My Top 100 Albums, 1966-2016

So, after posting my top 20, I thought I’d go for broke.  My top 100.

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Or, perhaps, 1966-2016.

Anathema, We’re Here Because We’re Here

Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Lost in the New Real

Aryeon, Universal Migrator

Aryreon, Into the Electric Castle

Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

Big Big Train, English Electric

Big Big Train, Gathering Speed

Big Big Train, The Difference Machine

Big Big Train, Underfall Yard

Bryan Ferry, Boys and Girls

Catherine Wheel, Happy Days

Chris Squire, Fish Out of Water

Cocteau Twins, Heaven or Las Vegas

Cosmograf, Capacitor

Cure, Disintegration

Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain

Fire Garden, Sound of Majestic Colors

Flower Kings, Space Revolver

Frost*, Experiments in Mass Appeal

Galahad Empires Never Last

Gazpacho, Night

Genesis, A Trick of the Tail

Genesis, Duke

Genesis, Foxtrot

Genesis, Selling England by the Pound

Glass Hammer, Lex Rex

Glass Hammer, The Breaking of the World

Glass Hammer, The Inconsolable Secret

Guilt Machine, Guilt Machine

IZZ, The Dark Room

Kansas, Leftoverature

Kansas, Point of No Return

Kate Bush, Aeriel

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love

Kevin McCormick, Squall

Kevin McCormick, With the Coming of Evening

Kingbathmat, Overcoming the Monster

Lunatic Soul, Lunatic Soul

Marillion, Afraid of Sunlight

Marillion, Marbles

Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed

Natalie Merchant, Leave Your Sleep

Neal Morse Band, Testimony 2

Neal Morse Band, The Grand Experiment

Neal Morse, Testimony

Newspaperflyhunting, Iceberg Soul

North Atlantic Oscillation, Fog Electric

Nosound, Lightdark

Oceansize, Effloresce

Ordinary Psycho, Vol. II

Peter Gabriel, So

Pink Floyd, Animals

Porcupine Tree, Fear of a Blank Planet

Queen, Queen II

Radiohead, Kid A

Riverside, Second Life Syndrome

Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Simple Minds, New Gold Dream

Simple Minds, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

Simple Minds, Sparkle in the Rain

Sixpence None the Richer

Spock’s Beard, Snow

Spock’s Beard, The Light

Steve Hackett, Voyage of the Acolyte

Steven Wilson, Insurgentes

Steven Wilson, Grace for Drowning

Talk Talk, Colour of Spring

Talk Talk, Laughing Stock

Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden

Tears for Fears, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair

Tears for Fears, The Hurting

The Fixx, Reach the Beach

The Reasoning, Dark Angel

The Smiths, The Queen is Dead

The Sundays, Reading, Writing and Arithmatic

The Tangent, A Place in the Queue

The Tangent, Le Sacre Du Travail

The Tangent, Down and Out in Paris

The Tangent, Not as Good as the Book

The Tangent, The Music That Died Alone

Thomas Dolby, The Flat Earth

Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Wireless

Tin Spirits, Wired to Earth

Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos, Under the Pink

Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic, Mr. Fantasy

Transatlantic, Bridge Across Forever

Transatlantic, STMPe

Transatlantic, The Whirlwind

U2, The Joshua Tree

U2, War

Ultravox, Rage in Eden

Van Morrison, Astral Weeks

World Party, Goodbye Jumbo

XTC, Nonesuch

XTC, Skylarking

Yes, 90125

Yes, Close to the Edge

Yes, Fragile

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