Top 100 Albums (1981 - present)

This one was WAY more difficult!  (And I am still not "sure" about it, but it's what I could come up with before the process became too stressful.)

1. Gomez ~ In Our Gun (2002)
2. Death Cab For Cutie ~ Transatlanticism (2003)
3. Radiohead ~ The Bends (1995)
4. Gomez ~ Split the Difference (2004)
5. Pearl Jam ~ Ten (1991)
6. U2 ~ Joshua Tree (1987)
7. Radiohead ~ OK Computer (1997)
8. Beck ~ Odelay (1996)
9. The Smiths ~ The Smiths (1984)
10. Michael Jackson ~ Thriller (1983)
11. Mumford and Sons ~ Sigh No More (2009)
12. Elliott Smith ~ XO (1998)
13. Violent Femmes ~ Violent Femmes (1983)
14. Mineral ~ End Serenading (1998)
15. Sunny Day Real Estate ~ Diary (1994)
16. Nirvana ~ Nevermind (1991)
17. The Smiths ~ Hatful of Hallow (1984)
18. Radiohead ~ Kid A (2000)
19. Gomez ~ Bring It On (1998)
20. Weezer ~ Weezer (1994; AKA The Blue Album)
21. U2 ~ War (1983)
22. Gomez ~ Liquid Skin (1999)
23. Mineral ~ Power of Failing (1997)
24. The Cure ~ Wish (1992)
25. Metallica ~ Master of Puppets (1986)
26. Depeche Mode ~ Catching Up With Depeche Mode (1985)
27. Wilco ~ Being There (1996)
28. The Pixies ~ Surfer Rosa (1988)
29. Pearl Jam ~ Vs. (1993)
30. Elliott Smith ~ Either/Or (1997)
31. Gomez ~ Five Men in a Hut (2006)
32. Arcade Fire ~ The Suburbs (2010)
33. Wilco ~ Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
34. Gomez ~ Whatever's On Your Mind (2011)
35. Gomez ~ How We Operate (2006)
36. Death Cab For Cutie ~ Plans (2005)
37. Sunny Day Real Estate ~ How It Feels to be Something On (1998)
38. Tom Petty ~ Full Moon Fever (1989)
39. Muse ~ Blackholes and Revelations (2006)
40. Prince ~ Purple Rain (1984)
41. Beastie Boys ~ License to Ill (1986)
42. System of a Down ~ Toxicity (2001)
43. Everclear ~ Sparkle and Fade (1995)
44. Gomez ~ A New Tide (2009)
45. Death Cab For Cutie ~ Narrow Stairs (2008)
46. Elliott Smith ~ From A Basement on a Hill (2003)
47. Guns N' Roses ~ Appetite For Destruction (1987)
48. System of a Down ~ System of a Down (1998)
49. Lifehouse ~ No Name Face (2000)
50. Weezer ~ Pinkerton (1996)
51. The Smiths ~ The Queen Is Dead (1986)
52. Beck ~ Mutations (1998)
53. Smashing Pumpkins ~ Siamese Dreams (1993)
54. The Cure ~ Disintegration (1989)
55. Ian Ball ~ Who Goes There (2006)
56. David Crowder Band ~ Remedy (2007)
57. Everclear ~ So Much For the Afterglow (1997)
58. PJ Harvey ~ Rid of Me (1993)
59. Metallica ~ And Justice For All (1988)
60. Muse ~ Origin of Symmetry (2001)
61. New Order ~ Substance (1987)
62. Smashing Pumpkins ~ Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
63. Social Distortion ~ Social Distortion (1990)
64. Gomez ~ Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline (2000)
65. Depeche Mode ~ Violator (1990)
66. No Doubt ~ Tragic Kingdom (1995)
67. Lifehouse ~ Stanley Climbfall (2002)
68. The Cure ~ Head on the Door (1985)
69. Oingo Boingo ~ Only a Lad (1981)
70. Wico ~ A.M.
71. Stone Roses ~ The Stone Roses (1989)
72. Five Iron Frenzy ~ Upbeats and Downbeats (1997)
73. The Cranberries ~ No Need to Argue (1994)
74. Tori Amos ~ Little Earthquakes (1992)
75. Alice in Chains ~ Dirt (1992)
76. Oingo Boingo ~ Dead Man's Party (1985)
77. Smashing Pumpkins ~ Pisces Iscariot (1994)
78. Tool ~ Undertow (1993)
79. Arcade Fire ~ Funeral (2004)
80. The Cranberries ~ Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1992)
81. Portishead ~ Dummy (1994)
82. DCB ~ Illuminate (2003)
83. Coldplay ~ Parachutes (2000)
84. Ben Harper ~ Burn to Shine (1999)
85. The Pixies ~ Doolittle (1989)
86. Natalie Merchant ~ Tigerlily (1995)
87. Pavement ~ Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
88. Massive Attack ~ Mezzanine (1998)
89. Beastie Boys ~ Ill Communication (1994)
90.  Arctic Monkeys—Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
91. Iron and Wine ~ The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
92. Tom Waits ~ Rain Dogs (1985)
93. Ani DiFranco ~ Dilate (1996)
94. The Strokes ~ This Is It (2001)
95. Blind Pilot ~ 3 Rounds and A Sound (2008)
96. Pavement ~ Crooked Rain (1994)
97. Stone Roses ~ Second Coming (1994)
98. Tori Amos ~ Under the Pink (1994)
99. Tool ~ Aenima (1996)
100. Blind Pilot ~ We Are the Tide (2011)

(Seriously, I hate myself for leaving some pretty incredible albums off this list.  I mean, no White Stripes?  No Nirvana?  No Belle and Sebastian?  No Soundgarden?  What's wrong with me?)