I challenge the legitimacy of these albums for this thread on the grounds of one or more of these things:
- I haven’t heard of any of the songs listed.
- There must be three classics at least, not one or two and a questionable third.
- I don’t think they fit the spirit of the OP, even by Astorian’s definition, which I think is a little too vague (classic within the genre? What does that even mean? Should we be listing Mozart and Dwight Yoakam, then?)
- My response on reading them as candidates for this thread was, “Are you freakin’ kidding me?”
White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground, Fell In Love With a Girl, Hotel Yorba
White Stripes - Elephant - Hardest Button to Button, I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself, Seven Nation Army
Pixies - Doolittle
“Debaser,” “Monkey Gone To Heaven,” “Here Comes Your Man” (“Wave Of Mutilation” and “Gouge Away” should probably qualify as well)
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
“California Uber Alles,” “Holiday In Cambodia,” “Let’s Lynch The Landlord,” “Chemical Warfare”
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
“There Is A Light That Never Goes Out,” “The Boy With A Thorn In His Side,” “Bigmouth Strikes Again”
The Smiths - The Smiths
“Reel Around The Fountain,” “What Difference Does It Make?” “This Charming Man,” “Hand In Glove”
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
“Blister In The Sun,” “Kiss Off,” “Add It Up,” “Gone Daddy Gone”
Weezer - The Blue Album
“Buddy Holly,” “Undone (The Sweater Song),” “Say It Ain’t So” (maybe “My Name Is Jonas”)
Modest Mouse -Lonesome Crowded West
Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine; Trailer Trash; Styrofoam Boots;
Sublime - Self Titled
Garden Groove; Santeria; What I Got
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Gin & Juice, Tha Shiznit, Ain’t No Fun
Operation Ivy - Energize
Knowledge, Take Warning, Vulnerability, Smiling, etc take your pick. Maybe the most underrated album of all time (and its really not all that underrated, thats how good it is).
Ween - Quebec
It’s Gonna Be a Long Night, Happy Colored Marbles, Transdermal Celebration
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Only Shallow, Loomer, Sometimes
NoFX - Heavy Petting Zoo
Philthy Phil Philanthropist, Hot Dog in a Hallway, Drop the World
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Stop, Three Days, Been Caught Stealing
Beck - Odelay
Devil’s Haircut, Lord Only Knows, Jackass
Tenacious D - Self Titled
Kielbasa, Kyle Quit the Band, Karate, Rock Your Socks Off, Really almost the entire album.
Pink Floyd - DostM, although I’ll pick Breathe, Time, & Money. I’ll also give honorable mention to Meddle with Fearless, One of These Days, and Echose (one of the best songs ever)
Radiohead
The Bends: Just, High And Dry, Street Spirit (Fade Out)
OK Computer: Paranoid Android, Let Down, Karma Police
Bobby Brown
Don’t Be Cruel: Don’t Be Cruel, My Prerogative, Roni
Primus, Sailing the Seas of Cheese - “Here Come the Bastards”, “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver”, “Tommy the Cat”
Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger - “Rusty Cage”, “Outshined”, “Jesus Christ Pose”
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God: “If I Should Fall From Grace With God,” “Thousands are Sailing,” “Fairytale of New York,” “Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six.”
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate: “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” “Home is Anywhere You Hang Your Head,” “I Want You”
Elvis Costello credit for his first two:
My Aim Is True
-Welcome to the Working Week
-Alison
-Red Shoes
-Watching the Detectives
This Year’s Model
-Pump it Up
-Lipstick Vogue
-Radio, Radio
Bush 16 Stone
Everything Zen, Little Things, Machinehead, Glycerine
R.E.M Monster
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?, Bang And Blame, I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
Garbage Garbage
Only Happy When It Rains, Stupid Girl, Queer
Pixies- Surfer Rosa: Gigantic, Where is My Mind?, River Euphrates
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico: Heroin, Venus in Furs, I’m Waiting for the Man, All Tomorrow’s Parties
The Replacements- Let it Be: I Will Dare, Unsatisfied, Androgynous, Answering Machine
The Beach Boys- Today!: Help Me Rhonda, Dance Dance Dance, Please Let Me Wonder, She Knows Me Too Well
Lynyrd Skynyrd:
“Sweet Home Alabama”
“Call Me the Breeze”
“The Ballad of Curtis Loew”
John Prine - John Prine
“Illegal Smile,” “Hello in There,” “Sam Stone,” “Donald and Lydia,” “Angel from Montgomery”, “Spanish Pipedream”, “Paradise”.
*Genesis: Selling England by The Pound
Firth of Fifth
Cinema Show
I Know What I Like
*I think Genesis should be on the list of undeniable classic albums for this thread, but why not an album with songs that people outside of England have heard of (like, say, “Invisible Touch”, with Throwing it All Away, Tonight Tonight, Land of Confusion, and Invisible Touch on it)?
