Friday, May 15, 2009

123 favorite albums

i indulged myself. i went through my music and chose the albums i like the most. it came to 123 albums (though some are multiple-disc albums), which equals about five consecutive days of listening. here they are in alphabetical order.

A Tribe Called Quest: People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm
Laurie Anderson: Home of the Brave
Fiona Apple: When the Pawn...
The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Joan Armatrading: Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading: Walk Under Ladders
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Great Summit
Mulatu Astatke: Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale
The Avett Brothers: Emotionalism
The B-52's: Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation
J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
The Beatles: The White Album
Pierre Bensusan: Musiques
Bjork: Live Box
Bjork: Medulla
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
Billy Bragg: Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg
Kate Bush: The Kick Inside
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
John Cage: Prepared Piano Sonatas & Interludes
Ben Charest: The Triplets of Belleville
The Clash: London Calling
Cocteau Twins: Victorialand
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom
Crowded House: Crowded House
De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul: Buhloone Mind State
Iris Dement: Infamous Angel
Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane: Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Eurythmics: Be Yourself Tonight
Donald Fagen: The Nightfly
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Djivan Gasparyan: I Will Not Be Sad in This World
Glover Gill: Waking Life
Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
Philip Glass: Glass: Saxophone
Philip Glass: La Belle et La Bete
Jose Gonzalez: Veneer
Boris Grebenshikov & Aquarium: The Favorite Songs of Ramses IV
Tommy Guerrero: Soul Food Taqueria
Guided By Voices: Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains
Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle
Joe Jackson: Jumpin' Jive
Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates
Rickie Lee Jones: Pop Pop
Louis Jordan: Five Guys Named Moe
Robert Earl Keen: No Kinda Dancer
The Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
K'naan: Troubadour
Latin Playboys: Latin Playboys
Los Lobos: Kiko
Lyle Lovett: Pontiac
The Magnetic Fields: The Charm of the Highway Strip
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate: Kulanjan
Manu Chao: Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
Wynton Marsalis Septet: Live at the Village Vanguard
MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
Charles Mingus: Mingus Plays Piano
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell: Hejira
The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Van Morrison: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
My Morning Jacket: Z
Joanna Newsom: Ys
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
Pixies: Doolittle
Prince: Purple Rain
John Prine: In Spite of Ourselves
The Proclaimers: This is the Story
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3
Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme
R.E.M.: Murmur
R.E.M.: Life's Rich Pageant
Radiohead: Kid A
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Gilda Radner: Live From New York
Lou Reed & John Cale: Songs for Drella
The Replacements: Let it Be
The Roches: The Roches
Roxy Music: Roxy Music
Roxy Music: Live
Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star
The Rustavi Choir: Georgian Voices
Santigold: Santigold
Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked
Shonen Knife: Pretty Little Baka Guy
Nina Simone: The Soul of Nina Simone
The Smiths: Meat is Murder
Elliott Smith: Elliott Smith
Patti Smith: Horses
Devon Sproule: Upstate Songs
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay: Flux + Mutability
Talking Heads: Sand in the Vaseline
James Taylor: Greatest Hits
Television: Marquee Moon
They Might Be Giants: Then
Tom Tom Club: Tom Tom Club
TV on the Radio: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV on the Radio: Dear Science
Suzanne Vega: Suzanne Vega
The Velvet Underground: VU
Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Wainwright
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
Tom Waits: Frank's Wild Years
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
X: Beyond & Back: The X Anthology
XTC: English Settlement
XTC: Skylarking
Neil Young: Harvest
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
Frank Zappa: The Yellow Shark

2 comments:

Barry said...

No Nellie Mckay?

I know that naming your favs is almost an impossible task but I cannot stop marveling at "Get away from me". Plus its a double disc so you get two for the price of one!

b-

THORN said...

i haven't marveled at 'get away from me' yet... it actually kinda gave me the creeps and i never gave it another chance. but there is a great version of her doing "clonie" live on www.ted.com
i miss you today, and marc has ex-communicated me. xoxo