All-Time Classic Albums that Aren't on Anybody's Top 200

I have this unfortunate tendency to fall madly in love with the first album I hear by a certain band, and every record after that doesn't make me as excited, even when literally EVERYONE else tells me it's bettah. Thus:

"13", Blur- A sad bastard record, which fit 'cos I was a sad bastard at the time. Dig that groove on "Trailerpark"! Dig the screeching of "BLURREMI"! Dig the bleakness of "No Distance Left To Run"! Dig the...uhm, no, I really can't find anything good to say about "Tender". I cheered when Britney's "One More Time" kept that piece of dreck from getting to #1, and I'm by no means a fan of Ms.Spears.

"I Let Love In", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Delightfully noisy, "Laying Low" is easily one of my top5 suicide songs.

"Sadinista!", The Clash- "Its imperfection is what makes it perfect!", is my usual argument, and a pretty lousy one at that. But c'mon, how can you not love the whole scope of this record? Hip Hop, Dub, Caribbean, Gospel...

"Hard Nose The Highway", Van Morrison- Features "Snow In San Anselmo", Van The Ma...err, sorry, "use diferent words", I know...Van The Pig's finest performance (Them years excluded)

I also love:

"Magic & Loss", Lou Reed- 'Cos it's the perfect start of school year record.

"John Barleycorn Must Die", Traffic (used to be in those lists back in the 70's I think, but isn't anymore)

taking "anybody's top 200" to mean the normal media outlets:

fingers inc. - "washing machine" 12"
v/a - wanna buy a bridge?
foetus - hole
jawbox - for your own special sweetheart
the dead c - harsh 70s reality
arthur russell - world of echo
x-102 discovers the rings of saturn
4hero - parallel universe
black sheep - a wolf in sheep's clothing
eyehategod - dopesick
melt banana - scratch or stitch
nagisa ni te - me, on the beach
lynnfield pioneers - emerge

nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith
ar kane - 69
earth wind & fire - open our eyes
the sea & cake - the fawn
gas - pop
alec empire - the destroyer

and yes, deciet without a fucking doubt.

but jesus, speaking of which, the sam prekop solo album towers above either of them.

men's recovery project "boldies over basra"... electro weirdo.

thinking fellers union local 282 "Strangers from the Universe"... just cause... tful 282 would probably be ignored by a greatest 200.

the ex "dignity of labour".... awesome.

this heat "deceit"... this would be in my top 50 easily.

family fodder "Savoir Faire: The Best of Family Fodder"... a collection, but who cares... awesome new wave... hilarious, irreverant, and catchy as hell.

the calculators "Simplicity and Style" ep... total 80's new wave revival from 98 or so... i'm sure there's a source that may be better to include... but i love this 10" and have scarcely seen it mentioned anywhere else in the last few years. the lou reed cover "vicious" is awesome.

and on AND ON...
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just casue I've been listening to it a lot lately : Luomo - Vocalcity
Vladislav Delay in a more house - melodic / less atmospheric guise. Oh, and with vocals.

"Skywriting" - Field Mice or maybe "Her handwriting" - Trembling Blue Stars (Bob Wratton at his best on both occasions)

"Euphoria" - Insides (psychotic dreampop at its finest)

"United States Of America" - United State of America (very forward looking - I bet Broadcast wore out a few copies of this)

"The only fun in town" - Josef K (treble as a weapon?)

That'll do for now

Astor Piazzolla - Tango: Zero Hour
Unfairly maligned as yuppie shag music, this is, in fact, the most potent distillation of Piazzolla's passion and precision. And it's excellent for shagging.

Come - 11:11
Must slept-on heroin-soaked indie-blues opera--it always sounds like it's getting ready to completely fall apart, or worse yet, keep going. Despite well-meaining protestations to the contrary, the band never came within miles of it again.

Oval - Systemisch
Glitch symphonies for a new age already passing.

Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys - Sad Days, Lonely Nights
The blues' last gasp, drawn into a sinuous, trashed up drone/groove that sounds like it's going to last all night. No idiotic bar-band/lover man posing--just amazing music. And the Best Blues Album Title Evah.

Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
Paradise reimagined as 1970's black and Latin New York.

2:Title In Limbo, Residents/Renaldo and The Loaf.

another sunny day - london weekend
adorable - against perfection
adorable - fake
other people place - lifestyles of the laptop cafe
medicine - shot forth self living
schlammpetiziger - spacerokkmountainrutschquartier
kevin ayers - joy of a toy

Flaming Groovies -- Shake Some Action
It fits the rock canon beautifully, was released in the right age for recognition (mid '70s) and features gorgeous British Invasion melodies. I've always been surprised that I've never seen it on one of those lists...

STUKAS OVER DISNEYLAND - the Dickies
WHITE NOISE - Cop Shoot Cop
EIGHT LEGGED GROOVE MACHINE - The Wonder Stuff
LET THEM EAT JELLYBEANS - Various Artists (Alternative Tentacles)

Nusrat Feteh Ali Khan - Bandit Queen
David Bowie - Outside, Black Tie White Noise
Quickspace - s/t
Pizzicato 5 - Playboy & Playgirl

Fingers Inc - Another Side
or
Master C&J feat Liz Torres - Can't Get Enough

hstencil - Rock Bottom made the Top 200 that inspired this thread!

