Twenty Indispensable Albums

We were sitting around, listening to the iPod shuffle through almost 4,000 songs, so far past wine-tasting that it may as well been Thunderbird, and we started trying to come up with a list of the twenty best albums of all time. Insane. Totally subjective. Because even the criteria doesn't lend itself to a truly objective take on something so personal as emotion, and music is emotion. Sure, it may be technically astute, born-talent driven, whatever... when all is said and done, though, what the music evokes in the listener is what will place it on the list.

So, I am wondering what twenty albums you just could not live without. Myself, I am having a difficult time covering all the bases. Today, my list looks like this:
♪ Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
♪ Kindness of the World - Joe Henry
♪ Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
♪ Thriller - Michael Jackson
♪ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
♪ The White Album - The Beatles
♪ Nevermind - Nirvana
♪ Shotgun Willie - Willie Nelson
♪ Waylon & Willie
♪ Graceland - Paul Simon
♪ At Last - Etta James
♪ Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
♪ Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
♪ Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
♪ The Joshua Tree - U2
♪ Live/Dead - Grateful Dead
♪ After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
♪ Dire Straits
♪ The Doors
♪ Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

This will change, of course. It will take me months of listing my favorites and then trying to whittle it down to twenty. Not even sure I can do it. Thinking about favorite songs of all-time, too. Crazy. It's not like I have nothing else to do... really. Like, maybe I will post something substantive later.... until then, have fun.