From:
andrew cooke <andrew@...>
Date:
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:55:37 -0300
There's a book called 1001 Albums something or other Before You Die. You can
find the list at various places online, but typically formatted in HTML.
Below is a version that you can cut + paste to a text file AND, bonus, a
Python program that reads the file and tries to locate each album below some
root (directories named by artist and album).
The program prints *unfound* albums to stdout, everything else to stderr. So
you'd typically use it like:
python 1001.py 2> /dev/null | more
to get a list of the albums you are missing (and I was missing most).
Andrew
#!/usr/bin/python
from sys import stderr
from os.path import join, exists
from re import compile
YEAR = compile(r'^(.*?)\s*\(\d{4}\)\s*$')
PARENS = compile(r'^(.*?)\s*\(.*\)\s*$')
CAPS = compile(r'^[A-Z]+$')
ROOT = '/path/to/mp3s'
# possible mutations to artist and / or album
def comma(text):
if ',' in text:
last, first = text.split(',', 1)
yield first.strip() + ' ' + last.strip()
yield text
def mk_dots(replacement):
def dots(text):
if '...' in text:
a, b = text.split('...', 1)
a, b = a.strip(), b.strip()
yield a + (' ' if a else '') + replacement + (' ' if b else '') + b
yield text
return dots
def caps(text):
yield text
yield ' '.join(w.lower() for w in text.split())
yield ' '.join(w.capitalize() for w in text.split())
def no_end_year(text):
match = YEAR.match(text)
if match: yield match.group(1)
yield text
def no_end_parens(text):
match = PARENS.match(text)
if match: yield match.group(1)
yield text
def no_first_album(text):
if text.endswith('(1st Album)'): yield text[:-len('(1st Album)')]
else: yield text
def add_the(text):
yield text
yield 'The ' + text
def dotted_abbrev(text):
if CAPS.match(text): yield '.'.join(text) + '.'
yield text
# combine mutations
def mk_mutations(*mutations):
def all(text, remaining=mutations):
if not remaining:
yield text
else:
mutation = remaining[0]
remaining = remaining[1:]
for text in mutation(text):
for x in all(text, remaining): yield x
return all
# search
def artists(artist):
all = mk_mutations(comma, caps, no_end_parens, add_the, dotted_abbrev)
for artist in all(artist): yield artist
def albums(album, artist):
all = mk_mutations(comma, mk_dots(artist), caps, no_end_parens, no_first_album, add_the)
for album in all(album): yield album
def search(artist, album):
artist = artist.strip()
album = album.strip()
for artist_name in artists(artist):
for album_name in albums(album, artist_name):
path = join(ROOT, artist_name, album_name)
print >> stderr, path
if exists(path):
print >> stderr, 'found', path
return
print artist, '-', album
with open('1001.txt') as inp:
for line in inp:
line = line.strip()
try:
artist, album = line.split('-', 1)
search(artist, album)
except Exception as e:
print e
print line
raise
And this data should be in 1001.txt:
Sinatra, Frank - In the Wee Small Hours
Presley, Elvis - Elvis Presley (1956)
Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs of Life
Prima, Louis - Wildest
Domino, Fats - This is Fats
Ellington, Duke - At Newport (1956)
Sinatra, Frank - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
Crickets - Chirping...
Basie, Count - Atomic Mr Basie
Monk, Thelonious - Brilliant Corners
Sabú [Martínez] - Palo Congo
Davis, Miles - Birth of the Cool
Machito - Kenya
Little Richard - Here's...
Puente, Tito & His Orchestra - Dance Mania (1958)
Holiday, Billie - Lady in Satin
Elliott, Jack - Jack Takes the Floor
Vaughan, Sarah - At Mister Kelly's
Fitzgerald, Ella - Sings the Gershwin Song Book
Charles, Ray - Genius of... (1959)
Davis, Miles - Kind of Blue
Robbins, Marty - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Brubeck, Dave - Time Out
Baez, Joan - Joan Baez (1960)
Presley, Elvis - Elvis is Back!
Makeba, Miriam - Miriam Makeba (1960)
Everly Brothers - A Date with the...
Smith, Jimmy - Back at the Chicken Shack
Muddy Waters - At Newport
Evans, Bill - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions
Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
Price, Ray - Night Life
Beatles - With the...
Dylan, Bob - Freewheelin'...
Spector, Phil & Various Artists - A Christmas Gift for You
Cooke, Sam - Live at the Harlem Square
Mingus, Charles - Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Brown, James - Live at the Apollo (1963)
Getz, Stan & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Brel, Jacques - Olympia 64
Burke, Solomon - Rock 'n' Soul
Springfield, Dusty - A Girl Called Dusty
Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones (1st Album)
Owens, Buck - I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
Lewis, Jerry Lee - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Sonics - Here Are the...
Dylan, Bob - Bringing it All Back Home
Redding, Otis - Otis Blue... Sings Soul
Beach Boys - Today!
Coltrane, John - A Love Supreme
King, B.B. - Live at the Regal
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Jansch, Bert - Bert Jansch (1st Album)
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Dylan, Bob - Highway 61 Revisited
Who - My Generation
Beatles - Revolver
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Neil, Fred - Fred Neil (1st Album)
Byrds - Fifth Dimension
Dylan, Bob - Blonde on Blonde
Monks - Black Monk Time
Kinks - Face to Face
Mamas & the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
Revere, Paul & the Raiders - Midnight Ride
Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds of the...
John Mayall's Blues Breakers - With Eric Clapton
Yardbirds - Yardbirds [aka Roger the Engineer] (1st Album)
Simone, Nina - Wild is the Wind
Gilberto, Astrud - Beach Samba
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind & Body
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
Moby Grape - Moby Grape (1st Album)
Love - Da Capo
Beau Brummels - Triangle
Monkees - Headquarters
Buckley, Tim - Goodbye & Hello
Love - Forever Changes
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Who - Sell Out
Velvet Underground - & Nico
Sinatra, Frank - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Doors - Doors (1st Album)
Young Rascals - Groovin'
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Kinks - Something Else by the...
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Haggard, Merle - I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
Hendrix, Jimi - Are You Experienced
Electric Prunes - I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Lynn, Loretta - Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
Sharma, Shivkumar / Brij Bushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia - Call of the Valley
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Hendrix, Jimi - Axis: Bold as Love
Franklin, Aretha - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Traffic - Traffic (2nd Album)
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Shankar, Ravi - Sounds of India (1968)
Mutantes, os - Mutantes, os (1st Album)
Hendrix, Jimi - Electric Ladyland
Cohen, Leonard - Songs of...
Cash, Johnny - At Folsom Prison
Nyro, Laura - Eli & the Thirteenth Confession
Franklin, Aretha - Lady Soul
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
Big Brother & the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
United States of America - United States of America
Dr John - Gris Gris
Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda da Vida
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
Band - Music from Big Pink
Beck, Jeff - Truth
Veloso, Caetano - Caetano Veloso (1968)
Walker, Scott - Scott 2
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Morrison, Van - Astral Weeks
Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Beatles - Beatles [aka White Album]
Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money
Young, Neil - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears (2nd Album)
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin
Cash, Johnny - At San Quentin
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Beatles - Abbey Road
Who - Tommy
Davis, Miles - In a Silent Way
Bee Gees - Odessa
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Drake, Nick - Five Leaves Left
Springfield, Dusty - Dusty in Memphis
Presley, Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground (3rd Album)
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1st Album)
Band - Band (2nd Album)
Led Zeppelin - II
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Temptations - Cloud Nine
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
Buckley, Tim - Happy Sad
Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago] - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain
Hayes, Isaac - Hot Buttered Soul
Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
Kinks - Arthur: Or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Cohen, Leonard - Songs from a Room
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Walker, Scott - Scott 4
Stooges - Stooges (1st Album)
Spence, Alexander 'Skip' - Oar
Zappa, Frank - Hot Rats
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Derek & the Dominos - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
