Compulsory Listening: Which albums should any self-respecting collection include?

[Cylob]

I'll start with 3 easy ones:

The Smiths/Hatful of Hollow
The Stone Roses/The Stone Roses
Rush/2112

I've no doubt my own music collection's missing some must-haves.

[Mr Jones]

Beatles White Album or Sgnt Peppers, take your pick.

[ujay]

Santana - Abraxas
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Landlady
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop

UJ

[Raz]

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction, but that's just my taste. I'd say Mr Jones has it bang on there.

[Lucos]

Green Day.

[papadoc]

Pink Floyd - Shine On (Box Set)
Allman Brothers Band - Allman Brothers Band (1st album)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out

(these are just some, I could go on forever)

[Mattress]

But I don't like any of that music.

Does this mean my music collection cannot respect it self?

[Cylob]

I can only speak for myself. I like to think of my music collection as sophisticated/cutting-edge stuff, I feel a few classic ground-breaking albums wouldn't go amiss. They'd add a bit of character and depth. If I listened to a supposed classic and hated it I'd press the delete key. I don't write anything off without hearing it first.

It depends how serious you are about music (the history and all that). I'm passionate about music myself.

[Mr_007]

The good persian signers:
Siavash ghomayshi
EBI
http://www.eworldrecords.com

[ujay]

More you say ?

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Tim Buckley - Starsailor ***
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

*** BBC2 tonight 23:20 - program on son Jeff

UJ

[Cylob]

Jeff?

[Mr Jones]

Jeff Buckley.
http://www.jeffbuckley.com/

Sadly taken long before his time..

[Cylob]

Jeff Buckley - I know the name but not the music. He was an american solo artist (guitarist)? Was he any good???

[WomanOfHeart]

Styx - Grand Illusion
Pink Floyd - The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon

[Cylob]

A few contemporary classics (all genre definers):

New Order - Substance
Pixies - Dolittle
Nirvana - Nevermind
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic
The Cure - Disintegration
The Charlatans - Some Friendly
Electronic - Electronic
Shed Seven - A Maximum High
Curve - Pubic Fruit
Stereolab - Transient-Random Noise Bursts With Announcements

[TexanGoneMad]

I can't speak for anyone else's collection. But I know I wouldn't respect mine nearly as much without:
Steve Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble-Texas Flood
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Deftones-Adrenaline
Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power
The Cult-Love or Electric (They're both great!!)

[Cylob]

The Beta Band - The 3 EP's

[Xerxes]

The barebones super basic Classical selection must include the following works (All movements, not just 1st movements/overtures found in ridiculous 10 top classical hits CD's)

Mozart:
Eine Klien Nachtmusik (The entire series)

Beethoven:
Symphonies #5, #9

Bach:
Brandenburg Concerti 1-6 (Usually sold as 1-3 and 4-6 CD's)

Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons (from 'Il Cimento dell' Armenia e dell'invenzione')

A slightly more expanded collection of basic repertoire might include these- many times the paired pieces are coupled on the same album or are large enough to take over an entire CD, which is why I chose them.

Mozart:
Requiem Mass
Sinfonia Concertante K.364
Symphony #40

Bach:
Well Tempered Clavier Books #1, 2 (Each book is large enough to take 2 CD's)

the Goldburg Variations

Handel:
Water Music
Music for the Royal Fireworks

Schubert:
Symphony #8 ("Unfinished" & "The Great" - always grouped together)
Trout Quintet (Usually its own CD)

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue
An American in Paris

Tchaikovsky:
Symphony #6 "Pathetique"

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[Xerxes]

And oh yes, I do believe it is an arrestable offense for a CD collection to respect itself without having a copy of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue somewhere there. ;)

[Twilightseer]

It of course depends on the genre :)

For rock, I would recommend :

The Cure - Disintegration
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (I really need to improve my Smiths knowledge)
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

In Ambient/Electronic :

Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Brian Eno - All of his pure ambient works (Music For Airports, Apollo, Shutov Assembly, Neroli, On Land)
Budd & Eno - The Pearl

Video games soundtracks
All Final Fantasy Games OSTs composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

:)

[Cylob]

I've just gone to get my eyepiece.

[TexanGoneMad]

Originally posted by Xerxes
And oh yes, I do believe it is an arrestable offense for a CD collection to respect itself without having a copy of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue somewhere there. ;)

Absolutely!!! If not, it should be!

