My Top 30 Albums
Trying to find my Top 30 albums of the last 25 years. Dang, not so easy. That makes the cut-off, well … bugger it, let’s make it 1985. So what do I think, in no particular order?
- John Mayer – Inside Wants Out
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
- Sarah McLachlan – Afterglow
- Billy Joel – River of Dreams
- Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
- R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
- Joni Mitchell – Blue
- Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining
- Sting – Brand New Day
- Jack Johnson – Brushfire Fairytales
- Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love
- Crowded House – Crowded House
- Midnight Oil – Beds are Burning
- Annie Lennox – Diva
- Bachelor Girl – Waiting for the Day
- Something for Kate – The Official Fiction
- Steely Dan – Two Against Nature
- Norah Jones – Feels Like Home
- Hunters and Collectors – Ghost Nation
- Jeff Buckley – Grace
- U2 – Joshua Tree
- Dido – Life for Rent
- Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season
- Various Artists – Once
- Coldplay – Parachutes
- Joan Osborne – Relish
- Ben Folds – Rockin’ the Suburbs
- Peter Gabriel – So
- Sting – The Soul Cages
- The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
And what about the also rans… that’s another post.