# My top 100 albums of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049 "2004-02-08T00:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/1 "2004-02-08T00:12:08Z")
So I geeked completely out and made a list of my favourite albums of all time. And I had fun! Yes, go ahead and laugh. I was surprised at how long it took; I’ve been messing around with it on and off for about a month now, and I still feel like something is missing. At first I tried to limit myself to one record per band, but I realized that wouldn’t be an honest list, so there’s a couple of bands that are featured with more than three or four records. There’s also one or two compilations, but they are so essential I count them as proper albums. I turned 21 yesterday (I’m still hung over) and I thought it might be interesting to post it on SDMB and dig it out a year from now, and see how my tastes might have progressed in that period of time. There’s just so much music I have yet to hear. That being said, I think my top ten is pretty solid, for example I can’t imagine anything touching Loveless. I’m kind of embarrassed about this list, but for now, courage… \*\* MY TOP 100 OF ALL TIME: 1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 2. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade 3. The Pixies - Doolittle 4. Wire - Pink Flag 5. The Stooges - Funhouse 6. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes 7. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (US version) 8. The Replacements - Tim 9. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime 10. The Clash - London Calling 11. Fugazi - Red Medicine 12. Talking Heads - Remain In Light 13. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted 14. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 15. The Beatles - Revolver 16. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - I See A Darkness 17. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 18. Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me 19. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On 20. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 21. Prince - Purple Rain 22. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa 23. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand 24. R. E. M. - Murmur 25. Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs & Stories 26. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 27. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy 28. The Replacements - Let It Be 29. Fugazi - Repeater 30. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady 31. Radiohead - Kid A 32. Wire - Chairs Missing 33. The Jesus Lizard - Goat 34. DJ Shadow - Entroducing 35. Television - Marquee Moon 36. The Stooges - Raw Power 37. The Who - Who’s Next 38. Gang of Four - Entertainment 39. Minor Threat - Full Discography 40. Nas - Illmatic 41. Mission of Burma - Vs. 42. Slint - Spiderland 43. Joy Division - Closer 44. Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City 45. The Misfits - Static Age 46. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 47. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches 48. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising 49. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights 50. Radiohead - OK Computer 51. Palace - Viva Lost Blues 52. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 53. Bad Brains - Bad Brains 54. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia 55. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command 56. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique 57. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 58. Big Black - Songs About Fucking 59. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter (The 36 Chambers) 60. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life 61. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 62. Ride - Nowhere 63. Joy Division - Substance 64. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock 65. The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground 66. The Pixies - Bossanova 67. Wire - Chairs Missing 68. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back 69. Meat Puppets - II 70. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 71. Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu 72. The Clash - The Clash 73. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society 74. Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig 75. The Stooges - The Stooges 76. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come 77. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 78. Guided By Voices - Under The Bushes, Under The Stars 79. Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record 80. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory 81. Neil Young - On The Beach 82. The Constantines - Shine A Light 83. Mekons - Fear And Whiskey 84. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour 85. Fugazi - The Argument 86. