Top 100

Great minds

Very good album.

I like his new one more.

This is my altime fave.

So much emotion and history of his life.

Stu.

Not heard this one but will put that right asap. Cheers

Along with The Nightfly, Aja is the album I listen to the most. Every track is oustanding, never tire of listening it. As soon as SWMBO has finished watching Celebrity, it's next to hit the platter.

Floid,

I think you will like it.

I heard Robbie on the radio in the uk a month or so ago talking about his new album.and this.

I just thought this album was empathy.

I have been into his music since day one with the band and Dylan.

I didnt know he was a native american until i heard him talking about his life on the resavation..

It will move up your 100 list thats for sure.

Stu

This looking good, I'm rehearsing the Alan Freeman style countdown; not 'arf pop pickers. 

It's made me try to think of my own top 100 and I'm still wondering which Pearls Before Swine, Amon Düül II, Can, Ten Years After, Melanie, Joni and Polly Jean Harvey albums you are going to choose, not to mention Kevin Coyne and Roy Harper - it's not easy.

Of course, Nirvana, have got to be there, but will you choose "Simon Simopath" or "All of Us"?

[Side note: Very disappointed that the BBC 4 made a rockumentary about Nirvana and never mentioned their leading light Patrick Campbell-Lyons let alone Alex Spyropoulos. The BBC didn't even seem to know they were formed in London. What's more they didn't play one single song by them I recognised]. 

I'll give Steely Dan another listen based on the recommendations. 

All the best, Guy  

This is a new album that should break into peoples top 100 in the next few years.

It might even end up as a CLASSIC IN TEN YEARS TIME..

Its all in the words.

 90 The Young Gods - T.V. Sky

A Swiss band, post- industrial, think NIN.

Perfect Sense, Part 1, is a great track to use for testing speaker placement in my opinion.  The album was recorded in Q-Sound which creates a really expansive sound stage when speakers are just right.  As I recall, the opening grand piano comes from waaaaaaaaaay off to the right, almost behind the listener, when all is properly adjusted.

 89 Rammstein - Mutter. Not a clue what they are singing about but the sheer power and emotion of this gets me every time.

 88 AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It. 

The only album you need of their earlier stuff with Bon Scott. If your neck muscles are not tested to the limit on this then you must be dead. An old headbangers delight. 

Now you've gone all obscure and listing lots of records I've never heard or even heard of .... 

All the best, Guy

 87

 86 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

I know those two - in fact I've got 'em. 

 85 T Rex - The Slider

But isn't 'Eldorado' better still?

 84 Roxy Music. Remember first seeing these on The Old Grey Whistle Test thinking what planet are this lot from. 

I haven't got any Neil Young albums unless you count the one with BS (Buffalo Springfield) and the ones with Hollies's spin off group Crosby Stills & Nash. 

But I have to agree with Graham that "Eldorado" by ELO is just about the greatest record ever made. 

All the best, Guy 

PS I never really liked Neil Young until I saw a TV programme with him and it somewhat changed my mind. 

Interesting T-Rex choice - not Electric Warrior Suite then? 

Mind you I'd gone for either Children of Rarn or My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair...But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows still you can't fool the children of the revolution. 

It was a close run thing between Electric Warrior and The Slider but The Slider won....just. I could have had more than one album by certain artists but i'm sticking with one from each. Who wants to see a list of 10 Pink Floyd albums.

>  Who wants to see a list of 10 Pink Floyd albums.

Not me, but they wouldn't make my top 200 in any case 

(I do have them all though, perhaps it is over familiarity ... and that they were never quite the same without Syd)

Of course, there are 11 Shirley Collins albums in my top 10 and the rest are HMHB and Sandy, still I'm glad you went for the one album per artist rule - does that mean as you have had Sgt Pepper, you can't have Band on the Run? And if you have Machine Head then you can't have Secret Voyage by Blackmore's Night or even Difficult To Cure by Rainbow?  

Some good albums - coming up. I'll give that Neil Y one a go. 

Still waiting for the RW - I'll be broke 

 83 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next

Ain't nothing like a gang bang.......yeah baby

An interesting take on the great Jacques Brell and Alex gives it a different Tilt from Scott, if get my Drift. 

Beatles and Wings I consider different so now you know somewhere in this list are wings.