Ha ha. (I did, in fact, compile a top 100 list a number of years ago (inspired by a forum thread) and keep it handy…so I could post it all at once! But I won’t. And, by the way, it gets tweaked on occasion.)
It’s probably changed a little, but not too much. I've Finally Done It...My Top 100 Albums Of All Time
I read "Top 100" as "Top 5". Reading through my Top 100 would likely be tedious for you; I presume the same for the rest of the thread ... https://www.amazon.com/Compact-Disc-Singles-Box-Set/dp/B000008DB6 CD Singles Collection, the Beatles. Not an "album", really, but fits on 2 CD-Rs if you've got the patience to assemble it thusly. In my opinion, the best 44-track representation of the Beatles' universal appeal and brilliance. My #1 "desert island" item. https://www.amazon.com/Ravi-Shankar-Collection-Morning-Evening/dp/B0007TY9BU/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=3T6E6NZCTSBAH&keywords=ravi+Shankar+morning+raga+evening&qid=1659737547&sprefix=ravi+shankar+morning+raga+evening,aps,242&sr=8-2 A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga, Ravi Shankar. The first Ravi LP I bought for myself, back in the '60s. Represents my ever-increasing collection of North Indian classical music, that I adore. It may be the most-listened-to genre in my collection at the moment. https://www.amazon.com/Things-Must-Pass-George-Harrison/dp/B01KB21YHO/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?crid=1LZNX522G5VX5&keywords=all+things+must+pass+george+harrison+cd&qid=1659737660&sprefix=all+things+must+pass+george+,aps,241&sr=8-8 All Things Must Pass, George Harrison. My adoration for this album just continues to grow across the years; what a collection of songs, what a collection of musicians realizing George's vision. https://www.amazon.com/Stealers-Wheel-Japanese-Reissue/dp/B08VXQL5VR/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2F8G4HKKVOMZA&keywords=stealers+wheels+cd+japan&qid=1659738149&sprefix=stealers+wheels+cd+japan,aps,261&sr=8-2 Stealers Wheel, Stealers Wheel. Sadly remembered today as a "one hit wonder", these guys put out three wonderful albums of singer/songwriter pop. The self-titled debut, recorded at Apple Studio, is a wonderful, rustic ramble slightly reminiscent of Let It Be-period Fabs. https://www.amazon.com/CROWDED-HOUSE-TIME-EARTH-DELUXE/dp/B01M6AZS6M/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2OEVFNGXWZU2U&keywords=time+on+earth+crowded+House+cd&qid=1659738728&sprefix=time+on+earth+crowded+house+cd,aps,277&sr=8-2 Time On Earth, Crowded House. Okay finally, something 21st Century! In my opinion, the best album of the last two decades; one I never tire of. Neil Finn is my favourite songwriter still creating, and this set never fails to move me.
A few I'd add: Badfinger - Wish You Were Here Randy Newman - Sail Away Randy Newman - Good Old Boys Neil Young - Zuma (first Neil album) Van Morrison - Astral Weeks When I made my favorites by year list, the 1970s killed me.
Eh, if you have something ready like I did (also inspired by another forum thread), post it. Why not?
