The Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society
Dave Davies’ Bug
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom,* Punch The Clock*,Armed Forces,This Year’s Model,Painted From Memory(with Burt Bacharach).
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead,Louder Than Bombs
The Stones - Exile On Main Street, Aftermath
Wilco - Being There
Led Zeppelin - III
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bjork - Homogenic
The Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Johnny Cash - The Sun Years
Elvis - The Sun Sessions
The Kinks - Face To Face
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues
Professor Longhair - Houseparty New Orleans Style
Operation Ivy - Self-Titled. Their only album, all of their songs. Not ONE sucks. They ALL are great with no exceptions.
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Me’Shell Ndgeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
Steely Dan - Aja
Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
Led Zep - I, IV
Koop - Waltz for Koop
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Willy Porter - Trees Have Soul
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (soundtrack)
Bernstein - West Side Story (soundtrack)
Isaac Hayes - Live at the Sahara Tahoe
Pointer Sisters - That’s a Plenty
& the best of them all,
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin’ On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
REM - Automatic for the People
That should be “The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?”
John Prine - John Prine
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Who - Who’s Next
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue I
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
Well, heres my choice…
The Stooges-Funhouse.
Iggy took rock and roll to new heights with that album. “Dirt” “TV Eye”…It just doesn’t get any better than that. It took 25 years for the mainstream to catch up with that album.
Jon
Oh, and the Dead Boys’ debut, Young Loud and Snotty is damn near perfect (and the rough mix version, Younger Louder Snottier is even uh…perfecter).
Jon
If I Should Fall from Grace with God, The Pogues.
Passion, Peter Gabriel
Automatic for the People, R.E.M.
Knock Knock, Smog
Trompe le Monde, The Pixies
Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann
Stunt, Bare Naked Ladies
Last Splash, The Breeders
Play, Moby
Let’s not forget-
Smell the Glove
U2 - Achtung Baby
The Joshua Tree is great, but somehow it just doesn’t work for me the same way Achtung Baby does.
The Cure - Disintegration
Another vote for Jeff Buckley - Grace
Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Amused to Death, by Roger Waters.
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Gary Burton - Tennessee Firebird
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Radiohead - OK Computer
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Pixies - Doolittle
The Clash - London Calling
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Wire - Chairs Missing
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
Neu! - Neu!
mesh - Who Watches Over Me?
VNV Nation - Empires
Depeche Mode - Violator
Iris - Awakening
Delerium - Karma
R.E.M. - Murmur
Portishead - Dummy
Broadcast - Work and Non-Work (not technically an album, but a compilation of singles put out before the band’s first real album. Still, all perfect, and fit together like they were an album.)
Edith Frost - Calling Over Time (Great for hanging around the house, feeling kinda blue.)
Just a few off the top.
Fleetwood Mac- Tusk
Mathbox 20 - Yourself or Someone like you
Live- Throwing Copper
Alannis Morrisete- Jagged Little Pill
Phil Collins- Hello I Must be Going
Melissa Ethrige- Self Titled