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copied and pasted from my list for atease's 2008 album list.

 

[01] The Wrens | The Meadowlands

[02] The National | Alligator

[03] Radiohead | Kid A

[04] Elliott Smith | XO

[05] Modest Mouse | The Moon & Antarctica

[06] Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[07] Built to Spill | Perfect From Now On

[08] Modest Mouse | The Lonesome Crowded West

[09] Okkervil River | Black Sheep Boy

[10] Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary

[11] Pavement | Slanted & Enchanted

[12] Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It In People

[13] The National | Boxer

[14] The Hold Steady | Separation Sunday

[15] Ryan Adams | Cold Roses

[16] Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith

[17] Death From Above 1979 | You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

[18] Ryan Adams | Heartbreaker

[19] Modest Mouse | Building Nothing Out of Something

[20] Dinosaur Jr. | You're Living All Over Me

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Forgot about this. Put this together quickly but sometimes that's the best way.

 

The Clash - London Calling

The Beatles - Revolver

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Gang of Four - Entertainment!

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Radiohead - OK Computer

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society

Los Lobos - Kiko

The Jam - All Mod Cons

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

David Bowie - Heroes

The Specials - The Specials

Frank Black - Teenager of the Year

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

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My favorites -

 

1.Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot out the Lights

2.Blood Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man

3.The Beatles - White Album

4.The Who - Who's Next

5.Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

6.Wilco - A Ghost is Born

7.Neil Young - Tonight's the Noght

8.Laura Nyro - Eli & the Thirteenth Confession

9.Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

10.Joni Mitchell - Blue

11.Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays

12.Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

13.George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

14.The Band - The Band

15.Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

16.Crosby Still & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash

17.The Beatles - Abbey Road

18.Old & in the Way - Old & in the Way

19.Randy Newman - Sail Away

20.Martin Sexton - The American

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OK, here we go! The scoring system is in the first post in this thread, so anyone who's wondering how I came up with these rankings, go back and check that out. There are a lot of ties, so you'll see that several albums might have the same number, but then it'll jump to the next number. I was going to try to come up with some kind of tie-breaking scheme, but none of them seemed really fair, so they're all just listed as ties. Everyone who participated has been e-mailed a spreadsheet with the full results.

 

No real surprise for #1 :) , I'd say the biggest surprise for me was that some artists who get talked about fairly often around here didn't score higher than they did. Anyway, let the regrets and recriminations commence!

 

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1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- Wilco

 

2. Revolver -- The Beatles

 

3. London Calling -- The Clash

 

4. The Beatles (The White Album) -- The Beatles

 

5. Abbey Road -- The Beatles

 

6. Rubber Soul -- The Beatles

 

7. Exile on Main Street -- The Rolling Stones

 

8. Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan

 

9. A Ghost is Born -- Wilco

 

10. Summerteeth -- Wilco

 

11. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea -- Neutral Milk Hotel

 

12. Kid A -- Radiohead

 

13. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles

 

14. OK Computer -- Radiohead

 

15. Pet Sounds -- The Beach Boys

 

16. Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan

 

17. Blood on the Tracks -- Bob Dylan

 

18. The Band -- The Band

 

19. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis

 

19. The Bends -- Radiohead

 

21. Sticky Fingers -- The Rolling Stones

 

22. Bringing it All Back Home -- Bob Dylan

 

23. Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs -- Andrew Bird

 

24. Being There -- Wilco

 

25. The Soft Bulletin -- The Flaming Lips

 

26. The Velvet Underground and Nico -- The Velvet Underground

 

27. Marquee Moon -- Television

 

28. The Joshua Tree -- U2

 

29. Pink Moon -- Nick Drake

 

30. Let It Be -- The Replacements

 

31. Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen

 

31. Music from Big Pink -- The Band

 

33. Decoration Day -- Drive-By Truckers

 

34. All Things Must Pass -- George Harrison

 

34. Astral Weeks -- Van Morrison

 

36. Tonight's the Night -- Neil Young

 

37. Innervisions -- Stevie Wonder

 

38. Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 -- Sam Cooke

 

39. Another Green World -- Brian Eno

 

39. Lola Vs Powerman & The Moneygoround -- The Kinks

 

39. The Village Green Preservation Society -- The Kinks

 

39. Who's Next -- The Who

 

43. On the Beach -- Neil Young

 

43. Crooked Rain Crooked Rain -- Pavement

 

45. Heartbreaker -- Ryan Adams

 

46. Automatic for the People -- REM

 

47. A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane

 

47. Pinkerton -- Weezer

 

49. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere -- Neil Young & Crazy Horse

 

50. John Wesley Harding -- Bob Dylan

 

51. What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye

 

51. After The Goldrush -- Neil Young

 

51. Bryter Layter -- Nick Drake

 

54. Royal Albert Hall 1966 -- Bob Dylan

 

55. The Stone Roses -- The Stone Roses

 

56. The Mollusk -- Ween

 

57. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan

 

57. This Year's Model -- Elvis Costello

 

57. Daydream Nation -- Sonic Youth

 

57. Elephant -- The White Stripes

 

61. Armchair Apocrypha -- Andrew Bird

 

62. Either/Or -- Elliott Smith

 

63. Blue -- Joni Mitchell

 

64. Meadowlands -- The Wrens

 

65. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle -- Bruce Springsteen

 

65. Perfect From Now On -- Built to Spill

 

65. Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd

 

65. Let It Be -- The Beatles

 

65. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots --The Flaming Lips

 

70. Quicksand/Cradlesnakes -- Califone

 

70. Plastic Ono Band -- John Lennon

 

70. Paul's Boutique -- The Beastie Boys

 

73. Low -- David Bowie

 

74. Funeral -- Arcade Fire

 

74. XO -- Elliott Smith

 

74. Zen Arcade -- H

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So it looks like 58 people sent you a list, and there were a total of 563 different albums on those lists??? Wow.

Yes, that struck me, too. A great breadth of music!

 

 

I'm going to make it a point to pick up any of the top 100 I don't own already.

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