The year I was born, 1988, features some changes. The lists are now required to be in this format to save me a little time:

Rank) Artist - Album/Song

If possible, handing your lists in in an Excel file along with posting them in this topic would be ideal. You can send the lists to 1988[at]neoptolemos[dot]com.

Please submit at least 5 songs and/or albums, preferably but not necessarily with ranking, lists without ranking will get an average score of 10 points per song/album. The deadline is midnight on the 31st of October. For the scoring, rules and other details check here.

Please have a look at the 1988 album and song lists before voting, as albums and songs listed under 1988 at Acclaimed Music will only be counted in the forum poll if they are included in this month's ballots.

Stephan, you should probably require a format for artists as well. Suggestion:

Artists: firstname secondname
(e.g. "Tracy Chapman" and not "Chapman, Tracy")
Bands with "The" in the name: name, The
(e.g. "Church, The" and not "The Church")

You're absolutely right. The format of the artist names should be: First-name Second-name (i.e. Bob Dylan) and for bands with The in the name, simply put the The in front of the band (i.e. The Who). No Who, The, please.

Will do. Formatting made Beatles Survivor a lot easier to compile. Good luck getting everybody to comply!

hi, Steph, sudden question: was (one of) my (somewhat countless ) mail attempts actually successful? it's 1988@neoptolemos, isn't it..

1988@neoptolemos.com that is

Albums

1) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3) N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
4) Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
5) The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
6) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
7) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
8) Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park to Memphis
9) 'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
10) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
11) Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
12) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
13) Morrissey - Viva Hate
14) Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
15) Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
16) Slick Rick - The Great Adventure of Slick Rick
17) Stetsasonic - In Full Gear
18) The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
19. EPMD - Strictly Business
20. Fingers Inc. - Another Side

Songs

1) Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
2) Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
3) Prefab Sprout - Cars & Girls
4) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Slowly Goes the Night
5) Iron Maiden - Can I Play with Madness
6) 'Til Tuesday - The Other End (of the Telescope)
7) Metallica - One
8) N.W.A. - Gangsta Gangsta
9) Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
10) The Church - Under the Milky Way
11) Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
12) EPMD - Strictly Business
13) Morrissey - Suedehead
14) R.E.M. - Stand
15) Living Colour - Cult of Personality
16) Steve Earle - Even When I'm Blue
17) Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger
18) Erasure - Weight of the World
19) Slick Rick - Treat Her Like a Prostitute
20) Jungle Brothers - I'll House You

Movies

1) The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
2) The Decalogue (Kieslowski)
3) The Thin Blue Line (Morris)
4) My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
5) They Live (Carpenter)
6) Colors (Hopper)
7) Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
8) Damnation (Tarr)
9) Die Hard (McTiernan)
10) Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)

Disadvantage of this format is, that you need to disable the smilies to avoid that 8) will show differently. But that's not a real problem, I will post just like that and send you the Excel file as well.

So, it's 'The The', not 'The, The', right? :-)

But first it's listening time again, my votes will come much later ...

1988, I started to earn money.

Albums:

1. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
2. Prefab Sprout – From Langley Park To Memphis
3. Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
4. Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
5. Prince – Lovesexy
6. Happy Mondays – Bummed
7. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
8. Joan Baez – Recently
9. Travelling Wiburys – Volume One
10. House Of Love – The House Of Love

Songs:

1. Joan Baez – James And The Gang
2. Happy Mondays - WFL (Think About The Future)
3. My Bloody Valentine – (When You Wake) You’re Still In A Dream
4. Mano Negra – Mala Vida
5. Prefab Sprout – Venus Of The Soup Kitchen
6. Pixies - Break My Body
7. Pixies - Something Against You
8. Pixies - Broken Face
9. Leonard Cohen – Tower Of Song
10. My Bloody Valentine – Feed Me With Your Kiss
11. Eric B. & Rakim – Lyrics Of Fury
12. The House of Love - Christine
13. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
14. Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
15. Prince - Alphabet Street
16. U2 – Desire
17. U2 – Angel Of Harlem
18. Travelling Wilburys – Tweeter And The Monkeyman
19. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
20. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
21. My Bloody Valentine – I Believe
22. Joan Baez – The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress
23. House Of Love – Salome
24. Fugazi - Waiting Room
25. My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
26. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Sidewalking
27. Prince – Anna Stesia
28. Metallica - One
29. Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
30. L'Trimm - Cars with the Boom
31. The House of Love - Destroy the Heart
32. Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalised
33. Adventures – Broken Land
34. Slick Rick – Children’s Story
35. Happy Mondays – Lazyitis
36. Waterboys – And A Bang On The Ear
37. Jane’s Addiction – Mountain Song
38. John Hiatt – Slow Turning
39. Prince – Dance On
40. Steve Earle – Copperhead Road

"1988, I started to earn money."

haha... I remember that year being thrown off of a comic convention for having sneaked in the "Heavy Metal" movie, while only 8 years old... that melting "loknared" astronaut dad scene scared me to death, but after it... ye know, that blonde bitch who took her clothes off for that bald headed taxi nerd... jeeez, what a lousy awesome geek movie it actually was after all...

great... now that I'm watching that movie again, he ISN'T bald headed and she ISN'T blonde... but geek actually pours out of it all over again...

yeah... but the protagonists of the second episode happened to be that way... boy, this sucks... let's watch Short Circuit!

1988 is a stacked year, in my opinion easily the best in the 80s. My top ten would probably all make my top 200 of all time.

1) Pixies - Surfer Rosa (#6 all time)
2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (#8 all time)
3) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
4) Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
5) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
6) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
7) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
8) REM - Green
9) The Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
10) Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
11) Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
12) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
13) Nick Cave - Tender Prey

Songs:

1) Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
2) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
3) Pixies - Gigantic
4) Pixies - Break My Body
5) Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
6) Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses
7) Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
8) Public Enemy - Fugitive On The Run
9) Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
10) REM - Stand
11) REM - Orange Crush
12) The Go Betweens - Streets Of Your Town

I'll send you a spreadsheet later...

SONGS

1 R.E.M. World Leader Pretend
2 Sonic Youth Candle
3 Sonic Youth Cross the Breeze
4 Sonic Youth Teen-age Riot
5 Frank Zappa Any Kind Of Pain
6 Fugazi Waiting Room
7 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock It Takes Two
8 R.E.M. Pop Song 89
9 Frank Zappa Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
10 When In Rome The Promise
11 Pixies Gigantic
12 Frank Zappa Elvis Has Just Left The Building
13 Pixies Where Is My Mind?
14 R.E.M. Stand
15 R.E.M. Orange Crush
16 Living Colour Cult of Personality
17 Dead Or Alive You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)
18 The Church Under the Milky Way
19 U2 Desire
20 Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry Be Happy

Stephan, if we format it correctly do we have to send you a spreadsheet? Or if we send you a SS do we have to post at all? It seems like you are asking a lot to do both even though I'll do it if that's what you need.

Sorry for the confusion everyone.

Netjade: Yes, that's the correct email address, and no, I did not receive any emails. Not your fault though, I set something up wrong. It should work now.

John: The Excel file is optional, it'll save me a little time but not that much. Up to you really.

Andre: The The. ;)

My Entry at no. 2, Happy Mondays - WFL (Think About The Future) is from 1989. Please, remove it.

Excel file is no longer necessary, I've found a reasonably fast method already. Sorry for all the confusion. Please, do still use the format I suggested though.

ok, as you wish

((A))

01. Talk Talk. Spirit Of Eden
02. Public Enemy. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
03. Momus. Tender Pervert
04. The Residents. God In Three Persons
05. Ambitious Lovers. Greed
06. Stump. A Fierce Pancake
07. Bongwater. Double Bummer
08. The Beatnigs. The Beatnigs
09. Royal Trux. Royal Trux
10. Universal Congress Of. Prosperous And Qualified
11. My Bloody Valentine. Isn't Anything
12. Eric B. & Rakim. Follow The Leader
13. Prefab Sprout. From Langley Park To Memphis
14. Wilson, Brian. Brian Wilson
15. Galaxie 500. Today
16. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. Wormed By Leonard
17. Markie, Biz. Goin' Off
18. Legendary Pink Dots. Any Day Now
19. Various Artists. Stay Awake: Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films
20. Newman, Colin. It Seems


((S))

01. Mudhoney. Touch Me I'm Sick
02. Eric B. & Rakim. Follow The Leader
03. A Guy Called Gerald. Voodoo Ray
04. Happy Mondays. Wrote For Luck (WFL)
05. Public Enemy. She Watch Channel Zero?!
06. Morrissey. Everyday Is Like Sunday
07. Pet Shop Boys. Left To My Own Advices
08. Base, Rob & DJ E-Z Rock. It Takes Two
09. Ambitious Lovers. Love Overlap
10. Scritti Politti. Boom! There She Was
11. Fingers Inc. Feelin' Sleazy
12. EPMD. You Gots To Chill
13. Momus. I Was A Maoist Intellectual
14. Jungle Brothers. I'll House You
15. JVC Force. Strong Island
16. Cowboy Junkies. Sweet Jane
17. O'Hara, Mary Margaret. To Cry About
18. Felt. Space Blues
19. Yazz And The Plastic Population. The Only Way Is Up
20. Wilson, Brian. Love And Mercy

netjade loves Stephan, but didn't get the memo.

1) The Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
2) The Pogues - If I should Fall from Grace with God
3) Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
4) Patti Smith – Dream of Life
5) Leonard Cohen – I’m your man
6) Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
7) John Hiatt – Slow turning
8) REM – Green
9) The Men They Couldn’t Hang – Waiting for Bonaparte
10) The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
11) Graham Parker – The Mona Lisas’s Sister
12) Nick Cave – Tender Prey
13) The Dream Syndicate – Ghost Stories
15) Joni Mitchell – Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm

I know Daydream Nation is a pretty glaring omission, but I haven't listened to it a lot yet ...

Don't worry, Snusmumrik, I'm pretty confident you can still vote for Daydream Nation in December, as part of the top 100 of the 80's ;-)

And here's my selection of 1988 albums:

1) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
2) R.E.M. - Green
3) The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
4) Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
5) Los Lobos - La Pistola Y El Corazon
6) Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
7) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
8) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
9) The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
10) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
11) Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars
12) The Feelies - Only Life
13) U2 - Rattle & Hum
14) Fatal Flowers - Johnny D. Is Back!
15) Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
16) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
17) Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis
18) Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
19) The Nits - Hat
20) The House Of Love - The House Of Love

Songs to follow later ...

Good thought, Andre. Gee, makes me look forward to December, rather more than Christmas

ALBUMS
1) The Pixies – SURFER ROSA
2) Sonic Youth – DAYDREAM NATION
3) Public Enemy – IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK
4) R.E.M. – GREEN
5) N.W.A. – STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
6) Leonard Cohen – I’M YOUR MAN
7) Traveling Wilburys – VOLUME ONE
8) My Bloody Valentine – ISN’T ANYTHING
9) Mary Margaret O’Hara – MISS AMERICA
10) Dinosaur Jr. – BUG

SONGS
1) Sonic Youth – “Teen Age Riot”
2) The Pixies – “Where is My Mind?”
3) The Pixies – “Bone Machine”
4) Tracy Chapman – “Fast Car”
5) Living Colour – “Cult of Personality”
6) Public Enemy – “Don’t Believe the Hype”
7) Sonic Youth – “Silver Rocket”
8) Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock – “It Takes Two”
9) Metallica – “One”
10) The Pixies – “Gigantic”

This was harder than I was expecting. The top three albums are all very high on my all-time top 100, but they're the only ones from that year that I listen to on a regular basis. Except for those three - which I fully expect to end up as the overall top three for the year, as they are on AM - '88 turns out to be more of a "song year" for me.

I was wondering
Is Guns n Roses lies eligible ?

Albums:
1) Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
2) Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
3) NWA – Straight Outta Compton
4) Talk Talk – The Spirit Of Eden
5) Metallica - …And Justice For All
6) Scritti Politti – Provision
7) Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
8) Eric B. & Rakim – Follow The Leader
9) Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
10) Pixies – Surfer Rosa
11) Slayer – South Of Heaven
12) Death – Leprosy
13) Boogie Down Productions – By All Means Necessary
14) Prefab Sprout – From Langley Park To Memphis
15) Prince – Lovesexy
16) Slick Rick – The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
17) Eazy-E – Eazy-Duz-It
18) EPMD – Strictly Business
19) Danzig – Danzig
20) Num Skull – Ritually Abused

Songs:

1) Sonic Youth – Teen Age Riot
2) NWA – Straight Outta Compton
3) Public Enemy – Louder Than A Bomb
4) Ultramagnetic MC’s – Kool Keith Housing Things
5) Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
6) Brian Wilson – Love And Mercy
7) Metallica - …And Justice For All
8) Prefab Sprout – Cars And Girls
9) Prince – Anna Stasia
10) Boogie Down Productions – My Philosophy
11) Jane’s Addiction – Mountain Song
12) Scritti Politti – All That We Are
13) Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
14) Fugazi – Waiting Room
15) Nick Cave – The Mercy Seat
16) Mudhoney – Touch Me I’m Sick
17) Scritti Politti – Boom! There She Was
18) The Posies – I May Hate You Sometimes
19) JVC Force – Strong Island
20) Public Enemy – Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos

Songs
01) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Mercy Seat
02) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
03) Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Finger
04) Metallica - One
05) Pixies - Where Is My Mind
06) My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
07) Metallica - Blackened
08) Sonic Youth – Teen Age Riot
09) U2 - Desire
10) U2 - Angel of Harlem
11) My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry
12) Nirvana - Love Buzz
13) My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
14) My Bloody Valentine – You Never Should
15) My Bloody Valentine - Sueisfine
16) Enya - Orinoco Flow
17) Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
18) Fugazi – Waiting Room
19) R.E.M. - Orange Crush
20) Guns N´ Roses - Patience

albums
1. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
2. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
5. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
6. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize (EP)
7. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
8. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
9. Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven
10. REM - Green
11. NWA - Straight Outta Compton

songs
1. Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene
2. Pixies - Gigantic
3. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
4. Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
5. Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
6. Fugazi - Waiting Room
7. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize
8. Pixies - Where Is My Mind
9. NWA - Gangsta Gangsta (this one is over the top greatness)
10. REM - World Leader Pretend
11. Jesus & Mary Chain - Sidewalking
12. Public Enemy - Black Steel In the Hour Of Chaos
13. Jane's Addiction - Ted Just Admit It
14. Dinosaur Jr. - They Always Come
15. Metallica - One
16. NWA - Express Yourself
17. Sonic Youth - Total Trash
18. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
19. Pixies - Break My Body
20. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

Ah, OK no spreadsheets then?

ALBUMS:

1) R.E.M. - Green
2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3) Frank Zappa - Broadway the Hard Way
4) Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
5) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
6) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 2
7) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 1

i realy tried to put not a so big number of albuns, but i can't, all this albuns are too good to stay out of this list.


01 - Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
02 - Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
03 - Bathory - Blood Fire Death
04 - Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum
05 - Danzig - Danzig
06 - Testament - The New Order
07 - Slayer - South of Heaven
08 - Metallica - ...And Justice for All
09 - Anacrusis - Suffering Hour
10 - Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
11 - Tankard - The Morning After
12 - Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
13 - Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
14 - Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
15 - King Diamond - "Them"
16 - Destruction - Release From Agony
20 - Overkill - Under the Influence
21 - Sadus - Illusions (Chemical Exposure)
22 - Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace
23 - Death - Leprosy
24 - Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
25 - Running Wild - Port Royal
26 - Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
27 - Neurosis - Pain of Mind
28 - Judas Priest - Ram It Down
29 - Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
30 - Anthrax - State of Euphoria
31 - Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
32 - Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
33 - Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
34 - Fates Warning - No Exit
35 - Anvil - Pound for Pound
36 - Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
37 - Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest for the Wicked
38 - Pantera - Power Metal
39 - Nuclear Assault - Survive
40 - Meliah Rage - Kill to Survive
41 - Virgin Steele - Age of Consent
42 - Manowar - Kings of Metal
43 - Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss
44 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Odyssey
45 - Assassin - Interstellar Experience
46 - D.R.I. - 4 Of A Kind
47 - Dorsal Atlântica - Dividir & Conquistar

kkk i can't believe that, the list above is by Ze not by Toni, kkk

ALBUMS:

1. THE POGUES “If I Should Fall From Grace with God” (#78 in my all-time list)
2. PATA NEGRA “Blues de la frontera” (#80)
3. TALK TALK “Spirit of Eden” (#83)
4. PIXIES “Surfer Rosa”
5. PUBLIC ENEMY “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”
6. R.E.M. “Green”
7. COWBOY JUNKIES “The Trinity Session”
8. THE TRAVELING WILBURYS “Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1”
9. LEONARD COHEN “I’m Your Man”
10. SONIC YOUTH “Daydream Nation”
11. PREFAB SPROUT “From Langley Park to Memphis”
12. KETAMA / TOUMANI DIABATÉ / DANNY THOMPSON “Songhai”
13. MORRISSEY “Viva Hate”
14. TRACY CHAPMAN “Tracy Chapman”
15. MARY MARGARET O’HARA “Miss America”
16. THE SUGARCUBES “Life’s Too Good”
17. AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB “California”
18. THE WATERBOYS “Fisherman’s Blues”
19. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS “Tender Prey”
20. PRINCE “Lovesexy”
21. KEITH RICHARDS “Talk Is Cheap”
22. THE GO-BETWEENS “16 Lovers Lane”
23. THE CHURCH “Starfish”
24. CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN “Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart”
25. N.W.A “Straight Outta Compton”


SONGS:

