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Honorable Mention: 101 (More) Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
Posted 5:00 p.m., Jan. 5, 2007
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I couldn't resist putting together an honorable mentions list, containing albums that were considered for the 101, but that lost their places to other albums. In several cases, I got as far as starting reviews before thinking better of it and replacing them with some other albums that seemed slightly more deserving. Tough choices, all.
Reviews 1-25 | Reviews 26-50
Reviews 51-75 | NEW! Reviews 76-101
HONORABLE MENTION
"More a Legend than a Band," The Flatlanders (1990).
"Mingus Ah Um," Charles Mingus (1959).
"Temple of Low Men," Crowded House (1988).
"Computer Games," George Clinton (1982).
"Deja Vu," Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1971).
"Tomorrow the Green Grass," The Jayhawks (1995).
"AFL1-3603," Dave Davies (1980).
"At Newport 1956 Complete," Duke Ellington (1999).
"Double Nickels on the Dime," The Minutemen (1985).
"Blue," Joni Mitchell (1971).
"The Serpent's Egg," Dead Can Dance (1988).
"Train a Comin'," Steve Earle (1995).
"Sign o' The Times," Prince (1988)
"Singles Going Steady," The Buzzcocks (1979).
"If I Could Only Remember My Name," David Crosby (1971).
"Amnesia," Richard Thompson (1988).
"Elvis Country: I'm 10,000 Years Old," Elvis Presley (1971).
"Phrenology," The Roots (2002).
"Automatic for the People," R.E.M. (1994).
"Little Feat," Little Feat (1971).
"Employment," The Kaiser Chiefs (2005).
"Nebraska," Bruce Springsteen (1981).
"Blues and Roots," Charles Mingus (1959).
"Pure Pop for Now People," Nick Lowe (1978).
"Maggot Brain," Funkadelic (1971).
"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake," The Small Faces (1968).
"Heaven Tonight," Cheap Trick (1978).
"Rings Around the World," Super Furry Animals (2001).
"The Libertines," The Libertines (2004).
"Honky-tonk Masquerade," Joe Ely (1978).
"River," Terry Reid (1973).
"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," The Sex Pistols (1977).
"Tenderness Junction," The Fugs (1968).
"Flamingo," The Flamin Groovies (1970).
"Marcus Garvey," Burning Spear (1975).
"Kind of Blue," Miles Davis (1959).
"Spilt Milk," Jellyfish (1993).
"Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs," Marty Robbins (1959).
"Headhunters," Herbie Hancock (1973).
"The Screaming End: The Best of Gene Vincent," Gene Vincent (1997).
"Folk Songs of the Hills," Merle Travis (1947).
"More Real Folk Blues," Sonny Boy Williamson (1967).
"I Stand Alone," Al Kooper (1968).
"Born Under a Bad Sign," Albert King (1967).
"A Scarlett Letter," Curtiss A (1987).
"Hearts of Stone," Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (1986).
"Side Trips" Kaleidoscope (1967).
"Z," My Morning Jacket (2005).
"Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space," Spiritualized (1997).
"Live at the Apollo," James Brown (1962).
"The Nightfly," Donald Fagen (1982).
"Something Else by the Kinks," The Kinks (1968).
"I'm a Lonesome Fugitive," Merle Haggard (1967).
"Sunflower," the Beach Boys (1970).
"The Ramones," The Ramones (1976).
"Songs for a Tailor," Jack Bruce (1969).
"Let it Bleed," The Rolling Stones (1969).
"Back in '72," Bob Seger (1972).
"Flush the Fashion," Alice Cooper (1980).
"Seventh Sojourn," The Moody Blues (1972).
"Live in Europe," Rory Gallagher (1973).
"Africa/Brass," John Coltrane (1961).
"The Bends," Radiohead (1995).
"St. Elsewhere," Gnarles Barkley (2006).
"A Gift From a Flower to a Garden," Donovan (1967)
"Amygdala," The Honeydogs (2006).
"Keep on Truckin'," Dave Dudley (1972).
"Duke Ellington and John Coltrane," Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (1962).
"George Harrison," George Harrison (1979).
"At Folsom Prison," Johnny Cash (1968).
"Flowers," The Rolling Stones (1967).
"Meat Puppets II," The Meat Puppets (1984).
"Fire of Unknown Origin," Blue Oyster Cult (1980).
"El Corazon," Steve Earle (1997).
"Gideon Gaye," The High Llamas (1994).
"Pleased to Meet Me," The Replacements (1987).
"New York," Lou Reed (1989).
"John Prine," John Prine (1971).
"Skylarking," XTC (1986).
"Dirty Mind," Prince (1980).
"Groovin'," The Young Rascals (1967).
"Your Good Girl Is Gonna Go Bad," Tammy Wynette (1967).
"The Dissociatives," The Dissociatives (2004).
"Surf's Up," The Beach Boys (1971).
"Solitude," Billy Holliday (1952).
"RCA Country Legends," The Carter Family (2004).
"Main Course," The Bee Gees (1975).
"Damaged," Black Flag (1981).
"The Monkees," The Monkees (1966).
"Lust For Life," Iggy Pop (1976).
"Countdown to Ecstasy," Steely Dan (1973).
"Modern Times," Bob Dylan (2006).
"Hillbilly Music ... Thank God, Vol. 1," Various Artists (1989).
"If We Can't Trust the Doctors," Blanche (2004).
"McCartney," Paul McCartney (1970).
"Volunteers," Jefferson Airplane (1969).
"The Complete Sun Singles," Carl Perkins (2000).
"Basket of Light," Pentangle (1969).
"Master of Reality," Black Sabbath (1971).
"Choose Love," Ringo Starr (2005).
"The Moon and Antarctica," Modest Mouse (2004).
-- Kevin Featherly
Kevin Featherly, a former managing editor at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, is a Minnesota journalist who covers politics and technology. He has authored or contributed to five previous books, Guide to Building a Newsroom Web Site (1998), The Wired Journalist (1999), Elements of Language (2001), Pop Music and the Press (2002) and Encyclopedia of New Media (2003). His byline has appeared in Editor & Publisher, the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Online Journalism Review and Minnesota Law and Politics, among other publications. In 2000, he was a media coordinator for Web, White & Blue, the first online presidential debates. Currently is news editor for the McGraw-Hill tech publication, Healthcare Informatics.