I Fear That I Am Ordinary, Just Like Everyone

That's the first line from 'Muzzle' by The Smashing Pumpkins. Something that I've found myself relating to more and more, lately.
In deciding to start this blog, it was after years of considering it, but never actually following through. I'm not sure of the exact reason why it took so long, but I guess it's through fear that a lot of people who I have spoken to over the years will find out that I'm not as interesting as they think I am. This isn't me being full of myself here... people have told me how interesting I am many times over the years. A compliment that I've never personally believed, and it's always a shock to me when I receive it. I guess it's because I have written things that people have found interesting, but I'm not sure they realise how rare it is for me to write something that I put out there. With a blog, that may go for a large length of time without any updates people might finally realise how rare it is for me to say anything interesting and that I am 'ordinary, just like everyone'.

If I had my way, I'd be a musician. I'd have stuff to talk about, then... shows, new records, etc. But just my luck, that one thing that I've been completely invested in for the majority of my life, I have no talent for. Zero. Nada. Zip. Can't play my instrument. Can't sing. Can't even write a catchy tune to cover up the fact that I can't actually sing or play. I'm just stuck listening to the stuff... which I do obviously enjoy. But man, it'd be good to actually be able to sustain myself by sticking music up on Bandcamp and playing shows wherever I can.

This is not me feeling depressed or hunting for sympathy, by the way. It's just me getting some things off of my chest so that anybody who reads this isn't surprised or disappointed when I don't always have anything worth writing about. In fact, I probably won't even post the link to this one anywhere else... and since I currently have a grand total of zero followers right now, it's very likely no one will even read this particular entry.

I will leave with some more song lyrics... 'In My Mind' from Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, which I think might be appropriate...

In my mind
In a future five years from now
I'm 120 pounds
And I never get hungover
Because I will be the picture of discipline
Never minding what state I'm in
And I will be someone I admire
And it's funny how I imagined that I would be that person now
But it does not seem to have happened
Maybe I've just forgotten how to see
That I'm not exactly the person that I thought I'd be

And in my mind
In the faraway here and now
I've become in control somehow
And I never lose my wallet
Because I will be the picture of discipline
Never fucking up anything
And I'll be a good defensive driver
And it's funny how I imagined that I would be that person now
But it does not seem to have happened
Maybe I've just forgotten how to see
That I'll never be the person that I thought I'd be

And in my mind
When I'm old, I am beautiful
Planting tulips and vegetables
Which I will mindfully watch over
Not like me, now
I'm so busy with everything
That I don't look at anything
But I'm sure I'll look when I am older
And it's funny how I imagine that I could be that person now
But that's not what I want, if that's what I wanted then I'd be giving up somehow
How strange to see that I don't want to be the person that I want to be

And in my mind
I imagine so many things
Things that aren't really happening
And when they put me in the ground, I'll start pounding the lid
Saying "I haven't finished yet –
I still have a tattoo to get
That says 'I'm living in the moment'."
And it's funny how I imagined that I could win this winless fight
But maybe it isn't all that funny that I've been fighting all my life
But maybe I have to think it's funny if I wanna live before I die
And maybe it's funniest of all to think I'll die before I actually see
That I am exactly the person that I want to be

Fuck yes
I am exactly the person that I want to be

I hope to post something very soon that is worth reading.

Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls

Over the years, there are countless bands that are hailed as one of the most original of their generation. Most of the time, this description is far from accurate, but every now and again a truly original band will pop up taking everybody by surprise, polarising opinion between those who love that no one else sounds like them and those who find them far too strange for their tastes. In 2003, the world was introduced to one such band by the name of The Dresden Dolls.

Three years earlier in Boston, Massachussetts the two people who made up The Dresden Dolls were strangers both present at a mutual friends' Halloween party. This party featured a performance by 24 year old pianist Amanda Palmer which impressed drummer Brian Viglione so much that the following week they were performing together as Out Of Arms, before eventually changing to the name they are now known as. Together, the pair developed a style that featured a unique combination of the urgency and intensity of punk rock, and the whimsical theatricality of pre-War Germany's cabaret as made famous by the likes of Bertolt Brecht. Amanda's lyrics were just as diverse as her influences, with songs ranging from the deeply personal, Tori Amos style reflections on life, love and insecurity such as 'Good Day', 'The Perfect Fit' and 'The Jeep Song', to the dark, disturbing tales of paedophilia and similar themes such as 'Slide', and 'Missed Me' (which has a twist in which the antagonist is the manipulative underage girl who seduces an older man, and then informs the authorities when he loses interest), to the quirky songs about hermaphrodites, and longing for love without complications from a toy ('Half Jack' and 'Coin-Operated Boy' respectively). This would understandably throw people off, as people would literally not know what to expect to come from Amanda's mind now... especially as those three very different styles of song aren't completely clearly defined from each other - for example, the intense and jaunty 'Girl Anachronism' could just as easily be put into the personal category as it can the quirky one. This has led to some people confusing songs like 'Half Jack' and the line 'it's not the way I'm supposed to be, it's just the way the operation made me' for confessions that she used to be a man.

But The Dresden Dolls weren't all about the unique, hard to categorise music, but also their live performances in which Amanda and Brian settled on a look that that matched their sound entirely. Theatrical make-up, and cabaret style clothing was the order of the day, but with an unmistakably modern contemporary edge. And for those with fears that a band consisting entirely of a woman behind a piano and a man behind a drumkit couldn't be entertaining proved unfounded when you saw them onstage, with both personalities making it seem that a whirlwind had hit the stage, and their respective instruments couldn't contain them. Amanda's links to the street performers of Boston also proved beneficial, as the band's performance would incorporate stilt-walking, fire-breathing and other performance art - often from people in the audience.

After spending most of 2001 and 2002 performing and writing a catalogue of music, in 2003 the pair decided to introduce themselves to the world at large, first with a collection of live recordings entitled 'A Is For Accident' in May, and then in that September their self-titled debut solo album, which they released on their own label - 8ft. Records. The album was released to worldwide critical acclaim, which inevitably caught the attention of the major labels. In a surprise move, by 2004 The Dresden Dolls had signed to Roadrunner Records (a label known more for their roster of metal bands including Slipknot and Cradle Of Filth), and in April the debut album was re-released on that label, introducing the band to a worldwide audience.

Their next big break came the following year, when Trent Reznor was planning the US comeback of his band, Nine Inch Nails and The Dresden Dolls caught his eye, and he invited them to open for him on the upcoming 'With Teeth' arena tour along with Saul Williams and The Eagles Of Death Metal. That year also saw the band play a free gig in their home town of Boston that nearly went disastrously wrong when the city was hit by a power cut for five hours. Luckily, street performers from around the world had converged on the venue, and they were able to entertain the crowds until power was restored and the band went on to play their full planned set.

The following April, 'Yes, Virginia...' was released, which with its more commercial sheen and mixture of styles familiar to fans of the first album should have been the beginning of the next step in world domination. However, a few weeks after the albums released, Roadrunner Records decided to pull all promotion for the album for reasons that they did not make clear. This was when Amanda's relationship with the label began to turn sour - in a few years time it would decay completely. Still, the band carried on with all of their tour commitments including slots at the Reading and Leeds Festivals and Lollapalooza, paying out of their own pockets (as well as paying for their own promotion and internet team).

Two years later, The Dresden Dolls released what is currently their final album, 'No, Virginia...'. An album featuring B-Sides, previously unreleased tracks, and some newly recorded material. Directly after this, Amanda started concentrating on her debut solo album which she started the previous year. 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer' was released in September the same year, featuring string arrangements from Paul Buckmaster (famous for his work with the likes of Elton John, The Rolling Stones and Guns N' Roses), as well as contributions and production from Ben Folds. The album was once again released to almost entirely positive reviews, but at this point her relationship with Roadrunner Records took another turn for a worse... talking in a 2009 interview, Amanda explained:

When my solo record, Who Killed Amanda Palmer was being made, the label had the option of first refusal to release it. I had paid for the entire production of the album myself out of my own savings, with additional borrowed money from friends and family, to the tune of about $200,000. I was banking everything on the record being a success. When the label heard the album and decided to pick up the option, I assumed that at the very worst, I would get my money paid back and they'd at least get it in stores. I was used to doing all the promoting myself, anyway. I assumed that they would be proud and excited that I'd gotten Ben Folds as the producer (they weren't: most of the guys in the top offices didn't know who he was, I had to tell them.) In the end, it was the nightmare scenario. They paid for a few videos to be made, and that was the extent of their album promotion. They didn't even mail the record to most radio stations. It wasn't in stores. They simply did nothing. I wasn't surprised.

Now with no hope of any help from her label, and no money to fund a tour herself, Amanda took one of the biggest risks of her career. Together with four actor friends, she embarked on a world tour with literally no budget, relying entirely on the good will of her loyal fanbase. Instead of paying for restaurants and hotels, fans would feed them and give them somewhere to stay, and during performances a hat would be passed around for donations, without which the tour could not continue. Despite being told by numerous people that this would never work, the began and ended as planned, and they even managed to scrape together a profit of around $100 each on most nights.

It was at this time that she met the author Neil Gaiman (famous for The Sandman and American Gods), where they collaborated on a book with the theme of the album's title. Each page featured a photo of Amanda posing as a corpse, with a story by Gaiman.

Roadrunner's interest in Amanda was reignited after the completion of the video for the song 'Leeds United', but unfortunately not for the right reason. The label decided to take issue with shots in which her stomach were visible, calling it "uncommercially fat". This was the last straw, and the singer immediately began campaigning to be released from her contract, writing a song that she would perform on tour entitled 'Please Drop Me'. There was also outrage amongst her fans, who began what became known as the ReBellyOn - fans from all over the world took photos of their stomachs, sent them into fan websites and they were eventually compiled and sent to Roadrunner.

More controversy arose in the UK when Amanda was informed that the video for the song 'Oasis' had been turned down by all of the major music channels, because the lyrics "make light of" rape, abortion and religion. 'Oasis' is the story of a girl who is raped at a party, finds that she is pregnant, has an abortion where she is harrassed by fundamentalist Christians and falls out with her best friend... all the while not really caring because the band Oasis had received her letter and sent her a signed photograph. Not a song to be taken seriously, which is part of the problem... as she later explained on her blog, she herself had been raped, but she feels that if you can't make fun of things like this, it would take over.

This is around the time that I began to really pay attention to Amanda again - I'd heard the first Dresden Dolls album, and thought it was brilliant, but for some reason I had never really followed them the way that I did other bands. It wasn't until it was announced that she was dating Neil Gaiman, who is one of my favourite writers, that I really started searching for music and listening to it properly. This will probably annoy her. Who she's dating being what sparked interest in her work, when she has identified as a feminist would probably not be the most flattering thing. But that's the truth, and at least I can definitely say it's not the only reason I'm a fan.

Anyway... in the early part of 2010, Roadrunner released Amanda from her contract, which she celebrated with the free release of the song 'I Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth, So Help My Black Ass'. Part of what made her tour for 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer' so successful was her use of the then-emerging Twitter. Using this she could directly interact with fans, and organise with them where to stay, etc. as well as what would soon become known as 'ninja gigs'. She would tweet a time and location, and play to whoever turned up, sometimes attracting upwards of 100 people. Now free from the restraints of a major label, Amanda would take this form of promotion to the next level. Using nothing but her own website, Twitter and word of mouth from fans she released the EP 'Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele' on the music distribution site, Bandcamp in July with a bare minimum price (enough to pay Paypal fees, and Radiohead's publishers) but the ability to donate more if you wish. The result? Within 3 minutes of release she had made $15,000. She noted at the time that this is more money than she has yet to see from the album that received a major label release.

2010 also saw the release of her collaboration with Seattle accordionist Jason Webley, the dark concept album 'Evelyn Evelyn', about conjoined twin sisters called Evelyn and Evelyn (portrayed by herself and Webley) and their struggles for friendship and happiness, whilst being exploited by those around them. Unlike The Dresden Dolls, the style of this album was almost pure cabaret, and is by turns funny and disturbing.

Which brings us on to this year, where Amanda went immediately from her New Years Party/impromptu wedding to Neil Gaiman to an extensive tour of Australasia. To celebrate this tour she also released a new album entitled 'Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under', featuring live performances and new studio recordings of songs written in/about Australia, as well as some covers of songs by Australian artists.

