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10 albums everyone should own

Captain Beefheart- T.M.R.
Minutemen- Double Nickels..
Smiths- Hatful of Hollow
Dinosaur Jr.- Your Living All Over Me
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
R.E.M- Murmur
Nina Nastasia- "Dogs"
Pavement- Slanted & Enchanted
Pixies- Surfer Rosa
Fugazi- Repeater

This is my top 10 ever- it sort of fits the idea, though Id defo have some Beethoven piano sonatas (Barenboim), though which ones... Captain.
 
Mozart Requiem - Hogwood / AoAM
Miles Davis - KoB
Ellington/Armstrong - The Great Reunion
Lucia / Meola / Mclaughlin - Friday Night in San Fransisco
A Nina Simone Compilation (inc. Feeling Good and Strange Fruit)
Bach Cello Suites - can't decide which one
Thomas Tallis - something with Spem in Alium on it
Some Aphex Twin - not sure what (or maybe Autechre - Amber instead)
Any Bill Laswell/Jah Wobble combination
Either Underworld - dubnobass... or some Joy Division, probably UP

Somehow I seem to have missed out any Shpongle. Hmm....
 
Ssssssh.

Maybe "The best ever punk albumn in the world, ever - II" which has Blondie, The Undertones - - but not much punk, strangely.
 
During my teen years in the late 70s i had the misfortune to hear all of Queen's great albums. Garbage to my ears, mainly due to Mr Brian Bloody May's awful guitar playing.

But hey i'm spinning Kiss' first album right now.
 
Paul McGarry said:
During my teen years in the late 70s i had the misfortune to hear all of Queen's great albums. Garbage to my ears, mainly due to Mr Brian Bloody May's awful guitar playing.

But hey i'm spinning Kiss' first album right now.
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Ho-ho! You've a bloody cheek, Paul...

:)
 
Typed whilst listening to the "Dark and Long" EP, oddly enough.

(as any fish who has dropped in can tell you - I also listen to some very questionable stuff)
 
I can't limit myself to ten albums everyone should own, so I'll omit the obvious (yer Zeppelins, Band, Allmanns, Kinks, etc.), the maybe not-so-obvious but still well known (yer Prefab Sprouts, Joe Jacksons, Talk Talk, etc.) and limit my list to "10 albums not many people necessarily know about but everyone should own anyway".

Louis Jordan - No Moe! (Greatest Hits)
Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
Cordelia's Dad - Comet
The Refreshments - The Bottle and Fresh Horses
Paul Pena - New Train
Derek Trucks Band - Joyful Noise
Jon Sholle - Catfish for Supper
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters - The Color of Love
Ian Moore - And All The Colors
 
Portishead - Dummy
Doves - Lost Souls
Nightmares on Wax - Mind Elevation
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
sigur rós - ágætis byrjun
Fad Gadget - Fireside Favourites
OMD - Dazzle Ships

These collect dust less than others
 
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot
Calexico - Feast of Wire
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Mum - Finally We Are No One
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Bill Evans - Everybody Digs
Mingus - Ah Um

honorable mention should also go to LPs already mentioned, including
MBV, M83, Minutemen, Nick Drake, Public Enemy, The The, and Dinosaur Jr. (Bug)
 
For me in no particular order.


Yes Close to the Edge
Yes Tales form topographic
Black Dog Bytes (Actually would put most of plaid in but thats cheating)
Frank Zappa Waka Jawaka
Lamb Chop Is A Woman
Ry Cooder Jazz
Big Bud Late Night Blues
Herbaliser Something Wicked This Way Comes
Cinematic Orchestra Man With a Movie Camera
Future Sound Of London Life Forms.
 
Here's 10:-

Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Christine Collister - Live
Edie Bicknell and the New Bohemians - Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars
Shawn Mullins - Soul's Core
Eagles - Hotel California
MTV - Best of MTV Unplugged 3
Gary Moore - Blues Alive
 
Since Edie B. and the New Bohemians has cropped up a couple of times, worth mentioning they've just released their first album together in 16 years, "Stranger Things".
 
Sly and The Family Stone - Stand!
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Pere Ubu - 360 Degrees of Simulated Stereo
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Any good Chic / Sister Sledge compilation - Nile Rogers is god
Prince - Purple Rain
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Three pages of posts, & I don't yet think the Beatles or The Beach Boys have been mentioned, so
Revolver the Beatles
Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys
Whats going On Marvin Gaye
Nightclubbing Grace Jones
Bellybutton Jellyfish
Surfa Rosa The Pixies
The Birth Of The Cool, Miles Davis
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz
Non Such XTC
Missa Solemnis Beethoven.
matt.
 
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