In my collection (CD’s and vinyl) I have the following:
The Stooges - Funhouse
The Replacements - Tim
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
The Clash - London Calling
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Beatles - Revolver
R. E. M. - Murmur
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs & Stories
The Replacements - Let It Be
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Television - Marquee Moon 43. Joy Division - Closer
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Joy Division - Substance
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Meat Puppets - II
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
The Clash - The Clash
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Mekons - Fear And Whiskey
The Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
XTC - Skylarking
I would add lots of Tom Waits (probably Bone Machine, Swordfishtrombone and Franks Wild Years)
I would also add more Elvis Costello, mainly Get Happy and This Years Model
I would also add more Mekons - Rock and Roll, So Good It Hurts, and Curse of the Mekons
I would also add more alt-country including Old 97’s Too Far to Care, The Beat Farmers Tales of the New West, Steve Earle - Train a comin’, The Blood Oranges - Corn River, Todd Snider - (any of his would do), Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne, Son Volt Trace.
I would finally add some of The Bevis Frond - mostsly New River Head, and Son of Walter
Well, Truth and Soul was the first Fishbone album I heard, and I can still, over 20 years later, remember how excited I was hearing it the first time, so it’s still my favorite. The Pogues were my favorite band for years; at one point my top 10 would’ve been filled with Pogues albums, Surfer Rosa, and Revolver (the perennial favorites).
And I’m always hoping that Yoko Kanno will get more press out here; she really is a genius. Usually I’d say that putting a soundtrack on a best-albums list is a cop-out, but the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks are so brilliant that I have no reservations about it. (The problem is picking only one of them.) There’s another soundtrack she did with Maaya Sakamoto that’s also excellent; unfortunately I only read kana, not kanji, so I don’t know the title and can’t recommend it to anyone. It’s “23 Something no Something Something”.
To each his own, of course. (Actually, I expected to get more grief from including the Dave Matthews Band on my list.) I’d been hearing about Norah Jones for a while, but never bothered to get the album – first I heard it was jazz, which really isn’t my thing; then I heard it won a ton of Grammy awards, which usually means it’s unremarkable homogenized pablum; then I saw the album cover and relegated her to the whole crop of young female singer/songwriters – nobody that hot could be genuinely talented.
Then a friend of mine let me borrow the album and I listened to it all the way through at work one day and instantly knew that it was one of my favorite records ever. Part of the reason I like it so much is because it’s so “under-produced.” It’s straightforward: just her voice, a spare but interesting arrangement, and as much of her personality as can come through in her choice of songs and covers. Her voice just connects with me at some gut level; she had me at “Seven Years” (the second song on the record). The music is just there for that voice; if her voice doesn’t make you melt (as it does me) then I can see the album being pretty lackluster.
I’m sticking with Combat Rock for The Clash. London Calling is competent but predictable, IMO; Combat Rock, even though it has this whole “sell-out pop record” stigma attached to it still, is all over the place in what it was trying to do and the types of music they were trying to make. Any record with “Ghetto Defendant” and “Straight to Hell” on it gets instant inclusion on my list.
And I’ve never quite understood why Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is always named as everyone’s favorite Pogues record. It was the first one I’d heard, and it was what got me into the band, but when I first heard If I Should Fall From Grace With God it was like a religious experience.
Yeah I’ve been meaning to pick it up, but it’s just one of those things. I know I’ll like it (hell I know I like the songs I already know that’s on it!), but I jsut haven’t picked it up. Mea Culpa!