Scrawl - Velvet Hammer
Moose - ...XYZ
The Sound - From The Lions Mouth
Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind

You're right, that's a total classic.

Bossanova is indeed the Pixies best work, and Spine of God needs to be heard by more people!

MR BUNGLE - Mr.Bungle
GROUP SEX - Circle Jerks
INVISIBLE HITCHCOCK - Robyn Hitchcock
AN ADJUSTMENT TO SOCIETY - Kraut
BIZARRO - The Wedding Present

Phylr "Contra La Puerta" -- cool mixture of soundtrack music noir and interesting drum programming (kinda pseudo dnb minus the bass) by James F. Coleman of Cop Shoot Cop. His second album isn't very good, but this one was my favorites for a couple years and is probably the only think I ever bought/liked off of Invisible Records.

Paul Schutze "New Maps of Hell", "The Rapture of Metals" or "Site Anubis" -- pick one, they are all good. These three records are sample edit pieces built of improvs of a band led by Schutze and Bill Laswell. All three have an interesting brew of "He Loved Him Madly" fusion, odd other world percussion, and dark isolationist ambient sounds. (If I had to pick one, I would probably go with Site Anubis, mostly for "The Big God Blows In", but all three are excellent.) "The Surgery of Touch" is another good one, while being a solo ambient album.

The Grifters "Eureka" -- it seems some people get mushy over Pavement, but man none of their music really meant as much to me these guys from Memphis. I don't know if it was the time or not, but this EP is a long time favorite of mine. "Crappin You Negative" is a better choice if you are in more of a rocking mood, it is just as good.

I gotta go with "Maggot Brain" myself. That record was always a favorite for coming down, after the sun is already up.

Flying Saucer Attack "Further". -- This is the album to use before the sun comes up and "Maggot Brain". This album is weirdly intense and relaxing at the same time. I have no idea what the vocals are about except something to do with time and they sound cool.

Crescent "Electronic Sound Constructions" & "Sun/Unit System" e.p. --
The rock band track that opens the ep is not bad, lofi Sonic Youth inspired kind of thing, but that is not the reason to check these out. The remainder of this album and e.p. are some bizarro, cool and unique sounding tape loop, spoken word, dub echo pieces. "Unit Structure" and "There Is No Matter" are awesome very moody and trippy pieces of music. I found both on vinyl for near nada and are worth checking out. (I've still never heard Crescent's other music, but one day I will.)

Well, I went ahead and gave props to two so I might as well make it three from that area.

Third Eye Foundation "Ghost", "You Guys Kill Me", & "Lost Little Soul" -- Matt Elliot is a master of the sampler. These are three of my favorites of the last few years.

Roky Erickson "All that May Do My Rhyme" -- this is by far the best sounding of his albums and was put together with some love, which you definitely cannot say for the majority of his records which are pretty slipshot. This one and the first 13th Floor Elevators are the ones to get.

James Brown "Hell" -- this is a good album front to back and has some vicious grooves.

Neil Young "On the Beach" -- Neil's best and darkest album and it has been out of print for 20+ years, go figure.

The Contortions "Buy" -- slam dancing under the disco ball with the slide guitar as percussion instrument.

Bundy K. Brown's remixes for Tortoise & Aerial M "Find the One", "East of the Ryan" & "Attention Defecit Disorder..." -- cool Steve Reich influenced minimalism that is better than quite a bit of both bands repertoire. I wish he would have made an original or complete remix album in this style, it is some cool music.

These are off the top of my head, there are more I suppose.

Grifters, Paul Schutze, Dog Faced Hermans, Jawbox, Dead C, Camper Van Beethoven, Kletka Red, Sun Ra, Palace, Roky Erickson, The Minutemen, Loren Mazzacane, Charles Gayle, TFUL282 ... the titles in this thread are closer to my top 200 than any list I've seen.

Three additions:
Voice of Eye, Mariner Sonique
Magic Hour, No Excess Is Absurd
Aesop Rock, Labor Days

and a Biota title needs to be in here someplace.

The one I mentioned, "Hijacking", I think you can order directly from the Tzadik website. AMG lists a second album by them called "Hybrid", but I've not heard it and don't know where to find it.

Time to look into this Tzadik release.

Electric Fucking Eels. Damn right.

V-3... what's your connection to cowtown muddafucka?

Cactus World News - Urban Beaches

Cave In - Jupiter

DOP - Musicians of the Mind Volume 1

In the Woods - Omnio

Peter Murphy - Should the World Fail to Fall Apart

Polygon Windows - Surfing on Sine Waves

Solefald - The Linear Scaffold

Mark Stewart - As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts to Fade

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth

Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses

Wire - The Ideal Copy

The Young Gods - Only Heaven

I guess AR Kane, the Sound, Scrawl, Jawbox, Porter Ricks, and Luomo are on other Top 200s, so I won't mention those.

definitely on mine.

prince paul's 'a prince among thieves'

The Abyssinians - Satta Massa Gana

Jackie Leven - Creatures of Light And Darkness

Pram - Sargasso Sea

Biosphere - Substrata

False Front - Dude

Pinkie Maclure - From Memorial Crossing

Burning Spear - Social Living

Richard Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown

Roy Wood - Boulders

Bob Mould - Workbook

June Tabor and the Oyster Band - Freedom and Rain

Sebadoh - Bakesale

Richard Buckner - The Hill