yeah... boy we are a predictable bunch. oh well.

Keeping it to one album per artist...

1. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
2. Ramones - Ramones
3. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
4. Sun Ra - Space is the Place
5. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
6. Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
7. Can - Tago Mago
8. Suicide - Suicide
9. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
10. The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
11. Wire - Pink Flag
12. Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
13. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
14. The Clash - The Clash
15. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
16. Miles Davis - On the Corner
17. David Bowie - Low
18. Television - Marquee Moon
19. Big Star - Third (Sister Lovers)
20. Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A.: The Third and Final Report
21. Contortions - Buy
22. Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
23. Gang of Four - Entertainment
24. Neu! - Neu!
25. Patti Smith Group - Easter

01. David Bowie- Diamond Dogs
02. Iggy Pop- Lust For Life
03. T. Rex- Electric Warrior
04. DEVO- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!
05. The Damned- Machine Gun Etiquette
06. Television- Marquee Moon
07. Brian Eno- Taking Tiger Mountain
08. Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
09. David Bowie- Station to Station
10. The Kinks- Lola Vs the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round
11. David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
12. Faust- Faust IV
13. Can- Ege Bamyasi
14. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
15. Gang of Four- Entertainment!
16. WIRE- Pink Flag
17. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
18. David Bowie- Low
19. Stiff Little Fingers- Inflammable Material
20. The Ramones- Ramones
21. King Crimson- Red
22. Iggy Pop- The Idiot
23. T. Rex- Rabbit Fighter
24. Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
25. Gary Wilson- You Think You Really Know Me

oh well, we always have the 1950s.

The 60s you know is going to be Beatles/Velvet Underground dominated.

Problem with the 50s though is that I can't really think of more than a few albums from the 50s. I gotta research up I guess!

exponential how?

as in 25th is worth 1 point, 24th 2 points, 23rd 4 points, 22nd 5 points, etc?

I don't think it would change much.

I think what might work best is to break it down like this:

1st: 25 pts
2nd: 24 pts
3rd: 23 pts
4th: 22 pts
5th: 21 pts:
6-10: 20 pts
11- 20- 15 pts
21-25- 10 pts

I think that scoring system might be slightly better than mine.

I think if you do it that way you are going to get an incredible amount of ties. The advantage of spreading it across all 25 points, is you get more single point differences when you compile your list.

which is true, but on a personal note, can be quite disappointing when an album you really like gets only 1 point and is at the bottom, but yes it's the most fair way

the thing that I'd like is for albums that appear in the most lists to get a bit of a bonus, perhaps even though they are ranked lower.

For example, 24 people could put an album in their list as number 25, but one album could get a single vote for number one from one person and that album automatically would surpass the aforementioned album.

This is difficult. My favourite 70s album is Television's The Blow Up, but everyone is going to vote for Marquee Moon and not The Blow Up, so I might have to compromise and leave it off my list.

I've never ever listened to any Television Lp apart from "Marquee moon" . Are they good?

1. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
2. Neil Young - On The Beach
3. The Stooges - Funhouse
4. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
5. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
6. Patti Smith - Horses
7. David Bowie - Station To Station
8. Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
9. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
10. Television - Marquee Moon
11. Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville
12. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
13. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
14. Ramones - Ramones
15. Neu! - Neu! 75
16. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
17. Suicide - Suicide
18. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
19. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
20. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
21. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
22. The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
23. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
24. Big Star - #1 Record
25. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Can - Future Days
Neil Young - Harvest
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Neu! - Neu!
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

what an abominal list. I wouldn't post this list on my refrigerator.

There are a succession of appalling lists in this thread.

Fuck that. God, I hate music lists. I really do.

I keep trying to think of albums I like from the 70s, and I can only think of 2. That's pretty shit, isn't it?

Hang on... I'm sure Dolly must've released a few...

No, fuck it, I can't be arsed.

ah i always thought this came out in the 80's.

nope. 1979.

Some great albums not mentioned so far:

Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties
Dion - Born To Be With You
Ivor Cutler - Dandruff
Big Youth - Screaming Target
Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel

kraftwerk -the man machine
suicide - suicide
neu! - 1st
funkadelic - one nation under a groove
father yod and the spirit of 76 - kohoutek
harmonia - musik von harmonia
buzzcocks - another music in a different kitchen
alice coltrane - transcendence

etc