Because we've clearly gotten to the point where a lot of people can't even vote, this time we're voting with a 200 album block instead of a 100 album. In these blocks however, the top ten will qualify instead of the top five.

Since more people will probably be able to fill out full ballots this round, the time frame will go back up to a week, now ending on Monday.

My ballot:

The Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
The Kinks - Lola
Live - Throwing Copper (10)
Tool - Lateralus (10)
Jackson Browne - For Everyman (5)
Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor (5)
Madonna - Madonna (5)
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (1)
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (1)
The Band - Stage Fright (1)

1. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
2. Warren Zevon - The Wind
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
4. Madonna - s/t
5. Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
6. The Cure - Wish
7. The Band - Stage Fright
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
9. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
10. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother

11. Pat Metheny Group - s/t
12. Shelby Lynne - I am Shelby Lynne
13. Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment
14. Minor Threat - s/t
15. Sam & Dave - Soul Men
16. The Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs of Life
17. Big Country - The Crossing
18. Anita O'Day - Anita Sings the Most
19. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
20. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
21. Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
22. Jackson Browne - For Everyman
23. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
24. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
25. Traveling Wilburys - Volume One
26. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
27. Cameo - Word Up!
28. Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
29. Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
30. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

1. U2 - Zooropa (incredibly underrated album)
2. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
4. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
5. Live - Throwing Copper
6. Liars - They Threw Us In a Trench and Stuck a Mountain on Top
7. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
8. Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
9. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
10. Tool - Lateralus

1. Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
2. Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
3. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
4. Pat Metheny Group - S/T
5. The Band - Stage Fright
6. RHCP - By The Way
7. Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
8. Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
9. Live - Throwing Copper
10. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy

1) Radiator - Super Furry Animals -- My second favorite album from the most underrated band of all time.

2) Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen -- My favorite Bruce album. I had this above Radiator in the 2008 album poll. I really like them both, and they are so different, it's hard to figure out how to rank them.

3) Terror Twilight - Pavement -- I've noticed that in the past number of years, a number of songs on this album have gotten some play in pop culture. I never thought a Malkmus song, particularly one called "Spit on a Stranger," would get played underneath a romantic scene on a network sitcom... but there it was. I like this a fair amount better than Wowee Zowee.

4) Wowee Zowee - Pavement -- But I still like this mess of an album pretty well.

5) Central Reservation - Beth Orton -- When I see all these interchangeable female singer songwriters that seem to pop up every ten minutes on VH1 in the past two years, I think a fair number of them could take a cue from Beth Orton on how to retain some individuality and potency...

6) Call the Doctor - Sleater-Kinney -- ...Or if they really had any cajones they'd take a cue from these gals. (Or from PJ Harvey, who only had one misfire of an album (Uh Huh Her), which will not make this list.)

7) Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Concept Recording -- I suspect I could justify this vote until I'm blue in the face, and none of you would buy it. I'll just say in my defense: a) there is still a hidden part of me that is a big musical theater geek; b) I bow to no one in my hatred for all that A.L. Webber did after this album; and c) just be glad I didn't vote for Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down, because a perverse part of me was tempted to do so.

8) Volume 1 - Traveling Wilburys - Another fun album.

9) Zooropa - U2

10) s/t - Madonna

So can we pick 20 now?

1. Shins- Oh Inverted World
2. New Order- Get Ready
3. Pavement- Terror Twilight
4. Cat Stevens- Teaser and the Firecat
5. The Coral- The Coral
6. Drive By Truckers- Decoration Day
7. Sleater Kinney- Call the Doctor
8. Blonde Redhead- 23
9. Ol' Dirty Bastard- Return to the 36 Chambers
10. Planxty- Planxty
11. The Adverts- Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
12. Miles Davis- Workin'
13. Madonna- Madonna
14. Original London Cast- Jesus Christ Superstar
15. Chicago- The Chicago Transit Authority
16. Ween- Chocolate and Cheese
17. Tori Amos- Under the Pink
18. Traveling Wilburys- Vol. 1
19. Manu Chao- …próxima estación...Esperanza
20. Ramones- Road to Ruin

1. Madonna- Madonna (FAR superior to Like a Virgin)
2. Michael Jackson- Bad (my favorite MJ album)
3. The Cure- Wish (their last great pop album, although I think BloodFlowers is better)
4. George Michael- Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 (his crowning achievement, to these ears anyway)
5. U2- Zooropa
6. Lou Reed- Coney Island Baby
7. Neneh Cherry- Raw Like Sushi (no money man, can win my love!)
8. New Order- Brotherhood
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Show Your Bones
10. Blonde Redhead- 23

1. The Coral - The Coral
2. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion Esperanza
3. Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
4. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
5. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ
6. Urge Overkill - Saturation
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
8. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
9. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
10. The Vines - Highly Evolved

01) Millennium - Begin
02) Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
03) Original London Concept Recording - Jesus Christ Superstar
04) Lynne, Shelby - I Am Shelby Lynne
05) Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
06) Live - Throwing Copper
07) Mellencamp, John Cougar - The Lonesome Jubilee
08) U2 - Zooropa
09) Jackson, Michael - Bad
10) Crow, Sheryl - Tuesday Night Music Club

I understand Bill.

