Top 100 Albums

Top 100+ All Time Records

In a particular order...

1. The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me 1987

2. The Hold Steady     Boys + Girls In America 2006

3. The Kinks         Give The People What They Want 1981

4. The Clash         London Calling 1979

5. Too Much Joy Cereal Killers 1991

6. Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks 1979

7. The Gaslight Anthem     The '59 Sound 2008

8. Ramones     Pleasant Dreams 1980

9. Tom Petty         Hard Promises 1981

10. Nirvana     Nevermind 1991

11. Dire Straits Making Movies 1980

12. Bash & Pop     Friday Night Is Killing Me 1992

13. The Police     Ghost In The Machine 1981

14. Bowling For Soup     Drunk Enough To Dance 2002

15. Sam Cooke     Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963

16. Hunters & Collectors The Jaws of Life 1984

17. The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me 2004

18. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2000

19. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers     ¡Americano! 2004

20. Bob Dylan     Blood on the Tracks 1975

21. Warren Zevon Excitable Boy 1978

22. Mink Deville         Coup De Grace     1982

23. Pixies         Doolittle     1989

24. Pavement   Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994

25. Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat 1981

26. Graham Parker The Up Escalator 1980

27. Too Much Joy Mistakes Were Made 2020

28. David Bowie Live: At The Tower Philadelphia  1974

29. The Replacements     Tim 1985

30. Elvis Costello This Year's Model 1978

31. Bruce Springsteen The River 1980

32. Everclear Songs From An American Movie Vol. 1 2000

33. Social Distortion Social Distortion 1990

34. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes    Wake Up Everybody    1975

35. The Hoodoo Gurus     Stoneage Romeos 1984

36. Steve Earle I Feel Alright 1996

37. The Rolling Stones     Exile on Main Street 1972

38. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes At Least We Got Shoes 1986

39. Ian Hunter You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic 1979

40. Prince     Purple Rain 1984

41. dB’s Like This 1984

42. Marah     Kids In Philly 2000

43. The English Beat Special Beat Service 1982

44. J. Geils Band   Blow Your Face Out 1976

45. Dinosaur Jr     Green Mind 1991

46. John Cougar Nothin' Matters And What If It Did 1980

47. The Hold Steady Separation Sunday 2005

48. Dipsomaniacs The Life You’re Faking 2001

49. Too Much Joy     Son of Sam I Am 1988

50. Ramones     Rocket to Russia 1977

51. The Beatles. A Hard Day’s Night 1964

52. The Kinks     Low Budget 1979

53. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls Gossip 1986

54. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes  Better Days 1991

55. The Rolling Stones     Some Girls 1978

56. Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing 2011

57. Rachel Sweet   ...And Then He Kissed Me 1981

58. The Cars     The Cars 1978

59. Sam Cooke The Man And His Music 1986

60. The Dead Milkmen     Beelzebubba 1988

61. The Godfathers Birth, School, Work, Death 1988

62. R.E.M.     Murmur 1983

63. Divinyls - Desperate 1983

64. The Police Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

65. Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells A Story 1971

66. Butch Walker  Sycamore Meadows 2008

67. The Refreshments     Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy 1996

68. John Eddie John Eddie 1986

69. The Smithereens     Green Thoughts 1988

70. Mink DeVille     Cabretta 1977

71. Sly and the Family Stone Greatest Hits 1970

72. Frank Sinatra    Sinatra and Swingin' Brass    1962

73. Mojo Nixon     Otis 1990

74. The Beatles Let It Be 1970

75. Dino Petaccio & The Intruders Memories You Left in this Town 2018

76. Van Halen 1984 1984

77. James Brown Out of Sight 1964

78. The Solution    Communicate 2004

79. Elvis Costello    Spike 1989

80. The Replacements Let It Be 1984

81. The Kinks    The Kink Kronikles 1972

82. The Police Synchronicity 1983

83. Bowling For Soup     A Hangover You Don't Deserve 2004

84. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Hearts Of Stone 1978

85. R.E.M.         Life’s Rich Pageant 1986

86. Dune Rats If It Sucks, Turn It Up 2024

87. Rockpile     Seconds of Pleasure 1980

88. Tom Petty    Long After Dark    1983

89. Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers Walkin’ on the Water 1986

