50 Favorite Albums

I've been wrestling with this for a while. I could keep going well past fifty (50), but I think that this is the right number. It forces me to edit myself and make tough choices but still gives a good idea of what my tastes and favorites are. I welcome your feedback, your ridicule, and your own tops choices that I might have missed.

1. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road
4. Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
5. Van Morrison - Moondance
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7. Radiohead - The Bends
8. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
10. U2 - Achtung Baby
11. Little Earthquakes
12. Paul Simon - Graceland
13. Radiohead - In Rainbows
14. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
15. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
16. R.E.M. - Life’s Rich Pageant
17. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
18. Randy Newman - Sail Away
19. R.E.M. - Out of Time
20. Nirvana - Nevermind
21. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
22. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
23. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
24. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
25. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
26. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn . . .
27. Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
28. Blur - The Great Escape
29. James - Laid
30. Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual
31. They Might Be Giants - Flood
32. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
33. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
34. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
35. Radiohead - Kid A
36. Damien Rice - O
37. Blur - Parklife
38. Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One Is One
39. The Promise Ring - Wood/Water
40. Green Day - American Idiot
41. Weezer - Pinkerton
42. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
43. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
44. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
45. Harry Connick, Jr. - Red Light Blue Light
46. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
47. Belly - King
48. Michael Penn - March
49. Gorillaz - Demon Days
50. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth