Friday, February 28, 2014

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 

Thursday, February 27, 2014

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