Albums everyone should own!

Graceland - Paul Simon

Fantastic shout that, can't believe i didn't think of it.
 
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Collision Course
The Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die
Ministry of Sound - One
Massive Attack - Collected
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Who - My Generation
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Run DMC - Run DMC
Outkast - Stankonia
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, and Pink Moon
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
Not that I want to detract from the Solius bashing but...



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.
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Led Zeppelin IV behind the Ramones, is just one shocking reason why that list (while featuring many many must have albums) illustrates The Rolling Stones magazine's shocking retardation.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Led Zeppelin IV behind the Ramones, is just one shocking reason why that list (while featuring many many must have albums) illustrates The Rolling Stones magazine's shocking retardation.
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The order will never please everyone, in fact I doubt it would please anyone but the list is still full of classic albums which was the point of posting it. The Ramones is both a very good and highly important album though.
 
datura said:
Nick Cave - The Good Son
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That's a very odd choice.

I wrote a large paragraph on why it's an odd choice, but deleted it. (Saying something like, some fans prefer his early albums, some his later albums, and those who prefer the middle ones usually prefer Let Love In.) It's a terrific album really, but I'm not sure it would make it into my top five NCATBS list.
 
Just obtained

Outkast-Stankonia (forgot how good that was)
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
AC/DC-all the ones mentioned (again forgot how good some of their stuff is)
Johnny Cash- Greatest Hits (Great for drinking to)
Stone Roses-Stone Roses
Prodigy-Fat of the land
Def Lepard - Greatest Hits(lol)

Still i appreciate the input lads...i guess i should get
Dre 2pac NWA

some...Smashing pumpkins, Offspring

Some...Led Zep,Rage Against the Machine,

Prince, Michael Jackson...

some great ones that i totally forgot existed thanks lads
 
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Mastodon - Leviathan
Can - Tago Mago
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Stooges - Funhouse
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
 
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Kiss - Destroyer
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of Life
10CC - Deceptive Bends
Led Zeppelin - The song remains the same
Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous
Barry White - Rhapsody in White
Queen - Day at the Races
 
Man Utd Mrs said:
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Kiss - Destroyer
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of Life
10CC - Deceptive Bends
Led Zeppelin - The song remains the same
Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous
Barry White - Rhapsody in White
Queen - Day at the Races
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i have and love ALL of those MuM! ( i loved boz scaggs )

what about fleetwood mac-fleetwood mac to add to the list?
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
The order will never please everyone, in fact I doubt it would please anyone but the list is still full of classic albums which was the point of posting it. The Ramones is both a very good and highly important album though.
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No absolutely, I was just suggesting that Rolling Stone make these lists and then make glaring errors, like in the guitarist one.
 
Alexander Spence - Oar
Beach Boys - Smile (Hate the Purple Chick version someone mentioned though) & Pet Sounds
Big Star - All three of their albums are must-haves and it's a scandal that they are not better known.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah-Um
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Devo: Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (and Zaireeka if you have 4 CD players handy)
Galaxie 500: On Fire
Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
John Cale - Paris 1919
Johnny Cash - At Folson Prison
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures & Closer
Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Kraftwerk - Man Machine
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Love - Da Capo & Forever Changes
Make-Up - I Want Some (it's a compilation, but it's the best thing they released)
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs & See You On The Other Side
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty For Baby
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After The Goldrush & Tonight's The Night
Neu - Neu
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Nick Drake - All three of them
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Pixies - Surfa Rosa
Ramones - Ramones
Replacements - Let It Be
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed & Exile On Main Street
Sleater Kinney - The Hot Rock
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Smog - Knock Knock
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Stooges - Raw Power
Suicide - Suicide
United States of America - United States of America
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico & Velvet Underground
Who - Live at Leeds
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, Painful & And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out.

Whist I imagine most on here already own 90-95% of these albums, I urge you to get the one or two not currently in your collections.;)
 
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Galaxie 500: On Fire
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs & See You On The Other Side
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Sleater Kinney - The Hot Rock
United States of America - United States of America
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, Painful & And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out.
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Good to see someone mention these guys (though I would have chosen different albums from the first four, which is not to say your choices aren't very good records).
 
Laphroaig said:
That's a very odd choice.

I wrote a large paragraph on why it's an odd choice, but deleted it. (Saying something like, some fans prefer his early albums, some his later albums, and those who prefer the middle ones usually prefer Let Love In.) It's a terrific album really, but I'm not sure it would make it into my top five NCATBS list.
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There's 3/4 songs on there that are absolutely brilliant. I'm not so into his more raucous sound, and although Let Love in is good, songs like Lucy, The Ship Song, etc make it for me, personally.
 
pillory said:
Good to see someone mention these guys (though I would have chosen different albums from the first four, which is not to say your choices aren't very good records).
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What albums would you have recommended out of those?
 
Today by Galaxie 500, Mercury Rev's first three (ie including See You...), The End and Desertshore by Nico, and One Beat by S-K.
 
I can't bear One Beat to be honest. I Love the rest of their stuff bar that and All Hands On The Bad One. Carrie Brownstein is a guitar God, by the way!

I Love Galaxie 500s debut but I think the second is better. Marble Index is probably my favourite by Nico, but Chelsea Girl is the one most people go for.

If you've not heard those Big Star records, let me know...
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
Not that I want to detract from the Solius bashing but...



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.
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That's an awful list in fairness, there are almost no modern albums in it. Rolling Stone is a load of pretentious shite.
 
decorativeed said:
I can't bear One Beat to be honest.
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I Love Galaxie 500s debut but I think the second is better.
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Yeah, there's not much between them. I probably prefer Today just because I heard that one first. On Fire is undoubtedly a more "mature" work.

I think I checked out Big Star once without being to captivated, but I might have them confused with someone else. I'll look into it.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I, II, III, IV

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Bob Dylan - Desire, The Free-wheelin' Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, John Wesley Harding

Dire Straits - Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms (Greatest hits will suffice)

Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard. (Derek & The Dominoes) Layla and assorted love songs.

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland, Axis (Bold As Love), Live at Berkeley.

The Allman Brothers Band - Live At the Filmore East.

Neil Young - Harvest

Oasis - Stop the Clocks

Pearl Jam - Ten

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP.

2Pac - All Eyez on Me, Me Against the World, (Makaveli) The 7 Day Theory

R.E.M - The best of R.E.M

Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher

Paul Weller - Wild Wood, Studio 150.

The Jam - The Jam (Greatest hits)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, By The Way, Stadium Arcadium, Greatest Hits

Santana - Abraxis.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Best Of

Simon & Garfunkel - The Full Collection

The Band - The Collection

The Beatles - Revolver, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road, The White Album, Let it Be.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

AC/DC - Back in Black, For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

...I could go on.
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That's a damn good list.

Edit - Well, actually some aren't must haves but you're a Led Zeppelin and Dire Straits fan so I'm willing to let some of the weaker ones go.
 
cina said:
That's an awful list in fairness, there are almost no modern albums in it. Rolling Stone is a load of pretentious shite.
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Ok if you say so, some of us would say there is a reason that there is very little modern albums on it. If look at the full 500 list though you will see that there are about 80 post 1990 albums on it which considering the list was compiled in 2003 isn't a bad amount at all.
 
cina said:
That's an awful list in fairness, there are almost no modern albums in it. Rolling Stone is a load of pretentious shite.
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I like very, very little modern bands so I can see where Rolling Stone is coming from. I don't always agree with the magazine's opinion, but just because someone doesn't like modern bands (and a lot of them are fairly rubbish, or far worse than the bands of the 60s and 70s and even 80s in fairness) then that doesn't make them pretentious.

Unless I'm in the mood to indulge in some guilty pleasures I barely listen to anything by bands post-1990, which I guess is ironic considering I was born in 1990.
 
The thing that annoys me about people who dislike modern music generally is that they expect good music to just fall out of the sky into their laps.

You have to go and search for it you know.
 
...My List Part 2.

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush.

Howlin' Wolf - The Complete Anthology

Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac - Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac Collection

Foo Fighters - One By One

James Taylor - Greatest Hits

Journey - The Essential Journey

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?, Midnight Love

Metallica - The Black Album, Ride The Lightning

Nirvana - Nevermind

Ocean Colour Scene - The Collection

King Curtis - Live At The Filmore West

Miles Davis - Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue

John Lee Hooker - John Lee Hooker (And/Or A Greatest Hits)

B.B King - The Very best of B.B King

The Roots - The Tipping Point

The Police - The Police Greatest Hits

Nat King Cole - Unforgettable

John Frusciante - The Empyrean

John Mayall Featuring Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E, A Crow Left of the Murder

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol.1

Frank Sinatra - My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra

The Doobie Brothers - The Very Best of the Doobie Brothers.
 
MrsGiggs said:
That's a damn good list.

Edit - Well, actually some aren't must haves but you're a Led Zeppelin and Dire Straits fan so I'm willing to let some of the weaker ones go.
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Thanks. That list was very much pro-guitarist, hence inclusions such as Stevie Ray Vaughan who will have a limited appeal to some listeners. The next part of my list will attempt to include my other musical pleasures.

By the way talking about Dire Straits I'm going to see Mark Knopfler in May, Jealous much? :angel:
 
I'll add:
Portishead - Portishead
Lamb - Lamb
A Skillz - Tricka Technology
Jamiroquai - Traveling Without Moving
Ils - Bohemia
 
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