OK. Rank it like this:

Masterpiece - No bad tracks, personal significance, can be played extensively and not lose its charm. Rare.
Great - No bad tracks, universally acclaimed, personal significance, can be played four or five times without slowing down.
Good - One or two average-bad tracks, well-liked, personal significance, can be played one or two times with enjoyment.
Average - Mediocre release that appeals rarely (either in comparison to other albums in discography or in general - your call). Can be played once and lead to mild enrichment.
Bad - Bad release not worth the first listen.
Terribad - To be actively shunned. Rare.

R.E.M.

1) New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3) Lifes Rich Pageant
3) Murmur
4) Reckoning
5) Document
6) Green
7) Out Of Time
8) Automatic For The People
9) Monster
10) Fables Of The Reconstruction
11) Accelerate
12) Up
13) Reveal
14) Around The Sun

That's not a really set list for me. The top 3 almost never changes, and the bottom 3 rarely changes (although occasionally I rate Up higher), but the middle is pretty fluid.

you stole my idea!

this is different though, i like it!

LP's only!

1. Tallahassee
2. The Sunset Tree
3. The Life of The World To Come
4. All Hail West Texas
5. Sweden
6. Get Lonely
7. The Coroner's Gambit
8. Heretic Pride
9. Full Force Galesburg
10. We Shall All Be Healed
11. Hail And Farewell, Gothenburg
12. Nothing For Juice
13. Taboo VI: The Homecoming
14. Hot Garden Stomp
15. The Hound Chronicles

the top five are all really close

Beck

1. Sea Change
2. Odelay
3. Mutations
4. One Foot in the Grave
5. Modern Guilt
6. Midnite Vultures
7. Mellow Gold
8. Guero
9. The Information
10. Golden Feelings
11. Stereopathetic Soulmanure

This was hard. Only #'s 1, 2, 3, 10, and 11 are really set in stone. The others are all really, really close, and really depend on my mood.

A couple easy ones:

Sex Pistols:

1. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Joy Division:

1. Closer
2. Unknown Pleasures

The Jimi Hendrix Experience:

1.Electric Ladyland
2. Are You Experienced?
3. Axis: Bold As Love

I dare someone to rate Frank Zappa's full discography.

Talking Heads

1) Remain In Light
2) Fear Of Music
3) More Songs About Buildings And Food
4) Little Creatures
5) 77
6) Speaking In Tongues
7) Naked
8) True Stories

Since we are sticking to strictly studio albums, I'll note that I would probably rate Stop Making Sense and The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads #1 and #3 respectively

That is a lot more concrete than my R.E.M. list. Remain In Light is such a long way ahead in terms of favourite studio album. I might jiggle around 4-6, depending on my mood, but that would be order 99% of the time.

The Police

1. Reggatta de Blanc
2. Synchronicity
3. Outlandos d'Amour
4. Zenyatta Mondatta
5. Ghost In The Machine

The Cure

1. Disintegration
2. The Head On The Door
3. Wish
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Three Imaginary Boys
6. Pornography
7. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
8. Faith
9. Wild Mood Swings
10. Bloodflowers
11. The Cure
12. 4:13 Dream
13. The Top

The Smiths

1. The Queen Is Dead
2. The Smiths
3. Louder Than Bombs
4. Meat Is Murder
5. Hatful of Hollow
6. Strangeways, Here We Come

Dire Straits:

1. Alchemy: Dire Straits Live
2. Dire Straits
3. Love Over Gold
4. Brothers In Arms
5. Communiqué
6. Making Movies
7. On Every Street

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Originally Posted by neckermanncj

The Smiths

1. The Queen Is Dead
2. The Smiths
3. Louder Than Bombs
4. Meat Is Murder
5. Hatful of Hollow
6. Strangeways, Here We Come

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My Smiths list
1) Strangeways, Here We Come
2) Meat Is Murder
3) The Queen Is Dead
4) Louder Than Bombs
5) Hatful Of Hollow
6) The Smiths

That list changes all the time. That would probably be completely different if I did that in a weeks time.

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Originally Posted by harveyglobetrot

My Smiths list
1) Strangeways, Here We Come
2) Meat Is Murder
3) The Queen Is Dead
4) Louder Than Bombs
5) Hatful Of Hollow
6) The Smiths

That list changes all the time. That would probably be completely different if I did that in a weeks time.

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i just don't listen to Strangeways a lot, i think i've heard it a total of 5 times compared to the hundreds of times i've heard the others... :o