As we get close to the present, many artists don’t have very long careers yet, so not a lot of action this time. Missy remains on top.


You should check out the 2006 results on the results thread if you haven't done so yet.

Post your ballots on the 2007 voting thread.


HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 100 CANDIDATES FOR 2007 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 2006 included.

2006 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. MISSY MISDEMEANOR ELLIOTT
ALBUMS: Supa Dup Fly (543); Miss E…So Addictive (592); Under Construction (851).
SONGS: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (1216); Sock It to Me (2745); Get Ur Freak On (70); Work It (169); Pass That Dutch (2540); Lose Control (1722).

2. GRATEFUL DEAD
ALBUMS: Anthem of the Sun (2397); Live/Dead (347); Aoxomoxoa (1818); Workingman's Dead (357); American Beauty (305).
SONGS: Dark Star (684); Uncle John's Band (1217); Box of Rain (651); Touch of Grey (2360).

3. FRANZ FERDINAND
ALBUM: Franz Ferdinand (108); You Could Have It So Much Better (691).
SONGS: Darts of Pleasure (2567); Take Me Out (69); Matinee (2272); Do You Want To (490).

4. ROD STEWART
ALBUMS: The Rod Stewart Album (2085); Gasoline Alley (816); Every Picture Tells a Story (154); Never a Dull Moment (1621); Atlantic Crossing (2621); A Night on the Town (2819).
SONGS: Maggie May (107); You Wear It Well (1867); Tonight's the Night (1520); Da Ya Think I'm Sexy (2284).

5. CROSBY, STILLS, NASH (& YOUNG)
ALBUMS: Crosby, Stills and Nash (315); Dèjá Vu (151); Four-Way Street (1287).
SONGS: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (1331); Helpless (1552); Ohio (547).

6. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
ALBUMS: Surrealistic Pillow (164); After Bathing at Baxter's (1277); Crown of Creation (2083); Volunteers (926).
SONGS: Somebody to Love (476); White Rabbit (223).

7. DEEP PURPLE
ALBUMS: In Rock (348); Machine Head (242); Made in Japan (407).
SONGS: Highway Star (2098); Smoke on the Water (509).

8. GRANDMASTER FLASH
ALBUM: The Message (915).
SONGS: The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (257); The Message (15); White Lines (Don't Do It) (309).

9. SONNY ROLLINS
ALBUMS: Tenor Madness (1049); Saxophone Colossus (332); Way Out West (904); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (965); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (1088); The Bridge (1133).
SONG: St. Thomas (2627).

10. THE VERVE
ALBUMS: A Storm in Heaven (2969); A Northern Soul (1089); Urban Hymns (211).
SONGS: Bitter Sweet Symphony (48); The Drugs Don’t Work (784).

11. MORRISSEY
ALBUMS: Viva Hate (1138); Your Arsenal (1440); Vauxhall and I (616); You Are the Quarry (711).
SONGS: Suedehead (1015); Everyday Is Like Sunday (698); First of the Gang to Die (510); Irish Blood English Heart (1962).

12. SANTANA
ALBUMS: Santana (1256); Abraxas (168), III (2454); Caravanserai (1411); Lotus (2655); Supernatural (2606).
SONGS: Black Magic Woman (722); Oye Como Va (1353); Smooth (700).

13. KING CRIMSON
ALBUMS: In the Court of the Crimson King (135); Islands (2717); Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1579); Red (562); Discipline (1224).
SONG: 21st Century Schizoid Man (1102).

14. DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
ALBUM: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (69).
SONG: Layla (47).

15. CAROLE KING
ALBUM: Tapestry (59).
SONGS: Home Again (2507); It's Too Late (349); I Feel the Earth Move (1344); You've Got a Friend (997).

16. JACKSON BROWNE
ALBUMS: Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1509); For Everyman (1763); Late for the Sky (333); The Pretender (724); Running on Empty (736).
SONGS: Late for the Sky (1659); Running on Empty (1639).

17. MANIC STREET PREACHERS
ALBUMS: Generation Terrorists (1837); The Holy Bible (613); Everything Must Go (447); This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (1444).
SONGS: Motorcycle Emptiness (771); A Design for Life (670); If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1237).

18. THE STREETS
ALBUMS: Original Pirate Material (216); A Grand Don’t Come for Free (441).
SONGS: Has It Come to This (2682); Let’s Push Things Forward (1224); Weak Become Heroes (1208); Fit But You Know It (1790); Dry Your Eyes (921).

