Alright everyone list the albums they think are essential to own

Cuz i want to see what albums my collection might be missing.

Elvis Costello - Get Happy, Imperial Bedroom
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing It All Back Home
...and a few thousand others

they always sounded a little too dated to me...Elvis Costello i like, but have never heard a full album, i'll have to check that one out...the others I have.

j/k

here's mine:

311 - Transistor
Tool - Lateralus
Korn - Issues
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater AND Music For People
Ours - Distorted Lullabies
Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman
Muse - Absolution
Butterfly Messiah - Eternal

(basically i just named all my favorite albums....well, most of them)

;)

And I'll throw in a few more, some slightly newer:

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Ass Ponys - Lohio
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Crowded House - Private Universe, Woodface
U2 - Achtung Baby!
B-52s - B-52s
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

And another oldie:
Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music

who are these bands? :shrug:

gotta look them up ;) it's called Modern Music. :o



j/k

There are just "damn good bands".

Some more "damn good bands":

!!! (also known as "Chk Chk Chk")
The Hives
Kings Of Leon
The Alcohol Stunt Band (http://www.alcoholstuntband.com/mp3s/05%20Snakeskin%20Snake.mp3">Free MP3 Here)
Dub Narcotic Sound System

Live Dead - Dead
Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Hangman's Beautiful Daughter - Incredible String Band
Freak Out - Mothers
Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
Electric Music For Mind and Body - Country Joe and the Fish
It Crawled Into My Hand - Honest - The Fugs

I might add Cream or Super Session...It's a Beautiful Day.

I bought Electris Music and a couple of Incredible String Band CD's the summer before last. My daughter, then 11 loved them.

Oh, maybe not quite on the list but off the beaten track: Lothar and the Hand People.

Wow, nice to know someone has heard of them other than White Bird.

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
The White Album - The Beatles
Gord's Gold - Gordon Lightfoot
Grease Soundtrack
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran

Led Zepplin's first album
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
The Who - The Kids are Alright
Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions of New York
Beatles - White Album, Sargent Pepper, Abby Road, etc.
Bob Dylan - any of his early stuff.

Mz Pip
:dem:

The ultimate Heavy Metal album, if you don't have any Metal this is the only one you need.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Beatles - Abby Road
Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil (Best live performance of Sabbath's tunes)
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Misfits - Walk Among Us

- - Van Morrison

It's a classic!

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Bob Marley - Exodus
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Cream - Goodbye
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a#∞
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Yes - Fragile

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young 4-Way Street
and
um
errrrr
OK I'll say it
Neil Diamond's Hot August Night, the cool first one.

Oops also
Zappa Live at the Roxy and Apostrophe

My tastes are eclectic.


Eric Clapton, From the Cradle
Susan Tedeschi, Just Won't Burn
Jill Sobule, Happy Town
The English Beat, Special Beat Service
The Police, Regatta de Blanc
C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Hot Rod
Bonnie Raitt, Luck of the Draw
James Taylor, Sweet Baby James
Michelle Shocked, Arkansas Traveler
Keller Williams, Spun
Soundtrack to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Edited to include
Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends
Paul Simon, Graceland

Both have been listed out of my music collection several times over 20 years. Don't currently have because they were stolen again.

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane over the Sea
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (if you have 3 or 4 CD players handy)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - Being There
The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

But I'm gonna add some more recent stuff:

The Beta Band- The Three EPs
Franz Ferdinand- Self-Titled
The Postal Service- Give Up

ETA I forgot one: The White Stripes- Elephant

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers w/ Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
The Stooges - Fun House

Those are just some personal faves from my collection.

