OO List Your Top 50 Albums

[Jaymann]

Reading that Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums has led me to two conclusions:

1. They have no clue.

2. 500 is too unwieldy to deal with.

So I am giving you a chance to list your current top 50. You can always change your mind or update. You can number them if you want, but it is not required.

OK, I am off to start working on my list.

[YellowKing]

Oooh this is tough.

I'm going to start listing and come back to fill it out as I think of more. And these are in no particular order, as I couldn't possibly rank them.

Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
R.E.M. - Out of Time
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Mad Season - Above
Nights of Ballads and Blues - McCoy Tyner
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden
Ray Lamontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
Beck - Sea Change
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Beverly Kenney - Born to Be Blue
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Pixies - Doolittle
Fugazi - 13 Songs


...more to come...

[Isgrimnur]

R.E.M. - Out of Time
Counting Crows - August and Everything After

I definitely agree on these.

[Pyperkub]

Reading that Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums has led me to two conclusions:

1. They have no clue.

2. 500 is too unwieldy to deal with.

So I am giving you a chance to list your current top 50. You can always change your mind or update. You can number them if you want, but it is not required.

OK, I am off to start working on my list.

In doing this, I'm including some Live Albums/Greatest Hits. Some bands just spread their great songs out WAY too much, and for me, their Greatest Hits compilations are the ones I play.

[Skinypupy]

That's a fun exercise.

My top 10 have been the same for quite a while now. The other 40 are a bit more flexible, depending on my mood.

Top Ten
1. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
2. Sigh - Scenes From Hell
3. Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
5. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
6. Turisas - Stand Up and Fight
7. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
8. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
9. Frontline Assembly - Implode
10. Type O Negative - October Rust

The Rest (in no particular order)
Bad Religion - No Control
Amorphis - Skyforger
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Yasounori Mitsuda - Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Mr. Bungle - California
Obituary - Cause of Death
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Skinny Puppy - The Process
Aether Realm - Tarot
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Enslaved - Riitiir
The Ocean - Pelagial
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Sepultura - Arise
Ohgr - Welt
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Death - Symbolic
Cowboy Bebop - Original Soundtrack
Myrkur - M
Ghost - Meloria
Fleshgod Apocalypse - King
Septicflesh - Codex Omega
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Yasounori Mitsuda - Xenogears Cried
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Behemoth - The Satanist
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Oingo Boingo - Farwell: Live from the Universal Ampitheater (the greatest live record ever made, imo)
Danzig - Danzig II
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Frontline Assembly - Tactical Neural Implants
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Anthrax - Persistence of Time

[Pyperkub]

Still tweaking, but looks like this for now (alpha by Artist) All have been in heavy rotation at some point in time:

Album Artist
Back in Black AC/DC
Antics in the Forbidden Zone Adam Ant
Pleasure Victim Berlin
The Stranger Billy Joel
Boston Boston
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen
Pyromania Def Leppard
Rock is Dead Dorothy
Rio Duran Duran
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Lungs Florence and the Machine
Thorogood Live George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Appetite for Destruction Guns'n'Roses
Celebrity Skin Hole
4 Chords and Several Years Ago Huey Lewis and the News
Greatest Hits Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Blue Joni Mitchell
Like a Virgin Madonna
Yes I Am Melissa Etheridge
Exile in Guyville Liz Phair
Nevermind Nirvana
Boingo Alive Oingo Boingo
Purple Rain Prince
Queen Greatest Hits Queen
Good Morning Vietnam Soundtrack Robin Williams
Moving Pictures Rush
2112 Rush
Portrait of a Legend Sam Cooke
It Means Everything Save Ferris
1989 Taylor Swift
Cosmic Thing The B-52's
Endless Summer The Beach Boys
1962-66 The Beatles
1966-70 The Beatles
The Cars The Cars
London Calling The Clash
The Doors The Doors
The Go-Go's The Go-Go's
Skeletons from the Closet The Grateful Dead
Ghost in the Machine The Police
Learning to Crawl The Pretenders
Going to Hell The Pretty Reckless
Hot Rocks The Rolling Stones
Greatest Hits '74-'77 The Steve Miller Band
Into the Gap The Thompson Twins
Van Halen Van Halen
5150 Van Halen
Let it Bee Voice of the Beehive

[Jaymann]

It's open season, live albums and greatest hits are definitely albums. At first I thought 50 might be too few, but I had to stretch a bit for the last few. There are also some groups where I love some stuff but could not come up with an album where the greatness was sustained. Some of these were rescued from the RS reject list. The numbers here are meaningless, it was just so I could keep track of when I hit 50. So far only about 2 or 3 matches with other lists.


1 Ween – White Pepper
2 Jethro Tull – Stand Up
3 George Harrison – Cloud Nine
4 Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
5 Crazy Horse – Crazy Horse
6 Moby Grape – Moby Grape '69
7 John Mayall – Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
8 Robin Trower – Bridge of Sighs
9 Jeff Beck – Truth
10 Nirvana – Nevermind
11 The Replacements – Tim
12 The Yardbirds – Having a Raveup With the Yardbirds
13 Elvis Costello and the Attractions – My Aim is True
14 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – You're Gonna Get It!
15 Elvis Costello and the Attractions – This Year's Model
16 Roy Buchanan – Loading Zone
17 Roy Buchanan - Live Stock
18 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
19 The Clash – London Calling
20 The Specials – The Specials
21 Fleetwood Mac – Mystery to Me
22 Savoy Brown – Street Corner Talking
23 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
24 Ry Cooder – Into The Purple Valley
25 Johnny Winter – Johnny Winter And
26 The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday
27 Joe Jackson – Look Sharp
28 Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
29 Spirit – Spirit
30 Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
31 Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes
32 Harvey Mandel – Cristo Redentor
33 999 – The Biggest Prize in Sport
34 Vercua Salt – American Thighs
35 The English Beat – I Just Can't Stop It
36 Freddy King – Let's Hide Away and Dance with Freddy King
37 Cowboy Junkies – Lay It Down
38 Dire Straits – Communique'
39 No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
40 Lush – Split
41 Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin
42 Steely Dan – Can't Buy A Thrill
43 The Kinks – Low Budget
44 Green Day – Dookie
45 Natalie Merchant – Tigerlily
46 Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever
47 my bloody valentine – Loveless
48 Cracker – Cracker
49 Roy Buchanan – You're Not Alone
50 The B-52's – The B-52's

[hitbyambulance]

4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory

this was my original favorite Bowie album... then Scary Monsters... then it was Low... now i'm pretty sure Station to Station at least ties for #1. (and what's funny is that i don't much care for most of the albums between Hunky Dory and Station to Station, with e.g. Ziggy Stardust being massively overplayed and Young Americans being one of my LEAST favorite)

i do have to say 1.Outside does have my favorite _sound_ throughout, if not an overwhelming number of great songs; too bad a follow-up was never made - and Blackstar maybe most matches up with my current musical preference overall? it's just a lot of straight-up dream-state weirdness ("Bowie goes post-rock") and was a really promising indicator of where he might have gone next.

[Skinypupy]

4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory

this was my original favorite Bowie album... then Scary Monsters... then it was Low... now i'm pretty sure Station to Station at least ties for #1. (and what's funny is that i don't much care for most of the albums between Hunky Dory and Station to Station, with e.g. Ziggy Stardust being massively overplayed and Young Americans being one of my LEAST favorite)

I do love the entire album, but it's mostly top on my list because it has "Life on Mars", which is easily my favorite Bowie song.

Oddly, my second choice is probably "Hours". Everyone else hated it but I adored that album.

At first I thought 50 might be too few, but I had to stretch a bit for the last few.

I had probably another 25'ish that I had to really consider if they should be in or out of the list.

