Over the years, The Factual Opinion has rocked out many music lists. Here are the links for your consumption.
The Top 30 Albums of 1978
1. Blondie – Parallel Lines
2. Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians
3. Van Halen
4. Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
5. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
6. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
7. Yellow Magic Orchestra
8. Lee Perry - Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread
9. Japan - Adolescent Sex
10. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
11. The Cars
12. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
13. Wire - Chairs Missing
14. Goblin - Patrick
15. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kaya
16. No New York
17. Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Machine
18. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
19. Junior Delgado - Dance A Dub
20. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
21. AC/DC - Powerage
22. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
23. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
24. Eno Moebius Roedelius - After The Heat
25. The Police - Outlandos d’Amour
26. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
27. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
28. The Jam - All Mod Cons
29. Nina Simone - Baltimore
30. Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band Meets King Penett
The Top 50 Songs of 1978: Part One (#50-26) & Part Two (#25-1)
The Top 25 Albums of 1983
1. Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
2. R.E.M. – Murmur
3. U2 - War
4. Minor Threat - Out Of Step
5. ESG - Come Away With ESG
6. X - More Fun In The New World
7. Madonna
8. AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
9. The Fall - Perverted By Language
10. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
11. Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
12. The The - Soul Mining
13. Wipers - Over The Edge
14. Def Leppard - Pyromania
15. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
16. James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
17. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
18. The P-Funk All Stars - Urban Dancefloor Guerillas
19. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood
20. Wild Style
21. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Learning To Cope With Cowardace
22. The Replacements - Hootenanny
23. Cybotron - Enter
24. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
25. John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh Huh
The Top 25 Albums of 1992
1. Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
2. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3. Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r.
4. Los Lobos - Kiko
5. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
6. Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom
7. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
8. Godflesh - Pure
9. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
10. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
11. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
12. Rage Against The Machine
13. PJ Harvey - Dry
14. Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop
15. Sonic Youth - Dirty
16. Gang Starr - Daily Operation
17. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
18. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
19. Nine Inch Nails - Broken/Fixed
20. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
21. Sugar - Coper Blue
22. Morphine - Good
23. Stereolab - Peng!
24. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca And The Soul Brother
25. James - Seven
The Top 25 Albums of 2006
1. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
2. T.I. – King
3. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
4. Liars - Drum’s Not Dead
5. Herbert - Scale
6. Lil’ Wayne & DJ Drama - Dedication 2: Gangsta Grillz
7. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
8. Comets On Fire - Avatar
9. Scott Walker - The Drift
10. Burial
11. Califone - Roots & Crowns
12. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
13. Voxtrot - Raised By Wolves/Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives/Your Biggest Fan
14. Tom Waits - Orphans
15. Quantic - An Announcement To Answer
16. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
17. The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls In America
18. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
19. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
20. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
21. Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye
22. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
23. Islands - Return To The Sea
24. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
25. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The Top 30 Albums of 2007
1. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
2. The National – Boxer
3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
4. Grinderman
5. Jay-Z - American Gangster
6. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
7. Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You
8. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
9. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
10. The Sea & Cake - Everybody
11. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog
12. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
13. Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxxions
14. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
16. Pharoahe Monch - Desire
17. Burial - Untrue
18. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
19. Dälek - Abandoned Language
20. Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
21. Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
22. Dizzee Rascal -Maths + English
23. M.I.A. - Kala
24. A Place To Bury Strangers
25. Caribou - Andorra
26. Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
27. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
28. Devin The Dude - Waitin’ To Inhale
29. Maritime - Heresy And The Hotel Choir
30. Feist - The Reminder
The Top 50 Songs of 2007: Part One (#50-31), Part Two (#30-11) & Part Three (#10-1)
The Top 30 Albums of 2008
1. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
2. Portishead – Third
3. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
4. Santogold
5. Tricky - Knowle West Boy
6. The Bug - London Zoo
7. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War
8. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
9. DJ /rupture - Uproot
10. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
11. The Constantines - Kensington Heights
12. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
13. Mark Stewart - Edit
14. The Dodos - Visiter
15. Vampire Weekend
16. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
17. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
18. Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
19. The Knux - Remind Me In 3 Days…
20. Boris - Smile
21. Quiet Village - Silent Movie
22. Snorkel - Glass Darkly
23. The Sea & Cake - Car Alarm
24. Beck - Modern Guilt
25. The Teenagers - Reality Check
26. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
27. AGF - Words Are Missing
28. Why? - Alopecia
29. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
30. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
The Top 50 Songs of 2008
The Top Ten Rap Albums of 2008
The Top Ten “Abrasive” Albums of 2008
The Top 30 Albums of 2009
1. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. 2
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
4. DOOM - Born Like This.
5. Martyn - Great Lengths
6. UGK - UGK 4 Life
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
9. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
10. Dan Deacon - Bromst
11. Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape
12. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
13. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
14. Boxcutter - Arecibo Message
15. DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
16. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
17. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
18. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
19. Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
20. The King Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
21. Lil’ Wayne - No Ceilings
22. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
23. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
24. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
25. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
26. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
27. The xx - xx
28. Silkie - City Limits, Vol. 1
29. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
30. YACHT - See Mystery Lights
The Top 50 Songs of 2009: Part One (#50-26) & Part Two (#25-1)
16 Mixtapes You Should’ve Heard In 2009
2009: A Crazy Year To Be Kanye
Ten Black Dooms Droning: 2009 (and Beyond) in Metal
The Top 100 Songs of The Millennium (So Far):
#200-101 #100-91 #90-81 #80-71 #70-61 #60-51 #50-41 #40-31 #30-21 #20-11 #10-1
The Top 30 Albums of 2010
1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. The Chemical Brothers – Further
3. Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude/ Sit Down, Man
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. Sleigh Bells - Treats
6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
7. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
8. Liars - Sisterworld
9. Robyn - Body Talk
10. Tyler The Creator - Bastard
11. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
12. Guido - Anidea
13. Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here
14. Charlotte Gainsbourgh - IRM
15. Sightings - City Of Straw
16. Caribou - Swim
17. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt/ Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
18. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz Percussion Ensemble - Miles Away/ Young Jazz Rebels - Slave Riot
19. Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
20. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
21. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
22. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
23. Ty Segall - Melted
24. Scuba - Triangulation
25. Screaming Females - Castle Talk
26. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
27. Playboy Tre - The Last Call
28. Jamie Lidell - Compass
29. Starkey - Ear Drums And Black Holes
30. Tobacco - Maniac Meat
The Top 50 Songs of 2010: Part One (#50-31), Part Two (#30-11) & Part Three (#10-1)
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