albums that i think are right (if a little low):
minor threat - out of step (not really an album but...)
rites of spring
duran duran - rio (deserves the low place)
meat puppets II
x - los angeles
jane's addiction - nothing's shocking
boredoms - soul discharge
spacemen 3 - playing with fire
the police - ghost in the machine
paul simon - graceland
hüsker dü - new day rising
the smiths - strangeways here we come
meat puppets - up the sun
the replacements - pleased to meet me
the pogues - rum, sodomy and the lash
television personalities - and don't the kids just love it
nurse with wound - homopoty to marie
guns n' roses - appetite for destruction
king crimson - discipline
big black - songs about fucking
eric b & rakim - paid in full
mission of burma - vs
naked city s/t (it's not john zorn solo!!!!)
cowboy junkies - the trinity sessions
dinosaur jr - you're living all over me
the stone roses s/t
the cure - disintegration
the replacements - tim
violent femmes s/t
nwa - straight outta compton
the fall - hex enduction hour
hüsker dü - zen arcade
sonic youth - evol
the replacements - let it be
black flag - damaged
gang of four - solid gold
the jesus and mary chain - psychocandy
my bloody valentine - isn't anything
public image limited - metal box/second edition
de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
minutemen - double nickels on the dime
galaxie 500 - on fire
sonic youth - sister
the fall - this nation's saving grace
tom waits - swordfishtrombones
joy division - closer
public enemy - it takes a nation...
xtc - skylarking
pixies - surfer rosa
the smiths - the queen is dead
pixies - doolittle
beastie boys - paul's boutique
talking heads - remain in light
sonic youth - daydream nation
albums i'm not sure because i haven't heard them:
gang of four - songs of the free
cocteau twins - treasure
mekons - the mekons rock n' roll
kate bush - hounds of love (i hear it's amazing, so good for them)
esg - come away with esg
talk talk - the colour of spring
manuel götschiing - e2-e4
the dbs - stands for decibels
the mekons - fear and whiskey
coil - horse retorvator
the feelies - crazy rhythms
The dukes of stratosphere - psonic psunspots
the soft boys - underwater moonlight
young marble giants - colossal youth (they pretty much put everything on rough trade in the 80's, right?)
leonard cohen - i'm your man
xtc - english settlement
talk talk - spirit of eden
brian eno and david byrne - my life in the bush of ghosts (i really want to listen to it!!)
this heat - deceit
tom waits - rain dogs
albums that suck and shouldn't be there:
david bowie - scary monsters
prince - dirty mind
too many cocteau twins albums
the fall - perverted by language (ok, it doesn't suck but there are more deserving albums)
they might be giants - lincoln (in my opinion, i haven't heard a single tmbg records i really like without getting tired after 5 seconds)
boogie down productions - criminally minded (deserves to be there but it's way too up in the list)
why two mekons albums?
too many meat puppet albums
elvis costello - trust
talking heads - stop making sense (that's cheating)
r.e.m. - reckoning
bruce springsteen - nebraska
elvis costello - imperial bedroom
pixies - come on pilgrim (should've put just one, two pixies albums tops)
the police - synchronicity (good, but should have just stayed with ghost...)
mission of burma - signals, calls and marches (it's just an ep)
spacemen 3 - the perfect prescription (good album but couldn't you put a loop album instead?)
r.e.m. - document
prince - sign o' the times
kraftwerk - computer world
run dmc - raising hell (ok, historical document, but not that great)
beastie boys - license to ill (funny but not the best of the 80's)
it would be fair if they had one replacements album
u2 - the joshua tree (even if it's their least crappy album, it's still some of the worst music ever)
new order - power corruption and lies (i personally have never gotten so much into new order, maybe they deserve the place since they are important)
michael jackson - thriller
elvis costello - get happy
prince - purple rain
r.e.m. - murmur
albums they forgot because they were too busy cramming shit like prince, elvis costello and r.e.m. into their list:
sonic youth - confusion is sex
black sabbath - heaven and hell and/or mob rules and/or born again
adolescents s/t
ozzy osbourne - diary of a madman
the gun club - fire of love
red cross (redd kross) - born innocent
iron maiden - either killers or the number of the beast or powerslave
venom - welcome to hell and/or black metal
flipper - album: generic flipper
the birthday party - junkyard
dead kennedys - at least fresh fruit for rotten vegetables
social distortion - mommy's little monster
bad brains s/t
metallica - at least master of puppets
slayer - at least reign in blood
corrosion of conformity - eye for an eye
d.r.i. - dealing with it or dirty rotten lp
misfits - walk among us
at least one einstürzende neubauten album
celtic frost - to mega therion
die kreuzen s/t
sodom - persecution mania
agnostic front - victim in pain
sonny sharrock - guitar
any pussy galore
voivod - rrroooaaarrr or killing technology
dark angel - darkness descends
megadeth - peace sells...
anthrax - among the living
descendents - milo goes to college
napalm death - scum
any loop album
butthole surfers - locust abortion technician
rapeman - two nuns and a pack of mule
morbid angel - altars of madness
mudhoney - superfuzz bigmuff (they put stuff that's not full lenght albums)
laughing hyenas - you can't pray a lie
last exit
godflesh - streetcleaner
cro-mags - age of quarrel
tsol - dance with me
christian death - only theater of pain
dna
teenage jesus and the jerks
glenn branca
mars
circle jerks - group sex
the wipers - is this real?
a bauhaus album
swans - children of god
the cramps - songs the lord taught us or psychedelic jungle or other
shonen knife - burning farm
beat happening s/t
among many others i'm surely forgetting
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