OK, this is going to be an ongoing thing for me, but I'm going to post
all the music that I absolutely love. I've got a pretty wide range of tastes, so bear with me.
U2 - Everything except Rattle & Hum and Zooropa, but I'm thinking specifically of The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and War.
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Who's Next by the Who
John Lennon's Imagine album
Underworld singles - Born Slippy NUXX, Pearl's Girl, Reverend Al Green, etc. I love them all.
Every New Order and Joy Division album
Moby - everything he's done, his early house stuff is INSANE. I love all of his music.
Rage Against The Machine - everything they did was awesome
Cactus Patch - I was introduced to them by my friends Hallie and Chelsea. They rock.
The Roots - the best group in hip hop history, every one of their albums is absolutely amazing, Black Thought puts clown rappers to rest. And they're from Philly.
The Clash
Weezer - the blue album, and some songs off of the green.
Minor Threat - actually, all of the Dischord stuff
Outkast - ATliens, Aquemini, Stankonia
Sappy love ballads, preferably by men with high voices who sound like they're going to cry
The Piano Man by Billy Joel
Elton John. Elton John. Elton John. Elton John.
All of the Radiohead albums except Amnesiac
Blink 182 - everything but Cheshire Cat...It's not punk, but it's so...sweet.
All the Bjork, Portishead, Massive Attack, and Chemical Brothers albums
Loud house
Incubus - man I love these guys. There's not enough good rock like this these days.
Early James Brown
Richard D. James album and Come to Daddy EP by Aphex Twin
Esoteric - this guy amazes me
The first Basement Jaxx album
Toxicity by System of a Down
Timbaland - every song he's ever produced. The Mozart of our times.
Early Wu Tang, particularly Enter the Wu, Cuban Linx, and Liquid Swords
Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Company Flow, Pharoahe Monch - 1990s underground New York rappers...all of their early singles, 1995-1999
Stevie Wonder, until the 80's
Bo Diddly
Jefferson Airplane (before they became Jefferson Starship)
Johnny Cash - especially Ring of Fire
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa, now and forever one of the most overlooked albums...
Hendrix
Buddy Holly
It Takes a Nation... and Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Death Certificate by Ice Cube
Beastie Boys - I like most of their stuff, although that early Licensed to Ill stuff is cutting it close. For perspective, I think Hello Nasty is their best album.
Tool - every one of their albums. Depressing and beautiful and maddening and scary all at once.
....My list will continue later. I could talk about my favorites for days and days and days.