Davis, Miles - Bitches Brew
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1st Album)
Doors - Morrison Hotel
Carpenters - Close to You
Still, Stephen - Stephen Stills (1st Album)
Lennon, John - Plastic Ono Band
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà vu
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Young, Neil - After the Gold Rush
Led Zeppelin - III
Deep Purple - In Rock
Morrison, Van - Moondance
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Drake, Nick - Bryter Layter
Shankar, Ananda - Ananda Shankar (1970)
Who - Live at Leeds(1st Album)
Soft Machine - Third
Stewart, Rod - Gasoline Alley
Harrison, George - All Things Must Pass
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Stevens, Cat - Tea for the Tillerman
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Stooges - Fun House
McCartney, Paul - McCartney (1970)
Santana - Abraxas
Barrett, Syd - Madcap Laughs
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Crosby, David - If Only I Could Remember My Name
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Gaye, Marvin - What's Going On
Yes - Yes Album
Bee Gees - Trafalgar
Who - Who's Next
King, Carole - Tapestry
Hayes, Isaac - Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack
Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Lennon, John - Imagine
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Yes - Fragile
Doors - LA Woman
Can - Tago Mago
John, Elton - Madman Across the Water
Parton, Dolly - Coat of Many Colors
McLean, Don - American Pie
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Led Zeppelin - IV [aka Untitled / aka Four Symbols]
Gainsbourg, Serge - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Stewart, Rod - Every Picture Tells a Story
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
Cohen, Leonard - Songs of Love & Hate
Mitchell, Joni - Blue
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Joplin, Janis - Pearl
Kuti, Fela - With Ginger Baker: Live!
Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse
Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
Clark, Gene - White Light
Prine, John - John Prine (1st Album)
Nilsson, Harry - Nilsson Schmilsson
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Bowie, David - Hunky Dory
Newman, Randy - Sail Away
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Big Star - # 1 Record
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Young, Neil - Harvest
Mayfield, Curtis - Superfly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Slade - Slayed?
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Yes - Close to the Edge
Reed, Lou - Transformer
Masekela, Hugh - Home is Where the Music Is
Nascimento, Milton & Lo Borges - Clube da Esquina (1972)
Rundgren, Todd - Something/Anything
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Wonder, Stevie - Talking Book
Still, Stephen - Manassas
T.Rex - Slider
Ackles, David - American Gothic
Eagles - Eagles (1st Album)
Buckley, Tim - Greetings from LA
Drake, Nick - Pink Moon
Simon, Paul - Paul Simon (1972)
Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1st Album)
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Temptations - All Directions
Bowie, David - Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
War - World is a Ghetto
Green, Al - Let's Stay Together
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
Bowie, David - Aladdin Sane
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Marley, Bob & the Wailers - Catch a Fire
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Cale, John - Paris 1919
Can - Future Days
Reed, Lou - Berlin
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Gaye, Marvin - Let's Get it On
Martyn, John - Solid Air
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Faust - IV
Hancock, Herbie - Head Hunters
Mott the Hoople - Mott
Oldfield, Mike - Tubular Bells
Rundgren, Todd - A Wizard, a True Star
John, Elton - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Jennings, Waylon - Honky Tonk Heroes
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Wonder, Stevie - Innervisions
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
McCartney, Paul & Wings - Band on the Run
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
Isley Brothers - 3 + 3
New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1st Album)
Eno, Brian - Here Come the Warm Jets
Bad Company - Bad Company (1st Album)
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Otis, Shuggie - Inspiration Information
Wonder, Stevie - Fullfillingness' First Finale
Clapton, Eric - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Morrison, Van - It's Too Late to Stop Now
Mitchell, Joni - Court & Spark
Queen - II
Roxy Music - Country Life
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Sparks - Kimono My House
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Thompson, Richard & Linda - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson - Winter in America
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
10cc - Sheet Music
Young, Neil - On the Beach
Jones, George - Grand Tour
Clark, Gene - No Other
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Newman, Randy - Good Old Boys
Marley, Bob & the Wailers - Natty Dread
Wyatt, Robert - Rock Bottom
Parsons, Gram - Grievous Angel
Eno, Brian - Another Green World
Dictators - Go Girl Crazy!
