I'm not sure if this has been covered, but I'm wondering what are your top 10 albums outside of the AM top 1,000?

Here is my list:

01. The Flatlanders - More A Legend Than A Band (AM rank 2052)
02. The Unholy Modal Rounders, et al - Have Moicy! (AM rank 1457)
03. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
04. The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
05. John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
06. Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
07. Steve Young - Seven Bridges Road
08. Bob Martin - Midwest Farm Disaster
09. The Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
10. Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything)

1. Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn
2. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky
3. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
4. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
5. Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity
6. The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
7. Cara Dillon - Sweet Liberty
8. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
9. Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
10. K's Choice - Almost Happy

Interestingly, the last 5 are all from the last decade. Also, I'm pretty sure I listened to The Flatlanders on your suggestion, so I'll give #2 a spin as well.

1. Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night
2. Studio - West Coast
3. Sade - Love Deluxe
4. Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes
5. Scott Walker - Scott 3
6. Scott Walker - Scott
7. Thomas Newman - American Beauty
8. Astor Piazzolla - Tango: Zero Hour
9. Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo
10. Low - I Could Live in Hope

Not surprisingly, these lists look a lot like the albums we are voting between in the moderately acclaimed poll.

1. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
2. Super Mash Bros. - Fuck Bitches. Get Euros.
3. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
4. Luna - Penthouse
5. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
6. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Radio City
7. Jet - Shine On
8. Super Mash Bros. - All About the Scrillions
9. J. Cole - The Warm Up
10. Coldplay - Viva la Vida

01. Billy Bragg & Wilco- Mermaid Avenue
02. Olivia Tremor Control- Dusk at Cubist Castle
03. Brian Eno- Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
04. Van Morrison- Tupelo Honey
05. The Velvet Underground- VU
06. Loretta Lynn- Van Lear Rose
07. Nico- Chelsea's Girls
08. Roxy Music- Country Life
09. This Mortal Coil- It'll End In Tears
10. Wilco- Wilco (The Album)

Blimey, this shit is hilarious. Thanks for the recommendation!

1) Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach
2) Lynyrd Skynard - Street Survivors
3) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
4) Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
5) Pink Floyd - Animals
6) Santana - Supernatural
7) Blink 182 - Enema of State
8) Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
9) Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
10)Steely Dan - Gaucho

Honorable Mention
11) Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
12) Rolling Stones - Tatoo You
13) Eagles - One of These Nights
14) Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
15) Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle
16) Elton John - Honky Chateau
17) Blind Faith - Blind Faith
18) Todd Rundgren - Todd
19) Style Council - Our Favourite Shop
20) Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
21) Beat - Special Beat Service
22) Who - Who By Numbers
23) Billy Joel - 52nd Street
24) Genesis - Duke
25) Carole King - Music
26) Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
27) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
28) Journey - Infinity
29) Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
30) Roxy Music - Avalon
31) Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
32) Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
33) Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
34) Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
35) Utopia - Utopia

1. Underachiever Please Try Harder- Camera Obscura
2. O- Tilly And the Wall
3. The Young Machines- Her Space Holiday (Never been a big Bright Eyes fan, I don't like the Postal Service much but you put them together and you have this amazing record sounding something like this band. Don't know why it didn't get the acclaim the 2 bands mentioned got)
4. Whitechocolatespaceegg- Liz Phair
5. s/t- Dressy Bessy
6. Boys For Pele- Tori Amos
7. Get the Gore- Gore Gore Girls (thanks to the Dum Dum Girls whom I got confused with this underrated influencial garage band)
8. The Long Blondes- Someone to Drive You Home
9. Supergrass- Life on Other Planets
10. The Kills- Midnight Boom (Thanks to All Music Guide for giving them the big 5 they honestly deserve)

Awesome! Glad to welcome another fan into the Have Moicy! club.

1. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On (ranked 1137)
2. Puppetmastaz - Creature Funk (Unranked)
3. Architecture in Helsinki - In case we die (Bubbling Under)
4. IAM - L'école du micro d'argent (Unranked)
5. Lost Prophets - The fake sound of progress (Unranked)
6. Millencolin - Pennybridge pioneers(Unranked)
7. The Dodos - Visitor (Ranked 2239)
8. Thrice - Illusion of Safety (Unranked)
9. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives (Bubbling Under)
10. The Rakes - Capture Release(Bubbling Under)

Looks like most of my favorite albums are either very acclaimed or almost not acclaimed at all !

Nassim, ton vote pour le Moderatly album 1.8 (division 2) est toujours attendu.
J'espère que tu sauras voter juste !

01. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
02. Tom McRae - Tom McRae
03. Tom Waits - Closing Time
04. Beach House - Teen Dream*
05. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival
06. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
07. Tindersticks - Tindersticks II
08. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake*
09. Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
10. Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

* Are not in the AM 3000, because they are too new.
The following aren't:

11. Ben Harper - Fight for Your Mind
12. Boudewijn de Groot - Hoe Sterk Is de Eenzame Fietser

Seems kind of random, actually.

Hell yeah.

[01] Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
[02] Pharoah Sanders - Karma
[03] Slowdive - Souvlaki
[04] Faust - Faust IV
[05] The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
[06] The Millennium - Begin
[07] Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
[08] Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
[09] King Crimson - Larks' Tongue in Aspic
[10] Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

This looks pretty similar to the albums I nominated in the Moderate poll. I wonder if Cosmogramma will make top 1000 with the next update.

So is top 1000 the new top 500 (The "Classic" album cutoff)?

Cool idea

1. Living Colour - Time's Up! (85/1,566)
2. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (112/1,041)
3. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day (113/1,545)
4. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (116/1,044)
5. Black Uhuru - Red (121/1,104)
6. Culture - Two Sevens Clash (123/1,014)
7. Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto (125/NR)
8. The Roots - Phrenology (131/1,049)
9. Bob Marley - Uprising (133/1,670)
10. John Melloncamp - Scarecrow (148/1,504)

I'm surprised how closely they're bunched together.

1. Otis Redding- Live in Europe (#1015)
2. Paul McCartney- Ram (#1221)
3. Al Green- The Belle Album (#1163)
4. Prince- Lovesexy (#1812)
5. Tom Waits- Closing Time (#1414)
6. Dennis Wilson- Pacific Ocean Blue (#2436)
7. Neil Young- Unplugged (#2674)
8. Frank Sinatra- Come Fly With Me (#1063)
9. Stevie Wonder- Music of My Mind (#1086)
10. Madonna- True Blue (#1266)

Next 3:
Sam Cooke- Night Beat (#1038)
Tom Waits- The Heart of Saturday Night (#2204)
The Who, The Who By Numbers (#2348)

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/edit?list_id=280458&rand=0.9096931688998329&page=1

1 teenage fanclub songs from northern britain
2 glasvegas glasvegas
3 sisters of mercy first, last and always
4 belle and sebastian tigermilk
5 okkervil river stage names
6 eels blinking lights and other revs
7 colourfield virgins and philistines
8 eels beautiful freak
9 housemartins london 0 Hull 4
10iron & wine our endless numbered days

1. dc Talk - Jesus Freak (1995) N/A
2. Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (1977) #2436
3. Newsboys - Take Me to Your Leader (1996) N/A
4. George Harrison - George Harrison (1979) N/A
5. Pink Floyd - Animals (1977) #1466
6. Newsboys - Love Liberty Disco (1999) N/A
7. Newsboys - Going Public (1994) N/A
8. Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat (1971) #2043
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971) #1385
10. George Harrison - Cloud Nine (1987) bubbling under