90. Martin Briley One Night with a Stranger 1983

91. Soul Asylum     Grave Dancers Union 1992

92. dB’s The Sound of Music 1987

93. Junior Walker    Shake and Fingerpop    1972

94. The Who     Who's Next 1971

95. Concrete Blonde     Concrete Blonde 1999

96. The Baseball Project Vol 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails 2008

97. Fetchin Bones     Monster 1989

98. The Muffs Blonder And Blonder 1995

99. Paul Westerberg  49:00 ... Of Your Life     2008

100. Graham Parker Howlin' Wind 1976

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101. Willy DeVille Loup Garou 1995

102. U2   Joshua Tree 1987

103. Stevie Nicks     Bella Donna 1981

104. Lone Justice     Lone Justice 1985

105. Elton John     Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973

106. Hall & Oates     H2O 1982

107. The Del Fuegos     Stand Up 1987

108. Live     Throwing Copper 1994

109. Marah    Float Away With The Friday Night Gods 2002

110. Men At Work   Business As Usual 1982

111. Pretenders Pretenders  1979

112. Steve Earle Copperhead Road 1988

113. Gary U.S. Bonds         Dedication 1981

114. Robert Hazard     Robert Hazard 1982

115. Size 14     Size 14 1997

116. Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A. 1984

117. Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock 1985

118. The Stompers The Stompers 1983

119. Divinyls What A Life 1985

120. Blondie  Eat To The Beat 1979

121. The Brandos Honor Among Thieves 1987

122. Copperpot Copperpot 2003

123. The Doughboys Act Your Rage 2004

124. The Undertones The Sin of Pride 1983

125. Face to Face         Face to Face 1984

126. Frank Sinatra         Only The Lonely 1958

127. Garland Jeffreys     Escape Artist 1981

128. Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction 1987

129. Glen Burtnick Heroes & Zeros 1987

130. Jason Anderson Tonight 2007

131. Matthew Sweet Girlfriend 1991

132. Rocket From The Crypt     Circa: Now 1993

133. Billy Idol   Vital Idol 1985

134. Mojo Nixon ¡Sock Ray Blue! The Real Texas Prison Field Recordings Vol. 3   1999

135. Talking Heads Little Creatures 1985

136. John Fogerty Centerfield 1985

137. Treat Her Right Tied to the Tracks 1989

138. The Arrivals Volatile Molotov 2010

139. The Kills Midnight Boom 2008 '

140. Tom Petty    Damn the Torpedoes    1979

141. Billy Joel  The Nylon Curtain 1982

142. Fleetwood Mac Rumours         1977

143. The Nails Dangerous Dreams 1986

144. The Rumble Strips   Girls And Weather 2007

145. The Screaming Blue Messiahs   Bikini Red 1987

146. Pearl Jam Vs. 1993

147. Peter Wolf Lights Out 1984

148. Warren Zevon My Ride is Here 2002

149. The Greg Kihn Band Rockihnroll 1981

150. The Kinks Misfits 1977

151. Dan Bern     Dan Bern 1997

152. Dipsomaniacs Freakin Eureka 2003

153. John Lennon Rock N Roll 1975

154. Dave Attell Skanks for the Memories 2003

The Dropped Pants Annual Mix Tape Archives

All-Stralian Essentials: 25 Great Songs of Australian Rock

1. Do the Pop - Radio Birdman

2. Holy Grail - Hunters & Collectors

3. Everything's Turning to White - Paul Kelly

4. A Tale They Won't Believe - Weddings Parties Anything

5. Bittersweet - Hoodoo Gurus

6. Boys in Town - Divynals

7. Berlin Chair - You Am I

8. Just Keep Walking - INXS

9. Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again - The Angels

10. (I’m) Stranded - The Saints

11. Sorrento Moon (I Remember) - Tina Arena

12. Runaway Girls - Australian Crawl

13. For All We Know - The Reels

14. Everyone is Lying to You for Money - The Smith Street Band

15. If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? - Mental As Anything

16. Million Dollar Riff - Skyhooks

17. Thunderstruck - AC/DC

18. From Her to Eternity - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

19. Mr. Beat - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

20. Standing On The Outside - Cold Chisel

21. Nobody Really Cares if You Don't Go to the Party - Courtney Barnett

22. My Baby Thinks She's a Train - The Triffids

23. Mutha Fukka On A Motorcycle - Machin Gun Fellacio

24. Last Night - The Scientists

25. Be Good Johnny - Men At Work

26. Power and the Passion - Midnight Oil

    Featured the best of each year's new music. Brought to you by Dropped Pants Productions (an ongoing entity being universally ignored since 1984).

2015 Mix

Dirty Ben Franklin - Ex Friends

You, In Weird Cities – Jeff Rosenstock

I Lost My Mind – Titus Andronicus

(I’m Not) Like Everybody Else – Soraia

Cherry Picking – Girlpool

Handsome –  The Vaccines

Addicted  – Jesse Malin

Midnight Meet the Rain – Destroyer

Deceptacon – Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas

The Ballad of Hans Moleman – MC Lars

Horseshoe Crabs – Hop Along

High – Royal Headache

Squatter Envy  – Mischief Brew

Bound to be Vacant  – The Paranoid Style

Scene Sick  – Diet Cig

I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) –  The Dead Weather

Pedestrian at Best – Courtney Barnett

Silent Key – Frank Turner

Hounds – The Districts

Glory Days  – Carl Barat and the Jackals

Thanks for the Ride  –  The Wonder Years

King of America – The I Don't Cares

2011 Mix

On The Sly Mischief Brew

Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra) The Vaccines

Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine Tom Morello:The Nightwatchman

ATM Care Bears on Fire

Die! Die Superhero! The Finger

Dismissed With A Kiss Spanking Charlene

Write Me a Letter Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

One Foot Before The Other Frank Turner

Came Out Swinging The Wonder Years

Be Your Bro Those Darlins

Peeping Tomboy Kurt Vile

I Hate People Jemina Pearl

Different Girls Lemuria

Love is the Villain Outside The Box

I Don’t Want Anybody That Wants Me MAKE OUT

Welcome To Your Wedding Day The Airborne Toxic Event

Two For Flinching Red City Radio

Here Comes The Summer Palmdale

Tonight's The Kind Of Night Noah and the Whale

The Honest Truth Typhoon

Go Tell Everybody The Horrible Crowes

You're Not That Good At Anything Cloud Nothings

Teenage Girls Bad Sports

Let's All Go To The Bar Deer Tick

2010

Because of the Shame Against Me!

Simple Pleasures In America The Arrivals

Basement The Dopamines

Free Energy Free Energy Stuck On Nothing

Last One Goes the Hope Gogol Bordello

Bad Boyfriends Harlan T Bobo Sucker

My Pet Snakes Jenny and Johnny I'm Having Fun Now

All the Way from Moscow Jesse Malin and The St. Marks Social Love it to Life

Cinderella Langhorne Slim

Wishing He Was Dead The Like

Serenity Now! The Manges

I Get Nothin From My Girl Mark Sultan

Beautiful Magical Nushu

Letter from An Old Friend Pinhead Gunpowder

Money Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

C'Mon The Soft Pack

Titus Andronicus Forever Titus Andronicus

(Let's Go) Where the Action Is The Twistaroos

Wait (I Don't Wanna Be Alone) The Unwed Teenage Mothers

With the Idiots Urban Junior

2009

I'll Be Your Lover (But I Can't Be Your Baby) The Ettes

Liquid In, Liquid Out The Thermals

I'm Not Your Man The Doughboys

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Cocktail Slippers

My Body's a Zombie For You Dead Man's Bones

Banker and a Liar Reigning Sound

Demoted Prima Donna

Dog of Sin The Blakes

Pump It Up The Hot Rats

People Talk Cheap Time

I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud Throw Rag

Wedding Ring The Hard Lessons

Dying Is the End of Nagging Kick Joneses

What Are You Willing To Lose Lucero

The Girl Who Became a Machine The Len Price 3

She's Already Gone The Shys

I Got The Bomb The Shazam

Oh, I Buried You Today The Raveonettes

Wonderlust King Gogol Bordello

Home Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Crook For Your Look Jack-O & The Tennessee Tearjerkers

