ILM TOP 100 - The Final Thread

Okay...here's my ballot...hmmm...I'd probably change the points now, and add some more, but anyway...

• Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea - 20
• Poison - Greatest Hits - 18
• Philistines Jr - The Continuing Struggle - 16
• Bon Jovi - Cross Road - 16
• Beach Boys - Sunflower/Surfs Up (on same CD!) - 14
• Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle - 14
• Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been - 14
• Carpenters - Yesterday Once More - 12
• Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie - 12
• Kraftwerk - Autobahn - 14
• Weezer - Pinketron - 14
• Polvo - Exploded Drawing - 10
• Manic Street Preachers - Gen Terrorists - 8
• Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque - 8
• Megadeth - Rust in Peace - 5
• Therapy? - Troublegum - 5
• Pavement - Crooked Rain - 5
• Eric's Trip - Love Tara - 5

Hope I got the damn html right!

So this is where we find out who's to blame ? ;) Buju Banton, "Untold Stories", 5
Beach Boys, "Don't Worry Baby", 5
Jorge Ben, "Taj Mahal", 5
Biz Markie, "Let Me Turn You On", 5
David Bowie, "Ashes to Ashes", 5
Elvis Costello, "(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace Love & Understanding", 5
Drifters, "Up On The Roof", 5
Eminem, "The Real Slim Shady", 5
Flamin' Groovies, "Shake Some Action", 5
Funky 4 + 1, "That's The Joint", 5
Geto Boys, "Mind Playin' Tricks On Me", 5
Grandmaster Flash/Melle Mel, "White Lines", 5
Don Henley, "The Boys Of Summer", 5
Incredible Bongo Band, "Apache", 5
George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today", 5
Joy Division, "Atmosphere"/"She's Lost Control", 5
Klymaxx, "I Miss You", 5
John Lennon, "Woman", 5
LL Cool J, "Around The Way Girl", 5
Machine, "There But For The Grace Of God Go I", 5
Madonna, "Cherish", 5
Martha & The Muffins, "Echo Beach", 5
Martha & The Vandellas, "Heatwave", 5
Morrissey, "Everyday Is Like Sunday", 5
O'Jays, "For The Love Of Money", 5
Pogues/Kirsty MacColl, "Fairytale of New York", 5
Pulp, "Disco 2000", 5
Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Women"/"You Can't Always Get What You Want", 5
Gil Scott-Heron, "The Bottle", 5
Shangri-Las, "I Can Never Go Home Anymore", 5
Michelle Shocked, "Anchorage", 5
Frankie Smith, "Double Dutch Bus", 5
Patti Smith, "Piss Factory", 5
Specials, "Ghost Town"/"Friday Night Saturday Morning"/"Why", 5
Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel Of Love", 5
Donna Summer, "I Feel Love", 5
Temptations, "Papa Was A Rolling Stone", 5
TLC, "Unpretty", 5
Trashmen, "Surfin' Bird", 5
Tracey Ullman, "They Don't Know", 5

abba, abba gold 15
beach boys, pet sounds 10
al green, greatest hits 12
otis redding, "try a little tenderness" 8
sly & the family stone, greatest hits 9
various artists, hitsville usa 8
velvet underground, peel slowly and see 10
stevie wonder, talking book 7
four tops, "(reach out) I'll be there" 7
glen campbell "wichita lineman" 9
phil spector, back to mono 6
donna summer, "I feel love" 5
iggy & the stooges, "search & destroy" 6
pixies, "debaser" 5
james brown, star time 6
prince, sign o' the times 5
smiths, singles 6
rolling stones, hot rocks 4
led zeppelin, "the immigrant song" 4
elvis "if I can dream" 4
elvis costello, the best of… 3
burt bacharach, look of love: the burt bacharach collection 3
bruce springsteen, born to run 4
various artists, beg, scream & shout: the big ol' box of 60s soul 4
david bowie, "heroes" 3
bee gees, the best of, vol. 1 4
roxy music, "virginia plain" 3
beach boys, today!/summer days & summer nights! 3
roy orbison, "it's over" 4
rod stewart, every picture tells a story 3
new york dolls, "personality crisis" 1
guns & roses, "welcome to the jungle" 1
george jones, "she thinks I still care" 1
frank sinatra, "guess I'll hang my tears out to dry" 2
pet shop boys, discography 2
scott walker, scott iv 3
flamingos, "I only have eyes for you" 3
big star, third/sister lovers 2
beach boys, sunflower/surf's up 2
dusty springfield, very best of... 3

