Your Favorite Albums of All Time (1 album per band/artist)

Part 1 (...-M)

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead- Source Tags & Codes
13th Floor Elevators- The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
10,000 Maniacs- In My Tribe
12 Rods- Split Personalities
311- 311
A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory
AC/DC- Back In Black
Acid King- Busse Woods
Aerosmith- Rocks
Air- Moon Safari
Alexander Spence- Oar
Alice In Chains- Unplugged
Alanis Morrisette- Jagged Little Pill
Allman Brothers Band- At Fillmore East
American Football- American Football
Amon Duul II- Yeti
Amon Tobin- Bricolage
Andrew Bird- Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Archers of Loaf- Icky Mettle
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I am That’s What I’m Not
At The Drive In- Relationship Command
Audioslave- Audioslave
Avalanches- Since I Left You
Aztec Camera- High Land Hard Rain
BB King- Live at the Regal
Bad Brains- Bad Brains
Bad Company- 10 From 6
Bad Religion- Stranger Than Fiction
Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of The Bewilderbeast
Band of Horses- Everything All The Time
Bark Psychosis- Hex
Beach House- Teen Dream
Beck- Odelay
Belle and Sebastian- If You’re Feeling Sinister
Belly- Star
Ben Folds Five- Whatever and Ever Amen
Ben Harper- Live From Mars
Better Than Ezra- How Does Your Garden Grow?
Big Black- Atomizer
Big Star- #1 Record
Billy Joel- The Stranger
Black Flag- Damaged
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Howl
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Blind Melon- Soup
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Blondie- Parallel Lines
Blue Cheer- Vincebus Eruptum
Blues Traveler- Four
Blur- Blur
Boards of Canada- Music Has The Right To Children
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Bob Marley- Legend
Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
Bonnie “Prince” Billy- I See A Darkness
Boo Radleys- Giant Steps
Boston- Boston
Brad- Shame
Brand New- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brian Eno- Another Green World
Bright Eyes- I’m Wide Awake Its Morning
Broken Social Scene- You Forgot In People
Bruce Springsteen- Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Buffalo Springfield- Buffalo Springfield Again
Built To Spill- There’s Nothing Wrong With Love
Burial- Untrue
Bush- Sixteen Stone
Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady
Cake- Fashion Nugget
Camel- Mirage
Camper Van Beethoven- Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Can- Tago Mago
Carole King- Tapestry
Cat Power- The Greatest
Cat Stevens- Tea For Tillerman
Catherine Wheel- Chrome
Chicago Transit Authority- The Chicago Transit Authority
Chris Bell- I Am The Cosmos
Chuck Berry- The Great Twenty-Eight
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Close Lobsters- Foxheads Stalk This Land
Clutch- Blast Tyrant
Cocteau Twins- Heaven or Las Vegas
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
Collective Soul- Collective Soul
Counting Crows- August and Everything After
Country Joe and the Fish- Electric Music For The Mind and Body
Courtney Barnett- Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Cream- Disraeli Gears
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Chronicle 1
Cross Stills Nash Young- DejaVu
Curtis Mayfield- Superfly
DJ Shadow- Endtroducing
Damien Rice- O
Daft Punk- Discovery
Dave Matthews Band- Crash
David Bowie- Low
David Crosby- If I could Only Remember My Name
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism
Death From Above 1979- You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Deftones- White Pony
Dennis Wilson- Ocean Pacific Blue
Depeche Mode- Violator
Derek and the Dominos- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Destroyer- Destroyer’s Rubies
Died Pretty- Free Dirt
Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms
Dinosaur Jr.- You're Living all Over Me
Dismemberment Plan- Change
Donovan- Donovan’s Greatest Hits
Doves- Lost Souls
Dr. Dog- Fate
Dream Syndicate- Days of Wine and Roses
Dream Theater- Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Drive By Truckers- Decoration Day
Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt
Duran Duran- Rio
Dusty Springfield- Dusty in Memphis
Echo & The Bunnymen- Ocean Rain
Eddie Vedder- Into The Wild
Editors- The Back Room
Eels- Electro Shock Blues
Elbow- Seldom Seen Kid
Electric Light Orchestra- Out of The Blue
Electric Wizard- Dopethrone
Elliott Smith- Figure 8
Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elvis Costello- My aim Is True
Everclear- So Much For The Afterglow
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Fairport Convention- Liege and Leif
Faith No More- Angel Dust
Feist- The Reminder
Fiona Apple- The Idler Wheel…
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac- Rumors
Flying Burrito Brothers- Gilded Palace of Sin
Foo Fighters- Foo Fighters
Foreigner- 4
Frank Black- Teenager of the Year
Frank Sinatra- In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Organ Fight
Fugazi- 13 Songs
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain
Galaxie 500- On Fire
Gang of Four- Entertainment
Garbage- Version 2.0
Genesis- Selling England By The Pound
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Gillian Welch- Time (The Revelator)
Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience
Gomez- Bring It On
Gorillaz- Demon Days
Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump
Gram Parsons- Grievous Angel
Grant Lee Buffalo- Fuzzy
Green Day- Dookie
Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
Guided By Voices- Human Amusement At Hourly Rates
Guns N’ Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Happy Mondays- Pills thrills and Bellyaches
Hum- Downward is Heavenward
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
INXS- Kick
Idlewild- 100 Broken Windows
Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
Incredible String Band- Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Incubus- Morning View
Interpol- Turn On The Bright Lights
Iron Maiden- The Number of the Beast
James Brown- Live at the Apollo
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James
Jane's Addiction- Nothing's Shocking
Jason Isbell- Southestern
Jay Reatard- Blood Visions
Jazzy Star- She Hangs Brightly
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Jellyfish- Spilt Milk
Jesus Lizard- Goat
Jim Croce- Photographs and Memories, His Greatest Hits
Jim O’Rourke- Insignificance
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced?
Jimmy Eat World- Clarity
Joe Strummer- Global A Go-Go
John Frusciante- Shadows Collide With People
John Lennon- Plastic Ono Band
John Martyn- Solid Air
John Mayall with Eric Clapton- Blues Breakers
John Phillips- Pay Pack & Follow
John Prine- John Prine
Johnny Cash- The Legend of Johnny Cash
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Jorge Ben- Africa Brasil
Joseph Arthur- Come To Where I’m From
Josh Rouse- Under Cold Blue Stars
Journey- Journey: Greatest Hits
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasure
Judas Priest- Screaming For Vengeance
Kaiser Chiefs- Employment
Kansas- Leftoverture
Kasabian- Kasabian
Kate Bush- Hounds Of Love
Keane- Hopes and Fears
Keith Jarrett- The Klon Concert
King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King
Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kiss- Alive!
Klaxons- Myths of the Near Future
Kraftwer- Trans Europe Express
Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring For My Halo
Kyuss- Welcome To Sky Valley
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Led Zeppelin- Houses Of the Holy
Lenny Kravitz- Greatest Hits
Leonard Cohen- The songs of Leonard Cohen
Liam Finn- I’ll Be Lightning
Life Without Buildings- Any Other City
Lilys- In The Presence of Nothing
Live- Throwing Copper
Little Richard- Here’s Little Richard
Liz Phair- Exile in Guyville
Local H- As Good As Dead
Low- I Could Live in Hope
Lucinda Williams- Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
M83- Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Mad Season- Above
Magazine- Real Life
Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible
Marine girls- Lazy Way and Bach Party
Marvin Gaye- What’s Going On
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Mastodon- Leviathan
Matchbox Twenty- Yourself or Someone Like You
Matthew Sweet- 100%
Mazzy Star- So Tonight That I Might See
Meat Puppets- Meat Puppets II
Mekons- Fear and Whiskey
Mercury Rev- Desert’s Songs
Metallica- Metallica
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Mission of Burma- Signals, Calls, and Marches
Moby Grape- Moby Grape
Moby- Play
Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West
Mogwai- Young Team
Monks- Black Monk Time
Morphine- Cure For Pain
Motorhead- Ace of Spades
Mr. Bungle- California
Mudhoney- Superfuzz Bigmuff
Muse- Absolution
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
My Morning Jacket- It Still Moves

