My All-Time Top 5 Albums (for whoever may actually care)

While camping this weekend, we tried to sing through the entire Ziggy Stardust album. I love that album, there are very few out there that top it for me. Anyway, it got us talking about our all-time top albums, which is something I’ve thought about quite a lot, cause I’m a list-taker and that’s a particularly fun list to go through with people. My tastes shift a bit and I discover awesome music all the time, but there are a few things that never change. I occasionally have a hard time committing to all 5 — maybe cause I don’t like to close the door on the other choices — but I think I can safely say my all-time top 5 albums, in no particular order are:

David Bowie — The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles — Abbey Road
Prince — Purple Rain
Radiohead — The Bends

Very close runners-up would be Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot; Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols; Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures; The Pixies’ Doolittle; and Modest Mouse’s Good News for People who Like Bad News. And if I were making a top 10, I think I’d feel conflicted if I didn’t add the Clash’s London Calling and The Grateful Dead’s American Beauty, both epic and amazing albums. I also feel compelled to mention The Wall — but really, although it is a great piece of work, I like Dark Side much better.