Top 25 Favorite Albums of All Time

[epilogue]

It changes all the time for me, too. It's a fun exercise but it's not easy and ultimately pointless because it'll be different sooner than later.

[liebzz]

I need to try this, especially after all these album journeys but one album per artist wouldn’t make sense to me. I can count a couple of artists at least where multiple albums would make my top 25.

[epilogue]

I need to try this, especially after all these album journeys but one album per artist wouldn’t make sense to me. I can count a couple of artists at least where multiple albums would make my top 25.

Oh it definitely changes things. My list would be very different with multiple albums per artist. But it's fun to see a wider variety and depth, just as an exercise. But, by all means, do your list however you want. I'd love to see what makes the cut for you.

[liebzz]

I need to try this, especially after all these album journeys but one album per artist wouldn’t make sense to me. I can count a couple of artists at least where multiple albums would make my top 25.

Oh it definitely changes things. My list would be very different with multiple albums per artist. But it's fun to see a wider variety and depth, just as an exercise. But, by all means, do your list however you want. I'd love to see what makes the cut for you.

To be fair I need at least 100. This I am sure isn’t right but it’s the best I got for the moment - in reverse order to maximize the drama:

25. Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
24. American Beauty (Grateful Dead)
23. Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
22. Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
21. Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)
20. Quadrophenia (The Who)
19. New Adventures in HiFi (R.E.M.)
18. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
17. Cosmo’s Factory (Credence Clearwater Revival)
16. After the Goldrush (Neil Young)
15. No Code (Pearl Jam)
14. Z (My Morning Jacket)
13. Abbey Road (The Beatles)
12. The Band (The Band)
11. Who’s Next (The Who)
10. On the Beach (Neil Young)
9. The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (Bruce Springsteen)
8. Binaural (Pearl Jam)
7. It Still Moves (My Morning Jacket)
6. Blonde On Blonde (Bob Dylan)
5. Vitalogy (Pearl Jam)
4. Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
3. Wildflowers (Tom Petty)
2. Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones)
1. Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones)

If I could expand another 25-75 albums, you’d see more Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, MMJ, Stones, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Grateful Dead, and maybe Radiohead, Black Crowes, Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden,etc.

[VinylGuy]

No particular order but something like this:

1 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
2 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
3 Pearl Jam VS
4 Pearl Jam No Code
5 Neil Young Ragged Glory
6 Soundgarden Superunknown
7 Fiona Apple When The Pawn
8 The Beatles Revolver
9 Kayne West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
10 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
11 Janes Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
12 U2 Atchung Baby
13 Tom Waits Bone Machine
14 Alice In Chains Jar Of Flies
15 REM Monster
16 Mad Season Above
17 GNR Use Your Illusion
18 The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge
19 Pixies Doolittle
20 Dangelo Voodoo
21 Temple Of The Dog
22 Soundgarden Down On The Upside
23 Alice In Chains
24 Pearl Jam Binaural
25 RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic

[liebzz]

No particular order but something like this:

1 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
2 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
3 Pearl Jam VS
4 Pearl Jam No Code
5 Neil Young Ragged Glory
6 Soundgarden Superunknown
7 Fiona Apple When The Pawn
8 The Beatles Revolver
9 Kayne West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
10 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
11 Janes Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
12 U2 Atchung Baby
13 Tom Waits Bone Machine
14 Alice In Chains Jar Of Flies
15 REM Monster
16 Mad Season Above
17 GNR Use Your Illusion
18 The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge
19 Pixies Doolittle
20 Dangelo Voodoo
21 Temple Of The Dog
22 Soundgarden Down On The Upside
23 Alice In Chains
24 Pearl Jam Binaural
25 RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic

A bunch of these kicked around but just missed my list: BSSM, TotD, Above, Ritual, Superunknown, Kind of Blue was very close as was Birth of the Cool but I wasn’t cool enough for that.

[VinylGuy]

Of course i left so many things...Chris Cornell Euphoria Morning, Massive Attack Mezzanine, Parliament Funkadelic, Al Green, Smashing Pumpkins, Alanis, Dusty Springfield, Sleater Kinney, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Lanegan, Qotsa, Bill Frisell, Bill Evans....

Its just impossible

[chewm]

fun

1. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
2. Hop Along - Painted Shut
3. Los Campesinos! - Hold On, Now Youngster
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. Pixies - Doolittle
6. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
7. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
8. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
9. Fresh - Withdraw
10. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
11. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
12. Troubled Hubble - Making Beds In A Burning House
13. Hop Along - Get Disowned
14. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
15. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
16. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
17. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
18. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
19. The Rutabega - Brother the Lights Don't Work
20. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
21. R.E.M. - Reckoning
22. Silkworm - Lifestyle
23. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
24. Destroyer - Kaputt
25. Jenny Mae - Don't Wait Up For Me

[epilogue]

Some great, great albums on these lists, team.

[VinylGuy]

I totally fucked up with Beastie Boys, both Check Your Head and Ill Comunication are in every list i made. Also Zep IV, Melvins and Fugazi.

[ghost]

A purely sentimental list off the top of my head:

Pearl Jam, No Code
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Roadside Graves, Acne/Ears
Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day
Hiss Golden Messenger, Heart Like a Levee

Neil Young, Harvest Moon
Josh Ritter, The Animal Years
Jenny Lewis, Voyager
Sunny Day Real Estate, How It Feels to Be Something On
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers

Bob Dylan, Time Out of Mind
John Prine, Bruised Orange
Radiohead, OK Computer
Wilco, A Ghost Is Born
Trampled By Turtles, Midnight on the Interstate

Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA
Beatles, Abbey Road
Tom Petty, Wildflowers
Soundgarden, Superunknown
James McMurtry, Just Us Kids

Jackson Browne, Late for the Sky
Pedro the Lion, It's Hard to Find a Friend
Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie and Lowell
John Moreland, In the Throes

[oasisfan35]

Jackson Browne, Late for the Sky

[Chris_H_2]

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie and Lowell

You are the first to mention this. And this was one of my first thoughts when thinking about this after seeing this thread bumped. Great choice.

[ghost]

Jackson Browne, Late for the Sky

I need to do a deep dive into JB. I don't know much outside of that album and his hits.

[chewm]

Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Pedro the Lion, It's Hard to Find a Friend

yess

[Chris_H_2]

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Kid A - Radiohead
Taak - Sigur Ros
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
Art Angels - Grimes
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
Boxer - The National
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
New Adventures In Hi-Fi - REM
Yield - Pearl Jam
A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs
Sea Change - Beck
Revolver - The Beatles
Last Broadcast - Doves
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
Remain In Light - Talking Heads
Currents - Tame Impala
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Achtung Baby - U2
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Bon Iver - Bon Iver

[Kalevi]

vitalogy PJ
No code PJ
Ghost is born. Wilco
Illinois. Sufjan Stevens
Deeper Understanding. War on drugs
Ok computer. Radiohead
Reckoning. Rem
New adventures hi fi. Rem
Mirror ball. Neil young
Rain dogs. Tom waits
Endless numbered days. Iron and wine
Funeral. Arcade fire
Let it be. Beatles
Before these crowded streets. Dmv
Aquemini. Outkast
Flying club cup. Beirut
Tiny music. Stp
Black saint and lady sinner. Mingus
Walking on a pretty daze. Kurt vile
Fate. Dr dog
Time out of mind. Dylan
Achtung baby. U2
Ascension. Coltrane
Desire. Dylan
Hail to the theif. Radiohead
White album. Beatles
Let england shake. Pj harvey
Sketches of spain. Miles davis

[Rangi Guy]

Sign o' the Times - Prince
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Achtung Baby - U2
Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs
No Code - Pearl Jam
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Kid A - Radiohead
Superunkown - Soundgarden
Metallica - Metallica
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Ain't That Good News - Sam Cooke
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Hunting High and Low - A-Ha
Thriller - Michael Jackson
The General Electric - Shihad
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
Lateralus - Tool
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Nevermind - Nirvana
Inside the Dub Plates - Salmonella Dub
Muchacho - Phosphorescent

[LoathedVermin72]

Updated top 10 (one per artist):

1. Kanye West - Yeezus
2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
4. Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
5. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board
7. Gorgoroth - Ad majorem Sathanas gloriam
8. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
9. Mayhem - Ordo ad chao
10. Radiohead - Kid A

[Ello Sailor]

Nice to see Turn on the Bright Lights in there. My love for that album only seems to grow over the years. It has aged remarkably well. #CarlosDisachodeforleaving

No Pumpkins or NIN is wild though.