Aw Fuh It. I'm going with the Fu style fast and easy.

1. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
4. The Band - The Band
5. Love - Forever Changes
6. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
7. Gram Parsons -G.P./Grievous Angel
8. Gang of Four - Entertainment
9. The Clash - The Clash
10. Jorge Ben - A Tabua de Esmeralda
11. Terry Callier - Occasional Rain
12. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
13. Neil Young - Harvest
14. Caetano Veloso - Transa
15. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
16. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
17. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
18. Eno/Cale - Wrong Way Up
19. Buddy Miles - Them Changes
20. Moby Grape - Moby Grape
21. Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
22. Joni Mitchell - Blue
23. Richard Hell - Blank Generation
24. Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything
25. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
26. The Zombies - Odyssey & the Oracle
27. The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
28. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
29. Neil Young - Zuma
30. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
31. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
32. Roxy Music - Avalon
33. The Harder They Come Soundtrack
34. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
35. Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
36. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin
37. Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
38. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
39. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Cemetary
40. Bobby Hutcherson - Montara
41. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
42. The Band - Music From the Big Pink
43. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
44. The Kinks - Something Else
45. Townes Van Zandt - High, Low In Between/The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
46. The Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime
47. Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
48. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
49. James Brown - Live at the Apollo II
50. Neil Young - Live at Massey
51. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
52. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
53. Jackson Frank - Jackson Frank
54. The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
55. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
56. Manu Chao - Clandestino
57. The Voices of East Harlem - Right on Be Free
58. Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
59. Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden
60. Hank Thompson - Songs for Rounders
61. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
62. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
63. John Cale - Fear
64. The Replacements - Tim
65. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Survival
66. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
67. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
68. Betty Davis - Betty Davis
69. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
70. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
71. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Original Rockers Uptown
72. Morphine - Cure for Pain
73. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
74. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
75. Elvis Costello - Taking Liberties
76. Marcos Valle - Garra
77. Tim Maia - Racional V. 1
78. The Saints - Eternally Yours
79. Bob Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes
80. Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
81. The Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real
82. Blood Sweat and Tears - Child is the Father to the Man
83. Eddie Harris - Silver Cycles
84. Frank Foster - Loud Minority
85. Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
86. Al Kooper - New York City (You're a Woman)
87. Jesse Ed Davis - Jesse Davis/Ululu
88. Bobby Charles - Bobby Charles
89. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
90. Mitch Ryder - The Detroit-Memphis Experience
91. Joao Donato - Quem E Quem
92. Lo Borges - A Via Lactea
93. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
94. Buena Vista Social Club
95. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
96. English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
97. The Specials - The Specials
98. Van Morrison - Into the Music
99. The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
100. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

I'm going to hold off sending in it to alongwaltz til i give a few listens to things I think i might be being overly generous to it, but for now I'm happy with it even if I feel like im forgetting lots of stuff.

Wow....where's the Walkmen's first album? I thought you really liked it.

I do really like it. It was #100 on the last listmania, but didn't make this one.

I think I may throw on that Moby Grape tonight.

Good list. Good to see Zombies and Love on it. I think you have 4 albums that will make my list and another 5 that will just miss my list. As for your #2 album Television - Marquee Moon, after years of seeing nothing but praise for this album I finally downloaded it about 6 months ago. I don't see what the fuss is about. Is the album supposed to grow on you or is it an album that was great for it's time? It just didn't click with me.

Awesome threefer and a great list.

Its definitely a grower. I bought it in college, had the same reaction and ended up selling it back. I repurchased it sometime in the last ten years and liked it but its really only in the last 5 years that I've grown to love it. That said, from what I know about your taste, it very well just might not be your thing.

Awesome.
I counted 27 of mine from the last time we did this.

nice on Chris Bell and the couple of Echo nods

Probably one of the only overall good lists that will be posted here. I wish they would fix that Moby Grape album on CD or that I could find a vinyl copy for a reasonable price.

cant wait to see yours

manu chao! great list

billy g... the salt of obner's earth

It always blows my mind when people say Marquee Moon doesn't do anything for them. Wasn't a grower for me--instant love.

yes for marquee moon

confirmed.

