Fuck it, if you can't beat them... 50 albums CaAL likes

Not sure these are my 50 favourite LPs, but they are definitely the 50 I thought of in the last half an hour.

^^ gets it

voted Rock Bottom

is that Atari Teenage Riot actually better than Burn Berlin Burn? I have never heard it!

It's 27 minutes of noise in a single track, they were supporting NIN and were just making the most unbearable sounds possible to punish the NIN audience, who were booing and throwing things at them, it is amazing.

We Love Life

The best Pulp album and I couldve easily included it on my own list

Love

Robert Wyatt, the Albion Band, with you all the way.

Isn’t anything

I love that Miss Kitten album!!

I voted for Broadcast x Focus Group tho, that record is amazing

Gah this is a hard one.

All of these I like a lot:

Bjork - Vespertine
Broadcast - Work & Non-Work
Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save the World
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Moondog - Moondog
Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Shura - Nothing's Real
Squarepusher - Go Plastic!
Stereolab - Dots & Loops
The Yummy Fur - Night Club

Tempted to vote Yummy Fur because where else will I get the chance to vote for them

Dots & Loops

I love that Miss Kitten album!!

Yeah, it may be my most listened here, funny that they had her make an "electroclash" mix and she gave them this weird Berlin techno mix instead, but they just called it "Electroclash" anyway.

I voted for Broadcast x Focus Group tho, that record is amazing

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Think lots of these are "more people should hear this!" and this is a good example.

really nice to see a curtis album on here too. I had the same one on my jazz & funk list

I need more soul albums in my collection, hopefully this will be rectified as I get through the 70s (am currently listening to 1957)

1957 is approaching peak jazz years for me

yeah 59 has a reputation as being the peak year for jazz LPs, but it's already getting there in 57. I've always been more into either 20s jazz or late 60s fusion, so it's been quite an education

my knowledge of pre 56 jazz is practically zero,rather shamefully

Well there's this website where you can listen to mixes for every year of recorded sound, it's up to 1945 so far, lots of jazz from 1917 onwards. https://centuriesofsound.com/

Sorry, I really can't help myself

interesting

First thought before clicking was "will finally see the correct Broadcast option(s)" lol. Many other agreeable things too, but Witch Cults will be hard to resist.

This has to be Broadcast - Work & Non-Work which is probably my favourite album of all time if I was including compilations.

These are all masterpieces:

Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Bjork - Vespertine
Charli XCX - True Romance
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
David Bowie - Low
Global Communication - 76:14
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Shura - Nothing's Real (still disappointed this didn't make our 2010s list)
Stereolab - Dots & Loops
Underworld - Everything Everything

Agree that Shura album is one of the tightest pop albums of the decade.

The Space Tapes is just the perfect closer, I'm only finding out now that it's a digital-only bonus track?!

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I also love that We Love Life made someone's list so it got my vote.

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Anxiously awaiting Halfway there but for you's judgement.

yeah this for me is Third, one of those albums where i genuinely cannot believe/work out how they pulled it off

with apologies to the banger-stuffed Max Tundra reboot of Daphne & Celeste, which I feel a bit bad for overlooking in favour of Fusion Prog Behemoth. They'd understand I'm sure. Shoutout True Romance, Blue, Forever Changes, bunch of others idk

Number of albums heard: 21

Favourite: Forever Changes over Third and Nick Drake

Least-favourite: Pulp, which is still quite good

Nicest surprise: Julia Holter or Kevin Ayers

Unheard, but most want to hear: Gong

Everything Everything is by my watch the fourth best live album of the ever.

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Confusing things for the "best of the polls" poll

Nice showing from the O fans!

All those zero-votes albums are also amazing

damn zero votes for rock bottom

really quite odd and surprising results!
but we're here for the discussion in any case.