Rod's Favorite Albums of All Time

Captain & Tennille - Dream (1978)
Carpenters - Horizon (1975)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
Duran Duran - Rio (1982)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
ABBA - The Visitors (1981)
Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates (1981)
Kate Bush - the Dreaming (1982)
Holly Cole - Don't Smoke in Bed (1993)
Pet Shop Boys - Please (1986)
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna (1981)
Phil Collins - Face Value (1981)
Alan Jackson - Everything I Love (1996)
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)
U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
George Michael - Faith (1987)
Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987)
Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
INXS - Listen Like Thieves (1985)
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (1982)
Madonna - Madonna (1983)
Peter Gabriel - So (1986)

ABC - The Lexicon of Love (1982)
Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love (1989)
Pretenders - Pretenders (1979)
Roxette - Tourism (1992)
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men (1987)

The Cars - Candy-O (1979)

Adam & the Ants - Prince Charming (1981)
Finn Brothers - Finn Brothers (1995)
Eurythmics - Touch (1983)
Garbage - Garbage (1995)
Gary Numan - Dance (1981)

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (1980)
Heart - Dog & Butterfly (1979)

Queen - A Night at the Opera (1975)
Dwight Yoakam - If There Was a Way (1990)
Erasure - Chorus (1991)
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
ELO - Discovery (1979)
Human League - Dare (1981)
Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams (1977)

Billy Joel - 52nd Street (1978)
a-ha - East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1990)
DalBello - WhoManFourSays (1984)
Cher - It's a Man's World (UK) (1996)
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing (1987)
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)

Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's (1982)
Rough Trade - For Those Who Think Young (1982)
Enya - Watermark (1988)
Liza Minnelli - Results (1989)

The B-52's - The B-52's (1979)
Rosanne Cash - Interiors (1990)
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
Shania Twain - The Woman in Me (1995)

Per Gessle - The World According to (1997)
Manhattan Transfer - Mecca for Moderns (1981)
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (1979)
Barbra Streisand - Guilty (1980)

Jann Arden - Living Under June (1995)
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees (1984)
Paul McCartney - Tug of War (1982)

Janet Jackson - Control (1986)
Pat Benatar - Precious Time (1981)
Olivia Newton John - Totally Hot (1978)
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Cowboy Junkies - Lay It Down (1996)

Boney M - Nightflight to Venus (1978)
Carly Simon - Boys in the Trees (1978)
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994)
Corey Hart - The Boy in the Box (1985)
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
Split Enz - True Colours (1980)
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)
Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog (1981)
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth (1984)
Juice Newton - Juice (1980)
Sarah Brightman - Eden (1998)
Wynonna Judd - Wynonna (1992)
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)

Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule (1989)
Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity (1981)
Keane - Hopes and Fears (2004)

qualifications: one title per artist, no compilations.

The Top Ten are pretty firmly in order,
the rest are more fluid. They're all good.

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