I took about two hours on this, and I’m sure I could rearrange and change it if I took more time, but on the other hand maybe my first impulses are more honest, so here it is:
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Radiohead - OK Computer
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nirvana - In Utero
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call
Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Nina Simone - Verve Jazz Masters 17
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol II
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
Slint - Spiderland
Radiohead - Kid A
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Clash - London Calling
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
Belly - Star
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Bjork - Post
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (Debut)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Tim Buckley - Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pixies - Doolittle
Rasputina - Thanks For the Ether
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Television - Marquee Moon
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Replacements - Let it Be
Smog - Red Apple Falls
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - I See A Darkness
Breeders - Last Splash
Air - Moon Safari
The Fall - This Nation’s Saving Grace
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Boredoms - Super Ae
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Richard and Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver
Mu-Ziq - Tango N’ Vectif
Beta Band - Three E.P.'s
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Luna - Penthouse
Wire - Pink Flag
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Wilco - Summerteeth
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Radiohead - The Bends
Nirvana - Nevermind
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
David Bowie - Low
Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
Mr. Bungle - California
Guided By Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
Popol Vuh - Tantric Songs/ Hosianna Mantra
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Beck - Odelay
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Some of you guys have way too much time, I can’t do a hundred so here’s ten -one per artist/band, no order and this isn’t really a top 10 I’d have to do research.
Doll by Doll - Gypsy Blood (yeah I know no-one’s heard of them) The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
**Pink Floyd ** - Animals (tired of WYWH/DSOTM) Holly Beth Vincent - Holly and The Italians Catatonia - International Velvet (is that the one with horses on the cover?) The Who - Who’s next Prince - Sign of the Times Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Syd Barrett - er, the first one, or the second (heck the one with Octopus)
Dude pretty good list but put the Soft Boys back in dammit.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Replacements - Let It Be
Fugazi - Repeater
Radiohead - Kid A
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Television - Marquee Moon
The Stooges - Raw Power
The Who - Who’s Next
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Nas - Illmatic
Slint - Spiderland
Joy Division - Closer
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Radiohead - OK Computer
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter (The 36 Chambers)
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Joy Division - Substance
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
The Pixies - Bossanova
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Meat Puppets - II
Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu
The Clash - The Clash
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Constantines - Shine A Light
Fugazi - The Argument
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
XTC - Skylarking
Bj��rk - Post
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Sugar - Copper Blue
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Damn, 64 of 'em. The ones I trimmed I either don’t have yet (some random Smiths albums, Palace, Buzzcocks) or haven’t gotten into yet - mostly GBV / Pollard stuff (I haven’t had my epiphany moment yet where I get obsessed with a band). Nothing on the list that I’m unfamiliar with.
My list would probably have trimmed Come On Pilgrim, added more Pavement, Misfits, Wilco (Summer Teeth and Being There), Ramones, Sonic Youth (Sister), and Talking Heads (Fear of Music) records, and would have contained:
Stevie Wonder - At least Innervisions, probably others
Firehose - Flyin’ the Flannel at a minimum, maybe fROMOHIO and If’n
De La Soul - At least 3 Feet High and Rising, probably De La Soul is Dead
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something, Lonesome Crowded West
Uncle Tupelo - Anyodyne, possibly March 16-20 1993
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Don Caballero - American Don
Wilco and Billy Bragg - Mermaid Avenue (I only, not II)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Built To Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Afghan Whigs - Congregation
And, of course, some possibles but not likelys:
Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Tortoise - Millions Living Now Will Never Die
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Wow, it’s freakish how similar Nightime, and particularly Cainxinth’s list is to mine, though mine is only 50- mainly because my music collection isn’t nearly as big as I’d like.
Oh, and I had to include some compilations because they represent some of my favourite artists that I don’t have any other CD’S by- I put them at the end.
Marvin Gaye- What’s Goin’ On
The Beatles- The White Album
3.Björk- Debut
Neil Young- Harvest
The Orb- U.F.Orb
Jeff Buckley- Grace
The Pixies- Dolittle
The Clash- The Clash
Tom Waits- Blue Valentine
Vangelis- Bladerunner Soundtrack
Radiohead- The Bends
Massive Attack- Blue Lines
Goldie- Timeless
Bob Marley- Exodus
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising
Tricky- Maximquaye
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
D’ Angelo- Voodoo
Tom Waits- Nighthawks at the Diner
Tindersticks- Tindersticks
Leftfield- Leftism
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Lemonheads- It’s a Shame About Ray
Pulp- Different Class
Primal scream- Screamadelica
Mos Def- Black on Both Sides
Nirvana- Nevermind
Cardigans- Life
Suzaane Vega- Solitude Standing
Tracy Chapman- Tracy Chapman
Blur- Parklife
Stone Roses- Stone Roses
Pearl Jam- Ten
Stevie Wonder-Innervisions
The Beatles- Revolver
The Kinks- The Kinks
AC/DC- Back in Black
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Outkast- Aquemini
Macy Gray- On How Life Is
Led Zepplin- IV
Underworld- 2nd Toughest in the Infants
Portishead- Dummy
NuYorican Soul- NuYorican Soul
… and the compilations…
The Sugarcubes- A Collection
James Brown- 40th Anniversary Collection
Kate Bush- The Whole Story
Nat King Cole- 20 Golden Greats
Curtis Mayfield- Beautiful Brother. The Essential Curtis Mayfield
Thanls for getting me interested in searching out a whole bunch of bands, and re-aquainting myself with a few I haven’t listened to in a while.
OK, I can’t resist these kinds of threads, but since my son wants to be on daddys lap while I’m typing, I’m gonna limit it to the 40 albums that have been a constant in my life since I’ve heard them. Of course a list like this is subject to change on any different day, but looking over it, I feel pretty good about it.There’s a newer band or two, like the Bellrays, who are gonna be on my playlist for decades to come, and a new-ish album by The Dictators, DFFD, which IMHO is the best album they’ve put out yet, and thats saying a lot, because all their albums are great.
The Mudhoney album is a comp, but it’s an essential record if only due to b-sides and rarities, same with the X Anthology. That album is worth buying just for hearing Ray Manzarek’s piano on “Riding With Mary”
As for the “Bollocks” being number one, well, as much as its a cliche to say this, it really DID change my life.
1-The Sex Pistols-Never Mind The Bollocks
2-Mudhoney-March To Fuzz
3-The Stooges-Funhouse
4-Alice Cooper Killers or Love It To Death (can’t choose between the two)
5-Dead Boys-Young Loud and Snotty
6–Real Kids-S/T
7-X-Beyond and Back-The X Anthology
8-The Bellrays-Let It Blast
9-Lazy Cowgirls-Tapping The Source
10-The Cramps-Smell Of Female
11-Bad Brains-The ROIR album
12-The Exploited-Lets Start A War…said Maggie One Day
13-The Sonics-Here Are The Sonics
14-Rose Tattoo-S/T
15-Urgh:A Music War soundtrack
16-Fear-The Record
17-Dead Kennedys-Plastic Surgery Diasters
18-The Modern Lovers- S/T (The John Cale Demos) (Rhino)
19-Misfits Walk Among Us
20-Anti Nowhere League-We Are The League
21-The Dickies-Dawn Of The Dickies
22-The Sweet-S/T US debut
23-Black Flag-The First Four Years
24-VA-Songs We Taught The Fuzztones
25-Dead Milkmen-Beelzububba
26-Crucifucks-Our Will Be Done
27-The Meatmen-War Of The Superbikes
28-The Dictators-DFFD
29-VA-Nuggets box
30-B52s-S/T
31-The Avengers-S/T
32-VA-Not So Quiet On The Western Front
33-THe Dickies-Dawn Of The Dickies
34-MDC-Millions Of Dead Cops Lp
35-The Clash-S/T
36-The Damned-Damned Damned Damned
37-They Might Be Giants-Flood
38-Fear-The Record
39-The Fleshtones-Hexbreaker
40-MC5-Back In The USA
Good list, Encouraged me to dig out quite a few albums for the first time in ages. So thanks for that. I lack the patience to do one of my own but I do have a couple of questions.
Firstly and slightly fectiously No Afghan Whigs? What gives?
Secondly, Purple Rain as Prince’s best album, indeed the only one that made the list? I mean it’s great and all but he did better work. Most obviously “Sign o’ the times”.
I can’t resist lists, so when a thread like this appears I have to make one of my own. I’ve probably left something important out or done some horrible grading blunders here, but I can’t keep polishing this thing forever.
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Radiohead - OK Computer
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Pixies - Doolittle
The Clash - London Calling
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Slint - Spiderland
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Sonic Youth - Sister
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Radiohead - Kid A
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Sonic Youth - Goo
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime
The Beatles - The Beatles [The White Album]
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Stooges - Raw Power
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Beatles – Abbey Road
Radiohead - The Bends
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Can - Future Days
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
The Beatles - Revolver
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Television - Marquee Moon
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Neu! - Neu! (1975)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Band - Music from Big Pink
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Blur – 13
The Cure - Faith
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Love - Forever Changes
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
57 Elliot Smith - XO
The Clash - The Clash
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Neu! - Neu! (1972)
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
The Stooges - Fun House
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-Pura
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Outkast - Stankonia
Magazine - Real Life
Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Nas – Illmatic
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Max Tundra – Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
Philip Glass – The Koyaanisqatsi Soundtrack
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Gastr del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
Faust - Faust IV
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
I don’t own any Afghan Whigs albums, just a couple random mp3’s. Which record should I start out with? Your user name reminds me of the fact that I’m really starting to enjoy Belle & Sebastian (‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’), a band that I always found too precious for their own good.
I’ve always preferred ‘Purple Rain’ to ‘Sign ‘O’ The Times,’ probably due to the fact that I think that at 80+ minutes it gets a bit tedious, I rarely get the urge to put it on. Actually – with a couple of exceptions – I’ve never been a fan of double albums.
That’s a kick ass list Dryga_Yes.
I own all of these:
I traded ‘Zaireeka’ for ‘Chief Assassin to the Sinister’ by Three Mile Pilot (recommended by mouthbreather), ‘All Mod Cons’ by The Jam and a soft porn DVD (still sealed!), at the used record store yesterday. I never got around to hooking it up to four different sound systems, so it was just taking up space in my shelf. I asume you’ve tried it?
‘Ege Bamyasi’ has been gathering dust in my ‘in’ pile for a couple of months now, I should probably get around to it soon. I own so much music I haven’t had the time to listen to yet, mostly because of girls and school work. I feel like I’m suffocating.
Hüsker Düde
What does it say that I know 80% of the bands on your list, but only own two of the cds? (Doolittle and Relationship of Command). It’s not quite a difference in tastes, but it’s…something
Thanks a lot. Yours was awesome as well, and I’m probably going to give some of those at the top that haven’t really ‘clicked’ yet some more listens (Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr.)
And this is embarrassing, but after some counting you actually own more of the albums on my list than I do. Unless burned CDs count.
Yes, though only twice. I’m assuming that part of the idea they had is that you have to organise several friends together to listen to it properly with a full ensemble. We were three people who listened at a friend’s house, with his stereo and three boomboxes. I’d listened to it before on a burned CD-R with a downloaded mixdown, and I’d thought that the material was just kind of… weak. Listening really isn’t an experience in the same way unless you do it ‘properly’. You could hear the sound change as you moved around in the room and were closer to the different speakers. Different parts would get oh-so-slightly out of sync. I was surprised that it actually worked and wasn’t just a novelty.
The others didn’t like it as much (read: at all), which explains why I’ve only done it twice. I guess that’s the downside of the concept
I feel the same way, I keep a list of bands I should check out on a text file on my desktop, and it grows faster than I can deal with it. You really should check out Ege Bamyasi, I fell in love with it after hearing like thirty seconds of the first track.
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I don’t own any Afghan Whigs albums, just a couple random mp3’s. Which record should I start out with? Your user name reminds me of the fact that I’m really starting to enjoy Belle & Sebastian (‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’), a band that I always found too precious for their own good.
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With regards to the Afghan Whigs, I think someone mentioned “Congregation” above which is a good call, However their masterwork is probably “Gentlemen”. It’s certainly a decent place to start. Although if you can find any of the many covers they did, they are well worth downloading. There’s one of “When Doves Cry” that’s just amazing.
As for Belle and Sebastian, Well I love 'em to bits but I live in the West end of Glasgow, I go to the same bars as they do so It’s kinda hard for me to be objective. It’s pretty much the soundtrack to my life y’ken? I would recommend trying to get hold of the Lazy line painter Jane 3 EP set, there’s a lot of great stuff on there.
Well each to his own of course. For myself there’s no such thing as too much Prince so “Sign o’ the times” is just heaven. I would agree with you that double albums aren’t generally much cop. For my money ‘…times’ and London Calling are probably the only great ones.
re: the afgahn whigs
“congregation” and “gentlemen” are both kickass.
I probably like gentlemen a little more, but only because it was the soundtrack to a summer of heartache for me. (everybody go “awwww” now. :rolleyes: ) I always thought that Greg Dulli and PJ Harvey should date and have a very bitter breakup to see who could write the better resulting album.
Anyway, both albums are very much worth checking out.
I did a list like this a few years ago… it was interesting to revisit those albums and see what had dropped out and what had moved up.
This is my new list… a couple of caveat’s though:
There was no way I could put them in any order other than alphabetical. Although today, The Rezillos album would top the list.
I only listed one album per band, and no “Greatest Hits”, Live or compilations…
Some of this is pretty regional listening… you’d probably have to be Canadian (and/or from the Pacific Northwest) to have had any chance of hearing a couple of the albums here.
AC/DC - Back in Black
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
Asylum Street Spankers - Spanker Madness
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour
B-52’s - Wild Planet
The Barracudas - Drop Out With…
The Beatles - Revolver
Big Star - #1 Record
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blondie - Eat To The Beat
The Breeders - Last Splash
Bughouse Five - Dark Days Passing
The Buzzcocks - Love Bites
Calexico - The Black Light
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come
The Clash - The Clash
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Deja Voodoo - Too Cool To Live, Too Smart To Die
Detroit Cobras - Life, Love and Leaving
Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo
The Dik Van Dykes - Nobody Likes…
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
The English Beat - I Just Can’t Stop It
The Fastbacks - … and His Orchestra
The Flamin’ Groovies - Shake Some Action
The Fleshtones - Solid Gold Sound
Flipper - Generic Flipper
The Forgotten Rebels - This Ain’t Hollywood
Freakwater - Old Paint
The Fugs - The Fugs First Album
The Handsome Family - Through The Trees
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
King Crimson - Discipline
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Kiss - Destroyer
The Knitters - Poor Little Critter On The Road
Love - Forever Changes
The Lyres - AHS: 1005
Man… or Astroman? - A Spectrum Of Infinite Scale
The Meat Puppets - II
The Meat Purveyors - More Songs About Buildings And Cows
The Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Big Muff
Negativland - Escape From Noise
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nomeansno - Wrong
The Now Time Delegation - Watch For Today
The Old 97’s - Wreck Your Life
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and The Lash
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Pretty Things - Get The Picture?
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
Ramones - Road To Ruin
Redd Kross - Neurotica
The Replacements - Let It Be
The Rezillos - Can’t Stand The…
The Rolling Stones - England’s Newest Hitmakers
Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
Son Volt - Trace
The Sadies - Tremendous Efforts
The Saints - I’m Stranded
The Sights - Got What We Want
The Specials - The Specials
Split Lip Rayfield - Never Make It Home
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
The Stooges - Funhouse
The Stranglers - IV
Sublime - 40 oz. To Freedom
The Supersuckers - Must Have Been High
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Talking Heads - '77
20 Miles - Keep It Coming
UIC - Our Garage
Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone
The Undertones - Hypnotised
The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent
Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings
Jim White - The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Wilco - A.M.
X - More Fun In The New World
The Young Fresh Fellows - The Men Who Loved Music
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - We’re Only In It For The Money
There are some, mostly 50’s artists, who I am only familiar with thorough “greatest hits” or live albums, but they should be mentioned, just on principle:
Chuck Berry, The Coasters, Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Gene Vincent, Hank Williams, Link Wray
