40 favourite albums

As of April 2008.

1. Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

2. The Clash

3. Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

4. Pet Shop Boys, Very

5. Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks

6. Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home

7. Prince, Sign 'O' the Times

8. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP

9. Sleater-Kinney, The Hot Rock

10. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

11. M.I.A., Kala

12. Talking Heads, Remain in Light

13. The Beatles, Rubber Soul

14. Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners

15. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing

16. Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St.

17. Television, Marquee Moon

18. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9

19. Nirvana, Nevermind

20. Sleater-Kinney, One Beat

21. Tricky, Maxinquaye

22. The Beatles, Help!

23. Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation

24. Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs

25. Sly & the Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On

26. The Replacements, Let It Be

27. Kanye West, Late Registration

28. The Velvet Underground

29. X, Wild Gift

30. Frank Sinatra, Songs for Swinging Lovers!

31. Liz Phair, Whitechocolatespaceegg

32. New York Dolls

33. Franco & Rochereau, Omona Wapi

34. Bob Dylan, Love and Theft

35. Sonic Youth, Dirty

36. With the Beatles

37. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme

38. Laurie Anderson, United States Live

39. Pet Shop Boys, Behaviour

40. Joni Mitchell, Blue