Whenever I'm visiting a friend and I come across their CD collection, I'm always curious to see how many of their albums I have. Its interesting that even if we think we have wildly different tastes in music, there's almost always at least a couple of albums that we both have. I like to think that music truly transcends culture, class, race, nationality, politics, religion, etc.

Anyway, here's my list of my very favorite albums from the past two decades: