100 Greatest Albums of All Time

[Curt McGirt]

I think I can switch my top 100 vote of Enter the 36 Chambers for Liquid Swords, easily. It's just the best. I think the top five Wu records would go like this: 

1. Liquid Swords

2. Enter the 36 Chambers

3. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

4. Ni**a Please

5. Supreme Clientele

and then after that Return to the 36, Wu Tang Forever, Ironman, Tical, maybe Bobby Digital, and if it counts definitely Blackout. Put an asterisk next to that one. I really should listen to Uncontrolled Substance again.

[Curt McGirt]

Also, my Public Enemy pick is actually Apocalypse '91. I know most everyone else picks either A Nation of Millions or Fear of a Black Planet but they flat-out killed it on '91.

[Casey]

Sour Soul is a really good album that I think a lot of people slept on when it was released. Maybe that's just me, though.

[Curt McGirt]

I'll check that out. I recall liking 12 Reasons To Die a fair bit too. 

[Casey]

I'm still upset we never got the MF DOOM and Ghostface collab album.

[Curt McGirt]

There's still time. There IS the Czarface vs. Metalface record at least.

[John E. Dynamite]

I actually did this of my own volition a few months ago, I have what would be considered a full ballot just chilling in a Google doc. The process was brutal, some of the cuts I made hurt me to my soul. Supreme Clientele, Post, Pastel Blues, Exile On Main Street, Thriller, Elvis' Sun Sessions, Pod, Lady Soul, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash all finished between 125-101. If you undergo this process, you might have look at myself in the mirror and ask, "Am I really a person who likes 100 albums more than anything Isaac Hayes put out?" It's rough.

Something that made it easier was making little rules for myself. I didn't include anything five years old or less, I didn't include more than three records per artist and I was very stingy with compilation and live albums. Cut a few really good EPs, too. I found it a lot easier to make personally, subjective choices when deciding what to keep on.

This is the big list, in order from 100 to 1, that I'll be mulling over and tweaking until January.

Spoiler

No New York - Various Artists

Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones

Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio

Nancy & Lee - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A. 

Arabia Mountain - Black Lips

Donuts - J Dilla

Some Girls - The Rolling Stones

Elis & Tom - Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim

You Must Be Certain of the Devil - Diamanda Galas

Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome - Parliament

Expensive Shit - Fela Kuti

Blood Visions - Jay Reatard 

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

Marquee Moon - Television

Alive 2005 - Daft Punk

Bringing it All Back Home - Bob Dylan

Naturally - Sharon Jones

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

Some of My Best Friends are DJs - Kid Koala

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

Funky Kingston - Toots & The Maytals

Something Else - The Kinks

Mama’s Gun - Erykah Badu

Ys - Joanna Newsom

Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy

v/u - The Velvet Underground

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

De Stijl - The White Stripes

Modern Vampire of the City - Vampire Weekend

London Calling - The Clash

Good Morning Blues - Lead Belly

Black Messiah - D’Angelo

Showcase - Patsy Cline

Lord Willin’ - Clipse

Singles Going Steady - The Buzzcocks

Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

The Crane Wife - The Decemberists

Axis Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix

The Monitor - Titus Andronicus

Jorge Ben (Criola) - Jorge Ben

Entertainment - Gang of Four

Live at Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

 

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

The Beatles - The Beatles

Tallahassee - Mountain Goats

Viva la Woman! - Cibo Matto

It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

Station to Station - David Bowie

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

Yeezus - Kanye West

Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Horses - Patti Smith

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Bad Music for Bad People - The Cramps

(GI) - Germs

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

Person Pitch - Panda Bear

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Paid in Full - Eric B. and Rakim

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Revolver - The Beatles

Let it Be - The Replacements

Stankonia - Outkast

Purple Rain - Prince

Microcastle - Deerhunter

White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground

Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys

Ready 2 Die - Notorious B.I.G.

