This started out as a top ten list for an email music discussion list, and snowballed out of proportion.

The criterion here was that the album must stand as a whole. If half of the songs are great, and the other half are so-so, it doesn't make the cut.

There's nothing here less than ten years old, because I believe stuff should stand the test of time.

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Dr. Yo's Top 50 Favorite Albums of All Time

1. Chrome, Half Machine Lip Moves
2. Tuxedomoon, Desire
3. Legendary Pink Dots, Asylum
4. Soft Machine, first album
5. Residents, Commercial Album
6. Butthole Surfers, first EP
7. Can, Delay 1968
8. Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
9. Ultravox, first album
10. Spacemen 3, Playing With Fire
11. Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
12. Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
13. Tuxedomoon, Half-Mute
14. Faust, first album
15. DEVO, Q: Are We Not Men?
16. Flipper, Generic
17. Gang of Four, Entertainment!
18. Snakefinger, Greener Postures
19. Snakefinger, Chewing Hides the Sound
20. Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance
21. Joy Division, Closer
22. Syd Barrett, The Madcap Laughs
23. Negativland, Escape from Noise
24. Residents, Eskimo
25. Big Black, Atomizer
26. Shockabilly, Vietnam
27. Robyn Hitchcock, I Often Dream of Trains
28. Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
29. Penguin Café Orchestra, Music from the Penguin Café
30. Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
31. Laurie Anderson, Big Science
32. Stooges, first album
33. Buzzcocks, Love Bites
34. Test Dept., The Unacceptable Face of Freedom
35. Talking Heads, Fear of Music
36. Camper Van Beethoven, Telephone Free Landslide Victory
37. X, Los Angeles
38. Sonic Youth, Goo
39. Television, Marquee Moon
40. King Crimson, Red
41. Renaldo and the Loaf, The Elbow Is Taboo
42. Captain Beefheart, Safe As Milk
43. Nirvana, Bleach
44. Fred Frith, Gravity
45. Stereolab, Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
46. Legendary Pink Dots, The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
47. Wall of Voodoo, Call of the West
48. Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World
49. Dead Can Dance, The Serpent's Egg
50. Kraftwerk, Computer World