# "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:** 2
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/21 "2008-12-29T20:11:56Z")
I’m a Beatles freak, so you don’t have to have all the albums I do. But if you’re a self-respecting music-head, you have to have _Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album,_ and _Abbey Road_. No excuses now. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/22 "2008-12-29T20:47:36Z")
By the standards of most of you here, not only is my music collection incomplete, it hasn’t even really _begun_. And I have 4 thousand songs on my iPod. But ok, I do have every Beatles album. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/23 "2008-12-29T20:49:34Z")
**Jeff Buckley** - Grace **David Bowie** - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust **Nick Lowe** - Dig My Mood **Elvis Costello** - Imperial Bedroom **Kate Bush** - Hounds of Love **Buena Vista Social Club** **Gillian Welch** - Revival **Innocence Mission** - Glow ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/24 "2008-12-29T21:51:36Z")
**Kind of Blue** , **Birth of The Cool** & **Dingo** - Miles Davis **Winter in Lisbon** - Dizzy Gilespie **Live at Carnegie Hall** - Dave Brubeck Quartet **Thriller** - Michael Jackson **Disraeli Gears** - Cream **Elegant Gypsy** - Al Dimeola **A Proper Introduction** - Ruth Brown **A Song For You** - Ruby Wilson **Talking Timbuktu** - Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder **Pearl** - Janis Joplin **Highway 61 Revisited** - Dylan **Pet Sounds** - Beach Boys **Brasileiro** - Sergio Mendes **Getz/Gilberto** - Stan Getz with Astrud and Joao Gilberto Just to name a few. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/25 "2008-12-29T22:01:03Z")
**London Calling** - The Clash, as much for the fact that it is the greatest album cover of all time. ---
**Author:** ![TheDerf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@TheDerf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheDerf)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/26 "2008-12-30T02:50:32Z")
A lot of these but I’ll add: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Sun They Might Be Giants - Flood ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/27 "2008-12-30T03:12:02Z")
**Joni Mitchell** - _Ladies of the Canyon_ and _Court and Spark_ A former dorm-mate insisted that all college students, or maybe even everyone, owned _Legend_, the Bob Marley CD. But she might not have been entirely serious: She hadn’t transferred her copy onto her laptop, had left the CD 120 miles away at home, and couldn’t find it in the shared iTunes library of our building and she was desperate to listen to it. (I’m doing pretty well, I think- I’ve got 4 of these albums: both Beck albums mentioned, Johnny Cash’s Greatest Hits, and American Idiot. Plus the two Joni Mitchell albums I just suggested.) ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/28 "2008-12-30T03:26:12Z")
Almost thirty posts and I’m the first to mention **Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On** ---
**Author:** ![I-VI-ii-V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c89c15/32.png) [@I-VI-ii-V](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I-VI-ii-V)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/29 "2008-12-30T03:30:17Z")
Charles Mingus - _Mingus Ah Um_ King Crimson - _Red_ The Beatles - _Abbey Road_ Black Sabbath - _Volume 4_ Squeeze - _East Side Story_ ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/30 "2008-12-30T03:30:30Z")
Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes Bob Marleys Legend is actually not a bad place to start, the problem is it contains every single hit he ever had but has none of the gems that didnt hit the radio. Betty Davis, Betty Davis (former wife of Miles Davis) Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/31 "2008-12-30T07:06:53Z")
I couldn’t get it under a thousand, so how 'bout I just post the essential concert videos? Alice In Chains – Unplugged Allman Brothers – Live At Great Woods Allman Brothers – Live At The Beacon Theater Beatles – Anthology Blind Faith – Hyde Park 1969 Clapton, Eric – 24 Nights Cocker, Joe – Mad Dogs And Englishmen Deep Purple – Perihelion Dixie Dregs – Live At Montreaux Doobie Brothers – Live At The Wolf Trap Doors, The – The Doors Collection (inc. Dance on Fire, Live at Hollywood Bowl and Soft Parade) Flower Kings – Meet The Flower Kings Gabriel, Peter – Secret World Live Gilmour, David – Remember That Night Gov’t Mule – A Tail Of Two Cities Gov’t Mule – The Deepest End Grateful Dead – Closing Of Winterland ‘78 Hendrix, Jimi – Band Of Gypsys Hendrix, Jimi – Blue Wild Angel (Isle Of Wight) Johnson, Eric – Live From Austin, Tx Led Zepplin Little Feat – Highwire Act, St. Louis 2003 Little Feat – Rockpalast Live Mahavishnu Orchestra – Live At Montreaux ‘84 – ‘74 Marshall Tucker Band – Live From The Garden State 1981 Matthews, Dave Matthews Band – Central Park Concert McLaughlin, Sarah – Afterglow Live Mitchell, Joni – Shadows And Light moe. – Live From The Fillmore Ozric Tentacles – Live At The Prongmaster’s Ball Pink Floyd – Live At Pompeii Pink Floyd – P.U.L.S.E. Plant, Robert & The Strange Sensation – Soundstage Police, The – Synchronicity Concert Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon Rush – R30 Santana – Sacred Fire: Live In Mexico Stills, Stephen And Manassas – Best Of Musikladen Sting – Bring On The Night String Cheese Incident – Live At The Fillmore, Denver 3-23-02 Tangent, The – Going Off On One Traffic – Live At Santa Monica ‘72 Traffic – The Last Great Traffic Jam Transatlantic – Building A Bridge, Live In America Transatlantic – Live In Europe Trucks, Derek Trucks Band – Songlines Vaughan, Stevie Ray – Live At El Mocambo Vaughan, Stevie Ray – Live At Montreaux 1982 – 1985 Waters, Roger – In The Flesh Widespread Panic – Panic In The Streets Winwood, Steve – Sound Stage Presents Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps Zappa – Zappa Plays Zappa and, of course, This Is Spinal Tap. It hurt to make it _this_ short. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/32 "2008-12-30T07:45:28Z")
First off, my LONG list of artists I want to second: [QUOTE= Lots of folks in the thread] **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_ The White Album - The Beatles “Time Out” and “Time Further Out” - Dave Brubeck Quartet and Quintet “The Royal Fireworks Music” - Neville Mariner and the Academy of St. Martin’s In the Fields. _I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning_ by **Bright Eyes** _If I Should Fall From Grace With God_ by **the Pogues** _ **The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East** _ any Stevie Ray Vaughan Miles Davis’s _ **Kind of Blue** _ any Dexter Gordon any Cannonball Adderly, any Art Tatum, any Charlie Parker **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 **Dr. Dre** - The Chronic **Jimi Hendrix** - Electric Ladyland **The Velvet Underground** - The Velvet Underground & Nico The Beatles, _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_ Glenn Gould, J.S. Bach’s Piano Concertos (any collection) _Handel’s_ Messiah Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream Led Zeppelin - IV Pink Floyd - **Wish You Were Here**. REM **Automatic for the People** Portishead **Dummy** Nine Inch Nails **Pretty Hate Machine** Radiohead **OK Computer** **Jeff Buckley** - Grace **David Bowie** - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust **Kate Bush** - Hounds of Love **Buena Vista Social Club** **Kind of Blue** , **Birth of The Cool** - Miles Davis **Winter in Lisbon** - Dizzy Gilespie **Thriller** - Michael Jackson **Disraeli Gears** - Cream **A Song For You** - Ruby Wilson **Pearl** - Janis Joplin **Highway 61 Revisited** - Dylan **Pet Sounds** - Beach Boys **Brasileiro** - Sergio Mendes **Getz/Gilberto** - Stan Getz with Astrud and Joao Gilberto b]London Calling\*\* - The Clash, They Might Be Giants - Flood **Joni Mitchell** - _Ladies of the Canyon_ Charles Mingus - _Mingus Ah Um_ The Beatles - _Abbey Road_ Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes Bob Marleys Legend [/quote] My additions, trying like hell to actually keep it brief. These started as notes on what I thought was missing from the above, and then I just went through my ipod for the rest. You will probably notice when the list starts to get alphabetical. All of these albums, I think, belong in everyone in the worlds record collection. Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison Joni Mitchel - Blue Louis Armstrong - The complete Hot 5s and 7s Elvis Costello - My Aim is True/This Years Model Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Primus - The Frizzle Fry OR Sailing the Seas of Cheese Raidiohead - Kid A AND Amnesiac Modest Moust - The Lonesome Crowded West The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat Social Distortion - Social Distortion The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed AND Sticky Fingers And one Brian Jones Album (at a start) Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet The Who - Live at Leeds deluxe 2 disc set The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash The Talking Heads - Remain in Light AND Fear of Music and Stop Making Sense. any Flogging Molly Magnetic Fields - 69 love songs Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society The Arcade Fire - Funeral The Band - Music From the Big Pink Bob Dylan - Blond on Blond Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle Vol. 1 Crosby Stills Nash and Young Neil Young - Live Rust The Descendants - Milo Goes to College The Dead Kennadys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables any Frank Sinatra Gogol Bordello - Multi Contra Kulti vs. Irony Husker Du - Zen Arcade Mission of Burma - Vs. Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Raw Power Minor Threat - Minor Threat MC5 - Kick out the Jams My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Pixies - Surfer Rosa and Doolittle The Replacements - Let it Be The Ramones - any boxed set Television - Marquee Moon Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone or Rain Dogs Van Morrison - Moondance and Tupelo Honey Weezer - Blue Album and Pinkerton The White Stripes - an album Wire - Pink Flag William Shatner - Has been ETA: Sunshine and Smiles list (below) has Wilco and Wu tang which should have been on my list too. I am sure I am leaving other essential stuff out. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/33 "2008-12-30T07:46:01Z")