1. Pavement - Wowee Zowee (my favorite Pavement album)
2. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
4. U2 - Zooropa
5. XTC - Black Sea
6. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
7. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
8. Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
9. Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and the Cooked
10. The Special A.K.A. - In the Studio

1. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
2. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
3. Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
4. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
5. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
6. Tortoise - Tortoise
7. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
8. Blonde Redhead - 23
9. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
10. The Coral - The Coral

11. Live - Throwing Copper
12. Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
14. Michael Jackson - Bad
15. Faust - Faust So Far
16. U2 - Zooropa
17. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
18. Tori Amos - Under the Pink
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

1. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
2. Pavement - Terror Twilight
3. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
5. Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
7. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
8. Ween - Chocolate & Cheese
9. Bad Brains
10. The Birthday Party - Junkyard

Sadly, still slim pickings in these 200 albums. There's quite a bit I've heard of but not much that I'd be willing to vote for.

1. U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
2. Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat
3. New Order – Brotherhood
4. Blonde Redhead – 23
5. Ramones – Road to Ruin
6. The Shins – Oh, Inverted World
7. U2 – Zooropa

1)ELTON JOHN Tumbleweed Connection
2)GARTH BROOKS No Fences
3)PET SHOP BOYS Introspective
4)SHERYL CROW Tuesday Night Music Club
5)GEORGE MICHAEL “Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1”
6)THE CURE Wish
7)MICHAEL JACKSON “Bad”
8)KAISER CHIEFS Employment
9)ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
10)TRAVELING WILBURYS Volume One
11)JILL SCOTT “Who is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1”
12)U2 Zooropa
13)QUEEN LATIFAH All Hail the Queen
14)TORI AMOS “Under the Pink”
15)U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

1. CROSSING THE RED SEA WITH THE ADVERTS
2. Urge Overkill, SATURATION
3. Sleater-Kinney, CALL THE DOCTOR
4. Love, DA CAPO
5. Pavement, TERROR TWILIGHT
6. Pavement, WOWEE ZOWEE
7. The Dream Syndicate, THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
8. Ramones, ROAD TO RUIN
9. The Feelies, THE GOOD EARTH
10. U2, ZOOROPA

Honorable mention: Lots and lots of really good jazz (Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, Dave Holland, etc.).

What a great group -- I keep seeing people mention slim pickings, but I wonder if they've heard some of these, especially from the more obscure genres.

Anyhoo, the first 3 here are in my all-time 100, Top 8 in my 300, and Top 21 in my 500.

1. The Millennium - Begin
2. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
3. Faust - Faust So Far
4. The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land
5. Neu! - Neu! 75
6. XTC - Black Sea
7. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
8. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
9. Can - Soon Over Babaluma
10. Albert Ayler - Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

****

11. James Chance & The Contortions - Buy
12. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
13. Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
14. Orchestra Baobab - Ken Dou Werente/Pirates Choice
15. Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
16. Faust - Faust
17. Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
18. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
19. Cat Power - Moon Pix
20. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
21. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
22. Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Black President
23. Miles Davis - Nefertiti
24. Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
25. Dexter Gordon - Go!
26. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
27. Popol Vuh - In den Gärten Pharaohs
28. Love - Da Capo
29. Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
30. Tori Amos - Under the Pink

01. Buy. James Chance & The Contortions
02. Da Capo. Love
03. Begin. The Millennium
04. His N Hers. Pulp
05. Soon Over Babaluma. Can
06. Wowee Zowee. Pavement
07. The Parable Of Arable Land. Red Crayola
08. Return To The 36 Chambers. ODB
09. Let My Children Hear Music. Charles Mingus
10. Mind Bomb. The The
11. Estrangeiro. Caetano Veloso
12. Radiator. SFA
13. Eskimo. The Residents
14. Neu! 75. Neu!
15. People In Sorrow. Art Ensemble Of Chicago
16. Space Ritual. Hawkwind
17. Mwandishi. Herbie Hancock
18. Mecca And The Soul Brother. Pete Rock & CL Smooth
19. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
20. Conference Of The Birds. Dave Holland

Standings so far:

Narcissus & pals: 74
Good places to kick: 68
Indie icons: 63
Board darlings: 59
Same indie icons: 58
Southern rock shredders: 50
Girl rock trio: 47
Xenomorphic pop icon: 44
The date of the apocalype: 40
Hurling metal: 37

A couple dozen albums currently within one first place vote of the top ten.

Rune: Did you mean Show Your Bones? You said Fever To Tell.

sonofsam: A lot of the ones you voted for, I haven't heard them, but I've heard other albums by the same group.

