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My most listened to albums of 2009.

TrixRabbi's top albums (12 months) 1. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World (230) 2. Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything (222) 3. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain (192) 4. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (179) 5. Mindless Self Indulgence - If (162) 6. The Bran Flakes - I Have Hands (155) 7. Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (152) 8. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (141) 9. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candy, Cigarettes and Cap Guns (119) 10. Richard O'Brien - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (100) 11. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (96) 12. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) (94) 13. Operation: Cliff Clavin - Out Of Control (90) 14. Pink Floyd - The Wall (89) 15. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (88) 16. The Lonely Island - Incredibad (86) 17. Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Cipher (86) 18. Howlin' Wolf - The Genuine Article (85) 19. Pixies - Surfer Rosa (81) 20. Gorillaz - Demon Days (81) 21. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar (81) 22. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Andrew Jackson Jihad & Ghost Mice (79) 23. Daniel Johnston - More Songs Of Pain (79) 24. Man or Astro-man? - Destroy all Astromen! (75) 25. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (75) 26. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (75) 27. Sublime - Sublime (71) 28. The Breeders - Pod (71) 29. The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches (70) 30. Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain (70) 31. Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom (69) 32. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (69) 33. The Monks - Black Monk Time (69) 34. Daniel Johnston - Songs Of Pain (69) 35. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (68) 36. Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer (68) 37. Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen (67) 38. This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb - Dance Party With... (67) 39. Galt MacDermot - Hair (64) 40. Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (63) 41. Langhorne Slim - When the Sun's Gone Down (63) 42. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Red-Eyed Soul (63) 43. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (62) 44. This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb - Front Seat Solidarity (62) 45. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead (62) 46. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (61) 47. Daniel Johnston - 1990 (61) 48. Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money (60) 49. Harley Poe - In the Dark (60) 50. Daniel Johnston - Fun (59)

In alphabetical order by artist:

My Favorite Things - John Coltrane - from the album My Favorite Things


Out Of This World - Ella Fitzgerald


Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley


Crazy - Patsy Cline


Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles


Back Door Man - Howlin' Wolf


Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes


Pain In My Heart - Otis Redding


O Grande Amor - Stan Getz


Manha De Carnaval - Silvia Telles

skaila's top albums (overall)
1. David Bowie - The Best of David Bowie 1969-1974 (317) 2. The Cure - Greatest Hits (303) 3. 菅野よう子 - Wolf's Rain OST 2 (302) 4. David Bowie - The Best of David Bowie 1974-1979 (289) 5. 菅野よう子 - Wolf's Rain (279) 6. Howlin' Wolf - The Collection (276) 7. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (267) 8. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge (267) 9. Alanis Morissette - The Collection (266) 10. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (257) 11. Prime Circle - Hello Crazy World (249) 12. Theory of a Deadman - Gasoline (239) 13. Eurythmics - Ultimate Collection (238) 14. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (237) 15. Garbage - Beautiful Garbage (232) 16. Jem - Finally Woken (229) 17. Lordi - Get Heavy (228) 18. Shinedown - Leave a Whisper (228) 19. Javier Navarrete - Pan's Labyrinth (225) 20. Alison Krauss & Union Station - So Long So Wrong (224) 21. Enya - Paint the Sky With Stars: The Best of Enya (224) 22. Garbage - Garbage (215) 23. Alison Krauss - Forget About It (210) 24. 3 Doors Down - Away From The Sun (208) 25. R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (205) 26. Creed - Greatest Hits (202) 27. Lordi - The Monsterican Dream (200) 28. The Rasmus - Dead Letters (195) 29. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (192) 30. Lordi - The Arockalypse (191) 31. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (190) 32. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (189) 33. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits (187) 34. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Left) (185) 35. Ozark Henry - Crusade In Jeans (185) 36. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (184) 37. Cat Power - The Greatest (182) 38. Wolfmother - Wolfmother (180) 39. Editors - The Back Room (176) 40. Kamelot - Epica (173) 41. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (172) 42. Blue October - Foiled (172) 43. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Right) (170) 44. Electric Six - Fire (169) 45. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now (166) 46. The Killers - Hot Fuss (166) 47. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (162) 48. Caesars - Paper Tigers (157) 49. Various Artists - The Matrix Revolutions (156) 50. Various Artists - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (156)

Atículo en castellano e inglés


Article in spanish and english



Tras mucho investigar e indagar por varias páginas de la red que tratan sobre música, recompilé la información necesaria para encontrar los mejores grupos y solistas de la historia de la música.

