Top 10 Albums Recorded by a Single Person

For this list I'm looking for albums with at least 3 instruments and 99% of the instruments must be recorded by one person.
The Top Ten
1 1999 - Prince
2 Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

People claim Kurt Cobain was the best member of Nirvana however he isn't because he couldn't record an album like this all by himself and Dave Grohl could.

3 Music of My Mind - Stevie Wonder
4 Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
5 McCartney - Paul McCartney
6 Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
7 Either/Or - Elliott Smith
8 Mellow Gold - Beck
9 Both Sides - Phil Collins
10 Orchestrion - Pat Metheny
The Contenders
11 Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
12 Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

It's amazing that this album was created by one person it's also has The Exorcist Theme a part of it.

Should be #1. Playing dozens of instrument in your debut album when you're not even twenty...

Highly underrated and truly an original in itself.

13 Theocracy - Theocracy

Matt Smith did everything, only used drum programming.

14 Spellbound - Yngwie Malmsteen
15 Twilight of the Gods - Bathory
16 Onset of Putrefaction - Necrophagist
17 Nordland I - Bathory
18 Nordland II - Bathory
19 Destroyer of Worlds - Bathory
20 Album - Quorthon
21 Purity of Essence - Quorthon
22 Centerfield - John Fogerty

John Fogerty did all the instruments, all the vocals, and all the songwriting.

23 Pink Moon - Nick Drake
24 Golden Feelings - Beck
25 Hermit of Mink Hollow - Todd Rundgren

Todd recorded this entire album by himself at Utopia Sound Studios, a studio that he had commissioned himself in Lake Hill, New York. It wasn't the first time Todd recorded music by himself. The first three sides of his most successful album, "Something/Anything? ", were recorded by Todd while he was living in Los Angeles.

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