Chart of the day (#3085): By zrommeke

[albummaster]

Today's chart of the day

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by zrommeke (View chart)

1. Worst Case Scenario by dEUS (1994)
2. The Real Thing by Faith No More (1989)
3. I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen (1988)
4. Puta's Fever by Mano Negra (1989)
5. Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1992)
6. The Wall by Pink Floyd (1979)
7. Doolittle by Pixies (1989)
8. Sign 'O' The Times by Prince (1987)
9. Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age (2002)
10. London Calling by The Clash (1979)
11. Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses (1987)
12. Funeral by Arcade Fire (2004)
13. Bridge To Your Heart by Blue Blot (1991)
14. Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo (1993)
15. Back In Black by AC/DC (1980)
16. Levelling The Land by The Levellers (1991)
17. Blue Sky Mining by Midnight Oil (1990)
18. The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden (1982)
19. The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails (1994)
20. Graceland by Paul Simon (1986)
21. In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson (1969)
22. Synkronized by Jamiroquai (1999)
23. The Bends by Radiohead (1995)
24. Murmur by R.E.M. (1983)
25. Ten by Pearl Jam (1991)
26. Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys (1986)
27. Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth (1988)
28. Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes (1990)
29. Stray Cats by Stray Cats (1981)
30. The Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles (1968)
31. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins (1995)
32. Music For The Jilted Generation by The Prodigy (1994)
33. If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues (1988)
34. First And Last And Always by The Sisters Of Mercy (1985)
35. Contra by Vampire Weekend (2010)
36. Ramones by Ramones (1976)
37. Pump by Aerosmith (1989)
38. Souljacker by Eels (2001)
39. Time's Up by Living Colour (1990)
40. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998)
41. Horses by Patti Smith (1975)
42. Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós (1999)
43. Absolutely by Madness (1980)
44. Porno For Pyros by Porno For Pyros (1993)
45. Harvest by Neil Young (1972)
46. Nevermind by Nirvana (1991)
47. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens (2005)
48. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks (1968)
49. Royalty In Exile by The Scabs (1990)
50. Let England Shake by PJ Harvey (2011)
51. Sing Loud, Sing Proud! by Dropkick Murphys (2001)
52. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan by Red Hot Chili Peppers (1987)
53. Forever Changes by Love (1967)
54. Blue by Joni Mitchell (1971)
55. Ritual De Lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction (1990)
56. Trans-Europa Express by Kraftwerk (1977)
57. Body Count by Body Count (1992)
58. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (1965)
59. Hunky Dory by David Bowie (1971)
60. An Awesome Wave by ∆ (alt-J) (2012)
61. Teen Dream by Beach House (2010)
62. Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits (1985)
63. The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do by Fiona Apple (2012)
64. Brick By Brick by Iggy Pop (1990)
65. Ballad Of The Broken Seas by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (2006)
66. Gypsy Punks by Gogol Bordello (2005)
67. Songs For Drella by Lou Reed & John Cale (1990)
68. Another Green World by Brian Eno (1975)
69. Outside The Simian Flock by Millionaire (2001)
70. Third by Portishead (2008)
71. Marquee Moon by Television (1977)
72. Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes (1983)
73. Pink Flag by Wire (1977)
74. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin (1969)
75. Sea Change by Beck (2002)
76. Homogenic by Björk (1997)
77. Parklife by Blur (1994)
78. Mezzanine by Massive Attack (1998)
79. Controlling Crowds by Archive (2009)
80. Core by Stone Temple Pilots (1992)
81. The Doors by The Doors (1967)
82. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits (1985)
83. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (2002)
84. I Paint Pictures On A Wedding Dress by Zita Swoon (1998)
85. Kick by INXS (1987)
86. Demon Days by Gorillaz (2005)
87. Blauw by The Scene (1990)
88. Master Of Puppets by Metallica (1986)
89. Novastar by Novastar (2000)
90. Howlin' Wolf by Howlin' Wolf (1962)
91. Let It Be by The Replacements (1984)
92. Disintegration by The Cure (1989)
93. New York by Lou Reed (1989)
94. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (1977)
95. The Joshua Tree by U2 (1987)
96. The Lion And The Cobra by Sinéad O'Connor (1987)
97. Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones (1971)
98. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys (2006)
99. Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen (1984)
100. Paranoid by Black Sabbath (1970)

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[mianfei]

Although I am late to reading this list, it is interesting for several reasons, despite being heavily focused on the 1980s and 1990s.

Although I recall heading Les Negresses Vertes many years ago without being impressed, Puta’s Fever by an artist from the same movement is a genuine left-field choice in the top five.

The Lion and the Cobra is a record I have known for over a quarter of a century since seeing it strongly praised in The Rolling Stone Album Guide at Melbourne University in the middle 1990s yet I have never heard anything from it although the album actually charted in the Top 40 in both Billboard and ARIA. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is another surprise – unlike Metallica, the Child Peppers have largely disowned their “pre-stardom” albums although their post-1980s work may have appealed as little to veteran fans as Metallica’s did.

Body Count – infamous for a reason – is another interesting left-field choice, as is to a lesser extent Howlin’ Wolf. Songs for Drella I have known from David Keenan’s The Best Albums Ever...Honest a whopping seventeen years ago, but is still surprising, and so is to a lesser degree Stray Cats and Blue Sky Mining.

I can debit a little for including both Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros in a one-album-per-artist chart - to my mind this is a form of cheating one’s own rules.