Todo el mundo sabe que la mejor música siempre será la música clásica pero para los que no están aún preparados ante tal maestría y talento se puede acceder a música más "fácil" de escuchar como lo es el Rock o similar.

A pesar de no ser música tan grandiosa como Mozart, Beethoven, Bach o compañia, se puede encontrar verdaderas preciosidades dignas de ser escuchadas para el oído entrenado o la mente abierta.

Repito, he indagado mucho para encontrar, al fín, la lista de los verdaderamente mejores músicos de los ultimos tiempos. Son para degustar delicadamente por esas personas que de verdad sepan apreciarlos. Abtenerse los necios.



After much investigate on several pages of the net about music, I re-compiled the necessary information to find the best groups and soloists of the history of music.

The whole world knows that the best music always will be the classic music, but for those who are not prepared such mastery and talent, one can accede to "easier" music to listen like it is the Rock or similar.

In spite of not being a music so grand as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or company, it is possible to find real preciousness worth being listened for the trained ear or the opened mind.

I repeat, I have investigated very much to find the list of really better musicians of last times. They are for these persons with delicately taste and who indeed can estimate them. Don't for fools.



La lista/the list:


- A Tribe Called Quest

- AC/DC

- Agalloch

- Al Green

- Albert Ayler

- Alice Cooper

- Andrew Hill

- Arcturus

- Aretha Franklin

- Art Blakey

- Arvo Pärt

- Big Star

- Bill Evans

- Bill Hicks

- Billie Holiday

- Björk

- Black Sabbath

- Blind Guardian

- Bob Dylan

- Bob Marley

- Boogie Down Productions

- Boredoms

- Brian Eno

- Bruce Springsteen

- Caetano Veloso

- Camel

- Can

- Candlemass

- Captain Beefheart

- Carcass

- Cecil Taylor

- Cocteau Twins

- Coil

- Creedence Clearwater Revival

- Current 93

- Curtis Mayfield

- Charles Mingus

- Danny Elfman

- David Bowie

- Dead Can Dance

- Death

- Deep Purple

- De La Soul

- Depeche Mode

- Devin Townsend

- Dream Theater

- Duke Ellington

- Elvis Costello

- Elvis Presley

- Ella Fitzgerald

- Elliott Smith

- Emperor

- Ennio Morricone

- Eric B. & Rakim

- Eric Dolphy

- Fairport Convention

- Faust

- Fleetwood Mac

- Frank Sinatra

- Frank Zappa

- Fugazi

- Funkadelic

- Gal Costa

- Gene Clark

- Genesis

- Gentle Giant

- Glenn Gould

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Gong

- Grateful Dead

- Guided by Voices

- Herbie Hancock

- Howard Shore

- Howlin' Wolf

- Hüsker Dü

- Ice Cube

- Iron Maiden

- Isis

- Jackie McLean

- James Brown

- Jay-Z

- Jethro Tull

- Jimi Hendrix

- John Coltrane

- John Fahey

- John Lennon

- John Williams

- John Zorn

- Johnny Cash

- Joni Mitchell

- Jorge Ben

- Joy Division

- Judas Priest

- Judee Sill

- Kate Bush

- Keith Jarrett

- King Crimson

- Klaus Schulze

- Kraftwerk

- Kreator

- Led Zeppelin

- Leonard Cohen

- Los Hermanos

- Lou Reed

- Magma

- Marillion

- Marvin Gaye

- maudlin of the Well

- Melvins

- Mercyful Fate

- Metallica

- Miles Davis

- Modest Mouse

- Motörhead

- Neil Young

- Neu!

- Neurosis

- Nevermore

- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

- Nick Drake

- Nico

- Nirvana

- Nobuo Uematsu

- Opeth

- Ornette Coleman

- Os Mutantes

- Otis Redding

- OutKast

- Pain of Salvation

- Parliament

- Paul Simon

- Pavement

- Pearl Jam

- Pere Ubu

- Peter Gabriel

- Philip Glass

- Pink Floyd

- Pixies

- PJ Harvey

- Porcupine Tree

- Portishead

- Premiata Forneria Marconi

- Prince

- Public Enemy

- R.E.M.

