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Out today. Looks like it's a writers/musicians list this time. Sorry Henrik!
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Picked by 24 writers it's 15 albums per year, except 6 for 2016, plus 5 Soundtracks, 5 Live albums & 5 Anthologies. Also 5 but actually 6 or 7 'Modern Hero' picks, of which 5 were also picked by the writers. So the total is actually 472 or 473. I guess you could add more weight to the 5 picks they both chose or just ignore them.

It's then 2 pages on each year with the first entry in the transcribed list, below, getting a full page of writing/pics, as if that was their no.1 pick - but not actually saying so.

The next four, taking up most of the 2nd page, then get an equal smaller paragraph each, as if these were their next 4 best - but not actually saying so.

The next 10 then all appear on the side of the 2nd page below 'We also loved...', with an equal shorter, sentence or two, review each.

So moving clockwise left to right up then down, this is how they all appear :

1986
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Paul Simon - Graceland
*The Fall - Bender Sinister
Janet Jackson - Control
Peter Gabriel - So

We also loved...
Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
XTC - Skylarking
Prince - Parade
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Cameo - Word Up
Slayer - Reign in Blood
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
The The - Infected
New Order - Brotherhood
Elvis Costello - King Of America

1987
U2 - The Joshua Tree

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Michael Jackson - Bad
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
*The Replacements - Pleased To Meet You

We also loved...
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Prince - Sign O' The Times
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
R.E.M. - Document
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
George Michael - Faith
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

1988
Prince - Lovesexy

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
*The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

We also loved...
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
R.E.M. - Green
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peepshow
Morrissey - Viva Hate
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

1989
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One
The Cure - Disintegration
*Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy

We also loved...
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
New Order - Technique
Lou Reed - New York
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Bleach
Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

1990
The La's - The La's

*Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches
Depeche Mode - Violator
Aztec Camera - Stray

We also loved...
Sonic Youth - Goo
The Sundays - Reading Writing And Arithmetic
Pixies - Bossanova
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
James - Gold Mother
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
The Fall - Extricate
Dee-Lite - World Clique

1991
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Nirvana - Nevermind
*Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Primal Scream - Screamadelica

We also loved...
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Pearl Jam - Ten
A Tribe Called West - The Low End Theory
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
U2 - Achtung Baby
Metallica - Metallica
Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangsta
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
The KLF - The White Room

1992
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People

Dr Dre - The Chronic
The Black Crows - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
*Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
The Orb - U.F.Orb

We also loved...
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
PJ Harvey - Dry
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
The Stairs - Mexican R'N'B
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works '85-'92
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

1993
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

*The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Suede - Suede

We also loved...
Nirvana - In Utero
Bjork - Debut
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
The Auteurs - New Wave
Pearl Jam - VS
St Etienne - So Tough
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See

1994
Oasis - Defintely Maybe

Blur - Parklife
*Nas - Illmatic
Portishead - Dummy
Jeff Buckley - Grace

We also loved...
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Massive Attack - Protection
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Pulp - His 'N' Hers
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
Hole - Live Through This
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Green Day - Dookie
Suede - Dog Man Star
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

1995
Pulp - Different Class

Bjork - Post
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
*Shack - Waterpistol
Tricky - Maxinquaye

We also loved...
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Paul Weller - Stanley Road
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight Yeah
Leftism - Leftism
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Elastica - Elastica
The Verve - A Northern Soul
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
GZA - Liquid Swords

1996
Aphex Twin - Richard D James

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Fugees - The Score
* Weezer - Pinkerton
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

We also loved...
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Beck - Odelay
Screaming Trees - Dust
Oribital - In Shades
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
2Pac - All Eyez On Me

1997
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

*Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Spirtualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
The Verve - Urban Hymns

We also loved...
Blur - Blur
The Charlatans - Tellin' Stories
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
David Bowie - Earthling
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bjork - Homogenic
Portishead - Portishead
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Etienne De Crecy - Super Discount

1998
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Air - Moon Safari
Madonna - Ray Of Light
*Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider

We also loved...
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With Arab Strap
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
The Beta Band - The Three EP's
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Outcast - Aquemini
Elliot Smith - XO
Gang Star - Moment Of Truth
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

1999
Emimem - The Slim Shady LP

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Moby - Play
*The Magnetic Fields - 69 Songs

We also loved...
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Blur - 13
David Bowie - Hours...
Shack - HMS Fable
Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Smog - Knock Knock
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
TLC - Fanmail

2000
D'Angelo - Voodoo

Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Outcast - Stankonia
*Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

We also loved...
Radiohead - Kid A
Coldplay - Parachutes
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Madonna - Music
Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words And Sounds Vol 1
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Super Furry Animals - MWNG

2001
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry

Gorillaz - Gorillaz
The Strokes - Is This It
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
*Rufus Wainwright - Poses

We also loved...
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Charlatans - Wonderland
Bob Dylan - Love And Theft
Tool - Lateralus
Radiohead - Amnesiac
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Daft Punk - Discovery
N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire

2002
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Sigur Ros - ()
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Foo Fighters - One By One
*Lambchop - Is A Woman

We also loved...
Beck - Sea Change
David Bowie - Heathenn
The Coral - The Coral
Doves -The Last Broadcast
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003
The White Stripes - Elephant

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
*Four Tet - Rounds
Cat Power - You Are Free

We also loved...
Blur - Think Tank
Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Muse - Absolution
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Manitoba - Up In Flames
Brother Ali - Shadows On The Sun
Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Outcast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
The Clientele - The Violet Hour

2004
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
*Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
The Killers - Hot Fuss

We also loved...
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Junior Boys - Last Exit
The Libertines - The Libertines
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Interpol - Antics
Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

2005
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Kate Bush - Aerial
Antony & the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
*Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Kanye West - Late Registration

We also loved...
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Coldplay - X&Y
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Neil Young - Prairie Wind
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
Sigur Ros - Takk...
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsytem
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

2006
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Burial - Burial
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Tom Yorke - The Eraser
*J Dilla - Donuts

We also loved...
Kasabian - Empire
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Ali Farka Toure - Savane

2007
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
*The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
M.I.A. - Kala

We also loved...
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The White Stripes - Icky Thumb
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Night Nightmare
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Bjork - Volta
Justice - +
Burial - Untrue
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
EL-P - I'Ll Sleep When You're Dead

2008
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
*The Bug - London Zoo
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

We also loved...
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Portishead - Third
Deerhunter - Microcastle

2009
The XX - XX

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
*Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

We also loved...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Muse - The Resistance
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Shackleton - Three EPs
Florence & The Machine - Lungs
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream

2010
The Black Keys - Brothers

Plan B - The Defamation Of Strickland Banks
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
*John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
Janelle Monae - Archandroid

We also loved...
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani
Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
The National - High Violet
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
MGMT - Congratulations
Beach House - Teen Dream
Drake - Thank Me Later
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Robyn - Body Talk

2011
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

*The Horrors - Skying
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Adele - 21
The Weekend - House Of Balloons

We also loved...
Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
Metronomy - The English Riviera
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Tinariwan - Tassili
Wild Beasts - Smother

2012
Tame Impala - Lonerism

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
*Grimes - Visions

We also loved...
Beach House - Bloom
David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Mumford & Sons - Babel
Muse - The 2nd Law
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.D. City
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

2013
Arctic Monkeys - AM

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
*Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
Savages - Silence Yourself
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze

We also loved...
David Bowie - The Next Day
Cass McCoomes - Big Wheel And Others
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Kanye West - Yeezus
Foals - Holy Fire
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Bill Ryder-Jones - A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart
Beyonce - Beyonce
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

2014
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

Alt-J - This Is All Yours
Beck - Morning Phase
Ed Sheeran - X
*FKA Twigs - LP1

We also loved...
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Damon Albarn - Everday Robots
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit
Aphex Twin - Syro
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
Future Islands - Singles

2015
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Foals - What Went Down
New Order - Music Complete
*Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

We also loved...
Tame Impala - Currents
Jamie XX - In Colour
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
Gaz Coombes - Matador
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Vince Staples - Summertime '06
Blur - The Magic Whip
Joanna Newsome - Divers

2016
David Bowie - Blackstar

We also loved...
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
The Coral - Distance Inbetween
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

*Cult Classic

+ Essential Anthologies
The Beatles - Anthology Volumes 1-3 (1996)
James Brown - Start Time (1991)
Joy Division - Heart And Soul (1997)
Arthur Russell - The World Of Arthur Russell (2004)
David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed (2014)

+ Essential Soundtracks
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Trainspotting (1996)
O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)
Music From & Inspired By The Motion Picture 8 Mile (2002)
Inception: Music From The Motion Picture (2010)

+ Essential Live Albums
Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (2012)
Bruce Springsteen - Live/1975-85 (1986)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Arc-Weld (1991)
Eric Clapton - Unplugged (1992)
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York (1994)

+ Modern Hero favourites
Johnny Marr, The Smiths : Broken Social Scene - You Forget It In People (2002)
Brett Anderson, Suede : The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
Liam Howlett, The Prodigy : Dr Dre - The Chronic (1992)
Brandon Flowers, The Killers : U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
Serge Pizzorno : DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996) & Tom Meighan, Kasabian : Michael Jackson - Bad (1987)

+ Not in the actual feature but in the Last Word section at the back they ask Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers & he gives: McCarthy - I Am A Wallet (1987)
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Thanks. :)

Out of curiosity, were the five compilations?
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JR wrote:Thanks. :)

Out of curiosity, were the five compilations?
No just 'Anthologies'.
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Okie- I see "compilations" now removed from the initial post. :)
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Bruno wrote:Eligible?
Sure
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Henrik wrote:
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in 1992 miss Sugar – Copper Blue
see https://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qcollection.htm

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lagire wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:42 am in 1992 miss Sugar – Copper Blue
see https://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qcollection.htm

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