about minor threat.. if the album that contains their first two eps was allowed, it would definitely be in my top 10.

According to the liner notes for Is This Real? in the Wipers box set,the album was recorded in 1980. And the liner notes were written by Greg Sage, so they should be accurate.

i checked google before i mentioned that and it said 1979 at all the sites i checked. if it is a 80's release than it's going in my top 5.

i put the minor threat 2 eps record as my number 1. i'm sure it'll be allowed.

YEP, NOTED...MY MISTAKE.....

edited to "on fire" instead

jane from occupied europe? 1979???? could be wrong and i aint arsed checking at the mo!

1980 I believe.

1. Sister - Sonic Youth
2. You Made Me Realize - My Bloody Valentine
3. You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
4. Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
5. Remain In Light - The Talking Heads
6. Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
7. Doolittle - The Pixies
8. Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
9. Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen
10. Meat Is Murder - The Smiths
11. Psychocandy - The Jesus & Mary Chain
12. Up On The Sun - Meat Puppets
13. Bleach - Nirvana
14. Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
15. Treasure - Cocteau Twins
16. Over The Edge - Wipers
17. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
18. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
19. Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
20. Tweez - Slint
21. Document - REM
22. Rehab Doll - Green River
23. I Against I - Bad Brains
24. The Smiths - The Smiths
25. Dry As a Bone - Green River

Really, really difficult...

1 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – From her to eternity
2 - The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
3 - Television Personalities - …and don’t the kids just love it
4 - Sonic Youth – Sister
5 - Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
6 - The Birthday Party – Junkyard
7 - Dinosaur Jr. – You’re living all over me
8 - This Heat – Deceit
9 - Galaxie 500 – Today
10 - Joy Division – Closer
11 - The Monochrome Set – Strange Boutique
12 - The Triffids – In the Pines
13 - Mark Stewart + the Maffia – Learning to cope with cowardice
14 - The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
15 - Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
16 - Swell Maps - …in jane from occupied Europe
17 - The Field Mice – Emma’s House
18 - Slayer – Reign in Blood
19 - Savage Republic – Tragic Figures
20 - Bathory – s/t
21 - Big Black – Songs about fucking
22 - Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
23 - Public Enemy – It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
24 - Tuxedomoon – Desire
25 - Gun Club – Fire of Love
26 - Japan – Tin Drum
27 - Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
28 - Mission of Burma – VS
29 - Aksak Maboul – Un peu de l’âme des bandits
30 - Melvins – Gluey Porch treatments
31 - David Sylvian – Secrets of the Beehive
32 - Lounge Lizards – Lounge Lizards
33 - Glenn Branca - Ascension
34 - Eyeless in Gaza – Caught in Flux
35 - The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
36 - Bauhaus – In the Flat Field
37 - The Raincoats – Odyshape
38 - Microdisney – The clock comes down the stairs
39 - Beat Happening – Jamboree
40 – Pixies - Doolittle
41 - Slint – Tweez
42 - Au Pairs – Playing with a different sex
43 - Saint Vitus – V
44 - High Rise – II
45 - A Certain Ratio – To each…
46 - Dinosaur L – 24 à24
47 - My Bloody Valentine – Sunny Sundae Smile ep
48 - The Gist – Embrace the herd
49 – XTC – The Black Sea
50 - The Durutti Column – LC

well this post looks like fun...i guess i will be doing some thinking...what's the deadline?

yes i ws wrong... i omitted it from my list..... must reedit!

nice list. i definitley shoulda had some "rain dogs" on my list.

One per artist (otherwise I would have put like 5 SY in it :-/)


1. Sonic Youth – EVOL
2. Glenn Branca – The ascension
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – From her to eternity
4. Steve Reich – The desert music
5. Tim Berne - Fractured fairy tales
6. Talking Heads – Remain in light
7. Meredith Monk – Dolmen music
8. Fushitsusha - Live I (PSF 3/4)
9. Slint – Tweez
10. Hüsker Dü – Zen arcade
11. Henry Threadgill – Just the facts and pass the bucket
12. My Bloody Valentine -Isn’t anything
13. Swans – Children of God
14. Hans Otte – Das Buch der Klänge
15. David Murray – Ming
16. Art Ensemble of Chicago – Urban bushmen
17. Birthday Party – Prayers on fire
18. Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
19. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
20. Cure – Pornography
21. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re living all over me
22. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
23. Cocteau Twins – Treasure
24. Wipers – Youth of America
25. Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps

I like a whole lot of these albums being posted. Just thought I should relate that.

An eighties list is tough because there's so many great ones and I really should do a hundred just to acknowledge some of the other great albums.


1 Sonic Youth - Sister
2 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3 R.E.M. - Reckoning
4 Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
5 R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
6 Laurie Anderson - Big Science
7 Sonic Youth - Evol
8 Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
9 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
10 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
11 The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (compilation)
12 The Replacements - Let it Be
13 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
14 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
15 Prince & The Revolution - Around the World in a Day
16 David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
17 Nirvana - Bleach
18 Pylon - Gyrate
19 Pylon - Chomp
20 R.E.M. - Murmur
21 Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
22 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
23 Duran Duran - Duran Duran
24 Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1
25 Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime

thanks homes, you had an awesome list also.

Sorry, dude, but I'm gonna make it a little more difficult... that's 1993. Although, seeing as High Rise are the greatest rock band ever, there probably ought to be some sort of exception allowed.

My "short"list:

A R Kane - 69
Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Colourbox - Colourbox
Cowboy Junkies - Caution Horses
The Cramps - Smell Of Female
The Cure - Pornography
Depeche Mode - Speak And Spell
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
The Durutti Column - LC
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
The Fall - This Nation’s Saving Grace
Girls At Our Best! - Pleasure
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Loop - Heavens End
Marc And The Mambas - Untitled
The Men They Couldn’t Hang - Night Of A Thousand Candles
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
New Order - Low Life
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Pixies - Doolittle
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The lash
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
R E M - Document
Rollins Band - Do It
Scars - Author! Author!
Scientists - You Get What You Deserve
Scraping Foetus Of The Wheel - Nail
Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen
Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Spacemen 3 - The Prefect Prescription
Swans - Children Of God
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
This Mortal Coil - It’ll End In Tears
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
The Triffids - Raining Pleasure

So now I just need to get rid of half of these and sort the other half into order...

I did my best to rep you, but The Man wouldn't let me.

I don't bother vote but if 'mats' Let It Be doesn't win, I'll...I'm.....I'll be upset.

go EVOL.

random order
1. Sonic Youth - EVOL
2. Swans - Children Of God
3. Loop - Fade Out
4. Ut - In Gut's House
5. Nurse With Wound - Merzbild Schwet
6. Nurse With Wound - Homotopy To Marie
7. Skullflower - Form Destroyer
8. Caroliner Rainbow Stewed Angel - I'm Armed With Quarts Of Blood
9. This Heat - Deceit
10. Liquid Liquid - Optimo EP
11. Current 93 - Nature Unveiled
12. Coil - Horse Rotorvator
13. The Birthday Party - Bad Seed EP
14. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
15. The Smiths - The Smiths
16. Swans - Filth
17. Pussy Galore - Right Now
18. GG Allin - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies
19. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
20. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
21. Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
22. The Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine And Roses
23. Swell Maps - Jane from Occupied Europe
24. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
25The Smiths - Meat Is Murder