Classic Albums: Perfect 305 Albums

Only perfect to me, most likely? It’s my greatest or biggest list ever on my blog! Maybe, it’s just insane bonkers? Because I’m taking a blogging break it’s now time to just share the final and full list of my all-time fave albums! Which was really the main reason I first started this blog for and only taken something like five years NOT to blog post each album but all those I did they’re linked back to their post. For some totally mad reason I got it into my head: each album should have a blog post!

Yeah, I know some very big huge names are missing but I’ve got someones no one really talks about at all are included, then some in between them. Plus it’s all really down to my own personal taste! The stats are no one single act has three albums on my list I’ve cut it down to only seven groundbreaking acts with two albums each, which are: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dirty Three, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Drones, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Bo Diddley. Which does sound about right for me, what do you think dear readers/listeners?

The singers/songwriters/musicians who have worked under more than one name are more luckier, some are: Adalita as solo artist and with band Magic Dirt, Layne Staley with both Alice In Chains and Mad Season, Michael Gira with both Swans and The Angels Of Light, Syd Barrett with Pink Floyd and solo, Will Oldham under both Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Place Music, Bill Callahan as Smog and solo, Nick Cave with The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, Henry Rollins with Black Flag and Rollins Band, Ron Peno with both Died Pretty and Darling Downs, Mark E. Smith in both The Fall and Von Südenfed, Gareth Liddiard solo and The Drones also in Spencer P. Jones And The Nothing Butts, Rowland S. Howard solo and played with both The Birthday Party and Lydia Lunch, Ed Kuepper solo and both The Saints and Laughing Clowns, Kim Salmon with Scientists, The Surrealists, Beasts Of Bourbon and Darling Downs, Spencer P. Jones with Beasts Of Bourbon, The Johnnys and The Nothing Butts, Tex Perkins with Beasts Of Bourbon, The Cruel Sea and Tex, Don & Charlie, Don Walker in the former and solo, Mark Kozelek as Red Hourse Painters, Sun Kil Moon and solo, Mark Lanegan solo, Mad Season, Queens Of The Stone Age and Lanegan Band, Mike Patton with Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and solo, Lou Reed with The Velvet Underground, Metallica and solo, Warren Ellis with both Dirty Three and The Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld with both Einstürzende Neubauten and The Bad Seeds, Josh Homme with Kyuss and Queens. Might just have to stop now but to say the least or a lot just a few cross overs!

I was somehow going to figure out what each year got what? You know which one got the most or less etc. but I can’t be stuffed right now so maybe later sometime or can someone else do the maths for me because I’m so shit at it, OK? It’s end date was before 2015 because that’s when I started doing this little, long project. The formats I do own them on are CD’s the most because I’m a 90’s kid and I do like a clear-crisp sound but some are doubled on vinyl or cassette tape and then they all were tripled on my now totally fucked-up laptop, thank shitfuck I backed it up! People, if you haven’t back-up your music lately please do because these silly little things we use do sometimes stop working without no warning! Maybe, that’s the main or real reason I’m taking a break blogging, if you wanna know? The top hits/views album post of all-time is Sex by The Necks, if you’ll like to know? I think, this is because people could be searching for some kind-of neck porn or they’re way more popular than I do know?

Alphabet order (not backwards) but after the said letter it’s by years of release, OK?