2008

Corrido Twelve Heads in a Bag The Krayolas

July 4th, 2004 Jason Anderson

The Patient Ferris Wheel The Gaslight Anthem

Already Young The Whigs

U.R.A Fever The Kills

Little Bit of Feel Good Jamie Lidell

Philadelphia The Low Budgets

(Shorty Wanna Spend) My Stimulus Check MC Lars

Alarm Clock The Rumble Strips

Witch's Wand Sloan

Master's Gone Away Looker

The 3 Kids In Brooklyn Butch Walker

Had You Told It Like It Was (It Wouldn't Be Like It Is) The Solution

Gratitude (For Curt Flood) The Baseball Project

That's Not My Name Ting Tings

Get Ripped Friendly Foes

Snakes of Hawaii Army Navy

He Was A Man The Gurus

Heart's A Soldier Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts

Joset Of Nazareth’s Blues Titus Andronicus

2007

We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives Los Campesinos!

Oh My Office

Scoliosis Lost Locker Combo

The Underdog Spoon

We Should Never Have Children Absentee

Modern Diet The Redwalls

One Below (The All Time Low) Watts

In The Back Seat Of A Stolen Car Icecream Hands

Tick Tick Boom The Hives

Time Bomb Faber Drive

Because I'm Awesome The Dollyrots

Unless It's Kicks Okkervil River

Carnival of Fools The Condors

Lil' Hobo The Shalitas

Sweet Potato Gore Gore Girls

Bad Kids The Black Lips

Everybody Loves A Chubby Dude Turbonegro

Ball of The Dead Rat The Teeth

When The World Was Round Ian Hunter

I'da Called You Woody, Joe The Gaslight Anthem

Medium Man Song Mike Birbiglia

2006

Alcoholic The Tah-Dahs

Blue Eyes The Few

Cool City The Shazam

Dislocated Life Graham Parker

Forty and Above The Briefs

hot girls in good moods Butch Walker

Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock MC Lars

I'll Come Runnin' Hell on Heels

King Kong The Konks

Love Is Dead The Mr. T Experience

Nag Nag Nag Nag Art Brut

One, Two, Three, Me Mondo Topless

Plan To Stay Awake The Deathray Davies

Satan's School For Girls Party Wreckers

Soft Happiness Factor

Twilight Creeps Crooked Fingers

Walt Whitman Bridge Marah

Your Little Hoodrat Friend The Hold Steady

50 Cents The Low Budgets

2005

My Hometown Bowling For Soup

I'll Be Here Awake Arthur Yoria

Freedom Park Marah

We Repel Each Other Reigning Sound

Bad News The Speeds

When We Broke In Two The Gentlemen

Prince Harry Dipsomaniacs

Flavor of the Weak American Hi-Fi

My Mojo Ain’t Working No More The Solution

Making a Killing Phantom Planet

Fool Around Phonocaptors

NJ Falls Into the Atlantic Senses Fail

Red Light Mr. Airplane Man

Walking With A Ghost Tegan And Sara

God Gave Me A Gun Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers

Pirate Ships The Smugglers

Treat Me Wrong Sponge

Sucked Out Superdrag

I've Got an Ape Drape The Vandals

Lazy Generation The F-Ups

Certain Songs The Hold Steady

Coffee Shop Girl The Cautions

Slow Down Ghandi Sage Francis

2004

Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n Roll Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Am I the Only One Copperpot

Tell Me What You Want Ultimate Fakebook

Never Let You Down Again The Drakes

Beautiful Disaster Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers

New York The Brett Rosenberg Problem

Ole Bouncing Souls

C'mon C'mon The Von Bondies

Somebody Told Me The Killers

Blowtorch The Bigger Lovers

Punk Rock Rebel Millencolin

I Won't Go Hollywood Bleu

Dirty Water Guided By Voices

The New Face of Zero and One The New Pornographers

This Could Be Love Alkaline Trio

Would It Have Killed You? Cordalene

Girl All the Bad Guys Want Bowling For Soup

Prom Night at Hater High The Long Winters

Thinking of a Dream I Had The Walkmen

Hey, Hey The Elms

Whoever Dipsomaniacs