The 100 Greatest Albums...

Yet another C4 list show - though this one was actually interesting.

These are the 100 greatest albums as voted for by the Great British Public (though they had to select from 125 records chosen by 'music industry experts' which was probably related to which artists Channel 4 could manage to interview, so not exactly democratic).

1. RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. NIRVANA - Nevermind
4. MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
5. PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
6. OASIS - Definitely Maybe
7. THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. MADONNA - Like a Prayer
9. GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
10. THE BEATLES - Revolver
11. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
12. THE BEATLES - The White Album
13. QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
14. COLDPLAY - Parachutes
15. OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
16. ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
17. LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
18. THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
19. JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
20. THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead

and the rest.....

JOHN LENNON - Imagine
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
BJORK - Debut
THE DOORS - The Doors
ABBA - Arrival
MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
DURAN DURAN - Rio
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
JOY DIVISION - Closer
THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
BLUR - Parklife
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
THE SPECIALS - Specials
THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
THE CLASH - London Calling
THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
PIXIES - Doolittle
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
PATTI SMITH - Horses
THE WHO - Tommy
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
DIDO - No Angel
AIR - Moon Safari
ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE JAM - All Mod Cons
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
MOBY - Play
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
JONI MITCHELL - Blue
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
PULP - Different Class
KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
BECK - Odelay
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
LOVE - Forever Changes
PAUL SIMON - Graceland
NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
THE STROKES - Is this It
MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
THE EAGLES - Hotel California
JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!

Surprising choice for number 1?

Link

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Odd conditions for a greatest-album-ever vote.

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

They had to choose 100 out of 125? What kind of list is that?

What a joke.

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"Today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

A lazy, 4 hour long, full of smug music industry talking heads (and, funnily enough, David Byrne), cheap Sunday telly kinda list. Probably rigged so the grannys couldn't vote for Daniel O'Donnell...

"Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant sh*t to me."

Daniel's rare, bootleg Public Enemy tribute concert.

Those are the only ones that caught my eye as being exceptional, for some reason.

You mean exceptional as in really good, or exceptional as in big surprises on the list?

yes Ive waited for the longest to have thread like this!

There are some crappy choices in that top twenty (Oasis) (shudder)

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"Like all dreamers, Steven mistook disenchantment for truth."

Top Ten

Highway 61 Revisited
Sticky Fingers
Nevermind
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Damn Right I've Got the Blues
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Electric Ladyland
Make It Happen
Blood on the Tracks
Goats Head Soup

Second List

Exile on Main Street
White Album
Sun Sessions
Thriller
Bringing It All Back Home
Blue
Kind Of Blue
The Doors
Never Mind The Bullocks Heres the Sex Pistols
Tommy

Third List

London Calling
Ramones
Music From Big Pink
Abbey Road
King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1
The Great Twenty-Eight
Whats the Story Morning Glory
Whos Next
Sublime
We Sold Our Souls For Rock and Roll

Fourth

The Kinks
Bohemian Rhaposdy
The Libertines
The Black Album
The Wall
Darkside of the Moon
Led Zeppelin
Prince
Africa Unite
Back in Black

Fifth List

Siamese Dream
The Fragile
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Pearl
Artist in the Ambulance
Dookie
Nebraska
Rage Against The Machine
Nirvana Un - Plugged
Blond on Blond

Sixth List

A Crow Left of the Murder
Wish you Were Here
Best of the Best
The Undertones
Born Under a Bad Sign
Disraeli Gear
A Night At The opera
Ok Computer
Led Zeppelin IV

Seventh

Pet Sounds
Rarachutes
Definitely Maybe
Are You Expierienced
Hotel California
Agents of Fortune
Revolver
Rubber Soul
Superunkown
Stranger then Fiction( or ..and out come the wolves(by rancid))
Let It Bleed

Eigth List

A little South of Sanity
Time Out
The Smiths
End Of The Century
Tell All Your friends ( say what you want but it perfectly captures what rock sounded like around this time(Emo))
Destroyer
Eric Clapton UN - plugged
King James Version
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
The Stone Roses

Ninth List

Raw Power
Catch a Fire
Pump
Off The Wall
This Years Model
Bitches Brew
There's a Riot Goin On
Aftermath
Chronic
Parrallel Lines

Tenth List

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Play The Blues
Im Wide Awake Its Morning
Good Bye Yellow Brick Road
Desire
In the Wee Small Hours
Yeah!
The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
Bridge Over Troubled Water
MoonDance
Meet The Beatles


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Owned on Cd- 60%
Owned on Vynyl- 20%
Owned on Computer/Download- 10%
Owned on Tape- 9 %
Owned by someone else- 1% (The Black Album( I hate Metallica and metal all together))

You sicken me

These C4 lists are pathetic, there no way that The Streets have an album in the top 100!