Wednesday, June 1, 2022

My Favorite Albums of All-Time: a 2022 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.) 

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. Jan Akkerman—Jan Akkerman
8. Tiny Dynamine/Echoes on A Shallow Bay—Cocteau Twins
9. 
Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
10. Aja—Steely Dan
11. Gentle Stream—The Amazing
12. Adventures in Utopia—Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
13. Novella—Renaissance
14. Eli—Jan Akkerman & Kaz Lux
15. Rickie Lee Jones--Rickie Lee Jones
16. The Geese and The Ghost—Anthony Phillips
17. Brilliant Trees—David Sylvian
18. Disintegration—The Cure
19. Love Deluxe––Sade
20. Shiny Eyed Babies––Bent Knee
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. Not This City––Five-Storey Ensemble
34. The Stranger—Billy Joel
35. The Last Broadcast—doves
36. Gone to Earth—David Sylvian
37. A Charlie Brown Christmas—Vince Guaraldi Trio
38. It's Better to Travel––Swing Out Sister
39. America—America
40. Night and Day—Joe Jackson
41. Rapture--Anita Baker
42. Puccini: Great Arias—London Records
43. Hergest Ridge—Mike Oldfield
44. What’s Going On—Marvin Gaye
45. 
Distant Shore--Tracey Thorn
46. Gregorian Chant—Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle
47. Indian Summer––Landberk
48. Nektyr -- Demen
49. Natural Elements—Shakti
50. Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison—Harmonium

51. A Trick of The Tail—Genesis
52. Reach The Beach—The Fixx
53. The Danish Girl Original Motion Picture Soundtrack––Alexandre Desplat 
54. Walking Wounded—Everything But The Girl
55. Animals—Pink Floyd
56. Everything But The Girl (debut album, U.S. release)—Everything But The Girl
57. Shadows of The Sun—Ulver
58. Todd—Todd Rundgren
59. Ram—Paul & Linda McCartney
60. The Hurting—Tears for Fears
61. Open Sky––Iona
62. The Difference Machine—Big Big Train
63. Odyssey: The Greatest Tale––Colossus Magazine/Musea Records
64. UK—UK
65. Mozart's 23 Piano Concertos––Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Phillips, 1991.
66. Light Shining Through the Sea––Cicada
67. Holographic Codex--Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà
68. Eden––Faun
69. If_then_else—The Gathering
70. Everyone into Position—Oceansize
71. Harvest Moon––Votum
72. The Mad Hatter––Chick Corea
73. Janet.––Janet Jackson
74. Selling England by The Pound—Genesis
75. Crime of The Century—Supertramp
76. Bar-do Travel––Proghma-C
77. The Last Samurai Original Soundtrack—Hans Zimmer
78. 
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots--The Flaming Lips
79. Vaughn Williams––Iona Brown, violin, Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Argos, 1972.
80. Mind Fruit—Opus III
81. Pastorales de Noël—Michel LeGrande, Jean-Pierre Rampal, LeGoya
82. Hope for the Mourning--Mice on Stilts
83. Relayer—Yes
84. Secret Story—Pat Metheny 
85. Porcelain––Julia Fordham
86. Renaissance of The Celtic Harp—Alan Stivell
87. The Love Connection—Freddie Hubbard
88. Beyond the Veil--iNFiNiEN
89. 1984—Anthony Phillips
90. Something/Anything—Todd Rundgren
91. The Final Breath Before November––Edison's Children
92. Remain in Light—Talking Heads
93. 22--Wippy Bonstack
94. Vixit - Battlestations
95. Scheherazade and Other Stories—Renaissance
96. Cosmic Messenger—Jean-Luc Ponty
97. Space Shanty—Khan
98. Caravanserai—Santana
99. Henryk 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. Vespertine—Björk
103. Formica Blues - Mono
104. The Polite Force––Egg
105. Long Distance—Ivy
106. Fragile—Yes
107. Hamburger Concerto—Focus
108. New Gold Dream—Simple Minds
109. Part The Second—maudlin of The Well
110. Mirabilis—Mediæval Bæbes
111. Codename: Dustsucker—Bark Psychosis
112. Timeloss—Päatos
113. Picchio dal Pozzo––Picchio dal Pozzo
114. Songs of Robert Burns—Andy Stewart
115. Swept—Julia Fordham
116. Evaporate - Midas Fall
117. Discipline—King Crimson
118. Romantic Warrior—Return to Forever
119. Unsound—Funin
120. The Dark Third—Pure Reason Revolution
121. The Great Bright Horses - Ghosts of Jupiter
122. Jam on Revenge—Newcleus
123. LightDark—NoSound
124.  Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia—Ryuichi Sakamoto
125. The Following Morning—Eberhard Weber
126. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls—Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
127. Blade Runner soundtrack—The New American Orchestra (compositions by Vangelis)
128. Dark Side of The Moon—Pink Floyd
129. The Court of The Crimson King—King Crimson
130. Waltz for Koop - Koop
131. ~ – iamthemorning
132. Walking Up That Valley--Needlepoint
133. Demons and Wizards—Uriah Heep
134. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid soundtrack––Burt Bacharach
135. A Gift of Love—Deepak Chopra & Friends
136. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister--Magick Brother & Mystic Sister
137. Venusian Summer––Lenny White
138. Close to The Edge—Yes
139. Metamorphosis––Axon-Neuron
140. Off The Wall—Michael Jackson
141. Innervisions—Stevie Wonder
142. December—George Winston
143. New Wave––Soul Family Sensation
144. Vimana—Nova
145. Interstellar Original Soundtrack––Hans Zimmer
146. Equations of Meaning - Tony Patterson
147. The Pavillion of Dreams - Harold Budd
148. Nil novo sub sole––Nil
149. October—U2
150. Falling Deeper––Anathema

