Bondo, our tastes in music are even further apart than our taste in movies. You have many I'm unfamiliar with, but most of the ones I know I do not like at all. Our points of crossover: Spice Girls and Michael Jackson (though I have a hard time listening to him now). I like the few Lily Allen songs I've heard.
Apparently the thread where I posted my top 100 got deleted, but here's the list I posted on Facebook a couple years ago, along with the preamble:
I love making lists. It's a very narcissistic activity ("let's celebrate my awesome taste!") and that's probably WHY I love it, but so be it. These are my top 100 albums. That is, the albums I've listened to over and over and over again, that I know really well and can listen to almost any time and enjoy. I didn't employ any rules about limiting # per artist or excluding "best of" packages (although I did resist the temptation to include the entire Nick Drake box set as a single entry because that felt like cheating).
Probably it would have been more appropriate to post this on Throwback Thursday. There are no 21st century albums on this list, it's all stuff I first discovered between the ages of about 15 to 30. Which is not to say there isn't newer music I love (there is, thanks for asking)... it's just that those were the years when I had a very obsessive relationship with music. I don't listen to albums over and over anymore, and I'm okay with that, but it's less conducive to making top 100 lists.
No rankings here, just alphabetical order by album title:
Prince - 1999
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Pink Floyd - Animals
Phil Spector - Back to Mono
The Beatles - The Beatles
Prefab Sprout - The Best of Prefab Sprout: A Life of Surprises
Cub - Betti-Cola
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Lois - Butterfly Kiss
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Magnetic Fields - The Charm of the Highway Strip
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Joy Division - Closer
The Clash - Combat Rock
Various Artists - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Big Country - The Crossing
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
China Crisis - Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms
Kraftwerk - Electric Café
George Michael - Faith
The Sea and Cake - The Fawn
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
James Brown - Foundations of Funk – A Brand New Bag: 1964–1969
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
The Beach Boys - Friends
Funkadelic - Funkadelic
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome
Paul Simon - Graceland
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Hole
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Poolside - Indyglow
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1
The Who - Live at Leeds
Various Artists - The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Sam Cooke - The Man and His Music
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Family Fodder - Monkey Banana Kitchen
Van Morrisson - Moondance
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Red House Painters - Ocean Beach
U2 - October
Barbara Manning - One Perfect Green Blanket
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
Papas Fritas - Papas Fritas
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
Bjork - Post
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Grace Jones - Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
Pulsars - Pulsars
Prince - Purple Rain
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
The Rentals - Return of the Rentals
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Sea and Cake - The Sea and Cake
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2
Prince - Sign o the Times
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
New Order - Substance
Built to Spill - There’s Nothing Wrong with Love
Tangerine Dream - Thief
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Eurythmics - Touch
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Steel Pulse - True Democracy
Erasure - The Two Ring Circus
Built to Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
The Art of Noise - Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise?
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On