A Different Kind of Yearbook
Part of the process of making additions and revisions to the Rock Annual lists is checking old album guides and other reference books. While I take into account any critical insight that these books may offer, I find them helpful primarily in letting me know of neglected artists, especially "one-hit wonders" and the like. As I check the artists listed in these books against the Rock Annual lists, excluded artists found in each will be listed here—if because they fall outside the purview of the project, their basic genre provided in brackets. If they are indirectly included (that is, an excluded solo artist who is a member of an included band), that is also noted in brackets.
- The New Trouser Press Record Guide [1989]
- Rock Movers and Shakers: An A to Z of the People Who Made Rock Happen [second edition, 1991]
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide Specially Abridged to Accompany 25 Years of Essential Rock [1992]
- The Spin Alternative Record Guide [1995]
- The Encyclopedia of Singles [1998]
- Zagat Survey Music Guide: 1,000 Top Albums of All Time [2003]
- Eddie Trunk, Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal [2011] and Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II [2013]
- Andrew Earles, Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 [2014]
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The New Trouser Press Record Guide [1989]. The first guide published by Trouser Press magazine came in 1983, followed by the second edition in 1985. The latter, like this third edition, was also titled The New Trouser Press Record, leading to inevitable confusion regarding about how many guides exist and when they were published. Since I have copies of all five, I could eventually combine excluded artists from all of them; we shall see (the fourth, in 1991, had the simple title, The Trouser Press Record Guide; the fifth was titled The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock). Maybe not, though, as the guide continues to grow online at the magazine's web site. The guides include a greater number of artists than any of the reference books reviewed here so far.
The Accelerators
Act
Actifed
!Action Pact!
The Adicts
Adrenalin O. D.
A Drop in the Gray
Advertising
Afraid of Mice
After the Fire
Age of Chance
Jane Aire and the Belvederes
Albania
Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band
Alien Sex Field
The Alley Cats
Allez Allez
G. G. Allin
Marc Almond [included as part of Soft Cell]
The Alter Boys
Dave Alvin [included as part of the Blasters]
Phil Alvin [included as part of the Blasters]
Mark Andrews and the Gents
The Angelic Upstarts
Angst
Annabella
Antietam
The Anti-Nowhere League
Anti-Pasti
Any Trouble
A. P. B.
A Popular History of Signs
The Armoury Show
The A's
Virginia Astley
The Atlantics
Avant Garage
Avant Gardeners
Wally Badarou
Bad Manners
Henry Badowski
Balaam and the Angel
Balancing Act
Dave Ball [included as part of Soft Cell]
Ballistic Kisses
Bambi Slam
Band Apart
Band of Susans
Lester Bangs and the Delinquents
Barnes and Barnes
The Barracudas
Basement 5
The Batfish Boys [related group the March Violets included]
Stiv Bators [included as part of the Dead Boys]
The Bears [related group King Crimson included]
The Beat Farmers
The Beatnigs [related group the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy included in the annex]
Beat Rodeo
Jean Beauvoir
Adrian Belew [related group King Crimson included]
Belfegore
Berlin Blondes
Cindy Lee Berryhill
Bethnal
Biff Bang Pow!
Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
Big Pig
Bijou
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Black
Black Randy and the Metrosquad
Blam Blam Blam
Blancmange
Bleached Black
Blessed Virgins
Blind Idiot God
Blood on the Saddle
Blotto
The Blow Monkeys
Blue Angel
The Bluebells
The Blue Hippos
Blue in Heaven
The Blue Orchids
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Blurt
Bmovie
The BoDeans
The Bollock Brothers
Bolshoi
The Bonedaddys
Bone Orchard
The Books
Boom Crash Opera
Duke Bootee [included as part of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five]
The Boothill Foot-Tappers
Dennis Boavell [included as part of Matumbi]
The Box
The Brains
Glenn Branca [Experimental]
The Brandos
The Breakfast Club
Breaking Circus
Billy Bremner
Brian Brain
Betty Bright and the Illuminations
Brilliant
The Brilliant Corners
British Electronic Foundation [related artist Heaven 17 included]
Broken Bones!
Julie Brown
Brygada Kryzys
Bunnydrums
T-Bone Burnett
Bush Tetras
The Buzzards
Captain Sensible [included as part of the Damned]
Belinda Carlisle [included as part of the Go-Go's]
Carmel
The Carpettes
Paul Carrack [included as part of Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics]
Carsickness
Casino Music
The Catheads
The Celibate Rifles
Chalice
The Chameleons
James Chance [included as part of the Contortions]
Sheila Chandra
Channel Three
Chant
Chelsea
Chequered Past
The Chesterfield Kings
The Chiefs of Relief
China Crisis
Choir Invisible
The Chords [English band; the Doo Wop group is included]
Christian Death
The Christians
Christmas
Cinecyde
Circuit II
Circus Mort
Clan of Xymox
John Cooper Clarke
Classic Nouveaux
Clock D. V. A.
The Cockney Rejects
Code Blue
Colour Field
The Comateens
The Communards
Conflict
The Connells
The Contractions
The Coolies
Julian Cope [included as part of the Teardrop Explodes]
The Cortinas
Josie Cotton
Couch Flambeau
The Count
The Count Bishops
Wayne County and the Electric Chairs
Cowboys International
The Crawdaddys
The Robert Cray Band
Creatures
Crime and the City Solution
Cristina
The Cro-Mags
The Crooks
Crossfire Choir
The Crucifucks
The Crumbsuckers
The Cruzados
Crystal Futures
Cuban Heels
The Cucumbers
Cuddly TOys
Culture
Smiley Culture
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Curtiss A
Andre Cymone
The Cynics
Dalis Car
Dance
Dancing Hoods
Danny and Dusty
Danse Society
Das Damen
Dash Rip Rock
Data
The Dawgs
Morris Day
D. C. 3
Dead Can Dance
Dead Fingers Talk
Deadly Hume
Deaf School
Defenestration
Carmaig De Forest
Defunkt
Del Amitri
The Del-Byzanteens
The Del Fuegos
The Del-Lords
Delta 5
The Depressions
Desperate Bicycles
Howard Devoto [included as part of the Buzzcocks and Magazine]
The Diagram Brothers
Dice
The Didjits
Died Pretty
Die Kreuzen
Dif Juz
The Diodes
Dirty Looks
Dislocation Dance
Disneyland after Dark
The Distractions
The Divine Horsemen
Divinyls
Don Dixon
D. M. Z.
Doctor and the Medics
Doctors Children
Doctors' Mob
Doctors of Madness
Dogmatics
The Dogs
Doll by Doll
Dome
Dominatrix
Dox
The Dots
Downy Mildew
The Dragons
Dramatis
Dream Academy
Dreams So Real
The Drones [English band; Australian band is included]
The Drongos
The Droogs
Dubset
Duffo
Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy
The Durutti Column
Earthling
Easterhouse
Eastern Bloc
Eater
Ebn-Ozn
The Edge
Edith Nylon
Eek-a-Mouse
The Effigies
E*I*E*I*O
8 Eyed Spy [member Lydia Lunch is included]
The Electric Guitars
The Elvis Brothers
Empire
The Epidemics
The Equators
The Exploited
Explorers
Exposure
Expression
The Expressos
Extraballe
Eyeless in Gaza
Face to Face
Fad Gadget
Faith Global
The False Prophets
Farmer's Boys
Mick Farren [included as a member of the Deviants]
The Fartz
Fashion
Fearless Iranians from Hell
Feedtime
Fetchin Bones
Fetus Productions
The Fiends
54-40
Figures on a Beach
Fingerprintz
Wild Man Fischer
Fischer-Z
Fishbone
Patrik Fitzgerald
Flag of Convenience
Flesh for Lulu
Float Up C. P.
Floy Joy
Flux of Pink Indians
Flying Color
The Flyin' Spiderz
The Flys
Foetus
Ellen Foley
Fontana Mix
Dredd Foole and the Din
The Fools
Fools Face
For Against
The Forgotten Rebels
45 Grave
The 4-Skinks
Kim Fowley
John Foxx [included as a member of Ultravox]
Frank Chickens
Freur
Fripp + Summers [both included otherwise]
Full Force
Funkapolitan
The F. U.'s
The Fuzztones
Gang Green
Nick Garvey
Gas
Gaye Bykers on Acid
G. B. H.
Geile Tiere
Gene Loves Jezebel
General Public
The Georgia Satellites
Get Smart!
Alex Gibson
Gina X
Girls at Our Best!
Gist
Philip Glass [Classical]
Glaxo Babiers
The Gleaming Spires
Glove [related groups the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees included]
The Godfathers
Peter Godwin
The Golden Palominos
Gone [related group Black Flag included]
Peter Gordon [Classical]
Robert Gordon
The Gorillas
Huw Gower
Grab Grab the Haddock
Grapes of Wrath
Graphic
Gravedigger V
Great Plains
John Greaves [included as a member of Henry Cow]
Green
Group
Gruppo Sportivo
Guadalcanal Diary
The Michael Guthrie Band
The Gyros
Paul Haig [included as a member of Josef K]
Hambi and the Dance
The Happy Hate Me Nots
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
Jody Harris [included as a member of the Contortions]
Jerry Harrison [included as a member of Talking Heads]
Die Haut
Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo
Haysi Fantayzee
Robert Hazard
Nona Hendryx [included as a member of Labelle and Material]
Hey! Elastica
Holger Hiller
Peter Himmelman
Hipsway
The Hitmen
Jools Holland [included as a member of Squeeze]
Holly and the Italians
Hollywood Beyond
The Honeymoon Killers
The Hoodoo Gurus
The Hooters
Horizontal Brian
House of Freaks
House of Shock
The Humans
Human Switchboard
Parthenon Huxley
The Huxon Creepers
Hybrid Kids
The Hypstrz
Icons of Filth
Ideal
Ike Yard
Los Illegals
Illustrated Man
Inca Babies
The Individuals
Indoor Life
The Inmates
Inner City Limit
Insect Surfers
The Insiders
The Invadors
Ippu-Do
Ism
It Bites
It's Immaterial
The Jags
Jason and the Scorchers
The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Jellybean
Jet Black Berries
The Jets
J. F. A.
Jilted John
The JoBoxers
Johnny G
Johnny Hates Jazz
The Johnsons
Jesse Johnson's Revue
The Jolt
Jon and the Nightriders
Howard Jones
Marti Jones
Steve Jones [included as a member of the Sex Pistols]
Juluka
The June Brides
Just Water
Henry Kaiser [Experimental]
Harry Kakoulli [included as a member of Squeeze]
The Kane Gang
Billy Karloff and the Extremes
KaS Product
The Lenny Kaye Connection [included as a member of the Patti Smith Group]
Tommy Keene
Nik Kershaw
The Keys
King
The Kingbees
King Kurt
The Kingsnakes
Konk
Kraut
Ladysmith Black Mambazo [World]
The Lambrettas
Landscape
Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
Clive Langer and the Boxes
The Last
Bill Laswell [included as a member of Material]
Peter Laughner [included as a member of Pere Ubu]
Christine Lavin
Lawndale
Jack Lee [included as a member of the Nerves]
Thomas Leer and Robert Rental
The Leopards
The Leroi Brothers
Let's Active
Keith Levene's Violent Opposition
Lew Lewis Reformer
The Lijadu Sisters
Liliput
The Lime Spiders
Arto Lindsay
Lines
Little Bo Bitch
Little Bob Story
Lizard
Richard Lloyd [included as a member of Television]
LMNOP
Local Heroes S. W. 9
Lolita Pop
London
Lone Justice
Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers [included as a member of the Flamin' Groovies]
The Long Ryders
Lords of the New Church
Buddy Love
Love of Life Orchestra [Classical]
Low Numbers
The Lucy Show
Luna Twist
The Lurkers
Sipho Mabuse
Kirsty MacColl
The Magnolias
Malaria!
The Mandingo Griot SOciety
Man Sized Action
Ziggy Marley
Paul Marotta [included as a member of the Styrenes]
Marquee Moon
Patrick D. Martin
Martini Ranch
Hugh Masekela [Jazz, World]
Mazarati
Richard Mazda
Malcolm McLaren
M. D. C.
The Meatmen
Medium Medium
The Members
Men and Volts
Mental as Anything
Men They Couldn't Hang
The Merton Parkas
The Meteors
M. I. A. [Las Vegas band]
Microdisney
The Micronotz
Los Microwaves
Middle Class
The Mighty Lemon Drops
Miltown Stowaways
Minimal Compact
Minimal Man
Minny Pops
Miracle Legion
The Miracle Workers
Mi-Sex
Missing Persons
The Mission
The Moberlys
Modern Eon
Modern Man
Modern Romance
The Mo-Dettes
Mofungo
The Monochrome Set
Monsoon
Mood
The Moodists
Johnny Moped
The Morells
The Mosquitos
Elton Motello
The Motels
The Mothmen
Motor Boys Motor
Judy Mowatt
Alison Moyett [included as a member of Yaz]
Munchener Freiheit
Coati Mundi [included as a member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Kid Creole and the Coconuts]
Murphy's Law
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
Mutabaruka
The Mutants
The Nails
Naked Eyes
Naked Prey
Wazmo Nariz
Nasmak
The Neats
The Necessaries
The Necros
Negativland [Experimental]
The Neighborhoods
Bill Nelson [included as a member of Be Bop Deluxe]
Nervus Rex
The New Age Steppers
New Asia
Colin Newman [included as a member of Wire]
New Model Army
New Musik
New Order [Detroit group; the Manchester group is included]
The Newtown Neurotics
Steve Nieve [included as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions]
The Nightingales
The Nihilistics
The Nils
Nine below Zero
999
The Nitecaps
The Nits
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
No Direction
Nomeansno
Ian North
November Group
The Nuns
Judy Nylon and Crucial
Ebenezer Obey
Hazel O'Connor
October Faction [related group Black Flag included]
The Offs
Oh-O. K.
The Oil Tasters
Oingo Boingo
OK Jive
Sonny Okosun
100 Flowers
The 101ers
One the Juggler
Opal
William Orbit
The Ordinares
The Original Mirrors
The Original Sins
Our Daughter's Wedding
The Outcasts
Outloud
The Outsets
Outta Place
Painted Willie
Palais Schaumburg
The Pale Fountains
The Pandoras
The Parachute Club
Parasites of the Western World
The Parrots
The Passions
The Pastels
Payolas
Penetration
Phantom Limbs
Binky Philips
The Phones
The Photos
Pianosaurus
Charlie Pickett and the Eggs
Pigbag
Pink Industry
Pink Military
The Piranhas
Der Plan
Planet Patrol
Plan 9
The Plastmatics
Plastic Bertrarnd
Plasticland
The Plastics
Playhouse
The Plugz
Pointed Sticks
Poison Girls
The Polecats
Polkacide
Polyphonic Size
The Pontiac Brothers
The Pop
The Pop-o-Pies
The Pork Dukes
Positive Noise
Will Powers
Pragvec
The Pressure Boys
Pretty Poison
Primitive Calculators
The Primitives
The Primitons
Prince Charles and the City Beat Band
Process and the Doo-Rags
The Professionals [related group the Sex Pistols included]
The Proletariat
Propaganda [U. K. group]
Propaganda [German group]
Pseudo Echo
Punishment of Luxury
Purple Hearts
Jimmy Pursey
Q-Feel
Quando Quango
Question Men
The Quick
Quincy
Robert Quine/Fred Maher [related artists Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Material, and Lou Reed included]
Maxim Rad
The Radio Stars
Rage to Live
Raise the Dragon
Philip Rambow
Randy Rampage
Eric Random
Rank and File
Rational Youth
The Rattlers
The Raunch Hands
The Rave-Ups
Raw Power
The Raybeats
The Raymen
Red Box
Red Guitars
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
The Red Rockers
The Redskins
The Reducers
The Reels
Re-Flex
Regina
The Reivers
Reluctant Stereotypes
Renaldo and the Loaf
Robert Rental and the Normal
Rescue
Martin Rev [included as a member of Suicide]
Kimberley Rew [included as a member of the Soft Boys]
Rhythm and Noise
Boyd Rice
The Rich Kids
Stan Ridgway [included as a member of Wall of Voodoo]
Zoogz Rift
Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
Marc Riley with the Creepers [related group the Fall is included]
Tabu Ley Rochereau
The Rockats
Nile ROdgers [included as a member of Chic]
Henry Rollins [included as a member of Black Flag]
The Roll-Ups
Roman Holiday
Kristi Rose and the Midnight Walkers
Royal Court of China
Royal Crescent Mob
Rubber Rodeo
The Rubinoos
Rudimentary Peni
Ruefrex
Sad Lovers and Giants
Safety Last
Norman Salant
Salem 66
The Saqqara Dogs
Savage Progress
Tenor Saw
The Scars
(The) Scene Is Now
Armand Schaubroeck Steals
Tim Scott
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
The Screaming Meemees
The Screaming Tribesmen
The Screaming Sirens
Scruffy the Cat
Secret
Secret Affair
Secrets
(U. S.) Secret Service
The Seminal Rats
The Senders
Serious Young Insects
Sex Gang Children
Shake
The Shakin' Pyramids
Shakin' Street
Shamen
Sham 69
Feargal Sharkey
Sheena and the Rockkets
Sheila E.
The Shirts
Shrink
Jane Siberry
The Sic F*cks
Sideway Look
The Silencers
Silent Running
Desmond Simmons
Simon F
The Sinceros
Single Bullet Theory
Skafish
The Skeleton Crew [member Fred Frith included]
The Skunks
Slammin' Watusis
Slaughter and the Dogs
The Slickee Boys
Slow Children
T. V. Smith's Explorers
Snakefingers [included as part of the Residents]
Snatches of Pink
The Sneakers [related group the dB's included]
The Solid Senders
Sore Throat
The Sorrows
The Soup Dragons
Souris Deglinguee
The Space Negros
Spear of Destiny
Specimen
Chris Spedding
Spherical Objects
The Spitballs
Spizz
S. P. K.
Splodgenessabounds
Squire
Chris Stamey [included as part of the dB's]
The Stargazers
The Starjets
Start
Walter Steding
The Stepmothers
Stetsasonic
The Stickmen
The Stinky Toys
Richard Strange
Strawberry Switchblade
The Stripes
Joe Srummer [included as part of the Clash]
Stump
The Style Council [related group, the Jam, included]
The Subtones
Suburban Laws
The Suburban Studs
Andy Summers [included as part of the Police]
The Sunny Jim Band
Surf M.C.'s
The Surf Trio
S. W. A.
Rachel Sweet
The Swingers
Swing Out Sister
Sylvain Sylvain
Systematics
Troy Tate
Tot Taylor
Bram Tchaikovsky
The Teardrops
Teenage Head
The Tell-Tale Hearts
Tenpole Tudor
Ten Ten
Tex and the Horseheads
Theatre of Hate
Thelonious Monster
These Immortal Souls
Theyr
Thin White Rope
Thrashing Doves
The Three Johns
The Three O'Clock
The Tigers
Time
The Times
Tin Huey
Tirez Tirez
To Damascus
Tones on Tail
Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs
Toto Coelo
The Tourists [related group Eurythmics included]
Toxic Reasons
Tracie
Tragic Mulatto
Translator
The Transmitters
Trees [San Diego group]
Tripod Jimmie
Tom Troccoli's Dog
The True Believers
True West
Truth
Maureen Tucker [included as part of the Velvet Underground]
Tuff Darts
TV21
Twist
Sean Tyla
Tracey Ullman
James Blood Ulmer [Jazz]
Undead
The Units
The Unknowns
The Untouchables
Urban Heroes
Urban Verbs
Cherry Vanilla
David Van Tieghem
The Ben Vaughn Combo
Alan Vega [included as part of Suicide]
Velvet Elvis
Venus and the Razorblades
Tom Verlaine [included as part of Television]
The Verlaines
The Vice Squad
Sid Vicious [included as part of the Sex Pistols]
The Vipers
Vitamin Z
Vivabeat
Voice Farm
Wah!
The Wall
The Wanderers
The Warsaw Pakt
The Washington Squares
W. C.3
Wednesday Week
Wendy and Lisa
Johanna Went
Howard Werth
Western Eyes
Westworld
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Going to Use It
What Is This
Where's Lisse?
Whirlwind
Whirlywirld
The White Animals
White Door
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages
Wide Boy Awake
Jane Wiedlin [included as part of the Go-Go's]
Scott Wilk and the Walls
Robert Williams
Mari Wilson
Wind
The Windbreakers
The Winkdies
Wire Train
The Witch Trials
Jah Wobble [included as part of Public Image Ltd.]
Wolfgang Press
The Woodentops
The Woods
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club
World at a Glance
World Domination Enterprises
Würm
Xdreamysts
Xmal Deutschland
The X-Teens
The Yachts
The Yankees
Yeah Yeah Noh
Yikes!
Young Fresh Fellows
Y Pants
The Zantees
The Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra
Zerra 1
Z'ev [Experimental]
The Zippers
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
The Zones
Zounds
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Rock Movers and Shakers: An A to Z of the People Who Made Rock Happen [second edition, 1991]; the back cover is displayed above. This curio reference book contains chronologies of a goodly number of popular music's big sellers, late-Eighties vintage. Having randomly gotten my parents to purchase this at one of our regular trips to the Oxford book shops in Atlanta, it became a handy guide to the ins and outs of the record industry. Two of these (Band Aid and U. S. A. for Africa) are generally not considered to be distinct artists; if the releases associated with those organizations were to be included in the Rock Annual lists, they would be cataloged under Various artists.
Paula Abdul
Herb Alpert [Jazz]
Band Aid
George Benson [Jazz]
Michael Bolton
Bucks Fizz
Belinda Carlisle [included as part of the Go-Go's]
China Crisis
The Christians
Natalie Cole
Robert Cray
Deacon Blue
Jason Donovan
Five Star
Andy Gibb
Debbie Gibson
M. C. Hammer
Freddie Jackson
Al Jarreau
Howard Jones
Level 42
The Little River Band
Richard Marx
Ian Matthews
Michael McDonald [included as part of The Doobie Brothers]
The Mission
Alison Moyet
New Kids on the Block
Jeffrey Osborne
Ray Parker Jr.
Peter and Gordon
P. J. Proby
Chris Rea
Roxette
Helen Shapiro
Jimmy Sommerville [included as part of Bronski Beat]
Lisa Stansfield
Tommy Steele
Shakin' Stevens
The Style Council
The Swinging Blue Jeans
Tiffany
Wet Wet Wet
Wilson Phillips
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide Specially Abridged to Accompany 25 Years of Essential Rock [1992]. The box set 25 Years of Essential Rock was a Time-Life compilation created by persons associated with Rolling Stone magazine in some fashion. I got it because it came free when I subscribed to the magazine in 1992—13 years-old... we all make mistakes—and this abridged version of the magazine's album guide came free too. The book certainly serves well as a timepiece, a glimpse into the mind of the Rock "establishment" that should have felt a renewed sense of purpose in those years of new, innovative Rock music coming to the fore, but instead published ridiculous record guides like this, in which artists who began work in the Fifties and Sixties get lots of five-star reviews, later artists hardly get any. If you skim through the entire book, this pattern becomes a running joke, or a game you can play with yourself. Find an artist from the Seventies and Eighties who gets five stars! Don't strain your eyes!
Most of the artists found in this book who are (formally) excluded from the Rock Annual in fact are individuals included as members of bands. Blame Rolling Stone or the times when it was written (aging Rock stars, even of the Punk era, trying to maintain careers after their bands had fallen apart)... either way this book includes pithy entries for many artists-going-solo, taking up space that could have gone to more artists or better writing (say, more than a paragraph on Kraftwerk).
Duane Allman [included as part of the Allman Brothers Band]
Gregg Allman [included as part of the Allman Brothers Band]
Altered Images
Dave Alvin [included as part of the Blasters]
Phil Alvin [included as part of the Blasters]
Eric Andersen
Marty Balin [included as part of Jefferson Airplane]
Adrian Belew [included as part of King Crimson]
Richard Betts [included as part of the Allman Brothers Band]
Elvin Bishop [included as part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band]
Bloodrock
Luka Bloom
Mike Bloomfield [included as part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band]
Blue Angel
The Blues Brothers
Michael Bolton
Boy George [included as part of the Culture Club]
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Eric Burdon [included as part of the Animals and War]
T-Bone Burnett
Belinda Carlisle [included as part of the Go-Go's]
Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns
Peter Case [included as part of the Plimsouls]
Alex Chilton [included as part of the Box Tops and Big Star]
George Clinton [included as part of Funkadelic and Parliament]
Natalie Cole
Bootsy Collins [included as part of Funkadelic and Parliament]
Harry Connick, Jr. [Jazz]
Robert Cray Band
David Crosby and Graham Nash [each included separately]
Roger Daltry [included as part of the Who]
Morris Day
John Entwistle [included as part of the Who]
Exposé
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Jerry Harrison [included as part of Talking Heads]
Deborah Harry [included as part of Blondie]
Hot Tuna
Ian Hunter [included as part of Mott the Hoople]
Jermaine Jackson [included as part of the Jackgon 5]
Mick Jagger [included as part of the Rolling Stones]
Jorma Kaukonen [included as part of Jefferson Airplane]
Kenny G [Jazz; Easy Listening]
Mark Knopfler [included as part of Dire Straits]
Al Kooper [included as part of Blood, Sweat and Tears]
Alvin Lee [included as part of Ten Years After]
Julian Lennon
Little Village
Jeff Lynne [included as part of Electric Light Orchestra]
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Dave Mason [included as part of Traffic]
Ric Ocasek [included as part of the Cars]
Jimmy Page [included as part of Led Zeppelin]
P Funk All Stars [related groups Funkadelic and Parliament both included]
Poco
Keith Richards [included as part of the Rolling Stones]
Robbie Robertson [included as part of the Band]
David Lee Roth [included as part of Van Halen]
Joe Satriani
Sheila E
Dave Stewart [included as part of Eurythmics]
Joe Strummer [included as part of the Clash]
Andy Summers [included as part of the Police]
The Time
Pete Townshend [included as part of the Who]
The Traveling Wilburys
Little Steven Van Zandt [included as part of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes; and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band]
The Vaughan Brothers [Stevie Ray Vaughan included]
Tom Verlaine [included as part of Television]
Roger Waters [included as part of Pink Floyd]
Wendy and Lisa
Wilson Phillips
Steve Winwood [included as part of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith]
Peter Wolf [included as part of the J Geils Band]
Ron Wood [included as part of the Rolling Stones]
~
The Spin Alternative Record Guide [1995], most of the back cover pictured above. Several entries in this book are not artist names, but compilations or genres. As a teenager reading this book when it came out, I learned a lot: things I had to unlearn (for example, that Frank Zappa is a Bad Man) and things that required greater knowledge to appreciate (for example, the entries for certain avant-garde Jazz artists helped created a generation of listeners who awkwardly avoided anything about Jazz before Free Jazz). That said, the book was a window into the minds of multiple generations of Rock criticism and subcultures. Spin's failure (or lack of interest) in taking to the online realm meant that Pitchfork took its place as Indie-Rock trend setter. In the long run, this proved disastrous, as Pitchfork shepherded artists representing an anemic, slick version of Indie Rock into the mainstream, then decided to abandon Rock music almost entirely in favor of becoming a particualrly-pitiful member of the Poptimist crowd, ultimately leading to its merciful murder by Condé Nast in the form of a merger with GQ magazine ("You can't make this shit up"). Spin, meanwhile, became a zombie publication, i. e. an advertisement-flooded website, as did its main competitor, Alternative Press.
Albert Ayler [Jazz]
Derek Bailey [Jazz; Experimental]
Basehead
Belly
Bettie Serveert
Borbetomagus [Experimental]
Glenn Branca [Experimental]
The Caifanes
Ornette Coleman [Jazz]
Consolidated
Dead Can Dance
Digable Planets
The Disco Years compilation series
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Electronic music/ musique conrcète [Experimental; Classical]
Enigma
Exotica [these artists, namely Martin Denny and Juan Garcia Esquivel, would be roughly placed within the broad Jazz category]
Freestyle's Greatest Beats: The Complete Collection compilation series
Frightwig
Funky Stuff, In Yo' Face, and Phat Trax compilation series
Green Day
Kip Hanrahan [Jazz; Experimental]
Hole
House Music All Night Long and similar compilations
Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits compilation series
King Missile
Lenny Kravitz
The Kronos Quartet [Classical; Experimental]
K. D. Lang
Liliput
Live
Luscious Jackson
Meat Beat Manifesto
M. T. V. Party to Go compilation series
The Offspring
Arvo Pärt [Classical]
Pimps, Players & Private Eyes [the other albums discussed, Shaft and Superfly, are both included]
P. M. Dawn
Reggae Dancehall Classics compilation series
Repo Man [soundtrack album]
Henry Rollins [included as part of Black Flag]
Sonny Sharrock [Jazz]
Shonen Knife
Carl Stalling [Classical]
Stone Temple Pilots
Sun Ra [Jazz; Experimental]
Best of Techno compilation series
This Are 2-Tone, The 2-Tone Story, and The 2-Tone Collection
Henry Threadgill [Jazz]
Too Short
Maureen Tucker [included as part of the Velvet Underground]
Ultimate Breaks and Beats compilation series
Urge Overkill
Black Box—Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years
Hal Willner [primarily a producer; many of his projects are beyond the purview of this site, broadly categorized as Jazz or Classical]
La Monte Young [Experimental; Classical]
John Zorn [Experimental; Classical; Jazz]
~
The Encyclopedia of Singles [1998]. Its selection definitely reflect its British origin but overall this book is a helpful resource for identifying "one-hit wonders" and the like.
First, the songs excluded by artists who are also excluded:
‘All Around the World’, Lisa Stansfield
‘Any Dream Will Do’, Jason Donovan
‘Babe’, Take That
‘Back for Good’, Take That
‘Band of Gold’, Freda Payne
‘Crazy’, Seal
‘D. I. S. C. O.’, Ottawan
‘Deck of Cards’, Wink Martindale
‘A Design for Life’, Manic Street Preachers
‘Dominique’, Soeur Sourire the Singing Nun
‘Don't Leave Me This Way’, The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris
‘Don't Cry for Me Argentina’, Julie Covington
‘Don't Give Up on Us’, David Soul
‘Echo Beach’, Martha and the Muffins
‘Love Theme from “A Star Is Born” (Evergreen)’, Barbara Streisand [Jazz]
‘Everlasting Love’, Love Affair
‘Eye Level&rsquop;, The Simon Park Orchestra [Classical]
‘Father and Son’, Boyzone
‘Feels like I'm in Love’, Kelly Marie
‘Fever’, Peggy Lee [Jazz]
‘Gangsta's Paradise’, Coolio
‘A Girl like You’, Edwyn Collins [included as part of Orange Juice]
‘Goodnight Girl’, Wet Wet Wet
‘Hangin' Touch’, New Kids on the Block
‘Happy Birthday’, Altered Images
‘Happy Talk’, Captain Sensible [included as part of the Damned]
‘Hey There’, Rosemary Clooney [Jazz]
‘(Hey There) Lonely Girl’, Eddie Holman
‘Hold My Hand’, Don Cornell [Jazz]
‘How Am I Supposed to Live without You’, Michael Bolton
‘I Believe’, The Bachelors
‘I Just Want to Be’, Andy Gibb
‘I Owe You Nothing’, Bros
‘I Pretend’, Des O'Connor [Jazz]
‘I Swear’, All-4-One
‘I Want to Sex You Up’, Color Me Badd
‘I'll Be Missing You’, Puff Daddy
‘Ice Ice Baby’, Vanilla Ice
‘Informer’, Snow
‘I See the Moon’, The Stargazers [Jazz]
‘It Must Be Love’, Roxette
‘Jump’, Kriss Kross
‘Knock on Wood’, Amii Stewart
‘Little Things Mean a Lot’Kitty Kallen [Jazz]
‘Lost in Your Eyes’, Debbie Gibson
‘Love Is All Around’, Wet Wet Wet
‘Love Is Blue’, Paul Mauriat [Jazz]
‘Make Love to Me’, Jo Stafford [Jazz]
‘Mary's Boy Child’, Harry Belafonte [Jazz]
‘Memories Are Made of This’, Dean Martin [Jazz]
‘Mississippi’, Pussycat
‘More than Words’, Extreme
‘Music’, John Miles
‘My Baby Just Cares for Me’, Nina Simone [Jazz]
‘My Way’, Frank Sinatra [Jazz]
‘19’, Paul Hardcastle
‘No Limit’, 2 Unlimited
‘Save Your Kisses for Me’, Brotherhood of Man
‘True Love’, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly [Jazz]
‘Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out’, Freak Power
‘Two Little Boys’, Rolf Harris
‘2 Become 1’, The Spice Girls
‘U Can't Touch This’, M. C. Hammer
‘Unbelievable’, E. M. F.
‘Under the Moon of Love’, Showaddywaddy
‘Unforgettable’, Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole [Jazz]
‘Venus’, Frankie Avalon
‘Virtual Insanity’, Jamiroquai
‘Volare (Nel Dlu Dipinto di Blue)’, Dean Martin [Jazz]
‘Walk in the Black Forest’, Horst Janowski [Jazz]
‘Wanderin' Star‘Lee Marvin [Jazz]
‘Wannabe’, The Spice Girls
‘Wanted’, Perry Como [Jazz]
‘The Way We Were’, Barbra Streisand [Jazz]
‘The Wayward Wind’, Gogi Grant [Jazz]
‘The Wedding’, Julie Rogers
‘Welcome Home’, Peters and Lee
‘What a Wonderful World’, Louis Armstrong [Jazz]
‘What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For’, Emile Ford and the Checkmates
‘What Is Love’, Howard Jones
‘Whatever Will Be Will Be’, Doris Day [Jazz]
‘When I Fall in Love’, Nat King Cole [Jazz]
‘Where Do You Go To My Lovely’, Peter Sarstedt
‘Whispering Grass’, Windsor Davies and Don Estelle
‘A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)’, Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle
‘Why’, Annie Lennox [included as part of Eurythmics]
‘Winchester Cathedral’, The New Vaudeville Band
‘Woman in Love’, Barbra Streisand [Jazz]
‘Y Viva Espana’, Sylvia [included as part of Mickey and Sylvia]
‘Yellow River’, Christie
‘The Yellow Rose of Texas’, Mitch Miller [Jazz]
‘You Can Do Magic’, Limmie and the Family Cookin'
‘You to Me Are Everything’, The Real Thing
‘You're the Best Thing’, The Style Council
‘Young at Heart’, The Bluebells
‘Young Hearts Run Free’, Candi Staton
‘Young Love’, Tab Hunter
The following songs are excluded, either as singles/ deep cuts or as tracks on an album, but other selections by the artists are included:
‘Alive and Kicking’, Simple Minds
‘Amoureuse’, Kiki Dee
‘Angie Baby’, Helen Reddy
‘Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)’, Christopher Cross
‘Baggy Trousers’, Madness
‘Ben’, Michael Jackson
‘The Best’, Tina Turner
‘The Best Things in Life Are Free’, Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson
‘Billy - Don't Be a Hero’, Paper Lace
‘Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter’, Iron Maiden
‘Can't Get Enough’, Bad Company
‘Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)’, The Stylistics
‘(I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You’, U. B. 40
‘Chain Reaction’, Diana Ross
‘Could It Be Magic’, Barry Manilow
‘Crazy for You’, Madonna
‘Creep’, Radiohead
‘Crying in the Chapel’, Elvis Presley
‘D'You Know What I Mean?’, Oasis
‘Dead Ringer’, Meat Loaf
‘Don't Go Breaking My Heart’, Elton John and Kiki Dee
‘Don't Turn Around’, Aswad
‘Don't Look Back in Anger’, Oasis
‘Do They Know It's Christmas?’, Band Aid
‘Dreamlover’, Mariah Carey
‘Easy Lover’Philip Bailey and Phil Collins
‘Ebony and Ivory’, Paul McCartney Featuring Stevie Wonder
‘End of the Road&rsquop;, Boyz II Men
‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’Poison
‘(Everything I Do) I Do It for You’, Bryan Adams
‘Fantasy’, Mariah Carey
‘Freedom’, Wham!
‘Georgy Girl’, The Seekers
‘Golden Brown’, The Stranglers
‘Gonna Make You a Star’, David Essex
‘Halfway to Paradise’, Billy Fury
‘Have I Told You Lately’, Rod Stewart
‘Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman’, Bryan Adams
‘Hi Ho Silver Lining’, Jeff Beck
‘Hold Tight’, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch
‘House of Fun’, Madness
‘I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing’, The New Seekers [related group, The Seekers, included]
‘If’, Bread
‘If I Could Turn Back Time’, Cher
‘If You Don't Know Me by Now’, Simply Red
‘I Love You Because’, Jim Reeves
‘I Say a Little Prayer’, Aretha Franklin
‘I Should Be So Lucky’, Kylie Minogue
‘I'll Make Love to You’, Boyz II Men
‘I Want to Break Free’, Queen
‘I'll Be Home’, Pat Boone
‘I'm the Leader of the Gang’, Gary Glitter
‘In the Still of the Nite’, Boyz II Men
‘It Doesn't Matter Anymore’, Buddy Holly
‘I've Got You under My Skin’; Frank Sinatra/ Bono
‘It Must Be Love’, Madness
‘It Started with a Kiss’, Hot Chocolate
‘It's a Shame’, The Spinners
‘Jealous Guy’, Roxy Music
‘Jesus to a Child’, George Michael
‘Just Walkin' in the Rain’, Johnnie Ray
‘Let's Talk about Sex’, Salt-n-Pepa
‘Let's Twist Again’, Chubby Checker
‘The Living Years’, Mike and the Mechanics
‘Loco-Motion’, Grand Funk[ Railroad]
‘Love Me for a Reason’, The Osmonds
‘My Love’, Paul McCartney
‘Vienna’, Ultravox
‘Nobody Does It Better’, Carly Simon
‘Town Called Malice’, The Jam
‘True Colors’, Cyndi Lauper
‘Walk Away Renee’, The Four Tops
‘We Didn't Start the Fire’, Billy Joel
‘We Don't Talk Anymore’, Cliff Richard
‘When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going’, Billy Ocean
‘When You Tell Me That You Love Me’, Diana Ross
‘When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman’, Dr. Hook
‘Whisky in the Jar’, Thin Lizzy
‘Wishing Well’, Free
‘Woman’, John Lennon
‘The Wonder of You’, Elvis Presley
‘Wonderful Land’, The Shadows
‘Wooden Heart’, Elvis Presley
‘Working My Way Back to You’, The Spinners
‘World in Motion’, Englandneworder
‘A World of Our Own’, The Seekers
‘Yesterday Once More’, The Carpenters
‘You Don't Bring Me Flowers’, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
‘You're Sixteen’, Ringo Starr
‘Young Guns (Go for It)‘, Wham!
~
Zagat Survey Music Guide: 1,000 Top Albums of All Time [2003] (back cover seen above) truly ranks as one of the strangest music reference books. The inclusion of such a large number of movie soundtrack albums is one odd aspect. (By the way, unless a track originally released on the soundtrack album is included at the Rock Annual—for example, the four hits from Footloose—the soundtrack album is considered to be excluded; otherwise, several of these soundtrack albums that are comprised of a hodgepodge of old hits (perhaps most famously, The Big Chill) would need to be noted in the lists here. This would in turn suggest that we should make note of every compilation certain old hits have been included on. Imagine having to list every compilation on which the Temptations' ‘My Girl’ (featured on The Big Chill) has been included!) Another peculiarity of this book are the short descriptive paragraphs provided for each entry, constructed as they are out of comments from the survey's participants, producing blurb-like drivel. Here they are attempting to convince me that the Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is worth more time than I already wasted on it when I was 16 years old: "'You have to admire' a band 'with the guts to try a double album in the '90s'—the 'kicker is they pulled it off' on this 'sprawling', 'impeccably produced' multiplatinum 'masterwork' that makes up for its 'lack of a cohesive concept' with a 'folder of emotions'; 'Billy Corgan digs deep and breaks new ground' with each 'blistering rocker and vulnerable lullaby' evoking a 'distinct mood'; still, some sigh the 'bombastic' work 'would have been stronger if whittled down to a single disc'." "Folder of emotions" may not adequately capture the nausea induced by Corgan's wretched vocal performance on the hit song 'Tonight'—but should we expect more from Zagat? They at least average more sentences than insult comic Robert Christgau usually coughs up.
John Adams [Classical]
Ryan Adams
Cannonball Adderley [Jazz]
Ain't Misbehavin' [1978 soundtrack album; Jazz]
The Afro-Celt Sound System
Air
Aladdin [1992 soundtrack album]
A Little Night Music [1973 theatrical album]
Mose Allison [Jazz]
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass [Jazz]
Amélie [2001 soundtrack album]
American Graffiti [1973 soundtrack album; most of these songs are included under their artist]
An American in Paris [1951 soundtrack album]
Animal House [1978 soundtrack album]
Annie [1977 theatrical album]
Annie Get Your Gun [1946 theatrical album]
Anonymous 4 [Classical]
Marc Anthony
Anything Goes [1987 theatrical album]
Apocalypse Now [1979 soundtrack album]
Martha Argerich [Classical]
Louis Armstrong [Jazz]
J. S. Bach [Classical]
Burt Bacharach [indirectly included via several artists who performed songs composed by him]
Chet Baker [Jazz]
Samuel Barber [Classical]
Barenaked Ladies
Bela Bartók [Classical]
Basement Jaxx
Count Basie [Jazz]
Beauty and the Beast [1991 soundtrack album]
Ludwig van Beethoven [Classical]
Ben Folds Five
Tony Bennett [Jazz]
George Benson [Jazz]
Hector Berlioz [Classical]
Best of Schoolhouse Rock [1998 soundtrack album]
The Big Chill [1983 soundtrack album]
Georges Bizet [Classical]
Clint Black
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers [Jazz]
Mike Bloomfield [included as part of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band]
The Blues Brothers [1980 soundtrack album]
Johannes Brahms [Classical]
Breakfast at Tiffany's [1961 soundtrack album]
The Breakfast Club [1985 soundtrack album]
Sarah Brightman [Classical]
Brooks and Dunn
Clifford Brown [Jazz]
Dave Brubeck [Jazz]
The Buena Vista Social Club
Bye Bye Birdie [1963 soundtrack album]
Cabaret [1972 soundtrack album]
Maria Callas [Classical]
Camelot [1967 soundtrack album]
Candide [1956 soundtrack album]
Carousel [1956 soundtrack album]
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Henri Chopin [Classical]
A Chorus Line [1975 theatrical album]
June Christy [Jazz]
Stanley Clarke [Jazz]
Rosemary Clooney [Jazz]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1978 soundtrack album]
Ornette Coleman [Jazz]
Natalie Cole
Nat King Cole [Jazz]
John Coltrane [Jazz]
Shawn Colvin
The Commitments [1991 soundtrack album]
Company [1998 theatrical album]
Aaron Copland [Classical]
Chick Corea [Jazz]
Counting Crows
Robert Cray
Crazy for You [1992 theatrical album]
Bing Crosby [Jazz]
The Crow [1994 soundtrack album]
The Crystal Method
Damn Yankees [1955 theatrical album]
Miles Davis [Jazz]
Blossom Dearie [Jazz]
Deep Forest
Dido
Ani DiFranco
Digable Planets
Sasha & John Digweed
Celine Dion
The Dixie Chicks
Eric Dolphy [Jazz]
Dreamgirls [theatrical album]
Dr. Zhivago [soundtrack album]
Easy Rider [soundtrack album]
Linda Eder
8 Mile [soundtrack album]
Duke Ellington [Jazz]
Enigma
Melissa Etheridge
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial [soundtrack album]
Bill Evans [Jazz]
Evita [theatrical album]
Fatboy Slim
Fiddler on the Roof [theatrical album]
50 Cent
Fishbone
Ella Fitzgerald [Jazz]
Follies in Concert [theatrical album]
Forrest Gump [soundtrack album]
Funny Girl [soundtrack album]
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman [Garcia included as part of the Grateful Dead]
Judy Garland [Jazz]
Erroll Garner [Jazz]
George Gershwin [Jazz; Classical]
Stan Getz [Jazz]
Gigi [soundtrack album]
Dizzy Gillespie [Jazz]
Vince Gill
The Gipsy Kings
Philip Glass [Classical; Experimental]
The Godfather [soundtrack album]
Godspell [theatrical album]
Goldfinger [soundtrack album]
Gone With the Wind [soundtrack album]
Benny Goodman [Jazz]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [soundtrack album]
Dexter Gordon [Jazz]
Henryk Górecki [Classical]
David Gray
Macy Gray
Green Day
Patty Griffin
Vince Guaraldi [Jazz]
Guys and Dolls [theatrical album]
Gypsy [theatrical album]
Hair [theatrical album]
Hairspray [theatrical album]
George Frideric Handel [Classical]
Ben Harper
Hedwig and the Angry Inch [soundtrack album]
Jascha Heifetz [Classical]
High Fidelity [soundtrack album]
Faith Hill
Hitsville U.S.A.: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 [nearly all of the artists included here, and most of the tracks, are included]
Billie Holiday [Jazz]
Gustav Holst [Classical]
Lena Horne [Jazz]
Vladimir Horowitz [Classical]
India Arie
Ahmad Jamal [Jazz]
Keith Jarrett [Jazz]
Jesus Christ Superstar [theatrical album]
Norah Jones
Wynonna Judd [included as part of the Judds]
Jurassic 5
Keb' Mo'
Stan Kenton [Jazz]
The King and I [soundtrack album]
Kiss Me, Kate [theatrical album]
Kitarō
Koyaanisqatsi [soundtrack album]
Diana Krall [Jazz]
Lenny Kravitz
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross [Jazz]
K. D. Lang
Lawrence of Arabia [soundtrack album]
Peggy Lee [Jazz]
Tom Lehrer [Comedy; Spoken Word]
Annie Lennox [included as part of Eurythmics]
Les Misérables [theatrical album]
Ottmar Liebert [Classical]
Linkin Park
The Lion King [soundtrack album]
The Little Mermaid [soundtrack album]
Little Shop of Horrors [theatrical album]
Live
Ray Lynch
Shelby Lynne
Gustav Mahler [Classical]
The Mambo Kings [soundtrack album]
Mame [theatrical album]
Mamma Mia! [theatrical album]
Chuck Mangione [Jazz]
Manhattan [soundtrack album]
Manhattan Transfer [Jazz]
Aimee Mann [included as part of Til Tuesday]
Mannheim Steamroller
Dean Martin [Jazz]
Mary Poppins [soundtrack album]
Matchbox 20
Matrix [soundtrack album]
The Dave Matthews Band
Maxwell
John Mayer
Yo-Yo Ma [Classical]
Martina McBride
Les McCann/ Eddie Harris [Jazz]
Tim McGraw
Loreena McKennitt
Brian McKnight
Sarah McLachlan
Meet Me in St. Louis [soundtrack album]
Sérgio Mendes [Jazz]
Natalie Merchant [included as part of 10,000 Maniacs]
Jo Dee Messina
Pat Metheny [Jazz]
Miami Vice [soundtrack album]
Charles Mingus [Jazz]
Liza Minnelli [Jazz]
Thelonious Monk [Jazz]
Wes Montgomery [Jazz]
Morcheeba
Lee Morgon [Jazz]
Moulin Rouge! [soundtrack album]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [Classical]
The Music From Peter Gunn [soundtrack album]
The Music Man [soundtrack album]
Modest Mussorgsky [Classical]
My Fair Lady [theatrical album]
The Pink Panther [soundtrack album]
Oliver Nelson [Jazz]
A Night at Studio 54 [many of the tracks on this compilation are included]
No Doubt
Paul Oakenfold
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Oklahoma! [soundtrack album]