If you're still reading this, I hope it's because I've sparked your interest in this person, as well as her music. If so, then my work is done and all is left for me to do is to say that her entire discography is available for download at this location... http://music.amandapalmer.net/ The majority of it is available for free, but as a completely independent artist, you may want to support her by making a donation. Enjoy.

An Introduction (And my favourite 500 albums - so far)

Okay, so here goes. My name is Tony, though online I refer to myself almost exclusively as AxlReznor, because as a long-time member of various forums, (mainly those for Guns N' Roses related things like Velvet Revolver and Duff McKagan's Loaded) that's how a lot of people have gotten to know me.

Why did I create this blog? Well, a couple of years back I started a comprehensive list of my favourite ever albums. This is not as my girlfriend would have you believe, entirely due to a near-compulsive need to list everything, but also mainly as a way to force myself to listen to music I'd been meaning to listen to for ages and never managed to, as well as find some stuff that I never knew existed. But then I thought it would be pointless to go through all of this effort and not put it out there somehow. I've bored the forums I visit enough with my lists and random ramblings on the state of the world, etc. So I thought I'd put it on here instead, for those who are actually interested in what the hell I have to say, and what I think the 463rd best album of all time is.

What follows below is the result of all of this so far... it's going to be a constant work in progress, naturally so unless I lose interest I'll probably be posting a revised version annually.

Don't worry though, I do intend to use this as more than just a tool to post overly long lists no one gives a shit about. I'm not sure how often I'll post, but I fully intend to also post overly long diatribes that no one gives a shit about on subjects that only I give a shit about on here. Oh what fun any of you who actually read this have in store for you.

500) The Stooges – Fun House (1970, Elektra)
Produced by Don Gallucci
Best Track: 'Loose'

499) The Jackson Five – ABC (1970, Motown)
Produced by The Corporation
Best Tracks: 'The Love You Save', 'ABC', '2-4-6-8'

498) Pantera – Cowboys From Hell (1990, Atco)
Produced by Terry Date
Best Tracks: 'Cowboys From Hell', 'Cemetery Gates', 'Shattered'

497) Stevie Wonder – For Once In My Life (1968, Tamla)
Produced by Henry Cosby, Don Hunter, Stevie Wonder

Best Tracks: 'For Once In My Life', 'Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day', 'Ain't No Lovin'

496) Rainbow – Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975, Polydor)
Produced by Martin Birch, Ronnie James Dio, Richie Blackmore
Best Tracks: 'Black Sheep Of The Family', 'Snake Charmer'

495) Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes (1992, Atlantic)
Produced by Tori Amos, Eric Rosse, Davitt Sigerson, Ian Stanley
Best Tracks: 'Crucify', 'Silent All These Years', 'Little Earthquakes'

494) Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008, Roadrunner)
Produced by Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer
Best Tracks: 'Ampersand', 'Leeds United', 'Oasis'

493) Jane's Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual (1990, Warner Bros.)

Produced by Dave Jerden, Perry Farrell

Best Tracks: 'Three Days', 'Then She Did...'

492) The Offspring – Americana (1998, Dave Jerden)

Produced by Dave Jerden
Best Tracks: 'The Kids Aren't Alright', 'She's Got Issues', 'Walla Walla'

491) Queen – Innuendo (1991, Parlophone)
Produced by Queen, David Richards
Best Tracks: 'Headlong', 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives', 'The Show Must Go On'

490) Alice In Chains – Alice In Chains (1995, Columbia)
Produced by Toby Wright, Alice In Chains

Best Tracks: 'Grind', 'Again', 'Over Now'

489) The Black Crowes – Croweology (2010, Silver Arrow)
Produced by Paul Stacey
Best Tracks: 'Jealous Again', 'Remedy', 'Soul Singing', 'She Talks To Angels', 'Thorn In My Pride'

488) Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (2000, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy
Best Tracks: 'The Love Song', 'Disposable Teens', 'Cruci-Fiction In Space', 'The Nobodies'

487) Tenacious D – The Pick Of Destiny (2006, Epic)
Produced by John King
Best Tracks: 'Kickapoo', 'Master Exploder', 'POD'

486) System Of A Down – Toxicity (2001, American)
Produced by Rick Rubin, Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian

Best Tracks: 'Prison Song', 'Toxicity', 'Aerials'

485) Queens Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze (2005, Interscope)
Produced by Josh Homme, Joe Barresi
Best Tracks: 'Everybody Knows That You Are Insane', 'In My Head', 'Little Sister'

484) The Distillers – The Distillers (2000, Epitath)
Produced by Thomas Johnson

Best Tracks: 'L.A. Girl', 'Ask The Angels', 'Colossus U.S.A.'

483) Faith No More – King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime (1995, Slash)
Produced by Andy Wallace

Best Tracks: 'Ricochet', 'The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies', 'King For A Day'

482) Korn – See You On The Other Side (2005, Virgin)
Produced by Jonathan Davis, Atticus Ross, The Matrix
Best Tracks: 'Twisted Transistor', 'Seen It All', 'Tearjerker'

481) Audioslave – Audioslave (2002, Epic)
Produced by Rick Rubin, Audioslave
Best Tracks: 'Cochise', 'Show Me How To Live', 'Shadow On The Sun'

480) Milla Jovovich – The Divine Comedy (1994, SBK)
Produced by Rupert Hine, Richard Feldman

Best Tracks: 'Gentleman Who Fell', 'In A Glade'

479) Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe (1998, Geffen)
Produced by Rob Zombie, Scott Humphrey
Best Tracks: 'Superbeast', 'Dragula', 'Living Dead Girl'

478) Josh Freese – Since 1972 (2009, self-released)
Produced by Josh Freese
Best Tracks: 'I Don't Think That's OK', 'Point Some Fingers'

477) The Black Crowes – Amorica (1994, American)
Produced by Jack Joseph Puig
Best Tracks: 'She Gave Good Sunflower', 'Wiser Time'

476) Ashes Divide – Keep Telling It's Alright (2008, Island Records)
Produced by Billy Howerdel, Danny Lohner
Best Tracks: 'Enemies', 'The Stone'

475) The Jackson Five – Third Album (1970, Motown)
Produced by The Corporation, Hal Davis
Best Tracks: 'I'll Be There', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'

474) Orianthi – Believe (2009, Geffen)
Produced by Howard Benson, Ron Fair, Tal Herzberg

Best Tracks: 'Suffocated', 'Highly Strung'

473) Gilby Clarke – Pawnshop Guitars (1994, Virgin)
Produced by Waddy Watchel
Best Tracks: 'Tijuana Jail', 'Dead Flowers'

472) The Doors – Morrison Hotel (1970, Elektra)
Produced by Paul A. Rothchild

Best Tracks: 'Roadhouse Blues', 'Queen Of The Highway'

471) Weezer – Weezer (2001, Geffen)
Produced by Ric Ocasek
Best Tracks: 'Hash Pipe', 'Knock-down Drag-out'

470) Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (2007, Fat Possum Records)
Produced by J. Mascis
Best Tracks: 'Almost Ready', 'What If I Knew'

469) Elf – Elf (1972, Purple Records)
Produced by Ian Paice, Roger Glover
Best Tracks: 'I'm Coming Back For You', 'Love Me Like A Woman'

468) Dropkick Murphys – Do Or Die (1998, Hellcat Records)
Produced by Lars Frederiksen
Best Tracks: 'Do Or Die', 'Road Of The Righteous', 'Finnegan's Wake', 'Skinhead On The MBTA'

467) The Stooges – The Stooges (1969, Elektra)
Produced by John Cale

Best Tracks: 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', 'No Fun'

466) Stereophonics – Performance & Cocktails (1999, V2)
Produced by Steve Bush, Marshall Bird

Best Tracks: 'The Bartender And The Thief', 'Pick A Part That's New' 'Just Looking'

465) Sixx:A.M. - The Heroin Diaries (2007, Eleven Seven Music)
Produced by Sixx:A.M.

Best Tracks: 'Van Nuys', 'Life Is Beautiful', 'Accidents Can Happen'

464) Weezer – Maladroit (2002, Geffen)
Produced by Weezer, Chad Bamford, Rod Cervera
Best Tracks: 'Dope Nose', 'Keep Fishin', 'Possibilities'

463) Alice Cooper – Flush The Fashion (1980, Warner Bros.)

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker
Best Tracks: 'Clones (We're All)', 'Grim Facts'

462) The Wailers – Burnin' (1973, Tuff Gong/Island)
Produced by Chris Blackwell, The Wailers
Best Tracks: 'Get Up, Stand Up', 'I Shot The Sheriff'

461) Joe Perry – Have Guitar, Will Travel (2009, Roman Records)
Produced by Joe Perry
Best Tracks: 'We've Got A Long Way To Go', 'Freedom'

460) The Cult – Dreamtime (1984, Beggars Banquet)
Produced by John Bran, Chris Kimsey

Best Tracks: 'Spiritwalker', '83^rd Dream'

459) The Offspring – The Offspring (1989, Nemesis)
Produced by Tom Wilson

Best Tracks: 'Jennifer Lost The War', 'Tehran'

458) Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis (1995, Epic)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn

Best Tracks: 'Perry Mason', 'See You On The Other Side'

457) Pendulum – In Silico (2008, Atlantic Records)
Produced by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen

Best Tracks: 'Propane Nightmares', 'Granite'

456) The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker (1990, Def American)
Produced by George Drakoulias

Best Tracks: 'Twice As Hard', 'She Talks To Angels'

455) Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (1973, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Bob Ezrin
Best Tracks: 'Elected', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy'

454) Queen – The Game (1980, EMI)
Produced by Queen, Mack
Best Tracks: 'Play The Game', 'Save Me'

453) Lacuna Coil – Halflife EP (2000, Century Media)
Produced by Waldemar Sorychta
Best Track: 'Halflife'

452) Stone Gossard – Bayleaf (2001, Epic)
Produced by Pete Droge
Best Tracks: 'Pigeon', 'Cadillac'

451) Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds – Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds (1992, Geffen)
Produced by Izzy Stradlin, Eddie Ashworth
Best Tracks: 'Pressure Drop', 'Shuffle It All'

450) Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – Love Their Country (2006, Fat Wreck Records)
Produced by Alex Newport
Best Tracks: 'Desperado', 'Jolene', 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'

449) Love Spit Love – Love Spit Love (1994, Imago Records)
Produced by Dave Jerden
Best Tracks: 'Seventeen', 'Am I Wrong', 'Codeine'

448) The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House (2002, Hellcat)
Produced by The Distillers
Best Tracks: 'Sing Sing Death House', 'City Of Angels', 'Hate Me'

447) The Cure – Wish (1992, Elektra)
Produced by David M. Allen, Robert Smith

Best Tracks: 'High', 'Friday I'm In Love', 'A Letter To Elise'

446) Lynyrd Skynyrd – God & Guns (2009, Roadrunner)

Produced by Bob Marlette
Best Tracks: 'Still Unbroken', 'Southern Ways', 'Comin' Back For More'

445) Robert Plant – Band Of Joy (2010, Decca Records)
Produced by Robert Plant, Buddy Miller

Best Tracks: 'Angel Dance', 'House Of Cards', 'Even This Shall Pass Away'

444) The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (1977, Stiff)
Produced by Nick Lowe

Best Tracks: 'Neat Neat Neat', 'New Rose', 'I Feel Alright'

443) Elton John & Leon Russell – The Union (2010, Mercury)
Produced by T Bone Burnett
Best Tracks: 'If It Wasn't For Bad', 'Hey Ahab', 'Monkey Suit'

442) The Black Crowes – Three Snakes And One Charm (1996, American)
Produced by Jack Joseph Puig, The Black Crowes
Best Tracks: 'Under A Mountain', 'Blackberry', 'Girl From A Pawnshop'

441) Green Day – Kerplunk! (1992, Lookout!)
Produced by Andy Ernst, Green Day
Best Tracks: '2,000 Light Years Away', 'Android', 'Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?'

