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OK, in the style of Radio 1 in the 70s/80s I am going to count down the albums form 10 to 1, and will then reveal the rest of the top 100, go through this at your own pace, I suggest playing the youtube link to get into the spirit of things.

Some stats: Around 100 contributions, I think 645 dufferent albums were nominated.

Disclaimer: I have double checked the results, but no guarantee everthing is completely correct. I had some trouble from the likes of @Lodestone-of-Wrongness and @Lemonhope trying to sneak in multiple entries …

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  1. 10-6 (previous positions are taken from the last time we did this):

    Storming up from no. 29 we have:

    10 – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles

    The Boss is up from 22:

    9 – Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen

    Biggest climber in the top 10, up 43 places:

    8 – Hounds of Love – Kate Bush

    Sneaking up from 10:

    7 – Exile on Main Street – The Rolling Stones

    Up from 28 some sensational LA sounds:

    6 – Forever Changes – Love

  7. That Top 10 in full:

    1 5 Abbey Road The Beatles 129
    2 3 The Beatles The Beatles 92
    3 4 Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan 91
    4 40 Astral Weeks Van Morrison 82
    5 17 Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan 64
    6 28 Forever Changes Love 52
    7 10 Exile on Main Street The Rolling Stones 50
    8 53 Hounds of Love Kate Bush 48
    9 22 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 47
    10 29 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles 42

  8. 11-20:

    11 62 Hejira Joni Mitchell 41
    12 1 Revolver The Beatles 41
    13 2 Hunky Dory David Bowie 40
    14 38 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division 39
    15 NE Selling England by the Pound Genesis 38
    16 20 Bryter Later Nick Drake 38
    17 99 The Man-Machine Kraftwerk 34
    18 12 Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 33
    19 55 Station to Station David Bowie 32
    20 NE A Love Supreme John Coltrane 31
    20 87 Get Happy! Elvis Costello & The Attractions 31
    20 NE Remain In Light Talking Heads 31

          • I think that’s true for most people. Yesterday, on the anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death, someone said they were always an underground band and there were only 350 people at their very last gig. I was one of them. It was the fifth time I’d seen them and I’d say it was their worst performance I’d witnessed. They had trouble with the synthesiser sound which kept going out of tune. They were at their best touring with Buzzcocks in my view. I think the ‘Cocks fired them up.

            I saw New Order on their first tour. A shambolic gig but a much bigger audience.

            • Their 2 albums have grown in reputation I suppose. Namechecked and listed often. I wonder how much the cover designs have to do with the appeal. Gives them some charisma. Yesterday’s cult classic becomes much bigger in the present through it’s consistent acclaim. Then there’s the t-shirt. First album first track still sounds fantastic. Otherwise a bit hit and miss. Closer has brilliant moments. Probably better. I’d rather hear New Order, mainly Substance.

              • Unknown Pleasures is brilliant. The band themsleves didn’t like the album because of the production. The songs are great. but Hannett made it a masterpiece. Closer may even be better.

                • Mad fact but true!

                  Unknown Pleasures caused me to be admitted to hospital in 1984. While listening to the album, not for the first time, I experienced heart problems. Pains, fluctuations and dizzyness. My girlfriend drove me to the hospital and they put me on an ECG machine. The Doctors asked what I`d been experiencing when I firts experienced the abnormalities and honestly, they could only put it down to the music. Apart from being in the middle of The Miner`s Strike in which I participated, there were no other reasons for my condition. I have never had problems of that type prior to or since the incident.

                  I never listened to the LP again, in fact I gave it away to a friend.

    • Corrected:

      11 62 Hejira Joni Mitchell 41
      12 1 Revolver The Beatles 41
      13 2 Hunky Dory David Bowie 40
      14 38 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division 39
      15 NE Selling England by the Pound Genesis 38
      16 20 Bryter Later Nick Drake 38
      17 69 The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell 37
      18 99 The Man-Machine Kraftwerk 34
      19 12 Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 33
      20 55 Station to Station David Bowie 32

  9. 23-40

    23 NE All Things Must Pass George Harrison 30
    23 6 London Calling The Clash 30
    25 NE Who’s Next The Who 28
    26 7 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses 28
    27 23 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd 27
    27 NE A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles 27
    27 46 Aja Steely Dan 27
    27 52 Low David Bowie 27
    32 NE Meddle Pink Floyd 25
    32 NE Blue Lines Massive Attack 25
    32 66 Court And Spark Joni Mitchell 25
    32 NE Southeastern Jason Isbell 25
    32 8 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie 25
    37 27 Kind of Blue Miles Davis 24
    37 NE Black Sea XTC 24
    37 NE You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever Orange Juice 24
    40 NE Peter Gabriel (3) Peter Gabriel 23
    40 NE Behaviour Pet Shop Boys 23
    40 NE King Of America Elvis Costello 23
    40 NE Spirit Of Eden Talk Talk 23

  10. 44-96:

    44 Jordan:The Comeback Prefab Sprout 22
    45 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 22
    46 The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell 22
    47 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields 21
    48 Pet Sounds The Beach Boys 21
    49 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams 20
    50 Innervisions Stevie Wonder 20
    51 Solid Air John Martyn 20
    52 Songs in the key of life Stevie Wonder 20
    53 The Colour of Spring Talk Talk 20
    54 The Wall Pink Floyd 20
    55 Armed Forces Elvis Costello 20
    56 Dazzle Ships OMD 19
    57 Quadrophenia The Who 19
    58 Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young and Crazy Horse 19
    59 The Royal Scam Steely Dan 19
    60 Bringing it all Back Home Bob Dylan 18
    61 Dead Bees On A Cake David Sylvian 18
    62 Murmur R.E.M 18
    63 Pink Moon Nick Drake 18
    64 Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers 18
    65 Setting Sons The Jam 18
    66 Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon 18
    67 Violator Depeche Mode 18
    68 Skylarking XTC 17
    69 Blue Joni Mitchell 17
    70 Hissing On Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell 17
    71 Hot Rats Frank Zappa 17
    72 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks 17
    73 The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones 17
    74 Vauxhall and I Morissey 17
    75 Marquee Moon Television 16
    76 Sticky Fingers Rolling Stones 16
    77 9 The Queen is Dead The Smiths 16
    78 Wrecking Ball Emmylou Harris 16
    79 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan 15
    80 Inflammable Material Stiff Little Fingers 15
    81 It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy 15
    82 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & the Dominos 15
    83 Lexicon of Love ABC 15
    84 My Aim Is True Elvis Costello 15
    85 One World John Martyn 15
    86 Seventh Tree Goldfrapp 15
    87 Sign O The Times Prince 15
    88 Spilt Milk Jellyfish 15
    89 Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk 15
    90 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits 14
    91 Holland The Beach Boys 14
    92 For Your Pleasure Roxy Music 14
    93 Is A Woman Lambchop 14
    94 Odessey and Oracle The Zombies 14
    95 Parallel Lines Blondie 14
    96 Blackstar David Bowie 13
    96 Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan 13
    96 Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen 13
    96 Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro 13
    96 Full House Fairport Convention 13
    96 Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions 13
    96 Late For The Sky Jackson Browne 13
    96 Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention 13

    Bubbling under:

    Another Green World Brian Eno 12
    Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC 12
    Deja Vu Crosby Stills, Nash & Young 12
    Liege and Lief Fairport Convention 12
    One Trick Pony Paul Simon 12
    Swagger The Blue Aeroplanes 12

  11. Some comments:

    Revolver and Hunky Dory both slumped 11 places from 1 and 2 last time to 12 and 13 this time.

    The Queen is Dead was down 68 places from 8 to 77!

    Ziggy Stardust also dropped a long way out of the top 10 as did The Stone Roses.

    OK Computer was 14 last time, this time one person voted for it and it dropped to somewhere between 350 and 400.

    Artists with their votes spread across a number of albums included XTC, Elvis Costello and Neil Young.

    Very little love for UK 90s rock, the Manics got a couple of votes, Supergrass got one, I think Blur, Radiohead, Oasis and Pulp got about the same or less.

    • With the permission of @dai, who has done a fabulous job with this poll I will post a few factoids and items of useless and pointless knowledge with regard to the poll.

