Monday, January 26, 2015

The Top Albums (1/26/15)

Here are my top 250 (or so) albums, all time, in order:
Armed Forces, Elvis Costello
London Calling, Clash
Revolver, Beatles
Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
Beggars Banquet, Rolling Stones
Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles 
Rubber Soul, Beatles 
Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
Double Nickel on the Dime, Minutemen
Velvet Underground & Nico, Velvet Underground 
Sandinista!, Clash 
Exile On Main Street, Rolling Stones
Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen 
Rain Dogs, Tom Waits 
Los Angeles, X
Bringing it all Back Home, Bob Dylan 

Nevermind, Nirvana 
Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
Abbey Road, Beatles
What's Goin' On?, Marvin Gaye
Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
Vespertine, Bjork
The White Album, Beatles
1999, Prince
OK Computer, Radiohead
Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, Public Enemy 
Live at the Apollo, James Brown
Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
Kid A, Radiohead
Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones
White Light/White Heat, Velvet Underground 
My Favorite Things, John Coltrane
The Harder They Come sdtk., Various (Jimmy Cliff) 
Swordfishtrombone, Tom Waits

This Years Model, Elvis Costello
New Skin For The Old Ceremony, Leonard Cohen
The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, Bruce Springsteen 
Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys 
Pretenders, Pretenders
Let it Be, The Replacements 
Out to Lunch, Eric Dolphy
Graceland, Paul Simon 
Never Mind The Bollocks, Sex Pistols
Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division

Kind of a Blue, Miles Davis
Argy Bargy, Squeeze 
Skylarking, XTC 
Let it Bleed, Rolling Stones
69 Love Songs, Magnetic Fields
Closer, Joy Division
The River, Bruce Springsteen
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
Another Green World, Brian Eno
Metal Box, P.I.L. 

Band On The Run, Paul McCartney & Wings
Wild Gift, X
The Future, Leonard Cohen
Brilliant Corners, Thelonious Monk
Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole
Something/Anything, Todd Rundgren
Let's Get it On, Marvin Gaye
Burnin', The Wailers
Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A.
My Aim is True, Elvis Costello

My Generation, the Who
The Doors, The Doors
IV, Led Zeppelin
Arkology, Lee Scratch Perry
Regatta De Blanc, Police
Parallel Lines, Blondie
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
Axis Bold as Love, Jimi Hendrix
Soft Bulletin, Flaming Lips
Tim, the Replacements

Low, David Bowie
Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin
Maggot Brain, Funkadelic
The Kinks Kronikles, The Kinks
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
Astral Weeks, Van Morrisson
Purple Rain, Prince
All Things Must Pass, George Harrison
Dummy, Portishead
Here Come The Warm Jets, Brian Eno

Pleased to Meet Me, the Replacementd
Fear Of Music, Talking Heads
Raw Power, Stooges
Parliament, Mothership Connection
Rust Never Sleeps, Neil Young
Let it Be, Beatles
Ramones, Ramones
Tonight's the Night, Neil Young
Dirty Mind, Prince
Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin

Various Positions, Leonard Cohen
On The Beach, Neil Young
In Rainbows, Radiohead 
There's a Riot Goin' On, Sly and the Family Stone
Catch A Fire, Bob Marley & the Wailers
Before and After Science, Brian Eno
Appetite for Destruction, Guns n Roses 
I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Neil Young 
Power, Corruption & Lies, New Order
Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen 
The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie 
Louder Than Bombs, Smiths
Pet Sounds, Beach Boys
War, U2
In Mono, Phil Spector
Figure 8, Elliot Smith 
Back To Black, Amy Winehouse 
The Bends, Radiohead
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Sinead O'Connor 

3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul 
Desire, Bob Dylan
Scary Monsters, David Bowie
Pink Moon, Nick Drake 
Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy
II, Meat Puppets
Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix
Talking Book, Stevie Wonder
Loaded, Velvet Underground
Stand!, Sly and the Family Stone
Zuma, Neil Young
Darkness on the Edge of Town, Bruce Springsteen 
In A Silent Way, Miles Davis 
In the City, the Jam 
Look Sharp, Joe Jackson
Fragile, Yes
Remain in Light, Talking Heads
Zen Arcade, Husker Dü
Off the Wall, Michael Jackson 
American Beauty, Grateful Dead

