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As of the reset date.

I saw someone else do a journal entry about this, and I thought it was a good idea to preserve my listenings here and now so I can look back on them later on... [2]

Number of tracks scrobbled - 40,264

Top 15 Artists:

1. My Dying Bride - 1,463 plays
2. Elend - 923 plays
3. Reverend Bizarre - 879 plays
4. Exodus - 784 plays
5. Nortt - 678 plays
6. Nile - 556 plays
7. Agalloch - 552 plays
8. Electric Wizard - 523 plays
9. Swallow the Sun - 508 plays
10. Acid Bath - 459 plays
11. Megadeth - 451 plays
12. Death - 402 plays
13. Kreator - 384 plays
14. Wolves in the Throne Room - 370 plays
15. Slayer - 363 plays

Top 10 Albums:

1.Songs of Darkness, Words of Light - 461 plays
2. II: Crush the Insects - 368 plays
3. The Mantle - 299 Plays
4. Hope - 295 plays
5. Gudsforladt - 291 plays
6. Dopethrone - 289 plays
7. The Umbersun - 279 plays
8. Colossal Titan Strife - 274 plays
9. Winds Devouring Men - 255 plays
10. When the Kite String Pops - 239 plays

Top 10 Tracks:

1. My Dying Bride – The Wreckage of My Flesh - 113 plays
2. Electric Wizard – Funeralopolis - 106 plays
3. My Dying Bride – The Prize of Beauty - 100 plays
4. Wolves in the Throne Room – A Looming Resonance - 94 plays
5. Reverend Bizarre – Doom Over the World - 89 plays
6. Vehemence – Christ I Fucking Hate You! - 81 plays
7. Reverend Bizarre – Council of Ten - 73 plays
8. Black Sabbath – A National Acrobat - 71 plays
9. Swallow the Sun – These Low Lands (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus Cover) - 64 plays
10. My Dying Bride – The Scarlet Garden - 60 plays

Last 10 played Artists:

1. Mournful Congregation
2. Mourning Beloveth
3. Rage Against the Machine O___o
4. My Dying Bride
5. Devourment
6. Prostitute Disfigurement
7. Einherjer
8. Electric Wizard
9. John Lee Hooker
10. Woods of Ypres

Last 10 added Artists

1. This Will Destroy You
2. Sigur Rós
3. Mono
4. Chernibog
5. Year of No Light
6. Explosions in the Sky
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
8. Morta Skuld
9. Monastyr
10. Harry Nilsson

Total Number of Artists - 563

Number of Shouts - 1,851

Last loved track - Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Nick Cave's Jukebox again
Another CD set of songs which have inspired Nick Cave over the years is going on the market. This is the third this year and the fifth overall. The first two were Original Seeds way back in 1998 and the follow up Original Seeds, Volume 2 in 2004. I would rate the first Original Seeds very highly just because there was nothing like it before but now that is very different.


Original Seeds - Track listing:
1. Tim Rose - Long Time Man
2. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Cat Man
3. Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
5. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hammer Song
6. Tom Jones - Weeping Annaleah
7. The Loved Ones - Sad Dark Eyes
8. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt
9. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
10. Lefty Frizzell - The Long Black Veil
11. Johnny Cash - The Folk Singer
12. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
13. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
14. Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
15. Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime...moi non plus
16. Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
I would still rate this one the best out of them all. I would give it four out of five stars too. Most tracks make sense if you're a fan of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds which is the sub-title of the CD, Songs that inspired the Bad Seeds. All but three songs can be found on their albums in covers and/or based on but rewritten in someway. Cat Man was an early The Birthday Party cover. The Big Hurt was on the MOJO soundtrack with the help of the great British band Gallon Drunk and Jane & Serge classic Cave sung an English version called I Love You....Nor Do I with Anita Lane. The liner notes from this CD is great and I recommend this album. But I should warn you about the last song it's almost 19 minutes long and is sometimes a bit too much. It really should be Glen Campbell's By The Time I Get To Phoenix which is the original too but for some mad reason this one got put on the CD. Which I think is the reason why I wouldn't rate it five stars, missing one whole star for this nightmare of a song, sorry Issac but I wish you got to Phoenix a bit quicker. Cave says about it: "He does a long explanation about what women are actually like; it's very funny. How men have just got to go out." This quote is from a great book called "Songwriters Speak" I found at my local library, more about that later but here's the website: http://www.debbiekruger.com/songwritersspeak/about.html


Original Seeds, Volume 2 - Track listing:
1. Harry Belafonte - Did You Hear About Jerry?
2.Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole
3. Fred Neil - A Little Bit of Rain
4. Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax
5. Bob Dylan - Sara
6. Tim Rose - Hey Joe
7. The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
8. Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
9. Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring
10. The Stooges - Loose
11. Leadbelly - Black Betty
12. Hoyt Axton - Double Dare
13. Lou Reed - Perfect Day
14. Alice Cooper - Street Fight
This one is not in any way as good as the the first one. I would rate it two and half out of five. Why? Well, I'm giving it half a star each for the songs which are on Bad Seeds albums the rest are, really could be's. Only Hey Joe, In The Ghetto, Plain Gold Ring, Black Betty and the last half star goes to writing up liner notes to convince you the rest are just as important. Loose was a live favorite of The Birthday Party. Some were going to be on the cover album Kicking Against the Pricks but never recorded. Played live once or twice in the years of playing shows. Mick Harvey has played the others himself solo or on his albums. Another warning for the last song again this time it's only 55 seconds long so why is it here? Well, I don't really know which is what I mean by the liner notes hoping you buy in too what is written but one word for that song: pointless.


