Ted's Top 100 Albums

Music is probably one of the most subjective and personal areas of preference with which many people associate. Preferences are often not necessarily about the music itself or the style of music itself, but what any given song or album has meant to a person during a period of their life. The tiny bit of the human brain that actually does anything readily associates sound by time and event and allocates to memory the incoming music.

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?

1. Abba, Arrival
2. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
3. Barclay James Harvest, Live Tapes
4. Carole Bayer Sager, Sometimes Late at Night
5. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, OST
6. The Beatles, 1
7. The Beatles, Abbey Road
8. Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
9. Blondie, Parallel Lines
10. David Bowie, Aladdin Sane
11. David Bowie, Diamond Dogs
12. David Bowie, Heroes
13. David Bowie, Hunky Dory
14. David Bowie, Lodger
15. David Bowie, Low
16. David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World
17. David Bowie, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
18. David Bowie, Space Oddity
19. David Bowie, Stage
20. David Bowie, Station to Station
21. David Bowie, Young Americans
22. David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
23. Sarah Brightman, La Luna
24. Budgie, If I were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules
25. Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
26. Kate Bush, Never Forever
27. Vanessa Carlton, Be Not Nobody
28. Toni Childs, House of Hope
29. Beverley Craven, Love Scenes
30. Cheap Trick, at Budokan
31. Chris de Burgh, Spanish Train and Other Stories
32. Cœur de Pirate, Cœur de Pirate
33. Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
34. Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
35. Eagles, Hotel California
36. ELO, Discovery
37. ELO, Out of the Blue
38. ELO, Time
39. Enya, Shepherd Moons
40. Enya, Watermark
41. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
42. Peter Gabriel, 3
43. Garbage, Garbage
44. Garbage, Version 2.0
45. The Human League, Dare
46. Ian Hunter, All American Alien Boy
47. Ian Hunter, The Artful Dodger
48. Ian Hunter, Ian Hunter
49. Ian Hunter, Overnight Angels
50. Ian Hunter, Strings Attached
51. Joe Jackson, I'm The Man
52. Joe Jackson, Night and Day
53. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
54. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
55. Carole King, Tapestry
56. Led Zeppelin, IV
57. Little Shop of Horrors, OST
58. Madness, One Step Beyond
59. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Uprising
60. Meat Loaf, Bat out of Hell
61. Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed
62. Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill
63. Mott the Hoople, All the Young Dudes
64. Mott the Hoople, The Hoople
65. Mott the Hoople, Mott
66. The New Seekers, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
67. Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky
68. Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid
69. Alan Parsons Project, The Turn of a Friendly Card
70. Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love
71. Oliver!, OST
72. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
73. Pink Floyd, The Final Cut
74. Pink Floyd, Meddle
75. Pink Floyd, The Wall
76. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
77. The Police, Outlandos D’Amour
78. The Police, Regatta De Blanc
79. Queen, A Day at the Races
80. Queen, A Night at the Opera
81. Queen, News of the World
82. Queen, Queen I
83. Queen, Queen II
84. Queen, Queen Live Killers
85. Queen, Sheer Heart Attack
86. Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Getaway
87. Lou Reed, Transformer
88. Rush, 2112
89. Regina Spektor, Remember Us to Life
90. Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Waters
91. The Sound of Music, OST
92. The Specials, The Specials
93. Steely Dan, Can’t Buy a Thrill
94. Steely Dan, Gaucho
95. Steely Dan, Katie Lied
96. Supertramp, Breakfast in America
97. Terrorvision, How to Make Friends and Influence People
98. Rick Wakeman, Piano Portraits
99. Roger Waters, Amused to Death
100. Roger Waters, Radio K.A.O.S.