StrangeModeGirl's List for The Album Project

StrangeModeGirl contributed a list to The Album Project.

I was directed here by my friend BaristaBabe. Here is my list, no order, and I easily could have added another 25...

1.Bad Religion - Against The Grain
2.The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol.1
3.Carl Perkins Dance Album
4.Black Flag - First Four Years
5.Hank III - Straight To Hell
6.Beastie Boys - Sounds Of Science
7.Alice In Chains - Facelift
8.Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
9.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
10.Joy Division - Substance
11.Henry Rollins - The End Of Silence
12.Social Distortion - Sex Love And Rock And Roll
13.Bad Brains - s/t
14.Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
15.Bob Marley - Legend
16.X - Los Angeles
17.Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
18.Minor Threat - Out Of Step
19.The Misfits - Walk Among Us
20.Garbage - Garbage
21.The Ramones - The Ramones
22.Toots And The Maytals - Funky Kingston
23.Nirvana - Nevermind
24.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
25.Loud, Fast And Out Of Control:The Wild Sounds Of 50's Rock

I know I am cheating a bit with that last one since it's a box set, but eh, cheating is fun.


Great list and thanks for taking the time to do it! I really appreciate it and tell your friends!

AlexVictory's Top 25 Albums

Alex took the time to write up a list for The Album Project.

His list can be found on his LiveJournal!

Bone's Top 25 Albums not including Rush

Bone listed out his top 25 Albums for The Album Project!
1. The Alarm - Declaration
2. The Standard – Wire To Wire Post
3. Kasey Chambers – Barricades & Brickwalls
4. REM – Automatic For The People
5. REM – The Reckoning
6. REM – Life’s Rich Pageant
7. Interpol – Our Love To Admire
8. Counting Crows – August and Everything After
9. Dardin Smith - Little Victories
10. Harry Chapin – Heads & Tales
11. Geoffrey Oryema – Beat The Border
12. Tammany Hall NYC – Back In The Bottle
13. The Harder They Come – Soundtrack From The Movie
14. The Decemberists – Her Majesty
15. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
16. The Old 97s – Hit By A Train
17. Brian McNeill – Back O’ The North Wind
18. Voivod – Voivod
19. Marillion – Script For A Jester’s Tear
20. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
21. Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky & Lieutenant Kije Suites - The Orchestre National de Lille led by Jean-Claude Casadesus, with the Latvian State Choir
22. Black Sabbath – Heaven & Hell
23. Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining
24. Freedy Johnston - This Pefect World
25. Cosmos – Music From The TV Series

Bone, thank you for this list!

I appreciate all the time and effort that has gone into these lists!

Please keep them coming in!

DanGarion's List for of the Top 25 Albums

DanGarion contributed his list to The Album Project!

I didn't include the greats (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, etc, because although I love many of their albums, they don't hit me at the same emotional level as these I've done. I could easily included them and made things even more difficult, but I decided to stick with those albums that really made an emotional connection with me, which is why most the albums are from the mid '90s to the present. I also tried not to include duplicate artists but for one particular band that was impossible. So without further ado here it is.
(The list order would probably be different if you asked me to do it again, but most of the albums would remain the same)

1 Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
2 Counting Crows - August and Everything After
3 Toad the Wet Sprocket - P.S.: a Toad Retrospective (gotta cheat with a best of, but if you make me choose an album it's going to be Pale)
4 Jimmy Eat World - Chase Thise Light
5 The Format - Inventions and Lullabies
6 The Postal Service - Give Up
7 Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
8 Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (although my favorite songs are on Congratulations I'm Sorry, this album really helped me through a serious time in my life)
9 Dashboard Confessional - A Mark - a Mission, a Brand, a Scar
10 All American Rejects - Move Along
11 Weezer - Blue Album
12 Plain White T's - Stop (before they became trendy)
13 Offspring - Smash (introduced me to so many more bands that aren't even on this list)
14 The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show (or New Amsterdams - Worse For the Wear)
15 Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (for I Will Follow You Into The Dark.)
16 Mae - Destination Beautiful
17 All - Pummel
18 Juliana Theory - Understand This is a Dream (although if you ask me tomorrow it will probably be Emotion is Dead)
19 Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
20 Snow Patrol - Run
21 Depeche Mode - Singles 86-98
22 Athenaeum - Radiance
23 Matchbox Twenty - Yourself or Someone Like You
24 Mxpx - Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo
25 Jellyfish - Spilt Milk (although Bellybutton kicks ass as well, Spilt Milk was the first JF album I had, these guys were amazing)

Just missed the cut. They could sneak up on the list if I did it again. And some lesser know albums that I really liked.
Dishwalla - Opaline
Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Relient K - Mmhmm
Jet - Get Born
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
It was hard keeping bands like the Lemonheads, Smashing Pumpkins, Bad Religion, and Matthew Sweet on this list, but none of their full albums every really hit me as great albums, just great songs.

