'This Year's Model'

It's a tough call, but this is probably my favorite Elvis Costello record and by a million miles my favorite album cover for Costello.

It is Costello's second album and his first with the so-called Attractions, including the Clash's Mick Jones on guitar.

It's a brilliantly melodic album with all the charm and whimsy of The Beatles and the hard, brashness of late-1970s mod and punk, which would spur any good music from the 1980s. It also spurred Costello's records. His first three made it on the 1,001 list.

Costello's a special artist and I'll probably start collecting his entire catalog in digital or compact disc form because he's offically crept into my top 10 artists of all time.

This list is changing everything!