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The Wire's "100 Records That Set The World On Fire"

ideserve2 [Edit] [Delete] 16:10, 14 March '08

does anyone have a digital copy of this, or know where i can find it in full on the internet?

the one website i did know that had it has very sadly died, and i can only find the list without any of the text now. which is:

* Charles Ives * Symphony No. 4 (1910-16) (Grammophon) 88

* Blind Willie Johnson * "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" (Columbia) 29

* Bob Graettinger * City Of Glass/This Modern World (Capitol) 53

* Louis & Bebe Barron * Forbidden Planet OST (Small Planet) 56

* Esquivel And His Orchestra * Other Worlds Other Sounds (RCA) 58

* The Blue Men * I Hear A New World (RGM White Label/RPM) 60

* Joe Harriott * Abstract (Columbia/Capitol) 61

* Son House * The Original Delta Blues (Columbua/Legacy) 64

* William S. Burroughs * Call Me Burroughs (ESP) 65

* Steve Reich * Early Works: Come Out/It's Gonna Rain (Elektra) 65

* Albert Ayler * In Greenwich Village (Impulse!) 67

* Bill Dixon Orchestra * Intents And Purposes (RCA) 67

* Gottfried Michael Koenig * Terminus II/Funktion Grun (Deutsche Grammophon) 67

* Sun Ra * Strange Strings (Saturn) 67

* Blue Cheer * Vincebus Eruptum (Philips) 68

* Dr. John the Night Tripper * Gris-Gris (Atco) 68

* Pearls Before Swine * Balaklava (ESP) 68

* Spontaneious Music Ensemble * Karyobin (Chronoscope) 68

* The United States Of America (CBS) 68

* El Camaron De La Isla & Paco De Lucia * Al Verte Las Floras Lloran (Philips) 69

* Ram John Holder * Black London Blues (Beacon) 69

* Phil Ochs * Rehearsals For Retirement (A&M) 69

* Buffy Sainte-Marie * Illuminations (Vanguard) 69

* Sonny Sharrock * Black Woman (Vortex) 69

* Silver Apples * Contact (Kapp Records) 69

* Alexander 'Skip' Spence * Oar (Columbia) 69

* Kevin Ayers & The Whole World * Shooting At The Moon (Harvest) 70

* Comus * First Utterance (BGO) 70

* Michael Gibbs (Deram) 70

* Alvin Lucier * I Am Sitting In A Room (Lovely Music) 70

* Cluster * Cluster 71 (Philips/Sky) 71

* The Last Poets (Douglas Music) 71

* The Master Musicians Of Jajouka * Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka (Rolling Stones) 71

* John Cale * Paris 1919 (Reprise) 72

* Alice Coltrane * Universal Consciousness (Impulse!) 72

* Miles Davis * On The Corner (Columbia) 72

* Hugh Hopper * 1984 (CBS/Cuneiform) 72

* Modern Lovers * The Original Modern Lovers (Mohawk) 72

* Annette Peacock * I'm The One (RCA) 72

* Pierre Akendengue * Nandipo (Saravah) 73

* Faust * The Faust Tapes (Virgin) 73

* Herbie Hancock * Sextant (Columbia) 73

* Larry Young * Lawrence Of Newark (Perception) 73

* Betty Davis * They Say I'm
Different (Vinyl Experience) 74

* Lewis Furey (A&M) 75

* Pere Ubu * "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (Hearthan) 75

* Lee Perry * Revolution Dub (Cactus) 75

* Lou Reed * Metal Machine Music (RCA) 75

* The Electric Eels * "Cyclotraon/Agitated" 7" (Rough Trade) 77

* Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band* Bat Chain Puller (Unreleased) 76

* Henry Cow * Concerts (Recommended) 76

* The Residents * Satisfaction (Ralph) 76

* Johnny 'Guitar' Watson * Ain't That A Bitch (DJM) 76

* Ornette Coleman * Dancing In Your Head (A&M) 77

* Glenn Gould * The Solitude Trilogy (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) 67-77

* Al Green * The Belle Album (Motown) 77

* Ron 'Pate's Debonairs featuring Rev Fred Lane * Raudeluna's 'Pataphysical Revue (Say Day Bew) 77

* Iggy Pop & James Williamson * Kill City (Bomp) 77

* Tim Souster * Swit Drimz (Transatlantic) 77

* The Human League * Being Boiled (Fast Product) 78

* The Walker Brothers * Nite Flights (GTO Records) 78

* Chrome * Half Machine Lip Moves (Siren/Beggars Banquet) 79

* Lol Coxhill * Digswell Duets (Random Radar) 79

* Robert Fripp * Exposure (EG/Polydor) 79

* Nurse With Wound * Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella (United Dairies) 79

* Family Fodder * Monkey Banana Kitchen (Fresh) 80

* Fire Engines * Get Up And Use Me (Pop: Aural) 80

* La Nimba De N'Zerekore * Gon Bia Bia (Syliphone) 80

* Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires * C'est Fab 7" (It's War Boys) 80

* Monoton * Monotonprodukt 07 (Monotonprodukt) 81

* Derek Bailey * Aida (Incus/Dexter's Cigar) 82

* Bad Brains (ROIR) 82

* Kip Hanrahan * Desire Develops An Edge (American Clave) 83

* Youssou N'Dour * Djamil (Senegalese Cassette) 83

* Mark Stewart & The Maffia * Learning To Cope With Cowardice (On-U Sound) 83

* Jonathan Harvey * Bhakti (NMC) 84

* The Homosexuals (Recommended) 84

* Chaba Fadella & Cheb Sahraoui * N'Sel Fik (Factory/Mango) 85

* Christian Marclay * Record Without A Cover (Recycled) 85

* Arthur Russell * World of Echo (Upside/Rough Trade) 86

* Fingers Inc * Another Side (Trax) 88

* Conlon Nancarrow * Studies For Player Piano (Wergo) 88

* Dead C * Trapdoor Fucking Exit (Siltbreeze) 90

* Royal Trux * Twin Infinitives (Drag City) 90

* Fushitsusha * DBL Live (PSF) 91

* Public Enemy * Apocalypse 91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black (Def Jam) 91

* Galina Ustvolskaya * No. 1 (Hat Art) 91

* Steven Jesse Bernstein * Prison (Sub Pop) 92

* Bally Sagoo * Wham Bam 2: The Second Massacre (Oriental Star Agencies) 92

* Luke Skywalker * "I Wanna Rock" 12" (Luke Records) 92

* Bernhard Gunter * Un Peu De Neige Salie (Selektion/Table of the Elements) 93

* Ken Ishii * Garden On The Palm (R&S) 93

* Jean C Roche * A Nocturne Of Nightingales (Sittele) 93

* Jeff Mills * X-103 Atlantis (Axis/Tresor) 93

* Paul Dolden * L'Ivresse De La Vitesse (Empreintes Digitales) 94

* 4 Hero * Parallele Universe (Reinforced) 94

* Joey Beltram * Places (Tresor) 95

* Oval * 94 Diskont (Mille Plateaux) 95

* Tony Conrad * Four Violins (Table Of The Elements) 97

* Cathy Lane * Nesting Stones (Unknown Public) 98

a lot of this stuff is absolutely unbelievable. i really want to read the text again though...


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