KCRW Top Albums of All Time – The List!

by KCRW Social Media Manager Betsy Moyer

Yesterday KCRW Music Librarian, Eric J. Lawrence and I talked our way through electronic music over a burger. We paused for a moment on techno, where I joked about how I used to refer to Roni Size as Roni Schmoni with my uber raver friends back long ago. He kind of chuckled to himself and said that Roni Size was a huge deal at KCRW. After that lunch, he brought me a printed out copy of THE LIST of KCRW’s top albums by number of plays on the air – to prove that Roni Size was close to the top. He’s not quite Top 50, but Wow!! What a fun list to look at!

Naturally, I posed the trivia question on Facebook immediately…. Guess which album held the number one spot. It was great fun (and congrats to our winner Patti). To the bidding of our dear facebook friends, here is the list in its entirety!

1. Massive Attack: Protection

2. Dj Shadow: Endtroducing – Deluxe Edition

3. Massive Attack: Blue Lines

4. Atlantic R&B 1970-1975: Golden Age of Black Music

5. Radiohead: OK Computer

6. AIR: Moon Safari

7. Portishead: Dummy

8. Zero 7: Simple Things

9. Massive Attack: Mezzanine

10. St Germain: Touris

11. Groove Armada: Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub

12. Groove Armada: Vertigo

13. Moby: Play

14. PJ Harvey: to Bring You My Love

15. Charles Webster: Born on the 24th of July

16. Beck: Odelay

17. Weekend Players: Pursuit of Happiness

18. Nightmares on Wax: Smokers Delight

19. Radiohead: In Rainbows

20. Meshell Ndegeocello: Peace Beyond Compassion

21. Underworld: Hundred Days Off

22. Tricky: Maxinquaye

23. Radiohead: Kid A

24. Sebadoh: Harmcy

25. Jazznova: In etween

26. Finley Quaye: Maverick A Strike

27. Grovve Armada: Lovebox

28. Bjork: Post

29. Black Keys: Brothers

30. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: ustt Mustt

31. Little Dragon: Little Dragon

32. Theivery Corporation: Cosmic Game

33. Zero 7: When It Falls

34. Beck: Sea Change

35. AIRE: talkie Walkie

36. Nuyorican Soul: Nuyorican Soul

37. DJ Shadow: Private Press

38. Ulrich Schnauss: Strangely Isolated Place

39. PJ Harvey: Is This Desire

40. Jill Scott: Who is Jill Scott

41. Thievery Corporation: Mirror Conspiracy

42. Ian Pooley: Since Then

43. Beck: Guero

44. Gotan Project: Lunatico

45. Koop: Waltz for Koop

46. Bent: Everlasting Blink

47. William Orbit: Hello Waveforms

48. High Llamas: Lollo Rosso – Remixes

49. Craig Armstrong: Space Between Us

50. Thievery Corporation: Richest Man in Babylon