      400+ bands/artists received nominations in the poll. Those that attained double figures with the different albums nominations in brackets:

      Beatles: 42 (6)
      Bob Dylan: 34 (7)
      David Bowie: 31 (7)
      Van Morrison: 21 (8)
      Pink Floyd: 19 (6)
      Elvis Costello: 18 (6)
      Joni Mitchell: 17 (4)
      Bruce Springsteen: 15 (5)
      Rolling Stones: 14 (6)
      XTC: 13 (7)
      Steely Dan: 13 (6)
      Paul Simon: 12 (7)
      Tom Waits: 12 (7)
      Kate Bush: 12 (5)

      The Beatles `White Album` received more first choice nominations: 4, than `Abbey Road` 3. Other albums receiving 3 first choice nominations: `Selling England By The Pound` & `Blood On The Tracks`.

      There wer only 3 first choices for albums from the 00`s: Goldfrapp – `Seventh Tree`, Babyshambles – `Down In Albion` & Colin Steele – `Starmash`. There were no first choice albums from the 10`s.

      There were 25 albums that were first choices and those were the only nominations they received. Amongst those: The Band – `s/t`, Roy Ayres – `HQ`, Van Der Graaf Generator – `Still Life`, Ariel Ramirez/Jamie Torres – `Folklore En Nueva Dimensipon`, Japan – `Tin Drum`, The Men They Couldn`t Hang – `Silver Town`, The Nits – `Ting`, Bark Psychosis – `Hex`, Jackie Leven – `Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West` and those albums by Babyshambles and Colin Steele.

      Kate Bush received nominations for albums released in four different dacases. 70`s, 80`s, 00`s & 10`s, XTC, however received nominations for albums released over four consecutive decades, 70`s to 00`s.

      The breakdown of albums nominated from each decade are;

      50`s: 5
      60`s: 60
      70`s: 221
      80`s: 140
      90`s: 79
      00`s: 67
      10`s: 36

      A lot can be read into those numbers and I`ll let the AWers do so.

      • I had just started working up a few figures based on the top 100 & had checked the release date (first Colin Larkin’s books, then Wikipedia)

        Assuming Raindogs needed to be included.
        The decades were
        50s 1
        60s 18
        70s 47
        80s 22
        90s 10
        21c 4

        And the most popular years
        1977 (8)
        1973 (7)
        1971 (6)
        1968, 1975, 1979, 1980 (5]
        1976,1986 (4)

        • I agree about The Bends. But half of Kid A is just wilfully unlistenable to my ears. I understand why they made it but the title track sounds like they set 80 random monkeys free on a synth

          • Oh I love it, took me a while to get into the whole album and the first time I heard songs from it was live in a tent in a waterlogged Tredegar Park, Newport. That was an incredily weird experience.

            • Nick Hornby had a right old rant in a New York Times review about Radiohead having committed commercial suicide with Kid A and insulted audiences by no longer writing tunes. I mean it’s hardly Trout Mask Replica or Metal Machine Music. They did the Bowie thing of picking up on trends in electronic music and putting them out there in the mainstream in a more palatable form. I don’t see how it could be called difficult but they needed to reinvent themselves. The old stuff must have seemed past it compared to the new. I can see how it could have been a drag to have performed the earlier hits at the time. Hornby ended up looking like a real conservative reactionary.

  12. Solid list. I noticed that many voters seemed to do what I did and only vote for one album from each artist. My real top ten would probably contain several albums each from the Beatles, Stones and Bowie plus Astral Weeks. Also interesting that Sgt Pepper has made a comeback. From the 80s, when it was THE Beatles album in the eyes of the public and critics to the 90s when Revolver usurped it, I’ve noticed that the pendulum seems to be swinging back over the past few years. Me? I’ve always thought Sgt Pepper and Rubber Soul are the most overrated Beatles albums. I’m an Abbey Rd and Revolver man!

    • I am surprised by a huge victory for Abbey Road, for me it probably rates 4th or 5th just when I consider their albums. a few weak tracks on side 1 and unfinished songs on side 2 formed into a medley. There are a few classics of course and it sounds great, but a lot of relative mediocrity. I do tend to think of them as the best band ever, but others made better albums. I had only A Hard Day’s Night in my top 10, if I had had another it would have been the White Album, then probably Revolver.

      • I’d have Abbey Rd, Revolver, Help and AHDN. To me, Abbey Rd is marred only by Maxwell. Without that it would be the only album that I would consider truly flawless.

        btw, Thanks for doing this!

      • It’s a worthy winner, but as i was scrolling down I was fully expecting to see Revolver in the top spot. It was a surprise! Maybe Mark Lewisohn’s lecture tour last year helped to cement it in people’s imaginations? As well as the 50th anniversary release obviously.

        • Revolver’s high point for me has always been Here, There and Everywhere. It’s slightly ruined by Yellow Submarine (great song but I really don’t need to hear it again). Tomorrow Never Knows was a breakthrough but I’ve always given a meh-ish shrug to Dr Robert and She Said She Said.

            • I don’t feel that ‘Revolver’ featured Lennon’s best songs. This was definitely Macca’s album (Rigby, Here/Everywhere, Sunshine, For No One, Got to Get You Into My life). Lennon had the immense ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ but his other tunes now sound like b-sides to these ears. Ok. But not great.

                • ‘Rain’ is correctly lauded as one of their finest b-sides. Should definitely have been on the album instead of weaker tunes such as Bird, She Said or Dr Bob. Paperback Writer however always outstays it’s welcome for me. Nice vocal ideas (Macca spooked by Brian Wilson) and riff but melodically uninspired. Which is odd for mid-period Macca.

                  • Bird and She Said stay. Paperback Writer is wonderful and replaces Yellow Submarine. Rain replaces Love You To or I Want to Tell You. Dr Robert just hangs on.

                  • It’s four years since I wrote a Feature on Revolver. Four years??!!?? Seems like Yesterday. 😉

                    Anyway, I had some rules on pimping it:

                    1. Whenever you pimp a Beatles album, always bear in mind that the original sequencing is best.
                    2. On Revolver, you must alternate McCartney and Lennon songs.
                    3. Taxman must start the album and the two Lennon acid rock numbers must close each side.

                    On side one, there is a bit of a lull with three consecutive quiet tracks, I’m Only Sleeping, Love You To, Here, There And Everywhere. Liven things up with insertion of Paperback Writer after I’m Only Sleeping.

                    Then, you are left with Rain. The only place it can go without rubbing up against another Lennon track on side two is between I Want To Tell You and Got To Get You Into My Life. Rain is pretty heavy. Placed there it is in close proximity to Tomorrow Never Knows and weighs down the second half of side two.

                    My solution is to place it after Paperback Writer and lighten up side two with Yellow Submarine. Bearing in mind Beatles sequencing is best, YS fits next to last.

                    Side one
                    1. Taxman
                    2. Eleanor Rigby
                    3. I’m Only Sleeping
                    4. Paperback Writer
                    5. Rain
                    6. Love You To
                    7. Here, There And Everywhere
                    8. She Said, She Said

                    Side two
                    1. Good Day Sunshine
                    2. And Your Bird Can Sing
                    3. For No One
                    4. Dr. Robert
                    5. I Want To Tell You
                    6. Got To Get You Into My Life
                    7. Yellow Submarine
                    8. Tomorrow Never Knows

                    As track four, Paperback Writer really shines.

                • I’ve never felt Yellow Submarine belonged on Revolver.
                  In my alternative fab universe Yellow Submarine (backed with Good Day Sunshine) would have been a stand-alone single, Rain would end side 1 of Revolver and Paperback Writer kicks off side 2.

                  • Hmm. Ignores the alternation of McCartney & Lennon song rule which is part of the charm of Revolver.

                    However, as I’ve said before, the real test of a Beatles Fan’s mettle is Yellow Submarine. How can a children’s song nestle comfortably in an album inventing Acid Rock, Baroque Pop and Raga Rock? In actual fact, it is extremely difficult to write an ear-worm of a singalong ditty and McCartney is a master at it. He composed the song in wide-eyed wonder, and with a little help from Donovan, who suggested ‘sky of blue, sea of green’. Lennon’s children’s songs tended to be sardonic but McCartney’s glow with innocence. The Beatles follow the golden rule that when you are being ridiculous, give it everything you’ve got. Collectively, they lavished as much attention on Yellow Submarine as they did on Tomorrow Never Knows. Swirling buckets of water are closely miked to mimic the ocean, loudhailers are distorted for the captain’s announcements, sung with gusto by Lennon, an oompah band is on a loop and there are thrillingly realistic engine noises. By the closing cast-of-thousands chorus, as the boys sail off into the deep blue, they have a created an entirely new world. Yellow Submarine is the most successful song from Revolver, reaching number one everywhere. It begat a film that perpetuated the myth of The Beatles being four young men who live together and travel the universe having exciting adventures and lots of fun. It is a legacy that entrances new generations even today

                    • Nicely expressed and all that, but, firstly, I don’t want to listen to it every bloody time I play the album, secondly, yes they put everything into it, but that’s because they were having a brilliant time doing it, which was great and fun for them, but not so great for us after the first listen.

                    • I genuinely love Yellow Submarine. It’s joyful innocence and great fun. I feel the same way about Octopus’s Garden. I’d miss them terribly if they weren’t on their respective albums. The only song of theirs I truly wouldn’t miss is MSH. As for Hey Jude, I give that a miss too. Boring, and too long. It invented zippo rock, too.

        • Revolver always used to be the critics favourite whilst Pepper went through a period when it was rather frowned upon. I’m sure it and Abbey Road have benefited from all the 5Oth anniversary Hoopla in the last couple of years

      • It is a worthy winner, but does the fact it was recently reissued (and hence probably re listened to for the first time in ages) contribute to its success ?

    • Yes, I did that, just voted for a maximum of one by each artist. Thinking about it, that probably skews things a bit, doesn’t it? In truth I would probably have a top ten full of Beatles, Pink Floyd and Dylan albums!

  17. Point of order – by my count Rain Dogs sneaks into another equal 20 on 31. Not something I would have noticed except it had my top spot. Without that I didn’t vote for anything above number 40, though there are any number I could have.

    • No I don`t get that, `dull` that is retro. Why listen to stuff out of your comfort zone for the sake of it?

      I listen to lots of different genres of music. Some the wife asks `how can you listen to that?` and after showing her how to put an LP on the platter, turn the amp up to 11, get a beer, get a seat in the sweet spot I give her a smile. Seriously though, I`m not going to ever listen to music I don`t like the sound of.

  21. Strewth, the Sainted Dave and no-hits have both had a nightmare!!!

    Maybe because I’m so immersed in the era, the only albums I listen to with any regularity in the Top 50 are actually “A Hard Day’s Night,” at 27, and “Pet Sounds,” 48.
    In the case of the latter, I probably play it once to every 40 listens to earlier (or “Friends”) Beach Boys’ albums.

    Right now, inspired by the latest Mojo, it’s Otis.
    “Otis Blue?” Too obvious, “Love Man.”

  22. Obviously, no one else here has even heard of African Dub Chapter Three. What a bunch of civilians.

    😉 Great work fella, that list would be a brilliant Inheritance Collection to gift to a youth.

  25. Well done, dai.

    Loads of New Entries. I wonder which albums dropped out of the top one hundred, ones that are no longer loved as much, having been replaced not by anything newer, brighter, shinier, but by something just as old and worn. Is 69 Love Songs the most recent on the entire list, followed by Spirit Of Eden?

    • Probably not as much to do with the lack of quality in new releases, more perhaps that when invited to compile an all-time Top Ten we tend to fall back, understandably, on the records that have been with us the longest and which we have loved seemingly forever.

  26. Labour of love Dai, well done

    Interesting how this says more about the nature of polls than the longevity of quality music.
    Newer stuff (by which I mean less than 40 years old) has slipped down – has the Afterword lost its younger contributors?
    Do recent re-issue packages (eg White Album and Abbey Road) influence preference?
    Do other people’s picks influence ones choices? The mysterious disappearance of Graceland for example – perhaps it wasn’t seen so wasn’t considered.

    • Good questions. Graceland falls into the category of “don’t need to hear it again” although I probably will play it again at some point. I did dig out Rhythm of the Saints after the recent Paul Simon thread, needs more plays.
      FWIW, I didn’t agonise over my 10, just went for them in the order I thought of them. Sometimes, the first answer is the correct one

  27. To start the conspiracy theories rolling….. I think the only reason the Sigur Ros album, “Med suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust” didn’t make the Top 100 is because Dai doesn’t have an Icelandic keyboard…….

  28. A Love Supreme at 20. Not bad for an album no one actually listens to more than once, and even then only because all the critics who are supposed to know about these things insist it’s a masterwork so you feel sort of obligated to give it a try.

    I like jazz – honestly – but A Love Supreme is pretty hard work .There are more enjoyable Coltrane albums.

  29. Huge swathes of popular music always get a rum deal in any poll, and this is a very small poll.

    Jamaica, Tamla, Modern jazz – indeed any black artist!, any female, anything before 64/65.

    And, of course, in order to have, say, Miles Davis or John Coltrane represented (not an unreasonable wish) you HAVE to vote for “Kind of Blue” or “A Love Supreme,” otherwise it’s a “wasted” vote.

    A “Rolling Stone” magazine poll a few years ago remedied this problem by simply putting in “Greatest Hits” and box sets by the likes of James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles etc, otherwise they wouldn’t have got much of a look in.

  30. and Hounds of Love is the only one in the top 20 recorded in the past 40 years…

    How about we do it again, but only with albums from the past 40 years? (I assume Hounds of Love would win)

  32. It’d be interesting to see a chart of artists produced from all the votes because there are some omissions (no Sparks, Ramones, Fountains of Wayne) that may be down to a split vote.

  34. OK, apologies I messed up Joni’s Hissing album, it was actually 17, there was a spelling error and a definite article left off that messed up the list. Also some rankings have changed a bit. Here is the corrected Top 100:

    1 Abbey Road The Beatles 129
    2 The Beatles The Beatles 92
    3 Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan 91
    4 Astral Weeks Van Morrison 82
    5 Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan 64
    6 Hounds of Love Kate Bush 58
    7 Forever Changes Love 52
    8 Exile on Main Street The Rolling Stones 50
    9 Born to run Bruce Springsteen 47
    10 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles 42
    11 Hejira Joni Mitchell 41
    12 Revolver The Beatles 41
    13 Hunky Dory David Bowie 40
    14 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division 39
    15 Selling England by the Pound Genesis 38
    16 Bryter Layter Nick Drake 38
    17 The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell 37
    18 The Man-Machine Kraftwerk 34
    19 Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 33
    20 Station to Station David Bowie 32
    21 A Love Supreme John Coltrane. 31
    21 Get Happy!! Elvis Costello & The Attractions 31
    21 Remain In Light Talking Heads 31
    24 All Things Must Pass George Harrison 30
    24 London Calling The Clash 30
    26 Who’s Next The Who 28
    27 A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles 27
    27 Aja Steely Dan 27
    27 Low David Bowie 27
    27 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd 27
    31 Blue Lines Massive Attack 25
    31 Court And Spark Joni Mitchell 25
    31 Meddle Pink Floyd 25
    31 Skylarking XTC 25
    31 Southeastern Jason Isbell 25
    31 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie 25
    37 Black Sea XTC 24
    37 Kind of Blue Miles Davis 24
    37 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses 24
    37 You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever Orange Juice 24
    41 3 Peter Gabriel 23
    41 Behaviour Pet Shop Boys 23
    41 King Of America Elvis Costello 23
    41 Spirit Of Eden Talk Talk 23
    45 Jordan:The Comeback Prefab Sprout 22
    45 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 22
    47 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields 21
    47 Pet Sounds The Beach Boys 21
    49 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams 20
    49 Innervisions Stevie Wonder 20
    49 Solid Air John Martyn 20
    49 Songs in the key of life Stevie Wonder 20
    49 The Colour of Spring Talk Talk 20
    49 The Wall Pink Floyd 20
    55 Dazzle Ships OMD 19
    55 Quadrophenia The Who 19
    55 Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young and Crazy Horse 19
    55 The Royal Scam Steely Dan 19
    59 Bringing it all Back Home Bob Dylan 18
    59 Dead Bees On A Cake David Sylvian 18
    59 Murmur R.E.M 18
    59 Pink Moon Nick Drake 18
    59 Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers 18
    59 Setting Sons The Jam 18
    59 Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon 18
    59 Violator Depeche Mode 18
    67 Blue Joni Mitchell 17
    67 Hats The Blue Nile 17
    67 Hot Rats Frank Zappa 17
    67 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks 17
    67 The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones 17
    67 Vauxhall and I Morissey 17
    73 Marquee Moon Television 16
    73 Sticky Fingers Rolling Stones 16
    73 The Queen is Dead The Smiths 16
    73 Wrecking Ball Emmylou Harris 16
    77 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan 15
    77 Inflammable Material Stiff Little Fingers 15
    77 It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy 15
    77 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & the Dominos 15
    77 Lexicon of Love ABC 15
    77 My Aim Is True Elvis Costello 15
    77 One World John Martyn 15
    77 Seventh Tree Goldfrapp 15
    77 Sign O The Times Prince 15
    77 Spilt Milk Jellyfish 15
    77 Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk 15
    88 For Your Pleasure Roxy Music 14
    88 Holland The Beach Boys 14
    88 Is A Woman Lambchop 14
    88 Odessey and Oracle The Zombies 14
    88 Parallel Lines Blondie 14
    88 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits 14
    94 Blackstar David Bowie 13
    94 Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan 13
    94 Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen 13
    94 Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro 13
    94 Full House Fairport Convention 13
    94 Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions 13
    94 Late For The Sky Jackson Browne 13
    94 Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention 13