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life 87. Nick Drake - Pink Moon 88. The Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers 89. Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas 90. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces 91. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes 92. The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim 93. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 94. XTC - Skylarking 95. Bjørk - Post 96. The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin 97. The Descendents - Milo Goes To College 98. Sugar - Copper Blue 99. Company Flow - Fantastic Damage 100. ``` Robert Pollard - Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department ``` \*\* Please feel free too add your own list of favorite albums, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a hundred though. Also, as always, music recommendations are greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![bookbuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@bookbuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bookbuster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/2 "2004-02-08T00:46:25Z")
jesus, thats a sweet list! There are a l lot I haven’t heard yet, so now I want to check those out congrats for even making one in the first place ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/3 "2004-02-08T00:58:29Z")
My list might contain about half of those. But it looks pretty solid. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/4 "2004-02-08T01:24:05Z")
What? No **Damned**!!!??? Not even _Machine Gun Etiquette_? Just (mostly) joshing. I can’t believe that you even managed to put it in order. Out of curiousity… do you think your list might have been any different if you weren’t hungover? When I get some time, I’ll see if if can come up with something. There _will_ be similarities. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/5 "2004-02-08T01:59:22Z")
I own 46 of the albums you have listed. You have good taste. My thoughts: The following albums would have to be in my top 100: Black Heart Procession _Amore del Tropico_ Cat Power _Moon Pix_ Dismemberment Plan _Change_ and _Emergency and I_ Dr Octogon _Dr Octogynocologist_ Failure _Magnified_ Massive Attack _Mezzanine_ Modest Mouse _Lonesome Crowded West_ Pinback _Self Titled_ and _Blue Screen Life_ PJ Harvey _To Bring you my Love_ Queens of the Stone Age _Rated R_ Tortoise _TNT_ Shellac _At Action Park_ The Sea and Cake _The Biz_ Thingy _To the Innocent_ Three Mile Pilot _Na Vucca Do Lupu_, _Chief Assassin to the Sinister_, and \*Another Desert, Another Sea \* Tom Waits – I know you put _Rain Dogs_ in …that would be in my top five, and _Bone Machine_ and _SwordFishTrombones_ both would be top 40 Jesus Lizard – I can’t pick between _Goat_ and _Liar_, both would be in my top 25. So if I am adding 22 albums, I have to cut 22 albums. Snip snip: Guided by Voices/Bob Pollard (4 albums) Modern Lovers CCR Prince Misfits Talk Talk Palace/Oldham/Billy 9 (2 albums) Joy Division’s _Substance_ and _Unknown Pleasures_. I’m ok with leaving _Closer_ on the list. both Pavement albums (always thought they were all hype) Wilco’s _YHF_ Meat Puppets Neil Young Sugar – The only thing they ever put out that I liked was _Beaster_, but that isn’t top 100 for me. Company Flow The Descendents REM–I could probably be persuaded to allow _Life’s Rich Pageant_ slip into the 90s on my list, but as for now they are cut. Of course, my completed list would have additonal changes, but those are the screamingly obvious ones. In any event, good list. After a lot of thought I could come up with 100 albums. Getting them into a rated order would be a monumental chore. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/6 "2004-02-08T02:04:31Z")
That list is awesome. I have/want to get most of them, and the ones I haven’t heard of I’m going to check out. ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/7 "2004-02-08T02:08:26Z")
> [@vl\_mungo](#): > > What? No **Damned**!!!??? Not even _Machine Gun Etiquette_? > > Just (mostly) joshing. I can’t believe that you even managed to put it in order. Out of curiousity… do you think your list might have been any different if you weren’t hungover? > > When I get some time, I’ll see if if can come up with something. There _will_ be similarities. No. I don’t own ‘Machine Gun Etiquette,’ but their debut is somewhere in the lower 120. I also own this ‘Best of The Damned’ double LP thingy released in 1987 called 'The Light At The End Of The Tunnel, which is non chronological and therefore pretty shitty. Your post made me notice that for some reason ‘Inflammable Material’ by Stiff Little Fingers is MIA. It is supposed to be somewhere around 50-55, but it has disappeared. I think I must’ve screwed something up when I rearranged some stuff in the Word file. I swear I originally included it; I even made a point of placing it about 20 spots higher than The Clash’s debut. I don’t think my hangover would’ve mattered that much, since I wrote most of the list over a period of several weeks, but I did exchange ‘Underwater Moonlight’ (Soft Boys) for ‘Milo Goes To College,’ at the last minute, mostly out of nostalgia, and this horrible vision of my fourteen year old self strangling me for not including it. Man, ‘Milo Goes To College’ is a great little record, but I shouldn’t have done that. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/8 "2004-02-08T02:33:48Z")
