Monday, April 27, 2015

TOP ALBUMS [04/2015]

I was asked/ordered/threatened to name my top albums - when asked about how many, I was told about 150 is sufficient. So since I had to do tis list anyway, here's my top 150 albums in as close to an order as I could get. Remember these are MY favorites, not my most essential or anything like that.


1.       Revolver – The Beatles
2.       Rubber Soul – The Beatles
3.       Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
4.       Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
5.       After Bathing At Baxter’s – Jefferson Airplane
6.       Panorama – The Cars
7.       The Cars – The Cars
8.       Rocks – Aerosmith
9.       Amorica – The Black Crowes
10.   For What I Don’t Become – Glossary
11.   Stay Positive – The Hold Steady
12.   Here’s To Shutting Up – Superchunk
13.   Stereo / Mono – Paul Westerberg
14.   Being There – Wilco
15.   John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon
16.   Stranger’s Almanac – Whiskeytown
17.   London Calling – The Clash
18.   Friday Night Is Killing Me – Bash & Pop
19.   Marquee Moon – Television
20.   Tones – Eric Johnson
21.   Burgers – Hot Tuna
22.   Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
23.   Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones
24.   Paranoid – Black Sabbath
25.   Led Zeppein III – Led Zeppelin
26.   Badmotorfinger – Soudgarden
27.   Love It To Life – Jesse Malin & the St. Mark’s Social
28.   Out of the Blue – Electric Light Orchestra
29.   Madman Across the Water – Elton John
30.   Toys In the Attic – Aerosmith
31.   Real Animal – Alejandro Escovedo
32.   The Better Angels Of Our Nature – Glossary
33.   Superstar Car Wash – The Goo Goo Dolls
34.   Shake It Up – The Cars
35.   Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
36.   Spring Session M – Missing Persons
37.   Zappa In New York – Frank Zappa
38.   Killer – Alice Cooper
39.   Blueprint – Rory Gallagher
40.   Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
41.   The Basement Tapes – Bob Dylan and the Band
42.   The Doors – The Doors
43.   What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
44.   Pleased To Meet Me – The Replacements
45.   Life’s Rich Pageant – R.E.M.
46.   More Fun In the New World – X
47.   Talk Is Cheap – Keith Richards
48.   A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
49.   Changesonebowie – David Bowie
50.   Rides Again – The James Gang
51.   Physical Graffiiti – Led Zeppelin
52.   A Night At the Opera – Queen
53.   Dark Side Of the Moon – Pink Floyd
54.   Teeth Dreams – The Hold Steady
55.   Oh Mercy – Bob Dylan
56.   Time – Electric Light Orchestra
57.   Learning To Crawl – The Pretenders
58.   So – Peter Gabriel
59.   The Best of B.T.O. – Bachman Turner Overdrive
60.   Who’s Next – The Who
61.   Beggar’s Banquet – The Rolling Stones
62.   The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars – David Bowie
63.   Don’t Tell A Soul – The Replacements
64.   All Shook Down – The Replacements
65.   Sign O’ the Times – Prince
66.   Exile On Main Street – The Rolling Stones
67.   Izzy Stradlin & the Juju Hounds - Izzy Stradlin & the Juju Hounds
68.   Harvest – Neil Young
69.   Utopia - Utopia
70.   Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go On the Fabulous Sunset Strip – X
71.   Highway To Hell – AC/DC
72.   Back In Black – AC/DC
73.   One Size Fits All – Frank Zappa & the Mothers
74.   The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion – The Black Crowes
75.   Specter At the Feast – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
76.   A Boy Named Goo – The Goo Goo Dolls
77.   Town & Country – The Rave Ups
78.   L.A. Woman – The Doors
79.   Blood On the Tracks – Bob Dylan
80.   A New World Record – Electric Light Orchestra
81.   Hunky Dory – David Bowie
82.   Get Happy! – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
83.   Walls And Bridges – john Lennon
84.   Imagine – John Lennon
85.   Pictures At Eleven – Robert Plant
86.   Carney – Leon Russell
87.   Don’t Say No – Billy Squier
88.   Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath
89.   Fireball – Deep Purple
90.   The Royal Scam – Steely Dan
91.   Pendulum – Creedence Clearwater Revival
92.   Bloodletting – Concrete Blonde
93.   Gold – Ryan Adams
94.   Loose Salute - Michael Nesmith & the First National Band
95.   Magnetic South - Michael Nesmith & the First National Band
96.   Beattitude – Ric Ocasek
97.   Anodyne – Uncle Tupelo
98.   Boys And Girls – Alabama Shakes
99.   The Hurting – Tears For Fears
100.                        Dirt – Alice In Chains
101.                        Superunknown – Soundgarden
102.                        Here’s Where the Strings Come In – Superchunk
103.                        Abbey Road – The Beatles
104.                        American Beauty – The Grateful Dead
105.                        Déjà vu – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
106.                        Sgt, Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
107.                        December’s Children [And Everybody’s] – The Rolling Stones
108.                        All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes – Pete Townshend
109.                        Darkness On the Edge Of Town – Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
110.                        Night Moves – Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
111.                        Ah Via Musicom – Eric Johnson
112.                        Black Moses – Isaac Hayes
113.                        Are You Experienced? – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
114.                        The Pretenders – The Pretenders
115.                        Raw Power – Iggy And the Stooges
116.                        Chasing After Ghosts… Living with Shadows – Hammock
117.                        Maybe Tomorrow the Will Sing For Us – Hammock
118.                        Sabotage – Black Sabbath
119.                        Out Of the Cradle – Lindsey Buckingham
120.                        Greatest Hits – Sly & the Family Stone
121.                        New York – Lou Reed
122.                        Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
123.                        Lone Justice – Lone Justice
124.                        State Of Our Union – The Long Ryders
125.                        John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
126.                        The Stranger – Billy Joel
127.                        The Georgia Satelites - The Georgia Satelites
128.                        Modern Times – Jefferson Starship
129.                        Alive! – Kiss
130.                        Second Helping – Lynyrd Skynyrd
131.                        Graceland – Paul Simon
132.                        Songs For Drella – Lou Reed & John Cale
133.                        Down On the Upside – Soundgarden
134.                        Green Thoughts – The Smithereens
135.                        Love Songs For the Hearing Impaired – Dan Baird
136.                        Ritual De Lo Habitual – Jane’s Addiction
137.                        Appetitie For Destruction – Guns N’ Roses
138.                        Reckoning – R.E.M.
139.                        Apostrophe – Frank Zappa
140.                        Over-Nite Sensation – Frank Zappa & the Mothers
141.                        Glass Houses – Billy Joel
142.                        Live Bullet – Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
143.                        So What – Joe Walsh
144.                        Document – R.E.M.
145.                        14 Songs – Paul Westerberg
146.                        Every Picture Tells A Story – Rod Stewart
147.                        Viva Terlingua – Jerry Jeff Walker
148.                        Abraxas - Santana
149.                        The B-52s – The B-52s
150.                        Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival