Silly List Slogs: My Top 300 Albums of All Time (2nd edition)
Last year's #285 is now #300! What flux!
While I still haven't figured out how to post pictures within a list template since last year's Top 300 Albums Of All Time post, I continue neurotically investigating albums old & new, revisiting previous assessments when the mood strikes. Enough of note has been discovered & rediscovered that it's worth posting an update. If you see a ^ next to an album, that means I've had it since before last year, but decided I'd underrated it last time. If you see a *, that means it's new to me (the tracklisting, if not the individual songs - particularly in the case of compilations). I didn't include any EPs, which means nothing here is under 30 minutes unless it's got at least 9 songs on it. I think. And while I proudly include compilations, I didn't include anything bigger than two discs. If you have any concerns, confusion or queries, feel free to comment wherever or reach out at anthonyisright at gmail dot com. Scroll...and behold.
- Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
- Beatles - Please Please Me
- Ramones - The Ramones
- Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard
- The Replacements - Let It Be
- Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
- Bill Withers - ‘Justments
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
- Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
- Television - Adventure
- The Velvet Underground - White Light/ White Heat
- Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
- Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech…Just Watch What You Say
- Electric Six - Fire
- Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
- Fugazi - The Argument
- New York Dolls - New York Dolls
- Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- R.E.M. - Green
- Sugar Ray - Sugar Ray
- Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Loved You)
- The Bangles - All Over The Place ^
- Joni Mitchell - Hejira
- Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
- Slowdive - Just For A Day
- The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs [UK]
- Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
- AC/DC - Powerage
- David Johansen - David Johansen
- Aerosmith - Rocks
- Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me
- Prince - Sign ‘O’ The Times
- Wilco - Summerteeth
- Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me…
- Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
- The Flatlanders - The Odessa Tapes
- Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
- Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity/Cut Carefully & Play Loud
- Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks
- Madonna - You Can Dance
- !!! - !!!
- Parliament - Mothership Connection
- The Stooges - Fun House
- Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry’s Golden Decade
- Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
- Low - Ones And Sixes
- Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
- Mekons - The Mekons Rock’n’Roll
- Randy Newman - Bad Love
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
- Amy Rigby - Diary Of A Mod Housewife
- The Bats - Daddy’s Highway
- The Clean - Compilation
- Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends
- Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up!
- The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
- Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones, Now!
- Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Mustache
- Le Tigre - Le Tigre
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
- Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
- The Beach Boys - Party!
- Randy Newman - Sail Away
- Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
- Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
- Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
- Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
- Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal
- The 6ths - Wasps Nests
- The Kinks - We Are The Village Green Preservation Society
- Pixies - Doolittle
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
- Everything But The Girl - Temperamental
- Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
- Low - HEY WHAT
- Radiohead - Kid A
- The B-52s - Cosmic Thing
- Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- The Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III ^
- Sugar - Copper Blue
- Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
- Bjork - Homogenic
- Nas - Illmatic
- Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk [US]
- The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
- Hot Chocolate - 10 Greatest Hits *
- Bob Mould - Bob Mould
- The Roches - The Roches
- Weezer - Weezer [The Blue Album]
- ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
- Cocteau Twins - The Pink Opaque
- Das EFX - Dead Serious
- The Go-Betweens - Friends Of Rachel Worth
- Al Green- Al Green Is Love *
- Van Morrison - Moondance
- Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
- Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
- Sonic Youth - Sister
- The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
- The Velvet Underground - Loaded
- The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
- Neil Young - Comes A Time
- Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time Take Time
- Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
- Harry Nilsson - Pussy Cats
- R.E.M. - Reckoning
- Steely Dan - Katy Lied
- Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
- Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys
- Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes
- Lungfish - Talking Songs For Walking
- Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
- Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
- Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
- Velvet Underground - VU
- Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
- Bauhaus - Mask
- Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
- The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell And Back
- Al Green - Gets Next To You
- Joni Mitchell - Blue
- Weezer - Pinkerton
- Cheap Trick - In Color
- Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
- Bonnie Raitt - Home Plate
- The Animals - The Very Best Of The Animals
- Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now *
- Tom T. Hall - For The People In The Last Hard Town
- Rocket From The Crypt - Live From Camp X-Ray
- Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Best Of The Best
- Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
- King Crimson - Red *
- Yo La Tengo - We Have Amnesia Sometimes *
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
- Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
- Rolling Stones - Exile On Mainstreet
- Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis: What Is It?!
