Bob Dylan 6.0 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 8.5 The Times They Are A-Changin' 8.0 Another Side of Bob Dylan 7.5 Bringing It All Back Home 9.5 Highway 61 Revisited 10.0 Blonde On Blonde 10.0 John Wesley Harding 9.5 Nashville Skyline 8.0 Self-Portrait 6.0 New Morning 7.5 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 7.0 Planet Waves 7.0 Blood On the Tracks 10.0 Desire 8.0 Street-Legal 8.0 Slow Train Coming 9.0 Saved 8.0 Shot of Love 8.5 Infidels 8.5 Empire Burlesque 6.5 Knocked out Loaded 5.5 Down In the Groove 5.0 Oh Mercy 9.0 Good As I Been To You 7.5 World Gone Wrong 8.0 Time Out of Mind 9.5 "Love And Theft" 9.5 Modern Times 8.0 Together Through Life 6.5 Tempest 7.5 Shodows In the Night 7.0
Pretenders (s/t) - 9.5 Pretenders II - 8.5 Learning To Crawl - 8 Get Close - 7.5 Packed - 6 Last Of The Independents - 7 (mainly for the excellent "I'll Stand By You") Viva El Amor - 6.5 (don't know the others well enough)
Magazine Real Life 9 Secondhand Daylight 8 The Correct Use Of Soap 10 Magic, Murder and The Weather 7 No Thyself 9
Duran Duran Duran Duran 9 Rio 8 Seven And The Ragged Tiger 6 Notorious 5 Big Thing 6 Liberty 3 The Wedding Album 9 Thank You 4 Medazzaland 10 Pop Trash 6 Astronaut 7 Red Carpet Massacre 5 All You Need Is Now 9
Talking Heads 77 7 More Songs About Buildings And Food 7 Fear Of Music 10 Remain In Light 10 Speaking In Tongues 8 Little Creatures 6 True Stories 3 Naked 9
Sparks 1972 (5) A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing 1972 (5) Kimono My House 1974 (9) Propaganda 1974 (8) Indiscreet 1975 (6) Big Beat 1976 (5) Introducing Sparks 1977 (5) No. 1 In Heaven 1979 (6) Terminal Jive 1980 (6) Whomp That Sucker 1981 (8) Angst In My Pants 1982 (9) In Outer Space 1983 (5) Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat 1984 (5) Music That You Can Dance To 1986 (5) Interior Design 1988 (4) Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins 1994 (6) Plagiarism 1997 (8) Balls 1999 (5) Lil' Beethoven 2002 (9) Hello Young Lovers 2006 (8) Exotic Creatures Of The Deep 2008 (7) The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman 2009 (3) Two Hands One Mouth (Live In Europe) (2xCD, Album) 2013 (8)
I'll add the others. Pretenders - 10 Pretenders II - 6 Learning To Crawl - 9 Get Close - 6 Packed! - 8 Last of the Independents - 8 Isle of View - 6 Viva El Amor - 8 Loose Screw - 6 Break Up The Concrete - 8 Stockholm - 7
Guided by Voices (the classic years) Devil Between My Toes - 6 Sandbox - 7 Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia - 7 Same Place the Fly Got Smashed - 7 Propeller - 9 Vampire on Titus - 9 Bee Thousand - 10 Alien Lanes - 9 Under the Bushes Under the Stars - 7 Tonics & Twisted Chasers - 7 Mag Earwhig! - 6 Do the Collapse - 5 Isolation Drills - 7 Universal Truths and Cycles - 8 Earthquake Glue - 8 Half Smiles of the Decomposed - 8
Never heard of them. I'll have to check them out. I was just starting to listen to music when prog was at it's peak and I listened to light rock. I really didn't start listening to prog until the late 70s so I missed a lot. The Prog Now Listening thread is mostly stuff I've never heard of.
The Smiths The Smiths - 8.5 Meat Is Murder - 9.7 The Queen Is Dead - 9.5 Strangeways, Here We Come - 7.3 Hatful of Hollow - 9.8
Gary Numan The Plan 6 Tubeway Army 8 Replicas 9 The Pleasure Principle 9 Telekon 8 Dance 10 I, Assassin 10 Warriors 5 Beserker 8 The Fury 2 Strange Charm 6 Metal Rhythm 7 Automatic 5 Outland 6 Machine + Soul 4 Sacrifice 8 Exile 9 Pure 10 Jagged 7 Dead Son Rising 6 Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) 8
Talking Heads 77 - 8 More Songs About Buildings And Food - 10 Fear Of Music - 9 Remain In Light - 10 Speaking In Tongues - 10 Little Creatures - 8 True Stories - 5 Naked - 7 Live albums: The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads - 10 Stop Making Sense - 7
The Go-Betweens; Send Me a Lullaby 6 Before Hollywood 8 Springhill Fair 7 Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express 9 Tallulah 7 16 Lovers Lane 9 The Friends of Rachel Worth 7 Bright Yellow Bright Orange 6 Oceans Apart 9 The Blue Nile; A Walk Across the Rooftops 9 Hats 9 Peace at Last 7 High 6 Prefab Sprout; Swoon 6 Steve McQueen 9 Protest Songs 6 From Langley Park to Memphis 5 Jordan: The Comeback 8 Andromeda Heights 6 The Gunman and other stories 5 Let's Change the World with Music 6 Crimson/Red 7 Teenage Fanclub; A Catholic Education 6 Bandwagonesque 8 Thirteen 7 Grand Prix 9 Songs from Northern Britain 9 Howdy 7 Man Made 7 Shadows 7 R.E.M.; Chronic Town 8 Murmur 9 Reckoning 7 Fables of the Reconstruction 8 Lifes Rich Pageant 8 Document 8 Green 7 Out of Time 7 Automatic for the People 9 Monster 6 New Adventures in Hi-fi 7 Up 7 Reveal 6 Around the Sun 5 Accelerate 7 Collapse into Now 7 Fountains of Wayne; Fountains of Wayne 8 Utopia Parkway 8 Welcome Interstate Managers 7 Traffic & Weather 7 Sky Full of Holes 7 Cracker; Cracker 7 Kerosene Hat 8 The Golden Age 9 Gentleman's Blues 7 Forever 7 Countrysides 6 Greenland 8 Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey 9 Berkeley to Bakersfield 6
David Bowie Studio Albums (by grading each track to make an average score per album) Station To Station 9.5 Aladdin Sane 9.1 Scary Monsters 9 Diamond Dogs 8.85 Low 8.5 Ziggy Stardust 8.45 Heroes 8.4 Hunky Dory 8.4 Young Americans 8.25 Lodger 8.2 David Bowie (1969) 8.1 The Man Who Sold The World 7.7 Outside 7.6 Pin Ups 7.2 Heathen 7.1 Let's Dance 6.75 Buddha Of Suburbia 6.5 The Next Day 6.5 Reality 6.45 David Bowie (1967) 6.2 Hours 5.9 Never Let Me Down 5.9 Tin Machine II 5.7 Earthling 5.5 Tin Machine 5.2 Tonight 5.2 Black Tie White Noise 5
THIRTEENTH FLOOR ELEVATORS Psychedelic Sounds 9.0 Easter Everywhere 10.0 Live 6.5 (7.5 without the fake 'crowd noise' overdubs) Bull Of The Woods 8.0
The Velvets The V.U & Nico-8 WL/WH-9 The V.U-10 Loaded-9 ACDC-with Bon High Voltage-5 TNT-7 Dirty Deeds-8 Let There Be Rock-8 Powerage-10 Highway to Hell-9