My 100th Post...My Top 100 list!

[20to20K]

Just to be annoying I will take this momentous occasion of my 100th post to list, in order my personel favorite 100 albums/CD's of all time. Feel free to read, anaylze, scrutinize, chuckle, or ignore.

I'm still in my 30's so I'm sure there's plenty of good music I haven't heard yet so keep that in mind. I also don't own every album/CD by every artist I like...that too may explain some of my selections. My only criteria we're no "best of" collections, tribute albums, or box sets. Just good old fashion go into the studio and cut an album albums.

Without further ado, here's the list:

1) Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
2) Abraxous - Santana
3) Aja - Steely Dan
4) Still Life (Talking) - Pat Methany Group
5) Crash - Dave Matthews Band
6) A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
7) All n All - Earth Wind and Fire
8) Steps Ahead - Steps Ahead
9) Still Live - Keith Jarrett Trio
10)So - Peter Gabriel
11)Black Market - Weather Report
12)Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
13)Double Vision - David Sanborn/Bob James
14)Tree People - Metro
15)Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
16)Mountain Dance - Dave Grusin
17)Black Codes - Wynton Marsalis
18)Time in Place - Mike Stern
19)Hotel California - Eagles
20)Elastic - Joshua Redman
21)Hijera - Joni Mitchell
22)Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
23)Someday my Prince Will Come - Miles Davis
24)Nightfly - Donald Fagan
25)Pat Methany Group - Pat Methany Group
26)Nothing Like The Sun - Sting
27)Coltrane - John Coltrane
28)Remain In Light - Talking Heads
29)Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
30)Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
31)Crazy People Music - Brandford Marsalis
32)Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
33)Moving Pictures - Rush
34)Peace Beyond Passion - Me'shell Ndeocello
35)The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
36)The Spin - The Yellowjackets
37)Abbey Road - The Beatles
38)E.S.P. - Miles Davis
39)Back in the High Life Again - Steve Winwood
40)Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers
41)School Days - Stanley Clarke
42)As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Methany
43)The Go 'round - The B Sharps
44)The Sun Don't Lie - Marcus Miller
45)Winelight - Grover Washington Jr.
46)Genesis - Genesis
47)Legalize It - Peter Tosh
48)Bass Desires - Bass Desires
49)Two Blocks from the Edge - Michael Brecker
50)Outlandous D'Amour - The Police
51)Joshua Tree - U2
52)Upfront - David Sanborn
53)Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
54)Fullfillingness First Finale - Stevie Wonder
55)Taking It To the Streets - Doobie Brothers
56)The Sky is Cryin' - Stevie Ray Vaughn
57)Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band
58)Heavy Weather - Weather Report
59)Steely Dan - Royal Scam
60)52nd Street - Billy Joel
61)Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest
62)Tribute - Keith Jarrett
63)If That's What It Takes - Michael McDonald
64)3 Years, 5 Months, 2 Days in the life... - Arrested Development
65)Bad - Michael Jackson
66)Pat Methany Trio - Pat Methany Trio
67)Some Girls - The Rolling Stones
68)Breezin' - George Benson
69)Blues Traveler - Blues Traveler
70)Gaucho - Steely Dan
71)Brothers in Arms - Dire Straights
72)Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
73)Mo' Roots - Maceo Parker
74)Beyond These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
75)A Go-Go - John Scofield/Martin Medeski Wood
76)The Unforgettable Fire - U2
77)Reqieum - Brandford Marsalis
78)Vivid - Living Colour
79)Baduism - Erika Badu
80)V - Ralph Peterson Quintet
81)Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
82)Straight to the Heart - David Sanborn
83)Are You Gonna Go My Way? - Lenny Kravitz
84)The Captain and Me - The Doobie Brothers
85)MasterJam - Rufus and Chaka Khan
86)Music of My Mind - Stevie Wonder
87)Signal - Rush
88)Sleeping Gypsies - Michael Franks
89)Face Value - Phil Collins
90)Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
91)Fahrenheit - Toto
92)Definition of a Band - Mint Condition
93)Let's Dance - David Bowie
94)Reggata De Blanc - The Police
95)1999 - Prince
96)Loud Jazz - John Scofield
97)Short Stories - Bob Berg
98)Letter from Home - Pat Metheny Group
99)Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
100)Individuality(Can I be me?) - Rachelle Farrell