Edit: Oops! I thought you wrote "with the exception of SRV"
He just never clicked for me. I know it's heresy, butI actually prefer his vocals to his guitar playing :)

Now that's not girly music.(Bread thread)

Keep in mind, this list could change at a moment's notice! ;)

1. Arthur Alexander, The Greatest (Ace, 1989)
2. Artists United Against Apartheid, Sun City (Manhattan, 1985)
3. The Beach Boys, Endless Summer (Capitol, 1974)
4. The Beatles, Please Please Me (EMI, 1963)
5. Chuck Berry, The Chess Box (MCA, 1991)
6. Bobby "Blue" Bland, Two Steps From The Blues (Duke, 1960)
7. James Brown, Star Time (Polydor, 1991)
8. James Carr, You Got My Mind Messed Up (Goldwax, 1966)
9. Johnny Cash, The Sun Years (Rhino, 1990)
10. The Chantels, We Are The Chantels (End, 1958)

11. Ray Charles, Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Box (Rhino, 1997)
12. The Clash, London Calling (Columbia, 1979)
13. Patsy Cline, The Patsy Cline Collection (MCA, 1991)
14. Sam Cooke, The Man and His Music (RCA, 1986)
15. The Cramps, Psychedelic Jungle (IRS, 1981)
16. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willy & The Poor Boys (Fantasy, 1969)
17. Dick Dale, Calling Up Spirits (Beggar’s Banquet, 1996)
18. The Dead Kennedys, Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (Alternative Tentacles, 1987)
19. The Dells, There Is (Cadet, 1968)
20. Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley (Checker, 1958)

21. The Drifters, Let The Boogie-Woogie Roll, 1953-58; All-Time Greatest Hits & More, 1959-65 (Atlantic, 1988)
22. Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde (Columbia, 1966)
23. Earth, Wind & Fire, The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire (Columbia, 1978)
24. The English Beat, Special Beat Service (IRS, 1982)
25. The Everly Brothers, 20 Cadence Classics (Rhino, 1990)
26. The "5" Royales, Monkey Hips and Rice (Rhino, 1993)
27. The Flamingos, For Collectors Only (Collectables, 1992)
28. The Four Tops, Greatest Hits (Motown, 1967)
29. Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You (Atlantic, 1967)
30. Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On (Tamla, 1971)

31. Al Green, Call Me (Hi, 1972)
32. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Radio One (Rykodisc, 1988)
33. Judy Henske, High-Flying Bird (Elektra, 1964)
34. Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse, 1998)
35. Buddy Holly, The Complete Buddy Holly (MCA, 1979)
36. The Impressions, The Anthology, 1961-77 (MCA, 1992)
37. Chuck Jackson, Good Things(Kent, 1990)
38. Michael Jackson, Off The Wall (Epic, 1979)
39. Etta James, Tell Mama (Cadet, 1968)
40. Rick James, Street Songs (Gordy, 1981)

41. B.B. King, The Best of B.B. King (Modern, 1957)
42. Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual (Portrait, 1983)
43. Jerry Lee Lewis, Young Blood (Sire, 1995)
44. Little Richard, The Specialty Sessions (Specialty, 1989)
45. Little Willie John, Grits and Soul (Charly, 1987)
46. L.L. Cool J, Radio (Def Jam, 1985)
47. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon (Gee, 1956)
48. Madonna, The Immaculate Collection (Sire, 1991)
49. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend (Island, 1982)
50. The MC5, Kick Out The Jams (Elektra, 1969)

51. The Miracles, Anthology (Motown, 1995)
52. The Moonglows, Look...It’s The Moonglows! (Chess, 1956)
53. The Morells, Shake and Push (Borrowed Records, 1983)
54. Roy Orbison, For The Lonely: A Roy Orbison Anthology, 1956-65 (Rhino, 1988)
55. Buck Owens, The Very Best of Buck Owens, Vols. 1 & 2 (Rhino, 1994)
56. Carl Perkins, Original Sun Greatest Hits (Rhino, 1986)
57. The Persuasions, Chirpin’ (Elektra, 1977)
58. Wilson Pickett, A Man And A Half (Rhino/Atlantic, 1992)
59. The Police, Synchronicity (A&M, 1983)
60. Elvis Presley, The Complete Sun Sessions (RCA, 1987)

61. The Pretenders, The Pretenders (Sire, 1980)
62. Prince & The Revolution, Purple Rain (Warner Brothers, 1984)
63. Otis Redding, The Dictionary of Soul (Volt, 1966)
64. Charlie Rich, The Sun Sessions (Varese Sarabande, 1996)
65. The Rolling Stones, The Complete London Singles Collection (Abkco, 1989)
66. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, The Distance (Capitol, 1982)
67. The Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks...Here’s The Sex Pistols (EMI, 1977)
68. The Sheppards, The Sheppards (Solid Smoke, 1980)
69. Sly & The Family Stone, There’s A Riot Goin’ On (Epic, 1971)
70. Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns, Having A Good Time (Ace, 1958)

71. Joe South, Introspect (Capitol, 1968)
72. Bruce Springsteen, Born In The U.S.A. (Columbia, 1984)
73. Donna Summer, The Anthology (Casablanca, 1994)
74. The Temptations, Anthology (Motown, 1986)
75. Toots & The Maytals, Reggae Greats (Mango, 1984)
76. Tina Turner, Private Dancer (Capitol, 1984)
77. Ritchie Valens, Ritchie Valens (Del-Fi, 1959)
78. Jr. Walker & The All-Stars, The Ultimate Collection (Motown, 1998)
79. The Who, Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy (Decca, 1971)
80. Jackie Wilson, The Jackie Wilson Story (Epic, 1983)

81. Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life (Tamla, 1976)
82. Link Wray, Rumble! (Rhino, 1993)

Various-artists collections:

83. Atlantic Rhythm and Blues, 1947-74 (Atlantic, 1985)
84. Beg, Scream and SHOUT! The Big Ol’ Box of ‘60s Soul (Rhino, 1997)
85. The Complete Stax/Volt Singles, 1959-68 (Atlantic, 1991)
86. Cowabunga! The Surf Box (Rhino, 1996)
87. The Cub Koda Crazy Show (Ace, 1984)
88. Didn’t It Blow Your Mind! Soul Hits of the ‘70s, Vols. 1-20 (Rhino, 1990/91/95)
89. The Disco Years, Vols. 1-7 (Rhino, 1990/92/95)
90. The Doo-Wop Box/The Doo-Wop Box II (Rhino, 1993/96)

91. Hip-Hop Greats: Classic Raps (Rhino, 1990)
92. In Yo’ Face! The History of Funk, Vols. 1-5 (Rhino, 1993)
93. Leiber & Stoller: The ‘50s (Leiber & Stoller, 1991)
94. New Wave Hits of the ‘80s, Vols. 1-15 (Rhino, 1995)
95. Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 (Elektra, 1972)
96. Phil Spector: Back To Mono, 1958-69 (Abkco, 1991)
97. Risque Rhythms: Nasty ‘50s R&B (Rhino, 1991)
98. Tommy Boy: Greatest Beats (Tommy Boy, 1985)
99. Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Island, 1993)
100. UK Punk, Vols, 1 & 2 (Rhino, 1993)

aren't you?

Glad to see someone else included some women artists. I particularly second Etta James, The Pretenders, and Lauryn Hill. :hi:

:eyes:

You gotta have an album by the person who's influenced so many other people. Also consider "Here Come the Warm Jets."

I have worn out seven vinyl copies since its release

Radiohead, OK Computer and Kid A
Genesis, everything through Trick of the Tail (not that there's anything wrong with Phil)
Sunny Day Real Estate, Diary
Pearl Jam, No Code
Beatles, just about everything
Johnny Cash, Orange Blossom Special
Springsteen, Born to Run

These are the ones I wouldn't want to be without...

Incredible

Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
Staple Singers - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Mahalia Jackson - Live At Newport
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Dexter Gordon - Go
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Count Basie - April In Paris
Thelonious Monk - Live at the It Club
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Side Up
Charlie Parker - Bird's Best Bop On Verve
Billie Holiday - Complete Decca Recordings
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Pierre Fournier - Bach Cello Suites
Nicola Conte - Bossa Per Due
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1969)
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Lambert Hendricks & Ross - The Hottest New Group In Jazz
Art Blakey - Moanin
Carmen McRae - Bittersweet
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda
Parliament - Motorbooty Affair
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beck - Odelay
Sam Phillips - Martinis and Bikinis
Sammy Davis Jr - The Wham of Sam
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
James Brown - 20 All-time Greatest Hits
Sam Cooke - Night Beat


There's more, but I have to go help my husband clean up the kitchen now.

Why the hell do you have to be married?! ;)

Thanks for the compliment - I am blushing!

:hi:

But I sent it at the media rate, so it may take a bit of time to get there. Hope you like it, though!

Neil Young - Decade, Rust Never Sleeps, Weld, Freedom
Beatles - White, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Dark Side
Zappa - Overnight Sensation
Climax Blues Band - Rich Man, FM Live
Who - Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia
Zep - Houses of the Holy
Hot Mud Family - Years in the Making
Leo Kottke - Greenhouse
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Norman Blake - Whiskey Before Breakfast
The Near Myths - Wilson

No Control - Bad Religion
The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
Guitar Romantic - The Exploding Hearts

:D

Stevie Wonder - Original Musicquarium
Steely Dan - Citzen 1972-1980
Bob Marley - Legend
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Phillip Glass - The Photographer
Kronos Quartet - debut

plus a bunch already listed above.

Stuart Davis - Nomen Est Numen
Mike Keneally - any of them!
Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Todd Rundgren - 2nd Wing
Utopia - Utopia
Z - Shampoohorn
The Who - The 1989 version of "Tommy"
The Tubes - The Tubes, Remote Control, Completion Backward Principle
Status Quo - Any greatest hits or live album
King Crimson - Discipline
Negativland - U2
Bob Mould - Workbook
Phish - Hoist
Rock and Hyde - Under The Volcano
The Hooters - Nervous Night, One Way Home
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Saw Doctors - Songs From Sun Street
Sugar - Copper Blue
Jim Boggia - Fidelity Is The Enemy
Barenaked Ladies - The first three albums
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque and Thirteen
They Might Be Giants - John Henry, Flood
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Trout Fishing In America - Any of them!
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Film soundtrack
Songs In The Key Of Z - both volumes
Saturday Morning (cartoon theme songs done by rock bands)
Devo - Greatest Hits
Spock's Beard - V and Snow
Was (Not Was) - What Up, Dog?
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Samples - pretty much any of them
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Monty Python - Instant CD Collection
Joe Jackson - Laughter and Lust, Look Sharp!, Night and Day II
Genesis - Seconds Out
Kevin Gilbert - Thud, Shaming Of The True
Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Kramer - The Secret Of Comedy, The Guilt Trip
Dogbowl - Flan, Project Success
ABBA - Gold
Bourgeois Tagg - Yo Yo
Asia - Asia
Bryan Beller - View
Cheap Trick - Complete Budokan
Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick
Flower Kings - Live Recording

There's probably many more, but I'm getting tired. :)

...compiled by Harry Smith.

Others:
Bassholes "Blue Roots"
The Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"
The Beatles "Rubber Soul"
Black Sabbath "Master of Reality"
Borghesia "Ljubav He Ladnia od Smrti"
Billy Bragg "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry"
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"
The Compulsive Gamblers "Gambling Days Are Over"
Alice Cooper "Love It to Death"
Miles Davis "Sketches of Spain"
Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks"
The Fall "Grotesque (After the Gramme)"
Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"
Gibson Bros. "Dedicated Fool"
Great Plains "Born in a Barn"
Ice-T "O.G. Original Gangster"
The Inhalants "The Inhalants"
Skip James "The Complete Early Recordings"
Jane's Addiction "Nothing's Shocking"
Kraftwerk "Autobahn"
Love "Forever Changes"
at least one Mahler symphony conducted by Georg Solti
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
The Rezillos "Can't Stand the Rezillos"
The Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"
Sly and the Family Stone "There's a Riot Going On"
Television "Marquee Moon"
The Who "Who's Next"
Wire "Pink Flag"
X "Los Angeles"

The Minutemen: entire ourvre, beginning with Double Nickels on the Dime
Guided by Voices: entire Ourvre, beginning with Bee Thousand
Any Trouble: Where are all the Nice Girls?
Motorhead: Ace of Spades
Neil Young: Time Fades Away, On the Beach, Tonight's the Night, Live Rust
76% Uncertain: Hunka Hunka Burnin' Log
The Wrens: Secaucus, Silver, and Abbott 1135
Lotion: Nobody's Cool
Van Der Graaf Generator: Entire ourvre, beginning with The Quiet Zone
King Crimson: Entire ourvre, beginning with Red
Rhino Records' "DIY" Series: punk/new wave/power pop comps from the late 70's
James Brown: All the albums released on Polydor, beginning with Revolution of the Mind
Black Flag: entire ourvre, beginning with Damaged
Muddy Waters: chess box set
Husker Du: entire ourvre, beginning with New Day Rising
Jason Falkner: Presents Author Unknown
Jellyfish: Spilt Milk
Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking
Public Enemy: Nation of Millions, Fear of a Black Planet
The Coup: Party Music, Genocide & Juice
Saccharine Trust: Surviving You, Always
The Harder They Come: original soundtrack
Toots and the MAytals: Funky Kingston
Cheer-Accident: Salad Days, Enduring the American Dream
High Rise: Psychedelic Speed Freaks
1/2 Japanese: 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts
The Raspberries: Starting Over
Ted Hawkins: Watch your Step
Cheap Trick: First three albums
The Chi-Lites: most greatest hits comps
Elvis Costello: First six albums
Graham Parker: Howlin' Wind and Squeezing Out Sparks
James Carr: Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith: Travelers
Jawbox: For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was the Night
Shudder to Think: entire ourvre, beginning with Pony Express Record
Glass Eye/ K. McCarty: entire ourvre, beginng with Dead Dog's Eyeball
The Bellrays: Grand Fury
Bo Diddley: Chess box set
Pere Ubu: Datapanik in the Year Zero box set
Otis Redding: Otis Blue, Dictionary of Soul
The Heptones: Night Food
Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where the Time Goes box set
Brendan Benson: One Mississippi
Zappa: entire ourvre, beginning with Lather
Big Youth: Natty Universal Dread box set
The Frogs: It's Only Right and Natural
Chris Knox: Songs of You and Me
The Saints: (I'm) Stranded, Eternally Yours, The Monkey Puzzle
Wire: first two albums
Charley Patton: The Masked MArauder
The Jam: entire ourvre, beginning with Snap!
The Buzzcocks: entire ourvre, beginning with Singles Going Steady
Richard Thompson: Henry the Human Fly!
R. and Linda Thompson: I want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Shoot Out the Lights, Pour Down Like Silver
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers
Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour, This Nation's Saving Grace, Extricate, first five albums
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly soundtrack
John Coltrane: Entire ourvre, beginning with A Love Supreme
Ornette Coleman: entire ourvre, beginning with Free Jazz
The Feelies: Crazy Rythyms
Fear: The Record
X: First three albums
Nick Lowe: Basher
Sleater-Kinney: entire ourvre, beginning with Call the Doctor
Prefab Sprout: entire ourvre except From Langley PArk to Memphis
Sparks: Propaganda
Sly Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On, Greatest Hits, Fresh
Parliament/Funkadelic: entire ourvre, beginning with Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
Stump: A Fierce Pancake
Captain Beefheart: entire ourvre, beginning with Trout Mask Replica
Nina Simone: most greatest hits comps
DNA: DNA on DNA
English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It
Genesis: all the Peter Gabriel albums
Peter Gabriel: the first three albums
Bettie Serveert: Dust Bunnies, Lamprey
Any Go-Go comp you can find from the mid-80's
Butthole Surfers: all the Touch and Go albums
Mission of Burma: all of it
The Replacements: everything until Don't Tell a Soul
The Faces: all of it
The Soft Boys: 1976-1980
The Grifters: One Sock Missing, Eureka
Those Bastard Souls: Debt and Departure
The Shins: Oh, Inverted World, and Chute's Too Narrow
Verbal Assault: ON
Augustus PAblo: King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
MDC: Millions of Dead Cops
Lydia Lunch: Hysterie
The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
Charles Gayle: Repent
Soul Junk: 1952, 1953, and 1956
Trumans Water: Spasm Smash Oxand asssss
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Strangers from the Universe, I Hope it Lands
Ted Leo/The Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak, Shake the Sheets
Chisel: entire ourvre, beginning with Set You Free
Peter Laughner: Take the Guitar Player for a Ride
Fela: entire ourvre, beginning with ODOO
Any of the Ethiopiques compilations
Henry Kaiser: Those Who Know The PAst are Doomed to Repeat it
Henry Cow: Unrest
Hatfield and the North: s/t
Robert Wyatt: Nothing Can Stop Us, Rock Bottom
Soft MAchine: first four albums
Green: Elaine MacKenzie
Little Richard: the Specialty box set
Squirrel Bait: Skag Heaven
The Move: Split Ends, any grestest Hits comp, Shazam
ELO: entire ourvre up until Discovery
Aztec Camera: High LAnd, Hard Rain
Can: Future Days
Chuck Berry: Most greatest hits comps
Crowded House: first two albums
Split Enz: entire ourvre, beginning with Dizrythmia
Anthrax: I'm the MAn EP
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys, 12 Songs, Sail Away, Born Again
Residents: Bustr and Glen, Eskimo, Commercial Album, Fingerprince
MX-80 Sound: Hard Attack, Crowd Control, Out of the Tunnel
Blue Oyster Cult: first six albums
Van Morrison: everything on Warner Bros.
Television: Marquee Moon


