Hmmm...top five favorite albums...this is really difficult, because I would like to put a Billie Holiday album on here, but that wouldn't be right because my favorite songs of hers are spread out over her career -- and "best of" albums aren't really albums. So keeping that point in mind, I will list other albums in no particular order.
The Fugees -- The Score
The Beatles -- The White Album (trite? perhaps, but I don't give a fuck -- it will always be at the top of my list)
Beck -- Mutations
Cubanismo -- Malembe (but ask me another day and I would say "Reencarnacion")
Pavement -- Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Weezer -- Weezer (the blue album)
Van Halen -- 1984
Hmmm...there are more, but I'll have to include them later.