GangstaFam said:

OK so I imagine a person starts with separate lists like ok my favorite albums by Prince, favorite albums by Janet... etc, then tries to order those?

I'm just not organized and disciplined enough to do this either.

CinisterCee said:

That's how I'd have to do it. But that's also where I run into trouble. I don't too hard a time within each artist. But when you get into apples and oranges, it really fucks me up.

AnckSuNamun said:

Forreal, the discipline is even coming up with 200 albums to list in the first place.

CinisterCee said:

exactly. Scatterbrains need not apply.

This feels a little arbitrary, and since I don't have access to my vinyl at the moment I'm sure I've forgotten more than a few favourites, but this is the best I can do under the circumstances:


1) Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
2) John Cale – Paris 1919
3) Wire – Pink Flags
4) Woodentops - Giant
5) Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide
6) Love – Forever Changes
7) Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
8) Can – Future Days
9) My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
10) Luna – Bewitched
11) Grant McLennan – Horsebreaker Star
12) Miles Davis – Files de Kilimanjaro
13) Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
14) Television – Marquee Moon
15) Gene Clark – No Other
16) Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
17) The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
18) The Feelies – The Good Earth
19) The Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
20) Scott Walker – 4
21) Beatles – Rubber Soul
22) Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
23) Lambchop – Nixon
24) Colin Newman – a-z
25) High Llamas – Hawaii
26) Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
27) Neu – Neu
28) Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
29) Saint Etienne – Tiger Bay
30) Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
31) Aztec Camera – High Lands, Hard Rain
32) The Pretty Things – Come See Me
33) Al Green – Greatest Hits
34) Prince – Come
35) Throbbing Griste – Heathen Earth
36) Spacemen 3 – The Perfect Prescription
37) Mojave 3 – Excuses for Travellers
38) Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback
39) Velvet Underground – VU & Nico
40) John Cale – Fear
41) Lou Reed – New Sensations
42) Blue Nile – Hats
43) Plastikman – Musik
44) Pet Shop Boys – Very
45) Yo La Tengo – Electro-Pura
46) The Delgados – The Great Eastern
47) Hugo Largo – Mettle
48) Opal – Happy Nightmare Baby
49) Wire – 154
50) Rodney Crowell – Keys to the Highway
51) Venetian Snares – Huge Chrome Cylinder Box
52) Jeff Beck – Truth
53) Can – Tago Mago
54) The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
55) Belle and Sebastian – The Boy With the Arab Strap
56) John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
57) Go-Betweens – Sixteen Lovers Lane
58) The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
59) Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
60) Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin
61) Neu – 75
62) Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
63) Lyle Lovett – Joshua Judges Ruth
64) Merle Haggard – Hag
65) George Jones – twenty golden greats
66) Buddy Holly – The Chirping Crickets
67) Wire – Chairs Missing
68) Jackson Browne – Late For The Sky (Sue me, I like it…)
69) The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
70) Brian Eno – Music For Airports
71) Dillard & Clark – The Fantastic Expedition of…
72) Captain Beefheart – Doc At the Radar Station
73) Gene Clark – Echoes
74) Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance
75) St Etienne – So Tough
76) Soft Machine – Third
77) Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
78) Galaxy 500 – This Is Our Music
79) Richard & Linda Thompson – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonigh
80) High Llamas – Gideon Gaye
81) Delgado – Universal Audio
82) Luna – Penthouse
83) Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
84) The Mekons – Rock n’ Roll
85) Colourbox – Colourbox
86) Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
87) Rodney Crowell – Diamonds and Dirt
88) Beatles – Help
89) The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers
90) Brian Eno – Before and After Science
91) The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
92) ABC – Lexicon of Love
93) Air – Moon Safari
94) Amon Duul II – Made in Germany
95) Chic – Le Grande Success de Chic
96) Delgados – Hate
97) The Fall – Perverted By Language
98) Faust – So Far
99) Merle Haggard – The Best of Merle
100) Gastr Del Sol – Camoufleur
101) Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
102) Big Star – Radio City
103) Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
104) American Music Club – Everclear
105) Nick Cave – Let Love In
106) Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops
107) Glen Campbell – The Very Best of Glen Campbell
108) Gene Clark – Flying High
109) Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties
110) Echo and the Bunnymen – Porcupines
111) Bob Dylan – Highway 61
112) Nick Drake – Pink Moon
113) Drive-by Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
114) The Flatlanders – More a Legend Than a Band
115) Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Spinning Around the Sun
116) Faust – Faust
117) Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart
118) Nick Lowe – Labour of Lust
119) Yo La Tengo – Painful
120) Marianne Faithful – Broken English
121) Coil – Music to Play in the Dark
122) Moby Grape – Moby Grape
123) Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
124) Scott Walker – Tilt
125) The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
126) The Sonics – Here Are the Sonics
127) Van Dyke Parks – Song Cycle
128) Carol King – Tapestry
129) Stooges – Fun House
130) Sonic Youth – Sister
131) Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend
132) New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
133) Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
134) Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
135) Stereolab – Transient Random Noiseburts With Announcements
136) Magazine – The Correct Use of Soap
137) Go-Betweens – Tallulah
138) Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
139) The Only Ones – Only Serpents Shine
140) Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
141) XTC – Skylarking
142) Housemartins – London 0 Hull 4
143) Mercury Rev – See You on the Other Side
144) PiL – Metal Box
145) Husker Du – New Day Rising
146) Gram Parker – Squeezing Out Sparks
147) Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
148) Alan Vega – s/t
149) Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
150) Waylon Jennings – Dreaming My Dreams
151) Spacemen 3 – Playing With Fire
152) Iron and Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
153) Neko Case – Furnace Room Lullabies
154) The Fall – Perverted By Language
155) Walker Brothers – The Best of…
156) The Psychedelic Furs – s/t
157) The Modern Lovers – s/t
158) Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
159) Neutral Milk Hotel – In An Aeroplane Over the Sea
160) Velvet Underground – 3rd album
161) Kinks – Arthur
162) Brian Eno & John Cale – Wrong Way Up
163) The Stooges – The Stooges
164) Psychic TV – Beyond Thee Infinite Beat
165) Sunny Day Real Estate – How it Feels
166) Prince – SOTT
167) Beulah – The Coast Is Never Clear
168) The Orange Peels – So Far
169) Ennio Morricone – The Mission
170) Killing Joke – s/t
171) Pernice Brothers – The World Won’t End
172) The Books – Lost and Safe
173) The Shoes – Black Vinyl Shoes
174) The dBs - Stands For Decibels
175) Tom Verlaine – Flashlight
176) Spinanes – Strand
177) Red House Painters – Ocean Beach
178) Portishead – s/t
179) Undertones – s/t
180) Rain Parade – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
181) The Handsome Family – Through the Trees
182) Roxy Music – Siren
183) Mott The Hoople – Mott
184) Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
185) Laurie Anderson – Big Science
186) Lambchop – How I Quit Smoking
187) Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
188) Pavement – Brighten the Corners
189) Suicide – Suicide
190) Fun Boy Three – Waiting
191) The Beatnigs – s/t
192) Jackson Browne – Running on Empty
193) Dave Edmunds – Repeat When Necessary
194) The Fall – Grotesque
195) Eno/Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
196) Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown
197) Nick Lowe – Jesus of Cool
198) Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
199) Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
200) The Feelies – Only Life
[Edited 6/3/05 3:50am]

