In the third edition of his "All-Time Top 1000 Albums" book, author Colin Larkin asserts that "it has been compiled from more than 200,000 votes collected by Internet, fax and post from as wide a range of people as possible: journalists who write about music every week, music critics who know the score, and above all, the fans who listen because they love it". PastArchives knows of nobody whose vote is among those 200,000, and so in the spirit of independence and impatience at having to sit around until the next edition for Larkin to confirm that "Revolver" is still the greatest album of all time, we propose to poll our constituents. What we'd like is for you to send us a list of your all-time favourite albums, in order of merit (that bit's imperative!), up to a maximum of a top 100. Please send your contributions and cogitations to PastArchives@hotmail.com
Thanks to the following for their contributions:
Michael McCormack, top 40, added 4 March 2001
Joshua Raisen, top 100, added 15 July 2001
TGRAHA, top 100, added 15 September 2001
Dermot Cronin, top 8, added 9 December 2001
Geir Hongrø, top 100, added 12 January 2002
Douglas King, top 25, added 26 January 2002
Paul Green, top 50, added 3 March 2002
PastArchives, top 100, added 10 March 2002, revised 2 November 2003
Harm Grünhagen, top 25, added 23 July 2002
Tony Rigby, top 10, added 11 August 2002
Christian Hansen, top 40, added 17 August 2002
David Whitaker, top 100, added 12 October 2002
Paul Imison, top 21, added 26 April 2003
Brendan Foster, top 50, added 18 October 2003
Stephen Parker, top 100, added 2 November 2003
Edd S. Hurt, top 40, added 10 July 2004
Dave Bain, top 25, added 10 July 2004
1 | BEATLES Abbey Road |
2 | BEATLES Revolver |
3 | BEATLES The Beatles |
4 | Automatic For The People |
5 | DYLAN Blood On The Tracks |
6 | Nevermind |
7 | FLOYD Dark Side Of The Moon |
8 | Sign 'O' The Times |
9 | CLASH London Calling |
| BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
| BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds | |
| VELVET UNDERGROUND The Velvet Underground | |
| PISTOLS Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols | |
| DYLAN Highway 61 Revisited | |
| Murmur | |
| OK Computer | |
| Slanted And Enchanted | |
| 1977 | |
| VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO The Velvet Underground & Nico | |
| Close To The Edge | |
| YOUNG On The Beach | |
| STONE ROSES The Stone Roses | |
| Another Green World | |
| SPRINGSTEEN Born In The U.S.A. | |
| CLASH The Clash | |
| Parachutes | |
| Forever Changes | |
| ROLLING STONES Exile On Main St | |
| ATTACK Blue Lines | |
| Skylarking | |
| MUSIC Stranded | |
| JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Electric Ladyland | |
| BEATLES Rubber Soul | |
| The Bends | |
| DYLAN Blonde On Blonde | |
| STAR Third/Sister Lovers | |
| YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Rust Never Sleeps | |
| Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | |
| REED Berlin | |
| ZOMBIES Odyssey & Oracle | |
| Doolittle | |
| YOUNG Tonight's The Night | |
| Hotel California | |
| Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | |
| ROLLING STONES Let It Bleed | |
| Dummy | |
| KING Tapestry | |
| AMOS Little Earthquakes | |
| The Sophtware Slump | |
| Pink Flag | |
| ROLLING STONES Beggars Banquet | |
| BOWIE Station To Station | |
| STREETS Original Pirate Material | |
| WEDDING PRESENT Bizarro | |
| STREET PREACHERS The Holy Bible | |
| A Trick Of The Tail | |
| MORRISON Astral Weeks | |
| WHO Who's Next | |
| MAC Rumours | |
| ROLLING STONES Sticky Fingers | |
| BEATLES Please Please Me | |
| BYRDS The Notorious Byrd Brothers | |
| STOOGES Funhouse | |
| BOWIE The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars | |
| PHAIR Exile In Guyville | |
| HEAD The Magical World Of The Strands | |
| Marquee Moon | |
| Selling England By The Pound | |
| Moon Safari | |
| Parklife | |
| BEATLES A Hard Day's Night | |
| YOUTH Sister | |
| CALE Fragments Of A Rainy Season | |
| Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space | |
| Wowee Zowee | |
| Out Of Time | |
| DYLAN Bringing It All Back Home | |
| In Utero | |
| Reckoning | |
| JOHN Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy | |
| FLOYD Animals | |
| The Joshua Tree | |
| GRAM PARSONS Grievous Angel | |
| SMITHS The Queen Is Dead | |
| SMITH Horses | |
| JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | |
| BLOODY VALENTINE Loveless | |
| & GARFUNKEL Bridge Over Troubled Water | |
| FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS The Gilded Palace Of Sin | |
| HOUSE Woodface | |
| & GARFUNKEL Bookends | |
| McCARTNEY & WINGS Band On The Run | |
| DRAKE Bryter Layter | |
| YOUNG Harvest | |
| VELVET UNDERGROUND White Light/White Heat | |
| FAGEN The Nightfly | |
| BEACH BOYS Sunflower | |
| The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway | |
| MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill | |
| GARDEN Affirmation |