My favorite 100 albums of the 2000's

1.         Funeral – Arcade Fire 
2.        The Airborne Toxic Even – The Airborne Toxic Event 
3.        Sam’s Town – The Killers 
4.        Absolution – Muse 
5.        Hot Fuss – The Killers 
6.        The  Cure – The Cure 
7.        Heathen – David Bowie 
8.        Passover – The Black Angels 
9.        Years of Refusal – Morrissey 
10.        Modern Times – Bob Dylan 
11.        Is This It? – The Strokes 
12.        Black Holes and Revelations – Muse 
13.        Kid A – Radiohead 
14.        Elephant – The White Stripes 
15.        The Rising – Bruce Springsteen 
16.        The Greatest – Cat Power 
17.        The Fountain – Echo and the Bunnymen 
18.        The Gay Parade – Of Montreal 
19.        Kill the Moonlight – Spoon 
20.        Raising Sand – Robert Plant and Allison Krauss 
21.        Shrunken Heads – Ian Hunter 
22.        Neon Bible – Arcade Fire 
23.        Death Magnetic – Metallic 
24.        The Everglow – Mae 
25.        The Raven – Lou Reed 
26.        Hopes and Fears – Keane 
27.        Empire – Kasabian 
28.        It’s Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs 
29.        The Wind – Warren Zevon 
30.        Takeoffs and Landings – Rilo Kiley 
31.        People That Can Eat People are the Luckiest People in the World – Andrew Jackson Jihad 
32.        My Bloody Underground – The Brian Jonestown Massacre 
33.        The Sickness – Disturbed 
34.        Ready…Break – Something Corporate 
35.        In Rainbows – Radiohead 
36.        4:13 Dream – The Cure 
37.        Time Out of Mind – Bob Dylan 
38.        Farmhouse - Phish 
39.        Sawdust – The Killers 
40.        The Fame – Lady Gaga 
41.        We Shall Overcome – Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger Players 
42.        Demon Days – The Gorillaz 
43.        Warning – Green Day 
44.        Chutes Too Narrow – The Shins 
45.        Illinois – Sufjan Stevens 
46.        We Are Pilots – Shiny Toy Guns 
47.        Directions to See a Ghost – The Black Angels 
48.        A is for Accident – The Dresden Dolls
49.        Dopethrone – Electric Wizard 
50.        Reality – David Bowie 
51.        Day and Age – The  Killers 
52.        Resistance – Muse 
53.        Last 2 Walk – Three 6 Mafia 
54.        Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips 
55.        Songs for the Deaf – Queens of the Stone Age 
56.        Splinter – The Offspring 
57.        She Wants Revenge – She Wants Revenge 
58.        Joy – Phish 
59.        Welcome to the Monkey House – The Dandy Warhols 
60.        Siberia – Echo and the Bunnymen 
61.        Turn on the Bright Lights – Interpol 
62.        In Ghost Colors – Cut Copy 
63.        The Beginning Stages of… - The Polyphonic Spree 
64.        North Hills – Dawes 
65.        Float – Flogging Molly 
66.        All the Stars and Boulevards – Augustana 
67.        Wild Like Children – Tilly and the Wall 
68.        Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures 
69.        Writer’s Block – Peter, Bjorn, and John 
70.        Bloodflowers - The Curr
71.        St. Elsewhere – Gnarles Barkley 
72.        The Odyssey – Symphony X 
73.        The Devil you Know – Heaven and Hell 
74.        The Execution of All Things – Rilo Kiley 
75.        Little Miss Sunshine – Various 
76.        Picaresque – The Decemberists 
77.        No Balance Palace – Kashmir 
78.        Confessions on a Dance Floor – Madonna 
79.        Plastic Beach – The Gorillaz 
80.        Copia – Eluvium 
81.        Icky Thump – The White Stripes 
82.        Airs Above Your Station – Kinski 
83.        Blackout – The Dropkick Murphys 
84.        Everything in Transit – Jack’s Mannequin 
85.        Funplex – The B-52’s 
86.        Feast or Famine – Chuck Ragan 
87.        Tour de France Soundtracks – Kraftwerk 
88.        Hail to the Thief – Radiohead 
89.        Stadium Arcadium – The Red Hot Chili Peppers 
90.        A Rush of Blood to the Head – Coldplay 
91.        Who is Mike Jones?  - Mike Jones 
92.        Damage – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 
93.        Ringleader of the Tormentors – Morrissey 
94.        Crunk Juice – Lil Jon and the East Side Boys 
95.        Together We’re Heavy – The Polyphonic Spree 
96.        The Weirdness – The Stooges 
97.        The Cosmo’s Rock – Queen and Paul Rodgers 
98.        Exotic Creatures of the Deep - Sparks 
99.        Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes 
100.        The Reminder - Feist 

100 Favorite Albums of the 1990's

1.        The Fat of the Land – Prodigy 
2.        So Tonight That I Might See – Mazzy Star 
3.        Razorblade Suitcase – Bush 
4.        Everybody Else is Doing it So Why Shouldn’t We – The Cranberries 
5.        Pablo Honey – Radiohead 
6.        Wild Mood Swings – The Cure 
7.        Automatic for the People – R.E.M 
8.        Mellen Collie and the Infinite Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins 
9.        The A Files – Sham 69 
10.        Evergreen – Echo and the Bunnymen 
11.        Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morrissette 
12.        Your Arsenal– Morrissey 
13.        Loveless – My Bloody Valentine 
14.        Music from Pete and Pete – Polaris 
15.        Gross Misconduct – The Hanson Brothers 
16.        Laid – James 
17.        Americana – Offspring 
18.        Music for the Jilted Generation – Prodigy 
19.        Tails – Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories 
20.        One Hot Minute – Red Hot Chili Peppers 
21.        Cowboy Junkies – Cowboy Junkies 
22.        Outside – David Bowie 
23.        Songs for Drella – Lou Reed and John Cale 
24.        Repeater – Fugazi 
25.        The Presidents of the United States of America – The Presidents of the United States of America 
26.        In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel 
27.        Mellow Gold –Beck 
28.        Ok Computer – Radiohead 
29.        Sixteen Stone – Bush 
30.        Kill Uncle – Morrissey 
31.        Take it from the Man – Brian Jonestown Massacre 
32.        Dookie – Green Day 
33.        Bone Machine – Tom Waits 
34.        Guided By Voices – Propeller 
35.        Midnight Marauders – A Tribe Called Quest 
36.        Transmissions from the Satellite Heart – The Flaming Lips 
37.        Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle 
38.        Time Out of Mind – Bob Dylan 
39.        Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails 
40.        Let Love In – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 
41.        Nimrod – Green Day 
42.        Bigger, Better, Faster, More – 4 Non Blondes 
43.        Be Thousand – Guided By Voices 
44.        The Ghost of Tom Joad – Bruce Springsteen 
45.        Weezer (Blue) – Weezer 
46.        Grace – Jeff Buckley 
47.        Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins 
48.        Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik – The Red Hot Chili Peppers 
49.        Ok Computer – Radiohead 
50.        Tragic Kingdom – No Doubt 
51.        Doggy Style – Snoop Doggy Dog 
52.        Billy Breathes – Phish 
53.        Calculating Infinity – Dillinger Escape Plan 
54.        Rock Art and the X-Ray Style – Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros 
55.        Deserter’s Song – Mercury Rev 
56.        Dots and Loops – Stereolab 
57.        Kerplunk – Green Day 
58.        Exit Planet Dust – The Chemical Brothers 
59.        Maladjusted – Morrissey 
60.        Eathling – David Bowie 
61.        1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours – Green Day 
62.        No Way Out – Puff Daddy 
63.        Lawn Boy – Phish 
64.        Party of One – Nick Lowe 
65.        Feeling Strangely Fine – Semisonic 
66.        Divinyls – Divinyls 
67.        Bad Hair Day – Weird Al Yankovic 
68.        Prolonging the Magic – Cake 
69.        Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest 
70.        Smooth Noodle Maps – Devo 
71.        Danzig 4 – Danzig 
72.        De La Soul is Dead – De La Soul 
73.        Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins – Sparks 
74.        Dude Ranch – Blink 182 
75.        Ozzmosis – Ozzy Osbourne 
76.        Thank God for Mental Illness – Brian Jonestown Massacre 
77.        Set the Twilight Reeling – Lou Reed 
78.        Methodrone – Brian Jonestown Massacre 
79.        Europop – Eiffel 65 
80.        Hey Stoopid – Alice Cooper 
81.        She Hangs Brightly – Mazzy Star 
82.        No Need to Argue – The Cranberries 
83.        Southpaw Grammar – Morrissey 
84.        Black Tie White Noise – David Bowie
85.        Ragged Glory – Neil Young and Crazy Horse 
86.        Brutal Youth – Elvis Costello 
87.        Rush Street – Richard Marx 
88.        Enter the Wu-Tang – Wu-Tang Clan 
89.        Buckcherry – Buckcherry 
90.        Steppin’ Out – Tony Bennett 
91.        Smash – The Offspring 
92.        Nevermind – Nirvana 
93.        Odelay – Beck 
94.        Ill Communication – Beastie Boys 
95.        Screamadelica – Primal Scream 
96.        Vauxhall and I – Morrissey 
97.        Goo – Sonic Youth 
98.        Deserter’s Song s – Mercury Rev 
99.        Superunknown – Soundgarden 
100.        Tubthumper – Chumbawumba 

