Ten essential albums (CDs) of all time

Since the Entwistle thread, I've been going through my CD library to pick the ten most essential must-have CDs. It's tough to pick just ten, but those are my rules. Here they are, in no particular order:

The Who- Who's Next
Led Zeppelin- II
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Boston- 1st
Jimi Hendrix- Axis: Bold as Love
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Couldn't Stand the Weather
Lynyrd Skynyrd- 2nd Helping
Eric Clapton- Journeyman
AC/DC- Back in Black
Frank Zappa- Joe's Garage

What are yours?

 

out of the cellar
under lock and key
wicked sensation
vulgar display of power
far beyond driven
skynard's {double platinum}
zz top's {tres hombres}
master of puppets
slave to the grind
the ultimate sin

 

I was about to put Invasion of Privacy & Diary of a Madman, but Entwistle's death had me feeling classic!

 

classic is ok?!?! but the guitar didn't really shine intil that era!! IMHO

 

Concrete Blonde, Bloodletting
Metallica, the black album
Aerosmith, Pump
Inkubus Sukkubus, Vampyre Erotica
The Who's Tommy on Broadway
Abba Gold (no kidding)
KISS, Destroyer (for the song "Beth" of course!)
Episode I soundtrack
Alice Cooper, Classicks
Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine

Something to fit my every mood. (Of course, what I'm listening to now isn't even on the list.....)

 

Well at least TIW posted Metallica and not me. BRAD!

 

actually "master of puppets" that i selected is the one good metallica record. "the thing that should not be" was a song that shook me to my pillars the first time i heard it.

 

I'm with TIW. I like Black.

 

All right, it's 2 to 1 in favor of black! Brad, don't forget that you're older than me (I think?). The black album was my first exposure to Metallica- I was in the 6th grade, and when I heard "Enter Sandman" for the first time I was hooked. Then later I started listening to their earlier albums.

 

Long Live Rock! I Need It Every Night

Jay, thanks for being old enough to even know who John Entwistle was. I'm sure most of the kids on this board have no idea who he was, or the influence that The Who had on rock and roll. I have every Who release, including some on import vinyl (those plastic 12 inch round things kiddies), as well as most of their Greatest Hits compulations. The best, of course, being Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy. I Can't Explain ... Happy Jack ... I Can See For Miles ... A Legal Matter ... Magic Bus ... and, of course, My Generation:

" P-people t-try to p-p-p-put us d-own
Talking bout my generation
J-ju-just b-because we g-g-get around
Talking bout my generation
Things they do I-look a-awawf-ful o-c-cold
Talking bout my generation
H-hope hope I d-die before I g-ge-get old"

"This is m-my-my generation
My generation baby"

"Why don't you all f-f-f-f-fade away
Talking bout my generation
Don't t-try and d-d-dd-dig what we all s-ss-say
Talking bout my generation
Not t-t-try-ying to c-c-ca-cause a big sensa-shun
Talking bout my generation"

"J-j-just t-t-talk-in bout m-my gene-ra-ra-shun"

"My generation"

"This is my generation"


http://www.superseventies.com/who1.html

Remember "Midnight Movies?" Back before VCR's, mainstream cinemas (known today as multiplex theatres) who show various movies at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays ... two of my favorites were Quadrophenia, a musical by The Who, and The Kids Are Alright, a documentary on The Who. I saw Quadrophenia seven times; four times for the other. Man, what great movies.



http://imusic.artistdirect.com/soundtracks/kidsarealright.html

http://www.quadrophenia.net/



Quadrophenia also introduced me to the scene of "Mods" and "Rockers." It also starred this former school teacher named Gordon Sumner. You might know him better as "Sting," former lead for The Police.



I saw The Police at The Omni (now torn down) back in 1982 ... fourth row floor. The opening group was The Go Go's. Yeah, I was young once. :-(

Jay, I guess I should go ahead and enter CORC now, eh?

 

leave it to rick!!!

 

That reminds me of a cool Buffet line, "so jump right up and show your age"...Buffet is on my ongoing list. I haven't narrowed them to 10 yet.

 

You got dat right! Rick is the MAN!!! You guys will rue the day when I learn to do this kinda crap!

 

Re: Long Live Rock! I Need It Every Night

"Are you a Mod or a Rocker?"
"Er, no, I'm a Mocker."

Don't remember which one said it, but it's from A Hard Day's Night. Sheesh, I was raised on stuff like Scooby Doo and Beatles movies... no wonder I'm not right.

 

The Cure: Kiss me kiss me kiss me
The Police: Synchronicity
Duran Duran: Rio
Peter Murphy: Deep
Beth Orton: Trailer Park
Beth Orton: Central Reservation
Joan Osborne: Relish
Concrete Blonde: Bloodletting
Bare Naked Ladies: Rock Spectacle
Whatever techno compilation is #1 in the UK


Honorable mentions:
Guns and Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Candlebox
Everlast
Sid and Nancy Soundtrack
Last Emporer Soundtrack
O' Brother Soundtrack
Beastie Boys: Liscence to Ill
Best of the Culture Club
Arcadia: So Red the Rose
MC900 Foot Jesus
Wings

and last but not least (by any means!) :
Michael Jackson: Thriller!

 

Let's see, only 10? In no order:
Ramones...Ramones (first album).
Alkaline Trio...From here to Infirmary
Black Flag...Everything went black
Dead Kennedys... Fresh fruit
AC/DC...Back in Black
Minor threat..out of step
Sugar...Copper Blue
Husker Du... Zen Arcade
Bad Religon...Against the grain
Social Distortion...Mommy's little monster

 

Re: Re: Long Live Rock! I Need It Every Night

Do you remember who Barnabas Collins was?

 

Do these people sing????? I think my mom had a couple of these.... I have none..

 

My Pink Floyd pick is "Wish You Were Here".

And Barnabus Collins was on Dark Shadows; probably the coolest soap opera ever to have existed (only cause it was creepy and I love creepy movies and books).

 

1) Jean Luc Ponty Best of (although Storytelling and Cosmic messenger are both good unto themselves)
2) Lynard Skynard - The Essential...
3) Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
4) Iron Maiden - Live after death
5) Journey - Best of...
6) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the moon
7) Anita Baker - (Would have to burn one CD with her best "Rapture & Giving you the best that I got" I am not sure if she has a best of)
8) Hillsong Music Austrailia - Shout to the Lord (Live double CD)
9) Def Lepard - Pyromania
10) Doobie Brothers - Best of...

Marcus