Tired of being reminded by other magazines that the best albums in the world were made by The Beatles, Beach Boys and Rolling Stones? So is The Wire magazine. They polled their writers to come up with a guide to 100 records that should have ignited the world's imagination, except that everyone else was fiddling... FULL ARTICLE.
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Many of these are hard to find or even out of print. However, the ones in BOLD are available.
1986: One Boy's Quest to Avoid Bon Jovi and Find Cooler Bands | Aug 19
The Best Heavy Rock Albums | Aug 4
Revisiting music after 20+ years | Jun 28
Most Anticipated Releases | Jun 28
The Runaways | March 29
2010 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | March 16
Storytime With Dr. Fester | Feb 22
40 years ago, metal was born like a demon-alien out of the festering guts of rock 'n' roll | Feb 12
Favorite Albums Growin' Up | Feb 10
The Soft Pack (Kemado) | Jan 24
2009 Year-End Summary | Dec 23
Best Of The 00s | Dec 19
Between The Cracks | Dec 13
Lost Classics: Sweet, Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA) 1974 | Jul 26
Stoner Rock Primer | Jul 23
Garry Mulholland, Fear Of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk And Disco (2006) | Mar 9
15 Albums That Changed Your Life | Mar 3
2008 Year-End Summary & Fester's Lucky 13s | Dec 31
Nursery Rhymes for Demon Children: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Live at the Riviera | Sep 30
TV On The Radio, Dear Science, | Sep 22
Pirates + Metal = Awesome | Sep 19
Finnish Folk Metal | Sep 8
"Roadrunner" & Other Drivin' Tunes | Jun 25
You can buy some of the albums reviewed/listed in Fast 'n' Bulbous, particularly imports and reissues, at The Ideal Copy. Since Amazon inhaled CDNow and Djangos lied and cheated me out of my affiliate credit, I'm banning corporate affiliates. Shop indie! If you can't find what you're looking for at The Ideal Copy, check Insound, Alldirect, Dustygroove, and Siren Disc for imports.
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