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J. Eric Smith's
100 Fave Albums of All Time

(in no real meaningful order)

Compiled: January, 2001
(during a snowstorm . . .)
(. . . and edited in June, 2002)
(. . . and then again in November, 2003)
(. . . and then one more time in October, 2004)

(. . . and, still, yet again in September, 2005)

(. . . and touched up in April/May, 2007)

(. . . with a minor sprucing in October, 2007)

 

1. Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
2. Jethro Tull, A Passion Play
3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Tarkus
4. Steely Dan, Aja
5. Butthole Surfers, Hairway to Steven
6. Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
7. The Birthday Party, Junkyard
8. Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out
9. Dogbowl, Flan
10. Pere Ubu, Terminal Tower

11. Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
12. Coil, Love's Secret Domain
13. Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
14. The Fall, The Unutterable
15. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
16. Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill
17. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Element of Light
18. Warren Zevon, Life'll Kill Ya
19. Human Sexual Response, In a Roman Mood
20. Max Eider, The Best Kisser in the World

21. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery
22. The Bogmen, Life Begins at 40 Million
23. Husker Du, Zen Arcade
24. Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
25. Snog, Buy Me, I'll Change Your Life
26. The Fall, Hex Enduction Hour
27. Aphex Twin, Richard D. James Album
28. Yes, Relayer
29. Mindless Self Indulgence, You'll Rebel to Anything
30. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, Nail

31. Clutch, Robot Hive/Exodus
32. King Crimson, Lark's Tongue in Aspic
33. Grateful Dead, American Beauty
34. Robert Wyatt, Nothing Can Stop Us Now
35. Max Eider, Hotel Figueroa
36. Kraftwerk, Computer World
37. Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
38. Kamikaze Hearts, Oneida Road
39. Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
40. Hawkwind, Hall of the Mountain Grill

41. The Wasted, We Are Already in Hell
42. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Whipped Cream (And Other Delights)
43. Funkadelic, Maggotbrain
44. Check Engine, Check Engine
45. Brian Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
46. Black Flag, Damaged
47. Pink Floyd, Animals
48. Cypress Hill, Black Sunday
49. Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dandelion Gum
50. Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (III)

51. Einsturzende Neubauten, Haus Der Leuge
52. King Crimson, Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal
53. Killdozer, Twelve Point Buck
54. Genesis, Foxtrot
55. The Mothers, We're Only in it for the Money
56. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads
57. Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe
58. Bauhaus, In the Flat Field
59. Max Eider, Max Eider III: Back to the Bedroom
60. Dead Kennedy's Plastic Surgery Disasters

61. Department of Eagles, The Cold Nose
62. Talking Heads, Fear of Music
63. Bonzo Dog Band, Keynsham
64. Tragic Mulatto, Italians Fall Down and Look Up Your Dress
65. The Residents, Fingerprince
66. Clutch, Elephant Riders
67. Cat Stevens, Buddha and the Chocolate Box
68
. Television Personalities, Closer to God
69. P.J. Harvey, Rid of Me
70. Hanslick Rebellion, The Rebellion is Here

71. Joni Mitchell, For the Roses
72. Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
73. English Beat, Special Beat Service
74. The Who, Who's Next
75. Sanna Kurki-Suonio, Musta
76. Family, Fearless
77. Public Enemy, Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black
78. Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
79. Replacements, Let It Be
80. REM, Life's Rich Pageant

81. Human Sexual Response, Fig. 14
82. Wire, Snakedrill (EP)
83. Beef, Stink, Stank, Stunk
84. Earth Wind and Fire, All n' All
85. Shriekback, Oil and Gold
86. The Jazz Butcher, Sex and Travel
87. Liquid Sky (Soundtrack)
88. Wall of Voodoo, Seven Days in Sammystown
89. Yes, Close to the Edge
90. Coil, Horse Rotorvator

91. Zoogz Rift, Island of Living Puke
92. Of Cabbages and Kings, Hunter’s Moon
93. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Source Tags and Codes
94. Six Feet Under, Warpath
95. Korn, Issues
96. The Jazz Butcher, A Scandal in Bohemia
97. Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul
98. Todd Rundgren, Healing
99. The Fall, The Real New Fall Album (Formerly Country on the Clink)
100. Fear, The Record


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