Where The Hell Is E?

Where the hell did Uncle E go?

Why, he's right HERE!!!

Just click on the above link to see where I've gone. Not sure if it's a better format, but I'm kind of bored with this one and thought I'd try something a little different. A few of you cheeky buggers have already discovered it (Fusion 45!). I may use this new blog to delve into a more varied format including comics, general pop culture and more, but the focus will still be music. Since traffic is usually at a minimum on the weekends I'll be stuffing some of the older posts from here on there so I can keep track of some of the...erm...better ones.

I'll still keep this one open for a while (for archival purposes), but there will be no new posts...at least for a while. So please for those of you kind enough to include a link to this little site on your far superior one, can you update it?
Thanks a bunch, and head on over to the new blog to see Encle E's Top Albums Of 2008!!

(Great?) Albums Released in 1996/1997/1998/1999/2000

Ok, so at this rate I'll never reach my goal of bringing this list up to date by the end of the year, sooooo....here's 5 years for the price of one for you to digest while we hear at The Nightmare are tabulating the results of our year end poll for best albums released in 2008.

I did this list in a hurry so I'm sure I've left out some great albums. Just let me know what they are in the comments and I'll update it soon thereafter.


1996

Beck - Odelay
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Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
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Orbital - In Sides
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Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
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DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
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Screaming Trees - Dust
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
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Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
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Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
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Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
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Suede - Coming Up
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Placebo - Placebo
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Kula Shaker - K
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The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids
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REM - New Adventures In Hi Fi
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Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
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The Divine Comedy - Casanova
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Aphex Twin - Richard D James
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Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
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Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
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Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
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The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
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The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities
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1997

Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
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Radiohead – OK Computer
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The Verve – Urban Hymns
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Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
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Super Furry Animals – Radiator
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Cornershop – When I Was Born For The Seventh Time
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Mogwai – Mogwai Young Team
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Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain
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Bentley Rhythm Ace – Bentley Rhythm Ace
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Supergrass – In It For The Money
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Daft Punk – Homework
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The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
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Blur – Blur
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The Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories
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Bjork – Homogenic
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Death In Vegas – Dead Elvis
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Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land
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Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
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Black Grape – Stupid Stupid Stupid
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
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Pavement – Brighten The Corners
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Oasis – Be Here Now
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Stereolab – Dots And Loops
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Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway
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Roni Size & Reprazent – New Forms
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Travis – Good Feeling
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Portishead – Portishead
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Eels – Beautiful Freak
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Wilco – Being There
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Robert Wyatt – Shleep
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1998

Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
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Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
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Beck – Mutations
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Air – Moon Safari
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Massive Attack – Mezzanine
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Elliott Smith – Either/Or
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Pulp – This Is Hardcore
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Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider
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Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap
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Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
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The Afghan Whigs – 1965
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Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby
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Lo-Fidelity Allstars – How To Operate With A Blown Mind
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Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
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Idlewild – Hope Is Important
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Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
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Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
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R.E.M. – Up
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Madonna – Ray Of Light
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Spiritualized - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
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Bob Dylan – Live 1966:The Royal Albert Hall Concert
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Elliott Smith – X.O
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Jeff Buckley – Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk)
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The Boo Radleys – Kingsize
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Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
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Garbage – Version 2.0
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Gomez – Bring It On
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1999

The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
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Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
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Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
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Beck – Midnite Vultures
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Pavement – Terror Twilight
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Basement Jaxx – Remedy
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Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
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Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
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Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
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Jim O’rourke – Eureka
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Blur – 13
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The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
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Tindersticks – Simple Pleasure
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Low – Secret Name
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Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
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Ian Brown - Golden Greats
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The Chemical Bruthers – Surrender
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The Beta Band – The Beta Band
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Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
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Travis – The Man Who
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Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
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Sebadoh – Sebadoh
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The Auteurs – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
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Rage Against The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles
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2000

Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
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Primal Scream – Exterminator
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PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
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Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
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Coldplay – Parachutes
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Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
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Doves – Lost Souls
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Super Furry Animals – Mwng
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Radiohead – Kid A
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Granddaddy – The Sophtware Slump
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Lambchop – Nixon
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Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
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Teenage Fanclub – Howdy!
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Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven
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Elliott Smith – Figure 8
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The Go-Betweens – The Friends Of Rachel Worth
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Richard Ashcroft – Alone With Everybody
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Belle And Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
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The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
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Johnny Cash – American III: Solitary Man
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Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
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Paul Weller – Heliocentric
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Asian Dub Foundation – Community Music
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Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
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The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs

Great(?) Albums Released In 1993

This was a pretty good year. The Modfather released his triumph, Wild Wood, The Auteurs, Blur and Suede invented Britpop, Urge Overkill's major label debut was blasting through every Trans Am still on the road and Evan Dando and his Lemonheads recorded and released their classic slacker 'bum Come On Feel The Lemonheads with the classic and very funny "My Drug Buddy". Oh yes, and Underworld unleashed Dubnobasswithmyheadman, a modern electro slow-burn classic!

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Urge Overkill - Saturation
Nirvana - In Utero
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
Luscious Jackson - In Search of Manny
The Lemonheads - Come on Feel the Lemonheads
Dwight Yoakam - This Time
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Frank Black - Frank Black
The Breeders - Last Splash
Björk - Debut
Yo La Tengo - Painful
The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Mercury Rev - Boces
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
New Order - Republic
Orbital - Orbital 2
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Stereolab - The Groop Played “Space Age Bachelor Pad Music”
Suede - Suede
Verve - A Storm in Heaven
Cracker - Kerosene Hat
Melvins - Houdini
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Frank Zappa - The Yellow Shark
The Auteurs - New Wave
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
U2 - Zooropa
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Cracker - Kerosene Hat
Luscious Jackson - In Search of Manny
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Sloan - Smeared
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
Danny Elfman - Nightmare Before Christmas
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

Great (?) Albums Released In 1992

Boy I better get moving on this "Great Albums By Year" quest if I'm to reach the best of 2008 by December 31st!
So here we go with another instalment, this time 1992, a very schitzophrenic year for music...

Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Los Lobos, Kiko
Bob Dylan, Good As I Been To You
Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
Morrissey, Viva Hate!
Stereo MC's, Connected
Ministry, Psalm 69
The Black Crowes, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Tom Waits, Bone Machine
PJ Harvey, Dry
Pop Will Eat Itself, The Looks Or The Lifestyle
Sonic Youth, Dirty
R.E.M., Automatic For The People
Nine Inch Nails, Broken/Fixed
Morphine, Good
Stereolab, Peng!
James, Seven
Red House Painters, Down Colorful Hill
Phish, A Picture Of Nectar
Rollins Band, End Of Silence
Orb, U.F.Orb
Yo La Tengo, May I Sing With Me
Juliana Hatfield, Hey Babe
Rocket From The Crypt, Circa Now
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham
Jon Spencer Blues Experience
Rage Against The Machine
Magnetic Fields, The Wayward Bus
Tom Verlaine, Warm and Cool
Spiritualized, Lazer Guided Melodies
Tricky, Pre-Millenium Tension
Prodigy, Experience
Nick Cave, Henry's Dream
Lemonheads, It's A Shame About Ray
Faith No More, Angel Dust
Flaming Lips: Hit To Death In The Future Head
Daniel Johnston, Artistic Vice
Uncle Tupelo, March 16-20, 1992
Melvins, Melvins
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
10,000 Maniacs, Our Time In Eden
Mr T Experience, Milk Milk Lemonade

...up next is 1993, and the beginning of the Britpop revolution!

Great (?) Albums Released In 1991

Here we are at one of my favorite years for recorded music. 1991 was the 1967 of the rave and grunge generation with albums of great creativity and originality being released almost daily. Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Nirvana defined new genres and U2 released the best record of their career. Teenage Fanclub and Matthew Sweet re-energized power pop. John Prine recorded and released what many would argue was his best album up to that point.
Grunge, house music and the "shoegazer" bands would eventually go the way of the dodo but for a brief moment in time it was all extremely exciting.
As always, let me know if I left anything out.

