This is a pair of running lists of how we rank each other’s Top 50s. This is live, up to the latest published episode, and updated weekly. The number in parentheses after each album is where it ranked for the other person.
James Ranks Glen’s Albums
#1 Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (9).
#2 Arcade Fire – Funeral (36)
#3 Soundgarden – Superunknown (27).
#4 Nirvana – Nevermind (23).
#5 Pearl Jam – Binaural (19).
#6 David Bowie – Hunky Dory (17).
#7 REM – Automatic for the People (13).
#8 Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse (29).
#9 Radiohead – The Bends (12)
#10 Pixies – Surfer Rosa (14).
#11 Damien Rice – O (34).
#12 A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms (11).
#13 Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (33)
#14 Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy up the Girl (38).
#15 Gomez – Bring it On (44).
#16 The Reindeer Section – Son of Evil Reindeer (46).
#17 System of a Down – Toxicity (8).
#18 Placebo – Without You, I’m Nothing (18).
#19 Radiohead – In Rainbows (6).
#20 Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (22).
#21 Pulp – Different Class (30).
#22 Counting Crows – August and Everything After (28).
#23 Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (49).
#24 Skunk Anansie – Paranoid and Sunburnt (26).
#25 Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist (31).
#26 Opeth – Ghost Reveries (41).
#27 The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (7)
#28 At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (15).
#29= Nick Drake – Pink Moon (47).
#29= Ben Howard – Every Kingdom (43).
#31 Foreign Slippers – Farewell to the Old Ghosts (42).
#32 Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (16).
#33 Sigur Rós – Takk (24).
#34 Bat For Lashes – Fur and Gold (35).
#35 Jimmy Eat World – Clarity (39).
#36 Metallica – Master of Puppets (37).
#37 Coheed & Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth Vol. III (4).
#38 TOOL – Lateralus (5).
#39 Elbow – Asleep in the Back (45).
#40 The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath (21).
#41 Maximum the Hormone – Bu-ikikaesu (40).
#42 Horse the Band – R. Borlax (50).
#43 Mogwai – Happy Songs for Happy People (32).
#44 Coheed & Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (10).
#45 The Fall of Troy – Manipulator (20).
#46 Mastodon – Leviathan (25).
#47 Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked (48).
Glen Ranks James’ Albums
#1 Pearl Jam – Ten (22)
#2 Damien Rice – O (32).
#3 Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (8).
#4 The Darkness – Permission to Land (3).
#5 U2 – All that you Can’t Leave Behind (14).
#6 Thirty Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie (9).
#7 Ray Lamontagne – Trouble (6).
#8 Eagles – Hotel California (11).
#9 Wildwood Kin – Turning Tides (31).
#10 Norah Jones – Come Away with Me (7).
#11 Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All his Friends (28).
#12 Remy Zero – The Golden Hum (48).
#13 Michael Jackson – Bad (20).
#14 U2 – Rattle & Hum (18).
#15 Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise (38).
#16 Queen – A Night at the Opera (5).
#17 Richard Hawley – Coles Corner (35).
#18 Paul McCartney and Wings – Band on the Run (26).
#19 The Darkness – One Way Ticket to Hell… And Back (22).
#20 Michael Jackson – Thriller (10).
#21 Meat Loaf – Bat out of Hell (13).
#22 Elton John – Sleeping with the Past (12).
#23 Genesis – Invisible Touch (37).
#24 The Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed (4).
#25 Rend Collective – Homemade Worship by Handmade People (21).
#26 Oasis – Definitely Maybe (17).
#27 Sam Kelly – The Lost Boys (30).
#28 The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (29).
#29 Tim Minchin – Matilda the Musical (50).
#30 Lauren Daigle – Look up Child (44).
#31 Black Lace – Party Party (41).
#32 The Torero Band – Lennon and McCartney Tijuana Style (39).
#33 The London Symphony Orchestra – Classic Rock (49).
#34 Film Soundtrack – Little Shop of Horrors Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (24).
#35 Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing (15).
#36 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar (16).
#37 Nell Bryden – Shake the Tree (40).
#38 Grainne Duffy – Out of the Dark (34).
#39 The Shires – Brave (25).
#40 The Baseballs – Strike! (43).
#41 Tom Jones – Reload (42).
#42 Nickelback – Silver Side Up (27).
#43 Harry Secombe – Bless This House (47).
#44 Queen + Paul Rogers – The Cosmos Rocks (19).
#45 Dr Dre – 2001 (45).
#46 Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way Baby (46).
#47 David Brent and Foregone Conclusion – Life on the Road (33).
#48 Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers – The Album/Swing the Mood (36).
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