100 Albums To Listen To

It’s been a while since I wrote anything of significance in my blog, and in an attempt to ramp back up to regular updating I’ve decided I’m going to return to doing one of my favorite things – making lists! Easy enough for me to put together and will ease me back into writing posts on a regular basis.

So the first list was inspired by a friend of mine – I was asked for recommendations on electronic music which led me to starting to listen to a lot of old music I had on my computer as well as old albums I hadn’t listened to in a long time. I started thinking to myself “what albums would I consider the best out of my collection?” And after about two weeks of poring over different choices, I finally settled on what I consider a good list of 100 albums.

I aimed for 100, initially excluding compilation and live albums, however when I hit 80 and realized I didn’t have many more that immediately jumped out at me as belonging on the list, I included a few compilations and live albums that I enjoy. I didn’t include things like movie soundtracks, movie scores, or other compilations that involved multiple artists.

The main qualification for this list was that I had to enjoy the album from start to finish – i.e. if I stick the CD into my car I could enjoy it from start to finish without skipping any tracks. I’d say about 75 of the albums have either 0 or 1 song that I truly dislike enough to skip.

This isn’t the full extent of my music taste, as there are a lot of artists I enjoy that I’ll like four or five songs off an album but don’t like the rest of it – therefore they weren’t included. I’m also notorious for cherry picking my favorite one or two songs off an album and only listening to those over and over.

Anyway, enough talk – here’s my list of 100 albums to listen to. They’re sorted alphabetically by artist because I think it would be too hard for me to physically rank them from 1 to 100.

100 Albums To Listen To

3OH!3 – Want
3OH!3 – Streets of Gold
30 Seconds To Mars – Love Lust Faith + Dreams
A Day to Remember – Bad Vibrations
Amaranthe – Massive Addictive
And Then There Were None – Who Speaks For Planet Earth?
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arctic Monkeys – AM
Assemblage 23 – Storm
Assemblage 23 – Bruise
Bleachers – Strange Desire
Blink-182 – Enema of the State
Blink-182 – The Mark, Tom, & Travis Show
Blink-182 – Neighborhoods
Blink-182 – California
Bloc Party – Intimacy
Bowling For Soup – Drunk Enough to Dance
Breathe Carolina – Hello Fascination
Buckcherry – Confessions
Bullet for My Valentine – Fever
Bullet for My Valentine – Venom
Cobra Starship – Hot Mess
David Guetta – Nothing But The Beat
Disturbed – Ten Thousand Fists
Electric Six – Fire
Electric Six – Senor Smoke
Electric Six – Kill
Electric Six – Zodiac
Eve 6 – Horrorscope
Fall Out Boy – Infinity On High
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better
Green Day – American Idiot
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Heaven’s Basement – Filthy Empire
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Lady Gaga – Born This Way
Less Than Jake – Anthem
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Ludo – You’re Awful, I Love You
Metallica – The Black Album
Metallica – Load
Metallica – S&M
Mindless Self Indulgence – You’ll Rebel to Anything
Mindless Self Indulgence – If
Mindless Self Indulgence – How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Muse – Resistance
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Neuroticfish – A Greater Good
Nothing More – Nothing More
Orgy – Vapor Transmission
Papa Roach – Infest
Papa Roach – The Paramour Sessions
Panic! at the Disco – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
Rammstein – Mutter
Reggie and the Full Effect – Songs Not to Get Married To
Rise Against – Appeal To Reason
Rise Against – Endgame
Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe
Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Scooter – Push the Beat for this Jam
Scooter – Jumping All Over the World
Shinedown – Amaryllis
She Wants Revenge – She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge – This Is Forever
Spineshank – The Height of Callousness
Spineshank – Self-Destructive Pattern
Stabbing Westward – Darkest Days
System of a Down – Toxicity
System of a Down – Mezmerize
The Bloodhound Gang – Hooray for Boobies!
The Bloodhound Gang – Hard-Off
The Crystal Method – Vegas
The Faint – Danse Macabre
The Faint – Wet From Birth
The Faint – Doom Abuse
The Glitch Mob – Drink The Sea
The Killers – Hot Fuss
The Killers – Sam’s Town
The Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre
The Offspring – Americana
The Offspring – Conspiracy of One
The Offspring – Splinter
The Offspring – Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
The Presidents of the United States of America – Love Everybody
The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy – The Day Is My Enemy
Tiesto – Just Be
Tool – Ænima
Tool – Lateralus
Trivium – Vengeance Falls
Twenty One Pilots – Vessel
Velvet Revolver – Contraband
Volbeat – Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
Walk The Moon – Talking Is Hard

                               

And there you go. If you enjoy music recommendations, there’s a whole bunch of them. I’ll also be doing a few more music related blog posts in the next few days. Aaaaaand that’s it. Kbye.