Your Personal Top 100 Albums of All Time ?

A randomish top 40 that I couldn't be without............all somewhat rockist old white man stuff.........nothing past the 1980's..........a bit embarrassing really.........and not particularly representative of my overall listening habits which are considerably broader.........

Beatles - White Album, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour
Stones - Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed
Velvet Underground - & Nico, White Light White Heat, S/T, Loaded
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, St Dominic's Preview, Veedon Fleece
Television - Marquee Moon
Felt - Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk, Mirror Man, Doc At The Radar Station
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Pere Ubu - Datapanik In The Year Zero
Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Vol 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Led Zep - 1, 2, 4
Pink Floyd - Piper, Saucerful, More, Meddle
Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion
Pretty Things - SF Sorrow, Parachute
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
John Barry Orchestra - The James Bond Collection
Ennio Morricone - Dollar Trilogy soundtrack albums

 

Good one.

 

Limiting to 1 per artist, INPO:

Lexicon of Love - ABC
Bite - Altered Images
Feels - Animal Collective
In The Flat Field - Bauhaus
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Love Life - Berlin
Radio City - Big Star
Boston s/t
Script of The Bridge - The Chameleons

Seance - The Church
Torino - Cinerama
London Calling - The Clash
Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
Land - Comsat Angels
Daylight Again - Crosby, Stills & Nash
17 Seconds - The Cure
The Waking Hour - Dali's Car
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Violator - Depeche Mode

Kaputt - Destroyer
Rio - Duran Duran
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello and The Attractions
Layla - Derek and The Dominoes
The Good Earth - The Feelies
Blueberry Boat - Fiery Furnaces
Shuttered Room - The Fixx
Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Replicas - Gary Numan
Discover - Gene Loves Jezebel
... And Then There Were Three... - Genesis
16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens
Beauty and The Beat - Go-Gos
Little Queen - Heart
London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins
Mettle - Hugo Largo
Dare! - The Human League
Shabooh Shoobah - INXS

Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne
Gentlemen Take Polaroids - Japan
Darklands - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Closer - Joy Division
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Arthur - The Kinks
Rock and Roll Over - Kiss
Silent Shout - The Knife

Every Open Eye - Chvrches
Led Zeppelin IV
Express - Love and Rockets
Secondhand Daylight - Magazine
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' - Michael Nesmith
Spring Session M - Missing Persons
Vauxhall & I - Morrissey
Z - My Morning Jacket
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Little Love Affairs - Nanci Griffith

Movement - New Order
Challengers - The New Pornographers
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
The Orange Juice - Orange Juice
Architecture & Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark
Peter Gabriel (1980)
Should The World Fail To Fall Apart - Peter Murphy
Animals - Pink Floyd
Red Roses For Me - The Pogues

Ghost In The Machine - The Police
Fear of A Black Planet - Public Enemy
Murmur - R.E.M.
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Cars s/t
Nowhere - Ride
Exile on Main St. - The Rolling Stones
It's A Condition - Romero Void
Siren - Roxy Music
Moving Pictures - Rush

Uncle Anesthesia - Screaming Trees
Once Upon A Time - Simple Minds
Juju - Siouxsie and The Banshees
The Smiths s/t
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Gaucho - Steely Dan
The Stone Roses s/t
Reading, Writing & Arithmetic - The Sundays
Electric Warrior - T Rex
I've Seen Everything - Trashcan Sinatras

The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Vienna - Ultravox
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Gilded Stars & Zealous Hearts - Velocity Girl
Seamonsters - The Wedding Present
Pinkerton - Weezer
Quadrophenia - The Who
154 - Wire
Skylarking - XTC
Upstairs At Eric's - Yazoo

 

Another bunch that I somehow left out.........

Doors - S/T, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, LA Woman
T-Rex - Slider, Electric Warrior
Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits, Live
Stooges - No Fun, Raw Power
Bowie - Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, Man Who Sold The World, Ziggy, Aladdin Sane
The Experience - Smash Hits, Are You Experienced, Axis
The Who - Meaty Beaty
Pistols - Bollox
Wire - Pink Flag, 154
Stanley Bros - Long Journey Home, Columbia Sessions
Bill Monroe - my albums and box sets cover 1930's to 1960's
Hank Williams - any decent hits album, I have a few
Chuck Berry - The Ultimate Collection
Muddy Waters - Chess recordings
Amon Duul ll - Yeti
Can - too many to list
Humble Pie - Town & Country, Performance Filmore
Small Faces - S/T
Faces - First Step, A Nods, Ooh La La
Dead Can Dance - Wake
Nico - Marble Index
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Substance

 

I’ve just tweaked my list as I was gobsmacked when I realized I’d bumped Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ in a prior purge…and the album contains nine (9!) tracks that I consider to be essential Dylan. So….out the door goes the Long Ryders ‘Two-Fisted Tales.’ Sorry guys!

