Red Mosquito

Songs of Love and Hate
New Skin For the Old Ceremony
I'm Your Man
Ten New Songs
Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Future
Recent Songs
Various Positions
Songs From a Room
Popular Problems
Old Ideas
Dear Heather
Death of a Ladies' Man

Fishscale
Supreme Clientele
Ironman
The Pretty Toney Album
Ghostdini Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
More Fish
Apollo Kids
The Big Doe Rehab
Bulletproof Wallets

The last couple I haven't heard but for a few years this guy was it for me.

Gravity X
Universe
Phi
Mania

Grand Prix
Songs from Northern Britain
Bandwagonesque
Thirteen
Man-Made
Shadows
A Catholic Education
The King
Howdy!
Words of Wisdom and Hope

Purple
Tiny Music
Core
No. 4
Shangri-La Dee Da
Self Titled

Kevin Davis wrote:Fishscale
Supreme Clientele
Ironman
The Pretty Toney Album
Ghostdini Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
More Fish
Apollo Kids
The Big Doe Rehab
Bulletproof Wallets

The last couple I haven't heard but for a few years this guy was it for me.

WANNA DO COSTELLO WITH ME, BUD?

I BET WE DIFFER QUITE A LOT IN THE MIDDLE PERIOD

Sure, that'll give me somethin' to do while I wait for my eBay auction to end.

THIS YEAR'S MODEL
NORTH
GET HAPPY!!!
KING OF AMERICA
NATIONAL RANSOM
ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY
IMPERIAL BEDROOM
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
BRUTAL YOUTH
MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE
PAINTED FROM MEMORY
MY AIM IS TRUE
THE DELIVERY MAN
WISE UP GHOST
TRUST
SECRET PROFANE AND SUGARCANE
MOMOFUKU
ARMED FORCES
WHEN I WAS CRUEL
THE JULIET LETTERS
SPIKE
PUNCH THE CLOCK
ALMOST BLUE
KOJAK VARIETY
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD
THE RIVER IN REVERSE

NORTH
THIS YEAR'S MODEL
NATIONAL RANSOM
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
IMPERIAL BEDROOM
KING OF AMERICA
TRUST
BRUTAL YOUTH
GET HAPPY
THE JULIET LETTERS
ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY
WISE UP GHOST
PAINTED FROM MEMORY
ARMED FORCES
SECRET, PROFANE AND SUGARCANE
THE DELIVERY MAN
MY AIM IS TRUE
WHEN I WAS CRUEL
SPIKE
MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE
MOMOFUKU
THE RIVER IN REVERSE
PUNCH THE CLOCK
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD

Not counted: soundtracks, cover albums (Kojak Variety & Almost Blue), For the Stars (because I like it a lot but it always felt more to me like an Anne Sofie Von Otter project, with special guest Elvis Costello)

This was really tough and I can say that right up to the bottom four or five I really love all these albums with all my heart

Apart from a couple stray outliers I am actually really surprised at how similar our lists are.

I probably have "Momofuku" a little too high. My love for "Stella Hurt" tends to inform my overall impression of that record.

Lotta good songs on Momofuku, like "Song With Rose" and "Pardon Me Madam My Name is Eve", but some is kind of by-the-numbers.

Making this list inspired me to throw on "Painted From Memory" last night. It had been too long -- what a collection of songs.

Rangi Guy wrote:Purple
Tiny Music
Core
No. 4
Shangri-La Dee Da
Self Titled

This is correct.

enter the 36 chambers
the w
wu-tang forever
8 diagrams
iron flag
a better tomorrow

The Eminem Show
The Marshall Mathers LP
Recovery
The Slim Shady LP
Infinite
Encore
Relapse

(haven't heard MMLP2 yet)

midnight marauders
the low end theory
the love movement
beats, rhymes, and life
people's instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm

BECK

Odelay
Mutations
Midnight Vultures
Guero
Mellow Gold
Sea Change
Morning Phase
One Foot in the Grave
Stereopathetic Soulmanure
The Information
Modern Guilt

I haven't had the pleasure of owning Golden Feelings or A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight. I have heard many of the songs on those albums, but I don't think I can fairly include them in my rankings.

PHATy, you and I tend to travel in the similar musical circles. I'm surprised to see Modern Guilt so low.