Until recently, this was the last Stone Temple Pilots album. Tensions in the band once again hit a peak during the tour promoting this record, and once again they went their separate ways with Scott Weiland joining Velvet Revolver, and the DeLeo brothers forming Army Of Anyone with Filter's Richard Patrick. The music on this album mostly moves back into the same territory covered in 'Tiny Music', but they seem a lot more confident with it this time around.
Best Songs: Dumb Love; Hollywood Bitch
287) Black Stone Cherry - Folklore And Superstition (2008)
The second album from the Kentucky Southern rockers expands on the sound from the first album. 'Things My Father Said' and 'Peace Is Free' have become anthems for the band, and have this way of getting stuck in your head.
Best Songs: Blind Man; Things My Father Said
286) Lacuna Coil - Karmacode (2006)
After years of being relative unknowns outside of Europe, Lacuna Coil followed up the moderate success of 'Comalies' with 'Karmacode' and finally hit it big. Cristina Scabbia's vocals are still the main attraction, but the rest of the band are on top form here.
Best Songs: Our Truth; Fragments Of Faith
285) Ash - Trailer (1994)
Mini-album from the Irish pop-rock band. Ash would never sound this aggressive again.
Best Song: Uncle Pat
284) The Clash - The Clash (1977)
The debut album from the legendary punk band. 'White Riot' was the anthem for the UK punk scene.
Best Songs: Janie Jones; White Riot
283) Dead Kennedy's - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (1980)
Hardcore punk from San Francisco, and one of the most influential albums in US punk history.
Best Songs: Chemical Warfare; Holiday In Cambodia
282) Pink - Try This (2003)
For the follow-up to the smash hit 'Missundaztood', Pink took the unusual step of teaming up with Rancid's Tim Armstrong to write the most pure rock album of her catalogue. The result alienated her fans, and was a flop, but is actually an excellent album. I also admire her rebellion for giving her label at the time this album when they'd been pushing her to make an album that's more like her previous ones.
Best Songs: Trouble; Oh My God
281) Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals (1998)
Talking of rebellion, that's something that Marilyn Manson knows something about. After the ferocious industrial metal assault of 'Antichrist Superstar', 'Mechanical Animals' may seem a bit tame with its glam rock influences and more emphasis on melody. But it also proved that Manson and his band weren't one trick pony's with actual full on ballads like 'Coma White' being included. The most popular song from this album, though, is 'Rock Is Dead', which is also the song that sounds most like his previous efforts.
Best Songs: Rock Is Dead; Coma White
280) Michael Jackson - Dangerous (1991)
Michael Jackson's follow-up to 'Bad' features some of the songs that remind me most of my childhood. Nowadays, my favourite track on the album is 'Give In To Me', which is Michael's first collaboration with Slash and features some of that guitarist's best work on any song.
Best Songs: Who Is It; Give In to Me
279) Pink - Missundaztood (2001)
The moment that Pink turned from also-ran to huge star was in this album in which she collaborated with Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes, who was in the early strages of transforming herself into one of the pop world's top songwriters and producers. The songs feature all the hallmarks of Pink's loud, extrovertive style, but the stand-out track has to be the heartbreaking 'Family Portrait'. Apparently told to just go into the studio and sing whatever came to mind, it tells the story of her feelings during her parents' divorce as a young girl in an honest manner that is hardly ever heard in pop music.
Best Songs: Just Like A Pill; Family Portrait
278) Pink - I'm Not Dead (2006)
3 years after the commercial failure of 'Try This', Pink returned with this ultimate statement. The title of the album was enough to tell you what her intentions with this record were. Opening with 'Stupid Girls' which mocks other female pop stars and their images, it runs the gamut of all of the styles that she had worked in so far. There's nothing on here as great as 'Family Portrait', but overall this album just about pips 'Missundaztood' to the post as Pink's best album.
Best Songs: U + Ur Hand; Conversations With My 13 Year Old Self
277) Alice Cooper - Killer (1971)
Four albums into his career, this is where Alice Cooper really started to hit his stride, and as such is one of his best-loved albums. Don't be fooled by the title of 'Dead Babies'... it's title is actually very anti-child abuse
Best Songs: Under My Wheels; Dead Babies
276) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (1988)
A concept album that deals with a man who is destined to become a great villain and battle evil. Their previous album 'Somewhere In Time' made the band sound a bit tired and played-out, but this record sees them in top form whilst experimenting in the use of synthesisers for the first time.
Best Songs: The Evil That Men Do; The Clairvoyant
275) Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984)
Iron Maiden's fifth album. As well as the singles, which are the highlights of the album, this includes the title track based on Ancient Egyptian beliefs about their Pharaoh, and a 14 minute retelling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'. The tour for this album was extensive, and probably marks the best moment in Maiden's career for live performances.
Best Songs: Aces High; 2 Minutes To Midnight
274) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
The best loved album from Red Hot Chili Peppers, in which the rock stylings of 'Mother's Milk' are mostly toned down and more commercially viable (not that I'm saying that's the reason they did it). The best-known tracks on the album are probably 'Under The Bridge' and 'Give It Away', but I'm more partial to funk-rap 'Suck My Kiss' and the title track, as well as several other album tracks.
Best Songs: Suck My Kiss; Blood Sugar Sex Magik
273) Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues (1998)
Second album from the London-based stoner metal band.
Best Songs: Solarisphere; Time Travelling Blues
272) Bumblefoot - Forgotten Anthology (2003)
A collection of unreleased tracks recorded between 1995 and 2002, 'Forgotten Anthology' showcases Bumblefoot's diversity as well as his truly impressive guitar skills.
Best Songs: Day To Remember; She Knows
271) David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
David Bowie's third studio and the first that I feel showed the world what Bowie was capable of ('Space Oddity' really didn't do it for me other than the brilliant title track). This is often cited as the album that marked the birth of glam rock... and what people at the time must have been thinking when they first saw that heavily made-up man wearing a dress on the cover I can only imagine. And I'd like to see their reaction when I told them they hadn't seen nothin' yet.
Best Songs: All The Madmen; The Man Who Sold The World
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