Stolen from Facebook

Here is my list of what I believe to be the 40 (or so) best and/or most important (to me) albums of all time (and sometimes why).
(I'll TRY to do this in chronological order, not the order that they were important to me. I don't know why.)
1977 The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
1979 Joy Divison - Unknown Pleasures
1984 Repo Man - Soundtrack (this movie/soundtrack pushed me into my fascination with punk)1985 Weird Al Yankovic - Dare to be Stupid (The first album I ever bought, and the first concert I ever went to.)
1986 The Beastie Boys - License to Ill
1986 Firehose - Ragin', Full On
1987 The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
1987 Love and Rockets - Earth Sun Moon (I was the only skater in my middle school with a L&R sticker on my board)
1987 The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
1988 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989 The Vandals - When in Rome/Peace Thru Vandalism
1989 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (I wore out a cassette and a CD of this album.)
1989 The Cure - Disintigration (I'm pretty sure this was playing when I lost my virginity :P)1988-1995 Everything Wax Trax/Nettwerk/TVT put out (All Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Pigface...*)
1988 Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (reissue)
1990 Peter Murphy - Deep
1990 MC 900 Foot Jesus - Hell with the Lid Off
1990 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife
1992 Morphine - Good (I met Mark Sandman about 3 weeks before he died while working a festival.)
1992 Tom Waits - Bone Machine
1993 Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
1994 Portishead - Dummy (Memories of drawing comics in St. Marks with Tony Leonard and the crew.)
1994 Blur - Parklife
1994 Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
1995 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
1995 Radiohead - The Bends
1995 Pulp - Different Class
1996 Luna - Penthouse (Luna was one of the first things that Jennifer and I realized we had in common)
1996 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes (Other than the Psychedelic Zombies and Foreskin 500, this was one of the few Denver bands I followed.)
1996 Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
1997 Radiohead - OK Computer1997 Stereolab - Dots and Loops
1997 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
1998 Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
1999 Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret(This album will always remind me of Heather O. and Pandora Jewelry)
1999 Rushmore - Soundtrack
2000 Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Something
2000 The Black Heart Procession - 3
2001 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
2001 Gorillaz - Gorillaz (Where pop music and comics meet)
2002 Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights(They picked up where Joy Division left off, albeit 20 years later.)
2002 Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
2006 The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Kings of Loen - Because of the Times2007 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2008 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing


*After Filth Pig came out, I totally lost interest with both Ministry and the Genre as a whole.