Favourite album!?
Almost impossible, I have 72 GB worth of music on my PC for a reason, not to mention the physical albums (cassettes and CDs), and I'm always searching youtube for more music to listen to.
I'm going to have to say David Bowie - Hunky Dory or Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Just saying them because they are the oldest albums that I play a lot, more often than newer albums I also play a lot.
edit:
Probably Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream. One of the first albums I ever had as a kid, and I found it in my dresser last summer and it didn't leave my car CD player all summer until I left it at a friend's house. I probably listened to it beginning to end at least 50 times last summer. Mayonaise= best song ever.
Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies is up there too.
I loved the Siamese Dream album, one of my favourites from the 1990s. First Smashing pumpkins album I bought on CD and listened to it a lot. I went and found Pisces Iscariot after that.
Man this is painful, leaving out joe pass, miles davis and any jazz albums, Blues, ac/dc, black sabbath, pink floyd, beatles, spencer davis group and later stuff steve winwood did (go google the band and the songs "give me some loving", "I'm a man", "every little bit hurts", "keep on running", "goodbye stevie". Winwood was 16-18 years old when recording them) http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spencer+davis+group+steve+winwood&aq=f
Also I miss not listing joy divison, jeff Buckley, the rolling stones, the stooges, funkadelic, portishead and radiohead. Plus a whole bunch of aussie bands, alternative, folk and electronic stuff I love.
I love variety more than anything, which is why I'm growing 20 chilli varieties x2 rather than 20ea of my favourite two types of chillies.
edit: Hey AB, you've had me listening to the smashing pumpkins all week, good stuff!