For what it’s worth, I took a quick break from work this evening and forced myself to write down my twenty favorite rock albums.  I gave it almost no thought–I just brain stormed and listed my all-time favorite albums of the rock era.  [I intentionally left off all Rush albums.]

Despite my own restrictions, I discovered something very interesting.  At least to me.

For the last 29 years, I would have listed my favorite album of all time as Talk Talk’s The Colour of Spring.  My iTunes numbers tell me something different, and I must agree.

Big Big Train has finally replaced Talk Talk.

Here they are in alphabetical order:

1. Aryeon, Universal Migrator
2. Big Big Train, English Electric
3. Big Big Train, Underfall Yar
4. Cure, Disintegration
5. Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain
6. Flower Kings, Space Revolver
7. Gazpacho, Night
8. Genesis, Selling England by the Pound
9. Glass Hammer, Lex Rex
10. Kansas, Leftoverature
11. Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
12. Kevin McCormick, Squall
13. Marillion, Afraid of Sunlight
14. Neal Morse, Testimony
15. Simple Minds, New Gold Dream
16. Talk Talk, Colour of Spring
17. Tangent, Le Sacre Du Travail
18. Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair
19. XTC, Skylarking
20. Yes, Close to the Edge