Melt, Peter Gabriel
Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction
Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
Night and Day, Joe Jackson
License to Ill, Beastie Boys
American Recordings, Johnny Cash
Murmur, REM
Slim Shady, Eminem 
You're Living all Over Me, Dinosaur Jr.
461 Ocean Boulevard, Eric Clapton
Music from the Big Pink, the Band
Toys in the Attic, Aerosmith
Funky Kingston, Toots and the Maytalls
New York, Lou Reed
Combat Rock, The Clash
Amnesiac, Radiohead
Fresh Sly & The Family Stone
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon
High Land Hard Rain, Aztec Camera

Transcendental Blues, Steve Earle
Stooges, Stooges
John Wesley Harding, Bob Dylan
Some Girls, Rolling Stones
Hunky Dory, David Bowie
Sign O' the Times, Prince
Workingman's Dead, Grateful Dead
III, Led Zeppelin
Black Saint and Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus
Queen, A Night at the Opera
Unplugged, Nirvana
Roxy Music, Roxy Music
Red, King Crimson
Heart Attack and Vine, Tom Waits
English Settlement, XTC
II, Led Zeppelin
Rocket to Russia, Ramones
Let's Stay Together, Al Green
More Songs About Buildings and Food, Talking Heads
East Side Story, Squeeze

Station to Station, David Bowie
The Revolution Begins (Flying Dutchman Masters), Gil Scott- Heron
Rum Sodomy & the Lash, Pogues
The Queen is Dead, Smiths
Get Happy, Elvis Costello
Your Funeral My Trial, Nick Cave
Just Can't Stop It, English Beat
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Eno, Byrne
2d Edition, PIL
#1 Record, Big Star
Quadrophonia, The Who
25 o'Clock, Dukes of Stratosphere
Capt Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
It's Only Rock and Roll, Rolling Stones
That's The Way of the World, Earth, Wind & Fire
Tupelo Honey, Van Morrison
Up on the Sun, Meat Puppets
Hot Rats, Frank Zappa
Basement Tapes, Bob Dylan and The Band
Congos, Heart of the Congos

Alice, Tom Waits
Exodus, Bob Marley
Interstellar Space, John Coltrane
Pink Flag , Wire
St. Dominic's Preview, Van Morrison
Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks
Between the Buttons, Rolling Stones
King of America, Elvis Costello
Burnin', Bob Marley & the Wailers
New Day Rising, Husker Dü
Repeater, Fugazi
The Rising, Bruce Springsteen
Blackheart Man, Bunny Wailer
Two Sevens Clash, Culture
Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth
Tago Mago, Can
3d/Sister Lovers, Big Star
Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors
Trust, Elvis Costello
Harvest, Neil Young

Who are You? The Who
Ray of Light, Madonna
In an Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk, Hotel
Evol, Sonic Youth
I'm New Here, Gil Scott-Heron
Illinois, Sufjan Stevens
Don't Tell a Soul, the Replacements
Sister, Sonic Youth
Apple Venus 1, XTC
School of the Flower, Six Organs of Admittance
Back in Black, AC DC
Oranges and Lemons, XTC
Live at the Fillmore, Allman Brothers
Wheels of Fire, Cream
2112, Rush
Hospice, Antlers
Trout Mask Replica, Capt. Beefheart

Damaged, Black Flag
Reckoning, REM
Call Me, Al Green

Boy, U2
Entertainment, Gang of Four
Paranoid, Black Sabbath
Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom
Chairs Missing, Wire
Discipline, King Crimson
Live-Evil, Miles Davis
Fables of the Reconstruction, REM
Untrue, Burial
October, U2
The Payback, James Brown
Rocks, Aerosmith
Van Halen, Van Halen
Spirit of Eden, Talk Talk
Something Else, The Kinks
After Dark, var. (chromatics, glass candy etc)
Richard D. James Album, Aphex Twin

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