1. PUBLIC ENEMY “Don’t Believe the Hype” (#77 in my all-time list)
2. SONIC YOUTH “Teen Age Riot”
3. LEONARD COHEN “First We Take Manhattan”
4. R.E.M. “World Leader Pretend”
5. MORRISSEY “Everyday Is Like Sunday”
6. THE POGUES “Fiesta”
7. PATA NEGRA “Pasa la vida”
8. PIXIES “Where Is My Mind?”
9. THE TRAVELING WILBURYS “Handle With Care”
10. PREFAB SPROUT “Cars and Girls”
11. THE GO-BETWEENS “Streets of Your Town”
12. TALK TALK “The Rainbow”
13. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS “The Mercy Seat”
14. PIXIES “Gigantic”
15. MARY MARGARET O’HARA “To Cry About”
16. TRACY CHAPMAN “Fast Car”
17. COWBOY JUNKIES “Sweet Jane”
18. THE CHURCH “Under the Milky Way”
19. LEONARD COHEN “Everybody Knows”
20. KETAMA / TOUMANI DIABATÉ / DANNY THOMPSON “Vente pa Madrid”
21. PRINCE “I Wish U Heaven”
22. PUBLIC ENEMY “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”
23. THE PRIMITIVES “Crash”
24. R.E.M. “Orange Crush”
25. DINOSAUR JR. “Freak Scene”
26. METALLICA “One”
27. TALK TALK “I Believe in You”
28. THE TRAVELING WILBURYS “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”
29. THE POGUES “Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six”
30. PATA NEGRA “Camarón”
31. PIXIES “Cactus”
32. THE TRAVELING WILBURYS “Not Alone Anymore”
33. MECANO “La fuerza del destino”
34. INNER CITY “Big Fun”
35. PRINCE “Alphabet St.”
36. PUBLIC ENEMY “Night of the Living Baseheads”
37. N.W.A “Fuck tha Police”
38. MORRISSEY “Suedehead”
39. PREFAB SPROUT “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
40. PETER MURPHY “All Night Long”
41. THE SUGARCUBES “Deus”
42. SONIC YOUTH “Candle”
43. PIXIES “Broken Face”
44. ERIC B & RAKIM “Follow the Leader”
45. PUBLIC ENEMY “She Watched Channel Zero?!”
46. THE POGUES “Turkish Song of the Damned”
47. CHEB KHALED & SAFY BOUTELLA “Chebba”
48. KETAMA / TOUMANI DIABATÉ / DANNY THOMPSON “Africa”
49. R.E.M. “Stand”
50. COWBOY JUNKIES “Misguided Angel”


FAVOURITE COMPILATION: JACQUES BREL “Quinze ans d’amour”

Pata Negra, black hoof, defines the highest quality Iberian ham because of the darker hoofs of the Iberian pigs (by the way, everyone of you should taste al least once this Pata Negra ham, better accompanied by bread with tomato-spread Catalonian-style and a glass of Ribera del Duero red wine). And this Spanish expression extends to mean “the very best”, everything that it’s first-class. So Pata Negra was obviously a quite arrogant way of naming a band.
Was that arrogance justified? The band was formed by two gipsy brothers, the guitar virtuoso Raimundo Amador and the cheeky singer Rafael Amador that showed from early stages an open minded approach. They knew deeply the clues of the pure flamenco but they always wanted to venture in different styles (the favourite guitar players of Raimundo are Diego del Gastor, Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix) so they boarded into the groundbreaking band Veneno. After the disbanding of Veneno the two brothers began a career as Pata Negra integrating naturally and fluidly elements from flamenco, jazz and blues. They released 3 good albums, “Pata Negra” (1981), “Rock Gitano” (“Gipsy Rock”, 1982), “Guitarras callejeras” (“Stray Guitars”, 1986) before their masterpiece, “Blues de la frontera” (“Blues from the Border”). Sadly the battle of egos within the brothers made this album the last one, although Rafael kept the name and released two other albums not as interesting as the previous ones. Anyway the swan song of the brothers was an awesome album, simultaneously cornerstone of the “new flamenco” and the “gipsy rock”, tremendously influential in flamenco musicians of the next decades. Joan Pons for Rockdelux: “The blues as the nature, as metaphor, was the unifying sense of an album that bordered the borders of every music style (… The idea of the border, a place of meeting and exchange, got symbolism too. Flamenco was getting beyond its own margins. The barrier between rock and flamenco audiences was definitely pulled up”
The song selected from this album is “Pasa la vida” (“Life Goes By”), in which Pata Negra transformed a “sevillana” by Romero San Juan into a smoky jazz number but played, of course, with Spanish guitars. The mastery guitar playing of Raimundo and the passionate singing of Rafael are outstanding, but the highlights here are the heartfelt lyrics about a life gone by when “you haven’t noticed that you have lived”, about arrogance that comes and glory that slips away. But that’s not true. Some of us will always remember their glory days.


PASA LA VIDA
Composers: Garrido López / Romero San Juan
Performer: PATA NEGRA
First release: 1988 (“Blues de la frontera” album)
Length: 3’47”

Pasa la vida, pasa la vida.
Pasa la vida
y no has notado que has vivido cuando
pasa la vida.
Y no has notado que has vivido cuando
pasa la vida.

Pasa la vida,
tus ilusiones y tus bellos sueños
todo se olvida.
Tus ilusiones y tus bellos sueños
todo se olvida.

Pasa la vida,
igual que pasa la corriente
cuando un río busca el mar,
y yo camino indiferente
donde me quiera llevar.

Pasa la gloria, pasa la gloria.
Pasa la gloria,
nos ciega la soberbia pero un día
pasa la gloria.
Nos ciega la soberbia pero un día
pasa la gloria.

Y pasa la gloria,
y ves que de tu obra ya no queda
ni la memoria.
Y ves que de tu obra ya no queda
ni en la memoria.

Y pasa la vida,
igual que pasa la corriente
cuando un río busca el mar,
y yo camino indiferente
donde me quiera llevar.


LIFE GOES BY

Life goes by, life goes by.
Life goes by
and you haven’t noticed that you have lived
when life goes by.
And you haven’t noticed that you have lived
when life goes by.

Life goes by,
your illusions and your beautiful dreams,
all is forgotten.
Your illusions and your beautiful dreams,
all is forgotten.

Life goes by
like the stream flows
when a river seeks the sea,
and I walk in indifference
where it wants to take me.

Glory passes by, glory passes by.
Glory passes by,
arrogance blinds us but one day
glory passes by.
Arrogance blinds us but one day
glory passes by.

Glory passes by,
and you see that your opus no longer remains
even in memory.
And you see that your opus no longer remains
even in memory.

Life goes by
like the stream flows
when a river seeks the sea,
and I walk in indifference
where it wants to take me.






