This is simple:  Out of your CD collection, pick ten that are your top favorites.  Can be greatest hits, live, concerts, whatever... just your ten favorite albums out of your collection.

Here's mine:

1.  Santana--Supenatural
2.  Spin Doctors--Pocket Full of Kryptonite
3.  The Police--Every Breath You Take: The Classics
4.  The Beach Boys--Sounds of Summer: Very Best Of
5.  Simon and Garfunkel--Bridge Over Troubled Water
6.  Chicago--Chicago IX
7.  Billy Joel--The Stranger
8.  Santana--Abraxas
9.  INXS--Kick
10.  Simon and Garfunkel--Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

This will probably change shortly, but right now, these are my tops...

(These are in no particular order)
1.  Sara Evans--Born to Fly
2.  Billy Joel--The Stranger
3.  The Wallflowers--Red Letter Days
4.  Elton John--Songs From the West Coast
5.  Elton John--Greatest Hits 1970-2002 CD 1
6.  Bob Dylan--Desire
7.  Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
8.  Bruce Springsteen--Born in the USA
9.  Bruce Springsteen--The Rising
10.  Carole King--Tapestry

in no order:


1)The stranger-Billy Joel
2)Abbey Road-Beatles
3)Rubber soul-Beatles
4)My aim is true-Elvis Costello
5)Pinkerton_Weezer
6)Pet sounds-Beach Boys
7)The Soft bulletin-Flaming Lips
8)Bookends-Simon and Garfunkel
9)Velvet underground and Nico-Velvet Underground
10)Best of Bowie-David Bowie

This thread is three-for-three on including Billy Joel's The Stranger.  How long will the streak last??  :)

I'm bumping this back up! :D

Sorry...I'm breaking the streak :)

This is kinda hard for me, beacuse even though I own lots of CD's, I have millions of compilations of certain artists and genres that I sometimes prefer to listen to that plain albums.

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Police - Greatest Hits
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
The Bluetones - The Singles
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)
REM - Automatic For The People
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
Radiohead - The Bends

(not in any order)

The ten best CDs I own are...

...wait a minute, you said "own"...

Delete this post, and if you get a call from the RIAA, I don't exist.

Cake - Fashion Nugget
Radiohead - The Bends
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
TOOL - Undertow
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
AC/DC - Powerage (on tape)
The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Marvin Gaye - The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye
The Misfits - Static Age
Metallica _ Master Of Puppets

Here are my ten:

1. Purple Rain-Prince
2. Thriller-Michael Jackson
3. Tragic Kingdom-No Doubt
4. It's Dark and Hell is Hot-DMX
5. E.1999-Bone Thugs N Harmony
6.Greatest Hits-Whitney Houston(before crack)
7. Stillmatic-Nas
8. Greatest Hits-Earth,Wind and Fire
9. A "Home made" Marvin Gaye CD
10. Mozart (gotta have the classical stuff)

modified to change list:

this is the one Ive made while Im not tired and half asleep:

1.  The Stranger-Billy Joel
2.  52nd Street-Billy Joel
3.  Rubber Soul-Beatles
4.  "Mikes Mix 16"
5.  Beck, Bogart, and Appice-Beck bogart and appice
6.  Monster Ballads part 1
7.  Big Ones-Aerosmith
8.  Glass Houses-Billy Joel
9.  earley Days, Greatest hits-Led Zeppelin
10. Astrolounge-Smash Mouth

1.  Miles From Nowhere - Tell Me a Story
2.  U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
3.  Jeff Finlin - Somewhere South of Wonder
4.  Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
5.  Bridget Jones' Diary Soundtrack
6.  Mutton Birds - Envy of Angels
7.  Abba Gold
8.  Shrek soundtrack
9.  Carol King - Tapestry
10. Bing Crosby - White Christmas

I tried not to peek at all of your lovely well-thought out lists so they would not influence my choices:

1. Journey - Escape
2. Journey - Infinity
3. Pearl Jam - Ten
4. Dave Matthews - Under the Table and dreaming
5. Allanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
6. Fiona Apple - Tidal
5. Led Zeppelin - (can't decide)
4. Soundtrack from the movie "Sliver" (sorry, it is just good)
3. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
2. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
1. Billy Joel's Greatest hits