Top 25 Favorite Albums of All Time

[stip]

1-3 are pretty set in stone. Honestly everything that follows could be in almost any order, and probably is.

1. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
2. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
3. Pearl Jam - Ten

Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Tom Wairs - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Blood Money
James - Laid
U2- Achtung Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Mark Lanegan - Whisky for the Holy Ghost
Soulsavers - Broken
Tim Booth - Booth and the Bad Angel
R.E.M. - Accelerate
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pagent
Led Zeppelin - IV
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tool - Aenima
Screaming Trees - Dust
Prince - Purple Rain
Tom Waits - Orphans...
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

[Yeddie Yedder]

1. Pearl Jam - No Code
2. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
3. Tool - Lateralus
4. Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead
5. Deftones - White Pony
6. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
7. Mogwai - Come on Die Young
8. Weezer - Blue Album
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
10. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
11. Mad Season - Above
12. Mono - Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
13. The Notwist - Neon Golden
14. The Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday
15. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
16. Gregor Samsa - 55:12
17. Sigur Ros - ( )
18. Beatles - Abbey Road
19. Metallica - And Justice for All
20. Michael Jackson - Bad
21. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
22. Nirvana - In Utero
23. Miles Davis - Miles Smiles24.
24. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
25. Russian Circles - Station

[Kevin Davis]

Great pick with "Miles Smiles" -- maybe the best album from my favorite period of Miles's career.

[matt reeder]

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
2. Nirvana - In Utero
3. Soundgarden - Superunknown

4-25, in no particular order:
* The Beatles - The Beatles
* Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
* Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
* U2 - Achtung Baby
* Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
* Radiohead - OK Computer
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Radiohead - The Bends
* Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
* Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
* Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
* Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
* The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
* Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
* Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
* Ice Cube - Death Certificate
* Nas - Illmatic
* R.E.M. - Murmur
* Pavement - Wowee Zowee
* Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
* Paul Simon - Graceland
* Prince - Purple Rain

That's mostly accurate though I can think of about 25 other albums to include too. Those were just the first 25 that came to mind.

[Yeddie Yedder]

1-3 are pretty set in stone. Honestly everything that follows could be in almost any order, and probably is.

1. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
2. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
3. Pearl Jam - Ten

Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Tom Wairs - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Blood Money
James - Laid
U2- Achtung Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Mark Lanegan - Whisky for the Holy Ghost
Soulsavers - Broken
Tim Booth - Booth and the Bad Angel
R.E.M. - Accelerate
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pagent
Led Zeppelin - IV
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tool - Aenima
Screaming Trees - Dust
Prince - Purple Rain
Tom Waits - Orphans...
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

I always toggle back and forth between Aenima and Lateralus. Both so great. If re-wrote my list next week, I might put Aenima over Lateralus.

[Yeddie Yedder]

Great pick with "Miles Smiles" -- maybe the best album from my favorite period of Miles's career.

It is def a fun one. That was my first Miles record (after Kind of Blue) and that really opened it up for me.

[Strat]

Pearl Jam: Vitalogy
Pearl Jam: Binaural
Pearl Jam: Yield
Neil Young: On the Beach, Ragged Glory, Zuma
Tom Waits: Mule Variations, Bone Machine, Rain Dogs
The Replacements: Let it Be, Tim
Paul Westerberg: Stereo/Mono
BRMC: Howl
Black Keys: Rubber Factory
War on Drugs: Lost in a Dream
Black Crowes: Amorica
Dylan: Highway 61, Blood on the Tracks
Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
Queens of the Stone Age: Like Clockwork...
Radiohead: Ok Computer
Bon Iver: Fore Emma
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Tom Petty: Wildflowers
Beatles: Let it Be

Not in any particular order as that would be too difficult and it depends on the day. Pretty standard issue list as far as Strat goes. Not the hippest or coolest but these albums have definitely impacted my being.

[Strat]

ah fuck it. I should probably add

Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild hunt

on there. Fuck lists.

[zeb]

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Nirvana - In Utero
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Radiohead - Kid A

Beck - Seachange
Cat Power - You Are Free
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Elliott Smith - XO
Slint - Spiderland

Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
You Am I - Hi Fi Way
The White Stripes - Elephant
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Wellwater Conspiracy - Declaration Of Conformity
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Brad - Interiors
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Tame Impala - Lonerism
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Something For Kate - Leave Your Soul To Science
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

[matt reeder]

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Beck - Seachange
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Beatles - Abbey Road

These are all on my next 25 after 25 list, though YHF and Sea Change should probably be there. Too much good music in the world!

[Mike]

ah fuck it. I should probably add

Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild hunt

on there. Fuck lists.

[Jorge]

Something like this. It hurts me to leave out so many favorites.

No order:

In the Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra
History, Mystery - Bill Frisell
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Swans Are Dead - Swans
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo
North - Elvis Costello
Embraceable You - Chet Baker
The Cello Suites: Inspired by Bach - Yo Yo Ma
Ágaetis byrjun - Sigur Rós
Icky Mettle - Archers of Loaf
Moondog (1969) - Moondog
You Forgot it in People - Broken Social Scene
Disintegration - The Cure
The Arch-Android - Janelle Monae
Alice - Tom Waits
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse
Siembra - Rubén Blades & Willie Colón
Hats - The Blue Nile
Rock Art & the X-Ray Style - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Leave Home - Ramones
No Code - Pearl Jam

[Lament]

Rock Art & the X-Ray Style - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

Interesting Strummer choice. I always preferred Global A Go-Go.

[Jorge]

I like Global a Go Go a lot, but it's a bit too sprawling and genre-exercise-y. X Ray Style has a bunch of songs I love to death, that are as powerful as they are unassuming and sincere-- like "Willesden to Cricklewood", "Nitcomb", and the gorgeous title track. I also listened to that album incessantly during my first year of college, and as a result it's much more ingrained in my memory than any other Strummer or Clash album.

[epilogue]

I just need a place to put this list for future reference. Don't mind me.

Spoiler: show

1. Bone Machine - Tom Waits
2. Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
6. In Utero - Nirvana
7. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
8. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
9. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
10. Hunky Dory - David Bowie
11. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
12. Home - Dixie Chicks
13. OK Computer - Radiohead
14. Black Sheep - Martin Sexton
15. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
16. Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
17. Cease to Begin - Band of Horses
18. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young
19. Either/Or - Elliott Smith
20. When the Pawn... - Fiona Apple
21. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
22. Thriller - Michael Jackson
23. No Fences - Garth Brooks
24. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
25. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
26. Wildfolwers - Tom Petty
27. Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
28. Pinkerton - Weezer
29. Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
30. What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood - The Mynabirds
31. Big Star - Radio City
32. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
33. Road to Ruin - The Ramones
34. Led Zeppelin - III
35. CSN - Crosby, Stills & Nash
36. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
37. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
38. Blue - Joni Mitchell
39. New Adventures in Hi-Fi - R.E.M.
40. Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants
41. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
42. The La's - The La's
43. Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
44. Rumor and Sigh - Richard Thompson
45. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
46. Dirt - Alice in Chains
47. London Calling - The Clash
48. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
49. Sea Change - Beck
50. Grace - Jeff Buckley
51. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
52. Wincing the Night Away - The Shins
53. Dookie - Green Day
54. Ram - Paul McCartney
55. I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes
56. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
57. Rockin' The Suburbs - Ben Folds
58. In Bocca al Lupo - Murder By Death
59. Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
60. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
61. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
62. Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
63. Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
64. Desperado - Eagles
65. Auchtung Baby - U2
66. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
67. Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
68. The Eminem Show - Eminem
69. To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
70. Quadrophenia - The Who
71. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derrick & the Dominoes
72. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
73. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
74. Days of Future Past - The Moody Blues
75. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

[Kevin Davis]

I just need a place to put this list for future reference. Don't mind me.

Spoiler: show

1. Bone Machine - Tom Waits
2. Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
6. In Utero - Nirvana
7. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
8. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
9. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
10. Hunky Dory - David Bowie
11. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
12. Home - Dixie Chicks
13. OK Computer - Radiohead
14. Black Sheep - Martin Sexton
15. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
16. Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
17. Cease to Begin - Band of Horses
18. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young
19. Either/Or - Elliott Smith
20. When the Pawn... - Fiona Apple
21. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
22. Thriller - Michael Jackson
23. No Fences - Garth Brooks
24. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
25. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
26. Wildfolwers - Tom Petty
27. Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
28. Pinkerton - Weezer
29. Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
30. What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood - The Mynabirds
31. Big Star - Radio City
32. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
33. Road to Ruin - The Ramones
34. Led Zeppelin - III
35. CSN - Crosby, Stills & Nash
36. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
37. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
38. Blue - Joni Mitchell
39. New Adventures in Hi-Fi - R.E.M.
40. Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants
41. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
42. The La's - The La's
43. Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
44. Rumor and Sigh - Richard Thompson
45. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
46. Dirt - Alice in Chains
47. London Calling - The Clash
48. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
49. Sea Change - Beck
50. Grace - Jeff Buckley
51. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
52. Wincing the Night Away - The Shins
53. Dookie - Green Day
54. Ram - Paul McCartney
55. I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes
56. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
57. Rockin' The Suburbs - Ben Folds
58. In Bocca al Lupo - Murder By Death
59. Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
60. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
61. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
62. Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
63. Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
64. Desperado - Eagles
65. Auchtung Baby - U2
66. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
67. Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
68. The Eminem Show - Eminem
69. To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
70. Quadrophenia - The Who
71. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derrick & the Dominoes
72. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
73. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
74. Days of Future Past - The Moody Blues
75. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Great idea, dct -- I have been looking for a place to keep this list for a while, where I know I won't lose it. This way I can just pull it up on my mobile device when the time comes:

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Eggs
Milk
Butter
Paper Towel
Cereal
Pork loin
Tilapia
Captain Frank's Fish Breading
Coca Cola (16oz bottles 6pks 3/8.88 at Hy-Vee)
Colby Jack cheese
Krusteaz whole grain pancake mix
Sponges
Ibuprofen
Bananas
Baby Bella mushrooms (look for managers special)
Jacks pizza (5/$10)
Frozen pizza seasoning
Private selection ground round
Worcestshure sauce
Potato buns
Potatoes
Gerber graduates puffs
Sri racha
Oreo ice cream
Deodorant

[epilogue]

[ABNorman]

Spoiler: show

Condoms
Netting
Axe
10 packets of marshmallows
A copy of The Desolation of Smaug
Fish with plenty of scales
A picture of Jorge

[Kaius]

Spoiler: show

Condoms
Netting
Axe
10 packets of marshmallows
A copy of The Desolation of Smaug
Fish with plenty of scales
A picture of Jorge

Or



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Effective either way, but we need to know for posterity.

[ABNorman]

In the UK, it's: