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Hell yeah for DEVO. I remember when they appeared on SNL and it was really their first national exposure.. the talk it generated in school was heavy.

~Bang

Do you remember how much hatred and grief they took for their rendition of "Satisfaction?" It's funny how seriously people were offended by their take on that song. Rock snob critics just didn't get it and while it wasn't the best song on this record, I'm sure it made them happy that they agitated the mainstream.

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1. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968)

2. Talking Heads- Remain in Light (1980)

3. Oceansize - Effloresce (2003)

4. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)

5. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)

6. The Clash - London Calling (1979)

7. Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)

8. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1965)

9. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (1990)

10. Nas - Illmatic (1994)

11. They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18 (1992)

12. Sublime - Sublime (1996)

13. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (1990)

14. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

15. Husker Du - Flip Your Wig

16. Meshuggah - Nothing

17. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)

18. Blonde on Blonde---Bob Dylan

19. Prince - Sign O' The Times

20. Jane's Addiction- Nothings Shocking

21. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

22. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

23. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (1997)

24. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning

25. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)

26. The Who- Who's Next (1971)

27. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

28. Muddy Waters- Folk Singer

29. Tool - Lateralus

30. Dr.Dre - The Chronic (1992)

31. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

32. Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits

33. Various Artists - Judgement Night Sound Track

34. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

35. R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)

36. Led Zeppelin- IV

37. Weezer - Pinkerton (1996)

38. Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)

39. Michael Jackson "Thriller"

40. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

41. Beck-- Sea Change (2002)

42: Soundgarden: Superunknown

43. Beatles - Abbey Road

44. Funkadelic-Maggot Brain

45. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs

46. David Bowie -The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

47. The Beatles – Revolver

48. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)

49. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

50. Black Uhuru – Red

51. Faith No More - Angel Dust

52. Credence Clearwater Revival- At The Movies

53. Prince - Purple Rain Soundtrack

54. Live - Throwing Copper

55. 2Pac- All Eyez on Me

56. Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon

57. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks (1968)

58. Outkast---Aquemini (1998)

59. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

60. Harry James--The King James Version

61. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1983)

62. U2 The Joshua Tree

63. Fishbone- Truth and Soul

64. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)

65. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves

66. Nirvana- Live in New York

67. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

68. Pink Floyd – Meddle

69. The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out

70. Sam Cooke- Night Beat

71. Queen - Greatest Hits

72. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

73. Weezer - "The Blue Album" (1994)

74. Clutch - Blast Tyrant

75. Split Enz – Waiata

76. Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu

77. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

78. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours

79. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

80. The Beatles - The Beatles

81. Dire Straits - Making Movies

82. Oasis- (What's the Story) Morning Glory (1995)

83. Dire Straits – Dire Straits

84. Devin Townsend – Synchestra

85. The Cars - The Cars (1978)

86. The Ramones-The Ramones

87. G-N-R-- Appetite for Destruction (1987)

88. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

89. Miles Davis - ****es Brew

90. Metallica: Kill 'em all (1983)

91. The Replacements – Tim

92. Weird Al: Off the Deep End

93. Derek and the Dominos: Layla and other Assorted Love Songs

94. Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve and Other Stories

95. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

96. Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale - The Road to Escondido

97. Judas Priest – Painkiller

98. Sex Pistols----Never Mind the Bollocks

99. Vampire Weekend - Contra (2010)

100. Steely Dan – Aja

101. Santana – Supernatural

102. Kraftwerk- Computer World (1981)

103. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (1976)

104. Santana-Santana (1969)

105. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

106. Kiss -Alive!

107. Boyz II Men – II

108. Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality

109. Lauren Hill - Miseducation of Lauren Hill

110. The Eagles- Hotel California

111. AC/DC-Back in black

112. Trampled by Turtles – Palomino

113. Aerosmith- Toys In The Attic

114. So-Peter Gabriel

115. Carole King- Tapestry

116. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

117. The Doors - The Doors (debut album)

118. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

119. The Cure – Disintegration

120. At the Drive in- Relationship of Command

121. Marvin Gaye---What's Going On (1971)

122. Bone Thugs N Harmony -East 1999 Eternal

123. Jim Croce- Photographs & Memories - His Greatest Hits (1974)

124. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

125. Yo-Yo Ma - The Bach Cello Suites

126. Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

127. The Police – Synchronicity

128. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

129. Rush-Moving Pictures

130. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (1967)

131. Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)

