Rollingstones's top 100 alternative albums from 1966-93

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This list is not bad considering that this is Rolling Stone.
Here it is :
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of...
The Velvet Underground and Nico - s.t.
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
The MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
The Stooges - Fun House
Can - Tago Mago
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Neu - Neu!
Roxy Music - s.t.
Faust - The Faust Tapes
New York Dolls - s.t.
Big Star - Radio City
Henry Cow - Unrest
Patti Smith - Horses
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Ramones - s.t.
Blondie - s.t.
The Modern Lovers - s.t.
The Runaways - s.t.
Radio Birdman - Burn My Eye EP
The Resident - Third Reich and Roll
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Television - Marquee Moon
Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
Suicide - s.t.
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
The Jam - In the City
Wire - Pink Flag
Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
V/A - No New York
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
XTC - Drums and Wires
The Heartbreakers - Live at Max's Kansas City
The Specials - s.t.
The Raincoats - s.t.
The Slits - Cut
The B-52's - s.t.
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
The Clash - London Calling
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
The Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Half Japanese - 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
The Pretenders - s.t.
Black Flag - Damaged
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches EP
The Fall - Hex Education Hour
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
R.E.M. - Murmur
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Violent Femmes - s.t.
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
The Replacements - Let It Be
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Smiths - s.t.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - s.t.
V/A - "Repo Man" Soundtrack
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Sonic Youth - Evol
Big Black - Atomizer
Throwing Muses - s.t.
Bad Brains - I Against I
Jane's Addiction - s.t.
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Negativland - Escape from Noise
The Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Green River - Dry as a Bone
Beat Happenings - Jamboree
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Slint - Tweez
Moby - s.t.
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Sebadoh - "Gimme Indie Rock" single
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Bikini Kill - Bikini Kill EP
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of it's rather predictable, but I'm impressed by the Henry Cow and Radio Birdman inclusions.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

How did they justify slipping that Sebadoh single in?

So...if anybody's got a spare...few weeks, yould they mind awfully burning all of the above onto a series of mp3cds for me? Cheers!

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"Burn My Eye" and not "Radios Appear"? I mean the cover of "T.V. Eye" is kinda pants but other than that, it's almost perfect. "Burn My Eye" has "Snake", which is a lame "Wild Night" ripoff, a decent title track and two mostly unremarkable other songs and that's it.

Geez, I'm sad and obsessed over that band.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 25 October 2002 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah it's predictable but then again this is Rollingstone. My only beef is that they should at least have included something from Depeche Mode.

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

yould they mind awfully burning all of the above onto a series of mp3cds for me?

I could do 21 of them.. but not today.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Goddammit. Killing Joke dissed again. Die, Wenner, Die!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Well it is a fine list. I have never heard that (or any) Green River album. Classic or dud (the album, not the fact that I haven't heard it)?

― Aaron A., Friday, 25 October 2002 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Alternative to what?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Repo Man Soundtrack, huh?

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 25 October 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if it is printed as "Beat Happenings" in hard copy.

― Aaron A., Friday, 25 October 2002 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Ditto "The Resident".

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 25 October 2002 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Repo Man soundtrack ist kool: Black Flag, Circle Jerks etc.

Funkadelic, huh?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 25 October 2002 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ORB, WTF?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 25 October 2002 05:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Sugarhill Gang?????
some of these reek of tokenism bad

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 25 October 2002 05:02 (twenty-three years ago)

why are we arguing over a decade-old list here?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 25 October 2002 06:54 (twenty-three years ago)

they should've put concerts instead of unrest, i think. but there's no point if its all song oriented I'm afraid.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 October 2002 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with michaelangelo. esp. as that's a REALLY shit list.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 25 October 2002 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Here's a list of 100 albums that might be our favourites if we didn't prefer the stuff we prefer". How fascinating is that?

― ArfArf, Friday, 25 October 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 4 of them.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 25 October 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got 67 of them.
I've got something by another 28.
I've just found myself thinking "I really must investigate those last remaining 5 a bit more...."

Note to self: Stop spending so much money on music and get a life, URGENT.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

This doesn't warrant its own thread (or maybe it does) but since this is a thread about how stupid/patronizing Rolling Stone is....

Why do they insist on including a guitar in photos like these:
http://content.rollingstone.com/content/8345/images/00310615.jpg
http://a95.g.akamaitech.net/f/95/5787/6h/content.rollingstone.com/content/370/images/80683.jpg

I mean, how is a guitar at all relevant?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

In the top picture its a dick stand-in; in the bottom picture its cowgal accessorising.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got 67 of them.
I've got something by another 28.

It's too early in the morning to count properly, but I think I have 71 of those, and own something by another, say, 15.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's too early in the morning to count properly, but I think I have 71 of those, and own something by another, say, 15."

Do you have something specific against any of the other 14?

Do you find yourself being consumed by a desperate need to investigate / purchase any of the rest?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you have something specific against any of the other 14?

I hate fun.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I have eight, plus taped copies of two or three others.

(All the Throbbing Gristle I have and they had to pick one I don't own.)

― Ra-kist Scientist, Friday, 25 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 25 => it is mainstream, not alternative

Hex Education Hour?

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Toss The Shaggs into the token pile of albums that ended up there.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 41 of'em, as it turns out.

Why is Buzzcocks' SINGLES GOING STEADY in there?!?!? It's a compilation, dagnabbit, not a proper album!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

63 (including taped copies - is that cheating?).

Where's Locust Abortion Technician?

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Green River was probably the beginning of grunge, so classic if you like grunge, otherwise it has some good skank rock moments.

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 25 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Hex EDUMACATION Hour.

Let's not compare this goofy list w/ the same list from the Spin Alternative Guide and not talk about this anachronism that isn't work talking about, since nothing is ever worth talking about ever!

(I oscillate between sincerety and sarcams 83 times in the previous paragraph, BTW.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 October 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 70 of them, and I really like 22 of them.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

i am starting to think that everyone on here has the same record collection.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 26 October 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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