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After hearing Steve Lamacq go on about this on 6 Music, I'd thought that I'd post it on here.

If you could only have one album for each letter of the alphabet, what would they be? The letter designates the artist rather than the album title, and since I'm dead anal, "The" is removed from the the artist name, and solo artists are recognised by the surname rather than forename. Anyway, I spent some time at work coming up with my list (can't think of an X, so I'm possibly going to form a band called The Xylophones as I don't own any XTC or X-Ray Spex rekkids):

A: Ryan Adams ~ Heartbreaker

B: The Beatles ~ Revolver

C: The Cars ~ The Cars

D: The Decemberists ~ The Crane Wife

E: Errors ~ It's not like something, but it is like whatever

F: Frightened Rabbit ~ Midnight Organ Fight

G: Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Lift yr Skinny Fists...

H: Howling Bells ~ Howling Bells

I: Interpol ~ Antics

J: Jane's Addiction ~ Ritual de Habitual

K: Kyuss ~ Blues for the Red Sun

L: Love ~ Forever Changes

M: Manic Street Preachers ~ Holy Bible

N: Nirvana ~ In Utero

O: Okkervil River ~ Black Sheep Boy

P: Pixies ~ Surfer Rosa

Q: Queens of the Stone Age ~ Rated R

R: Replacements ~ Let it Be

S: Smashing Pumpkins ~ Adore

T: Television ~ Marquee Moon

U: U2 ~ Unforgettable Fire

V: Velvet Underground ~ White Light/White Heat

W: Weezer ~ Blue Album

X: ____________

Y: Yo La Tengo ~ I can hear the heart beating as one

Z: Zwan ~ Mary Star of the Sea

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After hearing Steve Lamacq go on about this on 6 Music, I'd thought that I'd post it on here.

If you could only have one album for each letter of the alphabet, what would they be? The letter designates the artist rather than the album title, and since I'm dead anal, "The" is removed from the the artist name, and solo artists are recognised by the surname rather than forename. Anyway, I spent some time at work coming up with my list (can't think of an X, so I'm possibly going to form a band called The Xylophones as I don't own any XTC or X-Ray Spex rekkids):

A: Ryan Adams ~ Heartbreaker

B: The Beatles ~ Revolver

C: The Cars ~ The Cars

D: The Decemberists ~ The Crane Wife

E: Errors ~ It's not like something, but it is like whatever

F: Frightened Rabbit ~ Midnight Organ Fight

G: Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Lift yr Skinny Fists...

H: Howling Bells ~ Howling Bells

I: Interpol ~ Antics

J: Jane's Addiction ~ Ritual de Habitual

K: Kyuss ~ Blues for the Red Sun

L: Love ~ Forever Changes

M: Manic Street Preachers ~ Holy Bible

N: Nirvana ~ In Utero

O: Okkervil River ~ Black Sheep Boy

P: Pixies ~ Surfer Rosa

Q: Queens of the Stone Age ~ Rated R

R: Replacements ~ Let it Be

S: Smashing Pumpkins ~ Adore

T: Television ~ Marquee Moon

U: U2 ~ Unforgettable Fire

V: Velvet Underground ~ White Light/White Heat

W: Weezer ~ Blue Album

X: ____________

Y: Yo La Tengo ~ I can hear the heart beating as one

Z: Zwan ~ Mary Star of the Sea

The XX? The Xcerts? Neither of them float yr boat.

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Only using bands I found on my ipod:

A: Arcade Fire - Funeral

B: Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolf

C: Clutch - Clutch

D: Deftones - Around The Fur

E: Eels - Beautiful Freak

F: Foo Fighters - Colour And The Shape

G: Jose Gonzales - Veneer

H: Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station

I: Idlewild - Hope Is Important

J: JSBX - Orange

K: Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun

L: Lau - Lightweights and Gentlemen

M: Mastodon - Blood Mountain

N: Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

O: Tim O'Brien - Fiddler's Green

P: Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill

Q: Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Death

R: Refused - Shape Of Punk To Come

S: Soundgarden - Down On The Upside

T: Tool - Aenima

U: Ugly Kid Joe - Americas Least Wanted

V: Vex Red - Start With A Strong and Persistant Desire (was low on V bands)

X:

Y: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

Z: Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around (only Z band on my ipod)

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A : Arcade Fire - Funeral

B : Bush, Kate - The Dreaming

C : Clash - Sandinista!

D : Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

E : Elastica - S/T

F : Fugazi - The Argument

G : Go-Team - Thunder Lightning Strike

H : Harvey, PJ - To Bring You My Love

I : Idlewild - Hope Is Important

J : Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

K : Killing Joke - S/T (2003)

L : Little Axe - The Wolf That House Built

M : Madonna - Ray Of Light

N : New York Dolls - S/T

O : Orbital - The Middle Of Nowhere

P : Primal Scream - Vanishing Point

Q : Queen - 2

R : Ramones - It's Alive!

S : Sons & Daughters - The Repulsion Box

T : Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes

U : Urusai Yatsura - Slain By....