440) Jamiroquai – Rock Dust Light Star (2010, Universal)
Produced by Charlie Russell, Brad Spence

Best Tracks: 'White Knuckle Ride', 'Blue Skies', 'Hey Floyd'

439) Garbage – Version 2.0 (1998, Mushroom)
Produced by Garbage
Best Tracks: 'I Think I'm Paranoid', 'When I Grow Up', 'Dumb'

438) Guns N' Roses – The Spaghetti Incident? (1993, Geffen)
Produced by Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses, Jim Mitchell

Best Tracks: 'New Rose', 'Human Being', 'Raw Power'

437) Green Day – Shenanigans (2002, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day

Best Tracks: 'Suffocate', 'Espionage', 'Ha Ha You're Dead'

436) Dropkick Murphys – Blackout (2003, Hellcat Records)
Produced by Ken Casey
Best Tracks: 'Black Velvet Band', 'Buried Alive', 'Bastards On Parade'

435) Tarja – My Winter Storm (2007, Vertigo)
Produced by Daniel Presley

Best Tracks: 'I Walk Alone', 'Boy And The Ghost', 'Poison'

434) The Ramones – Ramones (1976, Sire)
Produced by Craig Leon, Tommy Ramone

Best Tracks: 'Blitzkrieg Bop', 'Judy Is A Punk', 'Havana Affair'

433) Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987, SST)

Produced by Wharton Tiers
Best Tracks: 'Little Fury Things', 'Tarpit'

432) The Damned – Phantasmagoria (1985, Off Beat)
Produced by The Damned, Jon Kelly
Best Tracks: 'Street Of Dream', 'Sanctum Sanctorum'

431) Alice Cooper – Along Came A Spider (2008, Steamhammer/SPV)
Produced by Greg Hampton, Danny Saber
Best Tracks: 'Vengeance Is Mine', 'Salvation'

430) Stone Temple Pilots – Purple (1994, Atlantic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien

Best Tracks: 'Vasoline', 'Interstate Love Song'

429) The Ramones – Mondo Bizarro (1992, Chrysalis)
Produced by Ed Stasium
Best Tracks: 'Censorshit', 'Poison Heart', 'Take It As It Comes'

428) Incubus – Make Yourself (1999, Epic)
Produced by Scott Litt, Incubus

Best Tracks: 'Make Yourself', 'Drive', 'Pardon Me'

427) Faith No More – Angel Dust (1992, Slash)
Produced by Matt Wallace, Faith No More

Best Tracks: 'Land Of Sunshine', 'Midlife Crisis', 'A Small Victory'

426) Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life (1976, Tamla)
Produced by Stevie Wonder
Best Tracks: 'Sir Duke', 'Pastime Paradise', 'Isn't She Lovely?', 'As'

425) Public Image Limited – 9 (1989, Virgin)
Produced by Stephen Hague, Eric Thorngreen, PiL
Best Tracks: 'Happy?', 'Like That'

424) The Runaways – Waitin' For The Night (1977, Mercury)
Produced by Kim Fowley
Best Tracks: 'Little Sister', 'Wait For Me'

423) The Vandals – Fear Of A Punk Planet (1990, Triple X)
Produced by Bob Casale

Best Tracks: 'Pizza Tran', 'Girls Turn 18 Every Day', 'Summer Lovin'

422) Deftones – Adrenaline (1995, Maverick)
Produced by Terry Date, Deftones

Best Tracks: 'One Weak', 'Root'

421) Rainbow – Down To Earth (1979, Polydor)
Produced by Roger Glover

Best Tracks: 'All Night Long', 'Since You Been Gone'

420) Kyuss – Blues For The Red Sun (1992, Dali)
Produced by Kyuss, Chris Goss

Best Tracks: 'Green Machine', 'Freedom Run'

419) Apocalyptica – Apocalyptica Plays Metallica By Four Cellos (1996, Mercury)
Produced by Pekka Ritaluoto, Eicca Toppinen

Best Tracks: 'The Unforgiven', 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)'

418) Iggy Pop – Blah Blah Blah (1986, A&M)
Produced by David Bowie, David Richards
Best Tracks: 'Real Wild Child', 'Fire Girl'

417) Green Day – 39/Smooth (1990, Lookout!)
Produced by Andy Ernst, Green Day

Best Tracks: 'Green Day', 'Going To Pasalacqua'

416) Imicus – Animal Factory (2010, Transcend Records)
Produced by Imicus

Best Tracks: 'Visceral', 'Inveigle'

415) The Cult – Love (1985, Beggars Banquet)
Produced by Steve Brown
Best Tracks: 'Rain', 'She Sells Sanctuary'

414) The Vandals – Oi To The World (1996, Kung Fu)
Produced by Warren Fitzgerald
Best Tracks: 'A Gun For Christmas', 'Grandpa's Last Xmas', 'Oi To The World'

413) The Replacements – Suicaine Gratification (1999, Capitol)
Produced by Paul Westerberg, Don Was

Best Tracks: 'Best Thing That Never Happened', 'Final Hurrah', 'Whatever Makes You Happy'

412) Robert Plant – Pictures At Eleven (1982, Swan Song)
Produced by Robert Plant
Best Tracks: 'Burning Down One Side', 'Fat Lip'

411) Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (2004, Roadrunner)
Produced by Rick Rubin

Best Tracks: 'Duality', 'Vermilion', 'Before I Forget'

410) The Cure – Seventeen Seconds (Fiction Records)
Produced by Mike Hedges, Robert Smith
Best Tracks: 'In Your House', 'A Forest'

409) Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010, Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
Produced by Kanye West, Blink, DJ Frank E, Emile, Lex Luger, Mike Caren, Mike Dean, No I.D., The RZA, S1

Best Tracks: 'Power', 'Monster', 'All Of The Lights'

408) Bob Marley & The Wailers – Survival (1979, Tugg Gong/Island)
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers, Alex Sadkin

Best Tracks: 'Survival', 'Africa Unite'

407) Amanda Palmer – Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele (2010, 8ft. Records)
Produced by Amanda Palmer, Mick Wordley
Best Track: 'Creep'

406) Mark Lanegan – Field Songs (2001, Beggars Banquet)
Produced by John Angello, Martin Feveyear
Best Tracks: 'One Way Street', 'Field Song', 'Fix'

405) Izzy Stradlin – Like A Dog (2005, self-released)

Produced by Izzy Stradlin
Best Tracks: 'Bomb', 'Snafu'

404) Return To Earth – Captains Of Industry (2007, Bald Freak Music)
Produced by Ron Scalzo

Best Tracks: 'A New Sound', 'Gunpoint Poetry', 'Last Night, Last Fight'

403) Soul Asylum – Clam Dip & Other Delights (1989, Twin/Tone)
Produced by Soul Asylum, Tom Herbers

Best Track: 'Artificial Heart'

402) David Bowie – Station To Station (1976, RCA)
Produced by David Bowie, Harry Maslin

Best Track: 'Golden Years'

401) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium (2006, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Rick Rubin

Best Tracks: 'Dani California', 'Charlie', 'She's Only 18', 'Especially In Michigan', 'Tell Me Baby', 'Hard To Concentrate', 'Storm In A Teacup'

400) Green Day – Nimrod (1997, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day
Best Tracks: 'Nice Guys Finish Last', 'The Grouch', 'King For A Day', 'Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life'

399) Rage Against The Machine – Renegades (2000, Epic)
Produced by Rick Rubin, Brendan O'Brien, Rage Against The Machine

Best Tracks: 'Kick Out The Jams', 'How I Could Just Kill A Man', 'Street Fighting Man'

398) The Rolling Stones – Some Girls (1978, Rolling Stones Records)
Produced by The Glimmer Twins
Best Tracks: 'Miss You', 'Some Girls'

397) The Runaways – The Runaways (1976, Mercury)
Produced by Kim Fowley
Best Tracks: 'Cherry Bomb', 'You Drive Me Wild'

396) Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection (1970, DJM)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon

Best Tracks: 'Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun', 'Burn Down The Mission'

395) Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest Of Times (2007, Born & Bred Records)
Produced by Dropkick Murphys

Best Tracks: 'The State Of Massachusetts', '(F)lannigan's Ball', 'Rude Awakenings'

394) Nirvana – Incesticide (1992, DGC)
Produced by Miti Adhikari, Jack Endino, Steve Fisk, Dale Griffin, Butch Vig

Best Tracks: 'Dive', 'Aero Zeppelin', 'Aneurysm'

393) My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (2006, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, My Chemical Romance
Best Tracks: 'House Of Wolves', 'Mama', 'Famous Last Words'

392) The White Stripes – Icky Thump (2007, Third Man/Warner Bros.)

Produced by Jack White
Best Tracks: 'Icky Thump', 'You Don't Know What Love Is', 'I'm Slowly Turning Into You'

391) At The Drive-In – In/Casino/Out (1998, Fearless Records)
Produced by Alex Newport
Best Tracks: 'Alpha Centauri', 'Napoleon Solo'

390) The Dead Weather – Sea Of Cowards (2010, Warner Bros./Third Man)
Produced by Jack White
Best Tracks: 'Blue Blood Blues', 'Die By The Drop'

389) Apocalyptica – Inquisition Symphony (1998, Mercury/Universal)
Produced by Otto Donner, Hiili Hiilesmaa
Best Tracks: 'From Out Of Nowhere', 'One'

388) The Replacements – Let It Be (1984, Twin/Tone)
Produced by Steve Fjelstad, Peter Jesperson, Paul Westerberg
Best Tracks: 'I Will Dare', 'Black Diamond'

387) The Distillers – Coral Fang (2003, Sire)
Produced by Gil Norton
Best Tracks: 'Drain The Blood', 'The Hunger'

386) We Are The Fallen – Tear The World Down (2010, Universal)
Produced by We Are The Fallen, Dan Certa

Best Tracks: 'Bury Me Alive', 'Tear The World Down'

385) Elton John – Made In England (1995, Rocket Records)
Produced by Greg Penny, Elton John

Best Tracks: 'Made In England', 'Belfast'

384) New York Dolls – New York Dolls (1973, Mercury)
Produced by Todd Rundgren
Best Tracks: 'Frankenstein', 'Trash'

383) The Replacements – Don't Tell A Soul (1989, Sire/Reprise)
Produced by Matt Wallace
Best Tracks: 'Talent Show', 'I'll Be You'

382) The Rolling Stones – Aftermath (1966, London)
Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
Best Tracks: 'Stupid Girl', 'Lady Jane', 'Under My Thumb'

381) Ozzy Osbourne – Down To Earth (2001, Epic)
Produced by Tim Palmer
Best Tracks: 'Gets Me Through', 'No Easy Way Out'

380) Oasis – Definitely Maybe (1994, Creation)
Produced by Noel Gallagher, Mark Coyle, Owen Morris, Dave Batchelor

Best Tracks: 'Rock 'n' Roll Star', 'Slide Away'

379) Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin (1986, Epic)
Produced by Ron Nevison

Best Tracks: 'The Ultimate Sin', 'Shot In The Dark'

378) Elton John – Blue Moves (1976, Rocket Records)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon
Best Tracks: 'One Horse Town', 'Cage The Song Bird', 'Crazy Water', 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word'

377) Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn (2010, Eleven Records/8ft. Records)
Produced by Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley
Best Tracks: 'Evelyn Evelyn', 'A Campaign Of Shock And Awe', 'Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?'

376) Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973, Tamla)
Produced by Stevie Wonder, Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Cecil

Best Tracks: 'Higher Ground', 'Don't You Worry 'bout A Thing'

375) Queen – The Works (1984, EMI/Parlophone)

Produced by Queen, Mack
Best Tracks: 'It's A Hard Life', 'Hammer To Fall'

374) Aerosmith – Done With Mirrors (1985, Geffen)
Produced by Ted Templeman
Best Tracks: 'Let The Music Do The Talking', 'The Reason A Dog'

373) System Of A Down – Steal This Album! (2002, American/Columbia)
Produced by Rick Rubin, Daron Malakian

Best Tracks: 'Chic 'n' Stu', 'Innervision', 'Boom!', 'I-E-A-I-A-I-O'

372) The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely (2008, Third Man/Warner Bros.)
Produced by Jack White, Brendan Benson

Best Tracks: 'Consoler Of The Lonely', 'Salute Your Solution', 'Many Shades Of Black'

371) Izzy Stradlin – 117 Degrees (1998, Geffen)
Produced by Eddie Ashworth, Izzy Stradlin

Best Tracks: 'Ain't It A Bitch', 'Memphis', 'Methanol'

370) Black Label Society – Sonic Brew (1999, Spitfire)
Produced by Ron Albert, Howard Albert, Zakk Wylde

Best Tracks: 'Bored To Tears', 'Born To Lose', 'World Of Trouble'

369) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland (1968, Reprise)
Produced by Jimi Hendrix
Best Tracks: 'Crosstown Traffic', 'Gypsy Eyes', 'All Along The Watchtower', 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)'

368) Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (2009, Jagjaguwar)
Produced by J. Mascis
Best Tracks: 'Pieces', 'Over It', 'Imagination Blind'

367) Scott Weiland – 12 Bar Blues (1998, Atlantic)
Produced by Blair Lamb, Tracy Chisolm, Scott Weiland, Daniel Lanois

Best Tracks: 'Barbarella', 'Where's The Man', 'Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down'

366) Jerry Cantrell – Boggy Depot (1998, Columbia)
Produced by Jerry Cantrell, Toby Wright
Best Tracks: 'Dickeye', 'Satisfy', 'Hurt A Long Time'

365) The Offspring – Conspiracy Of One (2000, Columbia)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Want You Bad', 'Dammit, I Changed Again', 'Denial, Revisited'

364) Faith No More – Album Of The Year (1997, Slash)
Produced by Roli Mosimann, Billy Gould

Best Tracks: 'Stripsearch', 'Last Cup Of Sorrow', 'Ashes To Ashes'

363) Linkin Park – Meteora (2003, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Don Gilmore, Linkin Park
Best Tracks: 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Faint', 'Numb'

362) Sirens Sister – Echoes From The Ocean Floor (2006, The Control Group)
Produced by Martin Feveyear
Best Tracks: 'Kissing Her', 'Should've Known', 'Faultline'

361) Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed & Delivered (1970, Tamla)
Produced by Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Ron Miller, Steve Marcel Bega
Best Tracks: 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours', 'You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover', 'Don't Wonder Why'

360) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love (1967, Polydor)
Produced by Chas Chandler

Best Tracks: 'Little Wing', 'Castles Made Of Sand', 'Bold As Love'

359) Queen – A Night At The Opera (1975, EMI)

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Queen
Best Tracks: 'You're My Best Friend', 'Love Of My Life', 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

358) Bobot Adrenaline – Dumb Bomb (2010, Basement Records)
Produced by Chuck Dietrich, Pepper Berry, Tommy Stinson, Bobot Adrenaline
Best Tracks: 'Dumb Bomb', 'Viktor's Misery', 'Penalty Box'

357) Amanda Palmer – Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under (2011, 8ft. Records)
Produced by Amanda Palmer, Mick Wordley
Best Tracks: 'Vegemite (The Black Death)', 'Bad Wine And Lemon Cake', 'New Zealand'

356) Pearl Jam – Vs. (1993, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Best Tracks: 'Daughter', 'Dissident', 'Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town'

355) Deep Purple – The House Of Blue Light (1987, Polydor)
Produced by Roger Glover, Deep Purple
Best Tracks: 'Bad Attitude', 'Call Of The Wild'

354) Michael Jackson – Got To Be There (1972, Motown)
Produced by Hal Davis, Willie Hutch
Best Tracks: 'Got To Be There', 'Rockin' Robin'

353) Elton John – Honky Chateau (1972, DJM Records)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon

Best Tracks: 'Rocket Man', 'Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters'

352) Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (1996, Atlantic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Tumble In The Rough', 'Big Bang Baby', 'Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart'

351) Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been (1993, Blanco y Negro/Sire Records)
Produced by J. Mascis
Best Tracks: 'What Else Is New', 'Goin' Home'

350) Manic Street Preachers – Send Away The Tigers (2007, Columbia)
Produced by Dave Eringa, Greg Haver, Loz Williams

Best Tracks: 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough', 'Autumnsong)

349) Eminem – The Eminem Show (2002, Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
Produced by Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jeff Bass, Mr. Porter

Best Tracks: 'Cleanin' Out My Closet', 'Sing For The Moment', 'My Dad's Gone Crazy'

348) John Frusciante – Inside Of Emptiness (2004, Record Collection)
Produced by John Frusciante

Best Tracks: 'Inside A Break', '666'

347) David Bowie – Hours... (1999, Virgin)
Produced by David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels

Best Tracks: 'Something In The Air', 'The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell'

346) Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (1979, Epic)
Produced by Quincy Jones
Best Tracks: 'Off The Wall', 'She's Out Of My Life'

345) Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists (1992, Columbia)
Produced by Steve Brown

Best Tracks: 'Motorcycle Emptiness', 'Little Baby Nothing', 'Another Invented Disease', 'Crucifix Kiss'

344) Bumblefoot – Hands (1998, Hermit Inc.)
Produced by Ron Thal

Best Tracks: 'What I Knew', 'Vomit', 'Tuesday In Nancy'

343) Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures (2009, RCA)
Produced by Them Crooked Vultures

Best Tracks: 'Mind Eraser, No Chaser', 'New Fang', 'Bandoliers'

342) Soul Asylum – Made To Be Broken (1986, Twin/Tone)
Produced by Bob Mould

Best Tracks: 'Tied To The Tracks', 'Made To Be Broken', 'Long Way Home'

341) Slipknot – Slipknot (1999, Roadrunner)
Produced by Slipknot, Ross Robinson, Sean McMahon

Best Tracks: '(Sic)', 'Wait And Bleed', 'Spit It Out'

340) Pearl Jam – No Code (1996, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam

Best Tracks: 'Sometimes', 'Off He Goes', 'Mankind'

339) The Cure – Pornography (1982, Fiction)
Produced by Phil Thornalley, The Cure

Best Tracks: 'One Hundred Years', 'Pornography'

338) Eminem – Recovery (2010, Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
Produced by Dr. Dre, Alex da Kid, Boi-1da, Emile, Eminem, DJ Khalil, Havoc, Jim Jonsin, Just Blaze, Mr. Porter, Supa Dups, Script Shepherd

Best Tracks: 'Won't Back Down', 'Not Afraid', '25 To Life', 'Love The Way You Lie'

337) Gilby Clarke – The Hangover (1997, Paradigm Records)
Produced by C.J. DeVillar, Gilby Clarke

Best Tracks: 'It's Good Enough For Rock N' Roll', 'Hang On To Yourself'

336) At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command (2000, Fearless Records)
Produced by Ross Robinson
Best Tracks: 'One Armed Scissor', 'Rolodex Propaganda'

335) Brad – Interiors (1997, Epic)
Produced by Brad, Nick DiDia

Best Tracks: 'Secret Girl', 'Funeral Song'

334) Zakk Wylde – Book Of Shadows (1996, Geffen)
Produced by Ron Albert, Howard Albert

Best Tracks: 'Between Heaven And Hell', 'Way Beyond Empty'

333) Halestorm – Halestorm (2009, Atlantic)
Produced by Howard Benson
Best Tracks: 'It's Not You', 'I Get Off'

332) Queen – Queen II (1974, Parlophone)
Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Robin Geoffrey Cable, Queen

Best Tracks: 'Ogre Battle', 'Seven Seas Of Rhye'

331) Aerosmith – Nine Lives (1997, Columbia)
Produced by Kevin Shirley, Aerosmith

Best Tracks: 'Nine Lives', 'Pink', 'Fallen Angels'

330) Nazareth – Razamanaz (1973, Mooncrest)
Produced by Roger Glover
Best Tracks: 'Razamanaz', 'Sold My Soul'

329) The Faces – Long Player (1971, Warner Bros.)
Produced by The Faces

Best Tracks: 'Bad 'n' Ruin', 'Had Me A Real Good Time'

328) The Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels (1989, Rolling Stones/Columbia)
Produced by Chris Kimsey, The Glimmer Twins
Best Tracks: 'Mixed Emotions', 'Almost Hear You Sigh', 'Slipping Away'

327) Thin Lizzy – Chinatown (1980, Vertigo)
Produced by Thin Lizzy, Kit Woolven

Best Tracks: 'Chinatown', 'Killer On The Loose'

326) Blink-182 – Enema Of The State (1999, MCA)
Produced by Jerry Finn
Best Tracks: 'What's My Age Again?', 'All The Small Things', 'Anthem'

325) Inside Out – No Spiritual Surrender (1990, Revelation Records)

Produced by Inside Out

Best Track: 'Burning Fight'

324) Aerosmith – Honkin' On Bobo (2004, Columbia)
Produced by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jack Douglas, Marti Frederiksen

Best Tracks: 'Road Runner', 'Baby, Please Don't Go', 'You Gotta Move'

323) Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (1995, Maverick/Reprise)
Produced by Glen Ballard
Best Tracks: 'You Oughta Know', 'Hand In My Pocket', 'You Learn'

322) Green River – Come On Down (1985, Homestead)
Produced by Green River, Chris Hanzsek

Best Track: 'Swallow My Pride'

321) Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low (2009, Interscope)
Produced by Sean Beavan, Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna, Jeordie White

Best Tracks: 'Pretty As A Swastika', 'Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin'Geddon', 'I Have To Look Up Just To See Hell'

320) Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997, Epic/Immortal)
Produced by Jim Wirt

Best Tracks: 'Redefine', 'New Skin', 'A Certain Shade Of Green'

319) The Who – Who's Next (1971, Decca)
Produced by The Who, Glyn Johns

Best Tracks: 'Behind Blue Eyes', 'Won't Get Fooled Again'

318) The Cure – Bloodflowers (2000, Fiction/Elektra)
Produced by Paul Corkett, Robert Smith
Best Tracks: 'Out Of This World', '39'

317) Soul Asylum – Gravedancer's Union (1992, Columbia)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn
Best Tracks: 'Somebody To Shove', 'Black Gold', 'Runaway Train'

316) Three Fish – The Quiet Table (1999, Epic)
Produced by Brett Eliason, Three Fish
Best Tracks: 'Tremor Void', 'Hummingbird', 'Chantreuse'

315) Smashing Pumpkins – Judas O (2001, Virgin)
Produced by Kerry Brown, Billy Corgan, Ted de Bono, Flood, James Iha, Alan Moulder, Bjorn Thorsrud, Butch Vig, Howard Willing, Brad Wood

Best Tracks: 'Aeroplane Flies High', 'Marquis In Spades', 'Here's To The Atom Bomb', 'Saturnine'

314) Incubus – Morning View (2001, Epic/Immortal)
Produced by Incubus, Scott Litt
Best Tracks: 'Wish You Were Here', 'Are You In?', 'Aqueous Transmission'

313) Michael Jackson – Michael (2010, Epic)
Produced by Michael Jackson, Akon, Giorgio Tuinfort, Teddy Riley, Theron “Neff-U” Feemster, Tricky Stewart, Eddie Cascio, Brad Buxer, Lenny Kravitz, John McClain

Best Tracks: '(I Like) The Way You Love Me', 'Behind The Mask'

312) Malfunkshun – Return To Olympus (1995, Loosegroove Records)
Produced by Jack Endino
Best Tracks: 'Mr. Liberty (With Morals)', 'Jezebel Woman', 'Wang Dang Sweet Poontang'

311) Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (1972, Tamla)
Produced by Stevie Wonder, Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Cecil

Best Tracks: 'You Are The Sunshine Of My Life', 'Superstition'

310) Iggy Pop – Naughty Little Doggie (1996, Virgin)
Produced by Iggy Pop, Thom Wilson

Best Tracks: 'Pussy Walk', 'Shoeshine Girl'

309) Bob Marley & The Wailers – Exodus (1977, Tuff Gong/Island)
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Best Tracks: 'Exodus', 'Jamming'

308) The Faces – First Step (1970, Warner Bros.)
Produced by The Faces
Best Tracks: 'Aroung The Plynth', 'Three Button Hand Me Down'

307) David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980, RCA)
Produced by David Bowie, Tony Visconti

Best Tracks: 'Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)', 'Ashes To Ashes'

306) The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work (1986, Rolling Stones/Columbia)
Produced by Steve Lillywhite, The Glimmer Twins
Best Tracks: 'One Hit (To The Body)', 'Harlem Shuffle'

305) Stereophonics – Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2005, V2)
Produced by Kelly Jones, Jim Lowe

Best Tracks: 'Superman', 'Pedalpusher'

304) Elton John – Elton John (1970, DJM)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon

Best Tracks: 'Your Song', 'The King Must Die'

303) Cee-Lo Green – The Lady Killer (2010, Elektra/Roadrunner)
Produced by Cee-Lo Green, ELEMENT, The Smeezingtons, Fraser T. Smith, Salaam Remi, Paul Epworth, Jack Splash, Ben H. Allen, Alan Nglish

Best Tracks: 'Fuck You', 'Bright Lights Bigger City', 'It's OK'

302) The Ramones – Rocket To Russia (1977, Sire)
Produced by Tony Bongiovi, Tommy Erdelyi

Best Tracks: 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow', 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker', 'Teenage Lobotomy'

301) Whitesnake – Good To Be Bad (2008, SPV/Steamhammer)
Produced by David Coverdale, Doug Aldrich, Michael McIntyre
Best Tracks: 'Best Years', 'Good To Be Bad'