all 5 points

aphex twin - richard d james album
autechre - lp5
awesome 3 - don't go
beach boys - wendy
butthole surfers - hairway to steven
chic - good times
cocteau twins - spangle maker
cocteau twins - victorialand
daft punk - digital love
disco inferno - summers last sound
dr dre - still dre
fall - hip priest & kamerads
fall - totale's turn (its now or never)
flowchart - flutter by butterfly
flowered up - it's on
happy mondays - kinky afro
happy mondays - bummed
happy mondays - squirrel and g-man
house crew - euphoria (nino's dream)
kevin ayers - joy of a toy
kraftwerk - trans europe express
kraftwerk - computer world
krome & time - sound is for the underground
lou reed - berlin
nick drake - bryter layter
nookie - give a little love
piano magic - a trick of the sea
piano magic - low birth weight
primasdonnas - she had alien written all over her
razorcuts - sorry to embarrass you
red planet - star dancer
sabres of paradise - haunted dancehall
shades of rhythm - sound of eden
spacemen 3 - recurring
st etienne - too young to die
stereolab - super electric
sweet female attitude - flowers
sweet jesus - phonefreak honey
urban shakedown - some justice
whodini - magics wand

I dont understand what this thread is about. Are we nominating best albums?For a poll?

We had a poll a few weeks back...the results are somewhere. We are now posting our individual ballot papers that constituted said poll. Hope this helps!

i didnt vote the first time, but i will now - all 5 points 1. Tricky - Maxinquaye 2. Sonic Youth - Sister 3. Le Tigre - Le Tigre 4. Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman 5. Aceyalone - Book of Human Language 6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid 7. Smiths - The Queen is Dead 8. Radiohead - Ok Computer 9. Lamb - Lamb 10.Beatles - White Album 11.Leonard Cohen - Best of 12.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral 13.Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation o Millions to Hold us Back 14.ABBA - Gold 15.The Cure - Pornography 16.Ministry - Psalm 69 17.Bauhaus - Mask 18.Pixies - Doolittle 19.My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything 20.Portishead - Portishead 21.Prince - 1999 22.Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets 23.Ween - Pure Guava 24.Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years 25.Moonshake - Eva Luna 26.Depeche Mode - Violator 27.My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 28.Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us 29.Beatles - Sgt Pepper 30.Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What i Havent Got 31.Billie Holiday - Quintessential 32.The Cure - Disintegration 33.Prince - Sign o the Times 34.Suede - Suede 35.New Order - Substance 36.Kiss it Goodbye - she loves me she loves me not 37.Nirvana - Nevermind 38.Massive Attack - Mezzanine 39.Deftones - White Pony 40.Long Fin Killie - Houdini

thanks james

i like james' list best because it doesn't read like he put anything on there because he thought it should be on there somewhere. he simply listed his favourites and that's cool.

Hey up! Here's mine.

