1 Three Of A Perfect Pair 0:00:27
1a backstage 0:04:36
2 No Warning 0:07:00
3 Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part III 0:10:56
4 Thela Hun Ginjeet 0:16:05
5 Frame By Frame 0:22:07
6 Matte Kudasai 0:26:07
7 Industry 0:29:37
8 Dig Me 0:36:32
9 Indiscipline 0:40:15
10 Sartori In Tangier 0:50:37
11 Man With An Open Heart 0:54:51
12 Waiting Man 0:58:37
13 Sleepless 1:05:17
14 Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part II 1:11:34
15 Elephant Talk 1:17:38
16 Heartbeat 1:22:45
41 & 42. Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper.
Mercury Rev released three perfect albums–Yerself Is Steam, Bocces, and See You on the Other Side–before releasing Deserter’s Song, a beautiful last gasp from a dying band. They should’ve stopped there, but Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper kept the dream alive for two more albums, the less said about which the better (hopefully they’ve quit for good). Mercury Rev’s guitars flirted furiously with the thin line between dream and nightmare, evoking beauty and terror and sheer joy. What great stuff.
43. Martin Carr.
The Boo Radleys also released a number of great albums, notably Giant Steps and Wake Up! before eventually exhausting their Beatlesque bag of tricks. Carr’s songs are gorgeous and hold up better than most other bands from the Brit shoegaze era.
44. Christian Fennesz.
Fennesz’s Endless Summer is really a guitar album, a beautiful layering of textures and rhythms with melodies that stick in your head years later. I thought his follow up Venice was just as good, and, if you can find it, his live, improvised collaboration with Sparklehorse is sheer sonic brilliance.
45. Robbie Robertson.
Robbie Robertson was in The Band. So. Yeah.
46. Jeff Lynne.
Man, ELO are, like, too good. How’s that for a review? My favorite liner notes ever are on the back of ELO’s Greatest Hits, where Jeff Lynne makes it unequivocally clear that, yes, he is the mastermind behind the whole damn ship and shebang.
47. John Frusciante.
I don’t really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I love a few of their songs. Frusciante’s got a lovely, lyrical style, the perfect counterpoint to Flea’s melodic and funky bass lines.
48. Adrian Belew.
It’s almost unfair that King Crimson should have Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew. I actually like Belew’s solo stuff more than Fripp’s. It’s all good.
49. George Harrison.
It’s probably a good idea to put at least one of the Beatles on this list.
50. Izzy Stradlin.
Why not? Fuck Slash.
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