II - Led Zeppelin

Masters of Reality - Black Sabbath

Suicide - Suicide

Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective

1999 - Prince

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

Unplugged - Nirvana

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Nina Simone in Concert - Nina Simone

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu Tang Clan

Sister - Sonic Youth

Ou Panis et Circenses - Various Artists

Abbey Road - The Beatles

It’s Alive - The Ramones

Live at the Apollo - James Brown

Doolittle - Pixies

The Idiot - Iggy Pop

The Idler Wheel… - Fiona Apple

40 Greatest Hits - Hank Williams 

Voodoo - D’Angelo

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Sign O’ The Times - Prince

Otis Blue - Otis Redding 

Aquemini - Outkast

Silent Shout - The Knife

Fun House - The Stooges

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

 

[Curt McGirt]

I didn't put (GI) on my list. 

That is a problem.

[Shartnado]

6 hours ago, John E. Dynamite said:

I actually did this of my own volition a few months ago, I have what would be considered a full ballot just chilling in a Google doc. The process was brutal, some of the cuts I made hurt me to my soul. Supreme Clientele, Post, Pastel Blues, Exile On Main Street, Thriller, Elvis' Sun Sessions, Pod, Lady Soul, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash all finished between 125-101. If you undergo this process, you might have look at myself in the mirror and ask, "Am I really a person who likes 100 albums more than anything Isaac Hayes put out?" It's rough.

Something that made it easier was making little rules for myself. I didn't include anything five years old or less, I didn't include more than three records per artist and I was very stingy with compilation and live albums. Cut a few really good EPs, too. I found it a lot easier to make personally, subjective choices when deciding what to keep on.

This is the big list, in order from 100 to 1, that I'll be mulling over and tweaking until January.

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No New York - Various Artists

Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones

Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio

Nancy & Lee - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A. 

Arabia Mountain - Black Lips

Donuts - J Dilla

Some Girls - The Rolling Stones

Elis & Tom - Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim

You Must Be Certain of the Devil - Diamanda Galas

Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome - Parliament

Expensive Shit - Fela Kuti

Blood Visions - Jay Reatard 

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

Marquee Moon - Television

Alive 2005 - Daft Punk

Bringing it All Back Home - Bob Dylan

Naturally - Sharon Jones

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

Some of My Best Friends are DJs - Kid Koala

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

Funky Kingston - Toots & The Maytals

Something Else - The Kinks

Mama’s Gun - Erykah Badu

Ys - Joanna Newsom

Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy

v/u - The Velvet Underground

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

De Stijl - The White Stripes

Modern Vampire of the City - Vampire Weekend

London Calling - The Clash

Good Morning Blues - Lead Belly

Black Messiah - D’Angelo

Showcase - Patsy Cline

Lord Willin’ - Clipse

Singles Going Steady - The Buzzcocks

Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

The Crane Wife - The Decemberists

Axis Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix

The Monitor - Titus Andronicus

Jorge Ben (Criola) - Jorge Ben

Entertainment - Gang of Four

Live at Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

 

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

The Beatles - The Beatles

Tallahassee - Mountain Goats

Viva la Woman! - Cibo Matto

It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

Station to Station - David Bowie

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

Yeezus - Kanye West

Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Horses - Patti Smith

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Bad Music for Bad People - The Cramps

(GI) - Germs

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

Person Pitch - Panda Bear

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Paid in Full - Eric B. and Rakim

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Revolver - The Beatles

Let it Be - The Replacements

Stankonia - Outkast

Purple Rain - Prince

Microcastle - Deerhunter

White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground

Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys

Ready 2 Die - Notorious B.I.G.

II - Led Zeppelin

Masters of Reality - Black Sabbath

Suicide - Suicide

Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective

1999 - Prince

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

Unplugged - Nirvana

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Nina Simone in Concert - Nina Simone

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu Tang Clan

Sister - Sonic Youth

Ou Panis et Circenses - Various Artists

Abbey Road - The Beatles

It’s Alive - The Ramones

Live at the Apollo - James Brown

Doolittle - Pixies

The Idiot - Iggy Pop

The Idler Wheel… - Fiona Apple

40 Greatest Hits - Hank Williams 

Voodoo - D’Angelo

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Sign O’ The Times - Prince

Otis Blue - Otis Redding 

Aquemini - Outkast

Silent Shout - The Knife

Fun House - The Stooges

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

 

Thank you for reminding me that I should add Fever Ray into my Spotify! The Wolf mostly, but need to explore more of it. The list looks very promising, albeit has PLENTY of material I'm not at all familiar with, but that's obviously the whole point of this endevour.