Thursday, December 17, 2009

Some Of My Favorite Albums

Here is a list of some of my personal favorite albums.
Now there are plenty of these best of list out there and I am finding that they are pretty predictable. Of course that’s not surprising because a large percentage of the albums that keep turning up on these lists are, of course, classics, and deserve to be there. But, of course, most of them are the big sellers, with a few critically acclaimed classics that didn’t sell so well included because they also deserve to be there.This list I am posting is of the lesser known of my favorites. There will still be some in my list that are in the big list, but these are just too good not to be here in my list. I am going to avoid, in this list, most of the big guns, because they are so obvious. So there will be no Zep, Sabbath, Stones, Beatles, U2, Doors, etc… Also this list in not in any particular order, and it is not definitive as I’m sure to have forgotten something from my large collection. I am just listing the ones that occur to me now. So here goes The Roddus Alternative (sort of) top 100

1. The White Stripes – Red Blood Cells
2. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Volume One
3. Wolfmother – Wolfmother
4. Human Instinct – Stoned Guitar
5. Masada – Live In Taipei
6. John Zorn - The Big Gundown
7. The Velvet Monkeys – Rotting Corpse A Go-Go
8. Aaron Space – Aaron Space
9. Johnny Cash – Live At Folsom Prison
10. Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ – Scarred but Smarter
11. John Foxx – Metamatic
12. Public Image limited – Flowers Of Romance
13. Warsaw – Warsaw (Joy Division)
14. The Gordons – First Album
15. The Gordons – VOL 2
16. The Front Lawn – Songs From The Front Lawn
17. The Front Lawn – More Songs From The Front Lawn
18. Stray – Saturday Morning Pictures
19. Subhumanz – The Day The Country Died
20. Ellis – Riding On The Crest Of A Slump
21. Nails – Moodswing
22. Wall Of Voodoo – Call Of The West
23. Fusion – Border Town
24. Flux Of Pink Indians – Strive To survive
25. Maneige – Leibra Service-Self Service
26. The Gun Club – Fire Of love
27. Rockworkshop – The Very Last Time
28. King Crimson – Earthbound
29. Mantis – Mantis
30. Timbuk 3 – Edge Of Alleigence
31. Mothers Of Invention – Freakout
32. P.J.Harvey – Dry
33. Portished – Dummy
34. Chaotic Discord – Fuck religion, Fuck politics, Fuck The lot Of Ya
35. Misex – Space Race
36. The Monks – Black Monk Time
37. Timbuk 3 – Greetings From Timbuk 3
38. Mothers Of Invention – Absolutely Free
39. Captain Beefhart – Unconditionally Guaranteed
40. Fela kuti – Zombie
41. Crass - Penis Envy
42. Muddy Waters – Sings Big Bill Broonzy
43. The Broken Family Band – Balls
44. Philip Glass – Music In 12 Parts
45. Edguard Varese – Complete Works
46. Devo – Q. Are We Not Men?
47. Stevie Ray Vaughn – Texas Flood
48. Freddy Hubbard – Straight Life
49. Os Muntantes – Os Muntantes
50. Blue Oyster Cult – Fire Of Unknown Origin
51. Gong – Shamal
52. Gong – Gazeuse
53. Sun Ra – Holiday For Soul Dance
54. Masters Of Reality – Masters Of Reality
55. Elvis Hitler – Disgraceland
56. Frank Zappa – Apostrophe!
57. Bongwater – The Power Of Pussy
58. Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield
59. The Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
60. Ozz knozz – Rough Mix
61. Scrubbaloe Cain – Round One
62. Audience – The House On The Hill
63. Yello – You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess
64. Yeah Yeah Yeah – Fever to Tell
65. The Jam – The Gift
66. Johnny Cash – American III
67. Nine Inch Nails – Petty Hate Machine
68. Keith Jarrett – Köln Concert
69. Outcast – Speekerboxx/The Love below
70. Husker Du – Candy Apple Gray
71. Husker Du – Zen Arcade
72. The Outlaws – Bring It Back Alive
73. Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
74. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
75. Caravan – For Girls Who Go Plumb In The Night
76. The Deviants – Ptooff
77. Can – Tango Mango
78. Dead Can Dance – The Serpents Egg
79. Electric Six – Fire
80. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Hole
81. The Guess Who – American Woman
82. The Reverend Horton Heat – Space Heater
83. Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell. Pts 1 & 2
84. Whiskeytown – Strangers Almanac
85. Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette
86. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
87. Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
88. Groove Armada - Good buy Country, Hello Nightclub
89. Sprit – The Family That Plays together, Stays Together
90. Pixies – Surfarosa
91. Wire – Pink Flag
92. X – Los Angeles/Wildgift
93. Metellica – Kill Em’ All
94. Muddy Waters – Hard Again
95. Muddy Waters – Folk Singer
96. Rudimentary Peni – Death Church
97. Ultravox – Ha Ha Ha
98. Sons Of Champlin – Loosen Up Naturally
99. System Of A Down – Toxicity
100. Franco Battiato – Fetus

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