100 Records, nostalgically
This is a weird judgement, see, mixing the technical merits of each with the ways in which they've impacted me and how much I actually enjoy them and the amount of time I've even spent with them. So if this was a movie list you'd probably Irreversible and The Princess Bride keeping close company, which is odd to think of. It also leans a little heavily on what I was listening to a few years ago; I just haven't spent much time focusing on any one thing recently. But then there's stuff like Whitman's Lisbon, which just cut through so cleanly that it's 3rd on my list after listening to it twice, and I'm pretty well scared to play it a third time for fear that I got something about it entirely wrong.
But all factors considered, I think I managed to do a pretty decent ordering of the first 30 or so, after which I gave up entirely. It all seems a little silly when I'm sitting here, with a 3 day foobar playlist of stuff I haven't listened to yet, knowing any or all of it could just blow me away and alter this whole thing.
David Sylvian - Blemish
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
Dar Williams - Mortal City
Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Tujiko Noriko - Shojo Toshi
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Smog - Knock Knock
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
White Flight - White Flight
TV On the Radio - Young Liars
P.G. Six - Well of Memory
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Basil Kirchin - Abstractions of the Industrial North
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
John Fahey - Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Sage Francis - Sick of Waging War
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Sole - Selling Live Water
Shalabi Effect - The Trial of St-Orange
Tujiko Noriko - Make Me Hard
Bjork - Homogenic
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Caetano Veloso - Livro
The Books - Thought for Food
Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman
Matmos - The West
Cat Stevens - Gold
Tyondai Braxton - History That Has No Effect
Sanso-Xtro - Sentimentalist
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chan
Brian Wilson - Smile
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Christian Marclay - djTRIO
Circulatory System - Circulatory System
cLOUDDEAD - Ten
Dizzee Rascal - The Boy In the Corner
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
Excepter - Throne
Fennesz - Venice
Led Zeppelin - II
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World
David Sylvian - The Good Son vs. the Only Daughter
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4
Fog - Ether Teeth
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Kid Dakota - So Pretty
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Kraftwerk - Minimum/Maximum
Led Zeppelin - III
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
Manitoba - Up In Flames
OOIOO - Feather Float
Patrick Wolf - Wind In the Wires
Soft Machine - Third
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Lists of Lights and Buoys
Quruli - Zukan
The Kinks - The Village Grean Preservation Society
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Bjork - Vespertine
TTC - Batards Sensibles
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Boris - Pink
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Cornelius - Fantasma
Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of the Water
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Boredoms - Super ae
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Superwolf
Juana Molina - Son
Pelt - Empty Bell Ringing In the Sky
Parts & Labor/Tyondai Braxton - Rise, Rise, Rise
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
Tricky - Nearly God
J-Live - All of the Above
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Pan American - For Waiting, for Chasing
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Windy & Carl - Antarctica
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle
But all factors considered, I think I managed to do a pretty decent ordering of the first 30 or so, after which I gave up entirely. It all seems a little silly when I'm sitting here, with a 3 day foobar playlist of stuff I haven't listened to yet, knowing any or all of it could just blow me away and alter this whole thing.
David Sylvian - Blemish
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
Dar Williams - Mortal City
Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Tujiko Noriko - Shojo Toshi
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Smog - Knock Knock
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
White Flight - White Flight
TV On the Radio - Young Liars
P.G. Six - Well of Memory
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Basil Kirchin - Abstractions of the Industrial North
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
John Fahey - Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Sage Francis - Sick of Waging War
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Sole - Selling Live Water
Shalabi Effect - The Trial of St-Orange
Tujiko Noriko - Make Me Hard
Bjork - Homogenic
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Caetano Veloso - Livro
The Books - Thought for Food
Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman
Matmos - The West
Cat Stevens - Gold
Tyondai Braxton - History That Has No Effect
Sanso-Xtro - Sentimentalist
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chan
Brian Wilson - Smile
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Christian Marclay - djTRIO
Circulatory System - Circulatory System
cLOUDDEAD - Ten
Dizzee Rascal - The Boy In the Corner
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
Excepter - Throne
Fennesz - Venice
Led Zeppelin - II
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World
David Sylvian - The Good Son vs. the Only Daughter
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4
Fog - Ether Teeth
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Kid Dakota - So Pretty
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Kraftwerk - Minimum/Maximum
Led Zeppelin - III
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
Manitoba - Up In Flames
OOIOO - Feather Float
Patrick Wolf - Wind In the Wires
Soft Machine - Third
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Lists of Lights and Buoys
Quruli - Zukan
The Kinks - The Village Grean Preservation Society
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Bjork - Vespertine
TTC - Batards Sensibles
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Boris - Pink
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Cornelius - Fantasma
Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of the Water
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Boredoms - Super ae
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Superwolf
Juana Molina - Son
Pelt - Empty Bell Ringing In the Sky
Parts & Labor/Tyondai Braxton - Rise, Rise, Rise
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
Tricky - Nearly God
J-Live - All of the Above
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Pan American - For Waiting, for Chasing
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Windy & Carl - Antarctica
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle