Top 100 Albums (For The Truly Ambitious)

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   Every so often I run into one of those "100 greatest albums of all time" lists and become very angry and yell at the computer screen about how Radiohead can possibly be ranked higher than King Crimson. So in that same spirit, I decided to make my own top 100 list, and I invite you all to do the same. I have avoided compilations (which unfortunately weeds out a lot of great blues and early rock and roll artists) as well as classical and jazz, keeping this a primarily rock based list.

Before you lambaste me too viciously, please note that the list contains only albums I own and have thus had a chance to fully absorb and appreciate. Hence, no Beatles or Rolling Stones since I only own compilations of them. (Also, partially in backlash against Rolling Stone Magazine for included an absurd four Beatles albums in its own top ten list.)

Here we go:

1. Jethro Tull – A Passion Play

2. King Crimson – In The Court of the Crimson King

3. Rush – Hemispheres

4. Brian Eno – Before and After Science

5. Queen – Queen II

6. Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses

7. Pink Floyd – Animals

8. The Kinks – Face to Face

9. Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent and the E
Street Shuffle

10. Be Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish

11. Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell

12. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico

13. Brian Eno – Another Green World

14. Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model

15. Sparks – Kimono My House

16. Jethro Tull – Minstrel In The Gallery

17. King Crimson – Lizard

18. The Beach Boys – Today

19. Be Bop Deluxe – Drastic Plastic

20. Bob Dylan – Bringing it all Back Home

21. Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn

22. Dire Straits – Love Over Gold

23. Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue

24. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of Natural History

25. Arthur Brown – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

26. Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare

27. Captain Beefheart – Mirror Man

28. Kraftwerk – The Man Machine

29. Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Sound on Sound

30. Tangerine Dream – Rubycon

31. The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies

32. Kraftwerk – Radioactivity

33. Be Bop Deluxe – Futurama

34. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

35. Brian Eno & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of
Ghosts

36. David Bowie – Low

37. Rush – A Farewell to Kings

38. Camel – Mirage

39. Oingo Boingo – Boingo

40. Penguin Café Orchestra – Penguin Café Orchestra

41. Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

42. Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets

43. David Bowie – Heroes

44. The Clash – London Calling

45. Jethro Tull – Benefit

46. Queen – Sheer Heart Attack

47. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

48. The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle

49. Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII

50. Yma Sumac – Voice of the Xtabay

51, Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica

52. Queen – A Night At The Opera

53. The Kinks – Lola Vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround Part
1

54. David Bowie – Station to Station

55. Tiny Tim – God Bless Tiny Tim

56. Alice Cooper – Love It To Death

57. Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run

58. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

59. Nico – The Marble Index

60. Yma Sumac – Mambo

61. The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile

62. The Kinks – Something Else by the Kinks

63. Black Sabbath – Paranoid

64. King Crimson – Islands

65. Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

66. Can – Ege Bamyasi

67. David Bowie – Hunky Dory

68. Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado

69. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

70. Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ

71. Patti Smith – Horses

72, Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium

73. Neu! – Neu!

74. Rush – Moving Pictures

75. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick

76. Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans

77. Alice Cooper – Killer

78. Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk

79. Elvis Presley – Elvis

80. King Crimson – Red

81. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Hole

82. Yes – Close to the Edge

83. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells

84. Gentle Giant – In A Glass House

85. The Residents – Meet The Residents

86. The Kinks – Arthur or The Decline and Fall of the
British Empire

87. Van Der Graaf Generator – H to He Who Am the Only One

88. Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three

89. Megadeth – Rust in Peace

90. Blue Oyster Cult – Blue Oyster Cult

91. Faust – Faust

92. The Residents – Not Available

93. Steeleye Span – Below The Salt

94. Van Dyke Parks – Discover America

95. The Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat

96. Deep Purple – Machine Head

97. Dio – Holy Diver

98. Martin Denny – Exotica

99. Throbbing Gristle – The Second Annual Report of
Throbbing Gristle

100. William Shatner – The Transformed Man

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