Originally Posted by Josef K

This would probably be totally different if I even did it tomorrow, but whatever. Here's my rough top 100. I limited myself to one album per artist, but cheated a little bit by counting Before the Flood as my Dylan album and also having Music from Big Pink.

1. Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
2. The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
3. Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
5. Elvis Costello: Get Happy!!
6. The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
7. David Bowie: Station to Station
8. Belle and Sebastian: If You’re Feeling Sinister
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
10. Nick Cave: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
11. X: Los Angeles
12. Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West
13. The Who: Quadrophenia
14. Miles Davis: On the Corner
15. R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant
16. The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man
17. The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
18. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
19. The Replacements: Let it Be
20. The Jayhawks: Hollywood Town Hall
21. Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come
22. The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
23. Pixies: Doolittle
24. Galaxie 500: Today
25. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
26. Do Make Say Think: Other Truths
27. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
28. The Antlers: Hospice
29. Old 97’s: Too Far to Care
30. Mogwai: Young Team
31. Big Star: #1 Record
32. Gang of Four: Entertainment!
33. Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On
34. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
35. The Band: Music from Big Pink
36. Pulp: This is Hardcore
37. ****ed Up: David Comes to Life
38. Radiohead: OK Computer
39. Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
40. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
41. Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne
42. Billy Bragg: Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
43. The Band and Bob Dylan: Before the Flood
44. Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South
45. The Clash: London Calling
46. Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
47. Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
48. Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
49. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
50. The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms
51. The Jam: Setting Sons
52. Björk: Homogenic
53. The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee
54. Tindersticks: Tindersticks
55. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
56. British Sea Power: The Decline of British Sea Power
57. The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour
58. Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
59. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
60. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
61. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
62. Television: Marquee Moon
63. Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express
64. Ride: Nowhere
65. Talking Heads: Fear of Music
66. Built to Spill: Keep it Like a Secret
67. Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain
68. The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
69. Blur: 13
70. Massive Attack: Mezzanine
71. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
72. Suede: Dog Man Star
73. Suicide: Suicide
74. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
75. Dirty Three: Horse Stories
76. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
77. Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible
78. 16 Horsepower: Sackcloth ‘n’ Ashes
79. The House of Love: The House of Love
80. Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
81. The Pogues: If I Should Fall from Grace with God
82. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
83. Slowdive: Souvlaki
84. Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
85. Neu!: Neu!
86. The Divine Comedy: Promenade
87. The Go-Betweens: 16 Lovers Lane
88. Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
89. Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
90. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak
91. The Dismemberment Plan: Emergency and I
92. Eric B. and Rakim: Paid in Full
93. XTC: Black Sea
94. Superchunk: Here’s Where the Strings Come In
95. Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
96. The Kinks: Something Else
97. James Brown: Live at the Apollo
98. Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain
99. Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition
100. Mercury Rev: Deserter’s Songs