Friday, April 18, 2014

My All-Time Favorite Albums



Here is my List of All-Time Favorites. I've been working on this for several years now, going over and over it almost every week, so the list is by now fairly accurate up to date. Enjoy! 

1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway—Genesis
2. Limiti all'egualianza della parte con il tutto––Homunculus Res
3. Dots and Loops—Stereolab
4. Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh—Magma
5. Salinity Now! - Unaka Prong
6. Aja—Steely Dan
7. Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter—Joni Mitchell
8. Jan Akkerman—Jan Akkerman
9. Tiny Dynamine/Echoes on A Shallow Bay—Cocteau Twins
10. 
Pirates - Rikkie Lee Jones
11. Gentle Stream—The Amazing
12. Adventures in Utopia—Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
13. Novella—Renaissance
14. Eli—Jan Akkerman & Kaz Lux
15. Rikkie Lee Jones--Rikkie Lee Jones
16. The Geese and The Ghost—Anthony Phillips
17. Hergest Ridge—Mike Oldfield
18. Love DeLuxe––Sade
19. Brilliant Trees—David Sylvian
20. Disintegration—The Cure
21. Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron
22. Chakradancer—Brainscapes (Alain Eskinasi)
23. The Look of Love—Diana Krall
24. Treasure—Cocteau Twins
25. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror—Harold Budd & Brian Eno
26. Boy—U2
27. The Dream Academy—The Dream Academy
28. Lost Souls––doves
29. Strange Kind of Love––Love and Money
30. Pelican West—Haircut One Hundred
31. Idlewild––Everything But The Girl
32. Nina Hagen Band—Nina Hagen Band
33. The Stranger—Billy Joel
34. America—America
35. Rapture--Anita Baker
36. Puccini: Great Arias—London Records
37. Shiny Eyed Babies––Bent Knee
38. Not This City––Five-Storey Ensemble
39. Walking Wounded—Everything But The Girl
40. The Last Broadcast—doves
41. Gone to Earth—David Sylvian
42. A Charlie Brown Christmas—Vince Guaraldi Trio
43. It's Better to Travel––Swing Out Sister
44. What’s Going On—Marvin Gaye
45. Gregorian Chant—Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle
46. Indian Summer––Landberk
47. Nektyr -- Demen
48. The Last Samurai Original Soundtrack—Hans Zimmer
49. Natural Elements—Shakti
50. The Danish Girl Original Motion Picture Soundtrack––Alexandre Desplat 

51. Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison—Harmonium
52. Reach The Beach—The Fixx
53. Everything But The Girl (debut album, U.S. release)—Everything But The Girl
54. Ram—Paul & Linda McCartney
55. Night and Day—Joe Jackson
56. Shadows of The Sun—Ulver
57. Animals—Pink Floyd
58. Renaissance of The Celtic Harp—Alan Stivell
59. Pastorales de Noël—Michel LeGrande, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alexandre Legoya
60. Holographic Codex--Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà
61. Todd—Todd Rundgren
62. The Hurting—Tears for Fears
63. Open Sky––Iona
64. The Difference Machine—Big Big Train
65. Odyssey: The Greatest Tale––Colossus Magazine/Musea Records
66. UK—UK
67. A Trick of The Tail—Genesis
68. Mozart's 23 Piano Concertos––Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Phillips, 1991.
69. 
The Love Connection—Freddie Hubbard
70. Mind Fruit—Opus III
71. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots--The Flaming Lips
72. Equations of Meaning - Tony Patterson
73. Relayer—Yes
74. Harvest Moon––Votum
75. Janet.––Janet Jackson
76. Selling England by The Pound—Genesis
77. Crime of The Century—Supertramp
78. Bar-do Travel––Proghma-C
79. Hope for the Mourning--Mice on Stilts
80. Venusian Summer––Lenny White
81. The Final Breath Before November––Edison's Children
82Vaughn Williams––Iona Brown, violin, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Argos, 1972.
83. OisoLün - Oiapok
84. Secret Story—Pat Metheny 
85. Porcelain––Julia Fordham
86. Light Shining Through the Sea––Cicada
87. Eden––Faun
88. Waltz for Koop - Koop
89. If_then_else—The Gathering
90. Particelle—Lagartija
91. Vespertine—Björk
92. Everyone into Position—Oceansize
93. Caravanserai—Santana
94Remain in Light—Talking Heads
95. Scheherazade and Other Stories—Renaissance
96. Cosmic Messenger—Jean-Luc Ponty
97. Something/Anything—Todd Rundgren
98. The Mad Hatter––Chick Corea
99Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Op. 36––Joanna  Koslowska, soprano, Karimierz Kord and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Decca, 1992.
100. The Dreaming—Kate Bush

101. Eve—Karda Estra
102. A Gift of Love—Deepak Chopra & Friends
103Initiation—Todd Rundgren
104. The extent of damage--Battlestations
105. Long Distance—Ivy
106. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister--Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
107. 1984—Anthony Phillips
108. Innervisions—Stevie Wonder
109. Unsound—Funin
110. Space Shanty—Khan
111. The Polite Force––Egg
112. Off The Wall—Michael Jackson
113. Fragile—Yes
114. New Wave––Soul Family Sensation
115. New Gold Dream—Simple Minds
116. Part The Second—maudlin of The Well
117. Mirabilis—Mediæval Bæbes
118. Codename: Dustsucker—Bark Psychosis
119. Hamburger Concerto—Focus
120. Timeloss—Päatos
121. Picchio dal Pozzo––Picchio dal Pozzo
122. Songs of Robert Burns—Andy Stewart
123. Swept—Julia Fordham
124. Discontinuance--Ghost Medicine
125. December—George Winston
126. Vimana—Nova
127. Interstellar Original Soundtrack––Hans Zimmer
128. The Pavillion of Dreams - Harold Budd
129. Evaporate - Midas Fall
130. Discipline—King Crimson
131. Romantic Warrior—Return to Forever
132. The Following Morning—Eberhard Weber
133. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls—Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
134. Jam on Revenge—Newcleus
135. Blade Runner soundtrack—The New American Orchestra (compositions by Vangelis)
136. Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia—Ryuichi Sakamoto
137. High Land, Hard Rain—Aztec Camera
138. The Weatherman is Wrong - GADADU
139. West Indian Girl—West Indian Girl
140. The Dark Third—Pure Reason Revolution
141. The Great Bright Horses - Ghosts of Jupiter
142. Renaissance--Faun
143. 22 - Wippy Bonstack
144. LightDark—NoSound
144. Playing The Piano––Ryuichi Sakamoto
145. Dark Side of The Moon—Pink Floyd
146. The Court of The Crimson King—King Crimson
147Close to The Edge—Yes
148. ~ – iamthemorning
149. Walking Up That Valley--Needlepoint
150. Demons and Wizards—Uriah Heep

151. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid soundtrack––Burt Bacharach
152. One Man Tells Another––Landberk
153. The Moon and The Melodies—Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
154. Vixit - Battlestations
155. Phanerothyme - Motorpsycho
156. Second Life Syndrome - Riverside
157. Metamorphosis––Axon-Neuron
158Nil novo sub sole––Nil
159. October—U2
160. Falling Deeper––Anathema
161. Per un amico—PFM
162. I Robot—Alan Parsons Project
163. D'Après le horla de Maupassant—The Box
164. Baduizm - Erykah Badu
165. Overgrown - James Blake
166. Formica Blues - Mono
167. In The Wee Small Hours—Frank Sinatra
168. Bonfires on The Heath - The Clientele
169. Princesses Nubiennes - Les Nubians
170. Ga'an––Ga'an
171. Gentle Giant--Gentle Giant
172. Trance Tara––Jonathan Goldman
173. A Rare Moment of Insight—Brother Ape
174. Constellations—Karda Estra
175. Postaeolian Train Robbery––Cos
176. Interior City––The Gabriel Construct
177. Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps––Laurent Thibault
178. Ghost in the Machine—The Police
179. Moving Waves—Focus
180. Foxtrot—Genesis
181. Even in The Quietest Moments—Supertramp
182Café Bleu––The Style Council
183. Omphalos—Kotebel
184. Music for 18 Musicians—Steve Reich
185. Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90—Johannes Brahms
186. Steve McQueen—Prefab Sprout
187Onda - Jambinai
188. Peaceful Evening––Steve & David Gordon
189. Déjà Vu—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
190. Ghosts Don't Dance with Shoes––Tree Tops
191. Luna - Faun
192. Strange Valleys--Starving Daughters
193. The Seeds of Love--Tears for Fears
194. Le quattro stagioni—Vivaldi
195. async--Ryuichi Sakamoto
196. Talsette di Marsantino––L'Estate di San Martino
197. Houses of The Holy—Led Zeppelin
198. Change We Must—Jon Anderson
199. Spirited Away OST - Joe Hisaishi
200. Blue Cello—David Darling

201. Mother Focus––Focus
202. City of the Sun––Seven Impale
203. A Tab in The Ocean—Nektar
204. Sound-Dust—Stereolab
205. Kaleidoscope World––Swing Out Sister
206. Blue Bell Knoll––Cocteau Twins
207. 13 Moons--Hands of the Heron
208. Nursery Cryme—Genesis
209. Green Asphalt - Green Asphalt
210. Art Official Age - Prince
211. Get in Touch with Yourself - Swing Out Sister
212. Margot - Unaka Prong
213. Peter Gabriel (1)—Peter Gabriel
214No Borders Here—Jane Siberry
215. Seven—Magenta
216. Magical Mystery Tour—The Beatles
217. Cavalcade--black midi
218. Fish Out of Water--Chris Squire
219. Kontinuum—Klaus Schulze
220. Love Over Fear-- Pendragon
221. Noi al dir di noi - Promenade
222. Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth - Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth
223. Halflights - Starsabout
224. Strands - Steve Haushildt
225. The Oubliette - The Reticent
226. La marmite cosmique, no. 6 - Arnaud Bukwald
227. Il Tempio delle Clessidre - Il Tempio Delle Clessidre
228. Avenoth - La Boca Della Verità
229. Am Ende der Welt - Weserbergland
230. Apparition - Jambinai
231. The Greatest Show on Earth - Airbag
232. Time Control—Hiromi’s Sonicbloom
234. Infernal Machina—Jannick Top
235. Mozart's Clarinet & Bassoon Concertos––Jack Brymer/Gwydion Brooke, Thomas Beecham and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; EMI.
236. The Sensual World—Kate Bush
237. Shake It Up––Boney James & Rick Braun
238. Preda—Mad Crayon
239. Guérison––Setna
240. Double Negative - Low
241. Jurassic Shift—Ozric Tentacles
242. Prelude—Deodato
243. Tingri—Jonn Serrie
244. Dead Magic - Anna Von Hausswolff
245. Pamiec - SBB
246. Extra Virgin—Olive
247. Ikaro--Aalto
248. Identity—Airbag
249. Stealing Fire—Bruce Cockburn
250. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan

251. 4—Dungen
252. Waking The Dead, Live in Japan 2005 - Anekdoten
253. In The Land of Grey and Pink—Caravan
254. Giant Sky--Giant Sky
255. Posthumous Silence - Sylvan
256. Moth Vellum—Moth Vellum
257. Free Hand—Gentle Giant
258. UR---Accordo Dei Contrari
259. Gaucho--Steely Dan
260. Apocalypse Now - RanestRane
261. No Frontiers--Mary Black
262. Ur—Steve Tibbetts
263. Leaving Your Bodymap—maudlin of The Well
264. Chicago Transit Authority—Chicago
265. Tirill--Said the Sun to the Moon
266Pig Views--Regal Worm
267. Kind of Blue—Miles Davis
268. Purple Rain - Prince
269. Moonshine—Collage
270. Songs for The Inner Child—Shaina Noll
271. Antimemory -Vaneta
272. Silencia--Hammock
273. Mourning Sun––Fields of the Nephilim
274. Sound Mirrors––Syd Arthur
275. Days of Future Passed––Moody Blues
276. Winter Dreams––R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
277. Comma--Monobody
278. Spectral Mornings—Steve Hackett
279. Trespass—Genesis
280. Songs in The Key of Life—Stevie Wonder
281. Wind and Wuthering—Genesis
282. ( ) -- Sigur Rós
283. Empty Days - Empty Days
284. Gifts from Enola - Gifts from Enola
285. Frozen There Alto Palo
286. BJ4—Bob James
287. Seal II - Seal
288. Hugsjá - Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik
289. Temperamental—Everything But The Girl
290. III—Focus
291. Mummer––XTC
292. Private Parts & Pieces III: Antiques - Anthony Phillips
293. Keep on Doing—The Roches
294. Llyr - Ataraxia
295. Solar Music (Live) - Grobschnitt
296. Original Soundtrack—Godspell
297. Songs from The Big Chair—Tears for Fears
298. Winds of Devotion - R. Carlos Nakai, Nawang Khechog & Peter Kater
299. Behind the Sun - Motorpsycho
300. In Sudden Walks—Aisles

