TL's Favorite Music Albums of All-Time.
'60s Rock
Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys (1966) Wouldn't it be nice
Bookends, Simon and Garfunkel (1968) A Hazy Shade of Winter, At the Zoo, etc.
The Beatles (White Album), The Beatles (1968) Why don't we do it in the road?
The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union, Beacon Street Union (1967) Have you heard of them? Probably not.
Ummagumma, Pink Floyd (1969) Studio and Live. Awesome!
Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones(1969) "Monkey Man" is so cool! The whole thing is cool!
Streetnoise, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity (1969) I love Julie's voice and her work.
Early '70s Rock
Selling England by the Pound, Genesis (1973) Rocking
Nursery Cryme, Genesis (1971) Another Gem!
A Question of Balance, The Moody Blues (1970) "Why do we never get an answer?"
Larks' Tungues in Aspic, King Crimson (1972) If you don't know this album...
Third, Soft Machine (1970) My Lord! Is it ground breaking or what?
Mid to Late '70s Rock
Wind and Wuthering, Genesis (1976) Lovely. One of the best on this list.
Going for the One, Yes (1977) "Going for the One" was one of the first songs to haunt me.
The Tubes, The Tubes (1975) "We're white punks on dope."
Late '70s Punk (or "New Wave")
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club, Bruce Woolley (1979) One of the BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME!
More Songs about Buildings and Food, The Talking Heads, (1978) Take me to the River.
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, DEVO (1978) Groundbreaking. "Satisfaction"
A Tonic for the Troops, The Boomtown Rats (1978) "She's so, 20th Century. She's so, 1970's. She's so..."
London Calling, The Clash (1979) "Train in Vain" set them up. It was a last minute addition. Damn Good.
80's New Wave
Catholic Boy, Jim Carroll (1980) Wrote the "Basketball Diaries" and Leo DiCaprio played him in the film. Poet extraordinere.
The Golden Age of Wireless, Thomas Dolby, (1982) Another BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME! Really!
The Fun Boy Three, The Funboy Three (1982) Ex-members of "The Specials" play it up and launch the career of Bananarama.
Architecture And Morality, Orchestral Menoeuvres in the Dark (1981) It is very Industrial. A gem by an often Saccharine band.
Crush, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark (1985) Smarmy favorite, yet "La Femme Accident" and "The Native Daughters of the Golden West" rise.
Vienna, Ultravox (1980) How could this not be included? Stands up very well.
Pop, Tones on Tail (1984) Yep!
Mummer, XTC (1983) "Wonderland" bites the world in beauty! Includes "Great Fire".
Oil and Gold, Shriekback (1985) If it had "Lined Up" I wouldn't need anything else.
Comedy
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. Classic Funny
Songs That Make Me Ill
The Long Run, The Eagles It Just Hurts Me.
Heartache Tonight, The Eagles Painfull Screetching repeating over and over.
Fly Like An Eagle, Steve Miller Gawdawfull! Nightmarish. Poetic Hell!
Shackin, Eddie Money "Her tits were shakin" Really? He said that?
All you Zombies, The Hooters (1985) "...they was the Isrealites..."
And MANY MORE!
