In no particular order...

• Kraftwerk
• Ms Lynch (formerly B*witched) (and tech'd for)
• Minuscule Hey!
• Chase & Status
• Hadouken! (and tech'd for)
• Lethal Bizzle
• Bat for Lashes
• Metronomy
• Nine Black Alps
• Skream
• The Trojan Soundsystem (and engineered for)
• The Mystery Jets
• Kid Harpoon
• Freemasons (and engineered for)
• Ash
• Marc Ronson
• Little Man Tate
• Chas and Dave
• The Delays
• The Holloways (and tech'd for)
• Pete Dohetry
• The Rumble Strips
• The Long Weekend (and engineered for)
• The Len Price 3
• Stuart Turner
• Dans le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
• The Maccabees
• To My Boy (and engineered for)
• Bender Crack Corn
• Flashguns
• Rusko
• Gallows
• The Cribs
• Hella Cholla (and engineered for)
• British Sea Power
• Athlete
• Gary Phelan (and engineered for)
• The Circus of Horrors (and engineered for)
• Florence and the Machine
• Roni Size Reprazent
• Underground Heroes
• The Young Knives
• The Indelicates
• The Dolly Rockers
• Frank Turner (and engineered for)
• The Ambience
• Fleet Foxes
• Klaxons
• Scott Mills (and tech'd for)
• Elbow
• Neon Kicks (and engineered for)
• Does it Offend You, Yeah?
• MGMT
• Little Boots
• Michael Nyman
• Passion Pit
• Seasick Steve
• La Roux
• Richard J Thompson (and engineered for)
• The Hives
• Upcleftcdowncright+ABC
• Motion Theory (and engineered for)
• Polka Party
• Pendulum (and tech'd for)
• The Sparrows
• Lupen Crook and the Murderbirds
• Status Quo
• B.o.B.
• The Karoshi Brothers (and engineered for)
• Funeral for a Friend
• Paramore
• 2manydjs
• Esser
• Meat Loaf
• Youngblood Brass Band (and engineered for)
• Lily Allen
• The Little Comets
• Soulwax
• Massive Attack
• itch
• The Small Screen Light Show
• Field Music (and engineered for)
• Friendly Fires
• Doves
• The Horrors
• Zane Lowe
• Dub Pistols
• DJ Zinc
• Polarsets (and engineered for)
• White Van Man (and engineered for)
• We Beat The System
• The Shields
• Two Door Cinema Club
• Tinie Tempah
• Iggy Pop
• Example
• The Kills
• Plan B

Originally published as a book, the list is also available on their website in a handy searchable table.

It's going to be a long task, but I'm looking forward to exploring some new music  as well as revisiting some classics; many of the albums are outside of my normal 'comfort zone' and I'm painfully aware that Durham's bubble doesn't do much for expanding my auditory horizons these days...

I'll list all the albums and chart my progress in this post, I'll also be tweeting my thoughts along the way.

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The List

Bold indicates I've listened to the album...

1. Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small Hours
2. Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956)
3. Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life
4. Prima, Louis – Wildest
5. Domino, Fats – This is Fats
6. Ellington, Duke – At Newport (1956)
7. Sinatra, Frank – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
8. Crickets – Chirping…
9. Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie
10. Monk, Thelonious – Brilliant Corners
11. Sabú [Martínez] – Palo Congo
12. Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool
13. Machito – Kenya
14. Little Richard – Here’s…
15. Puente, Tito & His Orchestra – Dance Mania (1958)
16. Holiday, Billie – Lady in Satin
17. Elliott, Jack – Jack Takes the Floor
18. Vaughan, Sarah – At Mister Kelly’s
19. Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book
20. Charles, Ray – Genius of… (1959)
21. Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
22. Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
23. Brubeck, Dave – Time Out
24. Baez, Joan – Joan Baez (1960)
25. Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!
26. Makeba, Miriam – Miriam Makeba (1960)
27. Everly Brothers – A Date with the…
28. Smith, Jimmy – Back at the Chicken Shack
29. Muddy Waters – At Newport
30. Evans, Bill – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
31. Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
32. Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions
33. Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
34. Price, Ray – Night Life
35. Beatles – With the…
36. Dylan, Bob – Freewheelin’…
37. Spector, Phil & Various Artists – A Christmas Gift for You
38. Cooke, Sam – Live at the Harlem Square
39. Mingus, Charles – Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
40. Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)
41. Getz, Stan & João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
42. Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
43. Brel, Jacques – Olympia 64
44. Burke, Solomon – Rock ‘n’ Soul
45. Springfield, Dusty - A Girl Called Dusty
46. Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones (1st Album)
47. Owens, Buck – I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail
48. Lewis, Jerry Lee – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
49. Sonics – Here Are the…
50. Dylan, Bob – Bringing it All Back Home
51. Redding, Otis – Otis Blue… Sings Soul
52. Beach Boys – Today!
53. Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme
54. King, B.B. – Live at the Regal
55. Beatles – Rubber Soul
56. Jansch, Bert – Bert Jansch (1st Album)
57. Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man
58. Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited
59. Who – My Generation
60. Beatles – Revolver
61. Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
62. Neil, Fred – Fred Neil (1st Album)
63. Byrds – Fifth Dimension
64. Dylan, Bob – Blonde on Blonde
65. Monks – Black Monk Time
66. Kinks – Face to Face
67. Mamas & the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
68. Revere, Paul & the Raiders – Midnight Ride
69. Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
70. Rolling Stones – Aftermath
71. Simon & Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
72. 13th Floor Elevators – Psychedelic Sounds of the…
73. John Mayall’s Blues Breakers – With Eric Clapton
74. Yardbirds – Yardbirds [aka Roger the Engineer] (1st Album)
75. Simone, Nina – Wild is the Wind
76. Gilberto, Astrud – Beach Samba
77. Nico – Chelsea Girl
78. Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
79. Country Joe & the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind & Body
80. Buffalo Springfield – Again
81. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
82. Moby Grape – Moby Grape (1st Album)
83. Love – Da Capo
84. Beau Brummels – Triangle
85. Monkees – Headquarters
86. Buckley, Tim – Goodbye & Hello
87. Love – Forever Changes
88. Cream – Disraeli Gears
89. Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
90. Who – Sell Out
91. Velvet Underground - & Nico
92. Sinatra, Frank - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
93. Doors – Doors (1st Album)
94. Young Rascals – Groovin’
95. Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
96. Kinks – Something Else by the…
97. Donovan – Sunshine Superman
98. Haggard, Merle – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
99. Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced
100. Electric Prunes – I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
101. Lynn, Loretta – Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)
102. Sharma, Shivkumar / Brij Bushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia – Call of the Valley
103. Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
104. Hendrix, Jimi – Axis: Bold as Love
105. Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
106. Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
107. Traffic – Traffic (2nd Album)
108. Incredible String Band – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
109. Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
110. Shankar, Ravi – Sounds of India (1968)
111. Mutantes, os – Mutantes, os (1st Album)
112. Hendrix, Jimi – Electric Ladyland
113. Cohen, Leonard – Songs of…
114. Cash, Johnny – At Folsom Prison
115. Nyro, Laura – Eli & the Thirteenth Confession
116. Franklin, Aretha – Lady Soul
117. Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
118. Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
119. Big Brother & the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
120. United States of America – United States of America
121. Dr John – Gris Gris
122. Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda da Vida
123. Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow
124. Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
125. Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake
126. Band – Music from Big Pink
127. Beck, Jeff – Truth
128. Veloso, Caetano – Caetano Veloso (1968)
129. Walker, Scott – Scott 2
130. Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
131. Morrison, Van – Astral Weeks
132. Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
133. Beatles – Beatles [aka White Album]
134. Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in it for the Money
135. Young, Neil – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
136. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
137. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
138. Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash
139. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears (2nd Album)
140. Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin
141. Cash, Johnny – At San Quentin
142. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
143. Beatles – Abbey Road
144. Who – Tommy
145. Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way
146. Bee Gees – Odessa
147. Pentangle – Basket of Light
148. Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
149. Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
150. Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis
151. Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in Memphis
152. Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground (3rd Album)
153. Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails
154. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1st Album)
155. Band – Band (2nd Album)
156. Led Zeppelin – II
157. MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
158. Temptations – Cloud Nine
159. Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
160. Buckley, Tim – Happy Sad
161. Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago] - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
162. Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
163. Youngbloods – Elephant Mountain
164. Hayes, Isaac – Hot Buttered Soul
165. Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
166. Kinks – Arthur: Or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire
167. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
168. Cohen, Leonard – Songs from a Room
169. Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
170. Walker, Scott – Scott 4
171. Stooges – Stooges (1st Album)
172. Spence, Alexander ‘Skip’ – Oar
173. Zappa, Frank – Hot Rats
174. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
175. Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
176. Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew
177. Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
178. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1st Album)
179. Doors – Morrison Hotel
180. Carpenters – Close to You
181. Still, Stephen – Stephen Stills (1st Album)
182. Lennon, John – Plastic Ono Band
183. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà vu
184. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
185. Young, Neil – After the Gold Rush
186. Led Zeppelin – III
187. Deep Purple – In Rock
188. Morrison, Van – Moondance
189. Grateful Dead – American Beauty
190. Drake, Nick – Bryter Layter
191. Shankar, Ananda – Ananda Shankar (1970)
192. Who – Live at Leeds(1st Album)
193. Soft Machine – Third
194. Stewart, Rod – Gasoline Alley
195. Harrison, George – All Things Must Pass
196. Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
197. Stevens, Cat – Tea for the Tillerman
198. Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
199. Stooges – Fun House
200. Taylor, James - Sweet Baby James
201. McCartney, Paul – McCartney (1970)
202. Santana – Abraxas
203. Barrett, Syd – Madcap Laughs
204. Jethro Tull – Aqualung
205. Crosby, David – If Only I Could Remember My Name
206. Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
207. Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On
208. Yes – Yes Album
209. Bee Gees – Trafalgar
210. Who – Who’s Next
211. King, Carole – Tapestry
212. Hayes, Isaac – Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack
213. Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East
214. Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
215. Lennon, John – Imagine
216. Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
217. Yes – Fragile
218. Doors – LA Woman
219. Can – Tago Mago
220. John, Elton – Madman Across the Water
221. Parton, Dolly – Coat of Many Colors
222. McLean, Don – American Pie
223. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus
224. Led Zeppelin – IV [aka Untitled / aka Four Symbols]
225. Gainsbourg, Serge – Histoire de Melody Nelson
226. Stewart, Rod – Every Picture Tells a Story
227. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition
228. Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate
229. Mitchell, Joni – Blue
230. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
231. Joplin, Janis – Pearl
232. Kuti, Fela - With Ginger Baker: Live!
233. Faces – A Nod is as Good as a Wink… To a Blind Horse
234. Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head
235. Clark, Gene – White Light
236. Prine, John – John Prine (1st Album)
237. Nilsson, Harry – Nilsson Schmilsson
238. T.Rex – Electric Warrior
239. Bowie, David – Hunky Dory
240. Newman, Randy – Sail Away
241. Deep Purple – Machine Head
242. Big Star – # 1 Record
243. Black Sabbath – Vol 4
244. Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill
245. Young, Neil – Harvest
246. Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
247. Slade – Slayed?
248. Deep Purple – Made in Japan
249. Yes – Close to the Edge
250. Reed, Lou – Transformer
251. Masekela, Hugh – Home is Where the Music Is
252. Nascimento, Milton & Lo Borges – Clube da Esquina (1972)
253. Rundgren, Todd – Something/Anything
254. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
255. Wonder, Stevie – Talking Book
256. Still, Stephen – Manassas
257. T.Rex – Slider
258. Ackles, David – American Gothic
259. Eagles – Eagles (1st Album)
260. Buckley, Tim – Greetings from LA
261. Drake, Nick – Pink Moon
262. Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1972)
263. Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st Album)
264. Alice Cooper – School’s Out
265. Temptations – All Directions
266. Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
267. War – World is a Ghetto
268. Green, Al – Let’s Stay Together
269. Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
270. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
271. Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
272. Bowie, David – Aladdin Sane
273. King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues in Aspic
274. Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Catch a Fire
275. Hawkwind – Space Ritual
276. Cale, John – Paris 1919
277. Can – Future Days
278. Reed, Lou – Berlin
279. Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
280. Gaye, Marvin – Let’s Get it On
281. Martyn, John – Solid Air
282. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
283. Faust – IV
284. Hancock, Herbie – Head Hunters
285. Mott the Hoople – Mott
286. Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells
287. Rundgren, Todd – A Wizard, a True Star
288. John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
289. Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy
290. Jennings, Waylon – Honky Tonk Heroes
291. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
292. Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions
293. ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
294. McCartney, Paul & Wings – Band on the Run
295. Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next
296. Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies
297. Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power
298. Isley Brothers – 3 + 3
299. New York Dolls – New York Dolls (1st Album)
300. Eno, Brian – Here Come the Warm Jets
301. Bad Company – Bad Company (1st Album)
302. Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
303. Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration Information
304. Wonder, Stevie – Fullfillingness’ First Finale
305. Clapton, Eric – 461 Ocean Boulevard
306. Kraftwerk – Autobahn
307. Morrison, Van – It’s Too Late to Stop Now
308. Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
309. Queen – II
310. Roxy Music – Country Life
311. Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
312. Sparks – Kimono My House
313. Supertramp – Crime of the Century
314. Thompson, Richard & Linda – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
315. Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson – Winter in America
316. Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
317. 10cc – Sheet Music
318. Young, Neil – On the Beach
319. Jones, George – Grand Tour
320. Clark, Gene – No Other
321. Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
322. Newman, Randy – Good Old Boys
323. Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Natty Dread
324. Wyatt, Robert – Rock Bottom
325. Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel
326. Eno, Brian – Another Green World
327. Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!
328. Neu! – ‘75
329. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
330. Jarrett, Keith – Köln Concert
331. Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
332. Bowie, David – Young Americans
333. Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
334. Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run
335. Harris, Emmylou – Pieces of the Sky
336. Dion – Born to Be With You
337. Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of Summer Lawns
338. Waits, Tom - Nighthawks at the Diner
339. Burman, Rahul Dev – Shalimar (Soundtrack)
340. Young, Neil – Tonight’s the Night
341. Dylan, Bob – Blood on the Tracks
342. Smith, Patti – Horses
343. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
344. Queen – A Night at the Opera
345. Nelson, Willie – Red Headed Stranger
346. Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World
347. Mayfield, Curtis – There’s No Place Like America Today
348. Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1st Album)
349. Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers [Rec 1972, not released until 1976]
350. Bowie, David – Station to Station
351. Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
352. Boston – Boston (1st Album)
353. Eagles – Hotel California
354. ABBA – Arrival
355. Kiss – Destroyer
356. Rush – 2112
357. Ben, Jorge – África Brasil
358. Armatrading, Joan – Joan Armatrading (1st Album)
359. Aerosmith – Rocks
360. Parliament – Mothership Connection
361. Penguin Café Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Café
362. Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene
363. Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
364. Kuti, Fela – Zombie
365. Tosh, Peter – Legalize It
366. Wonder, Stevie – Songs in the Key of Life
367. Frampton, Peter – Frampton Comes Alive
368. Eno, Brian – Before & After Science
369. Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
370. Joel, Billy – Stranger, the
371. Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Exodus
372. Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
373. Weather Report – Heavy Weather
374. Muddy Waters – Hard Again
375. Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
376. Clash – Clash (1st Album)
377. Bowie, David – Low
378. Steely Dan – Aja
379. Wire – Pink Flag
380. Martyn, John – One World
381. Talking Heads – 77
382. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
383. Bowie, David – ‘Heroes’
384. Wilson, Dennis – Pacific Ocean Blue
385. Suicide – Suicide (1st Album)
386. Iggy Pop – Idiot, the
387. Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (I)
388. Television – Marquee Moon
389. Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
390. Costello, Elvis – My Aim is True
391. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
392. Dury, Ian – New Boots & Panties!!
393. Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
394. Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
395. Kraftwerk – Man Machine
396. Blondie – Parallel Lines
397. Regina, Elís – Vento de Maio
398. Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
399. Only Ones – Only Ones (1st Album)
400. Costello, Elvis – This Year’s Model
401. Jam – All Mod Cons
402. Ely, Joe – Honky Tonk Masquerade
403. Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea with the…
404. Big Star – Third (aka Sister Lovers)
405. Residents – Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
406. Public Image Ltd – Public Image
407. Magazine – Real Life
408. Springsteen, Bruce – Darkness on the Edge of Town
409. Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove
410. Throbbing Gristle – DOA: Third & Final Report
411. Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous
412. Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings & Food
413. Buzzcocks – Another Music in a Different Kitchen
414. Van Halen – Van Halen (1st Album)
415. Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades – Siembra
416. Cars – Cars (1st Album)
417. Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
418. Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1st Album)
419. Saints – Eternally Yours
420. Gaye, Marvin – Here, My Dear
421. Nelson, Willie – Stardust
422. Chic – C’est Chic
423. X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
424. Eno, Brian – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
425. Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream, the
426. AC/DC – Highway to Hell
427. Sister Sledge – We Are Family
428. Crusaders – Street Life
429. Germs – GI
430. B52s – B52s (1st Album)
431. Czukay, Holger – Movies
432. Police – Reggatta de Blanc
433. Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
434. Talking Heads – Fear of Music
435. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
436. Chic – Risqué
437. Undertones – Undertones (1st Album)
438. Clash – London Calling
439. Japan – Quiet Life
440. Faithfull, Marianne – Broken English
441. Slits – Cut
442. Costello, Elvis – Armed Forces
443. Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps
444. Gang of Four – Entertainment!
445. Cheap Trick – At Budokan
446. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
447. Pink Floyd – Wall, the
448. Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
449. Jackson, Michael – Off the Wall
450. Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
451. Numan, Gary – Pleasure Principle
452. Specials – Specials (1st Album)
453. Adam & the Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier
454. Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
455. AC/DC – Back in Black
456. Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us
457. Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
458. Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (III)
459. Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
460. Cure – Seventeen Seconds
461. Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles
462. Motörhead – Ace of Spades
463. Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1st Album)
464. Judas Priest – British Steel
465. Circle Jerks – Group Sex
466. Talking Heads – Remain in Light
467. Joy Division – Closer
468. Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1st Album)
469. Undertones – Hypnotised
470. Jam – Sound Affects
471. Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine
472. UB40 – Signing Off
473. Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
474. Specials – More Specials
475. Winwood, Steve – Arc of a Diver
476. Pretenders – Pretenders (1st Album)
477. Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
478. Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju
479. Heaven 17 – Penthouse & Pavement
480. Go-Gos – Beauty & the Beat
481. Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
482. Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
483. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Architecture & Morality
484. Eno, Brian & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
485. Black Flag – Damaged
486. X – Wild Gift
487. Psychedelic Furs – Talk, Talk, Talk
488. Human League – Dare