If someone cares, the other Spanish songs in my list are:
- Vente pa Madrid: the Songhai team having real fun on stage, just listen to Danny Thompson joining the jaleo shouting: “Marcelo!”.
- Camarón: the Amador brothers borrowed the chord sequence of Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally” as the basis for their homage to the mythical cantaor Camarón.
- La fuerza del destino: the successful synth-pop trio Mecano in a video-clip that features the very first appearance of a cute Penelope Cruz. She was only fifteen then and soon after began a relationship with the band leader Nacho Cano. Smart guy, isn’t it?
- Africa: the unsuspected perfect connection between Mali and Andalucia.

Pata Negra will be on my list.

made a post in my blog about Tracy Chapman. Check it out !

Songs

1) Metallica – One
2) Mano Negra – Mala Vida
3) Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
4) Mano Negra – Ronde de Nuit
5) Pixies – Where is my mind ?
6) Sonic Youth – Candle
7) Public Enemy – Black Steel in the Hours of Chaos
8) Happy Mondays - WFL (Think About The Future)

Albums

1)Mano Negra – Patchanka
2)Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
3)The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
4)Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
5)Metallica - …And Justice For All

Albums:

1) R.E.M. - Green
2) The Pogues - If I should Fall from Grace with God
3) Nick Cave – Tender Prey
4) U2 - Rattle & Hum
5) Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
6) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
7) Kronos Quartet - Winter Was Hard
8) Happy Mondays – Bummed
9) The Wolfgang Press - Bird Wood Cage
10) The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
11) The House Of Love - The House Of Love
12) Talking Heads - Naked
13) Niagara - Quel enfer!
14) Les Négresses Vertes - Mlah
15) Mano Negra - Patchanka
16) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
17) The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
18) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
19) Alain Souchon - Ultra moderne solitude
20) Arvo Pärt - Passio


Songs:

1) Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
2) R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend
3) U2 – Desire
4) The Wolfgang Press - Kansas
5) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
6) Happy Mondays - WFL (Think About The Future)
7) Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
8) R.E.M. - Pop Song 89
9) The Sugarcubes - Deus
10) Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - What I Am
11) The House of Love - Christine
12) Les Négresses Vertes - L'homme des marais
13) The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing
14) Mano Negra – Mala Vida
15) R.E.M. - Orange Crush
16) Talking Heads - Mr Jones
17) Pixies - Where Is My Mind
18) Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
19) Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
20) Gamine - Voilà les anges

Shit, I forgot Mano Negra! Well, next year/month I’ll vote for “Puta’s Fever” and “King Kong Five”.

1. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
2. House Of Love – The House Of Love
3. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
4. Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
5. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

1. Pixies - Gigantic
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
3. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
4. The Church - Under The Milky Way
5. Pixies - Where Is My Mind
6. Morrissey - Suedehead
7. The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
8. House Of Love - Christine
9. Leonard Cohen - Tower of song
10. Janes Addiction - Jane Says
11. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
12. R.E.M. - Stand
13. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
14. Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses
15. U2 - Desire
16. R.E.M. - Orange Crush
17. U2 - Angel of Harlem
18. Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
19. Cocteau twins - Carolyn's fingers
20. Fugazi - Waiting Room

For albums, see earlier post.

Songs:

1) R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend
2) Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
3) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
4) Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am
5) Fatal Flowers - Rock And Roll Star
6) Talk Talk - I Believe In You
7) Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout A Revolution
8) The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
9) Michelle Shocked - Anchorage
10) The House Of Love - Christine
11) Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
12) Pixies - Gigantic
13) Morrissey - Suedehead
14) Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
15) Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
16) R.E.M. - Orange Crush
17) Galaxie 500 - Instrumental
18) Enya - Orinoco Flow
19) The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
20) Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

And nrs. 21 to 50, in alphabetical order:

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Circle
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
The Church - Under The Milky Way
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
Melissa Etheridge - Bring Me Some Water
Melissa Etheridge - Like The Way I Do
Fairground Attraction - Perfect
The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
Los Lobos - La Pistola Y El Corazon
Masters Of Reality - Domino
Masters Of Reality - John Brown
Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sunday
Pixies - Break My Body
Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
The Pursuit Of Happiness - She's So Young
R.E.M. - Stand
R.E.M. - You Are The Everything
Roxette - The Look
The Smithereens - Elaine
The Smithereens - Especially For You
The Smithereens - Only A Memory
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
The Waterboys - And A Bang On The Ear
Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses
The Wonder Stuff - It's Yer Money (I'm After Baby)

Albums

1) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3) Tracey Chapman - Tracey Chapman
4) Living Colour - Vivid
5) Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year
6) Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
7) The Traveling Wilburys - Volume I
8) Prince - Lovesexy
9) NWA - Straight Outta Compton
10) The Pixies - Surfa Rosa
11) Green, R.E.M.
12) The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
13) Was Not Was - What Up Dog?

I hope songs are coming later

Make that Tracy Chapman, I'm an idiot.

Albums
1) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
2) Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
3) Noitalinna huraa - Kalan silmä
4) Metallica - ...And Justice for All
5) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Albums

1. LEONARD COHEN: I’m Your Man
2. LIVING COLOUR: Vivid
3. PATA NEGRA: Blues de la frontera (*)
4. R.E.M: Green
5. FRANCO BATTIATO: Fisiognomica
6. MICHAEL NYMAN: Drowning by Numbers
7. TALKING HEADS: Naked
8. BRIAN WILSON: Brian Wilson
9. NEIL YOUNG: This Note’s for You
10. THE WATERBOYS: Fisherman’s Blues
11. VARIOUS ARTISTS: Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly
12. BOBBIE McFERRIN: Simple Pleasures
13. U2: Rattle & Hum
14. TRACY CHAPMAN: Tracy Chapman
15. COWBOY JUNKIES: The Trinity Session
16. MORRISEY: Viva Hate
17. LES NEGRESSES VERTES: Mlah
18. THE GO-BETWEENS: 16 Lovers Lane
19. PREFAB SPROUT: From Langley Park to Memphis
20. THE TRAVELLING WILLBURYS: Travelling Willburys, Vol. I

