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)...