Greg's "My Own Personal Top 100 Albums of All Time"

Some of my more interesting choices that narrowly missed the cut. Grouped by reasons they didn’t make it:

I. NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH
BoDeans “Home”
Magnetic Fields “69 Love Songs”
Beatles “White Album”
Todd Rundgren “Something/Anything?” (substituted ANTHOLOGY)
Fleetwood Mac “Mystery to Me”
Tom Petty “She’s the One”
The Posies “Dear 23”
K.D. Lang “Absolute Torch and Twang”
Tom Petty “Wildflowers”
Tom Petty “Into the Great Wide Open”
Bruce Hornsby and the Range “A Night on the Town”
Simply Red “Stars”

II.BOX SETS ARE CHEATING

Everly Brothers “Classic Everly Brothers”
Elvis Presley “King of Rock and Roll”
Steely Dan “Citizen Steely Dan”

III. NEED TO “LIVE WITH IT” LONGER

BoDeans “Outside Looking In”
Love “Forever Changes”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Murder Ballads”
Nick Lowe “Labour of Lust”
Soundtrack “O Brother Where Art Thou?”
Jurassic 5 “Quality Control”
Squeeze “Singles-45s and under”
Marshall Crenshaw “Marshall Crenshaw”

IV. NOT AT LEAST 10 YEARS OLD

Norah Jones “Come Away with Me”
White Stripes “Get Behind Me Satan”
Bright Eyes “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning”
N.E.R.D. “In Search Of..”
Iron and Wine “Our Endless Numbered Days”
Death Cab for Cutie “Plans”
Scissor Sisters “Scissor Sisters”
Jill Scott “Who is Jill Scott?”
Switchfoot “The Beautiful Letdown”
Kaiser Chiefs “Employment”