    Btw in the top 20, I ranked some with equal points (e.g. Joni) higher than others because they got more first place votes. I didn’t bother with this outside the top 20.

            • I have 68 on CD, 25 downloaded (7 of which I had on CD, but flogged it) and there’s 7 I have never owned in any form, or even listened to. I shall rectify that and have a listen to them to see what I’m missing, although I’m only expecting to like the Stiff Little Fingers one and the Jellyfish one (I have a Jellyfish greatest hits CD). 30 of the album I had on vinyl (that is sadly long since flogged, especially my pristine original mono copy of Highway 61), and the one I have bought the most times (all different versions) is the White Album (6), closely followed by Sgt Pepper and The Wall (5), although I have downloaded the excellent extended version of The Wall, so I guess that really ties with the White Album.

              • When I first looked through the list, I thought there were three I don’t own one way or another. I’ve rectified that bay listening to them as a stream. I haven’t ‘bought’ any.

                However, your comment has reminded me of my blind spot. Is The Wall actually in the list? I can’t see it. I have to admit, I still haven’t heard it. Makes me wonder if Appetite For Destruction is hiding in there somewhere, too.

    • That’s a cracking record collection, right there. Luckily for me I only have 3 titles to buy if I wanted to complete my own set.

      But I think I’ll pass on the Stiff Little Fingers and the Depeche Mode, so that just leaves the Lambchop.

      But while the price of Lambchop CDs remains as it is, I’ll make do with the ones I already have of theirs, thank you very much. It did only make the high eighties, after all.

  35. Great work @dai. A few observations:
    we seem in the main to be quite a conservative bunch – many of those in the top 10 are pretty much staples of most polls and critics lists (Hounds of Love is the outlier here).
    But just to mark us as a bit different :
    – some surprises in terms of the favourite album by an artist e.g. no Graceland, Blue beaten by 3 other Joni albums; Fairport in the list but not with Liege and Lief
    – Pet Sounds maybe losing its appeal a bit ?
    – Coltrane beats Kind of Blue as the Afterworders favourite jazz album (I blame Tig!)
    – Selling England is our favourite prog album (quite right too)

    • Need to re-check Liege and Leif as there were at least 3 different spellings! It came joint 102nd I think. I have Graceland at joint 201st. Paul Simon also suffered from having many different albums chosen.

      Pink Floyd had 3 albums in top 31, so their vote was split a bit,

  39. I think I’m going to listen to more soul albums; albums-as-albums as opposed to compilations.
    I’m compiling a list right now.

    Might as well, got no football or cricket to go to, and my German football team of four days (Union Berlin) are beginning to depress me.

    • Good man. Start with the pure joy of The Exciting Wilson Pickett but it shouldn’t be long before you are enjoying great music right through to the mid-late Seventies. Soul albums were at the peak 1972-1975.

      • Philly? Are you George? That’s what put me off in the first place.
        And the clothes … no, no, no … definitely not.

        Doing Otis (the four posthumous studio ones) and The Impressions (all 11 of them) first.

        • There’s Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Al Green, Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Bobby Womack….the list goes on.

                • Only men would dismiss clothing and looks in pop music. Only men.
                  It’s not bleedin’ Glyndebourne!

                  I’d claim What’s Goin’ On and Curtis for the Golden Age. Certainly, fag end. Stevie Wonder, yeah, but the world and his wife knows that stuff.
                  I want mid-60s soul, with NO reference to disco or cocaine or platform shoes. Crazy, huh!

                  Made a discovery already.
                  “One by One” by The Impressions – August 65 – know it? Of course, you don’t.
                  Avoid. Not 100% disagreeable, there are 3 Curtis originals, but reveals that alarming trait that Berry Gordy spent the whole of the 60s trying to steer Marvin away from … really hip black artists wanting to be like Frank f***** Sinatra or Nat King Cole.

                  Like Manchester United wanting to be Gillingham.

                  • See my comments on the Chameleons above – music from the gods, but with a guy called Reg Smithies in the band, a penchant for terrible self-drawn album covers, and all the dress sense of a Geology Teachers Convention they self-sabotaged their career very effectively. Jimi Hendrix wasn’t just a pretty guitarist, he was an ace face etc.

    • I don’t know if it is due to the licensing of material being easier to obtain for soul tracks, or lack of interest among rock fans in compilations, but soul compilations are much better than rock comps. And in my opinion they are also generally much better than than soul albums by individual artists.

  40. Utterly brilliant job @dai, thank you. Amongst a number of things that strike me is that not only do Revolver and Blue seemed to have lost ground, so too Highway 61 Revisited. Surely I’m not alone in considering It vastly better than Blonde on Blonde?

    • Thanks! It was actually only 42 last time. Toss up for me. Maybe BOB wins by being longer? I also prefer the love songs on that album and am not a (big) fan of Desolation Row. I didn’t vote for either though in my top 10 which I felt bad about.

      • Having chosen to have just one Dylan record it was a close call between Blood on the Tracks and Highway 61 Revisited. It’s just a much more consistent and complete record for me than BOB or Bringing it All Back Home both of which have too much filler.

        • Don’t agree, 65-66 period is very consistent (also the non album singles), I was surprised not a single vote for John Wesley Harding I think. Maybe Rainy Day Women is a weak link?

            • I’m the only person who voted for Desire.

              Though I reckon the triumvirate crowning glory of Dylan’s career are, ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde On Blonde’. Dylan was also the coolest guy on the planet at the time.

              • Nashville Skyline 7 pts
                Desire 6 pts

                And I just realised H61R got one more vote (was in artist column) pushing it up to joint 76th place.

                I also love The Times They Are a Changin’ btw.

  42. I seem to recall that one of the previous versions of this I was awarded the honour of ‘Most Average Afterworder’. By and large that still is true with 5 in the charts, 2 non-charting albums by artists who did chart, and 3 by artists who failed to make the charts at all. The Chameleons I could have guessed, but is is really true that Led Zep and New Order failed to trouble the top 100 at all, Both I guess have their votes spread amongst stellar catalogues.

      • Am even more amazed (and I am a fan up to about 2010) that Vauxhall and I charted higher Than The Queen is Dead. I would have thought that the Morrissey backlash would scupper all his solo stuff, as I can certainly continue to hold an unproblematic candle for Joyce, Rourke and Marr. But no 17 people, so around 17%, had it in their top 10. It would seem you can’t kill him. Just out of interest, did anyone have Thriller or Off The Wall in their top 10?

            • I read a review yesterday that said his new album is great (it is) following the disappointing California Son. The reviewer clearly fell into the ‘it must be crap cos he didn’t write them himself’ trap. I bet he never even listened to California Son, cos it’s the best album he’d released for ages. I must admit, I expected it to be rubbish, so I was pleasantly surprised.

    • The correct order for Led Zep is 4132 – which is also my bank card PIN.
      Presence would be in fifth.

      Problem for me was I found 10 other albums I preferred.
      What Led Zep need is a big anniversary thing to push them back into consciousness.

      No Led Zep or New Order? No show for Judas Priest, Motorhead or Twisted Sister
      (sorry, I thought I was reading Keerrang)

      • I think I had IV in my list, which for me is really the only cohesive Led Zep album that is 100% killer no filler. The rest of their LPs have troublesome longueurs and blues jams.

        III is decent but could have been an EP.

        I and II would benefit from being combined together and whittled down to a great 40 minute album.

        • Mmmmm, uncertain.
          IV has an all killer side 1 and nowt but Going to California on side 2.
          (Don’t give me that old cobblers about When the Levee Goes on For Bloody Forever..)

          • Oh you are breaking my heart!

            Misty Mountain Hop?? Four Sticks???

            And if you don’t get a shiver down your spine at the chorus bit where When The Levee Breaks shifts into a major key then you have no SOUL – “Don’t it make you feel bad
            When you’re tryin’ to find your way home
            You don’t know which way to go?” (Had to look up that lyric there as I was never actually sure what he was saying…)

                • Really? I thought they were one of the founders of the genre.
                  I’m fairly sure that the first time I ever came across the term was in the early 70s in a review of the band in Melody Maker.
                  The term may have developed into a particular niche over time. But LZ were there at the start.

                  • I think the problem here is that the term “heavy metal” has changed over the years. What may have been “heavy metal” in the 70s is what we would call “hard rock” these days.

                    Similarly, “R&B” today, especially in the US, is completely different to what R&B used to be.

                    • Judas Priest are the definitive heavy metal band IMHO.

                      You can work your way from there onto all the sub genres.

                      This defines heavy metal for me:

                    • JP pretty much defined the Kerrang-esque template.
                      Soaring vocals, dual guitars, leather and studs, motorbikes, and members that look like Vim Fuego.
                      Priest and Motorhead – the godfathers of NWOBHM.

  43. I kind of regret choosing Beatles, Stones, Floyd. It seems pointless shuffling round the usual all time bedt suspects. Just listening to Radiohead as a consequence of their no show and their best albums are as good as any of the top ten. Crazy talk? Not really. Weird Fishes, Reckoner, what tracks! Should have chosen In Rainbows. Not that it matters or anything.

    • I love Radiohead, spread to a top 30 and I might have included The Bends, OK Computer and/or Kid A. I was also listening to A Moon Shaped Pool this weekend and it blew me away. Let’s persuade @Blue-Boy to do a post 1990 vote, not just this century?

  45. Didn’t actually get around to taking part in this one and it’s admittedly a long time ago, but have you all gone off Hendrix or something? Electric Ladyland was always a sure thing for lists like this down the years. Played it yesterday (not the crap Redding track, obviously). Still bracing stuff (the Winwood session bits) and that handful of hits. Even the woozy bits… Maybe nobody listens to guitar instrumentals anymore, granted, but he’s still unique.

  46. Great, always fun @dai !

    A few observations from the Exmouth AW branch….

    1. The recent de luxe reissues etc. by the fabs have obviously had an effect – e.g. if Revolver had had the treatment then I would guess it would be top 3 at least. Also, sadly, would Kraftwerk be as high if there hadn’t been a sad recent event? It is totally understandable and natural.
    2. I think there is a halo effect from previous posts during the voting…we all scan down other’s lists and it reminds us or nudges us, so you will get a snowballing.
    3. There ARE some amazing omissions…the Byrds, no early rock ‘n’ roll, Beggar’s Banquet, soul etc.
    4. It is mostly white rock, of course, and I would have been amazed by any other result
    5. Only voting for 10 but then publishing a top hundred is probably slighly misleading – to get a true top hundred then we should probably have all voted for 100 albums. By only having 10 votes we possibly skewed our selection to our one favourite album by an artist, so there are a lot of votes for several artist’s one most popular work….Astral Weeks, Rumours, Who’s Next, Village Green and so on…

    Anyway, great fun, and good work all round!

    • Astute comments re:5 I disagree, I think it would look much the same in the top 100. We were allowed to vote for more albums by just one artist anyway. It is also easier to come up with 10 in a rough order, to do that for a hundred is near impossible, would have taken months to get enough votes in and then weeks to collate them I could also have said top 3 or top 5, or indeed top 20.

      I will post some more results from the poll later.

      And thanks

  47. Top 80s Albums:

    1 Hounds of Love Kate Bush
    2 Get Happy!! Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    3 Rain Dogs Tom Waits
    4 Remain In Light Talking Heads
    5 Skylarking XTC
    6 Black Sea XTC
    6 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
    6 You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever Orange Juice
    9 Peter Gabriel (3) Peter Gabriel
    9 King Of America Elvis Costello
    9 Spirit Of Eden Talk Talk
    12 The Colour of Spring Talk Talk
    13 Dazzle Ships OMD
    14 Murmur R.E.M
    15 Hats The Blue Nile
    16 The Queen is Dead The Smiths
    17 Lexicon of Love ABC
    17 Sign O The Times Prince
    19 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits
    20 Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    21 One Trick Pony Paul Simon
    22 Parade Prince
    22 Technique New Order
    24 Bummed Happy Mondays
    24 Closer Joy Division
    24 Common One Van Morrison
    24 Dexys Midnight Runners Don’t Stand Me Down
    24 Fisherman’s Blues The Waterboys
    24 Hearts And Bones Paul Simon
    24 Hex Enduction Hour The Fall
    24 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno & David Byrne
    24 Nonsuch XTC
    24 Reckoning R.E.M.
    24 Silver Town The Men They Couldn’t Hang
    24 Starfish The Church
    24 The Distractions Nobody’s Perfect
    24 The Nightfly Donald Fagen
    24 Tin Drum Japan
    24 When in Rome Penguin Cafe Orchestra
    40 High Land Hard Rain Aztec Camera
    40 Lifes Rich Pageant R.E.M.
    40 Milestones Miles Davis
    40 On the Way to the Peak of Normal Holger Czukay
    40 Passion Peter Gabriel
    40 Sweet Baby James James Taylor
    40 The Dreaming Kate Bush
    40 Workers Playtime Billy Bragg
    48 ABC Beauty Stab
    48 As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls Pat Metheny
    48 Dare! The Human League.
    48 Fried Julian Cope
    48 Graceland Paul Simon
    48 Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy Billy Bragg
    48 Life’s hard and then you die It’s Immaterial
    48 Pontiac Lyle Lovett
    48 Signing Off UB40
    48 The Waitresses Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
    48 This Is The Sea The Waterboys
    48 Thunder And Consolation New Model Army
    48 Unfinished Revolution Christy Moore

  48. Everything!! @Tiggerlion @NigelT

    If anybody sees missing albums or duplicate entries, I apologise, please don’t complain about it. I’m done!!

    1 Abbey Road The Beatles
    2 The Beatles The Beatles
    3 Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan
    4 Astral Weeks Van Morrison
    5 Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan
    6 Hounds of Love Kate Bush
    7 Forever Changes Love
    8 Exile on Main Street The Rolling Stones
    9 Born to run Bruce Springsteen
    10 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles
    11 Hejira Joni Mitchell
    12 Revolver The Beatles
    13 Hunky Dory David Bowie
    14 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division
    15 Bryter Layter Nick Drake
    16 Selling England by the Pound Genesis
    17 The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell
    18 The Man-Machine Kraftwerk
    19 Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd
    20 Station to Station David Bowie
    21 A Love Supreme John Coltrane.
    23 Get Happy!! Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    23 Rain Dogs Tom Waits
    26 Remain In Light Talking Heads
    26 All Things Must Pass George Harrison
    26 London Calling The Clash
    29 Who’s Next The Who
    29 A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles
    31 Aja Steely Dan
    32 Low David Bowie
    32 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
    32 Blue Lines Massive Attack
    35 Court And Spark Joni Mitchell
    35 Meddle Pink Floyd
    35 Skylarking XTC
    35 Southeastern Jason Isbell
    35 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
    40 Black Sea XTC
    40 Kind of Blue Miles Davis
    40 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
    43 You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever Orange Juice
    44 3 Peter Gabriel
    Behaviour Pet Shop Boys
    King Of America Elvis Costello
    47 Spirit Of Eden Talk Talk
    47 Jordan:The Comeback Prefab Sprout
    47 Rumours Fleetwood Mac
    47 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields
    47 Pet Sounds The Beach Boys
    52 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
    52 Innervisions Stevie Wonder
    52 Solid Air John Martyn
    52 Songs in the key of life Stevie Wonder
    52 The Colour of Spring Talk Talk
    57 The Wall Pink Floyd
    57 Dazzle Ships OMD
    57 Quadrophenia The Who
    57 Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young and Crazy Horse
    61 The Royal Scam Steely Dan
    61 Bringing it all Back Home Bob Dylan
    61 Dead Bees On A Cake David Sylvian
    61 Murmur R.E.M
    61 Pink Moon Nick Drake
    61 Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers
    61 Setting Sons The Jam
    61 Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon
    69 Violator Depeche Mode
    69 Blue Joni Mitchell
    69 Hats The Blue Nile
    69 Hot Rats Frank Zappa
    69 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks
    69 The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones
    69 Vauxhall and I Morissey
    76 Marquee Moon Television
    76 Sticky Fingers Rolling Stones
    76 The Queen is Dead The Smiths
    76 Wrecking Ball Emmylou Harris
    80 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
    80 Inflammable Material Stiff Little Fingers
    80 It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy
    80 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & the Dominos
    80 Lexicon of Love ABC
    80 My Aim Is True Elvis Costello
    80 One World John Martyn
    80 Seventh Tree Goldfrapp
    80 Sign O The Times Prince
    80 Spilt Milk Jellyfish
    80 Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk
    80 For Your Pleasure Roxy Music
    92 Holland The Beach Boys
    92 Is A Woman Lambchop
    92 Odessey and Oracle The Zombies
    92 Parallel Lines Blondie
    92 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits
    96 Blackstar David Bowie
    96 Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan
    96 Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen
    96 Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro
    96 Full House Fairport Convention
    96 Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    96 Late For The Sky Jackson Browne
    102 Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention
    102 Another Green World Brian Eno
    102 Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC
    102 Deja Vu Crosby Stills, Nash & Young
    102 Liege and Lief Fairport Convention
    102 Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust Sigur Ros
    102 One Trick Pony Paul Simon
    102 Swagger The Blue Aeroplanes
    102 Tunnel of Love Bruce Springsteen
    111 Aladdin Sane David Bowie
    111 Animals Pink Floyd
    111 Armed Forces Elvis Costello
    111 I want to see the Bright Lights tonight Richard and Linda Thompson
    111 Parade Prince
    111 Technique New Order
    117 A Wizard/A True Star Todd Rundgren
    117 Black Love Afghan Whigs
    117 Bummed Happy Mondays
    117 Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John
    117 Chateau Revenge! The Silver Seas
    117 Close To The Edge Yes
    117 Closer Joy Division
    117 Common One Van Morrison
    117 Dexys Midnight Runners Don’t Stand Me Down
    117 Dixie Chicken Little Feat
    117 Down in Albion Babyshambles
    117 Exodus Bob Marley and the wailers
    117 Fisherman’s Blues The Waterboys
    117 Folklore en Nueva Dimensión Ariel Ramirez/Jaime Torres
    117 Forbidden Songs of the Dying West Jackie Leven
    117 Genesis Selling England by the Pound
    117 Hearts And Bones Paul Simon
    117 Hex Bark Psychosis
    117 Hex Enduction Hour The Fall
    117 HQ Roy Harper
    117 In My Tribe 10,000 Maniacs
    117 Jailbreak Thin Lizzy
    117 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Brian Eno & David Byrne
    117 New Boots and Panties!! Ian Dury
    117 No Parlez Paul Young
    117 Nonsuch XTC
    117 Otis Blue Otis Redding
    117 Reckoning R.E.M.
    117 Sail Away Randy Newman
    117 School’s Out Alice Cooper
    117 Silver Town The Men They Couldn’t Hang
    117 Starfish The Church
    117 Still Life Van der Graaf Generator
    117 Stramash Colin Steele
    117 The Band The Band
    117 The Distractions Nobody’s Perfect
    117 The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett
    117 The Nightfly Donald Fagen
    117 The Show Must Go On Sam Dees
    117 There’s a Riot going On Sly and the Family Stone
    117 Tin Drum Japan
    117 Ting Nits
    117 What’s Going On Marvin Gaye
    117 When in Rome Penguin Cafe Orchestra
    161 Fun House The Stooges
    161 #1 Record Big Star
    161 Abandoned Luncheonette Hall and Oates
    161 Armed Forces Elvis Costello
    161 Beggar’s Banquet The Rolling Stones
    161 Black and White The Stranglers
    161 Can’t Stand The Rezillos The Rezillos
    161 Closing Time Tom Waits
    161 Edge of the Sun Calexico
    161 Good Old Boys Randy Newman
    161 Hergest Ridge Mike Oldfield
    161 High Land Hard Rain Aztec Camera
    161 Hosianna Mantra Popol Vuh
    161 In Search Of The Lost Chord The Moody Blues
    161 It’s Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison
    161 Laughingstock TalkTalk
    161 Lifes Rich Pageant R.E.M.
    161 Milestones Miles Davis
    161 Mock Tudor Richard Thomson
    161 MTV Unplugged in New York Nirvana
    161 Nick Kamen Nick Kamen
    161 Ommadawn Mike Oldfield
    161 On the Way to the Peak of Normal Holger Czukay
    161 Passion Peter Gabriel
    161 Power and the Glory Gentle Giant
    161 Raw Power Iggy & The Stooges
    161 Songs for Beginners Graham Nash
    161 Space Ritual Hawkwind
    161 Sparks Indiscreet
    161 Surf`s Up The Beach Boys
    161 Sweet Baby James James Taylor
    161 Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
    161 The Dreaming Kate Bush
    161 The Koln Concert Keith Jarrett.
    161 There Goes Rhymin’ Simon Paul Simon
    161 Train a Comin’ Steve Earle
    161 Trouble Will Find Me The National
    161 What About Me 1 Giant Leap
    161 Wonderland Band No. 1 Wonderland
    161 Workers Playtime Billy Bragg
    161 No Deal Melanie De Biaisio
    202 ABC Beauty Stab
    202 Above The Bones Mishka
    202 Achtung Bono Half Man Half Biscuit
    202 All Summer Long The Beach Boys
    202 As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls Pat Metheny
    202 August & Everything After Counting Crows
    202 Basket Of Light The Pentangle
    202 Bitches Brew Miles Davis
    202 Blinking Lights and Other revelations Eels
    202 Dare! The Human League.
    202 Dear Mr Fantasy Traffic
    202 Definitely Maybe Oasis
    202 Dubnobasswithmyheadman Underworld
    202 Dummy Portishead
    202 Electronic Electronic
    202 Endtroducing DJ Shadow
    202 Fried Julian Cope
    202 Gaucho Steely Dan
    202 Graceland Paul Simon