301. Babylon—Babylon
302. Ágætis Byrjun—Sigur Rós
303. 
Avalon—Roxy Music
304. I - Bondage Fruit
305. Light Years--Stellardrone 
306. Innerspeaker--Tame Impala
307. I A Moon—North Sea Radio Orchestra 
308. Deconsecrated and Pure--Alio Die
309. Heads--Bob James
310. Pod Niebem Czas / The Time Beneath The Sky - Quidam
311. The True Colors of Mars Pt. 2--The Jensen Code
312. Hats--Blue Nile
313. The Age of Plastic--The Buggles
314. Incantations––Mike Oldfield
315. Live Rust—Neil Young
316. Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez--Julian Bream, John Eliot Gardiner and The Monteverdi Orchestra; RCA Gold Seal, 1986.
317. Kid A--Radiohead
318. Clairvoyant - The Contortionist
319. Celebrate Me Home--Kenny Loggins
320. This Clear Divide--Stare At The Clouds
321. L'araignée-mal - Atoll
322. Lighthouse––iamthemorning
323. Journey to The Centre of The Eye—Nektar
324. Permutations - The Mercury Tree
325. Antiphon––Midlake
326. Big Circumstance--Bruce Cockburn
327. The Way Up - Pat Metheny
328. Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs
329. Tales of Mystery & Imagination—Alan Parsons Project
330. Hex––Bark Psychosis
331. Waters of Tomorrow—Vespero
332. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
333. Rites at Dawn - Wobbler
334. Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
335. Talking Book—Stevie Wonder
336. …and so we destroyed everything—sleepmakeswaves
337. Welcome to The Pleasure Dome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
338. Meat Mallet--A Formal Horse
339. Loloismo--ZA!
340. The Third Frontier--Utopianisti
341. Um Himinjǫður--Tirill
342. Lost and Found--KBB
343. Nonlin - Steve Hauschildt
344. Ego, Georgius--Jerzy Antczak
345. Skylarking—XTC
346. Fear of A Blank Planet—Porcupine Tree
347. Boston—Boston
348. Ghosts—Frequency Drift
349. Secret Treaties—Blue Öyster Cult
350. A Distant Shore––Tracy Thorn
351. Deleted Scenes--Once and Future Band
352. At The Village Vanguard—Bill Evans Trio
353. Lighttown Closure—Fourteen Twenty-six
354. A Secret Wish--Propaganda
355. Belo Horizonte - John McLaughlin
356. Quadrophenia—The Who
357. Pretzel Logic--Steely Dan
358. Viva Boma—Cos
359. Power of Love—Luther Vandross
360. Shukuru—Pharoah Sanders
361. Moonmadness—Camel
362. Remember The Future—Nektar
363. Beyond Drama - Aisles
364. Suspension - Brian Ellis
365. Parachutes—Coldplay
366. Recycled—Nektar
367. L’isola di niente—Premiata Forneria Marconi
368. Reverie—Daturah
369. Magnified as Giants--Caligonaut
370. Bound by the Beauty - Jane Siberry
371. Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
372. Hoelderlin's Traum - Hoelderlin
373. Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp
374. Careless--Stephen Bishop
375. Adult Contemporary - Unaka Prong
376. Flame - Ronnie Laws
377. Tango Hour—Astor Piazzolo
378. Megalálzottak és Megszomorítottak--After Crying
379. The Dream of The Magic Jongleur—The Psychedelic Ensemble
380. Fourth World Possible Musics, Vol. 2: Dream Theory in Malaya—Jon Hassell & Brian Eno
381. Close to You--The Carpenters
382. The Trouble with Normal—Bruce Cockburn
383. 3 + 3--The Isley Brothers
384. No tengas miedo--Kant Freud Kafka
385. Tapestry—Carole King
386. Thriller—Michael Jackson
387. Carpenters--The Carpenters
388. Four-Calendar Café––Cocteau Twins
389. RaytracingMonobody
390. Songs from The Breastbone Drum--Domina Catrina Lee
391. Begin Again Original Soundtrack--Gregg Alexander et al.
392. II - Lazuli
393. Alduorka - Breidblik
394. I Cry, I Smile--Narada Michael Walden
395. You Can't Tune a Fish, But You Can Tune a Piano--REO Speedwagon
396. Sagarmatha—The Appleseed Cast
397. One of These Nights—The Eagles
398.  Ancestor's Tale--Ut Gret
399. Mistakes Have Been Made - John Ludi
400. Lightbulb Sun—Porcupine Tree

401. Turn of the Cards—Renaissance
402. The Stones of Naples--Corde Oblique
403. Powerful People - Gino Vanelli
404. Fiori, frutti, farfalle––Humana Prog
405. Awaiting The Sun--Fauns
406. Soviet Cities on the Moon - Panopticon
407. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme—Simon & Garfunkle
408. Allas Sak--Dungen
409. Skellig--Mr. Gil
410I Am Proud of You. - Mice on Stilts
411. Voyage of the Acolyte—Steve Hackett
412. Man Out of Time - Manna/Mirage
413. Until the Ghosts Are All Gone--Anekdoten
414. I Wash My Soul in The Stream of Infinity—My Brother The Wind
415Don’t Get Weird on Me, Babe—Lloyd Cole
416. Starfire--Jaga Jazzist
417. Whisper Me--Wim Mertens
418. One World––John Martyn
420. II -- Mother Turtle
421. Between All Things - Ohma 
422. English Electric, Part 1--Big Big Train
423. Octopus—Gentle Giant
424. Margerine Eclipse - Stereolab
425. The Illusion's Reckoning--Mantra Vega
426. The Lone Rhino—Adrian Belew
457. All Is Violent, All Is Bright–God Is An Astronaut
428. In A Cold Embrace--Battlestations
429. Overlook—From.UZ
430. Iridule--Yugen
431. Huascaran--Fermáta
432. The Underfall Yard—Big Big Train
433. The Seer--Swans
434. Il chiarore sorge due volte—Dunwich
435. Faith - George Michael
436. New Moon Daughter--Cassandra Wilson
437. Morning Sun - Gadi Caplan
438. Technicians of the Sacred--Ozric Tentacles
439. Going for The One—Yes
440. Forest Stairways -Yves Potin
441. Seven Secrets—Fruupp
442. K.A.—Magma
443Emerson Lake & Palmer—Emerson Lake & Palmer
444. Aerial––Kate Bush
445. Putting Off Death--Cheer-Accident
446. Häxan -- Dungen
447. Bath—maudlin of The Well
448Over the Sea/Under The Water—Cicada
449. Espectro––Violeta de Outono
450. Waiting for Dawn - Robin Guthrie

451. Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
452. IV--Led Zeppelin
453. Human's Lib - Howard Jones
454. Simple Things - Zero 7
455. II - Bondage Fruit
456. Spectrum of the Green Morning--Retrospective
457. Funeral - Arcade Fire
458. Men from Earth - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
459. Sign o' the Times - Prince
460. Memento z banalnym triptykiem--SBB
461. Stronger than Pride--Sade
462. Eye on The Sunset--Nine Stones Close
463. The Sirens Sound—Collapse Under The Empire
464. Au delà du délire - Ange
465. Falling Forward—Julia Fordham
466. "Orange"—Jeff Beck Group
467. Zenyattà Mondatta--The Police
468. Strinkadenn Ys--Seven Reizh
469. Choirs of The Eye—Kayo Dot
470. De Profundis--After Crying
471. Peter Gabriel (3)—Peter Gabriel
472. Della stessa sostanza dei sogni--Homunculus Res
473. Bigger on the Inside--Rachel Flowers
474. A Backward Glance on a Travel Road: Alba - Les Ombres Errantes--HYPNO5E
475. Inmazes--Vola
476. Life to Come--Redshift
477. Cocoon--Tiger Moth Tales
478. Les Porches--Maneige
479. Haul Ar Yr Eira--Pererin
480. The Black Tomato--Øresund Space Collective
481. The Sun and The Moon Getting It On--Perplexa
482. The Red Violin soundtrack--Joshua Bell & The Philharmonia Orchestra (John Corigliano, composer)
483. Felicité Thosz--Magma
484. The Finest of Miracles--Ciccada
485. Hysteria--Def Leppard
486. Beyond Expression--Finch
487. Transmission from Sogmore's Garden--Magic Bus
488. Suiciety--Methexis
489. Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble—Kotebel
490. La notte anche di giorno--La Coscienza di Zeno
491. Ad Perpetuum--Antoine Fafard
492. In Rainbows - Radiohead
493. Sunrise—My Education
494. LegEnd - Henry Cow
495. In No Sense? Nonsense! - Art of Noise
496. Before and After Science - Brian Eno
497. Untamed--Ill Wicker
498. Presence - Five-Storey Ensemble
499. Clivages--Univers Zero
500. The World Is A Game--Mystery

And there are so many more but I'm going to stop at 500. 



Albums waiting for placement:
Turist i eget liv - ActionFredag
Yay! - Motorpsycho
The Strainge Case of Steve - Rascal Reporters
Memoirs of Once - Battlestations
Plasma - Ikarus
Mahandini - Dewa Budjana
Dragonfly - Huong Thanh


P.S. I guess I lean toward the Crossover, Symphonic, Jazz/Fusion and Ambient sides of “progressive music.” 

P.P.S. I love music.