My top three albums and their order were easy. The rest, not so much.

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Rush - Moving Pictures
3. Steely Dan - Aja
4. Rush - 2112
5. Styx - Paradise Theater
6. AC/DC - Back in Black
7. Eagles - Hotel California
8. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
9. Journey - Escape
10. ZZ Top - Eliminator

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Not included are iconic Greatest Hits compilations from Aerosmith, Commodores, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Eagles, James Taylor, ZZ Top, Simon & Garfunkel and Paul McCartney & Wings.

Also not included are concert albums (Rush - "Exit Stage Left") nor movie soundtracks ("Footloose", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Xanadu"). However, "Purple Rain" is included below as it's from a single artist.

Full listing of my favorite albums (again, no Hits, concerts or soundtracks)...


The Beatles - Abbey Road
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against the Wind
Steely Dan - Aja
The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue
Pink Floyd - Animals
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
AC/DC - Back in Black
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams
Boston - Boston
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
George Benson - Breezin'
Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms
Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Red Hot Chilly Peppers - Californication
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down
Rush - Caress of Steel
Men At Work - Cargo
The Cars - The Cars
Collective Soul - Collective Soul
Styx - Cornerstone
Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion
Dam*n Yankees - Dam*n Yankees
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Ray Lynch - Deep Breakfast
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy up the Girl
Boston - Don't Look Back
Foreigner - Double Vision
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Quincy Jones - The Dude
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
Styx - Equinox
Journey - Escape
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
George Michael - Faith
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Alabama - Feels So Right
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Journey - Frontiers
Queen - The Game
Gap Band - Gap Band III
Genesis - Genesis
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Neil Young - Harvest
Rush - Hemispheres
Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
Eagles - Hotel California
Creed - Human Clay
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Journey - Infinity
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Kansas - Leftoverture
Metallica - Load
Eagles - The Long Run
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Metallica - Metallica
Night Ranger - Midnight Madness
The BusBoys - Minimum Wage Rock & Roll
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Rush - Moving Pictures
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Sting - Nothing Like the Sun
Robert Plant - Now and Zen
Styx - Paradise Theater
Rush - Permanent Waves
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Pat Benatar - Precious Time
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd
Prince - Purple Rain
Def Leppard - Pyromania
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Metallica - Reload
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Seal - Seal II
Rick James - Street Songs
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
Rush - Signals
David Lee Roth - Skyscraper
Peter Gabriel - So
Huey Lewis & The News - Sports
Blackfoot - Strikes
The Police - Synchronicity
Pearl Jam - Ten
Boston - Third Stage
Paula Cole - This Fire
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Live - Throwing Copper
The Who - Tommy
Toto - Toto IV
The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
Van Halen - Van Halen
Van Halen - Van Halen II
Living Colour - Vivid
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
.38 Special - Wild-Eyed Southern Boys
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Matchbox Twenty - Yourself or Someone Like You
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Van Halen - 1984
Prince - 1999
Rush - 2112
Foreigner - 4


Pics of my top 3 (including a couple of Pink Floyd posters which came with the album)...

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The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in
Gives way and suddenly it’s day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset, hmph
Could be the human race is run