Silly List Slogs: Top 5 Albums, pt. 1
Earlier this month, I noted my frustration that I don't currently have 5 Lou Reed albums I would want to call my Top 5. But how many pop-rock acts do achieve that feat? By my last reckoning, more than 50. So here's the first 25, in descending order of how favoritey I find my 5 favorite albums of theirs. If you compare this list to the 20 Top 5s I posted last year, you'll find some artists and albums shuffled around. Cuz I put in the work! But I sure hope you don't have to gaze that deep into my navel to find this stuff entertaining.
Some caveats from last time that still hold today.
- My collection is rife with the sound of a sardonic yet earnest singing white male guitarist. I'm ever working on expanding my awareness, while also accepting it's an area where I've got a lot.
- Just because an album isn't here doesn't mean I don't like it, or that I've even heard it.
- Yeah, I'm including some compilations. They're albums, aren't they? Little circles you can spin around when you want to hear a ditty? I count them when they count to me.
Despite point number 1, if you do find a choice or exclusion startling, don't be afraid to let me know, either via anthonymiccio at twitter, or anthonyisright at gmail dot com. The more I know my tastes intrigue, the more likely I'll explicate them further.
Neil Young
- Rust Never Sleeps
- Greendale
- Ragged Glory
- Comes A Time
- On The Beach
The Velvet Underground
- White Light/White Heat
- The Velvet Underground
- Loaded
- V.U.
- The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Rolling Stones
- Let It Bleed
- Rolling Stones, Now!
- Beggars Banquet
- Exile On Mainstreet
- Tattoo You
The Beatles
- Please Please Me
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Rubber Soul
- Revolver
- With The Beatles
Randy Newman
- Bad Love
- Good Old Boys
- Sail Away
- Born Again
- Little Criminals
R.E.M.
- Green
- Reckoning
- Document
- Out Of Time
- Dead Letter Office/Chronic Town [CD]
Low
- Ones And Sixes
- HEY WHAT
- The Great Destroyer
- I Could Live In Hope
- Double Negative
Electric Six
- Fire
- I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me The Restricts Me From Being The Master
- Heartbeats And Brainwaves
- Senor Smoke
- Zodiac
Yo La Tengo
- Electr-O-Pura
- We Have Amensia Sometimes
- Fakebook
- Painful
- There’s A Riot Going On
Ramones
- The Ramones
- Rocket To Russia
- Leave Home
- Brain Drain
- Subterranean Jungle
Spoon
- A Series Of Sneaks
- Transference
- Gimme Fiction
- Girls Can Tell
- Telephono
John Prine
- John Prine
- Diamonds In The Rough
- In Spite Of Ourselves
- Aimless Love
- Common Sense
Rocket From The Crypt
- Hot Charity/Cut Carefully & Play Loud [CD]
- Live From Camp X-Ray
- Group Sounds
- R.I.P.
- RFTC
Sonic Youth
- Sonic Nurse
- Sister
- Bad Moon Rising
- Daydream Nation
- EVOL
Aretha Franklin
- I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Loved You)
- Lady Soul
- Aretha Now
- Spirit In The Dark
- Aretha Arrives
The Mountain Goats
- We Shall All Be Healed
- The Sunset Tree
- The Coroner’s Gambit
- Full Force Galesbourg
- Goths
Fugazi
- The Argument
- 13 Songs
- Repeater
- In On The Killtaker
- End Hits
Al Green
- Gets Next To You
- Al Green Is Love
- The Belle Album
- Livin’ For You
- Call Me
Joni Mitchell
- Hejira
- Blue
- Court & Spark
- For The Roses
- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Bob Dylan
- Blood On The Tracks
- Before The Flood
- Bringing It All Back Home
- Blonde On Blonde
- The Basement Tapes
Bill Withers
- +Justments
- Live At Carnegie Hall
- Menagerie
- Just As I Am
- Still Bill
Led Zeppelin
- Led Zeppelin III
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Houses Of The Holy
- Physical Graffiti
- Led Zeppelin II
Loudon Wainwright III
- Attempted Mustache
- Haven’t Got The Blues (Yet)
- Unrequited
- Fame & Wealth
- Album II
Amy Rigby
- Diary Of A Mod Housewife
- The Sugar Tree
- Little Fugitive
- Middlescence
- One Way Ticket To My Life
The Fall
- Early Fall 77-79
- Hex Enduction Hour
- Live At The Witch Trials
- Slates/ A Part Of America Therein, 1981
- This Nation’s Saving Grace
25 more a'-comin'!