Nevermind, coastal seamonsters from dondestan give goat blood to the loveless divinity of spiderland and weld electronic beatsongs to create bandwagonesque screamadelica for gish.

• Keith Jarrett - The Mourning of a Star
• Joni Mitchell - Woman of Heart and Mind (DVD)
• Keith Jarrett - The Man and His Music (book by Ian Carr)
• Gun Club - Miami
• John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
• Giant Sand - It's All Over ... the Map
• David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - 18 Monkeys on a Dead Man's Chest
• Go-Betweens - Send Me a Lullaby (2-CD reissue with bonus tracks)

• jan garbarek-in praise of dreams
• giant sand-it's all over.. .the map
• john fahey-complete blind joe death
• tom liwa-dudajim
• albert ayler-spiritual unity
• eleni mandell-afternoon
• elliott smith-from a basement on the hill
• gun club-miami
• attwenger-???
• bark psychosis-hex
• tom waits-real gone
• "new rembetiko worldwide" (network)

I just ordered (delivery time):

• Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - The Equatorial Stars (3 weeks)
• Bark Psychosis - Codename: dustsucker (1-2 weeks)
• Piano Magic - Writers Without Homes (1-2 weeks)
• Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (24 hours)
• Brian Eno - Apollo (24 hours)
• Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Mille The Plateaux of Mirror (24 hours)

Two reasons for this: firstly I have fallen deeply in love with Brian Eno again and additionally the German Amazon offers lots of CDs (among others 500 "classic" indie albums) for 7 euros. How could I resist? I am just a feeble human, you know.

I Love Music: Top 100 Albums & Tracks 2000-2004 (based on the nominations of ILMers)

My favourite albums (in order of pref.):

1. 45pts Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat
2. 40pts Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. 36pts Cat Power - You Are Free
4. 32pts Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
5. 28pts Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
6. 24pts Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
7. 20pts Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
8. 16pts New Order - Get Ready
9. 13pts Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
10. 10pts Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
11. 7pts Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
12. 5pts Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib
13. 3pts Lambchop - Nixon
14. 2pts Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
15. 1pt Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top

My favourite tracks (in order of pref.):

1. 45pts Radiohead - Knives Out
2. 40pts Radiohead - There There
3. 36pts Radiohead - Pyramid Song
4. 32pts Deerhoof - L'amour Stories
5. 28pts Bardo Pond - Every Man
6. 24pts Blur - Out Of Time
7. 20pts Silver Jews - I Remember Me
8. 16pts Xiu Xiu - Sad Pony Guerilla
9. 13pts Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak
10. 10pts Flaming Lips - Fight Test
11. 7pts Lambchop - Up With People
12. 5pts Aimee Mann - Save Me
13. 3pts Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates
14. 2pts Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
15. 1pt ?

Your MOST HATED album AND track from the nominations list: album: Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun track: ?

Your favourite track from the favourite album you voted for: Be Selfish

If willing, Include a few words on your favourite album OR track (may be published with the results should the release in question make the final 100): "If Nick Drake had lived a little longer and had had a broken up love story to sing about it would probably have sounded very much like this record."

P.S. The choice of the tracks might suggest that I am a huge Radiohead fan. That is slightly misleading. There were simply not enough good songs I knew on the list we could choose from.

Von den 93 Lieblingsplatten der Zeit-Leben-Redaktion habe ich gerade mal 5. Kenne auch nur die wenigsten Interpreten. Für absolute Lieblinge scheint mir die Auswahl etwas zu far out und zu zeitgenössisch und elektrolastig. Oder bin ich einfach nur ein old fart geworden? So eine Liste ohne Joy Division, Gun Club, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Radiohead, Giant Sand, Roxy Music, Velvet Underground, Brian Eno, Yo La Tengo, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine und Keith Jarrett (um nur einige zu nennen) kann ich mir nicht vorstellen.

The list with blurbs on each item (albums in bold I own, underlined albums would definitely be in my top 100 of the 70s):