Dan also posted it to a message board!

Thanks, Dan!

Meghan's List of 25 Albums for The Album Project

Meghan took the time to contribute to the Album Project!

OK, here goes. In no particular order and undoubtedly incomplete....:

1. Bare Naked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
2. Bare Naked Ladies - Stunt
3. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
4. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
5. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
6. Coldplay - Parachutes
7. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
8. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
9. U2 - Joshua Tree
10. U2 - All that you can't leave behind
11. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
12. Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
14. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
15. Garden State soundtrack
16. 1,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden
17. Cranberries - No Need to Argue
18. New Order - Brotherhood
19. James - Laid
20. Moby - Play
21. Sting - Nothing Like the Sun
22. Madonna - Music
23. Killers - Hot Fuss
24. Shins - Oh, Inverted World
25. REM - Automatic for the People

Elizabeth's Top Albums

Elizabeth Barbone, of GlutenFreeBaking.com, put together a list of her favorite albums for The Album Project.

You can find her list here.

Maura's List for The Album Project

Maura put together a list of her favorite 25 albums for The Album Project.


As many know, music is very much a part of my life. I credit it for saving my life, actually, and for inspiring my identity. I tend to forget things, but this is the best list i can think of at present. #1 never changes.





My list:
Echo and the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain"
Portishead "Live at Roseland"
White Stripes "White Blood Cells" *thanks ned :)
Cure "Pornography"
Dead Can Dance "Toward the Within"
Radiohead "Ok Computer"
Siouxsie "Peepshow"
Nine inch Nails "With Teeth"
White Stripes "Elephant"
Gnarles Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
Afghan Whigs "Gentlemen"
Radiohead "Amnesiac"
Queens of Fado
Nine inch Nails "The Fragile"
Siouxsie "Haeyna"
Creatures "Boomerang"
Heavenly Voices Comp Vol 5
Faith and the Muse "Branwen"
Changelings "The Changelings"
Siouxsie "Through the Looking Glass"
Cure "Disintegration"
Cure "Bloodflowers/The Top"
Dead Can Dance "The Serpents Egg"
Hall and Oates greatest hits
tba

Thank you, Maura! This is another great list!

Please keep them coming in!

BaristaBabe's Contribution to The Album Project

BaristaBabe contributed her list of top 25 albums for The Album Project.

Alright, so my friend A Futile Mistake is running his own Album Project and asked me to participate by giving him what I think of as my top 25 albums. Now, these are by no means The Greatest Albums Of All Time. Most of them are not revolutionary, earth shattering, musically unique, and so forth. My criteria was basically whether or not it was an album I could listen to from beginning to end without skipping anything (with a few exceptions). Which would be the criteria I'd use if I had to reduce my music collection down to only 25 albums.

So, in no particular order (well, with the exception of the first handful, as those three always come to mind when someone asks me my favorite albums):

1. Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castles
2. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
3. Tool - Aenima
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Pink Floyd - Division Bell
6. Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. Fiona Apple - Tidal
9. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
10. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
11. Better than Ezra - Live at House of Blues
12. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
13. The Eagles - Selected Works: 1972-1999
14. Sia - Colour the Small One
15. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
16. Depeche Mode - Exciter
17. The Beatles - The Red Album: 1962-1966
18. The Cure - The Cure: Greatest Hits
19. The Pretenders - Greatest Hits
20. Jonatha Brooke - Live
21. Ani Difranco - Like I Said
22. Soul Coughing - Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing
23. Tool - 10,000 Days
24. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
25. Harry Connick, Jr. - When Harry Met Sally...

This would, no doubt, change if I were to try again in a month or if I had written it a year ago. I would probably miss Matt Nathanson and Jason Mraz, eventually. Maybe the Rolling Stones. I also tried to do most of it without sifting through my music collection (I was mostly successful), which means huge sections of it have no doubt been forgotten. It's not part of the rules, but if I could include just two more songs, they would be "Angie" by the Rolling Stones and "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen. Imagining my music collection without both is sad, but I'm just not in love with any of the whole albums both songs are on. I went for several greatest hits albums because I wanted to include the artist but couldn't settle on a single album. Runners up for instrumental albums: The Hours Soundtrack and Live at The Quick: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.


Thank you for taking the time to do this.

I still have lists coming in and I am astounding by the good taste of the people contributing as well as the variety of the music.

Please take the time to contribute yours.

(Originally posted here.)

Lynn's List for The Album Project

Lynn took the time to contribute to The Album Project!

1. Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed
2. Janis Ian, Between the Lines
3. Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
4. Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound of Thunder (double live album)
5. Richard Shindell, South of Delia
6. Various Artists, Endless Highway: The Music of the Band
7. Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
8. Indigo Girls, Rites of Passage
9. Indigo Girls, Become You
10. Bonnie Raitt, Home Plate
11. Bonnie Raitt, Streetlights
12. The Chieftains etc., The Long Black Veil
13. Fairport Convention, Liege and Lief
14. Steely Dan, Aja
15. Cream, 2005 Live from Royal Albert Hall
16. Janis Joplin, Pearl
17. Simon and Garfunkel, Best of Simon and Garfunkel
18. Various Artists, Standing in the Shadows of Motown
19. Grateful Dead, Terrapin Station
20. Bruce Springsteen, Live in New York City
21. Jackson Browne, The Next Voice You Hear
22. Peter Gabriel, So
23. Evanescence, Fallen
24. Rickie Lee Jones, Girl at Her Volcano
25. The Kennedys, Half a Million Miles

Thank you so much, Lynn!

Please keep those lists coming in!

Karen's list for the Top 25 Albums

Karen has contributed a list for The Album Project.

Okay I found this was really hard to do as I listen to quite a lot of different types of music but not necessary their albums, so I restricted myself to just the bands I have albums of and return to over the years (as you see most are kind of older releases). Have fun. ~karen

1.) The New Pornographers : Mass Romantic
2.) Cranes : Forever
3.) Bare Naked Ladies : Born on a Pirate Ship
4.) Eric Clapton : The Cream of Clapton
5.) Radiohead : Pablo Honey
6.) Pixies : Doolittle
7.) Cake : Fashion Nugget
8.) Big Audio Dynamite II : The Globe
9.) Tori Amos : Little Earthquakes
10.) Violent Femmes : Add It Up (1981-1993)
11.) Billie Holiday : Greatest Hits
12.) Tom Petty : Full Moon Fever
13.) Sugar : Copper Blue
14.) Lemonheads : It's a Shame about Ray
15.) The Smiths : The Best of the Smiths, Vol 2
16.) Beastie Boys : Licensed to Ill
17.) Fugazi : 13 Songs
18.) Blondie : Blonde And Beyond
19.) Wyclef Jean : Presents the Carnival
20.) Toad the Wet Sprocket : Fear
21.) Jane's Addiction : Nothing's Shocking
22.) Phish : Hoist
23.) Dinosaur Jr. : Green Mind
24.) Ani DiFranco : Dilate
25.) Talking Heads : The Best of Talking Heads

Thanks, Karen, and a very special thank you for introducing me to No. 23.

Please keep your lists coming in.

I also have two new projects coming out in the near future. One about singles and the other about books. The are going to be much smaller lists, but I hope that people will contribute those as well.

FPR's Old School 25(or 26) Top Albums

FPR's Contribution to the Top 25 Album list for The Album Project.

ned, i'm going to do this off the top of my head, just to be genuine about the whole thing.

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. Berlin, Lou Reed
3. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
4. Take No Prisoners, Lou Reed
5. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
6. Purple Rain, Prince
7. American Recordings I, Johnny Cash
8. New Sensations, Lou Reed
9. New York, Lou Reed
10. Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis
11. Man of La Mancha, original broadway soundtrack with Richard Kiley as Don Quixote
12. Shamokin, Mostly Other People Do the Killing
13. Leonard Cohen Live in London
14. Velvet Underground Live 1969
15. Ready to Die, Notorious B.I.G.
16. Doggystyle, Snoop Doggy Dogg
17. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
18. Musiquarium, Stevie Wonder
19. Velvet Underground (1968)
20. Scarecrow, John Cougar Mellencamp
21. Saved, Bob Dylan
22. Live at Max's Kansas City, Velvet Underground
23. Pet Sounds and Smile (tie) Beach Boys/Brian Wilson
24. Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones
25. Has Been, William Shatner

Okay, FPR cheated a bit with #23 but it is a great list nonetheless!

