my top 50 albums, 2018

April 24, 2018

1967 Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle
1968 Captain Beefheart Strictly Personal
1968 Soft Machine Soft Machine
1971 Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
1974 Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom
1975 Herbie Hancock Man-Child
1976 Ramones Ramones
1977 The Stranglers No More Heroes
1977 The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus
1977 Wire Pink Flag
1978 Siouxsie and the Banshees The Scream
1979 Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves
1979 Crass Stations of the Crass
1979 Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville
1979 The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette
1979 The Fall Dragnet
1979 The Slits Cut
1980 Bauhaus In the Flat Field
1980 Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1980 The Fall Grotesque (After the Gramme)
1981 Au Pairs Playing With a Different Sex
1981 Bauhaus Mask
1981 Grace Jones Nightclubbing
1981 Ian Dury Lord Upminster
1982 Captain Beefheart Ice Cream for Crow
1982 Liliput Liliput
1982 Mission of Burma Vs.
1982 XTC English Settlement
1983 The Fall Perverted by Language
1983 Wipers Over The Edge
1984 Cleaners From Venus Under Wartime Conditions
1984 Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime
1984 The Replacements Let It Be
1984 The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
1984 Van Dyke Parks Jump!
1985 The Ex Pokkeherrie
1985 The Fall This Nation’s Saving Grace
1985 The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always
1992 The Stranglers Live At The Hope And Anchor
2003 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti Worn Copy
2010 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti  Before Today
2010 Geneva Jacuzzi Lamaze
2011 John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless …
2012 Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk
2013 Connan Mockasin Caramel
2014 Sleaford Mods Divide and Exit
2015 Sleaford Mods Key Markets
2017 Idles Brutalism
2017 John Maus Screen Memories