151. Playing The Piano––Ryuichi Sakamoto
152. High Land, Hard Rain—Aztec Camera
153. Ga'an––Ga'an
154. Discontinuance--Ghost Medicine
155. Gentle Giant--Gentle Giant
156. 
Phanerothyme--Motorpsycho
157. One Man Tells Another––Landberk
158. Initiation—Todd Rundgren
159. The Moon and The Melodies—Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
160. Second Life Syndrome - Riverside
161. Trance Tara––Jonathan Goldman
162. A Rare Moment of Insight—Brother Ape
163. Constellations—Karda Estra
164. Postaeolian Train Robbery––Cos
165. Interior City––The Gabriel Construct
166. Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps––Laurent Thibault
167. Ghost in the Machine—The Police
168. Moving Waves—Focus
169. The Weatherman Is Wrong--Gadadu
170. Foxtrot—Genesis
171. Even in The Quietest Moments—Supertramp
172Café Bleu––The Style Council
173. Omphalos—Kotebel
174. Music for 18 Musicians—Steve Reich
175. Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90—Johannes Brahms
176. Steve McQueen—Prefab Sprout
177. I Robot—Alan Parsons Project
178. Peaceful Evening––Steve & David Gordon
179. Déjà Vu—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
180. City of the Sun––Seven Impale
181. Green Asphalt--Green Asphalt
182. Ghosts Don't Dance with Shoes––Tree Tops
183. Luna - Faun
184. Per un amico—PFM
185. The extent of damage--Battlestations
186. Renaissance--Faun
187. West Indian Girl—West Indian Girl
188. Baduizm - Erykah Badu
189. Overgrown - James Blake
190. Particelle—Lagartija
191. In The Wee Small Hours—Frank Sinatra
192. Bonfires on The Heath - The Clientele
193. Princesses Nubiennes - Les Nubians
194
The Seeds of Love--Tears for Fears
195. Le quattro stagioni—Vivaldi
196. async--Ryuichi Sakamoto
197. OisaLün--Oiapok
198. Houses of The Holy—Led Zeppelin
199. Change We Must—Jon Anderson
200. Spirited Away OST - Joe Hisaishi

201. Blue Cello—David Darling
202. Mother Focus––Focus
203.  Le Horla—The Box
204. Strange Valleys--Starving Daughters
205. Quiet Euphoria--Amoeba Split
206. Pig Views--Regal Worm
207. Talsette di Marsantino––L'Estate di San Martino

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