fredag 28 Sep 2007, 21:38
These are my favorite albums. I think there are 200 or something. I think it's silly to rank albums against each other, so I'm just listing the albums I own that have made a particularly strong impression on me. If you haven't heard 'em all, give the ones you haven't a shot.
(Yes, I know there is a comically small amount of hip-hop and reggae in this list.)
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Mantra of Love
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
The Band - The Band
The Band - Music From Big Pink
The Band - Stage Fright
The Band - Northern Lights - Southern Cross
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Billie Holiday - Quintessential
Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Desire
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Boredoms - Pop Tatari
Boredoms - Super Ae
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte Fontaine Est
Brigitte Fontaine - Comme la Radio
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Can - Future Days
Can - Tago Mago
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
The Clash - The Clash
The Clash - London Calling
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
David Bowie - Low
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Derek & The Dominos - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
The Doors - The Doors
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Hank Williams - Gold
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Jacques Brel - Infiniment
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
John Zorn - Naked City
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson - Red
Led Zeppelin - III
Led Zeppelin - IV
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Lou Rawls - Anthology
Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives & Sevens
Love - Forever Changes
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
Neil Young - On The Beach
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nirvana - In Utero
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Palace Brothers - Days in the Wake
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Patti Smith - Horses
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pixies - Doolittle
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - Murmur
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Replacements - Let It Be
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
The Roots - Game Theory
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
Shellac - At Action Park
Silver Jews - American Water
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Steve Reich - Drumming
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Television - Marquee Moon
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
This Heat - Deceit
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise - TNT
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
The White Stripes - Elephant
Wire - Chairs Missing
Wire - Pink Flag
The Wrens - Secaucus
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One