21. EDIE BRICKELL AND THE NEW BOHEMIANS: Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
22. PENELOPE HOUSTON: Birdboys
23. BILLY BRAGG: Workers Playtime
24. ENYA: Watermark
25. WIM MERTENS: After Virtue
26. SADE: Stronger Than Pride
27. TOM TOM CLUB: Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
28. PET SHOP BOYS: Introspective
29. PRINCE: Lovesexy
30. THE PROCLAIMERS: Sunshine on Leith

Songs

1. THE FOUR TOPS: Loco in Acapulco
2. THE WATERBOYS: Fisherman’s Blues
3. TRACY CHAPMAN: Baby, Can I Hold You
4. RICHARD THOMPSON: Turning of the Tide
5. BILLY BRAGG: Must I Paint You a Picture?
6. PREFAB SPROUT: Cars and Girls
7. LEONARD COHEN: Everybody Knows
8. LEONARD COHEN: First, We Take Manhattan
9. TALKING HEADS: Blind
10. LIVING COLOUR: Memories Can’t Wait
11. THE BEACH BOYS: Kokomo (# 24 in “The worst 65 songs ever” )
12. PREFAB SPROUT: The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
13. R.E.M.: Stand
14. COWBOY JUNKIES: Sweet Jane
15. LIVING COLOUR: Glamour Boys
16. LEONARD COHEN: I’m Your Man
17. R.E.M.: World Leader Pretend
18. FRANCO BATTIATO: E ti vengo a cercare
19. PHIL COLLINS: Two Hearts
20. LIVING COLOUR: Cult of Personality


Spanish Albums

1. JAVIER BERGIA: La alegría del coyote
2. ILEGALES: Chicos pálidos para la máquina
3. PATA NEGRA: Blues de la frontera
4. EL ÚLTIMO DE LA FILA: Como la cabeza al sombrero
5. LOS ENEMIGOS: Un tío cabal
6. MARIA DEL MAR BONET: Ben a prop
7. LOQUILLO Y LOS TROGLODITAS: Morir en primavera
8. LOS LOCOS: El segundo de Los Locos
9. MALEVAJE: Un momentito
10. DANZA INVISIBLE: A tu alcance


Films

1. DIARIO DE INVIERNO (WINTER DIARY), Francisco Regueiro
2. DIE HARD, John McTiernan
3. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, Frank Oz
4. ANOTHER WOMAN, Woody Allen
5. THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, Lawrence Kasdan
6. BIRD, Clint Eastwood
7. WITHOUT A CLUE, Thom Eberhardt
8. LA VIE EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE (LIFE IS A LONG QUIET RIVER), Ettienee Chatillez
9. LA LECTRICE (THE READER), Michel Deville
10. REMANDO AL VIENTO (ROWING WITH THE WIND), Gonzalo Suárez


Compilation

THE BEATLES: Past Masters, Volume Two


(*) You know my opinion about the inclusion of Spanish albums in the list, but I think I could make an exception in this case for two good reasons. This album is known out of Spain (in France, at least), and is the favourite Spanish album of our friend Honorio.

Oh my!

I forgot about the MBV listening research I did for the live show! It's sometimes hard to remember the albums you listen to on Rhapsody, since it's not a traditional way of buying and listening to an album.

Please update my list.

1) R.E.M. - Green
2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3) Frank Zappa - Broadway the Hard Way
4) Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
5) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
6) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
7) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 2
8) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 1

Albums:

1) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2) Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
3) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4) They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
5) Philip Glass - Solo Piano
6) N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
7) Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
8) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
9) Last Exit - Iron Path
10) Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
11) Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
12) Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
13) The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
14) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
15) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
16) A.R. Kane - 69
17) Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
18) EPMD - Strictly Business
19) The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
20) Fishbone - Truth and Soul

Songs:

1) Talk Talk - The Rainbow
2) Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
3) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
4) They Might Be Giants - They'll Need a Crane
5) Slick Rick - Children's Story
6) N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
7) Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
8) Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
9) Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
10) Public Enemy - Black Steel in The Hour of Chaos
11) Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings of Life
12) Camper Van Beethoven - The Eye of Fatima, pts. 1 and 2
13) Metallica - One
14) Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
15) My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
16) Fugazi - Waiting Room
17) Ultramagnetic MC's - Give The Drummer Some
18) The Church - Under The Milky Way
19) Living Colour - Cult of Personality
20) Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
21) Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
22) Sonic Youth - Cross The Breeze
23) Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
24) The La's - There She Goes
25) Prince - Alphabet St.
26) The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
27) Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
28) Erasure - A Little Respect
29) They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
30) EPMD - You Gots To Chill
31) The Sugarcubes - Motorcrash
32) Talk Talk - Desire
33) A.R. Kane - Crazy Blue
34) N.W.A. - Express Yourself
35) Everything But The Girl - Apron Strings
36) Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - Joy and Pain
37) Eric B. & Rakim - Microphone Fiend
38) Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene
39) Fishbone - Ma and Pa
40) Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock 'n' Roll
41) U2 - All I Want Is You
42) Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
43) The Go-Betweens - Streets of Your Town
44) Ice-T - Colors
45) Galaxie 500 - Tugboat
46) R.E.M. - Get Up
47) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
48) Enya - Evening Falls…
49) Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
50) Brian Wilson - Love and Mercy

Thanks, Miguel

Albums
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
3. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
4. Metallica - …And Justice for All
5. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
6. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
7. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
8. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
9. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
10. The Church - Starfish
11. The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
12. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
13. Sator - Slammer!
14. R.E.M. - Green
15. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
16. Astor Piazzolla - The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night
17. Prince - Lovesexy
18. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
20. U2 - Rattle and Hum

Songs
1. Pet Shop Boys - Left to My Own Devices
2. The Church - Under the Milky Way
3. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
4. Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love
5. Sonic Youth - Candle
6. Prince - Anna Stesia
7. Mary Margaret O'Hara - When You Know Why You're Happy
8. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
9. Jevetta Steele - Calling You
10. Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout a Revolution
11. Metallica - Blackened
12. Metallica - One
13. Roxette - The Look
14. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
15. The House of Love - Christine
16. Eldkvarn - Kärlekens tunga
17. Pet Shop Boys - It's Alright
18. Talk Talk - The Rainbow
19. Yello - The Race
20. Helloween - I Want Out

