So last Sunday morning I woke up, grabbed my notebook and started writing down a list of records that I love. It didn't take me long to get to about 60ish. So I flipped through my CD notebook and thought about more CD's that I've heard but don't own. Next thing you know - BAM! - 100 (well it was actually about 110.)

Two years ago on each of the 25 days leading up to my 25 birthday I revealed my 25 favorite movies and albums, with a mini-review for each one. As time has gone by and I've exposed myself to a lil more music/movies both lists have changed.

So the following list is the 101 Best Records I've Ever Heard List. I don't want to see anyone whining or complaining about why this isn't on the list or that isn't on the list, or why this is higher than that. This is my list, if you don't like then make your own. (It's a lot easier than you think!) But really if a certain album ain't on the list then most likely it's because I ain't heard it, or at least heard it entirely. Or maybe I wasn't that impressed by it.

I think I will in the next few days and at least do a write-up about the top 10 (which may not be the best but they are my favorites.)

Anyway, here it is...

1. Aquemini OutKast
2. Thriller Michael Jackson
3. Heartbreaker yan Adams
4. OK Computer Radiohead
5. Is This It The Strokes
6. My Life Mary J. Blige
7. What's Going On? Marvin Gaye
8. The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest
9. At San Quentin Johnny Cash
10. Repeater Fugazi

11. Stankonia OutKast
12. Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan
13. The Beatles (White Album) The Beatles
14. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill
15. Fear of a Black Planet Public Enemy
16. In Utero Nirvana
17. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
18. Horses Patti Smith
19. The Score The Fugees
20. Kind of Blue Miles Davis

21. Kiko Los Lobos
22. Ready to Die Notorious BIG
23. Battle of Los Angeles Rage Against the Machine
24. Lust for Life Iggy Pop
25. Tidal Fiona Apple
26. Black on Both Sides Mos Def
27. Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen
28. Mule Variations Tom Waits
29.London Calling The Clash
30. The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips

31. Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers
32. Dummy Portishead
33. The Meadowlands The Wrens
34. Purple Rain Prince
35. Surfer Rosa The Pixies
36. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy
37. The Bends Radiohead
38. Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
39. Summer Teeth Wilco
40. The Specials The Specials

41. Enter the 36 Chambers Wu-Tang Clan
42. Pinkerton Weezer
43. Nevermind Nirvana
44. Blue Train John Coltrane
45. Marquee Moon Television
46. Raising Hell Run DMC
47. Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols
48. Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.
49. Appetite for Destruction Guns N Roses
50. Significant Other Limp Bizkit

51. Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys
52. The Clash The Clash
53. Odelay Beck
54. Illmatic Nas
55. The Last Poets The Last Poets
56. The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers
57. Kid A Radiohead
58. Blood Sugar Sex Magic Red Hot Chilli Peppers
59. Rated R Queens of the Stone Age
60. The Infamous Mobb Deep

61. Mecca and the Soul Brother Pete Rock & CL Smooth
62. Maxinquaye Tricky
63. Eva By Heart Eva Cassidy
64. Uprising Bob Marley & the Wailers
65. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast
66. Weezer (The Blue Album) Weezer
67. Grace Jeff Buckley
68. Los Angeles X
69. Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables The Dead Kennedys
70. Origin of Symmetry Muse

71. De Stijl The White Stripes
72. Mezzanine Massive Attack
73. Hour of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy
74. Relationship of Command At the Drive-In
75. Tragic Kingdom No Doubt
76. A Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay
77. Radio LL Cool J
78. Play Moby
79. Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers
80. The Fine Art of Self-Destruction Jesse Malin

81. Brown Sugar D'Angelo
82. 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of... Arrested Development
83. Things Fall Apart The Roots
84. Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone The Walkmen
85. CrazySexyCool TLC
86. The Carnival Wyclef Jean
87. Source Tags and Codes ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
88. Baduizm Erykah Badu
89. The Chronic Dr. Dre
90. The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem

91. Who is Jill Scott? Jill Scott
92. All Hands on the Bad One Sleater-Kinney
93. Dookie Green Day
94. Disreali Gears Cream
95. Closer Joy Division
96. Reasonable Doubt Jay-Z
97. Parachutes Coldplay
98. 19 Naughty III Naughty By Nature
99. Van Lear Rose Loretta Lynn
100. Soul Food Goodie MOb

101. Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand

Tonight, ladies drink free until 1 a.m. I'll be there with some fabulous ladies who drink for free.

Things I've become thankful for in 2004:

finding out who my real friends are (oooo!)
Killoggs
Linus
the Chimes
Ipod
my penis
apples
the judicial system
dogs
music festivals
kara
younger women with libido
older women with kids... and libido
older women with libido with kids with libido
Myriam
yankees with a lowercase y
josh the creator of killoggs
Canes
nutria
jews
ericanm
midwestern beat reporters
sleeping with two people in the office at the same time, and getting away with it without the possibility that either ever had a chance to know until I wrote this.
kate
stupefying drunkeness
merge artists
red star scenesters who take themselves seriously
marlboro lights
julie
islay scotchs
my trust fund
IM
cell phones
vinyl
the age lines on my face
body hair
ex-girlfriends who aren't bitches
crossing racial and ethnic barriers in search of poonanni
the old atari game poonan with the sheep, the wolves, the pigs and the arrows
smoke machines
adrian tomine
brown slacks
W - The President

please feel free to add your own.