grundle

I am a 34 year old male who lives in the USA.

Here's my list of my 100 favorite albums of all time:

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_...st_id_is_11365

The list may take a while to load, so I suggest you shrink it in a separate window for a while, and let it load while you do something else.

The Bus

Nice list, but you only have one album that you believe worthwhile after 1984? I'm not going to argue that the last twenty years have been the best in music ever, but I find it odd that only one made the cut.

grundle

Thanks.

Yeah, I know. I'm not a fan of most recent music.

deadlax

I don't think greatest hits albums belong on a "top 100" or "top anything" list.

grundle

Thanks for looking at my list.

I understand what you are saying.

But it is my list, so I can do anything that I want.

The Patty Smyth compilation contains some great songs that were never available on any actual albums. Some of those songs go back to the time in my life when I first started listening to popular music, and are so deeply embedded in my psyche, that I had to include it.

If you want Beatles songs like Hey Jude, Day Tripper, and She Loves you, a compilation is necessary. And I did list 7 actual albums by them, too.

None of the original albums by the Waitresses have ever been released on CD, and I buy CDs, so there's another compilation.

I listed 6 actual albums by the Rolling Stones, but I also listed one compilation for their very early stuff.

The early stuff by the Who and Sly and the Family Stone also got a compilation for each group, but I also included actual albums of their later work.

Otis Redding got a compilation, but I don't think he necessarily did themed albums anyway.

As I said, I do understand what you are saying. But it is my list. And I was pretty limited in the number of compilaitons that I included. I don't think the inclusion of a small number of well chosen compilations is a bad thing.

Elldubtoo

Just so you know, there's nothing obscure on your list.

grundle

Yeah yeah. Very funny.

I've been thinking about that. Television is obsucre in the sense that they are never played on U.S. top 40 radio, or on MTV, or anything like that.

But to people who find out about music by reading music reviews, they are not obscure at all.

Thanks for looking at my list.

The Bus

You know, you're being awful defensive for someone who posted the list and asked for opinions.

grundle

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come across like that. And thanks for pointing it out.

I just figured that if people were kind enough to look at my list and offer their comments, I should have the courtesy to offer some kind of a response. I was trying to address the things that people said, by offering my own explanations. I was not trying to be defensive.

I'll be more careful about how I say things. Thanks for telling me about that.

deadlax

astral weeks at 97? seems like you just threw it on there because it is a seminal album. It belongs in any late 60's early 70's music lover's top 25. I am calling shenanigans on some of this list.

grundle

Good for you! I like your obervation skills and willingness to call it as you see it.

Hiro11

Sort of my reaction to this list as well. Almost all of these albums are the standard "masterpiece" type selections: impeccable choices mostly, but with no real personality. I like the offbeat inclusion of Loverboy's first two, but "Exile"? "Rubber Soul"? "...and Nico"? Not really stretching there.

grundle

Good point. And thanks for looking.

The Loverboy albums are some "guilty pleasure" stuff from my youth. I sometimes wonder what I would think of those albums if I were to hear them for the first time today.

Including 5 albums by Blondie, and 4 from Linda Ronstadt, plus the stuff from the Waitresses and Parry Smyth/Scandal is, I think, very different from what people usually expect to see on lists like these.

Also, I did not include Blonde On Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited or Blood On The Tracks Or The Basement Tapes. That also makes my list kind of unique!

And the only Fleetwood Mac album that I included is Mirage, which might seem kind of a strange choice to some people.

(I'm not trying to be defensive, by the way.)

cdollaz

I'll hijack your thread: Here are mine.

