Barry Martin
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Number 18
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Number 18
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
Number 19
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Number 19
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
Number 20
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Number 20
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
So my last Countdown will be celebrating the brilliant albums of 1985 !
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
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It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So my last Countdown will be celebrating the brilliant albums of 1985 !
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
Thanks to everyone who joined in with my penultimate Countdown!
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined in with my penultimate Countdown!
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
Next up we are fast forwarding 7 years from 1993 & celebrating the songs from the beginning of a new millennium!
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Next up we are fast forwarding 7 years from 1993 & celebrating the songs from the beginning of a new millennium!
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
Thanks to everyone who joined in with this Countdown! It's been great celebrating another brilliant year of Albums!
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined in with this Countdown! It's been great celebrating another brilliant year of Albums!
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
Number 1 🏆
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Number 1 🏆
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
Number 2
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
October 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Number 2
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
Number 3
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Number 3
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
Number 4
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
October 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Number 4
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
Number 5
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
September 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Number 5
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
Number 6
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Number 6
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Number 8
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Number 8
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
Number 9
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
September 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Number 9
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
Number 10
#1993AlbumsTop20
Wild Wood - Paul Weller
Kicking off the Top 10 with one of my favourite Solo albums from PW!
Sunflower 🏆
Wild Wood
The Weaver
5th Season
#1993AlbumsTop20
Wild Wood - Paul Weller
Kicking off the Top 10 with one of my favourite Solo albums from PW!
Sunflower 🏆
Wild Wood
The Weaver
5th Season
September 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Number 10
#1993AlbumsTop20
Wild Wood - Paul Weller
Kicking off the Top 10 with one of my favourite Solo albums from PW!
Sunflower 🏆
Wild Wood
The Weaver
5th Season
#1993AlbumsTop20
Wild Wood - Paul Weller
Kicking off the Top 10 with one of my favourite Solo albums from PW!
Sunflower 🏆
Wild Wood
The Weaver
5th Season
Number 11
#1993AlbumsTop20
Songs Of Faith & Devotion - Depeche Mode
This came with the Almighty burden of following the Violator album & for me it didn't disappoint!
In Your Room
Walking In My Shoes
Get Right With Me
I Feel You
#1993AlbumsTop20
Songs Of Faith & Devotion - Depeche Mode
This came with the Almighty burden of following the Violator album & for me it didn't disappoint!
In Your Room
Walking In My Shoes
Get Right With Me
I Feel You
September 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Number 11
#1993AlbumsTop20
Songs Of Faith & Devotion - Depeche Mode
This came with the Almighty burden of following the Violator album & for me it didn't disappoint!
In Your Room
Walking In My Shoes
Get Right With Me
I Feel You
#1993AlbumsTop20
Songs Of Faith & Devotion - Depeche Mode
This came with the Almighty burden of following the Violator album & for me it didn't disappoint!
In Your Room
Walking In My Shoes
Get Right With Me
I Feel You
Number 12
#1993AlbumsTop20
Together Alone - Crowded House
Tough to follow such a great album as Woodface! But they made a fantastic job in trying 🔥
Pineapple Head 🏆
In My Command
Nails In My Feet
Distant Sun
#1993AlbumsTop20
Together Alone - Crowded House
Tough to follow such a great album as Woodface! But they made a fantastic job in trying 🔥
Pineapple Head 🏆
In My Command
Nails In My Feet
Distant Sun
September 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Number 12
#1993AlbumsTop20
Together Alone - Crowded House
Tough to follow such a great album as Woodface! But they made a fantastic job in trying 🔥
Pineapple Head 🏆
In My Command
Nails In My Feet
Distant Sun
#1993AlbumsTop20
Together Alone - Crowded House
Tough to follow such a great album as Woodface! But they made a fantastic job in trying 🔥
Pineapple Head 🏆
In My Command
Nails In My Feet
Distant Sun
Number 13
#1993AlbumsTop20
Greatest Hits - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
My gateway into Tom Petty's music! Loved exploring the back catalogue afterwards
American Girl 🏆
Into The Great Wide Open
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Learning To Fly
#1993AlbumsTop20
Greatest Hits - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
My gateway into Tom Petty's music! Loved exploring the back catalogue afterwards
American Girl 🏆
Into The Great Wide Open
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Learning To Fly
September 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Number 13
#1993AlbumsTop20
Greatest Hits - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
My gateway into Tom Petty's music! Loved exploring the back catalogue afterwards
American Girl 🏆
Into The Great Wide Open
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Learning To Fly
#1993AlbumsTop20
Greatest Hits - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
My gateway into Tom Petty's music! Loved exploring the back catalogue afterwards
American Girl 🏆
Into The Great Wide Open
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Learning To Fly
Number 14
#1993AlbumsTop20
Gold Against The Soul - Manic Street Preachers
Home to one of the bands best songs in La Tristesse Durera, loved the other singles too!