Okay, I'm leaving about 4,000 albums out of this list simply because I'm tired of typing and my memory's kinda shot. But apart from the basics (Beatles, Stones, Zep, Dylan, etc) this is a pretty substantial collection.

Best Minutemen record is "What Makes a Man Start Fires?"

But you already knew that. ;)

well-hung friend. But that doesn't mean "we're both right" or any of that sanctimonious crap. It means you're a petty, argumentative son of a bitch with an enormous strap of Ohio whitemeat in his bloomers.

But I still love you.

Even though you like mediocre Minutemen albums.

a goddmaned Jane's Afuckin'diction record on his all-time list.


:insert vaguely charming but ultimately too precious smiling or perhaps waving emoticon:

Everything ever recorded by Steely Dan; and
Greatest Hits of Mott the Hoople.

Best of Simon and Garfunkel
Sgt Pepper's
Abbey Road
CSNY 4 Way Street
Rumours Fleetwood Mac
Tapestry CArole King

SGT Peppper- Beatles
Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Miles of Aisles - Joni Mitchell
After Bathing at Baxter's - Jefferson Airplane
Easter and/or Horses - Patti Smith
Katy Lied - Steely Dan, (crank this UP)
Bring the Family - John Hiatt
Feel Alright or Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle
Mirror Blue - Richard Thompson

I see only great suggestions all through this thread, though. DUers can turn you on to some stuff.

Here's what's in my CD folder in my car now, minus the Christmas stuff. I sit in a lot of traffic, so I carry a little bit of everything so I always have something to appeal to my mood at the time. . .

U2 - Achtung Baby
Cure - Disintegration
Cure - Galore
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Violent Femmes
the Pixies - Doolittle
Portishead - Dummy
AC DC - Back in Black
Mighty Lemon Drops - Laughter
Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Superstition
George Winston - December
Sade - The Best of Sade
Chris Botti - A Thousand Kisses Deep
Jim Brickman - Destiny
Cher - The Best of Cher
Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
Diana Ross - Motown Anthology
Frank Sinatra - Platinum & Gold collection
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World
Astrud Gilberto - Jazz Round Midnight
John Coltrane - The Very Best of John Coltrane
Elton John - Songs from the West Coast
The Beatles - Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Sgt Peppers
Richard Cheese - Tuxicity
Incubus - Make Yourself
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Thelonius Monk - Essential Monk
The Commodores - The Ultimate Collection

Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Duran Duran - Duran Duran, Rio, Seven & The Ragged Tiger
Depeche Mode - Violator

And, finally, Soundtracks:
Still Breathing
Pump up the Volume
Purple Rain
9 1/2 Weeks
Trainspotting
Dead Presidents
Say Anything
Bridget Jones' Diary
Moulin Rouge
The Way We Were
The Jazz Singer
Grease
A Chorus Line
Jekyll & Hyde

"The Days Of Wine And Roses"- The Dream Syndicate
"The Modern Dance"- Pere Ubu
"Anodyne"- Uncle Tupelo
"Lost Son"- Richmond Fontaine
"Cuba"- The Silos
"Songs Of Love: Live"- Mark Eitzel
"Fully Completely"- The Tragically Hip
"Velvet Underground Live 1969"- The Velvet Underground
"Devotion+Doubt"- Richard Buckner
Whatever album I'm listening to at the moment...

