some of you people read instructions!!!

No Queen and only five (not the band)!!!

I bet some of you folks assemble MFI bookcases with the shelves running vertically.

Mind you knowing MFI they're probably designed like that.

Rush - 2112
Bad Company - 8 from 10
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve & other Stories
Rolling Stones - 40 Licks (1&2)
ELO - Out Of The Blue

Love your new sig, Bob - LOL!

1 - Beatles / Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 - Valensia / The Blue Album
3 - Beach Boys / Pet Sounds
4 - Kate Bush / The Dreaming
5 - Tool / Aenima

Queen.........Queen II
ELO...........Out of the blue
Journey.......Escape
Asia..........Asia
Boston........Don't look back

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1

Guns N Roses ~ Appetite for Destruction
Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Pearl Jam ~ Ten
Chris Cornell ~ Euphoria Morning
Jeff Buckley ~ Grace

and an outsider - Raging Slab ~ Dynamite Monster Boogie concert - great riffs.

Boston-Boston
Thin Lizzy-Bad Reputation
Zep-ZOSO
PFloyd-DarkSide
Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic

George Michael-Older
Robbie Williams-Sing When You're Winning
Eminem-The Eminem Show
Queen-A Night At The Opera
The Beatles-Revolver

PINK FLOYD- The Wall
DREAM THEATER- Scenes From A Memory
DEEP PURPLE- Made In Japan
LED ZEPPELIN- IV ('Four Symbols')
METALLICA- Master Of Puppets