These are just in alphabetical order. I figure it is difficult enough coming up with 100 in the elite category so I’m not taking it any further. Also, I tacked on the list of albums that were on at one point but that were later cut. Top 100 Albums (updated 08-21-21) 1) Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters ‘73 2)Alejandro Escovedo A Man Under the Influence '01 The Crossing’ ‘18 4)The Band Stage Fright '70 5)The Beatles Revolver '66 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band '67 Abbey Road '69 8)Billy Bragg & Wilco ‘Mermaid Avenue’ ‘98 9)Blue Mountain Dog Days '95 10)Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde '66 Blood on the Tracks '75 12)Bottle Rockets The Brooklyn Side '94 24 Hours a Day '97 14)Counting Crows August and Everything After '93 15)Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River '69 Cosmos Factory '70 17)Crosby, Stills & Nash Self-Titled ‘69 18)Decemberists Picaresque '05 The King Is Dead '11 I’ll Be Your Girl ‘18 21)Dire Straits Dire Straits '78 Communique ‘79 23)The Doors L.A. Woman '71 24)Drive-ByTruckers Southern Rock Opera '01 Decoration Day '03 A Blessing and a Curse '06 American Band ‘16 28)Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road '73 29)Elvis Costello My Aim is True '77 30)Free Fire and Water '70 Highway ‘70 32)Golden Smog Down by the Old Mainstream '96 33)Grateful Dead American Beauty '70 Workingman's Dead '70 35)Jackson Browne Running On Empty ‘77 36)The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall '92 Tomorrow the Green Grass '95 38)Jethro Tull Aqualung '71 Thick as a Brick '72 40)Joni Mitchell Court and Spark '74 The Hissing of Summer Lawns '75 42)The Kinks Something Else ‘67 We Are the Village Green Preservation Society '68 Muswell Hillbillies '71 45)Led Zeppelin III '70 IV ‘71 Houses of the Holy '73 48)The Long Ryders State of Our Union '85 Two-Fisted Tales ‘87 50)Marshall Tucker Band Where We All Belong '74 51)Modern Lovers Modern Lovers '76 52)Neil Young After The Gold Rush ‘70 On the Beach '74 Tonight's the Night '75 55)Neil Young & Crazy Horse Zuma '75 Greendale '03 57)New Riders of the Purple Sage Self-Titled ‘71 58)Old 97's Graveyard Whistling '17 59)The Ozark Mountain Daredevils The Ozark Mountain Daredevils '73 It'll Shine When It Shines '74 The Car Over the Lake Album '75 62)Paul and Linda McCartney Ram '71 63)Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run '73 64)Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon '73 Wish You Were Here '75 The Wall '79 The Final Cut '83 68)Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight '74 69)Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones '79 Pirates ‘81 71)Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story '71 72)Roger Waters Amused To Death ‘92 Is This The Life We Really Want '17 74)Rolling Stones Let it Bleed '69 Sticky Fingers '71 76)Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher '71 Tattoo '73 78)Ryan Adams Gold '01 Demolition '02 80)Son Volt Trace '95 Straightaways '97 82)Steppenwolf The Second '68 Monster '69 84)Uncle Tupelo March 16-20 1992 ‘92 Anodyne '93 86)Uriah Heep Look at Yourself '71 Demons & Wizards '72 88)Van Morrison Moondance '70 His Band & Street Choir '70 Saint Dominic's Preview '72 91)The Waterboys This is the Sea '85 Fisherman's Blues '88 Room to Roam '90 94)Whiskeytown Faithless Street '95 95)Will Quinlan & the Diviners Navasota '08 96)The Who Who's Next '71 Quadrophenia '73 98)Wilco Being There '96 Summerteeth '99 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot '02 60s: 11; 70s: 50; 80s: 6; 90s: 17; 00s: 10; and 10s: 6 Bumped: Bob Dylan ‘Desire’ ‘76 Gene Clark & Carla Olson ‘So Rebellious A Lover’ George Harrison ‘All Things Must Pass’ Jay Bennett $ Edward Burch ‘The Palace at 4 a.m.’ Neil Young & Crazy Horse ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ Allman Brothers Band ‘At Fillmore East’ The Band '69 Rubber Soul '65 Bringing It All Back Home '65 Highway 61 Revisited '65 Honky Chateau '72 The River ‘80 Gram Parsons ‘Grievous Angel’ Van Morrison ‘Into The Music’ White Album Born To Run Tapestry
I'll give this a go at some point... It will be difficult, and there's no way I could put it in order lol
Peter Gabriel - So 1986 According to Eddie Van Halen, So is one of the last, if not the last, albums he bought. Diana Ross - Diana 1980 Diana is one of the first albums I bought, way back in 1980 as a twelve year old!
Today's top 12 - just one per band 1 The Who - Who's Next 2 The Pretty Things - Parachute 3 The James Gang - Rides Again 4 John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against the Wall 5 Steppenwolf - Monster 6 Procol Harum - Exotic Birds & Fruit 7 Deep Purple - Fireball 7 The Kinks - Preservation 9 Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night 10 King Crimson - Red 11 Camel - Stationary Traveler 12 The Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
In no order: Led Zeppelin Beatles Stones Who Doors Pink Floyd AC/DC Van Halen Bowie Clash Hendrix Skynyrd Iron Maiden Neil Young Tom Petty Black Sabbath Creedence Queen Rush Metallica Thin Lizzy Jethro Tull ………I am sure I can dig a hundred just from these bands.
