My 126 favorite albums of all time
These are my 126 favorite albums of all time. This list is arranged in order of preference, starting with my #1 favorite.
1) Linda Ronstadt – “Heart Like a Wheel” (1974)
2) The Beatles – “Rubber Soul” (1965)
3) Daryl Hall & John Oates – “Voices” (1981)
4) Pretenders – “Pretenders” (1980)
5) Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Willy and the Poor Boys” (1969)
6) The Who – “Who’s Next” (1971)
7) Blondie – “Parallel Lines” (1978)
8) Cream – “Disraeli Gears” (1967)
9) Loverboy – “Get Lucky” (1981)
10 Janis Joplin – “Pearl” (1971)
11) Elvis Costello – “Armed Forces” (1979)
12) The Beatles – “Revolver” (1966)
13) The Who – “Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy” (1971)
14) Phil Spector – “A Christmas Gift for You” (1963)
15) The Beatles – “Help!” (1965)
16) The Velvet Underground – “1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed” (1974)
17) Patty Smyth – “Greatest Hits: Featuring Scandal” (1998)
18) The Beatles – “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964)
19) Pretenders – “Learning to Crawl” (1984)
20) Blondie – “Blondie” (1976)
21) Daryl Hall and John Oates – “Private Eyes” (1981)
22) Go-Go’s – “Beauty and the Beat” (1981)
23) The Clash – “London Calling” (1979)
24) The Waitresses – “The Best of the Waitresses” (1990)
25) The Rolling Stones – “Let It Bleed” (1969)
26) Led Zeppelin – “Led Zeppelin IV” (1971)
27) Pink Floyd – “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973)
28) Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run” (1975)
29) Donna Summer – “Bad Girls” (1979)
30) Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo – “Good Clean Fun” (1982)
31) Josie Cotton – “Convertible Music” (1982)
32) The Beatles – “1″ (2000)
33) Fleetwood Mac – “Rumours ” (1977)
34) The Velvet Underground – “The Velvet Underground & Nico” (1967)
35) Vince Guaraldi – “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965)
36) The Beatles – “The Beatles (White Album)” (1968)
37) The Allman Brothers Band – “At Fillmore East” (1971)
38) Otis Redding – “The Ultimate Otis Redding” (1986)
39) Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Cosmo’s Factory” (1970)
40) Cream – “Fresh Cream” (1966)
41) Elvis Costello – “This Year’s Model” (1978)
42) John Williams – “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” (1977)
43) Skeeter Davis – “The Essential Skeeter Davis” (1995)
44) Elvis Costello – “My Aim Is True” (1977)
45) The Velvet Underground – “Loaded” (1970)
46) The Like – “Release Me” (2010)
47) Billy Joel – “Glass Houses” (1980)
48) Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Green River” (1969)
49) The Velvet Underground – “The Velvet Underground” (1969)
50) The Clash – “The Clash” (1979)
51) Juice Newton – “Juice” (1981)
52) Linda Ronstadt – “Linda Ronstadt” (1972)
53) Peter Tchaikovsky “The Nutcracker (Kirov Orchestra/Valery Gergiev)” (1998)
54) Joni Mitchell – “Blue” (1971)
55) Aretha Franklin – “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” (1967)
56) Led Zeppelin – “Houses of the Holy” (1973)
57) The Who “Live at Leeds” (1970)
58) The Beatles – “Abbey Road” (1969)
59) Kim Wilde – “Kim Wilde” (1981)
60) The Rolling Stones – “Beggars Banquet” (1968)
61) Joe Jackson – “Look Sharp!” (1979)
62) Jimi Hendrix – “Are You Experienced?” (1967)
63) Neil Young – “Tonight’s the Night” (1975)
64) The Byrds – “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” (1968)
65) The Beatles – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1967)
66) New York Dolls – “New York Dolls” (1973)
67) Richard & Linda Thompson – “Shoot Out the Lights” (1982)
68) Jefferson Airplane – “Volunteers” (1969)
69) Buffalo Springfield – “Buffalo Springfield Again” (1967)
70) Weird Al Yankovic – “Dare to Be Stupid” (1985)
71) Aretha Franklin – “Lady Soul” (1968)
72) Liz Phair – “Exile in Guyville” (1993)
73) The Modern Lovers – “The Modern Lovers” (1976)
74) The Supremes – “Every Great #1 Hit” (1974)
75) Bob Dylan – “Bringing It All Back Home” (1965)
76) The Rolling Stones – “Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)” (1966)
77) Roxy Music – “Siren” (1975)
78) Sly & the Family Stone – “Greatest Hits” (1970)
79) Graham Parker – “Squeezing Out Sparks” (1979)
80) R.E.M. – “Murmur” (1983)
81) Joni Mitchell – “Court and Spark” (1974)
82) Neil Young – “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” (1969)
83) Michael Jackson – “Off the Wall” (1979)
84) Ella Fitzgerald – “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas” (1960)
85) Billy Joel – “The Nylon Curtain” (1982)
86) Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
87) Derek and The Dominos – “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” (1970)
88) Jefferson Airplane – “Surrealistic Pillow” (1967)
89) Stevie Wonder – “Innervisions” (1973)
90) Sia – “We Are Born” (2010)
91) Brenda Lee – “20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Brenda Lee” (2003)
92) George Harrison – “All Things Must Pass” (1970)
93) Led Zeppelin – “Led Zeppelin II” (1969)
94) The Rolling Stones – “Sticky Fingers” (1971)
95) Linda Ronstadt – “Get Closer” (1982)
96) Billy Joel – “52nd Street” (1978)
97) The B-52′s – “The B-52′s” (1979)
98) X – “Wild Gift” (1981)
99) Richard & Linda Thompson – “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight” (1974)
100) Cyndi Lauper – “She’s So Unusual” (1983)
101) Prince – “Purple Rain” (1984)
102) Big Mama Thornton – “Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings” (1992)
103) Talking Heads – “More Songs About Buildings and Food” (1978)
104) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Damn the Torpedoes” (1979)
105) Blondie – “Eat to the Beat” (1979)
106) Fleetwood Mac – “Mirage” (1982)
107) Buddy Holly – “From the Original Master Tapes” (1985)
108) 10,000 Maniacs – “In My Tribe” (1987)
109) The Bangles – “Different Light” (1986)
110) Blondie – “Plastic Letters” (1977)
111) The B-52′s – “Cosmic Thing” (1989)
112) John Cougar Mellencamp – “Uh-Huh” (1983)
113) Johnny Cash – “At Folsom Prison” (1968)
114) Billy Joel – “The Stranger” (1977)
115) Madness – “One Step Beyond…” (1979)
116) Daryl Hall & John Oates – “X-Static” (2000)
117) Boston Pops Orchestra – “A Christmas Festival” (1987)
118) Bruce Springsteen – “The River” (1980)
119) Marvin Gaye – “What’s Going On” (1971)
120) Loverboy – “Loverboy” (1980)
121) Grateful Dead – “American Beauty” (1970)
122) Crosby, Stills & Nash – “Crosby, Stills & Nash” (1969)
123) Blood, Sweat & Tears – “Child Is Father to the Man” (1968)
124) Dusty Springfield – “Dusty in Memphis” (1969)
125) The Feelies – “Crazy Rhythms” (1980)
126) Jackson 5 – “Christmas Album” (1970)
Just a few of my favs, from one who was an '80 and '90 music fan, but loves blues and '70s rock.
