Simar's Recommended Albums 

         

    Top Of the Pops! (Esoteric, new wave, pop/rock, etc.)

  1. Above the Ruins: Songs Of the Wolf (19 ) (ATR)
  2. Fiona Apple: Tidal (1996) (Clean Slate/ Work)
  3. Freya Aswynn/ Sixth Comm: Fruits Of Yggdrasil (19 ) (Kenaz)
  4. Autechre: Amber (1994) (Warp)
  5. The Beatles: Rubber Soul (1965) (Capitol)
  6. The Beatles: Revolver (1966) (Capitol)
  7. The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) (Capitol)
  8. The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (1968) (Capitol)
  9. Blood Axis: The Gospel Of Inhumanity (1995) (Storm/Elfenblut)
  10. Blur: Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) (SBK/ Food)
  11. Blur: Parklife (1994) (Food)
  12. David Bowie: Hunky Dory (1971) (Rykodisc)
  13. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972) (Rykodisc)
  14. David Bowie: Alladin Sane (1973) (Rykodisc)
  15. David Bowie: Station To Station (1976) (Rykodisc)
  16. David Bowie: Low (1977) (Rykodisc)
  17. Kate Bush: The Kick Inside (1978) (EMI)
  18. Kate Bush: Lionheart (1978) (EMI)
  19. Kate Bush: Never for Ever (1980) (EMI)
  20. Kate Bush: The Dreaming (1982) (EMI)
  21. Kate Bush: Hounds Of Love (1985) (EMI)
  22. The Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady (1977-79) (IRS)
  23. Cabaret Voltaire: The Voice Of America (1980) (Mute)
  24. Cabaret Voltaire: The Crackdown (1983) (Virgin)
  25. Cabaret Voltaire: Microphonies (1984) (Virgin)
  26. Cabaret Voltaire: The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (1985)(Virgin)
  27. Francis Cabrel: Samedi Soir Sur La Terre (1994) (Columbia France)
  28. The Cardigans: Emmerdale (1994) (Stockholm)
  29. The Cardigans: Life (1995) (Minty Fresh)
  30. The Cardigans: First Band On the Moon (1996) (Stockholm/Mercury)
  31. The Cardigans: Gran Turismo (1998) (Stockholm/ Mercury)
  32. Chris and Cosey: Trance (1982) (CTI)
  33. Chris and Cosey: Techno Primitiv (1985) (CTI)
  34. Chrome: The Chrome Box (1977-83/1996) (Cleopatra)
  35. Chrome: Into the Eyes of the Zombie King/ Alliance (1984) (Dossier)
  36. The Church: Seance (1983) (Arista)
  37. The Church: Remote Luxury (1984) (Arista)
  38. Coil: Horse Rotovator (1987) (Rota)
  39. Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth (1983) (Mercury)
  40. Cornershop: Woman’s Gotta Have It (1995) (Luaka Bop)
  41. Cornershop: When I was Born For the 7th Time (1997) (Luaka Bop)
  42. Crisis: We Are All Jews and Germans (1977-80/97) (Ouroubouros)
  43. Crispy Ambulance: The Plateau Phase/ Live On a Hot August Night (1981/89)(Factory Benelux)
  44. Crispy Ambulance: Fin (1985/90)(Les Temps Modernes)
  45. The Cure: Seventeen Seconds (1980) (Elektra)
  46. The Cure: Japanese Whispers (1983) (Fiction)
  47. Current 93: In Menstrual Night (1985) (Durtro)
  48. Current 93: Swastikas For Goddy (1987) (Durtro)
  49. Current 93/ HÖH: Island (1992) (Durtro)
  50. Current 93: Thunder Perfect Mind (1992) (Durtro)
  51. Death In June: The Guilty Have No Past (Die Schuldigen) (1981-83/93) (NER)
  52. Death In June: Nada! (1985) (NER)
  53. Death In June: The Corn Years (1989) (NER)
  54. Death In June: But What Ends When the Symbols Shatter (1992) (NER)
  55. Death In June: Something Is Coming (1993) (NER)
  56. Death In June: Rose Clouds Of Holocaust (1994) (NER)
  57. Death In June presents Kapo: Kapo! (1996) (NER/ Twilight Command)
  58. Death In June: Take Care and Control (1998) (NER)
  59. Depeche Mode: A Broken Frame (1982) (Mute)
  60. Depeche Mode: Construction Time Again (1983) (Mute)
  61. Depeche Mode: Black Celebration (1986) (Mute)
  62. Depeche Mode: Music For the Masses (1987) (Mute)
  63. Depeche Mode: Violator (1990) (Mute)
  64. Der Dritte Raum: Wellenbad (1996) (Harthouse)
  65. Devo: Freedom Of Choice (1980) (Warner Brothers)
  66. Devo: New Traditionalists (1981) (Infinite Zero/American)
  67. Duran Duran: Duran Duran (1981) (Capitol)
  68. Duran Duran: Rio (1982) (Capitol)
  69. Jacques Dutronc: Greatest Hits (1991) (Duchesse)
  70. Jacques Dutronc: Au Casino (1992) (Columbia France)
  71. Echo and the Bunnymen: Crocodiles (1980) (Sire/ Korova)
  72. Einstürzende Neubauten: Kollaps (1981) (Potomak)
  73. Brian Eno: Another Green World (1975) (EG)
  74. Eyeless In Gaza: Drumming the Beating Heart (1982) (Cherry Red)
  75. Eyeless In Gaza: Rust Red September (1983) (Cherry Red)
  76. The Fall: Live At the Witch Trials (1978) (IRS)
  77. The Fall: Grotesque (After the Gramme) (1980) (Castle)
  78. The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour (1982) (Line)
  79. The Fall: Perverted By Language (1983) (Line)
  80. The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World Of the Fall (1984) (Beggar’s Banquet)
  81. The Fall: This Nation’s Saving Grace (1985) (Beggar’s Banquet)
  82. The Fall: Extricate (1990) (Cog Sinister)
  83. The Fall: Shiftwork (1991) (Cog Sinister)
  84. The Fall: Code Selfish (1992) (Cog Sinister)
  85. Fire + Ice: Midwinter Fires (1994) (Asafoetida)
  86. John Foxx: The Garden (1982) (Virgin)
  87. Serge Gainsbourg: Gainsbourg A Gainsbarre (1957-87/91) (Phillips France)
  88. Garbage: Garbage (1995) (Almo)
  89. Heaven 17: Penthouse and Pavement (1981) (Virgin)
  90. Heaven 17: The Luxury Gap (1983) (Virgin)
  91. The Human League: Reproduction (1979) (Virgin)
  92. The Human League: Travelogue (1980) (Virgin)
  93. In My Rosary: Under the Mask Of Stone (199 ) (Discordia)
  94. David J.: Etiquette Of Violence (1983) (Situation Two)
  95. Japan: Quiet Life (1980) (Caroline)
  96. Japan: Gentleman Take Polaroids (1980) (Caroline)
  97. Japan: Oil On Canvas (1983) (Caroline)
  98. Joy Division (Warsaw): Warsaw (1978) (Intermusic)
  99. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (1979) (Factory)
  100. Joy Division: Closer (1980) (Qwest/ Factory)
  101. Kirlian Camera: Todesengel. The Fall of Life (1993) (Discordia)
  102. Kirlian Camera: Erinnerung (1994) (Discordia)
  103. Kraftwerk: Autobahn (1974) (EMI/ Electrola)
  104. Kraftwerk: Radio Activity (1975) (Capitol)
  105. Kraftwerk: Computer World (1981) (Warner Brothers)
  106. Kraftwerk: Electric Cafe (1986) (Warner Brothers)
  107. Laibach: Rekapitulacija (1980-1984) (1984) (W.U. Schallfolien)
  108. Laibach: Krst Pod Triglavom (1986) (Sub Rosa)
  109. Kenny Larkin: Azimuth (1994) (WaxTrax!/ Warp)
  110. Thomas Leer and Robert Rental: The Bridge (1979) (Mute)
  111. The Legendary Pink Dots: The Tower (1984) (Play It Again Sam)
  112. John Lennon: The John Lennon Collection (1969-80/1989) (Capitol)
  113. Love: Forever Changes (1967) (Elektra)
  114. Love and Rockets: Express (1986) (Big Time)
  115. Lush: Split (1994) (4AD)