19. WEEZER
ALBUMS: Weezer (“The Blue Album”) (474); Pinkerton (553); Weezer (“The Green Album”) (1029).
SONGS: Undone – The Sweater Song (2216); Buddy Holly (627); Say It Ain’t So (1595); El Scorcho (1382); The Good Life (2494); Island in the Sun (2241).

20. THE PRODIGY
ALBUMS: Music for the Jilted Generation (378); The Fat of the Land (388).
SONGS: Firestarter (159); Breathe (1465); Smack My Bitch Up (2533).

21. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.
ALBUMS: Public Image (1664); Metal Box/Second Edition (188); Album (2418).
SONGS: Public Image (369); Death Disco (1647); This Is Not a Love Song (1517); Rise (841).

22. HERBIE HANCOCK
ALBUMS: Takin' Off (1503); Empyrean Isles (1500); Maiden Voyage (459); Mwandishi (1748); Sextant (2238); Head Hunters (524).
SONG: Rockit (868).

23. THE BEE GEES
ALBUM: Saturday Night Fever (121).
SONGS: To Love Somebody (1718); Jive Talkin' (2521); Stayin' Alive (98); Night Fever (2065).

24. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
ALBUMS: Crocodiles (728); Heaven Up Here (1182); Porcupine (1991); Ocean Rain (527).
SONGS: Rescue (2177); The Cutter (1066); The Killing Moon (758); Bring On the Dancing Horses (2293); Lips Like Sugar (1861).

25. TIM BUCKLEY
ALBUMS: Goodbye and Hello (1171); Happy Sad (440); Blue Afternoon (2172); Starsailor (557); Greetings from L.A. (1202).
SONG: Song to the Siren (869).

26. ERIC B. & RAKIM
ALBUMS: Paid in Full (331); Follow the Leader (880).
SONGS: Eric B. Is President (2548); I Know You Got Soul (572); Paid in Full (408); Follow the Leader (1013).

27. YO LA TENGO
ALBUMS: Fakebook (2646); Painful (1303); Electr-O-Pura (1394); I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (588); And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (703); I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (910)*.
SONGS: Tom Courtenay (2396); Autumn Sweater (1693).

28. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: A Girl Called Dusty (2878); Dusty in Memphis (95).
SONGS: I Only Want to Be with You (2959); You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (1103); Son of a Preacher Man (205); What Have I Done to Deserve This (2718).

29. UNDERWORLD
ALBUM: Dubnobasswithmyheadman (538); Second Toughest in the Infants (729); Beaucoup Fish (2545).
SONGS: Rez (1270); Cowgirl (1915); Born Slippy (113); Two Months Off (2658).

30. IGGY POP
ALBUMS: The Idiot (600); Lust for Life (210).
SONGS: The Passenger (1199); Lust for Life (339).

31. VAN HALEN
ALBUMS: Van Halen (276); 1984 (803); 5150 (2423).
SONGS: Runnin' with the Devil (1953); Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (2424); Jump (161).

32. MOTÖRHEAD
ALBUMS: Overkill (968); Ace of Spades (558); No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (492).
SONG: Ace of Spades (215).

33. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
ALBUMS: Idlewild South (2941); At Fillmore East (101); Eat a Peach (1446); Brothers and Sisters (1852).
SONGS: Whipping Post (1384); Ramblin' Man (1374); Jessica (1567).

34. TV ON THE RADIO
ALBUMS: Desperate Young, Blood Thirsty Babes (972); Return to Cookie Mountain (131)*.
SONGS: Staring at the Sun (1592); Wolf Like Me (357)*.

35. JIMMY CLIFF
ALBUM: The Harder They Come (194).
SONGS: Many Rivers to Cross (167); Vietnam (2105); The Harder They Come (429).

36. HAPPY MONDAYS
ALBUMS: Bummed (973); Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (301).
SONGS: WFL (Wrote for Luck) (1534); Hallelujah (2620); Step On (342); Kinky Afro (703).

37. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
ALBUMS: Tigermilk (1015); If You’re Feeling Sinister (330); The Boy with the Arab Strap (932); Dear Catastrophe Waitress (1343); The Life Pursuit (1163)*.
SONGS: none.

38. JOHN CALE
ALBUMS: The Academy in Peril (2538); Paris 1919 (370); Fear (1513); Music for a New Society (687); Songs for Drella (1232); Wrong Way Up (2489).
SONG: Andalucia (1245).

39. TOM PETTY
ALBUMS: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1162); Damn the Torpedoes (470); Full Moon Fever (1145); Wildflowers (2796).
SONGS: Breakdown (2329); American Girl (1074); Refugee (1202); Free Fallin' (666).

40. LL COOL J
ALBUMS: Radio (685); Bigger and Deffer (2155); Mama Said Knock You Out (847).
SONGS: I Can't Live Without My Radio (1132); Rock the Bells (1488); I Need Love (1833); Goin' Back to Cali (1714); Jingling Baby (Remixed and Still Jingling) (1725); Mama Said Knock You Out (524).

41. SOUNDGARDEN
ALBUMS: Louder Than Love (2580); Badmotorfinger (634); Superunknown (268).
SONGS: Jesus Christ Pose (1856); Spoonman (2435); Black Hole Sun (353).

42. THE FOUR TOPS
ALBUMS: Second Album (2673); Reach Out (1462).
SONGS: Baby I Need Your Loving (845); I Can't Help Myself (1466); It's the Same Old Song (1642); Reach Out (I'll Be There) (36); Standing in the Shadows of Love (1626); Bernadette (2692).

43. DIRE STRAITS
ALBUMS: Dire Straits (431); Making Movies (1241); Brothers in Arms (549).
SONG: Sultans of Swing (413); Money for Nothing (2248).

44. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: Buffalo Springfield (1459); Buffalo Springfield Again (326).
SONGS: For What It's Worth (99); Expecting to Fly (1115).

45. JANE'S ADDICTION
ALBUMS: Nothing's Shocking (316); Ritual de lo Habitual (397).
SONGS: Jane Says (1133); Been Caught Stealing (692).

46. NICO
ALBUMS: The Velvet Underground & Nico (4); Chelsea Girl (2511); The Marble Index (1402); Desertshore (2571).
SONGS: All Tomorrow's Parties (1305); Femme Fatale (2075); These Days (1145).

47. STAN GETZ
ALBUMS: Hamp & Getz (2194); Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (2742); Focus (1668); Jazz Samba (804); Getz/Gilberto (372); Stan Getz and Bill Evans (2501).
SONGS: The Girl from Ipanema (553); Corcovado (2516).

48. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
ALBUMS: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (309); Too-Rye-Ay (1058); Don't Stand Me Down (1549).
SONGS: Geno (822); Come On Eileen (608).

49. THE HUMAN LEAGUE
ALBUM: Dare! (207)
SONGS: Being Boiled (1463); Love Action (1515); Don't You Want Me (181); Human (2121).

50. TRICKY
ALBUM: Maxinquaye (126); Pre-Millennium Tension (1583).
SONGS: Aftermath (943); Black Steel (673).

51. MC5
ALBUMS: Kick Out the Jams (212); Back in the USA (624).
SONG: Kick Out the Jams (368).

52. FAIRPORT CONVENTION
ALBUMS: Fairport Convention (2508); What We Did on Our Holidays (2391); Unhalfbricking (498); Liege and Lief (399).
SONGS: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (401); A Sailor's Life (2490).

53. SINÉAD O'CONNOR
ALBUMS: The Lion and the Cobra (901); I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (356).
SONG: Nothing Compares 2 U (102).

54. BASEMENT JAXX
ALBUMS: Remedy (403); Rooty (1009); Kish Kash (2132).
SONGS: Red Alert (902); Rendez-Vu (1479); Romeo (1180); Where’s Your Head At (1253).

55. NEW YORK DOLLS
ALBUMS: New York Dolls (139); Too Much Too Soon (844).
SONG: Personality Crisis (577).

56. LUCINDA WILLIAMS
ALBUMS: Lucinda Williams (758); Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (270); Essence (1943); World Without Tears (1452).
SONGS: Passionate Kisses (1602); Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (2031).

57. COUNT BASIE
ALBUMS: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1268); April in Paris (975); At Newport (1439); The Atomic Mr. Basie (594).
SONGS: One O'Clock Jump (911); Lester Leaps In (2346); April in Paris (1338).

58. BILL EVANS
ALBUMS: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1659); Portrait in Jazz (1707); Explorations (2281); Sunday at the Village Vanguard (455); Waltz for Debby (475); Undercurrent (2208).
SONG: Waltz for Debby (2760).

59. RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON
ALBUMS: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (313); Shoot Out the Lights (320).
SONGS: Calvary Cross (2782); I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1832); Wall of Death (1360).

60. APHEX TWIN
ALBUMS: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (434); Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1644); I Care Because You Do (1793); Richard D. James Album (1245).
SONGS: Digeridoo (1850); On (2846); Window Licker (399).

61. DONNA SUMMER
ALBUMS: Bad Girls (1099); The Wanderer (2884).
SONGS: Love to Love You Baby (830); I Feel Love (148); Hot Stuff (792); Bad Girls (1014); She Works Hard for the Money (2282).

62. THE LIBERTINES
ALBUMS: Up the Bracket (444); The Libertines (697).
SONGS: What a Waster (1575); Up the Bracket (1728); Time for Heroes (2778); Don’t Look Back into the Sun (2070); Can’t Stand Me Now (593).

63. GANG OF FOUR
ALBUMS: Entertainment! (163); Solid Gold (1505).
SONGS: Damaged Goods (895); At Home He's a Tourist (1370); Anthrax (1928); To Hell with Poverty (2855); I Love a Man in Uniform (2948).

64. FUGAZI
ALBUMS: 13 Songs (Fugazi EP + Margin Walker EP) (1380); Repeater (608); Steady Diet of Nothing (2891); In on the Killtaker (1525); Red Medicine (2359); The Argument (1045).
SONG: Waiting Room (640).

65. TODD RUNDGREN
ALBUMS: Something/Anything? (262); A Wizard, a True Star (658); Todd (2206).
SONG: I Saw the Light (704).

66. TLC
ALBUMS: CrazySexyCool (541); Fanmail (2428).
SONGS: Creep (1532); Waterfalls (290); No Scrubs (313); Unpretty (2905).

67. ALICE COOPER
ALBUMS: Love It to Death (1379); Killer (957); School's Out (1298); Billion Dollar Babies (1246).
SONGS: I'm Eighteen (1386); School's Out (396).

68. SNOOP DOGGY DOGG
ALBUM: Doggystyle (759).
SONGS: Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang (134); What’s My Name? (2947); Gin and Juice (788); Drop It Like It’s Hot (702); Signs (2590).

69. THIN LIZZY
ALBUMS: Jailbreak (725); Live and Dangerous (340).
SONGS: Whiskey in the Jar (1579); The Boys Are Back in Town (460).

70. TRAFFIC
ALBUMS: Mr. Fantasy (488); Traffic (966); John Barleycorn Must Die (504); The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys (2557).
SONGS: Paper Sun (2926); Dear Mr. Fantasy (2225).

71. SUFJAN STEVENS
ALBUMS: Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State (2112); Seven Swans (2455); Illinois (129).
SONGS: John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (1129); Chicago (1250).

72. DIZZY GILLESPIE
ALBUMS: Bird & Diz (1548); Jazz at Massey Hall (494); Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (1526); Groovin' High (1463); At Newport (2176); Gillespiana (2221).
SONGS: Groovin' High (2795); A Night in Tunisia (2603); Manteca (1219).

73. ROBERT WYATT
ALBUMS: Rock Bottom (231); Shleep (2519); Cuckooland (2156).
SONGS: Sea Song (557); Shipbuilding (718).

74. IKE AND TINA TURNER
ALBUM: River Deep Mountain High (893).
SONGS: A Fool in Love (2646); It's Gonna Work Out Fine (2085); River Deep Mountain High (22).

75. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
ALBUMS: Rage Against the Machine (257); Evil Empire (1584); The Battle of Los Angeles (1012).
SONG: Killing in the Name (763).

76. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
ALBUM: LCD Soundsystem (467).
SONGS: Losing My Edge (260); Yeah (1020); Daft Punk Is Playing at My House (808); Tribulations (2050).

77. ISAAC HAYES
ALBUMS: Hot Buttered Soul (358); Shaft (1152).
SONGS: Walk On By (2664); By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1975); Theme from Shaft (247).

78. GORILLAZ
ALBUMS: Gorillaz (1146); Demon Days (785).
SONGS: Clint Eastwood (404); DARE (1399); Feel Good Inc. (522).

79. FATBOY SLIM
ALBUM: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (380).
SONGS: The Rockafeller Skank (157); Praise You (646).

