Silly List Slogs: My Top 300 Albums Of All Time

My 300 favorite albums of all time, as of February 11, 2022. My biases and my predilections are obvious. I included compilations because I can favorite the heck out of a compilation. I didn't include EPs or anything bigger than a double CD because I'm Goldilocks. Just because an album by somebody is here doesn't mean I've heard everything else they've done. I'll probably write about why these are my favorites someday, but not today. Feel free to comment wherever or e-mail at anthonyisright at gmail dot com if you gotta know why this and not that.

1. Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
2. Beatles - Please Please Me
3. Ramones - The Ramones
4. Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard
5. The Replacements - Let It Be
6. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
7. Bill Withers - ‘Justments
8. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
10. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
11. Television - Adventure
12. The Velvet Underground - White Light/ White Heat
13. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
14. Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech…Just Watch What You Say
15. Electric Six - Fire
16. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
17. Fugazi - The Argument
18. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
19. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
20. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
21. R.E.M. - Green
22. Sugar Ray - Sugar Ray
23. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Loved You)
24. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
25. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
26. Slowdive - Just For A Day
27. The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs [UK]
28. Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
29. AC/DC - Powerage
30. David Johansen - David Johansen
31. Aerosmith - Rocks
32. Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me
33. Prince -  Sign ‘O’ The Times
34. Wilco - Summerteeth
35. Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me…
36. Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
37. The Flatlanders - The Odessa Tapes
38. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
39. Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity/Cut Carefully & Play Loud
40. Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks
41. Madonna - You Can Dance
42. !!! - !!!
43. Parliament - Mothership Connection
44. Stooges - Fun House
45. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry’s Golden Decade
46. Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
47. Low - Ones And Sixes
48. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
49. Mekons - The Mekons Rock’n’Roll
50. Randy Newman - Bad Love
51. Nirvana - Nevermind
52. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
53. Amy Rigby - Diary Of A Mod Housewife
54. The Bats - Daddy’s Highway
55. The Clean - Compilation
56. Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends
57. Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up!
58. The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
59. Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones, Now!
60. Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Mustache
61. Le Tigre - Le Tigre
62. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
63. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
64. The Beach Boys - Party!
65. Randy Newman - Sail Away
66. Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
67. Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
68. Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
69. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
70. Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal
71. The 6ths - Wasps Nests
72. The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
73. Pixies - Doolittle
74. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale
75. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
76. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
77. Everything But The Girl - Temperamental
78. Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
79. Low - Hey What
80. Radiohead - Kid A
81. The B-52s - Cosmic Thing
82. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
83. Radiohead - In Rainbows
84. The Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance
85. Sugar - Copper Blue
86. Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
87. Bjork - Homogenic
88. Nas - Illmatic
89. Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
90. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
91. Bob Mould - Bob Mould
92. The Roches - The Roches
93. Weezer - Weezer [The Blue Album]
94. ABC - Lexicon Of Love
95. Cocteau Twins - The Pink Opaque
96. Das EFX - Dead Serious
97. The Go-Betweens - Friends Of Rachel Worth
98. Van Morrison - Moondance
99. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
100. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
101. Sonic Youth - Sister
102. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
103. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
104. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
105. Neil Young - Comes A Time
106. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time Take Time
107. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
108. Harry Nilsson - Pussy Cats
109. R.E.M. - Reckoning
110. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
111. Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
112. Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room
113. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys
114. Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes
115. Lungfish - Talking Songs For Walking
116. Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
117. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
118. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
119. Velvet Underground - VU
120. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
121. Bauhaus - Mask
122. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
123. The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell And Back
124. Al Green - Gets Next To You
125. Joni Mitchell - Blue
126. Weezer - Pinkerton
127. Cheap Trick - In Color
128. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
129. Bonnie Raitt - Home Plate
130. The Animals - The Very Best Of The Animals
131. Tom T. Hall - For The People In The Last Hard Town
132. Rocket From The Crypt - Live From Camp X-Ray
133. Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Best Of The Best
134. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
135. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
136. Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
137. David Bowie - Changesbowie
138. Rolling Stones - Exile On Mainstreet
139. Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis: What Is It?!
140. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
141. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
142. Half Japanese - Charmed Life
143. Mudhoney - March To Fuzz
144. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
145. Low - The Great Destroyer
146. Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
147. The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
148. John Prine - John Prine