Neu! - '75
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Jarrett, Keith - Köln Concert
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Bowie, David - Young Americans
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Springsteen, Bruce - Born to Run
Harris, Emmylou - Pieces of the Sky
Dion - Born to Be With You
Mitchell, Joni - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Burman, Rahul Dev - Shalimar (Soundtrack)
Young, Neil - Tonight's the Night
Dylan, Bob - Blood on the Tracks
Smith, Patti - Horses
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Nelson, Willie - Red Headed Stranger
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World
Mayfield, Curtis - There's No Place Like America Today
Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1st Album)
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers [Rec 1972, not released until 1976]
Bowie, David - Station to Station
Mitchell, Joni - Hejira
Boston - Boston (1st Album)
Eagles - Hotel California
ABBA - Arrival
Kiss - Destroyer
Rush - 2112
Ben, Jorge - África Brasil
Armatrading, Joan - Joan Armatrading (1st Album)
Aerosmith - Rocks
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Penguin Café Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Café
Jarre, Jean Michel - Oxygene
Ramones - Ramones (1st Album)
Kuti, Fela - Zombie
Tosh, Peter - Legalize It
Wonder, Stevie - Songs in the Key of Life
Frampton, Peter - Frampton Comes Alive
Eno, Brian - Before & After Science
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Joel, Billy - Stranger, the
Marley, Bob & the Wailers - Exodus
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Muddy Waters - Hard Again
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Clash - Clash (1st Album)
Bowie, David - Low
Steely Dan - Aja
Wire - Pink Flag
Martyn, John - One World
Talking Heads - 77
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bowie, David - 'Heroes'
Wilson, Dennis - Pacific Ocean Blue
Suicide - Suicide (1st Album)
Iggy Pop - Idiot, the
Gabriel, Peter - Peter Gabriel (I)
Television - Marquee Moon
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Costello, Elvis - My Aim is True
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Dury, Ian - New Boots & Panties!!
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the...
Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
Kraftwerk - Man Machine
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Regina, Elís - Vento de Maio
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Only Ones - Only Ones (1st Album)
Costello, Elvis - This Year's Model
Jam - All Mod Cons
Ely, Joe - Honky Tonk Masquerade
Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the...
Big Star - Third (aka Sister Lovers)
Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Public Image Ltd - Public Image
Magazine - Real Life
Springsteen, Bruce - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
Throbbing Gristle - DOA: Third & Final Report
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings & Food
Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Van Halen - Van Halen (1st Album)
Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades - Siembra
Cars - Cars (1st Album)
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1st Album)
Saints - Eternally Yours
Gaye, Marvin - Here, My Dear
Nelson, Willie - Stardust
Chic - C'est Chic
X-ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Eno, Brian - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Scream, the
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Crusaders - Street Life
Germs - GI
B52s - B52s (1st Album)
Czukay, Holger - Movies
Police - Reggatta de Blanc
Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Chic - Risqué
Undertones - Undertones (1st Album)
Clash - London Calling
Japan - Quiet Life
Faithfull, Marianne - Broken English
Slits - Cut
Costello, Elvis - Armed Forces
Young, Neil - Rust Never Sleeps
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Pink Floyd - Wall, the
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
Jackson, Michael - Off the Wall
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Numan, Gary - Pleasure Principle
Specials - Specials (1st Album)
Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
AC/DC - Back in Black
Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Gabriel, Peter - Peter Gabriel (III)
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Killing Joke - Killing Joke (1st Album)
Judas Priest - British Steel
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Joy Division - Closer
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (1st Album)
Undertones - Hypnotised
Jam - Sound Affects
Waits, Tom - Heartattack & Vine
UB40 - Signing Off
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Specials - More Specials
Winwood, Steve - Arc of a Diver
Pretenders - Pretenders (1st Album)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
Heaven 17 - Penthouse & Pavement
Go-Gos - Beauty & the Beat
Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
Eno, Brian & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Black Flag - Damaged
