The Wire's "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)"
The Wire's "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One What Listening)" (in translation: 100 records that set the world on fire (while nobody listened) ) is a collection of music albums of the British avant-garde -Musikmagazins The Wire . The list has 19 pages and was published in September 1998 in the 175th edition on pages 22 to 41. It was later supplemented by 30 more records.
In the Wire archives, the list is called the "antidote to all the other leaderboards of the century".
Form, effect and musical direction
In addition to the artist and title, the record label and the year of publication are given for each sound carrier . There is also a short description of about one paragraph and the abbreviations of the authors. The effect of the list as the world's most widespread and recognized compilation of musical albums beyond the mainstream was initially not foreseeable. It cannot be ruled out that the time of publication - a few years after the magazine had also opened up to danceable music styles and shortly before the turn of the century - contributed to this. The top 100 list is now circulating on various websites. It mainly contains albums from the areas of jazz , new music , electronic music and post rock .
Top 100 (1-100)
Preface
The preface reads:
“Tired of being reminded by other magazines that the best albums in the world were made by The Beatles , Beach Boys and Rolling Stones ? So are we. Over the next 18 pages, we poll our writers to come up with a guide to 100 records that should have ignited the world's imagination, except that everyone else was fiddling… ”
“Tired of being reminded by other music magazines that the best albums in the world were made by the Beatles, Beach Boys and Rolling Stones? We feel the same way. On the next 18 pages we asked our authors for an overview of the 100 records that should have sparked the world's imagination while they were busy with other things ... "
Participating authors
The list of the first list was compiled by: Steve Barker, Ed Baxter, Mike Barnes, Clive Bell , Chris Blackford, Linton Chiswick, Byron Coley, Christoph Cox, Brian Duguid, Robin Edgerton, John Everall, Matt Effytche, Sasha Frere-Jones, Louise Gray, Andy Hamilton, Richard Henderson, Ken Hollings, Steve Holtje, Mark Hudson, David Ilic, David Keenan, Biba Kopf, Art Lange, Peter McIntyre, Andy Medhurst, Russell Mills, Will Montgomery, Tim Owen, Edwin Pouncey, Tom Ridge , Mike Shallcross, Peter Shapiro, Chris Sharp, Mark Sinker, John F. Szwed, David Toop , John L. Walters, Ben Watson, Barry Witherden, Douglas Wolk and Rob Young.
list
No. | Artist | title | Label | Release |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pierre Akendengué | Nandipo | Saravah | 1973 |
2 | Kevin Ayers & The Whole World | Shooting at the Moon | Harvest | 1970 |
3 | Albert Ayler | In Greenwich Village | Impulses! | 1967 |
4th | Bad brains | Bad brains | ROIR | 1982 |
5 | Derek Bailey | Aida | Incus | 1982 |
6th | Louis & Bebe Barron | Forbidden Planet OST | Small planet | 1956 |
7th | Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Dust sucker | (unpublished) | 1976 |
8th | Joey Beltram | Places | safe | 1995 |
9 | Steven Jesse Bernstein | Prison | Sub pop | 1992 |
10 | Blue Cheer | Vincebus eruption | Philips | 1968 |
11 | Joe Meek & The Blue Men | I Hear a New World | RGM | 1960 |
12 | William S. Burroughs | Call Me Burroughs | ESP | 1965 |
13 | John Cale | Paris 1919 | Recapitulation | 1972 |
14th | Camarón de la Isla collab. Paco de Lucía | Al verte las flores lloran | Philips | 1969 |
15th | Chrome | Half machine lip moves | Beggars Banquet | 1979 |
16 | Cluster | Cluster | Philips | 1971 |
17th | Ornette Coleman | Dancing in Your Head | AT THE | 1977 |
18th | Alice Coltrane | Universal Consciousness | Impulses! | 1972 |
19th | Comus | First utterance | BGO | 1970 |
20th | Tony Conrad | Four violins | Table of the Elements | 1997 |
21st | Lol Coxhill | Digswell Duets | Random radar | 1979 |