 

Since several people have been making their lists with only one album per artist, I thought I'd give that a try (Still leaving out jazz and classical, as I don't know how to rank them in relation to the rock/pop stuff). This one took a little longer to compile, and of course the rankings end up increasingly fluid toward the lower end of the list:

1. King Crimson, Red (1974)
2. Joe Jackson, Night and Day (1982)
3. Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden (1988)
4. Kate Bush, The Sensual World (1989)
5. Genesis, A Trick of the Tail (1976)
6. UK (1978)
7. Roxy Music, Avalon (1982)
8. Crowded House, Temple of Low Men (1988)
9. Love, Forever Changes (1967)
10. Steve Winwood, Talking Back to the Night (1982)

11. Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom (1974)
12. Mike Oldfield, Five Miles Out (1982)
13. Cousteau (2000)
14. Seal (debut) (1991)
15. Danny Wilson, Meet Danny Wilson (1987)
16. Dire Straits, Love Over Gold (1982)
17. Mark Hollis (1997)
18. Bryan Ferry, Mamouna (1994)
19. The Beatles, Abbey Road (1969)
20. Saga, Worlds Apart (1981)

21. Asia, Alpha (1983)
22. Marillion, Clutching at Straws (1987)
23. Traffic, When the Eagle Flies (1974)
24. Marianne Faithfull, Broken English (1979)
25. The Cranberries, No Need to Argue (1994)
26. White Willow, Ignis Fatuus (1995)
27. Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
28. The Moody Blues, To Our Children's Children's Children (1969)
29. These New Puritans, Field of Reeds (2013)
30. Ultravox, Rage in Eden (1981)

31. Frank Sinatra, Sings For Only the Lonely (1957)
32. Premiata Forneria Marconi, Per un amico (1972)
33. Gerry Rafferty, City to City (1978)
34. Hooverphonic, Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)
35. David Bowie, Scary Monsters (1980)
36. Steve Hackett, Spectral Mornings (1979)
37. Tears For Fears, Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1996)
38. Stereolab, Dots and Loops (1997)
39. John Wetton, Arkangel (1997)
40. Strawbs, Grave New World (1972)

41. Renaissance, Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)
42. Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Toward Ecstasy (1993)
43. Peter Gabriel, Us (1992)
44. Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus, Songs of Yearning (2020)
45. The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle (1968)
46. Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
47. Chicago V (1972)
48. Maasive Attack, Mezzanine (1997)
49. Portishead (1997)
50. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Raise Yer Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

51. October Project (1993)
52. Van der Graaf Generator, Pawn Hearts (1971)
53. Fish, Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (1990)
54. Univers Zero, Heresie (1979)
55. Level 42, World Machine (1986)
56. Celeste, Principe di un giorno (1976)
57. Abba, Voulez-Vous (1979)
58. Air, Moon Safari (1998)
59. Can, Future Days (1974)
60. REM, Automatic For the People (1992)

61. Banco, Io sono nato libero (1973)
62. Henry Cow, In Praise of Learning (1975)
63. The Style Council, Confessions of a Pop Group (1988)
64. Tori Amos, Under the Pink (1992)
65. Dead Can Dance, Into the Labyrinth (1993)
66. Broadcast, Tender Buttons (2005)
67. Peter Hammill, Over (1977)
68. Berlin, Pleasure Victim (1982)
69. Visage (1980)
70. Julia Holter, Aviary (2018)

71. Maarja Nuut and Ruum, Muunduja (2018)
72. Neil Finn, Try Whistling This (1998)
73. U2, Achtung Baby (1992)
74. Exploded View (2016)
75. Vanishing Twin, Choose Your Own Adventure (2016)
76. Flower Kings, Flower Power (1999)
77. Marvin Gaye, What's Goin On (1971)
78. Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
79. Men At Work, Cargo (1983)
80. Harmonium, Si on avait besoin d'un cinqième saison (1975)

81. Laub, Kopflastig (1997)
82. Shearwater, The Golden Archipelago (2010)
83. Gentle Giant, In a Glass House (1973)
84. Landberk, Riktigt Äkta (1992)
85. Thinking Plague, In Extremis (1998)
86. Present, Triskaidekaphobie (1981)
87. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (1970).
88. Brian Eno, Another Green World
89. a-ha, Scoundrel Days (1986)
90.Toto IV (1982)

91. Le Orme, Uomo di pezza (1972)
92. David Sylvian, Gone to Earth (1986)
93. Underworld, Beaucoup Fish (1999)
94. Slapp Happy, Ça Va (1997)
95. Tindersticks (1993)
96. Live, Throwing Copper (1994)
97. Laika, Sounds of the Satellites (1997)
98. John Foxx, The Garden (1981)
99. Michael Kiwanuka, Kiwanuka (2019)
100. Museo Rosenbach, Zarathustra (1973)

 

Wow, some fantastic choices!

Especially Danny Wilson, who I've been listening to a lot this week.

EG.

 

Thanks so much! When I saw your list, it occurred to me that while a lot of people share my interest in Prog, you are one of the very few who seems to share my interest in what I can only describe as "cinematic Euro-pop."

I've LOVED that Danny Wilson album since it was first released! It's really a shame that they only made one more. Nobody sounds quite like them to me, but I'm curious as to whether you've heard Cousteau--I feel like they have a similar if somewhat darker sort of nostalgic pop sound.

 

I am going to take a swing at a Top 100 Jazz albums since I omitted them from my previous list and again limiting selections to one album per artist...