  116. Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go (1996) (Epic)
  117. Reinhard Mey: Immer Weiter (1994) (Intercord)
  118. Midnight Oil: 20,000 Watts R.S.L.(1979-97) (Columbia)
  119. Mike and Rich: Mike and Rich (1996) (Rephlex)
  120. Nature and Organisation: Beauty Reaps the Blood Of Solitude (1994) (Durtro)
  121. New Order: Movement (1981) (Factory)
  122. New Order: Power, Corruption, and Lies (1983) (Qwest/ Factory)
  123. New Order: Brotherhood (1986) (Qwest/ Factory)
  124. NON: Blood and Flame (1986) (Mute)
  125. Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army: Premier Hits (1978-83/96) (Beggar's Banquet)
  126. Oasis: Definitely Maybe (1994) (Epic)
  127. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: OMD (1980) (Virgin)
  128. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Organisation (1981) (Virgin)
  129. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Architecture & Morality (1981) (Virgin)
  130. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Dazzle Ships (1983) (Virgin)
  131. Pet Shop Boys: Please (1986) (EMI)
  132. Pet Shop Boys: Actually (1987) (EMI)
  133. Pet Shop Boys: Very/ Relentless (1993) (EMI)
  134. Pink Industry: Retrospective (1989) (Parade Amoureuse)
  135. The Police: Ghost In the Machine (1981) (A & M)
  136. Iggy Pop and the Stooges: Raw Power (1973) (Columbia)
  137. Iggy Pop: The Idiot (1977) (Virgin)
  138. Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (1977) (Virgin)
  139. Portishead: Dummy (1994) (Go! Discs/ London)
  140. The Posies: Frosting On the Beater (1993) (Geffen)
  141. Possum Dixon: Possum Dixon (1993) (Interscope)
  142. Psychic TV: A Pagan Day (1983) (Cleopatra/ Temple)
  143. Psychic TV: Dreams Less Sweet (1984) (Some Bizarre)
  144. Psychic TV: Thee Berlin Wall (Parts One & Two) (1990) (Temple)
  145. Radiohead: The Bends (1995) (Capitol)
  146. Radiohead: OK Computer (1997) (Capitol)
  147. Boyd Rice and Friends: Music, Martinis, and Misanthropy (1990) (Mute)
  148. The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (1966) (Abkco)
  149. The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons (1967) (Abkco)
  150. The Rolling Stones: Singles Collection - the London Years (1963-69/89) (Abkco)
  151. Saint Etienne: So Tough (1993) (Warner Bros./Heavenly)
  152. Saint Etienne: Tiger Bay (1994) (Heavenly)
  153. Saint Etienne: Good Humor (1998) (Heavenly/ Sub Pop)
  154. Scorpion Wind: Heaven Sent (1996) (NER/ Twilight Command)
  155. Section 25: From the Hip (1984/91)(Factory/ Les Temps Modernes)
  156. The Shrangri-Las: Greatest Hits (1964-66/89) (Teichiku/ Overseas)
  157. Shonen Knife: Shonen Knife (1990) (Gasatanka/ Giant)
  158. Simon and Garfunkel: Bookends (1968) (Columbia)
  159. Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) (Columbia)
  160. Smashing Pumpkins: Adore (1998) (Virgin)
  161. The Smiths: Singles (1995) (Reprise)
  162. Sneaker Pimps: Becoming X (1996) (Clean Up/ Virgin)
  163. Sol Invictus: Sol Veritas Lux (1990) (Tursa)
  164. Sol Invictus: Trees In Winter (1990) (Tursa)
  165. Sol Invictus: The Killing Tide (1991) (Tursa)
  166. Sol Invictus: Death Of the West (1994) (Tursa)
  167. Sol Invictus: King and Queen (1992) (Tursa)
  168. Sol Invictus: In the Rain (1995) (Tursa)
  169. Somewhere In Europe: The Iron Trees Are In Full Bloom (199 ) (These Silences)
