:clap:

Dälek - Absence
Pain Teens - Born in Blood
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
The Flying Luttenbachers - Destroy All Music
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
LIZ - Just Like You
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Madvillain - Madvillainy
The Auteurs - New Wave
Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea
The Church - Priest = Aura
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Ultra Vivid Scene - Rev
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (cheated to get them both in :) )
Luxuria - Unanswerable Lust
miRthkon - Vehicle
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Weltuntergangsstimmung
Danny Brown - XXX
Pigs - You Ruin Everything
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

I didn't even know they had a new one out until you mentioned it. Just downloaded it though and am looking forward to giving it a listen.

Bitchin'

God damn it. It seems like no matter how many times I had a non-metal album I then thought of a metal album that could just edge it out, so now I look like a myopic douche.

A: Altars of Madness (Morbid Angel)
B: Bonded By Blood (Exodus)
C: Crush the Insects (Reverend Bizarre)
D: Dopethrone (Electric Wizard)
E: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (Candlemass)
F: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (Dead Kennedys)
G: The Great Milenko (Insane Clown Posse)
H: Hammerheart (Bathory)
I: Into Glory Ride (Manowar)
J: Jar of Flies (Alice In Chains)
K: Kill 'Em All (Metallica)
L: Legacy of Kings (Hammerfall)
M: Master of Reality (Black Sabbath)
N: Nightfall In Middle-Earth (Blind Guardian)
O: OK Computer (Radiohead)
P: Powerslave (Iron Maiden)
Q: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Devo)
R: Raw power (Iggy Pop and the Stooges)
S: Slaughter of the Soul (At the Gates)
T: Too Fast for Love (Motley Crue)
U: Under a Funeral Moon (Darkthrone)
V: Vile (Cannibal Corpse)
W: Wheels of Steel (Saxon)
X:
Y: Years of Decay (Overkill)
Z:

Nice thread. I guess it's easier to make a list like this if you have an account on last.fm, luckily I do.

Let's see...

A - Alquin
B - Big Brother & The Holding Company
C - Creedance Clearwater Revival
D - Deep Purple
E - Ekseption
F - Faith No More
G - Grateful Dead
H - Heaven & Hell
I - Iron Maiden
J - Jane's Addiction
K - King Crimson
L - Liquid Tension Experiment
M -Muse
N - New York Dolls
O - Opeth
P - Procol Harum
Q - Queen
R - Roxy Music
S - Sex Pistols
T - The Cult
U - UFO
V - Van Halen
W - Wishbone Ash
X -
Y - Yes
Z - ZZ Top

Ok black metal edition

Bands:

Aluk Todolo
Blut aus Nord
Coldworld
Darkspace
Eye, The
Fauna
Gnaw Their Tongues
Heirdrain
Immortal
Jabladav
Kampfar
Leviathan
Mortualia
Nahvalr
Oranssi Pazuzu
Paysage D'hiver
Qojau
Ruins of Beverast
Sigh
Trist (German not Czech)
Urfaust
Vinterland
Wold
Xasthur
Yggtyrhyrkkh Hin Dystre
Zuriaake

Phew lots of tough decisions. W seems like the run away best letter, while H is probably the worst (well besides the one demo I know from Q).

^^^

Dude, Hellhammer.

Yeah exactly. Worst letter (Heirdrain is cool though)

I'll see you dead for besmirching the good name of Hellhammer. I suggest you don't sleep tonight.

This is really hard, and I couldn't limit myself to one in almost any case, so these lists are a mess.

Artists:
#: 16 Horsepower
A: Aesop Rock/Andrew Jackson Jihad/The Antlers
B: Big Star/The Band/Billy Bragg/Blur/Bjork/David Bowie
C: Cloud Nothings/Elvis Costello/Nick Cave
D: Destroyer/The Divine Comedy/Drive-By Truckers
E: Echo and the Bunnymen
F: ****ed Up
G: Galaxie 500/Gang of Four/Godspeed You! Black Emperor
H: The Hold Steady
I: Interpol
J: The Jam/The Jayhawks/Jethro Tull
K: The Kinks/Kraftwerk
L: LCD Soundsystem/The Lucksmiths/Ted Leo
M: Modest Mouse/Mogwai/The Mountain Goats/Massive Attack
N: The National
O: Old 97's
P: Pink Floyd/Pixies/The Pogues/Pulp/Public Enemy
Q:
R: Radiohead/REM/The Replacements/The Rolling Stones
S: Bruce Springsteen/Spiritualized/The Smiths/Sonic Youth/Spoon/The Stone Roses/Superchunk (best letter)
T: Talking Heads/Television/TV on the Radio/Tindersticks/Titus Andronicus
U: Uncle Tupelo/Unrest
V: Violent Femmes
W: The Who/Wilco/Tom Waits
X: X
Y: Yo La Tengo
Z: The Zombies

Albums:
#: #1 Record (Big Star) - close one over 13 by Blur
A: Abattoir Blues (Nick Cave) - another close one, over Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! by GY!BE
B: Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) - I know you guys hate Springsteen, but the ones that were close (the Band's s/t, Wilco's Being There, etc.) just cannot beat Born to Run for me, and it's only my third-favorite of his albums.
C: Crazy Rhythms (The Feelies)
D: I cannot make up my mind between the two best DBT albums, Different Class, The Decline of British Sea Power, Dear Science, Doolittle, and Darkness on the Edge of Town.
E: Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones) just barely beats out Evol, Exile in Guyville, Entertainment!, and Exile on Coldharbour Lane.
F: From Her to Eternity (Nick Cave) or Fear of Music (Talking Heads).
G: Get Happy (Elvis Costello)
H: Hospice (The Antlers), Homogenic (Bjork), Hollywood Town Hall (The Jayhawks), Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer (Of Montreal), Hex Enduction Hour, High Violet, Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will, Heartbreaker, Hail to the Thief... I don't even know.
I: I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (YLT) or It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Public Enemy)
J:
K: Kid A (Radiohead)
L: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Spiritualized) is my favorite album of all time this week, so of course it wins, but that's really a ridiculously strong letter.
M: Murmur or My Aim is True
N: Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen) - and now we get to my favorite of his. None Shall Pass (Aesop Rock) is not very close behind.
O: Odessey and Oracle, Ocean Rain, OK Computer - I can't choose.
P: Pet Sounds, obvs
Q: Quadrophenia or The Queen is Dead
R: Reckoning (REM)
S: s/t (The Smiths), Something Else (The Kinks), Setting Sons (The Jam), The Shape of Punk to Come (Refused) Sound of Silver (LCD Soundsystem), Station to Station (David Bowie), Streethawk (Destroyer), Surfer Rosa (Pixies) - sorry as always
T: Tallahassee (The Mountain Goats), Tender Prey (Nick Cave), Too Far to Care (Old 97's)
U: Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)
V: Veedon Fleece (Van Morrison)
W: What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
X:
Y: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Wilco), Young Team (Mogwai), Ys (Joanna Newsom)
Z:

You have tremendous taste Josef K. I love pretty much all of your lists.