Silly List Slogs: Top 5 Albums, pt. 2

Anthony Cougar Miccio -

I already posted my Top 25 "Top 5"s. Here's 25 more, in gently descending order of topness. As I said in that linked list of lists, I'm AOK with including compilations. And explication can be provoked at anthonymiccio at twitter or anthonyisright at gmail dot com.

The Feelies

  1. Crazy Rhythms
  2. In Between
  3. Here Before
  4. Time For A Witness
  5. Only Life

Rod Stewart

  1. Every Picture Tells A Story
  2. Gasoline Alley
  3. Never A Dull Moment
  4. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
  5. Tonight I’m Yours

The Flaming Lips

  1. In A Priest Driven Amublance
  2. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
  3. Hit To Death In The Future Head
  4. Embryonic
  5. The Terror

Harry Nilsson

  1. Nilsson Sings Newman
  2. Pussy Cats
  3. Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
  4. Aerial Ballet
  5. Nilsson Schmilsson

Prince

  1. Purple Rain
  2. Sign “O” The Times
  3. Dirty Mind
  4. Parade
  5. Controversy
Superchunk, waiting for their appointment outside a Paul Mitchell.

Superchunk

  1. On The Mouth
  2. Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)
  3. What A Time To Be Alive
  4. Incidental Music
  5. Come Pick Me Up

!!!

  1. !!!
  2. Wallop
  3. Thr!!!er
  4. Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
  5. Louden Up Now

AC/DC

  1. Powerage
  2. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
  3. High Voltage
  4. If You Want Blood...
  5. Highway To Hell

Hot Chip

  1. In Our Heads
  2. Freakout/Release
  3. The Warning
  4. A Bath Full Of Ecstasy
  5. Made In The Dark

Fleetwood Mac

  1. Rumors
  2. Fleetwood Mac
  3. Tusk
  4. Say You Will
  5. Tango In The Night
Well, at least one member of Sly & The Family Stone was listening to the photographer.

Sly & The Family Stone

  1. Fresh
  2. There’s A Riot Goin On
  3. Life
  4. Greatest Hits
  5. Small Talk

Clem Snide

  1. Soft Spot
  2. The End Of Love
  3. Your Favorite Music
  4. The Meat Of Life
  5. You Were A Diamond

Luna

  1. Penthouse
  2. Lunafied
  3. Romantica
  4. Lunapark
  5. Pup Tent

Tom T. Hall

  1. For The People In The Last Hard Town
  2. We All Got Together And…
  3. In Search of A Song
  4. Homecoming
  5. I Witness Life

Motörhead

  1. No Sleep Til Hammersmith
  2. Iron Fist
  3. Ace Of Spades
  4. Orgasmatron
  5. Overkill
READ - Pavement For America's Cool T-Shirt Stores

Pavement

  1. Slanted & Enchanted
  2. Wowee Zowee
  3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
  4. Westing (By Musket And Sextant)
  5. Brighten The Corners

Radiohead

  1. Kid A
  2. In Rainbows
  3. A Moon Shaped Pool
  4. OK Computer
  5. The Bends

The Bats

  1. Daddy’s Highway
  2. Fear Of God
  3. The Law Of Things
  4. Silverbeet
  5. Compiletely Bats

Van Morrison

  1. Moondance
  2. Wavelength
  3. Tupelo Honey
  4. Into The Music
  5. St. Dominic's Preview

Scrawl

  1. Nature Film
  2. Travel On, Rider
  3. He’s Drunk
  4. Velvet Hammer
  5. Plus, Also, Too
A Tribe Called Quest, unimpressed by the photographer's choice of backdrop.

A Tribe Called Quest

  1. Midnight Mauraders
  2. The Low End Theory
  3. Beats Rhymes And Life
  4. We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
  5. People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths Of Rhythm

Stevie Wonder

  1. Talking Book
  2. Songs In the Key Of Life
  3. Innervisions
  4. Fulfillingness’ First Finale
  5. Looking Back

The Cure

  1. Pornography
  2. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
  3. Wish
  4. Seventeen Seconds
  5. Staring At The Sea - The Singles

The Mekons

  1. The Mekons Rock’n’Roll
  2. Honky Tonkin’
  3. So Good It Hurts
  4. Edge Of The World
  5. Fear & Whiskey

Steely Dan

  1. Katy Lied
  2. Everything Must Go
  3. The Royal Scam
  4. Can’t Buy A Thrill
  5. Pretzel Logic

There are more, but I can't pretend that Dan list ain't one to go out on. Maybe next year I'll post 70!