My Esteemed Albums Ranked
I have decided to do a different take on my traditional rankings. In the past, I had ranked a band's discography against each other. Then I got the wild idea to rank the best against the best, and see what mathematical shakes out as my number album of all-time. I didn't realize what a challenge awaited me. Relatively speaking, ranking a band against itself is pretty easy. When you compare ones of different eras and genres, it becomes extremely difficult (for me anyway). I think I ended up tabulating and ranking these three different times. Each subsequent time I would eliminate an album entirely that was statistically well-below the others. In the end, I settled on a nice list of 20. (The albums that just missed the cut were: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, Golden State and Razorblade Suitcase by Bush, Break the Cycle by Staind, Shaka Rock by Jet, The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot.) You can click each album score for ...