- Pavement - Wowee Zowee
- Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
- Half Japanese - Charmed Life
- Mudhoney - March To Fuzz
- Amon Tobin - Bricolage *
- Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
- Low - The Great Destroyer
- Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
- The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
- John Prine - John Prine
- Amy Rigby - The Sugar Tree
- Superchunk - On The Mouth
- Scrawl - Nature Film
- The Fall - 77-Early Fall-79
- The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
- Fugazi - 13 Songs
- John Prine - Diamonds In The Rough
- Superchunk - Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)
- Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
- The Flatlanders - More A Legend Than A Band *
- Weezer - Maladroit
- Pixies - Surfer Rosa
- The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
- The Clean - Vehicle
- Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds
- X - Wild Gift
- Bob Dylan/The Band - Before The Flood
- Wire - Pink Flag
- Wilson Pickett - Wilson Pickett’s Greatest Hits
- Bo Diddley - Got My Own Bag Of Tricks *
- Jackie Wilson - The Very Best Of Jackie Wilson [Ace] *
- Devin The Dude - The Dude
- Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll *
- Missy Elliott - The Cookbook
- Ghostface Killah - Ironman
- Devo - Greatest Hits *
- Tall Dwarfs - Weeville
- Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
- John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves
- Mississippi Fred McDowell - Amazing Grace
- Mountain Goats - The Coroner’s Gambit
- Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
- Mott The Hoople - Live
- Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
- Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
- Red House Painters - Bridge
- Television - Marquee Moon
- Cure - Pornography
- Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
- Al Green - The Belle Album
- The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
- Led Zeppelin - IV
- Iggy Pop - The Idiot
- Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy ^
- Patti Smith - Horses
- Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man
- Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
- Talking Heads - Remain In Light
- Sister Sledge - We Are Family
- Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
- Neil Young - On The Beach
- Northern State - Dying In Stereo
- Prince - Dirty Mind ^
- Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
- The Stooges - The Stooges
- Various Artists - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films
- The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
- Hot Chip - In Our Heads
- Low - I Could Live In Hope
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
- The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
- Eric B & Rakim - 20th Century Masters
- Yo La Tengo - Painful
- Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Babyface - Tender Lover
- The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
- Beak> - >>
- Cat Power - Moon Pix
- Dismemberment Plan - Change
- Luna - Penthouse
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Portishead - Dummy
- TV On The Radio - Dear Science
- The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Beck - Midnite Vultures
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
- Low - Double Negative
- Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
- Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
- Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
- Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
- Spoon - Transference
- Basehead - Play With Toys
- The Feelies - In Between
- Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
- Hot Chip - Freakout/Release *
- Spoon - Gimme Fiction
- The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
- Los Lobos - Colossal Head
- Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
- Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
- The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
- Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
- The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
- Lungfish - Rainbows From Atoms
- New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
- Queen - Hot Space
- R.E.M. - Out Of Time
- Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
- Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
- Love - Forever Changes
- Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On
- Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
- Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
- Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
- Kool & The Gang - 20th Century Masters *
- Low - The Invisible Way
- The Rolling Stones - Through The Past, Darkly
- Girls Against Boys - House Of GVSB
- Adrianne Lenker - Songs
- Pylon - Gyrate
- The Replacements - Tim
- The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of The…
- Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
- Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
- Clinic - Walking With Thee
- CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
- Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque
- Tom T. Hall - We All Got Together And…
- Kacy Hill - Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again
- Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M
- Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
- R.E.M. - Document
- Wussy - Funeral Dress
- The Go-Go’s - Beauty & The Beat
- Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
- Imperial Teen - Seasick
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
- Lou Reed - Transformer
- Spoon - Girls Can Tell
- Strokes - Is This It?
- Dave Edmunds - D E 7th
- Fugazi - Repeater
- Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
- Randy Newman - Born Again
- John Prine - Aimless Love
- The Pretenders - Break Up The Concrete *
- The Raincoats - The Raincoats
- Paul Simon - Paul Simon
- Van Halen - Van Halen
- Cheap Trick - One On One
- Clem Snide - Soft Spot
Big falls:
- David Bowie's Changesbowie (decided it doesn't render Scary Monsters redundant enough)
- Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. II (picked up another comp worth keeping despite overlap)
- Superchunk's Majesty Shredding (good, but I overrated the B side. What A Time To Be Alive is the best of their modern run, and sits at #303)