Mojo Presents Bad Seeds, Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations - Tracks listing
1. The Saints - This Perfect Day
2. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
3. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
5. Tim Rose - Long Time Man
6. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt
7. Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses
8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Blume
9. Martin L. Gore - Loverman
10. Lydia Lunch - Done Dun
11. Beasts of Bourbon - Cocksucker Blues
12. The Golden Gate Quartet - Wade In The Water
13. Peggy Seeger - Henry Lee
14. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
15. Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
This CD was given away for free with Mojo Magazine but I have seen it for sale on ebay. It was with this years March issue with Mr. Cave on the cover. I would rate it three out five stars which is good for a give-away album. A few double ups but the version of Long Time Man is different longer re-recorded in 2003 just before Tim Rose passed away. The one on Original Seeds was record in 1967. Cave sings on Current 93 and Lydia Lunch tracks. Loverman is the only cover and the reason for this one is both are on Mute Records. The rest is pretty clear if your a fan but if you buy the magazine that comes with the CD or should that be the other way around, there is a two page write up about all the tracks.


The Roots of Nick Cave - Tracks listing
1. Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
2. Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll
3. Little Richard - Keep A Knockin'
4. Gene Vincent & His Big Blue Caps - Cat Man
5. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
6. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
7. Leadbelly - Bottle Up and Go
8. Ella Jenkins - Wade In The Water
9. The Alabama Singers - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
10. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
11. Leadbelly - Black Betty
12. Harry Belafonte - Mourning Song
13. Little Willie John - Fever
14. Charlie Gracie - 99 Ways
15. Hank Williams - Lost Highway
16. Roy Rogers - The Streets Of Laredo
17. Hobart Smith And Texas Gladden - Down In The Willow Garden
18. Ernest Phipps - Shine On Me
19. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-me-o
20. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
21. Dick Justice - Henry Lee
22. Blind Willie Johnson - John the Revelator
I think I got this one before the Mojo magazine's one but both came out around the same time at the beginning of the year. I'll rate it three and a half out of five stars just under the first one. I like it better maybe because I love all the really, really old songs on it. A lot of older songs or just a lot more than the three previous ones. More double up's again but a few ones that should have been so obvious before. The Streets Of Laredo was a song Conway Savage sung on tour around the time of the Doco "The Road To God Knows Where" which makes up a few of the songs here which were played kind-off like a tour mix tape. Harry's track makes more sense this time, it's from when Nick Cave - Mick Harvey - Blixa Bargeld did the soundtrack to To Have And To Hold and re-recorded mourning song (performed by raun raun theatre). John the Revelator is from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 1 and Shine on Me is from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2. If you want more info there is good liner notes written by Dave Henderson who's from Mojo magazine too.


Nick Cave's Jukebox - Track listing
1. Gene Vincent & His Big Blue Caps - Cat Man
2. Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody (Live)
3. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You
4. Tex Ritter - Rye Whiskey
5. Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe
6. Leadbelly - Black Betty
7. John Lee Hooker - I’m Gonna Kill That Woman
8. Johnny Cash - Wanted Man
9. Johnny Cash - Man In Black (Live)
10. Tommy McClennan Bottle It Up and Go
11. Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
12. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
13. Neil Young - Helpless (live)
14. Little Willie John - Fever
15. Leroy Carr - How Long, How Long Blues
16. The Pogues - The Body of an American
17. The Everly Brothers - Down In The Willow Garden
18. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
19. The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl
20. Dick Justice - Henry Lee
21. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
22. Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
23. Memphis Slim - Grinder Man Blues
This is going to be the fifth one of these kind of CD's and is out next week (October 12th or around about then). I don't think I should rate it because I don't have it yet. Once again more doubles and so many more than the others before this one. There are 23 tracks more than all the other CD's and all of these are total classics I could listen to them again and again. The songs which aren't on the other ones really should have been included before and also add up to the number of tracks on the first three. I don't know if it would be silly for me to buy another one but I guess if you haven't got any of the other four this new one looks like it could be the best one so far. Last thing to say about it would be is if you know anything about Nick Cave and the song Hey Joe it's off course the Tim Rose version he loves not the Jimi Hendrix one but in saying that Jimi's one is the more famous, and putting it on here is not doubling up the other song again so that's OK, I guess. I do think there are a lot of tracks which could or should be on these kind-off CDs but are not, I shall make a list here on last.fm at the end of this journal.

