My Favorite Albums, Of All Time!
July 10th, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher
Recently I have said several times that a certain album is one of my favorite of all time. I thought that maybe I should make a list so that I (and others) didn’t think I was just making it all up as I went along.
I thought my first attempt at a favorite album of all time list would be a top ten list. Then I went for top twenty, etc. I soon discovered that unless I went to a top fifty, I wasn’t happy with the contents. The only criteria I used was that the album couldn’t be a compilation of greatest hits. Live albums were OK.
I have said many times that Shawn Colvin’s “A Few Small Repairs” is my favorite album of all time. I still agree with that.
My Top Fifty Favorite Albums
(in alphabetical order)
| Aerosmith | Get Your Wings |
| B-52’s | B-52’s |
| The Band | Rock of Ages |
| The Beatles | Abbey Road |
| Black Sabbath | Vol. 4 |
| Boston | Boston |
| The Eric Burdon Band | Sun Secrets |
| Mary Chapin Carpenter | Stones In The Road |
| Chicago | Chicago Transit Authority |
| Shawn Colvin | A Few Small Repairs |
| Alice Cooper | School’s Out |
| Davis Bowie | Aladdin Sane |
| Al DiMeola | Land Of The Midnight Sun |
| The Doors | L.A. Woman |
| The Eagles | Desperado |
| The Fixx | Shuttered Room |
| Fleetwood Mac | Rumors |
| Peter Frampton | Frampton Comes Alive |
| Genesis | A Trick Of The Tail |
| The Go-Go’s | Beauty And The Beat |
| Humble Pie | Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore |
| Jackson Browne | Runnin’ On Empty |
| Jethro Tull | Thick As A Brick |
| Kiss | Alive! |
| Led Zeppelin | Houses of the Holy |
| Letters To Cleo | Aurora Gory Alice |
| Linda Ronstadt | Prisoner In Disguise |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | Pronounced Leh’-Nerd Skin’-Nerd |
| Joni Mitchell | Court And Spark |
| Montrose | Montrose |
| The Moody Blues | Seventh Sojourn |
| Mott The Hoople | Mott |
| Nirvana | Nevermind |
| Ted Nugent | Ted Nugent |
| Pink Floyd | Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Return To Forever | Romantic Warrior |
| Rush | Rush |
| Stabbing Westward | Darkest Days |
| T.Rex | The Slider |
| James Taylor | Sweet Baby James |
| Robin Trower | Bridge Of Sighs |
| The Tubes | The Tubes |
| U2 | Boy |
| U.K. | U.K. |
| Gino Vannelli | Powerful People |
| Joe Walsh | The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get |
| The Who | Quadrophenia |
| Stevie Wonder | Songs In The Key Of Life |
| Yes | Close To The Edge |
| Neil Young | After The Gold Rush |
War- The World Is A Ghetto
How did I forget to list that?