 

[Hawkeye]

20t020K, Congrats on your 100th post. That's quite a list you put together there. I'm familiar with a bunch, but you've listed a whole lot that I'm not familiar with as well. I wouldn't know where to begin if asked to name my top 100, but I'm sure it changes constantly.

Just a couple comments if I may, I just scanned it quickly so I may have missed some things...You have some Stevie Wonder listed but I didn't see 'Talking Book' - one of his best IMO. If you haven't heard it you should check it out. Also, surprised The Police's 'Ghost in the Machine' wasn't listed but hey, its your list

I like your pick at #42, a very nice cd.

Wow, this has me thinking....

 

[20to20K]

20t020K, Congrats on your 100th post. That's quite a list you put together there. I'm familiar with a bunch, but you've listed a whole lot that I'm not familiar with as well. I wouldn't know where to begin if asked to name my top 100, but I'm sure it changes constantly.

Just a couple comments if I may, I just scanned it quickly so I may have missed some things...You have some Stevie Wonder listed but I didn't see 'Talking Book' - one of his best IMO. If you haven't heard it you should check it out. Also, surprised The Police's 'Ghost in the Machine' wasn't listed but hey, its your list

I like your pick at #42, a very nice cd.

Wow, this has me thinking....

You are absolutely correct...I do not own nor have I heard all of Talking Book. Some of the songs on it are on Musiquarium or End of a Century...but on your suggestion (and your obvious taste in music) I will pick it up.

As for Ghost...that would have been somewhere between 100-125 but just didn't make the cut. I thought a couple of the songs on side 2 were a little weak (can you tell I'm an LP guy?).

One day I took Robert Deniro's advice from Taxi Driver and got "Organizized" with my CD's and put them in order for favorites regardless of genre. It was fun...it took me an entire weekend! That made the list easy.

 

[rschleicher]

I've got numbers 71 - 73 in a different order than you - my list has:

71. Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
72. Mo' Roots - Maceo Parker
73. Brothers in Arms - Dire Straights

Other than that, it's exactly the same!

Seriously, it is a pretty fun and challenging thing to try and come up with a personal top 100. In a month or so you should try doing it again, blind, to see how different it turns out. I've done top 10 lists a few times, but now I'm inspired to go home and do my own top 100 for real.

 

[Rob Babcock]

One day I took Robert Deniro's advice from Taxi Driver and got "Organizized" with my CD's and put them in order for favorites regardless of genre. It was fun...it took me an entire weekend! That made the list easy.

You mean you literally arranged your CDs physically that way? I'd have a helluva time doing that. Mine are all arranged alphabetically- I have about 800 and if I didn't keep them well organized I'd never be able to find anything.

 

[20to20K]

You mean you literally arranged your CDs physically that way? I'd have a helluva time doing that. Mine are all arranged alphabetically- I have about 800 and if I didn't keep them well organized I'd never be able to find anything.

Yes, as anal as that may seem that's exactly what I did....put them in order based on which were my fav's. Determining which were my fav's was totally unscientific...just look and say:

"yeah...that one's ahead of this one...uhhh...I think this one is a couple below that one"...and so on."

I also have a rack that I call my "Hall of Shame". CD's that I regret ever buying. It's fun to look at that shelf some times and scratch my head.

I've also done the alphabetical thing before. I used to have my jazz ones seperated by musical instrument...I stole that idea from Europe. That's how
the CD shops in Amsterdam do it.