I listen to many different genres of music; metal, rock, trance, hip-hop, country----you name it. While my overall artist will display that I mostly like metal, I personally enjoy metal because I appreciate the technicality of a lot of it, and a lot of passion/anger can be displayed in the music itself. These albums are organized by genre/alphabetically.

Hip-Hop:
#001: 2Pac - Resurrection
#002: 3Oh!3 - Want
#003: Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
#004: Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
#005: Blue Scholars - Bayani
#006: Blue Scholars - Blue Scholars
#007: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
#008: Busdriver - Fear of a Black Tangent
#009: Busdriver - Temporary Forever
#010: Busta Rhymes - E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
#011: Del tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
#012: Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
#013: Dr. Dre - 2001
#014: Dr. Dre - The Chronic
#015: Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
#016: GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
#017: Kanye West - The College Dropout
#018: Method Man - Tical
#019: Nas - God's Son
#020: Nas - I Am
#021: Nas - Illmatic
#022: Nas - Stillmatic
#023: Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
#024: Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
#025: Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
#026: Swollen Members - Bad Dreams
#027: Tech N9ne - Absolute Power
#028: Tech N9ne - Anghellic
#029: Tech N9ne - Everready (The Religion)
#030: Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
#031: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Metal:
#032: All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence
#033: All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
#034: Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
#035: Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
#036: Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
#037: At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
#038: Carcass - Heartwork
#039: Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
#040: Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
#041: Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
#042: DevilDriver - [The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
#043: DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
#044: Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
#045: Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
#046: Dream Theater - Metropolis Part II - Scenes From A Memory
#047: Dream Theater - Octavarium
#048: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
#049: Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
#050: Fear Factory - Demanufacture
#051: Heaven Shall Burn - Antigone
#052: Heaven Shall Burn - Deaf To Our Prayers
#053: Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast (Part One: The Final Resistance)
#054: HORSE the band - Natural Death
#055: HORSE the band - The Mechanical Hand
#056: Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
#057: Ill Niño - Confession
#058: Ill Niño - Enigma
#059: In Flames - Clayman
#060: In Flames - Come Clarity
#061: In Flames - Jester Race/Black-Ash Inheritance
#062: In Flames - Reroute to Remain
#063: In Flames - Whoracle
#064: Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
#065: KoЯn - Untouchables
#066: Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
#067: Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
#068: Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
#069: Machine Head - The Blackening
#070: Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
#071: Meshuggah - Nothing
#072: Meshuggah - obZen
#073: Oh, Sleeper - When I Am God
#074: Opeth - Blackwater Park
#075: Opeth - Damnation
#076: Opeth - Deliverance
#077: Opeth - Ghost Reveries
#078: Opeth - Watershed
#079: Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
#080: Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
#081: Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
#082: Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
#083: Protest the Hero - Fortress
#084: Protest the Hero - Kezia
#085: Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
#086: Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
#087: The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
#088: The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
#089: Unearth - The March
#090: Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
#091: Vader - XXV
#092: Wintersun - Wintersun

Electronic:
#093: Above & Beyond - Tri-State
#094: Aphex Twin - Drukqs
#095: Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
#096: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
#097: Daft Punk - Homework
#098: DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
#099: Hallucinogen - Twisted
#100: Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians
#101: Juno Reactor - Bible of Dreams
#102: Juno Reactor - Samurai
#103: Noisia - FabricLive 40
#104: Ott - Blumenkraft
#105: Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
#106: Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
#107: Pendulum - In Silico
#108: Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
#109: Shpongle - Nothing Lasts...But Nothing is Lost
#110: Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
#111: The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
#112: The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

