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1979;

1 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2 The Clash - London Calling
3 Pink Floyd - The Wall
4 Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
5 Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
6 The B 52's - The B 52's
7 The Specials - The Specials
8 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
9 Wire - 154
10 Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
11 XTC - Drums And Wires
12 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
13 The Slits - Cut
14 Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
15 Chic - Risqué

1978;

1 Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street band - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
2 Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
3 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
4 Willie Colón - Siembra
5 Dire Straits - Dire Straits
6 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model
7 Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
8 Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
9 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon By Bus
10 The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
11 Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
12 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
13 Blondie - Parallel Lines
14 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
15 The Cars - The Cars

1977;

1 The Congos - The Heart of the Congos
2 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
3 Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
4 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
5 Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
6 Horace Andy - In the Light
7 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
8 Fela Kuti - No Agreement
9 David Bowie - Heroes
10 Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
11 Muddy Waters - Hard Again
12 Television - Marquee Moon
13 Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
14 Suicide - Suicide
15 Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

1976;

1 Jorge Ben - África Brasil
2 Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape
3 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
4 Parliament - Mothership Connection
5 Tom Waits - Small Change
6 Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
7 The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
8 Robert Palmer - Pressure Drop
9 Ramones - Ramones
10 Peter Tosh - Legalize It
11 The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
12 Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
13 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
14 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
15 La Düsseldorf - La Düsseldorf

1975;

1 Patti Smith - Horses
2 Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
3 Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
4 Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
5 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6 Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
7 Terry Callier - I Just Can't Help Myself
8 Hugh Masekela - The boys doin' it
9 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
10 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
11 The Pointer Sisters - Steppin'
12 Queen - A Night At The Opera
13 Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
14 Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
15 Junior Wells - On Tap

1974;

1 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
2 Neil Young - On the Beach
3 Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
4 J.J. Cale - Okie
5 Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
6 Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
7 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread
8 Cymande - Second Time Round
9 Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Winter In America
10 Sparks - Kimono My House
11 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
12 Marlena Shaw - Who Is This Bitch, Anyway
13 Supertramp - Crime of the Century
14 Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
15 Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

1973;

1 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire
2 John Martyn - Solid Air
3 ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
4 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
5 Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
6 Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
7 Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
8 Can - Future Days
9 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
10 Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
11 Roxy Music - Stranded
12 Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
13 Roy Ayers - Coffy
14 Lou Reed - Berlin
15 Dr. John - In the Right Place

1972;

1 Neil Young - Harvest
2 David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
3 Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
4 Frankie Miller - Once in a Blue Moon
5 Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
6 Al Green - Let's Stay Together
7 Parliament - First Thangs
8 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Clear Spot
9 The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St
10 Lou Reed - Transformer
11 The Temptations - All Directions
12 Paul Simon - Paul Simon
13 Fela Kuti - Shakara
14 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
15 Tangerine Dream - Zeit

1971;

1 Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' on
2 Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
3 J.J. Cale - Naturally
4 T. Rex - Electric Warrior
5 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
7 John Lennon - Imagine
8 The Doors - L.A. Woman
9 David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
10 Faces - A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse
11 Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
12 Jethro Tull - Aqualung
13 The Who - Who's Next
14 Can - Tago Mago
15 Karen Dalton - In My Own Time

1970;

1 The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
2 Santana - Abraxas
3 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
4 Allen Toussaint - From a Whisper to a Scream
5 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6 John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
7 Janis Joplin - Pearl
8 Neil Young - After The Goldrush
9 The Stooges - Fun House
10 Grateful Dead - American Beauty
11 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
12 The Beatles - Let It Be
13 Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!
14 Amon Düül II - Yeti
15 The Doors - Morrison Hotel

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 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

