Monday, December 26, 2011

Crazy Conservative Uncle


Everyone has a crazy conservative uncle. Sometimes more than one. Could be an aunt too. As a kid I remember having some crazy conservative uncles around but things were different back then because you really only had to hear their crazy rants or have to put up with their obnoxious pontificating at occasional family gatherings. Things are different now because they have our email addresses.

I'm talking about the constant flow of forwarded right wing rants, racists blather, and general hatred for fellow Americans that regularly appear in my mailbox from relatives that are trying to educate (brainwash?) the younger generation in conservative values. These things really took off during the 2008 presidential campaign in my family. All throughout that time period anyone with an email address was subjected to the newly discovered Internet by some of our elderly relatives who were on a mission to avoid what they thought would be the end of their world if Barack Obama was elected president. There has been a steady flow of forwarded emails on a large variety of topics usually describing urban myths, computer viruses and political conspiracy theories along with the usual outright lies about President Obama. Occasionally I would respond with the documented description of the falsehood from Scopes or another fact checking website. Sometimes one of my cousins' children would respond with a spirited denouncement of the obvious lie or misinterpretation of fact. However, the thing that bothered me the most about these emails was the mailing list of young people. People in my extended family that should be looking to their elders for wisdom but finding their email boxes filled with lies and hate.

Did I say Tea Party yet? The picture here is a typical tea party folks gathering to attack the government and complain about government spending. The crazy conservative uncle is a tea party person collecting Social Security and Medicare.

I've decided to devote a part of my blog to responding to these emails. Yes, every time I get one of those obnoxious emails I will post it here and comment on it. I was already going to be commenting on politics as part of my 60@60 blog but now there will be a section specifically called "Crazy Conservative Uncle" and I will invite all those who receive the emails to come here and read my response.

I just got another email about Soros funding Snopes. I'm going to have fun with this one but that will be for later.



60 Albums 2011

My personal favorite albums from my collection for 2011. These selections are based on my listening habits for the year and the higher ranked albums were the ones that I kept coming back to over and over.

Once again I couldn't stop at 60 but forced myself to end the list at 120. Bon Iver tops the list which also topped many people's end of the year list of favorite albums. I can't stop listening to it. I loved his first album but this one moved way beyond the song into pure sound. The War on Drugs was a close second for me. It sounded like so much that has gone before it but also utterly unique.  Fleet Foxes and Wilco both put out wonderful albums this year. I really liked the Jesse Sykes album which was very different than the previous album. This one sounded very California psychedelic retro... sort of like Moby Grape with a female singer. The California sound from the 70s is all over this list but especially the new Dawes album. The Radiohead album was another surprise that I kept on repeated play. The more I played it the higher it rose on the list. Most of this stuff is fairly mellow but... I'm 60 now.