[hitbyambulance]

Oddly, my second choice is probably "Hours". Everyone else hated it but I adored that album.

i _might_ have listened to that one all of three times in my life. "monday, tuesday, wednesday, thuuursdaaaaaaay" booooooorrrriiiiiiiiinggggg

i also just happened to be working at a record store at the time and acquired the lenticular cover version, as well as all the UK import CD (part 1 and 2 editions! remember that crap?) singles for that one...

[dbt1949]

I don't think I belong on this site.

[Pyperkub]

Still tweaking, but looks like this for now (alpha by Artist) All have been in heavy rotation at some point in time:

Album Artist
Back in Black AC/DC
Antics in the Forbidden Zone Adam Ant
Pleasure Victim Berlin
The Stranger Billy Joel
Boston Boston
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen
Pyromania Def Leppard
Rock is Dead Dorothy
Rio Duran Duran
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Lungs Florence and the Machine
Thorogood Live George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Appetite for Destruction Guns'n'Roses
Celebrity Skin Hole
4 Chords and Several Years Ago Huey Lewis and the News
Greatest Hits Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Blue Joni Mitchell
Like a Virgin Madonna
Yes I Am Melissa Etheridge
Exile in Guyville Liz Phair
Nevermind Nirvana
Boingo Alive Oingo Boingo
Purple Rain Prince
Queen Greatest Hits Queen
Good Morning Vietnam Soundtrack Robin Williams
Moving Pictures Rush
2112 Rush
Portrait of a Legend Sam Cooke
It Means Everything Save Ferris
1989 Taylor Swift
Cosmic Thing The B-52's
Endless Summer The Beach Boys
1962-66 The Beatles
1966-70 The Beatles
The Cars The Cars
London Calling The Clash
The Doors The Doors
The Go-Go's The Go-Go's
Skeletons from the Closet The Grateful Dead
Ghost in the Machine The Police
Learning to Crawl The Pretenders
Going to Hell The Pretty Reckless
Hot Rocks The Rolling Stones
Greatest Hits '74-'77 The Steve Miller Band
Into the Gap The Thompson Twins
Van Halen Van Halen
5150 Van Halen
Let it Bee Voice of the Beehive

Hmm. I need to edit this. I need to squeeze in 90125 - Yes (such a fantastic album, and there really isn't anything like it). Probably going to have to move either Save Ferris or The Pretenders to the Honorable Mention list tho I really need some ska, and I don't want to leave off one of the Queens of Rock.

Ok, moving both to the HM list, and (after seeing @Jaymann 's list) adding Special Beat Service - the English Beat for my ska

Also contemplating moving Rumors off for Dire Straits. In thinking about this, Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac seems like the album I like more - that opening to Monday Morning just keeps ringing through my head.

[Pyperkub]

13 Elvis Costello and the Attractions – My Aim is True
15 Elvis Costello and the Attractions – This Year's Model
20 The Specials – The Specials
35 The English Beat – I Just Can't Stop It
38 Dire Straits
46 Tom Petty

I'd love to get some early Elvis Costello, The Specials, Dire Straits and Tom Petty on my list, and The Specials are another ska band I should find space for (I keep bouncing back and forth between them and Madness). I also tweaked mine for special beat service instead of I just can't stop it, but both are great. Dire Straits is probably one I need to find room for 1st.

[Jeff V]

I'll take a stab at it. Numbers are for counting, not necessarily placement.

