Favorite Albums, Extended Remix

Not sure what activity here will be like for the rest of December. Work and holiday obligations loom at every turn these days. I am of course polishing my best-of-'05 list for both the City Paper and the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop deal. I'll probably wait to near the end of the month to publicly reveal my choices. Also, I actually have some movie-related topics I'd like to blog 'bout in the coming weeks. We'll see how that goes. For now, though, here is the latest version of my favorite-albums list, this time extended to 30 and in rough chronological order too!

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis (1959)
Impresssions, John Coltrane (1961)
The Who Sell Out, The Who (1967)
Music from Big Pink, The Band (1968)
The Beatles, The Beatles (1968)
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks (1968)
Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield (1969)
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Richard and Linda Thompson (1974)
Radio City, Big Star (1974)
Pretzel Logic, Steely Dan (1974)
Good Old Boys, Randy Newman (1974)
Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan (1975)
Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick (1977)
Marquee Moon, Television (1977)
Low, David Bowie (1977)
Drums and Wires, XTC (1979)
Wild Gift, X (1981)
stands for deciBels, The dB’s (1981)
Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello and the Attractions (1982)
Power, Corruption & Lies, New Order (1983)
Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements (1987)
Document, R.E.M. (1987)
Spilt Milk, Jellyfish (1993)
Together Alone, Crowded House (1993)
Different Class, Pulp (1995)
The Great Escape, Blur (1995)
Kontiki, Cotton Mather (1997)
Featuring “Birds,” Quasi (1998)
Summerteeth, Wilco (1999)
The Execution of All Things, Rilo Kiley (2002)