Albums that have "Always been there for you"

[Regulator]

Maori Songs - Kiri te Kanawa, in particular Hine e hine which was played at my father's funeral.

Songs for Grown-Ups - Paddy Roberts.  This reminds me of the stories of my parents' time in Africa.

Breakfast in America - Supertramp

[Domestique]

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the ...
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled his Feet
Travis - The man Who
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

[onb]

Led Zeplin 2
Joni Mitchell Blue
Neil Young Harvest
Rod Stewart Never a Dull Moment
REM Automatic for the People
Bob  Blonde on Blonde
The Beatles Revolver
Van M Astral Weeks
Kate Rusby   Hourglass
Fleetwood Mac Rumours

[microphonie]

Blimey, there are loads:

Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales Of Ephidrina
Aphex Twin/Polygon Window - Selected Ambient Works 85-92/Surfing On Sine Waves
Autechre - Amber/Chiastic Slide/Tri Repetae
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Cabaret Voltaire/Richard H. Kirk - every album
Cocteau Twins - everything!
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark, Vols. 1/2
Depeche Mode - everything until 'Gahan: the heroin years!'
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Fujiya & Miyagi - Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
James - Laid
Kode9 & The Space Ape - Memories Of The Future
Kraftwerk - everything
Lowlife - Diminuendo/Ramafied
Lustmord - The Monstrous Soul
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Muslimgauze - just about everything
Múm - Finally We Are No One
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies/Lowlife
OMD - OMD/Organisation/Architecture & Morality
Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
Portishead - Dummy
PWEI - This Is The Day...This Is The Hour...This Is This!
Reload - A Collection of Short Stories
REM - Green/Out of Time/Automatic For The People
Shreikback - everything
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Techno Animal - Re-Entry
Tricky - Maximquaye
Ultravox - Rage in Eden/Vienna
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
V/a - Macro Dub Infection vol 1 & sundry punk/new wave/two tone/80's/madchester compilations!

[Mrs Pingu]

4) It Bites - It Bites

It Bites! Jeez.

OMG! As in Calling All The Heroes? I'd always imagined that was a 1 hit wonder....

I'm probably not really old enough to have many 'always been' albums but so far I would list:

Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Neil Young - Greendale & On the Beach
REM - Automatic For The People
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
and maybe
The Pretenders - Get Close

[CathH]

I like this thread! 

My Old Faithfuls are

Sensual World - Kate Bush
Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Horizon - The Carpenters
Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche

[Basil]

OMG.

Cath, thank you.  How on earth did I fail to mention "Hounds of Love"?  Particularly as I listened to it again yesterday. (Admittedly, after my O.P. , but still? 

Might have to add Marianne Faithful's "Broken English" too.  (Not sure if it totally fits the criteria though - I didn't mean this to be a thread of long lists of albums that are simply liked.)

[clifftaylor]

<far out>

Atom Heart Mother - PF
Solid Air - John Martyn
Close to the Edge - Yes
Feel - George Duke

</far out>

[Really Ancien]

I have to agree with you on 'Solid Air', I might assemble all my Audax cimbing shots and edit them to 'Over the Hill',  any reference to the average age of the participants purely accidental 
On Emiliana Torrini, I prefer 'Fisherman's Woman', to 'Love in a time of science,'  I've used 'Sunny Road' as a backing a couple of times.

Damon.

[Sergeant Pluck]

Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Little Feat: The Last Record Album
Rage Against the Machine: Renegades
Moby: Play

[CathH]

OMG.

Cath, thank you.  How on earth did I fail to mention "Hounds of Love"?   totally fits the criteria though - I didn't mean this to be a thread of long lists of albums that are simply liked.)

  You're welcome.  It always amazes me when other people mention this album - it's so out there and is so personal that I somehow find it hard to imagine that it is listened to by other people.  I mean, can you imagine "Dream Of Sheep" saying as much to anyone else as it does to you?

[Rollo]

A few that spring to mind.  There are loads of others in my brain somewhere.

Texas Campfire Tapes - Michelle Shocked
Angels Egg - Gong
Fishermans Blues - The Waterboys
Joe's Garage (Acts 1, 2 & 3) - Frank Zappa
The Yes Album - Yes
Get Your Ya-Yas Out - The Rolling Stones