1. Pink Floyd: The Wall
2. Yes: Yessongs
3. Peter Gabriel: 3
4. Rainbow: Down to Earth
5. Styx: The Grand Illusion
6. Kansas: Leftoverture
7: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicles
8: Black Pumas: Black Pumas
9: King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King
10: David Bowie: Heroes
11: The Boomtown Rats: A Tonic for the Troops
12: Jethro Tull: Aqualung
13: Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
14: AC/DC: Back in Black
15: Gary Numan: Living Ornaments
16: The Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK
17: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
18: The Ramones: End of the Century
19: Cheap Trick: Live at Budokon
20: The Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
21: Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
22: Bill Bruford: Earthworks
23: Peter Gabriel: Plays Live
24: Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
25: R.E.M.: Automatic for the People
26: The Clash: London Calling
27: The Smashing Pumpkins: Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness
28: Nathanial Rateliff and the Night Sweats: Live at Red Rocks
29: Noah Kahan: Stick Season
30: The Cars: The Cars
31: Yes: Relayer
32: The Black Crows: Shake Your Money Maker
33: Journey: Greatest Hits
34: Roger Waters: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
35: Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
36: The Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
37: The Who: Tommy
38: The Boomtown Rats: The Fine Art of Surfacing
39: Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
40: Florence and the Machine: Under Heaven Over Hell
41: The Cranberries: To the Faithful Departed
42: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin
43: Green Day: American Idiot
44: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Pictures at an Exhibition
45: Bob Seger: Live Bullet
46. ZZ Top: Eliminator
47: The Decembrists: The Crane Wife
48: Kraftwek: Autobahn
49: Blondie: Parallel Lines
50: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Deja Vu

If you ask me again tomorrow I might have 50 different albums.

[Pyperkub]

One thing I noticed when compiling my list - 21st Century stuff is lacking. Whether a function of napster trashing the album markets, or streaming crowding out new stuff in favor of older stuff, or just me getting older and having a better idea of what I want to listen to (quite often, older music which reminds me of my youth, or at least what it felt like to be younger, at least in some small fashion).

Anyone interested in a separate thread for more modern best albums? Maybe top 21 albums released in the 21st Century (and rules would be no re-issues/compilations of 20th Century music, unless complete re-do's/covers recorded/released in the 21st century - e.g. Rush's Feedback - released in 2004, consisting of Rush covering songs they loved growing up). I would say that things like "Taylor's Version' re-releases would not count.

Thoughts?

[Jaymann]

I probably couldn't name five 21st century releases, much less ones that I like.

[Pyperkub]

I probably couldn't name five 21st century releases, much less ones that I like.

Yeah, it can be tricky. One thing I noticed about myself is that Springtime (right about now, funk soul brother!) is when I get the hankering to find new bands and new music. A decade or so ago, my process was to plug new Rock Band songs I liked into Pandora and find similar artists/music - gaming FTW!

but I did find some really cool newer bands that I like (most of which I tend to call 21st Century versions of older bands!).

E.G. Greta Van Fleet (21st Century Led Zep)
The Struts (21st Century Queen)
Dirty Honey (21st Century Aerosmith)
Cocktail Slippers (21st Century Bangles/Go-Go's)

And other newer bands like:
The Pretty Reckless
Dorothy
The Dollyrots
Florence + the Machine
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Paramore (this is just straight ripped from their many Rock Band songs)

[Blackhawk]

I honestly don't think I've listened to music in album form since the 1990s. By the early 2000s I'd ripped all of my CDs to files, and I've listened to bands and songs - not albums - ever since.

I may try to come up with something later, but unless I list albums that songs just happen to be on, it'll be a list of my top 50 albums as decided by a me in my teens and early 20s.

[Kraken]

I honestly don't think I've listened to music in album form since the 1990s. By the early 2000s I'd ripped all of my CDs to files, and I've listened to bands and songs - not albums - ever since.

Same. I can name some 21st century artists whose songs I like (thanks to the free SxSW downloads that ended after 2020), but albums? They still make those?

[Blackhawk]

I honestly don't think I've listened to music in album form since the 1990s. By the early 2000s I'd ripped all of my CDs to files, and I've listened to bands and songs - not albums - ever since.

Same. I can name some 21st century artists whose songs I like (thanks to the free SxSW downloads that ended after 2020), but albums? They still make those?

They're like mini-categories that Spotify sorts songs into.

[Skinypupy]

One thing I noticed when compiling my list - 21st Century stuff is lacking. Whether a function of napster trashing the album markets, or streaming crowding out new stuff in favor of older stuff, or just me getting older and having a better idea of what I want to listen to (quite often, older music which reminds me of my youth, or at least what it felt like to be younger, at least in some small fashion).