100 Brian Eno - Before and After Science 099 Neil Young - After the Goldrush 098 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 097 Various Artists - The Harder They Come 096 Iggy Pop - The Idiot 095 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 094 King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black 093 Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys 092 Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine 091 Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats 090 Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa '70 - Zombie 089 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo! 088 Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity 087 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure 086 Joni Mitchell - Blue 085 Wire - 154 084 Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson 083 Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power 082 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 081 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars 080 David Bowie - Hunky Dory 079 Randy Newman - Sail Away 078 Anikulapo Kuti & Africa '70 - Expensive Shit 077 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 076 Blondie - Parallel Lines 075 Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy 074 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate 073 Van Halen - Van Halen 072 King Crimson - Red 071 James Brown - The Payback 070 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 069 Faust - IV 068 Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters 067 Pink Floyd - Meddle 066 Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers 065 Neil Young - On the Beach 064 Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 063 Cluster - Zuckerzeit 062 The Cars - The Cars 061 Beach Boys - Surf's Up 060 John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band 059 Ramones - Rocket to Russia 058 Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson 057 Paul Simon - Paul Simon 056 Can - Future Days 055 Nick Drake - Bryter Later 054 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory 053 Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians 052 Elvis Costello - This Year's Modeö 051 Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks 050 Tim Buckley - Starsailor 049 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 048 Miles Davis - Live-Evil 047 Al Green - Call Me 046 The Congos - Heart of the Congos 045 Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food 044 The Clash - The Clash 043 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall 042 The Specials - The Specials 041 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 040 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers 039 Suicide - Suicide 038 XTC - Drums and Wires 037 Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True 036 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 035 The Pop Group - Y 034 Various Artists - Saturday Night Fever 033 Wire - Chairs Missing 032 Pink Floyd - The Wall 031 Talking Heads - Fear of Music 030 Miles Davis - On the Corner 029 Can - Tago Mago 028 The Beatles - Let It Be 027 Led Zeppelin - III 026 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 025 Neu! - Neu! 024 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets 023 Ramones - Ramones 022 Wire - Pink Flag 021 Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson 020 T.Rex - Electric Warrior 019 Can - Ege Bamyasi 018 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew 017 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain 016 Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady 015 The Who - Who's Next 014 The Velvet Underground - Loaded 013 Nick Drake - Pink Moon 012 The Stooges - Funhouse 011 Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street 010 Brian Eno - Another Green World 009 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 008 Gang of Four - Entertainment! 007 Led Zeppelin - IV 006 Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express 005 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 004 Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On 003 Television - Marquee Moon 002 The Clash - London Calling 001 David Bowie - Low

Artists with more than one album on the list:

4 David Bowie Miles Davis Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Iggy Pop (+-Stooges)

3 Can Brian Eno Wire

2 The Clash Elvis Costello Nick Drake King Crimson Kraftwerk Fela Kuti Ramones Talking Heads

of albums by artists with more than one entry: 45

of albums I own: 38

of albums I'd definitely put on my top 100: 20

The long ILM thread (467 answers yet) is in the backlinks.

Weird omissions: Kate Bush, John Cale (Paris 1919 maybe), Captain Beefheart, The Cure, Dr. Feelgood, Fairport Convention, The Fall, Genesis, Little Feat, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Steve Miller, Pere Ubu, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Soft Machine, Strawbs, Tangerine Dream, Richard Thompson, Tom Waits, Weather Report, ZZ Top

Omissions I am unsure of: Alan Parsons, JJ Cale, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Alex Harvey, Steely Dan, Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, Frank Zappa

Omissions I don't care about: Abba, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Barclay James Harvest, Boston, Jackson Browne, Black Sabbath, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, Earth, Wind & Fire, ELO, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Gentle Giant, Grateful Dead, Incredible String Band, Jethro Tull, Meat Loaf, Moody Blues, Mike Oldfield, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Status Quo, Supertramp, Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, Yes

God there was a lot of shit on the radio in the 70s. And the worst is. A lot of it is still on today's German radio.

From here:

1. First record you ever bought? Manfred Mann - The Roaring Silence

2. First gig (who and where)? Udo Lindenberg with the Panikorchester and Eric Burdon in the Grugahalle, Essen (?), around 1979.

3. Best gig (who and where)? Yo La Tengo, Berlin Knaack Klub 1997

4. Gig you wish you'd been at? Joy Division, Preston 1980

5. What's in your CD player at the moment? Piano Magic - Seasonally Affective

6. A record that makes you laugh? John Cage - 4'33''. Though I must say that I have never heard it. ;-)

7. A record that makes you cry? Sorry, only a song. I cannot cry for thirty or more minutes in a row. Beatles - Across the Universe

8. A record that reminds you of school or college discos? Golden Earring - Radar Love. I can still see all the girls kneeling on the dance floor spinning around their long hair.

9. A record which sounds better in the dark? Cure - Seventeen Seconds

10. A song you wish you'd written? Julia

11. A record you'd like played at your funeral? Without having put too much thought into this. The Parsifal Vorspiel.

12. Soundtrack for a long car journey? Winter night: Wipers - Youth of America (on repeat) Summer day: Yo La Tengo. All albums in chronological order.

Favourite artists for each letter of the alphabet (via said the gramophone, only four in common with you, Sean):

• A - Laurie Anderson
• B - Beatles
• C - Cat Power
• D - Nick Drake
• E - Brian Eno
• F - Feelies
• G - Giant Sand
• H - PJ Harvey
• I - Idaho
• J - Keith Jarrett
• K - King Crimson
• L - Tom Liwa
• M - Joni Mitchell
• N - Nirvana New Order
• O - Oregon
• P - Pink Floyd
• Q - Quasi (the only band with Q I remember)
• R - Roxy Music
• S - Smiths
• T - Tindersticks Talking Heads
• U - U2
• V - Velvet Underground
• W - Wipers
• X - X
• Y - Yo La Tengo
• Z - ZZ Top

P.S. I also started a thread at ILM as I think this is a very good question to find out people with similar tastes. Taste cluster analysis could be interesting here.

A thread I just discovered over at ILM: 500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time! They are at number 408 right now.