Anything by The Black Crowes, but especially Amorica and Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Live-V, and The Distance to Here
The Cult-Beyond Good and Evil
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble-Greatest Hits, and Blues at Sunrise
Steve Miller Band-Greatest Hits(1974-78)
Van Halen-Van Halen
Led Zepplin-Physical Graffitti
Boston-Greatest Hits
Sheryl Crow-The Globe Sessions
R.E.M.-Automatic For The People
Bruce Springsteen-The Rising
Chicago-The Very Best Of...Only the Beginning
Blues Traveler-Four
Incubus-Morning View

okay...I'm tired of typing now...but that's a good place to start.:smoke:

.. either that, or Komputerwelt / Computerworld.

R. E. M. - Green (my favorite, but they have many good ones)

10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man's Zoo

Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily

Duran Duran - Rio (leftover from when I was a teenager :) )

Tori Amos - Under the Pink

That's all I can think of right now, and I'm getting tired.

One of the very best live albums ever, ever. Duane Allman..........!

1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Black Uhuru - Black sounds of freedom
3. Marvin Gaye - What's going on
4. Chic - Greatest Hits
5. Clock DVA - Thirst
6. Gang of four - A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
7. Townes van Zandt - Far Cry From Dead
8. beth gibbons rustin man - out of season
9. Defunkt - Thermonuclear sweat
10. John Cale - Music for a new society...

I could go on and on and on....

Hi from Germany,
Dirk

62 posts and nobody has mentioned Roxy Music??? :eyes: Fine, I will - Roxy Music, the entire discography. Siren, Avalon, and For Your Pleasure are all good places to start.

Some others which none of you are cool enough to have mentioned yet... ;-)

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For the Young Soul Rebels
Nick Drake - all four albums, so buy the "Fruit Tree" box.
Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long
R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim
pretty much anything by the Kinks
John Prine - The Missing Years
John Hiatt - Slow Turning
The Blasters - American Music
The Band - The Band
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Gram Parson - GP/Grievous Angel
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Joni Mithcell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
I'm pleased to see that my avatar has already made several appearances. I will add: Rumor and Sigh, and Henry the Human Fly, as well as Fairport Convention's Full House, Liege and Lief , and What We Did On Our Holidays.
-SM

They include, but are certainly not limited to:

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, and pretty much anything else.
2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul, and pretty much anything else.
3. Anything by the White Stripes
4. Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
5. Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
6. Peter Gabriel - Pretty much anything
7. Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus, any of the early compilation discs
8. Living Colour - Vivid
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish, Siamese Dream, and Mellon Collie
10. 311 - Music, Grassroots, and Transistor
11. James - Blue/Yellow Flower/Self-titled, Seven, Laid
12. The Beastie Boys - Anything but 5 Boroughs
13. Parliament Funkadelic - Mothership Connection
14. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, Boys for Pele, Scarlet's Walk
15. NIN - Anything but the Fraggle. :)
16. Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Space Oddity
17. Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions (The best live Zeppelin EVER)
18. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
19. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back.
20. Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, any of the bootlegs
21. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk Remastered, Blood Sugar Sex Magick
22. Weezer - Anything except maybe Green.
23. Sarah MacLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
24. Chemical Brothers - Pretty much anything, particularly Dig Your Own Hole and Come With Us.
25. Radiohead - Anything, but particularly The Bends and OK Computer, but everything since is also great.
26. Pixies - Pretty much anything.
27. Metallica - Anything before Black
28. Live - Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper
29. Doves - Lost Souls, Last Broadcast, Some Cities out in February, but it's a given that it will be essential, because it will have been released by Doves.
30. Beck - Pretty much anything by Beck.
31. Anything, and I mean anything, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

This could go on for awhile, I'm going to stop now.

"Mirror Blue" - Richard Thompson
"Shoot out the Lights" - Richard and Linda Thompson
All of Dylan's Albums between 1963 and 1967 + "Blood on the Tracks"

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