  1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  2. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
  3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  4. Wilco - The Whole Love
  5. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Marble Son
  6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
  7. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
  8. Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
  9. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
  10. Atlas Sound - Parallax 
  11. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
  12. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Holo
  13. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  14. The Antlers - Burst Apart
  15. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
  16. Peaking Lights - 936
  17. Middle Brother - Middle Brother
  18. The Black Keys - El Camino
  19. The Horrors - Skying
  20. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  21. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
  22. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
  23. Cass McCombs - Humor Risk
  24. Sigur Ros - Inni
  25. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  26. Washed Out - Within and Without
  27. CANT - Dreams Come True
  28. My Morning Jacket - Circuital 
  29. The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
  30. Tune-Yards - Whokill
  31. Panda Bear - Tomboy
  32. Anthony Hamilton - Back to Love
  33. Destroyer - Kaputt
  34. James Blake - James Blake
  35. Yuck - Yuck
  36. The Stokes - Angles
  37. The Kills - Blood Pressures
  38. Adele - 21
  39. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
  40. A.A. Bondy - Believers
  41. Cults - Cults
  42. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
  43. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
  44. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
  45. Joe Henry - Reverie
  46. Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
  47. Vetiver - The Errant Charm
  48. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mind
  49. Yellowbirds - The Color
  50. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
  51. Lucinda Williams - Blessed
  52. Battles - Gloss Drop
  53. Over The Rhine - The Long Surrender
  54. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - A Corporate World
  55. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
  56. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
  57. TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
  58. Real Estate - Days
  59. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
  60. Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
  61. Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO ( & Other American Stories)
  62. Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
  63. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
  64. Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys
  65. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
  66. Joss Stone - LP1
  67. Wye Oak - Civilian
  68. Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain
  69. Cavemen - CoCo Beware
  70. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
  71. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
  72. Feist - Metals
  73. Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis
  74. The Cave Singers - No Witch
  75. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
  76. Todd Snider - The Storyteller
  77. Paul Simon - So Beautiful So What
  78. Jolie Holland - Pint of Blood
  79. The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
  80. Matthew Sweet - Modern Art
  81. J. Mascis - Several Shades of Why
  82. Ry Cooder - Pick Up Some Dust and Sit Down
  83. John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
  84. Cass McCombs - Wit's End
  85. Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
  86. Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler
  87. Greg Brown - Freak Flag
  88. The Airborne Toxic Event - All At Once
  89. Elbow - Build A Rocket  Boys
  90. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
  91. Robbie Robertson - How To Become A Clairvoyant
  92. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
  93. Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
  94. Seryn - This Is Where We Are
  95. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
  96. Ben Harper - Give Till It's Gone
  97. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
  98. Danger Mouse - Rome
  99. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
  100. Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
  101. DeVotchKa - 100 Lovers
  102. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
  103. Blitzen Trappen - American Goldwing
  104. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
  105. Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567
  106. Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour
  107. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Wisper
  108. Release The Sunbird - Come Back To Us
  109. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
  110. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
  111. Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
  112. Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid
  113. Tyler Ramsey - The Valley Wind
  114. East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms
  115. Bjork - Biophilia
  116. Marketa Irglova - Anar
  117. Pieta Brown - Mercury
  118. Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow
  119. The Nightwatchman - World Wide Rebel Songs
  120. The Ettes - Wicked Will

There were some great collections this year too.








  1. The Beach Boys - Smile
  2. Rockpile - Live at Montreaux 1980
  3. Various Artists - Rave On Buddy Holly
  4. Various Artists - Johnny Boy Would Love This... A Tribute To John Martyn
  5. Jimi Hendrix - Winterland
  6. Primal Scream & The MC5 - Black To Comm: Live at the Royal Festival
  7. Neil Young - A Treasure
  8. Various Artists - The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
  9. Iggy Pop - Roadkill Rising... The Bootleg Collection 1977-2009
  10. Etta James - Heart & Soul: A Retrospective
  11. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Singles Collection: 1992-2011
  12. The Hollies - Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years: The Complete Hollies 1963-1968
  13. The Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010
  14. Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966-1968
  15. Gorillaz - The Singles Collection: 2001-2011
  16. Ty Segall - Singles 2007-2010
  17. Ladytron - Best of Ladytron 2000-2010
  18. The Vagrants - I Can't Make A Friend 1965-1968
  19. Chicago - Live in 1975




Thursday, December 22, 2011

60 Albums 1976

I stepped back a year to 1976 which of course was very different than 1977. I was in college and living in the Germantown section of Philadelphia which at that time was all about the funk. Parliament and Funkadelic was happening and disco was already becoming too mainstream to be cool anymore although Saturday Night Fever was just around the corner. We also had the very beginnings of what we would know as punk and new wave with the first albums my Blondie, Ramones, Patti Smith and the classic Modern Lovers which was actually recorded in 1973. Little did we know where things were heading.

David Bowie was entering his Thin White Duke period and this album really blew me away. Was this my all time favorite Bowie album? Not hardly. He had many great albums and this is another one.

Reggae was becoming a big part of my collection and we were going down to South Street to regularly see live reggae acts perform at Grendel's Lair. I was also getting into dub and loved to play it at house parties. Freaked people out.

That Joan Armatrading continues to be one of my all time favorite albums.


  1. David Bowie - Station To Station
  2. Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
  3. Bob Dylan - Desire
  4. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
  5. Ramones - Ramones
  6. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
  7. Tom Waits - Small Change
  8. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
  9. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
  10. Blondie - Blondie
  11. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
  12. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
  13. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  14. Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
  15. Peter Tosh - Legalize It
  16. Average White Band - Person To Person
  17. Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost
  18. Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
  19. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  20. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
  21. Jeff Beck - Wired
  22. Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstien
  23. The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas
  24. Jackson Browne - The Pretender
  25. The Heptones - Nightfood
  26. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
  27. Toots & The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul
  28. Stomu Yamashta's Go - Go
  29. Hall & Oates - Bigger Than Both Of Us
  30. Jimmy Cliff - Follow My Mind
  31. The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
  32. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber  Band
  33. Horslips - The Book of Invasions
  34. Miles Davis - Water Babies
  35. Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
  36. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
  37. Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
  38. Todd Rundgren - Faithful
  39. The Runaways - The Runaways
  40. Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
  41. Graham Parker - Howin' Wind
  42. Laura Nyro - Smile
  43. 801 - 801 Live
  44. Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
  45. John Martyn - Live at Leeds
  46. The Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones
  47. Ian Hunter - All American Boy
  48. Burning Spear - Man In The Hills
  49. The Rolling Stones -  Black and Blue
  50. Santana - Amigos
  51. Gary Burton - Dreams So Real
  52. Steve Goodman - Words We Can Dance To
  53. Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
  54. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind
  55. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
  56. Soft Machine - Softs
  57. Melanie - Photograph
  58. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
  59. J. Giles Band - Live: Blow Your Face Out
  60. Diana Ross - Diana Ross

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

60 Albums 1977


My favorite 60 albums from my collection released in 1977. A lot of people say it was one of the greatest years for rock music. I certainly had my favorites. I was in college at the time and spending a whole lot of my income on records but I still collected a lot that year.

It wasn't just about the emergence of punk and what would soon be known as New Wave. For me it was also a continuation of my exploration and emergence in reggae and jazz. This list probably has my largest number of reggae albums of any year. There are also many albums that one would see on other 1977 lists that don't appear here at all. Oh well. This is my list of favorites and I wasn't listening to Billy Joel and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Here are some mixes of songs from 1977:
  • Songs 1977 Vol. 1 - What The Hell Is Wrong With Me - List
  • Songs 1977 Vol. 2 - I Feel Love - List 
  • Songs 1977 Vol. 3 - Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll - List 
  • Songs 1977 Vol. 4 - Sun Is Shining In The Sky - List 

  1. The Clash - The Clash
  2. Television - Marquee Moon
  3. David Bowie - Heroes
  4. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True 
  5. Ramones - Rocket To Russia
  6. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
  7. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
  8. Brian Eno - Before and After Science
  9. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
  10. Neil Young - Decade
  11. Wire - Pink Flag
  12. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here Are The Sex Pistols
  13. David Bowie - Low
  14. Van Morrison - A Period Of Transition
  15. Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer
  16. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
  17. Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion
  18. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
  19. Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
  20. Steely Dan - Aja
  21. Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome
  22. Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
  23. John Martyn - One World
  24. Santana - Moon Flower
  25. The Congos - Heart of the Congos
  26. Dave Edmunds - Get It
  27. Third World - 96 Degrees in the Shade
  28. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
  29. Ramones - Leave Home
  30. Augustus Pablo - Augustus Pablo Meets King Tubby Uptown
  31. Mink DeVille - Cabretta
  32. Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man
  33. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
  34. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Life On The Line
  35. Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
  36. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
  37. The Jam - In The City
  38. Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue
  39. Burning Spear - Dry and Heavy
  40. Little Feat - Times Loves a Hero
  41. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
  42. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
  43. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rock 'N' Roll With The Modern Lovers
  44. The Jam - This Is The Modern World
  45. Blondi - Plastic Letters
  46. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
  47. Robert Gordon - Robert Gordon with Link Wray
  48. Horace Andy - In The Light
  49. The Beach Boys - Love You
  50. The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (IV)
  51. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
  52. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
  53. Suicide - Suicide
  54. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
  55. Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n' All
  56. The Heptones - Party Time
  57. The Damned - Damn Damn Damn
  58. Cheap Trick - In Color
  59. Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
  60. The Kinks - Sleepwalker
More...
  • The Rolling Stones - Love You Live
  • Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno
  • Neil Young - Decade
  • Miles Davis - Dark Magus
  • Charles Mingus - Three or Four Shades of Blue
  • Eric Clapton - Slowhand




Sunday, December 18, 2011

Spinning Out Gracefully - Songs 2011

The second mix of Songs 2011. Some favorite songs from some favorite albums of 2011. Another 60 minutes or so. It was a very good year for music.









1.   My Morning Jacket - Circuital (Circuital)
2.   Yellowbirds - Beneath The Reach Of Light (The Color)
3.   The War On Drugs - Come To The City (Slave Ambient)
4.   Over The Rhine - Rave On (The Long Surrender)
5.   Beck - Stormbringer (Johnny Boy Would Love This... A Tribute To John Martyn)
6.   Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms (Smoke Ring For My Halo)
7.   James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream (James Blake)
8.   Charles Bradley - I Believe In Your Love (No Time For Dreaming)
9.   Adele - Rumor Has It (21)
10. The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling (El Camino)
11. The Kills - Satellite (Blood Pressures)
12. EMA - California (Past Life Martyred Saints)
13. The Antlers - French Exit (Burst Apart)
14. Cass McCombs - Love Thine Enemy (Humor Risk)
15. Wilco - I Might (The Whole Love)
16.  The Decemberists - Down By The Water (The King Is Dead)



Thursday, December 15, 2011

You Know What I Mean - Songs 2011


This is my fist mix featuring songs from my favorite albums of 2011. The 60 song mix didn't last very long and I changed this up to be multiple part mixes of about 60 minutes each so it's still 60@60.

This has been a good year and I have many songs and albums to highlight. Of course I started this off with a song from one of the great releases of the year... The Beach Boys' The Smile Sessions. It sets the tone for everything that follows but especially the first few songs.

This is the first 60 minutes of my Songs 2011 series. The songs are not ranked but are arranged to sound good together.

All albums released in 2011.


1.  The Beach Boys - Our Prayer (The Smile Sessions)
2.  Bon Iver - Holocene  (Bon Iver)
3.  Fleet Foxes - Lorelai (Helplessness Blues)
4.  Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Here Comes Mary (Marble Son)
5.  Dawes - If I Wanted Someone (Nothing Is Wrong)
6.  The Civil Wars - I've Got This Friend (Barton Hollow)
7.  Middle Brother - Million Dollar Bill (Middle Brother)
8.  Atlas Sound - Angel is Broken (Parallax)
9.  Cults - You Know What I Mean (Cults)
10. Smith Westerns - Still New (Dye It Blond)
11. Girls - Honey Bunny (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
12. Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes (Only In Dreams)
13. St. Vincent - Year Of The Tiger (Strange Mercy)
14. M83 - Midnight City (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming)
15. CANT - Too Late, Too Far (Dreams Come True)
16. Radiohead - Louts Flower (The King of Limbs)

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

60 Artist on High Rotation

I looked at my Last.fm listing of artists that is based on my iTunes play and here is a listing of my most popular artists as determined by Last.fm and iTunes. I set this up in early 2008 and it only counts plays on selected devices like my iPod and computers. It doesn't count CDs played anywhere and of course I still play lots of CDs but it is something of a snapshot of this recently tuned 60 guy.

So here is my Top Artist list from the last 4 years as determined by the number of times I played a song from these artists. David Bowie wins this contest by a landslide.
  1. David Bowie
  2. Tom Waits
  3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  4. Yo La Tengo
  5. Bob Dylan
  6. Neil Young
  7. Jimi Hendrix
  8. The Kinks
  9. Robyn Hitchcock
  10. XTC
  11. Radiohead
  12. The Byrds
  13. Grizzly Bear
  14. The Beach Boys
  15. The Green Pajamas
  16. The Rolling Stones
  17. Julian Cope
  18. Tunng
  19. The Kingsbury Manx
  20. Miles Davis
  21. Fleet Foxes
  22. Wilco
  23. Blur
  24. My Morning Jacket
  25. Vic Chesnutt
  26. Big Star
  27. Eels
  28. The Jam
  29. The Clash
  30. T. Rex
  31. Damien Jurado
  32. Over the Rhine
  33. Alejandro Escovedo
  34. The Kills
  35. Otis Redding
  36. Richard Thompson
  37. Cream
  38. Akron/Family
  39. John Prine
  40. Field Music
  41. The Jesus and Mary Chain
  42. Los Lobos
  43. Brian Eno
  44. The Cure
  45. R.E.M.
  46. Elysian Fields
  47. The Besnard Lakes
  48. Robert Plant
  49. Six Organs of Admittance
  50. Charlotte Gainsbourg
  51. James Brown
  52. The Stone Roses
  53. Echo & The Bunnymen
  54. Holly Golightly
  55. Mavis Staples
  56. M. Ward
  57. The Detroit Cobras
  58. Talking Heads
  59. Joe Henry
  60. Leonard Cohen

Monday, December 12, 2011

60 Albums 1982

My favorite 60 albums from 1982. In general I have not agreed with the common perception expressed by some people that the 80's was a bad decade for music. Like every other decade there was plenty of great music and lots of trash. This list of 60 albums released in 1982 was a little more difficult putting together. There a plenty of great albums to make a short list but 60 was a challenge within my criteria for inclusion.

I was very much involved in the music in 1982. I worked as a DJ, booked local bands in a club, hung out in record stores and bought lots of albums. This is also the year that MTV and music videos in general started making a big impact on the music scene. It would be a few more years before we started getting cable and the only place we saw the new videos was in some bars. It's hard now to imagine that there were some bars that had TVs showing MTV over the bar.

I picked Marshall Crenshaw for the top spot because this first album of his has stood the test of time in my world. I saw him touring with this album and I have seen him touring recently. This album led me to be a lifelong fan and I have over a dozen of his albums. This particular album is timeless with a great collection of pop songs. I still listen to it.

I also often still listen to my number 2 which is another timeless album full of great songs as is the number 3.

  1. Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
  2. Roxy Music - Avalon
  3. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
  4. XTC - English Settlement
  5. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
  6. The Clash - Combat Rock
  7. X - Under the Big Black Sun
  8. The English Beat - Special Beat Service
  9. Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
  10. Prince - 1999
  11. Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
  12. The Cure - Pornography
  13. The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
  14. Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
  15. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
  16. Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
  17. Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
  18. The Church - The Blurred Crusade
  19. The Jam - The Gift
  20. ABC - The Lexicon of Love
  21. Rank & File - Sundown
  22. Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West
  23. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
  24. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
  25. Squeeze - Singles: 45's and Under
  26. The Gun Club - Miami
  27. The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
  28. Gang of Four - Songs of the Free
  29. Tom Verlaine - Words From the Front
  30. Squeeze - Sweets From a Stranger
  31. Robyn Hitchcock - Groovy Decay
  32. Grace Jones - Living My Life
  33. Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat
  34. Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
  35. Material - One Down
  36. Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's
  37. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark
  38. James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock
  39. Pigbag - Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive
  40. Split Enz - Time and Tide
  41. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
  42. King Crimson - Beat
  43. Roseanne Cash - Somewhere in the Stars
  44. Mission of Burma - Vs.
  45. Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
  46. King Sunny Ade - Juju Music
  47. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
  48. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
  49. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
  50. The Bongos - Drums Along the Hudson
  51. Ronald Shannon Jackson - Mandance
  52. Hunters & Collectors - Hunters & Collectors
  53. James White & The Blacks - Sax Maniac
  54. Various Artists - Eraserhead
  55. Hall & Oates - H2O
  56. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
  57. Warren Zevon - The Envoy
  58. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
  59. David Lindley - Win This Record
  60. A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls
  61. The Time - What Time Is It?
  62. Michael Jackson - Thriller
  63. The dB's - Repercussion
  64. The Stray Cats - Built For Speed
  65. Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three
  66. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
  67. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
  68. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
  69. The Associates - Sulk
  70. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
  71. Haircut 100 - Pelican West
  72. Kim Wilde - Select

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