Update über 12 Jahre nach der ersten Liste (in Klammern damalige Platzierung):
01. (01) Echo and the Bunnymen – Heaven up here
02. (02) Green on Red – Here come the snakes
03. (11) Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Rattlesnakes
04. (03) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Hard promises
05. (19) The Smiths – The Queen is dead
06. (06) Hothouse Flowers – People
07. (08) John Hiatt – Bring the family
08. (05) The The – Soul mining
09. (07) Pixies – Doolittle
10. (30) Billy Joel – Songs in the attic
11. (17) U2 – The Joshua tree
12. (16) R.E.M. – Document
13. (15) The Jam – Sound affects
14. (04) Richard and Linda Thompson – Shoot out the lights
15. (21) The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
16. (10) Crowded House – Temple of low men
17. (33) The Feelies – Crazy rhythms
18. (20) The Neville Brothers – Yellow moon
19. (-) Pretenders – Pretenders
20. (56) Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Sessions
21. (-) Motörhead – No sleep til Hammersmith
22. (28) The Smiths – Stangeways, here we come
23. (29) Van Morrison – Common one
24. (18) Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
25. (12) Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Blood and chocolate
26. (59) The Waterboys – A pagan place
27. (13) The Style Council – Our favourite shop
28. (23) Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Imperial bedroom
29. (-) The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands
30. (-) Eric Clapton – Just one night
31. (41) Chris ISaak – Chris Isaak
32. (51) King Swamp – King Swamp
33. (25) Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Punch the clock
34. (43) Talking Heads – The name of the band is Talking Heads
35. (45) Simon and Garfunkel – Concert in Central Park
36. (14) Van Morrison – No guru, no method, no teacher
37. (42) Motörhead – Ace of spades
38. (99) Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
39. (27) Aztec Camera – Knife
40. (09) The Jam – The gift
41. (44) R.E.M. – Lifes rich pageant
42. (52) Echo and the Bunnymen – OCean rain
43. (35) The Gun Club – Miami
44. (-) Rush – Moving pictures
45. (39) Van Morrison – Beautiful vision
46. (-) Green on Red – Gas food lodging
47. (71) The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
48. (38) Peter Gabriel – So
49. (47) The The – Infected
50. (24) Joe Jackson – Night and day
51. (22) Neil Young – Freedom
52. (57) Guns ’n Roses – Appetite for destruction
53. (61) Joe Jackson – Body and soul
54. (64) Rory Gallagher – Jinx
55. (49) Talking Heads – Little creatures
56. (62) Angel City – Darkroom
57. (34) The Cure – Kiss me kiss me kiss me
58. (37) BAP – Für usszeschnigge
59. (-) The Dukes of Stratosphear – Psonic psunspot
60. (60) Grace Kairos – Emotionspark
61. (-) Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
62. (40) The Fixx – Reach the beach
63. (55) R.E.M. – Green
64. (46) U2 – War
65. (54) Bob Seger – Against the wind
66. (36) BAP – Vun drinne noh drusse
67. (53) Pretenders – Learning to crawl
68. (-) Japan – Gentlemen take polaroids
69. (31) Camper Van Beethoven – Key lime pie
70. (-) The Lambrettas – Beat boys in the jet age
71. (88) Wire Train – Between two words
72. (75) The Cure – Seventeen seconds
73. (97) Thin Lizzy – Renegade
74. (98) The Rolling Stones – Tattoo you
75. (70) John Hiatt – Slow truning
76. (-) Bangles – All over the place
77. (69) The Fixx – Phantoms
78. (-) The Go-Betweens – Spring hill fair
79. (-) XTC – The big express
80. (-) R.E.M. – Fables of the reconstruction
81. (65) D.A.D. – No fuel left for the pilgrims
82. (76) XTC – Black sea
83. (79) XTC – English settlement
84. (-) R.E.M. – Reckoning
85. (-) The Smiths – The Smiths
86. (-) Chris Isaak – Silvertone
87. (58) The Blow Monkeys – Animal magic
88. (86) Talk Talk – Colour of srping
89. (-) Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Get happy!!
90. (72) Del Amitri – Waking hours
91. (73) New Model Army – Thunder and consolation
92. (66) Gang of Four – Hard
93. (82) Rain Parade – Emergency third rail power trip
94. (84) Aztec Camera – High land, hard rain
95. (-) The Appartments – The evening visits…
96. (80) Pete Townshend – All the best cowboys have Chinese eyes
97. (81) Dream Syndicate – The days of wine and roses
98. (87) The Housemartins – London 0 Hull 4
99. (83) The Go-Betweens – Tallulah
100. (85) Green on Red – This time around
Platz 01. – 13. *****
Platz 14. – 67. ****1/2
Platz 68- 100. ****
Vor gut zwölf Jahren waren die Sterne noch großzügiger verteilt. Damals hatten noch die ersten 26 Plätze Höchstwertung und bis Platz 69 gab es ****1/2. Und immerhin 19 Alben sind jetzt neu in der Liste. Von den 19 Alben, die seinerzeit noch dabei waren, hat Steve Winwood mit „Arc of a diver“ den größten Absturz hinter sich. Damals noch mit knappen ***** auf Platz 26 und nun mit **** raus aus den Top 100 und irgendwo auf den Plätzen 100- 150.
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there's room at the top they are telling you still but first you must learn how to smile as you kill