Barenaked Ladies Gordon
Barenaked Ladies Everything To Everyone
BeckMidnite Vultures
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust Soundtrack
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Dio The Last In Line
Elvis Costello Armed Forces
Elvis Costello Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello When I Was Cruel
Elvis Costello King Of America
Evanescence Fallen
Faith No More The Real Thing
Faith No More Angel Dust
Faith No More King For A Day
Fishbone The Reality Of My Surroundings
Frank Black Teenager Of The Year
Genesis Duke
Genesis Three Sides Live
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden Somewhere In Time
Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Journey Frontiers
King's X Dogman
King's X Tape Head
King's X Faith Hope Love
Live Throwing Copper
Live The Distance To Here
Living Colour Time's Up
Living Colour Vivid
Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium
Metallica Master Of Puppets
Metallica And Justice For All
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Morrissey Bona Drag
Oasis What's The Story
Oingo Boingo Farewell
Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman
Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis
Ozzy Osbourne Bark At The Moon
Ozzy Osbourne Down To Earth
Pearl Jam Yield
Pet Shop Boys Behavior
Pet Shop Boys Actually
Peter Murphy Love Hysteria
Peter Murphy Deep
Phil Collins Hello I Must Be Going
Pixies Trompe Le Monde
Prince Purple Rain
Prince Sign O' The Times
Prince Around The World In A Day
Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet
Queensryche The Warning
Queensryche Operation Mindcrime
Queensryche Empire
R.E.M. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
R.E.M. Document
R.E.M. Automatic For The People
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead The Bends
Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones Some Girls
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup
Rollins Band End Of Silence
Rollins Band Weight
Rush Signals
Rush Moving Pictures
Rush Grace Under Pressure
Rush Permanent Waves
Rush Power Windows
Saga Worlds Apart
Santana Sacred Fire
Schlong Punk Side Story
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set
Soundgardedn Badmotorfinger
Talking Heads Little Creatures
The Cure Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Police Synchronicity
The Who Quadrophenia
They Might Be Giants John Henry
They Might Be Giants Flood
They Might Be Giants Factory Showroom
They Might Be Giants No!
Tom Waits Real Gone
Tom Waits Blood Money
Tool Lateralus
Triumph Thunder Seven
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2 Joshua Tree
U2 Achtung Baby
Van Halen 1984
Van Halen Fair Warning
Weezer Pinkerton
White Stripes Elephant
Yes 90125

Coral

Nice list.

I can't say I agree with some choices, but we're not all supposed to have the exact same taste.

You seem to really like the Rolling Stones, Blondie, Beatles and Linda Ronstadt. That itself makes it diverse with regards to music style - which is refreshing to see.

My only qualm is (as already mentioned) there aren't many newer albums. I used to be that way - but I went digging for artists who weren't as popular and delved into different genres to find more music to enjoy.

Thanks for sharing.

cungar

Anyone who listens to Pet Shop Boys and Metallica definitely covers the spectrum. Now if we could get the guys in Metallica to listen to Pet Shop Boys...

Ginwen

Why not, if that's one of your favorites.

List seems decent. I could do without some of the things on it (Loverboy comes to mind) but most of it's pretty good, and it seems fairly diverse to me.

deadlax

A Greatest hits record is a compilation, not an album.

Ginwen

We'll just have to agree to disagree.

grundle

Hihack away, my friend!

Pretty neat list!

You can also post your list at that website too. They have a message board and other features, too. I think you'd like it.

grundle

Thanks.

grundle

Thanks!

The Bus

I'd have to say that if I was limited to only those 100 albums above for the rest of my life, I could do much worse.

Making my list is gonig to take a lot of time, but I will try it. I'll make A list of albums, but it won't be The List of albums --- that is to say, it won't be definitive.

The Bus

Favorites here, not "best"...

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
a-ha - Minor Earth Major Sky
Air - Moon Safari
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
Basehead - Play with Toys
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beck - One Foot in the Grave
Beck - Sea Change
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Breeders - Last Splash
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Café Tacvba - Cuatro Caminos
Clinic - Walking with Thee
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - Blue Room EP
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Don Byron - A Fine Line
Electrelane - The Power Out
Erlend Øye - DJ Kicks
Fional Apple - Tidal
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Fugees - The Score
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Greyboy - Mastered the Art
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
GZA - Liquid Swords
Hayden - The Closer I Get
Ima Robot - Ima Robot
Interpol - Antics
Jay-Z - The Grey Album
KaitO - You've Seen Us, You Must've Seen Us
Keith Jarrett - At the Blue Note
K-Os - Joyful Rebellion
Kronos Quartet - Nuevo
Ladytron - 604
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin - III
Manu Chao - Proxima Estación: Esperanza
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Matthew Jay - Draw
MC Paul Barman - It's Very Stimulating EP
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Money Mark - Mark's Keyboard Repair
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Nas - Illmatic
Nas - It Was Written…
Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke Band - East Meets East
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Patrice - How Do You Call It?
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts LE
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Portishead - Dummy
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle for Los Angeles
Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
Soul Coughing - El Oso
Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Beatles - The White Album
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
The Doors - L.A. Woman
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
The Doors - Soft Parade
The Doors - The Doors
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The King of France - Salad Days
The Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble
The Russian Futurists - The Method of Modern Love
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
U.N.K.L.E. - Psyence Fiction
U2 - Achtung Baby
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu Tang Forever
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Yerba Buena - President Alien
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

This is pretty definitive.

auto

Nice list. Some very good picks, some not so much. You really should sample some albums from the last 25 years. There is a lot of good stuff out there. Especially considering the music you seem to enjoy.

But hey, we like what we like.