- Radiohead

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

- Rainbow

- Ramones

- Randy Newman

- Red House Painters

- Richard & Linda Thompson

- Robert Wyatt

- Roxy Music

- Rush

- Sam Rivers

- Santana

- Sepultura

- Serge Gainsbourg

- Simon and Garfunkel

- Skinny Puppy

- Slayer

- Sly and the Family Stone

- Smashing Pumpkins

- Soft Machine

- Sonic Youth

- Sonny Rollins

- Sparks

- Steely Dan

- Steve Reich

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

- Stevie Wonder

- Sun Ra

- Swans

- T. Rex

- Talk Talk

- Talking Heads

- Tangerine Dream

- The Allman Brothers Band

- The Band

- The Beach Boys

- The Beatles

- The Byrds

- The Clash

- The Cure

- The Chameleons

- The Doors

- The Fall

- The Flaming Lips

- The Gathering

- The Jam

- The Kinks

- The Misfits

- The Mothers of Invention

- The Olivia Tremor Control

- The Pogues

- The Replacements

- The Rolling Stones

- The Smiths

- The Stooges

- The Velvet Underground

- The Who

- Thelonious Monk

- Tim Buckley

- Tindersticks

- Todd Rundgren

- Tom Waits

- Tool

- Townes Van Zandt

- U2

- Ulver

- Van der Graaf Generator

- Van Morrison

- Wayne Shorter

- Ween

- Weezer

- Wes Montgomery

- Wilco

- Willie Nelson

- Wire

- XTC

- Yasunori Mitsuda

- Yes




Todos estos artistas han logrado cambiar la música de su momento de alguna u otra manera o grabaron discos dignos de ser joyas preciosas de las mejores colecciones.

Si entiendes de música sabrás apreciar a todos ellos, si no, te pierdes la vida chico/a y no puedes llamarte a tí mismo amante con mayusculas de la música. Dejad de perder el tiempo y dedicarselo a lo que de verdad vale, hay mucho alrededor y solo el que sabe buscar encuentra. ¿eres uno de ellos?

Repito, deja de perder el tiempo y sé más exigente, sube un nivel y escucha algo de esto, te aseguró que en un futuro te darás cuenta de como esos grupos que idolatrabas no expresaban nada.


Siento que mi esfuerzo a merecido la pena y he logrado al fín la lista de la mejor música actual definitiva dentro del siglo XX y XXI.



All these artists change the music of his moment or they recorded discs worth being precious jewels for the best collections.

If you deal on music you will be able to estimate all of them, if not, you get lost the life dude and cannot be call you lover with capital letters of the music. Stop losing the time and devoting it what indeed costs, it is very much around and only the one that can search finds. Are you one of them?

I repeat, stop losing the time and be more demanding, raise a level and listen to something of this, assured you that in a future you will realize since these groups that you were adoring they were not expressing anything.


I feel that my effort to been worth it and I have achieved the list of the best current definitive music inside the 20th and the 21st century.

Rating 1 stars - Hatred (I really do not like this):

Aaskereia, Abandoned Grave, Aborym, Absurd, Ahab, Chainsaw Dissection, Circle of Dead Children, Clitoridus Invaginatus, No Age, The Darkness.
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Rating 2 stars - Annoying (Please switch this off):

Aardvarks, Abomination, Abscess, Adam Beebe-Infanticide, Adventure Time, Agalloch, Agathodaimon, Agonoize, Air, Alec Empire, Alex Metric, Alternative Control, Andreas Tilliander, Brutal Truth, Burial, Cartridge, dalt wisney, Deconformity, Dissection, Eddie Sender, Fuck...I'm Dead, GORESHIT, Guttural Decay, Headhunter, Hellsaw, Hercules and Love Affair, Inherit Disease, Inkvisition, Internal Bleeding, Moondog, Morbid Angel, Mourning Beloveth, Negator, No Anchor, Ophiolatry, St. Germain, The Bloody Beetroots, The Blue Nile, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Hacker, The Police, Thornesbreed, Thou Art Lord, Ufomammut, Villages, Virgin Prunes, Void Settler, Zombie Nation.
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Rating 3 stars - Dull (This is boring, isn't there something better)

A Hawk and a Hacksaw, A Place to Bury Strangers, A Secret Society, ABBA, Above, Absurd Minds, Accept, Ace of Base, Acylum, Æther, Afrika Bambaataa, Afro Celt Sound System, Agnes, Aïboforcen, Aim, Akon, Alien Sex Fiend, Alkonost, Alpha & Omega, Alva Noto, Amesoeurs, Amiina, Animal Collective, Arms and Sleepers, Bat for Lashes, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Boom Bip, Broadcast, C-Lekktor, Congorock, Dead Combo, DilemN, Disease, DJ Muggs, DragonForce, Drumcorps, Dual Core, Editors, Electro Hippies, Element, Fila Brazillia, GAM, Genesis, God Is an Astronaut, Graveworm, Gwynbleidd, Impure Wilhelmina, Insect Warfare, Interlace, Intuit, Ladytron, Lali Puna, Leighton Meester, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Liechtenstein, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Mamiffer, Mortician, Mount Sims, My Bloody Valentine, Panic Lift, Peaches, Pitbull, Planet Funk, Portishead, PQM, Primordial, Realms and Evolution, Ronario, Ryan Farish, Saafi Brothers, Samsas Traum, Sebus Veutgiryn, Septic Flesh, Signum, Síol Na Gréine, Soft Machine, Soulja Boy, Standeg, Tagged, Telefon Tel Aviv, The J.B.'s, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Shadows, The Smiths, Thieves Like Us, Tiga, Varathron, Wolves in the Throne Room, Yppah.
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Rating 4 stars - Poor (I will listen to, but is it really worth it)

Aaron Carter, Abinet Agonafir, Abyssinia Infinite, Ace, Adversus, Age of Jets, Airlock, Al Martino, Alabama, Albert Hammond, Alesana, Alithia, All The Cold, Alphabeat, Amália Rodrigues, Arnej, Asriel, Beauty's Confusion, Black Lips, Black Widow, Blue Sky Black Death, Branford Marsalis, Charlie Feathers, ChipHydra, Cougar, Damien Rice, Daughtry, Day26, Digitalism, Donna Lewis, Einherjer, Faster Pussycat, GirlJoy, Grasstowne, Happoradio, Helen Trevillion, Illnath, Infinity, Innerpartysystem, Karmacoda, Kitchens of Distinction, Madina Lake, Massive Attack, Max, Mechanical Apfelsine, Mihai Edrisch, MSTRKRFT, múm, Narkotiki, Noisia, Pain Of Salvatio, ROUND TABLE featuring Nino, Sally Shapiro, Scientist, Steve Angello, Stone Gods, Strand & NonGenetic, Suga Shikao, Teräsbetoni, The Ambition, The Halloween Singers, The Presets, Tool, Transatlantic, U2, Ulver, Wanda Jackson, Warrant, Wye Oak.
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Rating 5 stars - OK (I have no real opinion on this band)

¡Forward, Russia!, A, A Bunny's Caravan, Aaron Zigman, ABC, AC/DC, Adamo, Aerosmith, Afflicted, After School, Afterlife, Agents, Akercocke, Al Bowlly, Al Dexter & His Troopers, Al Jarreau, Alabama 3, Alabama Thunderpussy, Alan Vega, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Alex Gopher, Alexander Rybak, Alexandre Desplat / Aaron Zigman, Ali Farka Touré, Alice in Videoland, Alison Krauss, All Shall Perish, Alma Cogan, Aloha, Altered Images, Amadou & Mariam, Amber Pacific, Andrea True Connection, Angus & Julia Stone, Artwood, Attack! Attack!, Aventura, Avskum, Benjamin Bear, Bersuit Vergarabat, Blackfoot, Blood Red Shoe, Bracket, Cemetary, Chicks on Speed, Client, Cradle of Filth, Dark Princess, Disclose, Forever the Sickest Kids, Goldfrapp, Groove Armada, Hot Bitch Arsenal, Hyper Crush, Jahn Teigen, Jez Lowe, Kickback, Lesley Gore, Lights, Malfunkshun, Mariana Aydar, Mediæval Bæbes, Megurine Luka, Miss Kittin, Moke, Morcheeba, Morning Musume., Niels Frevert, No Relax, Nosferatu, Oasis, Old & In the Way, OLIVIA, Once, Patricia Vonne, Rebellion, Sabaton, Sonic Youth, Soulsavers, Tenacious D, Terminal Choice, The Attery Squash, The Dubliners, The Flaming Lips, The Long Winters, The Meters, The Script, The Sonics, The Strokes, The Thrills, Time Was, Tommy Sparks, xAFBx, Yelle, Zion I.
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Rating 6 stars - Reasonable (I will choose to listen to, I may buy an album by them at the right price)

