An Alternate List
12-3-08 An Alternate List
An ‘alternate 75’ from the “Top 100” from Record Collector Magazine (
1. THE BEATLES –
2. THE BEATLES – s/t (aka The Double White Album)
3. KING CRIMSON – In The Court of The Crimson King
4. JOHN LENNON – Plastic Ono Band
5. DEREK & THE DOMINOES – Layla
6. THE BEACH BOYS – Pet Sounds
7. ALLMAN BROTHERS – At Fillmore East
8. THE ROLLING STONES – Let It Bleed
9. THE BEATLES – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
10. PINK FLOYD – Dark Side Of The Moon
11. THE BEATLES – Revolver
12. THE BAND – Music from Big Pink
13. NEIL YOUNG – After The Goldrush
14. THE BEATLES – Rubber Soul
15. THE ROLLING STONES – Exile On
16. BOB DYLAN – Highway 61 Revisited
17. CAROLE KING – Tapestry
18. LED ZEPPELIN – II
19. THE EAGLES – Hotel California
20. GEORGE HARRISON –
21. THE ROLLING STONES – Beggar’s Banquet
22. DAVID BOWIE – Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
23. THE BAND – s/t (2nd album)
24. THE ROLLING STONES – Sticky Fingers
25. THE WHO – Who’s Next
26.
27. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Born To Run
28. LED ZEPPELIN – s/t (1st album)
29. LED ZEPPELIN – IV
30. THE DOORS – s/t (1st album)
31. STEELY DAN – Aja
32. YES – Close To The Edge
33. BOB DYLAN – Blonde on Blonde
34. THE BAND – Northern Lights, Southern Cross
35. NEIL YOUNG – Harvest
36. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO – s/t
37. THE CLASH –
38. THE POLICE – Synchronicity
39. JACKSON BROWNE – Late For The Sky
40. QUEEN – A Night At The Opera
41. LITTLE FEAT –
42. SEX PISTOLS – Never Mind The Bollocks
43. THE BEATLES – A Hard Day’s Night
44. THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Electric ladyland
45. U2 – The Joshua Tree
46. JOHN LENNON – Imagine
47. ROXY MUSIC – Avalon
48. LED ZEPPELIN – Physical Graffitti
49. LED ZEPPELIN – Presence
50. CREAM – Wheels Of Fire
51. BOB DYLAN – Blood On The Tracks
52. THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Are You Experienced?
53. KING CRIMSON – Red
54. DEEP PURPLE – Live In
55. PINK FLOYD – Wish You Were Here
56. FLEETWOOD MAC – Rumours
57. PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS – Band On The Run
58. TELEVISION – Marquee Moon
59. VAN MORRISON – Moondance
60. JEFF BECK – Blow By Blow
61. TALKING HEADS – Remain In Light
62. JANIS JOPLIN –
63. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – The River
64. SANTANA – Abraxis
65. ERIC ANDERSON –
66. BOB DYLAN – Desire
67. SANTANA – Caravanserai
68. PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY – Ram
69. JEFF BECK – Wired
70. KING CRIMSON – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
71. RY COODER – Chicken Skin Music
72. TODD RUNDGREN – Something / Anything
73. DONALD FAGEN – The Nightfly
74. THE ZOMBIES – Odyssey & Oracle
75. FREE – Fire & Water (1,613 votes)
Eric Anderson? Santana’s “Caravanserai”? A Jackson Browne album? And plenty of repeats from the critics’ favorites list of yesterday. Three King Crimson albums? Still no Ventures… This must be the list tallying reader’s votes.
posted by Ron Kane @ 6:45 AM
6 Comments:
Pretty much more of the same except a few bones thrown to the prog guys with Yes and the additional King Crimson LPs (which are also my favorite mid-period titles). I'm really glad to see the often overlooked "Odyssey & Oracle" on both lists.
Ha-HA! Brian - you're obviously not with the new program! "Odyssey & Oracle" is the late 90's version of "Forever Changes!" It's now part of rock-crit canon and no longer "overlooked." And how overlooked can a record be with a monster hit like "Time of the Season" on it, anyhow? That's a song I've consistently heard for 30+ years.
But do you ever hear anything else from it? "Time Of The Season" stands apart from the rest of the material which is superb. But yes, I'll admit I wasn't on board with it at the time.
And hey, I try to keep up with the new program! I just received my second unsolicited issue of Rolling Stone. Britney Spears is on the cover!! After a hard break-up, Kanye West has recorded his "Blood On The Tracks"! Maroon 5 is getting "gritty" with their remix album, Death Cab For Cutie's latest "flaunts emo-like precision", but most importantly, Coldplay's new EP sounds...gasp... "uninspired".
Brian:
Touché, my friend! It looks like I'm the one who's out of touch!
We're all out of touch with whatever is "happening" - but - Brian has kids - so he has a vested interest in the future.
These lists amused me vastly. I should post their lists separated by decade - the 80's list would make you scream, Jim-san!
Salut!
Please do Ron! Decade by decade lists would be great fun.
Yeah, having kids does put things in a different perspective, but as I've said before, the last 40 years is "what's new" to them, so they're just as happy with The Beatles, Duran Duran, or The Jonas Brothers (who to be honest aren't any worse than someone like Rick Springfield).
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