  170. Sorrow: Under the Yew Possesed (1993) (Piski)
  171. Spicelab: Lost In Spice (1993) (Harthouse)
  172. Sprung Aus Den Wolken: Round and Round (1990) (Les Disques Du Soleil et De L'Acier)
  173. Stereolab: Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993) (Elektra/ Duophonic)
  174. Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet (1994) (Elektra/ Duophonic)
  175. Stereolab: Music For the Amorphous Body Center (1995) (Duophonic)
  176. Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) (Elektra/ Duophonic)
  177. Strawberry Switchblade: Strawberry Switchblade (1984) (Korova)
  178. The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses (1989) (Silvertone)
  179. The Stranglers: Aural Sculpture (1985) (Epic)
  180. Swans: White Light From the Mouth Of Infinity (1991) (Young God)
  181. Swans: The Great Annihilator (1994) (Invisible)
  182. David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (1984) (Caroline)
  183. Tangerine Dream: Poland (1984) (Relativity)
  184. The Teardrop Explodes: Kiliminjaro (1980) (Fontana)
  185. Tears For Fears: The Hurting(1983) (Phonogram)
  186. The Times: This Is London/ Hello Europe (1984) (Creation/ Rev-ola)
  187. The Times: Enjoy/ Up Against It (1985) (Creation/ Rev-ola)
  188. The Times: I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (198-90/92) (Creation/ Rev-ola)
  189. The Times: Alternative Commercial Crossover (1993) (Creation)
  190. Ultravox: Systems Of Romance (1978) (Island)
  191. Ultravox: Vienna (1980) (Chrysalis)
  192. Underworld: Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) (WaxTrax!)
  193. Underworld: Second Toughest In the Infants (1996) (WaxTrax!)
  194. Sven Väth: Accident In Paradise (1993) (Warner Bros./ Eye Q)
  195. Velocity Girl: !Simaptico! (1994) (Sub Pop)
  196. Veruca Salt: American Thighs (1994) (Minty Fresh)
  197. Scott Walker: Scott II (1968) (Fontana)
  198. Scott Walker: Scott III (1969) (Fontana)
  199. Scott Walker: Scott IV (1969) (Fontana)
  200. Scott Walker: Tilt (1995) (Fontana)
  201. Tony Wakeford: La Croix (1993) (Tursa)
  202. Whitehouse: Thank Your Lucky Stars (1991) (Susan Lawly)
  203. Whitehouse: Quality Time (1996) (Susan Lawly)
  204. Wire: The Ideal Copy (1987) (Enigma/ Mute)
  205. Wire: A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck (1988) (Enigma/ Mute)
  206. The Yellow Magic Orchestra: Technodelic (1981) (Restless/ Alfa)
  207. The Yellow Magic Orchestra: Technodon (1993) (Toshiba)

    Most Recent Recommendations

  208. Catatonia: International Velvet (1998) (Blanco Y Negro)
  209. Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape (1997) (Roswell)
  210. Hum: Downward Is Heavenward (1997) (BMG)
  211. Natalie Imbruglia: Left Of the Middle (1998) (BMG)
  212. Ivy: Apartment Life (1997) (Atlantic)
  213. Julie Ruin (Kathleen Hanna): Julie Ruin (1998) (Kill Rock Stars)

    Original Soundtracks

  214. Betty Blue: Gabriel Yared (1986) (Virgin)
  215. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Ennio Morricone (1966/85) (EMI-Manhattan)
  216. The Legendary Italian Westerns: Ennio Morricone (1963-69/90) (BMG/RCA)

    Various Artist Compilations

  217. Artificial Intelligence (Electronic Listening Music) (1992) (Warp)
  218. N.L. Centrum (Q.E.D.) (1987) (Play It Again Sam)

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