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man this is going to be impossiblle, the majority of my favorite records came out in the 80s.
1. Game Theory-Lolita Nation
2. The Fall-This Nation's Saving Grace
3. Metallica-Kill em All
4. Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime
5. Swans-Filth
6. The Bad Brains-ROIR Casette
7. The Angry Samoans-Inside my Brain
8. The Wipers-Over the Edge
9. Sonic Youth-Confusion is Sex
10. Napalm Death-Scum
11. Pussy Galore-Dial M for Motherfucker
12. Black Flag-Damaged
13. The Misfits-Walk Among Us
14. Smegma-Smell the Remains
15. Hellhammer-Demon Entrails
16. Half Japanese-Half gentleman/Not Beasts
17. MDC-Millions of Dead Cops
18. Minor Threar-Out of Step
19. Crass-Chris the Album
20. Black Flag-Damaged
21. Whitehouse-Psychopathia Sexualis
22. The Butthole Surfers-Locust Abortion Technician
23. Big Black-Atomizer
24. Celtic Frost-To Mega Therion
25. Saccharine Trust-Surviving You Always (when people refer to early saccharine trust as a bad band and late saccharine trust as a decent band, I wanna smack the fuck out of them. The early stuff was incredible; raw as shit, dissonant, noisy, Prog Hardcore. Even funky in a wierd skronky way. They truly were amazing, and live, religious. Thier later albums got increasingly lame, but early Saccharine Trust was the most innovative and easily the wierdest band on the SST roster).
26. Boredoms-Soul Discharge
27. The Birthday Party-Junkyard
28. Borbetomagus-Barbed Wire Maggots
29. This Heat-Deceit
30. Flipper-Generic
31. Hanatarash-We are Hardcore
32. Glenn Branca-The Ascension
33. The Void side of the The Faith/Void-Split (the faith is decent, but whenever i listen to thier side its like, "i could be listening to void right now")
34. Husker Du-Zen Arcade
35. Spacemen 3-Perfect Prescription
36. Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
37. Captain Beefheart-Ice Cream for Crow
38. Tom Waits-Rain Dogs
39. Swell Maps-Jane From Occupied Europe
40. The Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
41. Discharge-Why?
42. The Ex-Joggers and Smoggers
43. John Fahey-God, Time, and Casuality
44. Jandek-Interstella Discussion
45. Jandek-God, Time, and Casuality
46. Game Theory-Two Steps from the Middle Ages
47. Cabaret Voltaire-Red Mecca
48. Current 93-Dawn
49. Beat Happening-Jamboree
50. Fang-Where the Wild Things Are
51. D.O.A.-Hardcore 81
52. Crass-The Penis Envy
53. Sonic Youth-Bad Moon Rising
54. Naked City-Torture Garden
55. Joy Division-Closer
56. Eric B and Rakim-Paid in Full
57. D.O.A.-Hardcore 81
58. Butthole Surfers-Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
59. Einsturzende Nebauten-Halber Mensch
60. The Gories-House Rockin
61. Negative Approach-Tied Down
62. Sonic Youth-Bad Moon Rising
63. The Meatmen-We're The Meatmen....And You Suck!!!
64. The Melvins-Gluey Porch Treatments
65. The Pop Group-How Long do we Tolerate Mass Murder
66. The Jesus and Mary Chain-Psychocandy
67. The Fall-Perverted by Language
68. The Fall-Hex Enducation Hour
69. The Cure-Pornography
70. John Zorn-The Big Gundown
71. James Blood Ulmer-Freelancing
72. Mudhoney-Touch me I'm Sick
73. The Killing Joke-Revelations
74. Dinosaur Jr.-You're Living All Over Me
75. Slayer-Reign in Blood
76. Terrorizer-S/T
77. Lustmord-Paradise Disowned
78. Motorhead-Ace of Spades
79. Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions
80. Venom P. Stinger-Meet my Friend Stinger
81. Derek Bailey-Aida
82. Incapacitants-REPO
83. Feedtime-Shovel
84. Boogie Down Productions-Criminal Minded
85. Sonic Youth-EVOL
86. Big Black-Songs About Fucking
87. Black Flag-My War
88. Hijokaidan-King of Noise
89. The Smiths-Strangeways Here We Come
90. Prince and the Revolution-Purple Rain
91. Nirvana-Bleach (still makin the cut)
92. The Cure-Faith
93. DRI-The Dirty Rotten LP
94. Bathory-Blood, Fire, Death
95. Metallica-Master of Puppets
96. The Descendents-Milo Goes to College
97. Iron Maiden-Power Slave
98. Half Japanese-Our Solar System
99. Death-Leprosy
100. GG Allin and the Jabbers-Always Is, Was, and Always Shall Be (I listen to GG shitloads, but this and "murder junkies" are the only full lengths i listen to all the way through)
the 80s was the best time for wierd and underground rock, period. even the mega pop stars like prince and madonna made very interesting and unique music. *sighs*, nostalgia for a time period i was barely alive for.
That said, SST is probably with ESP my pick for all time greatest record label/movement. SST was a movement, much more than a label. They defined what Underground Rock would be. People recording in shitty spaces, sleeping on floors, making records with pennies, traveling across the country in a van and sleeping not only on the floor but under toilets, and making music for none other than the love of it. They also established that "Indie Rock" wasn't a sound, just an idea. None of the SST bands sounded alike. Black Flag was the ultimate brutal and mysterious and captivating Hardcore Punk Rock band. The Descendents made melodic Power Pop that was appealing to people just getting into underground stuff. Dino Jr. brought in Classic Rock Riffs and Melodies to ther agressive guitar driven Hardcore sound. Saccharine Trust was the most insane band in California, period. I still think people don't really know how to rank Saccharine Trust in the scope of the 80s underground because they were just so damn wierd and hard to get. Sonic Youth introduced Noise, No Wave, and Avant sounds to a generation of most pit loving white kids with DOA shirts. Then there was Husker Du who could write melodies played faster than speeding bullets. The Meat Puppers, brining Psychedelia and Americana back into American Punk Rock. Speaking of Americana, The Minutemen was everything good about American Music since its inception; from old country Blues to CCR to Funk to Punk Rock and everything in between. It's kind of hard to fathom the amazing music produced by that tiny label in such a short span of time.
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