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