Gutterball "Gutterball" 1993****

It's been 30 years since I first saw Steve Wynn play live. I had heard people praising Dream Syndicate's appearance in one of the first Greek rock festivals (at Veakeio theater in Piraeus 1987, months before I started going to gigs) and was disappointed that the band didn't exist anymore. Which I needn't have done because Wynn played a lot of DS songs, and they sounded great. I've lost count of the times I saw him with his various bands (certainly more than 5), all I can tell you is he's never disappointed me. I never saw him with Gutterball though, which is a pity, as they were a great band and not likely to reform any more - unlike Dream Syndicate.

Gutterball were a strange sort of supergroup: none of the players was really famous, but they all served in highly-rated indie/neo-psychedelic bands: Dream Syndicate (Wynn), The Long Ryders (Stephen McCarthy, guitar/vocals), Silos (Bob Rupe, bass) and House Of Freaks (Bryan Harvey on vocals and guitar and Johnny Hott on drums). Wynn and Harvey wrote and sang most of the songs. Unsurprisingly, the dominant sound here is indie guitar rock with a touch of Americana. Velvet Underground and Neil Young with Crazy Horse seem to provide the main inspiration, just like with Dream Syndicate. There's a bit more diversity here, but that's not to say that this is a hodge-podge album with each member contributing something in their own style. No, Gutterball are a real band with a distinct character, even if that's a blend of the individual artists' styles. So we get a terrific opener in electric Dylan-circa-Highway 61 pastiche "Trial Separation Blues", followed by the repetitive blues motif of "Top Of The Bill", then DS-like garage rocker "Lester Young" and Neil Young-circa-On The Beach ballad "Motorcycle Boy". "One By One" is probably my favorite, even though uncharacteristic of the band: a sea shanty recounting a day in the life of a gambler. "When You Make Up Your Mind" shows a similar flare for storytelling but with a VU-like musical backing. "Think It Over" and "Patent Leather Shoes" display Gutterball's fun R&B side (albeit a very white-sounding R&B), while "Falling From The Sky" is a fiery garage rocker. Ballad "Please Don't Hold Back" reminds me in retrospective of (then not-yet-existent) Calexico, and "The Preacher And The Prostitute" of Neil Young with Crazy Horse. The CD closes with bittersweet ballad "Blessing In Disguise" in slow quasi-Latin tempo. Hearing the whole album from start to finish, I can't find a bad or indifferent track. The lyrics are interesting, and the music, ranging from tender ballads to loud and distorted guitars, should satisfy both classic rock and alternative scene fans. This should have been a contender for the best album of 1993 title, but it slipped through the cracks. This what you get for being consistently good Steve Wynn! People just stop noticing you! Tragically, the band's co-leader Bryan Harvey and his family were the victims of a horrible and senseless crime, which means that the Gutterball story will probably not be revived again. Nevertheless, we have the two albums they recorded back in the 90's, as well as a compilation of demos. All are worth hearing, but this one especially counts as the proverbial "buried treasure" CD.

**** for Trial Separation Blues, Lester Young, Motorcycle Boy, One By One, When You Make Up Your Mind, Think It Over, Falling From The Sky, Blessing In Disguise

*** for Top Of The Bill, Please Don't Hold Back, The Preacher And The Prostitute, Patent Leather Shoes

The Chills "Kaleidoscope World" 1982-1986(rec) 1989(comp)****

I've always loved The Chills, which is why I was surprised to discover last year that their only album I still had in my collection was the Submarine Bells CD (as well as a Best Of on CD-R). Did I really sell my vinyl copies of Brave Words and Soft Bomb during The Great Vinyl Purge? It seems so, though I don't remember doing it, and it makes no sense. I toyed with the idea of re-buying them, but first things first: Get rid of the CD-R and get myself a proper collection of The Chills' early -and best- singles: Kaleidoscope World is the essential Chills purchase - the only one you'll find on this list. Furthermore, it is the essential Flying Nun LP, which in turn makes it the pinnacle of Kiwi alt-rock. You may not think of it by looking at the map, but this island country at the very edge of the world has produced its own distinctive and influential brand of indie music, which critics dubbed the Dunedin sound, after the Chills' homeland in South New Zealand. Other bands in that movement include The Clean, Bats, Straightjacket Fits, Verlaines, and Tall Dwarves - all from Dunedin or Christchurch (also in the Southern Island of NZ) and recording for Flying Nun records. The common element is jangly guitars, melody, and a certain rawness in the sound and production. Listening to The Chills, one can discern strong influences of Velvet Underground, The Byrds and Arthur Lee's Love.There are similarities to the so-called C-86 scene in UK and to the Paisley Underground scene in the US, but this is more idiosyncratic, low-key and often lo-fi. Opener "Kaleidoscope World" is the perfect example: mid-tempo rhythm, jangly guitars, melodic without being sugary. Two more singles combine indie pop with garage ("Rolling Moon") and psychedelia ("Pink Frost") while "Doledrums" sounds like a cross of Syd Barrett and VU. But this compilation is about more than delivering well-crafted singles: there's also a lot of space for experimenting, as in the quirky bells and galloping rhythm of "Satin Doll" or the sax on instrumental "Purple Girl". "Whole Weird World" and "Dream By Dream" are also slow, experimental psych. Next to that, you have some punk throwbacks like "Bite" and "Flame Thrower" and the folk-ish "This Is The Way" and "Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe". Mid tempo "Frantic Drift" and the (actually frantic) "Never Never Go" and "Hidden Bey" read like the VU with a more affable/less intense singer. "I Love My Leather Jacket" is another perfect garage pop single. At first glance an ode to one's favorite piece of clothing, it's really a dedication to their former drummer Martyn Bull, who died of leukemia at age 22, leaving his leather jacket to singer Martin Phillips. The album closes with a brooding psychedelic track called "The Great Escape". The Chills wrote great potential hits that nevertheless proved just a little too weird to propel them to stardom. But they had a distinctive and influential sound, and still retain enough of a cult following to support a successful reformation all those years later. Not bad for a band from a small town at the far edge of the world!

***** for Rolling Moon, Pink Frost, Doledrums, I Love My Leather Jacket

**** for Kaleidoscope World, Frantic Drift, Bite, This Is The Way, Never Never Go, The Great Escape

*** for Satin Doll, Flame Thrower, Purple Girl, Don't Even Know Her Name, Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe, Hidden Bay

** for Whole Weird World, Dream By Dream

Les Zazous ‎– Singles Party (The Best Of Les Zazous, 1983-2001)****

Apparently these guys are my neighbors (sort of). They come from Katwijk-aan-zee, about 30 km from my current home. I know that not all rock bands come from big cities like New York or London, but come on - Katwijk-aan-zee? It's a no-count seaside town in West Holland. There's a sandy beach which wouldn't be bad if it led to the Mediterranean, but who the hell wants to dive in the North Sea? I looked it up in wikipedia for something interesting to write about, and what do you know? In ancient times, it used to be the end of civilization. To the South (e.g. here in Delft), The Roman Empire: aqueducts, marble bathhouses, paved roads (all leading to Rome, of course). To the North, Germanic barbarians, specifically a tribe called the Chiatti. Between them, the Old Rhine and, right where Katwijk-aan-zee now stands, a Roman Fortress called Lugdunum Batavorum. Seeing as this used to be an unhealthy swamp in Roman Times, Batavorum must have been among the worst postings for a Roman soldier - possibly right after Petibonum, the fortress closest to Asterix's village.

The name of Les Zazous comes from a French proto-beatnik/mod youth subculture, you might like to check them out here. The band had been active from 1983 to 2001, a long time. They're often mentioned as playing neo-psychedelic or garage revival music, but to me it's just timeless power pop: from The Beatles and The Who to Big Star to The Raspberries to the British C86 movement, there's a tradition of melody, catchy choruses and jangly guitars, with the occasional loud riff to keep things from getting too sugary. That said, the first 5 tracks here coming from the band's last CD @Electric Babyland (1998) maintain some of the above characteristics while ditching the 60's influences - with the exception of the harpsichord and horns of the Sgt-Peppers-influenced "Sundaymorning 6 A.M.". The rest are pretty much typical 90's: "Aphrodisiac" has a bouncy dance beat reminiscent of baggy Brit-pop bands, while "This Town" and "Everybody's Watching Me" could be by any 90's American college radio band. From the Deadline EP (1998) we get the upbeat, Supergrass-like, eponymous number, and the melodic Big Star-like "Tell Me What You Want". Until here, it's all radio-friendly indie pop, good but somewhat generic. Folky ballad "Seven Seas" from Exota (1993) has more character, with distinctive accordion, bright acoustic guitar and nostalgic lyrics. "Crying In My Sleep" is another nice folk rocker, and "The Saddest Girl In Town" a ballad with pretty piano and strings, originally also from Exota! but included here in an alternate version. If I have any problem with what I've heard so far is that it's too commercial, too easy on the ear. So why were these songs not international hits? It may have something to do with the band coming from Katwijk instead from, say, Manchester or even Athens, Georgia. The next two tracks are a bit more interesting to me: rhythm and blues-style "Chain Gang" and Kinks-like "Another Town" from their debut Les Zazous (1987). The latter got played on John Peel's radio show , which resulted in a brief appearance in the UK Indie Charts. Another song that reminded me of The Kinks is the satirical (think "Dandy") previously unreleased "Rockstar In The Supermarket", while the melodic "Tears Will Tell On You" (from Pop, 1990) and more guitar-oriented "Inside Your Mind" (Wake Up Wake Up EP, 1986) are reminiscent of California's Paisley Underground scene. There's also a lively garage rock cover of The Stones' "Play With Fire" (originally the B-Side to the Tears Will Tell On You 7' single), while the CD closes with 3 previously unreleased tracks: a jaunty take on the theme from the musical "Hair", the Who-influenced "Farewell To Arms" (both from 1997), and swing "Django In New York" referencing the original zazou idol of the 40's, Django Reinhardt, and recorded during the band's early days (1985). This CD makes for an excellent compilation of should-have-been-hits, ranging from 60's-style mod psych to indie (Brit) pop. Worth listening to in any decade.