• Various Artists – The Anthology of American Folk Music (Compilation) [1952]
• AC/DC – High Voltage [1975]
• Adam And The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier [1980]
• Alice In Chains – Jar Of Flies [1994]
• Ata Kak – Obaa Simm [1994]
• Aphex Twin – …I Care Because You Do [1995]
• Tori Amos – Boys For Pele [1996]
• Barry Adamson – Oedipus Schmoedipus [1996]
• Fiona Apple – When The Pawn… [1999]
• The Angels Of Light – How I Love You [2001]
• Augie March – Strange Bird [2002]
• Antony And The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now [2005]
• Adalita – Self-titled [2011]
• Arcade Fire – Reflektor [2013]
• Chuck Berry – After School Session [1957]
• The Beatles – The White Album [1968]
• Syd Barrett – Madcap Laughs [1970]
• David Bowie – Station To Station [1976]
• Blondie – Self-titled [1976]
• Bad Brains – Rock Of Light [1983]
• The Birthday Party – Mutiny/The Bad Seed [1983]
• Beasts Of Bourbon – Axeman’s Jazz [1984]
• Black Flag – Live ’84 [1984]
• The Bats – Daddy’s Highway [1987]
• Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks (Soundtrack) [1990]
• William S. Burroughs – Spare Ass Annie And Other Tales [1993]
• The Breeders – Last Splash [1993]
• Jeff Buckley – Live At Sin-E [1993]
• Biniki Kill – The First Two Records (Compilation) [1994]
• Beastie Boys – Ill Communication [1994]
• Beck – Mellow Gold [1994]
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Orange [1994]
• Bluetile Lounge – Lowercase [1995]
• Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See A Darkness [1999]
• Bjork – Vespertine [2001]
• Bird Blobs – Self-titled [2001]
• The Black Keys – Rubber Factory [2004]
• Kate Bush – Aerial [2005]
• Sarah Blasko – What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have [2006]
• The Black Angels – Passover [2006]
• Black Cab – Games Of The XXI Olympiad [2014]
• Patsy Cline – Sentimentally Yours [1962]
• John Coltrane – Ascension [1965]
• Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk [1967]
• Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Love And Hate [1971]
• The Cure – Pornography [1982]
• Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas (Soundtrack) [1985]
• Crowded House – Temple Of Low Men [1988]
• The Cramps – Stay Sick! [1990]
• The Cruel Sea – This Is Not The Way Home [1991]
• Carcass – Necroticism – Descanting The Insalubrious [1991]
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream [1992]
• Leonard Cohen – The Future [1992]
• Johnny Cash – American Recordings [1994]
• Cat Power – Moon Pix [1998]
• Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea – Dead Wood Falls [2006]
• Kev Carmody & Various Artists – Cannot Buy My Soul [2007]
• Bill Callahan – Dream River [2013]
• Kirin J Callinan – Embracism [2013]
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away [2013]
• Fats Domino – Rockin And Rollin With Fats [1955]
• Bo Diddley – His Best [1965]
• Bo Diddley – The Black Gladiator [1970]
• The Doors – L.A. Woman [1971]
• Karen Dalton – In My Own Time [1971]
• Miles Davis – On The Corner [1972]
• Betty Davis – They Say I’m Different [1974]
• Bob Dylan – Desire [1976]
• Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables [1980]
• Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing [1982]
• Died Pretty – Free Dirt [1986]
• Toumani Diabaté – Karia [1988]
• Depeche Mode – Songs Of Faith And Devotion [1993]
• The Dead C – The White House [1995]
• Dirty Three – Horse Stories [1996]
• dEUS – In The Bar, Under The Sea [1996]
• Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst [1996]
• DMX – Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood [1998]
• Dirty Three – Whatever You Love, You Are [2000]
• The Drones – Gala Mill [2006]
• The Darling Downs – From One To Another [2007]
• Lana Del Rey – Born To Die [2012]
• The Drones – I See Seaweed [2013]
• Einstürzende Neubauten – Halber Mensch [1985]
• Essendon Airport – Sonic Investigations (Of The Trivial) [1980]
• Brian Eno – Apollo [1983]
• Earth – Earth 2 [1993]
• Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy [2000]
• Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours [2008]
• Funkadelic – Cosmic Slop [1973]
• The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour [1982]
• Fugazi – 13 Songs [1989]
• Faith No More – King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime [1995]
• Marianne Faithfull – 20th Century Blues [1996]
• John Frusciante – To Record Water For Ten Days [2001]
• The Fall of Troy – Doppelgänger [2005]
• Fever Ray – Self-titled [2009]
• Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport [2009]
• Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads [1940]
• Bobbie Gentle – Ode To Billie Joe [1967]
• Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin – Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg [1969]
• Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear [1978]
• The Gun Club – Love On Fire [1981]
• Dave Graney ‘N’ The Coral Snakes – The Soft ‘N’ Sexy Sound [1995]
• Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway [1997]
• Gerling – Children Of Telepathic Experiences [1998]
• The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart [2005]
• Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul [2008]
• John Grant – Queen Of Denmark [2010]
• John Lee Hooker – It Serves You Right To Suffer [1966]
• Honey Ltd. – The Complete Lee Hazlewood Recordings [1969]
• Hoodoo Gurus – Stoneage Romes [1984]
• Hüsker Dü – Candy Apple Grey [1986]
• Hard-Ons – Yummy! [1990]
• PJ Harvey – Rid Of Me [1993]
• Helmet – Betty [1994]
• Rowland S. Howard – Pop Crimes [2009]
• HTRK – Work (Work, Work) [2011]
• Julia Holter – Ekstasis [2012]
• Harmony – Carpetbombing [2014]
• INXS – Self-titled [1980]
• Ice Cube – The Predator [1992]
• Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights [2002]
• Robert Johnson – The Complete Recording (Compilation) [1937]
• Bert Jansch – Avocet [1979]
• Joy Division – Closer [1980]
• Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette [1980]
• The Johnnys – Highlights Of A Dangerous Life [1986]
• Daniel Johnston –  Hi, How Are You [1983]
• Jane’s Addition – Nothing Shocking [1989]
• The Jesus Lizard – Goat [1991]
• Jay-Z – The Black Album [2003]
• Zola Jesus – Conatus [2011]
• Spencer P. Jones And The Nothing Butts – Self-titled [2012]
• Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit [1975]
• Paul Kelly And The Coloured Girls – Gossip [1986]
• Kyuss – Blues For The Red Sun [1992]
• Junior Kimbrough – You Better Run (Compilation) [2002]
• Konono Nº1 – Congotronics [2004]
• Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males – Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth [2006]
• The Knife – Silent Shout [2006]
• Ed Kuepper – Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog [2007]
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Float Along – Fill Your Lungs [2013]
• Mark Kozelek – Sings Christmas Carols [2014]
• Leadbelly – The Definitive (Compilation) [1950]
• Laughing Clowns – Law Of Nature [1983]
• Lubricated Goat – Plays Devil Music [1987]
• Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard – Shotgun Wedding [1991]
• L7 – Bricks Are Heavy [1992]
• Mark Lanegan – Whisky For The Holy Ghost [1994]
• Jimmy Little – Messenger [1999]
• Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist [2010]
• Lost Animal – Ex Tropical [2011]
• Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral [2012]
• Liars – Mess [2014]
• Blind Willie McTell – The Definitive [1956]
• The Monks – Black Monk Time [1966]
• Van Morrison – Veedon Fleece [1974]
• Midnight Oil – 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 [1982]
• Roger Manning – Self-titled (RM1) [1988]
• Metallica – …And Justice For All [1988]
• Megadeth – Rust In Peace [1990]
• Morrissey – Your Arsenal [1992]
• Morphine – Cure For Pain [1993]
• The Meanies – 10% Weird [1994]
• The Mark Of Cain – Ill At Ease [1995]
• Mad Season – Above [1995]
• Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante [1995]
• Ministry – Filth Pig [1996]
• Clint Mansell & Various Artists – Pi (Soundtrack) [1998]
• Amiee Mann – Magnolia (Soundtrack) [1999]
• Magic Dirt – What Are Rock Stars Doing Today [2000]
• Mogwai – Rock Action [2001]
• Kylie Minogue – Body Language [2003]
• M.I.A. – Arular [2005]
• The Mountain Goats – Sunset Tree [2005]
• Mastodon – Blood Mountain [2006]
• My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade [2006]
• The Mess Hall – Devil’s Elbow [2007]
• My Disco – Paradise [2008]
• Abbe May – Kiss My Apocalypse [2013]
• Nico – Desertshore [1970]
• Various Artists – No New York (Compilation) [1978]
• Napalm Death – Scum [1987]
• The Necks – Sex [1989]
• Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral [1994]
• Nirvana – Unplugged In New York [1994]
• Not From There – Sand On Seven [1998]
• Joanna Newsom – Ys [2006]
• Beth Orton – Trailer Park [1996]
• Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates of Dawn [1967]
• Elvis Presley – 68′ Comeback Special [1968]
• Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters – Super Ape [1976]
• Pere Ubu – The Shape Of Things [1976]
• Primitive Calculators – Self-titled (Black & White) [1978]
• The Pop Group – Y [1979]
• Public Image Ltd. – Romance Of Flowers [1981]
• Prince – Batman (Soundtrack) [1989]
• Public Enemy – Fear The Black Planet [1991]
• Primus – Sailing On The Sea Of Cheese [1991]
• Tex (Perkins), Don (Walker) & Charlie (Owen) – Sad But True [1993]
• Pearl Jam – Vitalogy [1994]
• Pantera – Far Beyond Driven [1994]
• The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation [1994]
• Palace Music – Viva Last Blues [1995]
• Pavement – Wowee Zowee [1995]
• The Paradise Motel – Still Life [1996]
• Mike Patton – Adult Themes For Voice [1996]
• Pulp – This Is Hardcore [1998]
• Powderfinger – Internationalist [1998]
• The Painkillers – Drunk On A Train [2007]
• Portishead – Third [2008]
• PVT – Church With No Name [2010]
• Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R [2000]
• Marty Robbins – Gun Fighter Ballads And Trail Songs [1957]
• The Rolling Stones – Some Girls [1978]
• The Reels – Quasimodo’s Dream [1981]
• Archie Roach – Charcoal Lane [1990]
• Various Artists – Reservoir Dogs (Soundtrack) [1992]
• Red House Painters – Rollercoaster [1993]
• R.E.M. – Monster [1994]
• Rollins Band – Weight [1994]
• Ricaine – Regret Is An Inevitable Consequence Of Life [1996]
• Regurgitator – Tu-Plang [1996]
• Lou Reed – Set The Twilight Reeling [1996]
• Refused – The Shape Of Punk To Come [1998]
• Various Artists – Rushmore (Soundtrack) [1999]
• theredsunband – The Shiralee [2008]
• Robyn – Body Talk [2010]
• Radiohead – The King Of Limbs [2011]
• Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu [2011]
• Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours [1955]
• The Seeds – Self-titled [1966]
• Nina Simone – Emergency Ward [1972]
• Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power [1973]
• Patti Smith – Horses [1975]
• Donna Summer – Love to Love You Baby [1975]
• The Saints – (I’m) Stranded (1976]
• Suicide – The Second Album [1980]
• Suburban Lawns – Self-titled [1981]
• Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska [1982]
• Scientists – Human Jukebox [1986]
• Slayer – Reign In Blood [1986]
• The Sisters Of Mercy – Floodland [1987]
• Various Artists – Sub Pop 200 (Compilation) [1988]
• Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger [1991]
• Swans – Love Of Life [1992]
• Sonic Youth – Dirty [1992]
• Kim Salmon & The Surrealists – Sin Factory [1993]
• Sepultura – Chaos A.D. [1993]
• Shihad – The Fish Album [1996]
• Smog – Red Apple Falls [1997]
• Straitjacket Fits – Self-titled (Compilation) [1998]
• Sodastream – Looks Like A Russian [2000]
• The Strokes – This Is It [2001]
• Slipknot – Iowa [2001]
• Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans [2004]
• Sleater-Kinney – The Woods [2005]
• Snowman – The Horse, The Rat And The Swan [2008]
• Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here [2010]
• Seekae – +Dome [2011]
• Standish/Carlyon – Deleted Scenes [2013]
• Sun Kil Moon – Benji [2014]
• Omar Souleyman – Bahdeni Nami [2014]
• Television – Marquee Moon [1977]
• Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats [1979]
• Ali Farka Toure – Radio Mali [1980]
• The Triffids – In The Pines [1986]
• Tumbleweed – Untitled [1992]
• Various Artists – Tales Of Australian Underground: Vol. 1 & 2 (Compilation) [1992]
• Tool – Undertow [1993]
• Tricky – Pre-Millennium Tension [1996]
• Various Artists – Trainspotting (Soundtrack) [1997]
• Various Artists – Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (Soundtrack) [1997]
• Tendrils – Soaking Red [1998]
• The Tigers – Space Coyote [1999]
• Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances [2008]
• Tinariwen – Imidiwan [2009]
• Total Control – Typical System [2011]
• U2 – Zooropa [1993]
• The UV Race – Homo [2011]
• The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat [1968]
• Townes Van Zandt – Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas [1977]
• Various Artists – Virus 100 (Compilation) [1992]
• Von Südenfed – Tromatic Reflexxions [2007]
• Sharon Van Etten – Tramp [2012]
• Tom Waits – Blue Valentine [1978]
• Warumpi Band – Big Name, No Blankets [1984]
• Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers [1993]
• Ween – Chocolate And Cheese [1994]
• Don Walker – We’re All Gonna Die [1995]
• Various Artists – Where Joy Kills Sorrow (Compilation) [1996]
• Matt Walker – I Listen To The Night [1997]
• Tom Waits – Mule Variations [1999]
• Kanye West – Late Registration [2004]
• The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan [2005]
• Witch Hats – Cellulite Soul [2008]
• Scott Walker – Bish Bosch [2012]
• X – At Home With You [1985]
• Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself [2010]
• Neil Young – Zuma [1975]
• The Young Gods – T.V. Sky [1992]
• You Am I – Hourly Daily [1996]
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! [2009]
• Warren Zevon – Life’ll Kill Ya [2000]

The music never stop!

 Maybe, I will come back and get it done one day? But sharing the list today, if anyone/someone/everyone wanna search for them and have a listen? If so, I hope you enjoy them all!

Cheers 🙂

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