Anyone interested in a separate thread for more modern best albums? Maybe top 21 albums released in the 21st Century (and rules would be no re-issues/compilations of 20th Century music, unless complete re-do's/covers recorded/released in the 21st century - e.g. Rush's Feedback - released in 2004, consisting of Rush covering songs they loved growing up). I would say that things like "Taylor's Version' re-releases would not count.

Thoughts?

About half my list is from this century.

There’s always WAY more awesome new metal each year than I could ever hope to get around to listening to. I typically check out one or two new releases every week.

[Blackhawk]

I'm actually thinking I may participate by reinterpreting as my top 50 artists. Albums just aren't how things are done anymore - I don't even know what album most of my favorite songs are on.

[Dramatist]

I’ve been on a new music kick lately. I’m going to make a list, but I need to think about it some more.


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[gbasden]

In no particular order, and including some that were important to me when I was young.

1. Liz Phair - Liz Phair
2. Dar Williams - Many Great Companions
3. Police - Synchronicity
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. Rush - Signals
6. Rush - Counterparts
7. Journey - Escape
8. Styx - Paradise Theater
9. Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles
10. Pet Shop Boys - Please
11. Offspring - Smash
12. Marian Call - Vanilla
13. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
14. Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
15. Kevin Gilbert - Thud
16. Juliana Finch - The Walls of Pompeii
17. Jill Sobule - Jill Sobule
18. Jill Sobule - Pink Pearl
19. Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
20. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
21. Eddie from Ohio - Actually Not
22. Eddie from Ohio - Quick
23. The Both - The Both
24. Jonathan Coulton - Solid State
25. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
26. Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
27. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
28. A-ha - Hunting High and Low
29. Berlin - Pleasure Victim
30. Depeche Mode - Exciter
31. Evanescence - Fallen
32. Feist - The Reminder
33. K's Choice - Almost Happy
34. Living Color - Vivid
35. Metallica - Metallica
36. Oren Lavie - The Opposite Side of the Sea
37. Owl City - Ocean Eyes
38. Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree
40. Queen - Classic Queen
41. Save Ferris - It Means Everything
42. Squeeze - Singles
43. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
44. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
45. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
46. They Might Be Giants - Flood
47. Ultravox - Extended Ultravox
48. Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache
49. Peter Mulvey - The Trouble With Poets
50. Phish - A Live One

[LordMortis]

One thing I noticed when compiling my list - 21st Century stuff is lacking. Whether a function of napster trashing the album markets, or streaming crowding out new stuff in favor of older stuff, or just me getting older and having a better idea of what I want to listen to (quite often, older music which reminds me of my youth, or at least what it felt like to be younger, at least in some small fashion).

Anyone interested in a separate thread for more modern best albums? Maybe top 21 albums released in the 21st Century (and rules would be no re-issues/compilations of 20th Century music, unless complete re-do's/covers recorded/released in the 21st century - e.g. Rush's Feedback - released in 2004, consisting of Rush covering songs they loved growing up). I would say that things like "Taylor's Version' re-releases would not count.

Thoughts?

I have lots of 21st century but almost nothing too much past 2010, maybe as recently as 2013, maybe?. Sometime around then I got tired and cut back going out so my exposure to new music plummeted. My most recent album was When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2019. Before that? I can't remember. I've been meaning to go through my phone and see what albums I put on VLC and start compiling a list from that, as those albums have been the ones calling to me. Maybe I'll work on that today....

[LawBeefaroni]

Work in progress.

Spoiler:

In no particular order right now.