**** for This Town, Deadline, Seven Seas, Crying In My Sleep, Chain Gang, Play With Fire, Inside Your Mind, Another Town, Django In New York

*** for Aphrodisiac, Everybody's Watching Me, Sundaymorning 6 A.M., The Saddest Girl In Town, Tears Will Tell On You, Tell Me What You Want, Rockstar In The Supermarket, Hair, A Farewell To Arms

Uncut - Ultimate record collection The 1970s, part 2: 1975-1979

Continuing with Uncut's Ultimate Record Collection Specials, the 70's seemed to be the most prolific decade since it took two issues (1200+ albums) to cover it all. The second part of the decade is arguably the most interesting, with a batch of new punk, disco, reggae and new wave artists appearing next to the already established hippy generation. The list makes a case for the late 70's as the most interesting in rock history - I said it makes a case for it, not that I agree. Yes, there's a lot of diversity here and many great records, but I don't expect we'll ever see another era in rock music to match the late 60's. In any case, I have almost exactly one third of these albums in my collection, and hope to review them for you. The moment the reviews are published in the blog, I will be adding a link in the relevant entry in this list.

1	Various	High atmosphere	1975
2	Various	New wave	1977
3	Various	No New York	1978
4	Various (O.S.T.)	Saturday night fever	1977
5	Abba	Abba	1975
6	Abba	Arrival	1976
7	Abba	The album	1977
8	Abba	Voulez-vous	1979
9	John Abercrombie, Han Hammer & Jack DeJohnette	Timeless	1975
10	AC/DC	Dirty deeds done dirt cheep	1976
11	AC/DC	High voltage	1976
12	AC/DC	Highway to hell	1979
13	AC/DC	If you want blood you've got it	1978
14	AC/DC	Let there be rock	1977
15	AC/DC	Powerage	1978
16	Adverts	Crossing the Red sea with the Adverts	1978
17	Aerosmith	Toys in the attic	1975
18	Tony Allen	Progress	1977
19	Althea & Donna	Uptown top ranking	1978
20	Jon Anderson	Olias of Sunhillow	1976
21	Angelic upstarts	Teenage warning	1979
22	Adam and the Ants	Dirk wears white socks	1979
23	Art ensemble of Chicago	Nice guys	1979
24	Ash Ra tempel & Manuel Gottsching	Inventions for electric guitar	1975
25	Robert Ashley	Automatic writing	1979
26	Robert Ashley	Private parts	1978
27	Kevin Ayers	Yes We have no mananas	1976
28	B-52's	The B-52's	1979
29	Derek Bailey	New sights, old sounds	1979
30	Band	Northern lights - Southern cross	1975
31	Band	The last waltz	1978
32	Robbie Basho	Art of the acoustic steel string guitar 6 & 12	1979
33	Robbie Basho	Visions of the country	1978
34	Franco Battiato	M.lle le "Gladiator"	1975
35	Luciano Battisti	Lucio Battisti, la batteria, il contrabbasso, eccetera	1976
36	Be bop deluxe	Sunburst finish	1976
37	Beatles	Live at the Hollywood bowl	1977
38	Jeff Beck	Blow by blow	1975
39	Bee gees	Spirits having flown	1979
40	Jorge Ben	África Brasil	1976
41	George Benson	Breezin'	1976
42	Jacques Berrocal	Parall~eles	1976
43	Besombes-Rizet	Pôle	1976
44	Big star	The third album/Sister lovers	1978
45	Big youth	Dreadlocks dread	1975
46	Black sabbath	Sabotage	1975
47	Black sabbath	Technical ecstasy	1976
48	Blondie	Blondie	1976
49	Blondie	Eat to the beat	1979
50	Blondie	Parallel lines	1978
51	Blondie	Plastic letters	1977
52	Blue gene tyranny	Out of the blue	1979
53	Blue öyster cult	Agents of fortune	1976
54	Arthur Blythe	Lenox avenue breakdown	1979
55	Bootsy's Rubber band	Ahh... the name is Bootsy, Baby!	1977
56	Bootsy's Rubber band	Stretchin' out in Bootsy's Rubber band	1976
57	David Bowie	"Heroes"	1977
58	David Bowie	Lodger	1979
59	David Bowie	Low	1977
60	David Bowie	Station to station	1976
61	David Bowie	Young Americans	1975
62	Dollar Brand	African marketplace	1979
63	Anthony Braxton	Five pieces 1975	1975
64	Brothers Johnson	Look out for # one	1976
65	Jackson Browne	Running on empty	1977
66	Jackson Browne	The pretender	1976
67	Gavin Bryars	The sinking of the Titanic	1975
68	Harold Budd	The pavilion of dreams	1978
69	Budgie	Bandolier	1975
70	Burning spear	Man in the hills	1976
71	Burning spear	Marcus Garvey	1975
72	Kate Bush	Lionheart	1978
73	Kate Bush	The kick inside	1978
74	Buzzcocks	A different kind of tension	1979
75	Buzzcocks	Another music in a different kitchen	1978
76	Buzzcocks	Love bites	1978
