For these reasons, if you asked someone what their best 100 songs were, or best 100 albums, they would take into account factors such as these if they were being honest and not trying to create an image for other people to compartmentalise them! Who on earth would have a family or children's musical in their list, for example? Yet, I have a few in there because they conjure up memories and enjoyment and association with events - and I still love to listen.
Anyway, enough waffle, here's my list! And no, I can't put them in order of preference - simply because, on any given day my preference will be different and the order would need to be shuffled! So alphabetic it is! Why not post your best 100 somewhere?
- Abba, Arrival
- Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
- Barclay James Harvest, Live Tapes
- Carole Bayer Sager, Sometimes Late at Night
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, OST
- The Beatles, 1
- The Beatles, Abbey Road
- Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Blondie, Parallel Lines
- David Bowie, Aladdin Sane
- David Bowie, Diamond Dogs
- David Bowie, Heroes
- David Bowie, Hunky Dory
- David Bowie, Lodger
- David Bowie, Low
- David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World
- David Bowie, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
- David Bowie, Space Oddity
- David Bowie, Stage
- David Bowie, Station to Station
- David Bowie, Young Americans
- David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
- Sarah Brightman, La Luna
- Budgie, If I were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules
- Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
- Kate Bush, Never Forever
- Vanessa Carlton, Be Not Nobody
- Toni Childs, House of Hope
- Beverley Craven, Love Scenes
- Cheap Trick, at Budokan
- Chris de Burgh, Spanish Train and Other Stories
- Cœur de Pirate, Cœur de Pirate
- Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
- Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
- Eagles, Hotel California
- ELO, Discovery
- ELO, Out of the Blue
- ELO, Time
- Enya, Shepherd Moons
- Enya, Watermark
- Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
- Peter Gabriel, 3
- Garbage, Garbage
- Garbage, Version 2.0
- The Human League, Dare
- Ian Hunter, All American Alien Boy
- Ian Hunter, The Artful Dodger
- Ian Hunter, Ian Hunter
- Ian Hunter, Overnight Angels
- Ian Hunter, Strings Attached
- Joe Jackson, I'm The Man
- Joe Jackson, Night and Day
- Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
- Carole King, Tapestry
- Led Zeppelin, IV
- Little Shop of Horrors, OST
- Madness, One Step Beyond
- Bob Marley and the Wailers, Uprising
- Meat Loaf, Bat out of Hell
- Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed
- Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill
- Mott the Hoople, All the Young Dudes
- Mott the Hoople, The Hoople
- Mott the Hoople, Mott
- The New Seekers, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
- Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky
- Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid
- Alan Parsons Project, The Turn of a Friendly Card
- Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love
- Oliver!, OST
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
- Pink Floyd, The Final Cut
- Pink Floyd, Meddle
- Pink Floyd, The Wall
- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
- The Police, Outlandos D’Amour
- The Police, Regatta De Blanc
- Queen, A Day at the Races
- Queen, A Night at the Opera
- Queen, News of the World
- Queen, Queen I
- Queen, Queen II
- Queen, Queen Live Killers
- Queen, Sheer Heart Attack
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Getaway
- Lou Reed, Transformer
- Rush, 2112
- Regina Spektor, Remember Us to Life
- Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Waters
- The Sound of Music, OST
- The Specials, The Specials
- Steely Dan, Can’t Buy a Thrill
- Steely Dan, Gaucho
- Steely Dan, Katie Lied
- Supertramp, Breakfast in America
- Terrorvision, How to Make Friends and Influence People
- Rick Wakeman, Piano Portraits
- Roger Waters, Amused to Death
- Roger Waters, Radio K.A.O.S.
Agree with a lot of your choice Ted, although I would put Supertramp Crime of the Century not only in place of Breakfast in America but a lot further up, would have also included a couple of albums from Yes, but never the less a good choice.
ReplyDelete...fair enough, but as I said at the top - this is alphabetical!
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