John Mann's Top 200 Albums

Please note I have come to the conclusion I can't put this list in any particular order!

Well this started as a top 100 and got bigger, although I haven't decided on an actual 200 yet and some groups I can't decide on a specific album (perhaps I ought to have a top 100 groups). I have also tried to include classics - I was thinking of simply randomly generating the order the albums appeared in, as any one of these albums could be number one (one of the criteria was that any album I included I should feel happy putting at number one, therefore I couldn't choose an album which was pretty good but not great).

  1. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
  2. Bob Dylan - Desire
  3. Bob Dylan - Street Legal
  4. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
  5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
  6. The Beatles - White Album
  7. The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper
  8. The Beatles - Let it be
  9. The Beatles - Abbey Road
  10. The Beatles - Revolver
  11. David Bowie - Space Oddity
  12. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
  13. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
  14. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
  15. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
  16. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
  17. David Bowie - Stationtostation
  18. T.Rex - Electric Warrior
  19. T.Rex - The Slider
  20. T.Rex - Zinc Alloy
  21. T.Rex - Futuristic Dragon
  22. Propaganda - A Secret Wish
  23. New Order - Movement
  24. The Buzzcocks - Another Music in a different Kitchen
  25. The Clash - The Clash
  26. The Clash - London Calling
  27. Sex Pistols - Never mind the bollocks
  28. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  29. The Ramones - The Ramones
  30. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
  31. Van Morrison - Moondance
  32. Van Morrison - No Guru No Method No Teacher
  33. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
  34. Donovan - Gift from a flower to a garden
  35. Led Zeppelin - I
  36. Led Zeppelin - II
  37. Led Zeppelin - III
  38. Led Zeppelin - IV
  39. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
  40. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
  41. Led Zeppelin - Presence
  42. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
  43. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
  44. Black Sabbath - Volume 4
  45. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  46. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
  47. Iron Maiden - Stranger in a Strange Land
  48. Rammstein - Sonne
  49. Rush - Permanent Waves
  50. Rush - Farewell to Kings
  51. Rush - Hemispheres
  52. Rush - 2112
  53. Yes - Time and a Word
  54. Yes - The Yes Album
  55. Yes - Relayer
  56. Yes - Close to the Edge
  57. Yes - Fragile
  58. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
  59. Hawkwind - Doreme Farso Latido
  60. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
  61. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
  62. Hawkwind - Warrior on the edge of Time
  63. Hawkwind - In Search of Space
  64. Hawkwind - The Chronicle of the Black Sword
  65. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
  66. The Fall - Dragnet
  67. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
  68. The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
  69. The Fall - Perverted by Language
  70. The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace
  71. The Fall - Wonderful and Frightening World Of
  72. The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
  73. The Fall - Extricate
  74. The Fall - The Light User Syndrome
  75. The Fall - The Marshall Suite
  76. The Fall - The Unutterable
  77. The Fall - Cerebral Caustic
  78. The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
  79. The Fall - Real New Fall LP (formerly Country on the Click)
  80. The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
  81. Gang of Four - Entertainment
  82. Television - Marquee Moon
  83. Kula Shaker - K
  84. Kula Shaker - Peasants Pigs and Astronauts
  85. Paradise Lost - Icon
  86. My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
  87. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
  88. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
  89. Joy Division - Closer
  90. Michael Nyman - Drowning by Numbers
  91. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Scream
  92. Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
  93. The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
  94. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
  95. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
  96. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
  97. The Doors - LA Woman
  98. The Doors - The Doors
  99. The Doors - Strange Days
  100. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
  101. Cat Stevens - Catch Bull at Four
  102. The Stranglers - The Raven
  103. The Stranglers - IV
  104. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
  105. Joni Mitchell - Hissings of Summer Lawns
  106. Joni Mitchell - Blue
  107. Lush - Lovelife
  108. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
  109. Pink Floyd - Animals
  110. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
  111. Garbage - Version 2.0
  112. Schoenberg -Pierrot Lunaire
  113. Bob Marley - Exodus
  114. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
  115. Wagner - Gotterdamnerung
  116. Wagner - Tannhauser
  117. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
  118. Neil Young - Freedom
  119. Neil Young - Living with War
  120. Philip Glass - Aknarten
  121. Nirvana - Nevermind
  122. Hole - Live through This
  123. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
  124. Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He who Am the Only One
  125. Van Der Graaf Generator - Prawn Hearts
  126. Van Der Graff Generator - God Bluff
  127. Van Der Graff Generator - Still Life
  128. Van Der Graff Generator - World Record
  129. Van Der Graff - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
  130. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
  131. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
  132. Genesis - Trespass
  133. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
  134. Genesis - Foxtrot
  135. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
  136. Elastica - Elastica
  137. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
  138. The Pretenders - The Pretenders
  139. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
  140. Lou Reed - Transformer
  141. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
  142. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
  143. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
  144. Roxy Music - Stranded
  145. Roxy Music - Country Life
  146. Roxy Music - Siren
  147. U2 - Boy
  148. U2 - All that you can't leave behind
  149. Catatonia - Equally Cursed and Blessed
  150. Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
  151. P.I.L. - Metal Box
  152. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
  153. The Undertones - The Undertones
  154. Chemical Brothers - ???
  155. Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Part II - Angel's Egg
  156. The Slits - Cut
  157. Curve - Doppelganger
  158. Symposium - On the Outside
  159. Sleeper - The It Girl
  160. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
  161. Deep Purple - Machine Head
  162. Deep Purple - Stormbringer
  163. Free - Free
  164. Free - Heartbreaker
  165. Free - Tons of Sobs
  166. Free - Highway
  167. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
  168. Yellowman - Mister Yellowman
  169. Radiohead - Kid A
  170. Radiohead - Amnesiac
  171. Radiohead - OK Computer
  172. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
  173. P J Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
  174. P J Harvey - To Bring you my Love
  175. P J Harvey - Is This Desire?
  176. The Donnas - Spend the Night
  177. B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  178. B.R.M.C. - Take Them On On Your Own
  179. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
  180. Muse - Absolution
  181. Coldplay - Parachutes
  182. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
  183. Evanescence - Fallen
  184. Babyshambles - Down in Albion
  185. Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur

Last updated 23rd July 2006
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