149. Amy Rigby - The Sugar Tree
150. Superchunk - On The Mouth
151. Scrawl - Nature Film
152. The Fall - 77-Early Fall-79
153. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
154. Fugazi - 13 Songs
155. John Prine - Diamonds In The Rough
156. Superchunk - Tossing Seeds: Singles 89-91
157. Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
158. Weezer - Maladroit
159. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
160. The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
161. The Clean - Vehicle
162. Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds
163. X - Wild Gift
164. Bob Dylan/The Band - Before The Flood
165. Wire - Pink Flag
166. Wilson Pickett - Wilson Pickett’s Greatest Hits
167. Devin The Dude - The Dude
168. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
169. Missy Elliott - The Cookbook
170. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
171. Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives And Hot Sevens, Vol. II
172. Tall Dwarfs - Weeville
173. Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
174. John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves
175. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Amazing Grace
176. Mountain Goats - The Coroner’s Gambit
177. Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
178. Mott The Hoople - Live
179. Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
180. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
181. Red House Painters - Red House Painters [Bridge]
182. Television - Marquee Moon
183. Cure - Pornography
184. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
185. Al Green - The Belle Album
186. The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
187. Led Zeppelin - IV
188. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
189. Patti Smith - Horses
190. Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man
191. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
192. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
193. Sister Sledge - We Are Family
194. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
195. Neil Young - On The Beach
196. Northern State - Dying In Stereo
197. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
198. The Stooges - The Stooges
199. V/A - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films
200. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
201. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
202. Low - I Could Live In Hope
203. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
204. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
205. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
206. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
207. Eric B & Rakim - 20th Century Masters
208. Yo La Tengo - Painful
209. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
210. Babyface - Tender Lover
211. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
212. Beak> - >>
213. Cat Power - Moon Pix
214. Dismemberment Plan - Change
215. Luna - Penthouse
216. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
217. Portishead - Dummy
218. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
219. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
220. Beck - Midnite Vultures
221. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
222. Low - Double Negative
223. Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
224. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
225. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
226. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
227. Spoon - Transference
228. Basehead - Play With Toys
229. Feelies - In Between
230. Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
231. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
232. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
233. Los Lobos - Colossal Head
234. Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
235. Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
236. The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
237. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
238. The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
239. Lungfish - Rainbows From Atoms
240. New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
241. Queen - Hot Space
242. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
243. Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
244. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
245. Love - Forever Changes
246. Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On
247. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
248. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
249. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
250. Low - The Invisible Way
251. The Rolling Stones - Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits, Vol. 2)
252. Girls Against Boys - House Of GVSB
253. Adrianne Lenker - Songs
254. Pylon - Gyrate
255. The Replacements - Tim
256. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
257. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of The…
258. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
259. Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
260. Clinic - Walking With Thee
261. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
262. Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque
263. Tom T. Hall - We All Got Together And…
264. Kacy Hill - Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again
265. Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M
266. Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
267. R.E.M. - Document
268. Wussy - Funeral Dress
269. The Go-Go’s - Beauty & The Beat
270. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
271. Imperial Teen - Seasick
272. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
273. Lou Reed - Transformer
274. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
275. Strokes - Is This It?
276. Dave Edmunds - D E 7th
277. Fugazi - Repeater
278. Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
279. Randy Newman - Born Again
280. John Prine - Aimless Love
281. The Raincoats - The Raincoats
282. Paul Simon - Paul Simon
283. Van Halen - Van Halen
284. Cheap Trick - One On One
285. Clem Snide - Soft Spot
286. Dave Edmunds - Tracks On Wax 4
287. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
288. The Bangles - All Over The Place
289. The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
290. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
291. Otis Redding - Otis Blue
292. The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
293. Tom T. Hall - In Search Of A Song
294. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
295. John Prine - Common Sense
296. Paul Revere &. The Raiders - Greatest Hits
297. Loretta Lynn - Greatest Hits
298. Beat Happening - Jamboree
299. Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
300. X - Alphabetland

I wanted to put a pretty picture between every 50 albums, but the list formatting was cranky about it and I wanted to move on with my life. Feel free to take a breath and Image Search for Electric Six after the first 50, Neil Young after the first 100, The Velvet Underground after 150, The Mountain Goats after 200, Low after 250 and your mom after 300 (failing that, John Prine). They've all earned it. And thanks for scrolling!