100 Favorite Albums

One of my greatest passions is listening to rock music.  Very little gives me as much joy as grabbing a few albums and cruising down the PCH late at night. Not only do I find these aimless journeys relaxing and reinvigorating, but they are also an essential part of coming up with and brainstorming ideas to write about.  Of course when I sit down to turn these musing into stories, I tend to do a fair amount of procrastinating.  And the greatest source of procrastination comes in the form of making lists.  Top Movies' List.  Favorite Vacations.  I even have list of stuff I'd keep in my metaphorical Wheel House which has ballooned up to the size of a small town.  Anyway, I guess it was only natural that these two opposing forces would combine like chocolate and peanut butter to make the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of lists.  So without further adieu, please enjoy my 100 favorite albums.  I've tried many times to rank them, and I'm not saying I never will succeed, but at various moments in my life they've all  had a handle on the top spot, so I'll leave that up to you for now.    Oh and if you are a mathematician or can count as high as a preschooler,  you may just find more than a hundred. And if you know your ABCs, you'll see that every letter is represented.

Abacab:  Genesis

Abbey Road:  The Beatles

Abraxas: Santana

Achtung Baby:  U2

Aftermath:  The Rolling Stones

After the Goldrush:  Neil Young

Against the Wind: Bob Seger

All Eyez on Me: 2Pac

All the Young Dudes:  Mott the Hooples

All Things Must Pass:  George Harrison

Animals:  Pink Floyd

Astral Weeks:  Van Morrison

August and Everything After:  Counting Crows

Automatic for the People: R.E.M.

Bad Company:  Bad Company

Band on the Run:  Paul McCartney & Wings

Beggar's Banquet:  The Rolling Stones

Bella Donna: Stevie Nicks

Billy Breathes:  Phish

Blonde on Blonde: Bob Dylan

Blood on the Tracks: Bob Dylan

Born to Run: Bruce Springsteen

Breakfast in America:  Supertramp

Bridge Over Troubled Water:  Simon and Garfunkel

Buckingham Nicks:  Buckingham Nicks

Catch a Fire:  Bob Marley & the Wailers

Crash:  Dave Matthews Band

Crosby, Stills, & Nash:  Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Dark Side of the Moon:  Pink Floyd

Darkness on the Edge of Town:  Bruce Springsteen

Day at the Races: Queen

Days of Future Passed:  Moody Blues

Deja Vu:  Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Definitely Maybe: Oasis

Disraeli Gears:  Cream

The Doors:  The Doors

Duke:  Genesis

Eat a Peach:  Allman Brother

Electric Warrior:  T-Rex

Escape: Journey

Exile on Main Street: The Rolling Stones

Fight for Your Mind: Ben Harper

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road:  Elton John

Graceland:  Paul Simon

Green: R.E.M.

Greetings from Asbury Park:  Bruce Springsteen

Jimi Hendrix:  Axis: Bold as Love

Her Satanic Majesties Request:  The Rolling Stones

Hot Fuss: The Killers

Hotel California:  The Eagles

Houses of the Holy:  Led Zeppelin

Hunky Dory:  David Bowie

In Utero:  Nirvana

Jar of Flies: Alice in Chains

The Joshua Tree: U2

Kid A:  Radiohead

L.A. Woman:  The Doors

Ladies of the Canyon: Joni Mitchel

Led Zeppelin III:  Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin IV:  Led Zeppelin

Let it Bleed: The Rolling Stones

A Live One:  Phish

Loaded:  The Velvet Underground

Lost and Gone Forever: Guster

Lynyrd Skynrd: Leh-Nerd-Skin-Nerd

Madman Across the Water:  Elton John

Magical Mystery Tour:  The Beatles

Magnolia Soundtrack:  Aimee Mann

Mama Said:  Lenny Kravitz

Marshall Mathers LP:  Eminem

Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness: Smashing Pumpkins

Moon Safari:  Air

Monster: R.E.M.

My Aim is True: Elvis Costello

Nevermind: Nirvana

New Miserable Experience:  Gin Blossoms

A Night at the Opera: Queen

Nirvana Unplugged:  Nirvana

Nylon Curtain:  Billy Joel

No Dice: Badfinger

O:  Damien Rice

On An Island:  David Gilmour

One From the Vault:  The Grateful Dead

Pet Sounds:  The Beach Boys

Pretenders: The Pretenders

Purple: Stone Temple Pilots

Quadrophenia: The Who

Recovering the Satellites: Counting Crows

Remain in Light:  Talking Heads

Revolver:  The Beatles

Rubber Soul: The Beatles

Rumours:  Fleetwood Mac

Running on Empty: Jackson Browne

Rush of Cold Blood to the Head:  Coldplay

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band:  The Beatles

Siamese Dream:  Smashing Pumpkins

Slowhand:  Eric Clapton

Some Girls: The Rolling Stones

So Tonight That I Might See:  Mazzy Star

Stadium Arcadium:  Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Sticky Fingers:  The Rolling Stones

Straight Up: Badfinger

The Stranger: Billy Joel

Streetlife Serenade:  Billy Joel

Tapestry:  Carole King

Tattoo You:  The Rolling Stones

Tea for the Tillerman:  Cat Stevens

Ten: Pearl Jam

Third Eye Blind:  Third Eye Blind

Throwing Copper: Love

Tim: The Replacements

Tommy: The Who

Tumbleweed Connection: Elton John

Turnstiles:  Billy Joel

Tusk:  Fleetwood Mac

Use Your Illusion 1 and 2:  Guns n Roses

Vs. Pearl Jam

Waka Jawaka:  Frank Zappa

Tom Waits: Closing Time

The Wall:  Pink Floyd

Weezer:  Weezer

What's the Story Morning Glory:  Oasis

The White Album:  The Beatles

White Ladder: David Gray

Who's Next:  The Who

Wish You Were Here:  Pink Floyd

The Wild, the Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle:  Bruce Springsteen

Willy and the Poor Boys:  Credence Clearwater Revival

Workingman's Dead:  Grateful Dead

X & Y:  Coldplay

Yield:  Pearl Jam

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars:  David Bowie