Not much to go on about here. To say the least, it'll cut down on some of those e-mails
(not that I don't love talking music with you people)!

Here they are: albums that rub me absolutely right, start to finish (it's all about the trip)—for myriad reasons, forever and always, no further explanation necessary. In other words, fine, take the rest (if you must), but you can't have these—off to the desert island with me they go. This was originally posted in 2002, and only three slots have been swapped out since then!

The top centum -um - um - um... alphabetical, though you'd best know your album art
(list is at the bottom if you want to play a little game):

Bad Company - Bad Company / The Beatles - The Beatles ("White Album") / Beatles - Abbey Road / Blade Runner (Vangelis) - Soundtrack / BoDeans - Home / BoDeans - Lowdown / Boston - Boston / Bread - The Best of Bread / Jackson Browne - Running On Empty / Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady / Cake - Fashion Nugget / Cars - The Cars / Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan / Suzanne Ciani - Pianissimo / Clash - London Calling / Elvis Costello - The Very Best of Elvis Costello / John Cougar - Nothing Matters and What If It Did / Cure - Mixed Up / Dada - Puzzle / Absolut Dada - A Kimpilation / Miles Davis - Kind of Blue / Dire Straits - Making Movies / Earth Wind & Fire - Gratitude / Earth Wind & Fire - All 'n All / Fleetwood Mac - Tusk / Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree, Sixteen Golden Greats / Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience / Green Day - Dookie / Guess Who - The Greatest of the Guess Who / The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious / I Mother Earth - Dig / INXS - Kick / The Jam - Greatest Hits / Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones / Journey - Infinity / Kinks - Come Dancing With the Kinks / Kiss - Double Platinum / La's - The La's / Ottmar Liebert - Borrasca / Live - Mental Jewelry / Love and Rockets - Earth Sun Moon / Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and His Large Band / Aimee Mann - Whatever / Paul McCartney - All the Best / Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 - Greatest Hits / Glenn Miller - The Unforgettable Glenn Miller / Nirvana - Unplugged in New York / Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory? / The Old Ceremony - Our One Mistake / Parliament - Mothership Connection / Michael Penn - March / Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes / Tom Petty - Greatest Hits / Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / Plimsouls - Plimsouls ...Plus / Police - Every Breath You Take (Greatest Hits) / Elvis Presley - The Great Performances / Pretenders - The Singles / Queen - Greatest Hits / Radiohead - The Bends / Ramones - Ramones Mania / Chris Rea - The Road to Hell / Reality Bites - Soundtrack / Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik / Lou Reed - New York / Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy / R.E.M. - Eponymous / Jerry Riopelle - Little Bit At a Time / Jerry Riopelle - Dangerous Stranger / Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks / Todd Rundgren - The Very Best of Todd Rundgren / Rush - Chronicles / Santana - Abraxas / Seal - Seal / Bob Seger - Night Moves / Sex Pistols - The Great Rock and Roll Swindle / Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Reprise, The Very Good Years / Singles - Soundtrack / Soul Coughing - Irresistable Bliss / Soundgarden - Superunknown / Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle / Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run / Squeeze - Singles, 45's and Under / Steely Dan - A Decade of Steely Dan / Stereo MCs - Connected / Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-78 / St. Germain - Tourist / Sting - Fields of Gold, Best of Sting / Stone Roses - Stone Roses / Stone Temple Pilots - Purple / Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop / Stray Cats - Built For Speed / Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy / Tubes - Remote Control / Twin Peaks - TV Soundtrack / U2 - The Best of U2, 1980-90 / Van Halen - Diver Down / Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes / Bill Withers - Lean on Me, The Best of Bill Withers / World Party - Goodbye Jumbo