1. Adam Ben Ezra - Pin Drop
2. Alfa Mist - Antiphon
3. Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
4. Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
5. The Anthony Wilson Trio - Our Gang
6. Arne Domnerus, Gustav Sojkovitz - Antiphone Blues
7. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
8. Art Pepper - Meets The Rhythm Section
9. Arthur Vint & Associates - Death Rides A Horse
10. Avishai Cohen - Big Vicious
11. Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen
12. Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
13. Ben Vaughan - Designs In Music
14. Ben Webster - Gentle Ben
15. Benny Carter - Jazz Giant
16. Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
17. Bill Evans - Explorations
18. Bill Frisell - Nashville
19. Billie Holiday - Body And Soul
20. Blue Mitchell - Blue's Moods
21. Bob Belden - Black Dahlia
22. Bob James - Three
23. Bobby Previte - The Coalition Of The Willing
24. Bobby Timmons - This Here Is Bobby Timmons
25. Boogaloo Joe Jones - Right On Brother
26. Branford Marsalis Quartet - Romare Bearden Revealed
27. Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
28. Cassandra Wilson - Travelin' Miles
29. Charles Lloyd - The Water Is Wide
30. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
31. Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
32. Charlie Hunter, Leon Parker - Duo
33. Chet Baker - Chet
34. Chico Freeman - Spirit Sensitive
35. Christy Baron - Steppin'
36. Count Basie & His Orchestra - April In Paris
37. The Crusaders - Chain Reaction
38. Cyrus Chestnut - My Father's Hands
39. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
40. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Back To Back
41. Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
42. Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours
43. Garage A Trois - Outre Mer
44. Gene Ammons - The Gene Ammons Story: Gentle Jug
45. George Benson - Bad Benson
46. The Gil Evans Orchestra - Out Of The Cool
47. Grant Green - Green Street
48. Grover Washington Jr. - Mr. Magic
49. Hank Mobley - Soul Station
50. Herb Ellis - Nothing But The Blues
51. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
52. Herbie Man - Push Push
53. Holly Cole - Temptation
54. The Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
55. Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba
56. Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson - Rendevous
57. Jacques Loussier Trio - Satie
58. Jim Hall - Concierto
59. Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
60. Joe Sample - Rainbow Seeker
61. John Coltrane - Blue Train
62. John Klemmer - Touch
63. Kenny Burrell - Blue
64. Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
65. Lafayette Gilchrist - The Music According To Lafayette Gilchrist
66. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
67. Maceo Parker - Roots Revisited
68. Marc Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
69. Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun
70. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
71. Nat Adderley - Work Song
72. Nubya Garcia - Source
73. The Oliver Nelson Sextet - The Blues And The Abstract Truth
74. The Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train
75. Patricia Barber - Modern Cool
76. Roy Hargrove Quintet - Earfood
77. Ry Cooder, Manual Galban - Mambo Sinuendo
78. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
79. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
80. Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
81. Stanton Moore - III
82. Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
83. Tomasz Stańko Quartet - Soul Of Things
84. Tony Allen - The Source
85. Veronica Swift - This Bitter Earth
86. Viktor Krauss - Far From Enough
87. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Boy Named Charlie Brown
88. Vinicius Cantuaria & Bill Frisell - Lagimas Mexicanas
89. Wayne Horvitz - Sweeter Than The Day
90. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
91. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin'
92. Woody Herman Band - Chick, Donald, Walter & Woodrow
93. Wycliffe Gordon - Dreams Of New Orleans
94. Wynton Kelly - Kelly Blue
95. Wynton Marsalis - Hot House Flowers

 

OK, let's up it to 50 now!
Remember I'm only doing one song per artist!
1. REVOLVER (The Beatles)
2. WHO'S NEXT (The Who)
3. VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATIONS SOCIETY (The Kinks)
4. ODESSEY AND ORACLE (The Zombies)
5. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FABLES (REM)
6. DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED (The Moody Blues)
7. PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (Pink Floyd)
8. MODERN LOVERS (The Modern Lovers)
9. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (Simon & Garfunkel)
10. WALK AWAY RENEE/PRETTY BALLERINA (The Left Banke)
11. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO (Velvet Underground)
12. STARTING OVER (The Raspberries)
13. BAND ON THE RUN (Paul McCartney & Wings)
14. MARSHALL CRENSHAW (Marshall Crenshaw)
15. WAR (U2)
16. BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (The Rolling Stones)
17. PET SOUNDS (The Beach Boys)
18. ALL THINGS MUST PASS (George Harrison)
19. PARALLEL LINES )Blondie)
20. TRAVELING WILBURYS (Traveling Wilburys)
21. DEJA VU (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
22. DAMN THE TORPEDOES (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
23. GRACELAND (Paul Simon)
24. EAST SIDE STORY (Squeeze)
25. LONDON CALLING (The Clash)
26. THIS YEARS MODEL (Elvis Costello)
27. PLASTIC ONO BAND (John Lennon)
28. IS THIS IT (The Strokes)
29. BORN IN THE USA (Bruce Springsteen)
30. THE CARS (The Cars)
31. LED ZEPPELIN IV (Led Zeppelin)
32. BOSTON (Boston)
33. A NEW WORLD RECORD (ELO)
34. ROGER THE ENGINEER (The Yardbirds)
35. SOMETIMES I SIT AND THINK AND SOMETIMES I JUST SIT (Courtney Barnett)
36. FIVE LEAVES LEFT (Nick Drake)
37. RADIO CITY (Big Star)
38. TRIANGLE (The Beau Brummels)
39. BEE GEES FIRST (The Bee Gees)
40. ODELAY (Beck)
41. COSMOS FACTORY (CCR)
42. ROCKET TO RUSSIA (Ramones)
43. DOOKIE (Green Day)
44. THE B 52'S (The B 52's)
45. AMERICAN BEAUTY (The Grateful Dead)
46. WEEZER (Weezer)
47. SCARECROW (John Mellancamp)
48. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE (Neil Young)
49. TAPESTRY (Carole King)
50. THE GRAND ILLUSION (Styx)