La Tristesse Durera 🏆
Roses In The Hospital
Life Becoming A Landslide
From Despair To Where
#1993AlbumsTop20
Gold Against The Soul - Manic Street Preachers
Home to one of the bands best songs in La Tristesse Durera, loved the other singles too!
La Tristesse Durera 🏆
Roses In The Hospital
Life Becoming A Landslide
From Despair To Where
September 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Number 14
#1993AlbumsTop20
Gold Against The Soul - Manic Street Preachers
Home to one of the bands best songs in La Tristesse Durera, loved the other singles too!
La Tristesse Durera 🏆
Roses In The Hospital
Life Becoming A Landslide
From Despair To Where
#1993AlbumsTop20
Gold Against The Soul - Manic Street Preachers
Home to one of the bands best songs in La Tristesse Durera, loved the other singles too!
La Tristesse Durera 🏆
Roses In The Hospital
Life Becoming A Landslide
From Despair To Where
Number 15
#1993AlbumsTop20
Dusk - The The
Another brilliantly bleak offering from Matt Johnson, Johnny Marr & Co
Love Is Stronger Than Death 🏆
Dogs Of Lust
Slow Emotion Replay
#1993AlbumsTop20
Dusk - The The
Another brilliantly bleak offering from Matt Johnson, Johnny Marr & Co
Love Is Stronger Than Death 🏆
Dogs Of Lust
Slow Emotion Replay
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Number 15
#1993AlbumsTop20
Dusk - The The
Another brilliantly bleak offering from Matt Johnson, Johnny Marr & Co
Love Is Stronger Than Death 🏆
Dogs Of Lust
Slow Emotion Replay
#1993AlbumsTop20
Dusk - The The
Another brilliantly bleak offering from Matt Johnson, Johnny Marr & Co
Love Is Stronger Than Death 🏆
Dogs Of Lust
Slow Emotion Replay
Number 16
#1993AlbumsTop20
Souvlaki - Slowdive
One of the big hitters from the Shoegaze scene
Alison - 🏆
Souvlaki Space Station
40 Days
Sing
#1993AlbumsTop20
Souvlaki - Slowdive
One of the big hitters from the Shoegaze scene
Alison - 🏆
Souvlaki Space Station
40 Days
Sing
September 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Number 16
#1993AlbumsTop20
Souvlaki - Slowdive
One of the big hitters from the Shoegaze scene
Alison - 🏆
Souvlaki Space Station
40 Days
Sing
#1993AlbumsTop20
Souvlaki - Slowdive
One of the big hitters from the Shoegaze scene
Alison - 🏆
Souvlaki Space Station
40 Days
Sing
Number 17
#1993AlbumsTop20
Pablo Honey - Radiohead
Better Albums would quickly follow Radiohead's debut , but it's a great album in itself
Creep 🏆
Blow Out
Lurgee
Anyone Can Play Guitar
#1993AlbumsTop20
Pablo Honey - Radiohead
Better Albums would quickly follow Radiohead's debut , but it's a great album in itself
Creep 🏆
Blow Out
Lurgee
Anyone Can Play Guitar
September 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Number 17
#1993AlbumsTop20
Pablo Honey - Radiohead
Better Albums would quickly follow Radiohead's debut , but it's a great album in itself
Creep 🏆
Blow Out
Lurgee
Anyone Can Play Guitar
#1993AlbumsTop20
Pablo Honey - Radiohead
Better Albums would quickly follow Radiohead's debut , but it's a great album in itself
Creep 🏆
Blow Out
Lurgee
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Number 18
#1993AlbumsTop20
August & Everything After - Counting Crows
A great debut album from Counting Crows! Not sure they ever bettered it?
Mr Jones 🏆
Anna Begins
Rain King
Round Here
#1993AlbumsTop20
August & Everything After - Counting Crows
A great debut album from Counting Crows! Not sure they ever bettered it?
Mr Jones 🏆
Anna Begins
Rain King
Round Here
September 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Number 18
#1993AlbumsTop20
August & Everything After - Counting Crows
A great debut album from Counting Crows! Not sure they ever bettered it?
Mr Jones 🏆
Anna Begins
Rain King
Round Here
#1993AlbumsTop20
August & Everything After - Counting Crows
A great debut album from Counting Crows! Not sure they ever bettered it?
Mr Jones 🏆
Anna Begins
Rain King
Round Here