Okay so what have we learned?

David David Hasselhoff = big in Germany

Dave Mustaine = big in Poland

Mist be an odd border crossing. :P

Those belong to my favorites as well!


Some other albums I listen to quite often:

Summoning - Stronghold
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Therion - Vovin
The Gathering - Mandylion
Turisas - Battle Metal
Ensiferum - Iron
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Sabaton - The Art of War

Dark Side of the Moon obviously

Fire of Unknown Origin by that band that has had like a million memebers (Blue Oyster Cult)

Just to name a few:

Radiohead-Ok Computer,Kid A,Amnesiac
Nine Inch Nails-The Fragile
Daft punk-RAM,Alive 07
Gorillaz-Demon Days
Burial-Untrue
Squarepusher-Go Plastic,Feed Me Weird Things
Aphex Twin-Selected Ambient Works 85-92/Volume II,I Care Because You Do,Syro
Massive Attack-Mezzanine

- Running Wild - "Death or Glory" (Japanese Version)
- Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
- Megadeth - "Peace Sells..." & "The System Has Failed"
- Death - "Symbolic"
- Annihilator - "Never Neverland"
- Iced Earth - "Night of the Stormrider" (Original Nonremastered Version)

I have a wide variety and I listen to a LOT of music! :)

Pink Floyd - everything
Rush - A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Power Windows
Aerosmith - everything
Counting Crows - August and Everything After, Recovering the Satellites
Collective Soul - everything
Candlebox - Candlebox
Blind Melon - everything
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue, Stars Best of '92-'02
System of a Down - Toxicity
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Fixed, The Downward Spiral, March of the Pigs (Halo 7), Further Down the Spiral, The Fragile, Things Falling Apart, Still, With Teeth, The Slip, Year Zero, Ghosts, Hesitation Marks
Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll, Ryan Adams, Easy Tiger, Live at Carnegie Hall
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind, Blue, Out of the Vein, Ursa Major, A Collection, Dopamine
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, Take off Your Pants and Jacket, Mark Tom and Travis Show, Blink 182, Neighborhoods
Boxcar Racer - Box Car Racer
Angels and Airwaves - everything
Led Zeppelin - everything
Dave Matthews Band - everything
Tangerine Dream - almost everything
Yes - everything
The Eagles - everything
Robert Plant - everything except the country stuff
Lenny Kravitz - everything
The Killers - everything
Coldplay - everything
Kings of Leon - everything
The All American Rejects - everything
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be, Louder Now
Journey - everything with Steve Perry and then Steve Augeri, nothing since then
The Grateful Dead = everything
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Fleetwood Mac - everything
Def Leppard - everything but Pyromania, Hysteria, Adrenalize, Vault, Euphoria, X are some of the best
Queen - everything
Nirvana - everything
Foo Fighters - everything
Matthew Sweet - everything up to '04-'08
Pearl Jam - everything
Red Hot Chili Peppers - everything with JF on guitar plus the One Hot Minute album
The Academy Is - Almost Here
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill, Flavors of Entaglement
Avril Lavigne - almost everything
Beck - everything
Dashboard Confessional - everything
Utada Hikaru - almost everything
The Beatles - everything
Metallica - everything up until Reload
Simon and Garfunkel - everything
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, A Thousand Suns
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union, Let Your Dim Light Shine, Greatest Hits
Elton John - almost everything
Billy Joel - almost everything
Bruce Springsteen - almost everything
Genesis - almost everything
David Gilmour - On an Island
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
David Bowie - Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters, Heathen, The Next Day, Blackstar
Bob Dylan - Times Are A Changin' is my fav song, don't know his albums but he has lots of other good songs too

Many more I could list but that's all I got for now..

Seems to me that this is getting a bit... diluted? OP was asking for "albums [you] hold dear. What albums, front to back, every single track, is amazing and important to you?"

Well I'm a musician and I listen to music every single day of my life. Every album or artist I listed is important to me for one reason or another. To each their own! :)

I suppose Death's The Sound of Perseverance would be the Death album I'd choose. Intelligent lyrics, sharp riffs and unique structures, perhaps the genre's best moments ever for vocals, the songs are simply great and the production work is some of the best ever for a death metal album in my opinion. It's hard to go wrong with a Death album.

Rush - All the World's a Stage

UFO - Strangers in the Night

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Accept - Staying a Life

Scorpions - The Alternate Tokyo Tapes

King Crimson - Live at the Pier New York August 1, 1982

Whitesnake - Live at Donington 1990

Michael Schenker Group - One Night at Budokan

The Who - Live at Leeds

Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live

Queen - Live at Wembley 1986

Wishbone Ash - Live Dates

Joe Satriani - Satriani Live!

Queensrÿche - Operation: LIVEcrime

Rainbow - On Stage

Steve Vai - Live in London

Liquid Tension Experiment ‎– [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Y156ZUOWk]Live 2008

Asia - Fantasia Live In Tokyo

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at Carnegie Hall

Both are excellent and both have intelligent lyrics. My two favorite albums by them, hands down.

Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LcH4DUtuo

No other album probably brings up as many memories for me as the Give me Death album by the DKs. During the early 90s when I was drinking and smoking and skating and fighting and learning to be a man, it was the soundtrack of my hot, violent and chaotic life. The tunes, the lyrics, the oppressive gangs and police, the mean streets trying to kill you every night. Yes sir, that album for me defined fun and desperate anarchy. Me and my friends may have missed out on the original punk rock revolution of the late 70s, but we made it up for it with our own brand of crazy.

 ▪  Bon Jovi  -  New Jersey
 ▪  Def Leppard  -   /  [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTs98_pjwL4]Adrenalize
 ▪  Dire Straits  -  Brothers In Arms
 ▪  Duran Duran  -   /  [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlOX-BvQi8Y&list=PLxKeRjy_KXLElDEJvPGJNj8k6Hb9mzSU7]The Wedding Album
 ▪  Enigma  -  MCMXC a.D.  /  The Cross of Changes
 ▪  Genesis  -  Invisible Touch
 ▪  Huey Lewis and the News  -   /  [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZiiqgwmTg]Hard at Play
 ▪  Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers  -  The Album
 ▪  John Lennon  -  Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack)
 ▪  Madonna  -  The Immaculate Collection
 ▪  Michael Jackson  -  Thriller
 ▪  Queen  -  Greatest Hits
 ▪  The B-52's  -  Cosmic Thing
 ▪  "Weird Al" Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid
 ▪  ZZ Top  -  Eliminator

You just reminded me, I really, really liked the Huey Lewis and the News album Fore! I listened to it primarily on tape. If not for the fact that it has been a long time since I listened to the Wedding Album I may agree with that, but two songs on it resonate a lot with me (Ordinary World and Too Much Information).
Oh, and Eliminator is good, but not quite up there with me.