Albums-

1) Big Dipper- Craps
2) Metallica- And Justice For All
3) The Pogues- If I Should Fall From Grace With God
4) R.E.M.- Green
5) N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton
6) Tracy Chapman- Tracy Chapman
7) Slick Rick- The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

Songs-

1) Fugazi- Waiting Room
2) N.W.A.- Express Yourself
3) Lyle Lovett- If I Had a Boat
4) Big Dipper- Meet the Witch
5) Big Dipper- Ron Klaus Wrecked His House
6) The Pogues- If I Should Fall From Grace With God
7) Scritti Politti- Boom! There She Was
8) Metallica- And Justice For All
9) The Pixies- Where Is My Mind?
10) Big Dipper- Stardom Because
11) Boogie Down Productions- My Philosophy
12) The Dead Milkmen- Punk Rock Girl
13) The Traveling Wilburies- Handle With Care
14) Sonic Youth- Candle
15) Tracy Chapman- Fast Car
16) Aerosmith- Rag Doll
17) R.E.M.- Stand
18) Run DMC- Mary Mary
19) R.E.M.- Orange Crush

Albums

1. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
5. Metallica - …And Justice for All
6. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Songs

1. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
2. N.W.A. - F*** Tha Police
3. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
4. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
5. Fugazi - Waiting Room
6. Metallica - One
7. Living Colour - Cult of Personality
8. Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene
9. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
10. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
11. Pixies - Gigantic
12. Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype
13. Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
14. Tone-Loc - Wild Thing
15. Happy Mondays - WFL (Wrote for Luck)
16. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sidewalking
17. EPMD - You Gots to Chill
18. LL Cool J - Goin' Back to Cali
19. The Church - Under the Milky Way
20. Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin'

Albums

1)The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
2)Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3)R.E.M. - Green
4)Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To
Hold Us Back
5)Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
6)The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With
God
7)Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Songs

1)The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone
2)Morrissey - Suedehead
3)The House Of Love - Christine
4)Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
5)Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
6)The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart
7)The Pixies - Where Is My Mind
8)Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
9)Nick Cave&The Bad Seeds - Mercy Seat
10)Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
11)My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize
12)R.E.M. - Orange Crush
13)Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
14)A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
15)The Primitives - Crash

You are welcome, Honorio!

Sonofsamiam: Solo Piano was released in 1989. You can check it on the web page of the artist.

1988 : a rap year

Albums

1 N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
2 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
3 Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
4 R.E.M. - Green
5 The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
6 Metallica - …And Justice For All
7 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
8 Ketama/Toumani Diabate/Danny Thompson - Songhaï
9 Asleep At The Wheel - Western Standard Time
10 The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
11 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
12 Various Artists - Folkways : A Vision Shared (Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly)
13 Albert King - Blues At Sunrise : Live at Montreux
14 Pata Negra - Blues de la frontera
15 Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
16 The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
17 Martin Stephenson & the Daintees - Gladsome, Humor & Blues
18 Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
19 Darden Smith - Darden Smith
20 Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

Songs

1 Metallica - One
2 The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing
3 N.W.A. - Fuck Tha Police
4 Asleep At The Wheel - Chattanooga Choo Choo
5 N.W.A. - Parental Discretion Iz Advised
6 EPMD - Strictly Business
7 N.W.A. - Gangsta Gangqta
8 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
9 Asleep At The Wheel - San Antonio Rose
10 Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - Me and Matthew
11 Public Enemy - Cold Lampin' With Flavor
12 Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
13 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
14 Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
15 R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend
16 Darden Smith - Little Maggie
17 Ketama/Toumani Diabate/Danny Thompson - Mani Mani Kuru
18 Prince - Alphabet Street
19 Michelle Shocked - Anchorage
20 The Jeff Healey Band - Confidence Man

Disappointment of the year : the Leonard Cohen album
I just can't get it. The production is terrible.

1 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2 - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3 - Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
4 - Ketama/Toumani Diabate/Danny Thompson - Songhai
5 - My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything


1 - Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype
2 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
3 - Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
4 - Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
5 - Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz

Sorry, I don't have access to Excel right now.

Unfortunately, I did even less well at listening widely this month/year than usual. Biggest regrets: Not getting to listen to 1988's Luncinda Williams, My Bloody Valentine, or Steve Earle. Another regret: That NWA didn't cut off about half the tracks from Straight Outta Compton to make what would have been a hell of an EP. Also I regret that the damned thing's so misogynistic.

1) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4) Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
5) The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
6) Traveling Wilburys - Volume One
7) REM - Green
8) Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
9) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
10) Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
11) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
12) NWA - Straight Outta Compton

1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Travelling Wilburys - Volume One
3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
5. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
6. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
7. REM - Green
8. Nick Cave - Tender Prey
9. Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
10. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

Albums:

1. Prince- Lovesexy
2. Roxette- Look Sharp! (You know it!)
3. Siouxsie and the Banshees- Peepshow
4. Sade- Stronger than Pride
5. Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
6. Living Colour- Vivid
7. Bobby Brown- Don't Be Cruel
8. Joan Jett- Up Your Alley
9. Erasure- The Innocents
10. Milli Vanilli- Girl You Know It's True

Songs:

1. Prince- Anna Stesia
2. Prince- Positivity
3. Prince- Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
4. Prince- I Wish U Heaven
5. Prince- Eye Know
6. Roxette- Paint
7. Tracy Chapman- Fast Car
8. Prince- Lovesexy
9. Roxette- Silver Blue
10. Prince- When 2 R in Love
11. Siouxsie and the Banshees- The Last Beat of My Heart
12. Neneh Cherry- Buffalo Stance
13. Erasure- A Little Respect
14. Karyn White- Secret Rendezvous
15. Joan Jett- Little Liar
16. Erasure- Chains of Love
17. Sade- Paradise
18. Siouxsie and the Banshees- The Killing Jar
19. Living Colour- Cult of Personality
20. Bobby Brown- My Prerogative

Man, I got too distracted in October to submit this on time (plus, another year that I know little about). If there's still time here are my lists:

Albums:

1) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
2) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
5) EPMD - Strictly Business
6) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
7) R.E.M. - Green

Songs:

1) Pixies - Gigantic
2) Journey - Any Way You Want It
3) Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
4) U2 - Desire
5) Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
6) Church, The - Under the Milky Way
7) Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype
8) Pixies - Break My Body
9) Pixies - Brick Is red
10) R.E.M. - Orange Crush
11) Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
12) Pixies - Bone Machine
13) Pixies - Something Against You
14) Pixies - Broken Face
15) Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
16) Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
17) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
18) Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
19) Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
20) EPMD - You Gots to Chill

Yeah, there's a little time left. I'll be a little late again. Not as late as last month though.

