Melody maker - Final Issue
Melody maker - Final Issue

Please Note! - These Pages are NOT maintained  by  Melody Maker or IPC Magazines. It is an archive of their end of year and best of lists.
 

End Of Year Critic Lists





Melody Maker was the 1st music weekly established in 1926 as a trade magazine for jobbing musicians of the era. It sadly ceased publication in December 2000. For more information visit the wikipedia entree.









Melody Maker All Time Top 100 Albums - 2000

Many thanks to Paul Grigg for supplying me with this list that I completely missed!
 
MM were very low key about the list, no mention of it on the cover and it was relegated to the bottom strip of a couple of pages detailing the favourite albums of Fatboy Slim (Abbey Road), and The Manics & Foo Fighters lead singers (Revolver/White Album).

The Queen Is Dead


1. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
2. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3. Nevermind - Nirvana
4. The Beatles - The Beatles
5. The Bends - Radiohead
6. Revolver - The Beatles
7. Hunky Dory - David Bowie
8. Definitely - Maybe Oasis
9. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
10. Never Mind the - Bollocks Sex Pistols
11. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
12. Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
13. Parklife - Blur
14. Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths
15. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
16. Dog Man Star - Suede
17. It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
18. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
19. Psychocandy - Jesus & Mary Chain
20. OK Computer - Radiohead
21. Automatic for the People - REM
22. Modern Life is Rubbish - Blur
23. Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
24. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
25. Marquee Moon - Television
26. Transformer - Lou Reed
27. Doolittle The Pixies
28. London Calling - The Clash
29. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
30. Blue Lines Massive Attack
31. Different Class - Pulp
32. Technique - New Order
33. Libert Belle & the Black Diamond Express - Go-Betweens
34. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
35. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
36. Music for the Jilted Generation - Prodigy
37. Dare - Human League
38. Closer - Joy Division
39. Horses - Patti Smith
40. Lowlife - New Order
41. Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
42. Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexy's Midnight Runners
43. Heaven Up Here - Echo & The Bunnymen
44. Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
45. Actually - Pet Shop Boys
46. Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
47. Suede - Suede
48. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
49. Murmur – R.E.M.
50. Generation Terrorists - Manic Street Preachers
51. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
52. Grace - Jeff Buckley
53. Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualised
54. The Smiths - The Smiths
55. Spiderland - Spiderland
56. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
57. If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
58. Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
59. High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
60. Reading, Writing & Arithmetic - Sundays
61. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
62. Back in Black - AC/DC
63. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
64. Licensed To Ill - The Beastie Boys
65. Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
66. Harvest - Neil Young
67. Parallel Lines - Blondie
68. Pearl - Janis Joplin
69. Forever Changes - Love
70. True Blue - Madonna
71. The 2nd Coming - The Stone Roses
72. The La's - The La's
73. The Specials - The Specials
74. Actually - Pet Shop Boys
75. Sign of the Times - Prince
76. Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
77. The Clash - The Clash
78. Loaded - Velvet Underground
79. Dry - P.J Harvey
80. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
81. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
82. The Doors - The Doors
83. Meat is Murder - The Smiths
84. The Charlatans - The Charlatans
85. All Mod Cons - The Jam
86. Dummy - Portishead
87. In Utero - Nirvana
88. Deserters Songs - Mercury Rev
89. Odelay - Beck
90. Blood & Chocolate - Elvis Costello
91. Vauxhall & I - Morrissey
92. Pills n' Thrills and Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
93. Abbey Road - Beatles
94. Beggars' Banquet - Rolling Stones
95. Stooges - Stooges
96. Electronic - Electronic
97. Urban Hymns - The Verve
98. This is Hardcore - Pulp
99. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
100. The Man Who - Travis

NB: The Pet Shop Boys 'Actually' gets placed twice, once at 74 and again at 45. At 74 it's listed as a 1987 release and at 45 it's listed as a 1986 release. Not quite sure what that's all about.

MM Scan

Thanks to Hazy John for the scan from MM




Melody maker Best Of The 1980's

This List Appeared In An '80's Supplement In The Feb 25th 1989 Issue Of MM.

• The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
• The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last Always
• New Order - Lowlife
• Prince - Around The World In A Day
• Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche
• Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls
• The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
• Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
• The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
• The Cure - The Head On The Door
• The Cult - Love
• Kate Bush - The Hounds Of Love
• Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite
• The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy