Virtual Store Map - Lists archive

.

100 Great Albums

Genres:

Abstract Pop
Alternative Country*
Ambient Electronic
Ambient, Avant Garde & Modern Classical*
American Underground
Britpop
Classic Metal*
Death Metal*
Downtempo, Trip Hop & Acid Jazz
Dreampop
More Dreampop
Drum 'n' Bass*
Early Electronics*
EBM & Industrial
Electroclash
Femme Fatale
More Femme Fatale*
Garage Rock*
Garage Rock Revival
Grim And Frostbitten Black Metal*
Grindcore*
Hard Rock*
Hardcore Punk*
Hip-Hop
More Hip-Hop
Indie Pop
Indie Rock
Jazz
More Jazz*
Krautrock
Lo-Fi & Anti-Folk*
Madchester
Metalcore, Mathcore & Deathcore*
New Romantic
No Wave*
Noise*
Noise Pop*
Noise Rock*
Pop
Post-Punk
More Post-Punk
Post-Rock
Swedish Progg Related
Progressive Rock
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic Folk/Rock*
Punk*
Rock In Opposition*
Singer/Songwriter*
Stoner Rock*
Thrash Metal*
Trip Hop*
Twee*

Years:

1950s
1970s

1960***** 1970***** 1980***** 1990***** 2000
1961***** 1971***** 1981***** 1991***** 2001
1962***** 1972***** 1982***** 1992***** 2002
1963***** 1973***** 1983***** 1993***** 2003
1964***** 1974***** 1984***** 1994***** 2004
1965***** 1975***** 1985***** 1995***** 2005
1966***** 1976***** 1986***** 1996***** 2006
1967***** 1977***** 1987***** 1997***** 2007
1968***** 1978***** 1988***** 1998***** 2008
1969***** 1979***** 1989***** 1999***** 2009*

More 2006

Moods & Occasions:

Chill*
Ethereal*
Parties*
Study-Companion*
Summer
Teen Angst*
Winter*

Topical:

Albums, Critically Bashed Upon Their Release, But Were Not Really Bad*
Albums by Heroin Addicts*
Albums from Down Under*
Albums Like Disco Volante/Mr. Bungle*
Comedy*
Concept Albums*
Debut Albums
More Debut Albums
Feminist*
Follow Up Albums*
Genre Defining Albums*
100 Great Live Recordings & Bootlegs*
Scottish
Solo Albums By Legendary Prog Bands Members/Ex-Members*
Substance Abuse*
Synth Driven*
Turkish*

Jazz Lists

Black Freedom Jazz
Duo Sets
Fusion Jazz
Guitar Jazz
Hard Bop
Jazz Drumming
Jazz Standards*
Non-Avantgarde European Jazz*
Non-Trad Lead Instruments
Solo Jazz
Spiritual Jazz
Tenors not named Coltrane, Rollins or Henderson
Trumpet Players
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, might scarce
Where To Start With Sun Ra
Where To Start With John Zorn


100 Great Anthems


Genres:

8-bit*
Abstract Pop*
Acid House*
Alternative Metal*
American Underground*
Brit Pop*
Deep House*
Disco
Dub Remixes*
EBM & Darkwave*
Electro*
Garage Rock Revival & Artwave*
Goth*
Grunge*
House
More House*
Indie Pop*
Indie Rock*
Indietronic*
Industrial Metal*
J-Rock & Pop*
Lo-Fi & Anti-Folk*
Madchester*
Minimal & Ambient Electronic*
Neo Psychedelia*
Old School (Hip Hop)*
Post Punk*
Post Rock*
Power Pop*
Progressive House*
Progressive Rock*
Rock 'n' Roll*
Shoegaze*
Tech-House*
Techno*
Techno Remixes*
Trance*
Trip Hop, Acid Jazz & Downtempo*

Years

1989
2003
2004
2005
2006

Moods & Occasions

Alternative Summer*
Chill
Driving*
Easy Going*
Happiest Songs Ever
Melancholic Tunes
Sexy Tunes*
Stay Away From Me*
Supercharged Tunes
Travelling*

Topical

Album Closers
Album Openers
More Album Openers
Albums We Owned When We Were Stupid*
Belgian Classics*
Choirs/Harmony Vocals*
Consumate Love Songs*
Cover Songs
More Cover Songs
Another 100 Great Cover Songs*
100 Crimes Against Music
100 More Crimes Against Music
Another 100 Crimes Against Music*
From the closet*
Scandinavian Anthems*
Song Intros
Tunes About Revolution*
(TV) Theme Tunes*

Labels

BPitch Control*
Kompakt*
Warp*


Other


[MAC]'s Ultimate Party Playlist*
100 Great Acts that were ahead of their time*
100 Great Basslines
100 Great Bassists*
100 Great Beats*
100 Cities That Rocked Music*
100 Classic New Romantic Videos*
100 Great Collectives*
100 Great Composers
100 Great Double Acts*
100 Great Drummers & Percussionists
Easy Rider - The Alternative Soundtrack*
100 Explosive Debut Bands*
100 Great Female Vocalists
100 Great Guitar Riffs*
100 Great Guitarists*
100 Horrible Lyricists*
100 Iconic 7'' Covers*
100 Great MCs*
100 Great Music Websites*
The Outstanding Famous Facial Hair 100*
100 Great Post Punk Videos*
100 Great Producers & Engineers*
100 Seminal Artists*
100 Seminal Labels*
100 Great Stage Musicals*
100 Great Swedish Progg/Prog Related*
101 Swedish Progressive Artists
100 Great Synth Sequencies*
100 Teen Role Models Your Parents Would Fight to the Death*



* Unfinished. Feel free to contribute!