Lifted said:

Tortoise - tnt...fuck. amazing album. Like i said, a lot of stuff i should've thrown on there. But you did water it down with some shite as L.G. would say.

Water it down? Just because you don't like some things I like? Really?

Lifted said:

That was meant to be said in my Liam Gallagher voice. Im just messin around. It's okay...Yes, music is generally subjective. Though something like me playing a guitar and singing an original is objectively bad. There's some stuff that has slipped into commercial production that I have a hard time finding any redeeming qualities with as well, but I do get your point.

I did compliment your list in case you didnt notice.

I appreciate the compliment too!
I was just restating how the original objective of these lists was not really to list what you think are the gaoat but to list your personal favorite albums without fear of persecution or ridicule. You could put Creed or Nickleback on there for all I care, not personally my cup of tea at all for a lot of reasons, but if thats your thing and you like it who am I to care or prevent you from liking it. I agree with you that a lot of mainstream/commercial music is personally unappealing to me as well but I know plenty of people who listen to the radio or "commercial" music and love it and there are a few instances where I love some stuff that is considered by many, shall I say "music snobs" to be music they consider to be horrible or stuff they would only ever listen to as a "guilt pleasure" but Im not ashamed to like some classic rock or 90s bands that many people don't dig for one reason or another.

brianlux said:

Really enjoying these lists. Still working on mine. Keep 'em coming!

I'll be updating mine with entries I forgot about for the net few days too.