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1 Trainspotting (1996)
Includes; Iggy Pop, Underworld and Primal Scream
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2 Pulp Fiction (1994)
Includes; Urge Overkill, Kool & The Gang and Dick Dale
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3 Basquiat (1995)
Includes; The Pogues, Them and Tom Waits
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4 The Harder They Come (1973)
Includes; Jimmy Cliff, Toots and The Maytals and The Slickers
_______________________________________________________________
5 Broken Flowers (2005)
Includes; The Tennors, Mulatu Astatke and The Brian Jonestown Massacre
_______________________________________________________________
6 The Crow (1994)
Includes; The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and Rollins Band
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7 Stop Making Sense (1985)
Includes; Talking Heads
_______________________________________________________________
8 Superfly (1972)
Includes; Curtis Mayfield
_______________________________________________________________
9 The Godfather (1972)
Includes; Nino Rota
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10 The Hours (2002)
Includes; Philip Glass
_______________________________________________________________
11 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Includes; George Baker Selection, Joe Tex and Sandy Rogers
_______________________________________________________________
12 Purple Rain (1984)
Includes; Prince & The Revolution
_______________________________________________________________
13 Coffy (1973)
Includes; Roy Ayers
_______________________________________________________________
14 24 Hour Party People (2003)
Includes; Joy Division, Happy Mondays and New Order
_______________________________________________________________
15 Babel - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (2006)
Includes; Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian and Nortec Collective
_______________________________________________________________
16 Kids (1996)
Includes; The Folk Implosion, Daniel Johnston and Slint
_______________________________________________________________
17 The Graduate (1968)
Includes; Simon & Garfunkel
_______________________________________________________________
18 Paris, Texas (1989)
Includes; Ry Cooder
_______________________________________________________________
19 Lost Highway (1997)
Includes; Angelo Badalamenti, Barry Adamson and Rammstein
_______________________________________________________________
20 Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (2001)
Includes; Yann Tiersen
_______________________________________________________________
21 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Includes; A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.
_______________________________________________________________
22 American Beauty (1997)
Includes; Thomas Newman, Elliott Smith and Peggy Lee
_______________________________________________________________
23 The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
Includes; Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
_______________________________________________________________
24 Judgment Night (1994)
Includes; Sonic Youth, Faith No More and House of Pain
_______________________________________________________________
25 Jackie Brown (1997)
Includes; Bobby Womack, Bill Withers and Johnny Cash
_______________________________________________________________
26 Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Includes; Ennio Morricone
_______________________________________________________________
27 Garden State (2004)
Includes; The Shins, Iron & Wine and Frou Frou
_______________________________________________________________
28 Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Includes; Philip Glass
_______________________________________________________________
29 The Doom Generation (1995)
Includes; Love and Rockets, Meat Beat Manifesto and Jesus & Mary Chain
_______________________________________________________________
30 Shaft (1971)
Includes; Isaac Hayes
_______________________________________________________________
31 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Includes; Alison Krauss, Harry McClintock and Soggy Bottom Boys
_______________________________________________________________
32 Goodfellas (1990)
Includes; The Harptones, Tony Bennett and Cream
_______________________________________________________________
33 Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
Includes; Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson and Yvonne Elliman
_______________________________________________________________
34 The Pink Panther (1964)
Includes; Henry Mancini
_______________________________________________________________
35 Easy Rider (1969)
Includes; Steppenwolf, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Roger McGuinn
_______________________________________________________________
36 Music From Mission: Impossible (1967)
Inludes; Lalo Schifrin______________________________________________________________
37 Saturday Night Fever (1978)
Includes; Bee Gees, Tavares and Yvonne Elliman
_______________________________________________________________
38 Donnie Darko (2002)
Includes; INXS, Duran Duran and Oingo Boingo
_______________________________________________________________
39 Snatch (2001)
Includes; Massive Attack, The Stranglers and Maceo & The Macks
_______________________________________________________________
40 The Ladykillers (2004)
Includes; Soul Stirrers, Nappy Roots and Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
_______________________________________________________________
41 The Lost Boys (1987)
Includes; Gerard McMann, Echo & The Bunnymen and Roger Daltrey
_______________________________________________________________
42 Malcolm X (1992)
Includes; Arrested Development, Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton
_______________________________________________________________
43 Pi (1998)
Includes; Autechre, David Holmes and Banco de Gaia
_______________________________________________________________
44 The Last Waltz (1968)
Includes; The Band, Muddy Waters and Neil Young
_______________________________________________________________
45 Forrest Gump (1994)
Includes; Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Scott McKenzie
_______________________________________________________________
46 Do the Right Thing (1988)
Includes; Public Enemy, Steel Pulse and Al Jarreau
_______________________________________________________________
47 Lola rennt (1998)
Includes; Tykwer, Klimek & Heil
_______________________________________________________________
48 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Includes; Harry Nilsson, John Barry and Elephant's Memory
_______________________________________________________________
49 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Includes; David Bowie, Charles Bernstein and Zarah Leander
_______________________________________________________________
50 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999)
Includes; Junior Murvin, James Brown and Stone Roses
_______________________________________________________________

This list contains no live- or "greatest hits"-albums
_______________________________________________________________
1 Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape
_______________________________________________________________
2 Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey / Garvey's Ghost
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3 The Congos - The Heart of the Congos
_______________________________________________________________
4 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire
_______________________________________________________________
5 The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
_______________________________________________________________
6 Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
_______________________________________________________________
7 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
_______________________________________________________________
8 Black Uhuru - Red
_______________________________________________________________
9 Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
_______________________________________________________________
10 Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
_______________________________________________________________
11 Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
_______________________________________________________________
12 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread
_______________________________________________________________
13 Burning Spear - Studio One Presents Burning Spear
_______________________________________________________________
14 Big Youth - Screaming Target
_______________________________________________________________
15 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
_______________________________________________________________
16 Peter Tosh - Legalize It
_______________________________________________________________
17 The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
_______________________________________________________________
18 Dillinger - C.B. 200
_______________________________________________________________
19 Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Cornbread
_______________________________________________________________
20 Desmond Dekker - This Is Desmond Dekker
_______________________________________________________________
21 Israel Vibration - Strength of My Life
_______________________________________________________________
22 Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
_______________________________________________________________
23 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
_______________________________________________________________
24 Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
_______________________________________________________________
25 U Roy - Dread In A Babylon
_______________________________________________________________
26 Horace Andy - In the Light
_______________________________________________________________
27 Israel Vibration - Forever
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28 Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
_______________________________________________________________
29 Eek-A-Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem
_______________________________________________________________
30 Dennis Brown - Money in My Pocket
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That 1 Guy*3
27
3 Inches of Blood*5
36 Crazyfists*2
The 69 Eyes
98 Degrees

A
Abigail Williams
The Absence
Abysmal Dawn
The Acacia Strain
A Dozen Furies
A Bloodshed Nightmare
A Life Once Lost
A Perfect Circle
A Static Lullaby
AC/DC
Acid Mothers Guru
Aerosmith
AFI*3
Ahab
Akakor
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
All State Champion
All That Remains*3
ALO
Amenra
American Steel
Amon Amarth*2
AMON DÜÜL II
Angel Witch
Ankla
Anthrax*2
The Aquabats*2
Arch Enemy*5
Ares Kingdom
As I Lay Dying*4
Asesino
ASG
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
Atreyu*4
Nicole Atkins
Attack In Black
Auf der Maur
August Burns Red
Aura Noir
Avenged Sevenfold*2
Averse Sefira

B
Baby Woodrose
Sebastian Bach
Back Yard Tire Fire
Bad Religion
Baikal
Barn Burner
Baroness*3
Bedouin Soundclash*2
Beehover*2
Behemoth*3
Belphegor
Bergrime Exemious*2
The Berzerker
Between The Buried & Me*4
Bif Naked*2
Big Business*2
Billy Talent
Bison*3
Black Betty
The Black Dahlia Murder*4
The Black Keys
Black Kids
Black Label Society*4
The Black Lips*2
Black Sabbath*3
The Blakes
Bleeding Through
Blood Shot Eye
Bloodvoid
Blues Traveler
Bobaflex
Boris*2
David Bowie
Broken Social Scene
The Brunettes
Bullet For My Valentine
Burning Brides
Burnt face jack
Bury Your Dead

C
Cage the Elephant
Cain Was Able
Caliban
Cannibal Corpse*3
The Capricorns
Lionel Cartwright
The Casualties
Cathedral
Cat Power*2
Cephalic Carnage
Children of Bodom*4
Chimaira*2
ChthoniC
Church of Misery
Circa Survive
Circle Jerks
Circus Diablo
City & Colour
CKY
The Cliks
The Clouds*2
Clutch*5
Coal Chamber
Coheed & Cambria*2
Cold
Coldplay
Colour Haze
The Constantines
Converge
Copeland
Chris Cornell*2
Corrosion of Conformity*2
Cradle of Filth*3
Creed
Cryptic
Crystal Castles
CSS
The Cult*3
Cult of Luna
Cynic