Looks like Caetano has lost favor.

As expected, this is a great list -- at least that stuff which I know, because there is a lot of stuff that I have never heard, too.

Very cool, Billy.

I have a recent reissue that sounds great, but it seems to have been a very limited print run. I snatched a copy up (from Borders, actually) as soon as I found one, and I haven't seen any more around anywhere since then. Let me know if you want a rip. It's got some great bonus tracks. Here's the AMG entry


Great list as expected. Nice to see Television and Buddy Miles so high up (and a little surprising). Kind of surprised that Montara is your fav Bobby Hutcherson album. I found that one a little disappointing, initially.

And thanks for the reminder that Attica Blues needs to be on my list.

With a handful of exceptions, I approve this list.

no fela?

i actually decided earlier this week that i need to check out some townes van zandt - is that album a good place to start? i'm assuming yes since it is in your top 50.

yeah that's a good place to start. I could have easily picked another townes album instead though. hard to go wrong with him.

I don't think that there is really one standout Fela album. I like most all of them but there's not one that sticks out as being really special. I forced one of the twofers on my last list just to have something by him on there. I'm not as big an afrobeat fan anymore though and needed to make room for more recent favs.

i can totally see that. even with the twofers, you're getting like 4 total songs. tough to pick one album.

anyways, definitely a few goodies on your list that i'll be looking into....

well im probably gonna look for the ones i don't have. cool list billy.

at pete's request, some jazz:

Made my list:

1. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (6)
2. Bobby Hutcherson - Montara (40)
3. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus (55)
4. Pharoah Sanders - Karma (66)
5. Eddie Harris - Silver Cycles (83)
6. Frank Foster - Loud Minority (84)
7. Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music (85)

Couldn't decide which of these to include so I punted and didn't include Szabo:

8. Gabor Szabo - Bacchanal/1969
9. Gabor Szabo & Bobby Womack - High Contrast


More unranked:

10. Archie Shepp - The Cry of My People
11. Charles Lloyd - Of Course, Of Course
12. Donald Byrd - Black Byrd
13. Quincy Jones - Walking In Space
14. Young Lions - S/T
15. Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening
16. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie
17. Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
18. Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
19. Bill Evans - Live at the Village Vanguard
20. Johnny Griffin - A Blowin' Session
21. Wendell Harrison - Message from the Tribe
22. Phil Ranelin - The Time is Now
23. Thelonius Monk - Solo Monk
24. Nat Adderley & The Big Sax Section - That's Right
25. Horace Silver - United States of Mind
26. Horace Silver - Serenade to a Soul Sister
27. Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
28. Jackie McLean - New and Old Gospel
29. Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
30. Gene Ammons - Boss Tenor
31. Rahshaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
32. Eric Dolphy - Out ot Lunch
33. Bobby Hutcherson - Components
34. Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
35. Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
36. Stanley Clarke - Children of Forever
37. Hank Mobley - Soul Station
38. Joe Henderson - Mode for Joe
39. Dexter Gordon - Go
40. Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris
41. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
42. Harold Land - The Peacemaker
43. Lou Donaldson - Natural Soul
44. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
45. Yuseef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
46. Yuseef Lateef - The Golden Flute
47. Ramsey Lewis - The In Crowd
48. Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights
49. Charles Earland - Black Talk!
50. Doug Carn - Infant Eyes
51. Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk
52. Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ of the Andes
53. Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
54. Billy Harper - Capra Black
55. Joe Williams - A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry
56. Paris Smith/New Composers Ensemble -53rd St Ghost
57. Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark
58. Count Basie & Joe Williams - Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
59. Adele Sebastian - Desert Fairy Princess
60. Nate Morgan - Journey into Nigritia
61. Carlos Garnett - Black Love
62. Les McCann - Layers
63. Build An Ark - At Dawn
64. John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - S/T
65. John Coltrane - Meditations
66. Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisors
67. McCoy Tyner - Lookin' Out
68. Andrew Hill - Judgement!
69. Ornette Coleman - The Art of the Improvisors
70. Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
71. Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
72. Marvin Hannibal Peterson - Children of the Fire
73. Ornette Coleman - Skies of America
74. Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
75. Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child

We have 13 albums in common.