I've got about 2,000 CD's and have easily owned another 2,000 records, in the last 50 years and my "all-time" fav's change like changing my underwear... I'll go with my long-time favorite 10 releases... 1. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures 2. Chameleons: Script of the Bridge 3. Simple Minds: New Gold Dream 4. Cure: 17 Seconds 5. Can: Future Days 6. Hendrix: Electric Ladyland 7. Pink Floyd: Dark side of the Moon 8. Far East Family Band: Nipponjin 9. Camel: Mirage 10: Bob Marley: Greatest Hits
Not in order: 1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 2. David Bowie - Low 3. Genesis- Foxtrot 4. Genesis - Selling England by The Pound 5. The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe 6. David Bowie - Outside 7. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 8. The Beach Boys - Summer Days (and Summer Nights) 9. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile 10. The Beach Boys - Holland 11. The Beach Boys - Friends 12. Genesis - Nursery Cryme 13. The Beach Boys - All Summer long 14. The Beach Boys - Love You 15. The Beach Boys- Surfer Girl 16. The Beach Boys - Sunflower 17. The Beach Boys - Surfs Up 18. The Beach Boys - Carl & The Passions 19. The Beach Boys - 20/20 20. The Beach Boys - Wild Honey 21. The Beach Boys - Shut Down II 22. The Beach Boys - in Concert 23. The Beach Boys - Today 24. Metallica - Master of Puppets 25. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare 26. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs 27. Ben Folds Five - Reinhold Messner 28. Pink Floyd - Animals 29. Radiohead - OK Computer 30. David Bowie- Man Who Sold The World 31. Radiohead - Kid A 32. The Monkees - Pisces Aquarius Jones LTD 33. The Who - By Numbers 34. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante 35. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy 36. Genesis - s/t (shapes) 37. KISS - Dynasty 38. KISS - s/t 39. Radiohead - The Bends 39. Captain Beefheart - Bluejeans and Moonbeams 40. Elton John - Captain Fantastic 41. David Bowie- Station to Station 42. David Bowie- Scary Monsters 43. David Bowie - Heroes 44. David Bowie- Hunky Dory 45. Ben Folds Five - s/t 46. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn 47. Led Zeppelin - III 48. Pearl Jam - Ten 49. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 50. David Bowie - Tin Machine 51. Genesis - Trespass 52. Genesis - Trick of the Tail 53. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering 54. Beck - Mutations 55. Faith No More - Angel Dust 56. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of Moon 57. Pink Floyd - Piper at Gates of Dawn 58. The Monkees - Instant Replay 59. KISS - Destroyer 60. KISS - Love Gun 61. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 62. Metallica - And Justice For All 63. Slayer - Reign In Blood 64. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison 65. Johnny Cash - At San Quentin 66. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels 67. Neil Young - Harvest 68. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps 69. The Monkees - Head 70. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night 71. Iron Maiden – Powerslave 72. Pearl Jam - No Code 73. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun 74. Roger Waters - Amused to Death 75. Frank Sinatra - Watertown 76. Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends 77. The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons 78. The Rolling Stones - Decembers Children 79. Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis 80. Elvis - In Person 81. Pink Floyd- Division Bell 82. Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel 83. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 84. Pink Floyd - Final Cut 85. Harry Nilsson - Son of Nilsson 86. Faith No More - Real Thing 87. Mr. Bungle - California 88. Paul McCartney - Ram 89. Beck - Odelay 90. Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind 91. Dion - s/t (Abe Martin John) 92. Derek & Dominoes - Layla 93. Talking Heads - Building and Food 94. Johnny Cash - Ride This Train 95. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 96. Beck - Stereopathetic Soul Manure 97. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper 98. The Beatles - White Album 99. The Beatles - For Sale 100. THE Beatles- Magical Mystery To
I know but rather than list 100…… ………That is a rough list I would have to update! Maybe later if I get a chance.
Yes, I have my favorite artists. These are set in stone. After that not so sure. 01 Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 02 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 03 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home 04 Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding 05 Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks 06 The Velvet Underground and Nico 07 The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 08 The Beatles - White Album 09 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 10 Neil Young - On The Beach 11 Metallica - Ride The Lightning 12 Metallica - Master Of Puppets 13 Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind 14 Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 15 Slayer - Reign In Blood