compiling and ordering took much longer than i'd anticipated, but it made me draw out a few albums i was on the fence on to see how they've held up. i was pretty pleased with that.


1. Weezer (1994)
2. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
5. Old 97s - Too Far to Care
6. Brendan Benson - Lapalco
7. Pulp - Different Class
8. Mr. Bungle - California
9. Radiohead - The Bends
10. Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity
11. Doves - Lost Souls
12. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
13. The Delgados - The Great Eastern
14. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
15. Daft Punk - Discovery
16. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
17. Sigur Ros - ( )
18. Air - Moon Safari
19. The National - Alligator
20. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
21. face to face - Big Choice
22. Supergrass - In It For the Money
23. The Clash - London Calling
24. Talking Heads - More Songs About Building and Food
25. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
26. Tristeza - Dream Signals in Full Circles
27. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
28. Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
29. The Strokes - Room on Fire
30. The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
31. Depeche Mode - Violator
32. Jawbreaker - Dear You
33. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
34. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
35. T. Rex - The Slider
36. XTC - Drums & Wires
37. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
38. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
39. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
40. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
41. Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
42. Doves - The Last Broadcast
43. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
44. Ambulance Ltd - LP
45. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
46. Enon - High Society
47. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
48. face to face (1996)
49. Quicksand - Manic Compression
50. The Boys (1977)
51. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
52. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
53. David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band
54. Big Star - #1 Record
55. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
56. Wilco - Summerteeth
57. XTC - The Black Sea
58. Neil Young - Harvest
59. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
60. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
61. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
62. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
63. Arcade Fire - Funeral
64. Television - Marquee Moon
65. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
66. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
67. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
68. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
69. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
70. The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos
71. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
72. Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream
73. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
74. The B-52s (1979)
75. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
76. Travis - The Man Who
77. The Thermals - Fuckin’ A
78. Franz Ferdinand (2004)
79. Hem - Rabbit Songs
80. The Undertones (1979)
81. Coldplay - Parachutes
82. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model
83. Old 97s - Fight Songs
84. The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
85. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
86. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
87. Nirvana - In Utero
88. Rolling Stones - Some Girls
89. Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People
90. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
91. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
92. Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear
93. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen
94. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
95. Talking Heads - 77
96. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
97. Love - Forever Changes
98. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
99. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
100. Lô Borges (1972)

solid list.

Queue Radcliffe head explosion

I sort of forgot about Ambulance LTD. I liked that album a lot at the time but I never listen to it anymore. I need to pull that out again. Are they finished?

It detonated way before the cue.

Yeah, no Ducks Deluxe?

you like Manic Compression over Slip?



Hm.

you are good

Nice on the Lo Borges. Not a single soul album?

I was about to say the same thing. Must be a Los Angeles Hive Mind thing...

apparently, everyone except the singer left the band because of the singer. so i guess he owns the name and is trying to put out another album by himself.


yeah, this is a "right time, right place" situation. slip is really good and i enjoy it, but manic compression was out at a time when this sound meant the world to me and i latched onto it for a long time. i still listen to it quite a bit too.


after looking the list over five minutes after finishing it, i realized that omission. i could've easily slotted in either doris duke album, paul kelly's stealing in the name of the lord or carla thomas' the queen alone, but i'm not sure i listen to them enough to warrant them as favorites. i'm much more likely to grab a pile of soul and r&b 45s, sit next to the turntable and listen to them a couple times each rather than listen to whole albums. still, i adore i'm a loser and stealing in the name of the lord, so those are 2 critical oversights among about a dozen i've noticed now that i've actually looked at other people's lists.