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2005DecemberistsPicaresque1. Infanta 2. We Both Go Down Together 3. Eli, the Barrow Boy 4. Sporting Life 5. Bagman's Gambit 6. From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) 7. 16 Military Wives 8. Engine Driver 9. On the Bus Mall 10. Mariner's Revenge Song 11. Of Angels and Angles
2004Arcade FireFuneral1. Neighborhood 1 (Tunnels) 2. Neighborhood 2 (Laika) 3. Une Annee sans Lumiere 4. Neighborhood 3 (Power Cut) 5. Neighborhood 4 (Kettles) 6. Crown Of Love 7. Wake Up 8. Haiti 9. Rebellion (Lies) 10. In The Backseat
2003Herman DüneMas Cambios1. With A Fistful of Faith 2. Red Blue Eyes 3. Show Me The Roof 4. My Friends Kill My Folks 5. In The Summer Camp 6. In August 7. You Stepped on Sticky Fingers 8. Sunny Sunny Cold Cold Day 9. At Your Luau Night 10. Winners Lose 11. The Static Comes from My Broken Heart 12. So Not What I Wanted
2002AtmosphereGod Loves Ugly1. Onemosphere 2. Bass and the Movement 3. Give Me 4. F*@k You Lucy 5. Hair 6. Godlovesugly 7. Song About a Friend 8. Flesh 9. Saves the Day 10. Lovelife 11. Breathing 12. Vampires 13. Girl Named Hope 14. Godlovesugly Reprise 15. Modern Man's Hustle 16. One of a Kind 17. Blamegame 18. Shrapnel
2001The ShinsOh, Inverted World1. Caring Is Creepy 2. One by One All Day 3. The Weird Divide 4. Know Your Onion! 5. Girl Inform Me 6. New Slang 7. Celibate Life 8. Girl on the Wing 9. Your Algebra 10. Pressed in a Book 11. Past and Pending
2000Herman DüneTurn Off the Light1. Our smell lingers 2. Drug dealer in the park 3. You're so far from me 4. I do the crabwalk 5. Shakespeare and North Hoyne 6. World of workers 7. Ulrika's body 8. Hundred times better 9. As long as fakers rule 10. From that night (@ the Lounge Ax) 11. Slight miscalculation
1999HefnerThe Fidelity Wars1. Hymn for the Cigarettes 2. May God Protect Your Home 3. Hymn for the Alcohol 4. I Took Her Love for Granted 5. Every Little Gesture 6. Weight of the Stars 7. I Stole a Bride 8. We Were Meant to Be 9. Fat Kelly's Teeth 10. Don't Flake Out on Me 11. I Love Only You
1998Bright EyesLetting Off the Happiness1. If Winter ends 2. Padraic my prince 3. Contrast and compare 4. The City has sex 5. Difference in the shades 6. Touch 7. June on the west coast 8. Pull my hair 9. A Poetic retelling of an unfortunate seduction 10. Tereza and Tomas
1997Lullaby for the Working ClassI Never Even Asked for Light1. 2. Show me how the robots dance 3. Irish wake 4. Jester's siren 5. Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H) 6. In Honour of my Stumbling 7. This is as close as we get 8. The Sunset & the electric bill 9. Bread crumbs 10. Descent 11. - 13. Man vs the tide
1996Lullaby for the Working ClassBlanket Warm1. Good morning 2. Honey drop the knife 3. Turpentine 4. Spreading the evening sky with Crows 5. Boar's Nest 6. Eskimo Song Duel 7. Three Peas in a Pod 8. Rye 9. Queen of the Long Legged Insects 10. Drama of your Life 11. February North 24th Street 12. The Wounded spider 13. Good night
1995TrickyMaxinquaye1. Overcome 2. Ponderosa 3. Black Steel 4. Hell Is Around the Corner 5. Pumpkin 6. Aftermath 7. Abbadon Fat Track 8. Brand New You're Retro 9. Suffocated Love 10. You Don't 11. Strugglin' 12. Feed Me
1994PortisheadDummy1. Mysterons 2. Sour times 3. Strangers 4. It could be sweet 5. Wandering star 6. Numb 7. Roads 8. Pedestal 9. Biscuit 10. Glory box