His drunken sing-a-long with David McComb

I just got this great book about David McComb & The Triffids which is so great. I'm not finished it yet but I think it would be five stars out of five it is that great. It's better than any bio book ever written. It written by all sorts of people. I would recommend it to everyone. One of the most funny story's is written by Nick Cave talking about getting drunk at an Aussie picnic in London with David and having a sing-a-long with each other, I'm going to write out the list of songs they sung but get the full story and so much more buy the book here: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/newreleases/1104 And that is a drawing of David by Martyn P. Casey anyway here's the list of songs David & Nick sung, more of these songs have been covered heavily but I've tried to find the originals. Can you imagine two drunk Aussies singing them???
1. The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
2. Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away
3. Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
4. Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - This Guy's in Love with You
5. John Denver - Leaving On A Jet Plane
6. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
7. Peter, Paul & Mary - Lemon Tree
8. Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting on Top of the World
9. The Seekers - Georgy Girl (From Film 'Georgy Girl')
10. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
11. Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
12. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
13. Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
14. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
15. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
16. Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
17. Elvis Presley - Kentucky Rain
18. Leonard Cohen - Bird on a Wire
19. Malvina Reynolds - Morningtown Ride
20. Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
21. The Beatles - Yesterday
22. Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
23. Frank Sinatra - What'll I Do?
24. The 5th Dimension - (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All
25. Carpenters - Close To Me
26. Bob Dylan - Belle Isle
27. Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Nobody at the time put these two guys in a recording studio to record all this and as far as I know the only song they did together or should I say David sung on backing vocal's for Nick's Lay Me Low in 1994 which I have to say is kind-off perfect and very odd because a few years later McComb passed away but what is even more odd is the very last song he recorded was Still Alive And Well on Where Joy Kills Sorrow album. If you would like that album check it out here: http://www.wminc.com.au/catalogue1.shtml#006 It's a classic Aussie album.

Extras
OK here is a couple of things that I haven't fitted into my journals before about Cave, first is the book called "Songwriters Speaks" by Debbie Kruger. To sum up the book quickly it's got just over 600 pages and is full of interviews with Aussie songwriters. Most are, if not all, are mainstream singers and Cave is the only one I'm into but I've had a look at the others before returning, did I say it a library book? A few things I want to note down here for myself really but who ever reads these might like to know too is:
In the intro pages Kruger says "I particularly enjoyed his (Cave's) anecdotes about encounters with Rolf Harris and Barry Humphries." which are funny but are nowhere in the interview so my guess is these were edited out because there not about songwriting. The interview starts on page 430 and goes to 445 so it's longer that most magazines or online. It was done at his office in Hove, England in 2004 around the time of Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus.
The songs talked about are:
Loom of the Land saying the line "The elms and the poplars were turning their backs" which is from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and he wished he edited it out because "I don't like the idea of someone reading Lolita and going, "Oh, How often has he done that?" "
Into My Arms is talked about. In Triple J's Hottest 100 of all-time recently saying it was written after he visited a church which wouldn't be anything different from him really but the whole story is a bit more to it. He was in some drug rehab clinic and the only place you were allowed to go was a church and three days in on a Sunday he'd come back feeling very ill and "sat down and wrote that very quickly, and I didn't have anything there to play it on... rehabilitation didn't work [Laughs], at least I got a good song out of it." which makes a bit more sense really.
(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? he said he wrote in a taxicab on the way to INXS singer Michael Hutchence's house which is a bit odd and kind-off changes the track for me but then again Cave played Into My Arms at Micheal's funeral and famously insisted the TV cameras to be turned off while he sung it.
Nobody's Baby Now was written for Johnny Cash's American Recordings but he thought "Fuck it, I'm not handing that over. I really love that song and I'm going to do it." then later on in the interview says "I'm particularly proud of the first verse... takes so long to get to the point." going on to say "It reminds me of Tupelo Honey the Van Morrison song."
There are off course other songs he talks about but see if you can find the book at your library too.


Another book Cave makes it in to is "The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature" which is an epic encyclopedia size book. Which has some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries. Very few contemporary songwriters make it into it only Kev Carmody's From Little Things Big Things Grow, Archie Roach's Took The Children Away, Yothu Yindi's Treaty and Cave's Opium Tea which I have to say is an odd one to pick but I've said that before in this journal. Check it out here: http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.au/aboutaustliteratureanthology.html

OK, to finish off here are few songs that might or might not have inspired Nick:
1. The Velvet Underground - Jesus
2. James Carter & The Prisoners - Po' Lazarus or The Fairfield Four - Po Lazarus
3. Muddy Waters - Honey Bee or listen to Honey Bee (Live)
4. J.B. Lenoir - I Feel So Good or listen to I Feel So Good (Take 21)
5. John Ashe - There's No Night Out In The Jail
6. The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho
7. Bob Dylan - Stack A Lee or Woody Guthrie - Stack-O-lee or Alan Lomax - Stackerlee or Frank Hutchison - Stackalee
8. Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
9. Roy Orbison - Running Scared
10. Wilmoth Houdini - Happy Land Of Canaan
11. The Walker Brothers - Orpheus
12. Jacques Offenbach - Orpheus In The Underworld
13. Miles Davis - Nature Boy or listen to John Coltrane - Nature Boy
14. Sir John Betjeman - Late-Flowering Lust or could it be the whole album Late Flowering Love
15. Johnny Thunders - Chinese Rocks
16. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
17. Sister Myrtle Fields - Jesus At The Well or Mahalia Jackson - Jesus Met the Woman at the Well or Reverend Gary Davis - Jesus Met the Woman at the Well or Bob Dylan - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Bob Dylan - Girl From the North Country or listen to Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country
18. John Lee Hooker - Grinder Man or listen to Peter Chatman - Grinder Man Blues or Milton Sparks - Grinder Man Blues
19. The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties or Nico - All Tomorrows Parties
20. Cilla Black - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart or Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
21. Alan Lomax - It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
22. Bob Dylan - Love Henry or Ralph Stanley - Henry Lee
23. Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind
24. Leonard Cohen - Why Don't You Try
25. The Box Tops - Weeping Analeah
26. Burl Ives - The Long Black Veil
27. Johnny Cash - Muddy Waters
28. Odetta - All the Pretty Little Horses
29. The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
30. Bob Dylan - Death Is Not the End
31. Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
32. James Iron-Head Baker - Black Betty
33. Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee Blues
34. Odetta - Take This Hammer
35. John Lee Hooker - It Serves Me Right To Suffer
36. Frank Sinatra - Nature Boy
37. Leadbelly - My Friend Blind Lemon
38. Woody Guthrie - Rye Whiskey
39. Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt
40. Bob Dylan - Froggie Went A Courtin'
41. Frank Sinatra - From Here To Eternity
42. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
43. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
44. Elvis Presley - Cindy, Cindy
45. Blind Willie Johnson - Let Your Light Shine On Me
46. Michel Polnareff - Goodbye Marylou
47. Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
48. Bob Dylan - New Morning
49. Bobby Bare - 500 Miles Away From Home
50. The Seekers - The Carnival Is Over
I've written way to much but if you have some tracks to add to this very long track listing feel free to if you want to in the comment box below. I would have to have missed something so go for it. I like seeing comments you know. Thanks for reading and until next time.

blues

Albert Collins
Albert King
The Allman Brothers Band
Ana Popovic
B.B. King
Bernard Allison
Big Bill Broonzy
The Black Crowes
The Black Keys
Bo Diddley
Duane Allman
Duane Allman
Bonnie Raitt
Buddy Guy
Charlie Musselwhite
Chris Whitley
Coco Montoya
Dave Hole
Derek Trucks
Dr. John
Duke Robillard
Elmore James
Eric Clapton
Etta James
Freddie King
Gary Moore
George Thorogood
Gov't Mule
Howlin Wolf
Howlin Wolf
Janis Joplin
Jeff Healey
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmie Vaughan
JJ Cale
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Louis Walker
John Hammond
John Lee Hooker
John Mayall
Johnny Winter
Jonny Lang
Keb' Mo'
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Koko Taylor
Lead Belly
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Luther Allison
Magic Slim
Marcia Ball
Muddy Waters
Otis Rush
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Peter Green
R.L. Burnside
R.L. Burnside
Ray Charles
Robben Ford
Robert Cray
Robert Johnson
Rory Gallagher
Roy Buchanan
Son House
Sean Costello
Sonny Boy Williamson
Sonny Landreth
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sue Foley
Susan Tedeschi
T-Bone Walker
Tab Benoit
Taj Mahal
Ten Years After
Tommy Castro
Van Morrison
Warren Haynes

1. How did you get into #29? - The National
Through Last.fm "similar artist". I believe in was on Band of Horses profile page.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by #22? - Skip James
Devil Got My Woman. Loved the tune, the melody and how it's kinda eerie and moody.

3. What’s your favourite lyric by #33? - The Coral
When All The Birds Have Flown.

4. What is your favourite album by #49? - The Smashing Pumpkins
Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness.

5. How many albums by #13 do you own? -The Kinks
None.

6. What is your favourite song by #50? - Built to Spill
The Plan.

7. Is there a song by #39 that makes you sad? - John Frusciante
Yes, all of them actually. But, maybe Time Tonight song.

8. What is your favourite album by #15? - Maxïmo Park
Apply Some Pressure.

9. What is your favourite song by #5? - The Kooks
One Last Time.

10. Is there a song by #6 that makes you happy? - Jimi Hendrix
Fire. Kind of.

11. What is your favourite album by #40? - R.E.M.
Green.

12. What is your favourite song by #10? - The Cure
That's an easy one! The Last Day Of Summer. Best song ever! This song is totally ME!

13. What is a good memory you have involving #30? - Inspiral Carpets
Reminds me of the time I spent in England, 2 years ago.

14. What is your favourite song by #38? - The Who
Don't know. My Generation? :D
It's a classic.

15. Is there a song by #19 that makes you happy? - Band of Horses
No. It's my most favorite "pity party" band.

16. How many times have you seen #25 live? - The Doors
Whadaya think? :D

17. What is the first song you ever heard by #23? - Muse
Plug In Baby. And it's been my #1 Muse song ever since.

18. What is your favourite album by #11? - Iron & Wine
Shepherd's Dog.

19. Who is a favourite member of #1? - Death Cab for Cutie
Chris Walla. Love his aside projects.

20. Have you ever seen #14 live? - Azra
No, but my aunt has! That's the same, right? :p

21. What is a good memory involving #27? - The Smiths
My college years.

22. What is your favourite song by #16? - Blue Foundation
It is expected to say Eyes on Fire. But, I think I'm gonna go with Little by Little or Watch You Sleeping.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by #47? - Elliot Smith
Between The Bars. A classic.

24. What is your favourite album by #18? - Elvis Presley
Um. Wouldn't know. Best of? :D

25. What is your favourite song by #21? - Robert Pattinson
Never Think.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by #26? - Laura Marling
New Romantic. I think. Or is it Night Terror? One of these two, for sure.
EDIT: First time I heard her, she was a vocal on Suspicious Eyes song by The Rakes. Yep. Ha! Memory!

27. What is your favourite album by #3? - Muddy Waters
LIVE At Newport.

28. What is you favourite song by #2? - Elmore James
Can't Stop Loving My Baby.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by #32? - Buffalo Tom
Late At Night. Those My So-Called Life marathons paid of by discovering this band. Now it's one of my favorites.

30. What is you favourite song by #8? - Bob Dylan
Wedding Song or Girl From The North Country. Can't decide.

31. How many times have you seen #17 live? - EKV
None. :/

32. Is there a song by #44 that makes you happy? - Rory Gallagher
Shadow Play.

33. What is you favourite album by #12? - The Beatles
The White Album.

34. What is the worst song by #45? - Otis Rush
None.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by #34? - Nick Drake
Strange Meeting II.

36. What is you favourite album by #48? - Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago.

37. How many times have you seen #42 live? - The Black Keys
None.

38. What is you favourite song by #36? - The Rolling Stones
Argh. Too many.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by #28? - The Jam
Going Underground. And the best one. In my opinion.

40. What is you favourite album by #7? - Robert Johnson
King of the Delta Blues Singers.

41. Is there a song by #31 that makes you happy? - Belle & Sebastian
Another Sunny Day. It suits, right? :)

42. What is your favourite album by #41? 4 - The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses.

43. What is your favourite song by #24? - John Lee Hooker
I'm In The Mood.

44. What is a good memory you have involving #46? - Interpol
My summer 2 years ago.

45. What is your favourite song by #35? - Tim Buckley
Once I Was.

46. Is there a song by #9 that makes you happy? - Canned Heat
Up The Country.

47. What is your favourite album by #4? - The Shins
Wincing The Night Away, Chutes Too Narrow & Oh, Inverted World. ALL OF THEM. Can't decide.

48. Who is a favourite member of #37? - of Montreal
None.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by #43? - Gang of Four
Can't remember.

50. How many albums do you own by #20? - Johnny Cash
None.


GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK.

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

Aaskereia, Chainsaw Dissection, Circle of Dead Children, Clitoridus Invaginatus, The Darkness.
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Rating 2 stars - Annoying (Please switch this off):

Agathodaimon, 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, Josh, 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, Thou Art Lord, Ulaan Khol, Villages, Virgin Prunes, Void Settler, Zombie Nation.
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Rating 3 stars - Dull (This is boring, isn't there something better)

Aïboforcen, Amesoeurs, Animal Collective, 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, 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, Telefon Tel Aviv, The J.B.'s, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Shadows, The Smiths, The White Stripes, 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)

80kidz, Airlock, All The Cold, Arnej, Asriel, Asriel, Beauty's Confusion, Black Lips, Black Widow, Blue Sky Black Death, Branford Marsalis, Charlie Feathers, ChipHydra, Cougar, Damien Rice, Daughtry, Day26, Digitalism, Einherjer, Faster Pussycat, GirlJoy, Grasstowne, Happoradio, Helen Trevillion, Innerpartysystem, Karmacoda, Kitchens of Distinction, Madina Lake, Massive Attack, Max, Mechanical Apfelsine, Mihai Edrisch, múm, Narkotiki, Noisia, Pain of Salvation, ROUND TABLE, 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 Bunny's Caravan, After School, Alabama Thunderpussy, Alexander Rybak, Alice in Videoland, Angus & Julia Stone, Artwood, Attack! Attack!, Aventura, Avskum, Bersuit Vergarabat, Blackfoot, Blood Red Shoes, Bracket, Cemetary, Chicks on Speed, Client, Cradle of Filth, Dark Princess, Disclose, Eat, Forever the Sickest Kids, Groove Armada, Hot Bitch Arsenal, Hyper Crush, Jez Lowe, Kickback, Lesley Gore, Lights, Malfunkshun, Mariana Aydar, Mediæval Bæbes, Megurine Luka, Miss Kittin, Moke, Morcheeba, morning musume, Niels Frevert, No Relax, Nosferatu, Old & In the Way, OLIVIA, Once, Patricia Vonne, Rebellion, Sabaton, Sinéad O'Connor, Sonic Youth, Soulsavers, Tenacious D, Terminal Choice, The Attery Squash, The Dubliners, The Flaming Lips, 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)

"Weird Al" Yankovic, 3 Inches of Blood, 3OH!3, A, Abuso Sonoro, AI, Alestorm, Art Blakey, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Big Youth, Blanche, Blutengel, Bob Dylan, Bomb & Scary, Born of Osiris, Broadway Calls, Bryan Scary, Bush, Cage the Elephant, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Converge, Crazy Town, Cruachan, Dananananaykroyd, Delirium Tremens, Dion & The Belmonts, Dolores O'Riordan, Dub War, Dusty Springfield, Eek-A-Mouse, Electrocute, Eric Von Schmidt, Every New Day, Felix da Housecat, Funeral for a Friend, Gama Bomb, God Help The Girl, Goldfinger, Guns N' Roses, 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, Satyricon, Scary Chicken, SDI, Shena Ringo, Starfucker, Stoneman, Styles P, The Beautiful Girls, The Bones, The Boomtown Rats, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Doors, The Filmscore Orchestra, The Haunted, The Hellacopters, The Herd, The Home Guard, The Innocence Mission, The Maine, The Monsters, The Radiators From Space, The Rogers Sisters, The Sleeping, The Trashmen, The Tremeloes, Tricky, U-Roy, Vive la Fête, Warface, 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, abingdon boys school, Amen, AntiProduct, As I Lay Dying, Asian Dub Foundation, Banda Bassotti, Bauchklang, Béla Bartók, Bessie Smith, Big in Japan, Black Grape, Blood Duster, Boyz Too Sick, Buffalo Tom, Cannae, Capleton, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Chillerton, Chris Cornell, Chuck Ragan, Chumbawamba, Civilized Animal, Cledus T. Judd, co.uk, Cocoa Tea, Crazy Arm, Credit to the Nation, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Cyco Miko, D.I., Damone, Danny Elfman, Datura, Deacon Blue, Del Amitri, DevilDriver, Dilated Peoples, Doom, Dragster, Echobelly, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Elastica, Epica, Eye for an Eye, Five Horse Johnson, FM2000, Foo Fighters, 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, Oh, Sleeper, Operator Please, Over It, Paul Weller, Pearl Jam, Planlos, Pleymo, Pop Will Eat Itself, Psychopathic Rydas, Queens of the Stone Age, Racine, Raging Speedhorn, Rammstein, Recon, Righteous Jams, Roots Manuva, Sack Trick, Saliva, Scanners, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Scout Niblett, Sheer Terror, Sizzla, Skindred, Skinlab, Slapstick, Smash Mouth, Snoop Dogg, Spellbound, Spinnerette, Steve Marriott, Synchromystickz, Tanto Metro, Tard, Terrorvision, That Handsome Devil, That Petrol Emotion, The Androids, The Bottrops, The Butlers, The Coral, The Cranberries, The Fat Cats, The Forgotten, The Goats, The Hitchers, 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 Slapstickers, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Wonder Stuff, Thrice, Transvision Vamp, Vacant Stare, Vagiant, Void, Weapons, Will Smith, Wolfpack Unleashed, Your Highness Electric, 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)

100 Demons, 25 ta Life, Adequate Seven, Alice in Chains, Angel Cage, Angelic Upstarts, Anthony B, Atreyu, Audioslave, Aynsley Lister, Babar Luck, Backfire!, Banane Metalik, Barcode, 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 Hung, Buck-O-Nine, Bun Dem Out, Butt Trumpet, Calabrese, Cancer Bats, Casey Jones, Choking Susan, Choking Victim, Civet, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Dead End Cruisers, Dead Hearts, Demented Are Go!, Deviate, Die Happy, Die So Fluid, Diesel Park West, Dillinger Four, Distemper, Dog Eat Dog, 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, Final Prayer, First Blood, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Turner, Funkoars, Furious Styles, Godless Wicked Creeps, Goldblade, Government Issue, Gravediggaz, Guano Apes, Gutter Demons, Hadouken!, Harry Chapin, Hoods, Howlin' Wolf, Ian McNabb, Ice Cube, Ill Bill, In Blood We Trust, Insane Clown Posse, Insane Poetry, It Dies Today, Jamie Madrox, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, 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, Machine Head, Mad Caddies, Mad Sin, Menstrual Tramps, Miss Li, Mr. Hyde, MxPx, My Chemical Romance, My Ruin, N.A.S.T.Y., Nirvana, No Doubt, 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, Refused, Rise Against, Riz Mc, Rob Zombie, Robert Johnson, Sarah Blackwood, Scars of Tomorrow, Scary Bitches, Scribe, Seasick Steve, Senser, Sepultura, Settle the Score, Shadows Fall, Shark Attack, Shattered Realm, Skaos, Slayer, Snot, Soldiers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Stellar Corpses, Strung Out, Sugarland Slim, System of a Down, Tech N9ne, Temple of the Dog, The 57th Dynasty, The B Sharps, The Babylon Whackers, The Banner, The Beautiful South, The B-Sharps, The Code, The Creepshow, The Cumshots, The Damned, The Dictators, The Godfathers, The Grit, The Icicle Works, The Mitchell Brothers, The Offspring, The Planet Smashers, The Porkers, The Selecter, The Spook, The Vandals, The Warriors, This Is Hell, Tiger Army, To Kill, Total Chaos, Van Morrison, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Whiskey Rebels, Wiley, Wiley aka Eskiboy, Wisdom in Chains, Wu-Tang Clan, 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, AFI, Alkaline Trio, B.B. King, Babyboom, Bad Religion, Bane, Billy Talent, Black Flag, Blood for Blood, Brainless Wankers, 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 James, Eric Clapton, Gallows, 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, 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 JB Conspiracy, The Peacocks, The Suffrajets, The Unseen, Thick As Blood, Tim Armstrong, Walls of Jericho, Xzibit.
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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, 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

This is the entire introduction to the book, and it took me almost fifteen minutes to write up, but that's just how important this book is. It is a book of revelations. Everyone in the music industry- and I know you're all part time djs- and all fans of popular music will find it revelatory.
What I found best was to read it near the computer, so as to look unfamiliar songs and artists they reference up on youtube. And then you're learning!
Here's a link to an actual review http://tunedintomusic.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/review-faking-it-the-quest-for-authenticity-in-popular-music-hugh-barker-yuval-taylor/


Introduction


When we listen to popular music, some songs strike us as "real" and others as "fake." This book explores that distinction, and how, especially in the last fifty years, the quest for authenticity, for the "real," has become a dominant factor in musical taste. Whether it be the folklorist's search for forgotten bluesmen, the rock critic's elevation of raw power over sophistication, or the importance of bullet wounds to the careers of hip-hop artists, the aesthetic of the "authentic musical experience," with its rejection of music that is labeled contrived, pretentious, artificial, or overly commercial, has played a major role in forming musical tastes and canons, with wide-ranging consequences.

What do we mean when we call something authentic? A lot of things, as it turns out, but the word seems to be defined primarily in opposition to "faking it." In a KISS concert, the band wears makeup and plays songs about people they pretend to be, all with the explicit aim of making money rather than telling the truth about themselves or the world they live in. Such a performance can be wildly entertaining, but it's not considered authentic.

When people say a musical performance or recording is authentic, they might refer to representational authenticity, or music that is exactly what it says it is-- unlike, say, Milli Vanilli posing as singers, which they weren't. They might refer to cultural authenticity, or music that reflects a cultural tradition-- the traditional black guitarist and singer Mississippi John Hurt's version of "Stagger Lee," an old African American song about an outlaw, is more culturally authentic than the Grateful Dead's. They might refer to personal authenticity, or music that reflects the person or people who are making it-- when Ozzy Osbourne sings "Iron Man," he tells us nothing about his own life, but when Loretta Lynn sings "Coal Miner's Daughter," she tells us a lot.

Every performance is to some degree "faked"-- nobody goes out on stage and sings about exactly what they did and felt that day. Authenticity is an absolute, a goal that can never be fully attained, a quest. Sincerity and autobiography are techniques one can employ in the service of personal authenticity, just as using traditional instruments and singing old songs are techniques one can use in the service of cultural authenticity. But it's important to distinguish the means from the end.

This quest for authenticity has inspired countless musicians to make heartfelt and often groundbreaking music, from Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneer of country music, to Kurt Cobain, a pioneer of alternative rock. On the other hand, some great music-- including entire genres such as rockabilly, Bubblegum, and disco-- has been scorned as inauthentic. At times, the need to "keep it real" has limited the kinds of music that musicians aspire to make and that critics and listeners appreciate.

White blues fans, for example, redefined the genre in the name of authenticity to exclude anything too jazzy or upbeat, thus enforcing a snobbish and racist exclusion of certain blues artists from the canon because they were too sophisticated. Instead, they lauded the most primitive blues artists they could find, such as John Lee Hooker, from whom blacks turned away. In this way, the quest for authenticity did tremendous damage to the blues by codifying certain traditions and limiting innovation.

Now, after punk, house, grunge, garage, and hip-hop, ideas of authenticity have seeped into even such transparently "inauthentic" genres as heavy metal (Metallica), techno (Moby), and showtunes (Rent). Especially in the music aimed at white teenage males, authenticity is seen as the sine qua non of artistic success. It is rare to come across a songwriter, rock singer, or rapper these days who does not aim to "keep it real" for his audience, or who doesn't talk about the difference between making it and selling out. Listeners too are acutely conscious of how much the artists they admire are faking it. It seems that one of the job requirements for a popular musician these days is convincing your audience that you're not the phony celebrity you appear to be. Case in point: Jennifer Lopez's biggest hit ran, "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got-- I'm just Jenny from the block." Even Donna Summer, the queen of disco and a brilliant musical innovator, castigates her former self as "fake" in her autobiography Ordinary Girl.