3 Inches of Blood, 3OH!3, A Case of Grenada, A Day Called Desire, a mafia, A Plea For Purging, Abacaxi, Abbey Lincoln, Abdullah Ibrahim, Abuso Sonoro, Adam and the Ants, Afghan Whigs, After the Burial, Agency, Agent Blue, AI, Aiden, Aja Addy, Al Cohn, Al Green, Al King, Al Pancho, Alan Howarth, Alannah Myles, Albert Hammond, Jr., Albert Washington, Alestorm, Alex Chilton, All That Remains, All Time Low, Aly & AJ, Amadou Balake, Amebix, America, Ania Dąbrowska, Art Blakey, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Beach Mercer, Big Youth, Black Diamond Heavies, Blanche, Blutengel, Bob Dylan, Bomb & Scary, Born of Osiris, Broadway Calls, Bryan Scary, Bush, Cage the Elephant, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Cat Power, Converge, Crazy Town, Cruachan, Dananananaykroyd, Delirium Tremens, Dion & The Belmonts, Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Dub War, Dusty Springfield, Eek-A-Mouse, Electrocute, Eric Von Schmidt, Every New Day, Felix da Housecat, Funeral for a Friend, Gama Bomb, Gang of Four, God Help The Girl, Goldfinger, Guns N' Roses, Havana 3 A.M., I Monster, I See Stars, Icke & Er, Igor Stravinsky, Jason Mraz, John Carpenter, John Otway, Jon Spencer, Kafeína, King Tubby, Korpiklaani, La Roux, Little Boots, Lucky Fonz III, Lush, Mad Cobra, Mims, My Baby wants to eat your pussy, Nachtgeschrei, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., Radio Birdman, Robots in Disguise, Rory Gallagher, Rossington Collins Band, Run Toto Run, Satyricon, Scary Chicken, SDI, Shaznay Lewis, Shena Ringo, Spinnerette, Split Habit, Starfucker, Stevie Nicks, Stoneman, Styles P, Television, The Be Good Tanyas, The Beautiful Girls, The Bones, The Boomtown Rats, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Doors, The DSC Project, The Filmscore Orchestra, The Haunted, The Hellacopters, The Herd, The Home Guard, The Innocence Mission, The Maine, The Monsters, The Rogers Sisters, The Sleeping, The Trashmen, The Tremeloes, The Unicorns, Tricky, U-Roy, Vive la Fête, Warface, Weird Al Yankovic, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zaunpfahl, Zeromancer, Zootsings, ZZ Top.
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Rating 7 stars - Good (I will choose to listen to, I will buy an album by them)

20 Bulls Each, 3Dbs Down, 45 Grave, 59 Times the Pain, A Wilhelm Scream, Abbi Walker, Abby Travis, abingdon boys school, Abnormal Sunday, Above the Law, Absent Mindead, ACID HEAD, Adele, Adema, Adrenalin O.D., Aesop Rock, After Forever, Afterhours, Aggression, Airhead, Akala, Alanis Morissette, Albert Ammons, Alesha Dixon, Alexander Scriabin, Alexei Lubimov, Alexisonfire, Alien Ant Farm, All About Eve, All Saints, Alpha Boy School, Alternative TV, Alton Ellis, Amen, Anti-Product, Argue Damnation, As I Lay Dying, Asian Dub Foundation, Banda Bassotti, Bauchklang, Béla Bartók, Bessie Smith, Big in Japan, Black Grape, Blood Duster, bluekilla, Boyz Too Sick, Buffalo Tom, Cannae, Capleton, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine, Chillerton, Chris Cornell, Chuck Ragan, Chumbawamba, Civilized Animal, Cledus T. Judd, co.uk, Cocoa Tea, Commonplace, Crazy Arm, Credit to the Nation, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Cyco Miko, D.I., Damone, Danny Elfman, Datura, Deacon Blue, Dead Letter Dept., Del Amitri, DevilDriver, Dilated Peoples, Doom, Dragster, Echobelly, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Elastica, Ellen and the Escapades, Epica, Eye for an Eye, Five Horse Johnson, FM2000, Foo Fighters, Frau Doktor, Gigolo Aunts, God Forbid, Gov't Mule, Grandmaster Flash, Green Jellÿ, Habakuk, Hot Water Music, imadethismistake, Imperial Vipers, In Flames, Insolence, Inspiral Carpets, Joell Ortiz, Kaiser Chiefs, Killa Kela, Lady Sovereign, Latterman, Living Colour, M.O.P., Madness, Magic System, Manic Street Preachers, Mary Hopkin, Modern Life Is War, Mr. Bones, Muff Potter, Murder by Death, My Passion, N.O.R.E., Nasum, Natas, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nightrage, Norma Jean, Oh, Sleeper, Operator Please, Over It, Painstake, Paul Weller, Pearl Jam, Perry Como, Planlos, Pleymo, Pop Will Eat Itself, Psychopathic Rydas, Queens of the Stone Age, Racine, Raging Speedhorn, Rammstein, Recon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Resident Weirdo, Righteous Jams, Roots Manuva, Rudi, Sack Trick, Saliva, Scanners, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Scout Niblett, Sheer Terror, Sizzla, Skindred, Skinlab, Slapstick, Smash Mouth, Snoop Dogg, Spellbound, Stan Getz, Steve Marriott, Synchromystickz, Tanita Tikaram, Tanto Metro, Tard, Tearjerkers, Terrorvision, That Handsome Devil, That Petrol Emotion, The Androids, The Arcade Version, The Bottrops, The Butlers, The Chariot, The Coral, The Cranberries, The Cumshots, The Fat Cats, The Forgotten, The Goats, The Hitchers, The J. Geils Band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Know How, The Paper Chase, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Quireboys, The Saints, The Slapstickers, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Wonder Stuff, Them Crooked Vultures, Thrice, Transvision Vamp, Vacant Stare, Vagiant, Void, Wack Trucks, Weapons, Will Smith, Wolfpack Unleashed, Your Highness Electric, Zealous1, Zee Avi, Zero Boys.
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Rating 8 stars - Very Good (Music that gives me a good feeling, I will own their back catalogue as eventually)

999, 100 Demons, 25 ta Life, A Billion Ernies, A Day to Remember, A Global Threat, A Static Lullaby, Accustomed to Nothing, Acoustic Front of Resistance, Across Five Aprils, Adam Linder, Adequate Seven, Against Me!, Agallah "The Don Bishop", Agent Orange, Agression, Akrobatik, Albert Collins, Albert King, Alejandro Escovedo, Alice Cooper, alice in chain, Alice Russell, Alicia Keys, Alisha's Attic, Alison Moyet, All, All Out War, Angel Cage, Angelic Upstarts, Anthony B, Atreyu, Audioslave, Aynsley Lister, Babar Luck, Backfire!, Banane Metalik, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Barcode, Batmobile, Beastie Boys, Big D and the Kids Table, Bionic Jive, Black Friday '29, Black My Heart, Bloodhound Gang, Bloodsimple, Bob Marley, Bobaflex, Born From Pain, Boss Hog, Brotha Lynch, Buck-O-Nine, Bun Dem Out, Butt Trumpet, Calabrese, Cancer Bats, Captain Dan & The Scurvy Crew, Casey Jones, Choking Susan, Choking Victim, Civet, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Dead End Cruisers, Dead Hearts, Demented Are Go!, Descendents, Deviate, Die Happy, Die So Fluid, Diesel Park West, Dillinger Four, Distemper, Dog Eat Dog, Down by Law, Dr. Dre, Drongos For Europe, Dropkick Murphys, Dry Kill Logic, Dust Junkys, DYS, Eazy-E, Edna's Goldfish, Embraced by Hatred, Eminem, Evergreen Terrace, Faith No More, Final Prayer, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Turner, Furious Styles, Godless Wicked Creeps, Goldblade, Government Issue, Gravediggaz, Guano Apes, Gutter Demons, Hadouken!, Harry Chapin, Haste the Day, Hoods, Howlin' Wolf, Ian McNabb, Ice Cube, Ill Bill, In Blood We Trust, Insane Clown Posse, Insane Poetry, It Dies Today, J.J. Fad, Jamie Madrox, Janis Joplin, Jesse Dangerously, Jimmy Reed, Joanne Shaw Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Klingonz, Knuckledust, KoЯn, Lady Saw, Less Than Jake, Levellers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lone Ranger, Looking Up, Loudon Wainwright III, Lower Class Brats, Maceo Parker, Machine Head, Mad Caddies, Mad Sin, MC Frontalot, Menstrual Tramps, Mishkin, Miss Li, Mr. Hyde, MxPx, My Ruin, N.A.S.T.Y., Nirvana, No Doubt, No Sports, Ocean Colour Scene, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Olias Fall, Once Over, One Minute Silence, Os Catalépticos, OS101, Otis Rush, OutKast, Papa Roach, Path Of Resistance, Period Pains, Plan B, Primus, Propagandhi, Public Enemy, Pura Vida, Raised Fist, Ramones, Reach the Sky, Ready Steady Go!, Refused, Rise Against, Riz Mc, Rob Zombie, Robert Johnson, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Sarah Blackwood, Scars of Tomorrow, Scary Bitches, Scribe, Seasick Steve, Senser, Sepultura, Settle the Score, Shadows Fall, Shark Attack, Shattered Realm, Sinai Beach, Skaos, Slayer, Snapcase, Snot, Soldiers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Stellar Corpses, Still Remains, Stretch Arm Strong, Strung Out, Sugarland Slim, System of a Down, Tech N9ne, Temple of the Dog, The 57th Dynasty, The Alchemist, The B Sharps, The Babylon Whackers, The Banner, The Beautiful South, The Boys, The B-Sharps, The Busters, The Code, The Creepshow, The Damned, The Dictators, The Godfathers, The Grit, The Icicle Works, The Knife, The Mitchell Brothers, The Offspring, The Planet Smashers, The Porkers, The Selecter, The Spook, The Vandals, The Vibrators, The Warriors, This Is Hell, Thunder, Tiger Army, To Kill, Total Chaos, Toxic Narcotic, Van Morrison, Voice of the Beehive, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Whiskey Rebels, Wiley, Wiley aka Eskiboy, Wisdom in Chains, Wu-Tang Clan, X-Ray Spex, xTyrantx, Your Demise.
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Rating 9 stars - Great (Really good music, I will own their back catalogue as soon as possible)

(hed) Planet Earth, 4FT Fingers, Adolescents, AFI, Against All Authority, Alkaline Trio, All For Nothing, B.B. King, Babyboom, Bad Religion, Bane, Billy Talent, Black Flag, Blood for Blood, Brainless Wanker, Buddy Guy, Cheap Sex, Clawfinger, Comeback Kid, Crime in Stereo, Cynical Smile, Cypress Hill, Danny Diablo, Dead Kennedys, Death Before Dishonor, Die Hunns, Discipline, Dizzee Rascal, Eastfield, Elmore Jame, Eric Clapton, First Blood, Funkoars, Gorilla Biscuits, Hazen Street, HorrorPops, Icepick, Imperial Leisure, Jesse James, Justin Sane, Kelly Kemp, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Metallica, Minor Threat, N.W.A, No Allegiance, NoComply, NOFX, Oxymoron, Pitchshifter, Pulkas, Queen, Reagan Youth, Roger Miret and the Disasters, Schaffer The Darklord, Slipknot, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Suicide Bid, Terror, The Dead Pets, The Exploited, The Forces of Evil, The Jam, The JB Conspiracy, The Peacocks, The Skints, The Suffrajets, The Unseen, Thick As Blood, Tim Armstrong, Walls of Jericho, Xzibit, Youth of Today.
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Rating 10 stars - Love It (I have to listen to this band as much as possible)

Agnostic Front, Anti-Flag, Capdown, Frank Zappa, Gallows, Gash, Green Day, H2O, Hatebreed, King Prawn, Madball, PJ Harvey, Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, Random Hand, Sick of It All, Sonic Boom Six, Subhumans, The Clash, The Filaments, The King Blues, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, They Might Be Giants.
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This is my personal taste and not a criticism of anybodies music, or taste. I set this up so that all the new bands I have found I can easily know what I think of them

My Anthology of Chess Records' music is still one of my preferred albums (if a 13 CD boxset can be called an 'album'). I lately watched the movie Cadillac Records. It's Chess Records' story featuring great music of Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, the great songwriter Willie Dixon ("The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits." - Willie Dixon) and the lovely Beyoncé as Etta James. Well, none of the actors might get an Oscar for that but it's just fun to get the story told and to listen to the awesome music.



I compiled a playlist of the genuine versions of the songs featured on the soundtrack:

1. I'm A Man - Bo Diddley
   
2. Country Blues - Muddy Waters
   
3. I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
   
4. Forty Days And Forty Nights - Muddy Waters
   
5. Juke - Little Walter & His Nightcats
   
6. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
   
7. My Babe - Little Walter
   
8. Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
   
9. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
   
10. Nadine - Chuck Berry
    
11. No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
    
12. Promised Land - Chuck Berry
    
13. Surfin' USA - The Beach Boys
    
14. All I Could Do Was Cry - Etta James
    
15. Trust In Me - Etta James
    
16. At Last - Etta James
    
17. I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
    
18. Last Night - Little Walter
    
19. Once in a Lifetime - Beyoncé
    
20. Evolution Of A Man - Q-Tip Feat. Al Kapone
    

1959;

1 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
3 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
4 Sonny Boy Williamson - Down And Out Blues
5 Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
6 Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley
7 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out!
8 Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns - Having A Good Time
9 Elvis Presley - For LP Fans only
10 The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
11 Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul
12 Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight
13 Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray Charles
14 Rev. Gary Davis - Rev. Gary Davis at Newport
15 Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens

1958;

1 Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
2 Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
3 Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette
4 Miles Davis/Gil Evans - Porgy and Bess
5 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
7 The Kingston Trio - The Kingston Trio
8 Tito Puente - Dance Mania
9 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
10 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
11 Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
12 Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Gangster of Love
13 Art Blakey - Moanin'
14 Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke
15 Elvis Presley - King Creole

1957;

1 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
2 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis
3 Louis Prima - The Wildest!
4 Machito - Kenya
5 John Coltrane - Blue Train
6 The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets
7 Dale Hawkins - Oh! Suzy Q
8 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
9 Sabu - Palo Congo
10 Ray Charles - Ray Charles
11 Carl Perkins - Dance Album
12 Amos Milburn - Let's Have A Party
13 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
14 Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
15 Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar

1956;

1 Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
2 Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
3 Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
4 Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
5 Harry Belafonte - Calypso
6 Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
7 Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas
8 Bill Haley - Shake Rattle and Roll
9 Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop!
10 Fats Domino - This Is Fats
11 Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
12 Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Song Book
13 Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
14 Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
15 Dinah Washington - Dinah!

See also;
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29

Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29

Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29

1969;

1 Funkadelic - Funkadelic
2 The Rolling Stones - LET IT BLEED
3 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
4 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
5 The Stooges - The Stooges
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
7 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
9 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
10 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
11 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
12 Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
13 The Beatles - Abbey Road
14 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
15 Fleetwood Mac - English Rose

1968;

1 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2 The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
4 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
5 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
6 The Rolling Stones - BEGGARS BANQUET
7 Nico - Chelsea Girl
8 Dr. John - Gris-Gris
9 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
10 Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain
11 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
12 The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
13 The Everly Brothers - Roots
14 Traffic - Traffic
15 Ray Barretto - Acid

1967;

1 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4 Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
5 The Doors - The Doors
6 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 Fred Neil - Fred Neil
8 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9 The Doors - Strange Days
10 Love - Forever Changes
11 Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
12 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
13 Sun Ra - Atlantis
14 The Beau Brummels - Triangle
15 Magic Sam - West Side Soul

1966;

1 The Beatles - Revolver
2 Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
3 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4 Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
5 The Rolling Stones - AFTERMATH
6 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
8 The Kinks - Face To Face
9 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
10 Them - Them Again
11 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Midnight Ride
12 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1
13 The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can't Believe Your Eyes and Ears
14 Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
15 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Breakout...!!!

1965;

1 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
2 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3 The Rolling Stones - OUT OF OUR HEADS
4 Horace Silver - Song For My Father
5 The Zombies - The Zombies (Featuring She's Not There and Tell Her No)
6 The Who - My Generation
7 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
8 Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
9 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
10 Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game
11 The Beatles - Help!
12 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
13 Jackie Wilson - Soul Time
14 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
15 The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!

1964;

1 Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
4 Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
5 Solomon Burke - Rock 'N' Soul
6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
7 The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
8 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
9 Jacques Brel - Olympia 64
10 Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
11 Skip James - Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
12 The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
13 Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Home Is In The Delta
14 The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
15 Charles Aznavour - La mamma

1963;

1 Sam Cooke - Night Beat
2 John Barry - From Russia With Love
3 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
4 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
5 Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
6 Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club
7 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
8 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
9 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
10 Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
11 The Beatles - With the Beatles
12 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
13 Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
14 The Beatles - Please Please Me
15 Roy Orbison - In Dreams

1962;

1 James Brown - Live At The Apollo
2 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (The Rockin' Chair Album)
3 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
4 Odetta - Odetta and the blues
5 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
6 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
7 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
8 Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song
9 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
10 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
11 Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
12 Roy Orbison - Crying
13 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
14 John Lee Hooker - Burnin'
15 The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me

1961;

1 Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit
2 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
3 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee's Greatest!
4 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
5 Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Newport
6 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
7 Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
8 Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
9 Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
10 Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!
11 Bobby Vee - Bobby Vee
12 Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
13 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
14 Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
15 Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem

1960;

1 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
2 Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
3 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
4 Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
5 Link Wray - Link Wray & the Wraymen
6 John Lee Hooker - The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker
7 Etta James - At Last!
8 Eric Dolphy - Out There
9 Oscar Brown Jr - Sin & Soul
10 James Brown - Please Please Please
11 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
12 Joan Baez - Joan Baez
13 Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
14 Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool
15 Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes!

See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29

Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29

Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29