What are your favorite 15 albums?

So we asked our staff to list their favorite fifteen albums.  Here’s what they came up with:

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atmosphere – overcast

the cool kids – the bake sale

crystal castles – crystal castles (2010)

daitro – laisser vivre les squelettes

the dead weather – horehound

eyedea and abilities – by the throat

gonjasufi – a sufi and a killer

heatmiser – mic city sons

local h – as good as dead

mickey avalon – mickey avalon

minus the bear – menos el oso

nirvana – nevermind

steve aoki – pillowface and his airplane chronicles

the strokes – room on fire

a tribe called quest – the anthology

Justin Ellis

Live At Leeds- The Who

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles

Dark Side Of The Moon- Pink Floyd

Sigh No More- Mumford & Sons

OK Computer- Radiohead

Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky- OK GO

Unplugged in New York- Nirvana

Raising Sand- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Costello Music- The Fratellis

Are You Experienced?- The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Blur: The Best Of – Blur

Viva La Vida- Coldplay

Myth Takes- !!!

Miike Snow- Miike Snow

In Time- R.E.M.

Liza Perry

Police – Every Breath You Take

Third Eye Blind – A Collection

Doobie Brothers – The Captain and Me

Wayne – The Carter III

Aesop Rock – Labor Days

E-603 – Torn Up

Boston – Boston

Cake – Pressure Chief

The Cool Kids – The Bake Sale

Goo Goo Dolls – Gutter Flower

Green Day – Dookie

Jay-Z – Vol 2. Hard Knock Life

John Butler Trio – Grand National

Kings of Leon – Only By The Night

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium

James Brennan

Master of Puppets – Metallica

Ashes of the Wake – Lamb of God

Ghost Reveries – Opeth

Powerslave – Iron Maiden

Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd

Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden

Watershed – Opeth

Sacrament – Lamb of God

Constellations – August Burns Red

Images and Words – Dream Theater

Moving Pictures – Rush

Piece of Mind – Iron Maiden

Appetite for Destruction – Guns N’ Roses

Hybrid Theory – Linkin Park

Cowboys From Hell – Pantera

Andrew Hamlet

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Michael Jackson – Thriller

Beatles – Revolver

Talking Heads – Remain in the Light

Arcade Fire – Funeral

The Band – The Band (1969)

Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People

New Order – Singles

Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground and Nico

Daft Punk – Homework

Kate Bush – Hounds of Love

U2 – Joshua Tree

Outkast – Aquemini

Radiohead- Kid A

It is Rain in my Face – Bread and Silver Water

David August

Van Morrison – Moondance

Eminem – Recovery

Jimi Hendrix – Axis Bold as Love

Kid Kudi – Man on the Moon

Jeremy Fisher – Goodbye Blue Monday

Spin Doctors – Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Crosby Stills and Nash – Deja Vu

Simplified – Smile

Shwayze – Shwayze

Slackstring – Slackstring

Slightly Stoopid – Everything you Need

Thomas Cunningham – Swell

State Radio – Us Against the Crown

Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

Allman Brothers – Eat a Peach

Katharine Stein

Strangeways, Here We Come – The Smiths

Songs of Leonard Cohen – Leonard Cohen

Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom

Cut – The Slits

The Blue Album – Weezer

Addicted to Bad Ideas – The Wprld/Inferno Friendship Society

The Mysterious Production of Eggs – Andrew Bird

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – Pavement

The Man Who Invented Soul – Sam Cooke

Quintent du Hot Club de France – Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli

Surfer Rosa – The Pixies

The First Days of Spring – Noah and the Whale

Reservoir – Fanfarlo

Wooden Arms – Patrick Watson

Little Creatures – Talking Heads

Alec Aaronson

Pavement – Wowee Zowee

Wilco – Summer Teeth

LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver

Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele

Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run

Arcade Fire – Funeral

Panda Bear – Person Pitch

Kanye West – Late Registration

Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover

Paul Simon – Graceland

Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury

The Microphones – The Glow pt. 2

Built To Spill – Perfect From Now On

No Age – Nouns

Eric Boren

Moving Pictures – Rush

2112 – Rush

A Farewell to Kings -  Rush

Houses of the Holy – Zeppelin

LZ IV – Zeppelin

Scenes from a Memory – Dream Theater

The Human Equation – Ayreon

Wake Pig – Three

The End is Begun – Three

Deloused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 – Coheed and Cambria

Ghost Reveries – Opeth

Blackwater Park – Opeth

Snow – Spock’s Beard

The Odyssey – Symphony X

Hoang Tran

Portraits of past – 0101010101

Envy – A Dead Sinking Story

Fugazi – 13 Songs

Sam Cooke – Night Beat

Talk Talk – Laughing Stock

Slint – Spiderland

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

Converge – Jane Doe

Boris – Feedbacker

Sunn O))) – Black One

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman – S/T

Nat King Cole – The Very Thought of You

Bill Evans Trio – Live at the Village Vanguard (1961)

Saetia – A Retrospective

American Football – S/T

So that’s what we listen to.  What are your fifteen favorite albums?

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