I have nothing else to do now so here I go...I am just going to list and see how many I can get down.

1. Sign O The Times Prince
2. White Album The Beatles
3. Purple Rain Prince
4. Revolver The Beatles
5. Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin
6. The Wall Pink Floyd
7. American Beauty Grateful Dead
8. All Things Must Pass George Harrison
9. Familiar to Millions Oasis
10.Abbey Road The Beatles
11.Led Zeppelin III
12.Led Zeppelin II
13.Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
14.Rubber Soul The Beatles
15.Workingman's Dead The Grateful Dead
16.Parade Prince
17.Lovesexy Prince
18.The Black Album Prince
19.Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco
20.Beatles For Sale The Beatles
21.Let It Be The Beatles
22.Led Zeppelin IV
23.Led Zepplin I
24.Houses of The Holy, You know
25.Definitely Maybe Oasis
25.Innvervision Stevie Wonder
26.London Calling The Clash
27.Summerteeth Wilco
28.The River Bruce Springsteen
29.What Time Is It?
30.Eroica Wendy & Lisa
31.Dark Side of The Moon Pink Floyd
32.The Clash 1st album
33.Stone Roses 1st album
34.Jimmy Cliff Best of
35.Savage Eurythmics
36.Music from Big Pink The Band
37.Last Waltz The Band
38.Live box set Bruce Springsteen
39.Decade Neil Young
40.Magiacal Mystery Tour The Beatles
41.The Gold Experience
42.1999
43 Dirty Mind
44.The Band-Brown album
45.Ladies & Gentleman...The Grateful Dead, Live from Fillmore East 1971
46.Blue-Joni Mitchell
47.What's The Story Morning Glory Oasis
48.Uncle Tupelo Anthology
49.Past Masters Vol II The Beatles
50.RUN DMC's Greatest Hits
51.Bob Marley Legend
52.Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
53.The Family
54.Harvest Neil Young
55.Who's Next The Who
56.The Invisible Band-Travis
57.Abacab Genesis
58.From The Mars Hotel The Grateful Dead
59.Born in The USA Bruce Springsteen
60.Around The World in a Day-Prince
61.Eurythmics Greatest Hits (UK Version)
62.Boston 1st album
63.Live at the Fillmores Allman Bros Band
64.Morrison Hotel The Doors
65.Exile on Main St Rolling Stones
66.Goodbye Yellowbrick Road Elton John
67.Singles Soundtrack
68.Changesonebowie David Bowie
69.Fleetwood Mac (Rhiannon)
70.Being There Wilco
71.Band on the Run Paul McCartney
72.Pet Sounds The Beach Boys
73.Liquid Skin Gomez
74.Batman Prince
75.Eagles Greatest Hits
76.Substance New Order
77.Tom Petty's Greatest Hits
78.Animals Pink FLoyd
79.Out of the Cradle Lindsey Buckingham
80.Commitments Soundtrack
81.Destiny The Jacksons
82.Plastic Ono Band John Lennon
83.Simple Minds live in the City of Light
84.Born to Run Springsteen
85.Symphony or Damn Terence Trent Darby
86.Document REM
87.Acthung Baby U2
88.So Peter Gabriel
89 Singles The Pretenders