My Favorite 100 Albums of the 1980's

1.        The Queen is Dead – The Smiths

2.       Pornography – The Cure

3.       Ocean Rain – Echo and the Bunnymen

4.       Seconds of Pleasure – Rockpile

5.       Fair Warning – Van Halen

6.       New York – Lou Reed

7.       The Head on the Door – The Cure

8.       Black Sea – XTC

9.       Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants

10.   Women and Children First – Van Halen

11.   London 0 Hull 4 – The Housemartins

12.   Freedom of Choice – Devo

13.   The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

14.   Holy Diver – Dio

15.   The Smiths – The Smiths

16.   Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables – The Dead Kennedys

17.   Crocodiles – Echo and the Bunnymen

18.   Darklands – The Jesus and Mary Chain

19.   The Age of Plastic – The Buggles

20.   The River – Bruce Springsteen

21.   13 Songs – Fugazi

22.   Only Theatre of Pain – Christian Death

23.   Computer World – Kraftwerk

24.   Psychedelic Jungle – The Cramps

25.   The Professionals – The Professionals

26.   The Game – Sham 69

27.   Mystery Girl – Roy Orbison

28.   Strangeways Here We Come – The Smiths

29.   Purple Rain - Prince

30.   The German Album – House of Love

31.   Growing Up in Public – Lou Reed

32.   Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me – The Cure

33.   Closer – Joy Division

34.   Ace of Spades – Motorhead

35.   Sandinista! – The Clash

36.   Remain in Light – The Talking Heads

37.   Blah Blah Blah – Iggy Pop

38.   Double Fantasy – John Lennon

39.   Standing on the Edge – Cheap Trick

40.   No Control – Bad Religion

41.   Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain

42.   Meat is Murder – The Smiths

43.   Surfer Rosa – The Pixies

44.   Scary Monsters and Super Creeps – David Bowie

45.   Floodland – The Sisters of Mercy

46.   Walk Among Us – The Misfits

47.   Angst in My Pants – Sparks

48.   Viva Hate – Morrissey

49.   British Steel – Judas Priest

50.   Raising Hell – Run-D.M.C

51.   Echo and the Bunnymen – Echo and the Bunnymen

52.   Private Dancer – Tina Turner

53.   Beauty and the Beat – The Go-Go’s

54.   Japanese Whisper – The Cure

55.   Lament – Ultravox

56.   Licensed to Ill – The Beastie Boys

57.   Damaged – Black Flag

58.   Pleasant Dreams – The Ramones

59.   Vol. 1 – The Traveling Wilburys

60.   Graceland – Paul Simon

61.   1984 – Van Halen

62.   Heaven Up Here – Echo and the Bunnymen

63.   Disintegration – The Cure

64.   Strawberries – The Damned

65.   Let’s Dance – David Bowie

66.   Bi-Coastal – Peter Allen

67.   Movement – New Order

68.   Louder Than Bombs – the Smiths

69.   Nick the Knife – Nick Lowe

70.   After the Snow – Modern English

71.   Doolittle – The Pixies

72.   Tim – The Replacements

73.   Songs from the Big Chair – Tears for Fears

74.   New Depression Music – Fripp and Eno

75.   Pretenders – Pretenders

76.   Stop Making Sense – The Talking Heads

77.   Happy Nightmare Baby – Opal

78.   3 Feet High and Rising – De La Soul

79.   Bleach – Nirvana

80.   Power, Corruption, Lies – New Order

81.   Synchronicity – The Police

82.   Highwayman – The Highwaymen

83.   The Final Cut – Pink Floyd

84.   The Works – Queen

85.   Document – R.E.M

86.   Join the Army – Suicidal Tendencies

87.   Songs about Fucking – Big Black

88.   Heaven and Hell – Black Sabbath

89.   Burning from the Inside- Bauhaus

90.   Like a Virgin – Madonna

91.   Bummed – Happy Mondays

92.   Journey Through a Body – Throbbing Gristle

93.   Hot Space – Queen

94.   Built for Speed – The Stray Cats

95.   Eliminator – ZZ Top

96.   Junta – Phish

97.   Rhythm of Youth – Men Without Hats

98.   Promise – Gene Love Jezebel

99.   War – U2

100.                        Boy – U2

 

