Recently I was linked to your channel. Your videos are helping find new discoveries. Cheers . Norman

Excellent music. Thanks for sharing.

Great stuff..cheers for the mention. Could have chose Curtis. T-Rex was a coin toss.could have gone with Tanx as well! Psychocandy’s a great shout..I never thought of that! Yep..you picked the album from 92 I forgot! ‘Looking forward to Car Button Cloth rerelease as I think that’s a lost classic! Great you’ve done the nineties & after. Mine would be ‘Now I see A Darkness’ by Bonnie Prince Billie & maybye one of the Mark Lanegan early solo albums. Really good video.

Thanks Mal. Many great suggestions there for me to check out. Nice to see Free At Last in the 'spot the album' competition too !

Just stumbled on your channel, thanks to the KZfaq algorithm-awesome, awesome list! Not familiar with Rodney Graham, so I’ll definitely check this artist out! I know the Vulgar Boatman’s debut album in/around 1992 or so, was produced by Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos’ fame. If you’re not familiar with his/their material, definitely check them out-great 80s alt country rock band with I would even say, new wave/post-punk elements. Thank you for mentioning the Vulgar Boatman. I think they’re not mentioned too often as they should be. Also, no Prefab Sprout mentions?

Great list, lots for me to check out for first time. I liked and subscribed

Banging selection! Nice having a mention of Stephen Malkmus, Morrissey, Evan Dando and Jeff Mangum in one and the same list! I got quite a challange on my hands if I’m to film a response to this! Anyhow, love the video, you sir have got yourself a new subscriber! Kind regards, Morten.

Graham Parker's Squeezing Out Sparks is almost perfect. Stunning album.

Great idea and video. Ron Sexsmith's debut is great, he still doesn't get the recognition he deserves, even here in Canada. We're seeing him in Stratford Ontario next month. I've seen him several times and he's better live. Other than the debut, his albums don't quite capture how good a performer he is. Cheers from Canada.

Thanks for this! I'll have to keep an eye out for these.

Thanks for putting me on to the Peter Perrett album. Even Serpents Shine has been a long standing favourite of mine. Cheers.

Great vid - great selections - some stuff I am going to definitely check out that I hadn't heard of before. Notably Neutral Milk Hotel. And always nice to have a fellow Brit on these music channels for a change! Consider me subbed.

Hi there from the Seattle area. I'm 60 last week and have been finding it harder and harder to find music that is new to me that I like enough to purchase and listen to. I watch loads of videos in this top ten series and yours is the best so far. Each record, I type into my music service and sample. That Modern Lovers record hits just right. Thank you so much for making this video. All the records were good. I will have to research the main guy you mentioned to see if he had any other releases or other bands. Cheers!

This is the first video I've seen of yours. I have only a few of these so it's nice to be introduced to some others that I'll keep an eye out for.

I used to work with Jeremy Barnes from Neutral milk hotel when he moved to the UK. Great video!

Spookily similar to my favourites. Hall and Oates have never been on my radar so I will check them out.

Hi 👋 I'm in my sixties, and i remember T Rex and his excellent Glam Rock music. My older brother bought that Electric Warrior album back in 1971. I own it on cd and it contains the neat song Hot Love as a bonus track. Tragic his death in 1977. He liked the Punk Rock 🧷 sound then. He was into the Damned. The Damned are a favorite group of mine. I liked the Smiths in the 1980s, and Morrissey is a good entertainer.

Nice video Mr Monkey - there are a few albums here I don't know at all - you just helped shape my play-list for the day - thank you! D

Been wanting that Marvin Gaye album for a while now, cool video.

Very interesting idea! Great video! You are new to my feed so I subscribed!🎉

Great selection

Great picks! Love the inclusion of soul right up front.

That Neutral Milk Hotel album rocks!

Great records! ❤

All three Vulgar Boatmen albums are great. I was lucky to live in Chicago when they started.

I’m glad the algorithms helped me find this channel. Great video!

I was pleasantly surprised to see Ron Sexsmith's eponymous album getting some love. I saw him at Middlesborough Town Hall where he was er, not optimally appreciated unfortunately. Agreed that Lebanon, Tennessee is a stand out on an outstanding album.

Cool list 👍

Hi just found your channel. Good stuff. Do i hear a Durham accent? Im from Durham. Most VC youtubers I come across are American. Anyway I look forward to watching more of your videos.

