The Kingblind Top 100 Essential Records of all tim...

Mar 01, 2004 12:00 a.m. - KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment

The Kingblind Top 100 Essential Records of all time (Week 2 of 10)

Ok, Here are the rules... Kingblind get their writers and friends to pick 10 records that are essential to their collection. (Kingblind will post in blocks of 10 until 100 is reached)
1. If someone else has one of the records in their selection you CANNOT pick it. Find another gem for the list.. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED!
2. Here is what is NOT allowed in the Top 100 (We are assuming that our fine readers are smart enough to have these records in their collection already.)
NO Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who, Stooges, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Sonic Youth, Dylan, Nirvana.
Obviously the point of this is to turn you fine folks onto some great music that you might not have heard before. Every week (on Monday) we will add a new chunk from a new writer until 100 is reached. ENJOY!!

Please welcome our 2nd week of selections (20 of 100) from MC Wondabread (Atlanta, GA)

The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
This criminally underappreciated album represented the
zenith of ambitious British rocknroll, combining
elements of rock, dub, dance, orchestral pop, and
jazz. You put your peanut butter in my chocolate!

The Pogues: If I should Fall from Grace with God
All killer, no filler. One of a handful of albums
that can claim 100% solidness. Can this be the same
band who perpetrated "Waiting for Herb"? Oh
right.....it wash’t.

Lee Hazelwood: The NSVIP’s
The NSVIP’s Lee Hazelwood was coincidental
intersection of the height of Lee Hazelwood’s
songwriting prowess...and his crazy-ass Crispin Glover
60’s headtrip prowess. Genius.

Various Artists: Songs in the Key of Z - Irwin Chusid
blows the lid off the "Outsider Music" racket... This
CD (and accompanying book) serve as a "canon" of
music that is by its very nature unclassifiable.
That, and it’s the only way I could sneak Jandek and
Wesley Willis into a top 100 list.

Wilco: Summerteeth
Kept safe from the meddling hands of Jim O’Rourke.
Kept safe from the meddling hands of Jeff Tweedy, for
that matter.

Os Mutantes: Mutantes
The Brazilians and Portugese always had the secret
plans for the cultural cuisinart. Mutantes pressed
slice, dice, and puree all at once, and captured
lightning in a bottle.

Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash Sings the Songs that made
him Famous
Sniff.

Gram Parsons: GP
With Emmylou helping to stir the pot, Gram laid down
the template for a bazillion third rate country rock
outfits. Despite that, you can’t fault a brother for
making an album this good.

Phil Spector: Back to Mono
Okay. So probably stretching the boundaries of the
assignment a bit, but so what. There’s no other way
to shoehorn these alchemical pop nugs into the top 10
where they belong.

Velvet Underground & Nico
Jeez. I can’t believe this one isn’t on the verboten
list. Anyone who claims that White Light/White Heat
is the best Velvet Underground album is a poseur. Who
woulda thunk that Laurie Anderson could have made Lou
into such a pussy.

Garth Johnson, AKA MC Wondabread flexes his mad skills as the "King of Indie Rock Battle Rap". If he were a toilet, he would definitely be ecologically unsound...not the "low flow" kind.

Link to Kingblind’s Top 100 Essential Records of all time Week 1

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