77	Buzzcocks	Singles going steady	1979
78	Donald Byrd	Places and spaces	1975
79	Robeto Cacciapaglia	Sei note in logica	1979
80	J.J. Cale	Troubadour	1976
81	John Cale	Helen of Troy	1975
82	John Cale	Slow dazzle	1975
83	Robert Calvert	Lucky Leif and the longships	1975
84	Can	Flow motion	1976
85	Can	Landed	1975
86	Can	Saw delight	1977
87	Captain Beefheart and the Magic band	Shiny beast (bat chain puller)	1978
88	Cars	The Cars	1978
89	Cerrone	Supernature	1977
90	Harry Chapin	Dance band on the Titanic	1977
91	Don Cherry	Brown rice	1975
92	Chic	C'est Chic	1978
93	Chic	Chic	1977
94	Chic	Risqué	1979
95	Alex Chilton	Like flies on sherbert	1979
96	Chrome	Alien soundtracks	1977
97	Luciano Cilio	Dialoghi del presente	1977
98	Eric Clapton	Slowhand	1977
99	Clash	Give 'em enough rope	1978
100	Clash	London calling	1979
101	Clash	The Clash	1977
102	Cloud one	Atmosphere strut	1976
103	Cluster & Eno	Cluster & Eno	1977
104	Cluster	Grosses Wasser	1979
105	Leonard Cohen	Death of a ladies man	1977
106	Leonard Cohen	Recent songs	1979
107	Ornette Coleman	Dancing in your head	1977
108	Alice Coltrane	Eternity	1975
109	Alice Coltrane	Transcendence	1977
110	Alice Coltrane	Transfiguration	1978
111	Congos	Heart of the Congos	1977
112	Ry Cooder	Chicken skin music	1976
113	Ry Cooder	Jazz	1978
114	John Cooper Clarke	Disguise in love	1978
115	Alice Cooper	Welcome to my nightmare	1975
116	Elvis Costello	My aim is true	1977
117	Elvis Costello	This year's model	1978
118	Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause	Babble	1979
119	Crass	Stations of the Crass	1979
120	Crass	The feeding of the 5000	1978
121	Randy Crawford	Everything must change	1976
122	David Crosby and Graham Nash	Live	1977
123	David Crosby and Graham Nash	Whistling down the wire	1976
124	David Crosby and Graham Nash	Wind on the water	1975
125	Crusaders	Street life	1979
126	Culture	Two sevens clash	1977
127	Cure	Three imaginary boys	1979
128	Holger Czukay	Movies	1979
129	Dadawah	Peace and love	1974
130	Damned	Damned Damned Damned	1977
131	Damned	Machine gun etiquette	1979
132	Rick Danko	Rick Danko	1977
133	Miles Davis	Agharta	1975
134	Miles Davis	Dark magus	1977
135	Miles Davis	Pangaea	1976
136	Deep purple	Come taste the band	1975
137	Lizzy Mercier Descloux	Press color	1979
138	Devo	Duty now for the future	1979
139	Devo	Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo!	1978
140	Dictators	Go girl crazy!	1975
141	Dillinger	CB200	1976
142	Dion	Born to be with you	1975
143	Ned Doheny	Hard candy	1976
144	Doobie brothers	Minute by minute	1979
145	Doobie brothers	Takin' it to the streets	1976
146	Arthur Doyle plus 4	Alabama feeling	1978
147	Dr Alimantado	Best dressed chicken in town	1978
148	Dr. Buzzard's original Savannah band	Dr. Buzzard's original Savannah band	1976
149	Dr. Feelgood	Down by the jetty	1975
150	Dr. Feelgood	Private practice	1978
151	Dr. Feelgood	Stupidity	1976
152	Mikey Dread	Dread at the controls	1979
153	Ian Dury and the Blockheads	Do it yourself	1979
154	Ian Dury and the Blockheads	New boots and panties	1977
155	Bob Dylan	At Budokan	1979
156	Bob Dylan	Blood on the tracks	1975
157	Bob Dylan	Desire	1975
158	Bob Dylan	Hard rain	1976
159	Bob Dylan	Slow train coming	1979
160	Bob Dylan	Street-legal	1978
161	Bob Dylan	The basement tapes	1975
162	Eagles	Hotel California	1976
163	Eagles	One of these nights	1975
164	Eagles	The long run	1979
165	Earth, Wind & Fire	Spirit	1976
166	Earth, Wind & Fire	That's the way of the world	1975
167	East bionic symphonia	Recorded live	1976
168	Eddie & the Hot rods	Teenage depression	1976
169	Electric Light Orchestra	A new world record	1976
170	Electric Light Orchestra	Out of the blue	1977
171	Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius & Hans-Joachim Roedelius	After the heat	1978
172	Brian Eno	Another green world	1975
173	Brian Eno	Before and after science	1977
174	Brian Eno	Discreet music	1975
175	Brian Eno	Music for airports (ambient 1)	1978
176	Brian Eno	Music for films	1978
177	Marianne Faithfull	Broken English	1979
178	Fall	Dragnet	1979
179	Fall	Live at the Witch trials	1979
180	Franco Falsini	Cold noise	1975
181	Far East family band	Nipponjin/Join our mental phase sound	1975
182	Bryan Ferry	In your mind	1977
