Top 100 Albums (For The Truly Ambitious)

1.     Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd

2.     Selling England by the Pound – Genesis

3.     Close to the Edge – Yes

4.     Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

5.     The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – Genesis

6.     Nixon - Lambchop

7.     Rain Dogs – Tom Waits

8.     Relayer – Yes

9.     The Wall – Pink Floyd

10.            Red – King Crimson

11.            Foxtrot – Genesis

12.            Animals – Pink Floyd

13.            A Farewell to Kings – Rush

14.            III – Led Zeppelin

15.            Swordfishtrombones – Tom Waits

16.            Aqualung – Jethro Tull

17.            Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin

18.            Avalon Sunset – Van Morrison

19.            Solid Air – John Martyn

20.            A New World Record – Electric Light Orchestra

21.            Going for the One - Yes

22.            Continuo – Avishai Cohen

23.            Absolutely Free – Frank Zappa

24.            A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

25.            Shine on Brightly – Procol Harum

26.            Blood and Chocolate – Elvis Costello and the Attractions

27.            Spectral Mornings – Steve Hackett

28.            Gathering Speed – Big Big Train

29.            Stormwatch – Jethro Tull

30.            No More Shall We Part – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

31.            One of a Kind – Bruford

32.            We’re Here Because We’re Here – Anathema

33.            Melt – Peter Gabriel

34.            Doolittle – Pixies

35.            Raintown – Deacon Blue

36.            Across the Borderline – Willie Nelson

37.            The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy

38.            The English Patient OST – Gabriel Yared

39.            Duke - Genesis

40.            Pawn Hearts – Van Der Graaf Generator

41.            Misplaced Childhood - Marillion

42.            Thrak – King Crimson

43.            Tilt - Scott Walker

44.            Choirs of the Eye – Kayo Dot

45.            Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes

46.            Absolution - Muse

47.            Eternal – Branford Marsalis

48.            Secret Story – Pat Metheny

49.            Frank’s Wild Years – Tom Waits

50.            Cold Frontier – Show of Hands

51.            Mahler’s 9^th Symphony – conducted by Herbert Von Karajan

52.            Snakes and Arrows – Rush

53.            English Boy Wonders – Big Big Train

54.            A Kind of Blue – Miles Davis

55.            La Scala – Keith Jarrett

56.            A Live Record – Camel

57.            To Watch the Storms – Steve Hackett

58.            Stratosfear – Tangerine Dream

59.            Blue Born Earth Boy – Sine Star Project

60.            Apple Venus – XTC

61.            The Queen is Dead – The Smiths

62.            Alice – Tom Waits

63.            Octopus – Gentle Giant

64.            Red Headed Stanger – Willie Nelson

65.            Burning Times  – Christy Moore

66.            Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

67.            The Final Cut – Pink Floyd

68.            Out of the Blue – Electric Light Orchestra

69.            A Salty Dog – Procol Harum

70.            Caravanserai – Santana

71.            The Sensual World – Kate Bush

72.            Ommadawn – Mike Oldfield

73.            Crime of the Century – Supertramp

74.            Posthumous Silence – Sylvan

75.            Hatful of Hollow – The Smiths

76.            One Size Fits All – Frank Zappa

77.            3^rd Symphony (Pastoral) – Ralph Vaughan Williams

78.            Opera Sauvage – Vangelis

79.            Circus of Life – Magic Pie

80.            Wrecking Ball – Emmylou Harris

81.            Tangram – Tangerine Dream

82.            No Mean City – Nazareth

83.            Grave New World – Strawbs

84.            Who’s the Boss in the Factory – Karmakanic

85.            Lizard – King Crimson

86.            Death and Transfiguration (tone poem) – Richard Strauss

87.            Joyride – Stanley Turrentine

88.            Weather Systems – Anathema

89.            Time Out – Dave Brubeck

90.            Aquarius – Haken

91.            Clockwork Angels – Rush

92.            Chariots of Fire OST – Vangelis

93.            Appalachian Spring – Aaron Copland

94.            Drift – Scott Walker

95.            Traced in Air – Cynic

96.            Across the Crystal Sea – Danilo Perez and Claus Ogerman

97.            Innervisions – Stevie Wonder

98.            Six Days in Berlin – Mike Batt

99.            This is the Sea – The Waterboys

100.       Sky 2 - Sky