300) Kyuss – Wretch (1991, Dali)
Produced by Kyuss, Catherine Enny, Ron Krown

Best Tracks: 'Love Has Passed Me By', 'Son of A Bitch'

299) The Black Crowes – By Your Side (1999, Columbia)
Produced by Kevin Shirley

Best Tracks: 'Go Faster', 'Kickin' My Heart Around'

298) Apocalyptica – Apocalyptica (2005, Universal)
Produced by Apocalyptica
Best Tracks: 'Life Burns', 'Betrayal/Forgiveness'

297) Sirens Sister – Unspeakable Things (2009, The Control Group)
Produced by Martin Feveyear
Best Tracks: 'The Thing In The Woods', 'Into The Ether'

296) Alien Crime Syndicate – XL From Coast To Coast (2002, V2/The Control Group)
Produced by Joe Reineke
Best Tracks: 'Ozzy', 'My Happy Ending'

295) Green Day – 1,000 Hours (1989, Lookout!)
Produced by Andy Ernst, Green Day
Best Track: '1,000 Hours'

294) Candlebox – Into The Sun (2008, Silent Majority Group)
Produced by Ron Aniello
Best Track: 'Bitches Brewin'', 'Underneath It All', 'Breathe Me In'

293) Black Sabbath – Seventh Star (1986, Vertigo)
Produced by Jeff Glixman

Best Tracks: 'In For The Kill', 'Danger Zone'

292) Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987, EMI/Capitol)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn
Best Tracks: 'Fight Light A Brave', 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', 'Organic Anti-Beat Box Band'

291) Placebo – Without You I'm Nothing (1998, Virgin)
Produced by Steve Osborne, Phil Vinall
Best Tracks: 'Brick Shithouse', 'Without You I'm Nothing', 'Scared Of Girls'

290) Ozzy Osbourne – No Rest For The Wicked (1988, Epic)
Produced by Keith Olsen, Roy Thomas Baker
Best Tracks: 'Miracle Man', 'Fire In The Sky'

289) Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark (1992, EMI)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Be Quick Or Be Dead', 'Afraid To Shoot Strangers', 'Fear Of The Dark'

288) Hole – Live Through This (1994, DGC)
Produced by Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade

Best Tracks: 'Miss World', 'Asking For It', 'Jennifer's Body'

287) Manic Street Preacher – Postcards From A Young Man (2010, Columbia)
Produced by Dave Eringa, Loz Williams, Manic Street Preachers
Best Tracks: '(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love', 'A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun', 'Don't Be Evil'

286) Saul Williams – Saul Williams (2004, Fader)
Produced by Thavius Beck, Mickey P., Serj Tankian, Saul Williams

Best Tracks: 'Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)', 'List Of Demands (Reparations)', 'Black Stacey'

285) Foxboro Hot Tubs – Stop Drop And Roll!!! (2008, Jingle Town/Warner Bros.)
Produced by Chris Dugan

Best Tracks: 'Mother Mary', 'She's A Saint, Not A Celebrity', 'Sally'

284) The Cult – Beyond Good And Evil (2001, Atlantic)
Produced by Bob Rock

Best Tracks: 'War (The Process)', 'Rise', 'American Gothic'

283) Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstasy (1976, Vertigo)
Produced by Black Sabbath
Best Tracks: 'It's Alright', 'Dirty Women'

282) Evanescence – The Open Door (2006, Wind-Up Records)
Produced by Dave Fortman

Best Tracks: 'Sweet Sacrifice', 'Cloud Nine', 'Lacrymosa'

281) The Vandals – Hollywood Potato Chip (2004, Kung Fu)

Produced by Warren Fitzgerald
Best Tracks: 'Don't Stop Me Now', 'Manimal', 'Atrocity'

280) Black Label Society – Shot To Hell (2006, Roadrunner)
Produced by Zakk Wylde, Michael Beinhorn

Best Tracks: 'Concrete Jungle', 'The Last Goodbye', 'Sick Of It All'

279) The Presidents Of The United States Of America – The Presidents Of The United States Of America (1994, PopLlama)
Produced by The Presidents Of The United States of America, Conrad Uno
Best Tracks: 'Kitty', 'Lump', 'Peaches'

278) The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia... (2006, Roadrunner)
Produced by Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie, The Dresden Dolls
Best Tracks: 'Sex Changes', 'Mandy Goes To Med School', 'Sing'

277) Elton John – Madman Across The Water (1971, UNI)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon
Best Tracks: 'Tiny Dancer', 'Levon'

276) Rodrigo y Gabriela – Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006, ATO Records)
Produced by John Leckie
Best Tracks: 'Stairway To Heaven', 'Orion'

275) The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987, Fiction)
Produced by David M. Allen, Robert Smith
Best Tracks: 'Catch', 'Why Can't I Be You?', 'Just Like Heaven', 'Hot Hot Hot!!!'

274) Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes (1972, CBS Records)
Produced by David Bowie
Best Tracks: 'All The Young Dudes', 'One Of The Boys'

273) Metallica – Load (1996, Vertigo)
Produced by Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Best Tracks: 'Hero Of The Day', 'Bleeding Me', 'Mama Said'

272) Soul Asylum – Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995, Columbia)
Produced by Butch Vig, Soul Asylum
Best Tracks: 'Misery', 'Promises Broken', 'Just Like Anyone'

271) The Cult – Sonic Temple (1989, Beggars Banquet)
Produced by Bob Rock

Best Tracks: 'Fire Woman', 'Soldier Blue'

270) Michael Jackson – Blood On The Dance Floor (1997, Epic)
Produced by Michael Jackson

Best Track: 'Morphine'

269) Gosling – Gosling EP (2004, The Control Group)
Produced by Gosling
Best Track: 'Mr. Skeleton Wings'

268) The Rolling Stones – It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974, Rolling Stones/Atlantic)
Produced by The Glimmer Twins

Best Tracks: 'It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)', 'Till The Next Goodbye'

267) Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against The Soul (1993, Columbia)
Produced by Dave Eringa
Best Tracks: 'Life Becoming A Landslide', 'Gold Against The Soul'

266) Mad Season – Above (1995, Columbia)
Produced by Brett Eliason, Mad Season
Best Tracks: 'River Of Deceit', 'Long Gone Day'

265) Elton John – Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player (1973, DJM Records)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon
Best Tracks: 'Daniel', 'Crocodile Rock'

264) Dropkick Murphys – Sing Loud, Sing Proud (2001, Hellcat Records)
Produced by Ken Casey

Best Tracks: 'The Rocky Road To Dublin', 'The New American Way', 'The Fortunes Of War', 'The Wild Rover'

263) Die So Fluid – The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime (2010, DR2/Global Music)
Produced by Mark Williams
Best Tracks: 'The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime', 'How Vampires Kiss'

262) Radiohead – OK Computer (1997, Parlophone)
Produced by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
Best Tracks: 'Paranoid Android', 'Exit Music (For A Film)', 'No Surprises'

261) Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill (1996, East West)
Produced by Terry Date, Vinnie Paul

Best Tracks: 'The Great Southern Trendkill', 'Floods'

260) The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette (1979, Chiswick)
Produced by The Damned, Roger Armstrong
Best Tracks: 'Love Song', 'Smash It Up (Part 1)', 'Smash It Up (Part 2)'

259) Alice Cooper – Brutal Planet (2000, Spitfire)
Produced by Bob Marlette
Best Tracks: 'Brutal Planet', 'Gimme'

258) The Dresden Dolls – No, Virginia... (2008, Roadrunner)
Produced by Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie

Best Tracks: 'Night Reconnaissance', 'Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner'

257) Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris (2007, Interscope)
Produced by Josh Homme, Chris Goss
Best Tracks: 'Make It Wit Chu', '3's & 7's'

256) Serj Tankian – Imperfect Harmonies (2010, Reprise/Serjical Strike)
Produced by Serj Tankian
Best Tracks: 'Reconstructive Demonstrations', 'Yes, It's Genocide'

255) David Bowie – Hunky Dory (1971, RCA)
Produced by Ken Scott, David Bowie
Best Tracks: 'Life On Mars?', 'Queen Bitch'

254) Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4 (1999, Atlantic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien

Best Tracks: 'Down', 'Atlanta'

253) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (1964, Polydor)
Produced by Chas Chandler
Best Tracks: 'Hey Joe', 'Fire', 'Purple Haze'

252) Alex Chilton – Loose Shoes And Tight Pussy (2000, Last Call Records)
Produced by Alex Chilton
Best Tracks: 'Lipstick Traces', 'I Remember Mama', 'Shiny Stockings'

251) Puscifer - “C” Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE) (2009, Puscifer Entertainment)
Produced by Puscifer
Best Track: 'The Humbling River'

250) Garbage – Garbage (1995, Mushroom)
Produced by Garbage
Best Tracks: 'Supervixen', 'Queer', 'Stupid Girl'

249) Jimi Hendrix – Valleys Of Neptune (2010, Legacy)
Produced by Jimi Hendrix, Chas Chandler, Janie Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, John McDermott
Best Tracks: 'Stone Free', 'Valleys Of Neptune', 'Lover Man'

248) Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone (2008, Roadrunner)
Produced by Dave Fortman, Slipknot
Best Tracks: 'Sulfur', 'Psychosocial', 'Snuff'

247) Pearl Jam – Yield (1998, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam

Best Tracks: 'Given To Fly', 'Do The Evolution', 'All Those Yesterdays'

246) Placebo – Battle For The Sun (2009, PIAS)
Produced by David Bottrill

Best Tracks: 'Kitty Litter', 'Ashtray Heart', 'Bright Lights'

245) Social Distortion – Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes (2011, Epitath)
Produced by Mike Ness
Best Tracks: 'Road Zombie', 'Machine Gun Blues'

244) Stone Temple Pilots – Shangri-La Dee Da (2001, Atlantic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Hollywood Bitch', 'Wonderful', 'Hello It's Late'

243) Black Stone Cherry – Folklore And Superstition (2008, Roadrunner)
Produced by Bob Marlette
Best Tracks: 'Blind Man', 'Things My Father Said', 'Peace Is Free'

242) Lacuna Coil – Karmacode (2006, Century Media)
Produced by Waldermar Sorychta
Best Tracks: 'Out Truth', 'Within Me', 'Fragments Of Faith'

241) Ash – Trailer (1994, Infectious)
Produced by Ash, Timothy Russell, Marc Waterman

Best Track: 'Uncle Pat'

240) The Clash – The Clash (1977, CBS)
Produced by Mickey Foote
Best Tracks: 'Janie Jones', 'White Riot'

239) Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals (1998, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson, Sean Beavan

Best Tracks: 'Rock Is Dead', 'Fundamentally Loathsome', 'Coma White'

238) Michael Jackson – Dangerous (1991, Epic)
Produced by Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell, Teddy Riley

Best Tracks: 'In The Closet', 'Who Is It', 'Give In To Me'

237) Alice Cooper – Killer (1971, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Bob Ezrin
Best Tracks: 'Under My Wheels', 'Killer'

236) Iron Maiden – Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (1988, EMI)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son', 'The Clairvoyant'

235) Iron Maiden – Powerslave (1984, EMI)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Aces High', 'Powerslave'

234) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Rick Rubin
Best Tracks: 'The Power Of Equality', 'If You Have To Ask', 'Suck My Kiss', 'Under The Bridge'

233) Orange Goblin – Time Travelling Blues (1999, Rise Above Records)

Produced by Dave Chang
Best Tracks: 'Solarisphere', 'The Man Who Invented Time'

232) Bumblefoot – Forgotten Anthology (2003, Hermit Inc.)
Produced by Ron Thal
Best Tracks: 'Meat', 'Bagged A Big 1', 'She Knows', 'Wasted Away'

231) David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World (1971, Mercury)
Produced by Tony Visconti
Best Tracks: 'All The Madmen', 'The Man Who Sold The World'

230) Black Sabbath – Vol. 4 (1972, Vertigo)
Produced by Patrick Meehan, Black Sabbath
Best Tracks: 'Changes', 'Snowblind'

229) The Who – Tommy (1969, Polydor)
Produced by Kit Lambert
Best Tracks: 'It's A Boy', 'The Hawker', 'Pinball Wizard', 'I'm Free', 'We're Not Gonna Take It!'

