01-02-24
This is to cement where my progress in my top 100 is for each year's end. This top 100 was picked from the top of an ongoing list of every album I've ever heard ranked from best to worst. Years ago, the list started out with less than 30 albums. Now there's over 13,000 albums on it. If you have any questions about my selections, feel free to ask, 'cause I recommend each album up here.

  1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV / Hard Rock, Rock
  2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds / Baroque Pop, Pop
  3. Arcade Fire - Funeral / Indie Rock, Chamber Pop
  4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus / Alt-Rock, Art Rock
  5. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions / Soul
  6. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water / Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock
  7. Jay-Z - The Blueprint / East Coast Hip Hop
  8. Vangelis - Blade Runner / Prog Electronic, Space Ambient
  9. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way / Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz
  10. Metallica - Ride the Lightning / Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal
  11. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly / Jazz Rap, Conscious Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop
  12. Swans - The Seer / Post-Rock, Exp. Rock
  13. Kate Bush - The Dreaming / Prog Pop, Art Pop, Exp. Pop
  14. The Band - The Last Waltz / Folk Rock, Roots Rock
  15. Björk - Homogenic / Art Pop, Electronic, Exp. Pop
  16. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland / Acid Rock, Psych Rock, Blues Rock
  17. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots / Neo-Psych, Psych Pop, Exp. Pop
  18. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Psych Pop, Psych Rock, Pop Rock
  19. Herbert von Karajan - Requiem (Mozart) / Classical Period, Choral, Requiem
  20. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark / Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
  21. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison / Country
  22. King Crimson - Live in Chicago / Prog Rock
  23. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! / Post-Rock, Exp. Rock
  24. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon / Art Rock, Prog Rock
  25. Coil - The Ape of Naples / Electronic, Industrial, Experimental
  26. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You / Art Pop, Alt-Pop, Electronic
  27. Muddy Waters - After the Rain / Chicago Blues, Electric Blues
  28. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses / Goth Metal
  29. Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! / Psych Soul, Soul-Funk
  30. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours / Pop Rock, Soft Rock
  31. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation / Breakbeat, Big Beat
  32. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In / Goth Rock, Alt-Rock
  33. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite / Prog Metal, Neoclassical Metal
  34. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy / Pop Rap, Hip Hop
  35. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters / Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk
  36. Neil Young - Harvest / Folk Rock, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
  37. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady / Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream
  38. Ween - The Mollusk / Art Rock, Alt-Rock, Neo-Psych
  39. The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions / Baroque Pop, Sunshine Pop, Prog Pop
  40. Autechre - Tri repetae / IDM
  41. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi / Minimalism
  42. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise / Symphonic Black Metal, Traditional Black Metal
  43. John Coltrane - Sun Ship / Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz
  44. Donovan - Sunshine Superman / Psych Folk, Psych Pop, Singer/Songwriter
  45. Etta James - At Last! / R&B, Soul, Soul Blues
  46. Nina Simone - Pastel Blues / Vocal Jazz, Soul, R&B
  47. Joanna Newsom - Ys / Chamber Folk, Prog Folk, Singer/Songwriter
  48. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois / Indie Folk, Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
  49. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda / Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde J.
  50. Sheena Ringo - Kalk samen kuri no hana / Art Pop, Prog Pop, Art Rock
  51. Black Sabbath - Paranoid / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
  52. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed / Prog Rock, Baroque Pop, Art Rock, Prog Pop
  53. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There / Post-Rock, Art Rock, Chamber Pop
  54. Swans - Children of God / Goth Rock, Exp. Rock
  55. Michael Jackson - Thriller / Dance-Pop, Con-R&B, Pop
  56. Sade - Lovers Live / Smooth Soul, Sophisti-Pop
  57. John Williams - Star Wars / Modern Classical, Orchestral, Cinematic Classical
  58. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks / Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
  59. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin / Blues Rock, Hard Rock
  60. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes / Dark Country, Alt-Country
  61. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness / Shoegaze, Post-Punk
  62. Exuma - Exuma / Psych Folk, Caribbean Folk
  63. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique / East Coast Hip Hop
  64. Leonard Bernstein - Le sacre du printemps / Modern Classical, Ballet
  65. Vangelis - 1492: Conquest of Paradise / Neoclassical New Age, Electronic
  66. Klaus Schulze - "X" / Berlin School, Prog Electronic
  67. Tatsuro Yamashita - For You / City Pop
  68. Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within / Neoclassical Darkwave
  69. Paul Simon - Graceland / Worldbeat, Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
  70. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh / Death Metal
  71. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind / Post-Rock, Exp. Rock
  72. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Peepshow / Art Rock, Post-Punk, Art Pop
  73. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun / Neoclassical Darkwave
  74. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um / Post-Bop
  75. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side / Power Metal, Melodic Power Metal
  76. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East / Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Jam Band
  77. The Clash - London Calling / Punk, New Wave
  78. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly / Soul-Funk, Chicago Soul
  79. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On / Soul
  80. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam / Neo-Psych, Exp. Pop
  81. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. / Blues Rock, Rock
  82. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! / Exp. Rock, Comedy Rock, Art Rock, Psych Rock
  83. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ / Post-Rock
  84. Eric Clapton - Unplugged / Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Rock
  85. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes / Indie Folk, Chamber Folk
  86. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours / Death Doom Metal, Doom Metal, Goth Doom Metal
  87. King Crimson - Red / Prog Rock, Art Rock
  88. Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack From Twin Peaks / Ambient
  89. Planet Hemp - A invasão do sagaz homem fumaça / Rap Rock, Conscious Hip Hop
  90. NoMeansNo - Wrong / Art Punk, Post-Hardcore, Hardcore Punk
  91. Ufomammut - Idolum / Sludge Metal, Doom Metal
  92. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around / Americana, Country
  93. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops / Tape Music, Minimalism, Ambient
  94. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life / Soul, Pop Soul
  95. Deep Purple - Made in Japan / Hard Rock
  96. Yes - Close to the Edge / Prog Rock, Symphonic Prog Rock
  97. Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge / Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal
  98. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood / Post-Metal, Atmo-Sludge Metal, Sludge Metal
  99. Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan / Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
  100. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam / Neo-Psych, Noise Pop, Space Rock Revival