Madonna - Borderline (single) Abba - Dancing Queen (single) Wire - Pink Flag Who - Live at Leeds Zombies - Odessey and Oracle Various Artists - Nuggets (box-set) Joy Division - Heart and Soul (box-set) 23 Skidoo - Coup (single) Velvet Underground - Loaded Daft Punk - Discovery Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro Small Faces - Tin Soldier (single) Radiohead - Kid A Portishead - Dummy Urge Overkill - Exit the Dragon Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Underworld -Dubnobasswithmyheadman Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society Kraftwerk - The Man Machine Josef K - The Only Fun in Town Leftfield - Leftism DJ Shadow - Endtroducing The Clash - Sandinista Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch (ep) XTC - Fossil Fuel (compilation) The Jam - Direction, Creation, Reaction (box-set) Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop (single) Slits - Cut Orbital - Orbital 2 (the brown one) Television - Marquee Moon Subway Sect - Ambition (single) Associates - White Car in Germany (sigle) Chills - Kaliedoscope World (compilation) Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl (single) Dexys Midnight Runners - Plan B (single) Can - I Want More (single) Human League - Open Your Heart (single)

Oh, and they all got 5 points each. I liked Omar's comment on the scoring- "at this level you can't separate them"

Did anyone else vote for any Associates records?

I probably would have if I'd voted. The reissue of _Sulk_ last year wipes the floor with just about everything else released in 2000 -- and a number of years previous to that, too.

As I stated elsewhere, this list is less a list of things I acknowledge to be technically superior, and more the things that were huge formative influences on my tastes. A lot of it I don't listen to regularly anymore, but I still enjoy them when I do. Yeah, I realize I could have gone up to 20 per title, but what the hell. Spreads it out a bit.

My Bloody Valentine, Loveless, 10
Tom Waits, Bone Machine, 9
Beatles, Revolver, 8
Jesus and Mary Chain, Pyschocandy, 8
Church, Heyday, 8
Sugar, Copper Blue, 8
Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me, 7
Cure, Disintegration, 7
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation, 7
King Crimson, Discipline, 6
Smiths, Queen is Dead, 6
Public Image Ltd, album, 6
Kraftwerk, Man Machine, 6
Joy Division, Unkonwn Pleasures, 6
Husker Du, Warehouse, 6
Cocteau Twins, Heaven or Las Vegas, 6
Rheostatics, Whale Music, 5
Jane Siberry, When I Was a Boy, 5
New Order, Low-life, 5
Sons of Freedom, Sons of Freedom, 5
Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat, 5
Soft Boys, Underwater Moonlight, 5
Pixies, Surfer Rosa, 5
Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers, 5
P.J. Harvey, Rid of Me, 4
Bauhaus, Mask, 4
Dinosaur Jr., Where you Been, 4
Einsturzende Neubauten, Halber Mensch, 4
Robyn Hitchcock, Globe of Frogs, 4
Steve Earle, I Feel Alright, 4
Iggy and the Stooges, Raw Power, 4
David Sylvian, Gone to Earth, 3
Nick Cave, Let Love In, 3
Bob Marley, Natty Dread, 3
The Cure, Seventeen Seconds, 3
Skinny Puppy, Bites, 2
Throwing Muses, Real Ramona, 2
Nomeansno, Wrong, 2
Negativland, Escape From Noise, 1
New Model Army, Thunder and Consolation, 1

quotations denote singles.

joy division - unknown pleasures (10)

sonic youth - evol (9.5)

my bloody valentine - loveless (8.5)

the stooges - fun house (8)

edgard varese - deserts (7)

krzysztof penderecki - threnody for the victims of hiroshima (7)

igor stravinsky - le sacre du printemps (6.5)

nwa - "gangsta gangsta" (6)

the sex pistols - "anarchy in the uk" (6)

joy division - closer (5.5)

husker du - "eight miles high" (5.5)

pierre boulez - piano sonatas nos. 1 - 3 (5.5)

led zeppelin iii (5.5)

public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back (5.5)

ryoji ikeda - +/- (5.5)

ryoji ikeda - matrix (5.5)

terry riley - in c (5)

dr s balachandar - dikshitar krithis (5)

steve reich - tehillim (4.5)

la monte young and the theatre of eternal music - early tuesday morning blues (4.5)

glenn branca - symphony no 6 (4.5)

ll cool j - "mama said knock you out" (4.5)

dr n. k. krishnan - nadaswaram (4.5)

nagamani srinath - sunada (4.5)

john coltrane - interstellar space (4.5)

the smiths - hatful of hollow (4.5)

goodie mob - still standing (4.5)

siouxsie and the banshees - "love in a void" demos (4.5)

black sabbath - "paranoid" (4)

lou reed - metal machine music (3.5)

ol' dirty bastard - "shimmy shimmy ya" (3.5)

the velvet underground and nico (3)

r.e.m. - murmur (3)

the stooges - raw power (3)

public image limited - "swan lake" (3)

new order - 1981/1982 (ep) (3)

teenage jesus and the jerks - "orphans" (3)

lydia lunch/birthday party/thurston moore/clint ruin - honeymoon in red (3)

the jesus and mary chain - psychocandy (3)

einsturzende neubauten w/ lydia lunch and rowland s howard - "thirsty animal" (2.5)

might have made the list if i did it again:

patti smith

the birthday party (alone)

wu-tang clan (as a group)

bauhaus

wire

bowie

iancu dumitrescu

ravi shankar

dr ramani

pulp

the magnetic fields

lalgudi jayaraman

swans

okay why not? Everybody got 5 points...

daft punk - discovery

various artists - logical progression vol.1

boards of canada - music has a right to children

aphex twin - selected ambient works 95-92

goldie - timeless

tricky - aftermath (should read Maxinquaye, always mix it up)

patti smith - radio ethiopia

stereo mc's - connected

kruder & dorfmeister - k&d sessions

my bloody valentine - loveless

beastie boys - paul's boutique

gza - liquid swords

dr dre - the chronic

air - moon safari

dr. octagon - ecologyst

can - future days

pixies - surfer rosa

slayer - reign in blood

miles davis - on the corner

miles davis - bitches brew

basic channel - basic channel

john coltrane - a love supreme

the orb - adventures beyond the ultraworld

herbie hancock - sextant

augustus pablo - king tubby meets rockers uptown

lee perry - revolution dub

scientist - scientist meets space invaders

jonny l - sawtooth

underground resistance- revolution for change

jacob's optical stairway - jacob's optical stairway

royal trux - cats and dogs

stereolab - transient random noise bursts with anouncements

primal scream - screamadelica

mouse on mars - vulvaland

brain eno - here come the warm jets

roxy music - for your pleasure

kraftwerk - trans europe express

kraftwerk - radioactivity

innerzone orchestra - programmed

a guy called gerald - black secret technology

And there you have it...should've had 'Hairway to steven' and 'Foxbase Alpha' on there. but well...

i like omar's list. here's mine:

biz markie - goin' off : 5

main source - breaking atoms : 5

the jimi hendrix experience - electric ladyland : 5

raekwon - only built for cuban linx... : 5< p> epmd - business as usual : 5

isaac hayes - hot buttered soul : 5

ol dirty bastard - return to the thirty-six chambers : 5

stevie wonder - talking book : 5

gza/genius - liquid swords : 5

stetsasonic - in full gear : 5

dj shadow - endtroducing : 5

the notorious b.i.g. - ready to die : 5

curtis mayfield - curtis : 5

eric b. and rakim - paid in full : 5

miles davis - sketches of spain : 5

pete rock and cl smooth - mecca and the soul brother : 5

nas - illmatic : 5

kraftwerk - computerworld : 5

wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang (36 chambers) : 5

gang starr - hard to earn : 5

brand nubian - all for one : 5

redman - whut? thee album : 5

can - tago mago : 5

de la soul - three feet high and rising : 5

ice cube - amerikkka's most wanted : 5

portishead - dummy : 5

slick rick - the great adventures of slick rick : 5

massive attack - blue lines : 5

run dmc - run dmc : 5

the beatnuts - the beatnuts : 5

a tribe called quest - midnight marauders : 5

kid606 - don't sweat the technics : 5

the coup - steal this album : 5

brian eno - before and after science : 5

sun ra - supersonic jazz : 5

kmd - mr.hood : 5

public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back : 5

de la soul - de la soul is dead : 5

tricky - maxinquaye : 5

ll cool j - mama said knock you out : 5

oh, so so poorly formatted.

I love everyone's lists on here - I feel like I could learn so much from each and everyone of you who posted one, and from a great many of those who didn't vote as well - and I don't feel this way very often outside of ILM. This forum really rocks sometimes.

I second that, Patrick, even with the lists of people whose tastes generally diverge greatly from my own.

Mine is here.

what's intriguing is the equal 5 points thing - I did that too cos it was too hard to try and rate them against each other. I also voted for rao ethiopia = pissing in the river the big reason - but what was everyone else's reason, rather than easter or horses?

Ah i'm a Radio Ethiopia man meself :) Reasons? Side 2 mainly. 'total abandon' as the perfect manifesto for rock & roll and the title track has scratching noises + mega-riffs + explodes into blissful nothingness. Also beautiful cover and booklet (don't buy this one on cd). Which makes it just a bit more loveable in my mind than Horses (hard choice though, love that one too) or Easter (again brilliant 2nd side + rock & roll nigger). Okay so I should've listed all 3 of them!

ps. Ethan thanks, but I must say it almost logical since i like your list :)

Other people whose top 40 I'd love to see, whether or not they voted on this bitch : Mark S, Duane Zarakov, Tarden, Tom, Otis Wheeler, Masonic Kate, AP, Kris Branch Rickey, Momus, Tracer Hand, Marcello, Anthony Easton, Arthur, Norman Fay, X Y Zedd, Sterling Clover, Jimmy the Mod, Mark Pitchfork and Mike Daddino. Hint hint.

I am honored but shockingly i just emailed it. I didnt save it. It fetured alot more country then anyone else though.

Didn't vote: so can't oblige, idea does not really compute sadly. I don;t know how to do it.

Also: 40? Pfft. It's the best of the ten- multiples, obviously (next equal, 60 and 70, then 90), but it's still a lame and an unacceptable number. 41 = 39 = 38 = 37 = strange little cluster of ugliness. 42 = grate; 36 = betta (perfect square which also the product of wo perfect squares...)

I voted, but I don't remember what for. My new 40:

20 Turbonegro: Apocalypse Dudes
20 Guns 'N Roses: Appetite for Destruction
20 Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"
15 Turbonegro - "I Got Erection"
15 Gluecifer: Tender Is the Savage
15 The Wipers: Is This Real?
10 Scott Walker: Tilt
10 Mensen: Delusions of Grandeur
7 Madonna - "Into the Groove"
5 Scott Walker: Scott 4
5 Lifehouse - "Hanging By A Moment"
5 Jay-Z/Memphis Bleek - "Is That Your Bitch"
4 Outkast: ATLiens
4 Scott Walker - "Jackie"
4 Gluecifer: Soaring With Eagles at Night to Rise with the Pigs in the Morning
4 Gluecifer: Ridin' the Tiger
3 Sleater-Kinney: Dig Me Out
3 Backyard Babies: Total 13
3 Ascension: Broadcast
3 Britney Spears - "The Joy of Pepsi"
3 Weezer: Pinkerton
2 Pere Ubu - "Final Solution"
2 Blind Willie Johnson - "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"
2 Abba: Gold
1 Magnetic Fields: The Charm of the Highway Strip
1 Tomoe Shinohara - "Ultra Relax"
1 Albert Ayler: Live In Greenwich Village
1 Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
1 Dead C.: Trapdoor Fucking Exit
1 Peter Brotzmann Octet: Machine Gun
1 John Fahey: The Voice of the Turtle
1 Hellacopters - "Hopeless Case of a Kid in Denial"
1 Ainigma: Little Wing
1 Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
1 Creedence Clearwater Revival: Vol.1: Chronicle: Greatest Hits
1 Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis
1 Ground-Zero - "El Derecho De Vivir En Paz + Shinoshin 3/4"
1 Nuggets: Original Artyfacts of the First Psychedelic Era
1 Stooges: Fun House
1 American Primitive Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel

okay mine roughly reconstructed
They don't have the point value because i do not rember the points . and in fact these are the only ones i can remember. Boxed Sets Peel Slowly and See - Velvets
Anthology of American Folk Music- ed. Harry Smith

