Wasted Carbon

Below is a list of 100 albums that I would recommend to anyone. They range vastly in styles, but all are excellent. Styles include: rock, metal, punk, ska, reggae, trip hop, Cubano, alternative, and more.

I only listed one album for each artist (though many of these artists have other albums that were very difficult to exclude from this list).

If I could only choose 100 albums to take with me to a deserted island, these are the albums I’d take… Hope you enjoy and let me know your thoughts and / or picks!

1 Alice in Chains, Jar of Flies
2 Nirvana, Nevermind
3 Beastie Boys, Ill Communication
4 Beck, Odelay
5 Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen
6 Ben Harper, Fight for Your Mind
7 Black Flag, Wasted…Again
8 Black Sabbath, Paranoid
9 Bob Marley, Legend
10 Bob Mould, Black Sheets of Rain
11 Buena Vista Social Club, (Self Titled)
12 Cake, Fashion Nugget
13 Chris Isaak, Forever Blue
14 Danzig, (Self Titled)
15 Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
16 Dinosaur Jr., You’re Living All Over Me
17 Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonecologyst
18 Elvis Costello, Armed Forces
19 Elvis Presley, The Essential Elvis Collection
20 Everclear, Sparkle and Fade
21 Fear, The Record
22 Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
23 Green Day, American Idiot
24 Guns & Roses, Appetite for Destruction
25 Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters
26 Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey
27 Iron Maiden, Piece of Mind
28 James Brown, Sex Machine
29 Jim Croce, Photographs And Memories (His Greatest Hits)
30 Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys (Live)
31 Joe Jackson, Look Sharp
32 Johnny Cash, The Hits
33 King Missle, They
34 Led Zeppelin, Houses of The Holy
35 Los Lobos, Just Another Band from East LA
36 Mazzy Star, So Tonight That I Mights See
37 Metallica, Kill ‘Em All
38 Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
39 Minutemen, Double Nickles on the Dime
40 Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West
41 Mojo Nixon, Whereabouts Unknown
42 Morphine, Yes
43 Mr. Bungle, (Self Titled)
44 Mule, If I Don’t Six
45 Neil Young, Harvest
46 Operation Ivy, Energy
47 Oscar Peterson, Fly Me to the Moon
48 Oysterhead, The Grand Pecking Order
49 Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted
50 Pearl Jam, Ten
51 Phish, Rift
52 Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
53 Pixies, Doolittle
54 Primus, Frizzle Fry
55 Radiohead, The Bends
56 Rage Against the Machine, (Self Titled)
57 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik
58 Reverend Horton Heat, Liquor in the Front – Poker in the Rear
59 Rush, 2112
60 Sebadoh, Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
61 Sex Pistols, Nevermind The Bollocks
62 Slayer, Seasons in The Abyss
63 Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
64 Social Distortion, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
65 Sonic Youth, Goo
66 Sonny Sharrock, Ask The Ages
67 Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger
68 Squirrel Nut Zippers, Perennial Favorites
69 Steely Dan, Then and Now
70 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Couldn’t Stand the Weather
71 System of a Down, Toxicity
72 Talking Heads, 77
73 Temple of the Dog, (Self Titled)
74 Tenacious D, (Self Titled)
75 The Allman Brothers Band, Brothers and Sisters
76 The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
77 The Beatles, White Album
78 The Black Keys, Attack & Release
79 The Cramps, Psychedelic Jungle
80 The Cure, Boys Don’t Cry
81 The Dead Milkmen, Beelzebubba
82 The Doors, Waiting for the Sun
83 The Germs, (MIA) The Complete Anthology
84 The Hives, Barely Legal
85 The Living End, (Self Titled)
86 The Misfits, Legacy of Brutality
87 The Pogues, The Best Of The Pogues
88 The Police, (Self-Titled)
89 The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St.
90 The Velvet Underground and Nico
91 The Who, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
92 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Damn the Torpedoes
93 Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die
94 U2, The Joshua Tree
95 Van Halen, Fair Warning
96 Violent Femmes, Add It Up
97 Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy
98 Ween, Chocolate and Cheese
99 Weezer, Pinkerton
100 ZZ Top, Tejas