1993The AuteursNew Wave1. Show Girl 2. Bailed Out 3. American Guitars 4. Junk Shop Clothes 5. Don't Trust the Stars 6. Starstruck 7. How Could I Be Wrong 8. Housebreaker 9. Valet Parking 10. Idiot Brother 11. Early Years 12. Home Again
1992StereolabSwitched On1. Super-Electric 2. Doubt 3. Au Grand Jour' 4. Way Will Be Opening 5. Brittle 6. Contact 7. Au Grand Jour 8. High Expectation 9. Light That Will Cease to Fail 10. Changer
1991My Bloody ValentineLoveless1. Only Shallow 2. Loomer 3. Touched 4. To Here Knows When 5. When You Sleep 6. I Only Said 7. Come In Alone 8. Sometimes 9. Blown A Wish 10. What You Want 11. Soon
1990Lou Reed & John CaleSongs for Drella1. Smalltown 2. Open house 3. Style it takes 4. Work 5. Trouble with classicists 6. Starlight 7. Faces and names 8. Images 9. Slip away 10. It wasn't me 11. I believe 12. Nobody but you 13. Dream 14. Forever changed 15. Hello it's me
1989The PixiesDoolittle1. Debaser 2. Tame 3. Wave of mutilation 4. Here comes your man 5. Dead 6. Monkey gone to heaven 7. Mr. Grieves 8. Crackity Jones 9. La la love you 10. No. 13 baby 11. There goes my gun 12. Hey 13. Silver 14. Gouge away
1988My Bloody ValentineIsn't Anything1. Soft as snow (but warm inside) 2. Lose my breath 3. Cupid come 4. When you wake you're still in a dream 5. No more sorry 6. All I need 7. Feed me with your kiss 8. Sueisfine 9. Several girls galore 10. You never should 11. Nothing much to lose 12. I can see it (but I can't feel it)
1987MicrodisneyCrooked Mile1. Town To Town 2. Angels 3. Our Children 4. Mrs. Simpson 5. Hey Hey Sam 6. Give Me All Your Clothes 7. Armadillo Man 8. Bullwhip Road 9. And He Descended Into Hell 10. Rack 11. Big Sleeping House 12. People Just Want To Dream
1986MicrodisneyThe Clock Comes Down the Stairs1. Horse Overboard 2. Birthday Girl 3. Past 4. Humane 5. Are You Happy? 6. Genius 7. Begging Bowl 8. A Friend With A Big Mouth 9. Goodbye It's 1987 10. And
1985Jesus & Mary ChainPsychocandy1. Just Like Honey 2. Living End 3. Taste the Floor 4. Hardest Walk 5. Cut Dead 6. In a Hole 7. Taste of Cindy 8. Some Candy Talking 9. Never Understand 10. Inside Me 11. Sowing Seeds 12. My Little Underground 13. You Trip Me Up 14. Something's Wrong 15. It's So Hard
1984Julian CopeWorld Shut Your Mouth1. Bandy's First Jump 2. Metranil Vavin 3. Strasbourg 4. An Elegant Chaos 5. Quizmaster 6. Kolly Kibber's Birthday 7. Sunshine Playroom 8. Head Hang Low 9. Pussyface 10. Greatness And Perfection 11. Lunatic And Fire-Pistol
1983The FallPerverted by Language1. Eat Y'self Fitter 2. Neighbourhood of Infinity 3. Garden 4. Hotel Bloedel 5. Smile 6. I Feel Voxish 7. Tempo House 8. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
1982The FallHex Enduction Hour1. The Classical 2. Jawbone and the Air-Rifle 3. Hip Priest 4. Fortress/Deer Park 5. Mere Pseud Mag. Ed 6. Winter, Pt. 1 7. Winter, Pt. 2 8. Just Step Sideways 9. Who Makes the Nazis? 10. Iceland 11. And This Day
1981Gang of FourSolid Gold1. Paralysed 2. What we all want 3. If I could keep it for myself 4. Outside the trains don't run on time 5. Why theory 6. Cheeseburger 7. Republic 8. In the ditch 9. Hole in the wallet 10. He'd send in the army 11. To hell with poverty 12. Capital (it fails us now) 13. History's bunk
1980The FallGrotesque (After the Gramme)1. Pay Your Rates 2. English Scheme 3. New Face in Hell 4. C'N'C's Mithering 5. Container Drivers 6. Impression of J. Temperance 7. In the Park 8. WMC - Blob 59 9. Gramme Friday 10. The N.W.R.A.
