[WRhine]

Your list is a reminder that I have gaps in my knowledge of rock. I have never listened to (Grateful Dead) "American Beauty", (Sex Pistols) "Never Mind The Bollocks" and (The Cure) "Wish". At least to my memory. Looks like I have some serious record shopping to do.

[wardaddy]

The Dead are an acquired taste....they became sort of wandering country in their heyday....1968-1976. I wouldn't fault you if you didn't like them.

I forgot about Roxy Music's Avalon....another "perfect" album....and the women do so love that one. It was made for the "sheets" and I would suggest any young horndog to be sure to have that CD somewhere.

The Cure?....they epitomize dark wave sort of like Depeche Mode only a bit better to me. I left a lot of wave stuff out ....Big Country, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets.....I also left out Jane's Addiction which hurts...as well as Husker Du and The Jesus and Mary Chain...lots of 80s stuff that while it was indeed intersting...it lacks big league legs. REM's Murmur as well....if for nothing but Radio Free Europe.

I left Jonathon Richman and Television and The Jam and early Costello (Mystery Dance..lol) out too for the same reasons.

We really ought to do a 100 list of albums or bands.

I thought about Steve Miller Band Anthology too....or AC/DC Back in Black.....or Tull/Benefit...see it's impossible.

Social Distortion's Somewhere between Heaven and Hell is "perfect" to me but probably not to most folks.