I have no specific motivation or reason for this post. I just feel like listing some of my all-time favorite albums in no particular order. Why would you read it? I don't know you tell me you're the one that's here. But also, if you're wondering if we'll get along and you also like one or more of these albums, the answer is yes: we will get along very well. Sometimes, it's just nice to look back and remember some of the great albums that make you want to keep playing music forever.
Essentially, these will forever be in the collection of albums that I will force my future children to listen to growing up. Want to get ice cream after the game? Okay, listen to this Joy Formidable CD and I'll take you. Oh, you need five bucks for your field trip? Only if you jam this Killers CD for at least 20 minutes. Stop embarrassing you by picking you up from school naked? Listen to thie Barenaked Ladies CD three times in a row and you've got a deal. You know, normal parenting stuff.
These are albums that are good front to back. Not just albums with a lot of good songs on them. I'm talking the primo de primo, cover to cover goodness. In no order, and missing many, here's a list off the top of my head of some of my favorite albums ever:
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Barenaked Ladies - Maroon
Protest The Hero - Fortress
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Green Day - Dookie
Weezer - Blue Album
Toadies - Rubberneck
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise!
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Killers - Hot Fuss
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
The Devil Wears Prada - Zombie EP
August Burns Red - Constellations
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang
Smash Mouth - Astrolounge
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Green Day - Nimrod
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster - II
All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgeris
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Matchbox 20 - Yourself Or Someone Like You
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Human Abstract - Nocturne
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen
The Misfits - Static Age
The Offspring - Smash
Between The Buried And Me - Colours
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Jet - Get Born
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West - Yeezus
NOFX - The Greatest Songs Ever Written By Us
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Guster - Easy Wonderful
Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
If you disagree with any of these, I'm sorry to inform you that your opinion is incorrect.