D
D.O.A.
Daath*2
Dala
Damageplan
danava*2
Dark Forest
Dark Tranquility*2
Darkest Hour
Daughters
Dead Shape Figure
Dead Trip
The Dears*4
Death Cab for Cutie
Death From Above 1979
Death Toll Rising
Decapitated
Deftones*11
Destroyer 666
Dethklok
DevilDriver*10
The Devils Blood*2
The Devil Wears Prada
Die Mannequin*3
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Diminshed
Dimmu Borgir*2
Dir en grey*3
The Distillers
Disturbed*2
Divine Heresy*3
Divinity
Dixie Witch
Dope
Down*4
Down The Sun*2
Dragontears
Dream Theater*2
dredg
Dropkick Murphys
Drowning Pool
Dry Kill Logic
Dub Trio

E
E. Town Concrete
Early Man
Earth
Econoline Crush*2
Eisley
Electric Orange
Electric Touch
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves
Embrace
The End
Engine Down
Ensiferum
Enslaved
Everclear
Everest
Every Time I Die
Exit Strategy*2
The Explosion
Explosions in the Sky

F
The Fall of Troy*3
Farflung
Fear Factory*3
Fieldy's Dreams
Finger Eleven*9
Firewind
Five Horse Johnson
The Flaming Lips
Flogging Molly*2
Flying Fortress
Foo Fighters*4
Fornication
George Fox
Donavon Frankenreiter*2
From Autumn to Ashes
From First to Last
Fu Manchu
Full Blown Chaos
Funeral for a Friend
Further Seems Forever

G
The Gathering
The Gasoline Angels*2
G. Love & Special Sauce*2
Genghis Tron
Gizmachi
Glasspack
Gnarls Barkley
Goatwhore*4
God Forbid*4
Godsmack*3
Gojira*3
Gomer Pyle
Good Charlotte
Grails
Sebastien Grainger*2
Grand Magus
Great Nothern
Green Day*2
Emm Gryner
Groundhogs
Guns N' Roses
The Gutter Twins*2
GWAR*4

H
H20
Hail the Villian
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Hanzel und Gretyl
Hatebreed*3
The Haunted*2
Heaven and Hell
Hella*2
Helms Alee
High on Fire*3
HIM
The Horrorpops
HORSE the band
The House That Gloria Vanderbilt
hrom
Huey Dunbar
Hypocrisy

I
Idlewild
If Hope Dies
Ignite
In Flames*8
In This Moment*2
Incubus*4
Invitro
Iron Lung
Iron & Wine*3
Iron Maiden*3
Isis*9
It Dies Today

J
Jeremy Fisher
Jesu*3
Job for a Cowboy*3
Jack Johnson*3
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Jucifer
Judas Priest
Jughead's Revenge

K
Kataklysm
Kayne West
Scott Kelly
KEN mode
The Kills
Killswitch Engage*10
Kilyakai
Kittie
Korpiklaani
KoЯn*2
Krisiun

L
Lacuna Coil*2
Lamb of God*8
Lao Tzu
Last Rosary
Lauren Harris
Lay To Waste
Lazaurus AD
Lesbian
Liars
Life of Agony
Limb Lifter
Limp Bizkit*2
Linkin Park*2
Lionize
Living Things
Corb Lund
Lordi
Love and Rockets
Lycophile

M
Machine Head*2
Madball
Magna-Fi
Mamiffer
Mantis
Margot & The Nuclear So And Sos
Marilyn Manson*3
Mars Volta*3
Maserati
Mastodon*4
Matt Costa
Matthew Good*9
Matthew Good Band*3
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
Megadeth*3
Melvins
Meshuggah*2
Metallica*2
Metric*3
Mew
MGMT
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Millencolin*2
Ministry
Minsk
Mishka
Moby*2
Moments in Grace
Money Money
Mono*2
Moonspell*2
Mother Mother
Motorhead*2
Motorpsycho
Mudvayne*3
Mugison*2
múm
Mushroomhead
The Music*4
My Chemical Romance*4
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
My Morning Jacket*2

N
Nadja
Napalm Death
Nashville Pussy*2
The National
Necrofaith
Negura Bunget
Neurosis
Nevermore
The New Deal
Nickelback*2
Nile
Nine Inch Nails*3
No Use for a Name*3
NOFX*2
Noize Tribe Zero
Norma Jean*2
Norrath
Novembers Doom
Nuna'y

O
Obituary
The Octopus Project
The Offspring*2
Okkervil River
Oliver Miguel Quinteto
OM
Omega Massif
Ndidi Onukwulu
Opeth*7
Orange Goblin
Ozzy Osbourne*4
Otep
Our Lady Peace*2
OutKast

P
Paegan
Pantera
Papa Roach*2
The Parlor Mob
Pearl Jam*3
Pelican*6
Pennywise*3
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Pig Destroyer
Pigmy Love Circus
Pinhed
PJ Harvery*2
Poison the Well*3
The Polyphonic Spree
Porcupine Tree*3
Porn
Powerman 5000
Pride Tiger
Priestess
Project Wyze*2
Protest the Hero*2

Q
Queens of the Stone Age*9

R
The Raconteurs
Radiohead*2
Radio Moscow
Josh Radin
Rafael-Energía Dominicana
Rage Against the Machine
Ramesses
Rancid*5
The Red Chord*2
Red Hot Chili Peppers*2
Red Sparowes
Reflux
Repoman
Reverend Horton Heat
Rinôçérôse
Rise Against*2
Josh Ritter
River Boat Gamblers
Rob Zombie*3
Roger Waters
Rose Kemp
Xavier Rudd*4
Rush

S
Sacred Ally/artist]
Sage Francis
Saint Vitus
Savannah
Sawyer Brown
Say Anthing
Kelli Scarr
Scars of Tomorrow*2
Scope Monkey Trial
Scratching Post
Senses Fail
seven that spells
Seven Year Itch
Sever The Silence
Shadows Fall*2
Shout Out Louds
The Showdown
Shuvel
Silverstein*2
Sin Fang Bous
Sittin Idol*2
Ska Cubano
Skarp
Skrape
Slayer*7
Sleepercar
Slipknot*6
Sloan*2
Slough Feg
Snake Mountain*2
Snoop Dogg*2
Snow Patrol
Social Distortion
Soilwork*2
Soulfly*3
Sparta*2
Stars
Static-X
Steel Pulse
Still Remains*2
Stolen Babies
Stone Temple Pilots
Story of the Year
Strapping Young Lad*2
Strata
Street Drum Corps
Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky
Suffocation*2
Suicide Silence
Sunshine
Superjoint Ritual
Supersuckers*2
The Sword
Sworn Enemy*2
System of a Down

T
Taint
The Tall Firs
Tapes N' Tapes
Taproot
Team Sleep
The Tea Party*7
Tekila
Terror
These Arms Are Snakes
Thine Eyes Bleed*2
Three
Three Days Grace*2
Thrice*5
Thrones
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Throw Rag*2
Throwdown*4
Thursday*4
Tiger Army
The Ting Tings
Tokyo Police Club
Tombs
To Scale the Throne
Tool*7
Tosca
The Tragically Hip
Transplants
Randy Travis
Tribes of Neurot
Tricky
Trivium*7
Trouble
Turisas

U
U2*2
Ufomammut
Unearth*6
The Unseen
Urheimat
The Used

V
The Vandals
Jane Vain & The Dark Matter
Velvet Revolver*2
Verbal Deception
Voivod*3

W
The Waking Eyes*2
Butch Walker
Walls of Jericho
Warbringer
Warmarch
Watain
Mike Watt
The Wednesday Night Heroes
Weird Al Yankovic
West Indian Girl
The Whigs
The White Stripes
Wide Mouth Mason
Wil
Wild Sweet Orange
William Elliot Whitmore
The Winchester Club
Steve Winwood
Witch
Witchcraft*2
Wolfmother
Wolves in the Throne Room*2
Woodpigeon
Woods of Ypres
Michelle Wright

Y
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Year Long Diaster
Pete Yorn*2
Neil Young
The Young Gods

Z
Zeus
Zeni Geva
Zombie
Zozobra*2
ZZ Top

Track: Lovely Rita (feat. Bunny Rugs and U Roy) (full track)
Artist: Easy Star All-Stars (13 April 09)
Album: Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band
Tags: reggae, dub, covers, downtempo, my gang rotw
Video: Click the pic...

