Mark Vanderboom's list

1 Roy Harper - Stormcock -- It deserves to be in everyone's collection, it really is that good
2 Nick Harper - Light at the end of the kennel -- This guy can play guitar, would have recommended his live album, but it's a double.. this one's an EP. That's for you zwart.
3 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin -- Might as well start at the beginning, pre-imthegreatestever stuff is better anyway.
4 Poison - Flesh And Blood -- Hell yeah Poison. As long as it has CC, you can't go wrong. This is their most 'mature' album... hehe
5 Neil Young - Harvest -- Since Andrew is 'calculating' what makes into the death match, I really should have put Freedom instead.
6 Dread Zeppelin - Unledded -- The way covers should be done, none of this "Look ma, I sound like Robert Plant!"... "no son, you sound like David Coverdale"
7 The Killers - Hot Fuss -- Best band I ever discovered from MTV
8 Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak -- The only thing atlanta radio had given me.
9 GnFnR Use Your Illusion II -- Yeah, the second one. Nothing bests an Axl Epic, except a Harper Epic.
10 Leonard Cohen - The Future -- Almost anything could make it to the list, but this one is the first that I typed
11 AC/DC - Back In Black -- Classic. The whole thing.
12 Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic -- If I have to write code fast, this gets my fingers moving.
13 Luna - Penthouse -- This makes me feel better when I'm fixing all the bugs I added in the previous 40 minutes.
14 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the moon -- Another well rounded classic
15 Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles -- I'm such a poseur
16 John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band -- Anything with "Ono" in the title, but not on the record deserves 4 stars
17 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- Not sure if this is better than their appearance on 90210.
18 Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman -- So I can have at least one album in the Death Match
19 Lily Allen - Alright, Still -- Who knows why, but it is great.
20 Justin Timberlake - Justified -- Everyone knows why this is great... except that song about Green Aliens.
21 Green Day - American Idiot -- I'm not an American, so I can't be an idiot, but buying their last album puts me close.
22 The All-American Rejects - TAAR -- If pop songs were math problems, these guys would be Math Action Heros
23 Avril Lavigne- Let Go -- Literally, this came off the same conveyor belt other bands of the time were using, but that's not a bad thing.
24 Beck - Mutations -- A toss up between this one and Midnight Vultures... I can't put Odelay on, because I think I'm too cool.
25 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand -- Plant has done far more interesting things later in life than some other people.
26 Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing -- A collection, but I have a hard time disliking any Knopfler.
27 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds -- If this doesn't make the list, your math sucks. Not my fault.
28 Various - Natural Born Killers Soundtrack -- I have no love for Trent Reznor, but he did a good job on this.
29 Winger - Winger - Yeah, well you suck too! I do have this on CD, I haven't listened to it yet (I swear), Had the tape at one point too, hopefully I traded it.
30 Metallica - Master Of Puppets -- Listen to this album, but don't buy it... Lars will just buy artwork with the proceeds