 

 

 

My Favorite 100 Albums of the 1970's

1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie
2. After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
3. The Slider – T. Rex
4. The Hoople – Mott the Hoople
5. Transformer – Lou Reed
6. The Point! – Harry Nilsson
7. Just a Boy – Leo Sayer
8. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
9. Van Halen – Van Halen
10. At Budokan – Cheap Trick
11. Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
12. Quadrophenia – The Who
13. Excitable Boy – Warren Zevon
14. The Idiot – Iggy Pop
15. Loaded – The Velvet Underground
16. Full House Live – J Geils Band
17. Thee Imaginary Boys – The Cure
18. Aladdin Sane – David Bowie
19. Killer – Alice Cooper
20. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
21. Station to Station - David Bowie
22. Meddle – Pink Floyd
23. Here Come the Warm Jets – Brian Eno
24. One on One – Seals and Crofts
25. Eat to the Beat – Blondie
26. Low – David Bowie
27. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo - Devo
28. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
29. London Calling – The Clash
30. The Man Machine – Kraftwerk
31. Machine Head – Deep Purple
32. Led Zeppelin IV – Led Zeppelin
33. The Stranger – Billy Joek
34. Kimono My House – Sparks
35. Country Life – Roxy Music
36. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
37. Imagine – John Lennon
38. A Day at the Races – Queen
39. Labour of Lust – Nick Lowe
40. This Year’s Model – Elvis Costello
41. Nilsson Schmilsson – Harry Nilsson
42. Hunky Dory – David Bowie
43. Electric Warrior – T. Rex
44. Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk
45. Year of the Cat – Al Stewart
46. Magnetic South – Michael Nesmith and the First National Band
47. Love it to Death – Alice Cooper
48. John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
49. Desolation Boulevard – Sweet
50. 2 Years On – The Bee Gees
51. Blank Generation – Richard Hell and the Voidoids
52. Neu! – Neu!
53. Who’s Next – The Who
54. Touch Me – Gary Glitter
55. Roxy Music – Roxy Music
56. Free Your Mind….And Your Ass Will Follow – Funkadelic
57. Repeat When Necessary – Dave Edmunds
58. Nevermind the Bollocks – The Sex Pistols
59. Berlin – Lou Reed
60. Neu! 2 – Neu!
61. Superfly – Curtis Mayfield
62. Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
63. Man Who Sold the World – David Bowie
64. Scared to Dance – Skids
65. Rollin’ – Bay City Rollers
66. Diamond Dogs – David Bowie
67. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
68. Carpenters – The Carpenters
69. Rocket to Russia – The Ramones
70. Static Age – The Misfits
71. Let it Be – The Beatles
72. Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
73. Lodger – David Bowie
74. Mott – Mott the Hoople
75. Barrett – Syd Barrett
76. Pink Moon – Nick Drake
77. American Beauty – The Grateful Dead
78. Ian Hunter – Ian Hunter
79. Jesus of Cool – Nick Lowe
80. My Feet are Smiling – Leo Kottke
81. Nevada Fighter – Michael Nesmith
82. Heroes – David Bowie
83. Play Don’t Worry – Mick Ronson
84. Harvest – Neil Young
85. New York Dolls – New York Dolls
86. Atom Heart Mother – Pink Floyd
87. A Night at the Opera – Queen
88. High Voltage – AC/DC
89. The Cars - The Cars
90. Van Halen II – Van Halen
91. Raw Power – Iggy and the Stooges
92. ’77 – Talking Heads
93. Rocky Horror Picture Show – Richard O’Brien and Cast
94. Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
95. Heaven Tonight – Cheap Trick
96. Destroyer – Kiss
97. You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic – Ian Hunter
98. Diamonds and Rust – Joan Baez
99. Young Americans – David Bowie
100. Led Zeppelin III – Led Zeppelin