Whew! I am not even close to done...but I am tired and I want to go to bed. Later...

I thought Moonbeam was the only one crazy enough to have a top 200!!!

I couldn't even begin to do this...it's sheer insnaity, i tell you!

endorphin74 said:

I can't help it - for some reason, this is my idea of a good time. I mean, I could have gone out tonight, got drunk or something, but instead I stayed in and spent an hour scanning through websites and trying to visualize my record collection. It's kinda perverse, really...
[Edited 6/2/05 20:14pm]

Slash said:

I really liked the first Echo comeback album - was that Evergreen? I remember the single (Nothing Lasts, I think) being quite pleasant. It was a good solid record - a mature effort, with the band not trying to be anything other than what they are. I haven't heard the other two, but I did see them on tour in 2003 and it was, honest-to-god, no-bullshit, one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life. Slashing guitars that you could feel in your gut, more dry ice than I've ever seen at one time in my life and The Cutter for the first encore. Unimprovable.

damosuzuki said:

Me too!

I have a list on Microsoft Excel of every album I own. I also have index cards with every album I own to help to process.
[Edited 6/2/05 21:35pm]

CinisterCee said:

OOPS!! I took one out and forgot to replace it...my bad.....



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CinisterCee said:

There are a few different approaches. Sometimes I start by ordering albums by specific artists, then I combine artists of similar genre and then I combine genres.

Sometimes I start by ordering lists by year and then I group years, etc.

Sometimes I put the albums in random order and go from there.

Anxiety said:

I know you're up to it.

damosuzuki said:

Great list! I've been wanting these for awhile. Are numbers 103 and 199 the same ablum?

Pagey said:

Thanks for the list! Good to see Savage in there.

Moonbeam said:

Jeeeesus, how did you ever spot that?

Yeah, they're the same album - I'd decided to move Here Come the Warm Jets up, so I was going to exchange places with Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister - unfortunately I forgot to eradicate 199.

Adjustment made - I apologize for my blatant incompetence.

Moonbeam said:

well, everyone needs a hobby!

damosuzuki said:

Shit, you're doing just fine. I'm lucky if I can count that high.

damosuzuki said:

So your favorite Prince album is Come? I think that's the first time I've seen anyone pick that as their fav.

intha916 said:

I think it's Anxiety's too.

GangstaFam said:

intha916 said:

I can say with absolutely no reservations that Come is my favourite Prince album. I’m not going to claim that it contains his most timeless songwriting (song for song, SOTT, 1999 and PR are finer albums, I’ll grant) but I do think that come is his most striking and unique record, musically and lyrically – I return to it more often than I do any other album he’s released.

Mind you, I always make sure I edit out Orgasm and Solo before I queue the album up.

damosuzuki said:

Sorry, man. I really didn't mean to attack your list. I think it's great. I'm not familiar with Eno's solo work so I wasn't sure if they were the same.

Moonbeam said:

Oh, no offense taken at all - I was (and still am) just amazed that you were able to pick out a duplication out of a list of 200 records. That is truly a unique talent that you have!

damosuzuki said:

I've got nothin' but love for "Come". It's definitely striking, like you say. I could go on and on describing that one.

