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ronlogan1977
I've mentioned doing this before. Suggest your greatest albums.
However there are 2 conditions.

1) They must not appear in this list here!

2) And the album must be at least 2 years old.
Zoe
Bah! What a crappy list 'Pet Sounds' at number 33? Ridiculous!

Portishead - Dummy

That's not on there is it?
Jessopjessopjessop
Orbital - In Sides.

Like classical music from the future. Quite simply the greatest work by them, or any other electronic artist.
ronlogan1977
I'll second Portishead making it top so far and add AC/DC's Backin Black and Stevie Wonders Musiquarium.
Sostie
Did wrong list..oops
spacemonkey
Jesus & Marychain - Stoned and dethroned
pots
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - The Black Crowes.

the best rock'n'roll album ever - so good i capitalised where necessary.
widowspider
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Jason Mraz - Waiting for my Rocket to Come
Zoe
Tricky - Maxinquaye

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

Mr. Scruff - Keep it Unreal

Groove Armada - Vertigo
Chapman Baxter
Surfer Rosa is the Pixies album I return to most often, I'd certainly place it ahead of Doolittle, which got into the C4 list.

I'll third the Portishead nomination.

What else?

The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Ell
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

I think it's really under appreciated and think it's a true representation of how good the Floyd are.
The Phantom
Pearl Jam - Vs

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Gang Starr - Step in the Arena

Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul

Red Snapper - Making Bones
Sostie
AC/DC - Back In Black
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads & Henry's Dream
Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is The Day...
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
The Cramps - Off The Bone
Ramones - The Ramones & Too Tough To Die
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Mo Width
The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
ABC - Lexicon Of Love
Svein
NIN - The Fragile
Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
rebelstar
These are mine from the other thread that fit the criteria :

Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
New Order - Brotherhood
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
The Wedding Present - George Best
The The - Infected
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

Also...

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish?
Breeders - Last Splash
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Ballboy - Club Anthems 2001
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
Ghost_862
Michael Jackson-HIStory, because it combines Rock, R'n'B, Classical, and Soul, and lyrically it is pure genius.

James Brown Live At Chastain Park- Because The Godfather is even better live than he ever was in the studio.

Prince- Emancipation, because he was so pissed off with being commercial and with his deal with Sony. This was his first collection of music under his new label and he went the whole hog, three discs worth of music. And considering it was so much in so little time, there is surprisingly little junk.

REM- Green, because I wasn't allowed Automatic For The People, it was on the list.

The Definitive Ray Charles

Stevie Wonder-Innovisions, because I wasn't allowed Songs In The Key Of Life.

Chris Rea-Road To Hell, because every song is a good song.

Nickelback, Silver Side Up
maian
Interpol-Turn On The Bright Lights
The Smiths-The Smiths
Elliott Smith-Either/Or

And I'll second the nomination for Paul's Boutique
Omniscia
Well, if I had to nominate some to the list, I'd go with:

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
The Who - Who's Next
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Yes - Fragile
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Rush - Moving Pictures
MissingPlanet
KLF Chillout
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Sugar - Beaster
rebelstar
QUOTE (MissingPlanet @ Apr 18 2005, 03:17 PM)
Sugar - Beaster
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I'd go for Copper Blue, myself. Hoover Dam still sends a shiver down my spine whenever I hear it.
PrincessKate
Carole King-Tapestry
Belle and Sebastian-Dear Catastrophe Waitress
epleboy
Royksopp - Melody A.M.
Nightmares On Wax - Carboot Soul
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

I'm sure there's more than i've put here, i have a memory like a sieve.
feck off!
The Exploited-Beat the bastards
Led zep-2
NOFX-punk in drublic
Rancid-and out come the wolves
Rage Against The Machine-self titled
Nonus Aequilibrium
I think all mine were absent from that list smile.gif

1. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise.
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park.
3. Tool - Ænima.
4. Blind Melon - Blind Melon.
5. Pearl Jam - Ten.
6. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast.
7. Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day.
8. My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light.
9. Soundgarden - Superunknown.
10. Opeth - Still Life.
superfurryandy
QUOTE (rebelstar @ Apr 18 2005, 02:31 PM)
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
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Great pick!

As well as other stuff what I said in the other thread, I'd go for:

ABC - Lexicon of Love
Orbital - Brown
Chemical Bruvvers - Exit Planet Dust
Gil Scott Heron - Ghetto Style
The The - Soul Mining
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
SkipToTheEnd
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Johnny Greenwood - Bodysong
The Wurzels - anything
Igmeister
The Smiths - Strangeways here we Come
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish?
Nirvana - In Utero
Neil Young - Harvest
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Wonderstuff - Never Loved Elvis
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
Blur- Modern Life Is Rubbish
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Placebo - Placbo
Sostie
QUOTE (Igmeister @ Apr 20 2005, 11:51 AM)
The Smiths - Strangeways here we Come
Blur- Modern Life Is Rubbish

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kicking myself for forgetting those two, as well as..

PJ Harvey - Stories From The City...
Fatima Mansions - Viva dead Ponies
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain, Empires & Dance
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonsesque
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream Dracula Scream
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
That Petrol Emotion - Babble
Mega City 4 - Tranzphobia
Carter USM - 30 Something
Cure - Head On The Door
ipse dixit
I'm backing nominations for Dummy, Paul's Boutique and Carboot Soul, and I'm throwing in:

Entroducing - DJ Shadow
Zoe
QUOTE (ipse dixit @ Apr 20 2005, 01:28 PM)
Entroducing - DJ Shadow
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Here here

I'm going to put that on right now.
Jon 79
In no particular favourite order, the following great albums were missed off the 100:

Queen - A Day At The Races
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
David Bowie - Low
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
The La's - The La's
Chemical Brothers - Surrender
Faithless - Outrospective
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
widowspider
Ooh I second DJ Shadow - good choice lady!
ronlogan1977
I'll go with Shadow too. Good taste people.
maian
I'd like to put a word in for

UNKLE-Psycence Fiction

DJ Shadow and James Lavelle working together to make a really original piece of work, gotta love 'Rabbit In Your Headlights'
beatoswald
my disknowledgeable suggestions:

captain beefheart - trout mask replica
the small faces - ogden's nut gone flake
john martyn - solid air
the clash - the clash
joe strummer & the mescaleros - global a go-go
james yorkston & the atheletes - moving up country
bob dylan - john wesley harding & bringing all back home
whitey
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Nas - Illmatic
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead/Buhloone Mindstate/Stakes Is High
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry

oh, and Paul's Boutique, obviously.
ipse dixit
QUOTE (maian @ Apr 20 2005, 11:13 PM)
I'd like to put a word in for

UNKLE-Psycence Fiction

DJ Shadow and James Lavelle working together to make a really original piece of work, gotta love 'Rabbit In Your Headlights'
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Oooh - yay!

Beatoswald, I don't know Solid Air the album, but the track itself is awesome.
Sir_Robin_the_brave
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation (how this didn't even make the 100 I don't know)
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Leftfield - Leftism
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole

I third (or fourth) Entroducing but would also included The Private Press (an under-rated LP)
beatoswald
QUOTE (ipse dixit @ Apr 21 2005, 12:37 PM)
Beatoswald, I don't know Solid Air the album, but the track itself is awesome.
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it certainly has my recommendation, especially as you like the title track, which i agree is great. interestingly the track is, i hear, about nick drake who martyn was friends with at the time.
pots
QUOTE (beatoswald @ Apr 21 2005, 11:46 PM)
it certainly has my recommendation, especially as you like the title track, which i agree is great. interestingly the track is, i hear, about nick drake who martyn was friends with at the time.
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and equally interestingly ( maybe ) the nick drake song 'northern sky' was written in john martin's house while nick was staying there.

solid air is a great album, i've not listened to it for years so i'm going to have to go and dig it out.
beatoswald
i didn't know that. this coming together and sharing of knowledge is quite beautiful.
beatoswald
lone pigeon - concubine rice
ipse dixit
QUOTE (beatoswald @ Apr 21 2005, 10:46 PM)
interestingly the track is, i hear, about nick drake who martyn was friends with at the time.
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I did know that. Tis tres sweet.

QUOTE (pots @ Apr 21 2005, 10:50 PM)
and equally interestingly ( maybe ) the nick drake song 'northern sky' was written in john martin's house while nick was staying there.
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I didn't know that, but Northern Sky has fabulous memories attached to it for me, loves it.
ronlogan1977
All 3 Lemon Jelly albums but if i have to go with one then i'll go for lemon jelly.ky
spacemonkey
QUOTE (ronlogan1977 @ Apr 22 2005, 01:00 PM)
All 3 Lemon Jelly albums but if i have to go with one then i'll go for lemon jelly.ky
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Good choice... All together now...

All the ducks are swimming in the water fal-de-ral-de-ral-da fal-de-ral-de-ral-da
ronlogan1977
I'm going to add Faith No More's -The Real Thing. Yes they probably invented nu-metal as result but don't hate them for it.
Middle Class Hobo
In no particular order

Jeff Buckley- Grace
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks, Tupelo Honey
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Bell X-1- Music in Mouth biggrin.gif
Rilo Kiley- More Adventurous (could that be spelt more wrong)
Hughesie
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
ABC - The Lexicon of Love (cannot believe this didn't make the list)
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol 1
Hobbes
NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Why? You just gots ta.

Oh, and they pretty much made rap what it is. Yes, that'll do.
Sostie
QUOTE (Hobbes @ Apr 24 2005, 05:05 PM)
NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Why? You just gots ta.

Oh, and they pretty much made rap what it is. Yes, that'll do.
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Possibly one of the great Rap acts ever...but if they made rap what it is today - from predominently social commentary to boasting about how much money you have - then damn them...damn them all smile.gif
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