After the first twenty-five, the list is basically in no particular order. Remember they’re not the “Greatest,” they’re my favorites.
1) Pink Floyd- Darkside of the Moon (1973)
2) Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine (1992)
3) Black Lips- Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo (2007)
4) Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
5) Beatles- Revolver (1966)
6) Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam (2007)
7) Pixies- Doolittle (1989)
8) Bright Eyes- I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning (2005)
9) Radiohead- OK Computer (1997)
10)Tool- AEnima (1996)
11) Ramones- Rocket to Russia (1977)
12) Replacements- Let It Be (1984)
13) Minutemen- Double Nickels On the Dime (1984)
14) Sonic Youth- Goo (1990)
15) Nirvana- In Utero (1993)
16) Clash- London Calling (1980)
17) Sex Pistols- Nevermind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
18) Elliott Smith- Either/Or (1997)
19) King Khan & BBQ Show- What’s For Dinner? (2006)
20) Jay Reatard- Matador Singles ’08 (2008)
21) King Khan & The Shrines- The Supreme Genius of King Khan &The Shrines (2008)
22) No Age- Nouns (2008)
23) Frank Zappa- We’re Only In It For the Money (1968)
24) Beach Boys- Pet Sounds (1966)
25) Nick Cave- Tender Prey (1988)
26) Leonard Cohen- Best of Leonard Cohen (1974)
27) Meat Puppets- Up On the Sun (1985)
28) Bad Brains- Rock For Light (1983)
29) N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton (1988)
30) Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
31) Page France- Hello, Dear Wind (2005)
32) Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (2007)
33) Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison (1968)
34) The Who- Tommy (1969)
35) Doors- Doors (1967)
36) Against Me!- Reinventing Axl Rose (2002)
37) Misfits- Walk Among Us (1982)
38) Anti-Flag- Die For the Government (1996)
39) Ween- Chocolate and Cheese (1994)
40) Weezer- The Blue Album (1994)
41) Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy (1985)
42) Vaselines- Way of the Vaselines (1992)
43) Fugazi- Steady Diet of Nothing (1991)
44) Minor Threat- Minor Threat Complete Discography (1989)
45) Lou Reed- Transformer (1972)
46) David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (1972)
47) Simon & Garfunkel- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)
48) The Stooges- The Stooges (1969)
49) New York Dolls- New York Dolls (1973)
50) Black Sabbath- Paranoid (1971)
51) X- Los Angeles (1980)
52) Nightwatchman- One Man Revolution (2007)
53) Pogues- Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (1985)
54) Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not (2006)
55) GlassJaw- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence (2000)
56) System of A Down- Mezmorize/ Hypnotize (2005)
57) Head Automatica- Decadence (2004)
58) Deftones- White Pony (2000)
59) Jane’s Addiction- Nothing’s Shocking (1988)
60) Alice in Chains- Dirt (1992)
61) Faith No More- Angel Dust (1995)
62) Incubus- S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)
63) Editors- The Back Room (2005)
64) Primus- Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)
65) KRS-One/ Boogie Down Productions- Criminal Minded (1987)
66) Pharcyde- Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)
67) Cypress Hill- Greatest Hits From the Bong (2004)
68) Kinks- Well Respected Kinks (1974)
69) Rolling Stones- Forty Licks (2002)
70) Germs- GI (1979)
71) Metalica- Master of Puppets (1986)
72) Mudhoney- My Brother the Cow (1995)
73) Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream (1993)
74) Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady (1979)
75) Mabuses- Mabused (2007)
76) Husker Du- New Day Rising (1985)
77) Big Black- Songs About Fucking (1987)
78) Sly and the Family Stone- Stand! (1969)
79) Dinosaur Jr- You’re Living All Over Me (1987)
80) Pavement- Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
81) Smiths- Meat Is Murder (1985)
82) Daniel Johnston- Continued Story (1985)
83) Bob Marley- Legend (1984)
84) Roy Orbison- 16 Biggest Hits (1999)
85) George Jones- Pure (2007)
86) Hank Williams- Best of Hank Williams (1998)
87) Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced? (1967)
88) Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde (1966)
89) Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
90) Dead Kennedys- Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (1987)
91) Black Flag- My War (1984)
92) Descendents- Liveage (1987)
93) Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy (1973)
94) Elvis Costello- This Year’s Model (1979)
95) Bjork- Post (1995)
96) MC5- Kick Out the Jams (1969)
97) Queen- Greatest Hits (1987)
98) Galaxie 500- This Is Our Music (1990)
99) Deerhunter- Rainwater Cassette Tapes EP (2009)
100) Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica (1969)
101) Tom Waits- Rain Dogs (1985)
Honorable Mention: Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack (1975) amongst too many others.
Chris DeCarlo
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Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 
Oh boy…where do I begin? Dark Side is a great album and a good pick for number one. Plenty of these discs would be on my top ten, twenty, whatever…I’m not VH1 or Rolling Stone or Chris DeCarlo so I couldn’t do 100.
I would put Rage a little lower. Best Beatles album is a debate that will never end, but again Revolver’s certainly one of their strongest and a good pick. If I had to pick only one I’d go with Sgt. Pepper though. Pet Sounds is WAY TOO LOW. I love Johnny Cash but putting At Folsom Prison over Tommy is sacrilege. Hell if I had to go with a Cash album I’d pick one of the later American Recordings. And Blonde on Blonde MUST be higher up…though I’d pick Blood on the Tracks as my current favorite of his. You don’t seem like a jazz fan but Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue would definitely make my list of favorites. In short, YOU’RE WRONG! I kid, but come on, I couldn’t resist throwing in my two cents.
Of course, Ben that’s the point of the Comment section! I always welcome your two cents. If you noticed one of my first comments:following the first twenty-five/ my top twenty-five, the rest are random, no particular order. As for jazz, I’m not much of a fan. I only listen to a few jazz oriented artists: Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, A Tribe Called Quest, Louis Armstrong, and John Coltrane. And pretty much all but, Coltrane are affiliated with other styles/genres, in other words he is the only straight up, hardcore Jazz one to me. I actually only listen to him when I’m doing homework/studying and need to concentrate, but still want to enjoy music, this is the same for Beethoven as well! I’m more of a fan of simple, but passionate “pop” music or music that has its roots in that style, such as the Ramones. Whatever is catchy to me basically.