Big Thief - Masterpiece (2016)
New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies (1983)
Rancid - ....and Out Come the Wolves (1995)
The Clash - London Calling (1979)
Operation Ivy - Energy (1989)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim (1988)
Billy Bragg - Back to Basics (1987)
Trashcan Sinatras - Cake (1990)
The Veils - Runaway Found (2004)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (1985)
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988)
The Most Distant Object - The Most Distant Object (2022)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2000)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan (1962)
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
The Breeders - Last Splash (1993)
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990)
Beastie Boys - Paul's Botique (1989)
AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)
Ice Cube - Death Certificate (1991)
The Cure - Standing on a Beach (1986)
U2 - War (1982)
The Pioneers - Long Shot (1969)
Postal Service - Give Up (2003)
LIly Allen - Alright, Still (2006)
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002)
The B-52s - The B-52s (1979)
fun. - Some Nights (2012)
The Killers - Hot Fuss (2004)
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln (1988)
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension (SE) (1979)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
Placebo - Black Market Music (2000)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle (1976)

[Archinerd]

By decade, top 5 in Bold.

1960s
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Banana one)
The Beatles - Revolver
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

1970s
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Roxy Music - Siren
Bob Dylan - Desire
Wire - Pink Flag
Television - Marquee Moon
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Joy Division - Unkown Pleasures
The Clash - London Calling

1980s
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
R.E.M. - Reckoning ***REM is my all time favorite band, so this one is interchangeable with Murmur, Fables of the Reconstruction, Out of Time and New Adventures in Hi-Fi
The Bat's - Daddy's Highway
Traveling Wilbury's - Traveling Wilbury's Vol. 1 (probably part nostalgia, but this was one of the first 3 cassettes I owned stole from my dad. The other two were Ritchie Valens and the Top Gun soundtrack)

1990s
Green Day - Dookie
Weezer - Blue Album
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (remaster/remix version)
Luna - Penthouse
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club

2000s
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Animal Collective - Feels
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Radiohead - In Rainbows
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge

2010s
Beach House - Teen Dream
Michael Nau - Mowing
Ty Segall - Twins
Tinariwen - Elwan
Willie Watson - Folk Singer Vol. 1
Bombino - Azel
OSEES - Smote Reverser
Tony Allen - The Source
The Fruit Bats - Absolute Loser
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Aldous Harding - Designer
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

2020s
Dehd - Flowers of Devotion
Nation of Language - A Way Forward
The Night Shop - Forever Night
Small Paul - Come Alive & Live Again

I think that's only 49, but I also cheated and listed 5 R.E.M. albums as one.

[WYBaugh]

1. Rush – 2112
2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Shadow Gallery – Tyranny
5. UFO – Phenomenon
6. Manowar – Battle Hymns
7. Judas Priest – British Steel
8. Y&T – Earthshaker
9. Scorpions – Animal Magnetism
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
11. Styx – Equinox
12. Rush - Rush
13. Symphony X – Iconoclast
14. Pink Floyd – The Wall
15. Dokken – Tooth and Nail
16. Dream Theater – Train of Thought
17. Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties
18. Van Halen – Van Halen
19. Saxon – Strong Arm of the Law
20. Store Temple Pilots – Purple
21. Rush – A Farewell to Kings
22. Rush – Hemispheres
23. Rush – Permanent Waves
24. Rush – Moving Pictures
25. Yes – Close to the Edge
26. UFO – Strangers in the Night
27. Styx – Grand Illusion
28. Manowar – Into Glory Ride
29. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
30. Kansas – Two for the Show
31. Diamond Head – Am I Evil
32. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
33. ELP – Brain Salad Surgery
34. Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
35. Gary Moore – Still Got the Blues
36. Rush – Signals
37. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
38. Y&T – Black Tiger
39. Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
40. UFO – Force It
41. Saxon – Wheels of Steel
42. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
43. Scorpions – Love Drive
44. Scorpions – Black Out
45. Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand the Weather
46. Stone Temple Pilots – Core
47. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
48. Metallica - Kill'em All
49. Accept – Restless and Wild
50. Saxon – Power and the Glory

Rushed (pun intented) yesterday. Updated it some today

[Scuzz]

I’ve been on a new music kick lately. I’m going to make a list, but I need to think about it some more.


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I intend to do this as well but it isn’t easy.

