top 20

i spent at least 2 hours on this list.
i'll quote jack black's high fidelity character, barry
'how can someone who owns a record store have no real interest in music?'
shut up barry. sorry i can't spout off my top 5 everything at the drop of a hat (unlike someone i know who made his list in all of 2 minutes!!!)

20. maria callas-la divina
19. jesus and mary chain- automatic
18. bobby vinton- mr lonely single
17. cat power- dear sir
16. stooges- raw power
15. pixies- doolittle
14. vaselines- the way of the vaselines
13. bela fleck and the flecktones- flight of the cosmic hippo
12. the unicorns- who will cut our hair when we're gone?
11. the clash- the clash
10. sex pistols- nevermind the bullocks(here's the sex pistols)
9. velvet underground- loaded
8. pretenders- last of the independants
7. tom waits- rain dogs
6. captain beefheart- safe as milk
5. sneaker pimps- splinter
4. arianne moffat- aquanaute
3. pj harvey- uh huh her/rid of me
2. radiohead- ok computar
1. portishead- portishead