Olive
Oliver! [soundtrack album]
Carl Orff [Classical]
Charlie Parker [Jazz]
Mandy Patinkin [Jazz]
A Perfect Circle [related group Tool is included]
Oscar Peterson [Jazz]
The Phantom of the Opera [theatrical album]
Pretty Woman [soundtrack album]
Louis Prima [Jazz]
Giacomo Puccini [Classical]
Pulp Fiction [soundtrack album]
Sergei Rachmanioff [Classical]
Raffi
Rancid
Maurice Ravel [Classical]
Reality Bites [soundtrack album]
Rent [theatrical album]
Reservoir Dogs [soundtrack album]
LeAnn Rimes
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov [Classical]
Rocky [soundtrack album]
Sonny Rollins [Jazz]
Romeo and Juliet [1996 soundtrack album]
Mstislav Rostropovich [Classical]
Erik Satie [Classical]
Joe Satriani
Diane Schuur [Jazz]
Jill Scott
Seal
Sesame Street Platinum All-Time Favorites [soundtrack album]
Wayne Shorter [Jazz]
Show Boat [theatrical album]
Side by Side by Sondheim [theatrical album]
Horace Silver [Jazz]
Frank Sinatra [Jazz]
Singin' in the Rain [soundtrack album]
Singles [soundtrack album]
Sleepless in Seattle [soundtrack album]
Bedřich Smetana [Classical]
The Sound of Music [soundtrack album]
South Pacific [theatrical album]
A Star Is Born [soundtrack album]
Star Wars [soundtrack album]
St. Germain
The Sting [soundtrack album]
Richard Struss [Classical]
Igor Stravinsky [Classical]
Stone Temple Pilots
Barbara Streisand [Jazz]
The Strokes
Sunday in the Park With George [theatrical album]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [theatrical album]
Swingers [soundtrack album]
System of a Down
Art Tatum [Jazz]
Thievery Corporation
This Is Spinal Tap [soundtrack album]
Susan Tedeschi
Marlo Thomas and Friends
The Three Tenors [Classical]
Titanic [soundtrack album]
Trainspotting [soundtrack album]
Travis
Shania Twain
Twin Peaks [soundtrack album; the Julee Cruise track, 'Falling', is included on this album but since it was originally released on her album, Floating Into the Night, this soundtrack album is considered to be excluded]
2001: A Space Odyssey [soundtrack album]
Van Cliburn [Classical]
Vangelis
Sarah Vaughan [Jazz]
Giuseppe Verdi [Classical]
Antonio Vivaldi [Classical]
Andreas Vollenweider [World, Classical]
Richard Wagner [Classical]
Rufus Wainwright
Fats Waller [Jazz]
The Wallflowers
Grover Washington, Jr. [Jazz]
Gillian Welch
West Side Story [theatrical album]
When Harry Met Sally [soundtrack album]
Cassandra Wilson [Jazz]
George Winston [Jazz]
The Wizard of Oz [soundtrack album]
Trisha Yearwood
Lester Young [Jazz]
~
Eddie Trunk, Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal [2011] and Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II [2013]
Badlands
Black Label Society
Blue Murder
Buckcherry
Cinderella
Coney Hatch
Dokken
Extreme
Faster Pussycat
Lita Ford [included as part of the Runaways]
Ace Frehley [included as part of Kiss]
Great White
Glenn Hughes [included as part of Deep Purple]
Iced Earth
King's X
Kix
Richie Kotzen
Krokus
L. A. Guns
Loudness
Yngwie Malsteen
Marilyn Manson
Mr. Big
Prophet
Saigon Kick
Savatage
Skid Row
Slash [included as part of Guns 'n Roses]
Stryper
Tesla
Triumph
T. T. Quick
Warrant
White Lion
Winger
Zakk Wylde
Y and T
Zebra
Rob Zombie [included as part of White Zombie]
~
Andrew Earles, Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 [2014] for me has been the best, and most useful, Rock reference guide yet. If the Spin Alternative Record Guide has been most influential on me, introducing the critical stances, historical interpretations, and subconscious biases of the briefly-flourishing "Alternative"/ "College" Rock mainstream (lasting about three years, 1992-1994), Earles' book has compelled me to revisit many Indie artists that I had not thought of in years, or even decades—artists that I completely ignored, or only listend to or read about in passing, as well as those that I listened to extensively or at least seriously and had put aside for too long. Earles' cut-off point of 1996 makes no sense to me; he could have been more effective with a later date, drawing a clearer line between Indie Rock as it was defined in the Eighties and Nineties and the gross version that developed in the Aughts—Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, and all that garbage. His 1981 starting point attests to the significance of Hardcore to this understanding of the concept of Indie; for a book limited to American audiences, sensible enough. Still, one would love a similar book, or an extension of this one, covering U. K. artists. Only a small number of the artists that Earles discusses are not found in the Rock Annual lists, as seen below.
100 Flowers
A Minor Forest
Adickdid
Anastasia Screamed
Arcwelder
Autoclave
Bailter Space
Bakamono
Bastro [releated group Gastr del Sol included]
Blonde Redhead
Bloodsport
The Bottle Rockets
Glenn Branca [Experimental]
Breadwinner
Brick Layer Cake
Buffalo Tom
Bush Tetras
Charles Brown Superstar
Cap'n Jazz
Rhys Chatham [Experimental]
Cheater Slicks
The Cherubs
Christian Death
Coral
The Cows
Crayon
Dag Nasty
The Dambuilders
Das Damen
Dead Moon
The Didjits
Dis-
Doo Rag
The Dwarves
Eggs
Embrace
Engine Kid
Evergreen [San Diego group]
EVergreen [Louisville group]
Fire Party
Fly Ashtray
Further
Girls against Boys
The Gits
Godheadsilo
Government Issue
Green Day
Green River
The Halo Benders [related groups Beat Happening and Built to Spill included]
Grant Hart [included as part of Hüsker Dü]
Hazel
Hole
Hoover
Hum
J. F. A.
Karp
Kicking Giant
King Missile
Kramer [included as part of Bongwater]
Labradford
Lorelei
Love 666
Lungfish
Luxurious Bags
Malignus Youth
Man Sized Action
J Mascis [included as part of Dinosaur Jr.]
Thurston Moore [included as part of Sonic Youth]
Moss Icon
Moving Targets
Nice Strong Arm
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
No Trend
Opal [related group Mazzy Star included]
Pain Teens
Pegboy
Pitchblende
Pitchfork [related groups Rocket from the Crypt and Drive like Jehu included]
Prisonshake
Rapeman [related groups Big Black and Shellac included]
Run Westy Run
Salem 66
The Sea and Cake
The Sleepers
Slug
Solomon Grundy
Sorry
The Speaking Canaries
St. Johnny
Starfish
Staryflyer 59
Strapping Fieldhands
Tar
The Supersuckers
Three Mile Pilot
Toiling Midgets
Trans Am
Truly
Ultra Vivid Scene
Uncle Wiggly
Urge Overkill
U. S. Maple
Mike Watt [included as part of the Minuteman and Firehose]
World of Pooh
The Young Fresh Fellows