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
John Prine: The Missing Years
Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam
Codeine: Frigid Stars
U2: Achtung Baby
KLF: The White Room
Massive Attack: Blue Lines
Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque
Fishbone: Reality Of My Surroundings
Pop Will Eat Itself: Cure For Sanity
American Music Club: Everclear
Ozric Tentacles: Strangeitude
Nirvana: Nevermind
Primus: Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Joni Mitchell: Night Ride Home
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
Pixies: Trompe Le Monde
Sebadoh: III
Metallica: self-titled
Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend
Orbital: Yellow
808 State: Ex:el
Orb: Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Guns And Roses: Use Your Illusion
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Melvins: Bullhead
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Pearl Jam: Ten
Public Enemy: Apocalypse '91
Saint Etienne: Foxbase Alpha
Ice-T: Original Gangster
Neil Young: Arc
Steve Hillage: System 7
Sarah McLachlan: Solace
Primal Scream: Screamadelica
Rocket From The Crypt: Paint As A Fragrance
Sting: The Soul Cages
Toad The Wet Sprocket: Fear

Great (?) Albums Released In 1990

…and God said, “Let there be Raves, and “E”, and Career Resurrections!”, and so it came to pass, and it was good…

Happy Mondays, Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches
Neil Young, Ragged Glory
Iggy Pop, Brick By Brick
Uncle Tupelo, No Depression
Replacements, All Shook Down
Urban Dance Squad, Mental Floss For The Globe
Nick Cave, The Good Son
Ozric Tentacles, Erpland
Boo Radleys, Ichabod And I
Prefab Sprout, Jordan: The Comeback
Jellyfish, Bellybutton
Paul Simon, The Rhythm Of The Saints
They Might Be Giants, Flood
Brian Eno, Wrong Way Up
808 State, Utd. 90
Stereo MC’s, Supernatural
KLF, Chill Out
Public Enemy, Fear Of A Black Planet
Urge Overkill, Americruiser
Waterboys, Room To Roam
Black Crowes, Shake Your Money Maker
Bob Dylan, Under The Red Sky
Van Morrison, Enlightenment
Pixies, Bossanova
Teenage Fanclub, A Catholic Education
Nick Lowe, Party Of One
Pet Shop Boys, Behavior
Flaming Lips, In A Priest Driven Ambulance
Renegade Soundwave, In Dub
Lloyd Cole, Lloyd Cole
The Charlatans, Some Friendly
Inspiral Carpets, Life
Dave Edmunds, Closer To The Flame
Depeche Mode, Violator
The Lemonheads, Lovey
Edwyn Collins, Hell-bent On Compromise
The Fall, Extricate
Galaxie 500, This Is Our Music

And up next, one of my favorite years in all of modern music...1991.

(Great?) Albums Released In 1989

Pixies, Doolittle
Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
The Jesus And Mary Chain, Automatic
Joe Jackson, Blaze Of Glory
Van Morrison, Avalon Sunset
The Wonder Stuff, Hup!
Love And Rockets, Self Titled
Matthew Sweet, Earth
Nick Cave, Ghosts…Of The Civil Dead
Replacements, Don’t Tell A Soul
The The, Mind Bomb
XTC, Oranges And Lemons
Pop Will Eat Itself, This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This…Is This!
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mothers Milk
N.W.A. , Straight Outta Compton
Faith No More,The Real Thing
Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule
John Lee Hooker, The Healer
New Order, Technique
Spacemen 3, Playing With Fire
Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique
They Might Be Giants, Lincoln
The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
Kate Bush, The Sensual World
The Cure, Disintegration
808 State-808:90
Coldcut, What’s That Noise?
Prefab Sprout, Protest Songs
Primal Scream, Self Titled
Renegade Soundwave, Soundclash
Barry Adamson, Moss Side Story
Bonnie Raitt, Nick Of Time
The KLF, Shag Times
Edwyn Collins, Hope And Dispair
Elvis Costello, Spike
The Flaming Lips, Telepathic Surgery
The Fleshtones, Soul Madrid

(Great?) Albums Released In 1988

The calm before the storm, folks...

Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man
The Waterboys, Fisherman’s Blues
Fishbone, Truth And Soul
Living Colour, Vivid
Mudhoney, Superfuzz Bigmuff
REM, Green
Happy Mondays, Bummed
Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Sessions
My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything
Dinosaur Jr., Bug
American Music Club, California
Butthole Surfers, Hairway To Steven
Camper Van Beethoven, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Jazz Butcher, Fishcoteque
Morrissey, Viva Hate
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Dwight Yokam, Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Jane’s Addiction, Nothing Shocking
Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation Of Millions
Pixies, Surfer Rosa
Pet Shop Boys, Introspective
The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God

(Great?) Albums Released In 1987

U2, The Joshua Tree
Bad Brains, I Against I
Bill Drummond, The Man
Pop Wil Eat Itself, Box Frenzy
Replacements, Pleased To Meet Me
Neil Young, Life
Spaceman 3, Perfect Prescription
Big Black, Songs About F*#!ing
Pet Shop Boys, Actually
Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel Of Love
Dinosaur Jr., You’re Living All Over Me
Def Leppard, Hysteria
The Cure, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Housemartins, The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
REM, Document
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Prince, Sign O’ The Times
Primal Scream, Sonic Flower Groove
The Cult, Electric
Psychedelic Furs, Midnight To Midnight
Depeche Mode, Music For The Masses
The Sisters Of Mercy, Floodland
Love And Rockets, Earth Sun Moon
George Michael, Faith
Butthole Surfers, Locust Abortion Technician
Husker Du, Warehouse: Songs and Stories
The Smiths, Strangeways, Here We Come
Men Without Hats, Pop Goes The World
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Bo-Day-Shus!
Guns And Roses, Appetite For Destruction
Jesus And Mary Chain, Darklands
Laibach, Opus Dei
Sonic Youth, Sister
Michael Jackson, BAD
The Flaming Lips, Oh My God! It’s The…

(Great?) Albums Released In 1986

Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Flaunt It (come on Rumproast, back me up on this one!)
Elvis Costello, Blood And Chocolate
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force, Planet Rock
Beastie Boys, Licenced To Ill

Metallica, Master Of Puppets
The The, Infected
The Housemartins, London 0, Hull 4
Billy Bragg, Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
Talk Talk, The Colour Of Spring
Sonic Youth, Evol
Mojo Nixon, Frenzy/ Get Out Of My Way
Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses
Paul Simon, Graceland
Run-DMC, Raising Hell
XTC, Skylarking
Bad Brains, I Against I
Steve Earl, Guitar Town
The Woodentops, Giant
Pet Shop Boys, Please
The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
Peter Gabriel, So
New Order, Brotherhood
REM, Life’s Rich Pageant
Love And Rockets, Express
The Cramps, A Date With Elvis
Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey
Big Audio Dynamite, No. 10 Upping Street
The Jazz Butcher, Distressed Gentlefolk
Fishbone, In Your Face
The Flaming Lips, Hear It Is~!
They Might Be Giants, TMBG

(Great?) Albums Released In 1985

A good example of quality over quantity, I would say...

Nick Lowe, The Rose Of England
New Order – Low-Life
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
The Pogues – Rum Sodomy And The Lash
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
ABC, How To Be A Zillionaire
Love And Rockets, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
B.A.D., This Is Big Audio Dynamite
Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque
The Fall, This Nation’s Saving Grace
Tears For Fears, Songs From The Big Chair
Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms
Mekons, Fear And Whiskey
Big Black, Atomizer
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
The Jesus And Mary Chain, Psychocandy
Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Don’t Stand Me Down

Who'd I forget?

Albums Released In 1984

Notice I took off the "Great" bit? Just thought it would be more interesting to have you folks bash it out tellin' each other what you think. I included a couple of real clunkers in this one. Can you spot them? 1984 seems to be the start of the decline of "the New Wave", with sub par releases from some of the genres once-top artists...



Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
Replacements, Let It Be
Nick Cave, From Her To Eternity
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
John Prine, Aimless Love
The Minutemen, Double Nickels On The Dime
The Smiths, The Smiths
Nick Lowe, Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit
Prefab Sprout, Swoon
Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome To the Pleasuredome
Talk Talk - Its My Life
Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire
Alphaville - Forever Young
Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods
Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
Waterboys - A Pagan Place
Art of Noise - Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Jazz Butcher, Sex And Travel
Icicle Works - The Icicle Works
Aztec Camera - Knife
R.E.M. - Reckoning
The Alarm - Declaration
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Orange Juice - The 3rd Album
Nash the Slash - American Bandages
Elvis Costello - Goodbye Cruel World
Prince - Purple Rain
Tones On Tail, POP
The Cult, Dreamtime

Great (Maybe) Albums Released In 1983

Very interesting year. A lot of breakout albums from the post-punk set, eh? And some interesting albums from the old guard, too...

Joe Jackson, Mikes Murder (OST)
John Hiatt, Riding With The King
Malcolm McLaren, Duck Rock
Replacements, Hootenanny
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Fleshtones, Hexbreaker
U2 - War
Neil Young, Trans
Paul Simon, Hearts And Bones
Cheap Trick, Next Position Please
Jazz Butcher, Bath Of Bacon
Van Morrison, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Big Country - The Crossing
New Order- Power Corruption and Lies
China Crisis - Working with Fire and Steel
The The, Soul Mining
Lou Reed, Legendary Hearts
Pink Floyd, The Final Cut
Ramones, Subterranean Jungle
Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock
Minutemen, Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat
UB40 - The Labour of Love
The Police - Synchronicity
Yazoo - You and Me Both
Blancmange - Happy Families
The Cramps, Smell Of Female
Flamin’ Groovies, Bucketful Of Brains (Live)
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
Echo and the Bunnyman - Porcupine
Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap
The Stranglers - Feline
Blue Peter - Falling
OMD - Dazzle Ships
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside
Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions of the Dream
The Style Council - Introducing
Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble with Normal
R.E.M. - Murmur
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Bob Dylan - Infidels
XTC - Mummer
The Alarm - The Alarm
The C.S. Angels (Comsat) - Land
The Kinks - State of Confusion
Prince - 1999
Modern English - After the Snow
Gang of Four - Hard

Great Albums Released In 1982

As always, the list is debatable. Seems ‘82 was a “New Wave” kind of a year…what do you think?

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Paul McCartney, Tug Of War
Roxy Music - Avalon
Nick Lowe, Nick The Knife
Orange Juice, You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever
John Hiatt, All Of A Sudden
The Spoons - Arias And Symphonies
ABC - Lexicon Of Love
Joe Jackson - Night And Day
Peter Gabriel - Security
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
The Cure, Pornography
Dave Edmunds, D.E. 7th
Clash - Combat Rock
The Beat - Special Beat Service
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's
Haircut 100 - Pelican West
China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
The Jam - The Gift
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless
XTC - English Settlement
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
Gang Of Four - Songs Of The Free
Stray Cats - Built For Speed
Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel
Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band...
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Gil Scott-Heron - Moving Target
Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth
Nash The Slash - And You Thought You Were Normal
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

Great Albums Released In 1981

Simple Minds - Sons & Fascination
Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
OMD - Architecture & Morality
The Clash - Sandinista!
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Japan - Tin Drum
Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Eno & Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
The Police - Ghost In The Machine
Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Joy Division - Still
The Jam - Sound Affects
Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive
The English Beat - Wha'ppen?
Elvis Costello - Trust
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
The Stranglers - La Folie
Nash The Slash - Children Of The Night
New Order - Movement
The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
The Cure - Faith
Squeeze - East Side Story
Gang Of Four - Solid Gold
The Kinks - Give The People What They Want
Tangerine Dream - Exit
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
Black Flag, Damaged
The Cars, Shake It Up
The Cramps, Psychedelic Jungle
Depeche Mode, Speak And Spell
Bauhaus, Mask

Great Albums Released In 1980

For your consideration...

The Pretenders – The Pretenders
The Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It
Echo And The Bunnymen – Crocodiles
Joy Division – Closer
Ry Cooder, The Long Riders
Psychedelic Furs--Psychedelic Furs
Bauhaus--In The Flat Field
Dead Kennedys--Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Adam Ant, Kings Of The Wild Frontier
AC/DC, Back In Black
Alice Cooper, Flush The Fashion (yet another of my guilty pleasures!)
David Bowie, Scary Monsters (marks the end of his reign)
The Clash, Sandinista!
Blue Peter, Radio Silence
Yello, Solid Pleasure
Bob Marley, Uprising
XTC, Black Sea
The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta
PiL, Second Edition
The Ramones, End Of The Century
The Stones, Emotional Rescue (underrated!)
RUSH, Permanent Waves
Bruce Springsteen, The River
Teenage Head, Frantic City
Queen, The Game
The Cramps, Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cure, Boys Don’t Cry
D.O.A., Something Better Change
Joe Jackson, Beat Crazy
Elvis Costello, Get Happy!
Squeeze, Argybargy
John Lennon, Double Fantasy
Madness, Absolutely
The Monks, Suspended Animation
OMD, Organisation
The Specials – More Specials
Talking Heads – Remain In Light
Killing Joke – Killing Joke
The Jam – Sound Affects

Great Albums Released In 1979

...it was a very good year!

Elvis Costello And The Attractions – Armed Forces
The Undertones – The Undertones
Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps
The B 52’s – The B 52’s
XTC – Drums And Wires
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Tom Petty, Damn The Torpedoes
Gang Of Four – Entertainment
The Police – Regatta De Blanc
Specials – The Specials
Simple Minds, Reel To Real Cocophony
The Clash – London Calling
Nick Lowe--Labour Of Lust
Roxy Music, Manifesto
Sex Pistols, The Great R&R Swindle (ok, noty an OFFICIAL release, but still plain FUN!)
Pink Floyd, The Wall
Madness, One Step Beyond
Adam And The Ants, Dirk Wears White Sox
Ian Dury, Do It Yourself
The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
The Cars, Candy O
Cheap Trick, Dream Police and At Budokan
Dave Edmunds, Repeat When Necessary
The Stranglers, The Raven
Supertramp, Breakfast In America (guilty pleasure, admittedly)
Squeeze, Cool For Cats
Graham Parker, Squeezing Out Sparks
The Jam, Setting Sons
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp/ I’m The Man
The Kinks, Low Budget

...anything else?

Great Albums Released In 1978

As before, let me know if I've left any off.

1978
The Cars - The Cars
The Kinks - Misfits
Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Elvis Costello – This Years Model
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever Ost
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Nick Lowe- Jesus Of Cool
John Prine - Bruised Orange
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men A; We Are Devo
The Jam – All Mod Cons
Dave Edmunds - Tracks On Wax 4
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
Neil Young - Comes A Time

Great Albums Released In 1977

A new 'serial' blog topic. I hope to get all the way to present year by the end of the year, culminating in my "Best Of 2008" selections. If I leave any of your favorites off, leave 'em in the "comments" section and I will add them to the list. As long as I agree, of course...


The Jam, In The City
David Bowie – Low
Television – Marquee Moon
Iggy Pop – The Idiot
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
The Clash – The Clash
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Randy Newman – Little Criminals
Talking Heads – Talking Heads ‘77
Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
David Bowie – “Heroes”
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Suicide – Suicide
Ramones – Rocket To Russia
Dave Edmunds--Get It
The Kinks--Sleepwalker
Queen--News Of The World
Rush--A Farewell To Kings
Weather Report--Heavy Weather
Stranglers--Rattus Norvegicus