Two things... a lot of overlap, but I've got some fresh treats too. Also, really hard for me to rank... I'd start thinking about jazz and ran them together. Oh well, it's close enough s'pose.

1. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
2. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
3. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
4. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
6. Terry Reid – River
7. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
8. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
9. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
10. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
11. Bill Fay – Bill Fay/Time of the Last Persecution
12. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
13. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
14. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
15. Television - Marquee Moon
16. David Bowie - Low
17. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
18. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
19. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
20. Jeff Buckley – Grace
21. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
22. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
23. Can - Ege Bamyasi
24. The Beatles - Abbey Road
25. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
26. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
27. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
28. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
29. Ramones - Ramones
30. Nick Lowe – Jesus of Cool
31. Willis Alan Ramsey – Willis Alan Ramsey
32. Scott Walker – Scott
33. Scott Walker – Scott 4
34. Tim Buckely – Starsailor
35. Slint - Spiderland
36. Tyrone Washington – Natural Essecne
37. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
38. Andrew Hill – Black Fire
39. Duke Ellington – Far East Suite
40. Beatles – Relvolver
41. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
42. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
43. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
44. Wire - Pink Flag
45. J. Hendrix - Are You Experienced
46. The Clash - London Calling
47. Love - Forever Changes
48. Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel
49. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
50. The Replacements - Let It Be
51. Meat Puppets - II
52. Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental
53. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
54. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
55. Slayer - Reign in Blood
56. John Lennon - The Plastic Ono Band
57. The Band - The Band
58. New York Dolls – New York Dolls
59. Richard Hell & The VoidOids - Blank Generation
60. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
61. The Jam - All Mod Cons
62. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
63. Pixies - Doolittle
64. The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
65. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
66. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
67. Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue
68. Pearl Jam – Ten
69. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
70. Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger
71. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
72. Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
73. Fugazi – 13 Songs
74. Sam Cooke - Live at the Copa
75. Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis
76. Bill Evans - Waltz For Debbie
77. Paul Simon - Graceland
78. A Tribe Called Quest – Low End Theory
79. Otis Redding – Otis Blue
80. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
81. James Brown - Live at the Apollo II
82. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
83. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
84. This Heat - Deceit
85. The Replacements - Tim
86. Elvis Presley – I’m 10,000 Years Old
87. Morphine - Cure for Pain
88. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
89. Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
90. Fred Neil - The Many Sides of Fred Neil
91. Dino Valente – Dino Valente
92. Dion – Dion
93. Alexander Spence – Oar
94. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
95. John Phillips – Wolf King of L.A.
96. Kraftwerk – Trans Europa Express
97. Orange Juice – Rip It Up
98. Robin Gibb – Sing Slowly Sisters
99. Duke Jordan - Flight to Jordan
100. Sparks - Sparks

EDIT: What a dope... I had the wrong Neil Young album written down... my #2 no less. Fixed!

the stuff that i recognize on here i really like

im shocked at how many minutemen fans we have here
not that they don't deserve it... i just never noticed it before

If I wasn't just hearing this now for the second time, I'm pretty sure it would have been on my list.

This is frighteningly close to my list. Which mean, of course, that it's almost perfect.

Over the years, I've garnered we have similar tastes across the board, D. Looking at some lists now, I sense a kinship with Rads and Harry as well.

I tend to really like the older singer/songwriter stuff, along with grand scale melodic epics. I could have easily thrown more jazz on here, but thought it best to keep that under 10%. I'm huge in 90s rap... but very few albums hold up for me. If this was top 100 joints rather than albums, 80% would be rap.

I've never seen this released as a twofer. Are you completely cheating by combining these two into one on your own? Love both. I put Time of the Last Persecution on my list although not this high.

this is a really good list. Some good overlap with my list, lots of things that I love, nothing that i hate and some really good unconventional picks including the above and Wolf King of LA.

I'm definitely going to have to look more into the handful of ones I've never heard before...Robin Gibb, Duke Jordan, Dion, Tyrone Washington, Willis Alan Ramsey. Not sure if I've heard that Terry Reid either. I dled one of his albums along time ago but don't think it was that one.

The Dion album is the one from 1968, right? I've never heard that one, but have always been curious about it.

What sucks was I dropped about $50 for that CD through ebay... of course a year later, both we re-issued separately. So it does exist... and since I paid through the nose to obtain it... it makes the list as one!

Yes. It's got that great black cover. Found that on ebay as well... LP though so it was cheap.

A lot of those you mentioned are OOP (Washington, Dion, Gibb). The Tyrone Washington has become my favorite Blue Note session from the late 60s. I made a vinyl rip of this if anyone's interested.... I can try and upload it soon.

Robin Gibb's is a bootleg. Never released to the public which is a fucking tragedy.

Willis Alan Ramsey is another of those guys that opened with a bang and now, 30 years later, he's never followed this debut up. I'm actually using Angel Eyes from that record as my wedding song next year. I so wanted to put Michael Nesmith on here... but W.A.R. is better.

Dion's not OOP, is it? I picked up the CD new & really cheap a little while back.

If anybody wants a rip, let me know, but I can't promise I'll have it up before I leave this weekend.

You're right! They're calling it Abraham, Martin and John now. Looks like it was re-mastered last year. To the CDuniverse!

I'd seen that willis alan ramsey on someone's listmania over at amazon next to a bunch of other stuff that i really like so it was already somewhat on my radar. Its moving up the purchase list now. I like Michael Nesmith too but not quite enough to make my cut either.

I'd definitely be interested in the tyrone washington rip if you care to up it. The late 60's/early 70's is my favorite period in jazz.

I know you said that the robin gibb is a boot, but is it hard to find? I like all the early bee gees albums that i've heard and heard that there were good solo works but had never searched them out.

also, you should either post more or I should pay more attention to your posts or both.

Tyrone Washington - Natural Essence


Billy - as for Gibb... I think I got that off of allofmp3 years ago... but I'm sure you can find it floating around the innerwebz. If not, I can up it from home over the weekend.

yeah a quick search reveals that robin gibb is all over the internet including here

and thanks for the tyrone washington

Solid stuff here. Lots of things I'm familiar with and like, which makes me curious about much of what's on it that I'm not familiar with. Nice work.

Always a good choice. But, just wanted to point out something once pointed out to me. There is no question mark at the end of that title. Marvin wasn't asking you...he was telling you.

Yep. I always do that. You would think with that kick ass Nike add, I would be more on top of things like this!

I only skimmed your list rather quickly, but I don't see a single non-canonical/album that's considered a "classic" pick. That makes me wonder about you.

I think this list projects where I am with my likes now, rather than what I could compile as an all-time top 100. I have plenty of non-canonical albums in my repertoire, but I tire of certain genres quickly these days. The ones I've chosen for this list I can always go back to and can't see myself tiring of any time soon.

Should have put Slayer's Reign in Blood in here. Screw it... I will.

hmmm

Well, metal was such a force in my pre-teen/teenage years I may as well put the banger of all bangers on here. :lol:

No need to defend the jesuitical attack... this is a very good list.

I've seen that Pacific Ocean Blue on a couple of lists now. Seeing it in the context of this list means I guess I'll have to get it and listen with an open mind.

I am not particularly impressed by Pacific Ocean Blue.

I'm not surprised its not your thing. Its really just a straight forward regular ole rock record which wouldn't probably scream "Drinky" to me.

I'm not sure where i'd rank it myself, not top 100, but I think its a really strong record and like it more than any Brian Wilson or Beach Boys album.

In retrospect, it would probably sneak into my Top 100. I quite like it. Definitely like it better than Brian's work.