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

Last Update: April 2010

 

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. This Heat, Deceit

6. Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
7. Butthole Surfers, Hairway to Steven
8. Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out
9. Dogbowl, Flan
10. Fela, Original Sufferhead

11. Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
12. Coil, Love's Secret Domain
13. Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
14. Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure
15. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
16. Mos Def, The Ecstatic
17. The Birthday Party, Junkyard

18. Michael Nyman, A Zed and Two Noughts (Original Soundtrack)
19. Human Sexual Response, In a Roman Mood
20. Napalm Death, Time Waits For No Slave

21. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery
22. Wings, Band on the Run
23. The Gang, Zero Hits
24. Max Eider, The Best Kisser in the World
25. Snog, Buy Me, I'll Change Your Life
26. The Fall, The Real New Fall Album (Formerly Country on the Clink)
27. Napalm Death, Diatribes
28. The Bogmen, Life Begins at 40 Million
29. Robert Wyatt, Nothing Can Stop Us Now
30. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, Nail

31. Clutch, Robot Hive/Exodus
32. Wild Turkey, Battle Hymn
33. Grateful Dead, American Beauty
34. Husker Du, Zen Arcade

35. Max Eider, Hotel Figueroa
36. Kraftwerk, Computer World
37. Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
38. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, re-ac-tor
39. Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
40. Hawkwind, Hall of the Mountain Grill

41. Warren Zevon, Life'll Kill Ya
42. Pere Ubu, Terminal Tower
43. Funkadelic, Maggotbrain
44. The Clash, Combat Rock
45. Brian Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
46. Black Flag, Damaged
47. Jethro Tull, Benefit
48. Uriah Heep, Demons and Wizards
49. Frightened Rabbit, The Midnight Organ Fight
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. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
60. Dead Kennedys, Plastic Surgery Disasters

61. Department of Eagles, The Cold Nose
62. Talking Heads, Fear of Music
63. Wings, Venus and Mars
64. Tragic Mulatto, Italians Fall Down and Look Up Your Dress
65. The Residents, Animal Lover
66. Clutch, Elephant Riders
67. Cat Stevens, Buddha and the Chocolate Box
68
. Television Personalities, Closer to God

69. Toe Fat, Toe Fat
70. Hanslick Rebellion, The Rebellion is Here

71. Camberwell Now, All’s Well
72. Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
73. English Beat, Special Beat Service
74. The Who, Who's Next
75. Edan, Beauty and the Beat
76. Family, Fearless
77. Public Enemy, Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black
78. Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
79. Replacements, Let It Be
80. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Element of Light


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

91. The Wasted, We Are Already in Hell
92. Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul
93. Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
94. Yes, Relayer
95. Sepultura, Roots
96. The Jazz Butcher, A Scandal in Bohemia
97. Six Feet Under, Warpath
98. Todd Rundgren, Healing
99. The Fall, Hex Enduction Hour
100. Fear, The Record


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