    202 Heart of the Congos The Congos
    202 Highway Free
    202 I am Earth Wind and Fire
    202 Li’l Beethoven Sparks
    202 Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy Billy Bragg
    202 Life’s hard and then you die It’s Immaterial
    202 Live at the Counter Eurovision 79 Misty in Roots
    202 Live at the Plaza Eartha Kitt
    202 Live! Bob Marley & The Wailers
    202 Lulu Lou Reed / Metallica
    202 Lumpy Gravy Frank Zappa
    202 Maximum Darkness Man
    202 Mezzanine Massive Attack
    202 Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music Vol.2 Ray Charles.
    202 Never Mind The Bollocks Sex Pistols
    202 Pontiac Lyle Lovett
    202 Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart
    202 Roxy Music Roxy Music
    202 Rules for Jokers Thea Gilmore
    202 Scott 2 Scott Walker
    202 Signing Off UB40
    202 Sleepwalking Rae & Christian
    202 Songs From the Wood Jethro Tull
    202 Songs of Leonard Cohen
    202 St Dominic’s Preview Van Morrison
    202 Sweet Things Georgie Fame
    202 The Last Record Album Little Feat
    202 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens Sandy Denny
    202 The Stooges The Stooges
    202 The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground
    202 The Waitresses Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
    202 The Yes Album Yes
    202 This Is The Sea The Waterboys
    202 Thunder And Consolation New Model Army
    202 Troubadour JJ Cale
    202 Unfinished Revolution Christy Moore
    202 Veedon Fleece Van Morrison
    202 We’re Only In It For The Money Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention
    202 Wildflowers Avalanches
    260 Sparkle In The Rain Simple Minds
    260 A Farewell To Kings Rush
    260 African Dub Chapter Three Joe Gibbs and the Professionals
    260 Aquemini Outkast
    260 Architecture & Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
    260 Back in Memphis Elvis
    260 Be Bop Moptop Danny Wilson
    260 Contraband Kirsty McGee
    260 Death Speaks David Lang.
    260 Don’t stand me down Dexys Midnight runners
    260 Everything’s Different Now Til Tuesday
    260 Happy To Meet, Sorry to Part Horslips
    260 Heavy Horses Jethro Tull
    260 I’m The Man Joe Jackson
    260 Johnny Winter And Live Johnny Winter
    260 Kite Kirsty MacColl
    260 Love Over Gold Dire Straits
    260 Manassas Stephen Stills
    260 Message From the Meditations The Meditations
    260 Misplaced Childhood Marillion
    260 Nashville Skyline Bob Dylan
    260 Nobody’s Perfect The Distractions
    260 Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra
    260 Primitive Cool Mick Jagger
    260 Rabbit Songs Hem
    260 Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
    260 Sheer Heart Attack Queen
    260 Talking Book Stevie Wonder
    260 Talking Heads ’77
    260 The Art of Falling Apart Soft Cell
    260 The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl The Beatles
    260 The Boatman’s Call Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    260 The Clash The Clash
    260 The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers
    260 The Imperial The Delines
    260 The Kick Inside Kate Bush
    260 The Pretenders Pretenders (1)
    260 The Ramones Rocket to Russia
    260 Third Soft Machine
    260 This is Hardcore Pulp
    260 White Light From the Mouth of Infinity Swans
    260 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco
    260 Young Americans David Bowie
    260 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar
    304 A Trick of The Tail Genesis
    304 A Walk Across the Rooftops The Blue Nile
    304 All The Right Reasons Nickleback
    304 Bat out of Hell Meatloaf
    304 Big Showdown at King Tubby’s Scientist vs Prince Jammy
    304 Career Moves Loudon Wainwright
    304 Come On Feel The Illinoise! Sufjan Stevens
    304 Defending Ancient Springs Jackie Leven
    304 Desire Bob Dylan
    304 Difficult Shapes China Crisis
    304 Djam Leelii Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck
    304 Drums and Wires XTC
    304 English Settlement XTC
    304 Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers) Wu Tang Clan
    304 Four Calendar Cafe The Cocteau Twins
    304 Foxtrot Genesis
    304 Francis Alberto Sinatra meets Antonio Carlos Jobim Frank Sinatra
    304 Hand of Kindness Richard Thompson
    304 Ian Dury Do it Yourself
    304 In it for the money Supergrass
    304 Journey In Satchidananda Alice Coltrane.
    304 Life on a String Laurie Anderson
    304 Lost & Found Jason & The Scorchers
    304 Moon Safari Air
    304 Peace At Last The Blue Nile
    304 Phaedra Tangerine Dream
    304 Playing with Fire Spacemen 3
    304 Ramones Ramones
    304 Rough Mix Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane
    304 Show Some Emotion Joan Armatrading
    304 Songs To Remember Scritti Politti
    304 Spacemen 3 Playing with Fire
    304 Spooky Two Spooky Tooth
    304 Stones In The Road Mary Chapin Carpenter
    304 The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight
    304 The Year Of The Cat Al Stewart
    304 Waiting For The Sun The Doors
    304 Wasp Star XTC
    304 World Without Tears Lucinda Williams
    304 Years of Meteors Laura Veirs
    304 Electric Ladyland The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    345 Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield
    345 A ghost is born Wilco
    345 A Night in San Francisco Van Morrison
    345 Another Music in a Different Kitchen Buzzcocks
    345 Automatic For The People R.E.M.
    345 Back to Basics Billy Bragg
    345 Bert And John Bert Jansch & John Renbourn.
    345 Bop til you Drop Ry Cooder
    345 Broadsword and the Beast Jethro Tull
    345 Catch A Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers
    345 Coles Corner Richard Hawley
    345 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae
    345 Country Life Roxy Music
    345 Debut album Peter Case
    345 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young
    345 Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne
    345 Georgia Satellites Georgia Satellites
    345 Guilty Barbra Streisand
    345 Hazards Of Love The Decemberists
    345 If You Want Blood You’ve Got It AC/DC
    345 Indian Ocean Frazey Ford
    345 It’s My Thing Marva Whitney
    345 Leaders of the Free World Elbow
    345 Lifeblood Manic Street Preachers
    345 Live At The Old Waldorf 1978 Television
    345 Lust for Life Iggy Pop
    345 No Guru, No Method, Not Teacher Van Morrison
    345 OK Computer Radiohead
    345 Past Present & Future Al Stewart
    345 Physical graffiti led zep
    345 Pieces of the Sky Emmylou Harris
    345 Postcard CV Senseless Things
    345 Power, Corruption & Lies New Order
    345 Radiator Super furry animals
    345 Ram Paul and Linda McCartney
    345 Risque Chic
    345 Sabotage Black Sabbath
    345 Screamadelica Primal Scream
    345 Skeleton Tree Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    345 Sky at night I am kloot
    345 Songs From Liquid Days Philip Glass
    345 Tarkus E.L.P.
    345 The Archandroid Janelle Monae
    345 The Chronicles Of Modern Life Henry Priestman
    345 The Cold Vein Cannibal Ox
    345 The Harder They Come Soundtrack (Jimmy Cliff Etc)
    345 The Heart of Saturday Night Tom Waits
    345 The Perfect Prescription Spacemen 3
    345 The Raven The Stranglers
    345 The Scream Siouxsie and the Banshees
    345 The Smiths The Smiths
    345 The Songstress Anita Baker
    345 The Visitors Abba
    345 The Who Sell Out The Who
    345 Third Portishead
    345 Till The Sun Turns Black Ray LaMontagne
    345 Tomorrow,Tomorrow and Tomorrow Bill Fay Group
    345 Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield
    345 Tupelo Honey Van Morrison
    345 Tusk Fleetwood MAC
    345 Unrest Henry Cow
    345 Utopia Parkway Fountains of Wayne
    345 Various Positions Leonard Cohen
    345 Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Sparklehorse
    345 Wriggle Out the Restless This is the Kit
    345 XTC English Settlement
    345 Fresh Sly & The Family Stone
    345 The River Bruce Springsteen
    413 Strangeways Here We Come The Smiths
    413 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle
    413 A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night Harry Nilsson
    413 Album Public Image Limited
    413 All Mod Cons The Jam
    413 Aretha Franklin Spirit In The Dark
    413 Black & blue Rolling Stones
    413 Black Milk Gallon Drunk
    413 Bob Mould Bob Mould
    413 Chaleur Humaine Christine and the Queens
    413 Duke Genesis
    413 East West The Butterfield Blues Band
    413 Egypt Station Paul McCartney
