I recently leafed through my too-large assortment of CDs to lend the cream of the crop to a friend. That much work done to sort them, you may now find out which albums I find worthy of many, many listenings. Please don't bother asking me "Why is this on/not on the list?" - this is just a snapshot of what I saw at the time. Why are you reading this, anyway?

Album	Artist	Notes
Blood Sugar Sex Magic	Red Hot Chili Peppers
The score from "The Catherine Wheel"	David Byrne
UB40	UB40
Dire Straits	Dire Straits
Portfolio	Steeleye Span	Irish/Scottish folk
The Best of & the Rest of	Steeleye Span	Irish/Scottish folk
Living in the Past	Jethro Tull	"Heavy Metal", according to the Grammys
The Globe	Big Audio Dynamite ][
The Lion and the Cobra	Sinead O'Connor
Debut	Bjork
Zooropa	U2
Houses of the Holy	Led Zeppelin
Bookends	Simon and Garfunkel
The Golden Age of Wireless	Thomas Dolby
Dreamboat Annie	Heart
Naked	Talking Heads
Purple Electric Violin Concerto	Ed Alleyne-Johnson	sounds like just what it sounds like
Bass, Bass, Bass, Bass, Bass, & Bass	L'Orchestre de Contrebasses