489. Gun Club – Fire of Love
490. Bauhaus – Mask
491. Womack, Bobby – Poet
492. Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club (1st Album)
493. Rush – Moving Pictures
494. ABBA – Visitors
495. ABC – Lexicon of Love
496. Prince – 1999
497. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Message, the
498. Costello, Elvis – Imperial Bedroom
499. Cure – Pornography
500. Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay
501. Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
502. Madness – Rise & Fall
503. Fagen, Donald – Nightfly
504. Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West
505. Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the
506. Orange Juice – Rip it Up
507. Jackson, Michael – Thriller
508. Birthday Party – Junkyard
509. Venom – Black Metal
510. Springsteen, Bruce – Nebraska
511. Associates – Sulk
512. Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
513. Duran Duran – Rio
514. Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1st Album)
515. McLaren, Malcolm – Duck Rock
516. Def Leppard – Pyromania
517. REM – Murmur
518. The The – Soul Mining
519. Waits, Tom – Swordfishtrombones
520. Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops
521. Hanoi Rocks – Back to Mystery City
522. Lauper, Cyndi – She’s So Unusual
523. Simon, Paul – Hearts & Bones
524. Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine
525. ZZ Top – Eliminator
526. Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
527. U2 – War
528. Police – Synchronicity
529. Meat Puppets – II
530. Culture Club – Colour by Numbers
531. Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome
532. Run DMC – Run DMC (1984)
533. Sade – Diamond Life
534. Cocteau Twins – Treasure
535. Minor Threat – Out of Step
536. Van Halen – 1984
537. Prince – Purple Rain
538. Replacements – Let it Be
539. Style Council – Café Bleu
540. Turner, Tina – Private Dancer
541. Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
542. Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
543. Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions – Rattlesnakes
544. N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés
545. Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA
546. Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
547. Ibrahim, Abdullah – Water from an Ancient Well
548. Aha – Hunting High & Low
549. Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
550. Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
551. Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good)
552. Mekons – Fear & Whiskey
553. Big Black – Atomizer
554. Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album)
555. Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
556. Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love
557. Smiths – Meat is Murder
558. Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
559. Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy
560. New Order – Low Life
561. Simply Red – Picture Book
562. Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down
563. Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche 85
564. Costello, Elvis – Blood & Chocolate
565. Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock: The Album
566. Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
567. Metallica – Master of Puppets
568. The The – Infected
569. Griffith, Nanci – Last of the True Believers
570. Bragg, Billy – Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
571. Talk Talk – Colour of Spring
572. Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?
573. Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
574. Sonic Youth – Evol
575. Slayer – Reign in Blood
576. Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses (1986)
577. Simon, Paul – Graceland
578. Run DMC – Raising Hell
579. XTC – Skylarking
580. Earle, Steve – Guitar Town
581. Bad Brains – I Against I
582. Baker, Anita – Rapture
583. Smiths – Queen is Dead
584. Gabriel, Peter – So
585. Anthrax – Among the Living
586. Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me
587. Parton, Dolly with Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Trio
588. Def Leppard – Hysteria
589. REM – Document
590. Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
591. Cult – Electric
592. Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
593. Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
594. Michael, George – Faith
595. Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs & Stories
596. Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician
597. Piazzolla, Astor & Gary Burton – New Tango
598. Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
599. Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
600. Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands
601. Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Shaka Zulu
602. Laibach – Opus Dei
603. Napalm Death – Scum
604. Sonic Youth – Sister
605. Triffids – Calenture
606. Jackson, Michael – Bad
607. Pet Shop Boys – Actually
608. U2 – Joshua Tree
609. D’Arby, Terence Trent – Introducing the Hardline According to…
610. Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
611. Cohen, Leonard – I’m Your Man
612. Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
613. Fishbone – Truth & Soul
614. Everything But the Girl – Idlewild
615. Living Colour - Vivid
616. Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff
617. REM – Green
618. Happy Mondays – Bummed
619. Go Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
620. Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Session
621. Chapman, Tracy – Tracy Chapman (1st Album)
622. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
623. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
624. Metallica – And Justice for All
625. Dinosaur Jr – Bug
626. Krause, Dagmar – Tank Battles
627. lang, k.d. – Shadowland
628. American Music Club – California
629. Morrissey – Viva Hate
630. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
631. Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good
632. Yoakam, Dwight – Beuenas Noches from a Lonely Roomn
633. Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
634. Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
635. Faith No More – Real Thing
636. Kravtiz, Lenny – Let Love Rule
637. Hooker, John Lee – Healer, the
638. New Order – Technique
639. Madonna – Like a Prayer
640. Queen Latifah – All Hail the Queen
641. Spacemen 3 – Playing with Fire
642. fIREHOSE – fROMOHIO
643. Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
644. Young Gods – Eau Rouge, l’
645. Zorn, John – Spy vs Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman
646. Stone Roses – Stone Roses (1st Album)
647. Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
648. Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck – Djam Leelii
649. Bush, Kate – Sensual World
650. Cure – Disintegration
651. 808 State – 808:90
652. Coldcut – What’s That Noise?
653. Adamson, Barry – Moss Side Story
654. Aerosmith – Pump
655. Pixies – Doolittle
656. Raitt, Bonnie – Nick of Time
657. Fugazi – Repeater
658. Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One
659. De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising
660. Jackson, Janet – Rhythm Nation 1814
661. Jungle Brothers – Done by the Forces of Nature
662. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
663. Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
664. Shamen – En-Tact
665. Deee Lite – World Clique
666. La’s – La’s
667. Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
668. Depeche Mode – Violator
669. Pixies – Bossanova
670. Megadeth – Rust in Peace
671. Digital Underground – Sex Packets
672. Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
673. Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
674. Michael, George – Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1
675. Young, Neil – Ragged Glory
676. Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
677. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
678. LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
679. Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
680. O’Connor, Sinéad – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
681. Tribe Called Quest, a – People’s Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
682. Sonic Youth – Goo
683. Ride – Nowhere
684. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
685. Nirvana – Nevermind
686. Crowded House – Woodface
687. Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (1st Album)
688. Cope, Julian – Peggy Suicide
689. Gang Starr – Step in the Arena
690. MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo
691. Jah Wobble – Rising Above Bedlam
692. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
693. Ice T – OG: Original Gangster
694. Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
695. Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91… Enemy Strikes Back
696. Tribe Called Quest, a – Low End Theory
697. Pearl Jam – Ten
698. Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
699. Sepultura – Arise
700. Slint – Spiderland
701. U2 – Achtung Baby
702. KLF – White Room
703. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
704. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
705. Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
706. Metallica – Metallica [aka Black Album]
707. Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
708. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
709. Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of…
710. Olomidé, Koffi – Haut de Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche
711. Morrissey – Your Arsenal
712. Maal, Baaba – Lam Toro
713. Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray
714. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1st Album)
715. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
716. lang, k.d. – Ingénue
717. Dr Dre – Chronic, the
718. REM – Automatic for the People
719. Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the…
720. Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies
721. Sugar – Copper Blue
722. Waits, Tom – Bone Machine
723. Sonic Youth – Dirty
724. Stereo MCs – Connected
725. Ministry – Psalm 69 (Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)
726. Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes
727. Ice Cube – Predator
728. Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
729. Alice in Chains – Dirt
730. Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream, by…
731. Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali – Devotional Songs
732. Harvey, P.J. – Dry
733. Weller, Paul – Wild Wood
734. Suede - Suede (1st Album)
735. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
736. Auteurs – New Wave
737. Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville
738. Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen
739. Mann, Aimee – Whatever
740. Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
741. Nirvana – In Utero
742. Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth
743. Pet Shop Boys – Very
744. Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me
745. Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
746. Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club
747. Fall – Infotainment Scan
748. Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
749. Björk – Debut
750. Orbital – Orbital [aka Brown Album]
751. Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
752. Sebadoh – Bubble & Scrape
753. Boo Radleys – Giant Steps
754. Orbit, William – Strange Cargo: III
755. Method Man – Tical
756. Black, Frank – Teenager of the Year
757. Girls Against Boys – Venus Luxure No 1 Baby
758. Jeru the Damaja – Sun Rises in the East
759. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
760. Portishead – Dummy
761. Sabres of Paradise – Haunted Dancehall
762. Nas – Illmatic
763. Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
764. Costello, Elvis – Brutal Youth
765. Morrissey – Vauxhall & I
766. TLC – CrazySexyCool
767. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
768. Soundgarden – Superunknown
769. Offspring – Smash
770. Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
771. Blur – Parklife
772. G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce (1994)
773. Touré, Ali Farka – Talking Timbuktu
774. Hole – Live Through This
775. Massive Attack – Protection
776. Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible
777. Suede – Dog Man Star
778. Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
779. Buckley, Jeff – Grace
780. Orbital – Snivilisation
781. Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
782. Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral
783. Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
784. Green Day – Dookie
785. Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1st Album)
786. Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
787. Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight
788. Tricky – Maxinquaye
789. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
790. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
791. Rocket from the Crypt – Scream, Dracula, Scream
792. Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
793. 2Pac – Me Against the World
794. Elastica – Elastica (1st Album)
795. Supergrass – I Should Coco
796. Radiohead – Bends, the
797. Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes
798. Kuti, Femi – Femi Kuti (1995)
799. Verve – A Northern Soul
800. Genius GZA – Liquid Swords
801. Pulp – Different Class
802. Leftfield – Leftism
803. D’Angelo – Brown Sugar
804. Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
805. Goldie – Timeless
806. Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little Pill
807. Screaming Trees – Dust
808. Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
809. Fatboy Slim – Better Living Through Chemistry
810. Dr Octagon – Dr Octagonecologyst
811. Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
812. Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
813. Beck – Odelay
814. Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
815. DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
816. Eels – Beautiful Freak
817. Divine Comedy – Casanova
818. Apple, Fiona – Tidal
819. Wilco – Being There
820. Sepultura – Roots
821. Adamson, Barry – Oedipus Schmoedipus
822. Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Come Find Yourself
823. Maxwell – Urban Hang Suite
824. Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories
825. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
826. Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded
827. Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
828. Bukem, LTJ – Logical Progression
829. Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
830. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Now I Got Worry
831. Cardigans – First Band on the Moon
832. Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
833. Fugees – Score, the
834. Ash – 1977
835. Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
836. Blur – Blur (1997)
837. Radiohead – OK Computer
838. Quaye, Finley – Maverick a Strike
839. Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly
840. Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
841. Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
842. Wyatt, Robert – Shleep
843. Holmes, David – Let’s Get Killed
844. Sleater Kinney – Dig Me Out
845. Prodigy – Fat of the Land
846. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
847. Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Boatman’s Call
848. Divine Comedy – A Short Album About Love
849. Cornershop – When I was Born for the 7th Time
850. Daft Punk – Homework
851. Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a Lens
852. Carey, Mariah – Butterfly
853. Supergrass – In it for the Money
854. Dylan, Bob – Time Out of Mind
855. Size, Roni & Reprazent – New Forms
856. Smith, Elliott – Either/Or
857. Verve – Urban Hymns
858. Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
859. Dandy Warhols – Dandy Warhols (1997)
860. Dylan, Bob – Bootleg Series Vol 4: Live 1966 [rec: 1966 at Free Trade Hall, Manchester]
861. Chao, Manu – Clandestino
862. Bragg, Billy & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
863. Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
864. Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
865. Gray, David – White Ladder
866. Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
867. Pulp – This is Hardcore
868. Madonna – Ray of Light
869. Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
870. Hole – Celebrity Skin
871. Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
872. System of a Down - System of a Down (1st Album)
873. Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age (1st Album)
874. Air – Moon Safari
875. Singh, Talvin – OK
876. Korn – Follow the Leader
877. Khalèd, (Cheb) – Kenza
878. Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
879. Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
880. Suba - São Paulo Confessions
881. XTC – Apple Venus: Volume 1
882. Skunk Anansie – Post Orgasmic Chill
883. Incubus – Make Yourself
884. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
885. Travis – Man Who
886. Slipknot – Slipknot (1st Album)
887. Orton, Beth – Central Reservation
888. Sawhney, Nitin – Beyond Skin
889. Death in Vegas – Contino Sessions
890. Moby – Play
891. Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
892. Rhymes Digitales, les – Darkdancer
893. Tigre, le – Tigre, le (1999)
894. Eminem – Slim Shady LP
895. Spears, Britney – Baby One More Time
896. Metallica – S&M
897. Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
898. Shack – HMS Fable
899. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
900. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
901. Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
902. Doves – Lost Souls
903. Air – Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score
904. Adams, Ryan – Heartbreaker
905. Gilberto, Bebel – Tanto Tempo
906. Cole, MJ – Sincere
907. Harris, Emmylou – Red Dirt Girl
908. Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water
909. Radiohead – Kid A
910. U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
911. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
912. Smith, Elliott – Figure 8
913. Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast
914. Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
915. Badu, Erykah – Mama’s Gun
916. Coldplay – Parachutes
917. Common – Like Water for Chocolate
918. Ladd, Mike – Welcome to the Afterfuture
919. Red Snapper – Our Aim is to Satisfy
920. Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
921. Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
922. Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment
923. Lambchop – Nixon
924. Lemper, Ute – Punishing Kiss
925. Madonna – Music
926. Avalanches – Since I Left You
927. OutKast – Stankonia
928. Radiohead – Amnesiac
929. Silver Jews – Bright Flight
930. Björk – Vespertine
931. Gorillaz – Gorillaz (1st Album)
932. Adams, Ryan – Gold
933. Destiny’s Child – Survivor
934. Strokes – Is This It
935. Welch, Gillian – Time (The Revelator)
936. Gotan Project – Revancha del Tango, la
937. White Stripes – White Blood Cells
938. Beta Band – Hot Shots II
939. Jay Z – Blueprint
940. Röyksopp – Melody AM
941. Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
942. Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
943. Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers
944. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
945. Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
946. Bees – Sunshine Hit Me
947. Jones, Norah – Come Away with Me
948. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
949. Coral – Coral (2002)
950. Cash, Johnny – American IV: Man Comes Around
951. Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
952. Doves – Last Broadcast
953. Elliott, Missy – Under Construction
954. Springsteen, Bruce – Rising, the
955. Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
956. Roots – Phrenology
957. Beck – Sea Change
958. Timberlake, Justin – Justified
959. Vines – Highly Evolved
960. Hives – Your New Favourite Band
961. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
962. Winehouse, Amy – Frank
963. Calexico – Feast of Wire
964. Darkness – Permission to Land
965. White Stripes – Elephant
966. Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
967. Kings of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
968. Thrills – So Much for the City
969. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
970. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
971. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
972. Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
973. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
974. Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
975. Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
976. Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons?
977. Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
978. Björk – Medúlla
979. Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
980. Wilson, Brian – SMiLE
981. Icarus Line – Penance Soirée
982. Arcade Fire – Funeral
983. Banhart, Devendra – Rejoicing in the Hands
984. Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
985. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (1st Album)
986. N*E*R*D – Fly or Die
987. Beta Band – Heroes to Zeros
988. Ozamatli – Street Signs
989. Libertines – Libertines (1st Album)
990. West, kanYe – College Dropout
991. Green, Cee-Lo – Is the Soul Machine
992. TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
993. Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
994. Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
995. Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two
996. Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
997. Killers – Hot Fuss
998. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
999. MIA (UK) – Arular
1000. Beck – Guero
1001. White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan

Plus, from the revision in 2007 a further selection were added to reflect new releases...

• Anthony & The Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
• Common - Be
• Hawley, Richard - Cole's Corners
• Stevens, Sufjan - Illinois
• TourC Farka, Ali - Savane
• Winehouse, Amy - Back to Black
• Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am
• Aguilera, Christina - Back to Basics
• Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
• Newsom, Joanna - Ys
• Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
• Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Justice - Cross
• LCD Soundsystem - The Sound of Silver
• MIA - Kala
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• The Good, the Bad & the Queen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen
• Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

I've worked in IT Support myself, I know it doesn't have to be this way! Annoyed with the lack of progress from ITS in my particular issues, which revolves around them losing my registration forms in the post, I sent this open letter of complain to them earlier, which I'm posting here, a) because its funny and b) because I want to make this complain public... Its a bit long, but worth it (I'd like to think).

Once upon a time a happy member of the Van Mildert College JCR Exec maintained two non-personal accounts for use by the Executive committee, and for hosting important JCR documents they were constitutionally bound to display on the web. Life was good. The college made good use of their two accounts, dvm8jrsc dvm8jcr and everyone was happy.

One day there was an e-mail reminding the students that the accounts would soon expire, and a re-registration form would have to be completed and signed off in order for the accounts to remain active after the end of term. Being a motivated and organised worker, the JCR Secretary dilligently downloaded and completed the forms, had them signed by the JCR President and merrily posted via internal post to the IT Service Desk. Confident everything was going to plan, the JCR Secretary was even pleased to see an e-mail from ITS to one of the accounts, pointing out that as part of reregistration the account would even be upgraded from sendmail to exchange, what a bonus!

All was not well however, and one day after the accounts were expected to expire, the JCR Secretary got an e-mail from ITS saying if the account was not re-registered it would be disabled yesterday. The happy-go-lucky secretary was puzzled how an account could be disabled yesterday and even more puzzled as to why he was even getting a reminder when he'd posted the forms aaaaages ago. He decided, just to be safe, to drop the helpful people at ITS an e-mail and find out what was going on.

A short while later he recieved a rather abrupt reply from ITS, telling him they had never received any renewal forms and as such his accounts would shortly be disabled unless he could produce a valid renewal form. The poor JCR Secretary was dumbfounded, he argued he had definitely sent the forms, and pointed out he was no longer in Durham (since it was by now early in the summer holidays) so getting hold of a new form could be somewhat troublesome. To make the matter worse, he discovered the JCR President was going to be out of the country for the next three weeks and out of reach by e-mail for most of that. He did his best to explain to the somewhat reluctant ITS staff that gettign hold of a new form was going to be a problem. He urged them to keep the account enabled for the time being, since by mid-August he would have no problem producing the mischevious registration form.

ITS weren't happy to play though, they said a registration form signed by a bursar or principle of the college would also suffice, although the JCR Secretary soon discovered that both these college staff as well were unavailable and not able to sign his form. Again he urged ITS to take pity on the situation and leave the account enabled in the short term, it was - after all - displaying a lot of important documents that the JCR were constitutionally bound to display online to its members, if the account was disabled it would not also be an annoyance to him, but potentially problematic to the entire JCR - a body of over 800 students.

After a barrage of e-mails which left the helpless JCR secretary weary from the blunt and unhelpful nature of the replies, he eventually gave up, he would have to wait for the JCR President to return, at which point he could print and sign the forms, scan them into his computer, e-mail them up to the president and have her print, co-sign and post them to ITS. Before resigning himself to this inevitable fate, he decided to make a quick and very important check with ITS - would everything in his accounts be safe? Unfortunately, living in a land far away from normal civilisation he had no fast broadband with which to backup the files himself, he would have to ensure they remained safe on the Durham computer system. ITS were confident though, as long as the forms were sent swiftly his files would be secure! Hurrah! The poor Secretary was also concerned about how he could collect his password, after all he was over 300 miles from the helpdesk, ITS however were quick to the rescue again - making up for past misdemeanours they promised though would be no problem at all to send the new password to his durham e-mail account. Brilliant.

Time went by, and the President returned from a lovely holiday far accross the oceans blue. The patient JCR secretary quickly dispatched his partially-completed registration forms, and was pleased to hear back from the President that she had signed and completed the forms and sent them off to ITS, again making use of the internal mail service. It was a lovely sunny day, and as the ducks and rabbits frolliced around the Van Mildert Lake, a gentle breeze blew through the trees - everything was peaceful and calm. There was nothing to worry about, the forms had been posted away, and after the blunder first time around, surely this time they would be safe.

After a little over a week though, the Secretary was starting to get concerned again. The new term was drawing near and he still didn't have access to either of his accounts, locking him out of access to many of his important files and rendering him unable to get on with his summer work. There had been complaints from the JCR too, minutes of important meetings and other important documents weren't available online. This was starting to become a problem, the President had posted those forms off some time ago now -- what had happened to them?

Still being in a land far far away the Secretary asked the President to check out the situation for him, his previous adventures with ITS hadn't gone too well, maybe a member of staff - with a higher level of authority in these matters would succeed where many before had fallen. The kindly President ventured down to the service desk in search of answers, only to be greeted with more confusion tales. ITS only had record of her sending them one renewal, for the dvm8jrsc account (vm.jcr-secretary), how strange, they had no record of dvm8jcr (vm.jcr-exec). Well this was getting a bit frustrating, both forms had been posted together - how could one have got lost? Well, there was nothing for it, the President gave the Secretary a quick phone call, and jointly they decided the best plan of action was to comple a third renewal form for the vm.jcr-exec account, it would mean the President would have to be the maintainer of the account but ultimately that would cause little woe between the Exec, and in such dire times any compromise had to be worthwhile to get things sorted. The President also learned from the helpdesk that the other account, vm.jcr-secretary had been renewed and was enabled again. Hip Hip Hooray. ITS promised everything would be sorted overnight, in the morning, all these issues would be over and the college JCR could once again sleep peacefully.

Later the next day, the Secretary tried to get into his dvm8jrsc account, but found the password must have been changed for his old details no longer worked - didn't ITS promise to send him a new password? Oh dear, that didn't seem right. Well, at least the links on the website would work again since all his files should be active still in his /public_html/ folder. But what, his web share appeared to be empty? What happened to his hundreds of megabytes of files? This was very strange indeed. What about the exec account (dvm8jcr), he at least had a new username and password for that one - but that too was also empty of files. How strange. Didn't ITS also promise all the files would be restored automatically? How very peculiar. The secretary was starting to lose all hope of this situation ever being resolved, he gave the President a quick call and explained the situaton, she promised that as the sun came up on a new day, she would ride forth to ITS and demand audience with someone who could explain this whole sordid situation.

Sure enough, the sun came up and the President prepared for battle. She rode down to ITS, ready for an engagement of truely terrifying proportions, armed with service desk call IDs she battled bravely with the service desk, demanding explanations. ITS were sneaky though and threw her off the trail by attempting to blame the lack of restored files on 'server upgrades', and gave no explanation for why the Secretary had not been sent new login details nor made any attempt to offer to do so. The president was forced into tactical retreat, and with a distant rumble of thunder in the air she returned up the hill deflated; a storm was brewing.

... Can this story end happily ever after? You decide....the power is in your hands now.

There are some havens for the more alternative music taste, but they are few and far between. Fishtank is the only place that can really call itself an alternative venue, but with a capacity of only about 70 people, it just can't get enough people through the door to make bigger acts affordable. Revolver, Twisted and Planet of Sound at the DSU are about as good as it gets, but even they compromise on music in order to pull more mainstream crowds, and rarely have live acts or guest DJs. Colleges do their best to put on the odd event, and Jam By The Lake at Mildert even managed to secure Frank Turner this year - but these sort of names should be possible regularly, all year round, not as an annual one off.

So What? Well after a year of complaining about alternative music in Durham, I've decided to do something about it! Teaming up with other likeminded individuals we've formed "Bursting The Bubble"; a music promotions group aimed at advertising and organising alternative music events in Durham. We're working with both local and student bands, local promoters, Fishtank and DSU to try and straighten things out a bit in Durham! We've launched a website, www.weburstbubbles.com which we'll use to profile Durham based bands and advertise forthcoming alternative music events. We're also on Facebook and Myspace so check those out and add us there too! If you're in a band and looking for gigs in Durham give us a shout.

Our debut event (get tickets here) is headlined by the Karoshi Brothers; billed as Newcastle's answer to Justice these guys are rapidly growing on the electro scene at the moment, and are tipped to tour with the likes of Pete Tong and Goldfrapp next year. We're starting off with relatively small scale events, primarily at Van Mildert College and some club nights at Fishtank, but we've also got plans in the pipeline to throw some seriously big acts at the DSU which is very, very exciting. Look out for more on that once term kicks off in October...

So, where do I stand? Given I don't have a separate bank account for VBE Software, I just work from my personal bank account, everything considered, VBE Software has currently made a profit of £450! Now thats not a real £450 in my bank account, its probably been spent by me, personally, already - but in theory thats where it came from, and in theory on demand I could pay the money back into the company for investment etc. Even so, I was quite impressed with a £450 profit, total income was in the region of £1450, but a lot of that goes straight through the accounts to me as wages for direct work, for example RMGS were billed by the hour for my work on their website and that was paid directly to me as wages by VBE Software.

Read More: VBE Software Accounts 2007-2008

My target for this fiscal year: keep proper accounts from the outset, so you don't have to spend a whole evening rummaging through old bank statements again.

I recently came across udntgtme.blogspot.com, the website for a spoof band - udntgtme - that me, Steve, Andy and Chris formed for a day back in Sixth Form. I had completely forgotten this existed, and the only reason I realised is because I stumbled across on the images in my web server space. As if that wasn't enough, I noticed a flash slideshow of photos (click Read More on this post to see it!) and wondered how it was being powered, turns out I have a flickr account as well! I wonder how many other things there are like this "lying around" on the internet, and how would I find them? In our so-called throwaway culture we are even throwing away websites and online accounts, polluting the www with redundant and out of date content.

We were up on the top floor, merrily dancing away, when I look down and notice what looks like dry ice moving across the floor at our feet. I point it out to Hayley and Liz and we assume they've had new dry ice/smoke machines fitted.

The next thing we know, there's an alarm going off, people screaming and shouting "tear gas", couldn't see my hand in front of my face for smoke, no-one can breathe, and there's the most foul smell choking everyone. We all make for the doors, people are streaming down the stairs into the middle floor in coughing fits, smoke billowing down the stairs with them...

Bouncers and security staff close off the top floor and usher anyone who's still coughing outside, where they'd stopped letting people in. Initially they said it was due to a tear gas release, but then (presumably to stop the spread of just this sort of gossip) they just called it an unknown gas release. We made our way outside, Hayley and Liz decided to go back for Liz's brother then get a taxi, I had to go home as I was feeling really sick and still coughing pretty badly.

One suggestion made is that someone either let off or damaged a powder fire extinguisher, which when combined with the ventilation system could create the clouds of gas. However, a quick Google tells me all powder fire extinguishers are odourless, and that place definitely stank. It also wouldn't make sense how it spread over the whole floor, looking like dry ice, then rose up causing the choking (surely the powder would sink to the floor, after all fire extinguishers are pretty directional if released properly, and if it exploded surely there would have been a cloud in one corner which then spread outwards?

Other ideas? Maybe it was a riot gas/smoke grenade of some sort? No-one was crying (directly due to the gas anyway), which rules out tear gas.

It does concern me a little that the place appeared to be staying open, and there was no sign of Police, Fire & Rescue or Paramedic response. Again, googling the "best case" scenario of a powder fire extinguisher release, H&S guidelines still say anyone who inhaled or got the powder in their eyes should seek medical advice immediately.

Can someone more "in the know" fill me in?

So much for a blaze-of-glory-last-night-at-tap-and-tin-before-uni!

And why?

Because I had a tail light out!

If I'm going to have a criminal record, can't it be for something slightly more exciting than that?!?

Now I have to fill in a form to prove it gets fixed or I can be prosecuted.

Stupid Paul. Stupid Car.

Despite some initial reservations, all of this has however always been a stepping stone. I've learnt through the year that whilst working in ICT in the education sector is a fun and varied job, its not the career path I want to be following. To progress further I need to get my degree, and then look from there into my options in the Software Development market.

This last few months however, it's almost like I'm not supposed to leave... It's just been one thing after another at work, and I have to say the stress has been getting to me lately. Starting with Sam leaving for a better position, which promoted me to Network Manager, and then having a catalogue of disasters over the summer break; culminating in falcon, our core router, dhcp server, dns server and proxy server breaking beyond all repair; I'm starting to think its some sort of sign.

Yesterday should have been my last day, my contract has theoretically expired, however I'm going to be there for at least the next fortnight. I've had less than a week off (through holiday or absense) in the last year, and I've in fact been in for 5 hours today... On a Saturday! I've become a work-o-holic. I'll be doing another few hours tomorrow from home, fixing moodle - another delayed summer job. I was supposed to be taking a holiday, I just don't have time now. I can't help but wonder how I'm going to cope at University without constantly having lots to do. Frankly, that's what's worrying me most at the moment - not having lots to do, not being under constant stress.

Is that normal?

One more month. I can't believe I've worked there over a year now, its been such an eventful time but it has totally flown by. I've been so fortunate to have had this experience to work with some fantastic people, learn a lot of new skills and develop my existing ones further as well as - most importantly of all - have a good time.

One more month then I go to Uni...

One more month. Despite what I've just said I can't wait to get to University, and to think its just a month away is pretty scary. It didn't really hit home until last week when I went shopping for cutlery and bed linen, now things are quickly snowballing (Glasses, a Dinner Set, Mugs, Kettle, Water Cooler, Stationary, TV License, Iron) and I'm trying to keep up but I can sense the reality of the situation slipping away from me. In a months time I won't live in Kent. I'll be on the other side of the country. I'll only know one person when I get there. I can't "just pop home for some laundry", "just pop to the pub and see Moira or Kim".

I know its not exactly Timbuktu (although, I do have to be vaccinated before I'm allowed to go up north? Against Geordie-itis perhaps?), and I know I want to be away from here. I just don't think everything has quite sunk in yet.

My skype ID is "r9paul", and my phone number is 01614 082 879.

 Fed up, I need a new car. Its broken down too many times on me now, and despite doing all sorts of things - from changing the head gasket, to grinding the valves and changing the timing belt - its still not happy.

Thought I had a new one lined up, but it was sold before I got a chance to give it a quick test drive - back to the drawing board then...

I'm also clueless as to what I want for my birthday, over the last 18 years I seem to have been slowly accumulating everything I want and I'm now reaching saturation point. The only thing left really is a laptop, and I'm beginning to wonder whether that's really such a great thing to get anyway.

I mean, really, the only use I can see for it will be at Uni - so I can take notes on it without having to go back to those old fashioned pen-and-pencil-and-paper-thingies (and that's not entirely just sheer laziness, digitalised notes are much more useful!) - but, is a laptop really all that great for taking notes on? In my experience not so. Firstly its bulky - even the slimline 12" models still require a certain amount of desk (or knee) space. Secondly, while I can type a lot faster than I can write, I can't diagram or scribble faster on a laptop than pen-and-paper.

So... get a tablet computer? Still doesn't really deal with the bulkiness issue, and much more importantly its the cost. Decent ones seem to start at around £1000, and that's a little out of my league at the moment!

What I need is middle ground... and the Samsung Q1 looks like it could provide just that. Its a 7" UltraMobile tablet computer, and whilst its raw performance specifications aren't all amazing, if its just being used to take notes, ssh-client, surf the web, play solitaire, etc, does it need to be high performance?

The price is reasonable too, about £550 + VAT for the lower model with 512MB RAM and a 40GB HDD, or £650 + VAT for the model with 1GB RAM and a 60GB HDD.

But do I really need it? Or do I just want it because its a shiny gadget? I could get a budget laptop for £300 + VAT, cheaper if I really shopped around, do I really need this thing? Why, also, is it the only product like it on the market? If its such a great device why aren't Dell, Sony, HP, etc selling similar devices?

I do want an iPhone though, I just can't have one yet