100 Albums To Provide Solace In Isolation, 2009

Blogger seems to make hard-coding a cut a chore, so this one is going to be unnecessarily long and more of interest to me than anyone else. SORRY!

So yesterday's movie list was for the desert island of the soul. Today's music list supposes that I am lost on one of 2001's spaceships, spinning meaninglessly through the vacuum. But I don't want to listen to Thus Spake Zarathustra over and over again! Luckily my faithful pal, the ship's computer HAL, has allowed me to load up an iPod with 100 of my favorite albums to bring along. Thanks, HAL! That ought to make the time I spend running around in circles so much more interesting!

Here's the list:

1. Akron/Family - Love Is Simple (2007)
2. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (2005)
3. Animal Collective - Feels (2005)
4. Aretha Franklin - I Have Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) (1967)
5. The Band - The Band (1969)
6. Bartók: The String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet recording, 1989)
7. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
8. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)
9. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
10. Big Star - Third-Sister Lovers (1975)
11. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1971)
12. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
13. Boris - Akuma No Uta (2003)
14. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (1973)
15. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (1979)
16. Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie (1989)
17. Can - Tago Mago (1971)
18. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963)
19. Charlie Rich - Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich (1997)
20. The Clean - Anthology (2002)
21. The Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People (1984)
22. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willie and the Poor Boys (1969)
23. The Decemberists - Picaresque (2005)
24. Deerhoof - Milk Man (2004)
25. Dirty Three - Horse Stories (1996)
26. Duke Ellington - Money Jungle (1962)
27. Earth - Earth 2 (1993)
28. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces (1979)
29. Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief (1969)
30. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
31. The Feelies - The Good Earth (1986)
32. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (2004)
33. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (1995)
34. The Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
35. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)
36. Gang Of Four - Entertainment! & Yellow EP (1979)
37. George Jones - The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country (2001)
38. Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between the Earth & My Home (1995)
39. The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood (1982)
40. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)
41. Hank Williams - Original Singles Collection (1992)
42. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (1984)
43. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (1969)
44. James Brown - Love, Power, Peace: Live At The Olympia, Paris 1971 (1992)
45. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
46. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1961)
47. Johnny Cash - Columbia Records 1958-1986 (1987)
48. K. McCarty - Dead Dog's Eyeball: The Songs of Daniel Johnston (1995)
49. The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
50. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Arkology (1997)
51. Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar (1969)
52. Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real (1960)
53. Love - Forever Changes (1969)
54. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
55. Meat Puppets - II (1984)
56. The Mekons - Rock N' Roll (1989)
57. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (1969)
58. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
59. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls And Marches EP (1981)
60. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)
61. The Moles - Instinct (1994)
62. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
63. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
64. Neu! - Neu! (1972)
65. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)
66. New Pornographers - Electric Version (2003)
67. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
68. Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
69. Os Mutantes - Mutantes (1969)
70. Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (1994)
71. Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower (1985)
72. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
73. The Ramones - Rocket To Russia (1977)
74. REM - Life's Rich Pageant (1986)
75. The Replacements - Let It Be (1984)
76. Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights (1982)
77. Richard Davies - Telegraph (1998)
78. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (1972)
79. Scott Walker - The Drift (2006)
80. The Silver Jews - Bright Flight (2001)
81. Slayer - Reign In Blood (1986)
82. Sleep - Dopesmoker (2003)
83. Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On (1971)
84. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
85. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995)
86. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians (ECM recording from 1978, please)
87. The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
88. Sun Ra - The Singles (1996)
89. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978)
90. Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
91. Terry Riley - In C (I'll take the original 1968 State University Center of Creative and Performing Arts version)
92. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (1957)
93. Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992)
94. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (1993)
95. VA - The Harder They Come Soundtrack (1972)
96. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
97. The Who - Sell Out (1967)
98. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger (1975)
99. Wire - Chairs Missing (1978)
100. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (1997)

