Leigh Ann's Top 100

My girlfriend's musical taste is different from mine in many ways, but she has high aesthetic intelligence, and she is able to make quick judgments that I often eventually agree with. This list is not arranged in order of quality, but as a playlist, and it's just a snapshot of her favorite music as of November 2015.

The Kingsmen - Louie Louie (Garage Rock, 1963)

Menomena - Weird (Indie Rock, 2007)

John Cooper Clarke - Twat (Spoken Word, 1979)

Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou (Country Rock, 1963)

Bob Dylan - Obviously 5 Believers (Folk Rock, 1966)

Magazine - The Light Pours Out of Me (Post-Post, 1978)

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) - Many Lives → 49MP (Chamber Pop, 2006)

Oasis - Whatever (Brit Rock, 1994)

Destroyer - Rubies (Folk Rock, 2006)

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman (Free Jazz, 1959)

Orphans & Vandals - Argyle Square (Dickensian Chamber Folk, 2008)

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (Psych Rock, 1969)

Jake Bugg - Trouble Town (Folk Rock, 2012)

Fad Gadget - Lady Shave (Post-Punk, 1981)

Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks (Blues Rock, 1971)

Echo & the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace (Post-Punk, 1980)

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (Jazz Funk, 1973)

The Horrors - I Only Think of You (Post-Punk, 2009)

Janelle Monae - Many Moons (Funky Rhythm & Blues)

Joe McPhee - Shakey Jake (Jazz Funk/Avant-garde Jazz, 1971)

Larrikin Love - Happy as Annie (Folk Rock, 2006)

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World (Glam rock, 1970)

Manny Corchado - Pow Wow (Boogaloo, 1967)

Melt Yourself Down - Camel (Afro-Jazz Punk, 2013)

Orphans & Vandals - Mysterious Skin (Dickensian Orchestral Folk, 2008)

Sonny Rollins - Strode Rode (Bebop, 1956)

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Blues Rock, 1975)

Lightspeed Champion - Midnight Surprise (Prog Folk Rock, 2007)

Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle (Brit Rock, 2008)

Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay (Soul, 1964)

Alida Ferrarini - Rigoletto: Gualtier Maldè!... Caro nome (Opera, 1981)

Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars (Baroque Pop, 2009)

Sex Pistols - EMI (Punk, 1977)

Magazine - A Song From Under the Floorboards (Post-Punk, 1980)

Destroyer - Your Blood (Folk Rock, 2006)

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Jazz Rock, 1969)

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (Alt Rock, 1997)

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Folk Rock, 1965)

Question Mark & the Mysterians - 96 Tears (Garage Rock, 1966)

The Horrors - Death at the Chapel (Garage-Punk, 2006)

Salem - King Night (Witch House, 2010)

Simon & Garfunkel - America (Folk, 1968)

Frederic Chopin by Arthur Rubinstein - Nocturnes Op. 9, No. 2 in E-flat (Classical, 1832/1965-67)

Nick Drake - Saturday Sun (Folk, 1969)

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener (Alt Rock, 2013)

Okkervil River - Westfall (Folk Rock, 2002)

Destroyer - Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Folk, 2002)

Oasis - Supersonic (Brit Rock, 1995)

Dick Dale - Misirlou (Surf Rock, 1963)

Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Rhythm & Blues, 1959)

Best intro in music history.

S.C.U.M - Whitechapel (New Wave, 2011)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You (Blues Rock, 1956)

Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Blues Folk, 1966)

Orphans & Vandals - Terra Firma (Dickensian Folk Rock, 2008)

Sons of Kemet - Inner Babylon (Afro-Caribbean Jazz Rock, 2013)

Spherical Objects - Elliptical Optimism (Post-Punk, 1979)

T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get it On) (Glam, 1971)

Electricity in Our Homes - We Don't Need Honesty (Post-Punk, 2008)

Timber Timbre - Lonesome Hunter (Swamp Blues, 2011)

Magazine - Cut-Out Shapes (Post-Punk, 1979)

13th Floor Operators - Slip Inside This House (Psych Rock, 1967)

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (Blues Rock, 1964)

These New Puritans - We Want War (Orchestral Tribal Rock, 2011)

Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better (Post-Punk, 2007)

Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (Blues Folk, 1965)

The sun's not yellow, it's chicken!

Led Zeppelin - In the Light (Blues Rock, 1975)

Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions (Rhythm & Blues, 1962)

Charles Mingus - Track A, Solo Dancer (Post-Bop/Avant-garde Jazz, 1963)

Charles Mingus - Track B, Duet Solo Dancers (Post-Bop/Avant-garde Jazz, 1963)

Charlie Boyer & the Voyeurs - I Watch You (Psych/Garage Rock, 2012)

Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra - Hot Tempered Blues (Ragtime, 2011)

Ben Folds - Gone (Alt Rock, 2001)

Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right (Indie Rock, 2002)

Oasis - D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman? (Brit Rock, 1994)

Mystery Jets - Zootime (Indie Rock, 2006)

The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea (Post-Punk, 2009)

Courtney Barnett - Small Poppies (Psych Rock, 2015)

Pulp - Common People (Brit Pop, 1995)

Cocteau Twins - Violaine (Shoegaze, 1996)

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed (Folk Rock, 2000)

Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (Blues Rock, 1970)

Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (Prog Rock, 1972)

Timber Timbre - This Low Commotion (2014)

The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968)

Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants (Glam Rock, 2008)

Original Broadway Cast Recording - Hair (Folk Rock/Broadway)

Rufus Wainwright - Leaving for Paris No. 2 (Baroque Pop, 2007)

Cold Specks - Holland (Goth Folk, 2012)

Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia (Folk, 1970)

Mickey Murray - Shout Bamalama (Rhythm & Blues, 1967)

Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar (Psych Rock, 1975)

Lightspeed Champion - Madame Van Damme (Glam Pop, 2010)

Destroyer - Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night's Ape) (Operatic Folk Rock)

Fad Gadget - The Box (Post-Punk, 1979)

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead (Chamber Pop, 2005)