My All-Time Favorite Albums List: 2024 Update

This is an update of my continually evolving list of favorite albums from all periods and phases of my life, here limited to 100. (Oh! That hurts! Okay, maybe 200. No, let's do 300.) 

To see the original list and its now 600 plus albums, you can go to the blog's page for April 2014's publications.

1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

2. Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh - Magma
3. Limiti all'egualianza della parte con il tutto - Homunculus Res
4. Dots and Loops - Stereolab

5. Salinity Now! - Unaka Prong

6. Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter - Joni Mitchell

7. Eli - Jan Akkerman & Kaz Lux

8. Tiny Dynamine/Echoes on A Shallow Bay - Cocteau Twins
9. Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones

10. Todd Rundgren’s Utopia - Utopia

11. Rapture - Anita Baker

12. Shiny Eyed Babies - Bent Knee

13. Jan Akkerman - Jan Akkerman

14. Aja - Steely Dan

15. Venusian Summer - Lenny White 

16. Gentle Stream - The Amazing

17. Novella - Renaissance 

18. The Geese and The Ghost - Anthony Phillips

19. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian

20. Gregorian Chant - Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle

21. Indian Summer - Landberk

22. Nektyr - Demen

23. Natural Elements - Shakti

24. The Dream Academy - The Dream Academy 

25. Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison - Harmonium

26. The Mad Hatter - Chick Corea

27. Reach The Beach - The Fixx

28. Particelle - Lagartija

29. The Danish Girl Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Alexandre Desplat 

30. The Stranger - Billy Joel

31. Pelican West - Haircut One Hundred

32. Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

33. Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band

34. Not This City - Five-Storey Ensemble
35. It's Better to Travel - Swing Out Sister

36. America - America  

37. Disintegration - The Cure

38. Love Deluxe - Sade

39. Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron

40. Chakradancer - Brainscapes (Alain Eskinasi) 

41. The Look of Love - Diana Krall

42. Treasure - Cocteau Twins

43. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror - Harold Budd & Brian Eno

44. Boy - U2

45. Strange Kind of Love - Love and Money

46. Lost Souls - doves

47. Night and Day - Joe Jackson

48. Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl

49. Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney

50. Love Devotion Surrender - Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin

51. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - Magick Brother & Mystic Sister

52. The Last Broadcast - doves

53. Gone to Earth - David Sylvian
54. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio

55. Puccini: Great Arias - London Records

56. Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield

57. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
58.  Astral Traveling - Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

59. A Distant Shore - Tracey Thorn

60. OisoLün - Oiapok

61. A Trick of The Tail - Genesis

62. Everything But The Girl (debut album, U.S. release) - Everything But The Girl

63. The Love Connection - Freddie Hubbard

64. Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones 

65. Shadows of The Sun - Ulver

66. The Last Samurai Original Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer 

67. Renaissance of The Celtic Harp - Alan Stivell

68. Waltz for Koop - Koop

69. Beyond the Veil - iNFiNiEN

70. 1984 - Anthony Phillips

71. Equations of Meaning - Tony Patterson

72. Todd - Todd Rundgren 

73. Open Sky - Iona
74. The Difference Machine - Big Big Train
75. Odyssey: The Greatest Tale - Colossus Magazine/Musea Records

76. Mozart's 23 Piano Concertos - Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Phillips, 1991.

77. Holographic Codex - Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà

78. Eden - Faun

79. Thrust - Herbie Hancock

80. Bar-do Travel - Proghma-C

81. If_then_else - The Gathering

82. Everyone into Position - Oceansize

83. Harvest Moon - Votum 

84. Vaughn Williams - Iona Brown, violin, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Argos, 1972.

85. Mind Fruit - Opus III
86. Pastorales de Noël - Michel LeGrande, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alexandre LeGoya

87. 22 - Wippy Bonstack

88. Relayer - Yes

89.  Visions of a New World - Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

90. The Pavillion of Dreams - Harold Budd

91. Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia - Ryuichi Sakamoto

92. Porcelain - Julia Fordham

93. Animals - Pink Floyd

94. The Final Breath Before November - Edison's Children

95. Remain in Light - Talking Heads

96. Secret Story - Pat Metheny 

97. Pieseň z hôľ (Songs from Ridges) - Fermáta

98. Hope for the Mourning - Mice on Stilts

99. Light Shining Through the Sea - Cicada

100. Song of Innocence - David Axelrod

101. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

102. Incense and Peppermints - The Strawberry Alarm Clock

103. The Hurting - Tears for Fears

104. Formica Blues - Mono

105. Caravanserai - Santana

106. Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 - Joanna  Koslowska, soprano, Karimierz Kord and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Decca, 1992.