228) Late! - Pocketwatch (1992, Simple Machines)
Produced by Barrett Jones, Geoff Turner

Best Tracks: 'Friend Of A Friend', 'Colour Pictures Of A Marigold'

227) Alien Crime Syndicate – Ten Songs In The Key Of Betrayal (2004, The Control Group)
Produced by Joe Reineke, Gil Norton

Best Tracks: 'Forever Is Rock N' Roll', 'The Hustla Life'

226) David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (1973, RCA)
Produced by Ken Scott, Davis Bowie
Best Tracks: 'Aladdin Sane', 'Cracked Actor'

225) Elton John – Caribou (1974, DJM Records)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon
Best Tracks: 'The Bitch Is Back', 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me'

224) White Zombie – Astro Creep: 2000 (1995, Geffen)
Produced by Terry Date

Best Tracks: 'I, Zombie', 'More Human Than Human'

223) The Cult – Ceremony (1991, Beggars Banquet)
Produced by Richie Zito

Best Tracks: 'Ceremony', 'Earth Mofo'

222) Tarja – What Lies Beneath (2010, Vertigo)
Produced by Tarja Turunen, Mic

Best Tracks: 'Until My Last Breath', 'Falling Awake'

221) Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999, RCA)

Produced by Foo Fighters, Adam Kasper
Best Tracks: 'Stacked Actors', 'Learn To Fly'

220) Filter – The Amalgamut (2002, Reprise)
Produced by Ben Grosse, Richard Patrick, Rae DiLeo, Geno Lenardo
Best Tracks: 'Columind', 'My Long Walk To Jail'

219) Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion (1992, Epic)
Produced by Don Fleming
Best Tracks: 'Nearly Lost You', 'Winter Song'

218) Foo Fighters – One By One (2002, RCA)
Produced by Foo Fighters, Adam Kasper, Nick Raskulinecz

Best Tracks: 'All My Life', 'Low'

217) Nightwish – Once (2004, Nuclear Blast/Spinefarm)
Produced by Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen

Best Tracks: 'Nemo', 'Romanticide'

216) Rammstein – Mutter (2001, Motor Music)
Produced by Jacob Hellner, Rammstein

Best Tracks: 'Sonne', 'Mutter'

215) Muse – The Resistance (2009, Mushroom)
Produced by Muse

Best Tracks: 'Resistance', 'MK Ultra'

214) The Who – My Generation (1965, Brunswick)
Produced by Shel Talmy

Best Tracks: 'Out In The Street', 'My Generation', 'The Kids Are Alright'

213) The Offspring – Ixnay On The Hombre (1997, Epitath)
Produced by Dave Jerden
Best Tracks: 'Gone Away', 'I Choose', 'All I Want'

212) The Heartbreakers – L.A.M.F. (1977, Track)
Produced by Speedy Keen, Daniel Segunda, Mike Thorne

Best Tracks: 'Born To Lose', 'I Wanna Be Loved', 'Pirate Love'

211) Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go (1996, Columbia)
Produced by Mike Hedges

Best Tracks: 'A Design For Life', 'Enola/Alone', 'Everything Must Go'

210) Mick Jagger – Goddess In The Doorway (2001, Virgin)
Produced by Matt Cliford, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jagger, Jerry Duplessis, Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Potter
Best Tracks: 'Joy', 'Goddess In The Doorway', 'Everybody Getting High'

209) Korn – Korn (1994, Immortal/Epic)
Produced by Ross Robinson
Best Tracks: 'Blind', 'Faget', 'Shoots & Ladders'

208) Black Stone Cherry – Black Stone Cherry (2006, Roadrunner)
Produced by David Barrick, Richard Young
Best Tracks: 'Rain Wizard', 'Lonely Train', 'Shapes Of Things'

207) Deftones – Diamond Eyes (2010, Reprise)
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz

Best Tracks: 'Rocket Skates', 'This Place Is Death'

206) Queen – Sheer Heart Attack (1974, EMI)
Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Queen
Best Tracks: 'Killer Queen', 'Now I'm Here'

205) The Presidents Of The United States Of America – These Are The Good Times People (2008, Fugitive Recordings)
Produced by Kurt Bloch
Best Tracks: 'Mixed Up S.O.B.', 'More Bad Times', 'Deleter'

204) Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Flood
Best Tracks: 'Piggy', 'March Of The Pigs', 'Hurt'

203) Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (1975, Swan Song)
Produced by Jimmy Page
Best Tracks: 'Houses Of The Holy', 'Trampled Under Foot', 'Kashmir'

202) Foo Fighters – In Your Honour (2005, Bertelsmann Music Groul)
Produced by Foo Fighters, Nick Raskulinecz

Best Tracks: 'No Way Back', 'DOA', 'The Deepest Blues Are Black', 'Another Round', 'Cold Day In The Sun'

201) Bob Marley & The Wailers – Natty Dread (1974, Tuff Gong/Island)
Produced by Chris Blackwell, The Wailers
Best Tracks: 'Lively Up Yourself', 'No Woman, No Cry'

200) Thin Lizzy – Black Rose: A Rock Legend (1979, Vertigo)
Produced by Tony Visconti

Best Tracks: 'Toughest Street In Town', 'Waiting For An Alibi'

199) The Pretty Reckless – Light Me Up (2010, Interscope)
Produced by Kato Khandwala
Best Tracks: 'Make Me Wanna Die', 'Just Tonight'

198) Nightwish – Over The Hills And Far Away (2001, Spinefarm)
Produced by Tero Kinnunen, Nightwish

Best Track: 'Over The Hills And Far Away'

197) The Cure – The Head On The Door (1985, Fiction)
Produced by Robert Smith, Dave Allen
Best Tracks: 'In Between Days', 'A Night Like This'

196) Bumblefoot – Uncool (2002, Hermit Inc.)
Produced by Ron Thal

Best Tracks: 'What's New Pussycat?', 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You'

195) Jeff Beck Group – Truth (1968, EMI)
Produced by Mickie Most

Best Tracks: 'Shapes Of Things', 'You Shook Me'

194) The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (1992, Def American)
Produced by George Drakoulias
Best Tracks: 'Remedy', 'Thorn In My Pride'

193) Korn – Follow The Leader (1998, Immortal/Epic)
Produced by Steve Thompson, Toby Wright
Best Tracks: 'Freak On A Leash', 'Dead Bodies Everywhere', 'Reclaim My Place'

192) Marilyn Manson – Portrait Of An American Family (1994, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson
Best Tracks: 'Cake And Sodomy', 'Lunchbox', 'Dope Hat'

191) Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman (1981, Jet)
Produced by Max Norman, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads

Best Tracks: 'Over The Mountain', 'Diary Of A Madman'

190) Nightwish – Wishmaster (2000, Spinefarm)
Produced by Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen
Best Tracks: 'She Is My Sin', 'Dead Boy's Poem'

189) My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (2010, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, My Chemical Romance
Best Tracks: 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)', 'Party Poison', 'DESTROYA'

188) Black Label Society – Order Of The Black (2010, Roadrunner)
Produced by Zakk Wylde

Best Tracks: 'Crazy Horse', 'Time Waits For No One', 'Godspeed Hellbound'

187) Kyuss – Welcome To Sky Valley (1994, Elektra)
Produced by Kyuss, Chris Goss

Best Tracks: 'Gardenia', 'Demon Cleaner'

186) Elton John – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975, DJM)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon, Greg Penny

Best Tracks: 'Tower Of Babel', 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight'

185) Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (1973, MCA)
Produced by Al Kooper
Best Tracks: 'Tuesday's Gone', 'Simple Man'

184) Black Sabbath – Sabotage (1975, Vertigo)
Produced by Black Sabbath, Mike Butcher
Best Tracks: 'Hole In The Sky', 'Symptom Of The Universe'

183) The Jacksons – Destiny (1978, Epic)
Produced by The Jacksons

Best Tracks: 'Blame It On The Boogie', 'Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground'

182) Aerosmith – Draw The Ling (1977, Columbia)
Produced by Aerosmith, Jack Douglas

Best Tracks: 'Draw The Line', 'Kings And Queens'

181) Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972, Purple Records/EMI)
Produced by Deep Purple
Best Tracks: 'Smoke On The Water'

180) The Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks (1977, Virgin)
Produced by Chris Thomas, Bill Price
Best Tracks: 'Bodies', 'Anarchy In The UK', 'Pretty Vacant'

179) Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth (2005, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder

Best Tracks: 'You Know What You Are?', 'The Hand That Feeds', 'Sunspots'

178) Queen – A Kind Of Magic (1986, EMI)
Produced by Queen, Mack, David Richards
Best Tracks: 'One Vision', 'Princes Of The Universe'

177) Black Sabbath – Mob Rules (1981, Vertigo)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Turn Up The Night', 'The Sign Of The Southern Cross'

176) Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1980, EMI)
Produced by Will Malone
Best Tracks: 'Running Free', 'Phantom Of The Opera'

175) Serj Tankian – Elect The Dead (2007, Serjical Strike/Reprise)
Produced by Serj Tankian
Best Tracks: 'Empty Walls', 'Honking Antelope', 'Lie Lie Lie'

174) Queen – News Of The World (1977, EMI)
Produced by Queen, Mike Stone
Best Tracks: 'We Are The Champions', 'Get Down, Make Love'

173) Stone Temple Pilots – Core (1992, Atlantic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Sex Type Thing', 'Creep', 'Crackerman'

172) Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia (1991, Epic)
Produced by Screaming Trees, Terry Date, Chris Cornell

Best Tracks: 'Bed Of Rose', 'Before We Arise', 'Ocean Of Confusion'

171) Deftones – Around The Fur (1997, Maverick/Warner Bros.)
Produced by Terry Date, Deftones

Best Tracks: 'My Own Summer (Shove It)', 'Headup'

170) Alice In Chains – Sap (1992, Columbia)
Produced by Alice In Chains, Rick Parashar
Best Track: 'Brother'

169) Tommy Stinson – Village Gorilla Head (2004, Sanctuary)
Produced by Tommy Stinson, Philip Broussard

Best Tracks: 'Light Of Day', 'Motivation'

168) Muse – Origin Of Symmetry (2001, Taste)
Produced by David Bottrill, John Leckie, Muse
Best Tracks: 'New Born', 'Plug In Baby'

167) The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (1972, Rolling Stones/Atlantic)
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Best Tracks: 'Rocks Off', 'Tumbling Dice', 'Happy', 'All Down The Line'

166) Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust! (2007, Fader)
Produced by Trent Reznor
Best Tracks: 'Convict Colony', 'NiggyTardust', 'WTF!'

165) Smashing Pumpkins – Pisces Iscariot (1994, Virgin)
Produced by Kerry Brown, Billy Corgan, Ted de Bono, Dale Griffin, James Iha, Butch Vig

Best Tracks: 'Pissant', 'Hello Kitty Kat', 'Girl Named Sandoz'

164) Green Day – American Idiot (2004, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day

Best Tracks: 'American Idiot', 'Jesus Of Suburbia', 'St. Jimmy'

163) Lacuna Coil – Comalies (2002, Century Media)
Produced by Waldemar Sorychta
Best Tracks: 'Swamped', 'Heaven's A Lie', 'Tight Rope'

162) Velvet Revolver – Contraband (2004, RCA)
Produced by Josh Abraham, Velvet Revolver, Douglas Grean, Nick Raskulinecz

Best Tracks: 'Set Me Free', 'You Got No Right', 'Slither'

161) Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 (2002, Roadrunner)
Produced by Jerry Cantrell, Jeff Tomei

Best Tracks: 'Psychotic Break', 'Bargain Basement Howard Hughes', 'Angel Eyes', 'Pig Charmer', 'Anger Rising', '31/32'

160) Radiohead – Pablo Honey (1993, Parlophone)
Produced by Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie

Best Tracks: 'Creep', 'Anyone Can Play Guitar', 'Blow Out'

159) Green Day – Warning (2000, Reprise)
Produced by Green Day

Best Tracks: 'Waiting', 'Minority', 'Macy's Day Parade'

158) Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist (2007, Martha's Music)
Produced by Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Terry Date, Roy Thomas Baker
Best Tracks: 'Doomsday Clock', 'Tarantula', 'Neverlost'

157) Mother Love Bone – Apple (1990, Stardog/Mercury)
Produced by Bruce Calder, Terry Date, Mark Dearnley, Mother Love Bone

Best Tracks: 'This Is Shangrila', 'Stardog Champion', 'Man Of Golden Words'

156) Hole – Celebrity Skin (1998, Geffen)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn, Eric Erlandson

Best Tracks: 'Celebrity Skin', 'Malibu', 'Use Once & Destroy'

155) Stone Sour – Come What(ever) May (2006, Roadrunner)
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz
Best Tracks: '30/30-150', 'Through Glass', 'Zzyzx Rd.'

