Inspired by a post on the Steve Hoffman message board, where one of the members was listening to the Rolling Stone Magazine Top 500 Albums of All Time in descending order. I decided I liked that idea but didn’t want to do 500 albums, I know that Mojo Magazine is pretty well respected and in 1995 they released a list of the Top 100 Albums of All Time. A lot of these albums I’ve heard before, Pet Sounds, Sgt. Peppers, etc. But what I’ve never done is write about them before, take notes while listening to them, write about what I hear, my reactions to the songs. Sure I’ve written a paper about why The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” is the greatest album of all time, but I wasn’t really writing my reactions to it at the time. So what I’m going to do is, even with the start of school coming up fast, I’m going to listen to this list in descending order and write about it and post it here. As someone on the forum commented a male version of Julie and Julia (maybe Meryl Streep can play play my mom?!). My goal is to listen to them a few times over, I very rarely just sit and listen to albums so this will be quite the exercise in not being fidgety for me. I’m looking forward to listening to these I don’t know some of them and others I’ve dismissed for years. Some I haven’t listened to since I was a teenager and some are always laying around my apartment. Steely Dan is going to be hard for me as I can’t stand them, but we’ll see, I’ll try to maintain an open mind. So these are the first ten albums I’ll be listening to:
91. The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
92. Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis
93. Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star
94. The Smiths – The Smiths
95. Muddy Waters – Hard Again
96. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
97. The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
98. Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power
99. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin(4)
100. Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
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