Are Harold Wexler, sonofsamiam and netjade the only ones who have heard Da Capo by Love or is it just so much worse than Forever Changes? I haven't heard it. Forever Changes was my #15 (or something like that) last time we had the best of all time album poll so maybe it's time to finally get that cd (da capo).

So far I'm the only one who has voted Sung Tongs. Come on! The breakthrough album (and my favourite) of one of the most influental band of the decade.

I noticed that I forgot to vote Neu! 75. It should be in my top 10. If it's possble let's put in into #6 (I hope it doesn't harm chance of Radiator to the next round).

I thought that "Da Capo" was pretty mediocre. I love "Forever Changes" (it's in my top 100 albums), but I don't have the same love for "Da Capo." It just seems less interesting and less melodic to me.

whoa.. less melodic?? only in your dreams, young chordato... no, seriously, try a decent lop ear on it, pop elton, it definitely won't fail you

1. Pet Shop Boys – Introspective
2. Beth Orton – Central Reservation
3. Jill Scott – Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1
4. Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
5. U2 - Zooropa
6. Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
7. Low – Secret Name
8. Orchestra Baobab – Ken dou werente
9. The Coral – The Coral
10. Cat Power – Moon Pix

If the second half of DA CAPO had actual songs instead of an aimless 18-minute jam, I would have placed it at #1 for this round. As it is, the songs that comprise the first half are uniformly brilliant and more than justify the high ranking I did give it.

1. Procol Harum: Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade of Pale, 1967
2. Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw and the Cooked, 1989
3. Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat, 1971
4. Love: Da Capo, 1967
5. The Kinks: Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Part One, 1970
6. Super Furry Animals: Radiator, 1997
7. Traveling Wilburys: Volume One, 1988
8. Sam and Dave: Soul Men, 1967
9. Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See, 1993
10. Warren Zevon: The Wind, 2003

11. Ramones: Road to Ruin, 1978
12. Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby, 1976
13. Michael Jackson: Bad, 1987
14. Beth Orton: Central Reservation, 1999
15. Jackson Browne: For Everyman, 1973
16. The Coral: The Coral, 2002
17. Elvis Presley: Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old), 1971
18. Madonna: Madonna, 1983
19. Pet Shop Boys: Introspective, 1988
20. XTC: Black Sea, 1980

Assuming nobody's trying to sneak in an entry in the last 20 minutes, here are the results.

19 votes, exactly 100 albums voted on.

1. U2 - Zooropa (85/8/1)
2. Pavement - Wowee Zowee (73/5/2)
3. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (68/6/1)
3. Super Furry Animals - Radiator (68/5/1)
5. Pavement - Terror Twighlight (58/4/0)
6. The Millennium - Begin (55/3/2)
7. The Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day (50/3/2)
8. Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor (47/5/0)
9. Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat (45/3/0)
10. Madonna - Madonna (44/4/0)
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Love - Da Capo (43/3/0)
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (41/3/0)
The Coral - The Coral (38/3/1)
Live - Throwing Copper (38/4/0)
The Cure - Wish (35/3/0)
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective (35/2/0)

At this point it's more than safe to say the wild card standings won't change any, so here are the final wild card standings, three of which will make the elimination round:

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (#588, 105 pts)
Pulp - This Is Hardcore (#659, 102 pts)
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (#914, 101 pts)
Beck - Midnite Vultures (#617, 101 pts)
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (#648, 98 pts)
The Kinks - Face To Face (#586, 98 pts)
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (#972, 96 pts)
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica (#653, 94 pts)
Beach Boys - Sunflower (#908, 93 pts)
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man (#991, 93 pts)


Voting for that round you will only be able to vote for 3 (Because only 3 move on), and points will be 10/7/5. I'm ruling because it came before the scoring change, all tiebreakers go to Yo La Tengo.

Usually I'm not one to get irritated by these results (or I try not to show it), but it pained me greatly to see the rather mediocre Terror Twilight just edge out one of the great sunshine pop albums ever (Begin).

All you Beach Boys fans, and I know there are many, you owe it to yourselves to check that album out.

Don't despair, son. Ten albums qualified from this batch.

"Begin" is one of the albums that I'm really interested in but haven't heard yet. If it had been available at Spotify I would definitely have given it a few spins during the last week. I'll definitely get it somehow for the elimination round.

I just heard "Begin" for the first time yesterday. I would need some more listens to have it break my top 10 for this bracket.

Begin is something I intend to buy next time I see it in the store. (At least, I don't think it's one of those albums rare enough that I won't eventually find it cheap used. Not like freaking Starsailor which is $75 used on Amazon.)

I don't think Pavement was ever *not* going to make the top 10. I think it's great that albums like Begin make it in too that fewer people have heard.

The albums I myself am most interested in are the ones not so many people have heard but everyone who has heard puts it right at their top.