Friday, February 23, 2024

Revisionist history (Loose canon updated)

This is an update to a list I made back in January 2018, this time not limiting the number per decade but choosing only one title per artist (I cheated with the Who, Hendrix, and Beefheart), limited to 100 total. Numerical order has no significance. Unsurprisingly, there are more from the '70s than any other decade. The golden age of anything is when you came in. And with that, let us be done with compulsive list making till at least the end of the decade. (On the web, you can see the stuff I added because the spacing becomes irregular even if the HTML looks identical. Thanks, Google!)

Teens
1) Laurie Anderson - Heart of a Dog
2) Chris Butler - Easy Life
3) Billy Bragg/Joe Henry - Shine A Light
4) Beck - Morning Phase
5) Mark Growden - Saint Judas
6) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
7) D'Angelo - Black Messiah
8) Petra Haden - Goes To the Movies
9) They Say the Wind Made Them Crazy - Far From the Silvery Light
10) Richard Dawson - Peasant
11) Wendy Eisenberg - Auto 

Aughts
1) Brian Wilson - Smile
2) Hochimen - Totenlieder
3) Goodwin - S/T
4) Woodeye - Such Sweet Sorrow
5) Stumptone - Gravity Finally Released
6) Joe Strummer - Streetcore
7) Nels Cline - Coward
8) Yayhoos - Fear Not the Obvious
9) Top Secret...Shhh
10) Sonic's Rendezvous Band - box set

'90s
1) Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III
2) Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
3) Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
4) Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
5) Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World
6) A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
7) Living Colour - Time's Up
8) Wayne Kramer - The Hard Stuff
9) Charlie Haden/Quartet West - Haunted Heart
10) Mick Farren/Jack Lancaster - The Deathray Tapes
11) Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
12) Mike Watt - Contemplating the Engine Room
13) Wilco - Being There

'80s
1) Lou Reed - New York
2) George Clinton - Computer Games
3) Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
4) Clash - Sandinista!
5) Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
6) Gang of Four - Entertainment!
7) Ronald Shannon Jackson - Mandance
8) Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime
9) Husker Du - Zen Arcade
10) Power Tools - Strange Meeting
11) Jack DeJohnette - Special Edition
12) Bob Mould - Workbook
14) Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
15) James "Blood" Ulmer - Odyssey
16) Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

'70s
1) Stooges - Fun House
2) Who - Live At Leeds
3) The Band - S/T
4) Grateful Dead - American Beauty
5) Velvet Underground - Loaded
6) Jimi Hendrix - The Cry of Love
7) MC5 - High Time
8) Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
9) King Crimson - Red
10) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
11) Arthur Blythe - Lennox Avenue Breakdown
12) Bola Sete - Ocean
13) Don Cherry - Relativity Suite
14) John Abercrombie - Gateway
15) Alice Cooper - Killer
16) Pete Townshend/Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
17) The Rationals - S/T
18) Detroit - Featuring Mitch Ryder
19) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
20) Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
21) Television - Marquee Moon
22) Neil Young - Decade
23) Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
24) John Cale - Paris 1919
25) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
26) Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
27) Mott the Hoople - Mott
28) Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
29) Pretenders - S/T
30) Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
31) Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream
32) Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
33) Move - Shazam!

'60s
1) Who - Sell Out
2) Jeff Beck - Truth
3) Beatles - White Album
4) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5) James Brown - Live at the Apollo
6) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
7) Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
8) Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
9) Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
10) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
11) Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
12) Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
13) Blues Project - Projections
14) Animals - Animalization
15) Rolling Stones - Aftermath
16) Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
17) Jethro Tull - Stand Up

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