My favorite 100 albums of the 1960's

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico – The Velvet Underground 
2. Sounds of Silence– Simon and Garfunkel 
3. Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan 
4. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – Pink Floyd 
5. A Quick One – The Who 
6. Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield 
7. Headquarters – The Monkees 
8. In Dreams – Roy Orbison 
9. Stand – Sly and the Family Stone 
10. Their Satanic Majesties Request – The Rolling Stones 
11. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme – Simon and Garfunkel 
12. In the Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson 
13. The Stooges – The Stooges 
14. Cheap Thrills – Big Brother and the Holding Company 
15. Bringin’ it all Back Home – Bob Dylan 
16. The Fifth Dimension – The Byrds 
17. Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles 
18. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere – Neil Young and Crazy Horse 
19. Ssssh – Ten Years After 
20. Waiting for the Sun – The Doors 
21. Are you Experienced? – The Jimi Hendrix Experience 
22. White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground 
23. Space Oddity – David Bowie 
24. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 
25. Please, Please Me – The Beatles 
26. Between the Buttons – The Rolling Stones 
27. Gentle on my Mind – Glen Campbell 
28. In the Wind – Peter, Paul, and Mary 
29. Let’s Live for Today – The Grass Roots 
30. Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Ike and Tina Turner 
31. Kick Out the Jams – The MC5 
32. Reach Out – The Four Tops 
33. The World of Will Holt – Will Holt 
34. Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel 
35. Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield 
36. Strange Days – The Doors 
37. A Saucerful of Secrets – Pink Floyd 
38. Tommy – The Who 
39. La La Means I Love You – The Delfonics 
40. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan 
41. The Peter, Paul, and Mary Album – Peter, Paul and Mary 
42. Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys 
43. Disraeli Gears – Cream 
44. The Doors – The Doors 
45. If You Can Believe Your eyes and Ears – The Mamas and the Papas 
46. Shades of Deep Purple – Deep Purple 
47. Something Else By the Kinks – The Kinks 
48. Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf 
49. Inna-gadda-da-vida – Iron Butterfly 
50. Aftermath – The Rolling Stones 
51. Green River- Creedence Clearwater Revival 
52. The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding 
53. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground 
54. Surrealistic Pillow – Jefferson Airplane 
55. The Birds, The Bees, and the Monkees – The Monkees 
56. Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 
57. A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum 
58. Dance to the Music – Sly and the Family Stone 
59. The Kinks – The Kinks 
60. My Favorite Things – John Coltrane 
61. Help! – The Beatles 
62. Pisces, Sage, Aquarius, and Jones Ltd – The Monkees 
63. Bee Gees 1st – The Bee Gees 
64. Harry – Harry Nilsson 
65. Axis Bold as Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 
66. Abbey Road – The Beatles 
67. The Twain Shall Meet- Eric Burdon and the Animals 
68. Canned Wheat – The Guess Who 
69. Crying – Roy Orbison 
70. Another Side of Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan 
71. More of the Monkees – The Monkees 
72. Let it Bleed – The Rolling Stones 
73. Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin 
74. Days of Future Passed – The Moody Blues 
75. Live at the Apollo – James Brown 
76. I Hear a Symphony – The Supremes 
77. At Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash 
78. Odessey and Oracle – The Zombies 
79. River Deep, Mountain High – Ike and Tina Turner 
80. Rockin’ at the Hops – Chuck Berry 
81. Revolver – The Beatles 
82. Smiley Smile – The Beach Boys 
83. Hawaii Five-O – The Ventures 
84. Thunderball – John Barry 
85. John Wesley Harding – Bob Dylan 
86. Gorilla – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band 
87. Rubber Soul - The Beatles 
88. Velvet Gloves and Spit – Neil Diamond 
89. Freak Out! - The Mothers of Invention 
90. The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators – The 13th Floor Elevators 
91. The Soft Parade – The Doors 
92. Quicksilver Messenger Service – Quicksilver Messenger Service 
93. Happy Together – The Turtles 
94. Living the Blues – Canned Heat 
95. Wednesday Morning 3AM – Simon and Garfunkel 
96. Somewhere There’s a Someone – Dean Martin 
97. Getz/Gilberto – Getz and Gilberto 
98. Crosby, Stills, and Nash – Crosby, Stills, and Nash 
99. Music From the Big Pink – The Band 
100. Let it Bleed – The Rolling Stones