130 Favorite Albums

Not ranked, no artist listed twice. There are not many extremely recent albums because to make the list, it generally has to be one I have lived with for a long time.


Television - Marquee Moon

Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman

Neil Young - On The Beach

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Grateful Dead - Europe 72

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

Jerry Garcia - Shady Grove

Harry Smith - The Anthology of American Folk Music

Portishead - Dummy

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Nina Simone - To Love Somebody

Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)

Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake

Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime

Nirvana - Nevermind

Big Star - 3rd/Sister Lovers

CAN - Ege Bamyasi

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

The Strokes - Is This It

Albert Ayler - Vibrations/Ghosts

Pharaoh Sanders - Tauhid

Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisors

Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis

The Clash - London Calling

The Velvet Underground - S/T

The Band - S/T

Ramones - S/T

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation

Nas - It Was Written

Future - The Wizrd

Migos - Culture II

John Fahey - The Voice Of The Turtle

The Beatles - The White Album

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies

Joe Meek & The Blue Men - I Hear A New World

Brian Eno - Another Green World

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

The Who - Who's Next

The Breeders - Last Splash

Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin'

The Harder They Come OST

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Score

T. Rex - The Slider

Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Link Wray - S/T (1971)

Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes

John Prine - S/T

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Misfits - Collection

Black Tambourine - Complete Recordings

The Cure - Head On The Door

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time

Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room

Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets

Steely Dan - Aja

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The Vaselines - Enter The Vaselines

Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings

Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

Bob Dylan & The Band  - The Basement Tapes (1975)

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Massive Attack/Mad Professor - No Protection

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread

Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues

Louis Armstrong - The Definitive Collection

Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting

The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes

The Seeds - S/T

Sid Selvidge - In The Cold Of The Morning

Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Black Flag - Damaged

Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar

Beck - One Foot In The Grave

Dead Moon - Dead Moon Night

Peter Tosh - Legalize It

The Stooges - Raw Power

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Bill Fox - Shelter From The Smoke

Fugazi - 13 Songs

Rites Of Spring - S/T

David Holland - Conference Of The Birds

The Holy Modal Rounders - Stampfel & Weber

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy & The Poor Boys

David Bromberg - Demon In Disguise

Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

The Everly Brothers - Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

John Cale - Fear

Art Pepper - Smack Up

Ornette Coleman - At The "Golden Circle" Stockholm

Randy Newman - Sail Away

JJ Cale - Naturally

The Pet Shop Boys - Please

Hank Williams - Hank Williams Gold

The Staple Singers - Swing Low

Blind Al Wilson - Blind Owl Wilson

Nick Lowe - The Jesus Of Cool

Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model

The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy And The Lash

The Jesus Lizard - Goat

Pixies - Doolittle

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Gillian Welch - Soul Journey

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon

The Mice - Scooter

The Fugees - The Score

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air

Ned Lagin - Sea Stones

Bill Monroe - Greatest Hits

Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD

Moby - Play

Pure Moods Compilation

DJ Screw - Sentimental Value

J Dilla - Donuts

Milford Graves - Bäbi