[Pyperkub]

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I think that's only 49, but I also cheated and listed 5 R.E.M. albums as one.

REM Eponymous (my way around that conundrum) is one I had but which got bumped late in the process. (Tho it's also probably the REM album I listened to the most) .

[Scuzz]

Okay, here we go.

I based my list on albums I have owned or heard in their totality. I have picked no greatest hits albums, but I have included albums of live performances.
These are in no particular order.

Queen .. Sheer Heart Attack
Aerosmith .. Toys in the Attic
Blue Oyster Cult .. On Your Feet or on Your Knees
Captain Beyond .. Captain Beyond
Joe Satriani .. Surfing With the Alien
Talking Heads .. Sand in the Vaseline
Bruce Springsteen .. The River
Bruce Springsteen .. Born to Run
Kansas .. Leftoverture
Jethro Tull .. Aqualung
King Crimson .. Court of the Crimson KIng
Yes .. Yessongs
Yes .. Close to the Edge
Styx .. Grand Illusion
Rush .. Moving Pictures
Steely Dan .. Aja
Robin Trower .. Bridge of Sighs
Led Zeppelin .. Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin .. Houses of the Holy
PFM .. Cook
Deep Purple .. Made in Japan
Deep Purple .. Machinehead
Frank Zappa .. Apostrophe
Santana .. Abraxis
Traffic .. Low Spark of High Heeled Shoes
Elton John .. Madman Across the Water
U-2 .. Joshua Tree
Lincoln Park .. Hybrid Theory
Green Day .. American Idiot
Black Sabbath .. Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath .. Paranoid
Metallica .. And Justice for All
Metallica .. The black Album
Van Halen .. Van Halen
ELP .. Brain Salad Surgery
Rainbow .. Rising
Chicago .. Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago .. Chicago 2
Sarah McLachlan .. Mirrorball
UFO .. Phenomenon
Montrose .. Montrose
Foo Fighters .. Color and the Shape
Beatles .. Abbey Road
Jackson Browne.. The Pretender
Ted Nugent .. Ted Nugent
The Police .. Synchronicty
Uriah Heep .. Live
Blood, Sweat & Tears .. Blood, Sweat and Tears
Scorpions .. Blackout
REM .. Out of Time

[mori]

I will have to put some time into this and compile a list here. I will definitely have more country and alt country compared to anyone else's list so far listed even though I would never consider myself a country listening man. I will edit as I grow my list.

Led Zeppelin- IV (I could listen to this album everyday and just skip Stairway...)
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
16 Horsepower- Sackcloth n' Ashes
Drive By Truckers- Decoration Day
George Jones- I Am What I Am (not his best vocal performance but the songs...)
Iron Maiden- Powerslave
Def Leppard- Pyromania
Guns N' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Van Halen- 1984
Hank Williams Jr.- The Pressure Is On
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Henry's Dream
Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil
Opeth- Ghost Reveries
Eric Clapton- Unplugged
The Black Crowes- Shake Your Money Maker

[Carpet_pissr]

Blood, Sweat & Tears .. Blood, Sweat and Tears

Now there is a name I've not heard in a very long time...

Can't believe nary an Arcade Fire mention so far! So many Canucks on here to boot (boat).

[Scuzz]

Blood, Sweat & Tears .. Blood, Sweat and Tears

Now there is a name I've not heard in a very long time...

Can't believe nary an Arcade Fire mention so far! So many Canucks on here to boot (boat).

I played trumpet for a few years and that was kind of reflected in my early music tastes as I loved BS&T and Chicago.

[Carpet_pissr]

Blood, Sweat & Tears .. Blood, Sweat and Tears

Now there is a name I've not heard in a very long time...

Can't believe nary an Arcade Fire mention so far! So many Canucks on here to boot (boat).

I played trumpet for a few years and that was kind of reflected in my early music tastes as I loved BS&T and Chicago.

Ha! Same here. And Earth Wind and Fire. Absurd brass section on all of those bands.