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Now here's where it gets long. Through the goodness of his heart, HAL has allowed me to expand to 300 albums. I tried to modify my blogger template to allow expandable entries so that this would be behind a cut, but Blogger, in its infinite wisdom, has made this modification difficult. So take your time! Or do the smart thing and skip this!

o Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
o Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
o Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity
o Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
o Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
o Animal Collective - Feels
o Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
o Aretha Franklin - I Have Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
o Armand Schaubroeck Steals - Ratfucker
o Bad Brains - s/t
o Band - Music From Big Pink
o Band - The Band
o Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches (Fritz Reiner & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
o Bartók: The String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet)
o Bats - At The National Grid
o Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
o Beach Boys - Smile (Vigatone)
o Beach Boys - Sunflower/Surf's Up
o Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
o Beatles - Revolver
o Bedhead - Beheaded
o Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
o Big Star - #1 Record
o Big Star - Radio City
o Big Star - Third-Sister Lovers
o Bill Evans Trio - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
o Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
o Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
o Black Sabbath - Paranoid
o Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
o Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
o Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
o Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
o Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
o Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
o Bob Wills - The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
o Boris - Akuma No Uta
o Boris - Pink
o Boris - Smile
o Brian Eno - Discreet Music
o Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
o Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
o Brian Wilson - Smile
o Buddy Holly - Original Master Tapes
o Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
o Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
o Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
o Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
o Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
o Camper Van Beethoven – Camper Van Beethoven (The Third Album)
o Can - Ege Bamyasi
o Can - Future Days
o Can - Tago Mago
o Captain Beefheart - Doc At The Radar Station
o Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
o Cardinal - Cardinal
o Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
o Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
o Charlie Rich - Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich
o Chills - Submarine Bells
o Clash - London Calling
o Clash - The Clash (UK)
o Clean - Anthology
o Clem Snide - Your Favorite Music
o cLOUDDEAD - ten
o Comets on Fire - Avatar
o Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
o Congos - Heart of the Congos
o Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People
o Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
o Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willie and the Poor Boys
o Culture - Two Sevens Clash
o Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
o Danielson - Ships
o David Bowie - Station To Station
o David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
o Decemberists - Her Majesty
o Decemberists - Picaresque
o Deerhoof - Milk Man
o Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
o Dinosaur Jr - Bug
o Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
o Dirty Three - Horse Stories
o DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
o Django Reinhardt - Verve Jazz Masters 38
o Dock Boggs - His Folkways Years
o Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
o Earth - Earth 2
o Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
o Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Tunes
o Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
o Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
o Eric Matthews - It's Heavy In Here
o Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
o Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
o Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
o Faust IV
o Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
o Feelies - The Good Earth
o Feelies - Time For A Witness
o Fela Kuti - Zombie
o Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
o Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
o Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
o Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
o Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
o Flipper - Generic
o Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
o Fucked Up - Hidden World
o Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
o Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
o Galaxie 500 - On Fire
o Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
o Gang Of Four - Entertainment! & Yellow EP
o Gene Clark - White Light
o George Jones - Cup of Loneliness: The Mercury Years
o George Jones - The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country
o Geraldine Fibbers - Butch
o Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between the Earth & My Home
o Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
o Go-Betweens - Bright Yellow Bright Orange
o Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express
o Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
o Gram Parsons - G.P. / Grievous Angel
o Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
o Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
o Hank Williams - Original Singles Collection
o Howlin Wolf - Chess Box
o Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
o Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
o Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
o Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
o Isis - Oceanic
o James Brown - Love, Power, Peace: Live At The Olympia, Paris 1971
o Jandek - Blue Corpse
o Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
o Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
o Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
o Joanna Newsom - Ys.
o John Cage & David Tudor - Indeterminacy
o John Cale - Helen of Troy
