Steven Hale
1 min readMay 30, 2022

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Surprisingly (for me), one: Heaven or Las Vegas. I've said many times on your recent Best / Worst that the music got better as we approached the 90's (though I've begun to appreciate the 80's thanks to the music writers on Medium).

This is about the time I began buying new music, instead of just the recent work of musicians I liked from the 60's-70's.

Albums on the 100 that I actually purchased or streamed (though only Cocteau Twins, Robert Johnson, and Prefab Sprout are artists not from the 60's-70's):

* Heaven or Las Vegas

* Naked City

* Complete Robert Johnson (wish I had the shellac)

* Jordan the Comeback

* Songs for Drella

* Wrong Way Up (my favorite on this list)

Canterbury music makes it back into the top 100: Naked City by John Zorn (features Fred Frith on guitar--highly recommended--it's like punk jazz), and Amarok by Mike Oldfield.

I'll go with you on the worst. Primus is one of those bands I've never heard but still somehow dislike immensely.

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Steven Hale
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