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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 1980


This list was published in march 1988 from an Italian monthly magazine of music (rock) and cinema called "Rockerilla", published in Italy from January 1980. This list (30 album) is the result of a reader's poll, the order is of preference.


1. Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico(1967)
2. Clash - London calling(79)
3. Sex Pistols - Never mind the bollocks here's the Sex Pistols(77)
4. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band(67)
5. Joy Division - Closer(80)
6. Pink Floyd - The dark side of the moon(73)
7. Joy Division - Unknown pleasures(79)
8. Doors - The Doors(67)
9. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric ladyland(68)
10. Cure - Pornography(82)
11. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma(69)
12. Beatles - White album(68)
13. Stooges - Fun house(70)
14. Clash - Sandinista(80)
15. Clash - The Clash(77)
16. Pink Floyd - The wall(79)
17. David Bowie - The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars(72)
18. Cure - Seventeen seconds(80)
19. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here(75)
20. King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King(69)
21. Led Zeppelin - IV(71)
22. Pink Floyd - The piper at the gates of dawn(67)
23. Smiths - The queen is dead(86)
24. U2 - War(83)
25. Doors - Absolutely live(70)
26. Genesis - The lamb lies down on Broadway(74)
27. Beatles - Revolver(66)
28. Beatles - Abbey road(69)
29. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced?(67)
30. Joy Division - Still(81)



Rockerilla End of year lists
Published in January 1980 from Rockerilla. This is a critic's list and there are the best rock albums of the year 1979


1. Cure - Three imaginary boys
2. Clash - London calling
3. Jam - Setting sons
4. Joy Division - Unknown pleasures
5. Only Ones - Even serpents shine
6. Police - Reggatta de blanc
7. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable material
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust never sleeps
9. Slits - Cut
10. Wire - 154
11. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Join hands
12. Gang Of Four - Entertainment
13. Raincoats - Raincoats
14. Pop Group - Y
15. Elvis Costello - Armed forces
16. Stranglers - The raven
17. Dire Straits - Communiquè
18. Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
19. Bob Dylan - Slow train coming
20. Joe Jackson - I'm the man


Published in January 1981 from Rockerilla. This is a critic's list and there are the best albums and singles of the year 1980.

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 1980

1. Joy Division - Closer
2. Talking Heads - Remain in light
3. Cramps - Songs the lord taught us
4. Clash - Sandinista!
5. Bruce Springsteen - The river
6. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
7. Dead Kennedys - Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
8. David Bowie - Scary monsters
9. X - Los Angeles
10. P.I.L. - Paris au primtemps (Paris in the spring)
11. Pop Group - For how much longer do we tolerate mass murder
12. Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
13. Crass - Station of the Crass
14. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III

BEST REGGAE ALBUM

• Black Uhuru - Sensimilla

BEST FOLK ALBUM

• Jake Walton - The gloaming grey

BEST ROCK 'N' ROLL ALBUM
 
• Eddie Cochran - 20th anniversary album

BEST HEAVY METAL ALBUM (by Beppe Riva)

1. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
2. Angel Witch - Angel Witch

Best of the rest...

• Def Leppard - On through the night
• Girl - Sheer greed
• Samson - Head on
• Motorhead - Ace of spades
• Saxon - Wheels of steel
• Judas Priest - British steel
• Joe Perry Project - Let the music do the talking
• Diamond Head - White album
• Riot - Narita
• Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus erectus


SINGLES OF THE YEAR 1980
(by Beppe Badino, Alberto Campo, Sandro Priarone, Claudio Sorge)

1. The Ruts - West one
2. Manicured Noise - Faith
3. Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
4. Teardrop Explodes - Treason
5. Crass - Bloody revolution
6. A Certain Ratio - Blown away (E.P.)
7. The Jam - Going underground
8. Clock Dva, Vice Versa, I'm So Hollow, Stunt Kites - 1980: the first 15 minutes
9. Joy Division - Atmosphere
10. Blue Orchid - The flood
11. U2 - A day without me
12. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
13. Spandau Ballet - To cut a long story short
14. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
15. The Fall - How I wrote eleastic manù
16. Crisis - Hymns of faith (E.P.)
17. Orange Juice - Blue boy
18. Delta 5 - You
19. Bauhaus - Terror couple kill colonel
20. The Specials - Rat race
21. The Cure - A forest
22. Killing Joke - Requiem
23. Theatre Of Hate - Legion
24. Psychedelic Furs - Mr. Jones
25. Athletico Spizz 80 - Central Park
26. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Happy house
27. Modern Eon - Euthenics
28. Sex Pistols - Steppin' stone
29. The The - Controversial subject
30. Geoff Leigh - The chemical bank (E.P)

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Published in January 1982 from Rockerilla. This is a critics' list and there are the best albums and singles of the year 1981.


BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 1981

1. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven up here
2. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My life in the bush of ghosts
3. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Ju - ju
4. D.A.F. - Gold und liebe
5. Clock Dva - Thirst
6. Rip Rig & Panic - God
7. Stray Cats - Stray Cats
8. Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
9. Psychedelic Furs - Talk talk talk
10. Japan - Tin drum
11. U2 - October
12. Gun Club - Fire of love
13. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
14. Raincoats - Odyshape
15. A Certain Ratio - Too each
16. Teardrop Explodes - Wilder
17. New Order - Movement
18. Heaven 17 - Penthouse and pavement
19. Josef K. - The only fun in town
20. Cure - Faith


BEST SINGLES OF THE YEAR 1981
(compiled by Beppe Badino, Alberto Campo, Sandro Priarone, Claudio Sorge)

1. Laurie Anderson - O superman
2. New Order - Ceremony
3. ABC - Tears are not enough
4. Altered Images - Dead pop stars
5. Cure - Charlotte sometimes
6. Scritti Politti - Sweetest girl
7. Heaven 17 - Fascist groove thang
8. Circus Mort - Swallow you (E.P.)
9. Delmontes - Tous les soirs
10. Pigbag - Papa's got a brand new pigbag
11. D.A.F. - Der Mussolini
12. P.I.L. - Flowers of romance
13. Rip Rig & Panic - Bob Hope takes risks
14. Teardrop Explodes - Reward
15. Fall - Lie dream of a casino soul
16. Maximum Joy - Stretch
17. Bush Tetras - Rituals (E.P.)
18. Thomas Leer - Four movement
19. Kraftwerk - Pocket calculator
20. Jam Today - Stereotyping (E.P.)
21. Colors Out Of Time - Rock section (E.P.)
22. Vice Versa - Stilyagi
23. I'm So Hollow - Dream to fill the vacuum
24. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound
25. Crass - Nagasaki nightmares
26. Associates - Tell me easter on friday
27. Vivien Goldman - Launderette
28. Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's my party
29. Stray Cats - Straycats strut
30. Human League - Love action
31. Clock Dva - Four hours
32. Creatures - Wild things
33. Mark Beer - Pretty
34. Defunkt - Razor edge
35. 23 Skidoo - Ethics
36. Soft Cell - Memorabilia
37. Vena Cava - A girlfriend is
38. Department S. - Is Vic there
39. Josef K. - It's kinda funny
40. Swamp Children - Little voices



BEST PUNK SINGLES OF THE YEAR 1981
(compiled by Beppe Badino, Sandro Priarone, Claudio Sorge)


1. Discharge - Why
2. Discharge - Never again
3. Black Flag - Six pack
4. T.S.O.L. - T.S.O.L. (E.P.)
5. Flux Of Pink Indians - Neu smell (E.P.)
6. Infa Riot - Kids of the 80's
7. Dead Kennedys - Too drunk to fuck
8. Business - Harry May
9. 4 Skins - One law for them
10. Meat Puppet - Foreign laws (E.P.)

This list published in February 1982 from Rockerilla. This is a readers' poll and there are the best albums and singles of the year 1981.


BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1981

1. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Ju Ju
2. Joy Division - Still
3. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven up here
4. P.I.L. - The flowers of romance
5. New Order - Movement
6. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My life in the bush of ghosts
7. Motorhead - No sleep till' Hammersmith
8. Clock Dva - Thirst
9. Psychedelic Furs - Talk talk talk
10. Cure - Faith
11. Iron Maiden - Killers
12. John Foxx - The garden
13. Riot - Fire down under
14. Bauhaus - Mask
15. Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
16. Killing Joke - What' this for
17. Tuxedo Moon - Desire
18. Exploited - Punk's not dead
19. Rip Rig & Panic - God
20. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound

BEST SINGLES OF THE YEAR 1981

1. New Order - Ceremony
2. Cure - Charlotte sometimes
3. Dead Kennedys - Too drunk too fuck
4. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound
5. New Order - Procession
6. Circus Mort - Swallow you
7. Saxon - And the band played on
8. Scritti Politti - Sweetest girl
9. Clash - This is radio Clash
10. Abc - Tears are not enough
11. Adam & the Ants - Stand and delivery
12. Crass - Nagasaki nightmares
13. Iron Maiden - Maiden in Japan
14. Discharge - Never again
15. Heaven 17 - Fascist groove theng
16. Discharge - Why
17. Dead Kennedys - In god we trust
18. David Bowie & Queen - Under pressure
19. Nico - Saeta
20. Laurie Anderson - O superman

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ROCKERILLA CRITIC'S LIST

This critics list published in January 1983 from Rockerilla. This are the best albums and singles of the year 1982.

1. Laurie Anderson - Big science
2. Gun Club - Miami
3. Clash - Combat rock
3. Simple Minds - New gold dream
3. Virgin Prunes - If i die i die
3. Various - Gathered
7. Associates - Sulk
7. Cure - Pornography
7. Scritti Politti - Songs to remember
10. Abc - The lexicon of love
10. Blancmange - Happy families
10. Peter Gabriel - IV
10. Psychedelic Furs - Forever now
10. Rank & File - Sundown
10. Rip Rig & Panic - I am cold
10. Roxy Music - Avalon
10. Siouxsie & the Banshees - A kiss in the dream house
10. Wall Of Voodoo - Call of the west
19. Angry Samoans - Back from Samoa
19. Kevin Coyne - Politicz
19. Judy Nylon - Pal Judy
19. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska


BEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR 1982


1. Mark Stewart & Mafia - Liberty city / Jerusalem
2. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
3. Jam - Beat surrender
4. New Order - Temptation
5. Not Moving - Strange dolls (EP) (Italian group)
6. David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo houses
7. G.B.H. - Give me fire
8. Pink Industry - Forty - five (EP)
9. The The - Uncertain smile
10. Special A.K.A. - The boiler
11. Sugar Minott - In a dis ya time
12. Thomas Leer - All about you
13. Death In June - Heaven street
14. Fall - Look down
15. Brilliant - That's what good for friends
16. Rip Rig & Panic - You're my kind of climate
17. Japan - Ghosts
18. Gist - Love at first sight
19. Clock Dva - Passion still aflame
20. Play Dead - Propaganda
21. Special A.K.A. - War crimes
22. Conflict - The house that man built
23. Cure - Let's go to the bed
24. Echo & the Bunnnymen - The back of love
25. Shrieback - My spine is the bass - line
26. Aztec Camera - Pillar to post
27. Simple Minds - Promise you a miracle
28. Psychedelic Furs - Love my way
29. Clash - Rock the Casbah
30. Black Uhuru - Darkness
31. Maximum Joy - White and green place
32. Ben Watt - Summer into winter
33. David Bowie - Cat people
34. Rubella Ballet - Ballet dance (EP)
35. Action Pact - Suicide bag
36. Native Hipsters - Tenderly hurt me
37. Vendino Pact - Identical twins
38. Johnny Thunders - Chinese rocks
39. Oku Onuora - I a tell
40. Blancmange - Feel me

BEST PUNK ALBUM YEAR 1982


1. Black Flag - Damaged
2. Crass - Christ! The album
3. G.B.H. - City baby attacked by rats
4. Exploited - Troops of tomorrow
5. D.O.A. - War on 45
6. Blitz - Voice of a generation
7. Chelsea - Evacuate
8. Faith / Void - Faith / Void
9. Poison Girls - Where's the pleasure
10. New York Trash - New York Trash


BEST ITALIAN PUNK ALBUM & EP YEAR 1982


1. Raf Punk & C. - Schiavi nella città...(EP)
2. Nabat - Scenderemo nelle strade (EP)
3. Indigesti - I / W (EP)
4. Bahnhof - February 82
5. Eu's Arse - Eu's Arse (EP)


ROCKERILLA READER'S POLL 1982

Albums

1. Simple Minds - New gold dream
2. Cure - Pornography
3. Bauhaus - The sky's gone out
4. Judas Priest - Judas Priest
5. Clash - Combat rock
6. Siouxsie & the Banshees - A kiss in the dream house
7. Manowar - Battle hymns
8. Associates - Sulk
9. Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
10. Wall Of Voodoo - Call of the west
11. Peter Gabriel - IV
12. Crass - Christ! The album
13. Anvil - Metal on metal
14. Jam - The gift
15. Rip Rig & Panic - I am cold
16. Abc - The lexicon of love
17. Motley Crue - Too fast for love
18. Discharge - See nothing
19. Theatre Of Hate - West world
20. Psychedelic Furs - Forever now


BEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR 1982


1. New Order - Temptation
2. Cure - Let's Go To The Bed
3. David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses
4. The The - Uncertain Smile
5. Venom - Bloodlust
6. Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
7. Discharge - State Violence - State Control
8. Jaguar - Axe Crazy
9. Clock Dva - Passion Still Aflame
10. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
11. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
12. Echo & The Bunnnymen - The Back Of Love
13. Theatre Of Hate - Eastworld
14. Jam - Beat Surrender
15. David Bowie - Cat People
16. Scritti Politti - Faithless
17. Death In June - Heaven Street
18. Crass - How Does It Feel
19. Partizans - 17 Years Of Hell
20. Stranglers - Strange Little Girl

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ROCKERILLA READER'S POLL

Albums


1. U2 - War
2. Manowar - Into glory ride
3. Clock Dva - Advantage
4. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
5. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Nocturne
6. New Order - Power corruption and lies
7. Bauhaus - Burning from inside
8. Iron Maiden - Piece of mind
9. Dio - Holy diver
10. Spear Of Destiny - Grapes of wrath
11. The The - Soul mining
12. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
13. Virgin Prunes - If i die i die
14. Sex Gang Children - Song and legend
15. Marc & the Mambas - Torment and toreros
16. Metallica - Kill 'em all
17. R.E.M. - Murmur
18. Japan - Oil on canvas
19. Elvis Costello - Punch the clock
20. Doors - Alive she cried



BEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR 1983


1. Cure - The lovecats (EP)
2. Cure - The walk (EP)
3. Death SS - Evil metal (Italian rock group)
4. Neon - My blues is you (Italian rock group)
5. Smiths - This charming man
6. Gun Club - Death party (EP)
7. Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
8. P.I.L. - This is not a love song
9. Venom - Die hard
10. David Sylvian & Riuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden colours
11. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Dear prudence
12. Queensryche - Queensryche (EP)
13. Style Council - Long hot summer
14. Diaframma - Altrove (EP) (Italian rock group)
15. Clock Dva - Breakdown/Black angels death song
16. The The - Perfect
17. Sisters Of Mercy - Temple of love
18. U2 - New year day
19. Southern Death Cult - Fatman
20. Bauhaus - She's in parties


ROCKERILLA CRITIC'S LIST 1983


Albums

1. Clock Dva - Advantage
1. Cramps - Smell of female
1. Bob Dylan - Infidels
1. Alan Vega - Saturn strip
5. The The - Soul mining
6. Doors - Alive, she cried
7. Elvis Costello - Punch the clock
8. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
9. R.E.M. - Murmur
10. Peter Blegvad - The naked Shakespeare
11. Long Ryders - 10 - 5 - 60
12. Ben Watt - North marine drive
13. Paul Young - No parlez

Signalised:

1. Barracudas - Mean time
2. Cocteau Twins - Head over heels
3. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
4. Green On Red - Gravity talks
5. Charlie Haden - Ballad of the fallen
6. Japan - Oil on canvas
7. Jason & Nashville Scorchers - Fervor
8. Annette Peacock - Been in the streets too long
9. Pink Industry - Who told you, you were naked?
10. Rain Parade - Emergency third rail power trip
11. Sonic Youth - Confusion is sex
12. Style Council - Introducing
13. Unclaimed - Unclaimed
14. U2 - War
15. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes



BEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR 1983

1. Prefab Sprout - The devil has all the best tunes
1. Smiths - This charming man
1. Three Johns - Awol (EP)
4. Style Council - Long hot summer
5. Teardrop Explodes - You disappear from view (EP)
6. Clock Dva - Black angels detah song
7. Redskins - Lean on me
8. Slapp Happy - Everybody slimmin
9. Death Cult - Brothers Grimm (EP)
10. Fall - The man whose head expanded
11. Cure - Lovecats (EP)
12. This Mortal Coil - Song to the siren
13. P.I.L. - This is not a love song
14. Omega Tribe - Angry songs (EP)
15. Gun Club - Death party (EP)
16. Prefab Sprout - Lions in my own garden
17. Southern Death Cult - Fatman
18. Go Betweens - Cattle and cane
19. Under Two Flags - Lest we forget
20. Sex Gang Children - Mauritia Mayer
21. Smiths - Hand in glove
22. Tom Robinson - War baby
23. David O'List - Fallout love
24. Death In June - State laughter
25. Dance Society - Somewhere
26. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - He's read
27. Ludus - Breaking the rules
28. Three Johns - Men like monkeys (EP)
29. Style Council - Money go round
30. Conflict - To a nation of anomal lovers (EP)
31. Imposter - Pillow and pills
32. Alarm - 68 guns
33. Dead Or Alive - Misty circles
34. Cure - The walk
35. Mekons - English dancing master
36. Carmel - Bad day
37. Strawberry Switchblade - Tears and flowers
38. Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - Too busy doing nothin
39. Del Amitri - Sense sickness
40. Flesh For Lulu - Roman candle (EP)
41. Pat Palladin - Siamese lovers
42. Sisters Of Mercy - The reptile house (EP)


BEST ROCKABILLY ALBUM 1983 (compiled by Augusto Morini, Giuseppe Bartoli & Claudio Sorge)

1. Rocky Burnette - Get hot or go home
2. Stray Cats - Rant and rave
3. Levi Dexter - The fun session
4. Blasters - Non fiction
5. Dave Taylor - Midnight rock
6. Ray Campi - Hollywood cats
7. Ricochets - Made in the shade
8. Dazzlers - Dazzlers
9. Zantees - Rythm bound
10. Meteors - Wreckin' crew

BEST HEAVY METAL ALBUM 1983 (compiled by Beppe Riva)

1. Manowar - Into glory ride
2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
3. Warlord - Deliver us
4. Exciter - Heavy metal maniac
5. Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
6. Culprit - Guilty as charged
7. Diamond Head - Canterbury
8. Anvil - Forged in fire
9. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the moon
10. Dio - Holy diver

BEST HEAVY METAL SINGLE (& EP) 1983 (compiled by Beppe Riva)

1. Queensryche - Queensryche
2. Thunderstick - Feel like R 'n' R?
3. Wrathchild - Do you want my love
4. Armored Saint - Lesson well learned
5. Rox - Crazy kuts

BEST REGGAE ALBUM YEAR 1983 (compiled by Gianni Galli)

1. Michael Smith - My cyan believe it
2. Mutabaruka - Check it
3. Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Expensive shit
4. King Sunny Ade - Synchro system
5. Eek - A - Mouse - The man and the mouse
6. Black Uhuru - Dub factor
7. Prince Charles - Stone killers!
8. Mikey Dread - Jungle signal
9. Benjamin Zepheniah - Rasta
10. Israel Vibration - Why you so craven
11. Eastwood & Saint - Stop that train
12. Tapper Zukie - Raggy Joey boy
13. New Age Steppers - Foundation steppers
14. Bunny Wailer - Dub disco vol.II
15. Sugar Minott - Sufferers choice

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ROCKERILLA CRITICS' LIST

Albums

1. Julian Cope - Fried - World shut your mouth
2. David Sylvian - Brilliant trees
3. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
4. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
5. This Mortal Coil - It'll end in tears
6. Cult - Dreamtime
7. Prefab Sprout - Swoon
8. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making history
9. Long Ryders - Native sons
10. Cure - The top
11. Three Johns - Atom drum bop
12. Smiths - The Smiths
13. Gun Club - Las Vegas story
14. Raincoats - Moving
15. Nick Cave - From her to eternity
16. Billy Bragg - Brewing up
17. Husker Du - Zen arcade
18. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from home
19. Tom Verlaine - Cover
20. Violent Femmes - Hallowed ground
21. U2 - The unforgettable fire
22. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
23. Bangles - All over the place
24. Danielle Dax - Jesus egg that wept
25. Only Ones - Remains

BEST SINGLE (7" - 12") 1984

1. Robert Wyatt - Work in progress
2. Breathless - Waterland
3. Clay Allison - Fell from the sun
4. Redskins - Keep on keeping on
5. Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside down
6. Sisters Of Mercy - Walk away
7. Chesterfield Kings - She told me lies
8. Cocteau Twins - The spangle maker
9. Three Johns - Do the square thing
10. Furyo - Furyo (12”)
11. Wolfgang Press - Scarecrow (EP)
12. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Hollow eyes
13. Smiths - As soon is now
14. Shock Headed Peters - Blood brother be
15. Sunglasses After Dark - Morbid silence
16. Special A.K.A. - Nelson Mandela
17. Elvis Costello (The Imposter) - Peace in our time
18. Float Up C.P. - Yoy’s address
19. Husker Du - Eight miles eight
20. Dead Can Dance - Garden of arcane delights
21. Tv Personalities - A sense of belonging
22. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Swimming horses
23. Echo & the Bunnymen - The killing moon
24. Prefab Sprout - When love breaks down
25. Style Council - My ever changing moods
26. Legend - Destroy the blues
27. Crass - You are already dead
28. Mercenary Skank - No more dancing
29. Bone Orchard - Swalloving havoc! (EP)
30. In Excelsis - Creeps in the streets
31. Ausgang - Solid glass spine
32. Prisoners - Electric fit
33. Jasmine Minks - Think
34. Pastels - Million tears
35. Ludus - Completement nue au soleil (EP)

BEST ITALIAN ALBUM 1984

1. Gang - Tribe’s union
2. Franti/Contrazione - Franti/Contrazione
3. Diaframma - Siberia
4. Atrox - Water tales
5. Raw Power - You are the victim
6. Carillon Del Dolore - Trasfigurazione
7. Arp Quintet - Tango - ing
8. Detonazione - Riflessi conseguenti
9. Weimar Gesang - Even stone pales
10. Daefear - The waiting

BEST ITALIAN SINGLE 1984

1. CCCP - Ortodossia (EP)
2. Le Masque - The happy flock
3. Victrola - A game of despair
4. Spirocheta Pergoli - Fuzzi bugzi tumpa il bongo
5. Rivolta Dell’Odio - Il cuore della bestia
6. Baciami Bartali - The mournful gloom
7. Various Artists - 4´A, anarchia per tutti
8. Karnak - When the doors are closed
9. Underground Arrows - Generation disease
10. Faded Image - Modern

BEST HEAVY METAL ALBUM 1984
(compiled by Beppe Riva, Giancarlo Trombetti, Adriano Bosone, Marco Garavelli)

1. Manowar - Sign of the hammer
2. Metallica - Ride the lightning
3. Mercyful Fate - Don’t break the oath
4. Dio - Last in line
5. Queensryche - The warning
6. Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith
7. Wasp - Wasp
8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9. Twisted Sister - Stay hungry
10. Deep Purple - Perfect strangers

BEST REGGAE / AFRO ALBUM 1984
(compiled by Gianni Galli)

1. Oku Onuora & AK7 - Pressure drop
2. Steel Pulse - Earth crisis
3. Reggae Poetry - Word soun’ ‘ave power
4. Hugh Masekela - Techno - bush
5. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making history
6. Reggae Regular - Ghetto rock
7. Mikey Dread - Pave the way
8. Black Uhuru - Anthem
9. Kanda Bongo Man - Amour fou
10. Special A.K.A. - In the studio
11. Aswad - Rebel souls
12. Orchestre Jazira - Nomadic activities
13. Mutabaruka - Outcry
14. Talisman - Takin’ the strain
15. Half Pint - Money man skank
16. Thomas Mapfumo - Chimurenga singles
17. Toure Kunda - Live
18. Fela Kuti - Live in Amsterdam
19. Benjamin Zephanjah - You’re under arrest
20. Different Stylee - Different Stylee


ROCKERILLA READER'S POLL 1984

BEST ALBUM

1. David Sylvian - Brilliant trees
2. Cure - The top
3. This Mortal Coil - It’ll end in tears
4. U2 - The unforgettable fire
5. Metallica - Ride the lightning
6. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
7. Smiths - The Smiths
8. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
9. Manowar - Sign of the hammer
10. Christian Death - Catastrophe ballet
11. Deep Purple - Perfect strangers
12. Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith
13. Cult - Dreamtime
14. Dio - The last in line
15. Husker Du - Zen arcade
16. Style Council - Café bleu
17. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hyena
18. Violent Femmes - Hallowed ground
19. Psychedelic Furs - Mirror moves
20. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean rain

BEST SINGLE 1984

1. U2 - Pride
2. Sisters Of Mercy - Walk away
3. W.A.S.P. - Animal
4. Echo & the Bunnymen - The killing moon
5. Dali’s Car - Judgment is the mirror
6. Cocteau Twins - Spangle maker
7. Dead Can Dance - Garden of the arcane delights
8. Smiths - William, it was really nothing
9. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Swimming horses
10. Metallica - Creeping death
11. Cult - Spiritwalker
12. Sisters Of Mercy - Body and soul
13. Cure - The caterpillar
14. Robert Wyatt - Work in progress
15. Slayer - Haunting the chapel
16. Iron Maiden - Aces high
17. Smiths - What difference does it makes
18. Clay Allison - Fell from the sun
19. Death In June - The calling
20. Iron Maiden - Two minutes at midnight

BEST ITALIAN ALBUM 1984

1. Diaframma - Siberia
2. Vanadium - Game over
3. Various Artists - Heavy metal eruption
4. Various Artists - Catalogue issue
5. Litfiba - Yassassin
6. Neon - Dark age
7. Carillon Del Dolore - Trasfigurazione
8. Deafear - The waiting
9. CCCP - Ortodossia
10. Raw Power - You’re the victim
11. Gang - Tribe’s union
12. Strana Officina - Strana Officina
13. Viridanse - Benvenuto Cellini
14. Litfiba - Eneide
15. Hocculta - Warning games
16. Baciami Bartali - The mournful gloom
17. Karnak - When the doors are closed
18. Weimar Gesang - Even stone pales
19. Victrola - A game of despair
20. Degada Saf - No inzro

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 1985

ROCKERILLA CRITICS' LIST

Albums

1. Tom Waits - Rain dogs
2. Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
3. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
4. Robert Wyatt - Old rottenhat
5. Smiths - Meat is murder
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Fegmania
7. Sting - The dream of the blue turtles
8. Mekons - Fear and whiskey
9. Fuzztones - Lysergic emanations
10. R.E.M. - Fables of reconstruction
11. Jonathan Richman - Rockin’ romance
12. Cult - Love
13. Dead Can Dance - Spleen and ideal
14. Damned - Phantasmagoria
15. Sisters Of Mercy - First last and always
16. Thin White Rope - Exploring the axis
17. Style Council - Our favourite shop
18. Mark Stewart - As the veneer of democracy starts to fade
19. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The firstborn is dead
20. Sonic Youth - Bad moon rising
21. Talking Heads - Little creatures
22. Pink Industry - New beginnings
23. Death In June - Nada
24. Dif Juz - Extractions
25. Velvet Underground - V.U.
26. Cure - The head on the door
27. Coil - Scatology
28. Golden Palominos - Visions of excess
29. Husker Du - Flip your wig
30. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club
Hoodoo Gurus - Mars needs guitars

BEST SINGLE 1985

1. Billy Bragg - Between the wars
2. Jesus & Mary Chain - Never understand
3. Died Pretty - Next to nothing (EP)
4. Easterhouse - Coming up for air
5. Jesus & Mary Chain - Just like honey
6. Breathless - Two days from eden
7. Backdoor Men - Out of my mind
8. Meat Whiplash - Don’t slip up
9. That Petrol Emotion - Keen
10. Three Johns - Death of the European
11. Shop Assistants - Shopping parade (EP)
12. Robert Wyatt & the Swapo Singers - Wind of change
13. Mark Stewart - Hypnotized
14. Julian Cope - Sunspots (EP)
15. Ramones - Bonzo goes to Bitburg
16. Woodentops - Move me
17. Palookas - Clear day
18. Balaam & the Angel - World of light (EP)
19. Loft - Up the hill and down the slope (EP)
20. Shock Headed Peters - The kissings of gods
21. Ausgang - Hunt ya down (EP)
22. Einsturzende Neubauten - Yu - kung
23. Lomg Ryders - Looking for Lewis and Clarke
24. Pastels - I’m alright with you
25. Clash - This is England
26. Style Council - The lodgers (EP)
27. Box - Muscle in (EP)
28. Conflict - The battle continues
29. Stems - Make you mine
30. Fall - Cruiser’s creek
31. Twenty Flight Rockers - Tower block rock
32. Cult - Revolution (EP)
33. Smiths - The boys with the thorn in his side
34. Sonic Youth - Death valley 69
35. Chumbawamba - Revolution
36. Flux Of Pink Indians - Take a liberty
37. Redskins - Bring it down
38. Anti Group - Ha / Zulu
39. Primal Scream - All fall down
40. Moffs - Another day the sun


BEST ITALIAN ALBUM 1985

1. Viridanse - Mediterranea
2. Out Of Time - Stories we can tell
3. Franti - Luna nera
4. Various Artists - Eighties colours
5. Rosemary’s Baby - Love songs
6. Funkwagen - Il caso Funkwagen
7. Weimar Gesang - The colours of ice
8. Litfiba - Desaparecido
9. Four By Art - Four By Art
10. Treves Blues Band - Third
No Strange - No Strange

BEST ITALIAN SINGLE 1985

1. CCCP - Compagni cittadini fratelli partigiani
2. Soul Hunter - A cain sign
3. Birdmen Of Alkatraz - Glidin’ off
4. Death In Venice - Presence in absent
5. Pankow - God’s deneuve
6. Not Moving - Black‘n wild
7. Aqua - Aqua (EP)
8. Sick Rose - Get along girl
9. East Wall - Eyes of glass
10. Spleen Fix - Great’n light

BEST HARD ‘N’ HEAVY ALBUM 1985
(compiled by ROCKERILLA Hard ‘n’ Heavy - Team)

1. Aerosmith - Done with mirrors
2. Warrior - Fighting for the earth
3. Ratt - Invasion of your privacy
3. Yngwie Malmsteen R. Force - Marching out
5. Dokken - Under lock and key
5. Iron Maiden - Live after death
7. Slayer - Hell awaits
8. Motley Crue - Theatre of pain
9. Wasp - The last command
9. Keel - The right to rock
9. Alcatrazz - Disturbing the peace
12. Malice - In the beginning
12. Exodus - Bonded by blood
14. King Kobra - Ready to strike
14. Twisted Sister - Come out and play
14. Possessed - Seven churches

BEST BLACK MUSIC ALBUM 1985
(compiled by Gianni Galli)

1. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Live with Dub Band
2. Hugh Masekela - Waiting for the rain
3. Marvin Gaye - Dream of a lifetime
4. Maxi Priest - You’re safe
5. Sly & Robbie - Language barrier
6. Last Poets - Oh my people
7. Manu Dibango - Electric Africa
8. Stevie Wonder - In a square circle
9. UB 40 - Baggariddim
10. Mad Professor - Who knows the secret of the master tape
11. Various Artists - Sun city
12. Run Dmc - King of rock
13. Miles Davis - You’re under arrest
14. Tan Tan - Musical nostalgia for today
15. Steel Pulse - Babylon the bandit
16. Fela Kuti - Army arrangements
17. Pablo Moses - Tension
18. Gwen Guthrie - Padlock
19. Toure Kunda - Natalia
20. Winston Reedy - Crossover


BEST BLACK MUSIC SINGLE 1985
(compiled by Gianni Galli)

1. Smiley Culture - Police officer
2. Various Artists - Land of Africa
3. Aswad - Bubbling
4. Ranking Ann - Kill the police bill
5. Various Artists - Starvation

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2000

ROCKERILLA CRITICS LIST

Albums


1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
3. Badly Drawn Boy - The hour of bewilderbeast
3. Coldplay - Parachutes
3. Doves - Lost souls
3. Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrjun
7. Yo La Tengo - And then nothing turned itself inside out
8. Belle & Sebastian - Fold your hands child, you walk like a peas
8. Dirty Three - Whatever you love you are
8. Grandaddy - The sophtware slump
8. Heads - Everybody knows we got nowhere
8. Photek - Solaris
13. Asian Dub Foundation - Community music
13. At the Drive - In - Relationship of command
13. Blonde Redhead - Melody of certain damaged lemons
13. D'Angelo - Voodoo
13. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
13. Firebird - Firebird
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Levez vos skinny fists comme antennas to heaven!
13. Magnetic Fields - 69 love songs
13. Mojave 3 - Excuses for travellers
13. Monster Magnet - God says no
13. Morphine - The night
13. Oasis - Familiar to millions
13. P.J. Harvey - Stories from the city, stories from the sea
13. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
13. Spiritual Beggars - Ad astra
13. Twilight Singers - Twilight

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2002


ROCKERILLA CRITIC LISTS

Albums

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2. Sigur Ros - ( )
3. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
4. Beck - Sea Change
5. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7. Low - Trust
8. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
9. Swayzak - Dirty Dancing
10. Ain Soph - Ottobre
11. Audioslave - Audioslave
12. The Vines - Highly Evolved
13. Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico
14. Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
15. Closer Musik - After Love
16. Down - Ii: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow
17. Foo Fighters - One By One
18. Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
19. Aqualung - Aqualung
20. Doves - The Last Broadcast

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2003

Rockerilla Critics’ List

Albums

1. Robert Wyatt Cuckooland
2. Radiohead Hail To The Thief
3. The White Stripes - Elephant
4. Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
5. The Rapture - Echoes
6. The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft
7. David Sylvian - Blemish
8. Jeff Buckley - Live At Sin-É
9. Cat Power - You Are Free
10. Spiritualized - Amazing Grace

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2004

Albums

1 Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
2 Swayzak - Loops From The Bergerie
3 Bark Psychosis - Codename:Dustsucker
4 Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
5 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
6 !!! - Louden Up Now
6 The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
8 Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison
9 Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
9 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days


