In December 2022, I put a call out to my community for your top 3 albums of all time. The ones you would choose if you could only listen to 3 albums for the rest of your life. Genre didn't matter, length didn't matter (though, I'm realizing now that there are some LONG albums on my list that will take me a few days to get through).. All I wanted were your favourite albums so I could listen, over the course of a year, and get to know you all.
I also want to listen so that I can become a better musician.
In the next 12 months, I will be listening to 200 albums. All of these albums come from you all, from your suggestions and top threes (though some of you had a lot more than 3 albums to share!). If you sent me a greatest hits, I chose an album by that band I had never listened to start to finish. I want to hear the works as the artists intended them. As a body of work.
This list is a representation of my community. I'm so excited to get to listening and share my journey through these works of art with you.
1. Sleeping at last Atlas I
2. Billie Eilish When we all fall asleep where do we go
3. Live Throwing Copper
4. Audioslave (self titled)
5. Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight
6. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
7. Led Zeppelin IV
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood
9. Taylor Swift Folklore
10. Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
11. Noah Kahan Stick Season
12. Green Day Dookie
13. Rihanna ANTI
14. Stars In Our Bedroom After The War
15. Jen Grant Compostella
16. Dan Mangan Nice Nice Very Nice
17. Devandra Barnhart Ma
18. Attack In Black Marriage
19. Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
20. Vance Joy Nation of Two
21. The Arkells Campfire Chords
22. The Glorious Suns Young Beauties and Fools
23. Sleeping at last Atlas II
24. Tool Lateralus
25. Tom Waits Rain Dogs
26. The Beatles White Album
27. Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
28. Enya Watermark
29. Art of Noise In Visible Silence
30. Stevie Wonder Innervisions
31. Kurt Elling Night Moves
32. Joel Plaskett Three
33. Boxer The Horse Would You Please
34. Carole King Tapestry
35. Anne Murray Lovesongs
36. Phish Rift
37. The Clash London Calling
38. Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall
39. The Chicks Wide Open Spaces
40. Harry Styles Harry's House
41. Niall Horan Flicker
42. Taylor Swift Midnights
43. Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic
44. Beyonce Renaissance
45. Pink Floyd Animals
46. Phish A Picture of Nectar
47. Florence & the Machine Dance Fever
48. Radiohead Okay Computer
49. Ane Brun It All Starts With One
50. Bjork Homogenic
51. Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
52. Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness
53. Tom Petty Damn the Torpedoes
54. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
55. Sublime 40 oz to Freedom
56. Weezer The Blue Album
57. Black Sabbath Paranoid
58. The Tragically Hip Up To Here
59. The Beatles Let It Be
60. Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run
61. Lovejoy Pebble Brain
62. Wilbur Scoot Your City Gave Me Asthma
63. Will Wood The Normal Album
64. The Beatles Abbey Road
65. The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
66. Lil Naz Illmatic
67. Eloise This Thing Called Living
68. Camille Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals
69. Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
70. Radiohead In Rainbows
71. Phish Billy Breathes
72. Etta James At Last
73. Wintersleep Welcome to the Night Sky
74. Lhasa de Sela The Living Road
75. Marie Jo Therio La Maline
76. Kate & Anna McGarrigle Entre la jeunesse et la sagesse
77. Dermot Kennedy Without Fear
78. The Who Quadrophenia
79. CCR Green River
80. R.E.M. Out of Time
81. First Aid Kit Stay Gold
82. Dave Matthews Band Busted Stuff
83. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
84. Garth Brooks Sevens
85. Matchbox 20 Yourself or Someone Like You
86. Dr Dre The Chronic
87. 30 Seconds To Mars This Is War
88. Led Zeppelin II
89. Supertramp Crime of the Century
90. Michael Jackson Thriller
91. John Mellencamp Scarecrow
92. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
93. Stevie Ray Vaughan Double Trouble
94. Lee Ann Womack I Hope You Dance
95. Cher Half Breed
96. Il Divo The Promise
97. Pearl Jam Vitalogy
98. Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusions
99. Miles Davis Kind of Blue
100. Feist Metals
101. Beastie Boys License to Ill
102. Nirvana Nevermind
103. Foo Fighters The Color and The Shape
104. The Tragically Hip Fully Completely
105. Tool 10,000 Days
106. Idles Joy As An Act of Resistance
107. System Of A Down Toxicity
108. Cryptopsy None So Vile
109. Deftones White Pony
110. Evanescence My Immortal
111. City and Colour Sometimes
112. Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
113. Vianney N'attendons pas
114. Radiohead The Bends
115. Louise Attaque A plus tard crocodile
116. alt-J An Awesome Wave
117. The Donnas Spend The Night
118. Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
119. Sarah Jane Scouten The Caps
120. Ronald Bourgeois Le long retour
121. Bon Iver I, I
122. Cliro Sling
123. Idles Crawler
124. PUP The Dream is Over
125. Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
126. Billy Strings Home
127. Art Garfunkle Angel Clare
128. Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman
129. Steve Forbert Jackrabbit Skim
130. Bruno Mars 24K Magic
131. Kings of Leon Only By The Night
132. Dallas Green Little Hell
133. Gwen Stefani Love Angel Music Baby
134. Brigitte Bardot (self titled)
135. Jet Get Born
136. Jay Z The Blueprint III
137. Maren Morris Girl
138. Jenny Berkel These Are The Sounds Left From Leaving
139. Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs
140. Lianne La Havas (self titled)
141. Fourth Moon Ellipsis
142. Sanseverino Papillon
143. Grace Vanderwall Just The Beginning
144. Daniel Belavoine De vous a elle en passant par moi
145. I Mother Earth Scenery Fish
146. Coldplay Viva La Vida
147. Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magic
148. The Dirty Heads Any Port In A Storm
149. Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
150. The Tragically Hip Road Apples
151. Pearl Jam Ten
152. Soundgarden Ultramega OK
153. Camila Cabello Camila
154. The Lumineers Cleopatra
155. The Head And The Heart Let's Be Still
156. Bruce Peninsula A Mountain is a Mouth
157. Trivium Ascendancy
158. Yes Fragile
159. Avenge Sevenfold City vivo
160. Laurent Voulzy La septième vague
161. Téléphone Au Cœur de la Nuit
162. Angèle Brol
163. John Maylander Look Closer
164. The Eagles Desperado
165. Blue Rodeo Five Days In July
166. The Cars (self titled)
167. Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
168. Olivia Rodrigo Sour
169. Alex Isley & Jack Dine Marigold
170. Asake Mr Money with the Vibe
171. Angel Olsen Big Time
172. Sault Air
173. Silvana Estrada Marchita
174. The Head And The Heart (self titled)
175. Steve Lacey Gemini Rights
176. Makaya McCraven In These Times
177. Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen
178. Amber Mark Three Dimensions Deep
179. Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
180. Paul Simon Graceland
181. The Chicks Fly
182. The Eagles Hotel California
183. Dominic Fike What Could Possibly Go Wrong
184. Remi Wolf Juno
185. Ostrea Lake Don't Sway Above Me
186. Mac Miller Circles
187. Free Nationals (self titled)
188. Jon Bellion Glory Sound Prep
189. D'Angelo Brown Sugar
190. Anberlin Vitalogy
191. Coldplay Death and All of His Friends
192. M83 Hurry up, We're Dreaming
193. Van Morrison Moondance
194. Neil Young Harvest
195. Queen Sheer Heart Attack
196. Patti Smith Horses
197. Ramones (self titled)
198. Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell
199. Billy Joel The Stranger
200. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced