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Silly List Slogs: My Top 300 Albums Of All Time (3rd Edition)

Every year I update this list of my 300 Favorite Albums, as proof that my taste gets more and more exquisite...
Silly List Slogs: My Top 300 Albums Of All Time (3rd Edition)
The latest additions to this hallowed list of discs.

Dang! It's is my third annual run through my 300 most favorite albums ever! This here blog has existed for a minute, I guess. While this update is not that different from the list that went up in April '23, there were some changes.

  • I've added seven albums that were "new to me." Them's the ones with the asterisks.
  • Bo Diddley's Got My Own Bag Of Tricks and Devo's Greatest Hits were replaced by Bo Diddley's His Best and Devo's Hot Potatoes: The Best Of Devo. His Best is in print, and maybe a little better than Tricks. I wound up buying Hot Potatoes over Greatest Hits because it has "The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize," even though it's slightly bloated compared to Hits.
  • As hinted in How I Like The Beatles: The Albums, I finally accepted that any LP with both "PS I Love You" and "A Taste Of Honey" on the B side isn't a 10/10, let alone the 2nd best album ever. Still made the Top 50, though!
Listing's much sweeter than wine! Doo-doo-d'n-doo!

So without further ado...the 300!

  1. Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
  2. Ramones - The Ramones
  3. Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard
  4. The Replacements - Let It Be
  5. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
  6. Bill Withers - ‘Justments
  7. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
  8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
  9. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
  10. Television - Adventure
  11. The Velvet Underground - White Light/ White Heat
  12. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
  13. Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech…Just Watch What You Say
  14. Electric Six - Fire
  15. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
  16. Harold Budd/Brian Eno - The Pearl*
  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. The Bangles - All Over The Place
  25. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
  26. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
  27. Slowdive - Just For A Day
  28. The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs [UK]
  29. Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
  30. AC/DC - Powerage
  31. David Johansen - David Johansen
  32. Aerosmith - Rocks
  33. Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me
  34. Prince -  Sign ‘O’ The Times
  35. Wilco - Summerteeth
  36. Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me…
  37. Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
  38. The Flatlanders - The Odessa Tapes
  39. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
  40. Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity/Cut Carefully & Play Loud
  41. Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks
  42. The Beatles - Please Please Me
  43. Madonna - You Can Dance
  44. !!! - !!!
  45. Parliament - Mothership Connection
  46. The Stooges - Fun House
  47. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry’s Golden Decade
  48. Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
  49. Low - Ones And Sixes
  50. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Prince, Electric Six and David Johansen/NY Dolls have two albums in the Top 50 each. But Eno has two now, AND produced Fear Of Music. Recognize!
  1. Mekons - The Mekons Rock’n’Roll
  2. Randy Newman - Bad Love
  3. Nirvana - Nevermind
  4. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
  5. Amy Rigby - Diary Of A Mod Housewife
  6. The Bats - Daddy’s Highway
  7. The Clean - Compilation
  8. Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends
  9. Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up!
  10. The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
  11. Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones, Now!
  12. Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Mustache
  13. Le Tigre - Le Tigre
  14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
  15. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
  16. The Beach Boys - Party!
  17. The Coasters - Coast Along With The Coasters*
  18. Randy Newman - Sail Away
  19. Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
  20. Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
  21. Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
  22. Bo Diddley - His Best
  23. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
  24. Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal
  25. The 6ths - Wasps Nests
  26. The Kinks - We Are The Village Green Preservation Society
  27. Pixies - Doolittle
  28. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale
  29. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
  30. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
  31. Everything But The Girl - Temperamental
  32. Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
  33. Low - HEY WHAT
  34. Radiohead - Kid A
  35. The B-52s - Cosmic Thing
  36. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
  37. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  38. The Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance
  39. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
  40. Sugar - Copper Blue
  41. Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
  42. Bjork - Homogenic
  43. Nas - Illmatic
  44. Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk [US]
  45. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
  46. Hot Chocolate - 10 Greatest Hits
  47. Bob Mould - Bob Mould
  48. The Roches - The Roches
  49. Weezer - Weezer [The Blue Album]
  50. ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Cocteau Twins...Pearly-Dewdrop-Droppin' out of the 100. But only by default!
  1. Cocteau Twins - The Pink Opaque
  2. Das EFX - Dead Serious
  3. The Go-Betweens - The Friends Of Rachel Worth
  4. Al Green- Al Green Is Love
  5. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains*
  6. Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What*
  7. Van Morrison - Moondance
  8. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
  9. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
  10. Sonic Youth - Sister
  11. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
  12. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
  13. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
  14. Neil Young - Comes A Time
  15. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time Take Time
  16. Everything But The Girl - Fuse*
  17. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
  18. Harry Nilsson - Pussy Cats
  19. R.E.M. - Reckoning
  20. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
  21. Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
  22. Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room
  23. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys
  24. Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes
  25. Lungfish - Talking Songs For Walking
  26. Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
  27. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
  28. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
  29. The Velvet Underground - VU
  30. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
  31. Bauhaus - Mask
  32. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
  33. The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell And Back
  34. Al Green - Gets Next To You
  35. Joni Mitchell - Blue
  36. Weezer - Pinkerton
  37. Cheap Trick - In Color
  38. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
  39. Bonnie Raitt - Home Plate
  40. The Animals - The Very Best Of The Animals
  41. Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
  42. Tom T. Hall - For The People In The Last Hard Town
  43. Rocket From The Crypt - Live From Camp X-Ray
  44. Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Best Of The Best
  45. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
  46. King Crimson - Red
  47. Yo La Tengo - We Have Amnesia Sometimes
  48. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  49. Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
  50. Rolling Stones - Exile On Mainstreet
Don't be sleeping on that Velvet Underground! Check 'em out already!
  1. Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis: What Is It?!
  2. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
  3. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
  4. Half Japanese - Charmed Life
  5. Mudhoney - March To Fuzz
  6. Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged*
  7. Amon Tobin - Bricolage
  8. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
  9. Low - The Great Destroyer
  10. Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
  11. The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
  12. John Prine - John Prine
  13. Amy Rigby - The Sugar Tree
  14. Superchunk - On The Mouth
  15. Scrawl - Nature Film
  16. The Fall - 77-Early Fall-79
  17. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
  18. Fugazi - 13 Songs
  19. John Prine - Diamonds In The Rough
  20. Superchunk - Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)
  21. Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
  22. The Flatlanders - More A Legend Than A Band
  23. Weezer - Maladroit
  24. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  25. The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
  26. The Clean - Vehicle
  27. Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds
  28. X - Wild Gift
  29. Bob Dylan/The Band - Before The Flood
  30. Wire - Pink Flag
  31. Wilson Pickett - Wilson Pickett’s Greatest Hits
  32. Jackie Wilson - The Very Best Of Jackie Wilson [Ace]
  33. Devin The Dude - The Dude
  34. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
  35. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
  36. Missy Elliott - The Cookbook
  37. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
  38. Tall Dwarfs - Weeville
  39. Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
  40. John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves
  41. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Amazing Grace
  42. Mountain Goats - The Coroner’s Gambit
  43. Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
  44. Mott The Hoople - Live
  45. Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
  46. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
  47. Red House Painters - Bridge
  48. Television - Marquee Moon
  49. Cure - Pornography
  50. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
I don't think there's a '70s Al Green album left I haven't assessed for inclusion here...
  1. Al Green - The Belle Album
  2. The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
  3. Led Zeppelin - IV
  4. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
  5. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
  6. Patti Smith - Horses
  7. Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man
  8. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
  9. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
  10. Sister Sledge - We Are Family
  11. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
  12. Neil Young - On The Beach
  13. Northern State - Dying In Stereo
  14. Prince - Dirty Mind
  15. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
  16. The Stooges - The Stooges
  17. Devo - Hot Potatoes: The Best Of Devo
  18. Various Artists - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films
  19. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
  20. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
  21. Low - I Could Live In Hope
  22. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
  23. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  24. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  25. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
  26. Eric B & Rakim - 20th Century Masters
  27. Tim Hecker - No Highs*
  28. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
  29. Yo La Tengo - Painful
  30. Babyface - Tender Lover
  31. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
  32. Beak> - >>
  33. Cat Power - Moon Pix
  34. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
  35. Luna - Penthouse
  36. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  37. Portishead - Dummy
  38. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
  39. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  40. Beck - Midnite Vultures
  41. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
  42. Low - Double Negative
  43. Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
  44. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
  45. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
  46. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
  47. Spoon - Transference
  48. Basehead - Play With Toys
  49. The Feelies - In Between
  50. Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Get in, losers. Girls Against Boys and I are going list making!

  1. Hot Chip - Freakout/Release
  2. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
  3. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
  4. Los Lobos - Colossal Head
  5. Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection
  6. Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
  7. The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
  8. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
  9. The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
  10. Lungfish - Rainbows From Atoms
  11. New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
  12. Queen - Hot Space
  13. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
  14. Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
  15. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
  16. Love - Forever Changes
  17. Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On
  18. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
  19. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac [1975]
  20. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
  21. Kool & The Gang - 20th Century Masters
  22. Low - The Invisible Way
  23. The Rolling Stones - Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits, Vol. 2)
  24. Girls Against Boys - House Of GVSB
  25. Adrianne Lenker - Songs
  26. Pylon - Gyrate
  27. The Replacements - Tim
  28. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of The…
  29. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
  30. Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
  31. Clinic - Walking With Thee
  32. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
  33. Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque
  34. Tom T. Hall - We All Got Together And…
  35. Kacy Hill - Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again
  36. Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M
  37. Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
  38. R.E.M. - Document
  39. Wussy - Funeral Dress
  40. The Go-Go’s - Beauty & The Beat
  41. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
  42. Imperial Teen - Seasick
  43. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
  44. Lou Reed - Transformer
  45. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
  46. Strokes - Is This It?
  47. Dave Edmunds - D E 7th
  48. Fugazi - Repeater
  49. Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
  50. Randy Newman - Born Again

Feel free to drop a line to anthonyisright at gmail dot com if anything about these album titles concerns you.