Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking

1. Garden of Bones
2. Triumph
3. A Smoky Narchile
4. Zombie Cloud
5. urdog awaken
6. Long Shadows
7. Ice on Water
8. dmz

but that's a really hard thing to rank; the album's all of a piece and all very very awesome. Farfisa/guitar/drum trio sometimes going into total Hawkwind groove/space; droning keyboard parts; sometimes big riffs, sometimes quiet chant-a-long folk mumble. GOOD.

1. Antioch Arrow
2. Lava
3. Heroin
4. Angel Hair
5. John Henry West
6. Young Ginns

As for "Autumn Sweater", I love most of it, but there's this left-channelled drum pattern that Georgia plays that's horribly off-beat sometimes and totally disorienting on headphones, and it kinda ruins the song.

1. Animal Farm
2. Big Sky
3. All of My Friends Were There
4. Picture Book
5. Wicked Annabella
6. Starstruck
7. The Village Green Preservation Society
8. Monica
9. People Take Pictures of Each Other
10. Do You Remember Walter?
11. Johnny Thunder
12. Phenomenal Cat
13. Sitting by the Riverside
14. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
15. Village Green

No arguments about the first or last...

That took a weirdly long time to do.

1. On the Ellipse
2. Lapsed
3. Bufo Alvarius (with Amen 29:15)
4. Set and Setting
5. Dilate
6. Amanita

Plastikman Albums:

1. Closer
2. Musik
3. Consumed
4. Artifakts BC
5. Sheet One

songs on "Souvlaki"

1. Here She Comes
2. 40 Days
3. Alison
4. Machine Gun
5. Altogether
6. When the Sun Hits
7. Dagger
8. Souvlaki Space Station
9. Mellon Yellow
10. Sing

1. Damaged
2. My War
3. In My Head
4. Slip It In
5. The Process of Weeding Out
6. Loose Nut
7. Family Man

1. Spencer Dryden
2. Everyone else

BC 05
BC 07
BC 09
BC 06
BC 01
BC 02
BC 03
BC 08
BC 04

-- Ian John50n (dr.carl.saga...), November 28th, 2004.
what about brian (epstein) ?

Curious George's list totally made me wanna break out Village Green. Wish my Cds weren't so hard to get to.

Anyone wanna brave a Jandek album ranking?

1. arise, therefore
2. days in the wake
3. viva last blues
4. hope
5. ease down the road
6. there is no one what will take care of you
7. i see a darkness
8. joya
9. master & everyone

Again, it's ALL about the new one.

Violator
Music For the Masses
Ultra
Speak and Spell
Black Celebration
Some Great Reward
Songs of Faith and Devotion
Exciter
Construction Time Again
A Broken Frame

1. The White Album
2. Neil Young "After The Goldrush"
3. Joni Mitchell "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"
4. Stevie Wonder "Innervisions"
5. Van Morrison "Moondance"
6. Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
7. Rolling Stones "Flowers"
8. Cat Stevens "Teaser and the Firecat"
9. CSNY "Four Way Street"
10. Arlo Gutrie "Alice's Restaurant"

1. Landed
2. Olneyville Sound System
3. Vincebus Eruptum
4. Thee Hydrogen Terrors
5. The Von Ryan Express

-IF- my mom had, say, Rubber Soul, that would have been #1. But she didn't. And if my mom had Tonight's The Night, that would have been number one. But she didn't.

The white album has a few really awful tracks, BUT there are so many more totally mindblowing tracks that it totally makes up for it.

i wrote an article in my college papowr about this and literally almost got beat up

but beyond blackbird, yer blues, and mayeb one or two more, it suxxx!!

now, REVOLVER, that's a good record. And Rubber Soul too. But still dogshit compared to the worst of Neil Young

mind - yr wrong - it's 70% filler

oops better keep[ with teh thread

1. Jimmy Johns
2. Quiznos
3. Subway

Wasn't this the basis of their career, after all? Imitaing Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, and later, Bob Dylan? Except better?

is this the best ten years of 80's music ?

That was just my list of years from the '80s, pseudoman. Were it for music, 1989: The Year of Roxette, Mike + Mechanics, and "500 Miles" would be much lower on the list.

are you for real, roger? i mean, i don't idolize the beatles either but the worst of neil young is pretty fucking, um, WORST!

Voting Cope for "Gimme Back My Flag"

26. The Beta Band - The Beta Band

^This is very good indeed

29. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice

^I'm sorry, you're going to have to specify which Volume this pertains to...

Because my top 50 isn't as dancey as I'd like it to be it means Volume 1.

Tell you something that's blatantly missing from that list even under the circumstances - KISH KASH

From that list is Arthur Russell for me. Good pick for best U2 album.

Actually seeing as I'm not polling, here's the rest of the top 100 - it's better than I remembered

51. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star
52. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
53. Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure for Sanity
54. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (there it is, idk why it wasn't higher)
55. Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
56. This Heat - Deceit
57. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
58. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Respect
59. Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
60. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
61. Martin Newell - The Greatest Living Englishman
62. Take That - Progress
63. McFly - Wonderland
64. Genesis - Abacab
65. The Jam - Sound Affects
66. Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House
67. Meat Beat Manifesto - Armed Audio Warfare
68. Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
69. The Specials - More Specials
70. David Essex - Out on the Street
71. Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo
72. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
73. British Electric Foundation - Music for Stoaways
74. Sand - Golem
75. Friendsound - Joyride
76. James - Wah Wah
77. Can - Soon Over Babaluma
78. Miles Davis - On the Corner
79. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
80. Silver Apples - Silver Apples
81. Barry Booth - Diversions!
82. Van Dyke Parks - Discover America
83. Frazier Chorus - Sue
84. Pulp - This Is Hardcor
85. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind...and Your Ass Will Follow
86. Brainticket - Celestial Ocean
87. Totó La Momposina - La Candela Viva
88. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
89. Royal House - Can You Party
90. Super_Collider - Head On
91. Hi-Tension - Hi-Tension
92. Suicide - American Supreme
93. Position Normal - Stop Your Nonsense
94. Olatunji! - Drums of Passion
95. MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
96. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
97. Orbital - Snivilisation
98. u-Ziq - In Pine Effect
99. Daphne & Celeste Save the World
100. Cursor Miner - Explosive Piece of Mind

1. Right
2. Left

(not politics, physical things)

WmC, I like your list a lot, would have put about 20% of those in mine if I made one.

Thanks! Now that I have this album stuff out of my head somewhat I'm thinking about making a list of songs that broke my brain but aren't on albums good enough to make that top 50 list. The kind of thing I'll make notes on for a month and then drop.

10. Marrying his mom so as to become his stepfather

9. Telling everyone he “drugged you” when he just gave you a hit of his joint that one time

8. Calling him “the male Amanda Palmer” behind his back

7. Posting fantasy revenge lists on ILM

6. Telling yourself (accurately) that any public call-out or anything like that would be an act of punching down

5. Spelling out his name as a musical cryptogram as a “devil theme” in your next chamber music work

4. Always referring to him last-name first, first-name last, like “Palmer Amanda”, it’s weirdly so satisfying

3. Recording yourself reading his social media posts in a Maggie Smith voice and share the recordings with your group chat

2. Teaching your dog to shit every time she hears you say his name

1. Living well

1. Outside
2. Station To Station
3. Hunky Dory
4. The Man Who Sold The World
5. Blackstar
6. Low
7. Lodger
8. Earthling
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Scary Monsters
11. Let’s Dance
12. Pin-Ups
13. Aladdin Sane
14. The Next Day
15. Young Americans
16. Diamond Dogs
17. Heroes
18. Heathen
19. Space Oddity
20. Black Tie White Noise
21. Reality
22. Tin Machine
23. Buddha Of Suburbia
24. s/t (Deram)
25. Never Let Me Down
26. Tonight
27. (Hours)
28. Tin Machine 2

I was asked by a friend to "listen through Eurythmics' catalogue and rank them" and I told them I didn't need to, and sent a link to Alfred's own ranking (which is identical to my own, and says more valuable and interesting things than I would say). "Eurythmics is easy," I texted, "but Bowie would be harder." So I did Bowie instead.

That's a bold choice for number one.

shouldn’t it technically be 1. 1. Outside though

He named it deliberately to top every ranked list of Bowie albums iirc

It's a personal choice bc it's the first of Bowie's albums I ever "went deep" on (that is, listened to incessantly), but As Albums Go it's his most complete and there's only one or two tracks I would consider inessential (and none are really bad); also his most original genre-creation. The only bad thing about it is the plot but I think it kinda serves as a stinky binding agent or something

I wonder where Blackstar and The Next Day would place if the Bowie ballot poll were done today. 12 years ago, jeez.

xp I get the personal choice aspect. For me, that was The Man Who Sold the World, which seemed like a gateway into a different universe. I also appreciate your comment on the "plot" of Outside, which always kept me from loving what I otherwise appreciated as a return to form/evolution in his sound and vision.

Yeah, I love The Man and have always ranked "The Width Of A Circle" highly on any personal song list. What an amazing way to start an album, a "gateway into a different universe" indeed, "turn around, go back!"

otm about "width of a circle," what a banger

I've probably listened to The Man Who Sold the World and 'heroes' the most out of any Bowie albums.

So we asked a simple black bird, who was happy as can be
And he laughed insane and quipped Kahlil Gibran
And I cried for all the others till the day was nearly through
For I realized that God's a young man too

Yes dammit so, so, so good. The synapse between post-hippie Bowie and alien-rock Bowie is magical