Author: Andrew Huey

Best albums of all time

Zagat has a music survey running right now. Just for yuks, here are my selections for some of the best albums of all time:

Selected from their list:

  • AC/DC, Back in Black
  • Beatles, The, The Beatles (White Album)
  • Devo, Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo!
  • DiFranco, Ani, Living in Clip
  • Led Zeppelin, IV
  • New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
  • Queens of Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf
  • R.E.M., Murmur
  • Replacements, The, Let it Be
  • Roxy Music, Avalon
  • Rundgren, Todd, Something/Anything?
  • Rush, Moving Pictures
  • They Might Be Giants, Flood
  • U2, War
  • Uncle Tupelo, No Depression

My write-ins:

  • Ani DiFranco, Dilate
  • The Smiths, The Smiths
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold As Love
  • Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey

Not a complete list of my favorite albums, by any means, but a good start, based on the stuff they had to choose from, and a few things that popped into my head at the time.

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