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[First added to this chart: 03/23/2026]
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2009
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[First added to this chart: 02/14/2024]
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1966
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311
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[First added to this chart: 01/19/2026]
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1991
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1962 – ATCO
Produced By AHMET ERTEGUN, JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER

1. Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
2. Ecstasy
3. On The Horizon
4. Show Me The Way
5. Here Comes The Night
6. First Taste Of Love
7. Stand By Me
8. Yes
9. Young Boy Blues
10. The Hermit Of Misty Mountain
11. I Promise Love
12. Brace Yourself

Ben E. King was originally a member of the vocal group The Five Crowns. When the entire lineup of The Drifters was fired in 1958, the Crowns were hired as their replacements. King recorded only about a dozen tracks as a Drifter, some of which were hits (and most of which are forgotten, except for “Save The Last Dance For Me”). King went solo in 1960, and with his 1962 album Don’t Play That Song! came the one track that has made him immortal. King co-wrote “Stand By Me” with Lieber & Stoller, and it remains one of the greatest tracks of the original rock and roll era. The rest of King’s body of work has faded from memory, but as soon as you hear that bass intro, and King’s smooth tenor, you know exactly who he is. “Stand By Me” is, by far, King’s crowning achievement, and makes him worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as the all time greats.

The rest of Don’t Play That Song! will surprise you. It contains lesser known tracks by Ahmet Ertegun, Goffin & King, Doc Pomus, and Phil Spector, and has four other songs that were minor hits for King. The title track, “First Taste Of Love”, “Ecstasy”, and “Young Boy Blues” made this, by far, King’s most successful album, and it’s well worth hearing more than 50 years later. The hits dried up for King pretty quickly after this album, although he did soldier on with some success for many years. The truth is, King was never the greatest Drifter (Clyde McPhatter was), and as a solo artist, he was never much of a household name. Except for “Stand By Me”, for which he will always be remembered and cherished. But check out Don’t Play That Song. It’s about as good a record in the pre-album era of rock as you will find…soulful, tasteful, and smooth as soul should be.
[First added to this chart: 02/14/2024]
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1962
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130
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1997-EPIC
Produced By INDIGO GIRLS & DAVID LEONARD

1. Shame On You
2. Get Out The Map
3. Shed Your Skin
4. It’s Alright
5. Caramia
6. Don’t Give That Girl A Gun
7. Leeds
8. Scooter Boys
9. Everything In Its Own Time
10. Cut It Out
11. Burn All The Letters
12. Hey Kind Friend

By their sixth album, the sound of the Indigo Girls excellent self titled album had given way to more dense instrumentation, and unfortunately, a decline in the duo’s songwriting. Shaming Of The Sun is their low point, a collection of mostly forgettable songs that sounds almost completely uninspired…something that you’d never think of this group when they first appeared in 1989. But this was a full three years after the very good Swamp Ophelia, and the Girls had been struggling even then. By the time of this album, they sounded lost and more like they were going through the motions than anything else. By the last third of this album, you find yourself wondering why they even bothered. Tracks like “Scooter Boys”, “Burn All The Letters” and “Cut It Out” blend into each other in a singular mess that can be best described as “blah”.

But it doesn’t start out that way. “Shame On You” is one big, bad mother of a great song. Amy Ray sings it like she owns it (she does), and the full band setting, including some nice banjo picking by Emily Saliers, works to perfection with this folk anthem that should have been a hit for the Girls…but unfortunately wasn’t. “Shame On You” alone makes the album worth having, but there isn’t, unfortunately, much else to hang your hat on. “Get Out The Map” is good, but after “Shed Your Skin”, it’s a slow decline from there. You can get “Shame On You” on any compilation album released after 2000, which is all you really need from this album…but you really should have that song. Otherwise, pass in favor of pretty much anything else in their catalog.
[First added to this chart: 04/25/2024]
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1997
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21
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1979-A&M
Produced By DAVID KERSHENBAUM