I have 11 lp’s on you list, will look up the ones I don’t know, cheers from Canada

Know all these LP’s and own a lot of them. Gonna revisit Lemonheads, J&MC and H&O this afternoon 👍🏻

Great video. I was thinking this would be a very difficult one to make when i saw the title .. then you cleverly use the words ' Almost Perfect' ..is there genuinely a perfect album?. Great Van 2nd solo album, he'se at his most mystical and free. Love the Queen is Dead, their most accomplished album..Cemetry Gates is a great guitar song ( Johnny Marr does a video on KZfaq perforing a terrific instrumental version). I loved Its A Shame About Ray when it came out and played it a lot.

And as a follow-up? Artists/songs which have recognised species of fish. As a start and choosing an unjustifiably unsung rock pool species. ‘Blenny and the Jets’, ‘Blenny a tear has to fall’, ‘How Blenny more times’, ‘Coat of Blenny colours’ and,of course, ‘How Blenny lies’. A rich vein to mine, I think. Cod only knows.

Great Northern Soul

Rating 1 to 10: Astral Weeks - 10 Curtis - 8 (changed from 5) What's going on? - 8 Blood on the Tracks - 9 The Modern Lovers - 9 Psychocandy - 8 (only one great song) The Smiths - 9 Lemonheads - 9 Any Ron Sexsmith album - 3 Any Nick Cave -3 Don't know the rest. the rest are 10s 1 Forever Changes - Love 60s 2 Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield 60s 3 Live Rust Concert - Neil Young 70s 4 Decade - Neil Young 70s 5 Tim - The Replacements 80s 6 Let it Be - The Replacements 80s 7 Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements 80s 8 Don't Tell a Soul - The Replacements 80s 10 This Years Model - Elvis Costello and the Attractions 70s 11 Get Happy! Elvis C and the Attractions 12 Moments - Boz Scaggs 70s 13 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie 70s 14 Revolver - The Beatles 60s 15 Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan 60s 16 The Doors - The Doors 60s 17 Best of the Smiths Part I - The Smiths 90s 18 Hunky Dory - Bowie 19 The X Album - Lloyd Cole 90s 19 Where you Been - Dinosaur Jr 90s 20 Heat Treatment - Graham Parker and the Rumour 70s 21 After the Goldrush - Neil Young 22 Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix 60s 23 Banana album - Velvet Underground and Nico 60s 24 Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols 70s 25 Avalon - Roxy Music 80s 26 Eponymous - R.E.M. 80s Like it more than Murmur 27 Aliens Lanes - Guided By Voices 90s 28 Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs 80s 29 A Hard Days Night - The Beatles 60s 30 My Aim is True - Elvis Costello 70s 31 Shazam - The Move 60s 32 Music from Big Pink - The Band 60s 33 The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen 70s 34 Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service 60s 35 Zuma - Neil Young 70s 36 Harvest - Neil Young 36 I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo la Tengo 90s 37 My Favorite Things - John Coltrane 60s 38 Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 50s 39 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco 2001 40 Shazam - The Move

i was crazy for "astral weeks" for many years, back when we listened to albums we loved until we literally wore them out

