Sweet, i appreciate it.

I feel a wee bit silly trying to comment on something that i am just learning about (maybe Lee Morgan/Enrico Rava aside), but i am very suprised with that Build An Ark making your list. I was a bit underwhelmed, but as i said, i really do know shit.

Er, cheers.

Where we musically overlap (based on albums I've heard).

I maybe overrating it a little but I'm a sucker for spiritual jazz and big ensembles fusing disparate styles. They do it well. I also tend to ignore most recent jazz releases assuming i'd be better off focusing my attention on releases from 1950-1975, but this is pretty great so i wanted to give it props.

maybe this has been discussed before, but...the Beatles? Not a fan, billy?

I have more respect than love for them. A couple of albums would probably make a top 250 - 300 for me, but top 100, no.

BG only liked them for the one week in 1966 when Lennon wore an afro wig.

Final list I submitted to alongwaltz:

1. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
4. The Band - The Band
5. Love - Forever Changes
6. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
7. Gram Parsons -G.P./Grievous Angel
8. Gang of Four - Entertainment
9. The Clash - The Clash
10. Jorge Ben - A Tabua de Esmeralda
11. Terry Callier - Occasional Rain
12. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
13. Neil Young - Harvest
14. Caetano Veloso - Transa
15. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
16. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
17. Buddy Miles - Them Changes
18. Moby Grape - Moby Grape
19. The Zombies - Odyssey & the Oracle
20. Joni Mitchell - Blue
21. Eno/Cale - Wrong Way Up
22. Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
23. Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything
24. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
25. Richard Hell - Blank Generation
26. Eugene McDaniel - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse/Outlaw
27. The Band - Music From the Big Pink
28. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
29. The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
30. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
31. Neil Young - Zuma
32. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
33. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
34. Roxy Music - Avalon
35. The Harder They Come Soundtrack
36. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
37. Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
38. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin
39. Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
40. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
41. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Cemetary
42. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
43. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
44. The Kinks - Something Else
45. Townes Van Zandt - High, Low In Between/The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
46. The Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime
47. Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
48. James Brown - Live at the Apollo II
49. Neil Young - Live at Massey
50. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
51. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
52. Jackson Frank - Jackson Frank
53. The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
54. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
55. Manu Chao - Clandestino
56. The Voices of East Harlem - Right on Be Free
57. Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
58. Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden
59. Hank Thompson - Songs for Rounders
60. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
61. Bobby Hutcherson - Montara
62. John Cale - Fear
63. The Replacements - Tim
64. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Survival
65. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
66. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
67. Betty Davis - Betty Davis
68. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
69. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
70. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Original Rockers Uptown
71. Morphine - Cure for Pain
72. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
73. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
74. Elvis Costello - Taking Liberties
75. Marcos Valle - Garra
76. Tim Maia - Racional V. 1
77. The Saints - Eternally Yours
78. Bob Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes
79. Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
80. The Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real
81. Blood Sweat and Tears - Child is the Father to the Man
82. Eddie Harris - Silver Cycles
83. Frank Foster - Loud Minority
84. Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
85. Al Kooper - New York City (You're a Woman)
86. Jesse Ed Davis - Jesse Davis/Ululu
87. Dale Hawkins - LA, Memphis & Tyler, Texas
88. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
89. Mitch Ryder - The Detroit-Memphis Experience
90. Joao Donato - Quem E Quem
91. Lo Borges - A Via Lactea
92. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
93. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
94. Clayton Downie - Black Slavery Days
95. English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
96. The Specials - The Specials
97. Van Morrison - Into the Music
98. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
99. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
100. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Changes:

Bumped My Aim is True & Eno/Cale out of top 20 and Blue and Zombies up...now the order in the top 20 is pretty random. I think i could live with any of those at #1.

Changed the order in minor ways through out

Added: Eugene McDaniel at 25 who I'd left off by mistake

also added: clayton downie, lloyd cole, and dale hawkins
cut: the fall, buena vista social club, bobby charles, & marvin gaye

No question this is my favorite list so far.

I think it's probably mine as well.

why wouldn't your own list be your favorite? mine certainly is.

Oh mine is definitely the best list on the board, any board. But aside from my own, I really like billy's Top 100.

haha

I'm too preachy and self-indulgent.