[ShyShy]

Originally posted by TexanGoneMad
Steve Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble-Texas Flood
The Cult-Love or Electric (They're both great!!)


:up: :up:

[zamuz]

any from the beatles, enough said.

[randman]

In addition to many already mentioned, I'll add:

Van Morrison "Astral Weeks"
John Lennon "Plastic Ono Band"
Jethro Tull "Stand Up"
Jethro Tull "Benefit"
Simon & Garfunkel "Bookends"
Beatles "Abbey Road"
Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"
Janis Joplin "Pearl"
Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense"
Metallica "Master Of Puppets"
Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" (Despite my avatar, I still think this is their best release.)

[Cylob]

Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (their only decent album)
Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is This! (wall to wall sampling)

[taylormemer]

All the Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple albums.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Nirvana - Bleach

[Cylob]

There seems to be a lack of 80's, 90's, 00's albums here, ie:

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
22 years old and it still sounds as if it was recorded yesterday.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c609/c6097077vte.jpg

[taylormemer]

I think some Foo Fighters in there aswell. Maybe The Colour And The Shape or All My Life and some Euryithmics.

[Mattress]

I think it's funny that I wouldn't care to listen to the majority of albums you guys have listed so far.

here are my picks:
BT - Movement in Still Life
Hybrid - Wide Angle (or Wider Angle)
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
Kruder and Dorfmeister - the K&D Sessions
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky

[Cylob]

Mattress - I think KY should be there just for its cover:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e488/e48885um7jb.jpg

It's a shame the CD inside is now obsolete.

[Mattress]

obsolete?

[Cylob]

It's obsolete in my household (literally). I'm talking about the disc - not the music.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Porcupine Tree - Signify
Bjork - Greatest Hits

[Cylob]

I can't believe there's a Bjork's Greatest Hits already! And "Debut" is 10 years old! My youth is slipping away, it'll soon be time to start thinking about pensions.

[Raz]

Any self respecting guitar fan needs some steve vai and/or joe satriani. Not to mention jimmy page (Led Zeppelin).

[Merlin]

Originally posted by Twilightseer
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (I really need to improve my Smiths knowledge)
:up: - Strangeways Here We Come is the Smiths' second best album. Try it out :)

Listen to Raz, people. He has exceptional taste. Of all Joe Satriani's albums, Surfing with the Alien is probably the best.

Other essentials, as far as I'm concerned:
AC/DC - Back in Black
Queen - Greatest Hits I and II (because it samples such a wide variety of their music)
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (you can't have a rock collection without the best rock album in history)
Metallica - Metallica (second best rock album in history)
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
REM - Out of Time
Led Zeppelin - IV (yes, Stairway has been overplayed to death and beyond, so skip it - the rest of the album is excellent)

and on the non-rock front:
Moby - Play
Chemical Brothers - Surrender
Royksopp - Melody AM
Daft Punk - Homework (a lot of music has been influenced by this record)

[Xerxes]

Originally posted by Cylob
There seems to be a lack of 80's, 90's, 00's albums here

Perhaps it is because these decades have produced very little great art?

[anubis2003]

albums? what albums?

How about that one by kazaa?

[j0ck3]

Originally posted by Merlin
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (you can't have a rock collection without the best rock album in history)

I would much rather recomand there predessesors Hanoi Rocks. They made the same thing 10 years before Guns n' Roses.

You really have to have these too:
Coldplay - Parachutes
The Verve - Urban Hymns
U2 - All that you can't leave behind

[Raz]

Excellent choices. :up:

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Xerxes
Perhaps it is because these decades (80's, 90's, 00's) have produced very little great art?

I have to disagree (if talking about music). I'll always maintain that 1991 rivalled any year from the 60's or 70's.

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[Xerxes]

http://www.smilies.okipages.com/s/contrib/dvv/boom.gif

[ripe]

1991?? :D

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c924/c92414c1504.jpg


There's already a ton of stuff I love in this thread. Great to see The Stone Roses at the top of page one ;)

Nobody has mentioned it yet, but a key 80s album that everyone should hear is:
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back


//edit
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Truly a great album. However, IMHO their best stuff is in the singles and b-sides, which unfortunately are not on 'The Stone Roses'. Even now, after 14 years and numerous cash-in compilations by Silvertone, there is no definitive Stone Roses 'best of' collection (all of them are lacking in some respect)

BTW, Massive Attack's 'Blue Lines' was also 1991 ;) . Unfinished Sympathy is THE defining British soul track. I recently grabbed the 12" Nelly Hooper mix. O M G that is good :eek:

a couple of others I could not live without
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces (1975)
Coldcut - 70 Minutes of Madness (journeys by dj) (1996)

[Cylob]

Originally posted by ripe
BTW, Massive Attack's 'Blue Lines' was also 1991 ;) . Unfinished Sympathy is THE defining British soul track. I recently grabbed the 12" Nelly Hooper mix. O M G that is good :eek:

I forgot Blue Lines!! Unfinished Sympathy IMO is a true classic, on a par with 808 State - Magical Dream (both punctuated with glockenspiel).

I also forgot:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f614/f61436odbe4.jpg

You're right about the Stone Roses ripe, pretty much every disc leaves something out (on purpose no doubt). Kind of like Smiths compillations. One of my favourite Roses tracks is 'Where Angels Play' (on 'Complete Stone Roses').

[Niffle]

Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails

[lemon_chicken]

Originally posted by Cylob
Jeff Buckley - I know the name but not the music. He was an american solo artist (guitarist)? Was he any good??? i loved him.

i wont comment on the thread topic however, its all about taste.

[OutlawJim]

REM - Out Of Time
Bon Jovi -- Slippery When Wet

[corkhead0]

tool - aenima
tragically hip - fully completely
white zombie - la sexorcisto
system of a down - toxicity
slayer - live: decade of agression (spelling?)
shadows fall - the art of balance
rush - spirit of radio
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
metallica - ride the lightning
meshuggah - chaosphere
led zeppelin - 2
judas priest - painkiller
iron maiden - # of the beast
black sabbath - all of the ozzy era albums

It's a bit more metal oriented, haven't seen much of it posted yet so I thought I would add some :)

[dylman]

I'll add my voice to the Stone Roses, Blue Lines, and Screamadelica in particular.

Also:

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.
Massive Attack - Protection.
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust.
Leftfield - Leftism.
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation.
U2 - The Joshua Tree.

[Semantics]

Cat Stevens - Tea for Tillerman
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Any Beatle Album
Any Jethro Tull Album
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zep albums pre 1973

[k_rock923]

Originally posted by Raz
Any self respecting guitar fan needs some steve vai and/or joe satriani. Not to mention jimmy page (Led Zeppelin).

yea. satch kicks ass. how about some Are You Experienced?

Master of Puppets needs to be included but IMO kill em all is as good as it.

[zootm]

trying to go for less mainstream ones, to avoid overlapping with other choices too much...

therapy? - suicide pact- you first
radiohead - the bends/ok computer (can't decide which is "more" essential. i listen to the later ones more, but they are a bit controversial, really)
aphex twin - richard d. james album
rage against the machine - battle of los angeles
mr scruff - trouser jazz
nine inch nails - pretty hate machine
one minute silence - available in all colours
sona fariq - sona fariq

[randman]

Originally posted by Semantics
Cat Stevens - Tea for Tillerman
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Any Beatle Album
Any Jethro Tull Album
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zep albums pre 1973

I see great genius in you. :) :up:



(Oh, did I say that already in another thread?) ;)

[Semantics]

Why yes you did....but thanks.

[Arnham]

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (may already have been said, didn't read EVERYTHING)

It's so great. Just listen to it all the way through. One of the best albums ever. ALL the tracks are great, not like a lot of stuff where theres only a few good songs on the CD.

[Cylob]

I've never heard Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon. I'm saving the experience for my 70th birthday.

[taylormemer]

Id nave to agree with Arnham, Dark Side Of The Moon is a great album.
How old are you now Cylob?

[Cylob]

38 years to go.

[Cylob]

Adding..

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c474/c47446qiwng.jpg

Everybody should own this - even apola.:D

[marvinbarcelona]

Originally posted by dylman
I'll add my voice to the Stone Roses, Blue Lines, and Screamadelica in particular.

Also:

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.
Massive Attack - Protection.
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust.
Leftfield - Leftism.
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation.
U2 - The Joshua Tree.

