An other list but this one (from my local rag) actually lives up to the tag.

One of the best 'best albums ever' lists I've seen and the writing is really good too.

Check it out.

http://www.sundayherald.com/bestalbums.shtml

Destroyer?! As a KISS fan I declare this to be nonesuch. Its such an easy pick.

11-20--3 live albums? I can name albums by each which are better.

31-40--gotta respect the Skip Spence and Sam the Sham picks.

You know I like a good best of record, when I'm trying to get into someone where the stuff is oop or just rare. Choosing "Decade" though, as great as it is, is just plain lazy.

61-70--god bless! someone finally recognizes Spacemen 3!

Ok, there are 2 Dylan bootleg series sets on this list? Wtf.

With all my warbling, I have 2 things to say:

1)the amount of greatest hits and live albums is astounding.
2)I respect this list. I really do. They picked out some of the albums I herald (maggotbrain) and also picked some steady faves (VU & Nico/Funhouse). I'll have to read deeper into their descriptions.

I didn't see an album I owned until group 51-60, Led Zeppelin 4.

Fun list..some new ones that you don't see on them kinda things much.

Really glad to see Charlie Feathers on there...Dion too. And, yeah props for picking KISS so high.

I just hate mixing in the jazz...like he's being all-inclusive, buof the greatest 105 records like 95 of them just happen to be rock records...just a pet peeve, he does pick some nice jazz ones too.

Also really like the Throbbing Gristle and Fairport Convention picks up high.

Yeah, lots of live stuff on there...but gotta say that Ramones It's Alive record really does kick some serious ass.

Please, though...anyone who saw that Shaggs record as anything other than funny for about 30 seconds is really stretching things.

I think I'll go listen to that Suicide record now...

pretty sweet list.

Definitely a different take on things, with only a few WTF's. The inclusion of Fred Neil and Bunny Wailer is enough to redeem any occasional missteps.

Is this an old list? It looks kind of familiar. So does the picture of the writer. Did he do another list one time?

kiss is awful.

good list

Excellent list..

but Kerouac? I mean hell... where's Dylan Thomas...

I like this list. Its not afraid to throw out the live albums, the comps, the metal, or the jazz. I was bored, So I typed it up.

1-10
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
The Stooges - Funhouse
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Kiss - Destroyer
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
John Coltrane - Meditations
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Sonic Youth - Sister
Fairport Convention - Liege and Leaf

11-20
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
The Shaggs - The Shaggs
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Ramones - It's Alive
Bob Dylan - Live 1966
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout mask replica
Jack Kerouac - Legends of the 21st Century
Suicide - Suicide

21-30
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request
Funkadelic - Maggotbrain
The Who - Sell Out
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
Charlie Feathers - Get With It: Essential Recordings 1954-69
Various Artists - The Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man

31-40
Alexander 'Skip' Spence - Oar
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
The Beach Boys - Surf's up/Sunflower
Moondog - H'art Songs
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs - Pharoahization!
Sun Ra The Singles - Evidence
Fred Neil - Bleeker and MacDougal
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony
Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

41-50
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies - Live at the Fillmore East
Elvis Presley - The Complete Sun Sessions
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
AC/DC - Back in Black
Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band - No Roses
Neil Young - Decade
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Evan Parker - Saxophone Solos

51-60
James Brown - Live at the Apollo Volume Two: Deluxe Edition
Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
King Crimson - Red
Royal Trux - Accelerator
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Nico - The Marble Index

61-70
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
Television - The Blow Up
John Fahey - Return of the Repressed
Neu! - Neu '75
MC5 - Back in the USA
The Real Kids - Grown Up Wrong
Tiny Tim - God bless Tiny Tim
Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription
Steeleye Span - Please To See The King
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri

71-80
Charley Patton - Screaming and Hollerin' the Blues
Dion - The Road I'm On
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Can - Delay 1968
Scott Walker - Tilt
Kronos Quartet - Early Music
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Pastels - Mobile Safari
Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs For Drella
The Beatles - The White Album

81-90
Blue Oyser Cult - AGENTS OF FORTUNE
REM - GREEN
FAUST - SO FAR
THE CRAMPS - SONGS THE LORD TAUGHT US
MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ - FROM A SUMMER TO ANOTHER SUMMER
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - VOLUNTEERS
LEONARD COHEN - SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE
MONKS - BLACK MONK TIME
MEAT LOAF - BAT OUT OF HELL
FRIPP AND ENO - EVENING STAR

91-105
PERE UBU - TERMINAL TOWER
MILES DAVIS - KIND OF BLUE
BLUE CHEER - VINCEBUS ERUPTUM
RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON - I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT
LIGHTS TONIGHT
VARIOUS ARTISTS - THAT'S WHAT I CALL SWEET MUSIC
HARRY PARTCH - THE HARRY PARTCH COLLECTION VOLUME 2: THE WAYWARD
ROBBIE BASHO - GUITAR SOLI
THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
NWA - STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
THE CARTER FAMILY - IN THE SHADOW OF CLINCH MOUNTAIN
BOB DYLAN - THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOLUMES 1-3
THE SONICS - HERE ARE THE SONICS
HALF JAPANESE - GREATEST HITS

That's a kick ass best of. Not the one I'd write, obviously, but totally justified. Worth reading the descriptions, too.

That list sucks. Nebraska isnt even the 8th best Bruce album.......

But whatever, its a list; rock on.

Great list, love the inclusion of MC5...

that's all i have from the list.

Fun list -- obviously snarky, but we need a kick in the pants once in a while -- even find it hard to argue with some of his selections (Black Sabbath's first album, King Crimson's Red, Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society [I know a Kinks fan who likes that album a lot]), but some of them are seriously WTF-worthy: Dark Magus? Alpha Centauri?!?!? (I mean, c'mon, that's like one of Tangerine Dream's worst albums!) Throbbing Gristle at #2?!?!?

And a couple of safe bets: Agents of Fortune, Hounds of Love, etc.

Yep. Just another mook with an opinion. And nice try on the inclusion of Bat Out Of Hell - that sort of ersatz Springsteen must seem reeeeally exotic while huddling around a tea cozy because there's no central heating in your 300 yr old thatched roof cottage.

Maybe he's dreaming of coming to the States and hooking up with a sorority chick.

I must remember to avoid all of these albums... and the ones I own (Big Star, Zombies, Tim Buckley) I'm getting rid of.

F*ck you, sir.

Okay...

their review of Red is spot-on.

Bat Out of Hell is pretty awesome.

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs - Pharoahization! is his best atypical choice. That's an 80s Rhino best of whose expanded CD version is now out of print. Dark Magus is comparable to more famous Davis albums of the period so I don't consider it a WTF. I got mine from the now defunct Columbia House club. It would be a good BMG pickup but I don't think they have it.

But have you seen my records?!!!

I see why people might want to wail on this album, it's kind of dumb and melodramatic but I've always loved it. It always reminds me of long drives around Superior.