 

Yes

 

As I am about to make a list of my favourite French albums, I think this is a great resource !


100 French Rock Essential albums (Rolling Stone) (2010)

01 - Alain Bashung - Osez Joséphine
02 - Noir Désir - Tostaky
03 - Téléphone - Dure Limite
04 - Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
05 - Jacques Higelin - BBH 75
06 - Johnny Hallyday - Rivière ouvre ton lit
07 - Les Rita Mitsouko - The No Comprendo
08 - Mano Negra - Puta's Fever
09 - Alain Bashung - Fantaisie Militaire
10 - Noir Désir - Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)
11 - Trust - Répression
12 - Noir Désir - 666.667 Club
13 - Téléphone - Au coeur de la nuit
14 - Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B.
15 - Jacques Dutronc - The EP collection
16 - Alain Bashung - Live 85
17 - Téléphone - Crache ton venin
18 - Eddy Mitchell - Sur la route de Memphis
19 - Alain Bashung - Pizza
20 - Les Rita Mitsouko - Rita Mitsouko
21 - Noir Désir - Du Ciment sous les plaines
22 - CharlÉlie Couture - Poèmes Rock
23 - Stephan Eicher - I Tell This Night
24 - Léo Ferré - Amour Anarchie
25 - Johnny Hallyday - La Génération perdue
26 - Nino Ferrer - Enregistrement public
27 - Jean-Patrick Capdevielle - Les Enfants des ténèbres et les Anges de la rue
28 - Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme à tête de chou
29 - Jacques Higelin - Alertez les bébés
30 - Téléphone - Téléphone
31 - Christophe - Les Paradis perdus
32 - Mano Negra - Patchanka
33 - Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandoh
34 - Johnny Hallyday - Insolitudes
35 - Jacques Higelin - Champagne pour tout le monde, caviar pour les autres...
36 - Bernard Lavilliers - Les Barbares
37 - Les Garçons bouchers - Les Garçons bouchers
38 - Marquis de Sade - Rue de Siam
39 - Michel Polnareff - Love me, please love me
40 - Alain Bashung - Chatterton
41 - Kat onoma - Stock phrases
42 - Rachid Taha - Made in Medina
43 - Les Négresses Vertes - Famille nombreuse
44 - Eddy Mitchell - Eddy in London
45 - Christophe - Les Mots Bleus
46 - Alain Bashung - Bleu Pétrole
47 - Étienne Daho - Pour nos vies martiennes
48 - Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Dernières balises (avant mutations)
49 - Air - The Virgin Suicides
50 - Serge Gainsbourg - Aux armes et caetera
51 - Ronnie Bird - Ronnie Bird
52 - Bérurier Noir - Concerto pour détraqués
53 - Christophe - Live à l'olympia
54 - Nino Ferrer - Métronomie
55 - Jean-Patrick Capdevielle - /2
56 - Gérard Manset - La Mort d'Orion
57 - Jean-Louis Murat - Mustango
58 - Kat Onoma - Cupid
59 - Eddy Mitchell - Rocking in Nashville
60 - Noir Désir - Des visages, des figures
61 - Mano Negra - King of Bongo
62 - Bernard Lavilliers - 15ème round
63 - Serge Gainsbourg - Love on the beat
64 - La Souris Déglinguée - La Souris Déglinguée
65 - Air - Moon Safari
66 - Bijou - Danse avec moi
67 - Manu Chao - Clandestino
68 - M - Live, En tête à tête
69 - Stephan Eicher - Tour Taxi Europa
70 - Arno - Ratata
71 - Dogs - Too Much Class for the Neighbourhood
72 - Paul Personne - Barjoland
73 - Ange - Au-delà du délire
74 - Les Innocents - Fous à lier
75 - Starshooter - Mode
76 - Au Bonheur des Dames - Twist
77 - Tanger - La Mémoire insoluble
78 - Variations - Nador
79 - Johnny Hallyday - Johnny, reviens ! Les Rocks les plus terribles
80 - FFF - Free For Fever
81 - Dashiell Hedayat - Obsolete
82 - Vigon - The End of Vigon
83 - Parabellum - Gratuit : 2 morceaux en moins !
84 - Triangle - Anthologie 1969 - 1974
85 - Alain Kan - Heureusement en France, on ne se drogue pas !
86 - Les Satellites - Du grouve et des souris
87 - Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Soleil cherche futur
88 - Daniel Darc - Crève coeur
89 - Dogs - Legendary Lovers
90 - Le Cri de la mouche - Le Cri de la mouche
91 - Elli & Jacno - Tout va sauter
92 - Dionysos - Western sous la neige
93 - OTH - Sur les charbons ardents
94 - Les Wampas - Simple et tendre
95 - Taxi Girl - Cherchez le garçon
96 - Bérurier Noir - Abracadaboum !
97 - M - Qui de nous deux ?
98 - Indochine - Paradize
99 - Niagara - Quel enfer !
100 - Plastiscines - About Love

