I wouldn't put Disintegration or Violator among my favorite albums - I doubt I could easily pick a few favorites - but they were two of the first to make me crave emotionally deep, lyrically sophisticated, instrumentally complex music instead of whatever happened to be popular in pop-rock.

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Or Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited.

I guess ill go with the KNOT Cuz has a kid this album was really special to me it was just heavy melodic angry it went through a range of emotions from highs to lows

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Get on my level

It is tie for my between The Stone Roses and Endtroducing by DJ Shadow.

Varies day by day as I tend to get hooked into one band and then abandon them a few months after, but this is all i can think of for the moment:

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I hate to be generic, but I can not help.
It's probably 'White Album' by The Beatles or 'Pet Sounds' or maybe Ramones' 'Leave Home'. I really don't know.

the black album metallica

Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind

In addition to this, Peter Brotzmann Octet's "Machine Gun" is tied with TMR. Hard hitting free jazz that makes his hardcore predecessors seem like pansies.