Of course, for many there is no distinction between real and fake: witness Courtney Love's statement, "I fake it so real that I'm beyond fake." In certain subcultures, being "natural" is either suspect or out of the question, and being theatrical is the only real possibility. For many academics as well, everything is more or less "constructed", and, as the Beatles said, "Nothing is real."

But while we don't claim that the distinctions we make in this book will apply to everyone, being authentic, or real, has been important to a large number of musicians and their fans, and that's where this book comes in. A number of other books have praised the virtues of authenticity and damned the fakes and the sellouts, but it's surprising that no single book has ever addressed the subject in all its complexity or shown how the quest for authenticity has shaped the music we listen to. It's as if the concept of realism in art had never been fully addressed-- as if the only books on the subject praised verisimilitude. The question of authenticity in popular music is not only fundamental to understanding the music's history but fundamental to thinking about, listening to, and performing it as well.

Faking It tackles this question by examining, in detail, ten turning points in music history, at most of which the musicians were faced with a choice: fake it or keep it real. Why were these choices made and what were the consequences? We start with Kurt Cobain's choice of a Leadbelly song to close his career, and then go in chronological order from twentieth-century field recordings to Moby's use of them at the turn of the twenty-first century. Along the way, we discuss the birth of modern country music, the moment Elvis reinvented rock'n'roll, the Monkees' decision to play their instruments, the defining moment of disco with a seventeen minute faked orgasm, the "public image" of punk rock, and much more.

1989;

1 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2 Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
3 The Cure - Disintegration
4 Philip Glass - Solo Piano
5 De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
6 Faith No More - The Real Thing
7 Pixies - Doolittle
8 Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
9 John Lee Hooker - The Healer
10 Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One
11 Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
12 Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
13 Galaxie 500 - On Fire
14 N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
15 Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon

1988;

1 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2 The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
3 Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
4 U2 - Rattle And Hum
5 Pixies - Surfer Rosa
6 Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
7 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
8 Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
9 EPMD - Strictly Business
10 Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
11 My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
12 INXS - Kick
13 Les Négresses Vertes - Mlah
14 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
15 Prince - Lovesexy

1987;

1 U2 - The Joshua Tree
2 Prince - Sign O' The Times
3 Salif Keita - Soro
4 R.E.M. - Document
5 The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
6 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Trio
7 Boogy Down Productions - Criminal Minded
8 Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby
9 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
10 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
11 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
12 Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
13 Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu
14 Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
15 Sting - Nothing Like the Sun

1986;

1 Paul Simon - Graceland
2 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
3 Metallica - Master of Puppets
4 Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
5 Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares - Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
6 Prince & The Revolution - Parade
7 Alpha Blondy - Jerusalem
8 Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
9 New Model Army - The Ghost of Cain
10 Robert Cray Band - Strong Persuader
11 Peter Gabriel - So
12 XTC - Skylarking
13 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial
14 The The - Infected
15 Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

1985;

1 The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
2 Simply Red - Picture Book
3 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
4 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
5 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
6 Prince & The Revolution - Around the World in a Day
7 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
8 The Cure - The Head On The Door
9 David Byrne - The Knee Plays
10 Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
11 The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball
12 Coil - Scatology
13 The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
14 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
15 Madonna - Like a Virgin

1984;

1 Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
2 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
3 Sade - Diamond Life
4 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
5 Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
6 Talk Talk - It's My Life
7 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
8 Cocteau Twins - Treasure
9 Tina Turner - Private Dancer
10 Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
11 Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive
12 Everything but the Girl - Eden
13 Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.
14 Nena - ? Fragezeichen
15 Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual

1983;

1 Michael Jackson - Thriller
2 Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
3 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
4 ESG - Come Away With ESG
5 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
6 The The - Soul Mining
7 ZZ Top - Elimanator
8 David Bowie - Let's Dance
9 Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
10 R.E.M. - Murmur
11 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
12 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
13 Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
14 Culture Club - Colour by Numbers
15 The Fall - Perverted By Language

1982;

1 King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
2 Virgin Prunes - If I Die... I Die
3 Orchestra Baobab - Pirate's Choice
4 The Cure - Pornography
5 Eek-A-Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem
6 Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
7 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
8 Joe Jackson - Night & Day
9 Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
10 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
11 Fun Boy Three - The Fun Boy Three
12 The Gun Club - Miami
13 John Cale - Music for a New Society
14 Madness - Presents the Rise & Fall
15 Roxy Music - Avalon

1981;

1 Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
2 Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
3 UB40 - Signing Off
4 Japan - Tin Drum
5 The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
6 Black Uhuru - Red
7 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture And Morality
8 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau
9 Bobby Womack - The Poet
10 Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
11 The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
12 Bauhaus - Mask
13 Can - Delay...1968
14 New Order - Movement
15 The Human League - Dare!

1980;

1 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
3 Joy Division - Closer
4 AC/DC - Back in Black
5 Suicide - Suicide II
6 Queen - The Game
7 Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
8 John Lennon - Double Fantasy
9 Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
10 Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine
11 Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
12 Pretenders - Pretenders
13 The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
14 The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
15 Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It

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 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 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