Your Personal Top 100 Albums of All Time ?

I would like to know what are your favourite albums of any genre of music, the ones you love the most and especially the ones you listen to most often.?
Of course I am not asking for a complete list right away, do as you please , your short comments will be appreciated.

Let's get started !


M83's "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming" album will take you deep inside your mind and take you to a whole other place of conscious thought.
Each track finds itself exploring different dynamics and different expressive qualities.


M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 2011



A fantastic pop rock album So became Gabriel’s most commercially successful record to date and one of his most iconic works. The album has a quintessential mid-eighties sound, with plenty of synthesizers.
Gabriel began recording So with producer Daniel Lanois in 1985 at his home studio. “Sledgehammer” was released a month before the album and ironically it was the last song recorded for the album.


Peter Gabriel - So 1986



I have been a loyal Diana Ross fan for many years, and in my opinion this is her best album !
It was the #1 Dance R&B Album in Billboard for some 17-18 weeks from Memorial Day to way past Labor Day.
“Upside Down” was also the album’s lead single and proved to be a massive smash for Ross, hitting the number one spot around the world in fifteen countries.
This is definitely an album that deserves to be in any collection.

Diana Ross - Diana 1980

 

Blood on the Tracks

99 to follow.

BTW, Diana might be the only misfiled album in my collection...it’s under “C”, as in Chic.

 

I know where you are coming from! Would you do the same with We are Family? And are you familiar enough with John Grant's Queen of Denmark to file it in the M section?

My most played album is this:

It is a fantastic collection of songs and production-wise, hits the sweet spot where goth meets the Pet Shop Boys. The band never did anything else of note, so I play it loads and enjoy it every time.

 

Awesome album! Favorite 100 albums? I sure hope no one posts all of their 100 in one post.

My top two are still At Fillmore East and Layla... 98 to go.

 

Actually, I toyed with that Sister Sledge idea. Time to revisit that, perhaps!

 

Well, you just posted my second and third faves!

 

Away from home at the moment so no access to my catalogue but I shall dive in here when I get back.

 

1) Love ~ Forever Changes ‘nuff said

 

My top five:

1. U2 - The Joshua Tree
2. Beck - Sea Change
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
4. The Police - Synchronicity
5. Neutralk Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

I'll try to add them a bit at a time. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone else's lists!

 

Good Lord, you really wanna see lists of 100?

 

Even coming up with an album for top spot is tricky. To many genres & moods.

 

Right back at you.

For me, the field is wide open when it comes to the other 98. I could probably do it, in no particular order.

 

Well, I can start by posting my favorite albums by year starting with my year of birth. That gets me over half way there.

1959 An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
1960 Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation
1961 Ricky Nelson – Ricky is 21
1962 Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
1963 James Brown — Live at the Apollo
1964 The Beatles – Second Album
1965 The Beatles – Rubber Soul (US)
1966 Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
1967 The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper
1968 The Beatles – The Beatles
1969 The Beatles – Abbey Road
1970 George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
1971 The Who – Who’s Next
1972 Big Star – #1 Record
1973 Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
1974 Big Star – Radio City
1975 Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
1976 Jackson Browne – The Pretender
1977 The Clash – The Clash
1978 Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
1979 Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
1980 Pete Townshend – Empty Glass
1981 Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates
1982 Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
1983 Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
1984 Little Steven – Voice of America
1985 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
1986 Paul McCartney – Press to Play
1987 Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
1988 Randy Newman – Land of Dreams
1989 Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy
1990 Roseanne Cash – Interiors
1991 Bob Dylan – Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3
1992 k.d. lang – Ingenue
1993 Aimie Mann – Whatever
1994 Alejandro Escovedo – Thirteen Years
1995 Pavement – Wowee Zowee
1996 Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Braver Newer World
1997 Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
1998 Michael Fracasso – World in a Drop of Water
1999 Tom Waits – Mule Variations
2000 Neil Young — Silver & Gold
2001 Ian Hunter – Rant
2002 Lonesome Bob – Things Change
2003 Richard Thompson – Old Kit Bag
2004 Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
2005 Charlie Sexton – Cruel and Gentle Things
2006 Tom Waits — Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
2007 Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full
2008 Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal
2009 Madness – The Liberty of Norton Folgate
2010 John Grant – Queen of Denmark
2011 F'ed Up – David Comes to Life
2012 Bill Fay – Life is People
2013 Willie Nile – American Ride
2014 Roger Daltrey & Wilko Johnson – Going Back Home
2015 Rickie Lee Jones – The Other Side of Desire
2016 Michael Fracasso – Here Come the Savages
2017 Neil Young – Hitchhiker
2018 F'ed Up – Dose Your Dreams
2019 Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars
2020 Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
2021 Deafheaven – 10 Years Gone/Infinite Granite

 

Nice picks. Especially the avatar verse!

 

probably around 67

Jake And The Family Jewels - Jake And The Family Jewels [Full Album] (1970)
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Favourite album? Easy. When I think of another 99 that can compare I'll let you know.

 

Your 1976...I couldn’t agree more!

 

Leaving out anything by The Beatles ...

Aladdin Sane (David Bowie)
Ommadawn (Mike Oldfield)
Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf)
Wish You Were Here (Badfinger)
All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)
The Stranger (Billy Joel)
100% Fun (Matthew Sweet)
Slaughter On 10th Avenue (Mick Ronson)
Spirit (Spirit)
Raw Sienna (Savoy Brown)
Foxtrot (Genesis)

... albums I tend to listen to all the way through.

 

Soooo tough. I'll start with 10 and go from there. Edit: a top 10 will be fine

1) Neil Young: On The Beach
2) Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
3) Radiohead: OK Computer
4) Nirvana: In Utero
5) Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
6) Fiona Apple: FTBC
7) Neil Young: Tonight's The Night
8) Nick Cave Bad Seeds: Boatman's Call
9) Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit....
10) Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks

 

Top 3 most played

The Clash - London Calling
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

 

Hold on, lemme make a list nobody else will read, and I'll meticulously compile it, arrange the rankings based on both numbers of play and significance to my life, based on both the lengths I've owned the album, and the others I've enjoyed on the basis of the album in question, and then I'll get back to you...

 

I can't imagine having a list of a favorite 100 of anything in life.

 

One of these things is not like the others...