 

I've not thought in terms of a top 100 for about 20 years when I started to think lists and what-have-you were a bit passe.

This top 100 is right off the top of my head. I haven't thought about it too hard and just want to respond with what seems to rise to the top of my mind. Not trying to impress anyone or anything, and the usual caveats of "this could all change tomorrow!" should be taken as given.

Also I'm not ranking them. Just here y'are, in chronorder. They're in 10s for ease of reading.

John Coltrane, My Favourite Things (1961)
The Byrds, Younger than Yesterday (1967)
Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billie Joe (1967)
Love, Forever Changes (1967)
Margo Guryan, Take a Picture (1968)
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (1968)
The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
Tim Buckley, Happy Sad (1969)
Neil Young, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere (1969)

Neil Young, After the Goldrush (1970)
Popol Vuh, In Den Gaerten Pharos (1972)
Fela Kuti, Roforofo Fight (1972)
Can, Ege Bamyasi (1972)
Brian Eno, Another Green World (1975)
Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express (1977)
Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (1978)
Robbie Basho, Visions of the Country (1978)
B-52s, S/T (1979)
Anthony Moore, Flying Doesn't Help (1979)

The Fall, Grotesque (After the Gramme) (1980)
Talking Heads, Remain in Light (1980)
Bobb Trimble, Iron Curtain Innocence (1980)
Glenn Branca, The Ascension (1981)
Chrome, Blood on the Moon (1981)
Tuxedomoon, Desire (1981)
The Rain Parade, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983)
The Fall, Perverted by Language (1983)
Su Tissue, Salon de Musique (1984)
The Blue Nile, A Walk Across the Rooftops (1984)

Meat Puppets, II (1984)
Arvo Part, Tabula Rasa (1984)
Manuel Gottsching, E2-E4 (1984)
The Smiths, Meat is Murder (1985)
The Fall, This Nation's Saving Grace (1985)
Camberwell Now, The Ghost Trade (1985)
Kate Bush, Hounds of Love (1985)
The Go Betweens, Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (1986)
REM, Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
Coil, Horse Rotorvator (1986)

Spacemen 3, The Perfect Prescription (1987)
John Adams, Nixon in China (1988)
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation (1988)
De La Soul, Three Feet High and Rising (1989)
The Replacements, All Shook Down (1990)
The Flaming Lips, In A Priest-Driven Ambulance (1990)
Pixies, Bossanova (1990)
Slint, Spiderland (1991)
Jesus Lizard, Goat (1991)
Nation of Ulysses, ...Plays Pretty for Baby (1992)

Pavement, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (1993)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Strangers from the Universe (1994)
Drive Like Jehu, Yank Crime (1994)
Ulver, Bergtatt (1994)
Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible (1994)
US Maple, Long Hair in Three Stages (1995)
Labradford, S/T (1995)
Palace Music, Viva Last Blues (1995)
Low, The Curtain Hits The Cast (1996)
Brainiac, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996)

Olivia Tremor Control, Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996)
Sweep the Leg Johnny, 4.9.21.30 (1997)
Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out (1997)
Hood, Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys (1997)
Jim O'Rourke, Bad Timing (1997)
Smog, Red Apple Falls (1997)
Gastr del Sol, Camoufleur (1998)
Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns (1998)
Jim O'Rourke, Eureka (1999)
The Clash, From Here to Eternity: Live (1999)

Q and Not U, No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)
At the Drive-In, Relationship of Command (2000)
The For Carnation, S/T (2000)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, The Doldrums (2000)
Lambchop, Nixon (2000)
Dirty Three, Whatever You Love You Are (2000)
The Microphones, The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Worn Copy (2003)
Blood Brothers, Burn Piano Island Burn (2003)

The Necks, Drive By (2003)
Richard Youngs, Airs of the Ear (2003)
Noxagt, The Iron Point (2004)
Pan American, Quiet City (2004)
The Clientele, Strange Geometry (2005)
AFX, Analord (2003-2005)
Liars, Drum's Not Dead (2006)
John Maus, Love is Real (2007)
Sightings, Through the Panama (2007)
Yellow Swans, At All Ends (2007)

James Blackshaw, The Glass Bead Game (2009)
Women, Public Strain (2010)
Total Victory, National Service (2012)
Deafheaven, Sunbather (2013)
Dawn of Midi, Dysnomia (2013)
Bing and Ruth, Tomorrow Was the Golden Age (2014)
Deborah Kant, Terminal Rail/Route (2014)
John Maus, Screen Memories (2017)
Purple Mountains, S/T (2019)
Lost Crowns, Every Night Something Happens (2019)

