This summer I did some deep musical soul-searching, which for the sake of avoiding repetition, I won't detail (if you need to, go read this , then come back). One of the results of that was a massive expansion of the list of my favorite albums. Previously, I had arbitrarily set the number at 20. After considering nearly every album I own, that number now sits at 95. Since early August I have steadily been writing up my thoughts on each album for the sidebar link you can see if you just scan your eyes slightly to your right. As of yesterday, I'm done! A few incidentals and disclaimers regarding the list: A) As I stated before, this list is not intended to be a list of the greatest albums of all time. There are a lot of albums I would consider great that I didn't put on the list (for example, Paul Simon's Graceland or Def Leppard's Hysteria ). I had to have a strong personal connection to the album for it to make the list. That's why, conversely, there are
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