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Wax Ecstatic: The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time Part #6

We’re back with another van full of great records. Today, we’re covering spots 50–41.

Kevin Alexander
The Riff
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19 min readNov 25, 2024

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Good morning!

Here’s an affectionate attempt at ranking their records with the understanding that placing things you love in a rigid hierarchy is objectively insane

~Elizabeth Nelson

Welcome to Part 6!

If you’d had asked me a few weeks ago if I could rattle off a Top 100 records list, my answer would’ve been something like, “Sure. That’s easy.” Today, my answer would still be yes, but it’s anything but easy. It’s taken every ounce of self-control not to tweak my list just one more time or insert a late add I’d somehow forgotten. Those have to wait for the recap post, I guess.

Anyway…

At first blush, it looks like our lists this week correlate closely with our respective ages. I know Sam is younger than I am, and while I have zero idea what it says on his license, I can kinda guess based on the year(s) some of these came out. The turn of the millennium appears to have been his formative years. Zooming out on my picks, you can definitely see that a lot of these dropped during my formative years. If I was 25 years…

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Kevin Alexander
Kevin Alexander

Written by Kevin Alexander

Indie music journalist | Mixtape maker | EIC The Riff Magazine | Writer of the On Repeat Newsletter on Substack |

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