Music post!

[hippie_chick]

Just looking through my music collection. Working at record stores and having acquired tons of cassettes and CDS plus the parental collection of vinyl, I'm going through and organizing my essentials. I've got most of it all on my computer now.

Thought I'd make a list of albums that are essential (at least to me) in every music collection. I'm pretty sure you may already own a lot of these. Not in any particular order just as I think of them / see them. They'll jump around eras and genres pretty quickly. Ready?



The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Help!
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - The White Album
The Beatles - Abbey Road

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers
The Rolling Stones - December's Children (And Everybody's)
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (get the UK version!)
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
The Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup

David Bowie - Space Oddity
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
David Bowie - Low

The Who - My Generation
The Who - Tommy
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Who - Who Are You

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin) - Cheap Thrills
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Janis Joplin - Pearl

Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

U2 - War
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - The Joshua Tree

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Aerosmith - Rocks
Aerosmith - Night in the Ruts

Elton John - Honky Château
Elton John - Caribou
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Animals

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker!

Leon Russell and the Shelter People

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Nirvana - Bleach
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Black Album

Frank Sinatra - Classic Sinatra (the best of his Capitol years)
Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Collection (the best of his Reprise years)

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Gaucho

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Sigur Ros - { }

Bob Marley - Legend
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch A Fire

Weezer - Both the Blue and Green albums
Weezer - Pinkerton

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The White Stripes - Elephant

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

The Roots - Phrenology
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

Erykah Badu - Baduizm

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Genesis - Genesis

Paul McCartney - McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon - Imagine

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Back in Black

John Mayer - Continuum

The Clash - London Calling

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash - The American albums produced by Rick Rubin

Buena Vista Social Club

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

Mozart - Just, well, ANYTHING. I have TONS of Mozart here.

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey

Madonna - Like A Virgin
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - Bedtime Stories

Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill

Fiona Apple - Tidal
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos - Under The Pink
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel

The Velvet Underground and Nico

Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power

The Clash - London Calling

Never Mind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

Ramones - Ramones
Ramones - Rocket to Russia

Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - The Stranger

The Pretenders - Pretenders

k.d. lang - Absolute Torch and Twang
k.d. lang - Ingénue

Eagles - Hotel California
Eagles - The Long Run

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Prince - 1999
Prince - Sign 'O' The Times

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Elivs Costello - This Year's Model
Elvis Costello - Spike

Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle

KISS - Destroyer
KISS - Rock and Roll Over
KISS - Love Gun
KISS - Alive

Woodstock and Woodstock II

Crosby, Stills and Nash

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

Queen - Night at the Opera
Queen - News of the World
Queen - Jazz

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Saturday Night Fever OST

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance

The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - Strange Days
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
The Doors - Morrison Hotel

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simon - Graceland
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints

Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

R.E.M. - Out of Time
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Neil Young - Harvest
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson - Stardust

Carole King - Tapestry

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Television - Marquee Moon

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

Santana - Abraxas

The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis

Nina Simone - Pastel Blues
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind

Cream - Disraeli Gears

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Yes - The Yes Album

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

Peter Gabriel - III (or "Melt")
Peter Gabriel - IV (or "Security")
Peter Gabriel - So

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Hole - Live Through This

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

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

Björk - Debut
Björk – Vespertine

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

The Black Keys - Brothers

Marvin Gaye - Greatest Hits

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table and Dreaming
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets

Beck - Odelay
Beck - Sea Change

John Mellencamp - American Fool
John Mellencamp - Uh-Huh
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow

George Michael - Faith
George Michael - Older

John Lee Hooker - Burnin'

Beastie Boys - License to Ill

ZZ Top - Eliminator

Arcade Fire - Funeral



... to be continued.

Comments

[rori]

AWESOME! The Steely Dan jumps out at me. I had this boyfriend who felt that Rikki don't lose that number was OUR song.

I don't think he ever listened to the lyrics, I think he decided it because it played once when we were making out.

BOYS.

[ossie.livejournal.com]

very nice

have a great weekend

take care
Ossie