10 Albums You Can't Be Without

Nice list of records, and you know looking at those first three, even though it's separated by around three decades, OTC does sound like it's of the same era as the others, definitely laced with the same psychedelia.

 

Nice list - I love most of those albums too!

Depeche Mode - Violator
The Cure - Disintegration
New Order - Low Life
The Church - Starfish
Duran Duran - Notorious
Peter Gabriel - So
The Police - Synchronicity
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
David Bowie - Blackstar
Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

 

Here I go.............

Steely Dan - Aja
Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Les Mis - Original London Cast
Neil Young - Harvest
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Dire Straits - Communique
Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

..................Kliph

 

Not subject to change.

Kansas: Masque
Kansas: Leftoverture
Kansas: Point of Know Return
Rush: A Farewell to Kings
Rush: Hemispheres
Led Zeppelin: III
Led Zeppelin: IV
Led Zeppelin: HOH
Jethro Tull: Heavy Horses
Styx: The Grand Illusion

 

Springsteen - Darkness on The Edge of Town
Graham Parker - Squeezing out Sparks
Chuck Berry - The Great 28
Rolling Stones - Exile on Mainstreet
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Southside Johnny - Hearts of Stone
Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer
The Who - Who's Next
The Clash - London's Calling

 

Suede - Dog Man Star
Suede - Suede
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Joy Division - Closer
David Bowie - Low
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
U2 - Achtung Baby
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People

 

I like two kinds of music: the Beatles; and music which, in some fashion, sounds like the Beatles.

In no particular order:

Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles
Time On Earth, Crowded House
All Things Must Pass, George Harrison
Pink Moon, Nick Drake
Morning/Evening Ragas, Ravi Shankar
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Pink Floyd
Goodbye Jumbo, World Party
Ferguslie Park, Stealers Wheel
Something Else, the Kinks
Eureka, the Bible

 

Eloy- Silent Cries And Mighty Echoes
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto - Misty
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
The Clash - London Calling
The Vibrators - Pure Mania
Ayeron -Into The Electric Castle
Ray Lamontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black
Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back!
The Church - Starfish

Ouf it's hard....

 

Crowded House's Together Alone features only twice in this thread.

For those that haven't heard it, I highly recommend it. In fact, I urge you to do so. It's awesome, and I tell anyone I can, so I'm telling you here.

Forgive me this interlude. Carry on.

 

XTC - English Settlement
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Pink Floyd - The Wall
k d Lang - Ingenue
Squeeze - East Side Story
Jackie Leven - The Mystery of Love
Eminem - Marshall Mathers
Pulp - Different Class
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Talking Heads - Fear of Music

 

Pink Floyd - Animals
The Cure - Disintegration
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Neil Young - Unplugged
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
The Beatles - Abbey Road
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Backyard
Pearl Jam - Ten
Johnny Cash - American Recordings IV - The Man Comes Around

I tried to make sure I didn't take more than 1 album from each artist.

 

So hard to narrow it down.
I supposed box sets are not allowed.

In no particular order. It's odd that some albums that I would choose are not particularly my favorite albums, but ones that would be my picks for a lifetime with only ten albums.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Rush - Power Windows
Beatles -White Album
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Band - Rock of Ages
Van Morrison - it's too late to stop now
Yes - Yes songs
Rush - All the world's a stage
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Beatles - Abbey Road

 

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd DSOTM
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells II
10,000 maniacs. In my Tribe
The Beatles Abbey Road, Revolver, and Rubber Soul
Crowd d House Together Alone
Led Zeplin First album and Houses of the holy
Paul Simon. Graceland

That is ten, but I could g on

 

Nice suprise to see that album getting so many mentions. AFAIK their debut is Dave Grohl's favourite, but i also love A Night At The Opera and Sheer Heart Attack - very hard to pick one of these terrific albums, but as of now i appreciate Queen II that little bit more for it's elegant use of the two-sided concept corresponding with the iconic artwork and maybe also for the contrast between the songs quality and their publicity.

 

Quality production and material like this got lost in the flood after ANATO and Bohemian Rhapsody; as soon as EMI decided they were a chart band that was it. NONE of their 80's material would make it on to my desert island and I LOVE the band......

 

This is such a fantastic list...

 

1. Suede "Dog Man sitar"
2. The Smiths "Strangeways Here we Come"
3. The Smiths "Queen Is dead"
4. Suede "Suede""
5. Depeche Mode "Violator"
6. Pulp "Different Class"
7. David Bowie "Hunky Dory"
8. Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill"
9. AC/DC "Back in Black"
10. Beatles "Sgt Pepper"

 

Queen - Queen II
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Pink Floyd - Animals
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Yes - Relayer
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Bruford - One of a Kind
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Deep Purple - Concerto for Group and Orchestra

I tried to keep it to one album per artist, because otherwise I would've had a really hard time narrowing it down to 10.

 

This week;


Led Zeppelin-The song remains the same 1976(Zep IV is my favorite studio album today)
Beatles-Help
Ac/DC-Highway To Dells
The Doors-the doors
iron maiden -Live After Death(well I am the bass player?)Powerslave if I have to go studio.
Stooges raw Power
Pink Floyd-Animals
The Police-Regatta de Blanc
Am I Experienced?
U2 Boy

 

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Doors - L.A. Woman
U2 - War
XTC - Drums & Wires
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Doors - The Doors
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
New Order - Brotherhood

 

Brian Eno- Another Green World
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box/Second Edition
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pulp - Different Class
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Beaulah- The Coast is Never Clear
Wolfgang Press - Birdwood Cage
The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

....no particular order. like most people this list might look different if I was writing it down tomorrow, next week, next year, etc.

 

10 Varied Sounds
Global Communication - 76:14
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Beatles - Abbey Road
J Dilla - Donuts
Depeche Mode - Violator
Pete Namlook - Air I & II
Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

 

There's a nice one you don't see mentioned often (ever?). One of my favorites too. Some very good indie pop rock to start out the 2000s, the one before that is a bit of a classic too. Nice list.

 

Yesterday and Today - Beatles
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi
Shake it Up - The Cars
Living in the Past - Jethro Tull
Citizen Steely Dan
Missing Links 2 - Monkees
Oh No it's Devo
Revolver
Kink Kronikles
Music Box - Monkees

Yes. I'm cheating by using box sets