I'm up atypically late tonight. On Dueling Modems I got involved in a discussion of what the best album of rock history is. Author Craig Shaw Gardner was posting from MOJO magazine that cited the Beach Boys Pet Sounds as holding that title. I'm not sure I buy that, and I proposed a list of possible contenders - not that I say any of this is, but ones that could reasonably be mentioned in such a discussion. They include: Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street Mothers of Invention - We're only in it for the Money Nirvana - Nevermind David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Beatles - Abbey Road Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Everclear - Sparkle and Fade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (or Trout Mask Replica [ or Bat Chain Puller]) or ... Alice in Chains - Dirt Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Pixies - Doolittle Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

And I cited my pick for the single most solid album of rock history, Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights

Then later on I added: Velvet Underground and Nico Television - Marquee Moon The Ramones Smiths - Meat is Murder REM - Fables of the Reconstruction Black Sabbath - Paranoid Patti Smith - Easter Grateful Dead - American Beauty The Clash - London Calling Neil Young - Harvest Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (how did I miss this one first post?!!?!)

This is the kind of discussion I could have forever. I love it!