Industrial:
#113: Agonoize - Evil Gets an Upgrade
#114: Combichrist - Everybody Hates You
#115: Combichrist - What the fuck is wrong with you people?
#116: Grendel - End of Ages
#117: Grendel - Harsh Generation
#118: KMFDM - Nihil
#119: KMFDM - Symbols
#120: KMFDM - XTORT
#121: Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs
#122: Nine Inch Nails - Broken
#123: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
#124: Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
#125: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Rock:
#126: Audioslave - Audioslave
#127: Beck - Odelay
#128: Buckethead - Crime Slunk Scene
#129: Buckethead - Monsters And Robots
#130: Cassino - Sounds Of Salvation
#131: Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
#132: Crossfade - Crossfade
#133: Danzig - Danzig
#134: Deerhunter - Microcastle
#135: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
#136: Judas Priest - Painkiller
#137: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
#138: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
#139: Metallica - Master of Puppets
#140: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
#141: Queen - A Night at the Opera
#142: Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
#143: Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
#144: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
#145: Radiohead - In Rainbows
#146: Radiohead - Kid A
#147: Radiohead - OK Computer
#148: Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You
#149: Sum 41 - Chuck
#150: Testament - Practice What You Preach
#151: Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
#152: The Beatles - Abbey Road
#153: The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club
#154: The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
#155: The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
#156: The Strokes - Room on Fire
#157: Tool - Aenima
#158: Tool - Lateralus
#159: Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil
#160: Volbeat - The Strength/the Sound/the Songs
#161: Whitestarr - Luv Machine

No .1 Opeth - Watershed (Progressive Metal)


No. 2 Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (Indie Rock)

No. 3 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


No. 4 Arsis - We Are The Nightmare (Melodic Death Metal)


No. 5 Testament - The Formation Of Damnation (Thrash Metal)


No. 6 Kings of Leon - Only By The Night (Alternative Rock)


No. 7 Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight (Soundtrack)


No 8 Aeba - Kodex V (Black Metal)


No. 9 Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Soft Rock)


No. 10 Krisiun - Southern Storm (Death Metal)


No. 11 Metallica - Death Magnetic (Thrash Metal)


No. 12 Judas Priest - Nostradamus (Symphonic/Heavy Metal)


No. 13 Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Atmospheric Black Metal)


No. 14 Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (Melodic Death Metal)


No. 15 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (Pop/Rock)

So I'm turning 20 and I'm bored as shit, so let's arbitrarily pick a "metal" album from every year of my current physical manifestation's existence.

1988 - Megadeth's So Far, So Good... So What!
1989 - Sepultura's Beneath the Remains
1990 - Judas Priest's Painkiller
1991 - Morbid Angel's Blessed are the Sick
1992 - Iced Earth's Night of the Stormrider
1993 - Cynic's Focus
1994 - Bolt Thrower's ...For Victory
1995 - At the Gates's Slaughter of the Soul
1996 - Edge of Sanity's Crimson
1997 - Iron Savior's Iron Savior
1998 - Death's The Sound Of Perseverance
1999 - Sodom's Code Red
2000 - Vader's Litany
2001 - Destruction's The Antichrist
2002 - Amon Amarth's Versus the World
2003 - Dream Theater's Train of Thought
2004 -Probot's Probot
2005 -Dark Tranquillity's Character
2006 - Ghoul's Splatterthrash
2007 - Dethklok's The Dethalbum
2008 - Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God

Some notes:
(1) I wish I was alive 1983-1987.
(2) I had a really hard time picking 1996-2008 with the exception of one or two years.
(3) I changed some of my picks so I could avoid having the same artist twice. Thus, some of my favorite albums are missing.

Judas Priest / "Pestilence and Plague" / Nostradamus (8) / Jun 2008

Artist: Judas Priest
Original Album: Nostradamus
Track: Pestilence and Plague

I've had the latin (or is it Italian?) part of this song in my head for a few days.

For me, Nostradamus is quite a hard listen. It's long. It's got a lot of slow parts and interlude tracks. The concept itself...well that's quite a hard sell in itself. The individual songs rarely embody the all out ferociousness of Painkiller, Screaming for Vengeeance or Judas Rising or the catchy melodiousness of Breaking the Law and You've Got Another Thing Comin'. The band seem pleased with it, though, and I suspect they got what they wanted from the album and it's final production. I don't think they got what I wanted from the album though. The drums are too quiet, not taking their prominent place they did on the Chris Tsangarides mixed Painkiller or the Roy Z mixed Angel of Retribution, and the guitars in general sound softer. Scott Travis is still pounding away at the double pedals as he does so well, but it feels majorly ignored by the rest of the band who plod through the material with a total void of urgency. Are we supposed to feel like the double disc album lasts as long as Nostradamus' lifetime itself?

As a concept album, and following just a few months after the fantastic 01011001 that set a very high standard for double disc concept albums this year, it kind of failed to hold my interest as one piece. Broken down into individual tracks however, there are some good moments, of which this one (today's selection) is my favourite. It doesn't, in my view, make it a good contender for album of the year though.

Curiously though, I don't think I've actually heard anyone else's opinion on the album yet. Very strange as it's been out for over three months now. So what does everyone else think? Genius or overblown mediocrity? Personally, with a couple of tracks as exceptions, I'm leaning toward the overblown mediocrity option. I very much get the sense that Rob/Glenn/KK have gone into this with the firm thought that this will be their only concept album and they're going to make it as epic as they possibly can. The only thing is, it seems that in order to make it so epic they've made everything slower, grander and ironically uninspiring. That's certainly not to say the whole thing is useless. If it were, I would not afford it a song of the Day mention. It's just to say that while it's quite good, it could have been so much more, and in the competitive music industry us listeners have begging for (and so frequently getting) our cash I won't be remembering it as the either among the greatest Priest albums or the greastest albums of this year.

Anyway, I don't yet know if I agree with anyone else on this, so what did everyone else think?

MC's:


Drowning the Light - Dungeon Rehearsal (#29/66)
Drowning the Light - Through the Noose of Existance (#157/188)
Drowning the Light - Of Celtic Blood & Satanic Pride (#152/188)
Drowning the Light - The Fallen Years (#091/188)
Drowning the Light - Vampyres of a Dead Age (#51/88)
Drowning the Light / Forbidden Citadel of Spirits - Split Tape (#62/66)
Dyster - Fallen, Suicided & Forgotten (#224/???)
Dyster - Wandering (#023/500)
Fogg - Stormguarde (#173/200)
Fomorii - The Curse of Macha (#101/189)
Hypothermia - Rakbladsvalsen
Hypothermia - Suicide Fixation (#???/500)
Jammerskrik - Demo 1
Secretly In Pain - Fuck This Life (#??/50)
Självmord - Självhatets Skönhet (#???/500)
Skuggeheim - Vinterrikets Konge
Snowfall - Black Terror Art (#184/200)
Triskèle - Les Murmures de la Forêt (#259/300)


MCD's:


Darkthrone - Too Old, Too Cold
Drephjard - Sorgsvart
KampF - Nothing But Wrath
Kilte - Absence
Marduk - Glorification
Mareritt - Hymner Til Døden Og Mørket
Mayhem - Deathcrush
Mgla - Presence
Stillhet - Dømt At Have Sit Liv Forbrudt
Taake - Nekro
Xasthur - Suicide in Dark Serenity
Xasthur - Xasthur


3" CD-R's:


Audio Destruction - Earth (#20/50)
Cheapmachines - Axiom (#33/50)
Deathrow (Ita) - Void (#18/50)
Desolate Fields of Beauty - Decrepitude (#32/50)
Desolation (US) - Desolation (#26/50)
Dodenstorm - The Great Tribulation (#48/50)
Draco Donnovan - Cry Of The Wolves (#30/50)
Dwelling - Pierced Thoughts Of Desolation (#46/50)
FBRZ - Inner Silence (#25/50)
FONNIA - Nediv (#30/50)
Heirdrain - Désolation (#37/50)
Intra Tenebrae - I Shall Inflict (#22/50)
Moon (Aus) - Apparitions (#22/50)
Moon (Aus) - Blood (#33/50)
Mystfield - Falling From Grace (#27/50)
Nachtvorst - Nacht der Stervende Zielen (#20/50)
Necrostorm - Necrostorm (#31/50)
Norss - Avondhemel (#04/20)
Norss - Holst (#04/20)
Ouroboros (Ita) - Lumen Et Umbra (#22/50)
Rabenvolk - Satanic Ritual Storm (#35/50)
Status Epilepticus / Norss - The Experiment (#41/50)
Wolfsduister - De Wolf en de Meester (#26/50)


CD-R's:


Horn of Dagoth - Rehearsal Demo II 2007 (#047/200)
Nadiwrath - Nadiwrath
Svedhous - Path Of Suicide


CD's:


Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Ampütator - Deathcult Barbaric Hell
Ampütator / Baphomets Horns - Satanic Forcefucked Annihilation
Angantyr - Hævn
Angantyr / Nasheim - Split CD
Angst - In Hoc Signo Vinces
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Baal Zebuth - We Are Satanas
Behemoth - Grom
Behemoth - Satanica
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Black Sabbath - The Best Of Black Sabbath
Burzum - Burzum / Aske
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Carcass - Choice Cuts
Carpathian Forest - Black Shining Leather
Carpathian Forest - Defending the Throne of Evil
Carpathian Forest - Fuck You All!!!!
Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination of Death
Carpathian Forest - Skjend Hans Lik
Carpathian Forest - Strange Old Brew
Chimaira - Resurrection
Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter
Communic - Conspiracy in Mind
Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
Crebain - Night of Stormcrow
Cry of Silence - Walking Through The Eternal Tragedy
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone - Frostland Tapes (3CD Boxset)
Darkthrone - Preparing for War
Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Deathgate Arkanum - Totenwerke
Deathspell Omega - Infernal Battles
Deathspell Omega - Inquisitors Of Satan
Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Dio - The Collection
Draugurz - A Yell From The Past
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
Dødheimsgard - 666 International
Dødheimsgard - Kronet Til Konge
Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
Earth - HEX: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
Earth - Hibernaculum
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - IX Equilibrium
Emperor - Prometheus - The Discipline of Fire & Demise
Enslaved - RUUN
Fimbul - Ramnens Ferd
Fluisterwoud - Langs Galg En Rad
Funeral Fog - Channelling Ancient Shadows
Furze - UTD
Glorior Belli - Manifesting The Raging Beast
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Gorgoroth - Destroyer
Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols (In Conspiracy with Satan)
Hordagaard - Djeveldyrkar
Ihsahn - The Adversary
IHVHLXXII - Dtzenioutha
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Edvard The Great
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
Isarnheimr - Isarnheimr
Isengard - Vinterskugge
Iskald - Shades of Misery
Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani
Judas Iscariot - Heaven in Flames
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Khold - Krek
KISS - Destroyer
Koldbrann - Moribund
Koldbrann - Nekrotisk Inkvisition
Krohm - The Haunting Presence
Led Zeppelin - Coda
Led Zeppelin - Early Days
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (2xCD)
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Led Zeppelin - Remasters
Limbonic Art - Ad Noctum Dynasty of Death
Limbonic Art - Epitome of Illusions
Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
Lord Belial - Nocturnal Beast
Lüger - Lügersnacht Faktion Tyranei
Luca Turilli - King of the Nordic Twilight
Machine Head - The Blackening
Masterplan - MK II
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
Mörker - Skuggornas Rike
Moss - Sub Templum
Mütiilation - Sorrow Galaxies
Naglfar - Harvest
Naglfar - Pariah
Nasum - Helvete
Nasum - Human 2.0
Neetzach - True Servants of Satan
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Nirvana - Nevermind
Obliteration - Perpetual Decay
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Still Life
Peordh - An Obscure Forgotten Path
Ragnarok - Nattferd
Red Harvest - A Greater Darkness
Sad - Total Nothingness
Sarkom - Aggravation of Mind
Sarvari - Arcadian Nightly Mysteries
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Satyricon - Volcano
Secht - Secht
Setherial - Lords of the Nightrealm
Shining - V - Halmstad
Six Feet Under - Commandment
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
Solefald - Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey : Part II
Solefald - Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey: Part I
Stonegard - Arrows
Stonegard - From Dusk Till Doom
Striborg - Ghostwoodlands
Striborg - Nefaria / Tragic Journey Towards the Light
Striborg - Solitude
Svartthron - Obscure Telepathy
Svartthron - Soundtrack to my Solitude
Swarost - Oblicze Kultu Cieni
Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad
Taake - Nattestid Ser Porten Vid
Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik
The Frost - Damned and Forgotten
The Who - Tommy
Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon
Through The Eyes Of Carrion - The Passing
Tsjuder - Demonic Possession
Trelldom - Til et Annet...
Trist - Sebevrazední Andelé
Trist - Zrcadlení Melancholie
Trivium - The Crusade
Troll - Drep De Kristne
Troll - The Last Predators
Twisted Sister - Big Hits and Nasty Cuts: The Best of Twisted Sister
Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
Vader - Impressions in Blood
Vinterriket - ...und die Nacht kam Schweren Schrittes
Vinterriket - Retrospektive
Vlad Tepes - La Morte Lune
Walknut - Graveforests and Their Shadows
War - Holy War
Watain - Casus Luciferi
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
Wedard - Einsamer Winterweg
Windir - 1184
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Würm - Aux Portes De L'agonie
Würm / Grim Winter - Suicide Pact
Wyrd - Kammen
Xasthur - Defective Epitaph
Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning
Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
Xasthur - The Funeral of Being
Xasthur / Angra Mainyu - Split CD
Xasthur / Leviathan - Split CD
Zyklon - Aeon