1. One More Time
2. Sunday Papers
3. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
4. Happy Loving Couples
5. Throw It Away
6. Baby Stick Around
7. Look Sharp!
8. Fools In Love
9. (Do The) Instant Mash
10. Pretty Girls
11. Got The Time

With his debut album, Joe Jackson came out with a bang. A great mix of pop, punk, reggae beats, and rock, Look Sharp! had all of the attitude of Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. Songs about bitterness, loserness, and anger are the perfect vehicles for Jackson's snotty delivery, and he gives an album full of gems. "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" was the hit, but "Fools In Love", "Throw It Away", and the excellent "Got The Time" are exceptional.

The fact that Jackson has maybe the most underrated bass player in rock in Graham Maby doesn't hurt. The bass lines on this album are great, as are the songs. This is one of the great chip on your shoulder albums of its time, and a classic beginning for the age of the truly angry young man.
[First added to this chart: 03/18/2024]
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1979
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1959 – DEL-FI
Produced By ROBERT KEANE

1. That’s My Little Suzie
2. In A Turkish Town
3. Come On, Let’s Go
4. Donna
5. Boney-Moronie
6. Ooh, My Head
7. La Bamba
8. Bluebirds Over The Mountain
9. Hi-Tone
10. Framed
11. We Belong Together
12. Dooby-Dooby-Wah

How short was the career of Ritchie Valens? From the time he was discovered playing a matinee show in a movie theater up to his sudden death in 1959, his career spanned a total of eight months. When he died, he was just 17 years old. So, how did this kid who was still of high school age, and who never released an album during his lifetime, become such an enduring figure over the last almost 60 years? Part of it was that he had been part of the first real rock and roll tragedy. Valens died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. Part of it was how young he was. And the other part of it was his music. He was, at 17, the one who brought “La Bamba” to the masses, paving the way for a world of Mexican rock and roll (a bigger world than you might think). But he was more than just that song. “Donna” was a song he wrote for his high school sweetheart. And “Come On, Let’s Go” was a surprisingly strong hit as well.

The album Ritchie Valens was released a month after his death. And it’s really the only album by him that’s really necessary. There are a lot of compilations and tracks and scraps swept off of the editing floor out there…this is all you need. Valens wrote half of the songs here, and “La Bamba” is his own arrangement. The album (only 25 minutes long) shows that Valens was not great, but that he was developing, was very talented, and that there was a definite future for him. Unfortunately, this is about all of what exists of his recorded legacy that’s worth hearing. But he is important, because of this music (which influenced a very large number of later musicians). Many of the many compilation albums out there are inferior and contain some cringeworthy tracks. This album is a small, but important part of the evolution of early rock and roll. Was Valens an innovator and a major figure? In many ways, no…not yet. Where was he headed? We’ll never know.
[First added to this chart: 02/14/2024]
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1959
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1989 – ROUGH TRADE
Produced By MARK KRAMER

1. Blue Thunder
2. Tell Me
3. Snowstorm
4. Strange
5. When Will You Come Home
6. Decomposing Trees
7. Another Day
8. Leave The Planet
9. Plastic Bird
10. Isn’t It A Pity
11. Victory Garden
12. Ceremony
13. Cold Night

In a three year span, Galaxie 500 released three albums that pretty much defined the mopey sound of dream pop. Their biggest song was “Tugboat” from their debut, but their best album was the second one, On Fire. The band was led by singer and guitarist Dean Wareham, whose voice was deemed the reason for the band’s ultimate lack of commercial success…it’s pretty thin and unremarkable. But outside of that, this was a pretty damn cool band. Along with drummer Damon Kukowski and bassist Naomi Yang, Wareham forged a sound that influenced a long line of bands that came after them. Galaxie 500 wore their own influences proudly, recalling Jonathan Richman and The Velvet Underground at almost every turn. In a perfect world, they would have had a long and fruitful career. It was not to be…Wareham suddenly ended the band after just three albums.

On Fire is, in its own flawed way, one of the coolest albums of the late 1980’s. Songs like “Blue Thunder” and “Another Day” (sung by Yang) are big highlights, and the closing track is a surprising George Harrison cover. The three 1997 bonus tracks are surprisingly good as well, featuring a wonderful cover of the Joy Division classic “Ceremony”. The sound is consistent, fully guitar driven, and at times, quite lovely. While many other dream pop bands utilized syntesizers a lot, Galaxie 500 didn’t use them at all, and the results are very good. No one really knows why Wareham ended Galaxie 500, and there have never been any reunions or even rumors of one. But, for three dreamy albums in a three year span, we had Galaxie 500. Check them out…check THIS one out. They are all pretty cool, but this is really the one album to have by this band. And the bonus tracks are worth it as well.
[First added to this chart: 02/14/2024]
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1989
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1973-ATLANTIC
Produced By STEPHEN STILLS, CHRIS HILLMAN & DALLAS TAYLOR

1. Isn't It About Time
2. Lies
3. Pensamiento
4. So Many Times
5. Business On The Street
6. Do You Remember The Americans
7. Down The Road
8. City Junkies
9. Guaguanco De Vero
10. Rollin' My Stone

Manassas is basically a Stephen Stills solo project. Recorded with the help of some top shelf friends (Chris Hillman & Joe Walsh), this, the 2nd Manassas effort, has tons of promise. It starts out with a blast, the excellent "Isn't It About Time", and there are some great Byrds-like moments throughout. There are also unfortunately a few headscratchers..."Pensamiento" and "Guaguanco De Vero" are unfortunate Spanish excursions, and it sometimes sounds like Stills is trying to hard to show his versatility rather than do what he does best. The good songs are really good...but keep that flipper handy for the others.

Stills as a solo artist began to fade after his first album, and the Manassas albums were no exception. Outside of a handful of CSN/CSNY recordings, you can pretty much skip anything he's done since beyond Stephen Stills 2.
[First added to this chart: 11/12/2024]
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1973
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52
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1971-SHANACHIE
Produced By PADDY MOLONEY

1. Strike The Gay Harp/Lord Mayo/The Lady On The Island/The sailor On The Rock
2. Sonny's Mazurka/Tommy Hunt's Jig
3. Eibhli Gheal Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill
4. The Hunter's Purse
5. The March Of The King Of Laois
6. Carolan's Concerto
7. Tom Billy's/The Road To Lisdoonvarna
8. Ghoath Aneas
9. Lord Inchiquin
10. The Trip To Sligo
11. An Raibh tu ag an gCarraig?
12. John Kelly's/Merrily Kiss The Quaker/Denis Murphy's

If your idea of rocking out includes fiddles, flutes and tin whistles, the The Chieftains is the band for you. Formed in 1962, these guys play about as trditional as you can get, Irish folk style. They're still at it, now over 50 years. 3 (their 3rd album, surprisingly) is considered a classic. In addition to flutes, fiddles and tin whistles, they also play concertina, uilleann pipes, bodhran and bones, and while none of them sing, they do bring in a lilter for a couple of songs.

"The Trip To Sligo" is the high point here, but it's all interesting and very powerful stuff. Get your Irish on. If the last 2 albums didn't do it (Van Morrison, A House), The Chieftains will.
[First added to this chart: 01/01/2025]
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1971
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Best Albums of 1979
1. London Calling by The Clash
2. The Wall by Pink Floyd
3. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
4. Fear Of Music by Talking Heads
5. Off The Wall by Michael Jackson
6. Entertainment! by Gang Of Four
7. Breakfast In America by Supertramp
8. Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
9. Highway To Hell by AC/DC
10. Reggatta De Blanc by The Police
11. Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
12. Damn The Torpedoes by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
13. Ambient 1: Music For Airports by Brian Eno
14. Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
15. Armed Forces by Elvis Costello And The Attractions
16. The B-52's by The B-52's
17. Specials by The Specials
18. Setting Sons by The Jam
19. 154 by Wire
20. Singles Going Steady by Buzzcocks