22nd | Betty Davis | They say I'm different | Vinyl experience | 1974 |
23 | Miles Davis | On the corner | Columbia | 1972 |
24 | The Dead C | Trapdoor Fucking Exit | Xpressway | 1990 |
25th | The Bill Dixon Orchestra | Intents and Purposes | RCA | 1967 |
26th | Paul Umbels | L'Ivresse de la vitesse | Received digital | 1994 |
27 | Dr. John | Gris Gris | Atco | 1968 |
28 | Electric Eels | Agitated / Cyclotron | Rough Trade | 1977 |
29 | Esquivel and His Orchestra | Other Worlds Other Sounds | RCA Victor | 1958 |
30th | Fadela | N'sel Fik | Factory | 1985 |
31 | fist | The Faust Tapes | Virgin | 1973 |
32 | Fingers, Inc. | Another side | Trax | 1988 |
33 | Fire engines | Get Up and Use Me | Pop aural | 1980 |
34 | Family Fodder | Monkey Banana Kitchen | Fresh | 1980 |
35 | 4hero | Parallel Universe | Reinforced | 1994 |
36 | Robert Fripp | Exposure | EG | 1979 |
37 | Lewis Furey | Lewis Furey | AT THE | 1975 |
38 | Fushitsusha | DBL Live | PSF | 1991 |
39 | Michael Gibbs | Michael Gibbs | Deram | 1970 |
40 | Glenn Gould | The Solitude Trilogy | CBC | 1967 |
41 | Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger | City of Glass | Capitol | 1953 |
42 | Al Green | The Belle album | Motown | 1977 |
43 | Bernhard Günter | Un peu de neige salie | selection | 1993 |
44 | Herbie Hancock | sextant | Columbia | 1973 |
45 | Kip Hanrahan | Desire Develops at Edge | American clave | 1983 |
46 | The Joe Harriott Quintet | Abstract | Columbia | 1973 |
47 | Jonathan Harvey | Bhakti | NMC | 1984 |
48 | Henry Cow | Concerts | Recommended records | 1976 |
49 | Ram John Holder | Black London Blues | Beacon | 1969 |
50 | The homosexuals | The Homosexual's Record | Recommended records | 1984 |
51 | Hugh Hopper | 1984 | CBS | 1972 |
52 | Son House | Father of Folk Blues | Columbia | 1964 |
53 | The Human League | Being boiled | Fast Product | 1978 |
54 | Ken Ishii | Garden of the Palm | R&S | 1993 |
55 | Charles Ives | Symphony No. 4th | Deutsche Grammophon | 1988 |
56 | Blind Willie Johnson | Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground | Columbia | 1929 |
57 | Gottfried Michael Koenig | Terminus II / function green | Deutsche Grammophon | 1967 |
58 | Cathy Lane | Nesting stones | Unknown Public | 1998 |
59 | The Last Poets | The Last Poets | Douglas | 1971 |
60 | Alvin Lucier | I am sitting in a room | Lovely music | 1970 |
61 | Christian Marclay | Record without a cover | Recycled | 1985 |
62 | Master Musicians of Jajouka | Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka | Rolling Stones Records | 1971 |
63 | The Modern Lovers | The Original Modern Lovers | Mohawk | 1981 |
64 | Monotonous | Monotonous product 07 | Monotonous product | 1981 |
65 | Conlon Nancarrow | Studies for Player Piano | WERGO | 1988 |
66 | Youssou N'Dour | Djamil | Senegalese cassette | 1983 |
67 | Le Nimba de N'Zerekore | Gön Bia Bia | Syliphone | 1980 |
68 | Nurse with Wound | Chance meeting ... | United Dairies | 1979 |
69 | Phil Ochs | Rehearsals for Retirement | AT THE | 1969 |
70 | oval | 94 discount | Mille plateaux | 1995 |
71 | Ron Pate 's Debonaires feat. Reverend Fred Lane | Raudeluna's Pataphysical Revue | Say Day Bew | 1977 |
72 | Annette Peacock | I'm the one | RCA | 1972 |
73 | Pearls Before Swine | Balaclava | ESP | 1968 |
74 | Pere Ubu | 30 seconds over Tokyo | Hearthan | 1975 |
75 | Lee Perry & The Upsetters | Revolution Dub | Cactus | 1975 |
76 | Iggy Pop & James Williamson | Kill City | Bomp | 1977 |
77 | Public Enemy | Apocalypse 91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black | Def Jam | 1991 |
78 | Lou Reed | Metal Machine Music | RCA | 1975 |
79 | Steve Reich | Early Works | Nonesuch | 1965 |
80 | The Residents | Satisfaction | Ralph | 1976 |
81 | Jean C. Roche | A Nocturne of Nightingales | Sittele | 1993 |
82 | Royal Trux | Twin Infinitives | Drag City | 1990 |
83 | Arthur Russell | World of Echo | Upside | 1986 |
84 | Bally Sagoo | Wham Bam 2 - The 2nd Massacre | Oriental Star Agencies | 1992 |
85 | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Illuminations | Vanguard | 1969 |
