February 22, 2010
 

 

I'll confess that right from the start I was afraid of the response that I'd get on this Poll. I'll also say right from the start that this Poll list is INCOMPLETE. The submissions were massive. This list alone took me several hours to compile. As the week progresses, I'll add to it. Besides, you're gonna need the breaks as well. The Perfect Album Poll was a nice but VERY busy surprise and as you'll soon see, we have had quite a lot of suggestions.

In addition, we got a nice professional write-up by Adam Jahnke on his The Doctor Is In: Jahnke's Record Collection site. You can access that here as it is a great read. We've had other very nice responses that not only provided us with titles, but also several heart-felt thanks as we seem to have awoken a bit of remembrance. Ain't that what it's all about? Rock 'n Roll, my friends, it's all Rock 'n Roll. And so, since this one really is a long one, off we go (Enjoy It, but remember that this list is an incomplete one...for now!):

  • Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (4)
  • U2 - Achtung Baby (5)
  • Van Halen - OU812
  • The Clash - London Calling (7)
  • Rush - Signals (2)
  • Elton John - Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy (2)
  • Van Halen - 1984 (2)
  • Genesis - Duke
  • The Beatles - Abbey Road (4)
  • Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
  • Pet Shop Boys - Very
  • Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (4)
  • AC/DC - Highway to Hell
  • Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
  • The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (2)
  • Pink Floyd - Meddle
  • Cure - Disintegration
  • David Essex - Rock On
  • Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
  • Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
  • The Who - Quadrophenia (3)
  • Radiohead - The Bends
  • Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
  • Madonna - Confessions on the Dance Floor
  • Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago I
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (4)
  • Black Sabbath - Volume Four
  • Three Dog Night - Hard Labor
  • J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
  • Paul McCartney - Band on the Run (2)
  • Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I (3)
  • The Doors - LA Woman
  • Debby Boone - Choose Life
  • The Who - Who Are You
  • Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
  • Depeche Mode - Violator
  • Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
  • Barbra Streisand - The Broadway Album
  • Pink Floyd - Animals (5)
  • Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire
  • Cream - Fresh Cream
  • Steely Dan - Aja (3)
  • The Beatles - Help
  • Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing
  • The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
  • Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
  • Triump - Allied Forces
  • Wishbone Ash - Argus (2)
  • Van Halen - Van Halen II
  • Izzy Stradlin & the JuJu Hounds - S/T
  • Kiss - Creatures of the Night
  • Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
  • Gerry Rafferty - City to City
  • Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
  • AC/DC - If You Want Blood
  • Tommy Coomes - Love Is The Key
  • America - Homecoming
  • Supertramp - Breakfast in America (2)
  • The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (3)
  • Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
  • Can - Future Days
  • a-ha - Hunting High and Low
  • Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
  • Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
  • Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (2)
  • Metallica - Metallica
  • Phil Driscoll - Power of Praise
  • Muse - Absolution
  • The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
  • Stevie Wonder - Fullfillingness' First Finale
  • Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
  • Alice Cooper - Killer - (2)
  • Scorpions - In Trance
  • Metallica - Master of Puppets
  • The Who - Tommy (3)
  • Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
  • Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
  • Gas - Zauberberg
  • Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
  • Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love
  • Muddy Waters - Fathers & Sons
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall (2)
  • Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
  • Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
  • Frank Marino - Juggernaut
  • Queen - A Night at the Opera
  • Neil Young - Harvest (3)
  • ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
  • Van Halen - 5150
  • Rush - Hemispheres
  • Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
  • Styx - Paradise Theater
  • Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
  • Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (2)
  • Tomita - Planets
  • The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
  • Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
  • Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf London Sessions
  • UFO - Strangers in the Night
  • Rush - Moving Pictures (2)
  • Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
  • Brian Wilson - Smile
  • Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
  • The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (3)
  • Geoff Smith - 16 Wild Decembers
  • Black Sabbath - Sabotage
  • Daniel Amos - Alarma
  • Air - Premiers Symptomes
  • Yes - Relayer
  • J J Cale - Naturally
  • Rush - Snake & Arrows (2)
  • Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (3)
  • Candlebox - Into the Sun
  • Tool - 10,000 Days
  • Gong - You
  • Jethro Tull - Aqualung
  • Styx - The Grand Illusion
  • Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (12)
  • Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
  • Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
  • The Who - Who's Next (11)
  • Queensryche - Empire
  • The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
  • Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
  • Queen - News of the World
  • Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
  • Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (2)
  • The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
  • Grand Funk - Caught in the Act
  • Cheap Trick - At Budokan
  • Roger Waters - Amused to Death
  • Dave Mason - Alone Together
  • My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
  • Billy Joel - The Stranger (2)
  • Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (2)
  • Jimi Hendrix - Electric LadyLand (2)
  • Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
  • Alice Cooper - Goes to Hell
  • Rush - 2112 (2)
  • Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
  • Def Leppard - High & Dry
  • The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
  • Kansas - Point of Know Return
  • Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
  • Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle
  • Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
  • Chicago - VIII
  • The Kinks - State of Confusion
  • Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
  • Chicago - Stone of Sisyphus
  • Tesla - Psychotic Supper
  • Rush - A Farewell to Kings
  • Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
  • The Millennium - Begin
  • Bob Seger - Night Moves
  • Yes - The Yes Album
  • Poco - Inamorata
  • Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
  • Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
  • The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
  • Grand Funk Railroad - Survival (2)
  • Bruce Springsteen - Magic
  • Blue Jays - Blue Jays
  • Rush - Roll the Bones
  • Triumph - Just a Game
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
  • Tool - Aenema
  • Paul McCartney - Venus and Mars (2)
  • Elton John - Honky Chateau (2)
  • The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (3)
  • Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  • The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet (3)
  • k.d. lang - Ingenue
  • Yes - 90125 (2)
  • Chicago - V (3)
  • Manuel Gottsching - Inventions for Electric Guitar
  • ZZ Top - Deguelo
  • Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2 - Scenes From a Memory
  • The Band - Music From Big Pink
  • The Beatles - Revolver (4)
  • The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
  • Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
  • Art Garfunkel - Breakaway
  • Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
  • Deep Purple - Made in Japan
  • U2 - Wide Awake in America (2)
  • Kansas - Leftoverture
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (2)
  • Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (2)
  • Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  • Kiss - Destroyer
  • Kylie Minogue - X
  • The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
  • R.E.M. - Monster
  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Born to Run
  • Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
  • Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (2)
  • Jimi Henrix - Rainbow Bridge Soundtrack
  • Paul McCartney - Ram
  • Elton John - Madman Across the Water (2)
  • Radiohead - OK Computer
  • Van Halen - Van Halen (5)
  • Yes - Close to the Edge (5)
  • No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
  • Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (2)
  • Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
  • Bob Seger - Stranger in Town
  • The Kinks - Schoolboys in Disgrace
  • U2 - The Joshua Tree (2)
  • The Beatles - Rubber Soul
  • Boston - Boston (3)
  • Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
  • King's X - King's X
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
  • Deep Purple - Machine Head (3)
  • Def Leppard - Pyromania (2)
  • AC/DC - Back in Black (2)
  • Yes - Fragile (3)
  • Foghat - Stoned Blue
  • Grand Funk Railroad - Phoenix
  • Green Day - American Idiot
  • Chicago - X
  • Kinks - Face to Face
  • The Stooges - Funhouse
  • Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
  • Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow Rising (2)
  • The Doors - The Doors
  • Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road
  • Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
  • Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
  • Derek & the Dominoes
  • Steely Dan - Katy Lied
  • The Kinks - Low Budget (2)
  • Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Music
  • The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
  • Aerosmith - Rocks (2)
  • The Eagles - Hotel California (2)
  • Iron Maiden - Killers
  • Collective Soul - Dosage
  • Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
  • Sun Ra - Space is the Place
  • Aerosmith - Aerosmith
  • Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
  • Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (2)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Black Sabbath - Paranoid
  • Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
  • Aerosmith - Get Your Wings (2)
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (3)
  • Candlebox - Candlebox
  • Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
  • Chicago - 17
  • Bob Seger - Against the Wind
  • Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
  • Foghat - Live
  • Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
  • Slowdive - Souvlaki

Mike Duquette of The Second Spin has contributed a review of the upcoming remastered 2CD Deluxe Edition of Welcome to the Pleasuredome by '80s powerhouse, Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

 

 

 


 
 
   
   

Notes...

 

Atlantic Records will release CD and LP for Circa Survive, whose album, as yet untitled, will be issued on April 20. You can check them and their music out at their MySpace page.

Atlantic Records will also release With a Twist by Straight No Chaser on CD, scheduled for April 13.

Nonesuch Records will release a 2CD album from Natalie Merchant called Leave Your Sleep. They will also release a single disc of selected tracks from the album. Both release on April 13.

Also coming from Nonesuch is a CD by Tony Allen called Secret Agent, which will release on April 13.

Gotee Records will release a 3CD set for Relient K called The First Three Gears (2000-2003), which is planned for April 20.

Sanctuary Records will release two Alexis Korner DD albums on March 16. Those will be Kornerstoned: The Alexis Korner Anthology 1954-1983, and Musically Rich and Famous.

Island Records will release Fearless Love by Melissa Etheridge on April 27.

Columbia Records will release the next Coheed and Cambria album on April 13 in standard CD, a 2Disc Edition, and in an LP format. The album is titled Year of the Black Rainbow.

 

 

 
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
     

 

 

   
 
     

 

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