V : Von Bondies - Lack Of Communication

W : Wire - Pink Flag

X : X - Wild Gift

Y : Young Gods - T.V. Sky

Z : Zounds - The Curse Of....

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ALL - Breaking Things

Born Against - Patriotic Battle Hymns

Codeine - Frigid Stars

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime

The Ergs - Dorkrockcorkrod

Fugazi - The Argument

Gang Starr - Step Into The Arena

Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut

I Farm - IV

Janitor Joe - Big Metal Birds

Karate - The Bed is in the Ocean

Leatherface - Mush

Melvins - Bullhead

No Means No - Wrong

Ozma - Rock and Roll Part 3

Palatka - End of Irony

Quicksand - Slip

The Replacements - Sorry Ma. Forgot To Take Out The Trash

Swans - Filth

They Might Be Giants - Lincoln

Unsane - Scattered Smoothered and Covered

Varsity Drag - Night Owl

Why? - Elephant Eyelash

Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love

Zeke - Dirty Sanchez

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Alice In Chains - Dirt

Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped

Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People

Dashboard Confessional - A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar

Eels - Beautiful Freak

Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman

Glasvegas - Glasvegas

Hole - Live Through This

I can't find anything good on my iPod starting with I. Except Incubus, Interpol and Idlewild which I never listen to and Iron Maiden, who are a bit shit.

JJ72 - JJ72

Kiss - Destroyer

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Muse - Absolution

Nirvana - In Utero

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Radiohead - OK Computer

Elliot Smith - Figure 8

James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim

U - again can't find anything except Unkle, Underworld and The Used, which I never listen, and U2, who I hate

Verve - Urban Hymns

Weezer - Pinkerton

Xzibit - 40 Dayz & 40 Knightz

Young Werewolves - Young Werewolves

Zombina & The Skeletones - Death Valley High

That was hard. ?( Done a few edits.

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ALL - Breaking Things

Born Against - Patriotic Battle Hymns

Codeine - Frigid Stars

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime

The Ergs - Dorkrockcorkrod

Fugazi - The Argument

Gang Starr - Step Into The Arena

Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut

I Farm - IV

Janitor Joe - Big Metal Birds

Karate - The Bed is in the Ocean

Leatherface - Mush

Melvins - Bullhead

No Means No - Wrong

Ozma - Rock and Roll Part 3

Palatka - End of Irony

Quicksand - Slip

The Replacements - Sorry Ma. Forgot To Take Out The Trash

Swans - Filth

They Might Be Giants - Lincoln

Unsane - Scattered Smoothered and Covered

Varsity Drag - Night Owl

Why? - Elephant Eyelash

Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love

Zeke - Dirty Sanchez

I'll tell you how out of touch I am - I've only heard of three of those bands.

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Apostle of Solitude - Sincerest Misery

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Charger - Spill Your Guts

Down - Nola

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Front Line Assembly - Fallout

Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God

Hatebreed - Perseverance

Insane Clown Posse - The Great Milenko

Judas Priest - British Steel

Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

Led Zeppelin - 4

Ministry - Rio Grande Blood

Nirvana - In Utero

One Minute Silence - Available in All Colours

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

RATM - RATM

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

Tool - Laterus

Union Underground, The - An Education in Rebellion

Viking Skull - Doom, Gloom Heartache & Whiskey

Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed

X

Y

Z

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At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Battles - Mirrored

Charles Bronson - Complete Discocrappy (does that count?)

Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse of the Dog

Fall of Troy - Doppelganger

Gang of Four - Entertainment!

Hot Club de Paris - Drop It Til It Pops

ISIS - Celestial

Jackson 5 - Greatest Hits

King Blues - Under the Fog

Locust - Plague Soundscapes

Minor Threat - Complete Discography (if that doesn't count, either Mastodon - Blood Mountain, or Maps and Atlases - Trees, Swallows, Houses, or Mclusky - The Only Difference Between Me and You is That I'm Not on Fire: tough decision!)

Napalm Death - Scum

Operation Ivy - Energy

Pixies - Doolittle

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf

Ramones - S/T

Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy

Take A Worm For A Walk Week - The Monroe Transfer

U

Vampire Weekend - S/T

Weezer - Blue Album

Xaros - S/T (only X album I have!)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Z

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I've got 2 hours of internet cafe time to kill over here so let's GO

Amplifier - S/T

Be Your Own PET - S/T

Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus

Dredg - Catch Without Arms

Eels - Beautiful Freak

The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator

Gomez - Bring It On

High On Fire - Death Is This Communion

InMe - Herald Moth

I can live without Js but if I'm picking one it'll be The Juliana Theory - Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat

Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now

Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Nine Black Alps - Everything Is

Oceansize - Effloresce

Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops because comedy albums should count too

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Rival Schools - United By Fate

Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine

Tool - Aenima

Unwed Sailor - The Faithful Anchor

Vib Gyor - Stalker

We Are Scientists - Safety, Fun and Learning (in that order)

X can go fuck itself

YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO - Ignoto

Ziltoid The Omniscient - S/T

Do we get a numbers one since their all kept separate from the alphabet on all them mp3 player machines?

