NME's 100 Lost Albums

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Described as "100 cult classics that deserve your love, picked by NME writers and your favourite bands," this list contains an understandably anglophilic list of albums.  Lots of influential punk/post-punk music here - waitaminute how did Chick Corea get on this list?!? Many interesting choices to be sure, but here are the 26 albums from the NME list that were released during the years 1976-85. 

Rank	Artist	Title	Year
97	Frightwig	Cat Farm Faboo	1984
81	Fleetwood Mac	Mirage	1982
80	Moebius & Plank	Rastakraut Pasta	1980
78	Suicide	The Second Album	1980
77	Suicide	Suicide	1977
75	This Heat	Deceit	1981

65	XTC	White Music	1978
63	Lizzy Mercier Descloux	Mambo Nassau	1981
60	Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Frederick, & The Clamtones	Have Moicy!	1976
55	The Germs	(GI)	1979
50	Chick Corea	My Spanish Heart	1976

44	The Dancing Did	And Did Those Feet	1982
42	Eater	The Album	1977
40	Crass	The Feeding of the 5000	1978
38	Jeffrey Lee Pierce	Wildweed	1985
37	ABC	Beauty Stab	1983

36	Simple Minds	Real to Real Cacophony	1979
35	Thomas Dolby	The Flat Earth	1984
31	The Prisoners	The Wisermiserdemelza	1983
25	The Associates	Sulk	1982
24	Magazine	Real Life	1978

19	Television Personalities	They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles	1982
11	Bad Brains	Bad Brains (cassette only)	1982
7	Shonen Knife	Burning Farm	1983
6	Wipers	Is This Real?	1980
5	Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth	1980

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I'm only familiar with 40-50% of these groups/albums. I bought Beauty Stab and The Flat Earth upon release, got a copy of Real to Real Cacophony during my early '80s discovery of Simple Minds, and remember my buddy Jim playing Suicide albums for me. Not sure why Mirage made the list - it was #1 in the US and #5 in the UK. I've discovered the others in more recent times, mainly through compilations/box sets.  In any case, I'm still unfamiliar with most of the albums, so there's a lot of exploring to do.  Will proceed chronologically (as I am wont to do).  Stay tuned.