154) Within Temptation – The Silent Force (2005, Roadrunner)
Produced by Daniel Gibson

Best Tracks: 'Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)', 'Stand My Ground', 'Angels'

153) Metallica – Garage Inc. (1998, Vertigo)
Produced by Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich

Best Tracks: 'Turn The Page', 'Tuesday's Gone'

152) Ozzy Osbourne – Scream (2010, Epic)
Produced by Ozzy Osbourne, Kevin Churko

Best Tracks: 'Let Me Hear You Scream', 'I Want It More'

151) Rage Against The Machine – Evil Empire (1996, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Bulls On Parade', 'Year Of Tha Boomerang'

150) Apocalyptica – Worlds Collide (2007, Sony BMG)
Produced by Jacob Hellner, Howard Benson
Best Tracks: 'I'm Not Jesus', 'S.O.S. (Anything But Love)'

149) Deftones – White Pony (2000, Maverick)
Produced by Terry Date, Deftones

Best Tracks: 'Passenger', 'Change (In the House Of Flies)'

148) Muse – Black Holes And Revelations (2006, Helium 3)
Produced by Rich Costey

Best Tracks: 'Map Of The Problematique', 'Knights Of Cydonia'

147) Pearl Jam – Backspacer (2009, Monkeywrench)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Amongst The Waves', 'Supersonic'

146) The Clash – Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978, CBS)
Produced by Sandy Pearlman

Best Tracks: 'Tommy Gun', 'Last Gang In Town'

145) The Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup (1973, Rolling Stones/Atlantic)
Produced by Jimmy Miller

Best Tracks: 'Dancing With Mr. D', 'Angie'

144) Weezer – Hurley (2010, Epitath)
Produced by Rivers Cuomo, Shawn Everett
Best Tracks: 'Memories', 'Where's My Sex?'

143) Nightwish – Century Media (2002, Spinefarm)
Produced by Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen
Best Tracks: 'End Of All Hope', 'The Phantom Of The Opera'

142) Apocalyptica - 7^th Symphony (2010, Sony Music)
Produced by Joe Barresi, Howard Benson
Best Tracks: 'End Of Me', 'Broken Pieces'

141) The Dead Boys – We Have Come For Your Children (1978, Sire)
Produced by Felix Pappalardi
Best Tracks: '3^rd Generation Nation', 'Ain't It Fun'

140) Iron Maiden – Killers (1981, EMI)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Wrathchild', 'Killers'

139) Aerosmith – Pump (1989, Geffen)
Produced by Bruce Fairbairn

Best Tracks: 'F.I.N.E.', 'Voodoo Medicine Man'

138) Perfect – Once, Twice, Three Times A Maybe (2004, Rykodisc)
Produced by Jim Dickinson

Best Tracks: 'Better Days', '7 Days A Week'

137) Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak (1976, Vertigo)
Produced by John Alcock

Best Tracks: 'Jailbreak', 'The Boys Are Back In Town'

136) Metallica - ...And Justice For All (1988, Vertigo)
Produced by Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen
Best Tracks: '...And Justice For All', 'One'

135) Nine Inch Nails – The Slip (2008, The Null Corporation)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder

Best Tracks: '1,000,000', 'Letting You'

134) The Replacements – Stink (1982, Twin/Tone)
Produced by Steven Fjelstad, Peter Jesperson

Best Tracks: 'Kids Don't Follow', 'Dope Smokin' Moron'

133) Green River – Rehab Doll (1988, Sub Pop)
Produced by Bruce Calder
Best Tracks: 'Rehab Doll', 'Take A Dive'

132) The Jacksons – Triumph (1980, Epic)
Produced by The Jackson
Best Tracks: 'Can You Feel It', 'Lovely One'

131) Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard Of Ozz (1980, Jet)
Produced by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake
Best Tracks: 'Crazy Train', 'Mr. Crowley'

130) Aerosmith – Get Your Wings (1974, Columbia)
Produced by Ray Colcord, Jack Douglas
Best Tracks: 'Same Old Song And Dance', 'Seasons Of Wither'

129) Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion I (1991, Geffen)
Produced by Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses

Best Tracks: 'Don't Cry', 'Bad Obsession', 'November Rain', 'Coma'

128) Korn – Untouchables (2002, Epic)
Produced by Korn, Michael Beinhorn
Best Tracks: 'Here To Stay', 'Thoughtless', 'No One's There'

127) Nightwish – Dark Passion Play (2007, Spinefarm)
Produced by Tuomas Holopainen, Tero Kinnunen, Mikko Karmila
Best Tracks: 'Bye Bye Beautiful', 'Whoever Brings The Night', 'The Islander'

126) Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible (1994, Epic)
Produced by Manic Street Preachers, Steve Brown
Best Tracks: 'Yes', '4st 7lb', 'The Intense Humming Of Evil'

125) Rainbow – Rising (1976, Polydor)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Track: 'Stargazer'

124) The Rolling Stones – Between The Buttons (1967, Decca)
Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
Best Tracks: 'Let's Spend The Night Together', 'Ruby Tuesday'

123) Radiohead – The Bends (1995, Parlophone)
Produced by John Leckie
Best Tracks: 'The Bends', 'Just', 'My Iron Lung'

122) Stereophonics – Word Gets Around (1997, V2)
Produced by Bird & Bush
Best Tracks: 'Local Boy In The Photograph', 'Traffic', 'Last Of The Big Time Drinkers'

121) Loaded – Dark Days (2001, Self-released)
Produced by Martin Feveyear, Loaded
Best Tracks: 'Seattlehead', 'Then And Now', 'Queen Jonasophina'

120) Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007, RCA)
Produced by Foo Fighter's, Gil Norton

Best Tracks: 'The Pretender', 'Cheer Up, Boys (Youre Make Up Is Running)', 'But, Honestly'

119) Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg (2009, Modular)
Produced by Alan Moulder
Best Tracks: 'California Queen', 'New Moon Rising', 'Violence Of The Sun'

118) Audioslave – Revelations (2006, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Revelations', 'Shape Of Things To Come', 'Moth'

117) Stone Sour – Stone Sour (2002, Roadrunner)
Produced by Tom Tatman, Stone Sour

Best Tracks: 'Get Inside', 'Blotter', 'Bother'

116) Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning (1999, Interscope)
Produced by Chris Cornell, Natasha Schneider, Alain Johannes

Best Tracks: 'Can't Change Me', 'When I'm Down', 'Mission'

115) Lacuna Coil – Lacuna Coil EP (1998, Century Media)
Produced by Waldemar Sorychta
Best Track: 'Fallin'

114) Green Day - 21^st Century Breakdown (2009, Reprise)
Produced by Butch Vig, Green Day

Best Tracks: 'Christian's Inferno', 'Last Night On Earth', 'East Jesus Nowhere', 'The Static Age'

113) Rage Against The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, Rage Against The Machine

Best Tracks: 'Testify', 'Calm Like A Bomb', 'Sleep Now In The Fire'

112) Soul Asylum – While You Were Out (1986, Twin/Tone)
Produced by Chris Osgood

Best Tracks: 'Freaks', 'Sun Don't Shine'

111) The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me (1987, Sire)
Produced by Jim Dickinson
Best Tracks: 'Alex Chilton', 'Skyway'

110) Within Temptation – The Heart Of Everything (2007, Roadrunner)
Produced by Daniel Gibson

Best Tracks: 'What Have You Done', 'Final Destination'

109) Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power (1992, Atco)
Produced by Terry Date

Best Tracks: 'Walk', 'This Love'

108) Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (1996, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson, Sean Beavan

Best Tracks: 'Irresponsible Hate Anthem', 'Deformography', '1996', 'Man That You Fear'

107) Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation (1994, Epic)
Produced by Don Fleming, Duane Baron, John Purdell, Andy Wallace

Best Tracks: 'Sideshow', 'Unholy War'

106) Perfect – When Squirrels Play Chicken EP (1996, Restless Records)
Produced by Don Smith

Best Track: 'Alternative Monkey'

105) Green River – Dry As A Bone (1987, Sub Pop)
Produced by Jeff Ament, Jack Endino

Best Track: 'This Town'

104) Bumblefoot – Barefoot: The Acoustic EP (2009, Bald Freak Music)
Produced by Ron Thal
Best Track: 'She Knows'

103) New York Dolls – Too Much Too Soon (1974, Mercury)
Produced by Shadow Morton
Best Tracks: 'Babylon', 'Human Being'

102) Avenged Sevenfold – City Of Evil (2005, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Avenged Sevenfold, Andrew Murdock
Best Tracks: 'Bat Country', 'Trashed And Scattered'

101) Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine (1992, Epic)
Produced by Garth Richardson, Rage Against The Machine
Best Tracks: 'Know Your Enemy', 'Wake Up'

100) Tool – Undertow (1993, Zoo Entertainment)
Produced by Sylvia Massy, Tool
Best Tracks: 'Prison Sex', 'Sober'

99) Lacuna Coil – Unleashed Memories (2001, Century Media)
Produced by Waldemar Sorychta
Best Tracks: 'Senzafine', '1.19'

98) Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (1989, TVT)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Flood, Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, John Fryer
Best Tracks: 'Head Like A Hole', 'Sin'

97) Dio – Holy Diver (1983, Vertigo)
Produced by Ronnie James Dio
Best Tracks: 'Holy Diver', 'Don't Talk To Strangers'

96) Lynyrd Skynyrd – Second Helping (1974, MCA)
Produced by Al Kooper
Best Tracks: 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'The Ballad Of Curtis Loew'

95) Smashing Pumpkins – American Gothic EP (2008, Reprise)
Produced by Jimmy Chamberlin, Billy Corgan, Roy Thomas Baker
Best Track: 'Pox'

94) Aerosmith – Aerosmith (1973, Columbia)
Produced by Adrian Barber
Best Tracks: 'Dream On', 'Mama Kin'

93) Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 1: Songs For A Sailor (2010, Martha's Music)

Produced by Billy Corgan, Kerry Brown, Bjorn Thorsrud
Best Track: 'A Song For A Son'

92) Metallica – Metallica (1990, Vertigo)
Produced by Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Best Tracks: 'Enter Sandman', 'The Unforgiven', 'Nothing Else Matters'

91) Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973, Vertigo)
Produced by Black Sabbath
Best Tracks: 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath', 'Sabbra Cadabra'

90) Nirvana – In Utero (1993, DGC)
Produced by Steve Albini
Best Tracks: 'Serve The Servants', 'Heart-Shaped Box', 'All Apologies'

89) Smashing Pumpkins – Adore (1998, Virgin)
Produced by Billy Corgan, Flood, Brad Wood
Best Tracks: 'Ava Adore', 'Perfect', 'Behold! The Night Mare'

88) Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue (2009, Virgin/EMI)
Produced by Nick Rakulinecz, Alice In Chains
Best Tracks: 'Check My Brain', 'Last Of My Kind'

87) Deep Purple – In Rock (1970, Harvest)
Produced by Deep Purple
Best Track: 'Speed King'

86) Green Day – Dookie (1994, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day
Best Tracks: 'Longview', 'Welcome To Paradise', 'When I Come Around'

85) Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970, Vertigo)
Produced by Rodger Bain
Best Track: 'Black Sabbath'

84) Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973, DJM)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon
Best Tracks: 'Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding', 'Candle In The Wind', 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', 'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting'

83) Filter – The Trouble With Angels (2010, Nuclear Blast)
Produced by Richard Patrick, Bob Marlette
Best Tracks: 'The Inevitable Relapse', 'Catch A Falling Knife'

82) Weezer – Weezer (1994, DGC)
Produced by Ric Ocasek
Best Tracks: 'My Name Is Jonas', 'Say It Ain't So'

81) Oasis – (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (1995, Creation)
Produced by Owen Morris, Noel Gallagher
Best Tracks: 'Roll With It', 'Morning Glory', 'Champagne Supernova'

80) Queen – A Day At The Races (1976, Parlophone)
Produced by Queen
Best Tracks: 'Tie Your Mother Down', 'Somebody To Love'

79) Tool – 10,000 Days (2006, Volcano Entertainment)
Produced by Tool
Best Tracks: 'Vicarious', 'The Pot'

78) Weezer – Pinkerton (1996, DGC)
Produced by Weezer
Best Tracks: 'El Scorcho', 'Pink Triangle'

