TL;DR
My top 50 records of all time, with a Spotify playlist.
Every couple of years, I like to compile a list of my 50 all-time favorite records. These tend to be the records that I listen to the most or that have had the greatest impact on me. The order doesn’t matter, as it’s hard to determine which ones are my favorite, favorite (if you know what I mean ;P)
Here is a link to the Spotify Playlist:
My Top 50 All-Time Favorite Records
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
good kid m.a.a.d city - Kendrick Lamar
Pixies - Dolittle
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Graceland - Paul Simon
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Yuck - Yuck
Sound of Silver - LCD Sound System
Remain in the Light - Talking Heads
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson
Daft Punk - Homework
The Social Network OST - Trent Reznor
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings
Let it Be - The Replacements
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2 - Mac DeMarco
Emeralds - Does It Look I’m Here
Bob Iver - Bon Iver
In Rainbows - Radiohead
D’Angelo - Black Messiah
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
Silence Yourself - Savages
Hamilton OST
The Strokes - Is This It
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Lush - Snail Mail
Run The Jewels 2 - Run The Jewels
Spacegirl and Other Favorites - Brian Jonestown Massacre
Apollo - Brian Eno
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
Say Anything - Say Anything
Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen
A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings - Beach Slang
Deadman OST - Neil Young
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
XX - Rage Against The Machine
Joe Karlsson
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