Please keep sending them in and sharing your favorite albums!

JenHen's Album List

JenHen contributed her 25 Top Albums to The Album Project!


1. Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
2. Phish - Rift
3. Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack
4. Grateful Dead - 8-6-74 Roosevelt Stadium NJ
5. Liz Phair - Exile to Guyville
6. Sweeney Todd Soundtrack
7. Wicked Soundtrack
8. David Bowie - Let's Dance
9. Abba - Gold
10. Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974
11. Depeche Mode - Best Of Vol. 1
12. GNR - Appetite for Destruction
13. Twisted Sister - Big hits and Nasty cuts
14. Paul Simon - Graceland
15. Phish - Colorado 1988
16. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
17. Elvis Presley - Elvis 30 #1 hits
18. The Music Never Stopped - Roots of the Grateful Dead
19. Violent Femmes - Add it up 81-93
20. Michael Jackson - Bad
21. Repo! A Genetic Opera
22. Bob Dylan - Biograph Volume 2
23. Natural Born Killers Soundtrack
24. They might be giants - Flood
25. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Thanks for the list, Jen. Twisted Sister makes their first appearance.

Please contribute your lists, your family's list, or your hairdresser's list!

KidA1977's Top 25 Albums

KidA1977's contribution to The Album Project.

A Mistake is asking friends to share their top 25 favorite albums of all time. I tried doing one of these a while back, but I found myself doing far too much commentary on each album and it took me so long to write it that I never finished. What can I say, I was voted "Talks most says least" in my high school senior superlatives. That and "Most likely to fall asleep in class" but that's another post. This list is in no particular order except for the first three...

1) OK Computer - Radiohead (Ned saw this coming. BEST.ALBUM.EVER.)
2) Abby Road - The Beatles (the best b-side of any album I have ever listened to)
3) Regatta de Blanc - The Police ("Can't see for the brightness is staring me blind...")
4) Portishead - Live at Roseland
5) Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (cliche, I know, but this and the next one got me through law school)
6) Giant Steps - John Coltrane
7) Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
8) Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction (the best rock album of the 80's)
9) Led Zeppelin - The BBC Sessions
10) Grace - Jeff Buckley (strangely, I don't listen to much Jeff Buckley other than this album)
11) KidA - Radiohead (hard to pick between this and Amnesiac, but it was really close)
12) Rage Against the Machine
13) Ten - Pearl Jam
14) The Joshua Tree - U2 (everyone knows the first five songs, but the last six could be better)
15) The White Album - The Beatles
16) Van Morrison - Moondance (I danced with my wife to "Into the Mystic" at our wedding)
17) Neil Young - Harvest
18) Broken - Nine Inch Nails (Whitney Abbott got me into this album and it blew my tenth grade mind)
19) Tool - Aenima
20) White Ladder - David Gray (never leaves my car)
21) Sand in the Vaseline - Best of the Talking Heads (had a hard time coming up with one album, so I cheesed out and picked a greatest hits)
22) Weezer - The Blue Album
23) Paul's Boutique - The Beastie Boys
24) Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
25) Toxicity - System of A Down

Thank you for the list. I really love seeing these and remembering how much I liked certain tracks or the entire album. I found myself searching for songs and albums based on these lists. Thanks to everyone that has contributed and please, tell your friends!

AngryYoungDem's 25 Albums for The Album Project

Angry Young Dem's contribution to The Album Project.

A Mistake is asking friends to share their top 25 favorite albums of all time. Like the Tao of FAU I was reluctant to do this because my taste in music is decidedly uncool. Typically, when I took about my tastes in music, i open myself to derision. But the more I thought about it, A Mistake isn't just asking for cool people to post their cool top 25 albums. At the center of what he is saying is that musical tastes help define who we are. Certainly, there is a lot to be read into most of my choices that made my list. So, without further ado (Angry Young Dem):

1.Turnstiles - Billy Joel (I have two anthems to my life, "James" and "Angry Young Man" both come from this album)
2.Live/1975-1985 - Springsteen (what can I say, I am from NJ. Thunder Road and The River live are amazing as is the rest of the album)
3.Glass Houses - Billy Joel (One of two tapes that was always playing in my car throughout highschool)
4.Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf (I don't care what people think. Every song on this album is a classic to me)
5.The Stranger - Billy Joel (his best album, IMO, but not as meaningful to me as the two others)
6.Essentail Bob Dylan -Bob Dylan (didn't pick this up until senior year of college. I had been missing A LOT)
7.Cold Spring Harbor - Billy Joel (his first album and the other one that was always in my car)
8.Appetite for Destruction - GNR (very popular around my Bar Mitzvah and one of the few times I had "cool" taste in music)
9.Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers (seee directly above and replace "bar mitzvah" with 10th grade)
10.Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume 1 - Elton John (c'mon, I had 4 Billy Joel's in my top 10, did you not think there would be an Elton too?
11.Innocent Man - Billy Joel (one of the first albums I remember buying (and I learned about sex but not enough) (although I never made it with a red-head girl in a chevrolet))
12.Piano Man - Billy Joel (terrific album, but draws attention away from some of his better stuff)
13.Chicago IX - Chicago (Their first greatest hits album. Still listen to it all the time.)
14.Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty (His first solo album (i think). My brother introduced me to him)
15.Love Songs and Negotiations - Paul Simon (take a look or listen at this album it has to be in everyone's top 15, it just has to)
16.Achtung Baby - U2 (I remember listening to this in my friend Archit's basement. Best of memories)
17.Ten - Pearl Jam (again, the whole "cool" thing. Plus very angry which was me in high school)
18.Time Pieces - Eric Clapton (so hard to choose one Clapton over another, but this is the one I owned and listened to as a kid)
19.Hot August Night - Neil Diamond (again, i don't care if people mock me. This album is amazing)
20.Throwing Copper - Live (Davidson Dungeon, Freshman year. trying so hard to fit in. It didn't work, but I found my place anyway!)
21.1 - The Beatles (I knew I needed to know more about the Beatles and this was a logical place to start)
22.Almost Famous - Soundtrack (I love this movie and can listen to this album over and over again)
23.Garden State - Soundtrack (just coincidence that 2 soundtracks back to back. Introduced me to some great bands that I wound not have listened to otherwise)
24.Wildflower - Tom Petty (another solo album. I have goto albums when I need to relax and this is one of them)
25.Daylight Again - Crosby Stills & Nash (I learned about this album in summer camp when I was 11 or 12 and for some reason Southern Cross just stuck with me)

I can't say that I would listen to all these albums today and it would have the same impact on me. Outside of the Billy Joel albums, Springsteen, Dylan, Chicago, Almost Famous and Wildflower, I probably haven't listened to one of these albums start to finish in at least 10 years. I chose them because either it represents my music or an important point in my life. Other artists who just missed the cut include: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Jay and the Americans, and Stevie Wonder. I hope you enjoy this. Flame away.


Thank you so much for this, and please tell your friends, family, enemies and people you know that are in the WPP to contribute!

Anya's Top 25 Albums for The Album Project

Anya's contribution to The Album Project.

I refuse to put them in any particular order (though the order is probably somewhat telling), I purposely excluded soundtracks, classical favorites and compilations to make it easier for myself, but some "best of" collections were included when a single album by that artist could not be settled upon. That being said, I am sure I forgot something, but these are all albums I frequently listen to over and over from beginning to end.

1. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
2. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
3. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
4. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
5. NOFX - The Greatest Songs Ever Written (by Us)
6. They Might Be Giants Apollo 18
7. Pixies - Doolittle
8. The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
9. The Clash - Sandinista!
10. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
11. Fiona Apple - Tidal
12. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
13. The Stereo - Three Hundred
14. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prision
15. Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
16. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
17. The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??!
18. Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy/...Was A Real Boy
19. Paul Simon - Graceland
20. Weezer - Pinkerton
21. Parliament - Give Up The Funk
22. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How To
Party
23. Harry Chapin - Portrait Gallery
24. The Cure - Greatest Hits
25. John Lee Hooker - Chill Out

For some reason 25 was a difficult number, I felt like 20 or 30 would have been easier... weird.

Thanks for everyone who has provided a list and I am looking forward to a lot more!

An Outside Observer's Top 25 Albums

An Outside Observer's list for The Album Project.

Probably worth nothing that 90% of my music collection was acquired pre-1998, and by acquired, I mean "stolen from family member" or "copied a friend I thought was cooler than me."


