Sunday, April 5, 2015

101 Favourite Albums

In no particular order. Though the best are naturally shuffled to the top in the order that I thought of them. The criteria became one artist, one record. They also had to be vinyl I own. And not any objective account of the best records ever made. Most of this is filtered by my own experience and memories.Just a personal judgement at this point in time. Top 5 will probably always stay pretty much the same.



1. R.E.M. - Murmur
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
4. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
5. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
6. Love - Forever Changes
7. Patti Smith - Horses
8. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
9. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
10. The Clash - London Calling
11. The Beatles - Abbey Road
12. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
13. The Specials - The Specials
14. The Velvet Underground - Live '69
15. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
16. Gang of Four - Entertainment
17. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
18. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrds Brothers 
19. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For the Young Soul Rebels
20. Can - Tago Mago
21. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
22. The Ramones - Leave Home
23. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
24. Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
25. Big Star - Record # 1
26 Husker Du - Zen Arcade
27. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
28  David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
29. Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
30. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
31. The Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
32. Frank Sinatra - Cycles
33. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
34. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
35. The B52s - The B52s
36. The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair
37. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
38. The Violent Femmes - The Violent Femmes
39. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
40. Misty & Roots - Live at the Eurovision 1979
41. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
42. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Safe as Milk
43. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
44. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
45. Otis Redding - Otis Blue
46. Gil Scott Heron - Reflections
47. The Slits - The Cut
48. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
49. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
50. The MC5 - Back in the USA
51. Magazine - Real Life
52. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
53. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
54. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
55. The Gun Cub - Fire of Love
56. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
57. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
58. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
59. Bobbie Gentry - Touch 'Em With Love
60 The Doors - LA Woman
61. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man
62.Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
63. Japan - Tin Drum
64. The Who - The Who Sell Out
65. Adrian Crowley - Some Blue Morning
66. Dr. John - The Night Tripper
67. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
68. Sparks - Kimono My House
69. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
70. Nico - Chelsea Girls
71. The Bhundu Boys - Shabini
72. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
73. The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
74. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
75. The Undertones - The Sin of Pride
76. The Everly Brothers - Roots
77. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
78. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
79. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
80. The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder
81. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
82. Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
83. Pulp - Different Class
84. Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You
85. A Tribe Called Quest - Peoples Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
86. The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
87. The Human League - Dare
88. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
89. Scott Walker - III
90. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
91. Fela Kuti & the Africa Express- Sorrow, Tears & Blood
92. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
93. The Auteurs - New Wave
94. Tim Buckley - Goodbye & Hello
95. Buzzcocks - Love Bites
96. Suicide - Suicide
97. Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
98. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
99. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
100. Prince & the Revolution - Sign of the Times
101. The Thelonius Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream

P.S. Having looked through it I've noticed I've left out Neil Young, Nirvana, John Coltrane and almost certainly several more. But I'd stand by most of these.



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