This is not an objective, definitive list... Rather, this is a list of my fifty personal favorites. A lot of inclusions and high rankings relate to the effect they had on me when I first heard them. I'm stating this now before I start getting incredulous emails about how I put Sebadoh "Bakesale" or Foo Fighters "The Colour & the Shape" in my Top 10.

This list will probably change with time. You know me, I get cised.

If you can actually stand doing this type of thing, post yours over at the chaotically over-trafficked message board. You don't have to do 50, or even 10. But yeah, you do have to do at least 5. I mean, come on.

  1. Nirvana - In Utero
  2. Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
  3. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
  4. Ween - The Mollusk
  5. Foo Fighters - The Colour & the Shape
  6. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
  7. Flop - Whenever You're Ready
  8. Weezer - Pinkerton
  9. Sebadoh - Bakesale
  10. Green Day - Insomniac
  11. Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
  12. Ween - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
  13. Beatles - The White Album
  14. Doors - Best of the Doors
  15. Monkees - Greatest Hits
  16. Soundtrack - Say Anything
  17. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  18. The Police - Every Breath You Take: The Singles
  19. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
  20. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
  21. Pearl Jam - Vs.
  22. Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
  23. Radiohead - OK Computer
  24. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
  25. Beatles - Abbey Road
  26. Beck - Odelay
  27. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
  28. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
  29. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
  30. Soundtrack - Singles
  31. Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
  32. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
  33. Rival Schools - United by Fate
  34. Sugar - Copper Blue
  35. Nirvana - Nevermind
  36. Beatles - 1
  37. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
  38. Various - No Alternative
  39. Sunny Day Real Estate - Pink Album
  40. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
  41. U2 - Achtung Baby
  42. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
  43. Ween - Chocolate & Cheese
  44. Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
  45. R.E.M. - Eponymous
  46. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
  47. Living Colour - Time's Up
  48. Def Leppard - Vault (Greatest Hits)
  49. Duran Duran - Greatest Hits
  50. Bendigera - Bendigera EP