183	Bryan Ferry	Let's stick together	1976
184	Firefall	Luna sea	1976
185	Flamin' groovies	Jumpin' in the night	1979
186	Flamin' groovies	Shake some action	1976
187	Fleetwood mac	Fleetwood mac (1975)	1975
188	Fleetwood mac	Rumours	1977
189	Fleetwood mac	Tusk	1979
190	John Fogerty	John Fogerty	1975
191	Peter Frampton	Frampton comes alive!	1976
192	Robert Fripp & Brian Eno	Evening star	1975
193	Robert Fripp	Exposure	1979
194	Funkadelic	One nation under a groove	1978
195	Lewis Furey	The humours of	1976
196	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (1)	1977
197	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (2)	1978
198	Serge Gainsbourg	Aux armes et caetera	1979
199	Serge Gainsbourg	L'homme à tête de Chou	1976
200	Rory Gallagher	Calling card	1976
201	Gang of four	Entertainment!	1979
202	Jan Garbarek	Dis	1976
203	Taana Gardner	Taana Gardner	1979
204	Art Garfunkel	Watermark	1977
205	Marvin Gaye	Here, my dear	1978
206	Marvin Gaye	I want you	1976
207	Generation X	Generation X	1978
208	Genesis	A trick of the tail	1976
209	Gentle giant	Free hand	1975
210	Lowell George	Thanks I'll eat it here	1979
211	Germs	GI	1979
212	Jon Gibson	Two solo pieces	1977
213	Gichy Dan's beachwood #9	Gichy Dan's beachwood #9	1979
214	Goblin	Suspiria (soundtrack)	1977
215	Gorillas	Message to the world	1978
216	Grateful dead	Blues for Allah	1975
217	Merle Haggard	My love affair with trains	1976
218	Peter Hammill	Nadir's big chance	1975
219	Peter Hammill	Over	1977
220	Herbie Hancock	Flood	1975
221	Herbie Hancock	Secrets	1976
222	Herbie Hancock	Sunlight	1978
223	Harmonia	Deluxe	1975
224	Roy Harper	Bullinamingvase	1977
225	Roy Harper	HQ	1975
226	Emmylou Harris	Elite hotel	1975
227	Emmylou Harris	Pieces of the sky	1975
228	George Harrison	George Harrison	1979
229	Hawklords	25 years on	1978
230	Hawkwind	Astounding sounds, amazing music	1976
231	Hawkwind	PXR5	1979
232	Hawkwind	Quark, strangeness and charm	1977
233	Hawkwind	Warrior on the edge of time	1975
234	Eddie Hazel	Game dames and guitar thangs	1977
235	Headhunters	Survival of the fittest	1975
236	Heartbreakers	L.A.M.F.	1977
237	Heldon	Allex-Téia	1975
238	Heldon	It's always rock and roll	1975
239	Richard Hell and the Voidoids	Blank generation	1977
240	Henry cow	In praise of learning	1975
241	Bernard Herrmann	Taxi driver (soundtrack)	1976
242	Andrew Hill	Blue black	1977
243	Steve Hillage	Fish rising	1975
244	Loleatta Holloway	Loleatta	1977
245	Ernest Hood	Neighborhoods	1975
246	William Hooker	… Is eternal life	1977
247	Haruomi Hosono	Cochin moon	1978
248	Haruomi Hosono	Tropical dandy	1975
249	Alan Hull	Squire	1975
250	Human league	Reproduction	1979
251	Ian Hunter	Ian Hunter	1975
252	Isley brothers	Go for your guns	1977
253	Isley brothers	The heat is on	1975
254	Michael Jackson	Off the wall	1979
255	Jacno	Jacno	1979
256	Jam	All mod cons	1978
257	Jam	In the city	1977
258	Jam	Setting sons	1979
259	Jam	This is the modern world	1977
260	Rick James	Bustin' out of L seven	1979
261	Rick James	Come get it!	1978
262	Jandek	Ready for the House	1978
263	Bert Jansch	Avocet	1978
264	Japan	Obscure alternatives	1978
265	Japan	Quiet life	1979
266	Jean-Michel Jarre	Oxygène	1976
267	Keith Jarrett	The Köln concert	1975
268	Jefferson starship	Red octopus	1975
269	Waylon Jennings	Are you ready for the country	1976
270	Jethro tull	Too old to rock 'n' roll, too young to die	1976
271	Jilted John	True love stories	1978
272	Billy Joel	52nd street	1978
273	Billy Joel	The stranger	1977
274	Billy Joel	Turnstiles	1976
275	Elton John	Blue moves	1976
276	Elton John	Captain Fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy	1975
277	Elton John	Rock of the Westies	1975
278	Grace Jones	Portfolio	1977
279	Wizz Jones	Happiness was free	1976
280	Joy division	Unknown pleasures	1979
281	Joyce	Passarinho urbano	1976
282	Kids	The Kids	1978
283	Kilburn and the high roads	Handsome	1975
284	King Crimson	USA	1975
285	Fern Kinney	Groove me	1979
286	Danny Kirwan	Second chapter	1975
287	Kiss	Alive!	1975
288	Kiss	Destroyer	1976
289	Takehisa Kosugi
290	Kraftwerk	Radio-activity	1975
291	Kraftwerk	The man machine	1978
292	Kraftwerk	Trans Europe Express	1977
293	Karin Krog & Archie Shepp	Hi-fly	1976
294	Fela Ransome Kuti and the Africa '70	Expensive shit	1975
295	Fela Kuti and Africa '70	Zombie	1976
296	LA Düsseldorf	LA Düsseldorf	1976
297	LA Düsseldorf	Viva	1978
298	Led zeppelin	In through the out door	1979
299	Led zeppelin	Physical graffiti	1975
300	Led zeppelin	Presence	1976
301	Led zeppelin	The song remains the same	1976
302	John Lennon	Rock 'n' roll	1975
303	Jeffrey Liberman	Synergy	1978
304	Little feat	Down on the farm	1979
305	Little feat	The last record album	1975
306	Little feat	Time loves a hero	1977
307	Little feat	Waiting for Columbus	1978
308	Lone star	Lone star	1976
309	Alvin Lucier	Bird and person dyning	1976
310	Lynyrd skynyrd	Nuthin' fancy	1975
311	Magazine	Real life	1978
312	Magazine	Secondhand daylight	1979
313	Magma	Magma live	1975
314	Mahavishnu orchestra	Visions of the emerald beyond	1974
315	Tim Maia	Racional : vol. 1	1974
316	Tim Maia	Racional : vol. 2	1975
317	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Babylon by bus	1978
318	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Exodus	1977
319	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Kaya	1978
320	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Live!	1975
321	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Rastaman vibration	1976
322	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Survival	1979
323	John Martyn	One world	1977
324	John Martyn	Sunday's child	1975
325	Curtis Mayfield	Short eyes	1977
326	Curtis Mayfield	There's no place like America today	1975
327	Paul McCartney and Wings	Back to the egg	1979
328	Paul McCartney and Wings	London town	1978
329	Paul McCartney	Thrillington	1977
330	Paul McCartney and Wings	Wings at the speed of sound	1976
331	Paul McCartney and Wings	Wings over America	1976
332	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	1975
333	Meters	New directions	1977
334	Pat Metheny	American garbage	1979
335	Pat Metheny	Bright size life	1976
336	Milk 'n' cookies	Milk 'n' cookies	1975
337	Steve Miller band	Fly like an eagle	1976
338	Charles Mingus	Cumbia & jazz fusion	1978
339	Charles Mingus	Three or four shades od blue	1977
340	Joni Mitchell	Don Juan's reckless daughter	1977
341	Joni Mitchell	Hejira	1976
342	Joni Mitchell	Mingus	1979
343	Joni Mitchell	The hissing of summer lawns	1975
344	Modern lovers	The Modern lovers	1976
345	Giorgio Moroder	From here to eternity	1977
346	Van Morrison	A period of transition	1977
347	Van Morrison	Into the music	1979
348	Van Morrison	Wavelength	1978
349	Motörhead	Bomber	1979
350	Motörhead	Motörhead	1977
351	Motörhead	Overkill	1979
352	Idris Muhammad	Turn this Mutha out	1977
353	Junior Murvin	Police & thieves	1977
354	Milton Nascimento	Minas	1975
355	Oliver Nelson	Skull session	1975
356	Willie Nelson	Red headed stranger	1975
357	Neu!	Neu! 75	1975
358	Randy Newman	Born again	1979
359	Randy Newman	Little criminals	1977
360	999	Separates	1978
361	Gary Numan	The pleasure principle	1979
362	Nurse with wound	Chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella	1979
363	Michael Nyman	Decay music	1976
364	Ohio players	Honey	1975
365	Mike Oldfield	Ommadawn	1975
366	Oneness of juju	African rhythms	1975
367	Only ones	Even serpents shine	1979
368	Only ones	The Only ones	1978
369	Original Animals	Before we were so rudely interrupted	1977
370	John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett	John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett	1977
371	Outsiders (UK)	Close up	1978
372	Augustus Pablo	East of the river Nile	1977
373	Augustus Pablo	King Tubby meets Rockers uptown	1976
374	Graham Parker	Howlin' wind	1976
375	Parliament	Funkentechnology vs. the Placebo syndrome	1977
376	Parliament	Mothership connection	1975
377	Parliament	The clones of dr. Funkenstein	1976
378	Emmanuelle Parrenin	Maison rose	1977
379	Alan Parsons project	I robot	1977
380	Jaco Pastorius	Jaco Pastorious	1976
381	Teddy Pendergrass	Teddy Pendergrass	1977
382	Penetration	Moving targets	1978
383	Penguin café orchestra	Music from the Penguin cafe	1976
384	Pere Ubu	Dub housing	1978
385	Pere Ubu	The modern dance	1978
386	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	Damn the torpedoes	1979
387	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	1976
388	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	You're gonna get it	1978
