Don’t have Sgt. Pepper’s. Personal tastes-- Beatles suck, Stones rule…
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Warren ZevonI was born in 1980, and I have all those albums.
Also, everyone of my generation owns at least two of the following–The President’s of the USA’s debut album, “Tragic Kingdom” by No Doubt, the first Alannis Morissette (sp?) album, and the Wallflowers. Does anyone think these will be the albums we mention 20 years from now?
(By the way, I own the Wallflowers and the Pres. CDs.)
Ahem, I own them all, including No Answer on vinyl and most of them on CD since then. I’ve even got some box sets with non album tracks like Julie Don’t Live Here Anymore.
Dark Side – yup, have owned it on vinyl, cassette and now CD
Led Zep IV – old vinyl copy lying around somewhere
Sgt. Pepper – nope, never much cared for them Liverpudlian nancy boys
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
Well here I thought I was going to be original in saying the only one I have is “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, but a bunch of people are ahead of me.
What are the other essential albums of rock’n’roll? I’ll mention these (strangely enough, they’re in my collection! :))
Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash – London Calling
AW:
Yep, THOSE three I’ve got.
How about Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited?
Essential:
Who’s Next
Let it Bleed (the Stones’ best)
Workingman’s Dead
Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore
The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse (aka Urban Spaceman) by the Bonzo Dog Band
Lights in the Night (Flash and the Pan)
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin IV
Procol Harum’s first album
12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (Spirit)
Meddle (Pink Floyd)
The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (Springsteen)
Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround (Kinks)
Aqualung
Third (Soft Machine)
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From my generation (class of '95):
Metallica, The ‘Black Album’
Nirvana, Nevermind
Pearl Jam, Ten
A bit older:
AC/DC, Highway to Hell or Back in Black
Black Sabbath, Paranoid
TMR
“Give myself a mullet, hook the Flowbie to the Kirby…”
None of them.
Led Zeppelin IV is great, I sold my vinyl a while ago (hard up for $$) and have 3 out of the 4 CDs of the boxed set, which has most of the tunes from IV, so that sort of counts. I am still entranced by the Battle of Evermore: it’s probably the best song they ever wrote.
I bought the Dark Side of the Moon just last year and I think I’ve listened to it four times: two times tripping my head off and two times with the Wizard of Oz synched up. In my high school days I had a good friend and guitarist who would listen to the album all day, so it was always in the background (along with the Dead) whenever I went over. I remember ripping it off the player one afternoon and hiding it in my bass drum - my friend was a total mess until he finally found it - strange the power that album has over dopers.
I absolutely despise the Beatles. I wouldn’t dream of purchasing anything from those purveyors of mundane musical mediocrity.
In my circles it seems that everyone has three slightly different CDs:
Slayer’s Reign in Blood
Helmet’s Meantime
Black Sabbath’s Paranoid
Yet to be reconciled with the reality of the dark for a moment, I go on wandering from dream to dream.
Wore out my copy on the family’s Radio Shack phograph/8-track system while playing air guitar every morning before the school bus.
I have, and listen to, all three on a very regular basis. My friends frequently remind me that music was produced after 1986 - and still is to this day. But, I think that that’s just an UL. 
For all of you who responded with “before my time” and “my parents have those”, here’s a cyber slap for you ::slap::
He still has it, numbnuts! And since you wore my ears out listening by listening to it over and over, I never felt the need to have my own copy.
The other two, I’ve got.
I’m Class of 80 and I have those. 
You turn me on. But maybe it’s because I just spent 20 years in the jungle, getting it on with anything I could attract with a piece of fruit.
DSOTM. Check.
Sergeant Pepper. Check.
Led Zep IV. Nope, but I want it.
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I have DSOTM and every other Pink Floyd album except the collections. I also have the boxed set. I adore Pink Floyd and can’t think of a band that I like more than them.
I REALLY REALLY LIKE a handful of Led Z. songs, but can’t stand the rest. Therefore, I own a “greatest hits” type album of thiers.
My husband really likes the Beatles but I only like a few of their songs. I don’t know if he owns that one or not, but I sure don’t.
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DSOTM and IV, yes.
Sgt. Pepper, no.
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Nope, none of them. Used to borrow my dad’s copy of all three though…maybe I should get my own. (And yep, my dad’s copies were all on vinyl.)
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Not only do I not own any of those, but I don’t have any cd’s, tapes, 8-tracks, or LP’s from ANY of those bands.
I’m sort of embarrassed to admit that once I bought The Wall, but it got stolen & I never replaced it. I may have had a led zep disk at one time, but I don’t even remember which one.
But I’m 100% beatles-free.
Oh, what’s that? So now you say life sucks?
Well 99% of it’s what you make of it…
So if your life sucks, YOU suck!
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In high school I had all three–Pepper, DSOTM, LZIV. I suppose they’re all still somewhere in my parents’ house and probably dusty and unlistenable by now.
The albums I notice almost everyone I know owning are Van Morrison’s Greatest Hits, London Calling, something by the Stones, something by the Pogues, something by the Grateful Dead, and something by Dylan. I know several people who own something by AC/DC, something by El Ultimo de la Fila, or something by Radio Futura. The presence of the Spanish bands is due to location, of course.