Wednesday, January 15, 2014

TOP 113 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME.

My wife was the inspiration for this list.  Someone on Facebook was urging people to post their list of their top 13 favorite albums.  She felt that there was no way she could narrow it down so she went one step further and did a list featuring 113 albums.  Her criteria was simple in that the list could only feature one album per artist; which I assume was for the sake of variety.  This was difficult for me when it came to some bands since there are whole catalogs of music I like.  For extra fun and frolic she put her list in chronological order starting with the earliest works first.  So in a fit of inspiration I too decided to try my hand at this so without further ado…..enjoy.

1. John Lee Hooker – House of the Blues (1959)
2. Miles Davis – E.S.P. (1965)
3. John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – A Hard Road (1967)
4. Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground With Nico (1967)
5. MC5 – Back in the U.S.A. (1970)
6. The Who – Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy (1971)
7. Yes – Fragile (1971)
8. Black Sabbath – Volume 4 (1972)
9. The Stooges – Raw Power  (1973)
10. Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties (1974)
11. Frank Zappa – Roxy and Elsewhere (1974)
12. Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
13. Led Zeppelin – Physical Grafiti (1975)
14. Steely Dan – The Royal Scam (1975)
15. Kiss-destroyer (1976)
16. Rush – 2112 (1976)
17. Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
18. AC/DC – Let there Be Rock (1977)
19. Ace Frehley – Self Titled (1978)
20. J. Geils Band – The Best of (1979)
21. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (1979)
22. Wire – 154 (1979)
23. The Wipers – Is This Real (1980)
24. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kaleidoscope (1980)
25. Dead Kennedys – In God We Trust Inc. (1981)
26. Black Flag – Damaged (1981)
27. The Cure – Pornography (1982)
28. Crass – Christ the Album (1982)
29. Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast (1982)
30. Van Halen – Diver Down (1982)
31. The Scorpions – Blackout (1982)
32. Def Leppard – Pyromania (1983)
33. The Subhumans – The Day the Country Died (1983)
34. Quiet Riot – Metal Health (1983)
35. Swans – Filth (1983)
36. Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith (1984)
37. Ratt – Out of the Cellar (1984)
38. Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry (1984)
39. Motorhead – No Remorse (1984)
40. S.O.D. – Speak English or Die (1985)
41. Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion (1985)
42. Metallica – Master of Puppets (1986)
43. Slayer – Reign in Blood (1986)
44. The Mentors – Up the Dose (1986)
45. Kreator – Pleasure to Kill (1986)
46. The Smithereens – Especially For You (1986)
47. The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs (1987)
48. Anthrax – Among the Living (1987)
49. Death – Scream Bloody Gore (1987)
50. The Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician (1987)
51. The Damned – The Light At the End of the Tunnel (1987)
52. Nuclear Assault – The Plague (1987)
53. M.O.D. – U.S.A. For M.O.D. (1987)
54. Wehrmacht – Shark Attack (1987)
55. Sodom – Persecution Mania (1987)
56. R.E.M. – Dead Letter Office (1987)
57. King Diamond – Them (1988)
58. The Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good (1988)
59. Rancid Vat – Justice: This is What We Do to Traitors (1988)
60. Smegma – Smell the Remains (1988)
61. Voivod – Dimension Hatross (1988)
62. They Might Be Giants – Lincoln (1988)
63. Carcass – Reek of Putrefaction (1988)
64. The Birthday Party – Hee Haw (1988)
65. Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
66. N.W.A. – Straight Out of Compton (1988)
67. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (1988)
68. Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll (1988)
69. The Ramones – Ramones Mania (1988)
70. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey (1988)
71. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything (1988)
72. The Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988)
73. Fugazi – 13 Songs (1989)
74. Minor Threat – Discography (1989)
75. Ludichrist – Powertrip (1989)
76. Bauhaus – Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions (1989)
77. Nirvana – Bleach (1989)
78. Depeche Mode – Violator (1990)
79. Robyn Hitchcock – Eye (1990)
80. Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff (1990)
81. G.G. Allin – Doctrine of Mayhem (1990)
82. Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness (1990)
83. Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption (1990)
84. Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness (1990)
85. Muddy Waters – Chess Box Set (1990)
86. The Breeders – Pod (1990)
87. The Melvins – Bullhead (1991)
88. Seaweed – Despised (1991)
89. General Surgery – Necrology (1991)
90. Flop – And the Fall of the Mop Squeezer (1992)
91. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (1992)
92. Ween – Pure Guava (1992)
93. Cannibal Corpse – Tomb of the Mutilated (1992)
94. Deicide – Legion (1992)
95. Incantation – Onward to Golgotha (1992)
96. Antiseen – Eat More Possum (1993)
97. The Posies – Frosting on the Beater (1993)
98. Pearl Jam – Vs. (1993)
99. Darkthrone – Transylvanian Hunger (1994)
100. Anal Cunt – Everyone Should be Killed (1994)
101. Pantera – Far Beyond Driven (1994)
102. Man is the Bastard – D.I.Y.C.D. (1995)
103. Karp – Suplex (1995)
104. Heatmiser – Mic City Sons (1996)
105. Robert Pollard – Not In My Airforce (1996)
106. Eyehategod – Dopesick (1996)
107. Guided By Voices – Mag Earwhig (1997)
108. Spazz – Sweating to the Oldies (1998)
109. Phobia – Means of Existence (1998)
110. Master P – The Last Don (1998)
111. Nile – Among the Catacombs of Nephren Ka (1998)
112. Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk (1999)
113. Deftones – White Pony (2000)

1950s: 1 release for .8% of the total list
1959: (1)100%
1960s: 3 releases for 2.65% of the total list
1965: (1)33.3%
1967: (2)66.6%
1970s: 18 releases for 15.92% of the total list
1970: (1)5.5%
1971: (2)11.1%
1972: (1)5.5%
1973: (1)5.5%
1974: (3)16.6%
1975: (2)11.1%
1976: (2)11.1%
1977: (2)11.1%
1978: (1)5.5%
1979: (3)16.6%
1980s: 55 releases for 48.67% of the total list
1980: (2)3.63%
1981: (2)3.63
1982: (5)9.09%
1983: (4)7.27%
1984: (4)7.27%
1985: (2)3.63%
1986: (5)9.09%
1987: (10)18.18
1988: (16)29.09%
1989: (5)9.09%
1990s: 35 releases for 30.97% of the total list
1990: (9)25.71%
1991: (3)8.57%
1992: (6)17.14%
1993: (3)8.57%
1994: (3)8.57%
1995: (2)5.71%
1996: (3)8.57%
1997: (1)2.85%
1998: (4)11.42%
1999: (1)2.85%
2000s: 1 release for.8% of the total list
2000: (1)100%

The year which hosts the most releases is 1988 with 16 comprising 14.15% of the total list.
Percentage of those releases which would fall within the "metal" genre: 18.75%
Percentage of those releases which would fall within the "alternative" genre: 50%
Percentage of those releases which would fall within the "rap / hip hop" genre: 12.5%
Percentage of those releases which would fall within the "punk" genre: 18.75%

47 albums on the list are “metal” which comprises 41.59% of the total list.
17 albums on the list are “punk” which comprises 15.04% of the total list.

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This list of course could change with any given day but most of these are mainstays in my musical diet / development and have provided me with tons of inspiration.  Do yourself a favor and give some of these releases a listen.  

Bye. Roaster.


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