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Top Albums List: 50 - 26

And here is the next batch of my favorite albums of all time. This middle group is a pretty great bunch, I'd say. Please feel free to agree or disagree with me, however, in the comments. If you like other songs on the albums or would pick a different album by the same act, put that in the comment section too! The same disclaimer applies from yesterday: all of the youtube links for the album highlights work as of this date. I'm working on a Grooveshark playlist, too. 

Numbers 75 - 51

50. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (2005)

Album highlights: The Denial Twist, My Doorbell, I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)

49. The Beatles - Revolver (1966)

Album highlights: Good Day Sunshine, Eleanor Rigby, She Said She Said

48. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)

Album highlights: Sister Jack, I Turn My Camera On, The Infinite Pet

47. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Album highlights: Power, Monster, Runaway

46. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

Album highlights: Everything in Its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, Optimistic

45. Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles (2008)

Album highlights: Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..., Letter from God to Man, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Thou Shalt Always Kill

44. Nathan Johnson & The Cinematic Underground - The Brothers Bloom (2009)

Album highlights: Brothers in a One Hat Town (Overture), Penelope's Theme, The Perfect Con, The Fabulist

43. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)

Album highlights: Tangled Up in Blue, Meet Me in the Morning, Shelter from the Storm

42. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)

Album highlights: Spitting Venom, Missed the Boat, March into the Sea

41. The xx - xx (2009)

Album highlights: VCR, Islands, Basic Space

40. Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)

Album highlights: Walk on the Wild Side, Satellite of Love, Vicious, Perfect Day

39. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

Album highlights: Picture Book, The Village Green Preservation Society, People Take Pictures of Each Other

38. Kanye West - The College Dropout (2004)

Album highlights: All Falls Down, Jesus Walks, Through the Wire, Two Words, Never Let Me Down

37. Javier Navarrete - Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Album highlights: The Moribund Tree and the Toad, Long Long Time Ago

36. The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)

Album highlights: Something, Here Comes the Sun, Because, Oh! Darling, Come Together

35. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (2008)

Album highlights: A Little Better, Who's Gonna Save My Soul, Going On

34. The Fratellis - Costello Music (2006)

Album highlights: Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes, For the Girl, Chelsea Dagger, Flathead

33. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (2009)

Album highlights: My Boy Builds Coffins, Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up), Dog Days Are Over, You've Got the Love

32. Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005)

Album highlights: DARE, Don't Get Lost in Heaven, Feel Good Inc., Dirty Harry

31. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (2008)

Album highlights: Think About It, Robots, Business Time, Bowie, The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)

30. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)

Album highlights: Young Pilgrims, Kissing the Lipless, Saint Simon, So Says I

29. Jay-Z - The Black Album (2003)

Album highlights: Encore, 99 Problems, Lucifer, Dirt Off Your Shoulder

28. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)

Album highlights: The Spiderbite Song, A Spoonful Weighs a Ton, Waitin' for a Superman

27. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (2009)

Album highlights: The Rake's Song, The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid, The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!), Isn't It a Lovely Night?

26. Clint Mansell - Black Swan (2010)

Album highlights: Perfection, Nina's Dream, Lose Yourself

Top Albums List: 75 - 51

I made a list of my favorite albums of all time. I'll be posting it in three parts. This first part contains the bottom of that list, from number 75 to number 51. There's a severe lack of albums made before 2000 because I didn't really start to listen to music in any real way until around that time, if not a bit later. Also, compilation/best-of albums don't count so there are quite a few older acts (Led Zeppelin, for example) that won't make the list because I haven't gone back to listen to the original albums in full. All of the album highlights have links to youtube videos of the songs. All of those videos work at the time of this posting but I make no guarantees that they will continue to do so in the future. And now, the music!

75. Prince - Purple Rain (1984)

Album highlights: Purple Rain, When Doves Cry

74. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed (1969)

Album highlights: Gimme Shelter, You Can't Always Get What You Want

73. Middle Brother - Middle Brother (2011)

Album highlights: Middle Brother, Million Dollar Bill, Someday

72. TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

Album highlights: I Was A Lover, Wolf Like Me

71. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network (2010)

Album highlights: Hand Covers Bruise, In the Hall of the Mountain King

70. The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Album highlights: Last Nite, Someday, Is This It, Barely Legal

69. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)

Album highlights: Someone Something, The Way We Get By, Stay Don't Go

68. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005)

Album highlights: English Tea, Friends to Go, Fine Line

67. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)

Album highlights: There She Goes My Beautiful World, O Children, Breathless

66. Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2010)

Album highlights: Ambling Alp, O.N.E., Madder Red

65. The Shins - Oh Inverted World (2001)

Album highlights: Girl Inform Me, Know Your Onion!, Pressed in a Book

64. The White Stripes - Icky Thump (2007)

Album highlights: Effect and Cause, You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told), I'm Slowly Turning Into You

63. Kanye West - Late Registration (2005)

Album highlights: Touch the Sky, Gold Digger, Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Bonus version)

62. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (2010)

Album highlights: Better Things, Without a Heart, I Learned the Hard Way

61. Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (1986)

Album highlights: It's Tricky, My Adidas, Walk This Way

60. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)

Album highlights: North American Scum, All My Friends, New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

59. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (2007)

Album highlights: Australia, Sea Legs, Girl Sailor

58. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

Album highlights: War on War, Kamera, Heavy Metal Drummer

57. OK Go - Oh No (2005)

Album highlights: Here it Goes Again, Do What You Want, Oh Lately It's So Quiet

56. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)

Album highlights: Oxford Comma, A-Punk, The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

55. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004)

Album highlights: Float On, Blame it on the Tetons, This Devil's Workday

54. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999)

Album highlights: Californication, Scar Tissue, Otherside

53. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (2011)

Album highlights: Damn These Vampires, High Hawk Season, Never Quite Free, Liza Forever Minnelli

52. RJD2 - Deadringer (2002)

Album highlights: Ghostwriter, Good Times Roll Pt. 2, The Horror

51. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (2007)

Album highlights: Walken, What Light, Hate It Here, Impossible Germany

So there it is, the first third of my list. Let me know if you like or hate any of my choices. As you can see I didn't limit how many albums I could have by one act so there are a few people that get multiple mentions. I don't think that's a bad thing at all. If you want to call me out for being a hipster or too mainstream please do so in the comment section.