o John Cale - Paris 1919
o John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
o John Coltrane - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
o John Coltrane - Live At Birdland
o John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
o John Fahey - The Legend of Blind Joe Death
o Johnny Cash - Columbia Records 1958-1986
o K. McCarty - Dead Dog's Eyeball
o King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
o Kinks - Arthur
o Kinks - Something Else
o Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
o Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
o Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
o Laurie Anderson - Big Science
o LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
o Lee "Scratch" Perry - Arkology
o Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar
o Little Willie John - Fever: The Best of Little Willie John
o Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
o Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real
o Louvin Brothers - When I Stop Dreaming: Best Of The Louvin Brothers
o Love - Da Capo
o Love - Forever Changes
o Macha - See It Another Way
o Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
o Magnetic Fields - i
o Mastodon - Leviathan
o Meat Puppets - II
o Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
o Mekons - Fear & Whiskey
o Mekons - OOOH!
o Mekons - Rock N' Roll
o Mekons - The Edge of the World
o Melvins - Bullhead
o Merle Haggard - Swinging Doors and The Bottle Let Me Down
o MIA - Kala
o Mike Watt - Contemplating the Engine Room
o Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
o Miles Davis - Live At The Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About That Time
o Miles Davis - On the Corner
o Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson
o Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under The Influence of Heat
o Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
o Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires?
o Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls And Marches
o Mission of Burma - Vs.
o Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
o Moles - Instinct
o My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
o My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
o Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Nancy and Lee
o Neil Young - Dead Man
o Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
o Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
o Neil Young - Time Fades Away
o Neil Young - Zuma
o Neu! - Neu!
o Neu! 2
o Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
o New Pornographers - Electric Version
o Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
o Nick Drake - Pink Moon
o Nina Nastasia - the Blackened Air
o Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
o Oneida - Secret Wars
o Only Ones - The Only Ones
o Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
o Os Mutantes - Mutantes
o Palace Brothers - Days In The Wake
o Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
o Patti Smith - Horses
o Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
o Pavement - Wowee Zowee
o Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
o Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
o Peter Laughner - Take The Guitar Player For A Ride
o Pixies - Doolittle
o Pixies - Surfer Rosa
o Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
o Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
o Ramones - Rocket To Russia
o Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music
o Red House Painters (I)
o REM - Life's Rich Pagaent
o REM - Murmur
o Replacements - Let It Be
o Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
o Replacements - Tim
o Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
o Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
o Richard Buckner - Devotion & Doubt
o Richard Buckner - Since
o Richard Davies - Barbarians
o Richard Davies - Telegraph
o Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
o Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh
o Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before: The Anthology
o Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
o Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
o Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
o Roxy Music - Country Life
o Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
o Scott Walker - The Drift
o Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
o Sigur Ros - ()
o Silver Jews - American Water
o Silver Jews - Bright Flight
o Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
o Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
o Slayer - Reign In Blood
o Sleep - Dopesmoker
o Slits - Cut
o Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
o Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
o Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!!
o Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
o Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
o Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of
o Staple Singers - Best of the Staple Singers (Stax)
o Stereolab - Emporer Tomato Ketchup
o Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
o Stooges - Fun House
o Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring (Gergiev/Kirov Orchestra)
o Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
o Suicide - Suicide
o Sun Ra - The Singles Collection
o Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
o Talking Heads - Remain In Lights
o Television - Live At The Old Waldorf
o Television - Marquee Moon
o Terry Riley - In C
o The Dexateens - Red Dust Rising
o Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
o Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio
o Tom Waits - Bone Machine
o Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
o Tom Ze - Estudando o Samba
o Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
o Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
o Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
o VA - The Harder They Come Soundtrack
o Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
o Velvet Underground - Loaded
o Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
o Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
o Vic Chesnutt - About To Choke
o Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
o Who - Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy
o Who - Sell Out
o Wilco - A Ghost is Born
o Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
o Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
o Wire - Chairs Missing
o Wire - Pink Flag
o Wrens - the Meadowlands
o X - Wild Gift
o Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
o Yo La Tengo – Painful