A couple of broken bones and a few bruises those little rats left me with, but I'm still alive and kicking.

What is wrong with the pre-1950's comment? I could be wrong but I think it would be the opposite if I would have called this an all-time list. I didn't want to include any pre-1950's because it wouldn't be a fair fight, given the prolonging time of the recordings in first place. But believe me, I know music existed before the 1950's.

For me, most of my list would include the pre-1950s and quite a bit from the 50s itself. But, in agreeing with you, I feel the need to not include pre-50s stuff because, like I said, so many of the artists I listened to just didn't record 'albums.' You can see that I've put The Complete Robert Johnson on my top 5 list, but I'm always thinking "I can't do that. It's a compilation - but Johnson didn't release albums, so it's okay. Or is it?" And then, if I started including all of that pre-50s stuff, it would be full of Son House, Skip James, Lead Belly, Blind Willie Johnson, and so on, all compilations.

Anyway, life's a blur.

So here is my list. I'm sure tommorow it will be different, but for time this is it. There is so much music that I still need to hear. I spent way to much time on it and I'm still not happy with it. I decided I better throw in the towel before I waste any more time. Also I decided to leave out all jazz. It's to hard for me to compare jazz with other music. Also I have at least one compilation and one bootleg on here...

1. The Beatles | Abbey Road
2. Jorge Ben | Africa/Brasil
3. Tom Waits | Bone Machine
4. Radiohead | Kid A
5. Velvet Underground | White Light/ White Heat
6. Pink Floyd | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
7. Autechre | LP5
8. Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited
9. Black Sabbath | Paranoid
10. The Clash | s/t
11. The Beach Boys | Smile (Anne Wallace Mix)
12 .Pixies | Doolittle
13. The Beatles | Revolver
14. Joy Division | Unknown Pleasure
15. David Bowie | Hunky Dory
16. Tom Waits | Rain Dogs
17. Os Mutantes
18. Led Zeppelin
19. Aphex Twin | Drukqs
20. Radiohead | OK Computer
21. The Misfits | Misfits
22. Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children
23. Iggy Pop and the Stooges | Raw Power
24. Serge Gainsbourg | Histoire de Melody Nelson
25. Led Zeppelin | IV
26. Nirvana | In Utero
27. Gilberto Gil | Gilberto Gil (1969)
28. The Clash | London Calling
29. Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks
30. Brian Eno | Here Come the Warm Gets
31. Scott Walker | Scott 4
32. Wu-Tand Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
33. Neil Young | After the Goldrush
34. Velvet Underground and Nico
35. My Bloody Valentine | Loveless
36. Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine
37. The Kinks are the Willage Green Preservation Society
38. Can | Ege Bamyasi
39. Liars | Drums Not Dead
40. Autechre | Confield
41. King Crimson | In the Wake of Poseidon
42. Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
43. The Flaming Lips | Clouds Taste Metallic
44. Frank Zappa | Hot Rats
45. Beck | One Foot in the Grave
46. Aphex Twin | Richard D. James Album
47. Elliott Smith | Eithor/Or
48. Smashing Pumpkins | Siamese Dream
49. The Cure | Pornography
50. The Minutemen | Duble Nickels on the Dime
51. Jay-Z | Reasonable Doubt
52. Avery Tare and Panda Bear | Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
53. Dr. Dre | 2001
54. This Heat | Deceit
55. Bob Marley | Catch A Fire
56. The Beatles | White Album
57. The Moody Blues | Days of Future Passed
58. Mr. Bungle | California
59. Tom Waits | Small Change
60. Interpol | Turn on the Bright Lights
61. Black Flag | Damaged
62. John Lennon | Plastic Ono Band
63. Ricardo Villalobos | Achso
64. Slint | Spiderland
65. Max Richter | The Blue Notebooks
66. Wire | Pink Flag
67. Daft Punk | Discovery
68. Leonard Cohen | The Songs of Leonard Cohen
69. Pink Floyd | Meddle
70. Fugazi | Repeater + 3 Songs
71. Cat Stevens | Tea for the Tillerman
72. Metallica | Kill 'Em All
73. Black Sabbath | s/t
74. Animal Collective | Sund Tongs
75. New Order | Power, Corruption, Lies
76. Broken Social Scene | You Forget It In People
77. Sunn O))) | Black One
78. Jay Dee | Donuts
79. Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come
80. Queens of the Stone Age | Rated R
81. Ennio Morricone | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly OST
82. Can | Tago Mago
83. King Crimson | In The Court of King Crimson
84. Boredoms | Super Ae
85. Boris | Amplifier Worship
86. Pixies | Bossonova
87. Lightning Bolt | Hypermagic Mountain
88. Talking Heads | Fear of Music
89. Gang of Four | Entertainment!
90. The Flaming Lips | Here It Is
91. Squarepusher | Go Plastic
92. John Frusciante | Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt
93. Sigur Ros | ()
94. Lou Reed | Transformer
95. Prince | Purple Rain
96. Tom Waits | Alice
97. Radiohead | The Bends
98. Slayer | Seasons in the Abyss
99. Madvillain | Madvillainy
100. Mission of Burma | Vs.

