Article here. Kind of interesting. Unsurprisingly, dude's got good taste.

1. Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
2. Thelonious Monk Solo Monk
3. Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica
4. Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
5. Gavin Bryars The Sinking Of The Titanic
6. Bob Dylan/ The Band Basement Tapes
7. Lounge Lizards s/t
8. The Pogues Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
9. Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man
10. Little Richard The Specialty Sessions
11. James Brown Startime
12. Bohemian-Moravian Bands by Texas-Czech
13. Frank Zappa The Yellow Shark
14. Passion for Opera Aria
15. Bill Hicks Rant in E Minor
16. Prison Songs: Murderous Home Alan Lomax Collection
17. Marc Ribot Cubanos Postizos
18. Hounddog s/t
19. Les Claypool Purple Onion
20. Elvis Costello The Delivery Man

Edit: nice that he gives props to Pete Thomas. Remember seeing Costello in '78 and marvelling at what a great drummer the guy was. Small kit like Charlie Watts too.

Hey they all misanthropes like him.

i LOVE tom waits...def. one of my favs of all time.....

interesting mix of musak

there are many people i admire who i'd like to share a beer with, but very few i think i would ENJOY sharing a beer with.

i'd enjoy a beer with Tom.

Nice list. Awesome artist. I actually prefer his stuff prior to 1983, but you can't really find much wrong with any of his albums

Steve

In other news, the international police organization Interpol announced that anyone owning all the albums on this list will be brought before The Hague for crimes against humanity.

I actually got most of his musical references, own more than my fair share of his suggested albums ( need to get Houndog - got all Los Lobos/Los Super Seven stuff) and felt pretty solid musically for the first time in quite awhile.

Tom Waits is it for me. I love him. He is a madman and a saint. I was lucky enough to catch him at SXSW a few years ago and even though he was rusty and forgot words to some songs, it is still by far the best concert I've ever seen. Lucinda Williams was about five rows in front of me mesmerized as I and my wife were.

walks away from the computer singing..."For I Am A Rain Dog Too..."

This is the most boring list ever in history. It's so pristine. Everything is so unarguably in good taste it's actually suspect. One hopes it was just pure vanity that forced the man Waits to purge his list of off colour choices for the alternative is much worse.

Do we not love a fellow for his foibles?

man this reminded me i need to hear basement tapes

I was thinking the exact same thing. It seems too calculated and much too safe.

Doesn't stop them from being good albums now does it?

Well what did you expect him to have, Metallica and The GO! Team?

It would have been kinda neat for there to at least be 1 "Huh?" record in there.

Nice to see Hicks in there, though...that one's in my all-time top 10.

and it's not calculated at all.
a random Sinatra album number one?
i've never seen anyone put sinatra anywhere on these lists.

a primus album i've never heard of.
leonard cohens weird album.
a strange thelonius album at two?
gavin bryars?

I dunno about a "random" Sinatra album. Its the only one I own...and is sometimes acknowledged as the first concept album (i.e. all songs concerning the same basic thing -- in this case his separation from a woman)

Its great. #1? Not me, but I like the rock and the roll a bit too much to put something like this at #1.

I do agree with your basic point, Jewelz, I don't find this contrived or anything like that.

i guess it's not random.
but i feel like most people don't talk about sinatra in terms of albums unless they are really big fans.

he's the kind of guy too many people are happy with the greatest hits, so his albums rarely make it onto album lists.

thanks to my dad and flea markets, i have about 20 of his albums.
all great in their own way.

Only the heppest li'l indie kids intentionally include a WTF? choice on their top album list.

I gotta say you all seem to be failing to recognize the difference in our median ages here, and Tom's Actaul age. He is at least a generation older thaN us all, AND YET HE STILL HAS TIME FOR NEWER, More ADVENTUROUS ALBUMS.

Hell, you ask anyone in their fifties and on up who should be number one and several would point towards Sinatra. He made great albums. But It is the rest of that list that intrigues me... The Lounge Lizards, The Pogues, Bill Hicks, Costello, Houndog, Les Claypool, the Bohemian thingie... true, it isn't indie as fuck, but I'd wager they'd all be pretty rewarding listens for true music fans.

You'd win that wager.

that would have been hilarious.

and awesome.

I was kind of surprised to see the newest Elvis Costello was one in the top 10. I haven't heard it yet, but it's realy not a "safe" choice like picking a time tested classic.

Maybe not that album but the artist is extremely safe.

A very good point, and obvious as fuck to me. Besides, it's somebody's LIST, for gawd's sake. Somehow, he ain't as kewl as he should be because of what music he likes? GMAFB. I like some of his list and don't like some of it and know knothing of some of it. Seems like anyone's list to me.

haha...awesome avatar red hood suite.