 

(in no particular order, numbered for count)

1.)Time Out—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
2.) Songs for Distingué Lovers—Billie Holiday, 1958
3.) Lady Sings the Blues—Billie Holiday, 1956
4.) Masterpieces by Ellington—Duke Ellington, 1951
5.) Ellington Uptown—Duke Ellington, 1953
6.) Ellington at Newport—Duke Ellington, 1956
7.) The Quintet : Jazz at Massey Hall—Charlie Parker, 1953
8.) Catalogue : Live in East Germany—Ganelin / Tarasov / Chekasin, 1979/1981
9.) Blues Shout—Leo Wright, 1961
1O.) Hum Dono—Joe Harriott-Amancio D'Silva Quartet, 1969
11.) Gypsy`66—Gabor Szabo, 1965
12.) Spellbinder—Gabor Szabo, 1966
13.) Out of the Blue—Sonny Red, 196O
14.) Yardbird Suite—Herbie Mann, 1957
15.) Black Fire—Andrew Hill, 1964
16.) In a Minor Groove (Japanese edition)—Dorothy Ashby, 1958
17.) Hip Harp (Japan)—Dorothy Ashby, 1958
18.) Afro-Harping—Dorothy Ashby, 1968
19.) The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby, 197O
2O.) Dorothy's Harp—Dorothy Ashby, 1969

1-2O /1OO

 

( cont'd)

21.) The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe, 1958
22.) Newport 1958—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
23.) Time Further Out (Miro Reflections)—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1961
24.) Countdown : Time in Outer Space—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1962
25.) Time Changes—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1963
26.) Jazz Impressions of New York—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1965
27 ) Bravo! Brubeck!—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1967
28.) The Last Time we saw Paris—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1968
29.) New Agenda—Elvin Jones, 1975
3O.) Time Capsule—Elvin Jones, 1977

21-3O /1OO

 

cont.'d , i /n /p /o

31.) +plus4—Sonny Rollins, 1956
32.) Tangerine—Dexter Gordon, 1972
33.) A Day in Copenhagen—Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton, 1972
34.) Go!—Dexter Gordon, 1962
35.) Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet feat. Art Blakey & Kenny Drew–Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet, 1956
36.)

 

cont.'d, i /n /p /o

36 ) Music From Odds Against Tomorrow
The Modern Jazz Quartet, 1959

 

Great choices!

 

Here's my full 100:
Remember I'm only doing one song per artist!
No greatest hits/compilations