Very nice list crysanthym, I have found some really interesting choices, I'll comment on them a little later

Yes agree, life's a blur.

On the record's subject, it will also depend on how you are defining the concept of a "record" and an "album".

Gotta love the Os Mutantes. Nice list.

Thanks. It's an awesome album. Mr. Soul you should do a list. I'd be interested to see what you could come up with.

Well I gave it a shot.

1. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
2. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
3. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
4. Neil Young - On the Beach
5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
6. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
7. Love - Forever Changes
8. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
9. The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks
10. Donovan - Fairytale
11. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
12. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
13. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
14. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
15. Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
16. Television - Marquee Moon
17. The Band - Music From Big Pink
18. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
19. Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
20. John Cale - Vintage Violence
21. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
22. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
23. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
24. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
25. Scott Walker - Scott 4
26. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
27. The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
28. The Zombies - The Zombies Featuring She’s Not There and Tell Her No
29. Tom Waits- The Heart of Saturday Night
30. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
31. Brian Eno - Another Green World
32. Fred Neil - Fred Neil
33. The Jam - All Mod Cons
34. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
35. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
36. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
37. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
38. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
39. The Monks - Black Monk Time
40. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
41. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
42. The Ramones – The Ramones
43. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
44. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
45. Van Morrison - Moondance
46. Bob Dylan - Desire
47. The Beatles - Abbey Road
48. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
49. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
50. Beck - Odelay
51. Randy Newman - 12 Songs
52. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
53. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue, Volume II
54. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
55. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
56. The Mamas and the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
57. Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
58. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
59. Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
60. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
61. Big Star - #1 Record
62. Tindersticks - Curtains
63. The Millennium - Begin
64. Wire - Pink Flag
65. Procol Harem - Procol Harem
66. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
67. Neil Young - Comes a Time
68. Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
69. The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
70. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
71. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
72. Tom Waits - Alice
73. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
74. The Kinks - Kinda Kinks
75. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
76. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
77. Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
78. The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
79. Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
80. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
81. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
82. Procol Harem - Procol Harem
83. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
84. 13th Floor Elevators - Bull of the Woods
85. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
86. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
87. The Stooges - Fun House
88. Lou Reed - Transformer
89. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
90. Can - Tago Mago
91. Pete Dello - Into Your Ears
92. Portishead - Dummy
93. Magazine - Real Life
94. Joni Mitchell - Blue
95. Moby Grape - Moby Grape
96. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
97. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
98. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
99. Patti Smith - Horses
100. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things

I'm going to have to check out that Gilberto Gil record. I'm still wet behind the ears when it comes Tropicalia. Chrysanthym (or anyone one else I guess), do you know anything about Nara Leão or Jorge Ben? Those are two other artists I've heard good things about, though I'm not sure what albums I should start with.