389	Pierrot lunaire	Gudrun	1977
390	Pink floyd	Animals	1977
391	Pink floyd	The wall	1979
392	Pink floyd	Wish you were here	1975
393	Giusto Pio	Motore immobile	1979
394	Police	Outlandos d'amour	1978
395	Police	Reggatta de blanc	1979
396	Jean-Luc Ponty	Enigmatic ocean	1977
397	Pop group	Y	1979
398	Pop rivets	Greatest hits	1979
399	Iggy Pop & James Williamson	Kill city	1977
400	Iggy Pop	Lust for life	1977
401	Iggy Pop	New values	1979
402	Iggy Pop	The idiot	1977
403	Popol vuh	Aguirre	1975
404	Dory Previn	We're children of coincidence and Harpo Marx	1976
405	Prince	For you	1978
406	Prince	Prince	1979
407	Prince Far I	Under heavy manners	1977
408	Prince Jammy	Kamikazidub	1979
409	Public Image	First issue	1978
410	Public Image Ltd	Metal box	1979
411	Punishment of luxury	Laughing academy	1979
412	Queen	A day at the races	1976
413	Queen	A night at the opera	1975
414	Queen	Jazz	1978
415	Queen	News of the world	1977
416	Quiet sun	Mainstream	1975
417	Radio Birdman	Radios appear	1977
418	Rah band	Radios appear	1977
419	Raincoats	The Raincoats	1979
420	Ramones	Leave home	1977
421	Ramones	Ramones	1976
422	Ramones	Rocket to Russia	1977
423	Lou Reed	Metal machine music	1975
424	Lou Reed	Street hassle	1978
425	Steve Reich	Music for 18 musicians	1978
426	John Renbourn	A maid in bedlam	1977
427	Residents	The third Reich 'n' roll	1976
428	Rezillos	Can't stand the Rezillos	1978
429	Smokey Robinson	A quiet storm	1975
430	Claudio Rocchi	Suoni di frontiera	1976
431	Roches	The Roches	1979
432	Rolling stones	Black and blue	1976
433	Rolling stones	Some girls	1978
434	Mick Ronson	Play don't worry	1975
435	Linda Ronstadt	Prisoner in disguise	1975
436	Roogolator	Play it by ear	1977
437	Biff Rose	Roast beef	1978
438	Diana Ross	Diana Ross (1976)	1976
439	Michael Rother	Flammende Herzen	1977
440	Michael Rother	Katzenmusic	1979
441	Michael Rother	Sterntaler	1978
442	Roxy music	Manifesto	1979
443	Roxy music	Siren	1975
444	Roxy music	Viva!	1976
445	Runaways	The Runaways	1976
446	Todd Rundgren	Hermit of mink hollow	1978
447	Otis Rush	Right place, wrong time	1976
448	Ruts	The crack	1979
449	Saints	(I'm) stranded	1977
450	Salsoul orchestra	Salsoul orchestra	1975
451	Pharaoh Sanders	Pharaoh	1977
452	Boz Scaggs	Silk degrees	1976
453	Klaus Schulze	Time wind	1975
454	Gil Scott-Heron	From South Africa to South Carolina	1975
455	Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson	The first minute of a new day	1975
456	Sex pistols	Never mind the bollocks, here's the Sex pistols	1977
457	Sex pistols	Some product : carri on Sex pistols	1979
458	Sex pistols	The great rock 'n' roll swindle	1979
459	Shakti	Shakti with John McLaughlin	1976
460	Sham 69	Tell us the truth	1978
461	Shanghai	Fallen heroes	1976
462	Marlena Shaw	Take a bite	1979
463	Archie Shepp	A sea of faces	1975
464	Paul Simon	Still crazy after all these years	1975
465	Simple minds	Real to real cacophony	1979
466	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Join hands	1979
467	Siouxsie and the Banshees	The scream	1978
468	Sister Sledge	We are family	1979
469	Skids	Scared to dance	1979
470	Slits	Cut	1979
471	Sly and the family Stone	High on you	1975
472	Lonnie Smith	Afro-desia	1975
473	Lonnie Liston Smith	Visions of a new world	1975
474	Patti Smith	Easter	1978
475	Patti Smith	Horses	1975
476	Patti Smith	Radio Ethiopia	1976
477	Patti Smith	Wave	1979
478	Soft boys	A can of bees	1979
479	Soft machine	Bundles	1975
480	Space	Magic fly	1977
481	Sparks	Indiscreet	1975
482	Sparks	No. 1 in heaven	1979
483	Specials	Specials	1979
484	Spirit	Spirit of '76	1975
485	Bruce Springsteen	Born to run	1975
486	Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the edge of town	1978
487	Chris Squire	Fish out of water	1975
488	Candi Staton	Young hearts run free	1976
489	Status quo	Blue for you	1976
490	Steel pulse	Handsworth revolution	1978
491	Steel pulse	Tribute to the Martyrs	1979
492	Jan Steele & John Cage	Voices & instruments	1976
493	Steeleye span	Rocket cottage	1976
494	Steely dan	Aja	1977
495	Steely dan	Katy lied	1975
496	Steely dan	The royal scam	1976
497	Al Stewart	Modern times	1975
498	Al Stewart	Year of the cat	1976
499	Stiff little fingers	Inflammable material	1979