Thanks for the extension!

Albums

1 Surfer Rosa Pixies
2 Spirit of Eden Talk Talk
3 Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine
4 16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens
5 Bummed Happy Mondays
6 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy
7 Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.
8 The House of Love (Creation) The House of Love
9 Follow the Leader Eric B. & Rakim
10 Bug Dinosaur Jr.
11 Viva Hate Morrissey
12 The Eight Legged Groove Machine The Wonder Stuff
13 Superfuzz Bigmuff Mudhoney
14 Starfish The Church
15 Green R.E.M.
16 Volume One Traveling Wilburys
17 Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes
18 I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen
19 If I Should Fall from Grace with God The Pogues
20 Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys

Maybe the best year for songs since 1979

50 Eternal Flame The Bangles
49 Doctorin' The Tardis The Timelords
48 Plug Tunin De La Soul
47 Jane Says Jane's Addiction
46 Handle with Care Traveling Wilburys
45 I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen
44 Joe Le Taxi Vanessa Paradis
43 Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? The Wedding Present
42 The King of Rock 'n' Roll Prefab Sprout
41 Streets of Your Town The Go-Betweens
40 Destroy the Heart The House of Love
39 It's Ya Money I'm After Baby The Wonder Stuff
38 What I Am Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
37 Orange Crush R.E.M.
36 The Rainbow Talk Talk
35 Suedehead Morrissey
34 F*** Tha Police N.W.A.
33 Victoria The Fall
32 Bone Machine Pixies
31 Heart Pet Shop Boys
30 Buffalo Stance Neneh Cherry
29 A Little Respect Erasure
28 Slow My Bloody Valentine
27 11 R.E.M.
26 Alphabet Street Prince
25 Theme from S'Express S'Express
24 It Takes Two Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
23 Big Fun Inner City
22 Express Yourself N.W.A.
21 Lose My Breath My Bloody Valentine
20 First We Take Manhattan Leonard Cohen
19 Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.
18 Run's House (What's It All About?) Run-D.M.C.
17 Where Is My Mind? Pixies
16 The Mercy Seat Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
15 Touch Me, I'm Sick Mudhoney
14 Follow the Leader Eric B. & Rakim
13 Sidewalking The Jesus and Mary Chain
12 Christine The House of Love
11 Don't Believe the Hype Public Enemy
10 Inheritance Talk Talk
9 Bring The Noise Public Enemy
8 WFL (Wrote for Luck) Happy Mondays
7 Crash The Primitives
6 Under the Milky Way The Church
5 Freak Scene Dinosaur Jr.
4 Voodoo Ray A Guy Called Gerald
3 You Made Me Realize My Bloody Valentine
2 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey
1 Gigantic Pixies

Songs
In time I hope

1) Public Enemy – Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
2) Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
3) Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
4) R.E.M. – Orange Crush
5) U2 – Desire
6) Public Enemy – She Watch Channel Zero
7) Living Colour – Cult of Personality
8) Public Enemy – Don’t Believe the Hype
9) Prince – Alphabet Street
10) NWA – Express Yourself
11) Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
12) Tracy Chapman – Revolution
13) The Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care
14) Sonic Youth – Silver Rocket
15) Michelle Shocked – Anchorage
16) The Pixies – Gigantic
17) Was Not Was – Walk the Dinosaur
18) Prince – Dance On
19) NWA – Fuck tha Police
20) Pere Ubu – Something’s Gotta Give

Only 8 days late this time, here are the results:

Albums
1) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4) R.E.M. - Green
5) The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
6) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
7) Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
9) My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
10) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Songs
1) Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
2) Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
3) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
4) Pixies - Gigantic
5) Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
6) R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend
7) Metallica - One
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
9) Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
10) The Church - Under The Milky Way


For the complete list, check

Once again feel free to notify me of any mistakes. There shouldn't be as many this time since I took the time to check the list, but some could still have slipped through.

Hey Stephan, you appear to have left off my 50 points for Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

They were counted, they just ended up in John's list for some reason. Updated the file.

Nick Caves Mercy Seat should be higher. It's twice in the list (# 8 and also # 37 (with my 50 points and Midaso's 14 points)).

"You know it!" was just a comment from me, Stephan! Roxette's awesome 1988 album is simply called Look Sharp!

I like how Prince's Lovesexy made the top 20. It's his most underrated album, in my opinion, and definitely my second favorite.

I'm also happy to see "Anna Stesia" claim the top song of '88 for Prince. I think if more people heard it, it would definitely crack the top 10- its power is unrelenting.

Here's my favorite live performance of "Anna Stesia". The most prevalent messages of Prince's music are all encapsulated in this brilliant song, in which he struggles with the internal battle of flesh vs. spirit, culminating with the acknowledgment that closeness to God is the path to his ultimate happiness. It really resonates, particularly given a cursory glance at what was happening in his life at the time. An all-embracing, all-encompassing message of the triumph of spirituality over dejected solitude.

Anyway, enjoy!

Here's the studio version: http://www.imeem.com/people/j3uvKH/music/jjq3uKF7/prince_anna_stesia/

Sorry Stephan but I’ve found that the 9 points that I gave to “Songhai” ended in John Hiatt’s “Slow Turning”. So John Hiatt goes from position #29 to #35 and Ketama goes from #78 (tied with other 5) to #57 (tied with other 5 too). I’ve tried to correct it myself but I couldn’t save the changes (and I don’t know why).

I'm really surprised Jane's Addiction and Nick Cave didn't make it.

Anything in the top 17 probably would have made it in any other year in the 80s.

Kind of like how there are going to be a lot of albums that make it in 1976 that wouldn't have even made top 20 in 1971, 1975, or 1977.