Oh boy, a list

So, my brother invited me to put together my own personal list of the 50,75 or 100 top albums of all time. Someone he knows is going to compile lists from a bunch of people and then the lists will be compiled, ranked, weighted and otherwise munged into a final definitive list, or something. Being a total sucker for rankings and lists and ranked lists of albums, I jumped at the chance.

So, here they are:

1. Sonic Youth : Daydream Nation
   
2. Pavement : Slanted and Enchanted
   
3. Joni Mitchell : Blue
   
4. Liz Phair : Exile In Guyville
   
5. My Bloody Valentine : Loveless
   
6. Miles Davis : Kind Of Blue
   
7. Talking Heads : Remain In Light
   
8. Neutral Milk Hotel : In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
   
9. Pixies : Surfer Rosa
   
10. Pink Floyd : Dark Side Of The Moon
    
11. Led Zeppelin : II
    
12. Beatles : Abbey Road
    
13. Fleetwood Mac : Rumors
    
14. The Beatles : Revolver
    
15. Rolling Stones : Let It Bleed
    
16. AC/DC : Back In Black
    
17. Pink Floyd : Wish You Were Here
    
18. The Cure : Disintegration
    
19. U2 : The Joshua Tree
    
20. The Beatles : The Beatles (white album)
    
21. Pavement : Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
    
22. Big Star : #1 Record
    
23. The Pretenders : The Pretenders
    
24. Cowboy Junkies : The Trinity Sessions
    
25. The Cure : Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
    
26. Led Zeppelin : Houses Of The Holy
    
27. Van Morrison : Moondance
    
28. REM : Reckoning
    
29. Nirvana : Nevermind
    
30. Sonic Youth : Sister
    
31. Sea And Cake : Nassau
    
32. Yo La Tengo : Electr-O-Pura
    
33. Violent Femmes : Violent Femmes
    
34. Elliot Smith : XO
    
35. A Tribe Called Quest : Midnight Marauders
    
36. Bauhaus : In The Flat Field
    
37. Jimi Hendrix : Axis: Bold As Love
    
38. Stereolab : Emperor Tomato Ketchup
    
39. Led Zeppelin : Physical Graffiti
    
40. Black Sabbath : Paranoid
    
41. The Beastie Boys : Ill Communication
    
42. Crosby Stills and Nash : Crosby Stills and Nash
    
43. Robyn Hitchcock : Eye
    
44. Dave Brubeck : Time Out
    
45. Pavement : Wowee Zowee
    
46. Pink Floyd : Animals
    
47. The Beatles : Rubber Soul
    
48. Rolling Stones : Exile On Main Street
    
49. The Doors : The Doors
    
50. Cream : Disraeli Gears
    
51. Peter Gabriel : So
    
52. Fleetwood Mac : Fleetwood Mac
    
53. The Doors : Strange Days
    
54. Big Star : Radio City
    
55. Bob Dylan : Highway 61 Revisited
    
56. Slint : Spiderland
    
57. Pixies : Doolittle
    
58. Jane's Addiction : Nothing's Shocking
    
59. Nick Drake : Pink Moon
    
60. King Crimson : Discipline
    
61. Yes : The Yes Album
    
62. Rush : Moving Pictures
    
63. ZZ Top : Tres Hombres
    
64. Stevie Ray Vaughan : Texas Flood
    
65. The Cars : The Cars
    
66. REM : Murmur
    
67. U2 : War
    
68. Pixies : Come on Pilgrim
    
69. Steely Dan : Aja
    
70. The Cure : Seventeen Seconds
    
71. The Feelies : Crazy Rhythms
    
72. Replacements : Let It Be
    
73. The Police : Zenyatta Mondatta
    
74. Yo La Tengo : Fakebook
    
75. Stereolab : Peng
    
76. Gillian Welch : Time, The Revelator
    
77. PJ Harvey : Rid Of Me
    
78. Lilys : A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns
    
79. Spoon : Girls Can Tell
    
80. Superchunk : No Pocky For Kitty
    
81. Dinosaur Jr. : You're Living All Over Me
    
82. Gillian Welch : Revival
    
83. Sunny Day Real Estate : Diary
    
84. The Shins : Chutes Too Narrow
    
85. Big Black : Songs About Fucking
    
86. Codeine : Frigid Stars
    
87. Tortoise : Millions Now Living Will Never Die
    
88. Wilco : Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    
89. The Flaming Lips : The Soft Bulletin
    
90. Robyn Hitchcock : I Often Dream of Trains
    
91. Gastr Del Sol : Camofleur
    
92. A Tribe Called Quest : Low End Theory
    
93. Son Volt : Trace
    
94. Grandaddy : The Sophtware Slump
    
95. Death Cab For Cutie : Transatlanticism
    
96. Modest Mouse : The Lonesome Crowded West
    
97. Polvo : Cor-Crane Secret
    
98. Buena Vista Social Club : Buena Vista Social Club
    
99. Archers of Loaf : Icky Mettle
    
100. Beck : Mutations
     

I made this Friday and Saturday. And looking at it now, while everything's probably within 5 spots of where it oughtta be I can see a few things I'd change; like, I'd probably move Midnight Marauders down a few spots and Pink Moon up a few, and I'm a little ambivalent about some of the lower spots. But I'll just go with this, because I know that overall it's mostly right. I'd probably never be 100% happy with it - it's something I could fine-tune forever. Maybe I'll revisit it in a year.