500	Stills Young band	Long may you run	1976
501	Stinky toys	Stinky toys	1977
502	Stranglers	IV rattus Norvegicus	1977
503	Strawbs	Ghosts	1975
504	Strawbs	Nomadness	1975
505	Suicide	Suicide	1977
506	Suicide commandos	Make a record	1977
507	Donna Summer	Bad girls	1979
508	Donna Summer	Love to love you baby	1975
509	Sun Ra	Lanquidity	1978
510	Sun Ra & Arkestra	Some blues but not the kind that's blue	1978
511	Supertramp	Breakfast in America	1979
512	Supertramp	Crisis? What crisis?	1975
513	Supertramp	Even in the quietest moments	1977
514	Swell maps	A trip to Marineville	1979
515	T.Rex	Bolan's zip gun	1975
516	T.Rex	Dandy in the underworld	1977
517	T.Rex	Futuristic dragon	1976
518	Taj Mahal travelers	August 1974	1975
519	Talking heads	Fear of music	1979
520	Talking heads	More songs about buildings and food	1978
521	Talking heads	Talking heads '77	1977
522	Tangerine dream	Rubycon	1975
523	Jem Targal	Luckey guy	1978
524	Ghédalia Tazartès	Diasporas	1979
525	Television	Adventure	1978
526	Television	Marquee moon	1977
527	10cc	Bloody tourists	1978
528	10cc	How dare you!	1976
529	Thin lizzy	Jailbreak	1976
530	Thin lizzy	Johnny the fox	1976
531	This heat	This heat	1979
532	Richard & Linda Thompson	Pour down like silver	1975
533	Throbbing gristle	20 jazz funk greats	1979
534	Johnny Thunders	So alone	1978
535	Kazuki Tomokawa	Ore no uchi de nariyamanai uta (Poems that won't stop crying from within me)	1978
536	David Toop & Mark Eastley	New and rediscovered musical instruments	1975
537	Peter Tosh	Bush doctor	1978
538	Peter Tosh	Legalize it	1976
539	Toto	Toto	1978
540	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Toure (1976)	1976
541	Allen Toussaint	Southern nights	1975
542	Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane	Rough mix	1977
543	Tubes	Remote control	1979
544	Tubeway army	Replicas	1979
545	Tubeway army	Tubeway army	1979
546	James 'Blood' Ulmer	Tales of captain Black	1979
547	Ultravox	Ha! Ha! Ha!	1977
548	Ultravox	Systems of romance	1978
549	Undertones	The Undertones	1979
550	Upsetters	Return of the Super ape	1978
551	Upsetters	Super ape	1976
552	U-Roy	Dread in a Babylon	1975
553	Lino Capra Vaccina	Antico adagio	1978
554	Van der Graaf generator	Godbluff	1975
555	Van der Graaf generator	Still life	1976
556	Van Halen	Van Halen	1978
557	Tom Verlaine	Tom Verlaine	1979
558	Vibrators	Pure mania	1977
559	Bunny Wailer	Blackheart man	1976
560	Tom Waits	Blue Valentine	1978
561	Tom Waits	Foreign affairs	1977
562	Tom Waits	Small change	1976
563	Walker brothers	Nite flights	1978
564	War	Why can't we be friends?	1975
565	Grover Washington jr.	Mister Magic	1975
566	Muddy Waters	Hard again	1977
567	Weather report	Heavy Weather	1977
568	Eberhard Weber	Yellow fields	1975
569	Bob Welch	French kiss	1977
570	David Werner	Imagination quota	1975
571	Randy Weston	Blues to Africa	1975
572	Who	The Who by numbers	1975
573	Who	Who are you	1978
574	Whole darn family	Has arrived	1976
575	Mary Lou Williams	Free spirits	1976
576	Dennis Wilson	Pacific ocean blue	1977
577	Steve Winwood	Steve Winwood	1977
578	Wire	154	1979
579	Wire	Chairs missing	1978
580	Wire	Pink flag	1977
581	Bobby Womack	I don't know what the world is coming to	1975
582	Stevie Wonder	Journey through the secret life of plants	1979
583	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the key of life	1976
584	Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane	Mahoney's last stand	1976
585	Wreckless Eric	Wreckless Eric	1978
586	Robert Wyatt	Ruth is stranger than Richard	1975
587	X-Ray spex	Germfree adolescents	1978
588	XTC	Drums and wires	1979
589	Yellow magic orchestra	Yellow magic orchestra	1978
590	Yes	Going for the one	1977
591	Neil Young	American stars 'n bars	1977
592	Neil Young	Comes a time	1978
593	Neil Young	Decade	1977
594	Neil Young	Live rust	1979
595	Neil Young	Rust never sleeps	1979
596	Neil Young	Tonight's the night	1975
597	Neil Young	Zuma	1975
598	Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart	Bongo fury	1975
599	Frank Zappa	Sheik Yerbouti	1979
600	Frank Zappa	Zoot allures	1976
601	Tom Zé	Estudando o samba	1976
602	Warren Zevon	Excitable boy	1978
603	Warren Zevon	Warren Zevon	1976
604	ZNR	Barricade 3	1976
605	ZZ Top	Deguello	1979