
Originally Posted by
V.A.C.
On another forum, a music board, full of music dorks, they were doing a Name Your Top 100 Favorite Albums of All-Time kind of thread, and people were actually compilling full lists.
So I did it.
My List.
I'd say it's pretty much in order for the top 40 or so, after that it's kind of hard to really have a definitive order.
It's a pretty healthy mix of indie rock, 90's alternative, electronic music, drum 'n bass, hip hop, post-rock, singer-songwriter, blah blah.
Some things in there would have been a #7 5 years ago, but they haven't aged so well and have fallen down accordingly.
1. Tool – Aenima
2. Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
3. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
4. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
5. Klute – No One’s Listening Anymore
6. Rage Against the Machine - S/T
7. Radiohead – Ok Computer
8. Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
9. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
10. Explosions in the Sky – Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
11. Arcade Fire – Funeral
12. Alice In Chains – Unplugged
13. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual
14. Built to Spill – Keep It Like a Secret
15. Tool – Undertow
16. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
17. Calibre – Second Sun
18. Failure – Fantastic Planet
19. Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
20. Pavement – Wowee Zowee
21. Nirvana - Nevermind
22. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
23. Pearl Jam – Vs.
24. SIANspheric - Somnium
25. Violent Femmes – S/T
26. Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights
27. Nirvana - Unplugged
28. Modest Mouse – This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About
29. Tool – Lateralus
30. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
31. Blind Melon – Soup
32. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dreams
33. Klute – Lie, Cheat and Steal
34. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
35. Owen Pallett – Heartland
36. Washed Out – With and Without
37. A Perfect Circle – Mer Des Noms
38. Nas – Illmatic
39. Sonic Youth - Goo
40. Falty DL – Love Is a Liability
41. Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
42. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
43. Boards of Canada – Trans Canada Highway
44. Alice In Chains – Dirt
45. DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
46. High Contrast – High Society
47. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
48. SKC – Killing Me Softly
49. The Roots – The Roots Come Alive
50. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
51. Massive Attack – Protection
52. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
53. Grimes – Visions
54. Explosions In The Sky – The Earth is a Cold Dead Place
55. Scuba – Triangulation
56. Sigur Ros – ( )
57. Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
58. Tool – Salival
59. Weezer – Blue Album
60. Yo La Tengo – Electr-O-Pura
61. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
62. Metallica – Black Album
63. Ani DiFranco – Dilate
64. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
65. Burial – Untrue
66. Unkle - Psyence Fiction
67. Beck – One Foot in the Grave
68. Sonic Youth – Goo
69. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
70. Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
71. Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things
72. Slint – Spiderland
73. Aphex Twin – Richard D James
74. The Pixies – Doolittle
75. Battles – Mirrored
76. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
77. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
78. Gomez – Bring It On
79. Fanu – Daylightless
80. Mogwai – Rock Action
81. Moby - Play
82. Porno for Pyros – S/T
83. Jimi Hendrix – The Ultimate Experience
84. Hole – Live Through This
85. Pink Floyd - Echoes
86. Failure – Magnified
87. Kids – Soundtrack
88. Coldplay – Parachutes
89. Chavez – Ride the Fader
90. Leonard Cohen – Live in London
91. Cat Power – Moon Pix
92. Bob Marley – Legend
93. The Beatles – Love
94. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
95. Elliott Smith – XO
96. Natural Born Killers – Soundtrack
97. Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won
98. Queen – Greatest Hits
99. Feist – The Reminder
100. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin