Fuck, I couldn't choose 50, but here's a fair few:

1. Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys
2. Rain Dogs, Tom Waits
3. Slip It In, Black Flag
4. Double Nickels On The Dime, Minutemen
5. Hi, How Are You?, Daniel Johnston
6. Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth
7. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
8. Dinosaur, Dinosaur Jr.
9. Milo Goes To College, Descendents

Uh..

I've always found Paul's boutique really weak.....

Different strokes for different folks..

yes

Oh, how did I forget this?!

THIS IS MY NUMBER TEN

I can't understand the hate for Tweez, it's totally different to Spiderland but I still love it. Carol, Rhonda... nevermind i'm obviously not gonna change people's minds.

1. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion
Dinosaur jr - YLAOM
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon
Sebadoh - Freed Man
John Fahey - God, Time and Casualty (not sure if this is fair because majority of songs were from earlier records but still best Fahey release of 80's)
MBV - Isn't Anything
Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy For Liliath
Sonic Youth - Sister
Dinosaur jr - Dinosaur
Melvins - Ozma
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven
Mudhoney - Mudhoney
Slint - Tweez

1. Sonic Youth EP - Sonic Youth

2. EVOL - Sonic Youth

3. Substance - Joy Division

4. Lesson #1 For Electric Guitar - Glenn Branca

5. Bleach - Nirvana

6. The Head on the Door - The Cure

7. The Final Cut - Pink Floyd

8. Kaleidoscope - Siouxsie & The Banshees

9. Live at Ronnie Scott's - Nina Simone

10. Hee Haw - The Birthday Party

11. Crocodiles - Echo & The Bunnymen

12. Brasil - João Gilberto

13. 13.13. - Lydia Lunch

14. A Social Gathering for the Celebration of Someone's Birth - The Birthday Party & Lydia Lunch

15. Doolittle - Pixies

16. Confusion is Sex - Sonic Youth

17. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

18. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics

19. Thriller - Michael Jackson

20. Like A Virgin - Madonna

21. The Whitey Album - Ciccone Youth

22. Let's Dance - David Bowie

23. Thriller - Michael Jackson

24. Surfer Rosa - Pixies

25. Music For Masses - Depeche Mode

shit I forgot Big Science! #26 then.

I've not finalised my list yet, but why do so very many people think Branca's Lesson #1 is any good? I mean, in comparison to the rest of his stuff (apart from theoretical girls) it's turd, let alone in comparison to music in general

YOU'RE ALL WRONG.

if Branca makes my list, it'll be for Ascension

can i put louder than bombs in my list? i fucking love the smiths so much, just not their studio albums.

I like Lesson No. 1.

My personal favorites, this doesn't necessarily amount to the "best" albums of the decade. (in my mind there is a difference... dont ask)

1. Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
2. My War by Black Flag
3. Wild Gift by X
4. EVOL by Sonic Youth
5. Sonic Youth by Sonic Youth
6. Bleach by Nirvana
7. Damaged by Black Flag
8. Up on the Sun by Meat Puppets
9. Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails
10. Doolittle by The Pixies
11. It Takes a Nation Of Millions to Hold us Back by Public Enemy
12. Jazz From Hell by Frank Zappa
13. Your'e Living all Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.
14. I against I by Bad Brains
15. Sister by Sonic Youth
16. Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
17. Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
18. Gluey Porch Treatments by The Melvins
19. Double Nickels on the Dime by The Minutemen
20. ULTRAMEGA OK! by Soundgarden
21. Songs About Fucking by Big Black
22. Zen Arcade by Husker Du
23. Infected by The The
24. Dry as a Bone by Green River
25. Purple Rain by Prince

I know this is classic prickery, but have you heard the stuff that followed, and do you really think Lesson No 1 is as good as it? If so, I have no complaints, I just think it's very much like preferring something bad to something good by a band that are capable of being very good indeed.

Here's mine:

1. The Fall - Slates
2. Sonic Youth - Sister
3. The Smiths - The Smiths
4. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show
5. Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
6. Felt - Forever Breath The Lonely Word
7. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
8. Big Black - Atomizer
9. The Loft - Once Around The Fair
10. Napalm Death - Scum
11. The Pastels - Up For A Bit With The Pastels
12. Whitehouse - Total Sex
13. Spacemen 3 - Sound Of Confusion
14. Chris & Cosey - Trance
15. The Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room
16. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
17. The Telescopes - Taste
18. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
19. Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
20. Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising
21. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
22. The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
23. Michael Jackson - Thriller
24. The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace
25. Scars - Author! Author!

'79, I think.

anyone else like S.E. Rogie__ Palm Wine Guitar?

probably in my top 10

1.Sister - Sonic Youth
2.Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
3.You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
4.1984 - Van Halen
5.Moving Pictures - Rush
6.Remain in Light - Talking Heads
7.Zen Arcade - Husker Du
8.Back in Black - AC/DC
9.Power - Ice-T
10.And Justice For All - Metallica
11.Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys
12.Iron Path - Last Exit
13.Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
14.Appetite For Destruction - Guns 'N Roses
15.Rock For Light - Bad Brains
16.My War - Black Flag
17.Future Shock - Herbie Hancock
18.Rio - Duran Duran
19.Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim
20.Powerslave - Iron Maiden
21.Disintegration - The Cure
22.Synchronicity - The Police
23.The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
24.Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
25.Nothing's Shoking - Jane's Addiction
26.Edutainment - Boogie Down Productions
27.Songs About Fucking - Big Black
28.Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
29.Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
30.A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd
31.The Joshua Tree - U2
32.Milo Goes to College - Descendents
33.Freedom - Neil Young
34.Vivid - Living Colour
35.Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
36.Mother's Milk - Red Hot Chili Peppers
37.War - U2
38.The Wall - Pink Floyd
39.Slip It In - Black Flag
40.I Against I - Bad Brains
41.Permanent Waves - Rush
42.Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
43.Evol - Sonic Youth
44.Dinosaur - Dinosaur Jr.
45.Master of Puppets - Metallica
46.Fair Warning - Van Halen
47.Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads
48.The Land of Rape & Honey - Ministry
49.Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
50.Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E

Piss! I'll wack another Fall record in then.

i'm surprised by the lack of minor threat.

if louder than bombs is alowed then it's going on my list too.