Did a search and didn’t see this particular question, and I was curious.
When I say ‘favorite album’, I don’t mean that your favorite song is on it, or its by your favorite band, or you really like half of the songs on it…but the entire thing has to be awesome to you.
Some of you will yell at me because of my age, but Dark Side of the Moon and Abbey Road are both pretty much tied for #1. Appetite for Destruction is up there as well.
The first two that came to mind would be Muse Absolution and Dream Theaters Images and Words. 3 also has a sweet album, and pretty much the rest of DT and Porcupine Trees albums are my favorite from beining to end.
Its hard to pick just one.
At the moment, I’ll have to say Welcome To Goodbye, by Rotersand. I heard one of their tracks, and I quite liked it, but you know how it is, you find an album by someone new to you and you don’t expect much. This one is good, theres few albums I like all the tracks on, but this is one of those albums and it’s always on at the moment. Apart from this, I’d usually say any Patton related.
Just though of another fantastic album - the soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. The first two soundtracks, I occasionally skip a song here or there, but listening to the 3rd all the way through is almost as fulfilling as watching the movie itself.
oh… man… that is hard to say…
I guess my first on the top of my head would be Ratatat, Classics
but i am really all in this album by Jurrasic 5, and also i agree with jerrick about muse. And i am totally in love with this album by Seaweed Jack
i dont know man, im sure i could dig up a few more albums i totaly love
“Sgt Pepper”. 
I remember when it came out in 1967, me and my friends listened to it for hours on end in the garage and it was just surreal and awesome! First album ever to have printed lyrics on the back and all those cool pictures inside!
“Dark side of the moon”. Just a great album to listen to anytime, anywhere.
“Rumors”. Fleetwood Mac’s best
“Houses of the holy”. Can’t go wrong with Zep
“Frampton comes alive”. Greatest live album ever!
Too many more to list.
Favorite albums are tough, but albums that are great from beginning to end are many.
Cosmo’s Factory - CCR
Revival - Gillian Welch
Benefit and Aqualung - Jethro Tull
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
Cheap Thrills - Janis Joplin w/Big Brother and the Holding Company
Motherland - Natalie Merchant
Demon in Disguise - David Bromberg
We’re Only In It For the Money - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (which I prefer to Dark Side of the Moon)
Back Home in Sulphur Springs - Norman Blake (OMFG, this guy is GOD)
Horses - Patti Smith
Rock n Rock Animal - Lou Reed
Quadrophenia - The Who
Pin Ups - David Bowie
Bloodshot - The J. Geils Band
Tonight’s the Night - Neil Young
Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sells Out - Petra Haden (the entire The Who Sells out done acappella by her one voice - amazing)
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
…and the list goes on, but any one of the above is best listened to from beginning to end
Wow. I instantly thought Dark Side of the Moon and Abbey Road.
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
The Koln Concert Keith Jarret
New Chautauqua Pat Metheny
1000 Kisses Patty Griffin
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The Who Sell Out The Who
August and Everything After Counting Crows
Roger Waters - Amused To Death
I’m pleased you added that one. It is a perfect album. I recall being upset that they lost the best new artist Grammy to Sheryl Crowe back in '94, I think. Their friends did tell them, it’s all or nothing.
A lot of good ones listed so far. I’ll add:
Dire Straits’ double live CD: Alchemy
This changes a lot for me, but there are a whole lot of albums that I find amazing from start to finish.
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
Jawbreaker - 24 hour revenge therapy
Bad Brains - S/T
More recent ones:
End of a Year - Sincerely
The Ergs! - Dork rod cork rod
Robot Whales - Vehicle
Jets To Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Got to jump in with Dark Side of the Moon also. That was easily the first one to come to mind. Since I now mostly listen to music from an iPod, I seldom listen to whole albums in order anymore. Which is sad.
Unit Structures- Cecil Taylor
The Koln Concert- Keith Jarrett
Live in Eugene- Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra
Sketches of Spain- Miles Davis
Bitches Brew- Miles Davis
Live Miles- Miles Davis
My Favorite Things- John Coltrane
The Avant Garde- John Coltrane
Grand Opening and Closing- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Family Album- Faun Fables
The Long March- Blue Scholars
Bayani- Blue Scholars
Punk: Kings and Queens, Anti-Nowhere League
Jazz: Blues on Bach, Modern Jazz Quartet
Rock: One More From the Road, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Anarcho-Punk: Archaic (EP), Rudimentary Peni
Rock and Roll: Swing Cats, Swing Cats
There are so many CDs and so many categories on my shelves I don’t know where to stop…
Seconded. ^^^Three of my favorites.
I would add:
Jumpin Jive - Joe Jackson
Avalon - Roxy Music
All time fav:
Fragile - YES
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Face to Face, “Ignorance is Bliss”
Trever Keith, “Melancholics Anonymous”
Sublime, “40oz to Freedom”
Those are the first three that came to mind… and even the Sublime has a couple tracks I don’t enjoy that much. I was going to add “Unstoppable” by the Planet Smashers, but there’s one track that I can’t stand. I’ll skip other songs of theirs on albums sometimes, but I always skip that one. I hate it so much I forget the name 
The Lonesome Crowded West: Modest Mouse
I’ve always preferred Close To The Edge. By a smidge.
Pink Floyd - The Wall