DAVE THOMPSON - Alternative Rock – Essential Listening Companion (Third Ear, 2000)

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DAVE THOMPSON - Alternative Rock – Essential Listening Companion (Third Ear, 2000)

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Top 40 Singles of the Alternative Era 1975-2000

o Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
o B52s – Rock Lobster
o Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn
o Black Flag – TV Party
o Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap
o Carter USM – Only Living Boy in New Cross
o Chameleons – In Shreds
o Clash – White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
o Costello, Elvis – Watching the Detectives
o Cranberries – Zombie
o Culture Club – Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
o Damned – New Rose
o Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles
o Devo – Jocko Homo
o Doctor & the Medics – Spirit in the Sky
o Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax
o Fun Boy Three – Tunnel of Love
o Green Day – Longview
o Hole – Violet
o Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
o M – Pop Musik
o Mighty Wah – Come Back
o Ministry – NOW
o Nine Inch Nails – Closer
o Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
o Numan, Gary – Are Friends Electric?
o Offspring – Come Out & Play
o Radiohead – Creep
o Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
o REM – Radio Free Europe
o Richard Hell – Blank Generation
o Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK
o Smith, Patti – Privilege
o Smith, TV – Tomahawk Cruise
o Smiths – How Soon is Now?
o Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch – Death Valley ‘69
o Theatre of Hate – Westworld
o Time Zone – World Destruction
o Timelords – Doctorin’ the Tardis
o Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World

10 Star Album List

Many of the albums reviewed during the course of the book are rated on a scale of 1-10, this is a list of all the albums (53) that received 10 stars. Alphabetical order.

o Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea with the…
o Bailey, Chris – Savage Entertainment
o Bananarama – Deep Sea Skiving
o Bauhaus – Sky’s Gone Out
o Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
o Blur – Parklife
o Bush, Kate – The Dreaming
o Buzzcocks – A Different Music in Another Kitchen
o Carter USM – 1992: Love Album
o Clash – London Calling
o Costello, Elvis – This Year’s Model
o County, Wayne & the Electric Chairs – Things Your Mother Never Told You
o Cure – Faith
o Current 93 – All the Pretty Little Horses
o Doctors of Madness – Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorm
o Dury, Ian & the Blockheads – New Boots & Panties
o Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
o Germano, Lisa – Happiness
o Harvey, PJ – To Bring You My Love
o Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade
o Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
o KLF – Chill Out
o Len Bright Combo – Presents the Len Bright Combo by the…
o Suede (aka London Suede) – Dog Man Star
o Love & Rockets – Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
o Lydia Lunch/Rowland Howard – Shotgun Wedding
o Morrissey – Vauxhall & I
o Marc [Almond] & the Mambas – Torment & Torreros
o Mudhoney – Superfuzz Big Muff
o Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
o Pixies – Surfer Rosa
o Portishead – Dummy
o Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
o Pulp – This is Hardcore
o Radiohead – OK Computer
o Ramones – Ramones [1st album]
o Replacements – Let It Be
o Saint Etienne – Tiger Bay
o Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
o Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Flaunt It
o Siouxsie & the Banshees – The Scream
o Sky Cries Mary – This Timeless Turning
o Sleeper – It Girl
o Slits – Return of the Giant Slits
o Smith, Patti – Horses
o Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
o Sweet, Matthew – Girlfriend
o Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
o Television – Marquee Moon
o This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears
o Thunders, Johnny – So Alone
o U2 – Joshua Tree
o X – Los Angeles

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o.m. wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:45 pm
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David Thompson (also Dave Thomas; born 4 January 1960) is an English writer who is the author of more than 100 books, largely dealing with rock and pop music,[1] but also covering film, sports, philately, numismatics and erotica. He wrote regularly for Melody Maker and Record Collector in the 1980s, and has since contributed to magazines such as Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and Goldmine.
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