Thanks dylman, I thought I was going to have to resign from this forum on account of no one mentioning Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys.:mad:

I would also add;

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the First Psychodelic Era 1965-68 - beg, borrow or steal this stunning 8 cd box set.

and finally, what no collection should be with out, the lost masterpeice;
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

From AMG : "AMG REVIEW: Though the roots of this 1977 album go back to the early '70s, Dennis Wilson's one issued solo project, Pacific Ocean Blue, is certainly a product of its time, both musically and texturally. The set's 12 songs reveal a songwriter who was looking to stretch out on his own and engage a vision of music that stood far outside what the Beach Boys were capable of handling or executing. Wilson himself panned the album, claiming it had no substance, and looked forward to the release of Bamboo; a record that remained unfinished and unreleased at the time of his death. Brother Brian, however, loved the album and celebrated it with his usual childlike intensity. Pacific Ocean Blue is a moody view of the SoCal landscape, and of Wilson's own interior life; or his struggle to have one. From the environmental lament, "River Song," that opens the disc, we can hear a new kind of West Coast music emerging. It's not steeped in the weighty philosophical and political concerns that other Angelinos such as Jackson Browne were penning. Instead, it's a wispy rock tune revolving around a beautiful piano figure, shuffling guitars, and lyrics that take a personal concern for the state of the nature crumbling around it. "Dreamer" is a classic piece of '70s rock as it wound itself around the emerging R&B of the time, with interlaced horn lines, synths, and funky bass lines cutting through the bridge and into the final verses; all steeped in a gorgeous, lush groove that even at this relaxed tempo won't quit. Mostly, however, Pacific Ocean Blue is a diary. Given that it was recorded over nearly seven years, the songs reflect the snapshot quality of Wilson's life in the studio: what he was capable of, what he learned, and how he stretched himself. Take, for example, the tender stoner balladry of "Thoughts of You" and "Time;" with their languid, echoing piano hovering in the mix with a shadow presence as Wilson sings with a longing that is true yet muted by his seeming resignation to things being a total loss. The latter track also features a moody trumpet solo reminiscent of Chet Baker and transforms itself into a horn-driven anthem by its nadir. There is a bootleg version of Pacific Ocean Blues that contains -- besides a master that is every bit as good as the released version -- five bonus tracks (mostly backing vocal tracks) that may not be everybody's cup of tea, but fanatics will absolutely have to have them. This album is a classic, blissed-out, coked-up slice of '70s rock and pop that is as essential as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. -- Thom Jurek

A master piece.

[Cylob]

How could this have been left out?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd200/d219/d21982v8027.jpg

Honestly.

[ujay]

Nick Drake - Pink Moon.

Cult figure and archetypal over-sensitive young writer dying in a garrett - kind of.

Should probably add John Martyn - Solid Air, the title track of which was written about Nick Drake.

"You've been cutting too deep,
You've been living on solid air.
You've been missing your sleep
And you've been moving through solid air."

UJ

[NJK]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002J0L.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[MontyGail]

Well, I don't think I have ANY of those CDs...except "Slippery When Wet" and I think I have an EXCELLENT CD collection.

So..just goes to show that it all depends on the person.

Jess

[Cylob]

I'm just glad you didn't say the Savage Garden album was an all-time great.

I mean, someone could choke to death on their breakfast.

[MontyGail]

HEY!!

I happen to think it is. What, no! I happen to think that BOTH of them are. Well, they are MY all time greats. They aren't for everyone. ;)

Now...let us NOT start that conversation. I'm not one you want to get started, my darlin'! :p

Jess

[Raz]

Since you have some tact and intelligence regarding taste i will go ahead and respect your taste in music, however much i would not like to listen. Refreshing to meet someone who likes such music, but isn't a braindead dolt.


Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

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[MontyGail]

Originally posted by Raz
Since you have some tact and intelligence regarding taste i will go ahead and respect your taste in music, however much i would not like to listen. Refreshing to meet someone who likes such music, but isn't a braindead dolt.

I suppose I'll take that as a good thing...though I'm not sure if it wasn't a little double sided....I think you'll find that many of my fellow fans have more sense then you may think.

Jess

[apola_anamisha]

Originally posted by Cylob
I'm just glad you didn't say the Savage Garden album was an all-time great.

I mean, someone could choke to death on their breakfast.

Ok as you’ve insulted savage garden here I can’t stop myself from posting something here :)

http://www.lyred.com/covers/savage_garden_-_savage_garden.jpg
http://www.mltr.dk/content/discography/debut/images/debut.jpg
http://www.lyred.com/covers/backstreet_boys_millenium.jpg
http://www.lyred.com/covers/westlife_-_coast_to_coast.jpg
http://www.lyred.com/covers/boyzone_-_a_different_beat.jpg

So do you all have these in your collections?LOL I can bet, most of you even never heard of these tracks.Call yourself a mucis lover? :D

[NJK]

Originally posted by apola_anamisha
Ok as you’ve insulted savage garden here I can’t stop myself from posting something here :)

So do you all have these in your collections?LOL I can bet, most of you even never heard of these tracks.Call yourself a mucis lover? :D

Girl please stop making yourself look like a FOOL.

after the things you said about led zeppelin and other Real bands nobody is ever going to take you serious.

so please stop being a clown :eek:

[Raz]

What is this doing missing?

http://www.georgeunderwood.com/sleeves/ziggystardust.jpg

[Cylob]

Or this even...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d644/d6443352u12.jpg

[marvinbarcelona]

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[joe2004]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
Jeff Buckley.
http://www.jeffbuckley.com/

Sadly taken long before his time..


Jeff Buckley - Grace
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - White Album
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Nuno - Schizophonic
NoFx - So Long And Thanks For Al The Shoes
Radiohead - The Bends
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
The Coral - The Coral
White Stripes - De Stijl
Weezer - Blue Album
Glenn Miller - The Glen Miller Story
Dire Straights - Sultans Of Swing
Michael Jackson - Bad (check out Van Halens solo on Beat It)
Queen - A Night At The Opera

[m0e]

I’ve seen Nirvana – Nevermind listed in a few posts, and while it might be considered essential because of its effect on commercial music in the 90’s, having lived in the Seattle area when they were playing bars and taverns, I would have to say that Bleach was much more representative of their sound.

[zootm]

much more representative of their early sound (when they were playing in bars and taverns), yes, m0e.

i would say "in utero" was their best overall album, but that's just me :)

[NJK]

personal taste Zootm - i disagree
my pers fav is the MTV unplugged sessions.
and than the man who sold the world song.

[Cylob]

Nevermind for me....

[Raz]

I prefer all of them to be perfectly honest. All the different sounds they had. Unplugged in new york would be my favourite though.

[taylormemer]

Originally posted by apola_anamisha
Ok as you’ve insulted savage garden here I can’t stop myself from posting something here :)

[Image] (http://www.lyred.com/covers/savage_garden_-_savage_garden.jpg)
[Image] (http://www.mltr.dk/content/discography/debut/images/debut.jpg)
[Image] (http://www.lyred.com/covers/backstreet_boys_millenium.jpg)
[Image] (http://www.lyred.com/covers/westlife_-_coast_to_coast.jpg)
[Image] (http://www.lyred.com/covers/boyzone_-_a_different_beat.jpg)

So do you all have these in your collections?LOL I can bet, most of you even never heard of these tracks.Call yourself a mucis lover? :D

No fucking way!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

[marvinbarcelona]

Now come on guys, I think apola's got a point here.....you've got to have some utter crap in your collection to appreciate the quality cds. So, pick one from apola's lot, listen to it and then put on the second worst cd in your collection and it'll sound like Mozart.:D

[Cylob]

:up:
But you don't have to have crap in your own collection. I leave that to the mass media.:D

[marvinbarcelona]

Cylob, you have the advantage...anyone finds your crap you can always blame it on the kids.

[Cylob]

There's nothing under my rug mate.....

BTW, who's played Ottowan twice in the same day? Once is an eyebrow raiser, twice is a call to the style police...:D

[marvinbarcelona]

Ottawan? Never heard of 'em. Don't know what you're talking about.:weird:

[Cylob]

My mistake, it was Ottowan once, and Goombay Dance Band once.:D

Can't resist a happy/gay tune eh?

[marvinbarcelona]

http://www.jimlynch.com/images/darkcloud.gif

[Cylob]

LOL!

So it's true then...

[ViperJackson]

Originally posted by Cylob

It depends how serious you are about music (the history and all that). I'm passionate about music myself.

But you apparently don't buy albums...? MP3s are a great way to try out artists/genres/albums, but you really should be purchasing albums if you aren't.

[ViperJackson]

Oh yeah, and I'll say Velvet Underground and Nico since Cylob doesn't have any VU in his playlist which is pretty much criminal.

[Cylob]

Get out of it, I do have some Lou Reed!!!

Originally posted by ViperJackson
But you apparently don't buy albums...? MP3s are a great way to try out artists/genres/albums, but you really should be purchasing albums if you aren't. I have 600 CD's on the wall, I calculate I've pumped between £6,000 - £7,000 British pounds into the corrupt industry.

They ain't getting another penny.

Middle-men became obsolete 2 years ago... if 100% of my money went to the artists I'd buy. I've had this discussion 10,000 times now.:mad:

[RipTheSystem]

KMFDM - Attak
KMFDM - Nihil
KMFDM - Symbols
KMFDM - WW3
Ministry - Filth Pig
PIG - A Stroll In The Pork PIG
PIG - Praise The Lard
PIG - Wrecked

[Raz]

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[Cylob]

:up: Definitely. From one work of art to another....

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[NJK]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007WJ8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Raz]

http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/~locutus/images/Californication.JPG

Still love it.

[Cylob]

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
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Year - 1981
Genre: Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, College Rock

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c533/c53364scs09.jpg

[mrharhar]

Originally posted by joe2004
snip..
Michael Jackson - Bad (check out Van Halens solo on Beat it)...

Not to be pedantic, but 'Beat It' was on Thriller, not Bad. And though I listen to a lot of rock, metal, and other non-Michael-Jackson-genres, I gota say his album ‘Thriller’ deserves to be in every collection. It’s simply a classic. Billie Jean and Thriller alone make it worthy.

[lostonline]

What is essential depends on taste, so here are the essentials from my collection (or a few that I can think of at the moment):

Blur - The Best Of
Coldplay - Parachutes
Faithless - Reverence
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Leftfield - Leftism
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - The Bends
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Zero 7 - Simple Things

and also...
Shirehorses - The Worst Album In The World...Ever...EVER!

There are probably more, but these are ones that I keep going back to :)

[kris_man]

i could not imagine life without :

The Tea Party - "the Interzone Mantras"
Ben Harper - "Fight For Your Mind"
Pearl Jam - "ten"
Joe Satriani - "Time Machine"
Jeff Buckley - "Grace". thanx to whoever it was who mentioned jeff b4. this is an amazing album.

[kris_man]

and also , great to see 2 australians mentioned...savage garden, and nick cave and the bad seeds. both great australian musicians!

[Cylob]

PWEI - This is the Day.. This is the Hour.. This is This..
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Year - 1989
Genre: Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Dance

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d839/d83951rb7ax.jpg

Probably the most sample-heavy album of its time. It's now 15 years old (and a classic).:) Consigned thus.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by lostonline
Shirehorses - The Worst Album In The World...Ever...EVER!That's one correct title.:D

What was John Squires thinking of....

[lostonline]

Originally posted by Cylob
That's one correct title.:D

What was John Squires thinking of....
Are you saying it is a bad album? Musically it is poor but the lyrics and humour are great.

[gaekwad2]

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[Cylob]

:up: some nice choices there gaekwad.

The Sound - Jeopardy
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Year - 1980
Genre: Post-Punk

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre800/e845/e84525h6var.jpg

[yxs]

ahem...

En Vogue - Funky Divas
Mariah Carey - Music Box
Toni Braxton - Secrets
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
Luther Vandross - Any Love
Celine Dion - The Colour Of My Love
Barbra Streisand - The Broadway Album
Sade - Love Deluxe
Edith Piaf - The World Of
Alison Krauss - I've Got That Old Feeling
Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
The Carpenters - Close To You
Julio Iglesias - El Amor
Sarah Brightman - Eden
Eva Cassidy - Imagine
Any Joni Mitchell album
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Any Aretha Franklin album
Any Elvis album
Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is on Top

hm... what else...

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams
Garth Brooks - No Fences or Ropin' The Wind
LeAnn Rimes - LeAnn Rimes, country classics
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Endangered Species
Hanson - Middle Of Nowhere
Eric Clapton - From The Cradle
Jewel - Spirit
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

[yxs]

Originally posted by Xerxes
Mozart:
Eine Klien Nachtmusik (The entire series)

Beethoven:
Symphonies #5, #9

Bach:
Brandenburg Concerti 1-6 (Usually sold as 1-3 and 4-6 CD's)

Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons (from 'Il Cimento dell' Armenia e dell'invenzione')

Handel:
Water Music
Music for the Royal Fireworks

Schubert:
Symphony #8 ("Unfinished" & "The Great" - always grouped together)
Trout Quintet (Usually its own CD)

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue
An American in Paris

Tchaikovsky:
Symphony #6 "Pathetique"


Also these of course