The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjkMhwNWcbY
The Cult: Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTO9cWyJC8
Oasis: Definitely Maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZaHehjVPc
Mukade
James Taylor - Sweet Baby Jomes
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Great selections, everyone. I fear i’ve an unhealthy leaning towards Denny’s choices. 
djm
Pink Floyd - PULSE
Catherine Wheel - Ferment
James Blunt - Back to Bedlam (used to think so anyway, have to listen again)
ohhhhhh - and it has dulcimers!!! 
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Dinner
Ry Cooder - Into The Purple Valley
Van Morrison - Wavelength
These selections are really interesting. It’s interesting to see just which artists people gravitate to.
Perhaps even more interesting are selections of favourite artists that involve albums you regard as deeply flawed or a long way from their best. For me, no Beatles album challenges Rubber Soul and Revolver, although I really like all of them. Similarly, I love the Band but only Big Pink and the second album approach perfection. And the Rolling Stones made easily their best music as an R&B cover band in the mid 60s. So I wonder exactly what it is about the albums I don’t rate so highly that appeals to others and what they miss in the albums I like best. It’s fun and illuminating. At least I agree with the Joni Mitchell favourites. And it’s nice to see others vote for Revolver if not for Rubber Soul.
Carey – Carey Raditz or “Carrot” Raditz
The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldn’t sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey
But it’s really not my home
My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet
And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne
Revolver and Rubber Soul still share a cassette in the truck
John Mayhall - Turning Point
Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna
Taj Mahal - Natural Blues
Good questions.
As for the Band, I guess I actually agree with you about the first two albums (especially the second), and choosing Rock of Ages was kind of cheating, since it offers the pleasures of a live greatest hits compilation. But the horn section is terrific, and I wouldn’t want to give up Garth Hudson’s wild Charles-Ives intro to “Chest Fever.”
I just love the Richards/Mick Taylor sound on Sticky Fingers, and it has a sustained mood and song sequence that makes it the one Stones album I regularly want to go back to (as opposed to single songs). And it came into my life at kind of an interesting time.
Stevie Wonder–‘Innervisions’
Steely Dan --‘Aja’
Cat Stevens --‘Catch Bull at Four’
Crap, ‘perfect’ means there’s nothing I’d change and on ‘Catch Bull at Four’ I absolutely love every song except ‘The Boy With the Moon and Stars on his Head’ which I’d remove from every copy everywhere if I could.
I love that horn section too. But I do think those first two albums are perfectly realised; I wouldn’t want to change a note.
Sticky Fingers is the mature Stones sound. For me, It’s the culmination of their second strong period, along with Exile on Main Street. It’s really the perfect realisation of their own sound. I suppose I think they had great taste in what they chose to cover and good technique in providing listenable rock band versions of soul, blues and rock classics. Their versions almost never match the originals but were good enough to provide an album full of fine songs several times over. Part of what I’m saying is that I don’t really think Jagger and Richards were as good as songwriters as their early influences. But once they realised they were a dodgy ‘experimental’ pop band at best, but a fine little R&B unit, they got back on track. Anybody who complained about Sticky Fingers just isn’t a Stones fan, but my favourite is still their first (English) album.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell (Shadows & Light - what more can I say?)
The Speckless Sky - Jane Siberry
Teaser and the Firecat - Cat Stevens
War Child - Jethro Tull
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Demons & Wizards - Uriah Heap
djm
…and I am agreein’ with both Wombat and you!
the end must be near 
Already??? I have tons of things to do before the end gets here! Darn it all!!!
::Runs off to find “Izz’s List of what she wants to do before the End arrives” so she can start getting it all done in time…::
Ack!!! Option Paralysis!!! Too many choices. Can’t do it.
Loren
I ditto darned near every one already mentioned, except for a mere paltry few I actually don’t have acquaintance with.
Great taste in music, all!
(it’s only one ‘ditto’, so I don’t consider it cheating. )
REM, Murmur
Mastodon, Blood Mountain
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
hope ya can find it in the movin’ mess!!!