132. Massive Attack---Blue Lines (1991)

133. Morissey - Your Arsenal

134. Portishead -- Roseland Ballroom, NYC LIVE (1998)

135. Lenny Kravitz - Mamma Said

136. Erik Mongrain – Equilibrium

137. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (1971)

138. Traffic - Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

139. Ramones- It's Alive

140. Seldom Scene - Live at the Cellar Door

141. Crowded House - Crowded House

142. Counting Crows- August and Everything After (1993)

143. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

144. Wheels of Fire---Cream

145. Billy Joel-The Stranger

146. Burning Spear-Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost

147. N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton (1988)

148. Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East

149. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

150. Radiohead- OK Computer

151. Bad Brains - Bad Brains

152. Girls - Album (2009)

153. Joni Mitchell - Blue

154. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

155. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

156. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

157. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood

158. Rocket From the Crypt - Circa Now

159. Sarah McLachlan---Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (1993)

160. Grateful Dead - Europe '72

161. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...

162. Neil Young - After the Goldrush

163. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

164. Living Colour - Vivid

165. ZZ Top - Deguello

166. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "A Night In Tunisia"

167: Dead Presidents (soundtrack) - various artists

168. Cheap Trick - at Budokon

169. Manchester Orchestra- Mean Everything to Nothing

170. Pain - Midgets with Guns

171. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)

172. Prince – 1999

173. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory

174. Blind Faith - Blind Faith

175. Cake - Fashion Nugget

176. Jeff Buckley – Grace

177. Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet (1986)

178. A Tribe Called Quest- Peoples' Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm

179. Ryan Adams----Gold (2001)

180. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

181. Jakob – Solace

182. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

183. Rolling Stones - Some Girls

184. Shooter Jennings - Black Ribbons

185. Traveling Wilburys - Vol 1

186. The Clash - The Clash (1977)

187. Tom Petty – Wildflowers

188. John Mellencamp – Scarecrow

189. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

190. Quadrophenia - The Who (1973)

191. Nina Simone - Nina Simone In Concert/At Town Hall

192. Echo & the Bunnymen- Ocean Rain (1984)

193. TLC – CrazySexyCool

194. Coconut Records - Davy (2009)

195. Old 97's - Too Far to Care (1997)

196. John Prine - The Missing Years

197. Bo Deans - Joe Dirt Car

198. Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts -

The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions

199. Cowboy Junkies- The Trinity Session (1988)

200. Steve Forbert - Jackrabbit Slim

201. Minus The Bear-Highly Refined Pirates

202. Sufjan Stevens-- Illinoise (2005)

203. 3 feet high and rising- de la soul

204. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)

205. Rancid - Lets Go

206. Commodores – Gold

207. Digable Planets - "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)" – 1993

208. Avett Brothers- I and Love and You

209. Cunninlynguist - A Piece of Strange

210. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)

211. Hall and Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette (1973)

212. Michael Franks - Tiger In The Rain

213. The Jam - Setting Sons (1979)

214. Boston – Boston

215. John Lee Hooker – It Serves You Right To Suffer

216. John Coltrane- A Love Supreme

217. The Flaming Lips---The Soft Bulletin (1999)

218. Pearl Jam-Ten

219. The Mavericks - Music For All Occasions

220. of Montreal - Cherry Peel (1997)

221. Bob Dylan – Desire

222. Buddy Guy - A Man and The Blues

223. Jai – Heaven

224. The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, I'm Not

225. The Doobie Brothers- Toulouse Street

226. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

227. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost ( 2009)

228. Elvis Costello---Armed Forces (1979)

229. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

230. B.B. King-Completely Well (1969)

231. ABBA- Gold:Greatest Hits (1992)

232. Third World - 96 degrees in the Shade

233. 2 Skinnee J's - Super Mercado

234. R.E.M - Automatic for the People (1992)

235. The Velvet Underground & Nico

236. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

237. Dave Matthews (w/ Tim Reynolds) - Live at Luther College

238. Avenue Q soundtrack

239. Los Lobos – Kiko

240. The Plugz - Better Luck

241. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath

242. Primus - Frizzle Fry

243. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)

244. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

245. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973)

246. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Legend

247. Paul Simon- Graceland (1986)

248. Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme (2008)

249. Jazz---Ry Cooder.

250. Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam

251. Heatwave - Central Heating

252. Chinga Chavin - Country Porn

253. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event (2008)

254.GOMEZ -- Bring It On (1997)

255. Stone Temple Pilots - 12 Gracious Melodies

256. The Pretenders

257. The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses

258. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

259. Fleetwood Mac - The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1969)

260. Johnny Winter ~ Progressive Blues Experiment

261. Thomas Dolby The Flat Earth

262. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

263- Choking Victim, No Gods No Managers (1999)

264. The Decemberists - Picaresque

265. Arctic Monkeys- favorite worst nightmare

266. Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar - Blackstar

267. George Carlin - AM & FM

268. Devo--- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978)

269. The Beatles - The Beatles

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Hey Bang--that last Beatles entry was me screwing up the list and count. I forgot The White Album was really called the Beatles. I went back and edited it to something else but not quick enough. It was # 264. Ya'll take 264 off the list if you want, but The Beatles - The Beatles is listed twice.

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This look right-ish enough to you guys? ...trying to help since I screwed up the count. I think I got it back on track. wyzsknz1, I numbered yours and picked one for you.

1. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968)

2. Talking Heads- Remain in Light (1980)

3. Oceansize - Effloresce (2003)

4. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)

5. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)

6. The Clash - London Calling (1979)

7. Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)

8. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1965)

9. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (1990)

10. Nas - Illmatic (1994)

11. They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18 (1992)

12. Sublime - Sublime (1996)

13. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (1990)

14. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

15. Husker Du - Flip Your Wig

16. Meshuggah - Nothing

17. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)

18. Blonde on Blonde---Bob Dylan

19. Prince - Sign O' The Times

20. Jane's Addiction- Nothings Shocking

21. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

22. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

23. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (1997)

24. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning

25. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)

26. The Who- Who's Next (1971)

27. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

28. Muddy Waters- Folk Singer

29. Tool - Lateralus

30. Dr.Dre - The Chronic (1992)

31. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

32. Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits

33. Various Artists - Judgement Night Sound Track

34. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

35. R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)

36. Led Zeppelin- IV

37. Weezer - Pinkerton (1996)

38. Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)

39. Michael Jackson "Thriller"

40. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

41. Beck-- Sea Change (2002)

42: Soundgarden: Superunknown

43. Beatles - Abbey Road

44. Funkadelic-Maggot Brain

45. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs

46. David Bowie -The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

47. The Beatles – Revolver

48. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)

49. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

50. Black Uhuru – Red

51. Faith No More - Angel Dust

52. Credence Clearwater Revival- At The Movies

53. Prince - Purple Rain Soundtrack

54. Live - Throwing Copper

55. 2Pac- All Eyez on Me

56. Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon

57. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks (1968)

58. Outkast---Aquemini (1998)

59. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

60. Harry James--The King James Version

61. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1983)

62. U2 The Joshua Tree

63. Fishbone- Truth and Soul

64. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)

65. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves

66. Nirvana- Live in New York

67. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

68. Pink Floyd – Meddle

69. The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out

70. Sam Cooke- Night Beat

71. Queen - Greatest Hits

72. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

73. Weezer - "The Blue Album" (1994)

74. Clutch - Blast Tyrant

75. Split Enz – Waiata

76. Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu

77. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

78. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours

79. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

80. The Beatles - The Beatles

81. Dire Straits - Making Movies

82. Oasis- (What's the Story) Morning Glory (1995)

83. Dire Straits – Dire Straits

84. Devin Townsend – Synchestra

85. The Cars - The Cars (1978)

86. The Ramones-The Ramones

87. G-N-R-- Appetite for Destruction (1987)

88. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

89. Miles Davis - ****es Brew

90. Metallica: Kill 'em all (1983)

91. The Replacements – Tim

92. Weird Al: Off the Deep End

93. Derek and the Dominos: Layla and other Assorted Love Songs

94. Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Christmas Eve and Other Stories

95. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

96. Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale - The Road to Escondido

97. Judas Priest – Painkiller

98. Sex Pistols----Never Mind the Bollocks

99. Vampire Weekend - Contra (2010)

100. Steely Dan – Aja

101. Santana – Supernatural

102. Kraftwerk- Computer World (1981)

103. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (1976)

104. Santana-Santana (1969)

105. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

106. Kiss -Alive!

107. Boyz II Men – II

108. Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality

109. Lauren Hill - Miseducation of Lauren Hill

110. The Eagles- Hotel California

111. AC/DC-Back in black

112. Trampled by Turtles – Palomino

113. Aerosmith- Toys In The Attic

114. So-Peter Gabriel

115. Carole King- Tapestry

116. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

117. The Doors - The Doors (debut album)

118. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

119. The Cure – Disintegration

120. At the Drive in- Relationship of Command

121. Marvin Gaye---What's Going On (1971)

122. Bone Thugs N Harmony -East 1999 Eternal

123. Jim Croce- Photographs & Memories - His Greatest Hits (1974)

124. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

125. Yo-Yo Ma - The Bach Cello Suites

126. Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

127. The Police – Synchronicity

128. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

129. Rush-Moving Pictures

130. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (1967)

131. Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)

132. Massive Attack---Blue Lines (1991)

133. Morissey - Your Arsenal

134. Portishead -- Roseland Ballroom, NYC LIVE (1998)

135. Lenny Kravitz - Mamma Said

136. Erik Mongrain – Equilibrium

137. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (1971)

138. Traffic - Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

139. Ramones- It's Alive

140. Seldom Scene - Live at the Cellar Door

141. Crowded House - Crowded House

142. Counting Crows- August and Everything After (1993)

143. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

144. Wheels of Fire---Cream

145. Billy Joel-The Stranger

146. Burning Spear-Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost

147. N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton (1988)

148. Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East

149. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

150. Radiohead- OK Computer

151. Bad Brains - Bad Brains

152. Girls - Album (2009)

153. Joni Mitchell - Blue

154. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

155. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

156. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

157. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood

158. Rocket From the Crypt - Circa Now

159. Sarah McLachlan---Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (1993)

160. Grateful Dead - Europe '72

161. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...

162. Neil Young - After the Goldrush

163. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

164. Living Colour - Vivid

165. ZZ Top - Deguello

166. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "A Night In Tunisia"

167: Dead Presidents (soundtrack) - various artists

168. Cheap Trick - at Budokon

169. Manchester Orchestra- Mean Everything to Nothing

170. Pain - Midgets with Guns

171. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)

172. Prince – 1999

173. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory

174. Blind Faith - Blind Faith

175. Cake - Fashion Nugget

176. Jeff Buckley – Grace

177. Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet (1986)

178. A Tribe Called Quest- Peoples' Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm

179. Ryan Adams----Gold (2001)

180. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

181. Jakob – Solace

182. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

183. Rolling Stones - Some Girls

184. Shooter Jennings - Black Ribbons

185. Traveling Wilburys - Vol 1

186. The Clash - The Clash (1977)

187. Tom Petty – Wildflowers

188. John Mellencamp – Scarecrow

189. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

190. Quadrophenia - The Who (1973)

191. Nina Simone - Nina Simone In Concert/At Town Hall

192. Echo & the Bunnymen- Ocean Rain (1984)

193. TLC – CrazySexyCool

194. Coconut Records - Davy (2009)

195. Old 97's - Too Far to Care (1997)

196. John Prine - The Missing Years

197. Bo Deans - Joe Dirt Car

198. Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts -

The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions

199. Cowboy Junkies- The Trinity Session (1988)

200. Steve Forbert - Jackrabbit Slim

201. Minus The Bear-Highly Refined Pirates

202. Sufjan Stevens-- Illinoise (2005)

203. 3 feet high and rising- de la soul

204. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)

205. Rancid - Lets Go

206. Commodores – Gold

207. Digable Planets - "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)" – 1993

208. Avett Brothers- I and Love and You

209. Cunninlynguist - A Piece of Strange

210. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)

211. Hall and Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette (1973)

212. Michael Franks - Tiger In The Rain

213. The Jam - Setting Sons (1979)

214. Boston – Boston

215. John Lee Hooker – It Serves You Right To Suffer

216. John Coltrane- A Love Supreme

217. The Flaming Lips---The Soft Bulletin (1999)

218. Pearl Jam-Ten

219. The Mavericks - Music For All Occasions

220. of Montreal - Cherry Peel (1997)

221. Bob Dylan – Desire

222. Buddy Guy - A Man and The Blues

223. Jai – Heaven

224. The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, I'm Not

225. The Doobie Brothers- Toulouse Street

226. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

227. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost ( 2009)

228. Elvis Costello---Armed Forces (1979)

229. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

230. B.B. King-Completely Well (1969)

231. ABBA- Gold:Greatest Hits (1992)

232. Third World - 96 degrees in the Shade

233. 2 Skinnee J's - Super Mercado

234. R.E.M - Automatic for the People (1992)

235. The Velvet Underground & Nico

236. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

237. Dave Matthews (w/ Tim Reynolds) - Live at Luther College

238. Avenue Q soundtrack

239. Los Lobos – Kiko

240. The Plugz - Better Luck

241. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath

242. Primus - Frizzle Fry

243. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)

244. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

245. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973)

246. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Legend

247. Paul Simon- Graceland (1986)

248. Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme (2008)

249. Jazz---Ry Cooder.

250. Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam

251. Heatwave - Central Heating

252. Chinga Chavin - Country Porn

253. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event (2008)

254.GOMEZ -- Bring It On (1997)

255. Stone Temple Pilots - 12 Gracious Melodies

256. The Pretenders

257. The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses

258. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

259. Fleetwood Mac - The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1969)

260. Johnny Winter ~ Progressive Blues Experiment

261. Thomas Dolby The Flat Earth

262. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

263- Choking Victim, No Gods No Managers (1999)

264. The Decemberists - Picaresque

265. Arctic Monkeys- favorite worst nightmare

266. Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar - Blackstar

267. George Carlin - AM & FM

268. Devo--- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978)

269. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

270. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts- I Love Rock 'n' Roll (1981)

271. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

272. Metallica - Master of Puppets

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275. Dream Theater -- Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Dream Theater needs to be on this list. While I am not the biggest DT fan, I recognize John Petrucci as one of the greatest guitarists of all time and this album is some of his best work. Both Overture 1928 and the song Home from this album cause every guitarist I've ever known to weep and gnash their teeth at how clean and precise Petrucci's playing is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jHjk6CrscQ&feature=related

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273. Oasis - Definitiely Maybe (1994)

If Morning Glory is up there, this needs to be also.

Saved me the trouble as it was on my add list my good man. Great taste.

276. The Verve- Urban Hymns (1997)

Very little of note has ever come out of Wigan. These boys would be that note. Richard Ashcroft is up there with Lennon and McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Elvis, Ian Curtis et all as one the best song writers to ever come out of England IMHO.

Man I miss those guys. :(

Hail.

*Edit* Hangs head. I never waited 10 songs since my previous entry. Sorry. My bad. I shall not add for a good few to make up.

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278.

Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On

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Certain albums both define a specific point in time and yet manage to be timeless. Such an album is There's A Riot Going On. After a few records of sexy, sunny, but never cavalier funk/pop, the twisted genius of Sly Stone turned dark, moody, reflective, angry, but no less funky for the contemplation. Stone created an album that spoke not only to the turmoil gripping America in 1971, but also to the chaos whirling around his increasingly druggy personal life. This is an album of dangerous beauty, where even the hit ("Family Affair") is guarded and haunting....

The original title of the album was intended to be Africa Talks to You, but was retitled There's a Riot Goin' On in response to Marvin Gaye's landmark album What's Going On (1971), which was released five months prior to Riot.

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279. Eva Cassidy - Songbird

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There is room on this list for Bowie, Maryland's Eva Cassidy. Eva Cassidy could not be pigeon-holed into a genre. She sang what she wanted. And she did so with an achingly beautfiful, crystalline voice. She sang jazz, old standards, contemporary. She even recorded with DC Go-Go godfather Chuck Brown and sang backup on local rap albums. She was painfully shy, which early on hindered her achieving success as a singer. Eva died tragically young at age 33 of cancer, at the cusp of what could have been a great career.

She did record some music though, and Songbird represents some of the best of those recordings. Listen to her interpretation of Fields of Gold. Here's what Sting had to say about it:

A lot of people have covered my songs. And it's a strange emotion, you know, because your own songs are like your own babies. I mean you might hear someone reinterpreting them and maybe you don't agree with what they've done. But this version was just so pure, so excellent, that I was deeply moved by it, and so happy that she covered it. Eva's is one of the best versions of my song I've ever heard...There is something about her voice - a quality - that you can't really put into words. It's a magical quality. People respond to its purity. It suggests something ethereal-- something unattainable.

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Some of the cuts on Songbird were recorded live at DC's Blues Alley. Five years after her death, a shaky video of her singing "Over the Rainbow" at Blues Alley found its way to a producer of the BBC's MTV-like "Top of the Pops." Despite concerns over the poor quality of the recording, the producer decided to air it. The reaction was astounding. It became the most requested video in the history of that program.

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She did record more upbeat songs as well, but these two show her dual gifts of beautiful song interpretation and astounding voice. And there's no doubt that her untimely death adds a layer of sentimentality when listening to her, but her voice stands on its own, even absent the tragic backstory.

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