AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB CALIFORNIAAPHEX TWIN SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS 85-92ARETHA FRANKLIN LADY SOULAUGUSTUS PABLO KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWNB-52'S B-52'SBEASTIE BOYS ILL COMMUNICATIONBENY MORE EL BARBARO DEL RITMOBESSIE SMITH THE ESSENTIAL BESSIE SMITHBIG BLACK SONGS ABOUT FUCKINGBIG STAR SISTER LOVERSBILLIE HOLIDAY LADY IN SATINBJÖRK DEBUTBOB DYLAN BLONDE ON BLONDEBOB DYLAN HIGHWAY 61 REVISITEDBOB MARLEY NATTY DREADBOB WILLS ANTHOLOGY 35-73BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS CRIMINAL MINDEDBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BORN TO RUNBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN NEBRASKABURT BACHARACH THE LOOK OF LOVEBUZZCOCKS SINGLES GOING STEADYBYRDS YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAYCAETANO VELOSO ESTRANGEIROCAN TAGO MAGOCAPTAIN BEEFHEART TROUT MASK REPLICACREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL COSMO'S FACTORYCURTIS MAYFIELD CURTISCHARLES MINGUS THE BLACK AND THE SINNER LADYCHARLEY PATTON THE DEFINITIVE CHARLEY PATTONCHARLIE PARKER THE COMPLETE SAVOY & DIAL RECORDINGS 44-48DAVID BOWIE ZIGGY STARDUSTDAVID BOWIE HUNKY DORYDAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTDE LA SOUL THREE FEET HIGH AND RISINGDEAD KENNEDYS FRESH FRUIT FOR ROTTEN VEGETABLESDERRICK MAY INNOVATORDINOSAUR JR BUGDIZZY GILLESPIE THE COMPLETE RCA VICTOR RECORDINGS 1937-1949DJ SHADOW ENDTRODUCINGŠDR DRE THE CHRONICDUKE ELLINGTON AT NEWPORT 1956DUSTY SPRINGFIELD DUSTY IN MEMPHISELVIS COSTELLO THIS YEAR'S MODELELVIS PRESLEY FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHISELLA FITZGERALD THE GEORGES & IRA GERSHWIN SONGBOOKERIC B AND RAKIM PAID IN FULLERIC DOLPHY OUT TO LUNCHFANIA ALLSTARS LIVE AT THE CHEETAH VOL. 1 & 2FELA KUTI BLACK PRESIDENTFINGERS INC ANTOHER SIDEFRANK SINATRA SONGS FOR SWINGIN LOVERSGANG OF FOUR ENTERTAINMENTGOLDIE TIMELESSGRAM PARSONS GPGRATEFUL DEAD AMERICAN BEAUTYHANK WILLIAMS 40 GREATEST HITSHAPPY MONDAYS PILLS'N'THRILLS AND BELLYACHESHUSKER DU ZEN ARCADEJACQUES BREL LES MARQUISESJAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLOJAMES BROWN SEX MACHINEJEFFERSON AIRPLANE SURREALISTIC PILLOWJIMI HENDRIX ELECTRIC LADYLANDJIMI HENDRIX ARE YOU EXPERIENCEDJOHN CALE PARIS 1919JOHN COLTRANE A LOVE SUPREMEJOHN LENNON PLASTIC ONO BANDJOHN ZORN SPILLANEJOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISONJONI MITCHELL BLUEJOY DIVISION CLOSERKING SUNNY ADE JUJU MUSICKLF CHILL OUTKRAFTWERK TRANSEUROPE EXPRESSLAURIE ANDERSON BIG SCIENCELED ZEPPELIN IVLEE SCRATCH PERRY ARKOLOGYLEONARD COHEN SONGS OF LEONARD COHENLEONARD COHEN I'M YOUR MANLOU REED BERLINLOU REED TRANSFORMERLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOT FIVES AND HOT SEVENLOVE FOREVER CHANGESMADONNA IMMACULATE COLLECTIONMARVIN GAYE WHAT'S GOING ONMARVIN GAYE LET'S GET IT ONMARY MARGARET O'HARA MISS AMERICAMASSIVE ATTACK BLUE LINESMC5 KICK OUT THE JAMSMICHAEL JACKSON THRILLERMILES DAVIS KIND OF BLUEMILES DAVIS BITCHES BREWMINOR THREAT COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHYMOTORHEAD NO SLEEP TILL HAMMERSMITHMY BLOODY VALENTINE LOVELESSNEIL YOUNG AFTER THE GOLD RUSHNEIL YOUNG RUST NEVER SLEEPSNEU! 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AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLERAMONES RAMONESRESIDENTS COMMERCIAL ALBUMRICKIE LEE JONES PIRATESROBERT JOHNSON THE COMPLETE RECORDINGSROBERT WYATT ROCK BOTTOMROXY MUSIC FOR YOUR PLEASURERUBEN BLADES BUSCANDO AMERICASALIF KEITA SOROSAM COOKE LIVE AT HARLEM SQUARESCOTT WALKER IIISERGE GAINSBOURG HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSONSEX PISTOLS NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKSSKIP JAMES THE COMPLETE EARLY RECORDINGSSLAYER REIGN IN BLOODSLINT SPIDERLANDSLY AND THE FAMILY STONE THERE'S A RIOT GOING ONSONIC YOUTH SISTERSPECIALS SPECIALSSTAN GETZ & JOAO GILBERTO GETZ & GILBERTOSTEVE REICH MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANSSTEVIE WONDER INNERVISIONSSUICIDE SUICIDESUN RA SPACE IS THE PLACET REX THE SLIDERTALKING HEADS REMAIN IN LIGHTTELEVISION MARQUEE MOONTHE BAND MUSIC FROM BIG PINKTHE BEACH BOYS PET SOUNDSTHE BEATLES REVOLVERTHE BEATLES SGT PEPPER'STHE BOO RADLEYS GIANT STEPSTHE CLASH LONDON CALLINGTHE CRICKETS THE CHIRPING CRICKETSTHE CURE DISINTEGRATIONTHE DOORS DOORSTHE FALL THIS NATION SAVING GRACETHE HUMAN LEAGUE DARETHE IMPRESSIONS PEOPLE GET READYTHE JAM ALL MOD CONSTHE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN PSYCHOCANDYTHE KINKS FACE TO FACETHE MAGNETIC FIELDS 69 LOVE SONGSTHE MOTHERS OF INVENTION WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEYTHE NEW YORK DOLLS NEW YORK DOLLSTHE POP GROUP YTHE ROLLING STONES EXILE ON MAIN STREETTHE ROLLING STONES BEGGARS BANQUETTHE SMITHS THE QUEEN IS DEADTHE STOOGES FUN HOUSETHE VELVET UNDERGROUND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICOTHE WAILERS CATCH A FIRETHE WHO WHO'S NEXTTHELONIOUS MONK GENIUS OF MODERN MUSIC VOL. 1 AND 2TIM BUCKLEY STARSAILORTINDERSTICKS ITOM WAITS SWORDSFISHTROMBONESTRICKY MAXINQUAYEVAN MORRISON ASTRAL WEEKSVAN MORRISON MOONDANCEVARIOS THE CHESS STORY 1947-1975VARIOS THE SUN RECORDS COLLECTIONVARIOS HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSICVARIOS ATLANTIC RYHTM & BLUES 1947-1974VARIOS HITSVILLE U.S.A.: THE MOTOWN SINGLES COL 1959-1971VARIOS TOUGHER THAN TOUGH-THE STORY OF JAMAICAN MUSICVARIOS NUGGETS-ORIGINAL ARTIFACTS FROM THE FIRST PSYVARIOS TROPICALIAVARIOS NO NEW YORKVARIOS THE HOUSE SOUND OF CHICAGOVARIOS RAI REBELSVARIOS RETROTECHNO-DETROIT DEFINITIVEVIOLENT FEMMES VIOLENT FEMMESWOODY GUTHRIE DUST BOWL BALLADSWU-TANG CLAN ENTER THE WU-TANGYOUNG MARBLE GIANTS COLOSSAL YOUTHYOUSSOU N'DOUR IMMIGRES
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 September 2002 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael w., Friday, 13 September 2002 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Friday, 13 September 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Friday, 13 September 2002 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael w., Friday, 13 September 2002 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael w., Friday, 13 September 2002 12:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 13 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is it?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
perhaps more interesting and less canonical than these things usually are.
― michael w., Friday, 13 September 2002 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
*coughs* *looks for big hole to be swallowed up by*
look, i was just pleased to see "innovator" in there, ok?
― michael w., Friday, 13 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
What's the point of this?
Isn't it obvious? The point of this is for us pathetic music geeks to skim over it and go "ooooh, I own that, great album!" and "damn, I gotta buy that!" and "WHAT?? THIS piece of crap?? What were they thinking???" and "how dare they forget about (insert album here), it's OBVIOUSLY the greatest thing ever released!".