86 | Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires | C'est fab | It's War Boys | 1980 |
87 | Sonny Sharrock | Black woman | Vortex | 1969 |
88 | Silver Apples | Contact | Cap | 1969 |
89 | hatch | I want to rock | hatch | 1992 |
90 | Tim Souster | Swit Drimz | Transatlantic | 1977 |
91 | Alexander Spence | Oar | Columbia | 1969 |
92 | Spontaneous Music Ensemble | Karyobin | Iceland | 1968 |
93 | Mark Stewart & The Maffia | Learning to Cope with Cowardice | On-U sound | 1983 |
94 | Sun Ra | Strange strings | Saturn Research | 1967 |
95 | The United States of America | The United States of America | Columbia | 1968 |
96 | Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya | 1 | hatART | 1991 |
97 | Walker Brothers | Nite flights | GTO | 1978 |
98 | Johnny Guitar Watson | Ain't that a bitch | DJM | 1976 |
99 | X-103 | Atlantis | safe | 1993 |
100 | Larry Young | Lawrence of Newark | Perception | 1973 |
101-130
Preface
“In The Wire 175, we polled our writers to nominate records that should have ignited the world's imagination - but somehow got forgotten along the way. What follows is not that list, but 30 runners-up that we had to leave out of the original article. "
“In the 175th issue of Wire, we asked our writers to make a list of records that should have ignited the world's imaginations - but somehow fell by the wayside. This list does not follow here, but there are 30 successors that we had to leave out of the original article. "
Participating authors
Steve Barker, Clive Bell, Chris Blackford, Linton Chiswick, Robin Edgerton, Matt Effytche, Sasha Frere-Jones, Charlie Gillett, Louise Gray, Steve Holtje, Velimir Pavle Ilic, David Keenan, Art Lange, Howard Mandel , Pete McIntyre, Tim Owen , Tom Ridge, Peter Shapiro, John F. Szwed, John L. Walters, Ben Watson and Douglas Wolk.
list
No. | Artist | title | Label | Release |
---|---|---|---|---|
101 | King Sunny Adé & His African Beats | Juju Music | Iceland | 1982 |
102 | Arcane device | Engines of Myth | Recommended records | 1988 |
103 | Art Ensemble of Chicago | Fanfare for the Warriors | Atlantic | 1974 |
104 | Baby ford | Ford Trax | Rhythm King | 1988 |
105 | Ray Charles | The Spirit of Christmas | Columbia | 1985 |
106 | Vinicius Cantuária | Sol na Cara | Gramavision | 1997 |
107 | Charles Brown superstar | Days of Our Drive, Sweet Piece of Ass | WIN | 1995 |
108 | Lowell Dawidson Trio | Lowell Dawidson Trio | ESP | 1965 |
109 | Dead Can Dance | The Serpent's Egg | 4AD | 1988 |
110 | Eric Dolphy | Out to lunch! | Blue note | 1964 |
111 | Bob Dylan | Live 1966 (The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert) | Columbia | 1966 |
112 | The 49 Americans | We know nonsense | Choo Choo Train | 1982 |
113 | Jimmy Giuffre | Free Fall | Columbia | 1962 |
114 | Golden Gate Quartet | Golden Gate Gospel Train | Bluebird | 1937 |
115 | Hot gossip | The Hollywood Jungle | Din Disc | (unpublished) |
116 | Howlin 'wolf | This Is Howlin 'Wolf ... | Cadet | 1968 |
117 | Lee Konitz | Motion | verve | 1961 |
118 | Labradford | A stable reference | Flying Well | 1995 |
119 | Last exit | Last exit | Enemy | 1986 |
120 | JB Lenoir | Alabama blues | Bellaphone | 1965 |
121 | Derrick May | Derrick May | Transmat | (unpublished) |
122 | Rachel's | Music for Egon Schiele | Quarterstick | 1996 |
123 | The Soul Stirrers | Jesus Gave Me Water | Specialty | 1951 |
124 | The Staple Singers | Uncloudy Day | Vee Jay | 1959 |
125 | The Cecil Taylor Quartet | Looking Ahead! | Contemporary | 1958 |
126 | Willie Mae Thornton | Hound dog | Peacock Records | 1953 |
127 | Lennie Tristano | I can't get started with you | Keystone | 1946 |
128 | Various artists | Ice Cream And Suckers | Mercury | 1963 |
129 | David S. Ware | Third Ear Recitation | DIW | 1993 |
130 | Marva Whitney | It's my thing | King | 1969 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List 1–130 online at Discogs with images of the CD / record cover
- ^ Cover of the magazine, table of contents
- ↑ Scans ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Foreword, authors and list 101–130 online