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

Cylob · 15th July 2003, 11:10

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 · 15th July 2003, 11:12

Beatles White Album or Sgnt Peppers, take your pick.

ujay · 15th July 2003, 12:36

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

UJ

Raz · 15th July 2003, 12:42

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

Lucos · 15th July 2003, 13:27

Green Day.

papadoc · 15th July 2003, 13:40

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 · 15th July 2003, 16:13

But I don't like any of that music.

Does this mean my music collection cannot respect it self?

Cylob · 15th July 2003, 16:45

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 · 15th July 2003, 17:16

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

ujay · 15th July 2003, 19:33

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 · 15th July 2003, 20:15

Jeff?

Mr Jones · 15th July 2003, 20:18

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

Sadly taken long before his time..

Cylob · 15th July 2003, 20:47

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

WomanOfHeart · 15th July 2003, 21:01

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

Cylob · 15th July 2003, 21:12

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 · 18th July 2003, 03:42

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 · 18th July 2003, 06:28

The Beta Band - The 3 EP's

Xerxes · 18th July 2003, 07:37

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 · 18th July 2003, 07:41

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 · 18th July 2003, 08:43

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 · 18th July 2003, 16:40

I've just gone to get my eyepiece.

TexanGoneMad · 18th July 2003, 17:44

Quote:

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 · 18th July 2003, 17:50

Quote:

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

zamuz · 19th July 2003, 03:57

any from the beatles, enough said.

randman · 19th July 2003, 05:24

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 · 19th July 2003, 07:15

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 · 22nd July 2003, 14:19

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

Cylob · 22nd July 2003, 14:27

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.

taylormemer · 22nd July 2003, 14:33

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

Mattress · 22nd July 2003, 15:16

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 · 22nd July 2003, 15:46

Mattress - I think KY should be there just for its cover:

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

Mattress · 22nd July 2003, 15:53

obsolete?

Cylob · 22nd July 2003, 17:06

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

Bilbo Baggins · 22nd July 2003, 22:37

Porcupine Tree - Signify
Bjork - Greatest Hits

Cylob · 24th July 2003, 11:58

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 · 25th July 2003, 01:17

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

Merlin · 25th July 2003, 12:03

Quote:

Originally posted by Twilightseer
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (I really need to improve my Smiths knowledge)

- 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 · 27th July 2003, 09:56

Quote:

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 · 27th July 2003, 17:15

albums? what albums?

How about that one by kazaa?

j0ck3 · 27th July 2003, 19:47

Quote:

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

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Cylob Forum Music King (Forum King) Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Future Posts: 7,175	Compulsory Listening: Which albums should any self-respecting collection include? 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. Secret Snacker & Accomplished Pen Thief At:

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Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction, but that's just my taste. I'd say Mr Jones has it bang on there.

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papadoc Comfortably Numb (Forum King) Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 4,619	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) Last edited by papadoc; 15th July 2003 at 15:34.

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Cylob Forum Music King (Forum King) Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Future Posts: 7,175	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. Secret Snacker & Accomplished Pen Thief At:

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ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 6,072	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

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Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	Jeff Buckley. http://www.jeffbuckley.com/ Sadly taken long before his time..

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TexanGoneMad Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: TX Posts: 12	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!!)

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Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	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 Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	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.

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Twilightseer Frenchoderator Join Date: May 2000 Location: Lavabo, fond du couloir, 3è porte à droite Posts: 6,309	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.

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Mattress Forum King Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Milwaukee Posts: 4,577	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 Besides shooting out a big blank from your buttock, you can feel as if your root chakra leaked sweet hot mucus.

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