1. Greenday - Insomniac
2. REM - Out of Time
3. REM - Automatic for the People
4. Simon and Garfunkel - Live in Central Park
5. Harry Chapin - Gold Medal Collection
6. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Party Doll and Other Favorites
7. Grammy's Greatest Moments, Volume 2
8. China Beach: Music and Memories
9. Aerosmith - Big Ones
10. Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
11. They Might Be Giants - Flood
12. Depech Mode - The Singles 81 - 85
13. Erasure - Erasure Pop!: The First 20 Hits
14. Eddie from Ohio - Looking Out of the Fishbowl
15. Garth Brooks - Sevens
16. Indigo Girls - Become You
17. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
18. Kenny Chesney and John Cougar Mellancamp - Live CMT Crossroads
19. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear
20. Billboard Top Hits: 1985
21. Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
22. Toby Keith - Noogies for Liberals
23. 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
24. Genesis - Invisible Touch
25. U2 - Joshua Tree

Thanks for the list, and please tell your friends and family members and the bartender to contribute!

FAU's Top 25 Albums!

FAU's 25 Top Albums for The Album Project:

Submitted on the condition that you disclose that my collection of "albums" has not really changed since 1996.

1) The Beatles - Rubber Soul (the perfect bridge between their pop years and their more experimental years)
2) Fugazi - 13 Songs (greatest opening bass riff EVER)
3) Led Zeppelin - III (too often overlooked)
4) Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (I've listened over and over and over again)
5) Paul McCartney - Unplugged (originally released as a limited edition, it was the first album that I RAN to the store to purchase)
6) Cake - Fashion Nugget (gave me faith that there was still good music to be recorded)
7) U2 - Zooropa (totally under appreciated and dismissed for far too long)
8) Billy Joel - Turnstiles (by far his best work)
9) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (first time in years that I was excited when buying an album)
10) The Killers - Hot Fuss
11) Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
12) The Matrix - Music from the Motion Picture
13) Tomb Raider - Music from the Motion Picture (don't judge, just listen to it and enjoy)
14) Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (because everyone needs an angry teenage album)
15) Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs (and a second for good measure)
16) The Buzzcocks - Operators Manual (essentially a greatest hits, but an awesome one)
17) Pearl Jam - Ten (so hard to pick between this one and VS)
18) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bullocks
19) Moby - Play
20) The Who - Who's Next
21) The Velvet Underground - The Best of The Velvet Underground (yes, I know that it's the easy pick)
22) Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
23) Dar Williams - Mortal City (I blame and thank Jester for this one)
24) Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
25) Michael Jackson - Thriller (first LP I ever owned, how can it not be on here)

My personal metric for this was, "what are the 25 discs that I could listen to almost every song on and not really want to skip one track?"

Thanks and please keep sending those lists in!

Sandor's 25 Top Albums

SandorS has offered his contribution to The Album Project.

(In alphabetical order)

Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres
John Fahey - The Legend of Blind Joe Death
Katell Keineg - Ô Seasons Ô Castles
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Outlaws - The Soundtrack
Paul Simon - Graceland
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Phish - Billy Breathes
Phish - Rift
Pink Floyd - Animals
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Roy Orbison - Hits You Remember
Tammany Hall NYC - back in the bottle
The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown
The Clash - The Story of the Clash, Volume 1
The Notting Hillbillies - Missing Presumed Having A Good Time
The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys - The Live Adventures of the Waterboys
Tom Jones - Greatest Hits
Tom Russell - Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
Trainspotting - Various Artists

True to the spirit of the Project!

Thank you and encourage your neighbors, college roommates, and the patients in the psyche ward that you encounter to submit their lists!

Kyle UC's 25 Top Albums

KyleUC contributed his list to The Album Project.

1. Stooges- Fun House
2. Meat Puppets- Meat Puppets II
3. Clash- London Calling
4. Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
5. Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
6. Neil Young- Tonight’s the Night
7. Ramones- Ramones
8. Beatles- Revolver
9. Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime
10. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
11. Various Artists- Nuggets
12. The Eat- It’s Not the Eat, It’s the Humidity
13. Pixies- Doolittle
14. Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady
15. Faith No More- Angel Dust
16. Neil Young- On the Beach
17. The Fall- Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
18. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Chronicle
19. Black Flag- My War
20. The Birthday Party- Junkyard
21. The Monks- Black Monk Time
22. Bob Dylan- John Wesley Harding
23. Richard Hell & the Voidoids- Blank Generation
24. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
25. Dead Kennedys- Plastic Surgery Disasters

Thanks for all the contributions and please encourage your friends, co-workers, and that cute person you see at the coffee shop to submit one.

A Note on The Album Project

The point of this is to be fun therefore mashups, bootlegs, bests of, soundtracks, and compilations are all allowed on your list.

There is no judgment and I really appreciate the people who have contributed already.

Thanks for joining in The Album Project.