Music Essentials

[kevin]

What would you consider essential music for any collection?

I'm going to start with the Beatles collection, in mono and stereo. Both are necessary imo. WHAT ELSE?

[WhazUp]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Led Zeppelin - IV

The Who - Quadrophenia

[Black Sabbath]

The first five Black Sabbath albums. Definitely.

[LightningBolt]

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

[kevin]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Led Zeppelin - IV

The Who - Quadrophenia

Good choices.

The first five Black Sabbath albums. Definitely.

Meh idk about the first 5. Pick one or two.

[LightningBolt]

The first five Black Sabbath albums. Definitely.

Meh idk about the first 5. Pick one or two.

I personally think that Vol. 4 and Black Sabbath are their best. I feel like Paranoid is highly overrated.

[Black Sabbath]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Led Zeppelin - IV

The Who - Quadrophenia

Good choices.

The first five Black Sabbath albums. Definitely.

Meh idk about the first 5. Pick one or two.

You chose the whole Beatles collection >:

Black Sabbath

Paranoid

Master of Reality

[RocketKing99]

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Edited April 1, 2010 by RocketKing99

[chevelle]

I don't think anything is absolutely essential to hear. Telling someone they have to listen to an album makes it feel like the equivalent to forced summer reading that actual enjoyable listening. So, instead, I'll just suggest a few albums I think are worth hearing.

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

[Estranged Reality]

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Aerosmith - Rocks

Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

Al Green - Greatest Hits

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Bad Brains - Rock for Light

The Band - The Last Waltz

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill/Paul's Boutique

Beck - Odelay

Big Star - #1 Record

I was going through iTunes alphabetically but I gave up at that point.

[Rovim]

Funkadelic - first 3 albums and anything Eddie Hazel if you like guitar at all.

Edited April 1, 2010 by Rovim

[Cdlove]

Motley Crue-Dr Feelgood

Metallica-Ride the Lightning

Santana-Supernatural

Bumblefoot-9.11 or Hands

Buckethead-Electric Tears

Judas Preist-Britsh Steel

Megadeth-Peace Sells...but whos buying

Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast

Ac/Dc-Back in Black

Ozzy-Blizzard of Ozz

Nine Inch Nails-Closer

Those are ones off the top of my head.....Plus all of GnR.

[kevin]

freeleech on what

BTW Utada Hikaru's first album is a must for Jpop.

Edited April 1, 2010 by kevin

[FuddMckagan]

Appetite For Destruction-Guns N Roses

Master Of Puppets-Metallica

Led Zeppelin IV-Led Zeppelin

Badmotorfinger-Soundgarden

Pump-Aerosmith

Dirt-Alice In Chains

Toxicity-System Of A Down

[P.A. Guns]

I can think of some essentials for metal, from Holy Diver by Dio to Tales from the Thousand Lakes by Amorphis.

[Black Sabbath]

Oh, I almost forgot:

Lady Gaga - The Fame, The Fame Monster

[Jackie Moon]

jackie moon - love me sexy

[Powerage5]

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Aerosmith - Rocks

Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

Al Green - Greatest Hits

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Bad Brains - Rock for Light

The Band - The Last Waltz

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill/Paul's Boutique

Beck - Odelay

Big Star - #1 Record

I was going through iTunes alphabetically but I gave up at that point.

Nah, definitely the self titled. The repeat songs sound much worse on RFL. IMO, Bad Brains is the essential punk album.

AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Aerosmith - Rocks

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Anthrax - Among The Living

Average White Band - AWB

Bad Brains - Bad Brains

The Beatles - White Album

Black Flag - Damaged

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Chicago - Chicago V

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Surfer's Choice

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Fugazi - Repeater

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

Led Zeppelin - IV

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Michael Jackson - Bad

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

Minor Threat - Minor Threat

The Misfits - Walk Among Us

Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love

Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith

N.W.A. - Straight Ouuta Compton

Pearl Jam - Ten

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

The Police - Outlandos D'Amour

Queen - A Night At The Opera

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

The Ramones - Ramones

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Rush - Moving Pictures

Skid Row - Skid Row

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life

The Stooges - Raw Power

Tower Of Power - Tower Of Power

Van Halen - Van Halen

The Who - Who's Next

ZZ Top - Eliminator

Edited April 1, 2010 by Powerage5

[axlrose15]

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

[Gordon Comstock]

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Led Zeppelin - IV

Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil

Aerosmith - Get A Grip // Nine Lives

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Cradle Of Filth - Midian

Vains Of Jenna - The Art Of Telling Lies

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies // Welcome To My Nightmare

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Skid Row - Slave To The Grind

Edited April 1, 2010 by RickRoses

[bacardimayne]

Michael Jackson - Thriller, Off the Wall

Prince - Purple Rain

[ColdHeartBreaker]

You like The beatles, kev?

MJ. lots of it.

[Pico]

blur - parklife

david bowie - ziggy stardust, station to station, low, scary monsters

john cale - paris 1919

nick cave & the bad seeds - let love in

leonard cohen - songs of leonard cohen

the cure - seventeen seconds, faith, pornography, japanese whispers, the head on the door, kiss me kiss me kiss me, disintegration, join the dots

bob dylan - the freewheelin' bob dylan, bringing it all back home, nashville skyline, desire

eels - electro-shock blues, blinking lights and other revelations

pj harvey - dry, rid of me, to bring you my love, stories from the city, stories from the sea

the jesus & mary chain - psychocandy

joy division - unknown pleasures, closer

manic street preachers - the holy bible, everything must go

mazzy star - so tonight that i might see

morrissey - bona drag

my bloody valentine - ecstasy & wine, isn't anything

orange juice - you can't hide your love forever

pizzicato five - playboy & playgirl, happy end of the world

portishead - dummy

primal scream - screamadelica, vanishing point, xtrmntr

saint etienne - foxbase alpha, so tough, sound of water

the shangri-las - myrmidons of melodrama

smashing pumpkins - siamese dream

sonic youth - bad moon rising, evol, sister, daydream nation, goo, dirty, washing machine, murray street

the stone roses - the stone roses, turns into stone

the vaselines - enter the vaselines

the velvet underground - first four albums + vu

scott walker - scott 4

weezer - the blue album, pinkerton

v/a - trainspotting, trainspotting #2

[dizzzzzzy]

alice cooper's hey, stupid

bon jovi theese days

kiss hot in the shade

skid row slave to the grind

[KetchupNotMayo]

inb4 Chinese Democracy.

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

The Strokes - Is This It

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The Verve - Urban Hymns

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?