I went to a Judas Priest live in Japan last night.
Quite honestly, it was great. Rob Halford really sings well. Their performance was so solid. I think that it's a far from easy task.
I checked the Wiki, then I'm surprised!! Glenn Tipton is 60 years old!! I can't believe!!! because he's very...very...very cute!!!(Be careful of what I say to a great player. I shouldn't say "cute")
Anyway he look so cu....young.*cough*

I understood why they were called "METAL GOD".
I think Priest is the most underappreciated great band in Japan.
The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi....They are very popular with the Japanese.
Then why Judas Priest are not well-known in Japan?
The answer is clear.
They are METAL.

In Japan, the word "Hebi-meta(Heavy-metal)" regarded as some kind of joke. A lot of Japanese are turned off by metal clothes and tatoos.
like I said, I have three tattoos. Tattoos are still discriminated against in my country. I was rejected by gym, spa, pool, many facilities. Because, Tatoo is symbols of ''Yakuza(Japanese Mafia)''. But...You're kidding!! Do you think I look like a Yakuza? Don't be ridiculous!

....Well, Let's go back here a moment! Judas Priest was excellent! Did I imagine it? Glenn looked at me. I felt his straight eye............All right, I'll stop that already :p

* * Sorry my English!! today is lower than usual....* *

6 months ago on april 1st I did a 'What Country Are Your Top 100 from?' so here 6 months later I thought I would do an update.

1. England (59)
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
The Cure
New Order
Tears for Fears
Ultravox
George Michael
The Human League
Robbie Williams
David Bowie
Muse
Arcadia
Erasure
Iron Maiden
The Police
Def Leppard
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Pet Shop Boys
The Power Station
Roxy Music
Japan (new)
Yazoo
Thompson Twins
Heaven 17
Eurythmics
Kajagoogoo (new)
Bryan Ferry
Elvis Costello & The Attractions (new)
Morrissey
Placebo
Talk Talk
Wham!
Genesis
Andy Taylor
ABC
The Smiths
Kim Wilde
Bauhaus (new)
Queen
Paul McCartney
Blur
Pink Floyd
Soft Cell
Asia
Prefab Sprout
Suede
Judas Priest
Dave Gahan
Level 42
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Culture Club (new)
The Beatles (new)
Spandau Ballet (new)
Saint Etienne
The Pretenders
Oasis
Joy Division (new)
Martin L. Gore
Phil Collins

NOTE: Still at #1, but up from 54,5 to 59 artists, off the charts are: Take That (#102), Neurotic Outsiders (½ england / ½ usa) (#109),