my faves - work in progress - subject to change

last updated: March 10, 2006

rock albums

1. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
3. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
4. Slint - Spiderland
5. Afghan Whigs - 1965
6. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
7. Black Flag - Damaged
8. Jeff Buckley - Grace
9. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

hip-hop albums

1. Mobb Deep - Infamous
2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
4. Nas - Illmatic
5. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
6. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
7. Black Star - Black Star
8. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
9. Outkast - Aquemini

jazz albums

1. Dexter Gordon - Go
2. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colosus
3. Sun Ra - Languidity
4. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
5. Miles Davis - Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
6. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
7. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
8. Art Blakey - Moanin’
9. Charlie Parker - Bird: Complete on Verve