100 GREAT SONG INTROS!
Compiled at MAC.
at the Singles/Tracks Desk

22-20's - Shoot Your Gun (22-20's, 2004)
Albert Hammond, Jr. - In Transit (Yours To Keep, 2006)
Altern 8 - Infiltrate 202 (Infiltrate 202, 1991)
The Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Funeral, 2005)
Asobi Seksu - Strawberries (Citrus, 2006)
At the Drive-In - ArcArsenal (Relationship of Command, 2001)
Babes In Toyland - Bruise Violet (Fontanelle, 1992)
Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around the Block (The Hour of Bewilderbeast, 2000)
The Beach Boys - California Girls (Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), 1965)
Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Ill Communication, 1994)
The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (Abbey Road, 1969)
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (Revolver, 1966)
Beatmasters (feat. Cookie Crew) - Rok Da House (Rok Da House, 1988)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - In Like The Rose (Take Them On, On Your Own, 2003)
Bloc Party - Banquet (Silent Alarm, 2005)
Blur - There's No Other Way (Leisure, 1991)
Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining (Kaya)
Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades (Deja Entendu, 2003)
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (You Forgot It In People, 2002)
Cansei de Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (CSS, 2006)
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know (Some Friendly, 1990)
The Chameleons - Don't Fall (Script of the Bridge, 1983)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth (Clap your hands say yeah, 2005)
The Clash - London Calling (London Calling, 1979)
Coheed & Cambria - Welcome Home (Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, 2005)
The Cranberries - Analyse (Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, 2001
The Cranberries - Zombie (No Need to Argue, 1994)
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up (Curtis, 1970)
Curve - Coast Is Clear (Frozen EP, 1991)
Daft Punk - Human After All (Human After All, 2005)
Depeche Mode - Halo (Violator, 1990)
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Verschwende deine Jugend (Gold und Liebe, 1981)
Elastica - Connection (Elastica, 1995)
The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual (Blank-Wave Arcade, 1999)
The Farm - Groovy Train (Spartacus, 1991)
Fehlfarben - Ein Jahr (es geht voran) (Monarchie und Alltag, 1980)
The Field Mice - Sensitive (Sensitive, 1989)
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (Appetite for Destruction, 1987)
Happy Mondays - Loose Fit (Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches, 1990)
The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Veni, Vidi, Vicious, 2000)
The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) (Dare, 1981)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand (Psychocandy, 1985)
Joy Division - Disorder (Unknown Pleasures, 1979)
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Substance, 1987)
Kasabian - Shoot The Runner (Empire, 2006)
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (In The Court Of The Crimson King, 1969)
The La's - There She Goes (The La's, 1990)
Leftfield - Open Up (Leftism, 1995)
Leftfield - Original (Leftism, 1995)
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (Various - Loaded, 1993)
Living In A Box - Living In A Box (Living In A Box, 1987)
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Blue Lines, 1991)
My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said (Loveless, 1991)
My Bloody Valentine - Swallow (Tremolo, 1991)
Muse - New Born (Origin of Symmetry, 2001)
neon - Lobotomy (Obsession, 1981)
The Neon Judgement - Miss Brown (Horny As Hell, 1987)
New Model Army - Smalltown England (Vengeance, 1984)
New Order - Blue Monday (Single, 1983)
New Order - Regret (Republic, 1993)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me? (Let Love In, 1994)
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind, 1991)
Oasis - Wonderwall ((What's the Story) Morning Glory?, 1995)
Patrick Wolf - Paris (Lycanthropy, 2003)
Pavement - Zurich Is Stained (Slanted and Enchanted, 1992)
Pet Shop Boys - Left to My Own Devices (Introspective, 1988)
Pixies - Debaser (Doolittle, 1989)
The Police - Message in a Bottle (Reggatta de Blanc, 1979)
Portishead - Mysterons (Dummy, 199)
Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire (Songs for the Deaf, 2002)
Radiohead - There There (Hail To The Thief, 2003)
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (Road To Ruin, 198)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge (Blood Sugar Sex Magik, 1991)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Nothing Wrong (Nothing Wrong, 1988)
Ride - Taste (Nowhere, 1990)
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Foxbase Alpha, 1991)
Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory (24hrs, 1988)
The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (Never Mind The Bollocks, 1977)
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (OST, The Breakfast Club, 1987)
Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station (Slowdive - Souvlaki, 1993)
The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (The Queen Is Dead, 1986)
Sonic Youth - 100% (Dirty, 1992)
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot (Daydream Nation, 1988)
Stars - One More Night (Set Yourself on Fire, 2004)
Stereolab - Analogue Rock (Transient Random..., 1993)
Suede - So Young (Suede, 1993)
The Strokes - Hard To Explain (Is This It, 2001)
Television - Marquee Moon (Marquee Moon, 1977)
The The - I've Been Waiting For Tomorrow (All of My Life) (Soul Mining, 1983)
Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (Quick Step & Side Kick, 1983)
U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car (Zooropa, 1993)
Ultravox - We Came To Dance (Quartet, 1982)
The Velvet Underground - Run Run Run (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Urban Hymns, 1997)
Weezer - Tired of Sex (Pinkerton, 1996)
The Who - Baba O'Riley (Who's Next, 1971)
Wilco - Jesus, Etc. (Hotel Yankee Foxtrot, 2003)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Fever To Tell, 2003)
The Young Gods - Skinflowers (T.V. Sky, 1992)
Zero 7 - Red Dust (Simple Things, 2001)

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

100 GREAT COVER SONGS!
Compiled at MAC.
at the Tributes & Covers Desks


The Alarm - Keep On Rocking In The Free World (Neil Young)
Audioweb - Bankrobber (The Clash)
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
The Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance? (Bobby Freeman)
The Bees - A Minha Menina (Os Mutantes)
Belle and Sebastian - Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy)
Bis - Hurt (New Order)
Bobby Darin--Mack the Knife (Kurt Weill, Bretolt Brecht, trans. Marc Blitzstein)
Bloodgasm - Into The Void (Black Sabbath)
The Breeders - Happiness is a Warm Gun (The Beatles)
Calla - Mother Sky (Can)
Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me (a-ha)
Carter USM - Hit (The Sugarcubes)
The Clash - I Fought the Law (The Crickets)
Chris Thile - Heart In A Cage (The Strokes)
Ciccone Youth - Into the Groove (Madonna)
Clicks - Seconds (The Human League)
Coil - Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman (Gene Autry)
Colourfield - Windmills Of Your Mind (Michel Legrand)
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground)
Curve - Overground (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
David Bowie - China Girl (Iggy Pop)
David Bowie - Here Comes the Night (Them)
David Carretta - Ricky's Hand (Fad Gadget)
Deodato - Do It Again (Steely Dan)
Dog Fashion Disco - Grease (Grease Soundtrack)
The Dresden Dolls - Karma Police (Radiohead)
Echo & the Bunnymen - People Are Strange (The Doors)
Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared (Pet Shop Boys)
Einsturzende Neubauten--Sand (Lee Hazlewood)
Faith No More - Easy (The Commodores)
The Fall - Victoria (The Kinks)
Fantastic Plast Machine - Steppin' Out (Joe Jackson)
Feist - Secret Heart (Ron Sexsmith)
Fidget - Living On Video (Trans-X)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water (Honeybus)
Guns and Roses - Live and Let Die (Paul Macartney)
Heaven 17 - Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult)
Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much (The Beatles)
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (The Postal Service)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
John Lennon - Stand By Me (Ben E. King)
Johnny Cash - Mercy Seat (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
INXS and Jimmy Barnes - Good Times (The Easybeats)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Surfin' USA (The Beach Boys)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears for Fears)
Kevin Rowland - Daydream Believer (The Monkees)
Kid 606 - Fabulous Muscles (Xiu Xiu)
Kristin Hersh - Jesus Christ (Big Star)
The Langley Schools Music Project - You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys)
Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me (Muddy Waters)
Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion (The Temptations)
Madeleine Peyroux - Between the Bars (Elliott Smith)
Mathilde Santing - Oblivious (Aztec Camera)
Maureen Tucker - Louie Louie (The Kingsmen)
The Mountain Goats - FM (Steely Dan)
Nathalie De Borah - Living On Video (Trans-X)
Neko Case - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (Tom Waits)
Nina Gordon - Straight Out of Compton (Nwa)
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
Oasis - I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)
The Paradise Motel - Drive (The Cars)
Patti Smith - Gloria (Van Morrison)
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Elvis Presley)
PJ Harvey--Highway '61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle)
Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House (13th Floor Elevators)
Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning (Lee Hazlewood)
The Proclaimers - My Old Friend The Blues (Steve Earle)
Psapp - Year Of The Cat (Al Stewart)
Rasputina - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
The Reels - Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
The Residents - Land of 1000 Dances/Double Shot (Chris Kenner)
Revolting Cocks - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart)
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young)
Sarah Blasko - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Bitter Sweet Symphony (The Verve)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000 (The Smiths)
Scott Walker--Amsterdam (Jacques Brel, trans. Mort Schuman)
Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - Showroom Dummies (Kraftwerk)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah (Tom Jones)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Schools Out (Alice Cooper)
Sex-O-Sonique - I Thought It Was You (Herbie Hancock)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence (The Beatles)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones)
Stars Of Stage And Screen - Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)
Teenage Fanclub - Like a Virgin (Madonna)
The The - Honky Tonkin' (Hank Williams)
This Mortal Coil--Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley)
Tricky - Black Steel (Public Enemy)
UB40 - Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond)
Veruca Salt - My Sharona (The Knack)
William Shatner - Common People (Pulp)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Day Tripper (The Beatles)
Yes - America (Simon & Garfunkel)
Yo La Tengo - By The Time It Gets Dark (Sandy Denny)
The Zoot - Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)

Thanks to all those who contributed.

100 GREAT ALBUMS FOR SUMMER!
Compiled at MAC
at the Summer Desk


!!! - Myth Takes (2007)
ABC - The Lexicon of Love (1982)
Aerosmith - Pump (1989)
The American Analog Set - Know by Heart (2001)
American Football - American Football (1999)
Animal Collective - Feels (2005)
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (2006)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
The Beta Band - The 3 EP's (1998)
Beverley Knight - Prodigal Sista (1999)
Bizarre Inc - Energique (1992)
Black Flag - Damaged (1981)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon by Bus (1978)
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2004)
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (2002)
Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future (2001)
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (1979)
Camouflage - Sensor (2003)
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology (1998)
The Cardigans - Life (1994)
Carolyn Franklin - If You Want Me (1976)
Chin Up Chin Up - We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers (2004)
The Clientele - The Violet Hour (2003)
Dalminjo - Fjord Fusioneer (2004)
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)
Electronic - Electronic (1991)
Felt - Ignite the Seven Cannons (1985)
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Four Tet - Dialogue (1999)
Fugazi - 13 Songs (1990)
Futro - Futro (2001)
The Futureheads - The Futureheads (2004)
Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)
Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say? (2004)
Green Day - Dookie (1994)
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand (1994)
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (2006)
High Contrast - True Colours (2002)
The House of Love - The House of Love (1988)
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (1984)
Ian Pooley - Meridian (1998)
Ida - Heart Like a River (2005)
Inkubus Sukkubus - Witch Queen (2006)
IVY - Long Distance (2001)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned (1994)
Joan Of Arc - Eventually, All at Once (2006)
Kelis - Tasty (2003)
The Knife - Deep Cuts (2004)
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Sessions (1998)
Lambchop - Nixon (2000)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppeling IV (1971)
Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer(1999)
lesbian death bed - I Use My Power For Evil (2006)
Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (2004)
Luna - The Days of Our Nights (1999)
Macy Gray - On How Life Is (1999)
Madonna - True Blue (1986)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1969)
Mega City Four - Sebastopol Road (1992)
Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso (2005)
Moby - Play (1999)
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby! (2004)
Moonbabies - The Orange Billboard (2004)
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn (2001)
Nada Surf - The Weight is a Gift (2005)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
New Order - Republic (1993)
The Orchids - Underneath the Window, Underneath the Sink (1988)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
The Pastels - Sittin' Pretty (1989)
Pavement - Brighten the Corners (1997)
Pedro the Lion - Control (2002)
Pelican - City of Echoes (2007)
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective (1988)
Pinback - Summer in Abbadon (2004)
Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove (1987)
The Promise Ring - 30° Everywhere (1996)
Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)
R.E.M. - Document (1987)
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (2006)
The Ramones - The Ramones (1976)
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (2004)
Saint Etienne - Good Humor (1998)
Santana - Supernatural (1999)
Sheryl Crow - C'mon, C'mon (2002)
The Shirelles - Baby It's You (1962)
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (2005)
Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)
Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group... (1999)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets (2004)
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
Thief - Sunchild
Velocette - Fourfold Remedy (1998)
Various - Mali To Memphis (1999)
Wire - Pink Flag (1977)

Thanks to all those who contributed. :)

100 GREAT DEBUT ALBUMS!
Compiled at MAC
at the Debut Albums Desk


65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math (2004)
Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce (1995)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not (2006)
The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)
Black Flag - Damaged (1981)
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (1987)
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)
Can - Monster Movie (1969)
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 101 Damnations
The Charlatans - Some Friendly (1990)
Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox (1985)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)
The Clash - The Clash [UK] (1977)
Coil - Scatology (1984)
Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen (1992)
Decrepit Birth - ...And Time Begins (2003)
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (1981)
Der Plan - Geri Reig (1980)
Don Caballero - For Respect (1993)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981)
Echobelly - Everyone's Got One (1994)
Elastica - Elastica (1995)
Electronic - Electronic (1991)
Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...(2001)
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials (1979)
Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag (1980)
Flowered Up A Life With Brian (1991)
Frank Black - Frank Black (1993)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
Fugazi - Repeater (1990)
Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a#∞ (1997)
Grinderman - Grinderman (2007)
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987)
Hammock - Kenotic (2004)
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement (1981)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
The Jam - In the City (1977)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
Justice - † (2007)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
Ladytron - 604 (2001)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
Man or Astro-man? - Is It ... Man or Astroman? (1993)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines (1991)
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam (1991)
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (1949)
Mogwai - Young Team (1997)
The Mothers of Invention (The Mothers of Invention) - Freak Out! (1966)
Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK (2000)
New Order - Movement (1981)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity (1984)
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street (1984)
Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
Pet Shop Boys - Please (1986)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
PJ Harvey - Dry (1992)
Portishead - Portishead (1994)
The Promise Ring - 30 Degrees Everywhere (1996)
Propaganda - A Secret Wish (1985)
R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)
Radiohead - Pablo Honey (1993)
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992)
Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn (2000)
Replikas - Köledoyuran (2000)
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha (1991)
The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
Souls of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity (1993)
The Sound - Jeopardy (1980)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
Suede - Suede (1993)
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good (1988)
Suicide - Suicide (1977)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994)
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
Tears for Fears - The Hurting (1983)
Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses (1986)
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (1993)
Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995)
Trio - Trio (1981)
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1982)
Velvet Revolver - Contraband (2004)
Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Wild Swans - Bringing Home the Ashes (1988)
Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's (1982)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978)

Thanks to all those who contributed.

100 GREAT ALBUMS OF 2000!
Compiled at MAC
at the 2000s Hotdesk



...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna
A Frames - II
Abruptum - De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet
The Aislers Set - The Last Match
Aix Em Klemm - Aix Em Klemm
The Alchemist - Organasm
Alpinestars - B.A.S.I.C.
Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Anjali - Anjali
The Apples in Stereo - The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
Aquasky - Aftershock
Arab On Radar - Soak The Saddle
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Baby Dee - Little Window
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Barbara Morgenstern - Fjorden
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones - Outbound
Bent - Programmed To Love
Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
Capdown - Civil Disobedients
Ceephax - Acid Quakers 1000
Charger - The Foul Year of Our Lord [EP]
Cheval de Frise - Cheval De Frise
Christine 23 Onna - Shiny Crystal Planet
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Clutch - Jam Room
Comets on Fire - Comets On Fire
Death Cab For Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Decoder - Concussion
Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain
Doves - Lost Souls
Drowningman - Rock & Roll Killing Machine
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Flying Steps - B-Town
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
God Module - Artificial
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godzuki - Your Future
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Henri Dikongué - Mot'a Bobe
High On Fire - Art of Self Defense
Hoahio - Ohayo! Hoahio!
Hollenthon - Domus Mundi
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
Hooverphonic - The Magnificent Tree
Immortal - Damned in Black
Jazzanova - The Remixes 1997-2000
Juliana Hatfield - Beautiful Creature
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Knife in the Water - Red River
Lambchop - Nixon
Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour
Le Peuple de l'Herbe - Triple Zero
Legowelt - Pimpshifter
Les Hauts de Plafond - Musique D'appartement A Tendance Radicale... Peut-Etre
Looptroop - Modern Day City Symphony
Lvmen - Raison D'être
Mansun - Little Kix
Mayhem - Grand Declaration Of War
mclusky - My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad And Painful Than Yours
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Mogwai - EP + 2 [Import Bonus Tracks]
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nine Inch Nails - Things Falling Apart
Paul van Dyk - Out There And Back
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Pizzicato Five - Bossa Nova 2001
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Radiohead - Kid A
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn
Roy Montgomery - The Allegory Of Hearing
Shannon Wright - Maps Of Tacit
Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun
Six by Seven - The Closer You Get
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Spring Heel Jack - Disappeared
St. Germain - Tourist
Sussan Deyhim - Madman of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters
Swayzak - Himwari
Teenage Fanclub - Howdy!
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
Thrones - Sperm Whale / White Rabbit
Tosca - Suzuki
Ufomammut - Godlike Snake
Ulver - Perdition city
Various - Channel 1: A Compilation of Output Recordings
Various - Kompakt Total 2
Yonderboi - Shallow And Profound

Thanks to all those who contributed.

100 GREAT ALBUMS OF 2002!
Compiled at MAC
at the 2000s Hotdesk



..and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Univers Zen Ou De Zéro A Zéro
Alek Stark - Highway To Disko
Alpinestars - White Noise
Beck - Sea Change
Belle & Sebastian - Storytelling
The Black Heart Procession - Amore del Tropico
Black Sabbath - Past Lives
Boards of Canada - Geodaddi
The Books - Thought For Food
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Chemical Brothers - Come with us
Cheval de Frise - Fresques Sur Les Parois Secrètes Du Crâne
Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Comets on Fire - Field Recordings From the Sun
The Cooper Temple Clause - See this through and leave
The Coral - The Coral
Daedelus - The Quiet Party
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Deerhoof - Reveille
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
The Donnas - Spend the Night
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
Empyrium - Weiland
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Foo Fighters - One By One
Frou Frou - Details
God Is An Astronaut - The End of the Beginning
Guided by Voices - Universal Truths and Sounds
Hallucinogen - In Dub
Hangedup - Kicker In Tow
Herbert - Secondhand Sounds
Hot Hot Heat - Make up the breakdown
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Ikara Colt - Chat and Business
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Iron & Wine - The Creek drank the cradle
Isis - Oceanic
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Reckless Burning
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Kind of Like Spitting - Kind of Like Spitting
L'Altra - In the Afternoon
Landing - Seasons
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Less Than Jake - Goodbye Blue and White
Love Life - Here is Night, Brother, Here the Birds Burn
Magyar Posse - We Will Carry You Over The Mountains
Mates of State - Our Constant Concern
Mediaeval Baebes - The Rose
Mice Parade - All Roads Lead to Salzburg
Michael J. Sheehy - No Longer My Concern
The Microphones - Song Island
Microwaves - System 2
Of Montreal - Aldhils Aboretum
Múm - Finally We Are No One
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Opeth - Deliverance
Pierre Bastien - Mecanoid
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Radio 4 - Gotham!
Regina Spektor - Songs
The Reputation - The Reputation
RJD2 - Deadringer
Satanicpornocultshop - Ugh Yoing
Seaworthy - The Ride
Sightings - Michigan Haters
Sigur Rós - ()
Simian - We are your Friends
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide
The Six Parts Seven - Things Shaped in Passing
Sixteen Horsepower - Folklore
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Sonic Youth - Murrary Street
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Spring Heel Jack - Amassed
Stalingrad - Court-Martial
Stars Of Stage And Screen - Dying To Meet You
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth
Swayzak - Dirty Dancing
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Thea Gilmore - Songs From The Gutter
Tom Waits - Alice
Tom Waits - Blood Money
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Warren Zevon - My Ride's Here
Weezer - Maladroit
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Will Rigby - Paradoxaholic
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
Yo La Tengo - The Sounds of the Sounds of Silence
Zero 7 - Simple Things

Thanks to all those who contributed.

100 GREAT ALBUMS OF 2004!
Compiled at MAC.
at the 2000s Hotdesk


65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
Amanda Woodward - La Decadence De La Decadence
Anaal Nathrakh - Domine Non Es Dignus
Aquadays - Electric Songs
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Autolux - Future Perfect
Björk - Medúlla
blonde redhea - Misery Is a Butterfly
Boyskout - School of Etiquette
Brian Wilson - Smile
Celluloide - Words Once Said
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Clann Zú - Black Coats & Bandages
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Cult of Luna - Salvation
The Cure - The Cure
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Delorean - Delorean
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Duran Duran - Astronaut
Einstürzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
Electrelane - The Power Out
Electric Wizard - We Live
Elliott Smith - From A Basement on the Hill
Faust vs. dälek - Derbe Respect, Alder
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Gallhammer - Gloomy Lights
Green Day - American Idiot
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
God Among Insects - World Wide Death
Goldie Lookin' Chain - Greatest Hits
The Good Life - Album of the Year
Hella - The Devil Isn't Red
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
Interpol - Antics
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Isis - Panopticon
J-Zone - A Job Ain't Nuthin But Work
Jacques Brel - Infiniment
Jim White - Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
John Frusciante - Shadows collide with people
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Kaada / Patton - Romances
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Kasabian - Kasabian
Kevin Tihista - Oh! Captain
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Kings of Convenience - Riot On an Empty Street
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Lali Puna - Faking the Books
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
The Libertines - The Libertines
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Maritime - Glass Floor
Märtini Brös. - Love the Machines
The Martinis - Smitten
Meshuggah - I
Midlake - Bamnan and Slivercork
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Morrissey - You are the Quarry
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Nelly McKay - Get Away From Me
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Northstar - Pollyanna
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
The Organ - Grab That Gun
Suffocation - Souls to Deny
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Preston School of Industry - Monsoon
The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
R.E.M. - Around the Sun
Razorlight - Up All Night
Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow
Say Anything - Say Anything... is a Real Boy
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slowblow - Slowblow
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Spearmint - A Leopard and Other Stories
Tears for Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
Tom Waits - Real Gone
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The Twilight Singers - She Loves You
Tworzywo Sztuczne - Wielki Ciężki Słoń
Vast Aire - Look Mom... No Hands
Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush
West Indian Girl - West Indian Girl
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

Thanks to all those who contributed.

101 MORE GREAT ALBUMS OF 2006!
Compiled at MAC.
at the 2000s Hotdesk


Aborym - Generator
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Amusement Parks On Fire - Out of the Angeles
And One - Bodypop
Azam Ali - Elysium for the Brave
B. Fleischmann - The Humbucking Coil
Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass Is Always Greener
Beck - The Information
Bob Dylan - Modern times
Bonobo - Days to come
Caroline - Murmurs
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
Clogs - Lantern
Clutchy Hopkins - The Life Of Clutchy Hopkins
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
DANdadaDAN - Sen Bana Birini Android
Dandelion Wine - An Inexact Science
The Dears - Gang of Losers
Deathstars - Termination Bliss
Deichkind - Aufstand im Schlaraffenland
Dhafer Youssef - Divine Shadows
Dilated Peoples - 20/20
Dioxyde - Social Phobia
Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
Elane - Lore of Nen
Espers - Espers II
FGFC820 - Urban Audio Warfare
The Flashbulb - Flexing Habitual
FMTA - In The End You Don't Exist
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Ghostigital - In Cod We Trust
The Goslings - Grandeur of Hair
Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
Hot Chip - The Warning
Hybrid - I Choose Noise
I - Between Two Worlds
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on our side
The Ian Fays - The Damon Lessons
In Strict Confidence - Where Sun And Moon Unite
Inga Liljestrom - Sprawling Fawns
Infekktion - Suffering Spirits
International Pony - Mit dir sind wir vier
Íon - Madre, Protégenos
Inure - Disillusion
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Candyland
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Jetone - Sundown
Joanna Newsom - Ys
John Zorn - Astronome
John Zorn - Moonchild: Songs Without Words
Kasabian - Empire
Khoma - The Second Wave
Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
Laura - Radio Swan Is Down
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
The Longcut - A Call & Response
Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse
Luke Haines - Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop
Max Richter - Songs From Before
Minimum Chips - Lady Grey
Monotract - Xprmntl Lvrs
MSTRKRFT - The Looks
Murder By Death - In Bocca al Lupo
MV & EE With The Bummer Road - Mother of Thousands
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Narsilion - Arcadia
NoMeansNo - All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
Om - Conference of the Birds
Orval Carlos Sibelius - Orval Carlos Sibelius
O.S.T.R. - 7
Peaches - Impeach My Bush
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
Qntal - Silver Swan
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
Rattlesnake Remedy - Magic Man
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
The Retrosic - Nightcrawler
Robin Guthrie - Continental
The Roots - Game Theory
Saltillo - Ganglion
Saosin - Saosin
Sarah Slean - Orphan Music
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
Sissy - All under
Siva Six - Black will
Skoyz - Hologram
Sleepthief - The Dawnseeker
Songs of Green Pheasant - Aerial Days
Thea Gilmore - Harpos Ghost
Tomte - Buchstaben über der Stadt
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Trespassers William - Having
The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
Underoath - Define the Great Line
Urlaub in Polen - Health and Welfare
White Rose Movement - Kick
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force

Thanks to all those who contributed.

100 GREAT DRUMMERS & PERCUSSIONISTS!
compiled at MAC
at the Drummers & Percussionists Desk


Abbott, Vinnie Paul (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah)
Adler, Willie (Lamb of God)
Allen, Tony (Fela Kuti)
Alexander, Tim (Primus)
Avory, Mick (The Kinks)
Baker, Ginger (Cream)
Baron, Joey (Naked City, Masada)
Blackwell, Ed (Ornette Coleman)
Blackwell, John (Prince)
Blakey, Art (The Jazz Messengers, etc.)
Blaine, Hal
Bonham, John (Led Zeppelin)
Bordin, Mike (Faith No More, Ozzy Osbourne)
Bozzio, Terry (Frank Zappa)
Bruford, Bill (King Crimson, Yes)
Buckler, Rick (The Jam)
Budgie (Slits, Siouxsie & the Banshees)
Burnham, Hugo (Gang of Four)
Cain, Simeon (Gone, Rollins Band)
Carey, Danny (Tool)
Chamberlin, Jimmy (The Smashing Pumpkins)
Chase, Brian (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
he, Damon (Don Caballero)
Chippendale, Brian (Lightning Bolt)
Cobham, Billy (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Colaiuta, Vinnie (Session Drummer)
Collins, Phil (Genesis, Brand X)
Copeland, Stewart (The Police)
Covington, Kirk (Tribal Tech)
Crover, Dale (Melvins)
Cutler, Chris (Henry Cow, Art Bears, lots of collaborations)
Dahle, Kurt (New Pornographers)
Dailor, Brann (Mastodon, Today Is the Day)
Doktor Avalanche (and the Chorus of Vengeance) (The Sisters Of Mercy)
Donati, Virgil (Planet X, etc)
Dunbar, Sly (Sly & Robbie)
Elias, Manny (Tears For Fears)
Errico, Gregg (Sly & The Family Stone)
Gadd, Steve (Steely Dan)
Gillespie, Bobby (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
Grohl, Dave (Nirvana, Queens of The Stone Age)
Headon, Topper (The Clash)
Helm, Levon (The Band)
Hewitt, Steve (Placebo)
Hill, Zach (Hella)
Hurley, George (Minutemen, fIREHOSE)
Hussain, Zakir (Tabla Beat Science)
Ikue Mori (DNA)
Jackson, Ronald Shannon (Prime Time, Last Exit)
Jackson Jr., Al (Booker T. & the MG's)
Jones, Elvin (John Coltrane, Charles Mingus)
Jimbo, Akira (Casiopea)
Koller, Ben (Converge)
Kotche, Glenn (Wilco)
Liebezeit, Jaki (Can)
Lombardo, Dave (Slayer, Fantômas)
Lopez, Martin (Opeth)
Lovering, David (Pixies)
McBrain, Nicko (Iron Maiden)
McEntire, John (Bastro, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake)
Mitchell, Mitch (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Moon, Keith (The Who)
Moreira, Airto (Return To Forever)
Moretti, Fabrizio (The Strokes)
Morris, Stephen (Joy Division, New Order)
Murphy, John
Noro, Eito (Zeni Geva)
O'Ciosoig, Colm (My Bloody Valentine)
Peart, Neil (Rush)
Pennie, Chris (Coheed and Cambria, The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Piotrowski, Jerzy (SBB)
Portnoy, Mike (Dream Theater)
Promiński, Zbigniew Robert (Behemoth)
Rich, Buddy
Rowntree, Dave (Blur)
Roach, Max (Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins)
Royster jr., Tony (youtube.com/watch?v=WPncumXZExo)
Shelley, Steve (Sonic Youth)
Scabies, Rat (The Damned)
Scott, Style (Roots Radics, Dub Syndicate)
Simins, Russell (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)
Smith, Chad (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Smith, Joey (Juan De La Cruz)
Starr, Ringo (The Beatles)
Stevenson, Bill (Descendents, Black Flag)
Stubblefield, Clyde (James Brown)
Taylor, Roger (Duran Duran)
Theodore, Jon (The Mars Volta)
Thomas, Pete (The Attractions)
Tucker, Moe (The Velvet Underground)
Van Halen, Alex (Van Halen)
Vander, Christian (Magma)
Watts, Charlie (The Rolling Stones)
Weckl, Dave (Dave Weckl Band)
Weinberg, Max (E Street Band)
Weiss, Janet (Sleater-Kinney)
Williams, Tony (Miles Davis, Tony Williams Lifetime)
Wright, John (NoMeansNo)
Yokota, Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO)
Yoshida, Tatsuya (YBO2, Ruins, a zillion other bands/projects)

thanks to all those who contributed!

100 GREAT ALBUMS OF 2005!
Compiled at MAC.
at the 2000s Hotdesk


[:SITD:] - Coded Message: 12
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
Acoustic Ladyland - Last Chance Disco
Akron/Family - Akron/Family
Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
Andreas Dorau - Ich bin der eine von uns beiden
Animal Collective - Feels
Annie - Anniemal
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Babyshambles - Down In Albion
The Berzerker - World of Lies
Better Than Ezra - Before the Robots
Birdy Nam Nam - Birdy Nam Nam
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Boduf Songs - Boduf Songs
Boom Bip - Blue Eyed in the Red Room
Boris - Pink
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Calla - Collisions
Camille - Le Fil
Celebration - Celebration
Ceremony - Ceremony
Chocolat Billy - Mon Père Est Ma Mère
Circa Survive - Juturna
CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Daphne Loves Derby - On The Strength of All Convinced
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land
Echo & the Bunnymen - Siberia
Editors - The Back Room
Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight For Harmony
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Engineers - Engineers
Fantômas - Suspended Animation
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
François Elie Roulin - Parade
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
Intelligence - Icky Baby
James McMurtry - Childish Things
Jeans Team - Musik von oben
Jens Lekman - Oh, You're So Silent Jens
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Kate Bush - Aerial
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kirlian Camera - Invisible Front. 2005
Konono N°1 - Congotronics
Le Volume Courbe - I Killed My Best Friend
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Low - The Great Destroyer
M.I.A. - Arular
Marc Leclair - Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes
Mark Owen - How The Mighty Fall
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Marshmallow - Marshmallow
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Three
Metric - Live It Out
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Nim Vind - Fashion of Fear
Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
Nouvelle Culture - Fading Pictures
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Om - Variations on a Theme
Overmars - Affliction, Endocrine... Vertigo
Part Chimp - I Am Come
Piano Magic - Disaffected
Pierre Bastien - Pop
Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers
The Psychic Paramount - Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural
Queen Adreena - The Butcher and the Butterfly
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
The Rakes - Capture/Release
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush the Insects
Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
Ryan Adams - 29
The Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood
Satanicpornocultshop - Zap Meemees
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The City Sleeps In Flames
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Sons & Daughters - The Repulsion Box
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Times New Viking - Dig Yourself
Thrice - Vheissu
Ulver - Blood Inside
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Weezer - Make Believe
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Wilderness - Wilderness
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary

Thanks to all those who contributed.

110 GREAT MADCHESTER-ERA ALBUMS!
Compiled at MAC.
at the Madchester, Baggy & Grebo Desk


The 25th of May - Lenin & McCarthy (1992)
808 State - Ninety (1989)
808 State - Ex:El (1991)
Adorable - Against Perfection (1993)
Bassheads - C.O.D.E.S. (1993)
The Beloved - Happiness (1990)
Blur - Leisure (1991)
The Boo Radleys - Learning To Walk (1993)
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 101 Damnations (1990)
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 30 Something (1991)
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool (1991)
Chapterhouse - Blood Music (1993)
The Charlatans - Some Friendly (1990)
Close Lobsters - Headache Rhetoric (1989)
Cud - Leggy Mambo (1990)
The Cure - Mixed Up (1990)
The Cure - Wish (1992)
Curve - Pubic Fruit (1991)
Curve - Doppelganger (1992)
Curve - Cuckoo (1993)
Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen (1992)
The Darling Buds - Crawdaddy (1990)
Electronic - Electronic (1991)
EMF - Schubert Dip (1991)
The Family Cat - Magic Happens (1994)
The Farm - Spartacus (1991)
The Field Mice - Snowball (1989)
Flowered Up - A Life With Brian (1991)
Fortran 5 - Blues (1991)
The Frank and Walters - Trains, Boats & Planes (1992)
The Future Sound of London - Accelerator (1991)
Happy Mondays - Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (1987)
Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches (1990)
The High - Somewhere Soon (1990)
The House of Love - The House of Love (1988)
Inspiral Carpets - Life (1990)
James - Gold Mother (1990)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic (1989)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Honey's Dead (1992)
Jesus Jones - Doubt (1991)
Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole (1992)
Kitchens of Distinction - Love Is Hell (1989)
The KLF - The White Room (1991)
The La's - The La's (1990)
The Levellers - Levelling the Land (1991)
The Ligtning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland (1990)
Loop - Wolf Flow (1991)
Lush - Gala (1990)
Lush - Spooky (1992)
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (1992)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines (1991)
McCarthy - The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth (1989)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon (1992)
Mega City Four - Who Cares Wins (1990)
Mega City Four - Sebastopol Road (1992)
Milltown Brothers - Slinky (1991)
Mock Turtles - Turtle Soup (1990)
Moonshake - Eva Luna (1992)
Morrissey - Viva Hate (1988)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder (1991)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Pigeonhole (1990)
New Order - Technique (1989)
New Order - Republic (1993)
Northside - Chicken Rhythms (1991)
Octave One - Octivation (1991)
One Dove - Morning Dove White (1993)
Opus III - Mind Fruit (1992)
The Orb - Blue Room (1992)
Orbital - Orbital (Green Album) (1991)
The Other Two - And You (1993)
Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness (1990)
The Pastels - Sittin; Pretty (1989)
Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is The Day...This Is The Hour...This Is This! (1989)
Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure For Sanity (1990)
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
Radical Dance Faction - Wasteland (1992)
Ride - Nowhere (1990)
Ride - Smile (1990)
Ride - Going Blank Again (1992)
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha (1991)
The Shamen - En-Tact (1990)
The Shamen - Boss Drum (1992)
Silverfish - Fax Axl (1990)
Slowdive - Just For A Day (1991)
Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)
Soul Family Sensation - New Wave (1991)
Spacemen 3 - Recurring (1990)
Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To (1990)
Spirea X - Fireblade Skies (1992)
Stereo MC's - Supernatural (1990)
Stereo MC's - Connected (1992)
Stereolab - Switched On (1992)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good (1988)
Sultans of Ping FC - Casual Sex in the Cineplex (1992)
Sunscreem - 03 (1993)
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (1993)
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (1991)
The The - Mind Bomb (1989)
Therapy? - Babyteeth (1991)
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
Utah Saints - Utah Saints (1992)
The Wedding Present - Bizarro (1989)
The Wedding Present - Seamonsters (1991)
The Wonder Stuff - Hup! (1989)
The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis (1991)
World of Twist - Quality Street (1991)
Xymox - Phoenix (1991)
Xymox - Metamorphosis (1992)

Thanks to all those who contributed!

100 GREAT POP ALBUMS!
compiled at MAC
at the Pop Music Desk


Aaliyah - One In A Million (1996)
ABBA - Arrival (1976)
Alice In Videoland - Outrageous (2005)
Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat (2008)
Annie - Anniemal (2004)
Annie Lennox - Diva (1992)
Aqua - Aquarius (2001)
Bananarama - WOW! (1987)
The Bangles - Different Light (1986)
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile (1967)
The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
Bertine Zetlitz - Rollerskating (2005)
Blondie - Parallel Lines (1978)
Britney Spears - Blackout (2007)
Britney Spears - In The Zone (2003)
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly (1958)
Capsule - L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer (2005)
The Carpenters - Close To You (1970)
Carole King - Tapestry (1971)
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat (1971)
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue (1995)
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera (1999)
Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya To The Brink (2008)
Cyndi Lauper - She's so Unusual (1983)
Dannii Minogue - Neon Nights (2003)
Dido - No Angel (1999)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985)
Duran Duran - Rio (1982)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Eurythmics - Touch (1983)
Faye Wong - Chang You / Scenic Tour (1998)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night (1987)
France Gall - Baby Pop (1966)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)
Girls Aloud - Chemistry (2005)
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up (2007)
Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say? (2004)
Goldfrapp - Supernature (2005)
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (2006)
Hanson - Middle of Nowhere (1997)
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement (1981)
Holly Valance - State Of Mind (2003)
The Human League - Hysteria (1984)
Jacques Dutronc - Les Playboys (1966)
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping In The Nothing (2005)
Kylie Minogue - Fever (2003)
Kylie Minogue - X (2007)
Lio - Lio (1980)
Lobo - Of a Simple Man (1972)
M People - Elegant Slumming (1994)
Macy Gray - On How Life Is (1999)
Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor (2005)
Madonna - Like a Prayer (1989)
Madonna - True Blue (1986)
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (1991)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper (2003)
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion (2007)
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop (1994) [comp]
Mylène Farmer - L'autre... (1991)
Nancy Sinatra - How Does That Grab You? (1966)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee (1968)
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night (1972)
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (1995)
Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)
Perfume - Complete Best (2006)
Pet Shop Boys - Very (1993)
Peter Gabriel - So (1986)
Pizzicato Five - Bossa Nova 2001 (1993)
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987)
Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It (2005)
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (1992)
Richard X - Presents his X-Factor (2004)
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens (1997)
Robyn - Robyn (2006)
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered (2007)
Roxette - Look Sharp! (1988)
Sade - Lovers Rock (2000)
Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro (2008)
Sara Berg - When I Was A Young Child I Used To Feel Pleasure From Playing With Others (2007)
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (2004)
Shania Twain - Come On Over (1997)
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts (2007)
Slow Children - Slow Children (1981)
Spice Girls - Spice (1996)
Squeeze - Argybargy (1980)
Sugababes - Angels With Dirty Faces (2002)
Sugababes - Three (2004)
Take That - Patience (2006)
Texas - The Hush (1999)
UnkleJam - UnkleJam (2007)
Utada Hikaru - Heart Station (2008)
Whitney Houston - Whitney (1987)
The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis (1991)

Thanks to all those who contributed!