Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK computer
Belly - Star
REM - Automatic for the people
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Supergrass - In it for the Money
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Wedding Present - The RCA Years

And the list goes on...

Sound Effects - The Jam
Only Forever - Puressence
Hear nothing see nothing say nothing - Discharge
The Specials- The Specials
Stacked up - Senser
Dem Bones - Broken Bones
F.O.A.D - Broken Bones
The Ungovernable Force - Conflict
The Clash - The Clash
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
The Smiths - Singles
Freedumb - Suicidal Tendencies
No 10 upping st - Big audio Dynamite
In darkness - Antisect
Compilation - Curve
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Rock for light - Bad Brains
Nevermind - Nirvana

Revolver - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
The Joshua Tree - U2
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Nevermind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Grace - Jeff Buckley
London Calling - The Clash
London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

Great album but prefer Closer

Now I know why you post such 5H1T£!

Ten - Pearl Jam
A Crow Left Of the Murder - Incubus
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zep
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Light Grenades - Incubus
If you want Blood You've got it - AC/DC
Legend - Bob Marley
Angel Dust - Faith No More
Strange kind of love - Love and Money
2112 - Rush
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
Talking Heads 77 - Talking Heads

Oasis should've split up the moment they walked off the stage at Knebworth (Aug 96) instead of spending the next 13 years offering up re-heated leftovers.

If they'd done that they would be talked about in the same breath as the Pistols today as one of Britain's iconic bands. I get the feeling that even Noel Gallagher is partly of that opinion today.

It's a bit of a coin toss with me in regards to JD's two albums. I have a marginal preference for Unknown Pleasures but I love both albums to bits.

There is just an eerie, skeletel feel to UP which makes it timeless in my eyes. It's the sound of late 70's Britain in a nutshell. Damp,rotting and decaying as the Victorian industrial revolution came to a crashing halt bringing down the North of England with it.

I love Closer almost as much, but it's difficult to separate the music contained within from the personal situation which occured in the immediate aftermath of its recording (even now, 32 years after the event), particulary when listening to side 2.

They are both immense artistic statements however, made by bloody-minded people, the like of which would probably be nigh on impossible to make today.

Side 2 is a depressing listen and you have to wonder what was going through all their minds to come up with that.

Kudos to Factory too for allowing it to be made. Unlikely that we'd see anything like theses days

Jeez, good thread, but a tougher task than finding a decent half back for next season - here's a few that initially sprang to mind:

U2 - Boy
Joy Division - Closer
The Cramps -Smell of Female
Psychedlic Furs - Forever Now
The Cult - Dreamtime
The Smiths - The Smiths
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
The Associates - Sulk
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
REM - Automatic For The People
Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Ash - 1977
Shed Seven - A Maximum High
Verve - Urban Hymns
Coldplay - Parachutes

Can't believe nobody has given a shout to Primal Scream's - Screamadelica!
A true masterpiece and a defining album of its time.