25 Favorite Albums. These are works that figure as complete artistic statements or collections of songs that I can listen to from beginning to end. The first five are my Top 5. Period. The rest are desert island discs that eternally inhabit my consciousness.
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Prince & The Revolution - Parade
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Prince - Sign "O" The Times
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Steely Dan - Aja
ABC - How To Be A... Zillionaire!
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Orson - Bright Idea
Bee Gees - Main Course
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Queen - The Game
Supergrass - In It For The Money
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Tom Waits - Raindogs
David Bowie - ✭
blur - Parklife
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Favorite releases of the new century:
Duran Duran - Paper Gods
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Prince - Art Official Age
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
blur - The Magic Whip
Liam Gallagher - Why Me? Why Not.
Harry Styles - Harry's House