1. REVOLVER (The Beatles)
2. WHO'S NEXT (The Who)
3. VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATIONS SOCIETY (The Kinks)
4. ODESSEY AND ORACLE (The Zombies)
5. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FABLES (REM)
6. DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED (The Moody Blues)
7. PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (Pink Floyd)
8. MODERN LOVERS (The Modern Lovers)
9. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (Simon & Garfunkel)
10. WALK AWAY RENEE/PRETTY BALLERINA (The Left Banke)
11. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO (Velvet Underground)
12. STARTING OVER (The Raspberries)
13. BAND ON THE RUN (Paul McCartney & Wings)
14. MARSHALL CRENSHAW (Marshall Crenshaw)
15. WAR (U2)
16. BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (The Rolling Stones)
17. PET SOUNDS (The Beach Boys)
18. ALL THINGS MUST PASS (George Harrison)
19. PARALLEL LINES )Blondie)
20. TRAVELING WILBURYS (Traveling Wilburys)
21. DEJA VU (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
22. DAMN THE TORPEDOES (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
23. GRACELAND (Paul Simon)
24. EAST SIDE STORY (Squeeze)
25. LONDON CALLING (The Clash)
26. THIS YEARS MODEL (Elvis Costello)
27. PLASTIC ONO BAND (John Lennon)
28. IS THIS IT (The Strokes)
29. BORN IN THE USA (Bruce Springsteen)
30. THE CARS (The Cars)
31. LED ZEPPELIN IV (Led Zeppelin)
32. BOSTON (Boston)
33. A NEW WORLD RECORD (ELO)
34. ROGER THE ENGINEER (The Yardbirds)
35. SOMETIMES I SIT AND THINK AND SOMETIMES I JUST SIT (Courtney Barnett)
36. FIVE LEAVES LEFT (Nick Drake)
37. RADIO CITY (Big Star)
38. TRIANGLE (The Beau Brummels)
39. BEE GEES FIRST (The Bee Gees)
40. ODELAY (Beck)
41. COSMOS FACTORY (CCR)
42. ROCKET TO RUSSIA (Ramones)
43. DOOKIE (Green Day)
44. THE B 52'S (The B 52's)
45. AMERICAN BEAUTY (The Grateful Dead)
46. WEEZER (Weezer)
47. SCARECROW (John Mellancamp)
48. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE (Neil Young)
49. TAPESTRY (Carole King)
50. THE GRAND ILLUSION (Styx)
51. PRETENDERS (The Pretenders)
52. THE DOORS (The Doors)
53. WHAT'S GOING ON (Marvin Gaye)
54. NEW MISERABLE EXPERIENCE (Gin Blossoms)
55. INNERVISIONS (Stevie Wonder)
56. THE REMAINS (The Remains)
57. JAGGED LITTLE PILL (Alannis Morrisette)
58. THE STRANGER (Billy Joel)
59. ERIC CARMEN (Eric Carmen)
60. GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (Elton John)
61. YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK (Aretha Franklin)
62. PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE (Nick Lowe)
63. HOTEL CALIFORNIA (The Eagles)
64. RUMOURS (Fleetwood Mac)
65. EMPTY GLASS (Pete Townshend)
66. TOMORROW THE GREEN GRASS (The Jayhawks)
67. SAFE AS MILK (Captain Beefheart)
68. HERE'S LITTLE RICHARD (Little Richard)
69. THE STOOGES )The Stooges)
70. SURREALISTIC PILLOW (Jefferson Airplane)
71. FEAR (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
72. EL CAMINO (Black Keys)
73. SOMETHING/ANYTHING (Todd Rundgren)
74. BROTHERS IN ARMS (Dire Straits)
75. COME ON FEEL THE LEMONHEADS (The Lemonheads)
76. CLOSE TO THE EDGE (Yes)
77. PRONOUNCED LENHERD SKINNERD (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
78. ELEPHANT (The White Stripes)
79. CHICAGO II (Chicago)
80. BAD COMPANY (Bad Company)
81. OUTLANDOS D'AMOUR (The Police)
82. LITTLE CREATURES (Talking Heads)
83. I'M THE MAN (Joe Jackson)
84. EXCITABLE BOY (Warren Zevon)
85. HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED (Bob Dylan)
86. YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (The Byrds)
87. UNPLUGGED (Nirvana)
88. CENTERFIELD (John Fogerty)
89. RUNNING ON EMPTY (Jackson Browne)
90. SWEET BABY JAMES (James Taylor)
91. COURT AND SPARK (Joni Mitchell)
92. YOUNG AMERICANS (David Bowie)
93. EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY (Rod Stewart)
94. RINGO (Ringo Starr)
95. MUSIC FROM THE BIG PINK (The Band)
96. 25 O' CLOCK (Dukes Of Stratosphere)
97. KANSAS CITY SLICKERS (The Leopards)
98. CAREFUL (The Motels)
99. THOUGHTS OF EMERLIST DAVJACK (The Nice)
100. THE RUTLES (The Rutles)

 

I happen to like more than one album from some artists, and think they're better than albums from other artists. So no 'one album per artist' from me.

Revolver - The Beatles
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
London Calling - The Clash
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Entertainment! - Gang Of Four
Forever Changes - Love
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
ABBA - ABBA
My Houdini - Tactics
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Songs From A Room - Leonard Cohen
Closer - Joy Division
The Monkees - The Monkees
Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention
Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) - Led Zeppelin
The Shape Of Punk To Come - Refused
Moondance - Van Morrison
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Human Frailty - Hunters & Collectors
After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Paris 1919 - John Cale
Doughboy Hollow - Died Pretty
Parallel Lines - Blondie
War - U2
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
The Band - The Band
The La's - The La's
Body Talk - Robyn
The Lexicon Of Love - ABC
The Harder They Come - Various Artists
Catch A Fire - The Wailers
Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys
Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield
Tapestry - Carole King
Visions - Grimes
Since I Left You - The Avalanches
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Leave Home - Ramones
Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Pies Descalzos - Shakira
The Bends - Radiohead
Setting Sons - The Jam
Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow
Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
Murmur - R.E.M.
Tallulah - The Go-Betweens
Horses - Patti Smith
Purple Rain - Prince And The Revolution
1989 - Taylor Swift
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Who's Next - The Who
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
The Smiths - The Smiths
Primary Colours - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Midnight Oil
Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs
Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf
New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - Simple Minds
Living In The 70s - Skyhooks
Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
East - Cold Chisel
The Cars - The Cars
Boxer - The National
Discovery - Daft Punk
Quasimodo's Dream - The Reels
Broken English - Marianne Faithfull
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners
Tea For The Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Signing Off - UB40
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
Actually - Pet Shop Boys
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
(I'm) Stranded - The Saints
Stranger In The Alps - Phoebe Bridgers
Toy Love - Toy Love
Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra
Cold Fact - Rodriguez
Pampered Menial - Pavlov's Dog

 

Good call on The Rutles.

 

Allman Brothers
At Fillmore East
The Band
Music from Big Pink
The Band
The Beatles
Rubber Soul
Revolver
The Beatles (White Album)
Abbey Road
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills
Black Sabbath
Master of Reality
Vol. 4
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Captain Beefheart
Safe As Milk
Johnny Cash
At Folsom Prison
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
The Clash
London Calling
Alice Cooper
Love It to Death
Killer
Crosby, Still Nash (& Young)
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Deja Vu
Deep Purple
Made in Japan
Derek & The Dominos
Layla and other Assorted Love Songs
The Doors
Strange Days
LA Woman
Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left
Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blood on the Tracks
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Brain Salad Surgery
Fairport Convention
Unhalfbricking
Liege and Lief
Fleetwood Mac
Then Play On
Rumours
Peter Gabriel
Car
Melt
Genesis
Foxtrot
A Trick of the Tail
Roy Harper
Stormcock
Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced
Electric Ladyland
George Harrison
All Things Must Pass
Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Songs from the Wood
Carole King
Tapestry
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin
IV
Physical Graffiti
John Lennon
Plastic Ono Band
Love
Forever Changes
Joni Mitchell
Blue
Court and Spark
The Moody Blues
Days of Future Past
Seventh Sojourn
Van Morrison
Astral Weeks
Moondance
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Tom Petty
Wildflowers
Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Pogues
Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Procol Harum
Live With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Queen
A Night at the Opera
The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street
Roxy Music
Country Life
Todd Rundgren
Something, Anything
Santana
Abraxas
III
Simon & Garfunkel
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon
Graceland
Sly & The Family Stone
Stand
Cat Stevens
Tea for the Tillerman
Teaser and the Fire Cat
Supertramp
Crime of the Century
Rod Stewart
Every Picture Tells a Story
Traffic
John Barleycorn Must Die
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Robin Trower
Bridge of Sighs
Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones
Mule Variations
The Waterboys
Fisherman's Blues
The Who
Who's Next
Quadrophenia
Stevie Wonder
Talking Book
Innervisions
Neil Young -
Harvest
After the Gold Rush
Rust Never Sleeps
Yes
The Yes Album
Fragile
Close to the Edge
Frank Zappa
Hot Rats
Apostrophe
The Zombies
Odyssey & Oracle

 

Looks like you and I have more than 1 or 2 overlapping choices

 

Here are the first 5O titles I thought of, in no particular order. My only self-imposed restriction is that I did not go back and change anything already posted (I only added to partial segments of the list as I went along ).

1.)Time Out—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
2.) Songs for Distingué Lovers—Billie Holiday, 1958
3.) Lady Sings the Blues—Billie Holiday, 1956
4.) Masterpieces by Ellington—Duke Ellington, 1951
5.) Ellington Uptown—Duke Ellington, 1953
6.) Ellington at Newport—Duke Ellington, 1956
7.) The Quintet : Jazz at Massey Hall—Charlie Parker, 1953
8.) Catalogue : Live in East Germany—Ganelin / Tarasov / Chekasin, 1979/1981
9.) Blues Shout—Leo Wright, 1961
1O.) Hum Dono—Joe Harriott-Amancio D'Silva Quartet, 1969
11.) Gypsy`66—Gabor Szabo, 1965
12.) Spellbinder—Gabor Szabo, 1966
13.) Out of the Blue—Sonny Red, 196O
14.) Yardbird Suite—Herbie Mann, 1957
15.) Black Fire—Andrew Hill, 1964
16.) In a Minor Groove (Japanese edition)—Dorothy Ashby, 1958
17.) Hip Harp (Japan)—Dorothy Ashby, 1958
18.) Afro-Harping—Dorothy Ashby, 1968
19.) The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby, 197O
2O.) Dorothy's Harp—Dorothy Ashby, 1969
21.) The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe, 1958
22.) Newport 1958—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
23.) Time Further Out (Miro Reflections)—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1961
24.) Countdown : Time in Outer Space—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1962
25.) Time Changes—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1963
26.) Jazz Impressions of New York—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1965
27 ) Bravo! Brubeck!—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1967
28.) The Last Time we saw Paris—Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1968
29.) New Agenda—Elvin Jones, 1975
3O.) Time Capsule—Elvin Jones, 1977
31.) +plus4—Sonny Rollins, 1956
32.) Tangerine—Dexter Gordon, 1972
33.) A Day in Copenhagen—Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton, 1972
34.) Go!—Dexter Gordon, 1962
35.) Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet feat. Art Blakey & Kenny Drew—Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet, 1956
36 ) Music From Odds Against Tomorrow—Modern Jazz Quartet, 1959
37) Chopin : Sämtliche Nocturnes & Impromptus—Claudio Arrau, rec.1978, 198O
38) Simpatico—Gary McFarland & Gabor Szabo, 1966
39) Odyssey of Iska—Wayne Shorter, 1971
4O) Supernova—Wayne Shorter, 1969
41) Live at Harry's 1963—Joe Harriott rec. at Harry's Jazz Club, Leicester, 21 April 1963
42) Inventions & Dimensions—Herbie Hancock, 1964
43) Maestro—Moacir Santos, 1972
44) Larry Coryell & the Eleventh House at Montreaux—Larry Coryell , 1974
45) Arranjman—Neşe Karaböcek, 1971
46) Grass Roots—Andrew Hill, 1968
47) Movement—Joe Harriott , 1964
48) Dreams Come True—Andrew Hill & Chico Hamilton, rec.1993 /rel.2OO8
49) Swingin' With Humes—Helen Humes , 1961
5O) 'Taint Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do—Helen Humes , 1959

 

I found out that it's all about Jazz harp !
Love this one !






I love Claudio Arrau's rendition in Chopin's nocturne.