The Artists

2008-09-30T12:16:00.000-07:00

Similar to this, except with music. This works as a candid look into which albums I think are the GREATEST from a particular artist's oeuvre, but also as a tacit guide for my favorite artists. Use as you please.

Again: organized in alphabetical, and then preferential, order.

Animal Collective

1. Sung Tongs (2004)
2. Strawberry Jam (2007)
3. Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
4. Feels (2005)
5. Person Pitch (Panda Bear; 2007)

Arcade Fire

1. Funeral (2004)
2. Neon Bible (2007)
3. Arcade Fire (2003)

The Band

1. Music From Big Pink (1968)
2. The Band (1969)

The Beatles

1. Abbey Road (1969)
2. 'The White Album' (1968)
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
4. Revolver (1966)
5. Let It Be (1970)
6. Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
7. Rubber Soul (1965)
8. Help! (1965)

Black Sabbath

1. Black Sabbath (1970)
2. Paranoid (1970)
3. Master of Reality (1971)

Blank Dogs

1. The Fields (2008)
2. "Setting Fire to Your House" (2008)
3. On Two Sides (2008)
4. Diana (The Herald) (2007)
5. "Stuck Inside the World" (2008
6. Two Months (2007)
7. The First Two Weeks (2007)

Boredoms

1. Super Ae (1998)
2. Vision Creation Newsun (1999)
3. Super Roots, Vol. 7 (1999)
4. Super Roots, #9 (2007)

David Bowie

1. Low (1977)
2. Hunky Dory (1971)
3. "Heroes" (1977)
4. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (1972)
5. Lodger (1979)

Captain Beefheart

1. Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
2. Safe as Milk (1967)
3. Trout Mask Replica (1969)

The Clash

1. London Calling (1979)
2. The Clash (1977)
3. Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)
4. Sandinista! (1980)
5. Combat Rock (1982)

John Coltrane

1. A Love Supreme (1965)
2. Meditations (1966)
3. "Live" at the Village Vanguard (1962)
4. Interstellar Space (1974)
5. Africa/Brass (1961)
6. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
7. Coltrane Live at Birdland (1964)
8. Ascension (1966)
9. My Favorite Things (1961)
10. Sun Ship (1971)

Converge

1. Jane Doe (2003)
2. No Heroes (2006)
3. You Fail Me (2004)

Elvis Costello

1. This Year's Model (1978)
2. Armed Forces (1979)
3. My Aim Is True (1977)

Danielson

1. Fetch the Compass Kids (2001)
2. Ships (2006)
3. Brother Is to Son (2004)

Miles Davis

1. Kind of Blue (1959)
2. In a Silent Way (1969)
3. Miles Smiles (1967)
4. Nefertiti (1968)
5. Birth of the Cool (1949)

Deerhoof

1. The Runners Four (2005)
2. Apple O' (2003)
3. Reveille (2002)
4. Offend Maggie (2008)
5. Friend Opportunity (2007)

Disco Inferno

1. A Rock to Cling To (1993)
2. Second Language (1994)
3. Summer's Last Sound (1992)
4. D.I. Go Pop (1994)
5. Technicolour (1996)
6. The Last Dance (1993)
7. It's a Kid's World (1994)

Nick Drake

1. Pink Moon (1972)
2. Bryter Layter (1970)
3. Five Leaves Left (1969)

Bob Dylan

1. Nashville Skyline (1969)
2. Blood on the Tracks (1975)
3. Highway 61 Revisited (1966)
4. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
5. Blond on Blonde (1966)
6. John Wesley Harding (1967)

Brian Eno

1. Another Green World (1975)
2. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974)
3. Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

The Fall

1. Complete Peel Sessions (2004)
2. Perverted by Language (1983)
3. Bend Sinister (1986)
4. This Nation's Saving Grace (1985)
5. Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
6. The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (1984)
7. Grotesque (After the Gramme) (1980)
8. The Frenz Experiment (1988)

The Feelies

1. Crazy Rhythms (1980)
2. The Good Earth (1986)
3. No One Knows (1986)

Fugazi

1. Red Medicine (1995)
2. The Argument (2001)
3. Repeater (1989)
4. End Hits (1998)
5. Instrument (1999)
6. Steady Diet of Nothing (1991)
7. In on the Kill Taker (1992)

Genghis Tron

1. Dead Mountain Mouth (2006)
2. Board Up the House (2008)

Grandaddy

1. The Sophtware Slump (2000)
2. Sumday (2003)
3. Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006)

Harvey Milk

1. Life...The Best Game in Town (2008)
2. Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men (1997)
3. My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be (1996)
4. The Pleaser (1997)
5. Live Pleaser (1997

Andrew Hill

1. Change (2007; recorded in 1966)
2. Smokestack (1966)
3. Judgment! (1964)
4. Compulsion (1966)
5. Passing Ships (2003; recorded in 1969)
6. Black Fire (1964)
7. Point of Departure (1966)

The Hold Steady

1. Separation Sunday (2005)
2. Almost Killed Me (2004)
3. Stay Positive (2008)
4. Boys and Girls in America (2006)

The Jesus Lizard

1. Goat (1991)
2. Liar (1992)

Joy Division

1. Unknown Pleasures (1979)
2. Closer (1980)

Mastodon

1. Leviathan (2004)
2. Crack the Skye (2009)
3. Blood Mountain (2006)
4. Remission (2002)

Melvins

1. The Maggot (1999)
2. Lysol (1992)
3. Bullhead (1991)
4. Stoner Witch (1994)
5. Eggnog (1991)
6. Stag (1996)
7. The Bootlicker (1999)
8. Houdini (1993)
9. (A) Senile Animal (2006)
10. Ozma (1989)
11. Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002)
12. Honky (1997)
13. Nude With Boots (2008)
14. Pigs of the Roman Empire (2004)
15. Gluey Porch Treatments (1987)

Charles Mingus

1. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
2. Mingus at Antibes (1976)
3. Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1964)
4. The Clown (1957)

Modest Mouse

1. The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
2. Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
3. The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
4. This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About (1996)
5. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)

Pavement

1. Slanted & Enchanted (1992)
2. Wowee Zowee (1995)
3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
4. Watery, Domestic (1992)
5. Brighten the Corners (1997)
6. Terror Twilight (1999)

Pedro the Lion

1. It's Hard to Find a Friend (1998)
2. Control (2002)
3. The Only Reason I Feel Secure (1999)
4. Whole (1997)
5. Achilles Heel (2004)
6. Winners Never Quit (2000)
7. Progress (2000)
8. Tour EP '04 (2004)

Pixies

1. Surfer Rosa (1988)
2. Doolittle (1989)
3. Bossanova (1990)
4. Come On Pilgrim (1987)
5. Trompe le Monde (1991)

Radiohead

1. Kid A (2000)
2. OK Computer (1997)
3. Amnesiac (2001)
4. Hail to the Thief (2003)
5. The Bends (1995)
6. In Rainbows (2007)
7. I Might Be Wrong (2001)
8. Pablo Honey (1993)

Jay Reatard

1. Blood Visions (2006)
2. "See/Saw" / "Screaming Hand" (2008)
3. "Always Wanting More" / "You Mean Nothing to Me" (2008)
4. "Trapped Here" (2008)
5. "I Know a Place" (2007)
6. "No Time" / "You Were Sleeping" (2008)
7. Night of Broken Glass (2007)
8. "Hammer I Miss You" (2006)
9. In the Dark (2007)
10. "Painted Shut" / "An Ugly Death" (2008)

Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers

1. The Modern Lovers (1976)
2. I, Jonathan (1992)
3. Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild (2008)
4. Rockin' and Romance (1985)

The Rolling Stones

1. Exile on Main St. (1972)
2. Sticky Fingers (1971)
3. Let It Bleed (1969)
4. Aftermath (1966)
5. Between the Buttons (1967)
6. Some Girls (1978)
7. Beggars Banquet (1968)

Spoon

1. A Series of Sneaks (1998)
2. Girls Can Tell (2001)
3. Gimme Fiction (2005)
4. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
5. Kill the Moonlight (2002)
6. Telephono (1996)

Bruce Springsteen

1. Nebraska (1982)
2. Born to Run (1975)
3. Darkness On the Edge of Town (1978)
4. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
5. Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 (2006 - recorded in 1975)
6. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)

Talk Talk

1. Laughing Stock (1991)
2. Mark Hollis (Mark Hollis; 1998)
3. Spirit of Eden (1988)
4. The Colour of Spring (1986)

The Velvet Underground

1. White Light/White Heat (1968)
2. The Velvet Underground (1969)
3. Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
4. Loaded (1970)

Ween

1. The Mollusk (1997)
2. Pure Guava (1992)
3. At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 (2008 - recorded in 1992)
4. 12 Golden Country Greats (1996)

Tom Waits

1. Franks Wild Years (1986)
2. Rain Dogs (1985)
3. Swordfishtrombone (1983)
4. Real Gone (2004)

Weezer

1. Pinkerton (1996)
2. Blue (1994)
3. Green (2001)
4. Red (2008)
x. Maladroit (2002)
x. Make Believe (2005)

Wilco

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
2. A Ghost Is Born (2004)
3. Summerteeth (1999)
4. Being There (1996)
5. Sky Blue Sky (2007)
6. A.M. (1995)

Neil Young

1. On the Beach (1974)
2. Live at Massey Hall, 1971 (2007 - recorded in '71)
3. Tonight's the Night (1975)
4. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
5. Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
6. Zuma (1975)

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