YouTube, amateur video


Easy Star All-Stars are a collective who are basically a covers band but it's how they do what they do that's so special. With the utmost care and precision, with extremely careful attention to the smallest detail, they take apart and reimagine classic albums. They're not the only band to do so, there are plenty of others trying to do the same, but no one does it as well as Easy Star All-Stars.



Let me show you what I mean - here is The Great Gig In the Sky (featuring Kirsty Rock) from their very first covers album, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, entitled Dub Side of the Moon (2003). It's nothing short of a masterpiece. The most popular track according to Last.fm is On the Run, which is more drum 'n' bass, jungle, ragga. And you must also hear the very funny Money, with the opener of the sound of a cigarette lighter as someone coughs in frustration, trying to light his water bong. Someone has done an amateur video of this to The Wizard of Oz in YouTube, which is a must-see. Musique concrete at its wittiest.

For their second, they covered Radiohead's OK Computer and called it Radiodread (2006). This is where most of my 381 plays come from. It's so well done. I can even listen to Fitter Happier, which I've never been able to do on the original. My personal favourite from this album is Electioneering. I adore the original. This adds another dimension.

These guys know what they're doing and I trust them. When I heard their next project was none other than The Beatles and not only that but Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band I couldn't wait. It's got some lifelong favourites in there, songs I knew before I could talk.



The reimagining begins with a twist on the name - Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band. Maybe I was expecting too much, but on first listen, I wasn't sure. I left it alone for a bit and came back to it - and it's all fallen into place and sounds superb, but I still don't think it reaches the heights of the first two. It may just be down to my expectations or maybe I love the other two more, I don't know. It definitely sounds better with every listen. I'd be interested to hear from people listening to the band for the first time.

I think the initial trouble I had was that the interpretations are unexpected. I adored Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (feat. Frankie Paul) and She's Leaving Home (feat. Kirsty Rock) straight off, no question, but the rest of the album has required a little effort and patience on my part. The project is ambitious, the sheer scale of the challenge unimaginable, and man, it's The Beatles. We all know every note and every nuance. It's like messing with the air we breathe.

From their album blurb (in Last.fm):

Following the widespread critical and commercial success of 2003’s Dub Side of the Moon and 2006’s Radiodread, Easy Star Records announces the Easy Star All-Stars’ complete reggae re-imagining of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album, titled Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band, is set for release April 14 on Easy Star Records and features guest vocals from an impressive list of reggae, dancehall and dub greats including Steel Pulse, Matisyahu, Michael Rose (Black Uhuru), Luciano, U Roy, bunny rugs (Third World), Ranking Roger (English Beat), Sugar Minott, Frankie Paul, Max Romeo and The Mighty Diamonds. The first single, “With A Little Help From My Friends,” featuring Luciano, will be released as an iTunes exclusive February 10. It will be paired with a b-side dub version featuring the legendary U Roy.

Dub Side of the Moon, (Easy Star’s reggae tribute to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon) is one of the most successful reggae albums of the 21st century and spent over five years on Billboard’s Top Reggae Chart. Mojo selected the record as the second greatest cover album of all time. Radiodread, which tackled Radiohead’s OK Computer, spent over 18 months on Billboard’s Top Reggae Chart and earned praise from Radiohead themselves.

Of the decision to infuse reggae into the Beatles classic, producer Michael Goldwasser says “We’ve focused on re-envisioning concept albums as reggae and it’s really important that the source material works as a whole and is not just a collection of songs. So, what better to take on next than the mother of all concept albums?”

The nice people at their label have permitted us to listen to full tracks that automatically advance to the next, so we can set the album to play and enjoy. Thank you, nice people! (I hope all regions have the same permissions)



So this week's reco, Lovely Rita (feat. Bunny Rugs and U Roy). The original, Lovely Rita, is a song that I've never been able to shift from my mind. So many things seem to trigger it: watching Rita in Coronation Street (above), seeing car parking meters, reading the meter for my electricity bill... there has been no escape! And yet I still love the song. The reworking is joyous, a bit slower, with some rasta chat to chill out to. The video I've chosen is an amateur work of old cine footage filmed around Vienna, Gumpoldskirchen, Hohe Wand, Burgenland and moedling set to the music.

As an aside, if you only listen to one track from this album, try Within You Without You (feat. Matisyahu), a psychedelic mix of reggae and sitars. It's a difficult track in the first place and serves as a good showcase of their ingenuity. If you want to compare it to the original, this trippy video should help.


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Easy Star All-Stars: Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band. Released 13.04.09.

If you're reading this then you are probably either A) a fan of Easy Stars' previous offerings, or B) a Beatles fan. In both cases I suspect this latest release from Easy Star Records will leave you with a rather large smile on your face.

The Easy Star All-Stars have an impressive history of taking classic records and re-recording them in a reggae-style (not simply that, but in every style of reggae from ska through to dancehall), and this project is no exception. Each and every track from the Beatles' classic "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has been painstakingly deconstructed and then reconstructed before being put back together in the right order from the opening orchestral warm-up to the mock run-out groove at the conclusion of a very interesting ride. And it is a ride.

Along for that ride are, as with the first two re-imaginings, many of the reggae world's finest vocalists and musicians. On "Easy Star's..." (which annoyingly, but expectedly doesn't work as well as an abbreviated title as "Sgt. Pepper's..." does) a veritable who's-who of reggae including Luciano, Daddy U-Roy, Max Romeo, Michael Rose and Frankie Paul lend their considerable and historical vocal skills while Steel Pulse and The Mighty Diamonds appear to lend their weight to the project. A collection of such greats should make this an album worthy of your hard-earned money before you even consider the challenge they have all undertaken.

It was obvious on that first run-through that some of the tracks were simply amazing. "With A Little Help From My Friends" with Luciano's to-be-expected amazing voice was stunning. Immediately after, Frankie Paul's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" proved that once again ("Dub Side of the Moon" had showed us once before of course) that reggae and psychedelia can work very well together. "When I'm Sixty-Four" appears to have been specifically written to be recorded this way with Sugar Minott singing and a dub work-out at the end, and "A Day In The Life", with Michael Rose and Menny More sharing the two-tracks-collide vocals, is a joy to hear. On first listen I was left with an uncomfortable feeling inside me. Something just wasn't quite right with the whole thing. The second run-through didn't do a lot to convince me otherwise. In the car later (by now at listen number four) I had a discussion that concluded that it was either over-familiarity with the source material or something about the Beatles' simplicity not lending itself to the new style that was the problem. I can, I thought then, discount theory number one as I have probably listened to "OK Computer", the subject of Easy Stars' last versioning as "Radiodread" as many times as "Sgt. Pepper's...". Was it just that the new versions just didn't work then?

I am very pleased to say now, however, that I was probably right with my first guess. This album is definitely a grower. I think the Beatles, in particular the songs of this album, are so ubiquitous that hearing a majority of the tracks so completely differently (yet still so true to the originals - how do Easy Stars keep doing that?) just throws the listener somewhat. As a reggae fan I can once again confidently say that the Easy Star All-Stars have done good. This is an album that works and works well. The mix of reggae styles compliments the Beatles' mix of styles on the original and they've been crafted and performed exceptionally well.

What of the non-reggae fans, the music fans, the Beatles fans who undoubtedly want to hear what these upstarts have done to this classic album? The several passengers in my car who were made to listen to it had mixed reactions. Only one person seemed to not like it at all. Among the rest, the common consensus was that some tracks worked and some tracks didn't. Perhaps, with the chance to let it grow on them, as happened to me, they would conclude that it all worked very well indeed, and, still like me, it's an album that can be played again and again.

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