X - Wild Gift
Psychedelic Furs - Talk, Talk, Talk
Human League - Dare
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Bauhaus - Mask
Womack, Bobby - Poet
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club (1st Album)
Rush - Moving Pictures
ABBA - Visitors
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Prince - 1999
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - Message, the
Costello, Elvis - Imperial Bedroom
Cure - Pornography
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too Rye Ay
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
Madness - Rise & Fall
Fagen, Donald - Nightfly
Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West
Bush, Kate - Dreaming, the
Orange Juice - Rip it Up
Jackson, Michael - Thriller
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Venom - Black Metal
Springsteen, Bruce - Nebraska
Associates - Sulk
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Duran Duran - Rio
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1st Album)
McLaren, Malcolm - Duck Rock
Def Leppard - Pyromania
REM - Murmur
The The - Soul Mining
Waits, Tom - Swordfishtrombones
Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City
Lauper, Cyndi - She's So Unusual
Simon, Paul - Hearts & Bones
Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
U2 - War
Police - Synchronicity
Meat Puppets - II
Culture Club - Colour by Numbers
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Run DMC - Run DMC (1984)
Sade - Diamond Life
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Van Halen - 1984
Prince - Purple Rain
Replacements - Let it Be
Style Council - Café Bleu
Turner, Tina - Private Dancer
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
N'Dour, Youssou - Immigrés
Springsteen, Bruce - Born in the USA
Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Ibrahim, Abdullah - Water from an Ancient Well
Aha - Hunting High & Low
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good)
Mekons - Fear & Whiskey
Big Black - Atomizer
Vega, Suzanne - Suzanne Vega (1st Album)
Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Bush, Kate - Hounds of Love
Smiths - Meat is Murder
Waits, Tom - Rain Dogs
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
New Order - Low Life
Simply Red - Picture Book
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
Costello, Elvis - Blood & Chocolate
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock: The Album
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The The - Infected
Griffith, Nanci - Last of the True Believers
Bragg, Billy - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Talk Talk - Colour of Spring
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Sonic Youth - Evol
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses (1986)
Simon, Paul - Graceland
Run DMC - Raising Hell
XTC - Skylarking
Earle, Steve - Guitar Town
Bad Brains - I Against I
Baker, Anita - Rapture
Smiths - Queen is Dead
Gabriel, Peter - So
Anthrax - Among the Living
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Parton, Dolly with Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Trio
Def Leppard - Hysteria
REM - Document
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
Cult - Electric
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Michael, George - Faith
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs & Stories
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Piazzolla, Astor & Gary Burton - New Tango
Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu
Laibach - Opus Dei
Napalm Death - Scum
Sonic Youth - Sister
Triffids - Calenture
Jackson, Michael - Bad
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
U2 - Joshua Tree
D'Arby, Terence Trent - Introducing the Hardline According to...
Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Cohen, Leonard - I'm Your Man
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Fishbone - Truth & Soul
Everything But the Girl - Idlewild
Living Colour - Vivid
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
REM - Green
Happy Mondays - Bummed
Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Session
Chapman, Tracy - Tracy Chapman (1st Album)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Metallica - And Justice for All
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Krause, Dagmar - Tank Battles
lang, k.d. - Shadowland
American Music Club - California
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
Yoakam, Dwight - Beuenas Noches from a Lonely Roomn
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Faith No More - Real Thing
Kravtiz, Lenny - Let Love Rule
Hooker, John Lee - Healer, the
New Order - Technique
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire
fIREHOSE - fROMOHIO
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Young Gods - Eau Rouge, l'
Zorn, John - Spy vs Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman
Stone Roses - Stone Roses (1st Album)
Cherry, Neneh - Raw Like Sushi
Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
Bush, Kate - Sensual World
Cure - Disintegration
808 State - 808:90
Coldcut - What's That Noise?