Reissues

1 Jeff Buckley - Grace
2 A Certain Ratio - The Graveyard And The Ballroom
3 Gun Club - Miami
4 Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
5 Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die
6 Virgin Prunes - A New Form Of Beauty
7 Brian Eno - Another Green World
8 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2005


1. Sigur - Rós Takk...
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
5. Perturbazione - Canzoni Allo Specchio
6. Port-Royal - Flares
7. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
8. Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine
8. Doves-Some Cities
10. Editors - The Back Room
10. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
10. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan


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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2006

ROCKERILLA CRITICS

Albums

1.TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
2.Joanna Newsom – Ys
3.Joan As Police Woman – Real Life
3.Sparklehorse – Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
3.Thom Yorke – The Eraser
3.Tom Waits – Orphans: Bawlers, Brawlers & Bastards
7.Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m
7.Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Letting Go
7.Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
7.Cat Power – The Greatest
7.Converge – No Heroes
7.Guillemots – Through The Windowpane
7.Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways
7.Mogwai – Mr Beast
7.Wolfmother – Wolfmother
7.Kirlian Camera – Coroner’s Sun

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2007

1.Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
2.Radiohead – In Rainbows
3.Battles – Mirrored
4.Grinderman – Grinderman
5.Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
6.Lcd Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
7.The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
8.The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
9.Iliketrains – Elegies To Lessons Learnt
10.The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
11.Blonde Redhead – 23
12.Port-Royal – Afraid To Dance
13.Panda Bear – Person Pitch
14.Maps – We Can Create
15.The National – Boxer
16.Akron/Family – Love Is Simple
17.Devastations – Yes, U
18.Elliott Smith – New Moon
19.Interpol – Our Love To Admire
20.Murcof – Cosmos





Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2008

ROCKERILLA CRITICS

Albums

1.Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
2.TV On The Radio – Dear Science
3.Mgmt – Oracular Spectacular
4.Portishead – Third
5.Baustelle – Amen
6.Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing 7. Glasvegas – Glasvegas
8.Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night
9.Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
10.Afterhours – I Milanesi Ammazzano Il Sabato
11.Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come, Easy Go
12.Fennesz – Black Sea
13.Neil Halstead – Oh! Mighty Engine
14.Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
15.Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
16.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig! Lazarus, Dig!
17.The Walkmen – You & Me
18.Monkeywrench – Gabriel’s Horn
19.Bomb The Bass – Future Chaos
20.Coldplay – Viva La Vida
21.Scott Matthew – Scott Matthew
22.Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
23.The Black Angels – Directions To See A Ghost
24.Offlaga Disco Pax – Bachelite
25.Daniel Martin Moore – Stray Age
26.Black Mountain – In The Future


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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2009

ROCKERILLA CRITICS

Albums

1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours
5. Dm Stith – Heavy Ghost
6. White Lies – To Lose My Life
7. Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
8. Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
8. Zu – Carboniferous
10. Port-Royal – Dying In Time
10. David Sylvian – Manafon
10. Depeche Mode – Sound Of The Universe
10. Dan Deacon – Bromst
10. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
15. Editors – In This Light And On This Evening
15. Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh – Overloaded Ark
17. La Roux – La Roux
18. Ooioo – Armonico Hewa
18. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
20. The Xx – Xx
20. Sunn O))) – Monolith & Dimensions

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Rockerliia 10

ROCKERILLA CRITICS



1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
1. The National – High Violet
1. Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea
1. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
4. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
6. Midlake – The Courage Of Others
6. Beach House – Teen Dream
8. Dirtmusic – Bko
8. Antony & The Johnsons – Swanlights
8. Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
11. Mi Ami – Steal Your Face
11. Brendan Perry – Ark
13. The Books – The Way Out
13. The Walkmen – Lisbon
15. Vampire Weekend – Contra
16. The Drums – The Drums


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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2011

Critics Album Of The Year

1. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
3. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
4. Subsonica – Eden
5. Sonic Youth – Simon Werner A Disparu
6. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
6. White Lies – Ritual
8. Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years
8. James Blake – James Blake
8. Ry Cooder – Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down
11. Battles – Gloss Drop
11. Beirut – The Rip Tide
11. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
14. Jonathan Wilson – Gentle Spirit
14. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
16. Dope Stars Inc. – Ultrawired
16. Patrick Wolf – Lupercalia
18. Decemberists – King Is Dead
18. Iron And Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
18. Vinicio Capossela – Marinai, Profeti E Balene

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2012


Critics Album Of The Year

1.Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
2.Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
3.Tame Impala - Lonerism
4.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5.Grizzly Bear - Shields
6.Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
7.Bob Dylan - Tempest
8.Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
9.David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
10.Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
11.Brian Eno - Lux
12.Vladislav Delay - Kuopio
13.Jack White - Blunderbuss
14.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
14.Cody Schesnutt - Landing On A Hundred
16.Garbo - La Moda
17.Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
18.Bill Fay - Life Is People
19.Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana
19.Om - Advaitic Songs



Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2013


1. Tim Hecker - Virgins
2. Massimo Volume - Aspettando I Barbari
3. Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X
4. Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
5. Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Still Smiling
6. Alela Diane - About Farewell
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
9. White Lies - Big Tv
9. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
11. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
12. Mogwai - Les Revenants
13. MGMT - MGMT
14. James Holden - The Inheritors
15. Arctic Monkeys - AM
16. The Appleseed Cast - Illumination Ritual
17. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing – And Other Stories
18. Angèle David-Guillou - Kourouma
18. Cosmo - Disordine
18. Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2014

Album Of The Year 2014


1. Goat - Commune
2. Sun Kill Moon - Benji
3. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
4. Eno-Hyde - High Life
4. Fennesz - Bécs
6. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
7. Lawrence English - Wilderness Of Mirrors
7. Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
9. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business
10. Iris - Radiant
11. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
12. James Yorkston - The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society
13. Future Islands - Singles
14. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
15. Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
16. Subsonica - Una Nave In Una Foresta
17. David Crosby - Croz
18. Real Estate - Atlas
19. Will Stratton - Gray Lodge Wisdom
20. Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2015

Album Of The Year 2015

Sufjen Stevens

1.Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2.Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
3.Kristin Mcclement - The Wild Grips
4.Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now
5.John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
5.Tribulation - Children Of The Night
7.Beach House - Thank You Lucky Stars
7.Jim O'rourke - Simple Songs
9.Bill Fay - Who Is The Sender?
10.Kamasi Washington - The Epic
11.Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography
12.Colleen - Captain Of None
13.New Order - Music Complete
14.Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
15.Sara Forslund - Water Became Wild
16.Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
17.Queen Elephantine - Omen
18.The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Harmlessness
18.Grimes - Art Angels
20.Algiers - Algiers

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2016





1 .Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Weyes Blood - Fron Row Seat To Earth
4. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
5. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
6. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
6. Plantman - To The Lighthouse
8. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
9. Brian Eno - The Ship
9. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
11. Moby - These Systems Are Failing
12. Brave Timbers - Hope
13. Daniel Lanois- Goodbye To Language
14. Swans - The Glowing Man
15. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid
16. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
17. Teenage Fanclub - Here
18. Robert Ellis - Robert Ellis
19. The Frightnrs - Nothing More To Say
20. Goat - Requiem


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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2017



1. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
3. The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks
4. The Clientele - Music For The Age Of Miracles
5. Morrissey - Low In High School
6. Piano Magic - Closure
7. Lcd Soundsystem - American Dream
8. Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James Mcalister - Planetarium
9. Kendrick Lamar - Damn.
10. Bent Knee - Land Animal
11. Perfume Genius - No Shape
12. King Krule - The Ooz
13. Suffocation - ...Of The Dark Light
14. The Xx - I See You
15. The National - Sleep Well Beast
16. Giovanni Succi - Con Ghiaccio
17. The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?
18. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
19. Arca - Arca
20. The Black Angels - Death Song

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2018
(N. 460, December 2018, Http://Www.Rockerilla.Com)


1 Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
2 Low - Double Negative
3 Thom Yorke – Suspiria
4 Soap&Skin - From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend
5 Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
6 Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
7 Shame - Songs Of Praise
8 Hookworms - Microshift
9 Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
10 Tim Hecker - Konoyo
11 Epic45 - Through Broken Summer
12 Moby - Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
13 Field Music - Open Here
14 U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
15 Beach House - 7
16 Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
17 Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall
18 Nu Guinea - Nuova Napoli
19 Dead Can Dance - Dionysus
20 Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability

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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2021
(n. 496, December 2021, http://www.rockerilla.com)

PLAYLIST 2021

1 Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
2 Black midi – Cavalcade
3 Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
4 Low – Hey What
5 Squid - Bright Green Field
6 Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
7 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
8 Mogwai - As the Love Continues
8 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
10 The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Uncommon Weather
11 Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
12 Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
13 IOSONOUNCANE - IRA
14 Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
14 Balthazar - Sand
14 Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
14 Space Afrika - Honest Labour
18 Jon Batiste - We Are
19 Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds
20 Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
20 Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime


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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2022
(n. 509, January 2023, http://www.rockerilla.com)

PLAYLIST 2022

1 Beach House - Once Twice Melody
2 Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
2 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
4 Breathless - See Those Colours Fly
5 Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
6 Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
7 black midi – Hellfire
7 The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
9 Yard Act - The Overload
10 Lightning in a Twilight Hour - Overwintering
10 Angel Olsen - Big Time
12 The Black Angels - Wilderness of Mirrors
13 Ben Harper - Bloodline Maintenance
13 Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
15 King Hannah - I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
16 Širom - Utekočinjeni prestol preprostih (The Liquified Throne of Simplicity)
17 The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Look Up!
18 Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
18 Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
20 Laura Loriga - Vever
20 Wet Leg - Wet Leg
20 Suede - Autofiction


ROCKERILLA
(n. 509, January 2023, http://www.rockerilla.com)

PLAYLIST READERS 2022


1 The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
2 Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
3 Manuel Agnelli - Ama il prossimo tuo come te stesso
4 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
5 Spiritualized® - Everything Was Beautiful™
6 Yard Act - The Overload
7 Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
8 Interpol - The Other Side of Make-Believe
8 Beach House - Once Twice Melody
10 Breathless - See Those Colours Fly
10 The Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions
12 Marlene Kuntz - Karma Clima
12 The Black Angels - Wilderness of Mirrors
14 King Hannah - I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me


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Rockerilla End Of Year Lists 2023
(n. 520, December 2023, http://www.rockerilla.com)


PLAYLIST 2023


1 Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
2 Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
3 Lankum - False Lankum
4 The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein
5 The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore
6 The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
7 Depeche Mode - Memento mori
8 Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
9 Jungle - Volcano
10 bdrmm - I Don't Know
10 Peter Gabriel - i/o
12 The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery
13 Silver Moth - Black Bay
14 Squid - O Monolith
15 Laurel Halo - Atlas
16 Wilco - Cousin
17 Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
18 Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond
19 Irreversible Entanglements - Protect Your Light
19 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles
21 Bully - Lucky for You
21 Vince Clarke - Songs of Silence


ROCKERILLA
(n. 521, January 2024, http://www.rockerilla.com)


PLAYLIST READERS 2023


1 PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
2 The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein
3 ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
4 Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
5 Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
6 Lankum - False Lankum
7 Silver Moth - Black Bay
8 Wilco -Cousin
9 Blur - The Ballad of Darren
10 Lanterns on the Lake - Versions of Us
11 bar italia - Tracey Denim
12 Daughter - Stereo Mind Game
13 Sigur Rós - ÁTTA
14 Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
15 Peter Gabriel - i/o
16 IOSONOUNCANE - Qui noi cadiamo verso il fondo gelido
17 The Kills - God Games
18 Anna B Savage - in|FLUX
19 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles
20 The WAEVE - The WAEVE