I have to say, I find Freewheelin', The Times they Are A'Changin', Another Side, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and John Wesley Harding to be be "almost perfect", too. Blood on the Tracks is definitely, "almost perfect", with some of Dylan's most potent work, Idiot Wind, Shelter from the Storm, Simple Twist of Fate and Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts matching his '60s standards. Bob might not have produced another LP to match any of those, but he has recorded songs as vital as any, like Things Have Changed. It's a remarkable body of work, unmatched by any contemporary artist. There are a lot of LPs from the Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll that I can only listen to one, or two, sometimes three, songs, or one side, or the other. However, limiting myself to 10, or 20, is an exercise in futility. These are my Core 100: 1964 A Hard Day's Night ★★★★★ 1st Rock all- original LP 1965 Highway 61 Revisited ★★★★★ Them ★★★★★ Career-Best 1966 Animalization ★★★★★ Career-Best . Sunny Afternoon ★★★★★ Sunshine Superman ★★★★★ Career-Best Revolver ★★★★★ Over, Under, Sideways, Down ★★★★★ 1967 Moby Grape ★★★★★ Surrealistic Pillow ★★★★★ Career-Best .. Are You Experienced? ★★★★★ Sell Out ★★★★★ Strange Days ★★★★★ Forever Changes ★★★★★ Career-Best 1968 Axis: Bold as Love ★★★★★ Buffalo Springfield Again ★★★★★ Career-Best Traffic ★★★★★ Career-Best In Search of the Lost Chord ★★★★★ John Wesley Harding ★★★★★ Electric Ladyland ★★★★★ There Are but Four Small Faces ★★★★★ The White Album Sides 1, 2, & 3 ★★★★★ 1969 Shine On Brightly ★★★★★ Stand Up ★★★★★ Spooky Two ★★★★★ Career-Best Boz Scaggs ★★★★★ Abbey Road ★★★★★ To Our Children's Children's Children ★★★★★ Let It Bleed, ★★★★★ 1970 The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus ★★★★★ Career-Best Morrison Hotel ★★★★★ Mona Bone Jakon ★★★★★ Tumbleweed Connection ★★★★★ Stage Fright ★★★★★ After the Gold Rush ★★★★★ American Beauty ★★★★★ All Things Must Pass ★★★★★ Career-Best Moondance ★★★★★ Career-Best Idlewild South ★★★★★ Career-Best 1971 The Yes Album ★★★★★ The Cry of Love ★★★★★ Every Picture Tells a Story ★★★★★ Career-Best Rock On ★★★★★ Career-Best Who's Next ★★★★★ Muswell Hillbillies ★★★★★ 1972 Harvest ★★★★★ Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars ★★★★★ Saturate Before Using ★★★★★ The Captain and Me ★★★★★ Madman Across the Water ★★★★★ Close to the Edge ★★★★★ 1973 Dark Side of the Moon ★★★★★ ZOSA ★★★★★ There Goes Rhymin' Simon ★★★★★ Band on the Run ★★★★★ Dixie Chicken ★★★★★ Career-Best Grievous Angel ★★★★★ Career-Best Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ★★★★★ Houses of the Holy ★★★★★ Past, Present and Future ★★★★★ Career-Best 1974 Court and Spark ★★★★★ Career-Best Feats Don't Fail Me Now ★★★★★ Blood on the Tracks ★★★★★ No Other ★★★★★ Face the Music ★★★★★ 1975 A Night at the Opera ★★★★★ Born to Run ★★★★★ 1976 Royal Scam ★★★★★ Hotel California ★★★★★ Career-Best Night Moves ★★★★★ 1977 Rumors ★★★★★ Stranger in Town ★★★★★ Darkness on the Edge of Town ★★★★★ 1979 My Aim Is True ★★★★★ Career-Best Rust Never Sleeps ★★★★★ Damn the Torpedoes ★★★★★ Making Movies ★★★★★ 1980 London Calling ★★★★★ Career-Best The River ★★★★★ the Cars ★★★★★ The Game ★★★★★ 1981 Escape Artist ★★★★★ Career-Best 1982 Thriller ★★★★★ 1983 Speaking in Tongues ★★★★★ Cargo ★★★★★ Career-Best Rebel Yell ★★★★★ Learning to Crawl ★★★★★ 1984 Word of Mouth ★★★★★ Brothers in Arms ★★★★★ 1985 Scarecrow ★★★★★ 1986 Life's Rich Pageant ★★★★★ Revenge ★★★★★ Career-Best 1987 Lonesome Jubilee ★★★★★ Kick ★★★★★ Career-Best The Joshua Tree ★★★★★ 1988 Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 ★★★★★ 1989 The End of the Innocence ★★★★★ 1990 Against the Grain ★★★★★ 1991 Nevermind ★★★★★ Out of Time ★★★★★ Played from LPs, 8-tracks, cassettes, some open-reel tapes, and CDs, these, and fifty or a hundred more, were the soundtrack of our lives, the playlist for all our long, late nights on the Interstate, or, long solo flights into the celestial plane. ©BW2023 anarchitek™

Trouble Will Find Me strikes me as the most 'perfect' album by the National.

Do a video of “krout rock”

a band in lunch and yet? huh?

Vinyl-Take your time with the videos.Need to look into your camera as 20 minutes isn't enough with the information and knowledge you have on music.

I’ve heard all your selections and none come in my top 200 never mind my top 10. Any list not including Steely Dan’s Aja is not worth bothering with.