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Cursive - Domestica Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) ---
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> [@HoboStew](#): > > That’s really the whole point of the thread. To bring to light albums that you just HAVE to hear. Anyone who understands my musical tastes and tells my what is have to HEAR is an imposter. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/35 "2008-12-30T08:22:45Z")
Well I have some time. I’ll list one thing per letter and try not to pick some obvious choices while still keeping it pretty mainstream and common. Artists: The Animals Beastie Boys (Licensed to Ill is great but I don’t care much for their other stuff) Carl Perkins Dead Kennedys (Not a big fan of the punk genre but Fresh Fruit For Rotting Veggies has been a favorite since I was a kid.) Ella Fitzgerald Fats Domino Gwen Stefani (Hard choice here. I could have picked George Harrison, Gloria Gaynor, Grateful Dead and Guns N’ Roses) Hank Williams Interpol Janis Joplin but J is loaded with a bunch of good candidates. Kraftwerk Led Zeppelin 🆒 Muddy Waters Nat King Cole Otis Redding Patsy Cline Queen Ramones Stevie Ray Vaughan Taylor Swift (just to throw a newer singer in the mix) U2 Violent Femmes Wu-Tang Clan Yes ZZ Top   Here are albums. American Beauty – Grateful Dead (best album ever if you ask me) The Band – The Band Cosmo’s Factory – Creedence Clearwater Revival Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd Emotional Rescue – Rolling Stones Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables – Dead Kennedys God Loves Ugly - Atmosphere Homework – Daft Punk (don’t like the genre much but I can’t help but love this CD) I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! – Janis Joplin (not sure if this is an actual album or just a greatest hits type deal but the Is are thin, it’s good and I might not get a chance to throw her in this list elsewhere) Absulotely nothing for J Kind of Blue – Miles Davis Led Zeppelin 1-4 Made in Japan – Deep Purple (live album) Nevermind – Nirvana OK Computer – Radiohead Pulp Fiction (no one does soundtracks like Tarantino) Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! – Devo (Qs are thin but the album aint too bad…) Revolver – Beatles (Rolling Stones didn’t call it the best album ever for nothing) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Beatles Turn On The Bright Lights – Interpol Ummagumma – Pink Floyd (I’ve heard this isn’t one of their better albums. Oh well.) Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes The Who Sell Out – The Who (one of the first CDs I ever bought. I must admit, I bought it for the cover and fun name). Don’t have much for X, Y and Z ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/36 "2008-12-30T08:40:53Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Absulotely nothing for J > > Don’t have much for X, Y and Z I got your J X Y and Z Juno - Music from the Motion Picture (Various) XO- Elliot Smith Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips Zuma - Neil Young (or Zen Arcade by Husker Du, but I listed that one in my last list.) All good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/37 "2008-12-30T08:51:26Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > I got your J X Y and Z > > Juno - Music from the Motion Picture (Various) > XO- Elliot Smith > Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips > Zuma - Neil Young (or Zen Arcade by Husker Du, but I listed that one in my last list.) > > All good stuff. Oh thanks! I’ve been meaning to checkout Zen Arcade but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Lots of good stuff in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-have-____-your-music-collection-is-not-complete/479051/38 "2008-12-30T10:24:48Z")
So as not to be repetitive: **Sleater-Kinney** , _Dig Me Out_ (e.g., “[Little Babies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjLqEPXxEWo)”) **Laura Nyro** , _Eli and the Thirteenth Confession_ (e.g., “[Sweet Blindness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFTBERaBWL8&feature=related)”) ---
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**AC/DC** - _Powerage_ **Beatles** - _Revolver_ **Black Sabbath** - _First Album, Master Of Reality, Sabotage_ **Deep Purple** - _Who Do We Think We Are!_ **(Charged) GBH** - _Leather, Bristles, No Survivors and Sick Boys_ **Hendrix** - _BBC Sessions_ **Iron Maiden** - _Powerslave_ **Judas Priest** - _British Steel_ **KISS** - _Alive!_ **Megadeth** - _Rust In Peace_ **Metallica** - _Kill 'Em All_ **Motorhead** - _Ace Of Spades_ **Mrs. Miller** - _Greatest Hits_ **Ozzy Osbourne** - _Blizzard Of Ozz_ **Rush** - _Moving Pictures_ **T. Rex** - _Electric Warrior_ **Van Halen** - _Fair Warning_ **ZZ Top** - _Rio Grande Mud_ ---
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