While I can’t agree with the order, putting The Cars before Dark Side of the Moon, there are some mighty fine albums to complete your collection here. I dont think there is a single album in the top 100 that I don’t like. Here’s the top 10 for you lazies:
010: Brian Eno – Another Green World [Island; 1975]
009: Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures [Factory; 1979]
008: Gang of Four – Entertainment! [Warner Bros; 1979]
007: Led Zeppelin IV [Atlantic; 1971]
006: Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express [Capitol; 1977]
005: Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks [Columbia; 1975]
004: Sly & The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On [Epic; 1971]
003: Television – Marquee Moon [Elektra; 1977]
002: The Clash – London Calling [CBS; 1979]
001: David Bowie – Low [RCA; 1977]
http://pitchforkmedia.com/top/70s/index.shtml
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This is definitely a great list of albums from the 70’s. Have you checked out their list of the top 100 from the 80’s? http://pitchforkmedia.com/top/80s/index.shtml
#63653 | Author: @LEx | Date: Jul 20 2004
Dig that Nurse with Wound write up…”DO NOT play this for children.” No doubt. I was coming unhinged at all the crap ahead of Spacemen 3’s “Playing with Fire” until I read #50….Spacemen 3’s “Perfect Prescription.” Do they have this list for the 60’s and 90’s also ? If so whats the URL’s ? Talk Talk’s minimalist jazz stuff before the New Wave stuff, right on, nice. O lord….. Brian Eno & David Byrne’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” at 21? Please. They are far better apart than that venture. I can think of over 20 absoulte music have records from the 80’s not on that list. It would include some Bauhaus, Love & Rockets “Express”, things on Creation Records in addition to Jesus & Mary Chain, like House of Love, Felt & Biff Bang Pow. How about some Siouxsie & the Banshees, other Smiths albums, The Cure “head on the door” era, REM’s “Life’s Rich Pagent”, Cocteau Twins “Garlands” & “Heaven of Las Vegas”, Public Image “Album”, Sisters of Mercy, Ultravox, The Church, The Stranglers, The Vaselines, Depeche Mode, Yaz, ? Was there any Peter Gariel on either of those lists ? Kate Bush “The Dreaming” ? And thats without pulling out my Trouser Press Record Guide.
#63654 | Author: herman | Date: Jul 21 2004
Also missing from the list: The Waterboys “This is the Sea”, Tones on Tail, some Wolfgang Press, Clan of Xymox, Dead Can Dance, Sinead O’Conner’s “the lion & the cobra”, Human League, Opal, The Only Ones (“another girl, another planet”), Throwing Muses (first album), The Connells “Darker Days”, Dukes of Stratosphere “chocolate fireball…”, Woodentops, This Mortal Coil, the The, David Sylvian. Was there any Bob Marley or Peter Tosh on either list ? The Cult “love” & “electric” ? Echo & the Bunnymen, Robin Hitchcock “Globe of Frogs”, Roxy Music “Avalon”, The Raincoats, … at least they had one Devo album on there. Modern English, Magazine, Housemartins’ “London 0, Hull 4” , Hoodoo Gurus “Stoneage Romeos”, The Cramps, The Clash “Combat Rock”, Chris & Cosey, Berlin “Pleasure Victim”, The B-52’s, The Alarm “Declaration”. And thats without getting too obscure.
#63655 | Author: herman | Date: Jul 21 2004
Top albums of the 90’s : http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/90s/
#63656 | Author: herman | Date: Jul 21 2004