GangstaFam said:

I'm happy to see I'm not alone on this one. I never quite understood the drubbing that album took from critics and fans - it immediately struck me as being one of his most 'complete' recordings. Besides the fact that it's one his darkest albums - some of his most demented lyrics are to be found here, I think (I mean that in the best possible sense) - I also found it to be a relief to have a relatively concise album. Come came on the heels of Grafitti Bridge, D&P and Symbol - three lengthy and (I thought) pretty bloated albums. It felt like a reprieve to have a fairly brief album with eight pretty damned good songs that weren't polluted with segues and Tony M.

damosuzuki said:

As for Come, I think there are only 2 good songs, and one great one, on that album, but Tony M almost singlehandedly kept the 2 good albums preceding Come from being great albums.

namepeace said:

Craziness! As I looked over Monbeam's list, JCS immediately popped into my head as one for my list. Both the sdtk and the Indigo Girls' version of the 1990's.

I've only compiled a list of 100...I've only included albums I actually own, so that's why there's only one beatles album in it...

1. Sign O The Times - Prince
2. Highway 61 revisited – Bob Dylan
3. Heroes – David Bowie
4. the doors – the doors
5. Always on my mind – Willie Nelson
6. What’s Going on – Marvin Gaye
7. Kris Kristofferson – Kris Kristofferson
8. Blood on the tracks – Bob Dylan
9. 1999 - Prince
10. American IV: the man comes around – Johnny Cash
11. Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
12. Damn the torpedoes – tom petty
13. NBC comeback special – Elvis Presley
14. Texas flood – Stevie Ray vaughan
15. Honky Tonk Heroes – Waylon Jennings
16. L.A. woman – the doors
17. The gold experience - Prince
18. Red Headed Stranger – Willie Nelson
19. Outside – David Bowie
20. Drive - Alan Jackson

21. Another side of Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
22. Purple Rain - Prince
23. Heathen – David Bowie
24. GP – Gram parson
25. live at Madison square garden – Elvis Presley
26. Bitter Tears – Johnny Cash
27. Station to Station – David Bowie
28. Off the wall – Michael jackson
29. Lovesexy - Prince
30. Freewheelin – Bob Dylan
31. Innervisions – Stevie Wonder
32. In step – stevie ray vaughan
33. Live at San Quentin – Johnny cash
34. Unplugged - Nirvana
35. return of the grievous angel – Gram Parson
36. London Calling – the clash
37. Revolver – the Beatles
38. Where the humans eat – Willie Mason
39. Earthling – David Bowie
40. Blue clear sky – George Strait

41. Nashville Skyline – Bob Dylan
42. Exile on main street – Rolling stones
43. Bootleg series vol 6. live in 1964 – Bob Dylan
44. Nevermind - Nirvana
45. Unleashed – Toby Keith
46. Blue Hawaii – Elvis Presley
47. Dirty Mind - Prince
48. Hours – David Bowie
49. Diz Dat or Dudda N’awlinz – Dr. John
50. The fragile - NIN
51. Emancipation - Prince
52. Street Songs – Rick James
53. Heavier things – John Mayer
54. Van Lear Rose – loretta Lynn
55. Antichrist superstar – Marilyn Manson
56. Unplugged – Eric Clapton
57. Thriller – Michael jackson
58. Live at Sin-é – Jeff Buckley
59. the times are a’chaning – Bob Dylan
60. Songs in the key of life stevie wonder

61. Murder Ballads – Nick cave
62. Will the Circle be unbroken – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
63. Unplugged – Bob Dylan
64. highwayman – the highwaymen (nelson, cash, Jennings, Kristofferson)
65. Grace – Jeff Buckley
66. The essential – Chet Atkins
67. American Recordings – Johnny Cash
68. Boomtown – Toby Keith
69. Morisson Hotel – the doors
70. Buddha of suburbia – David Bowie
71. Mechanical Animals – Marilyn Manson
72. Mud on the tracks – Brad Paisley
73. Shockin’ Y’all – Toby Keith
74. Solitary Man – Johnny Cash
75. Downward spiral - NIN
76. the good the bad and the ugly OST
77. Scary Monsters – David Bowie
78. It always will be – Willie Nelson
79. Sketches of Spain – Miles Davis
80. New Favourite – Allisson Kraus & Union Station

81. Lucky – Melissa Etheridge
82. The best of – J.J. Cale
83. Chariot – Gavin Degraw
84. Live at the Austin outhouse – Blaze Foley
85. What I do – Alan Jackson
86. the Italian sessions – Chet baker
87. - Prince
88. Best of – the Boomtown rats
89. Crazy: the demo sessions – Willie Nelson
90. Rainbow Children - Prince
91. Stand by your man – Tammy Wynette
92. Black Tie, white Noise – David Bowie
93. Los Lonely Boys – Los Lonely Boys
94. Ray of light - Madonna
95. His hand in mine – Elvis Presley
96. Small patch of blue – Tom Travis Bluegrass incident
97. Outlaws and angels – Willie Nelson & friends
98. Dangerous – Michael jackson
99. When the sun goes down – kenny Chesney
100. Josh Turner – Long Black Train