80. THE RONETTES
ALBUM: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica (1414).
SONGS: Be My Baby (13); Baby, I Love You (2524); Walking in the Rain (2576).

81. THE ISLEY BROTHERS
ALBUM: 3+3 (903).
SONGS: Shout (Parts 1 and 2) (237); Twist and Shout (1038); This Old Heart of Mine (1502); It's Your Thing (999); That Lady (1302).

82. BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY
ALBUMS: There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (1141); Viva Last Blues (2166); I See a Darkness (352); Master and Everyone (1803); The Letting Go (1122)*.
SONGS: none.

83. GENESIS
ALBUMS: Foxtrot (895); Selling England by the Pound (707); The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (406); A Trick of the Tail (2791).
SONG: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (2414).

84. GNARLS BARKLEY
ALBUM: St. Elsewhere (454)*.
SONG: Crazy (45)*.

85. YES
ALBUMS: The Yes Album (873); Fragile (544); Close to the Edge (615); Tales from Topographic Dreams (2769).
SONG: Owner of a Lonely Heart (1854).

86. LITTLE FEAT
ALBUMS: Sailin' Shoes (466); Dixie Chicken (517); Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1313); Waiting for Columbus (2310).
SONGS: Willin' (2547); Dixie Chicken (2974).

87. THE DRIFTERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Money Honey (972); There Goes My Baby (277); Save the Last Dance for Me (694); Up on the Roof (896); On Broadway (938); Under the Boardwalk (1512).

88. LAURYN HILL
ALBUM: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (143).
SONGS: Doo Wop (That Thing) (431); Ex-Factor (2055).

89. DINOSAUR JR.
ALBUMS: You're Living All Over Me (1987); Bug (920); Where You Been (2021).
SONG: Freak Scene (303); Feel the Pain (2688).

90. GREEN DAY
ALBUMS: Dookie (435); American Idiot (1107).
SONGS: Longview (863); Basket Case (1961); When I Come Around (2604); Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (1945); American Idiot (1712); Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2656).

91. MOTT THE HOOPLE
ALBUMS: All the Young Dudes (981); Mott (526); The Hoople (2818).
SONG: All the Young Dudes (203).

92. PAUL McCARTNEY
ALBUMS: Ram (1388); Band on the Run (386).
SONGS: Maybe I'm Amazed (840); Live and Let Die (1643); Band on the Run (2972); Jet (963).

93. CHEAP TRICK
ALBUMS: Cheap Trick (2305); In Color (1530); Heaven Tonight (1491); At Budokan (641).
SONGS: I Want You to Want Me (1284); Surrender (562).

94. AIR
ALBUM: Moon Safari (134); Talkie Walkie (2770).
SONGS: Sexy Boy (672); Playground Love (2278).

95. B.B. KING
ALBUMS: Singin' the Blues (2412); Live at the Regal (248); Live in Cook County Jail (1959).
SONGS: Sweet Little Angel (2833); The Thrill Is Gone (398).

96. JONATHAN RICHMAN/THE MODERN LOVERS
ALBUMS: The Modern Lovers (203); Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers (2792).
SONG: Roadrunner (248).

97. THE B-52'S
ALBUMS: The B-52's (484); Wild Planet (2480).
SONGS: Rock Lobster (284); Private Idaho (2549); Love Shack (711); Roam (2890).

98. ERIC CLAPTON
ALBUMS: 461 Ocean Boulevard (409); Slowhand (2099); Unplugged (1391).
SONGS: After Midnight (2101); I Shot the Sheriff (1741); Wonderful Tonight (1811); Tears in Heaven (1162).

99. DIZZEE RASCAL
ALBUMS: Boy in da Corner (321); Showtime (1294).
SONGS: Fix Up, Look Sharp (1837); I Luv You (770); Stand Up Tall (2021).

100. DEVO
ALBUM: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (361).
SONGS: Jocko Homo (1334); (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (850); Whip It (537).

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MOVING UP: Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian.

NEW TO THE LIST: TV on the Radio, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Gnarls Barkley.

FELL OFF THE LIST: Nobody, and Devo is back. In fact, this is the third time they’ve entered the list…it’s fun to picture them jerking back and forth around the #100 position.

ACTION IN THE NEXT 200: Arctic Monkeys, Justin Timberlake, Cat Power, Hot Chip, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Amy Winehouse, The Roots, Joanna Newsom, Kelis, Beyoncé, Ghostface Killah.