Some person had somehow made it to adulthood without ever hearing any music. How this happened no one can explain, but it did. Now they’ve heard a few songs and are all like “holy moly this music stuff is the shit, what should I listen to first?” and you’re all like “lol dood that’s a big ask.”
Well, it is, right? I mean, to truly have a grasp of the history of popular music since Bill Haley and the Comets, you’re gonna have to list a LOT of albums. So let’s try, shall we?
Please list ten albums you think are great albums, landmark albums, albums you think a person with unlimited time would have to listen to.
Your list of ten albums may not include any two albums by the same artist (e.g. you can’t name two Beatles albums) or even corresponding artists (so you can’t name a Beatles album and a John Lennon album.)
Please make an effort to not name any album somene else has named. Of course, there will be posts made at the same time and eventually thsi thread might be too long to avoid making an error, but do your best.
It’s not a competition. You don’t have to name the ten best albums yet unmentioned. Just name ten and let’s fill in the gaps.
Blue, Joni Mitchel Sgt Pepper, Beatles Tunnel of Love, Springsteen The Times They are A-Changing, Dylan A1A, Jimmy Buffet Volunteers, Jefferson Airplane John Prine, John Prine The Wall, Pink Floyd The Doors, The Doors Into the Wild Soundtrack, Eddie Vedder
That last one has been my ear worm, in a good way, for the last couple months.
Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Harry Chapin - Greatest Stories Live
Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
Blondie - Parallel Lines
John Denver - Back Home Again
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
In no particular order:
1.) Life’s Rich Pageant- REM
2) U2-Joshua Tree
3) Led Zeppelin- II
4) Van Halen- Diver Down
5) Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield
6) Enya- Watermark
7) The Chieftains- Bells of Dublin
8) Rush- Moving Pictures
9) Dire Straits- Money for Nothing
10) Pearl Jam- 10
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Replacements - Let it be
Nirvana - Nevermind
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bob Marley - Greatest Hits
I don’t think there are any that were already mentioned…
Appetite for Destruction - Guns ‘N’ Roses
Rust in Peace - Megadeth
3 Feet High & Rising - De La Soul (this album they essentially invented the “hip-hop skit”)
Liquid Swords - GZA
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
Complete Discography - Minor Threat (“Complete Discography” is the name of the album and contains, well, their complete discography)
Pure Rock Fury - Clutch
Damaged - Black Flag
Hide Away - Freddie King
Black Magic - Magic Sam
[del]What’s Going On[/del] Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye - Let’s go with my second choice, then The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill Super Fly (Soundtrack) - Curtis Mayfield All Eyez on Me - Tupac Sign ‘o’ the Times - Prince Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy The Soul Sessions - Joss Stone Straight Outta Compton - NWA What You Hear Is What You Get (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Ike and Tina Turner
The Stooges - The Stooges
Suicide - Suicide
Television - Marquee Moon
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
The Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Goldie - Timeless
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Boston’s first album
Temple of the Dog
Gradually Going Tornado- Bill Bruford
And Out Come the Wolves- Rancid
Aja- Steely Dan
Cheap Trick’s Greatest Hits
Wish You Were Here- The Pink Floyd
American Recording- Johnny Cash
Live at Carnegie Hall- Stevie Ray Vaughn
Hollywood Town Hall- The Jayhawks
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Beggar’s Banquet - Rolling Stones
Live at the Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
Purple Rain - Prince
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Live At Carnegie Hall - Renaissance
Parallel Lines - Blondie
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Sting -Ten Summoner’s Tales
Grateful Dead - American Rose
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Santana - Supernatural
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
the op said this person has never heard ANY music; so assuming he’s american he should have:
Don Giovanni - Mozart performed by the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini ShowBoat - Soundtrack from 1936 film Ne Me Quitte Pas - Jacques Brel Library of Congress Recording Sessions - Woody Guthrie
*My Clinch Mountain Home *- The Carter Family Crossroad blues - Robert Johnson (any album with this song) Run DMC - Run DMC Jazz Samba - Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd The Atomic Mr. Bassie - Count Bassie Orchestra Buena Vista Social Club - Juan de Marcos González
I didnt put any rock in my list as there are many good choices by others, but. . . Marquee Moon - Television London Calling - The Clash
Opeth, Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree, Deadwing
Queensrÿche, Operation: Mindcrime
Dream Theater, Images and Words
Fates Warning, Disconnected
Celtic Frost, Into the Pandemonium
Bathory, Hammerheart
Godflesh, Pure
Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral
Edge of Sanity, Crimson
Emmylou Harris Elite Hotel
Emmylou Harris Luxury Liner
Jim Croce Life and Times
Gordon Lightfoot Gord’s Gold
Merle Haggard Okie from Muskogee (live album)
Bread Anthology
CCR Green River
CCR Willie & the Poor Boys
Bob Seger Live Bullet
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Thank You Thank You Thank You! I heard this album in the mid 80s and I couldn’t ever remember the name! I’ve already ordered it on Amazon. I was always looking for Crazy like a tornado and never found anything.
BTW, some stellar choices overall in this thread. and ones I’m quite frankly jealous that I didn’t think of.
