Your first favourite albums?

First phase: The Beatles blue album (1967-1970 sampler). This must've been around 1975/76.

Second phase: Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers. Discovered 1979.

Discovered in 80/81: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet, Eloy - Live

I think I also got KC's Discipline and Holger Czukay's Movies already in 1981, which are favourites to this day, but took some time to reach the top spots.

I still absolutely love Nightingales and Bombers, whereas Ricochet and Eloy Live lost some ground; these days I prefer other albums of these bands (I'm not that crazy about Eloy anymore who were my number one band for some years, but I still appreciate some of their material). There was a time when I wouldn't want to listen to the Beatles, my first musical love, anymore, maybe because of distancing myself from me as a child; they only came back in my thirties. I also loved Abba in the "first phase" aged under 10, they took until my late fourties to come back.

But curiously enough, when I heard Sgt. Pepper's in the first years of my Prog phase (in 1976), as an introduction in my music class by our teacher, I found it poppish of course but also weird - which supprised me. 

Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy

Scorpions - Best of Rockers and Ballads

Duran Duran - debut album

Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses

Queen - II, ANATO, Jazz, The Game, Hot Space

Iron Maiden - SSOTSS

Metallica - the 80s albums

Pink Floyd - WYWH

Whitesnake - 1987

Deep Purple - Deepest Purple

Rolling Stones - Aftermath

Yes - TYA, TAAW

Marillion - MC and HIE

Black Sabbath - the Ozzy albums

Cinderella - first two albums

and many others