On my Facebook page, I recently posted this challenge: come up with your personal all-time top five albums.
The rules are deceptively simple, but very strict:
First, the album need not be by your favorite band; nor does it need to be by even a very good band.
Second, the album must be one that you can, and do, listen to from start-to-finish without skipping a single song.
It's pretty difficult once you think about it, because even really great, critically-acclaimed, "groundbreaking" albums will have one or two stinkers on them.
Here's my top five (in no particular order):
3. Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
4. The Joshua Tree - U2
5. The Bends - Radiohead