1. Halfnelson - Bearsville 1971
Tracks: 1. Wonder Girl / 2. Fa La Fa Lee / 3. Roger / 4. High C / 5. Fletcher Honorama / 6. Simple Ballet / 7. Slowboat / 8. Biology / 9. Saccharin and the War / 10. Big Bands / 11. (No More) Mr. Nice Guys
Rating :
2. A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing - Bearsville 1973
Tracks:
1. Girl From Germany / 2. Beaver O'Lindy / 3. Nothing Is Sacred / 4. Here Comes Bob / 5. Moon Over Kentucky / 6. Do Re Mi / 7. Angus Desire / 8. Underground / 9. The Louvre / 10. Batteries Not Included / 11. Whippings and Apologies
Rating :
3. Kimono My House - Island 1974
Tracks:
1. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us / 2. Amateur Hour / 3. Falling in Love With Myself Again / 4. Here in Heaven / 5. Thank God It's Not Christmas / 6. Hasta mañana, monsieur / 7. Talent Is an Asset / 8. Complaints / 9. In My Family / 10. Equator
Rating : 8
4. Propaganda - Island 1974
Tracks:
1. Propaganda / 2. At Home, at Work, at Play / 3. Reinforcements / 4. BC / 5. Thanks but No Thanks / 6. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her / 7. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth / 8. Something for the Girl With Everything / 9. Achoo / 10. Who Don't Like Kids /11. Bon Voyage
Rating : 7
5. Indiscreet - Island 1975
Tracks:
1. Hospitality on Parade / 2. Happy Hunting Ground / 3. Without Using Hands / 4. Get in the Swing / 5. Under the Table With Her / 6. How Are You Getting Home? / 7. Pineapple / 8. Tits / 9. It Ain't 1918 / 10. The Lady Is Lingering / 11. In the Future / 12. Looks, Looks, Looks / 13. Miss the Start, Miss the End
Rating : 6
6. Big Beat - Island 1976
Tracks:
1. Hospitality on Parade / 2. Happy Hunting Ground / 3. Without Using Hands / 4. Get in the Swing / 5. Under the Table With Her / 6. How Are You Getting Home? / 7. Pineapple / 8. Tits / 9. It Ain't 1918 / 10. The Lady Is Lingering / 11. In the Future / 12. Looks, Looks, Looks / 13. Miss the Start, Miss the End
Rating : 6
7. Introducing Sparks - CBS 1977
Tracks:
1. A Big Surprise / 2. Occupation / 3. Ladies / 4. I'm Not / 5. Forever Young / 6. Goofing Off / 7. Girls on the Brain / 8. Over the Summer / 9. Those Mysteries
Rating :
8. N° 1 in Heaven - Virgin 1979
Tracks:
1. Tryouts for the Human Race / 2. Academy Award Performance / 3. La dolce vita / 4. Beat the Clock / 5. My Other Voice / 6. The Number One Song in Heaven
Rating :
9. Terminal Jive - Oasis 1979
Tracks:
1. When I'm With You / 2. Just Because You Love Me / 3. Rock 'n' Roll People in a Disco World / 4. When I'm With You / 5. Young Girls / 6. Noisy Boys / 7. Stereo / 8. The Greatest Show on Earth
Rating :
10. Whomp That Sucker - RCA 1981
Tracks:
1. Tips for Teens / 2. Funny Face / 3. Where's My Girl / 4. Upstairs / 5. I Married a Martian / 6. The Willys / 7. Shoot Me / 8. Safety / 9. That's Not Nastassia / 10. Women
Rating :
11. Angst in My Pants - Atlantic 1982
Tracks:
1. Angst in My Pants / 2. I Predict / 3. Sextown U.S.A. / 4. Sherlock Holmes / 5. Nicotina / 6. Mickey Mouse / 7. Moustache / 8. Instant Weight Loss / 9. Tarzan and Jane / 10. The Decline and Fall of Me / 11. Eaten by the Monster of Love
Rating :
12. In Outer Space - Atlantic 1983
Tracks:
1. Cool Places / 2. Popularity / 3. Prayin' for a Party / 4. All You Ever Think About Is Sex / 5. Please, Baby, Please / 6. Rockin' Girls / 7. I Wish I Looked a Little Better / 8. Lucky Me, Lucky You / 9. A Fun Bunch of Guys From Outer Space / 10. Godammit
Rating :
13. Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat - Atlantic 1984
Tracks:
1. Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat / 2. Love Scenes / 3. Pretending to Be Drunk / 4. Progress / 5. With All My Might / 6. Sparks in the Dark (Part One) / 7. Everybody Move / 8. A Song That Sings Itself / 9. Sisters / 10. Kiss Me Quick / 11. Sparks in the Dark (Part Two)
Rating :
14. Music That You Can Dance To - MCA 1986
Tracks:
1. Music That You Can Dance To / 2. Rosebud / 3. Fingertips / 4. Change / 5. The Scene / 6. Shopping Mall of Love / 7. Modesty Plays / 8. Let's Get Funky
Rating :
15. Interior Design - Rhino 1988
Tracks:
1. So Important / 2. Just Got Back From Heaven / 3. Lots of Reasons / 4. You Got a Hold of My Heart / 5. Love-O-Rama / 6. The Toughest Girl in Town / 7. Let's Make Love / 8. Stop Me If You've Heard This Before / 9. A Walk Down Memory Lane / 10. Madonna
Rating :
16. Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins - Logic 1994
Tracks:
1. Gratuitous Sax / 2. When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" / 3. I Hear Charlie Parker Playing / 4. Frankly, Scarlett, I Don't Give a Damn / 5. I Thought I Told You to Wait in the Car / 6. Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil / 7. Now That I Own the BBC / 8. Tsui Hark / 9. The Ghost of Liberace / 10. Let's Go Surfing / 11. Senseless Violins
Rating :
17. Plagiarism - Virgin 1997
Tracks:
1. Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat / 2. This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us / 3. The No. 1 Song in Heaven (Part Two) / 4. Funny Face / 5. Do I Get to Sing 'My Way' / 6. Angst in My Pants / 7. Change / 8. Popularity / 9. Something for the Girl With Everything / 10. This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us / 11. Beat the Clock / 12. Big Brass Ring / 13. Amateur Hour / 14. Propaganda / 15. When I'm With You / 16. Something for the Girl With Everything / 17. Orchestral Collage / 18. The No. 1 Song in Heaven / 19. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Rating :
18. Balls - Oglio 2000
Tracks:
1. Balls / 2. More Than a Sex Machine / 3. Scheherazade / 4. Aeroflot / 5. The Calm Before the Storm / 6. How to Get Your Ass Kicked / 7. Bullet Train / 8. It's a Knockoff / 9. Irreplaceable / 10. It's Educational / 11. The Angels
Rating :
19. Lil' Beethoven - Palm 2002
Tracks:
1. The Rhythm Thief / 2. How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall? / 3. What Are All These Bands So Angry About? / 4. I Married Myself / 5. Ride 'Em Cowboy / 6. My Baby's Taking Me Home / 7. Your Call's Very Important to Us, Please Hold / 8. Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls / 9. Suburban Homeboy
Rating :
20. Hello Young Lovers - In Red 2006
Tracks:
1. Dick Around / 2. Perfume / 3. The Very Next Fight / 4. Can I Invade Your Country / 5. Rock, Rock, Rock / 6. Metaphor / 7. Waterproof / 8. Here Kitty / 9. There's No Such Thing as Aliens / 10. As I Sit Down to Play the Organ at the Notre Dame Cathedral
Rating :
21. Exotic Creatures of the Deep - Lil Beethoven 2008
Tracks:
1. Intro / 2. Good Morning / 3. Strange Animal / 4. Can't Believe That You Would Fall for All the Crap in This Song / 5. Let the Monkey Drive / 6. Intro Reprise / 7. I've Never Been High / 8. She Got Me) Pregnant / 9. Lighten Up, Morrissey / 10. This Is the Renaissance / 11. The Director Never Yelled 'Cut' / 12. Photoshop / 13. Likeable
Rating :
22. The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman - Lil Beethoven 2009
Tracks:
1. 1956 Cannes Festival / 2. "I Am Ingmar Bergman" / 3. Limo Driver (Welcome to Hollywood) / 4. "Here He Is Now" / 5. "Mr. Bergman, How Are You?" / 6. "He'll Come 'Round" / 7. En Route to the Beverly Hills Hotel / 8. Hollywood Welcome Committee / 9. I've Got to Contact Sweden" / 10. The Studio Commissary / 11. "I Must Not Be Hasty" / 12. Quiet on the Set" / 13. "Why Do You Take That Tone with Me?" / 14. Pleasant Hotel Staff / 15. Hollywood Tour Bus / 16. Autograph Hounds / 17. Bergman Ponders Escape / 18. "We've Got to Turn Him 'Round" / 19. Escape (Part 1) / 20. Escape (Part 2) / 21. "Oh My God" / 22. Garbo Sings / 23. Almost a Hollywood Ending / 24. "He's Home"
Rating :
23. FFS - Domino 2015
Tracks:
1. Johnny Delusional / 2. Call Girl / 3. Dictator's Son / 4. Little Guy From the Suburbs / 5. Encounters / 6. Save Me From Myself / 7. Sõ desu ne / 8. The Man Without a Tan / 9. Things I Won't Get / 10. Power Couple / 11. Collaborations Don't Work / 12. Piss Off
Rating :
24. Hippopotamus - BMG 2017
Tracks:
1. Probably Nothing / 2. Missionary Position / 3. Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) / 4. Scandinavian Design / 5. Giddy / 6. the Hell Is It This Time? / 7. Unaware / 8. Hippopotamus / 9. Bummer / 10. I Wish You Were Fun / 11. So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside From That How Was the Play? / 12. When You're a French Director / 13. Amazing Mr. Repeat / 14. A Little Bit Like Fun / 15. Life With the Macbeths
Rating :
25. A Steady Drip Drip Drip - BMG 2020
Tracks:
1. All That / 2. I'm Toast / 3. Lawnmower / 4. Sainthood Is Not in Your Future / 5. Pacific Standard Time / 6. Stravinsky's Only Hit / 7. Out in the Cold / 8. Self-Effacing / 9. One for the Ages / 10. Onomato Pia / 11. iPhone / 12. The Existential Threat / 13. Nothing Travels Faster Than the Speed of Light / 14. Please Don't Fuck Up My World
Rating :
26. Annette: Cannes Edition - Milan 2021
Tracks:
1. So May We Start / 2. True Love Always Finds a Way / 3. We Love Each Other So Much / 4. I'm an Accompanist / 5. Aria (The Forest) / 6. She's Out of This World! / 7. Women Have Come Forward / 8. Used to Laugh / 9. Girl From the Middle of Nowhere / 10. Let's Waltz in the Storm! / 11. Washed Ashore / Baby Aria (The Moon) / I Will Haunt You, Henry / 12. Premiere Performance of Baby Annette / 13. All the Girls / 14. Back in Time / 15. Stepping Back in Time / 16. Sympathy for the Abyss
Rating :
27. The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte - Island 2023
Tracks:
1. The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte / 2. Veronica Lake / 3. Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is / 4. Escalator / 5. The Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight / 6. You Were Meant for Me / 7. Not That Well-Defined / 8. We Go Dancing / 9. When You Leave / 10. Take Me for a Ride / 11. It's Sunny Today / 12. A Love Story / 13. It Doesn't Have to Be That Way / 14. Gee, That Was Fun
Rating :
Essential Albums!
23 - Kimono My House - 1974
28 - N° 1 in Heaven - 1979
41 - Lil' Beethoven - 2002
45 - Propaganda - 1974
58 - Angst in my Pants - 1982
82 - Hello Young Lovers - 2006
122 - Indiscreet - 1975
289 - Exotic Creatures of the Deep - 2008
289 - Halfnelson - 1971
363 - Hippopotamus - 2017
409 - Whomp That Sucker - 1981
424 - Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins - 1994
531 - A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing - 1973
531 - The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte - 2023
546 - In Outer Space - 1983
574 - Big Beat - 1976
594 - Introducing Sparks - 1977
641 - Terminal Jive - 1980
667 - Plagiarism - 1997
693 - The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman - 2009
720 - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip - 2020
746 - Annette: Cannes Edition - 2021
816 - FFS - 2015
822 - Balls - 2000
943 - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat - 1984
977 - Music That You Can Dance To - 1986
1077 - Interior Design - 1988
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - December 3 - 2023
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My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
1. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth (Ron Mael) Propaganda
2. Amateur Hour - (Ron Mael) Kimono my House
3. Falling in Love with Myself - (Ron Mael) Kimono my House
4. Hasta Manana Monsieur - (Russell + Ron Mael) Kimono my House
5. Thanks but no Thanks - (Russell + Ron Mael) Propaganda
6. The Lady is Lingering - (Ron Mael) Indiscreet
7. Here in Heaven - (Ron Mael) Kimono my House
8. Thank God it's not Christmas - (Russell + Ron Mael) Kimono my House
9. Talent is an Asset - (Ron Mael) Kimono my House
10. In My Family - (Russell + Ron Mael) Kimono my House
11. Reinforcements (Russell + Ron Mael) Propaganda
12. Don't Leave Me Alone with Her (Ron Mael) Propaganda
13. How are you Getting Home - (Ron Mael) Indiscreet
14. Miss the Start, Miss the End - (Ron Mael) Indiscreet
15. Big Boy - (Ron Mael) Big Beat
LINKS:
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