Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Moby - Play
Daft Punk - Homework
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Portishead - Dummy
The Orb - The Orb, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
New Order - Substance
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan: Beethoven – The Nine Symphonies
Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers, Volumes 1 & 2
Muddy Waters: The Chess Box
Chuck Berry: The Chess Box
Elvis Presley: The Sun Sessions
James Brown: Star Time
Phil Spector: Back to Mono, 1958-1969
Various Artists: Hitsville USA – The Motown Singles Collection, 1959-1971
Otis Redding: Live in Europe
Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul
Are greatest hits and/or various artist albums acceptable?
“O Brother Where Art Thou” Soundtrack
“Repo Man” Soundtrack
Best of Chess Blues
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Blood Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man
Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor (tough call, so many good albums to choose from)
Genesis - Seconds Out
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Old 97s - Too Far To Care
Holst - The Planets
Lots of my choices already listed, but I would add these:
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
Kansas - Song For America
Gerry Rafferty - City To City
Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s the Sex Pistols
Happy to help. Enjoy the album, it’s fantastic.
Beatles, Revolver
The Band, The Band
Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
Grateful Dead, American Beauty
Elvis Costello, This Year’s Model
Talking Heads, Fear of Music
Pretenders, Pretenders
Depeche Mode, Violator
Massive Attack, Mezzanine
Boards of Canada, Music has the Right to Children
Sorry, missed the part about no duplicates.
Finishing my set:
Various artists - The complete Jerome Kern Songbooks (I’m partial to Ella Fitzgerald and All the Things You Are)
Handel’s Messiah
John Hiatt - The A&M Years '87-'94
Oingo Boingo - Best o’Boingo
Green Day “Dookie”
Dr. Dre “The Chronic”
Steve Miller Band “Greatest Hits 1974-78”
Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
The Fratellis “Costello Music”
Michael Jackson “Thriller”
ABBA “Gold”
Eminem “The Marshall Mathers LP”
The Doors “The Doors”
Dwight Yoakam “A Long Way Home”
- Stevie Wonder: “Songs in the Key of Life”
- Paul Simon: “Graceland”
- The Beach Boys: “Endless Summer”
- The Beatles: “Rubber Soul”
- Queen: “Greatest Hits”
- The Traveling Wilburys: “Vol. 1”
- Billy Joel: “An Innocent Man”
- Madness: “One Step Beyond”
- The Kinks: “Arthur”
- The Moody Blues: “Seventh Sojourn” (or one of their others; I can’t decide)
(There are others I definitely would have listed instead if I were going for personal landmarks/favorites/greatest, though I did stick with albums that I personally appreciate. And, of course, some I would have listed if they hadn’t already been listed by others. And I assumed from the OP’s mention of “history of popular music since Bill Haley and the Comets” that that’s what we were going for, and so I didn’t even consider, say, Beethoven.)
Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter - The Incredible String Band
Ladies of the Canyon - Joni Mitchell
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
The Lady and the Unicorn - John Renbourn
Living With Ghosts - Patty Griffin
Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
I’m Your Man - Leonard Cohen
In no particular order, and realising that I have many more I’d love to slip into this list:
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Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Her third release, and the second where she really had creative control.)
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Great Big Sea - Up (Pure East Coaster delight)
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Our Lady Peace - Gravity (Probably one of their more mainstream sounding albums, Naveed or Clumsy might be more of an acquired taste)
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Matthew Good Band - Underdogs (Some of the singles were put onto an American release of Beautiful Midnight. If you can, get the original releases of both)
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Jonny Lang - Lie to Me ( The first Blues album I ever bought)
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Chris Isaak - Forever Blue (I Prefer it to Blue Spanish Sky)
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U2 - Achtung Baby - (I like this album better overall than Joshua Tree [already taken])
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Beth Orton - SuperPinkyMandy - (More of her early Pop and EDM type stuff, much less folky than her more recent stuff, really hard to find an official copy now.)
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The Black Crowes - Shake your Money Maker
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The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight - (I haven’t heard two of their albums that sound the same. This one is downbeat and almost county-esque and I think it’s a better album than Gran Turismo, and not nearly as saccharine as the song Love Fool which everyone thinks of)
A little taster of all that’s been great and good in UK-based post-punk, Goth and indie (and so much left out…)
Isn’t Anything : My Bloody Valentine
Psychocandy: Jesus and Mary Chain
Unknown Pleasures: Joy Division
Mask: Bauhaus
Aion: Dead Can Dance
The Smiths: The Smiths
Tender Prey: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Kaleidoscope: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Stone Roses: Stone Roses
Demon Days: Gorillaz
The Jeff Beck Group, Truth
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Thelonious Monk, Underground
Grant Green, Matador
The Rolling Stones, The Brussels Affair (live, formerly a bootleg - best version of Tumbling Dice ever!!)
Big Star, Radio City
UFO, Strangers in the Night
Aerosmith, Rocks
Chris Isaak, Heart-Shaped World
Aretha Franklin, best of Aretha Franklin
AC/DC, Powerage
We’re Only in It for the Money by the Mothers of Invention
Ramones by The Ramones
Not Available by The Residents
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd
The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground (3[sup]rd[/sup] album)
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell
20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle
Big Lizard in My Backyard by The Dead Milkmen
In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
I’m enjoying reading these lists. Some repeats but that’s OK.
- “So,” Peter Gabriel
- “White Light / White Heat,” The Velvet Underground
- “Speakerboxx / The Love Below,” OutKast
- “Back in Black,” AC/DC
- “More Hits By The Supremes,” The Supremes
- “Harvest,” Neil Young
- “The Score,” The Fugees
- “Eye in the Sky,” Alan Parsons Project
- “Syncronicity,” The Police
- “Miami Vice” Official soundtrack; Jan Hammer, Glenn Frey et al.
- Dylan, Blonde on Blonde.
- Tom Waits, Rain Dogs.
- Van Morrison, Astral Weeks.
- Elvis Costello, This Year’s Model.
- Rolling Stones, Between The Buttons.
- Laura Nyro, Eli and the 13th Confession.
- The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead.
- The Fall, The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall.
- Ryan Adams, Cold Roses.
- John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band.
10a. Velvet Underground and Nico.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Great albums so far. I will add:
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Sketches of Spain – Miles Davis / Gil Evans
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Lady in Satin – Billie Holliday
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Rubber Soul – the Beatles
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Crown of Creation – Jefferson Airplane
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School Daze – Stanley Clarke
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Horses – Patti Smith
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London Calling – the Clash
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Reggatta de Blanc – the Police
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Clouds About Mercury – David Torn
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In My Tribe – 10,000 Maniacs
Can’t think of ten, since there are already so many that I would have mentioned already listed.
Hotel California - The Eagles
You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic - Ian Hunter
Pearl - Janis Joplin