And some random factoids about my list to wrap this up:
The most brutal battle in this list: the one for #50. Crimson by Edge of Sanity won it over a coin flip over...Transatlantic's debut album. If I made this list again, they'd probably swap.
Rush only had a single album in my top 50. 2112, Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, A Farewell to Kings, and Power Windows made my top 100.
The only other Dream Theater album in my top 100 was Awake at number 57.
The album in my top 100 most unlike the taste in music I display generally here: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis at number 60.
Other 1976 gems that made my top 100: Presence by Led Zeppelin (#95), Hotel California by the Eagles (#74), A Trick of the Tail by Genesis (#68), Agents of Fortune by Blue Oyster Cult (#91), and the previously mentioned 2112 (#65.)
And finally, the album that, in my last iteration of my top 100 to make this top 50 list, came in #100: Foreigner's self-titled debut album.
Thanks again guys. Maybe if I do some sort of list DT-side I'll smartly write most of it up BEFORE I start.