I'm going to pick one anyway - 65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math

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Adams, Ryan - Love is Hell

Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness

Counting Crows - This Desert Life

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Gaye, Marvin - What's Going On

Hurt, Mississippi John - King of the Blues

Iran - Dissolver

Jetplane Landing - Zero for Conduct

The Kinks - Something Else By the Kinks

Low - The Great Destroyer

MF Doom - Mm.. Food

The National - Alligator

Operation Ivy - Energy

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

The Queers - Love Songs for the Retarded

Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things

Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life

Talking Heads - 77

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Waits, Tom - Small Change

X, Vitamin (ahem) - Down the Drain

Young, Neil - Harvest

The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

S and N were a pain in the ass.

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The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl: Volume I

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge

Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me

Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees

Four Tet - Rounds

Galaxie 500 - On Fire

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Mark Kozelek - Rock 'N' Roll Singer

Low - Drums and Guns

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

Q and not U - No Kill No Beep Beep

Radiohead - Kid A

Sonic Youth - Sister

The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

Unwound - New Plastic Ideas

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & NIco

Wilderness - Wilderness

Xiu Xiu - A Promise

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Frank Zappa - Freak Out!

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Arcade Fire - Funeral

Beck - Odelay

Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolotholgy

Daft Punk - Homework

Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever

Fugazi - Repeater

Girl Talk - Night Ripper

Hot Chip - The Warning

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows

Justice - Cross

The Knife - Silent Shout

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Madvillain - Madvillainy

Nirvana - In Utero

O

Pixies - Doolittle

Queens Of The Stone Age - s/t

Radiohead - OK Computer

Soulwax - Nite Versions

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues

U

V

Weezer - s/t

X

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

Z

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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

Black Flag - Damaged

Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Errors - Come Down With Me

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing

Girls - Album

Hot Club de Paris - Drop It Til It Pops

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows

Jay-Z - Blueprint

Konono No1 - Congotronics

Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring

Minutemen - Double Nickles On The Dime

Nirvana - In Utero

Owls - s/t

Pavement - Wowee Zowee (this was particularly difficult)

Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

Sebadoh - Harmacy

Times New Viking - Present The Paisley Reich

Uzi & Ari - Headworms

The Vaselines - The Way of The Vaselines

Wavves - s/t

Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love

Z

That was really tough!

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Aereogramme - A Story in White

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

The Cure - Disintegration

Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes

Eska - Invent The Fortune

Far - Tin Cans With Strings To You

Ganger - Hammock Style

Hopesfall - The Satellite Years

Isis - Oceanic

Joy Division - Closer

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast

M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us

New End Original - Thriller

Onelinedrawing - The Volunteers

Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health

Q And Not U - Different Damage

Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

The Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours

Vessels - White Fields And Open Devices

Will Haven - El Diablo

The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Nothing for Z

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  • 2 weeks later...

Late to the party, but:

Auteurs - New Wave

Blue Nile - Hats

Corrupted - El Mundo Frio

Depeche Mode - Violator

808 State - Ex:El

Fiction Factory - Throw The Warped Wheel Out

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

Happy Mondays - Bummed

Iron Maiden - NOTB

Jesu - Heart Ache

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

London Elektricity - Power Ballads

Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

New Order - Power Corruption And Lies

OMD - Architechture And Morality

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Queen - A Kind Of Magic

Radiohead - Kid A

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

Underworld - Beacoup Fish

Veruca Salt - American Thighs

World Party - Egyptology

XTC - Drums And Wires

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic

Zillah - Substitue For A Catastrophe

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Arcade Fire - Funeral

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Cure - Disintegration

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Elliot Smith - either / Or

Frightened rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight

Gorrilaz - Plastic Beach

Hives - Tyranasaurus Hives

Interpol - turn on the bright lights

jj - jj n 2

Knife - Silent Shout

Liars - drums not dead

M.I.A - Kala

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, You are the destroyer

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf

Radiohead - Kid A

Silver Jews - American Water

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

U

Velvet Underground - VU & Nico

White Stripes - White Blood Cells

XX - The xx

Yo la tengo - I can hear the heart beating as one

Z

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Nice to see Eels are the kings of E :up:

Aerosmith - Nine Lives

Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First

Cohen, Leonard - Death of a Ladies Man

Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Eels - Daisies of the Freakjacker

Folds, Ben - Rockin the Suburbs

Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks...

Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Jimmy Eat World - Futures

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003)

Lamontagne, Ray - Til the Sun Turns Black

Metallica - Kill Em All

Nirvana - Nevermind

Orbison, Roy - Very Best of...

Petty, Tom, & the Heartbreakers - Into the Great Wide Open

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

Springsteen, Bruce - Born to Rising on the Edge of Town

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted

Velvet Underground, The - Loaded

Weezer - Pinkerton

Xzibit - Xzibit's greatest rap songs ever volume 1

Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Zevon, Warren - The Wind

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