77) Metallica – Reload (1997, Vertigo)
Produced by Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Best Tracks: 'Fuel', 'Low Man's Lyric', 'Fixxxer'

76) Bumblefoot – Normal (2005, Bald Freak Music)
Produced by Ron Thal
Best Tracks: 'Normal', 'Rockstar For A Day', 'Shadow'

75) Queen – Jazz (1978, EMI)
Produced by Queen, Roy Thomas Baker
Best Tracks: 'Fat Bottomed Girls', 'Bicycle Race', 'Don't Stop Me Now'

74) Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines Of God (2000, Virgin)
Produced by Billy Corgan, Flood
Best Tracks: 'The Everlasting Gaze', 'Stand Inside Your Love', 'Try, Try, Try'

73) Foo Fighters – Foo Fighteers (1995, Roswell/Capitol)
Produced by Barrett Jones, Dave Grohl
Best Tracks: 'This Is A Call', 'Alone+Easy Target', 'Exhausted'

72) Aerosmith – Toys In The Attic (1975, Columbia)
Produced by Jack Douglas
Best Tracks: 'Sweet Emotion', 'You See Me Crying'

71) Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation (1987, Geffen)
Produced by Bruce Fairbairn
Best Tracks: 'Hangman Jury', 'Angel', 'Permanent Vacation'

70) Slash – Slash (2010, Roadrunner)
Produced by Eric Valentine, Kevin Churko, Kid Rock, Big Chris Flores
Best Tracks: 'Beautiful Dangerous', 'By The Sword', 'Watch This'

69) Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (1993, Virgin)
Produced by Butch Vig, Billy Corgan
Best Tracks: 'Quiet', 'Today', 'Disarm'

68) The Dead Boys – Young Loud And Snotty (1977, Sire)
Produced by Genya Ravan
Best Tracks: 'Sonic Reducer', 'All This And More'

67) A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step (2003, Virgin)
Produced by Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan, Danny Lohner
Best Tracks: 'The Noose', 'Pet', 'Gravity'

66) Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking (1988, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Dave Jerden, Perry Farrell
Best Tracks: 'Ted, Just Admit It...', 'Mountain Song'

65) The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet (1968, Decca)
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Best Tracks: 'Sympathy For The Devil', 'Street Fighting Man'

64) Alice In Chains – Facelift (1990, Columbia)
Produced by Dave Jerden
Best Tracks: 'We Die Young', 'Bleed The Freak', 'Real Thing'

63) Aerosmith – Get A Grip (1993, Geffen)
Produced by Bruce Fairbairn
Best Tracks: 'Cryin'', 'Crazy', 'Amazing'

62) Green Day – Insomniac (1995, Reprise)
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day
Best Tracks: 'Armatage Shanks', 'Geek Stink Breath', 'Walking Contradiction'

61) Smashing Pumpkins – Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music (2000, Constantinople)
Produced by Billy Corgan, Flood
Best Tracks: 'Cash Car Star', 'Dross', 'If There Is A God'

60) Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality (1971, Vertigo)
Produced by Rodger Bain
Best Track: 'Children Of The Grave'

59) Lacuna Coil – In A Reverie (1999, Century Media)
Produced by Waldemar Sorychta
Best Tracks: 'Circle', 'To Myself I Turned'

58) System Of A Down – System Of A Down (1998, American)
Produced by Rick Rubin, System Of A Down
Best Tracks: 'Suite-Pee', 'Ddevil', 'War?'

57) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother's Milk (1989, EMI)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn
Best Tracks: 'Higher Ground', 'Knock Me Down', 'Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky'

56) Michael Jackson – HIStory (1995, Epic)
Produced by Michael Jackson, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Janet Jackson, Dallas Austin, Bruce Swedien, Rene Moore, David Foster, Bill Bottrell, R. Kelly
Best Tracks: 'Scream', 'Earth Song', 'Childhood'

55) Korn – Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2010, Roadrunner)
Produced by Ross Robinson
Best Tracks: 'Oildale (Leave Me Alone)', 'Let The Guilt Go'

54) Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast (1982, EMI)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Run To The Hills', 'Hallowed Be Thy Name'

53) Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 2: The Solstice Bare (2010, Martha's Music)
Produced by Billy Corgan, Kerry Brown, Bjorn Thorsrud
Best Track: 'Tom Tom'

52) Muse – Showbiz (1999, Mushroom)
Produced by John Leckie, Paul Reeve, Muse
Best Tracks: 'Falling Down', 'Cave', 'Hate This And I'll Love You'

51) Tool – Opiate (1992, Zoo Entertainment)
Produced by Sylvia Massy, Steve Hansgen, Tool
Best Tracks: 'Opiate'

50) Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell (1980, Vertigo)
Produced by Martin Birch
Best Tracks: 'Neon Knights', 'Heaven And Hell'

49) Temple Of The Dog – Temple Of The Dog (1991, A&M)
Produced by Rick Parashar, Temple Of The Dog
Best Tracks: 'Say Hello 2 Heaven', 'Hunger Strike'

48) Black Sabbath – Paranoid (1970, Vertigo)
Produced by Rodger Bain
Best Tracks: 'War Pigs', 'Iron Man'

47) Muse – Absolution (2003, Mushroom)
Produced by Rich Costey, John Cornfield, Paul Reeve
Best Tracks: 'Stockholm Syndrome', 'Hysteria', 'Butterflies And Hurricanes'

46) Guns N' Roses – Lie (1988, Geffen)
Produced by Guns N' Roses, Mike Clink
Best Tracks: 'Move To The City', 'Patience'

45) Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999, Nothing/Interscope)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder
Best Tracks: 'The Day The World Went Away', 'We're In This Together', 'The Fragile', 'The Great Below', 'The Big Come Down'

44) Loaded – Sick (2009, Century Media)
Produced by Martin Feveyear
Best Tracks: 'Sick', 'Sleaze Factory', 'Translucent'

43) Nirvana – Bleach (1989, Sub Pop)
Produced by Jack Endino
Best Tracks: 'About A Girl', 'Negative Creep'

42) David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972, RCA)
Produced by David Bowie, Ken Scott
Best Tracks: 'Lady Stardust', 'Ziggy Stardust'

41) Aerosmith – Rock (1976, Columbia)
Produced by Aerosmith, Jack Douglas
Best Tracks: 'Back In The Saddle', 'Rats In The Cellar'

40) The Cure – Disintegration (1989, Fiction)
Produced by David M. Allen, Robert Smith
Best Tracks: 'Pictures Of You', 'Lovesong', 'Disintegration'

39) Smashing Pumpkins – Gish (1991, Hut)
Produced by Butch Vig, Billy Corgan
Best Tracks: 'I Am One', 'Siva'

38) Pearl Jam – Vitalogy (1994, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Best Tracks: 'Nothingman', 'Corduroy', 'Better Man'

37) Soundgarden – Superunknown (1994, A&M)
Produced by Michael Beinhorn, Soundgarden
Best Tracks: 'Fell On Black Days', 'Head Down', 'The Day I Tried To Live'

36) Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape (1997, Roswell/Capitol)
Produced by Foo Fighters, Gil Norton
Best Tracks: 'Monkey Wrench', 'Hey, Johnny Park!', 'Everlong'

35) The Replacements – Tim (1985, Sire)
Produced by Tommy Erdelyi
Best Tracks: 'Bastards Of Young', 'Here Comes A Regular'

34) Korn – Issues (1999, Epic)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Best Tracks: 'Falling Away From Me', 'Make Me Bad', 'Wake Up'

33) Alice In Chains – Dirt (1992, Columbia)
Produced by Alice In Chains, Dave Jerden
Best Tracks: 'Them Bones', 'Down In A Hole', 'Would?'

32) Tool – Aenima (1996, Zoo Entertainment)
Produced by David Bottrill
Best Tracks: 'Stinkfist', 'Eulogy', 'Forty Six & 2'

31) Bumblefoot – Abnormal (2008, Bald Freak Music)
Produced by Ron Thal
Best Tracks: 'Abnormal', 'Objectify', 'Dash'

30) Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute (1995, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Rick Rubin
Best Tracks: 'Aeroplane', 'My Friends', 'One Hot Minute'

29) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication (1999, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Rick Rubin
Best Tracks: 'Scar Tissue', 'Otherside', 'Emit Remmus'

28) Metallica – Ride The Lightning (1984, Vertigo)
Produced by Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen
Best Tracks: 'Ride The Lightning', 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'

27) Soundgarden – Louder Than Love (1989, A&M)
Produced by Terry Date, Soundgarden
Best Tracks: 'Gun', 'Loud Love', 'Big Dumb Sex'

26) The Stooges – Raw Power (1973, Columbia)
Produced by David Bowie, Iggy Pop
Best Tracks: 'Search And Destroy', 'Raw Power'

25) Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986, Vertigo)
Produced by Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen
Best Tracks: 'The Thing That Should Not Be', 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)'

24) A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms (2000, Virgin)
Produced by Billy Howerdel
Best Tracks: 'The Hollow', 'Judith', '3 Libras'

23) Nirvana – Nevermind (1991, DGC)
Produced by Butch Vig
Best Tracks: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Breed', 'Lounge Act'

22) Michael Jackson – Thriller (1982, Epic)
Produced by Quincy Jones
Best Tracks: 'Beat It', 'Human Nature'

21) 10 Minute Warning – 10 Minute Warning (1998, Sub Pop)
Produced by Jack Endino
Best Tracks: 'Swollen Rage', 'Pictures'

20) The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (1969, Decca)
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Best Tracks: 'Gimme Shelter', 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'

19) Bash & Pop – Friday Night Is Killing Me (1993, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Don Smith
Best Tracks: 'Never Aim To Please', 'First Steps'

18) Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995, Virgin)
Produced by Alan Moulder, Billy Corgan, Flood
Best Tracks: 'Tonight, Tonight', 'Jellybelly', 'Zero', 'Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans', 'Bodies', 'Thirty-Three', '1979'

17) The Dresden Dolls – The Dresden Dolls (2003, 8ft. Records)
Produced by Martin Bisi
Best Tracks: 'Girl Anachronism', 'Half Jack', 'Coin-Operated Boy'

16) Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam (2006, J)
Produced by Adam Kasper, Pearl Jam
Best Tracks: 'Life Wasted', 'World Wide Suicide', 'Inside Job'

15) Nine Inch Nails – Broken (1992, Nothing/TVT)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Flood
Best Track: 'Last'

14) The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (1971, Rolling Stones/Atlantic)
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Best Tracks: 'Brown Sugar', 'Wild Horses'

13) Michael Jackson – Bad (1987, Epic/CBS Records)
Produced by Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson
Best Tracks: 'Man In The Mirror', 'Dirty Diana'

12) Guns N' Roses – Chinese Democracy (2008, Geffen)
Produced by Axl Rose, Caram Costanzo
Best Tracks: 'There Was A Time', 'This I Love', 'Prostitute'

11) Mother Love Bone – Shine (1989, Stardog/Mercury)
Produced by Mark Dearnley
Best Track: 'Mindshaker Meltdown'

10) Faith No More – The Real Thing (1989, Slash)
Produced by Matt Wallace, Faith No More
Best Tracks: 'From Out Of Nowhere', 'Epic'

9) Pearl Jam – Ten (1991, Epic)
Produced by Rick Parashar, Pearl Jam
Best Tracks: 'Alice', 'Black'

8) Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy (2010, Roadrunner)
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz
Best Tracks: 'Hesitate', 'Mission Statement', 'Threadbare'

7) Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger (1991, A&M)
Produced by Terry Date, Soundgarden
Best Tracks: 'Outshined', 'Jesus Christ Pose', 'Holy Water'

6) Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion II (1991, Geffen)
Produced by Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses
Best Tracks: 'Civil War', 'Breakdown', 'Estranged'

5) Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare (2010, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Mike Elizondo
Best Tracks: 'Nightmare', 'Buried Alive'

4) Metallica – Death Magnetic (2008, Warner Bros.)
Produced by Rick Rubin
Best Tracks: 'Cyanide', 'The Judas Kiss'

3) Tool – Lateralus (2001, Volcano Entertainment)
Produced by David Bottrill, Tool
Best Tracks: 'The Patient', 'Parabola'

2) Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero (2007, Interscope)
Produced by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Best Tracks: 'Survivalism', 'The Good Soldier', 'The Warning', 'God Given'

1) Guns N' Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1987, Geffen)
Produced by Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses
Best Tracks: 'Welcome To The Jungle', 'It's So Easy', 'Rocket Queen'