On a diferent note, nuestros hermanos included plenty of albums from France, Jamaica, Brazil and Germany, but not a single album by Zeca Afonso, Amalia Rodrigues or GNR (not Guns N Roses.) I expect nothing else from US/UK lists, but you'd think Spain would take pity on its neighbour...
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 September 2002 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
The 90s according to this list. Thought it might be useful for the Pinefox - tracking an emergent canon so to speak.
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
daniel: there are no portuguese albums, but please note that there are no spanish albums, either. strange: i thought that at least some camaron de la isla or other flamenco myths would be included (if only for chauvinistic or political reasons).
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ArfArf, Friday, 13 September 2002 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 13 September 2002 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 13 September 2002 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ArfArf, Friday, 13 September 2002 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
They said 20th century, but they didn't mean it.
― dleone (dleone), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's true. Maybe their angle is more along the lines of, "Include enough of the jazz canon in order to lend an aura of credibility to our pop/rock picks."
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Clay, Friday, 13 September 2002 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Friday, 13 September 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is my new favourite list of all time.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 September 2002 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 September 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 13 September 2002 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ahem. Anyway, my list would rock, regardless of the Radiohead inclusions.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ddd, Friday, 13 September 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 13 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
brg b-but you'd kill that person...cool!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 14 September 2002 09:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Could we have a ruling on this use of "rocksim" by one of the in-house experts on its meaning? (I have a feeling the answer is no, we cannot.)
― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 10:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't like it when influential music mags say something is "The Best" as its a fact. It's their opinion...It is the very essence of rockism.
Nah, it's just honesty. No matter how much ILM might go on about subjectivity and all that, the truth of the matter is that we all secretly think that what we consider to be the best stuff actually IS the best stuff, and that anyone who disagrees must be TOTALLY INSANE!
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
(dr vick told me this compulsive repetition thing producing the opposite to the effect intended is called "cryptamnesia", but we were zipping along on her motorbike at the time so i may have misunderstood)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 September 2002 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 14 September 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 14 September 2002 14:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Sunday, 15 September 2002 06:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm going to be in a minority here but sometimes, amidst the desperate clamour for the new, it's nice to be told "here's some older music, it's good stuff". It might be difficult to believe but not everyone picked up on Loveless at the time.
The problem is that canons are self-perpetuating, Trans-Europe Express and There's A Riot Goin' On are passed like a watch from one generation to the next, and it's difficult to explore forgotten avenues simply because there isn't enough time to keep up with what's going on right now. Are there any examples of albums that slipped through the cracks for, say, twenty years or more, that have subsequently been sanctified?
― Mike (mratford), Sunday, 15 September 2002 09:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Are there any examples of albums that slipped through the cracks for, say, twenty years or more, that have subsequently been sanctified?"
The Monkees!!!
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 15 September 2002 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://sdam.com/pseudocool/images/cryptom.gif
― david h (david h), Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david h (david h), Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― THE MIGHTY RETURNING CRUSADER FATNICK I, Sunday, 15 September 2002 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wankers.
― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 15 September 2002 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 September 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.sundayherald.com/bestalbums1.shtml
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 16 September 2002 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
Having said that any list which features Dusty S, the Dictators and the Kronos Quartet is worth investigating. Though it works best as an alternate route map through the 60's and 70's.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
best wishes. Good list. I would say Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana.
― Enrique Avila, Sunday, 6 October 2002 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― In My Tree, Monday, 7 October 2002 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 7 October 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
This i my list like it or not but its mine :)!
― Pablo Porcar, Friday, 11 October 2002 17:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 11 October 2002 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 11 October 2002 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Queen - A Kind Of MagicQueen - InnuendoGeorge Harrison - All things must passIron Maiden - The number of the BeastIron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh SonJudas Priest - British SteelMotorhead - Ace Of Spades
― Javier de la Coruña, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― josemartin278@terra.es, Friday, 25 October 2002 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― FreaKZ, Saturday, 7 December 2002 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ian johnson, Saturday, 7 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Pearl Jam's fan, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spinning Magnet, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
las B.S.O no cuentan ?, where are the O.M.P.?
― midnight cowboy, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Málaga Virgen, Sunday, 2 November 2003 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Francisco José Pires, Friday, 28 November 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
MMT might come close though.
― Michael Dubsky, Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Rusty Blade, Friday, 16 January 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
I also like a few things like The Beach Boys on top of The Beatles and VU on top of them all. I think compilations and greatest hits should have been omited though.
― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link
― ron kavanagh, Friday, 12 May 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link