    413 Epiphany Vince Mendoza
    413 Farewell Aldebaran Jerry Yester & Judy Henske
    413 Figure 8 Elliott Smith
    413 Floodland The Sisters Of Mercy
    413 Food, Sex & Paranoia Furniture
    413 Gwerz Penmarch Sonerien Du
    413 Hand.Cannot.Erase Steven Wilson
    413 Heat Treatment Graham Parker
    413 Here’s Larry Williams Larry Williams
    413 I’m With Stupid Aimee Mann
    413 In Rainbows Radiohead
    413 IV Led Zeppelin
    413 Jesus Of Cool Nick Lowe
    413 Kate and Anna McGarrigle Kate and Anna McGarrigle
    413 Lady In Satin Billy Holiday.
    413 Live and Let Live 10CC
    413 Live Rust Neil Young
    413 Nixon Lambchop
    413 Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Tom Waits
    413 Paul Simon Paul Simon
    413 Penguin Eggs Nic Jones
    413 Pirate’s Choice Orchestra Baobab
    413 Power in the Darkness Tom Robinson Band
    413 Real Life Magazine
    413 Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones
    413 Romance with Danny Williams Danny Williams
    413 Sky Blue Sky Wilco
    413 Smith & Burrows Funny looking Angels
    413 Spend The Night The Donnas
    413 Squeezing out Sparks Graham Parker & The Rumour
    413 Stone Roses Stone Roses
    413 Stranded Roxy Music
    413 The Crossing Big Country
    413 The Decline of British Sea Power British Sea Power
    413 The Light the Dead See Soulsavers
    413 The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan
    413 Trouble Ray Lamontagne
    413 White Feathers Kajagoogoo
    413 Zero Hour Astor Piazzolla
    413 All The Beauty In This Whole Life Brother Ali
    466 Bring The Family John Hiatt
    466 Caitlin Rose The Stand In
    466 Deserters Songs Mercury Rev
    466 Discipline King Crimson
    466 Do It Yourself Ian Dury and The Blockheads
    466 Fever Ray Fever Ray
    466 From Langley Park to Memphis Prefab Sprout
    466 Greatest Hits Vol 2 The Platters
    466 Harp and a Monkey Harp and a Monkey
    466 Hatful of Hollow The Smiths
    466 Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Truckers Favourites Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
    466 Infected TheThe
    466 Introspective Pet Shop Boys
    466 John Coltrane Ballads
    466 Leftism Leftfield
    466 Live at the Blue Note: Complete (box) Keith Jarrett
    466 Lodger David Bowie
    466 Modern Music Be Bop Deluxe
    466 New York Dolls New York Dolls
    466 Notorious Byrd Brothers The Byrds
    466 Old Ways Neil Young
    466 Orfeo Fay Hield and the Hurricane Party
    466 Out of Season Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
    466 Overcome By Happiness Pernice Brothers
    466 Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. The Monkees
    466 Police Dog Hogan Westward Ho
    466 Pretzel Logic Steely Dan
    466 Random Access Memories Daft Punk
    466 Red King Crimson
    466 Script of The Bridge The Chameleons
    466 Shades In Bed The Records
    466 She Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub
    466 Something More Than Free Jason Isbell
    466 The Charity Of Night Bruce Cockburn
    466 The Complete Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Recordings. Tony bennett and Bill Evans
    466 The Joshua Tree U2
    466 The Lexicon of love ABC
    466 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Pink Floyd
    466 The Real Thing Taj Mahal
    466 The Small Price of a Bicycle The Icicle Works
    466 The Trinity Sessions Cowboy Junkies
    466 Tilt Scott Walker
    466 Tonight’s the night Neil Young
    466 Uncle Meat The Mothers of Invention
    466 Western Stars Bruce Springsteen
    466 Whenever You Need Somebody Rick Astley
    466 New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) Erykah Bhadu
    513 1972 Josh Rouse
    513 5th Dimension The Byrds
    513 A Northern Soul The Verve
    513 A Secret Wish Propaganda
    513 Actually Pet Shop Boys
    513 American Beauty The Grateful Dead
    513 Around the world in a day Prince
    513 Big Star Radio City
    513 Blue Train John Coltrane
    513 Blue Valentine Tom Waits
    513 Camembert Electrique Gong
    513 Countrymen The Twinkle Brothers
    513 Damn the Torpedoes Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    513 David Mead Dudes
    513 De La Soul Is Dead De La Soul
    513 Different Class Pulp
    513 Essence Lucinda Williams
    513 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour The Moody Blues
    513 Fast Forward Joe Jackson
    513 Four Sail Love
    513 Fresh Cream Cream
    513 Funeral Arcade Fire
    513 How Dare You! 10cc
    513 Jimmy Reed Upside Your Head
    513 Josh Rouse Nashville
    513 Kala M.I.A.
    513 Keep Breathing The Durutti Column
    513 Life’ll Kill You Warren Zevon
    513 Live at the Old Quarter, Houston Texas Townes van Zandt
    513 Low Life New Order
    513 Lyle Lovett Lyle Lovett
    513 Making Movies Dire Straits
    513 Metal Box Public Image Ltd
    513 Morris On Ashley Hutchings et al
    513 Move It On Over George Thorogood and The Destroyers
    513 Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers
    513 New Gold Dream Simple Minds
    513 Nightclubbing Grace Jones
    513 Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits
    513 Ocean Rain Echo & The Bunnymen
    513 Onwards And Upwards Culture Shock
    513 Quiet Life Japan
    513 Race the Loser Lau
    513 Raw Silk Randy Crawford
    513 Ron Sexsmith Ron Sexsmith
    513 Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow
    513 Shoot Out The Lights Richard & Linda Thompson
    513 Spiegel im Spiegel Arvo Part.
    513 The Domino Club The Men They Couldn’t Hang
    513 The Durutti Column Keep Breathing
    513 The Flat Earth Thomas Dolby
    513 The Optimist Turin Brakes
    513 The Songs of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen
    513 The White Room The KLF
    513 This Is Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite
    513 This Year’s Model Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    513 Touch Me Samantha Fox
    513 Tripomatic Fairytales Jam & Spoon
    513 Truelove’s Gutter Richard Hawley
    513 Underneath The Stars Kate Rusby
    513 Weezer (Blue album) Weezer
    513 After the Gold Rush Neil Young
    575 30 Something Carter USM
    575 A Deeper Understanding The War On Drugs
    575 Absolutely Free The Mothers of Invention
    575 Achtung Baby U2
    575 Aerial Kate Bush
    575 All The Road Running Mark Knopfler & Emmy Lou Harris
    575 Bachelor No 2 or The Last Remains Of The Dodo Aimee Mann
    575 Back to Oakland Tower of Power
    575 Benji Sun Kil Moon
    575 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
    575 Bob Marley VS Lee Scratch Perry: The Best of The Upsetter Years 1970-1971 Bob Marley
    575 Bridge over Troubled Water Paul Desmond
    575 Can’t Buy a Thrill Steely Dan
    575 Cheap Trick At The Budokan Cheap Trick
    575 Crime of the Century Supertramp
    575 Deuter Silence is the Answer
    575 Diamond Dogs David Bowie
    575 Diamond Mine King Creosote/Jon Hopkins
    575 Directors Cut Kate Bush
    575 East Side Story Squeeze
    575 Even Serpents Shine The Only Ones
    575 Going For The One Yes
    575 Hurricane Grace Jones
    575 Illmatic NaS
    575 Into The Light Chris de Burgh
    575 Irish Heartbeat Van Morrison and the Chieftains
    575 John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic
    575 Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin
    575 Left And Leaving The Weakerthans
    575 Life in a Day Simple Minds
    575 Love Me Tender BB King
    575 Mount the Air The Unthanks
    575 Never a Dull Moment Rod Stewart
    575 Norman Fucking Rockwell Lana Del Rey
    575 Not Dark Yet Shelby Lynne & Alison Moorer
    575 On the Beach Neil Young
    575 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
    575 Ptah The El Daoud Alice Coltrane
    575 Rum Sodomy and The Lash The Pouges
    575 Silence is the Answer Deuter
    575 Slade alive the mighty Slade.
    575 Something Else by The Kinks
    575 Song For My Father The Horace Silver Quintet.
    575 Starless and Bible Black King Crimson
    575 Sweet Oblivion Screaming Trees
    575 Tattoo You The Rolling Stones
    575 Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen
    575 The 3 EPs The Beta Band
    575 The Coral The Coral
    575 The Dream of the Blue Turtle Sting
    575 Them Dirty Blues Cannonball Adderley
    575 Tokyo Rose Van Dyke Parks
    575 Tour De France Soundtracks Kraftwerk
    575 Universal Mother Sinead o’connor
    575 Urban Renewal Tower of Power
    575 Warehouse Songs & Stories Husker Du
    575 You Forget it in People Broken Social Scene
    575 Ys Joanna Newsom
    575 Homogenic Björk

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