That is a lovely list. Shame on you for moving “Underwater Moonlight” for any reason though. That would certainly place in my top five. I also prefer “Hootenanny” and “Sorry Ma . . .” for the Replacements choices. I wish I had made the list ten years ago (alas when I was twenty-one) and had it to look back on today. I would still have the Robyn Hitchcock and Clash, but it would be a broader lot today than it was then. As I got older I was less concerned with including albums that were cool. Paul Simon’s first album would no longer be pushed down the list by more modern choices. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/9 "2004-02-08T03:26:46Z")
Wow. Out of all one hundred records in your list, I own _one._ (Doolittle, as it happens). And, the only other one I would pay for is _Lust For Life._ Still, I applaud the effort to put together a list that bloody long. You’re a one-man VH1! ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/10 "2004-02-08T03:46:32Z")
> [@Hüsker Düde](#): > > Your post made me notice that for some reason ‘Inflammable Material’ by Stiff Little Fingers is MIA. It is supposed to be somewhere around 50-55, but it has disappeared. I think I must’ve screwed something up when I rearranged some stuff in the Word file. I swear I originally included it; I even made a point of placing it about 20 spots higher than The Clash’s debut. I thought _Inflammable Material_ was conspicuously absent from such a comprehensive list of 70’s/80’s punk. Good call placing it above The Clash’s debut. Also nice call on placing _London Calling_ more than 60 spots above the debut. I was staggered at how much Strummer and the boys had progressed in that short a time. ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/11 "2004-02-08T04:07:16Z")
> [@Hüsker Düde](#): > > 1. Company Flow - Fantastic Damage This is supposed to be ‘Funcrusher Plus,’ not ‘Fantastic Damage,’ which is an El-P solo album and not nearly as good. There’s not a lot of hip-hop on my list, I deliberately left out old favorites such as ‘The Chronic,’ ‘Criminal Minded,’ ‘Only Built 4 Linx ,’ ‘Liquid Swords’ etc., just because it’s been years since I listened to them. You have good taste as well, **mouthbreather**. Some comments: Black Heart Procession - Amore del Tropico – my ex-girlfriend’s favorite album. It’s pretty good. Very moody. Like my ex-girlfriend. Shellac - At Action Park – I totally forgot this album, would’ve most likely placed it somewhere in the 80-90 range. Dismemberment Plan - Change and Emergency and I – I completely forgot ‘Emergency and I’ also, still I’m not sure if it would’ve made the top 100. Three Mile Pilot - Na Vucca Do Lupu, Chief Assassin to the Sinister, and Another Desert, Another Sea – this must be good, which one would you recommend? Cat Power- Moon Pix – I had this at 129. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West – I haven’t listened to Modest Mouse in ages, so I didn’t include ‘Moon & Antarctica,’ which I’m starting to think wasn’t really all that great. Still I look forward to their new album, which I’m told is suposed to be pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/12 "2004-02-08T04:44:23Z")
> [@Hüsker Düde](#): > > Three Mile Pilot - Na Vucca Do Lupu, Chief Assassin to the Sinister, and Another Desert, Another Sea – this must be good, which one would you recommend? To start with, for a connection for you, Pall Jenkins who sings for Black Heart Procession is the vocalist for Three Mile Pilot. Tobias Nathaniel who plays keys for BHP joined up on AD,AS (I think) to play keys with 3MP. Now then, all three albums are very different. Depending on what you’re in the mood for, Either start with CAttS or AD,AS. CAttS is darker, louder and more chaotic. This was their first album with a guitar player (NVDL is a drummer, a bass, and a vocalist) and the guitar takes a backseat to the bass. Of course, when I type that out, I think of bands like Ned’s Atomic Dustbuster – that’s not at all the vibe here. The bass player in this band is fantastic…he plays melodic and full and hard and really plays the bass as if it were designed to be the lead insturment. Tracks to check out – “Aqua-magnetic”, “97-MT”, and “X-Miner” (of course, I just listened to Aqua-magnetic sample on Amazon and they only captured the intro to the song so that may not be the best place to hear it). AD,AS is much happier, poppier (relatively, of course) record than their first two. They go for more of a “full band” sound (they added piano/keys on this album and the guitar is featured much more prominantly). If interested in looking for tracks – try “Glitter Wave”, “The Year of no Light”, or “Kill the Racehorse”. Leave NVDL for last, if you like the other two. It’s their first release and definately the hardest to digest if you don’t know their work. Now, having tried to gush about this band, I must throw in a disclaimer that a lot of my friends who have tastes that overlap with mine cannot get into 3MP at all. However, I’ve been listening for almost 10 years now and they are the bees knees in my eyes. They haven’t done much lately – The two primary members (Pall and Zach) have gone on to other things with Black Heart Procession and Pinback, respectively. While they aren’t officially broken up, I haven’t heard anything about them doing anything new. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/13 "2004-02-08T11:34:23Z")
Happy birthday! It’s a fine list. I’m almost certain, because I only own about 10 of those albums, but they would all be on my top 100. And because I have OCD and insomnia, here’s my version. Because I also have a short attention span, I’m limiting it to about 30. I’m actually kind of curious to see the response; until recently I’ve felt like I was pretty hip, but more and more I find myself hearing mention of bands I’ve never heard of before. And even worse, hearing new music and thinking: “Music? That’s just _noise!_” 1. The Beatles: Revolver 2. Emergency Broadcast Network: Telecommunication Breakdown 3. Pixies: Surfer Rosa 4. Led Zeppelin: IV 5. Pizzicato Five: Happy End of the World 6. The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God 7. Beastie Boys: Check Your Head 8. Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole 9. Pixies: Doolittle 10. The Art of Noise: In No Sense? Nonsense! 11. Soul Coughing: El Oso 12. Alison Krauss & Union Station: Live 13. Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy 14. The Clash: Combat Rock 15. The Beatles: Abbey Road 16. Fishbone: Truth and Soul 17. Norah Jones: Come Away With Me 18. Bjork: Post 19. Indigo Girls: Indigo Girls 20. REM: Lifes Rich Pageant 21. Morcheeba: Parts of the Process (though I’m not sure if this is a compilation and therefore disqualified) 22. Beck: Odelay 23. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced? 24. Van Morrison: Astral Weeks 25. The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash 26. Poi Dog Pondering: Volo Volo 27. Soul Coughing: Irresistable Bliss 28. The The: Dusk 29. Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona 30. Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts: Cowboy Bebop 31. Paul Simon: Graceland 32. Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/14 "2004-02-08T13:49:42Z")
**Dude** , naming yourself after one of the best bands of the 1980s first caught my attention when you joined the boards and over time you’ve shown yourself to have excellent musical taste. I have ~35 of the albums on your list and have heard and liked most of the rest. Not enough Tom Waits, though. And I’d substitute Wilco’s _Summerteeth_ for _YHF_. And I’ll echo a few other posters in that I think _Life’s Rich Pagaent_ was REM’s best. Anyway, I’ll stop here as I’m in danger of starting my own list which I don’t have time for at the moment. > [@](#): > > **Hüsker Düde:** > **60. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life > … > 86. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life** **Dude** , you must _really_ like Iggy. May I suggest another Ramones album (their first 3 are bona fide classics, IMHO). Or The New York Dolls’ self-titled debut? Or The Cramps’ _Bad Music for Bad People_? **SolGrundy** , you’ve got some good stuff on your list, as well. It’s always good to see The Pogues get some recognition. I like Fishbone, but I would probably have chosen _The Reality of my Surroundings_ over _T&S_. And Yoko Kanno is a goddess. I just listened to the first 3 Cowboy Bebop Soundtracks back to back yesterday afternoon and loved every wacky minute of it. However, I have a bone to pick with Norah Jones. I think she’s one of the most over-rated artists of the decade and her immense popularity sort of baffles me. Granted, she’s a pretty face with a nice voice who plays competent piano and has decent taste in cover tunes but that’s as far as it goes. The undifferentiated production values, and lack of emotional highs or lows in her playing and singing make her debut album fade into a sort of bland audio wallpaper. I just don’t think she has much range. Perhaps her new release will show some artistic growth. Oh, well. You also like Bjork and Alison Krauss, so I can forgive the occasional lapse in judgement 😉 . ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/15 "2004-02-08T15:33:50Z")
Thanks for taking the time **mouthbreather** , I will definatly check out Three Mile Pilot. According to their web site, my local used record store has ‘‘Chief Assassin to the Sinister’’ in stock, so I’ll pick it up on Monday. That page hasn’t been updated in six months though. > [@Hodge](#): > > **Dude** , you must _really_ like Iggy. May I suggest another Ramones album (their first 3 are bona fide classics, IMHO). Or The New York Dolls’ self-titled debut? Or The Cramps’ _Bad Music for Bad People_? Thanks for pointing that out **Hodge** , the second Iggy Pop album ( **86** ) is supposed to be ‘The Idiot.’ I think I need to revise my list; there are just too many mistakes, besides I think two Iggy Pop albums is a bit overkill, I might trade ‘The Idiot’ for ‘At Action Park.’ New York Dolls didn’t make it. Neither did The Cramps. Here’s how I rank the Ramones albums: Rocket to Russia\> S/T \> Leave Home\> Road to Ruin\> End of the Century\>\>\>\> the rest. > [@Quack](#): > > I thought Inflammable Material was conspicuously absent from such a comprehensive list of 70’s/80’s punk. Good call placing it above The Clash’s debut. Also nice call on placing London Calling more than 60 spots above the debut. I was staggered at how much Strummer and the boys had progressed in that short a time. ‘Inflammable Material’ is such a great record, ‘‘Barbed Wire Love’’ is one of those songs that I think could’ve been a huge hit in a perfect world, it’s pure pop, and I like “Alternative Ulster” better than anything The Clash did (with the exception of ‘(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais’) up until ‘London Calling,’ which is just untouchable. Nice list **SolGrundy** , it reminds me of two excellent records that I should’ve included: ‘Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash’ and ‘Astral Weeks.’ Would it be in poor taste if I indulged in some Sunday morning revisionism? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/16 "2004-02-08T16:08:58Z")
I’m 50 and have all these from your list: Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime The Clash - London Calling The Beatles - Revolver The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (plus others) Prince - Purple Rain R. E. M. - Murmur Radiohead - Kid A Television - Marquee Moon (had it but gave it away) The Who - Who’s Next (plus others) Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City Radiohead - OK Computer Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (plus others including with Billy Bragg) The Beatles - Rubber Soul (plus others) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (plus others) The Clash - The Clash The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory Nick Drake - Pink Moon (plus all the others) Elvis Costello - Armed Forces (plus hoardes of others) Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (plus more) Bjørk - Post and a few of these folks’ “best of” albums. I’ll have to think about what I would add. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/17 "2004-02-08T16:38:50Z")
> [@Hüsker Düde](#): > > Thanks for taking the time **mouthbreather** , I will definatly check out Three Mile Pilot. According to their web site, my local used record store has ‘‘Chief Assassin to the Sinister’’ in stock, so I’ll pick it up on Monday. Cool. Give it a couple listens and let me know what you think. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/18 "2004-02-08T19:42:03Z")
I have these ones: 1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 2. The Pixies - Doolittle 3. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (US version) 4. The Clash - London Calling 5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 6. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa 7. Television - Marquee Moon 8. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights 10. Radiohead - OK Computer 11. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 12. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 13. The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground 14. The Pixies - Bossanova 15. The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim I would have Velvet Underground, Rubber Soul and Pet Sounds much higher The Interpol album would not feature in my top 100 as I find it depressing and dull and do not enjoy listening to it. Crooked Rain I do not really enjoy either, and OK Computer I never listen to. I would say your list is missing the following that would appear in my list: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Pearl Jam - Yield Pearl Jam - Vitalogy Metallica - Master of Puppets Air - Moon Safari Weezer - Blue album ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/19 "2004-02-08T20:00:59Z")
Decent list. The only one I really felt didn’t belong was Relationship of Command. _Relationship of Command!_ ---
**Author:** ![Zweistein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/54ee81/32.png) [@Zweistein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zweistein)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049/20 "2004-02-08T20:54:17Z")
Hey Düde Great list. Most of them are in my cd-rack too ! the ones that are missing are next on the trial list. great selection ! 🆒 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time/228049.md?page=2)