Friday, March 7, 2008

The Top 40. . . And the next 53

The complet list of those who made the cut and those who nearly did.

The top 40

1 My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

2 U2: Achtung Baby

3 A House: I Am The Greatest TIE

3 The Radiators: Ghostown TIE

5 Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

6 Microdisney: The Clock comes down the Stairs

7 Rollerskate Skinny: Horsedrawn Wishes

8 The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

9 The Undertones: The Undertones

10 Whipping Boy: Heartworm

11 Ash: 1977

12 The Blades: Raytown Revisited

13 Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous

14 U2: The Joshua Tree

15 Therapy?: Troublegum

16 Planxty: Planxty

17 David Holmes: Lets Get Killed

18 Stars Of Heaven: Speak Slowly

19 Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material

20 The Revenants: Horse of a Different Colour TIE

20 Stars of Heaven: Sacred Heart Hotel TIE

22 U2: Boy

23 The Blades: Last Man In Europe

24 My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything

25 Sinead O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got

26 Van Morrison: Moondance

27 Snow Patrol: Eyes Open

28 Divine Comedy: Promenade TIE

28 Rory Gallagher: Live In Europe TIE

30 Van Morrison: It's Too Late To Stop Now

31 BellX1: Music In Mouth TIE

31 The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It ... TIE

33 The Frames: For The Birds TIE

33 Something Happens: Stuck Together with God's Glue TIE

35 Martin Hayes & Denis Cahill: Live In Seattle TIE

35 High Llamas: Hawaii TIE

35 The Undertones: Hypnotised TIE

38 Damien Rice: O

39 The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God

40 Microdisney: Crooked Mile

The next 53

41 Ash: Free All Angels

42 That Petrol Emotion: Chemicrazy

43 Marc Carroll: World On A Wire

44 Horslips: Book of Invasions

45 Golden Horde: Golden Horde

46 The Frank And Walters:Grand Parade

47 The Divine Comedy: Casanova

48 The Boomtown Rats:In The Long Grass

49 Into Paradise: For No One

50 Taste: On the Boards

51 Fatima Mansions:Viva Dead Ponies

52 Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour 1974

53 The Four of Us: Classified Personal

54 Nick Kelly: Between Trapezes

55 Into Paradise: Churchtown

56 The Frank And Walters: Trains, Boats And Planes

57 Van Morrison: Avalon Sunset

58 Revelino: Revelino

59 Divine Comedy: Liberation

60 Fionn Regan: The End of History

61 U2: All That You Can't LeaveBehind

62 Power Of Dreams: Immigrants, Emigrants and Me

63 Gemma Hayes: Night on my Side

64 Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey

65 Horslips: The Tain

66 Cane 141: Garden Tiger Moth

67 Duke Special: Songs from the Deep Forest

68 U2: The Unforgettable Fire

69 The Virgin Prunes: If I Die, I Die

70 That Petrol Emotion: Manic Pop Thrill

71 Simple Kid: 1

72 Andy Irvine & Paul Brady:Andy Irvine & Paul Brady

73 Them: The Angry Young Them

74 Snow Patrol: Final Straw

75 Julie Feeney: 13 Songs

76 Rory Gallagher: Tattoo

77 David Kitt: The Big Romance

78 Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece

79 A House: I Want Too Much

80 Starjets: God Bless the Starjets

81 The Frames: Dance the Devil

82 Snow Patrol: It's All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye

83 Van Morrison: St Dominic's Preview

84 The Stunning: Paradise In The Picturehouse

85 The Boomtown Rats: Tonic for the Troops

86 Sinead O'Connor: The Lion And The Cobra

87 Mary Coughlan: Under the Influence

88 Therapy?: Infernal Love

89 The Outcasts: Self Conscious Over You

90 The Immediate: Towers &Clouds

91 The Would Bes: Silly Songs for Cynical People

92 The Tycho Brahe: Love/Life

93 The Thrills: So Much for the City

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