1979Joy DivisionUnknown Pleasures1. Disorder 2. Day of the Lords 3. Candidate 4. Insight 5. New dawn fades 6. She's lost control 7. Shadow play 8. Wilderness 9. Interzone
1978Pere UbuDub Housing1. Navvy 2. On the surface 3. Dub housing 4. Caligari's mirror 5. Thriller 6. I will wait 7. Drinkin' wine spo dee o dee 8. Ubu dance party 9. Blow Daddy o 10. Codex
1977TelevisionMarquee Moon1. See No Evil 2. Venus 3. Friction 4. Marquee Moon 5. Elevation 6. Guiding Light 7. Prove It 8. Torn Curtain
1976The RamonesThe Ramones1. Blitzkrieg Bop 2. Beat on the Brat 3. Judy Is a Punk 4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 5. Chain Saw 6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue 7. I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement 8. Loudmouth 9. Havana Affair 10. Listen to My Heart 11. 53rd and 3rd 12. Let's Dance 13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You 14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
1975Patti SmithHorses1. Gloria 2. Redondo beach 3. Birdland 4. Free money 5. Kimberly 6. Break it up 7. Land 8. Horses 9. Land of a thousand dances 10. La mer 11. Elegie
1974Neil YoungOn the Beach1. Walk on 2. See the sky about to rain 3. Revolution blues 4. For the turnstiles 5. Vampire blues 6. On the beach 7. Motion pictures 8. Ambulance blues
1973Lou ReedBerlin1. Berlin 2. Lady Day 3. Men of good fortune 4. Caroline says 5. How do you think it feels 6. Oh Jim 7. Caroline says (2) 8. The Kids 9. The Bed 10. Sad song
1972Roxy MusicRoxy Music1. Re-Make/Re-Model 2. Ladytron 3. If There Is Something 4. Virginia Plain 5. 2HB 6. The Bob [Medley] 7. Chance Meeting 8. Would You Believe 9. Sea Breezes 10. Bitter's End
1971David BowieHunky Dory1. Changes 2. Oh! You Pretty Things 3. Eight Line Poem 4. Life on Mars? 5. Kooks 6. Quicksand 7. Fill Your Heart 8. Andy Warhol 9. Song for Bob Dylan 10. Queen Bitch 11. The Bewlay Brothers
1970Mott the HoopleMad Shadows1. Thunderbuck ram 2. No wheels to ride 3. You are one of us 4. Walkin' with a mountain 5. I can feel 6. Threads of iron 7. When my minds gone
1969The StoogesThe Stooges1. 1969 2. I Wanna Be Your Dog 3. We Will Fall 4. No Fun 5. Real Cool Time 6. Ann 7. Not Right 8. Little Doll
1968Mothers of InventionWe're Only in it for the Money1. Are you hung up? 2. Who needs the peace corps? 3. Concentration moon 4. Mom and Dad 5. Bow tie Daddy 6. Harry you're a beast 7. What's the ugliest part of your body? 8. Absolutely free 9. Flower punk 10. Hot poop 11. Nasal retentive calliope music 12. Mother people
1967NicoChelsea Girl1. Fairest of the seasons 2. These days 3. Little sister 4. Winter song 5. It was a pleasure then 6. Chelsea girl 7. I'll keep it with mine 8. Somewhere there's a feather 9. Wrap your troubles in dreams 10. Eulogy to Lenny Bruce
1966Bob DylanBlonde on Blonde1. Rainy day women 12 and 35 2. Pledging my time 3. Visions of Johanna 4. One of us must know 5. I want you 6. Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again 7. Leopard skin pillbox hat 8. Just like a woman 9. Most likely you'll go your way and I'll go mine 10. Temporarily like Achilles 11. Absolutely sweet Marie 12. Fourth time around 13. Obviously five believers 14. Sad eyed lady of the Lowlands
1965Bob DylanHighway 61 Revisited1. Like a rolling stone 2. Tombstone blues 3. It takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry 4. From a Buick 6 5. Ballad of a thin man 6. Queen Jane approximately 7. Highway 61 revisited 8. Just like Tom Thumb's blues 9. Desolation Row
1964Bob DylanAnother Side of1. All I really want to do 2. Black crow blues 3. Spanish Harlem incident 4. Chimes of freedom 5. I shall be free 6. To Ramona 7. Motorpsycho nightmare 8. My back pages 9. I don't believe you (she acts like we never have met) 10. Ballads in plain D 11. It ain't me babe
1963Bob DylanThe Freewheelin'1. Blowin' in the wind 2. Girl from the North Country 3. Masters of war 4. Down the highway 5. Bob Dylan's blues 6. Hard rain's a gonna fall 7. Don't think twice it's alright 8. Bob Dylan's dream 9. Oxford Town 10. Talking World War III blues 11. Corrina Corrina 12. Honey just allow me one more chance 13. I shall be free
1957Robert MitchumCalypso - Is Like So 1. Jean and Dinah 2. From a Logical Point of View 3. Not Me 4. What is this Generation Coming To? 5. Tic Tic Tic 6. Beauty is only skin deep 7. I Learn a Merengue Mama 8. Take Me Down to Lover's Row 9. Mama Looka Boo Boo 10. Coconut Water 11. Matilda Matilda 12. They Dance All Night 13. Ballad of Thunder Road 14. My Honey's Lovin' Arms