Albums Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
Little Earthquakes-Tori Amos
Little Sparrow-Dolly Parton
The Future - Leonard Cohen
Slow Train Coming -Bob Dylan
Blood on the tracks- Bob Dylan
The Complete Recordings-Robert Johnson
Broken English-Marianne Faithful
White Album-Beatles 69 love songs - Magnetic Fields

Cabaret- Origanal movie soundtrack or broadway revival Singles Harper Valley PTA- Tom T Hall
Cocksuckers Blues- Stones
A sliver key in a lead lock- klennex/lilliput
Sexauilty-Billy Bragg
Vogue-Madonna
Is This Love- Polly Jean Harvey
Tropicala- Beck
It Could have been a brillant career- Belle and Sebastion Rusty Cage-Johnny Cash
You're not woman enough to take my man - Loretta Lynn
D-I-V-O-R-I-C-E -Tammy Wynette
Sumemrtime-Ella Fitzgerald
I was a maoist intellectual- Momus
Rebel,Rebel- David Bowie
My Discarded Men- Eartha Kitt

Um: person whose top 40 I would not like to see, even if he sent it by Interflora: Patrick Calimero. So ner-ner-ner-ner-ner.

Too late Pinefox, it's already on this page :-p. Seriously though, I'd like to see a Pinefox Top 40 Faves, but knowing how much you hate the idea, I didn't bother.

Oh, and thanks a lot, Otis and Anthony.

Anthony - I HEART "Harper Valley PTA". The version I know is the one that's on my "Bright Lights, Country Music" box set, by one Jeannie C. Riley. She's got a great little lilty twang.

I too am honored, so here's my scandalously mainstream list of topp albums (36, to appease suddenly cracked-out mark s's numerological stance). My criterion wuz that it has to be something I actually PLAY in the house regularly. And I didn't vote, either, so this is pure indulgence:

* "Stardust" - Willie Nelson
* "San Antonio Rose" - Willie Nelson and Ray Price
* "Tiffany Transcriptions" box set - Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
* "Hazel & Alice" - Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard
* "Shadowlands" - k.d. lang
* "Houserockin" - The Gories
* "Celebrate the New Dark Age" - Polvo
* "There Nothing Wrong With Love" - Built to Spill
* "Hip Priest and Kamerads" - The Fall
* "Singles" - Bo Diddley
* "Greatest Hits" - Screamin Jay Hawkins
* "Funky Kingston" - Toots and the Maytals
* "Aquemeni" - Outkast
* "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" - Public Enemy
* "Liquid Swordz" - GZA
* "Miseducation of..." - Lauryn Hill
* "Mixtape Vol. 1" - Funkmaster Flex
* "Ready to Die" - Notorious B.I.G.
* "Firestarter Vol. 1" - Kardinal Offishall
* "Turntablism" - DJ Krush
* "Jelly Tones" - Ken Ishii
* "World Receiver" - Tetsuo Inoue
* "Septic Cuts" comp. - Sabres of Paradise
* "Live at the Liquid Room vol. 1" - Jeff Mills
* "Kill Em All" - Metallica
* "Appetite for Destruction" - Guns n Roses
* "In Search Of" - Fu Manchu
* "Under the Big Black Sun" - X
* "B-52s" - The B-52s
* "Immaculate Collection" - Madonna
* "Control" - Janet Jackson
* "Thriller" - Michael Jackson
* "Money Jungle" - Ellington, Mingus, Roach
* "Constellations" - Dave Douglas and Tiny Bell Trio
* "[1st M'Boom record]" - M'Boom
* "Adventures in Afropea" - Zap Mama

Tom T Hall wrote it. I own 8 versions of it on various media . I love Jean Rileys version, since it is the first one, although Iris Dements, Dolly Partons and sYd Straws are all worth metioning. In fact Tom T hall is a demigod in my musical pantheon as both performer and writer.

I don't think I sent anything in, which is a shame, because then the compiler could have fought his way through all this unpopular shit that no one would ever think of, and wouldn't have made the list anyway... But here's my list for today in no order. It's a shame, because I could come up with a completely different 40 to-morrow.

Sleater Kinney: The Hot Rock

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Now I Got Worry

Lou Reed: Transformer

Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (album)

Blondie: X-Offender

The Ronettes: Be My Baby

The Replacements: Catalogue

Britney Spears: Baby, One More Time (video)

Superchunk: Slackmotherfucker

Handsome Boy Modeling School: So How's Your Girl?

Cat Power: Sea Of Love

Guns 'n Roses: Sweet Child O' Mine

The Ataris: Blue Skies and Broken Hearts, Next 12 Exits

Josie and the Pussycats: OMPS

Rancid: And Out Came The Wolves

Sir Mix A Lot: Baby Got Back

Down To The River To Pray: O Brother SNDTRK.

Foo Fighters: Everlong (accoustic)

Built To Spill: She's Real

Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique

Yo La Tengo: Electr-o-purra

Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run

Sonic Youth: Superstar (Carpenters cover)

Weezer: Only In Dreams

Sex Pistols: Nevermind the Bollocks

New Order: Power Corruption and Lies

Joy Division: Transmission

Mavis Staples: I Have Learned To Do Without You

Dr. Dre: Let Me Ride

Stevie Wonder: For Once In My Life

The La's: There She Goes

Talking Heads: Native Melody (Stop Making Sense Live Vers.)

Lotion: Nobody's Cool

Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted

Weezer: Pinkerton

Big Star: No1 Record/Radio City

The Who: Quadrophenia

Derek And The Dominoes: Layla (album)

The Who: My Generation (Single)

O, Canada.

As usual I am haunted by the thought that there is a Ruling Idea in my answer and that somehow i Must Discover It. Also equally predictable, I'm now disgusted by my little sanctioned list and want never to listen to any of it ever again.

I've just remembered TOM T. HALL!! "Stuck Inside A Country Jail" - another "let me tell you a story" song. our hero runs a red light and gets thrown in jail, eventually letting his guard down and having a grand ol time: the jailer's wife flirts with him and cooks huge breakfasts, everybody sleeps late... after a week of this larking, our man goes before the judge -

well i told him who i was, and that i was workin steady
and i really should be gettin on my way.
that part about me bein who i was did not impress him
he said the judge will be here any day

so i guess he's talking to the jailer or something. anyway, TTH = wicked fresh

Actually, Tracer, I thought the list was fairly adventerous. The GZA, for example, as well as the k.d. lang. The PE and Fall choices seemed to be dictated by the early-when-they-were-underground syndrome, tho. I mean... they both went on to scale much higher peaks.

personally, i don't think the fall scaled any peaks higher than hip priest & kamerads (also made my top40 - see above)

thinking about this, i think opening it to singles as well as albums was obviously a good move, but i think still rather rockist. i think it should have been individual songs. maybe next time...

it should range from individual notes and silences to whole historysworth and planetsworth of works

ie
i. first drumbeat in :"be my baby"
ii. all solar system music evah
iii. lori and the chameleons
iv. noise of lizards having just overturned the world-picture

Well, I didn't vote in the poll, and I usually don't like lists all that much (since mine could change on any given day) - but here is my list in alphabetical order of my all time favorites. Or at least, stuff that I has stood the test of time for me as stuff I don't mind hearing any time. There is a lot of newer stuff (say the last 5 years) that might make this list shortly, but isn't really old enough yet to be an all time favorite. A lot of late 80s/early 90s pop stuff. Also I notice a left off a lot of "classic" stuff (Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Dylan, etc.) - guess it hasn't been turning me on too much lately...


Cannonball Adderley w/ Milt Jackson - Things are Getting Better

Aztec Camera - Frestonia

Barcelona - Simon Basic

Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside

Bee Gees - Odessa

Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Big Country - Steeltown

The Bluebells - Sisters

Blur - Parklife

David Bowie - Let's Dance

The Chameleons (UK) - Strange Times

The Church - Heyday

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle

The Cure - The Head on the Door

Miles Davie - Quiet Nights

Dexys Midnight Runners - all 3 albums

Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

Fairport convention - Liege & Lief

The Field Mice - Coastal

Galaxie 500 - On Fire

Getz/Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto

Robyn Hitchcock - Element of Light

Holiday - Ready Steady Go!

The House of Love - S/T (Butterfly Cover)

Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

Gene Krupa - Drummer Man

The Lilac Time - Astronauts, Paradise Circus, & Love For All

The Lucksmiths - Happy Secret

Mojave 3 - Out of Tune

Movietone - s/t

New Order - Brotherhood

The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde

The Pooh Sticks - Formula One Generation

Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback

Maddy Prior & June Tabor - Silly Sisters

The Railway Children - Native Place

Ride - Nowhere

Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain sadness

Roxy Music - Country Life

Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs

Sade - Diamond Life

Saint Etienne - So Tough

Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead, Louder Than Bombs

The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

The Sound - Heads and Hearts

Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire, The Perfect Perscription

Spiritualized - Pure Phase

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis

Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet, Refried Ectoplasm

The Stone Roses - S/T

The Style Council - Cafe Bleu

Sugar Plant - After After Hours

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers - S/T

Richard and L. Thompson - I want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Trash Can Sinatras - Cake, I've Seen Everything, A Happy Pocket

Trembling Blue Stars - Her Handwriting

Tullycraft - The Singles

The Velvet Underground - pretty much everything

The Walker Brothers - 1st three albums

The Wedding Present - Bizarro, Seamonsters

The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle


Well, it was interesting thinking up the list anyway...

i guess i didn;t need the break tags...

ah

Next time I send in 10,000 ballots saying 'Shout at the Devil' I'll remove the elastic band and put them in separate envelopes. This electoral fraud business obviously takes more expertise than I thought

Here's 40 records I just picked:

1 Beethoven - Symphony No 5
2 La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano
3 Steve Reich - Tehillim
4 Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
5 Django Reinhardt - "Nuages"
6 Sonic Youth - Evol
7 fourth Led Zeppelin
8 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
9 Ravi Shankar - Raga from Music Today
10 Nagamani Srinath - Sunada
11 The Yes Album
12 Rush - Moving Pictures
13 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
14 Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix
15 Oren Ambarchi - Suspension
16 Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
17 The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever"
18 Sex Pistols - "Anarchy In the UK"
19 The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"
20 Boston - "More Than a Feeling"
21 Arnold Schoenberg - Erwartung
22 Luciano Berio - Sequenza XI (for guitar)
23 David Hykes - Hearing Solar Winds
24 Glenn Branca - Symphony No 5
25 Alberto Ginastera - Sonata for Guitar, op 47
26 Fred Frith Guitar Quartet - Ayaya Moses
27 The Rolling Stones - 30 Greatest Hits
28 Donna Summer - "Love To Love You Baby"
29 Led Zeppelin - "Dancing Days"
30 Jimi Hendrix - "Drifting"
31 Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea"
32 Sonic Youth - Dirty
33 Radiohead - "Motion Picture Soundtrack"
34 REM - Murmur
35 Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"
36 System Of a Down - "Toxicity"
37 Derek Bailey - Ballads
38 Goodie Mob - "Black Ice"
39 Voivod - Nothingface
40 My Bloody Valentine - "To Here Knows When"

Already I want to make a million revisions. I can sort of see why I never feel like I relate to anyone musically though.

Pulp - Different Class and Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell are on the short list.

Pulp - Different Class and Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell are on the short list. (Also, those were in no order.)

Actually I'll just take "Shoot" instead of all of Dirty.

You so crazy, Sundar.