Instead of trying to come up with the "all time" bests -- IMO an impossible task....
What are your top ten albums right now. Think of this as the ones you can't stop listening to right now. Or perhaps as the ten that if you had to decide right now, you would take along if you were going to be stranded in a boat or on a mountain by yourself for a month or so.
Mine:
Epica, Classical Conspiracy.
Nightwish, End of an Era.
Glenn Gould, A State of Wonder.
Sarah Vaughn, The George Gershwin Songbook.
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Dexter Gordon, Great Encounters
Jaco Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius
Chet Baker, The Best of Chet Baker Sings.
Eva Cassidy, Live from Blues Alley.
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)