Los Angeles
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So last year for Christmas, The Gee Eff got me a turntable. I had long before sold off all of my vinyl (save for my Flaming Lips collection).
Rather than just buy records willy-nilly, I am taking this opportunity to make a kind of top-50-records-of-all-time list and BUY IT.
The list will be slanted towards the autobiographical. In other words, even if Sgt. Pepper is the greatest album ever, I didn't listen to it all that much (who listens to the Beatles anymore anyway? *runs and hides*), so anyway, Sgt Pepper is not in the top 50. One magical summer, I only had one tape in my car, and it was Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, and I listened to that thing at least 1000 times. So it IS on the list.
So I'm going to list my top 100 where I stand right now (stars mean I already own it).
I am very interested in fine-tuning it, and I welcome anyone here to list your personal top 10 (or 5 or whatever)
The list is in random order, not a ranking, but if it's on here, I think it's pretty rad. Enjoy!
*** Arcade Fire - Funeral
*** Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
*** Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
*** Pixies - Surfer Rosa
5 *** Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
*** Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
*** The Shins - Oh Inverted World
*** Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - ACME
*** LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
10 *** Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
*** Portishead - Dummy
*** The Cars - The Cars
*** Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out
*** Low - Secret Name
15 *** Soundgarden - Superunknown
*** Muse - Absolution
*** Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
*** Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
*** Air - Moon Safari
20 *** Pearl Jam - Ten
*** Firehose - If'n
*** Morphine - Cure for Pain
*** New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
*** Hayden - Everything I Long For
25 *** The Postal Service - Give Up
*** Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
*** White Stripes - White Blood Cells
*** Bjork - Homogenic
*** Brazillian Girls - Brazillian Girls
30 *** The Strokes - Is This It
*** Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
*** MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
*** Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
*** Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
35 *** Low - Long Division
*** Pixies - Doolittle
*** Rolling Stones - Some Girls
*** The The - Infected
*** Le Tigre - Le Tigre
40 *** Nirvana - Nevermind
*** Ladytron - Witching Hour
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Autolux - Future Perfect
45 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Urge Overkill - Saturation
Elliott Smith - XO
50 Radiohead - OK Computer
Morphine - The Night
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Placebo - Meds
55 Tragically Hip - Day for Night
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Jimmy Cliff - Reggae Greats
60 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
Son Volt - Trace
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
65 The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones
The Doors - LA Woman
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
70 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Beck - Sea Change
Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
Bob Marley - Kaya
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
75 Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
Van Halen - Van Halen
The Black Crows - Southern Harmony ….
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
80 The Beatles - Revolver
Lonely Is An Eyesore (4AD Comp.)
Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song - I Break Chairs
Neil Young - Harvest
Velvet Underground and Nico
85 CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Reverend Horton Heat - Full Custom Gospel Sounds of
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Mudhoney - PIece of Cake
Nina Simone
90 The Vines - Winning Days
The Wombats - A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation
Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
95 Yo La Tengo - Elecr-o-pura
Yo La Tengo - Painful
The Doors - The Doors
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
100 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
New Order - Substance
Talking Heads - Talking Heads 77
The Neil Diamond Collection
Joy Division - Closer
105 Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Rather than just buy records willy-nilly, I am taking this opportunity to make a kind of top-50-records-of-all-time list and BUY IT.
The list will be slanted towards the autobiographical. In other words, even if Sgt. Pepper is the greatest album ever, I didn't listen to it all that much (who listens to the Beatles anymore anyway? *runs and hides*), so anyway, Sgt Pepper is not in the top 50. One magical summer, I only had one tape in my car, and it was Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, and I listened to that thing at least 1000 times. So it IS on the list.
So I'm going to list my top 100 where I stand right now (stars mean I already own it).
I am very interested in fine-tuning it, and I welcome anyone here to list your personal top 10 (or 5 or whatever)
The list is in random order, not a ranking, but if it's on here, I think it's pretty rad. Enjoy!
*** Arcade Fire - Funeral
*** Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
*** Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
*** Pixies - Surfer Rosa
5 *** Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
*** Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
*** The Shins - Oh Inverted World
*** Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - ACME
*** LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
10 *** Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
*** Portishead - Dummy
*** The Cars - The Cars
*** Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out
*** Low - Secret Name
15 *** Soundgarden - Superunknown
*** Muse - Absolution
*** Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
*** Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
*** Air - Moon Safari
20 *** Pearl Jam - Ten
*** Firehose - If'n
*** Morphine - Cure for Pain
*** New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
*** Hayden - Everything I Long For
25 *** The Postal Service - Give Up
*** Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
*** White Stripes - White Blood Cells
*** Bjork - Homogenic
*** Brazillian Girls - Brazillian Girls
30 *** The Strokes - Is This It
*** Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
*** MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
*** Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
*** Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
35 *** Low - Long Division
*** Pixies - Doolittle
*** Rolling Stones - Some Girls
*** The The - Infected
*** Le Tigre - Le Tigre
40 *** Nirvana - Nevermind
*** Ladytron - Witching Hour
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Autolux - Future Perfect
45 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Urge Overkill - Saturation
Elliott Smith - XO
50 Radiohead - OK Computer
Morphine - The Night
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Placebo - Meds
55 Tragically Hip - Day for Night
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Jimmy Cliff - Reggae Greats
60 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
Son Volt - Trace
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
65 The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones
The Doors - LA Woman
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
70 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Beck - Sea Change
Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
Bob Marley - Kaya
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
75 Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
Van Halen - Van Halen
The Black Crows - Southern Harmony ….
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
80 The Beatles - Revolver
Lonely Is An Eyesore (4AD Comp.)
Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song - I Break Chairs
Neil Young - Harvest
Velvet Underground and Nico
85 CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Reverend Horton Heat - Full Custom Gospel Sounds of
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Mudhoney - PIece of Cake
Nina Simone
90 The Vines - Winning Days
The Wombats - A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation
Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
95 Yo La Tengo - Elecr-o-pura
Yo La Tengo - Painful
The Doors - The Doors
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
100 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
New Order - Substance
Talking Heads - Talking Heads 77
The Neil Diamond Collection
Joy Division - Closer
105 Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds