100 Favourite Albums of All Time

Published January 29, 2020 in Music - 5 mins to read

I’ve been thinking a lot in the past few days about how music makes me really, really happy in a way that few other things do. Originally I was going to try and write a “top 10 favourite albums” post but that ended up bleeding into 50, which subsequently bled further into 100, which finally resulted in a list of roughly 150 albums. That seemed like a terrible number though, so I managed to cull it down to a nice even hundo, and here they are in no particular order.

alexisonfire - alexisonfire (2002, post-hardcore)
alexisonfire - Watch Out! (2004, post-hardcore)
alexisonfire - Crisis (2006, post-hardcore)
Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings (2006, deathcore)
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season (2008, metalcore)
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016, indie rock)
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2011, indie rock)
Brand New - Your Favourite Weapon (2001, pop punk/emo)
Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003, alt rock/emo)
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006, alt rock/emo/post-hardcore)
Brand New - Daisy (2009, alt rock/post-hardcore)
Brand New - Science Fiction (2017, alt rock/post-hardcore)
The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms (2011, indie rock/folk punk/emo)
The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk (2013, indie rock/folk punk)
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004, alt rock/post-hardcore/emo)
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006, alt rock/post-hardcore/emo)
Modern Baseball - Sports (2012, emo)
Modern Baseball - You’re Gonna Miss It All (2014, emo)
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia (2006, alt metal)
A Day To Remember - Homesick (2009, metalcore/pop punk/post-hardcore)
Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (2009, indie rock)
System Of A Down - Mezmerize (2005, nu metal)
Escape The Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion (2006, emo/post-hardcore/metalcore)
Say Anything - …Is A Real Boy (2004, emo/indie rock/pop punk)
Say Anything - Say Anything (2009, emo/indie rock/pop punk)
Trivium - Ascendancy (2005, metalcore/thrash)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979, post-punk)
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005, emo/pop punk/alt rock)
Streetlight Manifesto - Keasbey Nights (2006, ska punk)
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In The Between (2007, ska punk)
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (2009, alt rock)
Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels (2010, alt pop)
Caravan Palace - <|°_°|> (2015, electro swing)
Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace (2003, alt metal)
The White Stripes - Elephant (2003, blues rock)
Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez (2010, indie rock)
Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor (2011, emo)
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again (2014, emo)
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool? (2015, punk/indie rock)
Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. (2016, punk/indie rock)
blink-182 - blink-182 (2003, pop punk)
blink-182 - Enema Of The State (1999, pop punk)
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket (2001, pop punk)
TTNG - 13.0.0.0.0 (2013, math rock)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998, indie rock)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004, indie rock)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004, alt rock)
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album) (1994, alt rock)
Weezer - Pinkerton (1996, alt rock/emo)
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991, hip hop)
Kanye West - The College Dropout (2004, hip hop)
PUP - PUP (2013, punk)
PUP - The Dream Is Over (2016, punk)
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (2008, heavy metal)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006, indie rock)
Metronomy - The English Riviera (2011, new wave)
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave (2003, pop punk/emo)
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (2005, pop punk/emo)
Veil of Maya - Matriarch (2015, djent)
Mitski - Bury Me At Makeout Creek (2014, indie rock)
Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost (2013, grunge)
Tricot - T H E (2013, math rock)
Glocca Morra - Just Married (2012, emo)
Capn Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We’ve Slipped On and Egg Shells We’ve Tippy Toed Over (1995, emo)
Remo Drive - Greatest Hits (2017, emo)
Polyphia - New Levels New Devils (2018, prog metal)
Epica - Design Your Universe (2009, symphonic metal)
Covet - effloresce (2018, math rock)
McCafferty - Beachboy (2013, dance punk)
Mom Jeans. - Best Buds (2016, emo)
Blue Sky, Black Death - Noir (2011, instrumental hip hop)
DZ Deathrays - Black Rat (2014, dance punk)
Graduating Life - An Introduction To Rock And Roll (2017, emo)
Ceremony - Rohnert Park (2010, punk)
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (2011, emo)
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2015, folk)
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. (2018, punk)
Protest The Hero - Kezia (2005, prog metal/mathcore)
FIDLAR - FIDLAR (2013, skate punk)
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour (2012, post-hardcore)
Alvvays - Antisocialites (2017, indie pop)
Bonobo - Migration (2017, electronica)
Bonobo - The North Borders (2013, electronica)
I Kill Giants - I Kill Giants (2013, emo)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity (2016, pysch rock/prog rock)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland (2017, psych rock/prog rock)
Strawberry Girls - French Ghetto (2013, prog rock/math rock)
Vulfpeck - The Beautiful Game (2016, funk)
Forests - Sun Eat Moon Grave Party (2017, emo)
black midi - Schlagenheim (2019, experimental rock/noise rock/post-punk/math rock)
Title Fight - Floral Green (2012, emo/post-hardcore)
Nekrogoblikon - Welcome to Bonkers (2018, melodic death metal/power metal)
Prince Daddy And The Hyena - I Thought You Didn’t Even Like Leaving (2016, emo)
Grimes - Art Angels (2015, synth-pop/art pop)
Hobo Johnson - The Fall of Hobo Johnson (2019, emo rap)
Totorro - Home Alone (2016, noise rock)
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998, electronica)
Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger (2005, mathcore)
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders (2009, prog metal/djent)
Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion (2014, prog metal/djent)