Adamson, Barry - Moss Side Story
Aerosmith - Pump
Pixies - Doolittle
Raitt, Bonnie - Nick of Time
Fugazi - Repeater
Soul II Soul - Club Classics: Vol One
De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
Jackson, Janet - Rhythm Nation 1814
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Shamen - En-Tact
Deee Lite - World Clique
La's - La's
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Depeche Mode - Violator
Pixies - Bossanova
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Michael, George - Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1
Young, Neil - Ragged Glory
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
O'Connor, Sinéad - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Tribe Called Quest, a - People's Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
Sonic Youth - Goo
Ride - Nowhere
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nirvana - Nevermind
Crowded House - Woodface
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (1st Album)
Cope, Julian - Peggy Suicide
Gang Starr - Step in the Arena
MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo
Jah Wobble - Rising Above Bedlam
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Ice T - OG: Original Gangster
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91... Enemy Strikes Back
Tribe Called Quest, a - Low End Theory
Pearl Jam - Ten
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Sepultura - Arise
Slint - Spiderland
U2 - Achtung Baby
KLF - White Room
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Metallica - Metallica [aka Black Album]
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of...
Olomidé, Koffi - Haut de Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Maal, Baaba - Lam Toro
Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1st Album)
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
lang, k.d. - Ingénue
Dr Dre - Chronic, the
REM - Automatic for the People
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the...
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Sugar - Copper Blue
Waits, Tom - Bone Machine
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Stereo MCs - Connected
Ministry - Psalm 69 (Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)
Amos, Tori - Little Earthquakes
Ice Cube - Predator
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream, by...
Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali - Devotional Songs
Harvey, P.J. - Dry
Suede - Suede (1st Album)
Weller, Paul - Wild Wood
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Auteurs - New Wave
Phair, Liz - Exile in Guyville
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Mann, Aimee - Whatever
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
Nirvana - In Utero
Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Harvey, P.J. - Rid of Me
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Crow, Sheryl - Tuesday Night Music Club
Fall - Infotainment Scan
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Björk - Debut
Orbital - Orbital [aka Brown Album]
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Orbit, William - Strange Cargo: III
Method Man - Tical
Black, Frank - Teenager of the Year
Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No 1 Baby
Jeru the Damaja - Sun Rises in the East
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Portishead - Dummy
Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
Nas - Illmatic
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Costello, Elvis - Brutal Youth
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
TLC - CrazySexyCool
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Offspring - Smash
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Blur - Parklife
G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce (1994)
Touré, Ali Farka - Talking Timbuktu
Hole - Live Through This
Massive Attack - Protection
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
Suede - Dog Man Star
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Buckley, Jeff - Grace
Orbital - Snivilisation
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Green Day - Dookie
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (1st Album)
Garbage - Garbage (1st Album)
Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
2Pac - Me Against the World
Elastica - Elastica (1st Album)
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Radiohead - Bends, the
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Kuti, Femi - Femi Kuti (1995)
Verve - A Northern Soul
Genius GZA - Liquid Swords
Pulp - Different Class
Leftfield - Leftism
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Goldie - Timeless
Morissette, Alanis - Jagged Little Pill
Screaming Trees - Dust
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry
Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Beck - Odelay
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Divine Comedy - Casanova
Apple, Fiona - Tidal
Wilco - Being There
Sepultura - Roots
Adamson, Barry - Oedipus Schmoedipus
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite
Charlatans - Tellin' Stories
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Bukem, LTJ - Logical Progression
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Fugees - Score, the
Ash - 1977
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Blur - Blur (1997)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Quaye, Finley - Maverick a Strike
Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor - Supa Dupa Fly
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Wyatt, Robert - Shleep
Holmes, David - Let's Get Killed
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds - Boatman's Call
Divine Comedy - A Short Album About Love
Cornershop - When I was Born for the 7th Time
Daft Punk - Homework
Williams, Robbie - Life Thru a Lens
Carey, Mariah - Butterfly
Supergrass - In it for the Money
Dylan, Bob - Time Out of Mind
Size, Roni & Reprazent - New Forms
Smith, Elliott - Either/Or
Verve - Urban Hymns
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
Dandy Warhols - Dandy Warhols (1997)
Dylan, Bob - Bootleg Series Vol 4: Live 1966 [rec: 1966 at Free Trade Hall, Manchester]
Chao, Manu - Clandestino
Bragg, Billy & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Gray, David - White Ladder
Williams, Lucinda - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Madonna - Ray of Light
Hill, Lauryn - Miseducation of...
