Albums everyone should own!

Anderson Searl said:
Adding a hip-hop flavor:

Nas - Illmatic
Jay-Z - American Gangster
Common - BE
Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer

All tell a tale that the average ear can comprehend.
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I'll add:

Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design.

Not a keen listener of Hip Hop but that album is a masterpiece.
 
A few that came to mind

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday

The Congoes - The Heart of the Congoes
Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplance Over the Sea
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Nick Cave - The Good Son
 
WeasteDevil said:
Everyone should own at least every one of Beethoven's nine symphonies. Preferably a specific recording of them conducted by Günter Wand.
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I'm so thrilled to see another Wand fan! :)
He's terribly, terribly underrated, in my opinion. Not by those who know what they're talking about (he got the von Bülow Medal, after all), but by the general public. (The Bryan Robson of conductors, in a way.)
It's mostly his Bruckner for me, but I do agree his Beethoven is marvellous.

I find it difficult to recommend classical music in terms of albums, but everyone should of course own, just to mention a few --

Bach - Christmas Oratorio (I'd go with Gardiner)
Bach - St Matthew Passion (ditto)
Bach - St John Passion (ditto)
Händel - Messiah (ditto ;) - this is all extremely subjective...)
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Solti is the classic for the newb)
Wagner - Parsifal (Knappertsbush '62 or '64)
Strauss - Elektra (Krauss '53)

and all of Wand's Bruckner, of course. ;)
 
narnar said:
London Calling - The Clash
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin (If only because Bron-Yr-Aur and In My Time of Dying are on it - great tracks)
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No Quarter and The Ocean would be my reasons for loving that album
 
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Beatles - Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Revolver
Radiohead - Ok Computer, The Bends, In Rainbows, Kid A
Arctic Monkeys - WPSIATWIN, Favourite Worst Nightmare
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Kanye West - Graduation, College Dropout
David Gray - White Ladder
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Bloc Party - Silent Album, A Weekend In The City, Intimacy
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
 
Anderson Searl said:
I like the idea, but if i'm trying to put someone on the genre, and requesting albums that people must hear, MF Doom is the last person i'd tell :lol:

Though, Dangerdoom I like alot
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I'd be the complete opposite, quite a few people who aren't hip-hop fans like Doom as he is amusing, they get the references, the beats are normally good, no crappy R&B shite, and the subject matter isn't the normal jiggy/guns/bitches rubbish.
 
datura said:
I'd be the complete opposite, quite a few people who aren't hip-hop fans like Doom as he is amusing, they get the references, the beats are normally good, no crappy R&B shite, and the subject matter isn't the normal jiggy/guns/bitches rubbish.
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I'm not a hip-hop fan but I just looked up MF Doom and really liked him so what you just said definitely makes sense to me.
 
Tumbling-Dice said:
Enjoy :D
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What a wonderful clip! Thank you! :D *favourites on Youtube*

And sadly this was never part of an album back when it should have been, but it's just such a part of that period of my life (childhood in the 70s) I can't help myself, I have to post it to say *cheers!* --

Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera



(I dare you to watch this and not get a tear in your eye!)

Back on topic, great albums you all should own --

Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislaus
Happy Mondays - Pills'n'Thrills and Bellyaches
The Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Sister

And you should listen to the lieder of Schubert, Schumann & Wolf sung by Hotter (or FiDi, if you must ;)). And always listen to *everything* by Neil Young, always. :)
 
Lots of must own Albums in this thread. I would add a couple:

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
 
I knew when you'd replied that you'd pick up on that you cnut :lol: It is a good album imo, lots of good songs on there.
 
Spammy said:
Solius thinks Coldplay did a must have album.
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And while one part of me makes me think of 'Gruppe aus dem Tartarus' and Leeds and Götterdämmerung & death, another much better part of me says -- so fecking what?

Yes, I'd have at least 400 albums to recommend here, if I gave myself free rein -- and any Coldplay album would be at the other end of the spectrum, among the '100 albums to avoid at all cost'. But that is me - and even after over 30 years trying to get my demented old brain around the problem of aesthetic value judgements, I still land on the old 'live & let live'. (caveat - it might be because I'm a total moron)
 
Solius said:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Beatles - Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Revolver
Radiohead - Ok Computer, The Bends, In Rainbows, Kid A
Arctic Monkeys - WPSIATWIN, Favourite Worst Nightmare
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Kanye West - Graduation, College Dropout
David Gray - White Ladder
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Bloc Party - Silent Album, A Weekend In The City, Intimacy
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
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:lol::lol::lol:
 
Some more:

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
J Dilla - Donuts
Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens
Robert Miles - Dreamland
Erik Satie - Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes
 
Not that I want to detract from the Solius bashing but...

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles 2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind, Nirvana
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree, U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
33. Ramones, Ramones
34. Music From Big Pink, The Band
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
39. Please Please Me, The Beatles
40. Forever Changes, Love
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
44. Horses, Patti Smith
45. The Band, The Band
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard
51. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
52. Greatest Hits, Al Green
53. The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 - 1959, Ray Charles
54. Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley
56. Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
57. Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones
58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
59. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles
60. Greatest Hits, Sly and the Family Stone
61. Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses
62. Achtung Baby, U2
63. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
64. Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969), Various Artists
65. Moondance, Van Morrison
66. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
67. The Stranger, Billy Joel
68. Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
69. Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
70. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
71. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
72. Purple Rain, Prince
73. Back in Black, AC/DC
74. Otis Blue, Otis Redding
75. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
76. Imagine, John Lennon
77. The Clash, The Clash
78. Harvest, Neil Young
79. Star Time, James Brown
80. Odessey and Oracle, The Zombies
81. Graceland, Paul Simon
82. Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
83. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Aretha Franklin
84. Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin
85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
86. Let It Be, The Beatles
87. The Wall, Pink Floyd
88. At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
89. Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield
90. Talking Book, Stevie Wonder
91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
92. 20 Golden Greats, Buddy Holly
93. Sign 'o' the Times, Prince
94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
95. Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival
96. Tommy, The Who
97. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
98. This Year's Model, Elvis Costello
99. There's a Riot Goin' On, Sly and the Family Stone
100. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra
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That was the top 100 albums ever as voted for by rolling stone magazine, don't think you could go very wrong investing in these.
 
The Game - The Documentary
The Game - The Doctor's Advocate
The Game - LAX
:D

Also,

All of Kanye West's albums and Michael Jackson's too...
 
Rolling Stone's lists are shit. This is what they wrote about Zeppelin's first album:

"Unfortunately, [Jimmy Page] is also a very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs, and the Zeppelin album suffers from his having both produced it and written most of it (alone or in combination with his accomplices in the group)... In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. " He goes on to say that if they are to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will need better music and a better producer.:wenger:
 
Spammy said:
I'm not allergic to Coldplay, nor do I dislike any band because it's fashionable etc. But none of their albums are must haves.
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Well, I am (allergic to Coldplay), and I'd love it (Keegan! :D)) (if people disliked them because it was fashionable - since, even if it was unfair, it would make many people steer clear of this horrible borefest of mediocrity), hence me trying to be reasonable and fair in extremis regarding Coldplay.

What makes me fret about album threads is the fact not only is it difficult giving classical recommendations -- most great soul tunes won't get a look in, as they're not part of albums. (They might be part of 'Wigan Northern Soul Floorshakers #14', but you know what I mean...)

Seeing the Rolling Stone top 100 down there, I'd like to add --

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
and
Orange Juice - Texas Fever
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

although those last two were 'singles bands' too. But they were brilliant, so very brilliant...
 
Doevle said:
Rolling Stone's lists are shit. This is what they wrote about Zeppelin's first album:

"Unfortunately, [Jimmy Page] is also a very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs, and the Zeppelin album suffers from his having both produced it and written most of it (alone or in combination with his accomplices in the group)... In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. " He goes on to say that if they are to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will need better music and a better producer.:wenger:
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The album is no.29 on the list though, was that a contemporary review?

Doogie said:
I recommend this thread:
https://www.redcafe.net/f27/redcafes-top-50-albums-181054/index5.html#post4063757

The first list is in post #183 and then they keep rolling for the next few pages. Looking back at my list I would change a few things but generally I'm quite happy with it.
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It was great fun making that list, found some great new stuff, think my list may have changed a bit since then though.
 
Stevie Wonder- talking book,songs Key of life
Marvin Gaye- Lets get it on, whats going on
Bob Marley-Kaya-survival
UB40- Signing off
Jimmy cliff-the harder they come
scientist-Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
GZA-Liquid swords
roots manuva -run come save me
Roger Waters-amused to death
Pearl Jam- VS
Public Enemy-it takes a nation of millions
Beastie Boys Licensed to ill
Prodigy- Music for the Jilted Generation
Soul ll soul- this is soul ll soul
Jackson-of the wall
 
Andersonsonson said:
Ok due to recent hard drive failures. I have lost ALL my music. I am starting from scratch. To be honest i had so much good music that i am lost!

Please recommend a particular artist or album or greatest hits and why you think its good, along with some songs to look out for and when to listen to it.
Thanks caftards!!!!

The first 2 i have downloaded are:

Nirvana:Unplugged: Gotta say this was genius. Everyone expected all the Nirvana classics and heavy guitar. Instead the boys mellowed it a little, played a few sombre and mellow covers and really used the power of voice and acoustics to deliver a truly great and memorable performance.
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Who expected that?

do you know what unplugged means?

David Bowies greatest hits should be your first acquisition.
 
Sasha - Global Underground 013 - Ibiza
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Michel Jackson - Thriller
Nas - Illmatic
The Prodigy - Fat off the Land
 
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