107. The Dreaming - Kate Bush

108. Vimana - Nova

109. Eve - Karda Estra

110. Vespertine - Björk

111. Crime of The Century - Supertramp

112. The Polite Force - Egg

113. Long Distance - Ivy

114. UK - UK

115. Fragile - Yes

116. Hamburger Concerto - Focus

117. New Gold Dream - Simple Minds

118. Cosmic Messenger - Jean-Luc Ponty
119. Mirabilis - Mediæval Bæbes

120. Codename: Dustsucker - Bark Psychosis

121. Timeloss - Päatos

122. Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo

123. Songs of Robert Burns - Andy M. Stewart

124. Beyond Drama - Aisles

125. Turn of the Cards - Renaissance

126. Evaporate - Midas Fall
127. Space Shanty - Khan

128. Janet. - Janet Jackson

129. Selling England by The Pound - Genesis

130. Discipline - King Crimson 

131. Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever

132. Unsound - Funin

133. The Dark Third - Pure Reason Revolution

134. The Great Bright Horses - Ghosts of Jupiter

135. Jam on Revenge - Newcleus

136. LightDark - NoSound

137. The Following Morning - Eberhard Weber

138. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays

139. Blade Runner soundtrack - The New American Orchestra (compositions by Vangelis)

140. Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

141. The extent of damage - Battlestations

142. Scheherazade and Other Stories - Renaissance

144. Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
145. The Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson 

146. ~ – iamthemorning
147. Walking Up That Valley - Needlepoint

148. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid soundtrack - Burt Bacharach

149. A Gift of Love - Deepak Chopra & Friends

150. Close to The Edge - Yes

151. Metamorphosis - Axon-Neuron

152. Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

153. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
154. December - George Winston

155. New Wave - Soul Family Sensation

156. Interstellar Original Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer 

157. Nil novo sub sole - Nil

158. Fusion III - Michal Urbaniak

159. October - U2

160. Falling Deeper - Anathema

161. Playing The Piano - Ryuichi Sakamoto

162. High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera

163. Ga'an - Ga'an

164. Discontinuance - Ghost Medicine

165. Let the Truth Speak - Earthside

166. Pamiec - SBB

167. Phanerothyme - Motorpsycho

168. Inside Out - Eddie Henderson

169. Initiation - Todd Rundgren

170. One Man Tells Another - Landberk

171. The Moon and The Melodies - Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd

172. Part the Second - Maudlin of The Well

173. Second Life Syndrome - Riverside

174. Trance Tara - Jonathan Goldman

175. Interior City - The Gabriel Construct

176. Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps - Laurent Thibault

177. Bleak House - Terje Rypdal

178. Ghost in the Machine - The Police

179. Moving Waves - Focus

180. The Weatherman Is Wrong - Gadadu

181. Foxtrot - Genesis

182. Even in The Quietest Moments - Supertramp

183. Café Bleu - The Style Council

184. Omphalos - Kotebel

185. Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 - Johannes Brahms

186. Timeloss - Paatos

187. Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

188. I Robot - Alan Parsons Project

189. Peaceful Evening - Steve & David Gordon

190. Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

191. City of the Sun - Seven Impale

192. Love, Love - Julian "Pepe Mtoto" Priester

193. Fuse - Everything But The Girl

194. Luna - Faun
195. Per un amico - PFM 

196. Renaissance - Faun

197. West Indian Girl - West Indian Girl
198. Baduizm - Erykah Badu

199. Overgrown - James Blake

200. In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

201. Bonfires on The Heath - The Clientele
202. Princesses Nubiennes - Les Nubians
203. A Rare Moment of Insight - Brother Ape

204. Demons and Wizards - Uriah Heep

205. Postaeolian Train Robbery - Cos

206. The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears

207. Crac! - Area

208. Le quattro stagioni - Vivaldi

209. Tilt - Arti e Mestieri

210. Onda - Jambinai

211. Etna - Etna

212. Tarot, Part 1 - Magick Brother & Mystic Sister

213. Silver - Say She She

214. Sounds Good - Brainstory

215. Life - KNOWER

216. 'Live' at Monterey ! - Don Ellis Orchestra

217. Horizon Digital - Édition Spéciale

218. The Record - boygenius

219. Ghosts - Hania Rani

220. async - Ryuichi Sakamoto

221. Houses of The Holy - Led Zeppelin

222. Green Asphalt - Green Asphalt 

223. Something/Anything - Todd Rundgren

224. Blue Cello - David Darling

225. Mother Focus - Focus

226. Le Horla de Montpassant - The Box

227. Strange Valleys - Starving Daughters

228. Change We Must - Jon Anderson

229. Spirited Away OST - Joe Hisaishi

230. A Tab in The Ocean - Nektar

231. Sound-Dust - Stereolab

232. Kaleidoscope World - Swing Out Sister

233. Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins

234. 13 Moons - Hands of the Heron

235. Nursery Cryme - Genesis

236. Art Official Age - Prince

237. Get in Touch with Yourself - Swing Out Sister

238. Margot - Unaka Prong

239. Peter Gabriel (1) - Peter Gabriel

240. No Borders Here - Jane Siberry
241. Seven - Magenta

242. Cavalcade - black midi

243. Fish Out of Water - Chris Squire

244. Kontinuum - Klaus Schulze

245. Love Over Fear - Pendragon

246. Atma - Michał Urbaniak

247. Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth - Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth

248. Strands - Steve Haushildt

249. The Oubliette - The Reticent

250. Private Parts & Pieces III: Antiques - Anthony Phillips

251. Szobel - Hermann Szobel

252. Apparition - Jambinai

253. Tilt - Immagini per un orecchio - Arti E Mestieri

254. The Greatest Show on Earth - Airbag

255. Time Control - Hiromi’s Sonicbloom

256. Infernal Machina - Jannick Top

257. Mozart's Clarinet & Bassoon Concertos - Jack Brymer/Gwydion Brooke, Thomas Beecham and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; EMI.
258. The Sensual World - Kate Bush

259. Shake It Up - Boney James & Rick Braun

260. Heartstring - Earl Klugh

261. Preda - Mad Crayon

262. Guérison - Setna
263. Double Negative - Low
264. Jurassic Shift - Ozric Tentacles

265. Prelude - Deodato

266. Tingri - Jonn Serrie

267. Dead Magic - Anna Von Hausswolff
268. Terrapath - Plantoid

269. Ikaro - Aalto

270. Identity - Airbag

271. Stealing Fire - Bruce Cockburn

272. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan

273. Halflights - Starsabout

274. 4 - Dungen

275. Waking The Dead, Live in Japan 2005 - Anekdoten

276. In The Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan

277. Giant Sky - Giant Sky

278. Twenty Pills Without Water - Bent Knee

279. Posthumous Silence - Sylvan

280. Free Hand - Gentle Giant

281. UR- - Accordo Dei Contrari

282. Gaucho - Steely Dan

283. Apocalypse Now - RanestRane

284. No Frontiers - Mary Black

285. Leaving Your Bodymap - maudlin of The Well

286. Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

287. Said the Sun to the Moon - Tirill

288. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

289. Moonshine - Collage

290. Songs for The Inner Child - Shaina Noll

291. Bleak House - Terje Rypdal

292. Firyuza / Фирюза - Firyuza / Фирюза 

293. Sweetnighter - Weather Report

294. Antimemory - Vaneta
295. Silencia - Hammock

296. Mourning Sun - Fields of the Nephilim

297. Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues

298. Winter Dreams - R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton

299. Trespass - Genesis

300. Wind and Wuthering - Genesis

301. Gifts from Enola - Gifts from Enola
302. Frozen There - Alto Palo

303. Seal II - Seal

304. Hugsjá - Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik

305. Temperamental - Everything But The Girl
306. III - Focus

307. Mummer - XTC

308. La marmite cosmique, no. 6 - Arnaud Bukwald

309. Original Soundtrack - Godspell

310. Songs from The Big Chair - Tears for Fears

311. Winds of Devotion - R. Carlos Nakai, Nawang Khechog & Peter Kater
312. Sound Mirrors - Syd Arthur

313. Purple Rain - Prince