My Personal Top 100 Albums of All Time

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Here are my personal top 100 favorite albums. Click on an album cover below to get more information, including release date, track listing, and a review. Click on underlined acts to get information on them. You can also click here to check out a complete list of albums reviewed and/or referenced on this site.

Albums are in rank order, with the #1 album being the top left corner, #2 to its immediate right, etc. Hover your mouse over an album to get the name of the album and the recording act. You can also click on an album for a full page of information on that album. This list focuses only on studio albums. Live recordings and other compilations such as box sets or greatest hits collections are not included. Enjoy!


Dave’s Top 100 Albums of All Time

Misplaced Childhood: Marillion Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Beatles The Shaming of the True: Kevin Gilbert Paradise Theater: Styx Dark Side of the Moon: Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin IV: Led Zeppelin The Wall: Pink Floyd The Grand Illusion: Styx Songs from the Big Chair: Tears for Fears Script for a Jester’s Tear: Marillion
Abbey Road: The Beatles Are You Experienced?: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Clutching at Straws: Marillion Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen Synchronicity: The Police Who’s Next: The Who Magical Mystery Tour: The Beatles Hotel California: Eagles Indigo Girls: Indigo Girls Purple Rain: Prince & the Revolution
Boston: Boston Led Zeppelin II: Led Zeppelin The Beatles (aka “The White Album”): The Beatles The Tommy: The Who Little Earthquakes: Tori Amos Rumours: Fleetwood Mac The Joshua Tree: U2 Toy Matinee: Toy Matinee The Rainmakers: The Rainmakers
Pontiac: Lyle Lovett Lyle Lovett and His Large Band: Lyle Lovett Revolver: The Beatles Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: David Bowie Please Please Me: The Beatles Van Halen The Doors: The Doors Nothing Like the Sun: Sting Zenyatta Mondatta: The Police
The Seeds of Love: Tears for Fears Boomtown: David + David Déjà Vu: Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Ten: Pearl Jam Tracy Chapman: Tracy Chapman Thriller: Michael Jackson Sticky Fingers: The Rolling Stones Bat Out of Hell: Meat Loaf Fugazi: Marillion Velvet Underground & Nico: Velvet Underground & Nico
Brothers in Arms: Dire Straits Help! (UK version): The Beatles So: Peter Gabriel Rubber Soul: The Beatles War: U2 The Hurting: Tears for Fears Introducing the Hardline According to…: Terence Trent D’Arby Melissa Etheridge: Melissa Etheridge Season’s End: Marillion The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: Genesis
Born to Run: Bruce Springsteen The Dream of the Blue Turtles: Sting Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Elton John Bad Company: Bad Company Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs: Derek and the Dominos Axis: Bold As Love: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…: Sex Pistols Electric Ladyland: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Skylarking: XTC
Graceland: Paul Simon Tuesday Night Music Club: Sheryl Crow The Williams Brothers: The Williams Brothers Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde: Bob Dylan Outlandos D’Amour: The Police The Freewheelin'…: Bob Dylan Woodface: Crowded House Another Side of…: Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home: Bob Dylan
Slowhand: Eric Clapton The Lonesome Jubilee: John Cougar Mellencamp Rattle and Hum: U2 Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors: Fish Jagged Little Pill: Alanis Morissette The Real Thing: Faith No More Nevermind: Nirvana Regatta De Blanc: The Police Berlin: Lou Reed Genesis: Genesis
Scarecrow: John Cougar Mellencamp Crowded House: Crowded House Songs for Drella: Lou Reed and John Cale Thud: Kevin Gilbert Led Zeppelin III: Led Zeppelin The Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground Ghost in the Machine: The Police Full Moon Fever: Tom Petty 461 Ocean Boulevard: Eric Clapton Physical Graffiti: Led Zeppelin

This page last updated November 20, 2006.