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
System of a Down - System of a Down (1st Album)
Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age (1st Album)
Air - Moon Safari
Singh, Talvin - OK
Korn - Follow the Leader
Khalèd, (Cheb) - Kenza
Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Suba - São Paulo Confessions
XTC - Apple Venus: Volume 1
Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill
Incubus - Make Yourself
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Travis - Man Who
Slipknot - Slipknot (1st Album)
Orton, Beth - Central Reservation
Sawhney, Nitin - Beyond Skin
Death in Vegas - Contino Sessions
Moby - Play
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Rhymes Digitales, les - Darkdancer
Tigre, le - Tigre, le (1999)
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
Spears, Britney - Baby One More Time
Metallica - S&M
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
Shack - HMS Fable
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Doves - Lost Souls
Air - Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score
Adams, Ryan - Heartbreaker
Gilberto, Bebel - Tanto Tempo
Cole, MJ - Sincere
Harris, Emmylou - Red Dirt Girl
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Radiohead - Kid A
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Smith, Elliott - Figure 8
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast
Harvey, P.J. - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Badu, Erykah - Mama's Gun
Coldplay - Parachutes
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
Ladd, Mike - Welcome to the Afterfuture
Red Snapper - Our Aim is to Satisfy
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment
Lambchop - Nixon
Lemper, Ute - Punishing Kiss
Madonna - Music
Avalanches - Since I Left You
OutKast - Stankonia
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Silver Jews - Bright Flight
Björk - Vespertine
Gorillaz - Gorillaz (1st Album)
Adams, Ryan - Gold
Destiny's Child - Survivor
Strokes - Is This It
Welch, Gillian - Time (The Revelator)
Gotan Project - Revancha del Tango, la
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Jay Z - Blueprint
Röyksopp - Melody AM
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper
Bees - Sunshine Hit Me
Jones, Norah - Come Away with Me
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coral - Coral (2002)
Cash, Johnny - American IV: Man Comes Around
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Doves - Last Broadcast
Elliott, Missy - Under Construction
Springsteen, Bruce - Rising, the
Aguilera, Christina - Stripped
Roots - Phrenology
Beck - Sea Change
Timberlake, Justin - Justified
Vines - Highly Evolved
Hives - Your New Favourite Band
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Winehouse, Amy - Frank
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Darkness - Permission to Land
White Stripes - Elephant
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Thrills - So Much for the City
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/Love Below
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Wainwright, Rufus - Want One
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
Björk - Medúlla
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Wilson, Brian - SMiLE
Icarus Line - Penance Soirée
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Banhart, Devendra - Rejoicing in the Hands
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (1st Album)
N*E*R*D - Fly or Die
Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
Ozamatli - Street Signs
Libertines - Libertines (1st Album)
West, kanYe - College Dropout
Green, Cee-Lo - Is the Soul Machine
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Wainwright, Rufus - Want Two
Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons?
Killers - Hot Fuss
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
MIA (UK) - Arular
Beck - Guero
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan