# "If you don't have \_\_\_\_, your music collection is not complete." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051 "2008-12-29T08:07:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/1 "2008-12-29T08:07:17Z")
So what’s on your list? I have a million, but I’ll start small for now. If you don’t have the following albums, your music collection is not complete: **Beck** - _Odelay_ **Operation Ivy** - _Energy_ **Modest Mouse** - _Moon and Antarctica_ **Pink Floyd** - _Dark Side of the Moon_ **Yo La Tengo** - _I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One_ ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/2 "2008-12-29T08:10:15Z")
My music collection will _never_ be complete, especially since 95% of the albums or bands these threads invariably generate mentions for are albums/groups I’ve never heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/3 "2008-12-29T08:14:38Z")
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man. The Who - My Generation, Baba O’riley. The Beatles - Revolution, All you need is love. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall. More that I’m forgetting to list, because… what was I saying now? Really, just get the Anthology of all of 'em. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/4 "2008-12-29T08:19:02Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > My music collection will _never_ be complete, especially since 95% of the albums or bands these threads invariably generate mentions for are albums/groups I’ve never heard of. That’s really the whole point of the thread. To bring to light albums that you just HAVE to hear. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/5 "2008-12-29T08:29:05Z")
“Switched-On Bach” - Wendy Carlos (the erstwhile Walter) “Moods for a Stormy Night” - Mystic Moods Orchestra “Jesus Christ Superstar” - The **album** with Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan as Jesus “The White Album” - The Beatles “Time Out” and “Time Further Out” - Dave Brubeck Quartet and Quintet (try to count along with Unsquare Dance!🙂 “The Royal Fireworks Music” - Neville Mariner and the Academy of St. Martin’s In the Fields. These are just a few. I’ll pop back in later with more… Quasi ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/6 "2008-12-29T09:52:15Z")
My music collection _is_ complete. Complete nonsense! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I don’t like music much. I don’t even have iTunes or an MP3 player!! My meagre collection is eclectic and rarely played; People come away from my CD shelf looking very confused indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/7 "2008-12-29T13:50:13Z")
In no particular order: _Kind of Blue_ by **Miles Davis** _#1 Record_ by **Big Star** _Black Sheep Boy_ by **Okkervil River** _Tommy_ by **the Who** _Tres Hombres_ by **ZZ Top** _I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning_ by **Bright Eyes** _If I Should Fall From Grace With God_ by **the Pogues** ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/8 "2008-12-29T14:03:48Z")
Four words: Wham! Make It Big ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/9 "2008-12-29T14:57:57Z")
Everyone should do what [this guy](http://innercycling.com/f/showthread.php?t=8097) did. Get everything. If you don’t have everything, your music collection is not complete. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/10 "2008-12-29T17:05:37Z")
_ **Showdown!** _ by Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, and Robert Cray Among the best blues albums I’ve ever heard. _ **The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East** _ Among the best blues albums I’ve ever heard. Virtually any Stevie Ray Vaughan album you can get ahold of. I’ll echo Miles Davis’s _ **Kind of Blue** _ I’m also partial to jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon (saw him play at Blues Alley in the early 80s…what a show), Cannonball Adderly, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, and others of that ilk. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/11 "2008-12-29T17:10:26Z")
There are a number of them that I can’t recall or decide. I guess a good criterion is what album, if you lost it, would you be willing to re-purchase because it’s that important? (There ought to be a specific word for lending something out and never getting it back… _foreloan_, maybe?) Right now all I can think of is Massive Attack’s ‘Protection’ and ‘Blue Lines’. I have lost and repurchased those multiple times. I think the years will bear these out to be classics, if not yet already. ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/12 "2008-12-29T17:25:46Z")
**Metallica** - Master of Puppets **N.W.A,** - Straight Outta Compton **Rolling Stones** - Exile On Mainstreet **Nirvana** - Nevermind **Robert Johnson** - The Complete Collection **The Sex Pistols** - Nevermind the Bollocks **AC/DC** - Back In Black **Beastie Boys** - Check Your Head **Dr. Dre** - The Chronic **Jimi Hendrix** - Electric Ladyland **The Velvet Underground** - The Velvet Underground & Nico I’ll stop there but there are others that the rest of SDMBers will cover. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/13 "2008-12-29T17:29:08Z")
Tom Petty, _Wildflowers_. Every moment on this album is _perfect_. Pink Floyd, _Live at Pompeii_. Led Zeppelin, _III_. Beck, _Midnight Vultures_. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/14 "2008-12-29T18:07:07Z")
In my own idiosyncratic opinion… Electric Light Orchestra, _Out of the Blue_ The Beatles, _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_ Dario Marianelli, soundtrack, _Pride & Prejudice_ Johnny Cash, _Greatest Hits_ Alan Parsons Project, _Turn of A Friendly Card_ Booker T. Jones, _The Cool Dude_ Glenn Gould, J.S. Bach’s Piano Concertos (any collection) Mormon Tabernacle Choir, _Handel’s_ Messiah ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/15 "2008-12-29T18:21:33Z")
I will second Redfrost’s suggestion: Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/16 "2008-12-29T18:30:49Z")
Iron Maiden: _The Number of the Beast_ Black Sabbath: _Paranoid, Heaven and Hell_ Opeth: _Blackwater Park_ Queensryche: _Operation: Mindcrime_ Dream Theater: _Images and Words_ ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/17 "2008-12-29T18:37:24Z")
You gotta have: Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Johnny Cash: Live at Folsum Prison Eagles: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2 Metallica: The Black Album Green Day: American Idiot ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/18 "2008-12-29T18:55:54Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > …Eagles: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2… Don’t make me quote the Dude. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/19 "2008-12-29T19:01:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Don’t make me quote the Dude. 😉 I heartily stand by my statement! 😃 And let me add: Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/20 "2008-12-29T20:01:53Z")
I think I have seven of the albums mentioned so far. I don’t have the Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd albums that others have said, but I nominate the fourth Led Zeppelin album and **Wish You Were Here**. AC/DC **Back in Black** Yes **Fragile** REM **Automatic for the People** Portishead **Dummy** Nine Inch Nails **Pretty Hate Machine** Radiohead **OK Computer** Counting Crows **August and Everything After** Alanis Morissette **Jagged Little Pill** Matchbox 20 **Yourself or Someone Like You** (These are not my \*favorite \*albums–some of them I don’t even like much.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051.md?page=2)