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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Numbers 79 - 70 of My Top 100 Favorite Albums of All-Time

If you are still interested, here are...

Numbers 79-70 of My 100 All-Time Favorite Albums

* means I bought the album right when it was released or at the latest a few months

# means I discovered it later (some of these of course are pretty obvious)






79) Misfits - Walk Among Us- (82, Ruby/Slash) 
- At one time or the other I've had copies of all their pre-reunion albums. Multiple pressings of each. Eventually they were all sold or traded away. I always manage to hold on to a physical copy of Walk Among Us, whether it be CD or album. There are very good songs scattered around other albums and eps but in this one, every track is a classic.(#)


78) King Crimson - In The Court Of (1969, Island) - The only progressive (prog) release on the list. Unless you consider a certain British band that appears later. But at this point I wouldn’t even consider King Crimson all the way into the genre. The lead-off song “21rst Century Schizoid Man” is almost protopunk, "Moonchild" is almost experimental jazz, and the title track classical. Actually add these all together and I guess do get progressive rock. (#)

77) - Dwarves - Blood, Guts, and Pussy (1990, Sub
Pop) - The Dwarves second album and first for Sub Pop they dropped the reverb garage for a far more punk rock sound. It worked out great. B,G, & P may only be 13 minutes long, about as long as a usually Dwarves set was, but it is perfectly filled with all the sleazy fast garage punk you could ask for. Let's just say the album's "notorious" cover art fits perfectly. (*)


76) The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (79, Chiswick) - The Damned is a band that I have pretty much every studio album. Except for the maybe the debut a lot of them do possess a good amount of filler. Machine Gun may be the only one which doesn't. Every song is awesome. It also contains my favorite Damned song "Melody Lee". I would say few albums could match if for best closing track in "Smash it Up" parts 1 and 2. (#)

75) Pet Shop Boys - Please (1985, Parlophone/
E.M.I.) - Probably hard to imaging now since the band is so known but when the Pet Shop Boys' video for "West End Girls" was on tv the band had a certain sense of mystery. The song and video contained almost no information. Just a lot of hazy imagery similar to The Specials "Ghost Town" song and video from a few years before. Even the next track "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" had a little. These two songs along with "Suburbia" and eight others have kept Please and its almost equally good follow up Actually safely in my rotation. (*)





74) New Bomb Turks - Destroy-Oh-Boy! (1993, Crypt Records) - The legendary New Bomb Turks/Gaunt split had been impossible to find so this was my first time actually hearing them. Nothing I read about the band before this prepared me for this fast bulldozing garage rock. The only time they really let up a bit is about halfway through the album on their cover of Wire's "Mr. Suit". (*)



73) Placebo - S/T (1996, Hut) - The first time I became are of this

UK band was when the last thing shown on 120 Minutes one Sunday night was the video for Placebo's "36 Degrees". There was no introduction of information. I did not even find out until later if the singer was a man or a woman. Brian Molko possesses one of the most original voices out there. Plus the songs are fast and hook-filled. Where some of these bands get their sound watered down when it comes time for an album producer Brad Wood kept all this albums noise intact. Especially on the fast "Teen Angst", "Bruise Pristine", and the pulverizing "Nancy Boy". (*)

72) - The Breeders - Pod (1990, 4AD)Of course

everyone knows the big hit “Cannonball” with the then consisting it the Deal twins, Kim and Kelly. What too many people aren't aware of it that before recruiting her sister Kim Deal had teamed up with Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donnelly, and Perfect Disaster’s Josephine Wiggs, grabbed Slint’s Britt Walford on drums and released the Steve Albini produced Pod a few years earlier. The album is much darker and creepier than Last Splash, or even anything Kim's main band The Pixies had done, but it also has better hooks and a Beatles cover. (*)

71) The Adolescents - S/T (1981, Frontier) -
The Adolescents debut album was one of the earliest punk albums I heard. Sixteen songs of teenage rage I could totally relate too in "Who is Who", "Wrecking Crew" and "Kids of The Black Hole". Plus the classic "Amoeba". Twenty four years after someone gave me a fourth-generation tape containing this album it still remains in heavy rotation. (#)


70) Cinerama - Torino (Scorpitones, 2003) - A few years after the demise of his former band The Wedding Present David Gedge teamed up with his girlfriend Sally Murrel to form Cinerama. The band still had the similar awesome of sometimes broken-hearted subjects like his former band but they were now just a little quieter, adding almost movie soundtrack orchestration. They put out some singles, compiled on two compilations, and two full-length albums but really shined on 2003's Torino. The Steve Albini production fits the returning buzzing guitars and string arrangements perfectly. David would find the band sounding louder and more similar to his former band. David changed the name of the band back to The Wedding Present. They may be making an appearance later on this list. (*)


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